After convincing Wei to agree to Taoqiu's neutrality, Dai Yan began to lobby Qi again. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zou Ji was angry at Dai Yan's previous scolding of him for "never seeing such a shameless person", and Tian Ying also looked at Dai Yan unpleasantly. However, for the principle of "Taoqiu neutrality" proposed by Dai Yan, the two surprisingly unified their opinions and did not object.

In Zou Ji's view, since the time of Jiang Qi and Qi Huan, Qi has relied on the advantage of being close to the sea and controlling the benefits of fish and salt, and it is the first commercial power in the world. The Song State completely opened Taoqiu, which was a great benefit to the commercially developed Qi State!

The struggle for control of the commercial city is nothing more than relying on which country's merchant capital is stronger. And Qi has the benefits of fish and salt, and which country in the world has a merchant capital comparable to Qi country? In this way, after Taoqiu was neutralized, it was naturally the merchants of Qi who had the greatest influence in Taoqiu.

With such conditions, although Taoqiu was still in the hands of the Song State, relying on the influence of the merchants, the Qi State was able to influence Taoqiu to the greatest extent, so as to rely on commerce to control the situation in the world.

Zou Ji and Tian Ying also knew that after the Song State put forward such a proposal, the Wei State and the Zhao State would definitely not refuse such a condition, which was also the biggest benefit that the Qi State could get in Taoqiu.

However, the fact that these two people did not disagree with Dai Yan's opinion does not mean that the two will immediately agree with such an opinion. Zou Ji shirked Dai Yan and said: "Taoqiu is neutral, in exchange for my Qi country not to send troops to station, this plan needs to be carefully considered by my Qi country." How about waiting for me to reveal my king, and then my king will reply to your kingdom after giving an answer? ”

Dai Yan has no problem with this. In his mind, the current Taoqiu is very important to maintain the prosperity of Taoqiu by implementing a policy of neutrality and being completely open to the world after all countries have intervened.

If Taoqiu can continue to prosper, then with such a superior geographical location it occupies, it will become a stage for all countries in the world to play games in the future. The size of the influence of various countries here is the size of their influence on the Central Plains!

Although Taoqiu was neutralized, the Song State's control over Taoqiu would also be greatly reduced. However, the Song Kingdom provides such a good game stage for the world, and this stage itself belongs to the Song Kingdom, so in the future, all countries in the world will also have a demand for the Song Kingdom!

This is the method that Dai Yan can think of to protect the interests of the Song State to the greatest extent.

After Dai Yan left, Zou Ji said to Tian Ying: "Since the Song State has put forward such an opinion, it is impossible for our Qi State to send troops to Taoqiu, I think this should be the bottom line that all countries can accept." ”

Tian Ying said: "From the boy's point of view, Zou Xiang's words can only be half right. ”

"What does Childe mean?" Zou Ji said curiously.

"Taoqiu is neutral, Zhao and Wei are acceptable, this is the bottom line they can accept, but it is not wrong. But the bottom line of Song Guo, it's hard to say. This time, my Qi State sent troops to the Song State, but I had to say that Taoqiu was neutral, can Xiangguo bear it? Tian Ying asked.

"What if you can't stand it? My Qi State doesn't have the ability to deal with Zhao, Wei, and Song at the same time. Zou Ji replied with a sigh.

"Haha, it seems that Zou Zi has been negotiating here these days, so he has completely set his eyes on Tao Qiu. My Qi State attacked the Song State, although the main purpose was to seize Taoqiu, but the other lands of the Song Kingdom, my father was also very interested! Taoqiu is too important in this place, and the eyes of the big countries are on it, and it is really difficult for us to start. But did Zou Zi forget that the Song Kingdom had just gotten the land of the East China Sea? Tian Ying asked.

"Childe, you mean?"

"Humph! Although this Ziyan is young, his eloquence is amazing, and his judgment of the situation is also extremely accurate! Negotiating with such a person, where can my Qi country have the upper hand? The Xiangguo of the Song Kingdom is happy, and his bones are much softer than this Ziyan. As long as I wait to intimidate him and tell him to understand my king's dissatisfaction with Song Guo and Ziyan, Song Guo will not obediently spit out the land of the East China Sea! Tian Ying said proudly.

After Tian Ying made such a judgment, he went to find Le Cheng in private.

As soon as he saw Le Cheng, Tian Ying said straight to the point: "Le Xiang, do you know how dissatisfied my king is with the Song Kingdom? Before, your Song Kingdom offended my Qi Kingdom, but my king just asked your Song Kingdom to take a pottery mound to make amends, and your Song Kingdom pushed and shouted. This time, there are Zhao and Wei to support you, and my Qi State has no way to take you Song State! But can you, the Song State, guarantee that the Wei State and the Zhao State will protect you forever? ”

Hearing Tian Ying's intimidation, Le Cheng was also helpless, he had to say to Tian Ying: "Dare to teach Gongzi to know, I have always advocated the national policy of getting close to Qi State, but Ziyan is young and vigorous, and the monarch believes his words, so I am embarrassed by the big country, and I can't help it!" ”

Tian Ying immediately said: "Your internal affairs in the Song Kingdom, I Qi Kingdom can't manage it, and I don't want to take care of it!" But this time the Song Kingdom wants to appease the anger of our king and just let Taoqiu neutralize, which is far from enough, you Song Kingdom must spit out the entire land of the East China Sea! ”

After Tian Ying finished speaking, he didn't wait for Le Cheng to agree, and then left by himself.

When the Qi State also clearly accepted the principle of Taoqiu's neutrality, the major powers were also relieved, and everyone thought that this war should be over.

However, to everyone's surprise, Tian Ying used the excuse of returning to China to discuss with the King of Qi, and at the same time, he said that the King of Qi would withdraw most of the army that was originally facing Juye, and transfer the army to Tian Ying's fiefdom Xue Yi, whose troops directly threatened the newly acquired land of the East China Sea by the Song State.

Neither Zhao nor Song expected that Qi would be able to play this hand, Dai Yan had to stay in Taoqiu to continue to negotiate with Qi, while Le Cheng returned to Suiyang, the capital of the country, to discuss with the ministers of Song.

However, Le Cheng has been frightened by Tian Ying, in his opinion, what Tian Ying said is really not fake! Originally, I thought that it was Tian Ying's statement that Qi wanted the land of the East China Sea, and it was just used as a diplomatic bargaining chip, but Tian Ying really wanted to attack the land of the East China Sea!

The land of the East China Sea was the land of Jiuyi, which was newly occupied by the Song State, and the Song State did not have a deep ruling foundation there. When they got this land before, most of their territory was also divided into small nobles in the Song Kingdom, and the Le family did not have much interest in it.

Therefore, Lecheng has no qualms about ceding the land of the East China Sea! In his opinion, it is definitely worth taking a land in the East China Sea that has no loss or loss to the Le clan in exchange for the peace of the Song Kingdom and eliminating the anger of the King of Qi!

Therefore, after returning to Suiyang, he joined forces with Si Kou Huarong to persuade Zixi to cede the land of the East China Sea!

At this moment, Xiang She, the most powerful representative of the Gong clan outside the Dai clan of the Song Kingdom, was confronting the Qi army in Juye, while Dai Yan was in Taoqiu. In Suiyang, the only ones who can influence Zixi's judgment are Le Cheng and Hua Rong.

Huarong has always pursued a neutral foreign policy. In his opinion, the Song State can only challenge the great powers when it is strong enough. It is extremely unwise to offend the Qi State under the current circumstances!

And the land of the East China Sea is a wild land in Hua Rong's eyes! In exchange for the peace of the Song Kingdom in exchange for a wild land, this deal can still be done!

Under the persuasion of these two, Zixi also believed that only cutting the land could eliminate the anger of the king of Qi, so he also agreed to cede the land of the East China Sea!

When the envoy of Suiyang came to Taoqiu and conveyed to Dai Yan that the monarch had agreed to cede the land of the East China Sea to the State of Qi, Dai Yan only felt extremely angry!

The land of the East China Sea was the land that he finally seized during the Qichu War, but the monarchs and ministers of the Song State did not cherish it!

He negotiated with various countries in Taoqiu, contained them, and exhausted his efforts to safeguard the interests of the Song State! And the monarchs and ministers of the Song State in the rear did not understand his efforts at all!

He only felt a deep betrayal!

However, the king's order was to agree to cede the land of the East China Sea, and he could not oppose it!

So he launched his last effort to save the land of Song!

He stopped the envoy who wanted to report the news to the Qi State, directly found Tian Ying, and said to him: "As a big country in the East, the Qi State wants to steal the land of my Song State like a thief, and I am really ashamed of Qi Guo's behavior!" However, the Qi State wants the land of the East China Sea, and if it is directly attacked, the Qi State will also have losses, right? There is a proposal below, the Qi State will withdraw its troops, and my Song State will give the East China Sea a hundred miles, what do you think, Gongzi? ”

Tian Ying thought about it and agreed. In his opinion, the steps taken by Qi later transferred troops to the east were actually used to intimidate the Song State and squeeze some benefits from the Song State at will.

One hundred miles of land in the East China Sea accounts for almost half of the entire East China Sea. Being able to get these lands can finally make up for the loss of Qi State's troops this time.

It seems that it still hasn't completely scared Le Cheng and Song Guo. Tian Ying still has some regrets that he can't take all the land of the East China Sea.

As for Dai Yan, he became more jealous because of this.

When his doorman Qi Xiang heard his lord talk about Dai Yan's difficulty, he also heard his lord's jealousy of Dai Yan. He thought about it and said directly to Tian Ying: "I have a plan to help the lord completely get rid of this prince of the Song Kingdom!" ”