Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Asking Price
"You!"
Seeing this, Liu Wenjing was so angry that she pointed at Wang Renze and said, "Why is Zunjia acting so vicious? ”
Wang Ren laughed, "There's no reason, Lao Tzu just can't get used to Li Yuan's old dog!" ”
Rao is Liu Wenjing's literacy is good, and he is really angry at this moment, "You little thief is so bold, so uncultivated, sooner or later, one day, I will definitely break your body into ten thousand pieces!" ”
Wang Renze's eyes burst out with a fierce light, "Why wait until the future, I'll kill you now!" As he spoke, he drew his saber and stepped forward.
"Stop it, two adults!"
The Sui Dynasty official who was in charge of entertaining at the post house hurriedly rushed forward, sandwiched between the two gangs, and whispered: "The two are guests from afar, if there is a case, the villain can't afford it!" ”
Wang Ren lowered his head and thought about it, then snorted coldly, and walked out on his own.
Seeing Wang Ren go away, Liu Wenjing hurriedly asked the person in charge of the post house: "Honorable driver, I don't know who he is?" ”
"Lord Liu, this... The person in charge looked embarrassed.
Liu Wenjing immediately took out two ingots of gold from his waist, and said with a smile: "It's a small meaning, it's not a tribute!" ”
The official quietly put the gold in his sleeve and said in a low voice: "Lord Liu, I can't hide it, the one just now is the envoy of Wang Shichong of Luoyang, and his nephew Wang Renze. ”
"It turned out to be Wang Renze!"
Liu Wenjing nodded quietly, and immediately walked towards his room, but he didn't notice that the corner of the post house person behind him suddenly raised a smile on the corner of his mouth.
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In the room, Liu Wenjing wrote the letter quickly, put it in an envelope and sealed it, summoned his personal companion Xiao Si, and commanded in a low voice: "You immediately take this letter to Kim Yong Cheng and hand it over to Li Mi, the king of Wei." ”
That Xiao Si has followed Liu Wenjing for many years, and he also has some brains under the influence of his ears and eyes. He immediately asked: "Master, although you have a deep friendship with King Wei, after all, each is its own master, be careful to tell the truth!" ”
Liu Wenjing glared at Xiao Si, "What do you know about this kid." Li Mi's life is beneficial to my Tang Dynasty, and the longer he drags on in the Central Plains, the more certain points we have for a decisive battle with the Sui Dynasty in the future. I'm not doing this for personal relationships, but for the cause of the country! ”
"The villain got it!" Xiao Si said yes and hurriedly walked out.
The Sui soldiers, who were watching near the post house, found that Xiao Si beside Liu Wenjing left the post house at night, went all the way north, and immediately reported to Yang Gao.
After Yang Gao heard the report of the people watching outside the post house, he smiled slightly: "It seems that the messenger to Li Mi has already set off, this Liu Wenjing is of little value, it's time to negotiate with him and knock Li Yuan hard!" ”
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Three days later, at the behest of Yang Gao, Xiao Yu pretended to be extremely reluctant to meet with Liu Wenjing and began to negotiate the Sui and Tang peace talks about the release of the crown prince Li Jiancheng and Xiangguo Pei Lian.
In the council hall, Liu Wenjing and the new deputy envoy Feng Shaoshi sat in their seats face to face with Xiao Yu and his deputy Huang Zheng.
Young Master Feng is Li Yuan's son-in-law, the official salute of the Ministry of Rites, he just arrived in Jiangdu two days ago, Li Yuan also knew that Feng Deyi, the deputy envoy, would not live long, so he had already looked for the next deputy envoy of the Council and the peace, when the news of Feng Deyi's death reached Chang'an, Li Yuan immediately ordered Feng Shaoshi to set off to Jiangdu.
However, Yang Lin's arrest of Feng Deyi at the gate of the city still made Li Yuan's face unbearable, so while sending Young Master Feng, he secretly warned him that he had to get this face back no matter what.
Because of Li Yuan's instructions, coupled with the fact that Young Master Feng had just married Li Yuan's daughter Princess Changsha half a year ago, he had always lived a high-ranking life, so Young Master Feng was also arrogant and said to Xiao Yu at this moment: "Lord Xiao, our Datang may have had some misunderstandings with your country recently, I hope your country can release our Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Pei Xiangguo as soon as possible." Otherwise, once my Tang Emperor is angry, the consequences will be unimaginable! ”
Xiao Yu glanced at Young Master Feng a few times like an idiot, and barely squeezed out a smile, "Feng Fuma, it is naturally no problem to put back the prince and Xiangguo of your country, but just put the two of them back unconditionally, Feng Fuma, do you say it is too casual!" ”
"Yes, that's right!"
Young Master Feng pretended to nod, picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, and said slowly: "I don't know what the conditions of your country are, let's hear it!" ”
Xiao Yu gave his deputy Huang Zheng a look. Huang Zheng understood, picked up a report in his hand and read it aloud: "For this meeting, His Majesty has drawn up the following three requirements. First, 300,000 stone of grain and grass, and 100,000 taels of gold. Second, 100,000 war horses. Third, Li Yuan immediately resigned from the throne, changed his name to the king of Tang, called the minister Nagong, and served every year. As long as your country does the above three things, we will immediately present Li Jiancheng and Pei Lin with both hands, and promise not to invade Guanzhong! ”
"Bang!"
Young Master Feng listened to Huang Zheng's reading conditions, immediately slapped the table, stood up, glared at Xiao Yu and Huang Zheng angrily, gritted his teeth and said: "The two adults are not daydreaming, how can we agree to such insincere conditions!" ”
Xiao Yu looked at the angry Young Master Feng and smiled without saying a word. Liu Wenjing, who was sitting next to Young Master Feng, shook her head helplessly.
Since ancient times, no matter what the situation is, negotiations have inevitably been the first lion to open their mouths and ask for a price, so that they can still obtain the greatest benefits after one side has negotiated and lowered the price. Otherwise, as soon as you start talking, your bottom line will be exposed, so why do you have to negotiate!
Although Liu Wenjing thought so in his heart, he couldn't blame him because of Young Master Feng's identity, so he had to cough twice and said lightly: "Two adults, the three conditions just now are too harsh, we will never agree, so please think twice!" ”
Xiao Yu smiled slightly, "Then I don't know what kind of conditions Lord Liu thinks is reasonable?" ”
Liu Wenjing also smiled slightly: "Among the three conditions of your country, I won't talk about the third one, everyone knows that this is absolutely impossible." First, the asking price of your country is too high, and I think that 50,000 stone of grain and grass and 10,000 taels of gold are more reasonable. As for the second one, it is not a secret, our dynasty is also a scarcity of war horses, and it is true that we can't get 100,000 war horses, in my opinion, how about 5,000 war horses? ”
Xiao Yu laughed and said: "Lord Liu is really an expert in negotiation, our conditions have been suppressed by Lord Liu more than ten times, how can there be such a cheap thing in this world!" ”
Liu Wenjing smiled knowingly, "Then please ask Lord Xiao to raise the price!" ”