Chapter Ninety-Two: Difficult Confrontation and Negotiation Sun Chuanting asked for a surprise to the envoy

The Ottoman Sultan replied quickly in this telegram, "We will release all the merchants of the Ming Dynasty immediately, and as for their losses, we will give appropriate compensation." In any case, I just ask them to stop military operations in the light of the overall situation of our two countries. All other matters are at your discretion! ”

The Sultan understood that the top priority now was to get the Ming Dynasty to stop the attack, otherwise the more people would come in, the more weightless the negotiations would be. In particular, Ankara must not be occupied by them, it is a terrible place. If the imperial soldiers and civilians knew that Ankara was occupied by the Ming Dynasty, it would cause great panic and chaos.

The Ottoman envoy took the telegram and called the big treasurer, and came to Sun Chuanting's tent together. The envoy and the big shopkeeper were afraid that Sun Chuanting would not see him, because Sun Chuanting had already shown impatience when he invited them out of the tent last time.

In fact, it was impossible for Sun Chuanting not to know the contents of the telegram received by the envoy, and he used the telegraph of the kiln people. Sun Chuanting invited the envoy into the big tent, and he was not polite, "Your Excellency, let's get straight to the point." We already know the content of the telegram you received. We need to see your Majesty the Sultan in action. Originally, we wanted you to compensate us for our losses before we could negotiate with you. Considering the actual situation, as long as you release our personnel, unseal our shop, and admit that you have made a mistake in taking military action against us, we can suspend military operations and negotiate with you! ”

Sun Chuanting is really a spicy man, and the special envoy understands that the previous conditions can be fully agreed, but if he admits his mistake before the negotiation, then the subsequent negotiation will be like a trial. But is it okay not to say yes? The Empire had seized on the weakness of the Empire's eagerness to get the Ming Dynasty to stop its military operations. In the final analysis, it is the people who are too powerful to put forward the requirements of the strong.

The envoy said, "I have understood Lord Sun's opinion. But this matter of admitting one's mistake first does not seem to conform to the rules of negotiation! ”

"We Mr. Zhang often say that it is 'seeking truth from facts'. If you are wrong, you have to admit your mistakes, and if you are wrong, it means that you are not sincere in negotiating, and there is no need for us to waste time. "Sun Chuanting is not a good stubble. Although the current Sun Chuanting is in the position of Yaogang, he does not have the original subordinate Ning Degao, but he has never been in such a good mood. Originally, his job was to take over the place, but there was a war ahead, and he still found all kinds of excuses to come to the front. Whether it is Ningde or several people in the Yaogang Command Center, they all understand Sun Chuanting very well, and they all close their eyes. However, Sun Chuanting knew better what he should do, and never interfered with Ningde's work, but tried his best to cooperate. For such a negotiation, Sun Chuanting and Ningde didn't need to discuss, and Sun Chuanting took it. The two have a very tacit understanding.

"Alas!" After listening to Sun Chuanting's words, the envoy sighed helplessly and said, "Lord Sun, I have always been a friend of the Yaogang people. I am most uncomfortable when such a situation occurs in our two countries. To tell you the truth, I had no choice but to come out to negotiate with you. No, no! I cannot agree to your offer, but I will inform His Majesty the Sultan by telegram at once. Whatever His Majesty the Sultan replies, I will do! ”

"Good! Special Envoy, we hope that you, the Sultan, will have an opinion as soon as possible. However, I would like to remind you that our military preparations will not cease until formal negotiations have been reached. Once the military preparations are over, the action begins! ”

"Okay! I'll send a telegram to the Sultan right away! So saying, the envoy stood up and went to the telegraph office to send a telegram.

The Sultan received a telegram from the envoy and angrily scolded the envoy, "This bastard, you should refuse such conditions immediately, why do you send a telegram to bother me?" ”

When the Sultan was a little angry, one of the ministers said, "Your Majesty still has to think calmly, what should I do about this?" If they refuse, the negotiations will not be able to continue, and the military operations of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to stop! His Majesty did not see it, they said that military preparations were going on all the time, and that action would be taken when it was ready. This is a naked threat. The envoy has his problems. In the camp, I don't know what kind of anger I have to suffer? ”

"Alas! It's not good to be bullied! The Sultan said with emotion. Perhaps he also thought of the feelings of the small countries they had conquered.

"Humph! Hum! After getting up and turning around a few times, the Sultan snorted and sneered twice and said, "Who let us not beat people!" Tell him that as long as the Ming Dynasty army stops military operations, we will agree to any conditions. Don't bother me about this again! ”

In fact, Special Envoy Sun Chuanting knew that the answer was like this.

When the special envoy came to Sun Chuanting's big tent again, Sun Chuanting took out two documents and handed them to the special envoy, "Your Excellency, this is a memorandum that we drafted, if there is no objection, we will sign it, and our negotiations will officially begin!" "The situation is clear on both sides, and there is no nonsense.

The Special Envoy took over the document and saw that it contained two memorandums of understanding on the conditions for the commencement of negotiations, drafted in both Turkish and Chinese. The envoy handed the document to his general. After reading it, there was no difference between the two words, and he nodded to the envoy.

The envoy smiled and picked up the pen to sign, then pressed the handprint. He knew that more difficult negotiations were coming.

Sun Chuanting took the memorandum signed by the envoy, and his face immediately became serious, "Ottoman envoy, since you admit that it was a mistake to launch a military provocation against us, how are you going to make up for the losses caused to us!" ”

The special envoy didn't want to fall into this trap, "Lord Sun, our two countries used to be very good, and there must have been a misunderstanding somewhere when we got to this situation." Shall we straighten it out from scratch and see what the problem is? ”

"We can say what the envoy said, but the principles of negotiation must be determined first. Our hundreds of thousands of troops are parked there, neither advancing nor retreating, and there is no time for me to gossip. What I want is your attitude, if you are not sincere, our army will attack immediately! Sun Chuanting didn't want to leave the topic.

"Master Sun, I have always respected you very much, but your threat to us is really not a negotiation attitude!" The envoy was also unambiguous.

"We didn't ask for negotiations, you are here to negotiate, if the envoy thinks there is no need to talk, we can end the negotiations now!" Sun Chuanting is the initiative in his hands, where will he suffer a little loss.

Although the envoy still had a smile on his face, he felt in his heart that the people of Yaogang were really too deceitful, but in the face of a powerful opponent, what could he do, his own face was completely rewarded by others, and he was helpless if he didn't reward himself.

"Alas!" The envoy sighed and said, "Looks like I have to bow my head!" So what should you do as you say? See how we can compensate you for your losses? ”

"Since the envoy can't say a way, let's say it ourselves!" Sun Chuanting said, "Then let me first calculate the cost of our forced troops, is this what you should compensate us?" ”

"What? Do you still have to compensate us for the cost of sending troops? The envoy's eyes widened.

"Shouldn't you be responsible for the mistakes you made and forced us to pay the price?" Sun Chuanting stared at the envoy and asked.

"This, that's too much!" Where can the envoy agree to this?

"Also, that's compensation, we have made the whole country panic, in order to support the front line, all the construction plans have not been carried out on time, shouldn't you give us some compensation?" Sun Chuanting is eyeing it again.

"Huh!" The envoy smiled wryly and said, "This, don't you think it's too much?" ”

"Do you think you shouldn't have to pay for that, can the envoy give me a reason?" Sun Chuanting was unreasonable.

"This, such compensation is very unreasonable?" The envoy really said the reason, so he had to use strong words.

"Does the envoy mean that you are not responsible for the losses you have caused us?" Sun Chuanting stared and asked.

"The war is on both sides, and you have also caused us great losses, we lost more than 300,000 troops at once on the east bank of the Dnieper, who will be responsible for this loss?" The envoy asked rhetorically.

"Who's at fault is responsible!" Sun Chuanting said, "These mistakes are caused by you, and of course you are responsible." Our losses are caused by your mistakes, and your losses are also caused by your own mistakes, of course, you are responsible for yourself! ”

"Master Sun, I hope we can negotiate fairly!" The Special Envoy resolutely did not fall into the trap.

"Our hundreds of thousands of troops, stopped there, are paying a lot of sincerity to negotiate with you. If you don't feel the need to talk about it, we won't waste any time! Sun Chuanting didn't let a single step.

"We negotiated with great sincerity, but the conditions you put forward are really unfair!"

"We haven't talked about the specifics yet, but we just say that you are responsible for the mistakes you have made, and if you don't agree with that, we can't talk about it!" Sun Chuanting's words were also very resolute.

The envoy knew that it would not be possible for him not to talk about it, otherwise the army would soon attack again, so he shook his head helplessly and said: "I think so, you will tell us your conditions, to be specific, I can report to our Majesty!" ”

"To put it simply, you need to compensate us for the cost of sending troops, as well as proper compensation for our losses, and then the mental loss of the people we arrested in Istanbul, and the loss of business during which the shop was closed." Sun Chuanting listed three conditions.

The envoy understood that the kiln man had prepared more than he had thought, "Can you tell me how much these losses will cost?" ”

"Some are still changing, and our hundreds of thousands of troops are incurring great expenses every day on the front lines. However, according to the current situation, we have calculated that you should give us 238 million taels of silver! Sun Chuanting said, handing the envoy a stack of detailed lists.

The envoy was stunned for a moment after listening to the general matter translation, "Lord Sun, how much are you talking about?" Did I hear me right? ”

Two hundred million taels of silver was a figure that the envoy had never heard of, and he couldn't believe it.

Sun Chuanting pointed to the list and said, "You heard it right, here is all the lists we have listed, you can take a good look!" ”

Seeing that Sun Chuanting was not joking, the envoy looked at the stack of lists in his hand, smiled bitterly and said, "Hehe! We in the Ottoman Empire have never had so much silver! ”

"Your Excellency, what you are talking about is your empire's own affairs, and we can't control it!" Sun Chuanting was not polite.

"Huh!" The envoy smiled and said, "You asked for a price that we can't afford, which is a sign of sincerity at all!" ”

"You can't afford it, it's your business, our loss is indeed so big." Sun Chuanting said firmly, "If you don't agree, we will go to Istanbul and get it ourselves!" ”

"Even if you sell the Ottoman Empire, you can't sell so much silver!" The envoy said.

"At that time, we will sell ourselves at a suitable price!" Sun Chuanting said.

"Why bother?" The envoy thought to himself, the kiln gang people asked for an impossible price, there must be some purpose.

"Envoy, let's take a look at that list!" Sun Chuanting said, "I'm talking about the price we should get!" ”

This was a price that the Ottomans simply could not afford, and the envoy understood that the kiln men would have to ask for an even more astonishing price behind them, otherwise they would not have done so.

The envoy said: "It may be rude if I say that Lord Sun is making a joke. But how about Sun give me some time to take a good look at this list? ”

"Yes, but please hurry!" Sun Chuanting said. He knew that the Special Envoy was trying to buy some time to report back to the Sudan.

Although the envoy had done business, he still couldn't understand the thick account book that Sun Chuanting gave him. It lists in detail how many troops will be dispatched to the kiln gang, and the various expenses that the army needs to spend every day, etc., and the envoy cannot understand these at all. In short, the final result of the money listed in it is 238 million taels of silver as Sun Chuanting said.

When the Ottoman Sultan received a telegram from the envoy, he stomped his feet angrily and scolded, "This bastard, what are we talking to them about such terms, we should refuse immediately and return immediately!" Lose the face of the empire! ”

The ministers knew that the Sultan's words were purely for himself to save face, and it was simply impossible. One said: "Your Majesty, the people of the Ming Dynasty asked for an impossible price, there must be their purpose, we might as well hear what they want to do?" ”

"Yes! Your Majesty, we must not immediately and unequivocally refuse, otherwise, their army will really attack Ankara! Another said.

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Finally, the Sultan's telegram to the envoy was also "Ask what the Ming Dynasty means?" ”

When he received the telegram, the envoy was really angry, and said in his heart, "Then don't reply to the telegram, don't you know that the telegram is a person?" Now that the people of Yaogang know everything, what else are they talking about? ”

There was no way, the envoy still came to Sun Chuanting's big tent, "Hehe! Master Sun, you know what I'm going to talk about, right? ”

"Yes! Then we won't talk much nonsense! Sun Chuanting didn't come to the void, "We came up with a solution, you can see how it goes!" He handed over a document.

The envoy said in his heart, the kiln gang people are really too bullying, every step is designed, just waiting for us to drill into it step by step.

When the envoy took the plan, he said: "This is our last suggestion, if you can't accept it, we have to completely defeat your Ottoman Empire!" "Naked threats.

The plan of the kiln gang people was to compensate the merchants of the Ming Dynasty for the economic loss of one million taels of silver, and cash it out immediately. Ceded to the Ming Dynasty the land from the north to the south of the Khachans River to the east of the Euphrates River to the Persian Empire, to compensate part of the war indemnity, and the rest of the war indemnity, with interest, to the Ming Dynasty with interest, and to pay the Ming Dynasty one million taels of silver per year for a period of 20 years. Silver shall be paid before February of each year, and if there is any arrears, compensation shall be paid at the rate of 1% per day.

After reading this document, the envoy looked up to the sky and laughed: "Haha! We, the Ottoman Empire, would never accept such a clause! ”

Sun Chuanting's face didn't change at all, "That's good!" Let's take down the whole Ottoman Empire and see how His Majesty the Sultan will feel at that time. ”

"Our Majesty will fight with our Ottoman subjects to the last man!" The envoy couldn't help himself.

Sun Chuanting smiled slightly and said: "Your Excellency, you are a friend of our Ming Dynasty, and we will not embarrass you when the time comes!" ”

"Thank you! Master Sun, I will die in battle with my country at that time! The envoy couldn't control his emotions anymore.

"Personally, I admire the envoy very much, but you are ready to die before the war starts, and this battle is not interesting!" Sun Chuanting said.

"Alas! Who has made us militarily inferior to you? The envoy said sadly, "But you are also too deceitful!" "Now the envoy is not afraid.

"Huh! If we don't negotiate with you and send troops directly to fight you, wouldn't it be too much of a deception? When you attack other countries, are you very polite to negotiate with them? Sun Chuanting's rhetorical question was also tepid.

The envoy knew that he was a little out of shape, and immediately restrained himself and said, "I will send the telegram to our Sultan at once." Let him decide. ”

Sun Chuanting said to the envoy with a rare smile: "I bet that you Sultan can accept this reasonable solution!" ”

"What is a reasonable plan, this is the plan to make us surrender!" The envoy was a little agitated again.

"If you provoke a war and are defeated, you will have to pay the price!" Sun Chuanting said, "In the past, you have always been victorious, and you have always been the beneficiary of the war, but now that you are defeated, don't lose it!" ”

"We, the Sultan, will not accept this plan!" The envoy said firmly.

"The two of us have completely different opinions, so I want to make this bet with you!" Sun Chuanting was very interested.

"Bet on what?" The envoy was really angry, too.

"I lost, I'll give you the car in my yard! If you lose, how about giving me this sword with you on your shoulder? Sun Chuanting was optimistic about the treasure knife that had always been on the envoy's body.