Chapter 794 Conditions for Peace Talks
The little Mandan sat in the middle of the Rong mission.
This time, no one dared to let him give up his position in the middle.
Manda scolded the in a low voice, but was stopped by Lou Wan with his eyes.
"Don't get complacent too soon, Mandan." Manda, who had always been bullied by herself, couldn't stand it and sat in the middle with a calm demeanor, and he couldn't wait to pull Mandan out.
"No one wants to grab the position I want."
Mandan looked at Manda, and her deep eyes made Manda's heart tremble.
Such a look was exactly the same as that of his father Helian Liang, and that look was full of the insidiousness of the Xia people, which once made the entire royal family of the Rong Kingdom tremble.
Manran's heart fluctuated, and he felt that things had completely exceeded his expectations and were slipping in a direction that was out of control.
He had always thought that his competitor was Manda, but it seemed that he had miscalculated.
Man Ran lowered her head and hid the cruelty in her eyes.
The people of the Xia Kingdom are really too cunning, they don't play cards according to the routine, and even the little Mandan has his own insidious and cunning instincts because of the blood of the Xia people, and he can figure out what the Emperor of the Xia Kingdom wants to hear at the critical moment, and steal his limelight in one fell swoop.
He really underestimated this scumbag.
Sure enough, the dog that bites doesn't bark.
"Your Majesty, can I transfer this bowl of cherries you gave to Lord Furong?" Mandan said suddenly.
He just noticed that Xiao Fuyuan seemed to like cherries very much.
Mandan's words attracted everyone's attention to Xiao Fuyuan.
"Lord Furong stood up when Manda and Manran bullied me, I have nothing to thank her, and I want to give her the cherries that Your Majesty rewarded me." Mandan said clearly.
Manda and Manran were extremely angry, but in order to please the lord of Xia Kingdom, Mandan pulled them out and whipped them, and once again mentioned the bullying of the two of them, for fear that the emperor of Xia Kingdom would forget.
The emperor smiled and said, "Mandan is a child who knows right and wrong and knows how to be grateful. Yes!"
Mandan showed a happy look when he received the emperor's permission, and personally took the cherry and left the table to Xiao Fuyuan's position, and placed the cherry in front of her.
Let's always be courteous.
Xiao Fuyuan easily transferred the lychee in front of him to Mandan.
Xiao Fuyuan learned from the chronicle sent by Ah Zhen that there were cherries to eat in Rongguo in summer, but lychees could not be eaten.
Bai Zhaomei looked at Mandan's sister's appearance, and felt very unhappy, he didn't have a good impression of anyone in Rongguo, including this young Mandan.
At a young age, he knew what to say to please the emperor, who knew what was bad in his heart.
When the banquet is over, he must tell his sister to stay away from this mandan.
Mandan smiled at Xiao Fuyuan, holding the lychee and turning around.
When Mandan returned to his position, he needed to pass by the position of Bai Muban and others, and accidentally stepped on the corner of Qiu Niang's skirt and almost tripped over.
"It's okay." Qiu Niang helped Mandan's small body up.
Mandan raised his head and glanced at Qiu Niang.
No one noticed this episode.
After Mandan returned to his position, the main hall resounded with the sound of silk and bamboo music.
The banquet has finally begun.
After two rounds of singing and dancing, Lou Wan stood up.
"Your Majesty, in order to show the sincerity of this peace talks, I have prepared a gift for you." Lou Wan said.
As he spoke, he held out the gift list of the incoming and outgoing gifts.
As the representative of the envoys of the Xia Kingdom, Bai Panmei took it with both hands and reported the gifts presented by the Rong Kingdom aloud.
"800,000 sheep, 600,000 cattle, 200,000 horses, 10,000 tigers and wolves, 40 chests of precious stones, 300,000 taels of gold......
It seems that Rong Guo has paid a bloody capital for this peace talks.
"And ......," Lou Wan said loudly.
Immediately, an envoy handed a box to Bai Panmei, who wanted to vomit when she saw the contents clearly, so she forcibly held back her expression and passed it to He Shun, who was waiting beside the emperor.
He Shun opened the box in front of the emperor.
The emperor saw it
smiled at a glance and said, "Let General Meng and the soldiers in the northwest see if there is any adulteration."
He Shun came to General Meng with the box in his hand, General Meng glanced at the head inside, and said with a smile: "Back to the emperor, it's Helian Dan."
Xiao Fuyuan's eyebrows were slightly raised.
She heard the fifth brother mention that Helian was the lord of the Rong country, and he fled in a hurry by the fifth brother with the army, and finally she didn't know whether she committed suicide or was killed by the people around her.
In short, Helian Dan's head was lying quietly in the box at this time and was passed to observe.
"Your Majesty, the anti-thief Helian Liang will also be at your disposal." Lou Wan continued.
Bai Panmei answered: "Lou Gui Envoy, what you said is wrong, Helian Liang cannot be used as a condition for peace talks. Helian Liang must be killed, not killing is not enough to calm the anger of the two people, and not killing is not enough to comfort the border people who died in our northwest."
"Then the peace talks...... Lou Wan asked cautiously.
"The five cities of Yancheng, Yucheng, Yucheng, Pingcheng, and Yangcheng on the border are taken out, and we have room for peace talks." Bai Panmei said.
The emperor sat on the top and bowed his head and said something to the queen, as if he hadn't heard the conversation between Lou Wan and Bai Panmei.
"Lord Bai, where is the sincerity of your country's peace talks, your country is too deceitful." Before Lou Wan could speak, one of the young envoys jumped out and shouted.
"These five cities were originally my dynasty, and they have been occupied by you for so many years, and we have only taken back our original land. Wait until our Northwest Army uses your Shangdu as the border of my Xia Kingdom, and then talk about deceiving people too much." Bai Panmei flicked her sleeves and said.
Bai Panmei is right, these five cities originally belonged to the Xia Kingdom.
During the reign of Emperor Zuo, the world was in turmoil, and the Rong State took the opportunity to incorporate the five border cities into the territory of the Rong State.
Although the first emperor put an end to the chaos in the world for more than ten years, the treasury was empty at that time, and the southeast coast was rampant, so he was really unable to take care of the northwest.
Now that the Xia State has recuperated after so many years, the treasury is full, the Northwest Army has regained its prestige, and it has won another battle with the Rong State, there is no reason not to take back the five cities.
"You ......," the young envoy of Rong blushed.
The northwest army of the Xia State broke through the capital of the Rong State, which was a shameful mark for every Rong person.
Lou Wan sighed, the current acting lord of Rong State, Helian Huang, explained to him that in order to ensure that he inherited the position of the lord as much as possible, Xia Guoti's conditions were met as much as possible.
"Noble Envoy Lou, the conditions for peace talks in our dynasty are enough to be sincere. The five cities are handed over, and let's talk about the next step." Bai Panmei is quite aggressive.
Lou Wan wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Mandan peeled off the lychee given by Xiao Fuyuan and said, "My grandma is from Yancheng, she has always said that she is a Xia person, not only my grandma, but also my grandmother and grandma also call themselves Xia people. Do you know why?"
Mandan's slightly innocent voice spread through every corner of the hall.
"Rong Guo said that these five cities belonged to Rong Guo, but Rong Guo never treated the people of these five cities well. The soldiers of the Rong State can kill the people of these five cities at will, and the people of the Rong State can rush to their homes to steal things at will. Since the Rong Kingdom does not regard the people of these five cities as its own people, it is better to return them to the Xia Kingdom."