However, the fact that foreign envoys had come to meet with the intention of friendship between the two countries made it so clear that the Imperial Cabinet could not find a reason to refuse a meeting between the two sides. So, at the moment, the Imperial Cabinet was faced with a difficult problem - how to ensure that the two sides met normally, and how to prevent Assassins from infiltrating the legations.www.biquge.info

Obviously, this is definitely not an easy task, and it is also the biggest problem that plagues everyone present.

"Not only should we be careful not to let Assassins sneak in, but we must also prevent other high-ranking professionals from having the opportunity to approach His Majesty the Emperor. The Prime Minister reminded solemnly.

The Prime Minister's words are very reasonable, but they only lead to a topic and point out a problem that needs attention, as for how to deal with it, in fact, the Prime Minister did not give substantive instructions, and everyone still needs to discuss and make a charter.

"But that's the problem. Our biggest problem is that we can't tell whether there are professionals among these envoys of the Xia Kingdom. Moreover, even those intelligence officers of the potential Xia Kingdom could hardly guarantee that the information they received was correct. The Minister of Intelligence shook his head as he expressed his helplessness in resolving the problem.

However, the envoys were already waiting, and they needed to respond immediately. There are difficulties, and Yi Xingchen also understands the difficulties of his subordinates, so to solve this problem, it is obvious that Yi Xingchen himself needs to give clear instructions.

After pondering for a while, when everyone was a little nervous, Yi Xingchen spoke: "Since the envoy group has arrived outside Yangcheng City, and the other party has clearly come to negotiate peace, we can't turn it away, this is unreasonable. Therefore, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for settling all the personnel of the mission into the country. As for the audience, two detailed requirements were made to the envoys: first, the number of people in the audience could be reduced to ensure the strength of the empire's security control. For each visit, only two envoys were allowed to select the Xia envoys to attend the meeting, and the list of personnel was reported before the date of the audience, and the rest of the envoys were not seen until further notice. At the same time, the list of personnel was passed on to the intelligence agents lurking in the Xia Kingdom, and at the same time, the relevant backgrounds of the two envoys in the Xia Kingdom were investigated. Once it is found that the envoy is indeed or may be a high-level combat professional, then ask Xia Guo to change the audience personnel, and if there is no cooperation, the audience will be cancelled directly. ”

"Your Majesty, won't this seem complicated?" asked the Foreign Secretary, with a look of doubt on his face.

"For the safety of His Majesty, there is nothing complicated. Without waiting for Yi Xingchen to respond, the Minister of Intelligence had already expressed his approval of Yi Xingchen's decision, and immediately responded.

"Now it is they who ask to see me, not me who asks to see them. Moreover, we are victorious in Jiangzhou, and we have the right to demand that they abide by our rules. Unruly people, don't bother. Yi Xingchen looked at the intelligence minister a little nervous, so he smiled, and at the same time comforted the two ministers, and said.

"Your Majesty is wise!" the ministers were no longer worried.

When the resolution is passed, action will naturally be more rapid. A telegram was immediately sent from Xinghua City in the Xinghua Empire, and the radio waves traveled a long distance to Tai'an City, Jiangzhou.

Jiangzhou Tai'an City, the headquarters of the Xinghua Army located in Jiangzhou, General Lyon was in Tai'an City, commanding all the battles in Jiangzhou. As for Yangcheng, Leon was handed over to Wei Yingcai, who managed it part-time.

When Leon received this telegram from Xinghua City in the Xinghua Empire, Wei Yingcai was by his side. The two had a discussion about the telegram.

At this time, Leon sat facing Wei Yingcai, and informed Wei Yingcai of the content of the telegram in his hand: "The emperor and the cabinet have agreed to the request of the Xia envoys to meet with each delegation, but they have also put forward some restrictive requirements, specifying that the number of people at each meeting cannot exceed two. The Emperor has also given us the latest secret directives, which require us to cooperate in the matter of the envoys' appearances. You go back to Yang City and ask them to come up with a list, and you review it again, so that the assassins don't get involved. ”

"Yes, General. Wei Yingcai replied respectfully.

In fact, the reason why the two reacted immediately was because they had been paying attention to the envoy's visit to the empire. Although the two are far away in Jiangzhou, the hidden meaning of this matter is that both of them actually have the same sense of crisis. Therefore, the two who have reached a consensus, to put it bluntly, are waiting for the order of the empire.

And when it comes to Leon and Wei Yingcai, the relationship has changed a lot compared to before. Especially after all these years of experience and encountering a wall, Wei Yingcai has long ceased to regard Lyon as a competitor. Because of many government affairs relations, the two have even had different views on each other. Even, Wei Yingcai often has an appreciation for Lyon's way of doing things. Because of this, the two are more and more able to cooperate with each other in government affairs.

Moreover, more often than not, Wei Yingcai no longer focuses on the steady progress, but over the years, he has learned to be calm and calm, and has learned to put more effort into how to do his job well.

Nowadays, Wei Yingcai's efforts are mainly in two key points: one is to build a good Yangcheng, and the other is to cooperate with Leon to make a perfect achievement as much as possible, so that the emperor can praise it.

Leon thought about it for a while, and gave Wei Yingcai another wake-up call, saying: "The key defense of Jiangzhou is still to focus on the enemy's small forces to prevent the enemy from sabotage. Your mission is to build up an armed force of local children as quickly as possible in Yangcheng and the surrounding area. ”

"Yes, I understand. Wei Yingcai said.

Leon nodded with satisfaction. After carefully checking and filling in the gaps, he felt that there was nothing to explain, so he let Wei Yingcai return to Yangcheng.

Wei Yingcai rode a fast horse and returned to Yangcheng.

As soon as he arrived at his camp, Wei Yingcai immediately summoned his subordinate officials to inquire about the situation, especially to determine the movements of the Xia State envoys.

The subordinate officials informed that the envoys of the Xia State had been placed in an inn in the city, and they had also been stationed to guard it, which made Wei Yingcai very satisfied, so he ignored it for the time being.

Although the empire agreed to the envoys' visit, but the specific time of the audience has not yet been determined, in this case, Wei Yingcai believes that it is better to put the envoys aside first, so that they can feel the feeling of not being taken seriously, so as to frustrate their momentum of "coming" and make them start to be suspicious, so that they can pay more attention to the attitude and words when they meet with the emperor, and even when the two sides meet officially, they will not put forward some demands for peace talks that do not take the empire in their eyes.

In fact, Wei Yingcai's move was to make the ambassadors of the envoys clearly understand the situation. If the envoys of the envoys were sensible, they would naturally not be domineering, and would personally come to the door to ask for Wei Yingcai, and Wei Yingcai would tell them the decision of the emperor and the cabinet. Otherwise, then wait slowly, anyway, for the empire, it is absolutely affordable, but the envoy group of the Xia Kingdom is not.

In Yangcheng, the upper room of the "Youjia" inn, six people wearing brocade clothes, they were standing or sitting, their faces were not good-looking, so that the atmosphere of the room was extremely dull and gloomy.

These six people are the envoys of the Xia State Envoy Group. Among them, there was an ambassador, two deputy envoys, two civilian officers who handled paperwork, and a military attaché.

"The Xinghua people are so hateful, they actually neglected us, and they haven't replied for so long. A young deputy envoy couldn't hold back at first, and said with a look full of indignation.

"Strictly speaking, we were defeated. The ambassador said helplessly.

The ambassador could see that although they came to the empire this time under the banner of stopping the exchange of fire between the two countries and restoring peaceful diplomatic relations, everyone understood that in fact, because of the defeat of their Xia Kingdom, they did not have the initiative in this peace talks, so he had a hunch that their audience this time was very passive. However, being passive to this point, being neglected by the Xinghua Empire, the ambassador did not know it early on. However, even so, the ambassador was just helpless, who let them be defeated?

"In any case, we must let him feel the demeanor of our Great Xia courtiers in front of Emperor Xinghua Barbarian. Another middle-aged deputy envoy gritted his teeth and said.

"If it weren't for the martial ministers' lack of courage, how could Great Xia lose Yunzhou and Jiangzhou. The young deputy envoy replied.

The young lieutenant's words were obviously sarcastic about the martial artist, so the military attache in the room was a little annoyed when he heard this, but he couldn't bear to speak.

The ambassador thought for a while and said, "We can't wait, we will send someone to the city guard mansion tomorrow to deliver the sign." ”

The young deputy envoy was dissatisfied: "We are a big country, it should be that they have arranged it for us!"

"You can wait, but the court can't wait, Your Majesty can't wait!" the ambassador said dissatisfied. The ambassador is older and does things safely. Their envoy this time was not for nothing, but with the expectations of the emperor and the courtiers, they wanted to negotiate a truce agreement with the Xinghua Empire.

At present, the situation in the Great Xia Kingdom is not good, and there are flames everywhere. Almost everywhere there are fires, riots and killings of officials, clan rebellions, and pirates and plunder.

The emperor and courtiers of the Great Xia Kingdom were worried that the Xinghua Empire would take advantage of the chaos and attack other states and counties of the Great Xia Kingdom.

The mission has two main tasks, the first of which is to ensure the stability of the actual border between the two countries and not to fight in a short period of time. The second mission: to explore the reality inside the Xinghua Empire.

In fact, the emperor of Xia and his courtiers had no hatred for the Xinghua Empire at the beginning, and the topic of conversation was how to eliminate the Xinghua army and expel the Xinghua army. However, before being arrested, Xiahou Wu, an eighth-level professional, sent back a bunch of newspapers from the Xinghua Empire to Xia Guo, which were full of national policies implemented by the Xinghua Empire, as well as news. Emperor Tang Longhui and a group of high-ranking ministers saw the contents of the newspaper, and everyone was frightened as if they had seen a ghost.

The prime minister of the Xinghua Empire was elected by the people of the whole country. This alone made Tang Longhui feel incredible. He was curious how Emperor Xinghua would be willing to leave this power of imperial appointees to a group of ordinary people to decide.

The monarchs and ministers of the Xia Kingdom, who were curious about the Xinghua Empire, were very eager to know the development of the Xinghua Empire. In the Xinghua Empire, which implemented the system of electing the prime minister by the people, was there any civil strife or anything like that...... In short, if the Xinghua Empire is unstable, the Xia State will have no chance to fight back.

There was a certain contradiction between the two tasks given to the envoys by the monarchs and ministers of the Xia Kingdom. However, no matter what, the monarchs and ministers of the Xia Kingdom wanted to understand the thoughts of the Xinghua Empire, but they were all the same.

The reproach of the ambassador of the envoy made everyone in the envoy put away their other thoughts and concentrate on two questions: How can we meet Emperor Xinghua, and what should we do when we meet Emperor Xinghua?

Only the military attache in the envoy corps had other tasks, that is, to find out the situation of the Xinghua Empire, such as buying a few more newspapers and so on.

The monarchs and ministers of Xia Kingdom wanted to know whether their decrees were smooth after the new prime minister came to power, and whether the policies promised before the election had begun. They also wanted to judge the attitude of Xinghua on the battlefield of Jiangzhou from these decrees. If Xinhua increases its troops in Jiangzhou, then Xia must also increase its troops......

Everyone told again and reached an agreement, and tomorrow they would send a post to the city guard to meet the city guard of Yangcheng and inquire about the reaction of the monarchs and ministers of the Xinghua Empire.

The next day, the Xia envoys sent people to the Chengshou Mansion to deliver a post, wanting to meet Wei Yingcai.

Wei Yingcai heard the report of his subordinates, smiled, threw the prayer post aside, and ignored it completely. Because the person who delivered the prayer note by the envoy was neither a chief envoy nor a deputy envoy, but a civil official of the Xia Kingdom. Obviously, this is not to pay attention to him Yangcheng City Guard. Wei Yingcai is the number two person in the Xinghua Empire in Jiangzhou, if he casually meets a civil official of the envoy corps, wouldn't it invisibly lower the status of the Xinghua Empire?

Anyway, Wei Yingcai felt that the civil level of the envoy was not high enough to be worthy of seeing him.

The envoys of an inn got the news that the city guard did not see the members of their envoys, and the envoys of Xia Guozheng and the envoys were stunned. The young deputy envoy even began to scold Wei Yingcai for insulting the envoys of the Great Xia Kingdom.

The envoy didn't have time to pay attention to the young lieutenant's feelings, but asked the other companions, what did the city guard of Yangcheng mean?

The people of the envoy group got together, discussed and analyzed for a while, and asked the military attache to send someone out to find out the information of the city guard of Yangcheng, and the people of the envoy group knew that Wei Yingcai, the city guard of Yangcheng, was not a simple person.

"He thinks we don't pay enough attention to him. Said with a wry smile.

"Wei Yingcai is just a small military general in Xinghua Kingdom, we don't give them face, so what?" said the young deputy envoy disdainfully.

"Manjushri, you are an envoy, you represent the image of Great Xia, don't speak in vain!" the envoy reprimanded.

When the young deputy envoy heard this, he was a little surprised, and said, "My lord, I am scolding the Xinghua people, they are our enemies. ”

"Of course I know who you're scolding, but we're envoys of the Xia Kingdom! have you forgotten our mission?" said the envoy dissatisfied.