Chapter 237: Sky-high conditions
For Murong Huai's praise, Jing Yi smiled generously and replied, "His Royal Highness King An has won the award. I'm going to have a lot of people who are better than me, and I'm just a little bit lucky. His Royal Highness King An, please."
Murong Huai also responded with a smile, "An Lehou, please."
Shao Yichen didn't say anything next to him, whether he cooperated with his brother to set up a stage today, or listened more and talked less.
Everyone entered the negotiation chamber, and the two sides sat on both sides of the long table.
Murong Huai noticed that the layout of this meeting hall was quite interesting. There were flowers and fruits on the long table, and it looked like they were going to talk about the world, but they didn't know that it would be a situation of verbal warfare and argument for a while.
Jing Yi specially found two people with good writing from the barracks to make meeting minutes.
As the leader of the negotiations, Jing Yi took the lead in speaking, "Ladies and gentlemen, we in the Great Jin Dynasty are peace-loving countries and have always hoped to live in peace with our neighbors. If it weren't for Xiyan raising the blade first, we wouldn't be here.
The fact that we are now sitting here and having peace talks shows that we both want peace to come back to the day. It also makes the people of the two countries no longer afraid.
But as the saying goes, if the person who provokes the incident first loses, he will have to pay some price, and this is also a lesson for all of us, don't easily provoke a war in the future."
Jing Yi's opening remarks show that this war was provoked by Xiyan, and the fault lies on the side of Xiyan. Now that the Xiyan Kingdom has been defeated, there is a price to pay.
Murong Huai didn't hesitate when he saw that the other party said this, "Our coming here for peace talks shows the sincerity of our Xiyan Kingdom. We saw that the White Tiger Army was strict in governing the army, and it did not harm the people of Xiyan wherever it went, and Huai was really grateful. General Shao is really everyone's demeanor, which is admirable."
As soon as Shao Yichen heard about him, he smiled and said, "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be. In the future, they will also be the people of our Great Jin, and of course we will not harm them."
Shao Yichen's words can be said to have directly poked the lungs of the envoys of the Xiyan Kingdom, and their faces were ugly. Whoever let them lose, now they have to listen to the ridicule of others.
Jing Yi almost laughed out loud when she heard Shao Yichen's words, this was a clear way to tell people that these cities occupied by the White Tiger Army would be Jin Kingdom in the future, and they would not return them.
Murong Huai was already prepared in his heart, and said with a smile: "To end this war, I don't know what conditions your country has? An Lehou can bring it up, let's take a closer look."
Jing Yi said, "Your Majesty is furious at the fact that the Xiyan Kingdom took advantage of the fire to rob us when we were invaded by the Northern Yan, and you have to pay enough to appease Your Majesty's anger.
We want Xiyan to cede the three cities we occupy and the surrounding lands, and pay an indemnity of fifteen million taels of silver, ten thousand horses, and five million stones of grain."
Shao Yichen turned his head and glanced at Jing Yi when he heard this, what he said at the beginning was obviously not so much, why did he temporarily increase the price? However, Shao Yichen's mind turned and he understood Jing Yi's intentions.
And Tian Wentao and Luo Shiqi had long been stunned by the sky-high conditions offered by Jing Yi.
The envoys of the Xiyan Kingdom all changed their faces when they heard Jing Yi's words. One of the envoys of the Xiyan Kingdom even shouted, "You are clearly a lion with a big mouth, why don't you rob it?"
Jing Yi's expression remained unchanged, but he said to him with a smile, "Yes, if we go to grab it, we will definitely get much more than this."
The envoys of the Xiyan Kingdom all sank their faces when they heard this. What are they here for? Isn't it just to stop this war from going any further? If the people continue to attack, then they really can't resist Xiyan, won't they lose more land? Won't all the people and wealth of the land go to other people?
Murong Huai scolded the person next to him who had just refuted Jing Yi, "Don't talk nonsense."
After scolding the people on his side, Murong Huai turned his head to Jing Yi and said with a gentle expression, "An Lehou, we are here to seek peace with sincerity. It's just that your country's demands are too high."
Jing Yi showed a meaningful smile and said, "Is it high? I think it's okay. You must know that the army of our Jin Kingdom is looking forward to expanding its territory again. Do you still have generals in Xiyan who can lead troops to the expedition?"
Jing Yi said this quite politely. You must know that this time, the generals in front of the Xiyan army were killed by Jing Yi and other generals, and some were captured. It can be said that the soldiers under the Xiyan *** team are easy to recruit, but the generals who lead the troops are difficult to find.
The Xiyan *** team originally thought that it would win a big victory this time. Therefore, in order to take the opportunity to make some contributions, many of the generals of the Xiyan Kingdom participated in this war. But in the end, he was either killed in battle or captured.
There are only a few generals and colonels who have fled back, and it is difficult to form a full-fledged army in a short period of time.
The envoys of the Xiyan Kingdom froze there at the expressions of Jing Yi's words. They just found a few generals who led the troops, and they were afraid that they would also deliver food to the smiling tiger-like teenager in front of them.
Murong Huai finally saw the sword hidden in the smile of the young man in front of him, and the army of the Jin Kingdom was like a big knife hanging over the head of the Xiyan Kingdom, which could be cut down at any time. If you want to let the Jin State withdraw its troops, it seems that you will have to pay a lot of price.
Murong Huai said, "An Lehou, my Xiyan's national strength is limited, and it will be difficult for us to meet your request for a while. It takes time to raise silver taels and food."
Jing Yi heard that this was trying to delay time. She didn't have time to spend with them here.
Jing Yi smiled and said, "Isn't it worth this when we retreat and the tens of thousands of soldiers in your country who have been captured by us?"
Murong Huai's eyes lit up when he heard this, "An Lehou means that you can let our generals go home?"
Jing Yi said, "If you can meet our conditions, then the soldiers below can be returned to you. It's just that the captured generals in front of the battle will not work. They're not like some creeps, they're worth a lot.
I heard that many of them are from big families, and their status in your Xiyan Kingdom is very unusual, and if you want to redeem them, you have to increase the price."
The envoys of the Xiyan Kingdom twitched the corners of their mouths when they heard this, okay, this is to sell their generals as goods.
One of their missions this time was to be entrusted by the great families to rescue the captured children of their families. It seems that people have also made up their minds to use these people to make a profit.
It's almost like buying and selling.
Shao Yichen and a few people who accompanied Jingyi to negotiate were happy in their hearts. Their An Le Hou crushed the envoys of the Xiyan Kingdom to death while talking and laughing. The initiative is entirely in their own hands.
Shao Yichen even felt that the conditions they proposed this time were very likely to be met.