Chapter 310: A fire breaks out in the restaurant on a midsummer night

After Qin Siyong listened to Wei Xiaohan's words, he sat on the dragon chair alone in a daze, and he was actually distracted.

The ministers all waited quietly, and no one dared to make a sound, for fear of disturbing the emperor's thoughts.

Qin Siyong felt that a cold sweat seemed to break out on his back, and he also woke up from his state in a daze, he coughed lightly, wiped his thoughts, and asked calmly:

"Then what does Wei Cheng think about this?"

Wei Xiaohan pondered the language for a moment before slowly speaking:

"Back to the emperor, the minister has been dealing with it ambiguously, and has not given him a clear attitude, because at this time, it is really inappropriate to talk about cooperation and peaceful coexistence."

Qin Siyong suddenly looked at Yan Wansong and asked in a somewhat curious tone:

"What does Captain Yan think about this?"

This time it was a surprise to the ministers, because Wei Xiaohan has always been in charge of this diplomatic matter, and unless there is a war, Taiwei Yan will be responsible, and this time he actually asked him a diplomatic question.

The ministers were all surprised, and Yan Wansong naturally felt extremely surprised, but as an old minister, he regained his composure in an instant, and after he took a step forward, he calmly replied:

"Back to the emperor, the minister thought that Yunyu Kingdom's trip was just a delaying tactic, because we had the initiative and they were passively defending, so they were not well prepared and needed time to prepare. We can completely ignore them, since we are here, the two armies will not fight each other, we will receive them politely every day, eat when they should eat, drink when they should drink, and let Prime Minister Wei Cheng slowly negotiate with them with all the requirements, and after our deployment is completed, whether to start a war or start a war. ”

These words were recognized by many generals, and everyone nodded their heads in appreciation.

However, many civil officials stood expressionlessly, as if they had not heard this, and they seemed very indifferent, unable to see their inner thoughts.

Qin Siyong, who has always been calm and resourceful, actually praised uncharacteristically this time:

"Well, what Captain Yan said is right, they are using a strategy to delay the army, we don't want them to succeed, Prime Minister Wei Cheng continues to slowly negotiate with them, and Captain Yan accelerates the deployment of the army, since we are going to fight, we must go all out and move forward bravely, don't be affected by these chores, right and wrong, leave it to future generations to comment, we must not let their plans block our progress."

"I believe that history is written by the victors after all!"

As soon as he finished speaking, many civil officials still had surprised expressions on their faces, when did the emperor become so impulsive?

It was already strange enough to ask Captain Yan about diplomatic issues, but now he actually adopted Captain Yan's opinion, which made many people puzzled.

Can diplomacy be talked about like that? Can war be waged like this?

It seems to be too child's play, and it can even be said to be too tricky.

When the delegation comes, whether you agree or not, shouldn't you sit down and talk about the conditions, and if you can talk about it, you will cooperate, and if you can't talk about it, you will part ways, which can be regarded as a kind of respect for each other!

Now, the emperor doesn't care if he doesn't ask, and even let Prime Minister Wei just receive food and drink, and don't consider the other party at all

out of the conditions.

However, in the blink of an eye, there are also a small number of civil officials who seem to understand what the emperor means.

Especially Wei Xiaohan, he understood the emperor's intentions almost instantly, in the first three steps, Qin Siyong was at a disadvantage everywhere, and if he continued to go down according to such a routine, it would only get worse and worse, playing such a scheming, Qin Siyong was not Mu Qianmei's opponent at all.

The most important thing is that the strategies designed by Qin Siyong have all been exposed by Mu Qianmei, and if you are led by Mu Qianmei by the nose like this, you don't have to wait for the war to start, maybe there will be a civil war one day.

Don't you see, now the people of the whole country are already boycotting their country's "Dongqin Daily", and if it develops further, will they be moved by Mu Qianmei to besiege the palace of the Eastern Qin State?

At that time, all the people gathered outside the palace are their own people, do you kill or not?

So Qin Siyong decided to change his strategy, if you write a letter, I will come to martial arts, and if you play strategy, I will play tricks with you and play hooligans.

I don't listen to what you say, I don't see what you do, I just bury my head in preparation, start a war when the time comes, and stop slowly dealing with you at all.

As a result, the Eastern Qin State was busy again, on the one hand, the civil officials spread all kinds of information in the clouds and fog, and also began to print small newspapers and pamphlets, which were distributed to the people for free, and made some changes and adjustments to the things that the previous free tabloids said, even if they could not be completely changed to the opposite direction, at least they became more neutral things, and it seemed that there were rights and wrongs, and they were not all the faults of the Eastern Qin State.

Public opinion is slowly being guided and controlled by the Eastern Qin State, although it is difficult to recall the lost hearts and minds, but let them not continue to ask the key questions before, it can be regarded as a success, at least there is no need to worry that they will help the enemy country and go to the opposite side.

And the generals are even busier, a large number of troop movements have been completely made public, that is, they will continue to move to the border of Yunyu Country in an open and honest manner, continue to exert pressure, and the grain and grass of the whole country will also be transported to the border areas, looking at this posture, not only is they in a hurry to start a war, but they are even ready to fight a protracted war.

Jiang Yunyi, who was in the Eastern Qin Kingdom, saw this posture and knew that it was meaningless to stay, so he was ready to say goodbye and leave, so he went to say goodbye to Qin Siyong in person, and then said goodbye to Wei Xiaohan, and decided to leave the Eastern Qin Kingdom early the next morning and rush back to the Yunyu Kingdom as soon as possible.

Counting the time on the road and the time spent staying here, Jiang Yunyi and his party have been out for almost fifty days.

It was still early summer, and now it is the height of summer, and the weather is extremely hot.

The members of the Yunyu delegation led by Jiang Yunyi all live in a three-story wooden building, which is outside the palace, which is a luxury restaurant specially for receiving foreign guests in the Eastern Qin Kingdom, and there are places to eat, drink and have fun, however, Jiang Yunyi has specially instructed the entourage that here, you can't do anything out of line and rudeness, so everyone is more self-restrained and lives a pure-hearted life every day.

Although there is good food and drink here, and there is someone to accompany him every day, but half a month has passed, and there is still no progress in the negotiations, and everyone feels very depressed, so there is no point in continuing to stay like this, so when Jiang Yunyi proposed to return to Yunyu Country the next day, everyone was very excited and excited.

That night, Wei Xiaohan still accompanied him with a group of civil officials, because the next day Jiang

Yun Yi and his entourage were about to leave, so the people brought by Wei Xiaohan were more enthusiastic when they accompanied the wine, and persuaded each other one after another, just to let everyone eat and drink well.

Moreover, although Wei Xiaohan and Jiang Yunyi always keep a certain distance from each other because of their respective masters, after half a month of getting along, the two of them actually felt a little sorry for each other.

Both of them are civil officials, one is the prime minister, the barley water national teacher, both are extremely human ministers, naturally there is a lot of common language, every day in addition to talking about business will have a war of words, the rest of the time the two get along relatively quiet and harmonious, drink tea, play chess, talk about literature and art, talk about life and society, many things, both have a relatively similar view.

Just like when Wei Xiaohan met Ouyang Bo, they are all people who stand relatively tall and can see all kinds of life clearly, so they have become bosom friends.

Jiang Yunyi's chess skills are not as powerful as Ouyang Bo, but he is not comparable to ordinary people, the reason why he is slightly inferior is not because he has no talent in this area, but because he deals with state affairs every day, and he used to deal with gang affairs, and he is busier than Ouyang Bo, so he doesn't have so much time and energy to practice, when he was in the beggar gang, he can't play Ouyang Bo, just here, Wei Xiaohan is also like him, busy with state affairs every day, and his level is about the same as him.

When two people play chess, they are really opponents, on par, so they win and lose each other, and they play with relish every day.

Therefore, after half a month, they are both rivals and friends.

After three wines and five flavors, there was no pressure to negotiate, and the two of them chatted even more speculatively, so they didn't drink less wine until late at night.

The summer night was much cooler than the day, and everyone drank more or less, so they slept more deeply, and the whole building seemed quiet.

At this time, there is no moonlight, the sky has sparse stars, many lanterns outside the restaurant have been extinguished, only a few are all night, in the hazy night, there are six black-clothed people like half of the civet cat, evading the guards on duty at night, from the dark corner quickly sneaked into the surroundings of the restaurant.

Suddenly, six different locations in the restaurant suddenly caught fire, and they burned rapidly.

The fire spread very quickly, and when the sleepy guards found out that the restaurant was on fire, the first floor was almost surrounded by fire, and the people outside immediately shouted loudly

"It's on fire, it's on fire, put out the fire!"

Soon, in the surrounding buildings, people got up one after another, gathered here, and began to look for tools to put out the fire, and the people in this building also got up and ran in a messy noise, the eating place on the first floor of this restaurant, there were people sleeping here, and the sleeping rooms were on the second and third floors.

Jiang Yunyi slept on the second floor, because he drank a lot, he slept a little heavier than usual, and his reaction was not as sensitive as usual, as the former Elder Wang of the Beggar Gang, although his martial arts were not as good as Feng Tianyu and Ouyang Bo, he was also a member of the first-class masters.

Hearing the shouts and feeling the rapid spread of the fire, after he got up, he did not immediately run down, but went to the various rooms to check if the people who had come out to check on him.

In the blink of an eye, the fire had already burned to the second floor, and Jiang Yunyi ran to the third floor again, he wanted to make sure that everyone could escape the fire safely.