Chapter 51 The final confirmation of the compensation for land cession and the final chapter of the Jinyang negotiations
"I'll give you half an hour." Zhang Qiuyue said lightly.
"Half an hour? Is it too little? Seleucus frowned.
"Too much? That moment. ”
"Don't don't, just half an hour, half an hour."
"Okay, adjourn the meeting." Ma Liang got up and said, "Envoys, I, Daqin, have prepared a banquet for everyone, please move to the first floor to rest." ”
The Seleucids reluctantly got up and walked to the first floor under the guidance of the Qin soldiers.
Huaxia who looked at a table was fine, but no one was interested.
"This Qin people are too despicable, and they send so many people to monitor after a meal." Pamiño looked around and slapped the table twice in anger.
"Shut up!" Seleucus shouted.
"General, what do you mean! Where did I Pamiño offend you? At the negotiating table, Pamiño noticed that Seleucus was looking at him incorrectly, and that he was speaking in a very bad manner, so he just asked clearly.
"You know it in your own heart!"
"I understand what!"
"Hehe, still pretending to be garlic, if you hadn't revealed our information to the Qin people, where would they know so clearly, those things are not even known to many middle and lower-level officers!"
"Seleucus, don't spew blood!"
"Hehe, you know if I'm a bloody squirt."
"What the hell do you mean!"
"That's what it means."
Seeing that the two were about to roll up their sleeves and fight, Ptolemy hurriedly stopped: "Don't quarrel, the Qin people are upstairs, and you are still fighting here!" Pamiño, your matter will be investigated by His Majesty when he returns, and the most important thing for us at present is how to deal with the Qin people's lion opening his mouth! ”
"First of all, cede Crete, if the Qin people succeed, it will be equivalent to hanging a sword of Damocles over our heads, and then the Qin army's army can invade the mainland whenever it wants! I mean, it's okay to pay compensation, but it's absolutely not okay to cut land! Antigonus, who had been silent, spoke.
After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE, Antigonus and several other generals (including Ptolemy, Lysimachus, Seleucus, and Cassander) divided Alexander's empire. Antigonus acquired Anatolia as his initial base, and then he fought with all his might in the Diadochi Wars for dominance of the Hellenistic world.
He made claims to Syria, Persia, Greece, and Macedonia, and his military might made him invincible in the early days of the Diadochi Wars. With the help of his son and another prominent commander, Dmitry I (the conqueror of the city), Antigonus I launched an attack on Ptolemy's fiefdom of Egypt. In 306 BC, Dmitry defeated Ptolemy's army in Cyprus. Antigonus I, along with Dmitry, received the title of King of Macedon.
In the Battle of Ippus in 301 BCE, Cassander, Lysimachus, and Seleucus fought together against the armies of Antigonus and Dmitry. The allies won the final victory, and the invincible Antigonus I was killed. Antigonus's son, Demetry I, kept Macedonia and some Greek city-states.
Antigonus I was arguably the greatest military strategist since the death of Alexander the Great. He was never defeated before the decisive defeat at the Battle of Ips.
"Moreover, why should they wait for us to pay the compensation before releasing Your Majesty, is this a doubt about our integrity!" The cavalry commander, Clatres, also spoke.
"That's because I'm worried that we won't give money when we receive someone, alas." Seleucus ignored Pamiño and listened attentively to the analysis of the crowd.
"Anyway, Your Majesty is still in their hands, this is our biggest handle, and there is no way to take the Qin people at all." Ptolemy sighed.
"Why don't we give more money and let the Qin people give up the ransom of Crete?" Eumenis suggested. The important thing Fusu will definitely exclaim here:, isn't this a copy of the intervention of the three countries in the previous life, of course, there is no interference from the three countries here.
"Great idea!" Erighias thumped the table in agreement.
"That's okay, I just don't know if the Qin people are willing." Paminio also stopped dwelling on Seleucus's bad attitude and began to speak.
"Crete is lonely in the sea of love, if the Qin people garrison, we must consider our threat to privacy, and when the time comes, when Your Majesty returns, if we counterattack the Qin people with all our strength, they will definitely not be able to hold it, their so-called military advisors are not idiots, they will definitely think of this." Seleucus said: "In this way, even if the Qin people do not agree, we can agree first, and we will immediately send an army to recover Crete after His Majesty returns."
"Then what should the Qin people do if they send an army to attack the empire after receiving the news?" Ptolemy asked.
"Hmph, then fight, who have our brave Macedonian soldiers been afraid of on the frontal battlefield? Not for the Egyptians, not for the Persians, not for the Indians, not for the Chinese! Seleucus said confidently.
"Yes, the Chinese people are a bunch of idiots when they go to war, and those defenders in the north are proof of this. When the time comes, by the way, take back all the compensation this time, and then let the Qin people also cede the land and pay the compensation! Pamiño finally discovered that Seleucus still had some brains, but he couldn't forgive him! He thought.
"Don't underestimate your enemies." Ptolemy was the only one who was still sober-minded, and he learned from the Huns that many of the Chinese armies, especially the Qin army, were by no means as vulnerable as a few people here said, and now they only had time to take care of it because of the country's civil strife.
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Back to the negotiating table again,
"Dear Zhang, in principle, we promise you all the conditions, but there is only one thing, can we pay for the redemption of Crete?"
"No way!" Zhang Qiuyue refused.
"That's it, well, no problem, we signed it, and I hope that your country will abide by the treaty and release His Majesty Alexander as soon as we have collected the indemnity."
"Are you sure?" Zhang Qiuyue thought that his ears were wrong, you discussed this after discussing it for a long time, is there a difference, the contrast between the attitudes before and after is too great. Not to mention Zhang Qiuyue, even Zhang Liang, Li Ru and others felt incredible. Looking at the row of smiling faces opposite, the more Zhang Qiu looked, the more he felt that there was a conspiracy behind him.
"Sure."
"Okay."
In this way, the first unequal treaty in the history of China appeared more than 2,000 years in advance, and of course, the unequal side was Macedonia.
The general content of the Treaty of Qin-Ma Jinyang:
First, compensate the Great Qin Empire with 200 million dramaks;
second, to cede Crete to the Great Qin Empire;
Third, the opening of Virgina, Pella, Babylon, Athens, Sparta, Alexandria, Susa, and Persepolia as the Great Qin Empire's treaty ports (these seven places were designated by Fusu when the meeting was adjourned), the Great Qin Empire could set up Honglu Temple (Fusu's newly established diplomatic department, similar to the embassy abroad in later generations) in these seven cities to manage its own merchants and people, if the Qin people broke the law and handed over to the Honglu Temple for trial, Macedonia was not allowed to interfere.