After Lu Xiangsheng and the other guards left, he spoke: "I don't know how your country is going to end this war. Our Emperor His Majesty once said that there is never a good war, nor a bad peace. We very much hope to be able to live in peace with the Rakshasa Kingdom. ”

Marquis Ragus cursed in his heart, you have all fought the Ural Mountains from the far east, occupied the Volga, the mother river of the Rakshasas, and now you are saying such things, claiming that you are war-averse and peace-loving. It's just that people are under the roof, and the Rakshasa people have been defeated, so naturally they can't say cruel words when negotiating.

Lu Xiangsheng continued: "The two sides have signed the Volga Peace Treaty, and the territorial dispute between the two sides has been perfectly resolved, but His Majesty the Tsar has provoked a war, which makes my Ming people angry. His Majesty the Emperor also said that it was you who started the war, but it was up to us to decide how to end the war. ”

Only then did Ragus understand what Lu Xiangsheng really meant, this war was indeed launched by the Rakshasas, and now the Rakshasas have lost again. Da Ming's meaning is very clear, only when they are satisfied, this war can be regarded as truly over.

How to satisfy Da Ming is a more nerve-wracking problem. Marquis Ragus said: "Our Tsar His Majesty listened to the villain's words and launched an attack on the Ming army, and now regrets it, hoping to compensate the Ming for a certain amount of gold coins, and the two sides still maintain the original territory, that is, according to the national boundary demarcated in the Volga Peace Treaty." ”

Lu Xiangsheng smiled and said, "Then the marquis means that we want to withdraw from this large piece of land we occupy?" How much is His Majesty the Tsar prepared to pay for this land? ”

Marquis Lagus forced a smile and said, "How can it be said that it is bought?" The Tsar realized that the war was a misunderstanding, and now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, he hopes that everyone will remain friendly neighbors. We are willing to pay another 500,000 taels of silver to compensate for the loss of the Ming Dynasty, but we will pay it in three years, 200,000 taels in the first and second years, and 100,000 taels in the third year. ”

Lu Xiangsheng arched his hand and said: "Since the Rakshasa Kingdom is so insincere and sends us like a son, then let's go back and restrain the army and prepare to fight again." My generals are interested in the majestic buildings of your capital, so you might as well go and see them together. After saying that, he was about to leave.

Marquis Ragus hurriedly grabbed Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Don't worry, bachelor, let's talk slowly, negotiate and negotiate, we always have to talk." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said angrily: "You attacked us first and caused us huge losses, and now with a light sentence of 500,000 taels, you want to return the land that my Ming soldiers have obtained by bloodshed to you, does the marquis think there is such a reason in this world?" Or is that how you Rakshasas have always been reasonable? Compensation of 10 million taels of silver, with the area under the current control of both sides as the national border, this is our demand. If not, then we don't mind taking the compensation ourselves. ”

Ragus's heart jumped, if that's the case, then it's a ghost. Daming didn't let an inch of land, and the Rakshasa gave him 10 million taels of silver, if such a result is negotiated, he will be directly killed by the tsar before returning to China. He smiled and said, "Bachelor, let's talk first, since you don't agree to my conditions, you don't have to put forward such harsh conditions." You also know that such a condition is impossible for the country to agree. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "Those 20 million taels of silver, we retreat to the boundary demarcated by the Volga Peace Treaty, what does the Marquis think?" ”

Ragus forced a smile and said, "We don't have so much silver in the whole of Rakshasa Country?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "It's the same with gold, according to the ratio of eight to one." We know that you have an abundance of gold. ”

Ragus smiled bitterly, the Rakshasa country does have some gold, but 20 million taels of silver, converted into gold, is also 2.5 million taels, is two is not a gram, according to one two or thirty-seven grams, it will also cost more than 90 million grams, and the gold of the whole country will not be able to make up so much.

He wanted Lu Xiangsheng to lower the price and come up with a figure that the Rakshasa Kingdom could afford, but Lu Xiangsheng didn't let go, and no agreement was reached on the first day of negotiations.

After Ragus and the others went out, Dai Chunfeng stepped forward and asked, "Bachelor, this Rakshasa obviously can't get so much silver, if you can't talk about it, this place will really not be quiet." Why does Your Majesty hate the Rakshasas so much? Do you really want to destroy it? ”

Lu Xiangsheng smiled: "I don't know why Your Majesty hates the Rakshasa people so much, the Rakshasa people didn't offend us." However, since Your Majesty hates them, of course, we are courtiers who eat the king's fortune and are loyal to the king, and we must also hate them. Your Majesty really wants to destroy the Rakshasa Kingdom, but before he came, he told me that if the Rakshasa Kingdom is really destroyed, then the whole of Europe will be the enemy of our Ming Dynasty, and their relationship is still closer after all. ”

Dai Chunfeng said disappreciatively: "What does the whole of Europe have to do with our Ming Dynasty as an enemy, our Ming Dynasty's military strength is enough to sweep Europe, whoever is not convinced will fight whoever is dissatisfied, and see who dares to be crooked." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Speaking of being the enemy of the whole of Europe, we are really not afraid now. It's just that you have to know that a nation and a country cannot prosper forever, and there will definitely be ups and downs. Now that we have defeated the whole of Europe and made the world invincible, the people's hearts will be slack, and the decline of the Ming Dynasty will not be far away. Your Majesty has taken this into account, and for us in the Ming Dynasty, Asia is sufficient, and the part of the territory that we have now occupied conveniently belongs to Europe, and can become a bridgehead for our contact with Europe, which is enough. ”

Dai Chunfeng sighed: "Your Majesty has seen it far-reaching, I have Your Majesty in the Ming Dynasty, it is really the blessing of my Ming Dynasty and the blessing of the Han nation." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Who said no, our war in the Rakshasa was going well, I thought that Your Majesty would take advantage of the situation to destroy the Rakshasas, but I don't want Your Majesty to just want to weaken the Rakshasa Country and make it a low-level country with limited land territory." As long as the Rakshasa country is weak, countries like Poland and Sweden will naturally pounce on it and bite off a bite of flesh from it, so that if it wants to turn over, it will be difficult. ”

Dai Chunfeng said: "Your Majesty is not afraid that Europe will unify and a big country will appear, so as to compete with the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "I also mentioned this to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty said that European unification is almost impossible, and the relationship between their countries is too complicated. And if the Ming Dynasty makes a dead hand to the Rakshasa country, it is possible to promote Europe to unite, as long as there is no external oppression, European countries will fight each other to the blood, and wanting to unite is tantamount to a fool's dream. ”

Dai Chunfeng nodded and said, "I have been investigating here for so long, and I found that this is indeed the case. There are hundreds of years of war hatred between countries, and there are as few as decades of war hatred between countries, plus a Catholic Church, and there are all kinds of factions in Europe, and it is indeed troublesome to unify. Even if there are powerful people who are unified for a while, they will soon fall apart, and unlike our Ming Dynasty, they have never had a unified tradition. It's just that my investigation report has not yet been sent, and His Majesty already knows all about it, so I can only say that the capable can do anything. Your Majesty's sanctity is really not something we can understand. ”