Volume 2 Debt Repayment Chapter 107 Negotiation (I)
The envoy's inventory was so large that he had no desire to continue the discussion, and Li Chengyang and Duan Zan laughed together for a while and returned to the East Palace.
The time soon came to the thirtieth, and I don't know how Jieli and Li Shimin rested this night, anyway, when Li Chengyang saw Li Shimin, he didn't find anything wrong, but was more energetic than before.
The father and son changed their clothes early in the morning, and the four-clawed golden dragon in the prince's suit and Li Shimin's five-clawed golden dragon complemented each other, shining brightly under the sun, just as the mood of the two of them was shining today.
Wordlessly came to the bridge, Li Shimin took Li Chengyang directly to the tent that had been set up in the middle of the bridge.
Jieli actually came earlier, and Li Chengyang even wondered if Jieli hadn't slept all night, so he waited in the tent.
Jieli and Li Shimin nodded symbolically, even if it was a greeting, Li Chengyang did not have such a good treatment, and took the etiquette he learned to the extreme, and made a decent salute, and then sat down in Li Shimin's satisfied eyes.
The king is the king, the minister is the minister, the prince said that breaking the sky is equivalent to half a king, and in the face of Jieli, the king of the grassland, he should be polite or polite.
After some etiquette, it's time for the main course.
Jieli and Li Shimin didn't speak first, looking at each other and wanting to give themselves the upper hand first.
Li Chengyang didn't have so many flowers in his heart, and looked at a big man beside Jieli who tightened the halberd in his hand, and he was quite eager to try.
The big man was extremely uncomfortable by Li Chengyang's gaze, and he also clenched the wooden-handled hammer in his hand, and drank to Li Chengyang: "Hey, the prince of the Central Plains, what do you see, just a child, see if I don't blow your head with a hammer."
Hey, I haven't done it yet, you have to shout first, this is going to let you go back for a while, don't laugh at me, raise the halberd and smash it down according to the man.
Jie Li saw that it was the person he brought who took the lead in breaking the situation, and he didn't stop it immediately, but it was an old god like Li Shimin who introduced it:
"This is a warrior selected by the Turks, who lived naked on the grassland without anything for half a year, and finally killed the wolves with bare hands under the supervision of a tribal leader, and the hundred people who participated in the selection at the beginning were the most powerful warriors, and in the end there was such a person, and I want to compare it with Lu Bu of your Central Plains is also ......."
"When~" Jieli didn't finish his introduction, a sound of weapons handover came and interrupted his words, accompanied by the sound of gold still lingering in the camp, the warrior brought by Jieli knelt on the ground, maintaining the posture of raising the block on both hands and was silent.
Li Chengyang put away the halberd, stared at the twelve-year-old with wide-eyed eyes and asked Xiang Jieli: "Uncle Khan, what did you say?" ”。
Jieli looked at the warriors he had brought, but he still didn't move at all, his knees were sinking into the bridge, and the planks were a little loose.
A drop of blood dropped from the warrior's jaw, striking in the silence of the tent.
Li Chengyang took the halberd and slammed it the bridge for a while, and the entire tent he brought with him trembled a little, and the warrior couldn't keep his kneeling posture, so he lay down on the ground with a plop.
Jieli leaned forward, and with a whoop, he shrank back, only to see that his warrior was shocked and bleeding, and he didn't know what kind of injury he had suffered.
Looking around, there are now three people left in the tent, two opposite, Jieli himself, at this time, Jieli can no longer maintain the demeanor just now, trembling with his fat right hand pointing at Li Shimin, and drinking with a lack of breath: "You, what do you want to do, my army is waiting at the bridge, I advise you not to mess around."
Li Shimin was not as eyeing him as he was just now, and he changed his relaxed expression and cocked Erlang's legs: "Chengyang, it's too much, just learn from each other, why did you get your life and apologize to your uncle."
"Uncle I'm sorry, the little nephew has itchy hands for a while, and he is young and vigorous, so he can't hold back his strength, and I ask my uncle to forgive me" apologized to Jieli in a foolish manner, and then guarded the door of the tent with a halberd in hand, and didn't go out if he wasn't satisfied with Jieli.
"Okay, now let's start negotiating, let the juniors deal with the juniors' own plays, I don't know what Khan is going to do to make up for the loss of my Datang when he begs this time" Li Shimin saw Li Chengyang blocking the door, so he spoke to Jieli.
Jieli wiped the sweat on his head, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then said boldly: "Two thousand, no, fifteen million guan, if you give me fifteen million guan every year, I will withdraw my troops, and never invade your Datang again, don't be too much, too much, we can discuss."
20 million guan is the condition that Jieli and Zhao Deyan negotiated together, although the Turks are still at a disadvantage, but since ancient times, the negotiation is a lion's mouth, and the annual tax of Datang is almost 20 million, so they will first offer 20 million, and then slowly reduce the price.
But the current occasion really made Jieli unable to raise his anger, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he first lowered five million to himself, in order to ask Li Shimin not to be annoyed and ashamed, and let Li Chengyang give him a click.
Of course, Li Shimin knew the Tao here, fiddling with his fingers and not knowing what he was thinking.
Li Chengyang couldn't hold his breath first, he knew that Datang's annual tax revenue was only more than 20 million, and Jieli wanted to take all Datang's taxes with one mouth, where did he come from so many things:
"Uncle Khan, are you wrong, why don't you think about it?" The halberd in Li Chengyang's hand kept swaying left and right, but the tip of the halberd was pointed at Jieli.
"10 million, 10 million, 10 million a year I'll leave" Jieli is really old, he was frightened by Li Chengyang and lost his sharpness, and immediately dropped 5 million by himself.
Li Shimin's face was solemn: "Chengyang, Hugh's rudeness, how can you participate in national affairs, listen there, don't talk nonsense."
Then he looked at Jieli: "Since the Khan first said what we have to pay, then what do you plan to give, you know, this time my Datang was really tossed by you."
"One, 10,000 cows, 100,000 sheep, and 30,000 horses, not enough for us to discuss" The beads of sweat on Jieli's face never stopped, and immediately exposed his bottom line, if Zhao Deyan was by his side now, I don't know if he would be angry to death.
"It's just such a thing, it's just a drop in the bucket compared to what you robbed past, don't say it, even if you want to exchange these things for my 10 million yuan, it's far from enough, Khan doesn't know his current situation, do you want me to tell you about it in detail?" Li Shimin didn't have any expression on his face, but just spit out a paragraph of words from his mouth that exuded cold and murderous intent.
Jie Liden was dumbfounded, why is this going to do it? When he discussed with Zhao Deyan, this condition was the final bottom line, no matter how much he Turkic, he would be broken, and the things he snatched back were always foreign things, and the roots of his Turks were always these big livestock.
Hate, Jieli hated himself for panicking as soon as he was threatened, and he leaked the bottom line so quickly, and now he is numb, and it is impossible to take more, otherwise it is strange that he will not be eaten alive when he goes back, if according to Zhao Deyan, first say half of it, and then add it little by little, how can there be such a thing, the matter has come to this, and I have to find another way.
What's the solution? Since Li Shimin thinks that he has fewer cattle and horses, then he will have less money, so that it will be even, thinking of this, Jieli hurriedly replied:
"As long as you give me 8 million guan a year, the matter between us will be gone, how about it, okay?"
Li Chengyang leaked a little smile, eight million guan is not too much, it is a lot less, it is gradually approaching the expectation in his heart, if he can exchange these eight million guan for 10,000 cattle, then next year's output will be 20% more, in general, it is still worth it, and the maximum five million discussed by the ministers in the council hall is not far away, maybe it is like this now.
The bottom line of five million guan was put forward by Li Shimin, so I think it might be like this.
Unexpectedly, Li Shimin completely departed from the original plan at this time, got up from the seat, and pointed at Jieli angrily, his face was red like a monkey's buttocks:
"Do you think you have the upper hand now? Look at your side, there are still a few horses with forage to eat, and the people of the Tang Dynasty still want to take my money and leave, where did such a good thing come from, you don't want to take any money, and the compensation that should be there must be no less, otherwise let's have a hard fight, who wins and who loses don't need to say, you still have a number in your heart."
Li Chengyang was stunned by Li Shimin's unreasonable playing of cards, but it was still the reflex of the halberd, which cooperated with Li Shimin's shock.
Jieli was also stunned by Li Shimin's commotion operation, obviously it wasn't arranged like this, and it was all changed.
But at the moment, he couldn't help hesitating, and the strange weapon of the Tang Dynasty Prince was sending out a chill again, and he immediately nodded again and again: "That's right, it's good, I don't want anything, I won't give you a share, as long as we can talk, it's easy to say, easy to say."
Jieli once again remembered Zhao Deyan, worthy of being the person he liked, doing things to plan one after another, even the situation that he can't get a penny now has been expected, and he also came up with corresponding compensation means, which is why Jieli agreed to Li Shimin so decisively.
He will never admit that he is simply greedy for life and afraid of death.
Li Chengyang, who was standing behind Jieli, didn't know what expression to use to express his shock at this moment, and he was speechless in a daze.
Even Li Shimin looked a little stunned, but fortunately he reacted quickly and restrained his expression in time, otherwise Jieli would have seen that he didn't know what else would come out.
"That's okay, that's all about money, let's talk about something else next", since Jieli has already said it, Li Shimin naturally hit the snake with the stick, quickly sealed the topic, and started anew, otherwise Jieli regretted it for a while, and he had no place to reason.
"Don't, don't, I don't want money, but you have to promise me one thing, otherwise I won't become a Turkic sinner, what face will I have to see our immortal god in the future" Jieli is not in a hurry at this time, the barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes, he doesn't believe that Li Shimin can still kill him if he doesn't want anything.
Li Shimin and Li Chengyang glanced at each other, not knowing what medicine was poured into Jieli's gourd, and after confirming that both of them were confused, Li Shimin continued Jieli's words and asked: "Say, what conditions, let's discuss it when we say it."
"Money! I don't want it, but the mutual market between us must be opened, and the trading of goods should be voluntary, and we must not interfere" Jieli put forward Zhao Deyan's suggestion, mutual market, so that the Turks can greatly alleviate the problem of lack of grain, salt and even iron tools in winter, which is a good thing for the Turks.
"Mutual market?" Li Shimin muttered, and then looked at Li Chengyang, this is the only person who can respond to his question at the moment, even if he is unreliable, he can be a reference.
Mutual market? Li Chengyang also thought about it, and responded to Li Shimin in a moment.