Chapter 75: Negotiations
In the early morning of the next day, Jieli Khan and Tuli Khan shouted loudly by the Weishui River and asked Li Jing to come to answer.
When Tuli Khan saw Li Jing coming, he smiled slightly: "General Li, the two of us have already discussed, we basically agree to Datang's conditions, if Datang can give us enough supplies, we will immediately withdraw our troops and never invade each other!" ”
Li Jing heard this and said, "Enough supplies?" How much do the two khans want? Tell me about it! Li Jing calculated that these two people would open their mouths, and although they said so at this moment, their eyes were full of mockery.
Tuli Khan didn't know if there was a problem with his eyes, he couldn't see Li Jing's playful expression, or because he was born with rough skin and thick meat, he didn't know what his face was, after listening to Li Jing, Tuli Khan said: "We want 20 million buckets of rice and 2 million catties of cotton, and we will withdraw immediately!" ”
Li Jing smiled and didn't say anything, seeing that Li Jing didn't speak, he kept laughing, Tuli Khan's face changed, and Tuli Khan also knew that his request might be excessive, but he had to strive for the maximization of benefits.
Li Haochen secretly calculated in his heart on the side, Tuli, a stinky and shameless person, really used my Datang as his own grain depot? You must know that the Tang Dynasty was sixteen taels for a catty, a person in a cotton coat will not exceed a catty in this era at most, now the Turkic population is not more than one million, and Turki wants two million catties of cotton, enough for all the Turkic population of two cotton clothes, this is still according to the calculation method of adults, if there are women, children and the elderly, may not need a pound of cotton, then it can basically be seen that Turki asked for 2.5 pieces of cotton for all the Turkic population.
And rice is the same, one bucket is about 12.5 catties of Li Haochen's previous life, and 20 million buckets, 250 million catties, even if one person needs 100 catties of food in this winter, then these grains are enough for the Turkic people to eat for two winters. It's really a lion's mouth.
Tuli saw that Li Jing didn't speak and kept laughing, but he couldn't bear it anymore, so he asked: "General Li, you keep laughing and don't speak, is it because Datang has no sincerity in negotiating?" ”
Li Jing sighed helplessly when he heard this: "It's not that my Datang doesn't have the sincerity to negotiate, my Datang has always advocated peace, but the Khan's appetite is too big, and I really don't know how to reply to the Khan." So I can only laugh back. ”
As soon as Li Haochen saw it, he knew that Li Jing was acting again, this performance, such a demeanor, and a serious expression, Li Haochen wanted to award him an Oscar statuette.
The Turki Khan didn't see that Li Jing was teasing him at all, and he also knew that this amount might be difficult for the Tang Dynasty to accept for a while, but at this moment he had the confidence to insist, because he had already asked people to check the water of the Wei River, and came to the conclusion that the water of the Wei River could not bring fatal damage to his Turkic army, so he knew that Li Jing had nothing to rely on.
It is precisely because of this that after listening to Li Jing's words, Tuli snorted coldly and said: "This is our bottom line, if Datang is unwilling to accept it, then you can open the gate and release the water now, and see if this Weishui can resist my sons and daughters of the grassland!" ”
Just as Tuli finished speaking, the sound of thousands of horses galloping in the distance came, and there were at least hundreds of thousands of horses in the distance, because the team was relatively close, and everyone saw the figures, and the crowd was surging, dense. At this time, a scout came to report, and said to Li Jing who fell to the ground: "Governor, the King of Qin was ordered to lead a total of 400,000 soldiers and horses from Henan Province and Hebei Province to King Qin, and now I ask the governor what to do next?" ”
Hearing this, Li Jing smiled at the scout and said, "Tell King Qin that I am still negotiating with the two Turkic khans, but I can set up camp first and make plans after the results of the negotiations." ”
Because Weishui is not wide, Li Jing deliberately spoke louder, so that Tuli and Jieli could hear it clearly.
Li Jing didn't expect that Jieli didn't have a trace of worry and fear when he heard his words, but laughed and said: "General Li, I know that King Qin didn't come, King Qin was demoted, how could he be here in Yunzhou, and besides, I came here at the invitation of King Qin, so he will definitely not appear here." ”
This is a sudden situation, Li Jing never thought that this Turkic invasion was actually planned by Li Shimin, originally Li Jing wanted to use the prestige accumulated by Li Shimin's southern and northern wars to scare these two people, but this situation actually appeared.
Li Jing laughed when he heard this: "It is true that the King of Qin was deposed, so he urgently needs the heads of the two of you to make this immortal feat, you two came to Chang'an City to sacrifice your head, and you still don't know it, it's ridiculous!" ”
Tuli Khan's quick thinking, he seemed to find a flaw in Li Jing's words, and then said: "If you have already calculated us, why don't you attack us now?" Instead, rap with us here? ”
Li Jing's thinking speed was much faster than these two, and he glanced at Tuli and Jieli Khan and said, "I am the prince's person!" It's impossible for me to let King Qin make another meritorious service, why did his soldiers and horses come back so quickly, haven't you figured it out? Of course, if you really want so many supplies, I can't take them out, then I can only fulfill the King of Qin, or the news of the arrival of the King of Qin has reached the ears of the Shengshang, then everything will be said at that time, whether it is war or peace, and ask the two khans to make a decision as soon as possible, and at this time, the distant army began to approach a distance again. ”
Tuli Khan and Jieli Khan muttered to each other for a while, and then Tuli said like a deflated ball: "Let's settle it peacefully!" We only need half of the supplies we just mentioned, and we will withdraw our troops! ”
Li Jing snorted coldly when he heard this: "You are already dying, you don't know it, you are still so greedy, you really don't know how to write the word dead, I can call the shots, I can give you up to thirty percent of the amount I just said, and you make your own decisions!" ”
Hearing this, Tuli said a little unwillingly: "Forty percent! ”
Li Jing turned his horse's head, prepared to leave, and then said, "Twenty percent!" ”
Before Tuli could speak, Jieli hurriedly said: "General Li, don't go, we agree, two achievements and two percent!" We'll sign the contract now, and you tell Li Shimin, the bastard, to stop moving forward. Jieli Khan called out to Li Jing because he saw that the army seemed to have moved forward some distance.
Li Jing turned his horse's head when he heard this, and laughed: "Okay! In front of the two khans, Jieli and Tuli, Li Jing called a herald and asked him to pass the order to the king of Qin, and let the king of Qin lead the troops back. After about a quarter of an hour, I saw the army in the distance slowly retreating, gradually disappearing from everyone's sight.