The three princes of the Hu Chu State seemed to be a casual sentence, but the meaning of the provocation was very clear, the Great Qin State could not accept the other party's challenge, but in this way, it was obvious that he was showing weakness to the Hu Chu State.

"How do the three princes want to fight with our Great Qin Guowen, what are the requirements after winning or losing?" Qin Kaiyuan asked quietly.

"Since it is a literary fight, it is naturally inseparable from poetry and calligraphy, and it is necessary to debate the meaning of the scriptures and arithmetic, so it will be divided into three competitions, the first is to compare poetry and calligraphy, the second is to compare arithmetic, and the third is to debate the meaning of the scriptures, I don't know if Your Majesty thinks it is possible." The third prince of the Huchu Kingdom said happily.

"Cen Aiqing, Liu Aiqing, and everyone else Aiqing think?" Qin Kaiyuan asked the ministers.

"Your Majesty! The Hu Chu State is just a few envoys, and they still dare to challenge, could it be that we, as the host, will be afraid that their challenge will not be successful. Zuo Xiang said.

"Hmmm! I also felt that I should accept the challenge of the Hu Chu Kingdom. Qin Kaiyuan nodded and said.

"Your challenge from Hu Chu State, our Great Qin State has accepted, and now we can talk about your bet." Qin Kaiyuan opened his mouth and said.

"Your Majesty! If our Huchu country is lucky to win, we don't have any other requirements, but we just hope that your country can unconditionally release the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of our Huchu country, so that they can return to China and reunite with their relatives. The envoy was grateful. The third prince of the Huchu Kingdom said solemnly.

"Then what if you Hu Chu Kingdom loses the game?" Liu Zhongxian: "Hmph! He said.

"If our Hu Chu State loses, then we are willing to pay a price of one hundred taels of silver for every soldier of the Hu Chu State who is detained by you, and beg you Great Qin State to release our soldiers of Hu Chu State." The third prince said secretly through gritted teeth.

"That's not going to work." Zuo Xiang Cen Wenyi was afraid that Emperor Qin Kaiyuan's brain would be hot, so he immediately agreed to the other party's conditions, and hurriedly stood up and said.

"If you Hu Chu want to negotiate peace and redeem the captives, you have to pay money to buy it, but now you use it to bet, you have no loss if you lose, and if you win, you will make a big profit, what is the point of our Great Qin Kingdom winning such a gamble." Zuo Xiangcen Wenyi saw through the strategy of the three princes of Huchu State and said.

Emperor Qin Kaiyuan suddenly realized, and his heart was greatly surprised, if it wasn't for Zuo Xiang Cen Wenyi standing up and speaking in time, Qin Kaiyuan was almost a little bit just now, and he would have agreed to the other party's conditions.

"And what do you want after you win?" The third prince Zhao Yan calmed down and said, just now he was only a little bit close to success, but he was destroyed by this guy in front of him, the third prince Zhao Yan wanted to kill the other party's whole family, but unfortunately he was only the third prince of the Huchu State, but not the third prince of the Great Qin State.

The main purpose of the peace negotiation between the two sides is this batch of hundreds of thousands of captives, if the Hu Chu State is unwilling to pay for redemption, the court of the Great Qin State is of course very happy.

These soldiers are a very good source of slaves, and they are distributed to various states and counties in the Great Qin State to be sold, a young and strong male ** subordinate, one hundred taels of silver may be asking for a high price, but fifty or sixty taels of silver is not difficult to sell.

How much can a sturdy male ** be able to sell? Secondly, the most important thing is that these hundreds of thousands of slaves may become hundreds of thousands of slaves in a few decades, because the children born to slaves are still slaves.

"That's simple, we will stay with these hundreds of thousands of captives, and they will be the slaves of our Great Qin State in the future." Liu Zhongxian saw that Cen Wenyi was in the limelight, so he was naturally unwilling to be lonely and immediately spoke.

"No! This is a condition that the king will never agree to you. The third prince said in veto.

"Joke, how to deal with this group of captives is our Great Qin State's own right, when will it be your turn to take care of it, if you say no, you can't, then what do you want? Do you want to continue the war?

Since you Hu Chu State still want to continue fighting, then there is no need to negotiate peace, just continue to fight. Liu Zhongxian said unceremoniously.

The third prince Zhao Yanqi's face was pale, but this was on the territory of the Great Qin Kingdom, so he held back the anger in his heart.

"At most, on the basis of 100 taels of silver per person, we will add an additional 50 taels of silver, and even if these soldiers are sold as slaves, they should only be worth so much!" The third prince, Zhao Yan, said with a sigh of relief.

"Your Majesty! The minister thought that it was not impossible to release these captives, but 50 taels of silver was too little, and the minister thought that at least one hundred taels of silver should be added, and if the Huchu State lost, they would have to redeem these people according to two hundred taels of silver for each captive. ”

Seeing His Majesty the Emperor Qin Kaiyuan looking at him, Zuo Xiang Cen Wenyi hurriedly said his opinion.

Two hundred taels of silver for a captive, these hundreds of thousands of captives are more than 20 million, nearly 30 million taels of silver, with this huge amount of money, it can greatly alleviate the financial pressure of the Great Qin State, and he, the emperor, can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

30 million taels of silver is equivalent to one year's treasury tax in a normal year of the Great Qin State, which is really a well-deserved huge amount of money.

"No! This is too much, how can your Great Qin Empire deceive people too much? What about the lion's big mouth? 150 taels of silver per person is already a sky-high price. The third prince immediately angrily objected.

"Then forget it, you don't have to try any more Wendou, aren't you here to negotiate peace? Then just pay 150 taels of silver per person and redeem all those captives! Shen Xingyun, the left attendant of the household department, said teasingly.

"Your Royal Highness the Third Prince, since it has already become like this, let's try it with them! Now even if we don't want to compete, it's not cost-effective, if they really bite 150 taels of silver and don't let go alone, then we won't lose even more.

It's better to let go of Yibo, and after winning, you don't need to spend a penny of silver, and bring those people back to China, and then His Royal Highness the Third Prince will be able to overwhelm the eldest prince and the second prince with this great merit, and this risk is still worth taking. An envoy whispered in the ear of the third prince.

"Well, we agreed, if we win your country by luck, I hope that you Daqin can keep your promise and release the soldiers of our Huchu State back to China without conditions." The third prince, Zhao Yan, said in a deep voice.

"Since the three princes have no opinions, let's sign the contract, our Great Qin Kingdom can't afford to lose, if the three princes can't fulfill the contract, don't blame our Great Qin Kingdom for killing people and venting their anger." Right Minister Liu Zhongxian said nakedly threatening.