- Sweeping his gaze over the Song envoy, Xiao Feng said meaningfully: "Ladies and gentlemen, my Emperor Daliao has given you a month, but there has been no progress, where will my majesty's face go, and how will my court explain to the people?" ”

Chen Ke really wants to say, that's your business, but then it's not but, and the people of Liao will definitely be mad.

After a pause, Xiao Feng took out his killer idea, only to hear him say in shock: "And I heard that before your envoy came, the emperor of the Southern Dynasty promised to increase the number of coins by 500,000, why can't you resist the decree?" ”

Chen Ke's scalp exploded, Zhao Bian was also colorless for a while, the negotiation card is the top secret of the imperial court, only the official family and the two governments know about it, how can the Khitan people know?

Without thinking about it, what went wrong, Chen Ke stabilized his mind and said categorically: "There is no such thing!" ”

"Really?" Xiao Feng sneered: "Why don't we write a letter to verify it?" ”

"Yes!" Chen Ke nodded and said: "You can write a letter now, if the court replies and says, there is!" There's nothing more to talk about, I'll sign up obediently. After a pause, he said coldly, "But that's a waste of time!" ”

"Not bad......" Xiao Feng is also an understanding person, how could the Song Dynasty admit that it was ready to increase the currency before negotiating? Shouldn't the official family and the prime minister be scolded to death? So it will never be admitted. After a pause, he smiled and said, "But you and I both know that this number exists." He stood up and said word by word: "500,000 taels, not a penny less, this is our bottom line!" Then he led the crowd out of the tent.

Chen Ke also got up slowly. didn't look at Zhao Bian, so he went back to the protocol account.

"How's the talk?" Zhao Zongji has been waiting to be careful. Seeing Chen Ke coming in, he got up and said accordingly.

"The 500,000 cap. The Liao people got it. Chen Ke was in a bad mood and sat on the chair.

"How would they know?" Zhao Zongji was shocked: "Didn't you deceive you? ”

"You're going to make a fuss about that? If you guess wrong, won't you be laughed out of your big teeth? Chen Ke didn't use a teacup, he just picked up the teapot and drank it.

The bottom line is known, and you still talk about a ball? But if you sign it like this, how can you have the face to go back?

At this time. Zhao Bian also came in, and both of them looked at him with a little unkind gaze.

"What do you think of me as this?" Zhao Bian frowned.

"Uncle, how can the Liao people know about 500,000 taels?" Zhao Zongji asked.

"How do I know?" Zhao Bian shook his head and said, "I think there may be a traitor." As he spoke, he raised his head abruptly and said, "You don't think so." I leaked the news to the Liao, right? ”

"We didn't say that." Chen Ke said.

"That's what I thought!" Zhao Bian seemed to be greatly insulted, threw his official hat on the ground and said: "Yes, the traitor is me, I have long had enough of you two arrogant and selfish guys, I want to go home early, so I leak my hole cards to the Liao!" Let's see how you two still play! After saying that, the old gentleman was so angry that he rushed out of the door.

Looking at his departing back, Zhao Zongji said, "This is angry talk, right?" ”

"I hope so." Chen Ke sighed lightly and said, "I don't want it to be him, but the three of us in the mission know." ”

"Could it be that someone in Beijing leaked secrets......" Zhao Zongji said.

"That's disgusting." Chen Ke clenched his fists tightly.

"Forget it. Leave this stubble alone. Zhao Zongji sighed and said, "Let's think about it, what should we do next?" ”

"Don't let go!" Chen Ke said in a deep voice: "If it is really set at 500,000 taels, how will you mix it up in the future?" After a pause, he said: "400,000 taels is not possible, at most 300,000 taels, which is the same as the number of the Yuanyuan Alliance." ”

"The people of Liao will not agree." Zhao Zongji shook his head and said: "The imperial court has promised to give 500,000 taels, how can people ask for 300,000?" Saying that, he said in a low voice: "If it doesn't work, 500,000 will be 500,000, let's remember this shame and let them repay it tenfold and hundredfold in the future!" ”…,

"Gave half a million. You may have no future, you know? Chen Ke said angrily: "It may be okay to change someone else, but if you say it, you will definitely be drowned by the spitting star!" ”

"And what can you do?"

"Let me think, let me think about it......" Chen Ke rubbed his head and fell into deep thought.

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Because of the unhappy dissolution, the regular meeting in the evening was canceled, Chen Ke ate a few bites of food indiscriminately, and thought about it in the tent. Before I knew it, it was getting late, and the guards came in and reported: "My lord, the woman who is sleeping here is here." Saying that, his face was a little weird and said, "This time it's a little bad, or let her go back." ”

Chen Ke wanted to ask the woman from last night, shook his head and said, "Let her in." ”

After a while, he saw a woman who was tall, had a face like the bottom of a pot, and exuded a strange smell all over her body, wearing a palace dress that was obviously one size smaller, appeared in front of him.

"You're in the wrong place, aren't you?" Chen Ke really wanted to cover his nose, but his conscience wouldn't allow him to do so.

"I'm not wrong," the woman said, her eyes widened, "and they asked me to serve you." ”

"Who told you to come?"

"That's it." The woman said indistinctly: "Today I am collecting cow dung, and someone from above will come to look for me, change my clothes, and let me come here to serve you." ”

"......" Chen Ke was dumbfounded, but the guards couldn't hold back their laughter.

'Who is this teasing me?' Chen Ke asked the woman to get some money and food, and sent her away, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Could it be that they are angry with me for going back on my word and deliberately giving me some color?" ’

At this time, Chen Yi walked in and said softly: "My lord, the letter has arrived." ”

"Oh." Chen Ke nodded and said, "Watch the door well." ”

"Yes."

After Chen Yi retreated, Chen Ke picked up the silver letter opener and cut the letter open, and inside was the report of his financial officer, Zhou Dingkun. are all daily trivial matters, such as the fact that someone has been sent to Shuzhong to pick up the Su family who is about to serve and arrive in Beijing; For example, Rokuro is still honest these days, and he hasn't caused trouble anymore. For example, the house I was looking for for the Su family has been bought and renovated; For example, his outer house was cleaned up, and the handmaidens brought by Japan had already moved in, Du Qingshuang found Mama Xi and began to teach them the etiquette of the Song Dynasty; For example, the theater that Chen Ke wants to build has already set up a storefront on the most prosperous street...... All in all, everything is going well, you can rest assured.

After reading it, Chen Ke took out a small bottle made of tin from the purse he was carrying. Pour some into a basin of water, and the water will become purple. He then flattened the letter and slowly submerged it in the water. As soon as you enter, the letter is dyed purple, and some transparent handwriting emerges.

This is a ciphertext written by a musician, which is specially used to convey secret messages. Chen Ke stared at the handwriting on it, glanced at it a few times, and said with a fierce look in his eyes: "I see......

The handwriting on the paper faded and the letter paper disintegrated.

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The next moment, Zhao Zongji's account was in the middle.

"After we left, Xiao Tianyi once went to the Great Song Dynasty, and then returned quickly, and my people have been following ......" Chen Ke lowered his voice and said, "Guess where he went?" ”

"Nakyo?" Naturally, it's not hard to guess.

"Yes, thirteen days ago, he lived in the Zhongjing Left-behind Mansion." Chen Ke said: "It seems that we are wrong to blame Mr. Zhao. ”

"Nerugu...... Yelu Chongyuan ......" Zhao Zongji said in a deep voice: "Xiao Tianyi...... Zhao Zongfu ......" said with a hateful hammer on the table, and said angrily: "These bastards! ”

It's hard to describe his mood at the moment, is it sadness, anger, or uncontrollable contempt? It's indescribable! Those people have no bottom line, just to suppress themselves, they can leak the secrets of the state to the enemy country!

What else is in this world that they can't sell?! …,

Neither of them is a person who knows his mistakes and does not change, since he blamed Mr. Zhao for his mistakes, they went to Zhao Bian to make amends.

Zhao Bian didn't eat dinner, and was lying there sulking.

After the two came in, he turned his body towards the wall, but Chen Ke and Zhao Zongji still saluted him, asking him to forgive the young man for being reckless, and the adult did not remember the villain......

After a basket of good words, seeing that the old gentleman still didn't look back, the two had to withdraw in a huff, and when they arrived at the door, Chen Ke sighed and said, "What a careful ......"

"Who's the heart eye!" Zhao Bian kept his ears pricked up, and said angrily when he heard the words: "You guys come back to me!" ”

The two of them swished back, and said with a smile on their faces: "We say we ...... ourselves."

"Ball ......" The old gentleman glanced at them angrily, and said with a straight face: "Before saying hurtful things in the future, use your brains to think more!" I'm in my forties and fifties, would I do such a thing that stinks for eternity? If he did it, the Liao people would not hide it for him when compiling history, and the old gentleman's behavior of communicating with foreign countries would be known in history, which was the greatest shame for traditional scholars.

Chen Ke let him get angry, and when he was done, he smiled and said, "My husband hasn't eaten yet, right?" We didn't eat either, so we asked the cooks to cook two side dishes, and we ate them while adding them up. ”

"Yes, yes, three stinkers, and one Zhuge Liang."

"I see that you two stinkers, just one Zhuge Liang." From the beginning to the present, the old gentleman has been excluded from the decision-making circle by them, and he must be unhappy.

But when I say it, my heart will be happy. Although the old gentleman has a great friendship with the king of Runan County, he is an orthodox gentleman and doctor after all, and in the face of righteousness, personal kindness is naturally put aside. He was also very indignant at someone's betrayal of the country, even in order to prevent Da Song from making a fool of himself, he had to do his best to plan for the two of them.

The three of them finally thought in one place at the moment of crisis, and twisted into a rope ...... -

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The second watch, there are two more, ask for a monthly pass! (To be continued)