So Da Yu'er secretly, avoiding Huang Taiji's sight, vaguely sent Wei Bao a few flattering glances.

It's a pity that President Wei has no interest in Da Yuer's appearance.

Da Yu'er looks very good, but she is not as beautiful as Cong Gulenge, and Cong Gulunge is only a beauty close to Wang Qiuya's level.

And Da Yu'er's figure is too rough, she is a typical northern woman, her skeleton is too big, and she feels strong overall, which is not the type that President Wei likes.

Besides, Da Yu'er, like Cong Gulen Gege, is only twelve or thirteen years old, and the unique innocence of girls at this age is no longer there.

Wei Bao also doesn't like women who are too scheming.

Cleverness and scheming, in President Wei's view, are two different things.

Cong Gulen Gege also looked at Wei Bao from time to time during the meal, and remembered that when Wei Bao was disguised as a young man in southern Liaoning, he really disguised himself very similarly, and he usually ate coarse tea and light rice, but he didn't expect the real Wei Bao to be like this.

However, seeing Wei Bao's diet specifications also made Cong Gulen Gege yearn for life by Wei Bao's side even more.

Thinking of the scene when he met Wei Bao at the beginning, Cong Gulen Gege felt very sweet.

Although this trip Wei Bao sent troops to attack the Dajin Kingdom, and caused huge casualties to the Dajin Kingdom, which made Cong Gulen Gege very sad.

But the Manchurians are heroes, the winner is the king, Wei Bao shows great strength, in the eyes of the Manchurians, he is the strong, he is the hero.

Therefore, after the negotiations began, Cong Gulen Gege didn't care much about Wei Bao's sending troops to attack the Dajin Kingdom, and only hoped that the two sides would not fight again in the future.

Wei Bao chatted with Dai Shan and Huang Taiji without a word, and no longer mentioned any specific topics of negotiation.

But Wei Bao was secretly calculating whether to favor Dai Shan or Huang Taiji.

In fact, for President Wei, who was reborn through the giant, this problem is not a problem.

Wei Bao knows the trend of history, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that Dai Shan's talent cannot be compared with Huang Taiji, and he is not Huang Taiji's opponent, so for the sake of the future, he should naturally choose to favor Huang Taiji.

But if you say it clearly, it seems that it will offend Dai Shan, because Dai Shan has also proposed a candidate for Cong Gulen Gege's successor.

Wei Bao saw Da Yu'er and Cong Gulun Gege looking at him from time to time, and couldn't help but be moved, and said with a smile: "Gege, madam, I don't know much about the situation over there in Manmeng, Gege, which Mongolian nobleman do you like to be a daughter to?" What does Madame suggest? ”

Huang Taiji was very happy when he heard Wei Bao ask, and he knew very well that Wei Bao just wanted to be good friends with him, and he didn't want to offend Dai Shan, so he deliberately said this, secretly admiring Wei Bao's wit and talent.

Cong Gulenge said ignorantly: "I didn't think about it, I listened to Brother Huang Taiji." ”

When Dai Shan heard this, he immediately lowered his face, but there was no way, because Cong Gulun grew up with Huang Taiji since he was a child, and at the age of Huang Taiji, he could be Cong Gulun's father, and the relationship between Huang Taiji and Cong Gulun was closer than his own, what could he do?

Da Yu'er smiled: "If the president wants to ask me for advice, I selfishly think that Gege should be passed on to my father, so that Gege and I will be closer, and we will really be sisters." ”

Hearing this, Wei Bao nodded, and said to Dai Shan: "Big Belle, what can I do about this?" In my heart, I would like to find more opportunities to play with Big Baylor, and if Cong Gulen Gege succeeds to your own family as a daughter, there will be many such opportunities. But I don't want to disappoint Huang Taiji Baylor's side Fujin, and I want to follow Gege's own wishes, which is really nerve-wracking. Can you tell me a way? ”

Dai Shan was stunned, he didn't expect Wei Bao to ask for his own advice, he felt respected, and squeezed out a smile and said: "The president's idea is also very good, there is nothing wrong with following Cong Gulun's own ideas." ”

Wei Bao smiled slightly, expecting Dai Shan to say this, and nodded with a smile: "You go back and discuss it yourself, I don't care, otherwise you will think that I am too lenient." I'm actually a very good person, as long as people don't offend me, I can be friends with anyone, whether it's an old man or a teenager. ”

"That is, I heard that the president is a big celebrity in front of the Ming Emperor, and the president can even be blue-eyed for the emperor, let alone socialize with others." Huang Taiji held Wei Bao meaningfully.

Wei Bao smiled: "Baylor's news is really well-informed, in fact, there is nothing, we are loyal and honest, and we do our best to do things for Your Majesty and the court." But let Your Majesty know that I married the daughter of your Great Khan, I don't know what I will think, I marry you, and I take the risk of losing my head. ”

"After passing my sister to the Mongol princes, I am not so sensitive." Huang Taiji said indifferently: "I only hope that President Wei can keep his promise and sincerely make friends with my Dajin Kingdom." Don't negotiate peace with this head, and help the Liaodong Army and Mao Wenlong's soldiers and horses to attack my Dajin Kingdom. ”

"I'm Jiliao Prison Army, help won't help, I said, don't provide manpower and material resources, but you can't let me resign and don't make a plan, right? The power is still their original strength. Wei Bao said with a smile: "You have always dealt with the Liaodong Border Army and Mao Wenlong, haven't you always held a handle." ”

"I heard that Mr. President, you are withdrawing the army again, and you are abandoning all the tuntian fields in Liaodong, and you want to turn the Shanhaiguan Wai into a huge battlefield, and there is no food, what are we going to do in Liaodong?" Huang Taiji said coldly: "In the long run, the president is going to trap my Dajin Country and let us not get development, but because we eat the old book year after year, we will sit and eat nothing." Maybe in a few years, even the Mongols will be bullied on our heads. ”

"Baylor, it's not right for you to think so, you account for more than two-thirds of the fertile land in the northeast, since you have negotiated peace, you can rest assured to develop Jilin and Heilongjiang in the future, and hundreds of thousands of you can develop the Hunhe River valley with peace of mind! How can you say that you are sitting on empty food, that you have a problem with your thinking, always thinking about getting something for nothing, always thinking about war. War is a double-edged sword, money comes quickly, money burns quickly, and only self-production is the best development. Wei Bao said.

Wei Bao said righteous words, and from a logical point of view, it cannot be refuted.

But Dai Shan and Huang Taiji didn't listen to it at all.

The rise of Jiannu, from the day of its birth, has been full of aggressiveness!

How can we develop without relying on looting? They won't agree.

Huang Taiji is stronger than Nurhachi in this regard, and in the Nurhachi era, it was impossible to calm down and engage in production.

In the era of Huang Taiji, the Jiannu Society engaged in production and developed internal affairs on the one hand, and paid attention to the trends of the Ming Dynasty and the surrounding areas on the other hand, successively swept away Mao Wenlong and Monan Mongolia, unified the entire northern Ming Dynasty, and then concentrated on dealing with Liaodong.

"What if you find out that you are providing manpower and material support to Mao Wenlong, or to the Liaodong Army and the Jiliao Army? Even if you tear up the contract, how should you compensate? Huang Taiji asked.

Wei Bao smiled: "What will you pay for tearing up the contract?" That is, our side is treacherous, morally it will not make sense, the two families are evil, and the war is renewed, you can rest assured, I am not a treacherous person! As long as you don't do it first, we won't do it! When encountering problems, the two sides try to negotiate peacefully. I will set up liaison offices in Qinghe Fort and Weiningbao, and if you agree, we can even set up liaison offices in Shenyang City, so that the two sides can contact each other directly. As long as everyone shows sincerity, everything is easy to discuss. ”

Huang Taiji nodded: "Yes, as long as everyone shows sincerity, everything is easy to discuss." ”

Although there has been significant progress in the peace talks, Huang Taiji was in an extremely bad mood, and when he came, he was prepared for the breakdown of the peace talks, but he did not expect that there would be a result.

After that, Wei Bao did not talk about the negotiation again, and the specific matters were communicated by Lin Wenbiao and Huang Taiji.

Of course, Nurhachi has not yet been consulted, and can only talk about some preliminary issues.

In the afternoon, Wei Bao personally sent Huang Taiji and Dai Shan and his party away.

"Wei Bao, will you marry me?" Cong Gulenge's fair face had two blush of redness.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, the girls outside the gate are so direct, do you ask that? But Wei Bao replied, "Yes!" As long as your father shows sincerity. ”

"It shouldn't be a big problem, it's just that the dowry of 12 million taels of silver is impossible, since it is a marriage, the bride price from the president will not be less, right? Can the bride price be offset against the dowry? Da Yu'er asked.

Huang Taiji and Dai Shan didn't talk about this issue with Lin Wenbiao just now, thinking that this was the next step.

But now that Da Yu'er has brought it up, several people are very concerned, including Wei Bao.

Although Huang Taiji and Dai Shan are both good drinkers, but at the meal just now, everyone basically didn't drink much, and Dai Shan drank the most, only a few glasses of mare's milk wine.

"I married the daughter of the grandfather of the country, and the bride price was only 500,000 taels of silver." Wei Bao said: "And these are two different things, it is you who want to attack North Korea first, and we have repeatedly dissuaded us to no avail before we counterattacked, we are the division of justice!" You think it's better to put war reparations in another way, and we can respect your meaning, but this is the blood of many of our soldiers, not my own pockets! So, I said it was useless. Moreover, when we only asked for 4 million taels in compensation, you had to continue fighting, and we were forced to accept it. ”

Huang Taiji, Dai Shan and the others were speechless, how much blood did you shed?

Huang Taiji and Dai Shan estimated that the total number of casualties in Wei Baojun's trip was less than 3,000, which was only a fraction of the soldiers lost by the Dajin Kingdom.

Wei Bao was embarrassed to say so.

Of course, there is no way to refute this, otherwise it will seem that their side is too embarrassed.

"President, there is no need to say these high-sounding truths, right? I can't get that much silver. Da Yu'er said gloomily: "If the president is unwilling to give in at all, there is no way to talk." ”

"You can use your cattle to offset it, and the price of your cattle and furs will be according to the price of your private trade with the Jin merchants! You may also use gold, and I grant you permission to exchange one tael of gold for thirty taels of silver. There is more gold in Manmeng than in Daming! Wei Bao said.

"Your Excellency, can you halve it as appropriate? Since it's already a relative, there's a love in it, right? You can't talk about it exactly according to the hostile relationship, right? "Huang Taiji's sleek road.

"Halving is impossible." Wei Bao bluntly refused, "For Gege's sake, let two million taels at most!" 12 million taels, you can give 10 million taels, 2 million taels, it should be my bride price for Gege. It's four times more than the daughter I married to the grandfather of the country, which can't but be said to be sincere, right? ”

Wei Bao's words made Huang Taiji and Dai Shan even more angry, from beginning to end, how much compensation should be paid, you are talking alone, now it's good, you still take out what you said as a basis?

And these two million taels are not the silver you took out at all, they were deducted from the compensation, and they are embarrassed to say that they are four times more than marrying the daughter of the grandfather of the country.

"Your Excellency President, 10 million taels is still too much, Dajin Guo can't afford it, can you follow what I said, 6 million taels! In this way, I went back with the Great Belle and did not know how to explain it to my father Khan. This is already our greatest sincerity! You must know that the tax revenue of the entire Ming Dynasty in a year may not be six million taels, not to mention that there are few people in Dajin. Thank you for your understanding, Mr. President! "Huang Taiji pleaded again.

Dai Shan also said: "President, you are a person who does great things, peace talks are not a unilateral thing, Huang Taiji can say six million taels, and he has done his best to be sincere!" There is definitely not so much silver and gold in the treasury of my Great Khan, and there are many ways to raise it, and if this money is taken out, the life of the Dajin Kingdom will be very difficult for several years to come, and when the time comes, since we are related by marriage, can you see the famine in the Dajin Kingdom and ignore it? ”

Wei Bao smiled slightly, secretly thinking that Dai Shan was quite good at talking, a person who played a good hand of cards poorly, and his mouth did not suffer.

"After we have a relationship, we have a reciprocal relationship, but the hostilities have been lifted, and as for trade, it is on the basis of equality, and I will not take advantage of you! As for the time when there are difficulties, Liaoning and North Korea will not seek help from Jianzhou, and if there is difficulty in establishing a state, they should not seek too much help from Liaoning South and North Korea. Wei Bao said coldly.

Anyway, at least 10 million taels will be taken out, this is Wei Bao's bottom line, and this point cannot be talked about anymore.

If this peace talks are successful, Wei Bao believes that for a long time in the future, there will be no more war with Jiannu, and it will not be easy to get money from Jiannu again.

And the more money you take from Jiannu this time, the better and faster your side will develop, and the slower the development of Jiannu's side, this reason is very simple.

"Let's go back and pay homage to the Great Khan first." Dai Shan hopes that the negotiations will be successful, and he also wants to leave a good impression on Wei Bao.

Wei Bao smiled slightly and nodded to Dai Shan as a sign of friendship.

"I won't talk about hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, this can be 10 million taels!" Huang Taiji sighed heavily.

Caring is chaotic, and it can also be seen from this point that Huang Taiji takes the matter of Jiannu more seriously, and Dai Shan is obviously a little bit inappropriate and doesn't know that firewood and rice are expensive.

Wei Bao didn't say anything, and planned to break up with the gang here.

Cong Gulen Gege also wanted to say a few more words to Wei Bao, but was pulled away by Huang Taiji, "There will be time to say it in the future." ”

Huang Taiji can see that Wei Bao is surrounded by beautiful women, if you say that you can impress people like Wei Bao with feelings, it is impossible, and the woman next to Wei Bao is much more beautiful than Cong Gulun.

It's just political negotiations, it's not about feelings.

Da Yu'er can also see this.

After the gang left, Wu Xuexia said: "This negotiation must have been completed!" ”

"Why, 10 million taels, Nurhachi may not be willing to agree." Wei Bao is not so optimistic.

"Then why didn't the president agree to lower it to six million taels just now?" Wu Xuexia asked.

"According to the real result of this war, they can actually do without reparations, and we have no way to take them, we are bluffing, since it is a bluff, we can't make too concessions, it is too easy to concede, and they will see it." Wei Bao said: "Moreover, these are real money, get more silver, the more beneficial it is to the development of southern Liaoning and Weijiazhuang, with such a large sum of silver, complete the infrastructure of Weijiazhuang and southern Liaoning, and ensure that food self-sufficiency does not have to worry about silver and grain matters, isn't it good?" ”

"Well, naturally, I'd like to get more money." Wu Xuexia smiled: "President, it shouldn't be a problem for Jiannu to take out 10 million taels of silver, they have robbed Daming so many times, which Baylor general can't take out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver?" It's enough to put it together. ”

"I also think so, I can definitely take it, so for Nurhachi, whether it is six million taels or ten million taels, there is not much difference." Wei Bao didn't believe it, at the beginning, in such a poor place as Liaoxi and Liaodong, he could get tens of millions of taels of silver, and Jiannu was much richer than these people, what was this money.

"Now let the Tan madman withdraw them?" Wu Xuexia asked again, "It's better to wait a few more days and wait for the Jianzhou people to reply." ”

"Let them withdraw now, no longer have to wait. We have to make a gesture too. Wei Bao said.

"Actually, I think we can fight Jiannu whenever we want, and they can't do anything about us, so we don't have to negotiate peace. If it's because of insufficient ammunition, wait for another fight next year, and they won't be at peace every time they stir up, and then ask for another sum of silver, how good is that? It can also use them to earn money for a long time, and it can also restrict their development. Wu Xuexia said.

"It's a good idea, but it's not realistic. If that's the case, it will definitely blow up the all-out war. Jiannu held on to several important cities, most of them retreated to the mountains, and they had the advantage of cavalry, and they would constantly attack Korea and fight a war of attrition with us. Wei Bao said.

Wu Xuexia nodded, she didn't understand why President Wei regarded development as so important, in her opinion, even if it didn't develop, there was nothing, the Baojun was already strong enough now, Liaonan and Weijiazhuang were also strong enough, and they had more than enough self-preservation, whoever dared to be presumptuous in front of the Baojun would defeat him and subdue him.