Crossing the Condor Heroes: The First Sword of Quanzhen

Chapter 624 New Negotiation Clause
After eating the imperial meal, everyone went back separately.

Zhao Ke and Xiaolongnv returned to Ziwei Residence, Cheng Ying was escorted to the Guanyi to stay, and Li Qingwei took Zhao Jue back to Wei Wang's Mansion.

But before parting, Li Qingwei hinted that Cheng Ying would come to Prince Wei's mansion to find him at night.

This is not a difficult task for Cheng Ying's martial arts.

Zhao Jue had made the bed like a virtuous wife at this time, she looked at Li Qingwei who was sitting in front of the table reading a miscellaneous book and said, "Brother, Zhilan has made the bed, let's go to bed .”

Li Qingwei said at this time: "Zhilan, let's rest first, my brother has an appointment with a guest. I believe the guest will arrive in a while."

At this moment, Li Qingwei heard the "wind" outside the window, and he said, "Here we come!"

Li Qingwei stood up, he opened the door of his bedroom, standing in front of the door, Cheng Ying turned over and jumped down from the roof in front of Li Qingwei.

Cheng Ying asked: "I don't know the emperor, what's the important thing to call people's daughters here late at night?"

Li Qingwei said: "Go ahead."

Cheng Ying was a little shy at this time, she didn't know what Li Qingwei was going to do when she was called here at night.

Although she had a crush on Li Qingwei, if she wanted to do that kind of thing, at least she would have to be married to Ming Mei, even if she made him a child.If she were to sacrifice herself right now, Cheng Ying would not be able to accept it.

But when she saw Zhao Jue in the room, sitting by the bed, waiting for Li Qingwei, she put her heart into her stomach.

Li Qingwei said: "I called you here tonight because I want to explain how I will answer Zhao Yu when I arrive at the court tomorrow."

Speaking of which, Li Qingwei picked up a list from the table and handed it to Cheng Ying.

Li Qingwei said: "This is the condition we put forward to the Song Dynasty. When the Tang envoy is summoned, my Master Cheng can just hand over these and let the emperor of the Song Dynasty see it for himself. Be careful, you still have to show it at that time." Show the 'outrageous and rude' look of last time, only in this way can we completely make the emperors and ministers of Song Dynasty give in, and then agree to our conditions."

Cheng Ying looked at the terms of the peace agreement Li Qingwei offered, which stated that he would marry Empress Ziwei and go to Datang to get married, and compensate Datang for the military expenses of this dispatch, totaling 300 million taels of silver.In the end, Tang and Song formed an alliance. Song gave Tang silver 10 taels and 20 pieces of silk every year as "year-old coins".

Seeing this condition, Cheng Ying felt a little harsh.

But since it was the "imperial decree" issued by Li Qingwei, as a subject, she could only obey it.

Li Qingwei said: "Okay! There's nothing else to do, it's getting late, Miss Cheng should go back to rest earlier, if it wasn't for this king's inconvenience to meet Miss Cheng directly, I wouldn't have asked Miss Cheng to make a special trip tonight .”

Seeing Li Qingwei's "exit order", Cheng Ying didn't know why, but felt a little bit disappointed in her heart.

She seemed to be expecting something, fearing something, but nothing happened.She felt that her trip was "in vain".

However, Li Qingwei issued the "order to chase away guests", so Cheng Ying also took the order, and after she bowed to Li Qingwei, she flew away.

Seeing Cheng Ying leave, Li Qingwei slowly untied her robe, then stretched, yawned, blew out the lights in the room, and then went to bed with her little princess in her arms.

On the second day, Zhao Yu immediately summoned Cheng Ying, and the Song court also held a "rare" court meeting.

But every official's face is quite listless.

Because this is a defeated peace negotiation, and when the other party is allowed to make "rude" conditions, they are naturally not angry.

Now they somewhat regret it, if they directly agreed to the conditions of the Tang envoy that day, not only would they not lose Bashu, they would even get the land of the three counties of Nanyang.

At that time, the alliance condition offered by Datang was only to marry Ziwei Diji, and there were no other conditions other than that.

Now some of them even look at this "faint lord" who doesn't know the current affairs with some distaste.

"Respectfully invite the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to come to the palace!" The eunuch who passed the decree shouted.

Cheng Ying boarded the "Golden Palace" of the Song Dynasty again.

But hearing this sound, Li Qingwei almost laughed out loud.This time the attitude was much more respectful than last time.

Before that, it was "passing the Tang envoys to see them".But this time it became "respectfully, envoy of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty".

Sure enough, for this kind of person who "doesn't cry without seeing the coffin", he has to be stuffed into the coffin for a period of time before he will be obedient.

At this time, Cheng Ying remembered Li Qingwei's exhortation last night, and she was still as "overbearing" as last time. After she walked up to the hall with square steps, she cupped her hands at Zhao Yu, and this time she still did not "visit".

But compared to the last time, this time no one in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty dared to say a word, and even dared not breathe.

Zhao Xuan still said as usual: "Free from courtesy."

It's just that Cheng Ying didn't pay homage, but simply bowed his hands, which made this sentence seem a bit "incoherent".

But there is no way to do this, because there has always been an iron law between countries, that is, "a weak country has no diplomacy."

During the Spring and Autumn Period, envoys from the State of Jin went to the State of Wu, but King Fuchai of Wu asked the Queen of Yue to "entertain" the envoys of Jin.

At that time, King Goujian of Yue, who was a prisoner, saw his wife being raped and humiliated, but he could only watch helplessly. In the end, although he hid his strength and bide his time, he successfully wiped out the shame of Wu Guoyi, but this could not change his wife. , the fact that his queen had been humiliated.

This is the fate of a weak country. If the country is strong, it will not even lose one's own wife.

At this time, Cheng Ying said: "The doctor Yushi has already negotiated with my lord the terms of the peace, please read it to the emperor of the Southern Dynasty."

Then Cheng Ying took out the conditions that Li Qingwei copied earlier from his sleeve. At this time, the eunuch respectfully held the tray and came to Cheng Ying. His posture was very low, for fear that this "Tang envoy" would pick something "Reason".

After all, Zhao Yu made repeated orders today, and the palace must treat Tang envoys well at all costs. If anyone displeases "him" and causes the peace talks to break down again, then Zhao Yu will punish his nine clans.

Now that the lives of the nine clans are in their own hands, the old eunuch naturally dare not be negligent.

Looking at the eunuch's frightened face, Cheng Ying was puzzled, but she didn't think much about it.Just casually put the "contract" that Li Qingwei gave her yesterday.

When he left Cheng Ying's side, the old eunuch felt relieved.His sweat had soaked his underwear.

It seems that what he is holding is not the treaty of peace talks between the two countries, but the heads of his own nine clans.

When he let go, he was finally relieved.

At this time, Zhao Yu picked it up and looked at the terms of the agreement.

As for Zhao Ke going to marry him, and giving New Year coins every year, he can accept these conditions, but only the "military expenses" of "300 million taels" of silver will be compensated to Datang.

This is a bit too much.

(End of this chapter)