Chapter 37: Cession of the Four Cities
"Mr. Yang Xiu, please enter the hall. The little lady in charge, Kong Tong, greeted her with a polite smile on her face.
In the hall, the family members are basically all here, after all, it is a harmony between the city-states and the city-states, and it is also as grand as a festival, and even the entrance road of the ancestral dragon city-state has been decorated with colorful lights.
"Your Royal Highness, I haven't seen you for a while, and the soldiers of our Lingxiao City-State miss it very much. Yang Xiu took a step and walked towards the hall.
Yang Xiu only brought two guards, and the others were waiting outside the palace, even in the enemy city, this Mr. Yang Xiu did not look a little nervous, and calmly seemed to be a guest at the neighbor's house.
"The people should be grooming and dressing up the lady. The little lady Kong Tong said.
"That's good, that's good, speaking of which, such an obedient female monarch still surprised me a little, but the female monarch is always a female monarch, willing to give everything for the future of the two major city-states, even if it is to bend the knee to be a concubine, hahahaha!" Mr. Yang Xiu laughed, and his voice spread through the hall.
The faces of the Li family were not so good-looking.
In any case, the side that takes the initiative to negotiate peace is tantamount to a compromise after all.
I thought that Yang Xiu was a polite and thoughtful envoy, but I didn't expect that he would be a little sarcastic when he first entered the palace.
"This is a peace agreement, Mr. Yang has seen it, there is no other problem, please sign it." Li Ying also spoke at this time.
Yang Xiu made a perfunctory salute, which can be regarded as a respect for the master of the Li family.
He took the peace book and quickly swept the contents.
In the process of reading this peace book, a soldier with a vermilion corsage came quickly, leaned into Yang Xiu's ear and whispered something.
Yang Xiu took the pen and never touched the ink, and it seemed that he did not intend to sign it from the beginning, let alone seal it.
The soldier retreated, Yang Xiu made a not very pleasant expression, first let out an ugly tsk, then put down the pen in his hand, and said: "Master Li, our Lingxiao city-state has sent so many dowry gifts, which can be regarded as full of sincerity, why didn't you write the regulations for ceding the four cities in the west in this peace document, and even now you don't want me to wait to see the female monarch?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the Li family couldn't bear it anymore.
Ceded the four western cities??
The four cities in the west are rich and prosperous, and they are the most important territories and cities in addition to the main city of the ancestral dragon city-state, even if the two city-states continue to fight, the Li family will never cede these four cities to the Lingxiao city-state!!
"What kind of cession of the four cities in the west, the only condition we negotiated before is that Li Yunzi marries into your Ling family in Lingxiao City as a concubine!" Mrs. Kong Tong said with some annoyance.
This Yang Xiu, who has no one in his eyes, is so crazy.
"Oh, I didn't say it before, but it's not too late to add this condition now, I can wait. Yang Xiu said this, but he moved a chair from the seat.
Placing the chair in the center of the main hall, Yang Xiu sat on it, and also brought it from the fruit bowl in front of a young lady of the Li family, and ate the fruit as if no one was around.
"Presumptuous!!, you little envoy, you can't treat our Li family's imperial courtyard as your own backyard!" said a Li family's dragon herding general.
"I, Yang Xiu, am talking about peace with your family on behalf of the Ling family of Lingxiao City-State, the war is nothing more than a decision made by some people sitting in our main hall, to talk about peace, it is a matter of a few words, and it is also a matter of a few words to meet each other. But some small characters not only can't decide anything, but may have been slaughtered and exterminated because they said some stupid things. Don't you know if this youngster is the former, if not, shut up!" Yang Xiu laughed, his mouth still full of unchewed flesh.
Yang Xiu just now was still wearing a feather crown and was polite, but now he is no different from a mountain ruffian, rude and arrogant!
"May I ask Your Excellency, why are there suddenly coveted our four cities to the west, if we ask for peace at such a price, why not start a war?"
"Commander Cheng, the head of the Li family, as far as I know, your Dongxu Fortress City has been broken by the rebel army, and the rebel army is afraid that it will drive straight into the east of the Lichuan Plain...... Your granaries and cities will be plundered. Ahh Yang Xiu said as he spat out the nucleus and phlegm to the ground.
Li Ying's expression was solemn.
Mrs. Kong Tong showed even more surprise.
They had just learned of the news, and Yang Xiu, as an envoy who had just arrived from the west to the Ancestral Dragon City-State, would never know about it!
Someone leaked the news??
The soldier just told Yang Xiu about this, and then Yang Xiu changed his face?
The question was how he knew, even the Ancestral Dragon City-State's own army had only just learned.
"Mr. Yang, you just said that war is just a matter of a few words from these people in front of our palace. Putting aside whether the source is true or not, the riot is nothing more than a group of greedy people who want to be the masters of the city, and it is not a difficult thing to quell the riot. I wonder if you are the only one who is clever enough to provoke a war in the west, or if your master did not intend to negotiate peace in the first place. If it's the former, I'll play monkey for everyone, and if it's the latter, then tell your master, we don't mind fighting with you in Lingxiao City to the end!" Li Ying kept his composure, and used these words to shock the entire arrogant and domineering envoy.
It's just that Yang Xiu didn't listen to these words.
He picked up the fruit bowl again, took a bite of the crystal grape, and spit the skin to the ground casually.
His disregard for the head of the family instantly annoyed everyone, and the young dragon herder just now stood up even more, with the momentum of wanting to kill this envoy directly!
Li Ying was unfazed on the surface, but he was already worried.
If the Lingxiao city-state sends troops at this time and kills the rich four cities from the west, the Zulong city-state will be attacked by the enemy, and it is very likely that the defense line will be broken and many lands will be lost.
The problem is that if it is lost, how can the military situation be delayed!
The hall was inexplicably quiet, and the eyes of everyone in the Li family involuntarily fell on Li Ying's body.
Has Dongxu Fortress City really been breached?
The Lichuan Plain is a large plain, and once the riot army enters, it is equivalent to a group of wolves entering the grassland, and it takes no know how long it will take to kill them all, and how many troops must be dispatched.
Moreover, the eastern part of the Lichuan Plain, which has been trampled by the rioters, will be in a mess even if it is recovered, with no taxes and no grain, and the Zulong city-state will seriously decline.
"The head of the family didn't answer, and even allowed this envoy to behave like this, I'm afraid that the matter of Dongxu Fortress City is true!" someone had already whispered.
"Then isn't our Ancestral Dragon City-State really going to be slaughtered??"
The atmosphere suddenly became solemn, and everyone was talking, but they could only wait for the head of the family to decide.
"Family master, let me kill this dog thing, I see that Lingxiao City-State has no intention of making peace with us at all, and will send this person to insult us!"
"It is said that the Li family is not as good as the next generation, and there are countless fools, and it is true. You can come up and kill me now, if no one stops you, I will pierce my throat with a sword, and if anyone stops, you will kneel down and chew the nucleus and skin I spit out!" Yang Xiu laughed and said, his tone extremely arrogant.