336 Negotiations
Outside the city of Xiliang is an endless grassland.
In the morning, people here will see the sun climb the mountains and shine brightly; In the evening, you will see the sun set below the horizon, stretching the shadows of the people as they return from grazing.
At this time, it was evening, the sky was full of sunshine, half of the golden crow had been set into the ground, and the flag of leaving the country was slowly coming in the setting sun.
King Gong pinched just in time, arriving almost at the same time.
Emperor Li's car stopped, he got out of the carriage, and King Gong turned over and dismounted, and the two looked at each other, and walked towards each other without escort.
King Gong faced the slanting sun, and from her point of view, she couldn't see the face of Emperor Li, only to see his upright posture, domineering and majestic.
The two approached, stood face to face, and smiled slightly at the emperor, "I'm really embarrassed to add a defeat to the life and deeds of His Royal Highness King Gong." β
King Gong was not provoked, and smiled, "Victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, and this king can afford to lose." β
"Good, good spirit." Emperor Li clapped his hands, he said that he leaned behind King Gong, and saw a carriage behind King Gong's mount, so he frowned slightly and said, "Why doesn't Gong Chen get out of the car to meet him?" β
"Your Majesty, our Lord Chen didn't come, he has important business, and he has already set off to return to Beijing, and the carriage is loaded with the national policy that Lord Chen gave you."
"Oh?" Emperor Li's face was displeased, but he didn't have a seizure in the end, but his attitude was a little colder, "I am talking about peace with Gong Chen, not with you." β
"It's okay, if you don't talk about it, we'll go back, I'm not a big brother, and it's not a foreign surname to make trouble." She said that she turned to leave.
Emperor Li was stunned for a moment, so he raised his voice and said: "Since Chen Gong has set the national policy, he can barely talk about it." β
King Gong's words are true, even if King Gong wins, it is impossible for him to change the name of the country, Daxing is still Daxing, and the emperor is still the flesh and blood of the first emperor.
Although Emperor Chengtian and Yigan may die, Daxing will not perish, and leaving the country has changed to an opponent, a more difficult opponent to deal with.
Especially at this time, the departure from the country seems to be a harmonious atmosphere, but in fact, the dark tide is turbulent, once he is a little weaker, the departure country will fall apart, and his death time will come.
Compared with the fall apart from the country, in fact, he cares more about his ambitions, his ambition is not to leave the country, but the whole world!
At present, there is no force to support him to conquer the world, so he must plan and then move.
When King Gong heard this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, fortunately, he wanted more from the emperor, and if he was replaced by a reckless man who just wanted to fight and burn and loot, it would be bad.
She turned around with a cold face, her bloodthirsty eyes stared at Emperor Li, before Emperor Lidi got angry, she took away all her coldness and smiled dignifiedly, "Your Majesty the Emperor of Liguo, as Lord Chen said, has great ambitions, so let's start?" β
"Okay." Emperor Li, for the sake of setting the national policy, did not bother with King Gong.
During the conversation between the two, the subordinates of both sides had prepared coffee tables and cushions, and the officials in charge of the details of the negotiations were also standing opposite each other, waiting for the principals of both sides.
After King Gong and Emperor Lidi both took their seats, the ministers of the two negotiators greeted each other and said: "The lower officials see the prince, and the prince is a thousand years old." β
"Ministers, see Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live."
The compliment raised her eyebrows slightly, not caring at all that she was a little younger than the other party, she made a gesture of invitation extremely politely, "Your Excellency, please take a seat." β
These courtiers all came after Chen Qian, pinching the time, and the leader of them was the former political envoy of Linhai Province, Lord Wu.
In order to bring the descendants of the Yan family, Yan Ge Lao deliberately asked Emperor Chengtian to allow Yan Hao to come over, not long ago, Yan Hao of Enke High School did not have Chen Qian to drive a through train, Rao is uncle Yan Ge Lao was advised by Lin Jianshen to reinstate the mountain official when he was in trouble, and he only got a master, and Wan Chaoyan was a few levels behind.
After the courtiers on the opposite side also sat down, the two sides began to look at each other, nose to nose.
After a long silence, King Gong spoke: "Your Majesty, this is Lord Wu, our Consul General of Daxing Northwest, who is a veteran of the two dynasties, and he is mainly responsible for this negotiation." β
The Northwest Consul General is in charge of the people's livelihood and government affairs at the border of Daxing and the country, and has the same function as the political envoy, regardless of the military and political affairs, and the military and political affairs are coordinated by King Gong.
"In that case, let Lord Wu talk to my Aiqing, and the prince will accompany me to talk about a game, how about it?" Emperor Li smiled with a relaxed smile on his face.
King Gong also smiled all over his face, and nodded when he heard this, "His Majesty has Yaxing when he leaves the country, and this king is naturally willing to accompany him, but this king is a soldier, and he always carries a sword when he goes out, not a chessboard." β
"Don't worry, I have, someone is coming." Emperor Lidi immediately ordered.
King Gong's eyebrows moved slightly, and his heart became more and more vigilant, this regent is really both civil and military.
The two principals are playing chess and fighting, as courtiers, they are about to start negotiations, and it is a matter of honor and disgrace for the family and country, and no one dares to be careless.
Wu Dian glanced at the box Yan Hao was holding in his hand, then stroked his beard and said: "My Lord Shoufu of Daxing, Wen Tao Wuluo, is brilliantly talented, and is an unborn genius in governing the world, the emperor of your country once personally invited Lord Chen to leave the country as a prime minister, I think you all know." β
Leaving the country's ministers, Yu Guang looked at his own majesty who was thinking about how to go next, but pretending to be light-hearted, and felt very uncomfortable, how much did their majesty look down on them? traveled thousands of miles to seek ministers, but it was not successful.
Don't you want a face?
"This time, my country's first assistant is willing to tailor a set of good policies for leaving the country, but your country needs to withdraw its troops and return our territory to Xiliangcheng, and then sign a ten-year peace treaty." Wu Xuan's expression was serious, his tone was firm, although he was the defeated party, he did not lose the bearing of a great country at all.
The courtiers of the country have just won the battle, and they are crazy, if they don't get the orders of the emperor, they won't talk about peace, Wu Qiang's voice just fell, and an old man stood up on the opposite side, only to listen to him arrogantly said: "Let's give you Xiliang City, but how to talk about peace in the past ten years, you have to talk about it well." β
"It's nature." Wu Quan nodded.
"First of all, the annual tribute to Daxing must be canceled, and you Daxing need to pay us a tribute of 3 million taels of silver, 200,000 quintals of grain, 100,000 pieces of cloth, 50,000 catties of tea, and vegetables, etc., this is a detailed list, you go through it first."
Wu Jian couldn't hold back on his face, he glanced at the long list with a cold face, and immediately took the case, "How can this be reasonable, I am a heavenly kingdom, how can I pay tribute to you and other barbarians?!" β
"Wu Enablement!" The other party also got up, pointed at his nose and said angrily: "Don't think I don't know what barbarism means, let me tell you, if Chen Gong didn't take the initiative to come to the door to sue for peace, we wouldn't be able to sit at the negotiation table, don't be embarrassed!" β
The courtiers of the two sides quarreled, and King Gong and Emperor Li both heard it, but the two were indifferent and continued to play chess.
Wu Qi forcibly suppressed his anger, and sat down with a blue face, "Shi Ke can not be humiliated, if you want my Heavenly Empire to surrender to you, it is impossible!" β
"I know that you Daxing has always looked down on us and said that we were rude, but now you are begging us, since Lord Wu, you don't want to talk about it, then it's okay, anyway, I want to drink blood from the knives of my sons and daughters of the country!"
"You!" Wu Jian clenched his hands into fists, and tried his best to suppress the anger that was about to erupt, he was a scholar, with the spirit of preferring to die and unyielding, and in the face of humiliation, even if he had no strength to restrain the chicken, he would draw a knife.
His personality is actually not suitable for negotiation, but Chen Qian has not woken up yet, so he has no choice but to let him go.
The courtier next to him hurriedly spoke to reassure him, "My lord, dissipate your anger." β
The other courtiers immediately said to the departing courtiers: "The negotiations will be suspended first, and we will talk later." β
"Hmph." The courtiers who left the country glanced at him arrogantly, with a contemptuous look, no matter who saw it, they wanted to rush over to fight, but the people won the battle, and they had to swallow their anger because of internal and external troubles.
The courtiers on both sides took a stand, and the two people who played the game were also played, "Your Majesty, it seems that the chess skills of leaving the country are still poor." β
"Being able to make a draw with King Gong, I feel that there is indeed a lot of room for improvement, but there is no hurry, the coming day is long, and I have time to learn from the prince." He was not annoyed by the draw, but admired King Gong.
The woman sitting opposite was dressed in silver armor, a black cloak, her long hair was neatly tied up on her head by an iron crown, her eyebrows were not described, her lips were not dotted but vernal, and she was accompanied by the wind and sand at the border all day long, but her skin was still as white as snow.
Decisive killing, hands stained with blood, without the slightest woman's tenderness, but miraculously able to play a good hand, I only heard that King Gong was a young man with great achievements, and I never heard that she could play chess.
In fact, there are many things he doesn't know, King Gong not only knows how to fight, can play chess, but also is very good at business, and the spiritual pillar of the previous generation of Wuxu Commercial Bank is her.
It's just that when it comes to the business house now, others will think of Wan Chaoyun, not her.
"Here, one more game." Away from Emgrand Mai Road.
"Wei Jue, serve tea, prepare some pastries to cushion your stomach, I don't know if Your Majesty will eat sweets?" King Gong asked.
Emperor Li nodded, "Eat, but unlike you women, I don't love it very much." β
"It's a pity, the war is hard now, otherwise this king would like to ask Your Majesty to leave the country and eat anchovy shrimp."
"Delicious on earth." Emperor Li immediately affirmed, "I also think it is very delicious, but it's a pity that the anchovy shrimp is ridiculously expensive in the country, and someone is here." β
After a while, the courtier who left the country came over and bowed down and said, "Minister, see Your Majesty, I don't know what Your Majesty commands?" β
"With the addition of one piece, the price of anchovy shrimp will be tripled, which is too expensive."
"Yes." The courtiers are busy, he also loves to eat anchovy shrimp, not only he loves to eat, but his wife, concubine and son and daughter all like it, but the anchovy shrimp is ridiculously expensive, and if you want the whole family to eat a meal, half a month will be gone.
Not only the price of anchovy shrimp should be reduced, but all the food of Wuweiju should be reduced! The same goes for other commodities of Wuxu Commercial Bank!
So, after he went down, he got together with a few colleagues and discussed, "Your Majesty said that the price of anchovy shrimp has been reduced by three times, and it must be written into the peace agreement." β
Departing courtier: "......" This is a negotiation between the two countries, not a child's play!
"I think that the things of Wuweiju are too expensive, not only the anchovy shrimp needs to be reduced, but the cake or something must also be reduced!"
Speaking of cakes, several colleagues are deeply touched, they are all three wives and four concubines, children in groups, girls like to eat Wuweiju sweets the most, but it is ridiculously expensive, a daughter, eat sweets at least two taels of silver per month, five daughters are ten taels!
Although ten taels doesn't sound like much, it is in a family like them, ordinary people can only watch it, and they can't afford to eat it at all, so the people who leave the country have no happiness at all, and the price must be reduced!
If Wan Chaoyun knew their plans, I was afraid that he would die of laughter, if you lower the price, I wouldn't go to your place to do business, could it be that the imperial court could still force it?
It's naΓ―ve.
Around Daxing, there are other countries, where is not the market?
Wu Xuan's side didn't know how casual the victorious country's side was, he was persuaded for a while, and his anger disappeared a little, but he still stretched a face.
"My lord, let's appease Liguo first, wait for the court to successfully quell the rebellion, and then change hands to deal with Liguo, and then I'm afraid that he won't bow down again?"
That's right, but a person who has been in the clouds, if you want him to lower the clouds, how can he be willing?
Yan Hao, as a miscellaneous character, listened to it for a while, and said weakly: "The lower officials think that since Lord Chen has tailored a set of good policies for leaving the country, we should not lower our posture so much. β
Everyone looked at him, and he mustered up the courage to say the following words without being humble or arrogant, "Have you ever thought that if you lower your posture, you will be selling Lord Chen's national policy cheaply, and you will be poked in the backbone by future generations." β
"Moreover, paying tribute to leaving the country will be infamous as betraying the country for glory, and you will never be able to do it."
"Yes, what Xiao Yan said is right, we can't compromise, we have also signed a peace treaty with the country in the past, change the previous treaty to be relatively fair, just do it."
In the past, when a peace treaty was signed with the country, it was to let the country pay tribute to gold, horses and other things, and the country belonged to Daxing, but even if this country signed a peace treaty, it would still invade the border of Daxing every once in a while, which belonged to the type that could only be suppressed, but could not be completely subdued.
After the decision was made, Wu Kai led people to revise the previous treaty, sent people to inform the departing courtiers, and the two sides sat down at the negotiating table again.
And King Gong and Emperor Li are still playing against each other, and the two are no longer drawn, but one loss and one win, in exchange.
At the negotiation table, Wu said: "It is impossible to let Daxing pay tribute to Daxing, but we can subtract the amount of tribute paid to Daxing." β
"Lord Wu, I hope you can understand that it is you who are begging us now! And not we beg you! β
"Then let's not talk about it, as a courtier of Daxing, this official is loyal to Daxing!" Wu Jian said that he stood up and didn't plan to talk.
Departing courtier: "......"
"Don't talk about it, we'll see you on the battlefield!"
"Ladies and gentlemen." Yan Hao stood up holding the box, then put the box on the table, opened it, and took out a book, "This is the national policy written by Lord Chen for leaving the country, his old man is unconscious now, I don't know if he can wake up, this is his handbook, there is only one in the world, since he has no intention of leaving the country to negotiate, and he wants to see me on the battlefield, then I will tear this book apart today, you need it when you leave the country, we don't need it." β
He opened it slowly, quickly and ruthlessly, and without the slightest hesitation, he tore the book in half, and suddenly, a thread-bound booklet was torn in half.
"Stop!" Emperor Li couldn't sit still, he immediately stood up majestically, "Which kid are you who dare to tear up Gong Chen's book!" β
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