The Khitan deputy envoy said: "If it weren't for your country cutting off the only remaining trade route with my Great Liao, how could my Great Liao provoke a war for no reason?" So the root cause is still in your country! As we all know, our Daliao does not produce abundantly, and spices, tea, porcelain, lacquerware, rice, and silk fabrics all need to be obtained from your country's trade. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info your country has cut off trade routes, and I have no source of these necessities of life, so why don't you raise swords and soldiers? ”

Feng Chengping and Liu Geng made eye contact, and they both saw from each other's eyes that the Khitan people were really shameless. At this time, compared with Feng Chengping, who was a good man, Liu Geng, who was not very easy to speak, said: "This is a bad statement, your country and my Dashun have never had trade contacts, and my Dashun has never opened a trade channel in the name of the imperial court. But your country will inevitably go south every year to invade the border, kidnap our border people, and rob property, and you have done these things, right? Who started the war first, presumably the world will see for all to see, and there is no need to argue about this! ”

The Khitan deputy envoy concluded his remarks and could not refute them. Another deputy envoy said: "Even if it is a war provoked by my Great Liao, it is because your country does not trade with my Great Liao!" ”

Feng Chengping said with a smile: "My Dashun and Liao have always met each other with swords, where did they really sit down and talk about trade?" Besides, your country doesn't have what I want, and opening up trade is more than worth the loss, so why bother? ”

This sentence is true, except for the war horse, Dashun really doesn't need anything else from Liao. The Liao State needed more things, spices, rhino horn, ivory, tea, porcelain, lacquerware, rice and silk fabrics, etc., all of which were necessary for the Khitan people's life, and they could not support themselves, and after no trade, they could not think of anything but robbery.

Ye Luliang finally interjected at this moment and said: "Lord Feng is exaggerating, although my Daliao products are poor, they are not untraded. Gold is piled up like a mountain in my Daliao, and silver is everywhere, how can I not buy and sell? We dare to say that if your country opens a mutual market, there will be no more war in Shunliao, and the two countries will shake hands and make peace, and drink and talk happily, isn't it beautiful? ”

Liu Geng smiled and said, "It turns out that Ambassador Yelu is, Xiang Zhuang dances the sword, and he intends to be Pei Gong." But today's event is talking about your country's desire to redeem the captured soldiers, not about mutual trading. Even if Your Majesty agrees to open a mutual market, you need to pay the ransom before we can talk. In other words, the ransom is a prerequisite for negotiation, without which there would be no need to negotiate. ”

When the two sides talked about this, in fact, the talks had already collapsed. One wants a ransom, the other doesn't want to give a ransom; One wants to open border trade, the other does not want to open border trade. The two sides are simply bulls and horses, and if they can't talk together, how can they not collapse?

The two sides began to tug of war, trying their best to get the other party to agree to their terms, but they didn't want to pay the slightest price. When it comes to noon, coming and going is stuck in this endless loop. What's even funnier is that these three Khitan envoys wanted to cite scriptures to refute it, but they asked for their own hardships. The book of the Ministry of Rites in front of him, although his eloquence is not very good, but for the classic historical books, he has so many memories that he does not think about it as a second person in the world. Liu Geng, a cabinet member, is not a vegetarian, as the sixth place in Jinshi B, he is also a great bull, for the classics, how can he be compared to the Khitan people who have not studied the Han classics for a long time? These three Khitans are the axes of the Banmen, and under the attack of these two people, Rao is the three of them are considered to be knowledgeable among the Khitans, and they were also refuted speechless, and in the end they were still the scoundrels, saying that if they did not agree to the mutual market, they would never pay the ransom.

Seeing that the Khitans had no sincerity in negotiating, Liu Geng and Feng Chengping didn't say much, wasting their time. Seeing that it was already noon, the negotiation team with Dashun left and reported the negotiation process to Lu Chengqi.

When Lu Chengqi heard that the Khitan people wanted to open a mutual market, he thought silently in his heart: "What kind of medicine do you want to sell in the gourd of the Khitan people?" Open the mutual market, they don't have any benefit! You must know that even in history, the Khitan and the Song Dynasty were in a trade deficit, and the coins obtained from the Lanyuan Alliance were returned to the Song Dynasty in a blink of an eye. And under my development, Dashun business dare not say that it surpassed the Song Dynasty, and it is probably not much different. Without the coins of the Yuanyuan Alliance, what confidence do the Khitans have to trade with us? ”

But after thinking about it, Lu Chengqi thought of a bad idea again: "Since my Dashun has the strongest economic strength, let's use economic strength to crush them!" If all their money is earned, then the Liao State will be defeated without a fight. It's just that after the Liao State falls apart, it will give the Jurchens a chance to rise, and the Jurchens, who are more ferocious than the Khitans, are a powerful enemy, what should I do? ”

For a while, Lu Chengqi couldn't make up his mind, and walked around with his hands on his back in the vertical arch hall. At the end, he said to Feng Chengping and Liu Geng, who had been waiting for a long time: "Since those Khitans have no sincerity in negotiating, then drag it out, anyway, if I can afford it, I don't know if Yelu Hongji can afford to drag it out." ”

I have to say that this time it is really crooked. Cui Jie'an's plan to Yeluliang is also a procrastination. Based on their analysis of Lu Chengqi's character, they concluded that Lu Chengqi was a very impatient person who longed to leave a name in history and become an emperor through the ages. If they have an example, they will definitely say that Lu Chengqi is another Emperor Yang of Sui. It's a pity that in this different time and space, there is no Sui Dynasty, so they don't know who Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui, is. But this does not hinder their judgment, they firmly believe that Lu Chengqi is a person who is eager for quick success, as long as it drags on, he will compromise.

never thought that Lu Chengqi's original intention was also to hold back the Khitan people and seek time for development. Dashun's army is still very weak, even if it is equipped with enough cavalry, in the field, it may not be able to defeat the nomads born on horseback.

Since this is the case, it can only be compensated for with training and weapons. However, these two items are the most time-consuming, so what Lu Chengqi lacks now is time. When Lu Chengqi is equipped with a musket team of tens of thousands of people, are you still afraid that these Khitans will not succeed?

Of course, it is also necessary to first solve the bottleneck in the production of Hongxiang rifles and solve the problem of logistical support, so that we can have such confidence. Otherwise, with the status quo of the Great Shun Dynasty, it can only withstand local wars and limited defensive counterattacks. Fight a counteroffensive and attack into the hinterland of Liao, then you will have the heart but the power.

Based on such unanimous procrastination thinking on the part of both sides, in the next few days, the two sides will first demand that negotiations be reopened to see who loses the initiative if they lose their breath first.

Lu Chengqi didn't care about this, and instructed Feng Chengping and Liu Geng to continue to drag them down, so that they could win the game. Next, it's time to deal with the envoys of the Goryeo Kingdom.

Compared with the inexperienced envoys of the Liao State, Cui Jie'an of the Goryeo State is the fierce opponent. This person is familiar with the Han classics, and Lu Chengqi does not dare to compare with him and quote the classics. If you want to completely overwhelm this opponent at the negotiating table, you must take him by surprise, pull the opponent to the same level as yourself, and then use your rich experience to defeat him. To reiterate that Lu Chengqi, who has experienced several negotiations before, can be regarded as having a little experience in this, and if he prepares a little to say something, he will be able to lead the direction of the negotiations.