The atmosphere of the conversation was very depressing, with both the shadow of defeat and the objective problems under the cruel reality.

That night, there were sporadic unpleasant incidents, including the stealing of chickens and dogs committed by the coalition forces entering the city, and the provocation and protest of the angry Jin Xuedi.

The next day, the ransom and the official signing of the truce were put on the table, and the slap Kabias finally came to his senses, and Gudapa, Mooney, and Temir were counting on Bailiyan to kill Kabias with a sword and help them remove the stumbling block.

But Bai Liyan knew it, but she didn't want to be this villain.

He believed that there must be some terrible background behind Kabias, otherwise Mooney, as the temporary supreme military and political governor of Po Song Province, would have personally killed Kabias, but Mooney did not.

Obviously, there are other inside things that cannot be made public, at least at the family level. Otherwise, it is impossible, and it should not be up to such a guy to be a high-ranking official in this fat shortage in Posong Province.

Mooney and Gudapa tried to cut through the mess with a quick knife without Bai Liyan knowing the inside story, and neatly solved the internal problems for them.

Kabias is also a coward of all kinds of fierce inwards, scaring a few times and immediately giving in, obediently signing decrees and sending them to various places to raise ransom. In order to prevent its recurrence, Bailiyan has a time limit of ten days, and one-third of the ransom must be raised within ten days.

In addition, what shocked Bailiyan the most was the gold and silver ware found in the city, Jin Xuedi people did not like to use porcelain, edible utensils such as rice bowls, dinner plates were mostly tinware, pottery, nobles were so extravagant that they used gold and silver to make edible utensils, and even the cauldron for cooking soup was cast in pure silver, even if Tian Peng was as powerful as an ox, he couldn't move it.

This phenomenon has been found sporadically in various places before, but it is only a case, not a common phenomenon, Po Song City undoubtedly opened Bailiyan's eyes, and I really regret that I was soft-hearted at that time, and I didn't wipe out Songdia in one fell swoop.

It can also be seen how rich gold and silver precious metals are in the local area, coupled with the fertile land, it is no wonder that the people of Jin Xuedi have sufficient financial and material resources, completely because this land is too good.

The armistice agreement was negotiated for six days, and there was always a stalemate on one issue, one is the retention of the female unicorn and the war fang, Mooney does not want the Central Plains to get the female unicorn, which will be unfavorable to Jin Xuedi in the future, and Bailiyan is not approved.

So Mooney wants to write the total ransom into the negotiation agreement, which is tantamount to making Bailiyan's legitimate income public. Not to mention how much money the Gongliang clan and Su Fangyi can share, after returning to the south, all the armies in the Central Plains are eyeing each other.

The war has been fought for six or seven years, and all of them have tightened their pants to get by, but some people have made a fortune. When the time comes, there will be a lot of people with red eyes, and it will be difficult to say what the result will be.

Of course, if you can't talk about it, you can do it, but it is inevitable that some people seem to be petty and narrow. And the army's heart is like an arrow, and there is no certainty of another battle. Bailiyan pondered repeatedly for two days, and finally decided to take a tough position, you can write if you want to, you have a policy, and I always have a countermeasure.

Mooney and Gudappa had no choice but to bite the bullet and respond to the conditions, but there were a lot of small actions.

Soon after, it was discovered that the Jin Xuedi people fed sterilized herbs into the mouth of the Ming mare in the name of checking the total number and providing forage, resulting in a large number of mares being sterilized in the future, which was quite lacking in morality.

The agreement was sent out of the city of Po Song on the seventh day, and a few days later it was delivered to Derangi and Cupigon.

When he saw the clear account of Bailiyan's extortion, Su Fangyi, Gongliangwen, Gongliangxiu, and Gongliangsong's faces were all stiff, and Gongliangsong immediately slapped the table: "Gongziyan's extortion account is so huge, I don't know how many hidden accounts there are!" ”

In fact, everyone thinks so, but only Gong Liangsong said it.

On the ninth day after entering the city, Kabias obediently delivered the first ransom, and since the province of Po Song was not destroyed in the middle and late periods, the ransom sent was quite large. On the twelfth day after entering the city, ransom baggage horses arrived one after another, and Bailiyan did not intend to stay any longer.

After receiving a clear reply from Su Fangyi and Gongliangwen and revising the manuscript, Mooney plenipotentiary represented the two provinces of Posong and Songdia, and Bailiyan represented Su Fangyi and Gongliangwen, and the two sides signed an armistice agreement in seven copies.

Mooney kept the manuscript, Bai Liyan, Mooney, Gongliangwen, and Su Fangyi each held one copy, and the remaining two copies were sent to the front.

"It's really not easy, you and I have been fighting here for three years, and today we finally stopped fighting, and I hope that there will be no more soldiers in thirty years."

Bailiyan was full of emotion, what she thought in her heart, Mooney knew very well:

"If you are alive in thirty years, your notoriety will remain on the land forever."

"Huh...... Perhaps, if you invade the north again in 30 years, this general will be seventy or eighty, and he will lead his troops south and fight with you for another three years. At that time, I hope that Your Excellency will still be alive, and you and I will fight him for another hundred rounds! ”

"You're still hard-mouthed, let's go, I don't want to see you again!" Mooney turned his face sideways, a little angry.

Bailiyan laughed:

"Hehaha...... All right. Restraining her smile, Bai Liyan looked at Gudapa and said, "Your Excellency Gudapa, what do you think about my suggestion, take your family and family members with me to the Central Plains, go to see the weather in the Central Plains, and in the future, it will be better to repair the two countries and open up channels, which is better than you sneaking around, isn't it." ”

Gudapa sighed for a long time, and the look of embarrassment jumped on his face:

"Alas...... I know that Your Majesty and the priests will not let me go, and don't you hate us just as much? ”

"I hate you, because what you do a lot of times is heinous, but it is war, and war should not be involved in personal life and between the two countries. Your Excellency can rest assured that with the guarantee of this general and the royal guest, no one in the Central Plains will dare to harm your people. ”

"Okay, I'm willing to go to the Central Plains with Your Excellency, maybe it's time to see the weather in the Central Plains......"

Gudappa was the one who brokered the truce for ransom, and as a nobleman with little roots, he suffered great losses to the country, and the moon god King Blendor was determined not to spare him, nor would the priesthood let him go.

Bai Liyan suggested that he go north to the Central Plains together, which can not only save his life, but also have a channel for Jin Xuedi people to understand the culture of the Central Plains and lay a foundation for future communication.

Of course, it is true that the Jin Xuedi people know everything about the Central Plains, but what they know is that the division of the Central Plains can be used by them, but they do not know the strong vitality of the Central Plains civilization.

Gu Dapa took away more than 6,000 family members, servants, relatives and their dependents, and Bailiyan moved more than 8,000 volumes of various books and manuscripts from the academy, opening a window for the Central Plains to understand the Jin Xuedi people.

The coalition forces departed, and Mooney sent only a few troops to follow them, maintaining the most basic law and order along the way. Most of Yabuk's troops were transferred to Songdia Province to quell the rebellion, but there were still at least 200,000 disobedient Central Plains people entrenched everywhere until a long time later.

Gudapa asked a lot of questions on the way, and even asked why the Central Plains people didn't wear shoes. At first glance, Bailiyan was referring to the poor, who could not afford to wear shoes because of the high taxes, and wore barefoot or only hand-woven straw sandals.

But if you listen carefully, it is talking about clogs, and the people of the Central Plains have the habit and tradition of wearing clogs, because the northern tropics and subtropics are more common.

"I heard that Xianguo is also a vassal state that grows white sugar, and the profits are very considerable. The smuggling to us is denominated in silver coins, which can be more than ten times more than ten. ”

"Yes, but white sugar is not grown, it is a crop we call sugarcane, after squeezing the juice, put it into a pot and boiling it to dry, sugarcane can be grown in the hot places of the north, and the yield is okay. However, your honey is very good, several times better than the honey of the Central Plains, and if you can sell it to the Central Plains, you can also make a lot of money. ”

"But you don't have so much gold and silver."

"Perhaps, but it's better to communicate with each other, isn't it, than to fight every day."

"But the high priest of the priesthood will not listen to your advice."

While the two were talking, Su Hong rode a horse to meet them:

"General, a huge crater was found five miles southeast of the front, and the black hole didn't know what it was doing, just like a ghost opening its bloody mouth, which was very scary."

"It's a big pit, or a devil, it's time to make it clear." Bai Liyan reprimanded.

"It's a big pit, a big pit, and there are scattered locals in the big pit, I don't know what to do."

Bailiyan turned to Gudapa and asked:

"Your Excellency Gudapa, do you know about this big pit?"

"It is a gemstone field in Posong Province, which began to dig more than 300 years ago and has been digging until now."

"So, all the diamonds in Posong Province come from here?"

"Yes, not only in Po Song Province, but more than half of the diamonds, gems, and cat's eyes in the whole country come from here, and if I could, I would rather use these gems in exchange for your ransom. How about it, if you leave the Central Plains people behind, return the ransom to us, and all the gems here will be yours. ”

Baili Yan's cheeks immediately twitched, and she couldn't help but think: It's really a good calculation, a hair diamond is worth hundreds of thousands of gold and silver, I really am a stupid hat.

Without responding, Bai Liyan led people to the gem field, and was also taken aback from a distance.

This open-air gem field, straight from the ground flat down to dig, the general city is round, the diameter has been more than three miles, the depth is not fifteen zhang, there must be ten zhang, because the digging is too deep, the years are too long, can only continue to expand outward to continue to dig.

"My goodness, how many diamonds have to be dug up in the past three hundred years for such a big hole. Your Excellency Gudapa, with such a huge amount of manpower, there must be a lot of output, right? ”

"Well, the largest "Light of the Moon God" that has ever been dug up is equivalent to three catties and two taels in the Central Plains, with an average of at least ten catties of diamonds every month, and dozens of catties of other gemstones. ”

As soon as Gu Dapa said it, he was stunned that the well-informed Baili Yan was also startled, dozens of catties of various colored gems per month, more than three hundred years is an astronomical amount. No wonder Gudapa is so confident, he is basically guarding a huge treasure, and he is not worried about being unmarketable.

The miners of the gem field are all Jinxuedi, and due to the impact of the war, work was completely stopped last summer, and the huge site was in decay. Scattered and distant villagers took advantage of the absence of the defenders, risked their lives to sneak into the gem field to find an opportunity, and when they saw the coalition army appear, they hid like a ghost.

As the largest gem field in the country, the gem field in Po Song Province is usually heavily guarded, and no idlers are allowed to enter within a radius of 20 miles, and those who violate the order are either sentenced or severely punished.