Chapter 163: Peace Talks
"Zhilu Dao, not only do you know that you and General Monta know each other, but you also know that the two generals Han Bin and Tie Liang are also your people from the beginning." Mu Yunqiao looked at everyone who was tightly tied by him, and said with a smile.
"How do you know about the Dao?" Lu Xin looked at Mu Yunqiao and asked. She admits she was careful, how did they find out she had a problem?
"This can be regarded as an accident, General Mu just returned to the barracks that day, Han Bin and Tie Liang had an accident, although at that time, General Jiang Liu's performance did not have any flaws, but General Mu still felt wrong, so when looking for Han Bin and Tie Liang, General Mu Yunfeng has been following behind General Jiang Liu. Naturally, I saw you together. Mu Yunqiao looked at Lu Xin and said with a smile.
"I see, then how do you know that Yi Xinyao is mine?" Lu Xin looked at Mu Yunqiao and asked again.
"Originally, I didn't have any suspicions about you and your father, but I just felt that when you called me Brother Qiao, the tone was a little familiar, but I really didn't care. If it weren't for the fact that General Monta cared too much about your safety, I wouldn't have doubted your identity. Mu Yunqiao said with a wry smile. In the past few days, he has been secretly proud that he actually found a disguise master, but he didn't expect to almost let the spy run to his house. If it weren't for her whim, asking Yi Xinyao to pretend to be Lu Xin, she might never have thought that Yi Xinyao was Lu Xin.
"I see!" Lu Xin lowered his head and smiled bitterly and stopped talking. It wasn't just Monta who was a bad move, she also underestimated her opponent because she was overconfident. Otherwise, I wouldn't have put myself in such a situation.
After a long time, Lu Xin looked at Mu Yunqiao and asked, "Do you think that if you capture us, the 200,000 troops outside will withdraw?" Even if I'm a princess, I'm afraid that not everyone cares so much about my life or death. β
"We wouldn't have been so naΓ―ve at that time, you have 200,000 troops, we have 300,000 troops ambushed around here, plus we have a border city, which is a dangerous city, not to mention just 200,000 troops, even if there are 200,000 troops, we are not afraid." Shaking the fan in his hand, Mu Yunqiao said even more proudly.
"Stop, stop...... We lost this battle, and we lost it convincingly. Looking up and sighing, Lu Xin smiled bitterly and looked at Monta and the others beside him, and stopped talking. In this battle, they overestimated themselves and underestimated their opponents, so that they lost completely. It's just that she has 200,000 soldiers in the Great Plains Kingdom, and she is about to be buried here.
"I want to see the marshal here, I wonder if Lord Lu Daoqiao can introduce me to me?" After a long time, Lu Xin suddenly said to Mu Yunqiao. Now that the war has just started, neither of them has died too many people, and I hope she will still have time to save most of the soldiers of the Great Plains Kingdom.
"That's fine. I can take you there, but you can't take all these people with you, you can only be wronged here. Mu Yunqiao nodded. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that a success will make a thousand bones dry. She wasn't a saint, but she didn't like to see death either, so why wouldn't she do it if it could be resolved peacefully?
"I'm going to take Monta alone." Lu Xin nodded and said. She's going to negotiate, not to fight. Of course, even if she took everyone with her, it was nothing to the tens of thousands of troops guarding the main city. She might as well be direct and generous with only one person.
"Alright! But the villain first and then the gentleman, I will not be able to untie you when I see the marshal. Mu Yunqiao thought about it for a while and said. Lu Xin and Monta's kung fu are very high, she thinks that she is not their opponent, in case they want to escape, they can't catch them at all. At that time, although they were not afraid of the attack of the Great Plains Kingdom, she still did not want the soldiers of her country to die because of her own negligence.
"Yes!" Lu Xin nodded in agreement before Monta wanted to object. She is sincere in wanting to negotiate peace with the Great Sage Dynasty, and the rope on her body is nothing compared to the lives of the 200,000 soldiers of the Great Plains Kingdom.
Without further ado, Mu Yunqiao handed over the fake Tie Liang and the fake Han Bin and their subordinates to this deputy general, let them guard, and returned to the main city with the pair of men and horses that Mu Yunfeng gave her.
When Mu Yunfeng saw that Mu Yunqiao did not damage a single soldier, not only brought back Monta, but also brought Lu Xin back, his face was about to bloom. He said that it was not wrong to hand over this task to Mu Yunqiao, and that guy Ming Tao was still there to worry. Now it's okay, Mu Yunqiao has come back safely, and all the enemies have been caught, let's see what else that guy Mingtao has to say.
"You're the marshal here?" When Lu Xin saw that it was actually a twenty-year-old young man sitting in the tent, she asked uneasily, she heard that the guard here was an old general fifty miles away, how could he suddenly become a young man?
"How doesn't it look like it?" Mu Yunfeng deliberately tidied up his armor and wanted to make himself more powerful, but what he didn't know was that Lu Xin cared about his age and identity, so he didn't care what he looked like.
"It's not the right age." Lu Xin said directly.
Mu Yunfeng listened to Lu Xin's words, his head was full of black lines, but he didn't know how to answer.
"Hehe......" Mu Yunqiao listened to their conversation next to him, and laughed quietly on the side. Fortunately, they are now at his brother's residence in the border city, and there are only a few of them here, otherwise those soldiers would know that their marshal would be so imbecile, and he would definitely be a deserter en masse.
"What are you laughing at, don't let the two distinguished guests loosen their ties." Mu Yunfeng glared at Mu Yunqiao, who was hiding on the side and snickering, and said angrily. In front of Mu Yunqiao's smile, his eldest brother can't have a little image.
"Yes...... Solemn...... Yuan...... Handsome ......" Mu Yunqiao deliberately lengthened his voice and said word by word. At the same time, the smile on her face deepened a lot.
"Yun Qiao, don't mess around, quickly untie the princess and the general." Ming Tao walked out of the door and said to Mu Yunqiao, who was still snickering, no, it was Mu Yunqiao who was smiling openly.
"Yes...... His Royal Highness the Xian King ......" Mu Yun glanced at Ming Tao mischievously, and began to loosen the ropes for Lu Xin and Monta. She introduced Lu Xin and Monta while untying them: "The young general sitting above is indeed a little younger, but he is indeed the acting marshal of the emperor's seal, and when Marshal Mu is not in the border city, he has the final say here." As for the later one, even if it is the current Four Princes, His Royal Highness King Xian. β
"Who are you? When you see the marshal, you don't salute, and you don't salute when you see the prince, who are you? Lu Xin looked at Mu Yunqiao and asked.
"She is the king's ......" Ming Tao originally wanted to say that Mu Yunqiao was his princess, but in the middle of his speech, his foot was stepped on by Mu Yunqiao.
"I am the prison army here, representing the emperor, so I naturally don't need to salute when I see them." Glaring at Ming Tao, Mu Yunqiao said.
"Okay, we all introduced ourselves, for the sake of our cooperation and fairness, do you two also talk about your identity?" After the joke, Ming Tao sat on the main seat and asked Zheng Se Lu Xin and Monta.
"Your Highness! I am Monta, the son of the Prime Minister of Ohara Kingdom, and I am also the main general of this expedition to the Holy Dynasty. This is the most noble princess of our country, Princess Xinlan, she is the most beloved daughter of the Great Khan, and she is also the most noble princess of my steppe. After the body was freed, Monta performed a grassland salute to Ming Tao and introduced Ming Tao to the three of them.
"You two, please be seated!" Ming Tao nodded in return and said to Lu Xin and Monta.
"Are you sure you can call the shots in this peace talk?" As soon as it was done, Princess Xinlan asked directly. These two were as young as she was, and she trusted them very much.
"Like Princess Xinlan, we are not people who can completely call the shots, but I think that as long as we both show the greatest sincerity to talk, our fathers on both sides will not object too much, do you say?" Ming Tao looked at Princess Xinlan and said with a smile.
"Not bad!" Xin Lan listened to Ming Tao's words and smiled with satisfaction. If Ming Tao said that he could call the shots, she would need to consider talking to these three people.
"For the truce between the two sides, I don't know what Princess Xinlan wants?" After both sides affirmed each other's identities, Ming Tao asked directly. The sooner their peace talks were finished, the casualties on both sides would have been much lower.
Ming Tao and Xin Lan naturally hope for peace talks soon. Especially when the Great Sage Dynasty has a natural danger to defend, but they want to use soldiers to attack the city strongly, withdrawing their troops early will only be good for them.
"Xin Lan wants to hear the opinion of His Royal Highness King Xian first." After thinking about it for a while, Xin Lan said to Ming Tao.
"My opinion is very simple, the Great Plains Kingdom attacked our Great Holy Dynasty, not only killed many of our country's major generals, but also destroyed our city walls and land, for which you must make compensation, as for you prisoners? We have two ideas, I don't know which one do you like? Saying this, Ming Tao looked at Xin Lan hesitantly.
"If the prince has any conditions, just say it, if we can do it, we will naturally do it." Xin Lan looked at Ming Tao and said directly.
"Oh well! My first condition is that Princess Xinlan is married to my country, and this king has a royal brother who is fourteen this year, and he has not yet married, I don't know what Princess Lu Dao wants? β
"Don't think about this, this princess won't coax your children." Xin Lan glared at Ming Tao and said unceremoniously. Although she is only sixteen years old, it seems to her that all those younger than her are children.
"If this condition doesn't work, then you can only let your Great Khan ransom people with things, as long as we discuss these two items, I think the rest is easy to say." Although Xin Lan's words were very polite, Ming Tao was not angry at all. At the same time, say another plan of your own.
"We can give compensation, but not too much." After listening to Ming Tao's conditions, Princess Xinlan said embarrassedly.
"It doesn't matter, money, things, animals can be, if it's not enough, you can take the land as compensation." Ming Tao said very generously.
"How much money, things, animals, or land do you want?" Xin Lan frowned and thought about it for a while, then asked. Ming Tao's words seemed very relaxed, but I was afraid that he would not be so easy to talk about when it came to the specific number. Many peace talks have failed because the two sides could not agree on a compensation plan. Thinking of this, Xin Lan is not as confident as she was at the beginning of this peace talk.
"The city walls and land are not compensated much, one million taels of gold, three million taels of silver, and if they are not enough, they can be replaced with things. As for the ransom for everyone? It will vary from person to person. Ming Tao thought about it for a moment and said.
"You don't want the lion to open his mouth! The war has just begun, nothing has been destroyed, how can you ask for so much silver? "Not to mention the rest, it is these million taels of gold and three million taels of silver, which are enough for them to build a city wall like this in the Unknown Road, they just destroyed one place, maybe they don't need to repair it, and he is embarrassed to ask for so much silver. She didn't agree to anything.
"This silver is not only used to repair the city, we also have to pay pensions to the dead soldiers, and there are three generals who were killed by you for no reason, it is impossible for us not to compensate their families, and also, because of the various equipment and ...... used in this war" Looking at the indignant Xin Lan, Mu Yunqiao stood up and said little by little. A war is fought not only by people, but also by money and things. "It's good that I went there quickly, and if General Monta's fire burned down our granary, then that's not the amount we're going to talk about now."
"The Lord of the Overseer has calculated a good account, but he is also a soldier below, and I know the specific amount of those things, so our compensation can only give you half at most, 500,000 taels of gold and 1.5 million taels of silver." Monta glanced at Xin Lan and said directly.