Although Liu promised that he also wanted to catch Luo Yuzhu, he had more things to worry about now, he said: "Luo Yuzhu's matter, we can still slowly figure out a way." The second and third brothers, as the negotiators of this matter, should come to Yangtao City tomorrow according to the hour. Presumably, after the negotiation, Xu Zhiyuan will talk to the two royal brothers about this matter, how should this king explain? ”

Xu Zhilan said: "When the formal negotiation is made, this king will bring Xiao Jinfeng over, anyway, Xiao Jinfeng has already admitted to killing the eldest prince, and then the royal brother will kill Xiao Jinfeng first, and then negotiate." ”

Liu promised to nod and agree, as long as Xiao Jinfeng died first, and when Xu Zhiyuan talked to the second prince or the third prince about Luo Yuzhu after the negotiation, there would be no proof of death. Even if the two royal brothers believe in Yu Xu Zhiyuan's words, they are in a hurry, and let them take people to search the city lord's mansion, and the soyang Tao grassland will be enough.

Xu Zhilan stayed in the king's tent for a long time, pretending that the negotiation was difficult, and did not return to Lingyun Pass until the afternoon.

Xu Zhilan returned to the General's Mansion and didn't even drink a sip of water, so Xu Zhiyuan asked anxiously: "King Yangtao, what is the request of Jingyang Kingdom?" ”

"In addition to asking for killing Xiao Jinfeng to pay for his life, he also wants King Qin to compensate 10 million in silver! After the king told them about the difficulties of the king of Qin, after bargaining and promising to relax some trading restrictions, they finally agreed that the king of Qin would compensate one million taels of silver, saying that it could not be lower, and if it was lower, the life of the eldest prince would be too worthless, and they would not be able to explain it in front of the people of Jingyang Kingdom! Xu Zhilan pretended to be helpless and said.

Xu Zhiyuan also knew that the other party's request was not excessive, and it took a million taels of silver to pay a million taels of silver when a big prince died, but the problem was that he couldn't even take out 100,000 taels now. After this round, it was Xu Zhilan who took advantage of his east wind to do favors in Jingyang Kingdom, he glanced at Xu Zhilan with great meaning, and said with a bitter face: "But this king can't come up with so much silver!" What to do? ”

"This point, General Gilgrad and the eighth prince are clear in their hearts, they originally wanted Qingyun County of the King of Qin, and this king said that although Qingyun County was given to the King of Qin, it is all the territory of my Dahua, and it is impossible to hand it over to the people of Jingyang Kingdom to manage! In the end, the angry general Gilgrad demanded that the King of Qin hand over the future taxes of Qingyun County to Jingyang State until the millions were deducted! ”

Xu Zhiyuan stood up angrily, wanted to say something, and finally swallowed it back.

"The King of Qin has a few more officials, and after a year, the silver obtained from the tax revenue of Qingyun County still owes tens of thousands of taels of silver to the officials, and this king believes that Jingyang Kingdom is not interested in checking the accounts of the King of Qin!" Xu Zhilan said lightly.

"That's all there is to it!" Xu Zhiyuan sat back helplessly.

All the money earned in the future was given to his subordinates, and Xu Zhiyuan was not interested in having dinner with Xu Zhilan and the others, so he went back to his small courtyard first.

Su Rui also knew that Xu Zhilan did not deliberately trap Xu Zhiyuan, after all, on the surface, Xu Zhiyuan's subordinates made a big mistake, and it was impossible to get out perfectly, and losing money was already a very light punishment. At the same time, Su Rui also knew that even if Xu Zhiyuan couldn't afford to pay for this silver, Xu Zhao would definitely not help Xu Zhiyuan, so it would eventually fall on Qingyun County's taxes.

"Su Qing, what will happen if this king resolutely disagrees with the compensation?" Xu Zhiyuan really didn't want to send all the silver to his subordinates, and he didn't even have any pocket money! Even if he makes two accounts, then he doesn't dare to spend the money.

"If the King of Qin does not compensate, there are two possibilities: first, the emperor will pay for the King of Qin, but in the end, the emperor is likely to take the opportunity to take away the fief of the King of Qin, and then demote the King of Qin to a commoner; Second, if you don't lose money, Jingyang State will not be able to explain to the people, and it will inevitably send troops to attack Dahua. No matter who wins or loses, King Qin is a sinner of Dahua, and the emperor will still punish King Qin! In both cases, it is deduced that the emperor benefits. ”

After half a ring, Xu Zhiyuan said: "This king has failed, the first person the emperor has to deal with is King Yangtao, can we get some benefits from King Yangtao?" ”

Su Rui shook his head and said, "In this matter, even if King Yangtao wants to help King Qin, she can't do anything!" She took silver from the treasury to help the king of Qin, and the emperor would not agree; She took the silver from her treasury to help King Qin, even if the emperor couldn't control it, he would suspect that she had joined forces with King Qin, which was even more unfavorable to her! Take 10,000 steps back and say that the emperor already believes that she is the queen of orchids, and she also knows that the emperor will meet her sooner or later, but no matter how he deals with her, he will not kill her with the crime of orchid remnants, at most he will degrade her as a commoner. This time she spent a million taels of silver for King Qin, and her reputation among the people has risen to a new level, and even if she fails in the future, she has helped King Qin so much today, King Qin will be the emperor one day, so he can't repay her well? At the very least, you have to pay her back the million taels of silver, right? ”

After half a ring, Su Rui's eyes lit up, and he conspired with Xu Zhiyuan.

At noon the next day, the Iron Khan sent the second prince Wang Wuving and the third prince Xu Hero to Yangtao City as negotiation envoys, and sent a letter to Xu Zhilan, asking for formal negotiations between the two sides on February 11.

The Jingyang side withdrew its troops first, and the two sides were only allowed to bring 500 officers and soldiers to one kilometer outside the city gate.

Xu Zhilan took Guo Gonggong, Xu Zhiyuan took Su Rui, and on the side of Jingyang Kingdom were Wang Wuving, Xu Yingying, Liu Chengcheng and General Gilgrad.

According to the agreement, Liu promised to pretend to be very angry, and asked to kill Xiao Jinfeng first before talking about things. Wang Wushu and Xu Hero were angry that Xiao Jinfeng killed the eldest brother and expressed support for the eighth brother's suggestion!

Xu Zhiyuan wanted to stop it, but he couldn't find a reason, so he had to watch with tears in his eyes as Liu promised to kill Xiao Jinfeng in front of the coffin of the eldest prince with a knife.

The murderer has been killed, and there is nothing left to talk about, mainly in the indemnity, Su Rui said: "Three princes, it's not that King Qin is unwilling to take responsibility for the mistakes of his subordinates, but that King Qin has been living abroad since he was a child, and he has just obtained a fief, at this moment, King Qin really can't come up with a million taels of silver!" Even if the King of Qin handed over all the taxes of Qingyun County to your country, in addition to the officials' salaries, the remaining silver taels would probably not be able to make up millions in two lifetimes. ”

"What does Prime Minister Su mean is just to take Xiao Jinfeng to resist my eldest brother's life?" Wang Wudi pretended to be angry and said.

"The second prince is a little calm, Su Mou thinks like this: King Qin will let go and hand over the taxes of Qingyun County to you, but Qingyun County is the territory of my Dahua, it is inconvenient for you to manage, and the tax and silver you get every year are extremely limited! King Yangtao knew that King Qin couldn't afford to lose the silver, so in order to let everyone explain to the people of Jingyang Kingdom, King Yangtao had promised to relax more restrictions on border transactions! What our King Qin means is that a part of these additional items will be assigned to King Qin, which will be used as a franchise to earn more silver taels and pay off the million taels of silver that your country requires compensation as soon as possible. I hope that King Yangtao will be fulfilled, and at the same time, I also hope that the three princes will issue an order, and this part of the materials will only be traded with King Qin. ”