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Chapter 64: Sea Discussion

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While Chen Dezheng hesitated, Li Si walked in from the outside and ordered Yu Xi to go down to greet the envoys in the palace first, and whispered: "Sir, some people claim to be the envoy of the royal capital supervisor asking for a visit at the door."

Chen De frowned and shouted, "Since it's a man from Jiangbei, why don't you send me the beacon yamen quickly? What should I do?"

Li Si stood there motionlessly and whispered: "Sir, there are three caves. According to the subordinates, there are many ministers and ministers in the city who have privately communicated with the Song army. Since Lord Wang intends to get along, why should you not be too silenced?" Since Chen De revealed to him the plan to dig into the palace, Li Si confirmed in his heart that this Shangguan was not a foolish and loyal person, so he no longer avoided anything for his plan.

Chen De smiled bitterly and said, "You are loyal, but unfortunately I am not Xinling Jun, and you are not Feng Xi." Seeing that Li Si seemed puzzled, he patiently explained, "The reason why Xinling Jun was able to do this in the past was because he was a child of a Wei family, with a prominent family, deep-rooted and helped by his disciples. Even if the King of Wei takes his handle, he will have no choice but to be suspicious. Not to mention whether this is true or false, as long as the evidence of my collaboration with the enemy is implemented, I am afraid you and I will have to fight out of the city and go a way."

Li Sifang said: "I understand, Lord Xie will give me some advice. I will send the envoy to the beacon fire envoy."

Chen De smiled and said, "That's right. When I come back, we will take some time to examine him. We will not only understand the other party's background and trends, but also not lose the truth."

After this incident was interrupted, Chen De's mood was calm. He thought carefully that there was no other evidence to acknowledge his affair with the Song people, although Li Yu was a little weak, he was never stupid. If he had killed himself without real evidence, the morale of the army would not be in chaos, and the two prefectures under his subordinates would no longer be owned by the Tang Dynasty in an instant, and Jinling immediately became an isolated city. Therefore, even if he wanted to kill himself, he should have more time to plan. He should first control the two prefectures of Changrun, and then find enough real evidence. It is best to wait until the Song army retreated before taking action. So he should be safe now. After thinking through this festival, he changed his court ward and got on the chariot and horses entering the palace.

When he stepped into the Chengxin Hall where Li Yu received his close ministers, he saw Chen Qiao and Xu Xian, two prime ministers, Zhang Wei, the secretary of the Secretariat, who was present, and everyone looked solemn. Chen De felt that the atmosphere seemed particularly depressing.

When Li Yu saw Chen De, his eyes were a little complicated, and finally he called out, "Chen Qing, please sit down." Then an eunuch brought an embroidered mat to Chen De. Li Yu said, "Xu Xiang, let me introduce the situation of your peace with the Song people first."

Xu Xian nodded and said slowly, "I must know that I have been entrusted by Your Majesty and have been presiding over the peace talks. As long as the Song people withdraw their troops, we will go to the title of honor and send the proton into Bianliang. The five or six states occupied by the Song army can be cedeed and the tribute taxes will be doubled." Even though Xu Xian insisted on peace talks, he was from Jiangnan after all, and these words were extremely painful, and the monarchs and ministers present were not feeling well.

After pausing for a while, Li Yu nodded, and Xu Xian said again: "But even with such a humiliating clause, the Song people did not agree. They asked His Majesty to offer all the land and then go to Bianliang to be a minister of the Song Dynasty."

Seeing that Li Yu's face was calm, Chen De must have reported this to him. The Tang State made such a humiliating clause and the Song State refused to agree. It seemed that he was determined to destroy Jinling.

Seeing that the ministers did not speak, Li Yu said, "My ministers, the Song people bullied me too much, but after the Hukou camp was destroyed, the strength of the strength is very different. To save this crisis, I wonder what are the plans for the ministers?"

Everyone looked at each other, and Chen Qiao said angrily: "There are many prefectures and counties in the upper reaches of the river that hope to surrender to the enemy. Please give your majesty the order to kill all the families left in Jinling to serve as a warning to others."

Xu Xian hurriedly said, "No. These people were originally just to save their lives or the people had just committed themselves to the enemy. If so, they would have lost their desire to surrender to our dynasty."

Zhang Shi also said: "God has the virtue of being alive, and Your Majesty must not commit such murderous sins."

Chen Qiao said hatefully, "These villains." Just as he was about to argue, Li Yu said, "Forget it, these people are just saving their lives. Chen Xiang hated evil, but he didn't have to kill all their families, so he wouldn't have to lose his life."

Seeing him say this, Chen Qiao was not inconvenient to say anything else, but Xu Xian said, "Why don't we cedify a few more prefectures and counties to the Northern Dynasties, or even give up Jinling and move to the Eastern Capital?" His motion was tantamount to giving up most of the land to the State of Song, while Li Yu retained a small fiefdom, which was just a little better than going to Bianliang City.

After hearing this, Li Yu looked extremely ugly and whispered: "The country is limited, and the Northern Dynasties are endless. They cut again and again. As long as the days are over, will the ministers still go to sea to be alone?"

Tang Guosu, the scholar-official and ministers suggested that even if the monarch disagreed, he would just not accept it. It was rare to retort like Li Yu in time, and it was only a case of being furious. So Zhang Shi, who was about to accompany him, immediately held his words in his stomach. Xu Xian also knew the opportunity and stopped talking.

Li Yu felt that he was a little out of control. The ministers didn't speak, and the atmosphere seemed quite awkward. So he forced a smile and asked Chen Dedao, who had never spoken: "Chen Qing is known for his wisdom, but what good strategies do you have?"

Chen De heard these ministers' discussions boring, and looked at the arrangements in Chengxin Hall. He thought to himself that Huang Wen was in charge of this place. When he saw things and thought about others, he suddenly heard Li Yu's question and answered casually: "It's not impossible for Fuliang to go to sea." He woke up just after he said a sentence. Seeing that the people present looked at him strangely, Li Yu seemed to be so angry that his face was pale. He quickly changed his mind and explained: "A real man can bend and stretched, and the Song army cannot last long. When it retreats, we will land again to clean up the rivers and mountains." He copied the deeds of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty avoiding the Jin soldiers' many escapes on sea boats, completely without considering the difference from the current situation.

Chen Qiao and Xu Xian snorted at the same time, disdaining to argue with him. Zhang Qi, a clerk of the Secretariat, said: "This statement by Chen Jiedu is absurd. Once the country is lost, it will be difficult to recover. The Song army can rely on Jiangnan prefectures and counties to collect supplies. How can it retreat easily? It is difficult to survive in the sea, and it is difficult for soldiers, civilians, officials and gentry to rest. How can we clean up the country again?

Chen De also knew that he was wrong about the situation. The difficulty of the Jin soldiers to rule Jiangnan quickly was due to the racial and cultural differences. The Song State was much easier to digest the Southern Tang Dynasty. Once Li Yu and his ministers went out to sea, it would be really difficult to come back. But I think it would be necessary to come back when going out to sea. Can the era of great navigation be opened in China? He looked up and said, "Your Majesty, Wei's master once showed Wei's chart. There is still a continent in the East China Sea, extremely vast and abundant. There is no one there except for some savages. If elite sailors can be sent to find a way out, rebuilding the country there may not be a way out."

"Speak nonsense." The more Chen De said, the more outrageous he became, Xu Xian could no longer bear it and scolded: "Chen Jiedu, in the East China Sea, apart from Fusang and Ryukyu, there is also the theory of the three mountains of Penglai. Could it be that you want the academic scholar Xu Fu to lure His Majesty to go out to sea to find immortals?"

Seeing that Li Yu was also looking at him with an incredible expression, Chen De was quite angry and said in a deep voice: "It is no basis for speaking. Your Majesty can give me paper money. I can give you the charts in my memory to Your Majesty. It is true and there is no falsehood."

Li Yu thought to himself whether Chen De had been seized from military power. He became crazy and became speechless, but seeing that he was so confident and seemed to be very clear, he asked the eunuch to give him pen, ink, paper and ink.

Seeing that the other four people were staring at him with bright eyes, as if he was a mentally ill, Chen De stopped talking, and according to his memory, he lowered his head and roughly outlined the sea and land terrain of the Pacific Rim on the snow-white Chengxintang paper. After drawing, he pointed to the location of the Yangtze River on the map and said, "This is the big river, flowing through Jinling where we are, and going out to sea here."

This is where all the officials of the Southern Tang garrison are familiar with, so they did not object. Chen De continued: "Follow the sea and land dividing line, pass through Yuhang, Ryukyu, Guangzhou in turn, and Jiaozhi. Bypassing the corner of Jiaozhi, you can reach India. These are all places where people are prosperous."

Part of his words was the same as Chen Qiao, Xu Xian, Zhang Wei and others, but partly they had never heard of them, so none of the three of them refuted them. Chen Qiao also whispered: "It is quite consistent with what Hu Shangxiu, who is in contact with my family."

Seeing that everyone was skeptical, Chen De's finger moved, crossed a large area of ​​sea, pointed to a continent in the middle of the sea and said, "This land is called Oceania. Although it is vast in area, it is a pity that most of it is desert and vast seas, so it is not suitable for our tribe to reproduce."

Everyone saw that Oceania was almost larger than that of the Central Plains. Following his tone, they felt a secret regret in their hearts, but saw Chen De's fingers continue eastward and pointing to a large area of ​​land and saying, "This is America, which is what I call a place of abundant water and soil."

Seeing that America was about four or five times the size of the Central Plains, everyone couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, thinking that if there was such a rich and unparalleled land in the world, what would the heroes from all walks of life still fight in the Central Plains?

Xu Xian first woke up from the shock and questioned: "Looking only at the size of the picture, from the Central Plains to the Americas, the sea route is probably hundreds of thousands of miles away. Apart from the Immortal Fit, no one can reach it. How do you know? Chen De, do you know the crime of deceiving the king?"

Chen De shrugged indifferently and said, "I have never said I have been there. This is a chart hidden by the master. Maybe it may not be left by the immortal."

When Xu Xian saw that he actually bit the body of the vague immortal who was drifting, he angrily cursed: "Nonsense, it's simply ridiculous."

Li Yu was quite interested and said, "If you can teach a disciple like Chen Qing, respecting your teacher must be a top-notch figure." There seemed to be regrets that you could not meet him under your words.

Chen Qiao said, "The sea road is so long. Even if you send people to search for it now and find it, I am afraid that Jinling has already captured the Song army." As soon as this statement was made, it quickly destroyed the attempt of everyone to avoid disaster even if Chen De said it was true.

Chen De smiled and said, "No." Seeing that everyone looked at him strangely, he continued, "Although it took a long time to find a new world, it is not difficult to welcome His Majesty after finding it."

The five monarchs and ministers present were all clear-minded. As soon as this statement was made, Chen De's intention was understood. Even if Li Yu was sent to Bianliang for care, as the king of the devastated country, he would not be too strict with his guard, because all the kings under the sky were kings and would be captured wherever they ran. Having said that, if Li Yu ran to Western Regions, Jiaozhi, and Ryukyu, although it was very likely that he would escape the pursuit of the Song Dynasty, the local savages could be a hundred times more terrifying than the monarchs and ministers of Bianliang. Therefore, as long as the ministers of the Tang Kingdom found the land on the coast of the East China Sea, they could send people to sneak into Bianliang to pick Li Yu up and float to the sea.

But this plan was too incredible, and it was completely based on a vague sea map drawn by Chen De, and everyone was speechless. After a while, Li Yu said: "Chen Xiang, do you see Chen Qing's proposal work?"

Chen Qiao, who had a hot temper in the past, didn't know how to speak for the first time, so he had to pause and said, "Chen Jiedu's plan is so wild, but the old ministers don't know why." Li Yu turned to look at the other two veteran officials. They knew that Li Yu actually wanted to try it out, but this matter was too incredible and both avoided Li Yu's gaze.

After pausing for a while, Li Yu sighed: "Chen Qing, you always have something unexpected. Since you have proposed this proposal to go to the sea with Fuliang, I will secretly arrange this matter with you. The navy needs to go to the sea with less than a thousand people. You can choose from the troops of Lu Jiang and Zheng Yanhua."

Xu Xian and Zhang Shi were relieved when they heard this, but the combat power of a mere thousand soldiers was still less than that of the Five Hundred-Too Army that Chen De was about to be dismissed from the city. They were very helpful. The Piaomiao Fairy Mountain was probably fabricated by Chen De to regain the use of it. This kid was determined and did not hesitate to cater to the best. How could he not have seen before that he was such a despicable person?

Chen De kowtowed the head and the emperor and his ministers discussed for a while, but they could not come up with any other better ways to deal with the Northern Dynasties. They had to continue to follow the previous proposals and stay in Jinling, and then plan peace talks after the Song army was exhausted. Seeing that it was getting late, Zhou Hou sent someone to inform Prince Li Tianhe to come to the palace to pay homage. Several important officials said goodbye. The four of them were worried all the way and went back to their residence to arrange countermeasures.

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