Chapter 370: Each Shows His Means
Qin Dong thought for a long time and ordered: "Immediately transfer all the intelligence bases she knows, change the contact information and code words she knows, and transfer all the intelligence personnel she has seen to other places, you immediately report this matter to Liu San, just say that it was arranged by this king, and then let Liu San send an order over, let her leave Constantinople and follow Claude to Ankara to lurk in Ankara, keep an eye on the Eastern Empire, and report immediately if there is any situation!" ”
The mole didn't understand why Qin Dong made such an arrangement, but he still bowed down and said, "Yes, the king, the villain will go immediately!" ”
In fact, Qin Dong's arrangement is also a last resort, he has already promised Meknejelina to make her the new mayor of Constantinople, but looking at her current situation and appearance, nine times out of ten she is fascinated by Claude, Qin Dong is not jealous because this woman is fascinated by Claude's little white face, but is worried that once she is made the mayor of Constantinople, Claude will use the beautiful man to firmly control her ideologically, then she is a very dangerous chess piece buried on her side, A lot of information about the Xiongnu Empire may reach Claude's ears through Guò's mouth, and since Claude knows it, then Leo and the high-level officials of the Eastern Empire will naturally know it, which is the result that Qin Dong does not want to see.
In addition, Meknejielina herself is her own intelligence officer, and she is in charge of a team, before she has done anything to betray, Qin Dong has no reason or excuse to order her to disappear, which is not in line with the management mechanism, for the rest of the intelligence system, killing people indiscriminately without obtaining conclusive evidence will make people panic, and it will make others feel a sense of sadness. This is not good for the management of intelligence agencies.
So now the only way is for Liu San to give an order to Meknejielina and let her go to Ankara to lurk, after all, she is a member of the intelligence system. The establishment is also within the intelligence system, and Liu San will not arouse her suspicion if such an order is issued, so that Qin Dong does not have to appoint her as the new mayor of Constantinople.
Qin Dong just asked the mole to transfer all the intelligence bases that Meknejie Jielina knew, and transfer all the intelligence personnel she had seen and knew, and even changed the contact information and contact code, just to prevent her from leaking secrets. After she went to Ankara, if her life was great, it was not found out by the intelligence system of the Eastern Empire. If he was found out, or even killed by the Eastern Empire, Qin Dong would not feel ashamed, anyway, he didn't kill her. There was no order to kill her either. There is no need to carry the burden in her heart, after all, the two have been a dewy couple for half a month, and it is up to her whether she lives or dies.
Qin Dong thought about it carefully, this is not a woman's benevolence, he also wants to kill Meknejie Lina with one sword, simple and fast, if she is just an inconsequential woman, an ordinary aristocratic woman. Such a woman is dispensable, and she is a knife. His subordinates won't have any other ideas, but the key is that she is also her own person, and she can be regarded as his subordinate, so he killed her because he was jealous? Will others say that his energy is too small? Besides, there is no evidence that the woman has any super friendship relationship with Claude, if she is killed, I am afraid it will make other subordinate officials feel cold, this is not the way to dominate subordinates, but this incident also taught Qin Dong a lesson, in the future, he must not mess with female subordinates in the relationship between men and women, his ambition is not small, and he can't ruin his future because of this matter of men and women.
Qin Dong was ready to rest after washing, when the guards outside the door reported that Charlie Cao was coming, so Qin Dong asked the guards to bring Charlie Cao in.
"See the King!" Charlie Cao bowed.
Qin Dong waved his hand and said, "Okay, it's so late, what's the matter with you?" ”
Charlie Cao said: "The king, the officials should have reported the negotiation to the king during the day, but the officials were dragged down by some things in the city hall during the day, so they didn't come until now, it's like this, the negotiations in the morning didn't go well, and at the beginning, the people of the Eastern Empire actually put forward their own conditions first, all of which were written on this, please take a look at it!" ”
"Oh? Do they still dare to put forward conditions? "Qin Dong was very surprised by what the people in the Eastern Empire grew up eating, did they all eat leopard gall?
As a result, the stack of parchment handed over by Charlie Cao hurriedly glanced at it a few times, and then threw it all on the ground and sneered: "Ha, it's really funny, we beat me to the ground, thinking about peace talks, and dare to put forward conditions?" Is the hell swollen in this world? Have they all been kicked in the head by a donkey? ”
Charlie Cao said: "King, this is the way Westerners act, whether they are reasonable or unreasonable, first put themselves on the side of justice, put forward their own conditions, and whether they can win these interests is another matter!" ”
This is true, in this period of Europe has long been popular diplomatic negotiations, and in this period of China, the ancients did not know what negotiations were, at most they married a princess in the past and the nomads of Shan Yu and relatives, sent some to marry in the past, in exchange for a year or two of peace, but only for two or three years of peace, the nomads went south again to plunder!
Qin Dong stood up and walked around thinking about ways to make the Eastern Empire make concessions quickly, and now there is only one way to make Priests give in, Qin Dong thought of it, that is, to make a gesture of attacking the other side of the strait, forcing them to accept their own conditions, and dare to put forward conditions? Dream!
After thinking about it for a while, Qin Dong said to Charlie Cao: "Priests's thoughts, this king roughly understands, he wants to try his best to fight for themselves, save some vitality for the Eastern Empire, and not lose too much." Hehe, the current situation is unbearable for him, in this way, you go back first, this king will order the army to make preparations for crossing the sea to scare them! ”
Charlie Cao immediately understood Qin Dong's intentions, nodded and said, "Okay, king, retire!" ”
In the middle of the night, the Xiongnu army located outside the city wall of Theodosius immediately went to the city and arrived at the west bank of the strait, and the naval fleet also received an order to prepare to cross the sea with the infantry and cavalry to attack.
However, Qin Dong himself knew that this was just a show, scaring and scaring Priests and the others. Let them stop having illusions, and besides, fighting a war is not a simple matter, and it is necessary to prepare war materials before crossing the sea to fight. And after dawn, it is necessary to start raising supplies to prepare for the sea crossing operation.
The sky had just dawned, and before Qin Dong got up, he heard the guards outside the door report that Meknejie Lina was asking to see her outside, Qin Dong thought about the woman's intention, if it was day or night, this woman would not be surprised, but this woman ran over as soon as dawn, which was extremely inconsistent with her living habits. Could it be that this woman came here for some purpose?
In order to test Meknejielina, Qin Dong deliberately dragged out his washing, and made Meknejielina wait for more than half an hour before the guards brought her in.
"Oh. My dear, why are you so slow, and you have to wait so long? As soon as Mekne Jielina saw Qin Dong, she pounced.
Qin Dong hugged him and laughed: "There are a lot of things to do when you get up in the morning, and of course it takes a lot of time." Hey. Why did you wake up so early today? That doesn't seem to be your style! ”
Meknejelina snorted: "Oh, people miss you!" ”
"Really? I heard that you've been fighting with that Claude these days? Why do you have time to think of this king today? Qin Dong said as he pushed away Mekne, and Jielina walked to the wine cabinet to pour the wine.
This sentence instantly scared Meknejie Lina into a cold sweat, and she said in a hurry: "Didn't the king ask me to find out the bottom line of Priests and the others?" I couldn't find out from the old guy, so I had to start with the people around him! Now that the little man has taken the bait, I can still get more news related to the Eastern Empire from his mouth! ”
Qin Dong walked over with twice the wine and said with a smile: "Very good, you can be loyal to the king, this king is very pleased, come." Have a drink! After speaking, he drank his cup first.
Meknezylina took the glass and took a sip of it, as if she suddenly remembered something, and said, "That's right." My lord, when I first came, I saw a large number of troops marching to the strait, should I fight again? Once this fight resumes, all kinds of prices in Constantinople will rise rapidly, no, I will buy more daily necessities and supplies when I go back! ”
"It's better to buy more!" Qin Dong nodded, and said, "There's no way, it's not that we want to fight, it's the Eastern Empire that forces us to fight." This battle cannot be fought in a day or two, and the rise in prices is certainly inevitable.
Meknezylina hurriedly said: "Oh, the king, don't you say that I almost forgot, I have drunk all the red wine at home, you know my favorite red wine, I have to go back to the winery to buy more quickly!" He said hello and left.
Qin Dong walked to the door and saw the back of Meknejie Jielina leaving, his face was expressionless, and he sneered in his heart, hum, this is your own death, I have already given you a chance, but you are stuck in the mud and still don't know it, and you are still struggling to drill in, this can't blame me!
After daybreak, Priests had not yet gone out to the Senate, but received the news that the Hun army had assembled in large numbers on the west bank of the strait, which shocked him, and if the war broke out again, his trip would be in vain. He hurriedly took the other members of the delegation and was about to leave the hotel and go to the Senate, when he walked to the door, he met Claude, who told him that because his attitude was too tough yesterday, if the negotiations could not go on, then there would be no way to fight, and this news made Priests break out in a cold sweat, and secretly blamed himself for going too far in yesterday's negotiations and off the Huns.
After arriving at the Senate, the two sides immediately began to negotiate again, but this time Priests's attitude took a 180-degree turn, and he did not mention his own conditions yesterday, but only bargained over the conditions proposed by the Huns.
After one day of talks, Priests strongly opposed the first, second, and third of the Huns' conditions, especially the first and second articles, the first half of the third article was negotiable, and the fourth and fifth articles were negotiable.
In the next two days, the two sides continued to talk, but in order to force Priests to make a big concession, Qin Dong ordered the military and the ground to make a huge amount of fanfare, and immediately fought over if he couldn't negotiate.
On the fourth day, the two sides finally reached an agreement, first, the Eastern Empire agreed to cede the Thracian provinces, Constantinople, and the areas east of Skutari and Negrita in the northern part of the Greek province to the Xiongnu Empire, recognizing the Xiongnu Empire's sovereignty over these regions. Second, the Eastern Empire paid 6,000 pounds of gold to the Xiongnu Empire every year, which was the same amount that the Eastern Empire had paid to Attila Nagong ten years earlier. Third, the Eastern Empire and the early spring of the next year will marry the emperor's little princess Ali Angel to the Xiongnu Empire's Dadan Yu Enek as the Yan clan. Fourth, after the signing and entry into force of this Agreement, the parties shall not infringe on each other for a period of 20 years.
The agreement came into effect immediately after the signing of the agreement, and both sides immediately reached a ceasefire agreement in which most of the troops on the border were withdrawn, leaving only a small number of troops to be stationed. (To be continued......)