After Du Fu took people away, Mahdi was still furious, and countless items in the embassy were smashed by him, and the deputy envoy Aziz persuaded: "Your Royal Highness, don't be so angry, it's not worth it for the Eastern Romans!" I have received the news that Julius, the envoy of the Eastern Romans, went to the palace yesterday to find the king of Western Qin to talk about compensation, and I don't know what happened, the two sides had a very unpleasant quarrel, and the king of Western Qin also ordered Julius to be expelled from the country, and the situation of the Eastern Romans is not much better than ours, and this morning Julius took the cover and was taken to the border by the arrester of the patrol house! ”

"Oh? And what's going on? Why didn't you say it earlier? Mahdi asked dissatisfied. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Aziz said: "I just found out about it! ”

Mahdi said angrily: "The Eastern Romans have always been against our Great Food Country, this prince has been here for more than two years, this Julius often provokes this prince, and does not give this prince face on any occasion, the Eastern Romans are really hateful!" Now that he has been expelled by Western Qin, this prince just took this opportunity to get rid of him, and he only hated this prince in his heart! ”

Aziz hurriedly said: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, this matter must not be done, now it is in the territory of Western Qin, and nothing is up to us, in case it is found out afterwards, His Royal Highness the Prince will be in trouble!" ”

Mahdi's eyes widened: "What if it is found out?" Could it be that Xi Qin still dares to kill this prince? Aren't they afraid of causing war between the two countries? ”

Aziz persuaded: "Prince, of course they don't dare to kill the prince, but if they put the prince in prison, His Royal Highness will not feel good, right?" Besides, if His Royal Highness the Prince is imprisoned, the caliph is afraid that he will not make a big fight with Western Qin because of this! The remnants of the Umayyad dynasty established a state in the Iberian Peninsula and eliminated all our forces in northern Iberia, which gave the caliph the idea of leading an expedition, and now we must try our best to maintain relations with Western Qin! ”

Mahdi's anger calmed down slightly, thought about it, and said: "Okay, we don't do anything on the territory of Western Qin, they want to expel Julius from the country, it is very likely to take the northern Silk Road, on this road, there are two places where Western Qin's power is weak, namely the territory of Oghuz and Flower Thorn Zim, as long as Julius enters the territory of Oghuz, Western Qin will not be able to control it, we will send people to ambush there in advance and kill Julius, as long as Julius does not return to the Eastern Roman Empire, he has an accident on the way, The responsibility is borne by the Western Qin, so that we can make the Western Qin and the Eastern Roman Empire bitter, a country's envoys are killed, even if the Eastern Roman Empire does not send troops to attack the Western Qin, the relationship between the two countries will decline sharply, from then on we will continue to do it along this idea, one day they will let the two countries fight, as long as they fight badly, the caravans, merchants, and goods of the Western Qin will flow into our big food country, instead of going to the Eastern Roman Empire on the northern route, which will bring a lot of wealth to our country! ”

After listening to this, Aziz said: "His Royal Highness the Prince's idea is very good, but if there is a problem in implementation, the consequences will be unimaginable. And such an important decision, I am afraid that it will have to be reported to Harry and allowed to be implemented before it can be implemented! ”

Mahdi was a little unhappy, "Aziz, do you still have to report such a small matter to the Caliph?" Could it be that Prince Ben doesn't even have such a little decision-making power? Now that this prince is not recognized as an envoy by Western Qin, are you disobeying this prince's orders? ”

Aziz hurriedly said: "No, no, no, His Royal Highness the Prince has misunderstood, Xi Qin Cheng doesn't recognize your identity is their business, don't they admit it, aren't you the prince of the Great Eclipse?" It's up to them! Since His Royal Highness the Prince is determined to do this, of course, his subordinates support His Royal Highness, but this matter must be carefully planned! ”

"Of course, this is a big deal after all, how can it start without careful planning?"

Aziz thought for a while and said, "Your Royal Highness, I don't think it's up to our people to do this matter personally, we can hire some bandits in the desert!" ”

"Desert bandits? This ・・・・・・ now it is very difficult to find desert bandits in the territory of Western Qin, these years Western Qin has spent a lot of effort to conquer desert bandits, and almost all the desert bandits in their territory have been killed, where to find them? ”

Aziz said, "Why don't we go to the mercenaries and do this?" There is no shortage of mercenaries in the city of Henglus, and they can be found by people of any country."

Mahdi shook his head and said, "How can this kind of thing be done by outsiders, do you think those people have a very tight mouth?" Besides, those mercenaries saw that there was a catcher from Xiqin, who would have the courage to attack the catcher? No, we have to do this matter ourselves, at most, we ・・・・・・ kill the people who do it after the thing is done! ”

Aziz opened his mouth, but finally could only reluctantly agree: "Okay then・・・・・・ well!" ”

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Secretarial Supervisor of the Royal Palace.

Cen Shen asked the little official to bring Du Fu a cup of tea and asked, "Zimei, what do you say about the big cannibal?" ”

Du Fu drank a cup of tea and said: "Mahdi heard that the Eastern Romans asked him to compensate one million silver coins, and he was so angry that he flipped the table on the spot, and he also said that he would never compensate a penny, if the Eastern Romans must sue, let them sue!" It seems that you have expected this for a long time".

Cen Shen said with a smile: "The big cannibals and the Eastern Romans have always been mortal enemies, when the black-clothed food attacked the white-clothed food, the Eastern Romans took advantage of the fire to rob a lot of territory in the big food country and killed a lot of big cannibals, it's only been more than ten years, how can the big cannibals not hate them?" Next, Zimei also needs to go to the Eastern Roman embassy to talk about the reaction of the big cannibals, and then see what the reaction of the Eastern Romans is."

Du Fu smiled helplessly: "You just find me these troublesome things to do!" ”

On March 28, Du Fu took several officials from the Temple of Justice to the Eastern Roman Empire's embassy in Henglus, and the deputy envoy Zonaras temporarily received Du Fu and his party in the embassy.

After the two sides sat down, Zonaras brought tea in exchange for his entourage, and then asked, "Lord Du, I don't know what happened to me today?" ”

Du Fu said: "Regarding the killing of your businessman Du Mark, His Excellency Julius went to us a few days ago and asked for compensation, of course this is impossible, the murderer is not us, of course it is impossible for us to compensate the victim's family, before His Excellency Julius left, he got rid of Lord Cen and found the big cannibal, and asked them to pay the victim's family compensation of 500,000 silver coins, Lord Cen was busy with affairs, so he explained this matter to our Judicial Temple, of course, this kind of thing is also within our purview, Therefore, yesterday the official went to the embassy of the Great Eclipse, and conveyed to them the intention of you and the families of the victims, asking them to pay money, but when they heard that they were going to pay 500,000 silver coins, they were furious, especially the prince of the Great Eclipse, Mahdi, who threatened that he would not compensate even a single copper plate, and he said that he hated the Eastern Romans to the core, so how could he pay you money? ”

Zonaras asked, "Hearing what Lord Du said, will the families of our victims not be able to get compensation?" ”

Du Fu pretended to hesitate, looking hesitant, Zonaras didn't understand anything, and hurriedly said: "Lord Du, we are old friends, if you have any way to say it, as long as you can get compensation for the victim's family, I believe that the victim's family will never forget your kindness, and there will naturally be some benefits to send to you at that time."

Du Fu then said: "Okay, I'll just say a way, as for whether you adopt it, it's up to you to decide, but you must not tell outsiders that I gave you the idea!" ”

"Of course, of course!"

"You let the victim's family go to the gate of the Judicial Temple to beat drums and sing their grievances, and tell the prince of the Great Eclipse Mahdi that he instructed his subordinate guards to kill her husband, leaving her and her children without a source of income and a life in the future, and ask the Judicial Temple to make a ruling and order her to pay 1 million silver coins as a settlement fee for her and her children!"

"This ・・・・・・ this method is good, but the prince of the Great Food Mahdi has the protection of a diplomatic agreement, and the Temple of Justice can't sanction him!"

Du Fu said: "Your Excellency, his talisman has been used up!" We no longer recognize his status as an envoy, which means that he can no longer be protected by diplomatic agreements! ”

Zonaras patted his head and said happily: "yes, why didn't I think of this?" If that's the case, we can really let the victim go to the Judicial Temple to sue him, but will the Judicial Temple rule in favor of the victim's family? ”

Du Fu said: "If Mahdi is not a prince, just an ordinary person; If the victim's children have grown up, and the victim's widow is engaged in labor and has the ability to support herself, the probability of losing the case will be more than 60%, but if the victim's family has never worked and cannot support themselves, and there are several minor children, and the defendant has a prominent status and is not short of money, so the officials of the judicial temple will definitely be inclined to the bitter master, and the probability of your victory will be more than 70%! ”

"That's great!" Zonaras's mood was a little better, although it had nothing to do with him, but how could he not be happy about the things that could make the big cannibal deflated?

"However, you said earlier that you would pay 500,000 silver coins, and now you said that you want Mahdi to pay 1 million silver coins?"

Du Fu said: "Of course, the higher the asking price, the better, of course, the judge of the trial will not let you ask for as much compensation as you want, and then the judicial temple will send officials to coordinate in the middle, and send someone to estimate, how much money is appropriate, one million is definitely not available, and there is no 500,000, but at least a few children of the victim can be used to adulthood."

Zonaras saluted: "Thank you Lord Du for the reminder, I will immediately send someone to find the victim's family and ask them to go to the Temple of Justice to file a complaint."