"Spineless!" Watching the group leave the camp in embarrassment, Shen An muttered.

"Okay, give them a dismount this time, and just dry them for two days. By the way, is there any news from the five major legions? Yang Mu asked.

"Not yet."

"No ......" Yang Mu pondered for a while and said, "Then let them dry them for a few more days, let them have a good chat with Dongguo, and it's better to die for a while." ”

In the next few days, Zhu Lixing and others went outside the tent every day to ask for a meeting, but without exception, they were all blocked out by the pro-guard army.

Time passed day by day, and on this day, news came from the battlefield, saying that the Qilin Army had successfully harassed the grain route of the Shengguo army, and the grain and grass of the 500,000 army on the Shengguo border was in an emergency.

Zhu Lixing and others, who learned the news, could not kneel outside the tent.

Two days later, Yang Mu finally met them again.

This time, from the opening to the negotiations, everything went much smoother, the Sheng State delegation did not dare to say more than half a word, even Zhu Lixing thought about it in his heart first, lest he be blasted out again, and when the army confronting the Dong Kingdom was defeated, then there would be no chance to negotiate.

"If Sheng Guo wants to negotiate peace with my Cangguo, he must meet three major conditions." Yang Mu took a sip of tea slowly.

"Your Majesty, please speak." Zhu Lixing complimented, he knew that the time had come for the main course.

"First, let me return to China safely, and Emperor Sheng issued an edict to apologize."

"Second, the city that my Cangguo has occupied belongs to Cangguo."

"Third, cut the land, pay compensation!"

Mowing the land? Reparations?

Zhu Lixing was conscientious, the first condition was very easy, Cangguo had already occupied all the cities leading to the cave country along the way, and it was too late for Sheng Guo to stop it even if he wanted to.

In the second case, they were also prepared before the negotiations, and there was no reason to return the occupied cities to the wars that had been fought by various countries.

But isn't that enough, to the point of reparations?

"You Shengguo, accept it?" Yang Mu asked lightly.

"This ...... This condition is indeed somewhat ......"

Zhu Lixing wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, the more plain Yang Mu looked, the more he felt a coercion, even when he was a small civil official, he had never been so nervous in the face of the emperor.

"You can't be the master?" Yang Mu snorted coldly and said, "Since you can't be the master, go back to report to your master first." Shen An, send off! ”

Sending off again?

The envoys of the Sheng Kingdom were all shocked, and hurriedly glanced at Zhu Lixi.

"Your Majesty is angry, dare to ask what kind of compensation is this land reparation?" Zhu Lixing said in a panic.

"Hmm...... Is it easy to say that there is a compensation for the cession of land. Yang Mu took out a piece of paper from the case, handed it to him, and said: "Take a look for yourself, if you agree, you will stay, I will immediately issue an order to stop the war, if you can't accept it, don't blame me for turning my face and being ruthless, let you wait for a life to come, and have no life to return." ”

"Your Majesty, wait a minute, wait for the foreign minister to read it first." Zhu Lixing only felt that his back was cold, and he hurriedly picked up the paper to read.

Paper is a big white paper made by Cangguo, and it is also a good thing that is currently favored by all countries.

But the content is unacceptable.

The first is to open the borders between the two countries, set up mutual markets, allow businessmen to buy and sell freely, and circulate people.

Article 2: An indemnity of 20 million taels.

The third is to cede the two cities of Yixian and Qizhi in the south of the Shengguo to the Cangguo, and the Cangguo cannot garrison troops within a hundred miles of the Cangguo's borders.

Each of the three major treaties is a loss of power and humiliation of the country, and each of them is an enemy, which is equivalent to exposing the Sheng country to a fierce beast, and he is afraid all day long.

For example, the first one, if it is really realized, with the most profitable goods in Cangguo, it will definitely be more beneficial to Cangguo, and the people of Cangguo today are in a state of vigorous development in terms of living conditions and social status, if the population of the two countries is allowed to circulate, then there will be a steady stream of people moving into Cangguo, and then brainwashed by means such as school education and newspapers, then they are completely the people of Cangguo.

For a country, population and taxes are the most fundamental existence, and this is a policy to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle.

The second and third articles are even more unacceptable, which is equivalent to tearing the flesh directly from Sheng Guo, the two cities of Yixian and Qizhi are important towns in the south, once occupied by Cangguo, it is equivalent to choking the throat, and Sheng Guo will recover its national strength in the future, if you want to take it back, you have to invest several times the number of troops.

The entire three, let alone three or five years, even if it is ten or eight years, may not be able to recover.

"Your Majesty, these three treaties are difficult for foreign ministers to obey." Zhu Lixing slowly put down the paper in his hand.

"You're not afraid of death?"

"After signing the treaty, it is still inevitable to die after returning to China, but it will affect his wife and children."

"Then you can rest assured that the 400,000 army will be buried with you?"

Zhu Lixing was taken aback, looked up and said in surprise: "Why did Your Majesty say this?" ”

Yang Mu said lightly: "Cutting off the grain route of your 400,000 army is only the first step, if my Cang army wants to cooperate with the army of the Dong Kingdom, it is also very simple." ”

Hearing this, cold sweat broke out on Zhu Lixing's forehead.

Although he is only a civil servant, he still knows some things about some affairs in the march and war, and the powerful running ability of the Qilin Army is a particularly big threat to the Shengguo army, but there is no way to take it.

"If you agree to these terms, my Cangguo can strike the army, if you don't agree, I will take what I deserve."

"Your Majesty, can you excuse ......?"

"Nope."

"If the foreign minister agrees, can Your Majesty let the Qilin Army ......?"

"The military family is a big event, didn't the prime minister think it was a joke?" Yang Mu sneered and picked up a cup of tea: "The two countries are at war, just like this tea, you have to drink it while it's hot, and then burn it a second time after it's cold, the taste is far from good." ”

Zhu Lixing smiled bitterly, exchanged glances with several envoys next to him, lowered his head and whispered.

After a while, in a sigh, Zhu Lixing took out his personal seal and signed the contract.

Immediately, a team of men and horses was sent to immediately rush back to the Shengguo court to discuss the fulfillment of the treaty.

Of course, Zhu Lixing also kept an eye on it, sent someone to copy the content of the contract, and sent it to Dongguo.

After the Emperor of the Cave Kingdom saw the contract, he was immediately furious.

I wanted to issue an edict to accuse, but when I thought that I had received a letter from Li He on the front line a few days ago, I had already accused Cangguo and had the intention of tearing up the covenant, I was a little stupid, and I could only give up.

After all, Dong Guo doesn't want to fight anymore.

During this period of time, the Dong Kingdom has recovered all the land lost in the past few decades, and it is also satisfactory for the Emperor of the Dong Kingdom, if it continues to fight, the daily consumption of money and grain is a huge amount, and the army of the Dong Kingdom has not been winning battles like the Cang Army, and there is no captured grain and grass and baggage to fight and feed the war.

For the sake of cooperation in the future, Dong Guo did not express his position on this, because he knew Cangguo's truce intentions, but instead ordered the troops on the front line to step up the offensive against Sheng Guo and recover as many cities as possible.

Time flies, and July has passed.

At the beginning of August, the Blue Dragon Legion and the White Tiger Legion carved through the last stretch of the road to the border of the Dong Kingdom.

The soldiers of Cang were jubilant and excited, and after months of fighting, wasn't it for this moment?

On 3 August, the commander-in-chief of the two major armies led his officers and men to rush outside the camp.