Chapter 369: Confrontation at the Negotiating Table (2)
At the negotiation table, the delegation of the Eastern Roman Empire headed by Priests had just put forward its own conditions, and the members of the Xiongnu Empire delegation headed by Charlie Cao were angry enough, but in the blink of an eye, the Xiongnu Empire put forward conditions and competed with each other.
Regarding the conditions of the Xiongnu Empire, Priests and the others almost gasped after hearing this, completely forgetting the fright they had just received.
Priests then shouted angrily: "This is absolutely impossible, impossible!" Our country will never accept such conditions! β
Charlie Cao shrugged his shoulders like a Westerner and said, "But the conditions of your country are not acceptable, how can you say this?" Your Excellency, the national division reminds you that the Eastern Empire is a defeated country, and you are not qualified to put forward conditions, I hope you can find out the situation and then talk to the national division, okay? β
"Defeated nation? We were not defeated, you must know that our country did not surrender to you, and the whole world knows this! Priests shouted.
Charlie Cao took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Okay, you are not defeated, so let's continue to fight, what else to talk about?" In my opinion, it is best to talk about the winners and losers only after the winners and losers, do you say? β
"You ......" Priests blew his beard and glared in anger, and almost went without catching his breath, and the other members of the negotiating delegation around him rubbed his chest and beat his back, but finally did not let him die.
The negotiations could not go on as soon as they began, and there was no intermediary in this negotiation, so Charlie Cao could only stand up and say: "It seems that His Excellency the Archon is not in good condition and physical condition, so it is better to do this." Let's rest today and follow tomorrow at 9 a.m.! β
Seeing this, the negotiators on the Eastern Empire knew that this was the only way to go, so they helped Priests out of the Senate and returned to the hotel.
Priests had just been sent back to the hotel when he came to his senses. He sat up from the bed weakly and looked at the other members of the delegation in the room, and immediately said when he saw Claude: "Claude, you come here!" β
Claude walked over to the bed and sat down and said, "My lord, what do you command?" β
Priests sighed: "Claude, now I can only look at you, I hope you can do your best to understand the reality of the Huns, you must figure out their own thoughts." War or peace, this is very crucial! β
When Claude saw Priests mention this matter again, his face immediately collapsed. Why wouldn't he want to help? It's just that he really didn't have the confidence to persuade Mekniejelina to agree to help, in fact, he had spoken to Meknejelina more than once, but Meknejelina always diverted the topic intentionally or unintentionally at critical moments, in addition. He wasn't sure if Meknejielina would be able to actually help. So the face showed a look of embarrassment.
After thinking about it, Claude said: "My lord, I have mentioned it a few times in Meknejielina, but she has never heard it, and I can't convince her to help me at all, and are you sure that she can find out the intentions of the Huns?" I always feel like it's a bit of a hanging! β
"Bastard!" After hearing this, Priests was furious and said: "If even she can't do it, there will be no other way in the whole of Constantinople, and this official learned from a special channel that this Count Meknejelina has actually been canonized as 'Count of Rose' by the Huns." And the Xiongnu Dadan Yu Enek is actually just a puppet, and the real power is Qin Dong, the regent. Now he is in the city of Constantinople, so the one who really canonized that woman as Count of Rose is actually Qin Dong, why did Qin Dong do this? There is only one explanation, he was fascinated by that woman, and now he can get words out of Qin Dong's mouth, only this woman, do you understand how heavy her weight is? β
The other members of the delegation were very surprised by these private secrets, but to Claude's ears, it was like a thunderbolt of lightning, which made him dazed and his face turned pale. He now knew that the woman turned out to be the mistress of Qin Dong, the regent of the Xiongnu Empire.
"Claude, Claude?" Seeing that Claude was in a trance, Priests quickly screamed a few times and pushed him again, which brought Claude back to his senses.
"Oh, my lord, what's the matter?"
Priests knew it was bad when he saw Claude's bear-like appearance, and his original intention was to let Claude hook it. Introduce Mekne Jielina and let that woman go to Qin Dong's mouth to extract Qin Dong's true thoughts, but looking at Claude's current appearance, he is clearly in love with that woman, how is this good? It's really a loss to steal chickens and rice, and to lose my wife and soldiers!
Of course, Priests didn't know these two allusions, he just had this kind of frustration, now Claude is like this, it is not appropriate to be stimulated anymore, he must start from other aspects, he pondered and had an idea, he said: "Claude, you should understand our country's current situation very well, now our country is in internal and external difficulties, internal rebellions everywhere, containing many of our troops, and what about the outside? We and the Persians have always been a feud, for hundreds of years, they are always harassing on our borders, but also contain many of our troops, and now the Huns also come to bite us, of course, there are our own reasons, if it were not for us to suddenly sever diplomatic relations with the Huns, things would not have evolved into the current situation, but the matter has come to this, there is no regret medicine to eat, the key now is to prevent the Huns from continuing to attack, and the only way is to negotiate with the Huns, and the two sides signed an armistice treaty, Let my country have time to recover, so the current negotiations are very important for our country, and now the only person who can break the deadlock and strive to preserve the vitality of our country as much as possible is you, the survival and well-being of tens of millions of people are on you alone, Claude, you can't let them down! β
Some words don't need to be said too clearly, sometimes if you say it too clearly, you won't be able to achieve the effect, and only say the key, but not point out the effect is completely different, after all, the object of persuasion has his own brain, Claude is just honest, but not stupid, he has his own thoughts and ideas.
He knew very well that he might really like the noble lady of Meknejielina, and let the woman he liked to please another man, and then extract his true thoughts from that man's mouth, which made him a little unacceptable, such an act was shameful.
But on the other side is his country, as Priests said, the survival and well-being of tens of millions of people and horses are on him alone, and he has to make a choice.
While he was making a difficult choice in his heart, Priests seemed to see his hesitation, and said: "Claude, if you really like that woman, in fact, you can get him, as long as you complete this task and let her get what we want to know from Qin Dong's mouth, we can find a way to bring her to Ankara afterwards, and you, you have made such a great contribution to the empire, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely reward you heavily, and the official will also promote you in front of the emperor and canonize you as an earl, Let you have enough status to marry her, so that there will be no identity barrier to the union between you at all! β
That's right, Claude's eyes lit up, and he thought in his heart that he was sorry for her by letting her go to Qin Dong's mouth this time, but this qiΔ was all for her good, and after the matter was completed, she could take her away from that vicious man and go to Ankara to live a happy life.
Claude quickly figured it out, he stood up and said, "Well, my lord, since you say so, then I will beg her again, but after the deed is done, you must fulfill your promise!" β
Priests hurriedly said, "Of course, of course! β
At this time, the voice of the hotel maid sounded outside the door: "My lords, is Lord Claude there?" There was a carriage outside the inn, and Countess Meknejelina was on it, and Madame Lady invited Lord Claude out to meet her! β
Claude immediately walked out the door, exclaiming loudly as he went, "Oh, here it is! β
But he quickly stopped, and in a short time his mind had a lot on his mind, and then strode to the door, opened the door, and said to the innkeeper outside the door: "I am Claude, and you go and tell Mrs. SΓΉ Mekne, that our Lord Priests is sick, and that I need to stay at the hotel to take care of him, and I will go to her when I am free, remember?" After saying that, he handed out a handful of copper plates.
The hotel boy took the copper plate with a smile and left.
But it was said that after listening to the relay of the hotel maid, Meknejielina began to feel uneasy, although she was trained as a professional espionage, but when love befell her, she was at a loss, and she couldn't resist this devouring monster.
Claude's words made her start to think crankily, does Claude not like herself? Or was it because he didn't promise him to go to Qin Dong to find out the news? Or is Claude really unable to get out? For a while, all kinds of thoughts came to her heart.
My heart was a little sour, a little aggrieved, but my mind kept coming to Claude's figure, and she left the hotel in the carriage full of disappointment and grief.
When the carriage was gone, Claude, who was standing by the window of the hotel room, turned around with a look of regret, and this expression was seen by Priests, who was quite surprised by what Claude had just said, and Claude seemed to have suddenly opened his mind, and was quite talented in playing with feelings.
In the manor, Qin Dong was strolling with his hands behind his back, thinking about something while walking, when a man in a black cloak suddenly appeared not far from Qin Dong and saluted him: "Great King! β
Qin Dong looked at the black-clothed cloak: "Mole, what's the situation?" β
"As the king had expected, Meknezylina may have been deceived by the boy, and in the morning she went to the inn to look for Claude, but Claude did not come down to see her, and in the evening Claure went to meet her privately, and it was at her manor. What the two of them said exactly, my people didn't hear because they couldn't get too close, but Claude came out with a happy expression on his face. From the point of view of the villain, the current situation of Meknejelina is very dangerous, and if she really falls in love with that kid and divulges our secrets, we will lose a lot! (To be continued......)