Mage Veigar

Chapter 471 The sky-high asking price
In the meeting room dedicated to negotiations.

The Empire's diplomatic ambassadors sat on one side of the oval table, while Shia and Vega sat on the other side opposite them.

The topic of today's negotiations is very clear.

That is the issue of redemption of the empire's 7 prisoners and several generals.

As soon as the negotiations began, after some brief pleasantries, Empire got straight to the point.

Because Vega had left the imperial envoys alone for ten days without any reason, public opinion had gradually emerged in the empire that the imperial government had no intention of redeeming the prisoners of war. The ambassadors sent to the dynasty for negotiations gradually could not withstand the pressure and began to become impatient.

This is exactly the effect Vega wants.

So he sat back and waited for the imperial envoy to come up with bargaining chips.

The leading young diplomat, Dilos Le Jar, looked at the other accompanying diplomats, and then began to explain the prisoner redemption plan to Xia first.

"Your Majesty."

Dilos looked at Xia with a sincere look and said, "First of all, I am extremely sorry for the damage caused to your country by this war. Secondly, we would like to ask your country to be able to facilitate us and extradite our soldiers and officers back to our country. This is our compensation plan. Please review it, Your Majesty."

As he spoke, a document was handed to Xia.

However, Xia did not open the file, but handed it to Vega beside her. Vega did not delay and directly opened the negotiation plan in front of all the diplomats of the empire.

Vega's action made the imperial diplomat look a little embarrassed.

After all, Vega is now a traitor to the Empire. Sitting at the negotiation table is equivalent to indirectly not giving face to the Empire. Now, in their eyes, Xia's actions are even more of an insult to the Empire.

need to know.

The empire is a military power, and the empire's diplomats have always been superior to other countries. They are the only ones who ignore other countries' expectations. They have never been treated like this before.

If it weren't for the urgent situation now.

He was under tremendous pressure from above, and he was gradually unable to bear it. Diplomat Dilos was probably going to turn hostile on the spot.

Of course, Vega noticed this.

But he didn't care at all. Vega, the pride in the empire's bones, knew it was not the first time that if you don't beat the other party until it hurts and bleeds, they will never know what respect is.

Therefore, under the angry gazes of Dilos and others, Vega quickly read the entire plan.

This plan can be summarized into three main points.

First, the Empire first brought out the contract and condemned the fact that the Dynasty had disregarded the agreement and attacked the City of Black Gold. At the same time, it demanded that the Dynasty return the City of Black Gold and compensate the Empire for its losses in city defense with approximately 5000 million universal gold coins.

This is a common negotiation method between countries.

In short, no matter whether the matter is right or wrong, they will first find a reason to put you in a passive position, and at the same time accuse you of a bunch of crimes, so that they can bargain unscrupulously.

The second point of the plan.

The Empire asked the Dynasty to release the 1000 prisoners and a group of generals in the concentration camps. Of course, the Empire could double compensate for the living resources consumed by the prisoners of war in these days, as well as part of the Dynasty's indirect losses. The compensation method used here was million universal gold coins.

The third point of the plan.

The Empire demanded that the Dynasty hand over the traitor Veigar. As long as Veigar was handed over, the Empire would promise to restore the alliance with the Dynasty and never use force against the Dynasty again.

Vega laughed out loud when he saw this.

The arrogance of this empire once again pushed Vega to the limit. Why is it still pretending to be so high and mighty at this moment? Unless the empire abandons the front line in the Kingdom's Dragon City, it will be impossible for it to have extra troops to attack the Holy Dynasty.

But Veigar was not angry. Negotiations are all about asking for a high price and then paying a low price.

After reading the so-called "plan" provided by the Empire, he also put forward the negotiation plan formulated by Qi Lisi. This plan seemed to have the meaning of tit-for-tat, and also had three points.

First, the Dynasty condemned the Empire for, after taking the City of Black Gold, disregarding the friendship of the alliance and seizing the entire upper reaches of the west coast of the Dynasty, and attempting to send troops to the middle reaches, so the Empire was required to compensate with 200 war airships.

Article 2 of the plan.

The dynasty can release the captives and senior imperial generals, but the empire needs to provide 300 war airships as compensation.

Article 3 of the Plan.

Since the Empire took the initiative to tear up the alliance, which seriously damaged the friendship between the two countries, the Empire needs to cancel the transfer agreement of the City of Black Gold and cede the important city of Erkia in the east of the Empire as compensation.

As soon as Vega's three points came out.

The Empire's diplomat Dilos' face immediately turned red with anger.

Let's look at the first one. The Empire was indeed at fault, so compensation was a given. But what does 200 warships mean? This is enough to form a standard aviation corps.

The second clause asking for compensation for the release of prisoners is also reasonable.

But the number of 300 war airships is even worse than robbery. This is not negotiation at all, but robbery.

There is one last one.

The cancellation of the transfer agreement for the City of Black Gold was indeed within the Empire's expectations, and the Empire's Ministry of Foreign Affairs also delegated power to Dilos. However, the Dynasty still wanted the Empire to cede the important eastern city of Erkia?

Where is Erkia?
If the City of Black Gold is the gateway to the upper west coast of the Holy Dynasty, then Elkia has the same status as the City of Black Gold in the eastern part of the empire. It is the kind of city that is fought over by military strategists and will never be given up.

Dilos has handled dozens of international negotiations.

He had also seen countries that asked for exorbitant prices, but those countries were all comparable to their national strength. However, this small dynasty was even more exaggerated than those countries, and proposed proposals that they would never agree to.

Delos had seen it.

The kid sitting opposite him wasn't there to negotiate at all, but to laugh at him.

So he stood up and pointed at Vega and said, "Shameless! It's absolutely shameless. Let me tell you, our country can only pay a total of 150 war airships as compensation for this war and the redemption of prisoners of war. We will never agree to other conditions."

After a roar.

Dilos was so angry that he could not contain himself. He bowed to Xia and walked away without even agreeing on when to restart the negotiations. Thus, the negotiations that had just begun were aborted.

"Ignorant arrogance."

Vega smiled coldly without any attempt to persuade him to stay.

Because Wang Chao had absolute initiative in this negotiation, and 70,000 prisoners of war were still in his hands.

The Empire would never dare to give up the negotiations. Even if Vega didn't cause trouble for them, the people in the Empire would drown them to death with their spit.

However, it is not realistic to expect the Empire to pay 500 war airships and the city of Erkia through negotiations. After all, 500 is too large a number, and it is impossible for the Empire to give up Erkia.

But wait a minute.

Vega never said that he wanted to facilitate this negotiation.

He simply wanted to sell the captives for a good price, and then retain as much as possible the excuse to use force to hold the empire accountable, and at the same time use this excuse to cheat the empire and then cheat a kingdom, and become the winner of this Three Kingdoms War.

(End of this chapter)