Just when Huang'er led Su Su to visit relatives and friends in Youyang Mountain, anxious negotiations were going on in the palace embassy in the royal city of the Qilan Empire. The Nari Empire mission led by Yuan Shi'an is engaged in a special war of words with the officials of the Qilan Empire at the negotiating table.

The negotiation process is always so nourishing, it is nothing more than that if you say that you do not agree to my conditions, I will raise troops to attack, and if you raise troops to attack, I will devote the whole country to fight and so on.

As a king, he never cares about what you talk about, only what results you have come out of, knowing that the other party cannot accept the conditions, the officials on both sides still want you to argue sentence by sentence, just like the vendors and customers who bargain in the vegetable market, both sides have an insurmountable bottom line but try to cross the other party's bottom line, this is the literati, they will not rush to the front like a battlefield soldier, but they can decide the fate of hundreds of millions of people because of their words and deeds.

This is already the sixth inconclusive negotiation between the two sides, Yuan Shi'an rubbed his eyebrows and lay on the recliner of the embassy thinking about how to achieve greater benefits at the negotiation table, the mission has arrived in Qilan City for two months, and the mission has been constrained everywhere in the angry environment of the Qilan people, and there is even an embarrassing scene where no one is willing to sell them food and rely on the help of hundreds of officials of the Qilan State, he just wants to end this bad trip quickly and return home to the concubine and the child to warm the kangtou.

On the other hand, Liu An, the prime minister of the Qilan Empire, was also uncomfortable, the other party's mission was unexpectedly difficult, and he had the negotiating advantage of just breaking the defense of the motherland, so it was really difficult to talk about.

Just when Liu An was at a loss, the waiter stepped forward and said respectfully: "Your Excellency, General Tian Yingtian has something important to report." ”

"Tian Ying, is that Tian Cheng's youngest son?"

"Exactly. The waiter bowed his head.

"Let him in. ”

"Yes. ”

After a while, Tian Ying walked in, his waist was straight, he walked in a tiger step, walked closer, clasped his right fist and left chest to perform a military salute, and said loudly: "The last general Tian Ying, meet the prime minister!"

Liu An not only brightened his eyes, but said secretly: Most imperial generals send their children to the border, mostly to mix up some merits for their children so that they can be promoted in the future, and to put it bluntly, they are sent out to gild. But the Tian Yingdeng in front of him is a talent, with a good temperament, Tian Cheng, an old fox, can give birth to such a son, it is really unexpected.

Liu An asked, "I heard that you have something important to report, tell me about it, what's the matter?"

"A month ago, a group of Nari Imperial Forest Army suddenly appeared in our army's garrison, a total of sixty-seven people, and their identities have been verified, but judging from the equipment and scale of these people, they are not expeditionary forces, and the Royal Forest Army, as the royal city guard, will not easily leave the border of Nari.

The last general felt that this matter was very strange, and at that time, our country was negotiating with the Nari Empire, so he did not dispose of them in accordance with military law, but strictly interrogated them to see if they could win some bargaining chips for our country. ”

"Oh, well done! Liu Andeng became interested.

"Yes. Feng Tianyue died in battle three months ago, and the king of Nari sentenced his people to sit together, but two very important children were rescued, and this group of people was chasing these two children, these soldiers strayed into a strange space and were teleported to our country, just two children who escaped will be sent to the Royal Forest Army to hunt down, and things may not be simple here, King Nari must attach great importance to these two children, of course, he must be very anxious to know the information that these soldiers have, so I believe that these people will become a very important bargaining weight. ”

"Okay! Tian Ying, you have done a beautiful job! Do you know what this means to us! I will definitely show the king and repay you for your merits!" Liu An was overjoyed.

"As long as my father doesn't blame me for not having strict military laws, Tian Ying doesn't dare to expect it. Tian Ying was not arrogant or impatient, and replied calmly.

"I'm carrying your father's place, you are such an excellent son, he doesn't like me, but he likes it tightly!"

"Thank you Prime Minister Liu, there is nothing else, the last general will retire, the prisoner is already outside the palace, and the prime minister can be interrogated at any time. ”

"Go ahead. Liu An was very pleased, he knew that when the negotiation reached an impasse, any small bargaining chip would tilt the balance of the negotiation, and what Tian Ying sent today was undoubtedly a bargaining chip, Liu An said secretly: Come on, let me see how important these two children are to Narui Kingdom. Thinking of this, Liu An couldn't help but show a sly smile.

Three days later, the most important negotiation came, because there has never been more than seven negotiations in history, so there is an unwritten unspoken rule: the seventh negotiation will either succeed or collapse.

Yuan Shi'an was about to give full play to the prepared negotiation skills, but Liu An didn't give him a chance, and directly asked the guards to bring the prisoners up, and the prisoners were tied up one by one, their mouths were tightened with strips of cloth, and they couldn't speak, so they could only struggle hard, but they were pressed to death by the guards.

"Liu An, what do you mean by this?" Yuan Shi'an frowned.

"Yo, look at my brain, Prime Minister Yuan, you are in a high position, naturally it is impossible to know these shrimp soldiers and crab generals, but this is their nameplate, you should know it. With that, he instructed the guards to present the nameplate to Yuan Shi'an.

Yuan Shi'an couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly when he saw the nameplate of the Imperial Forest Army, and then returned to normal, but this subtle change did not escape Liu An's eyes.

Yuan Shi'an said "indifferently": "It's just a few royal forest troops in the royal city, and how do I know if you are looking for a few random people to fool me." ”

As soon as Liu An waved his hand, the guards loosened the sealing cloth strip for one of them, it was the monkey.

The monkey hurriedly said: "My lord, we followed the two children, but we lost them, but we met the person who shot that day, and we ......"

Before the monkey could finish speaking, his mouth was gagged again.

Yuan Shi'an was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, don't you report on the occasion? Report at the negotiation table, your tone is still so urgent, do you want to tell the other party that you are very important, and then use you to knock us hard?

The negotiation has been lost, Yuan Shi'an knows very well, it depends on how much less he can lose.

Liu An was secretly refreshed in his heart, and said: "It seems that they are really the Imperial Forest Army, and they really have the information you need, then we can negotiate happily, our condition is to return all our territory, and the war reparations will be reduced from the original fifteen million gold coins to eight million gold coins." ”

"You!

Liu An stopped talking, sipping tea leisurely, waiting for Yuan Shi'an's answer.

Yuan Shi'an said secretly: The conditions given by the other party are two million gold coins lower than the bottom line given by the king, although the king attaches great importance to the land, it is unrealistic to defend such a large territory with the current military strength of the Narui country, but doesn't this show in disguise that my negotiation ability is insufficient? Moreover, the king can be said to have killed the Feng family this time, what kind of information do these people have, and how important is it to the king? The so-called holy will is unpredictable, and it is impossible for him to know, thinking of this, Yuan Shi'an can't help but feel a headache.

After a quarter of an hour, Yuan Shi'an struggled out of the ideological struggle, and since he couldn't guess it, let the emperor handle it himself: "I can't be the master of this kind of thing, and it has to be decided by our king." ”

"Okay, I'll wait for you for a week, if there is no reply for a week, then these poor worms will not see the sun the next day, and the armies of other countries have entered our territory without permission, and our army has the right to dispose of it. ”

"Let's go!" Yuan Shi'an gritted his teeth and led the people away angrily, ignoring the kneeling captives on the ground.