Chapter 418: The Covenant is Waste Paper
Yangjin asked him with a laugh: Aren’t there enough times when the Khan of the grassland gets furious and furious?
Over the years, when did the Mongolian army not wantonly march south to plunder the Central Plains?
The New Song Kingdom knows that you have always gone back on your word and have no sense of contract, so why do you still want to abide by those crappy covenants?
Zhao Feiyan also nodded and told him not to talk about those useless treaties and to talk about the future. Come on, what else do you want to talk about?
Seeing that the three negotiating partners at the long table all denied it in unison, Sauron knew that it was useless to say more, so he had to turn to the next best option. He demanded living expenses from the New Song Kingdom for the people of the Great Song who were abducted to the North Sea, starting from Zhao Feiyan's father, the old emperor and the queen, and down to ordinary palace maids. He wrote three long chapters asking for five million strings of cash, only more, no less.
When Zhao Feiyan saw this, she was so angry that she shook, and kept saying that it was too much bullying, it was simply too much bullying, and she wanted to stop talking about it and never mention the matter again.
Yangjin knew what was going on and immediately called a recess for the day.
He turned around, helped Zhao Feiyan up and left.
When Sauron returned to the posthouse, Suoni said, "It's over, it's over. This trip to Chengdu was in vain and he even spent all his money along the way."
Sauron, however, was very interested and ordered people to buy wine to celebrate that he had found a good way to ask for silver from the New Song Kingdom. He wanted to drink the New Song Kingdom's ancient well jade liquid.
Damn it, they still want to drink authentic Moutai.
Sauron asked Soni to learn from him. Today, whenever he mentioned the Song royal captives who were abducted to the North Sea, especially their old emperor, Princess Feiyan lost her composure. He could definitely blackmail them for a large sum of money.
Suoni was doubtful in his heart.
He thought about how all those covenants were vetoed by those women, and his elder brother still wanted to squeeze money out of the captured Song people. Was it possible?
A bit whimsical, isn’t it?
In Courtyard No. 9 in Jinguan City, the leaders of the Central Court of the New Song Dynasty are having a discussion.
Everyone thought that the Ministry of Rites was right to deny all the unequal treaties in the past, and that was completely correct, because the first ruler, Duke Ding, had already made it public in the newspapers and clearly announced to the world that he did not recognize them.
However, the living expenses for the group of people who were abducted from the royal family of the Song Dynasty should be paid, which is 5 million strings of cash.
Cao Youwen was troubled when he saw that Zhao Feiyan had burst into tears.
Except for Yangjin, who was very calm, everyone else was worried because they all served the emperor in Lin'an in the past. Zhao Feiyan's father was the emperor, and the so-called emperor ordered his subjects to die, and the subjects had to die. Even their heads belonged to the government, not to mention a few million strings of silver.
Some time ago, the emperor sent someone to deliver a letter of reprimand and asked for troops to be sent to rescue.
The Minister of Revenue Du Fan hesitated for a moment and said: Why don't we give them some money? Although we all know that they will still bully and persecute our relatives after taking the silver, if we don't give them a penny, the Northern Barbarians will intensify their persecution of our officials, and they will be laughed at by the world if it gets out.
Yangjin pretended to think for a long time and said: This matter needs long-term consideration. Brother Yulin definitely doesn't want us to sign any unequal alliance with the Mongolian army.
The Mongolian army kidnapped our compatriots and persecuted them in all kinds of ways, and in return they asked us to pay a sum of money for our hard work. How is that?
Everyone fell silent immediately.
Zhao Feiyan also stopped crying and said angrily that she would kill those beasts.
Yangjin immediately told her not to get excited, they were still negotiating. Let's just give them some money and send them away, but just make a verbal agreement, don't sign any covenant, and don't even ask for their receipt of payment.
Lao Cao nodded in agreement and asked how much would be appropriate.
Some said three million, some said one million, and there was no definite standard.
It was Yangjin who told everyone: When we go to negotiate tomorrow, we will set one million strings of cash as our bottom line, and we will negotiate for whatever amount is best.
Lao Cao didn't care. He felt that the Mongolian delegation was a bunch of scoundrels and rogues, and he couldn't kill them with one blow, so it was better to send them away as soon as possible.
Seeing that Zhao Feiyan was in a very bad condition, he said that Princess Feiyan would not go tomorrow and asked Mr. Du and Director Yangjin to discuss with them.
However, Zhao Feiyan refused, saying that this was the Ministry of Rites' job and insisted on settling this international case.
After returning home, Yangjin found Wu Yuqi to talk. They both knew that Zhao Feiyan was in a bad mood. After discussing this and that, they took a bath and rested.
The next day, Sauron sat up confidently and waited for Zhao Feiyan to express her opinion. However, he felt a little scared when he saw the tall and mighty guards on duty outside the meeting room. The guards who were on duty yesterday were all handsome and smiling, so there was no need to be afraid.
Why did it change today?
At the beginning of the talks, Shunzhidi was the first to speak and said, "You have kidnapped my compatriots, persecuted my relatives, and yet you want to demand hard work pay. Where is justice?"
Sauron and Soni didn't expect that this woman would put a big hat on them right from the start, and they were stunned immediately.
Yangjin said that it was okay to give some silver, and seeing that our relatives were still suffering in Beihai, she gave 300,000 strings of paper money. There was no more. Two verbal agreements were made: one was not to tell anyone about this. The other was to leave immediately after taking the money and not to stay in the territory of Xinsong.
Sauron was confused by the sudden change in the attitude of the three women. Yesterday they were so confident and arrogant, why did they become so soft all of a sudden?
But when he heard that they were only offering 300,000 strings of cash, he thought it was too little. He thought that since the other party had softened, perhaps he could raise the price a little more and extort a large sum of money from them.
Sauron said calmly that the matter could be discussed, but three hundred thousand strings of cash was too little. Was he just treating a beggar badly?
Aren’t you afraid that our Mongolian warriors will mistreat your emperor and empress?
When Zhao Feiyan heard this person mention her father, she became furious thinking of the inhuman torture suffered by the Zhao royal family, and shouted loudly: Don't mention her family again, otherwise she will not care and disregard the rule that "when two countries are at war, envoys shall not be beheaded" and will drag them all out and behead them as a warning to others.
Sauron was stunned as he looked at Zhao Feiyan, whose face was filled with anger.
I was wondering why this frail woman suddenly lost her temper.
It seems like he really dares to kill people.
Suoni pointed at Zhao Feiyan and asked tremblingly: What's the matter? Dare to behead the envoy, aren't you afraid that my great Mongol Empire will fight with you?
Zhao Feiyan pointed at Suoni and shouted with gritted teeth: Drag him out and chop him into pieces.
Two burly men came in immediately, kicked the chair away, dragged Suoni and walked out. Suoni was still resisting, but after being kicked twice by the guards, he could only be dragged out like a dead pig, groaning.
In the hall, Soran stood up in a hurry and made a scene, asking the three women if this was what a great power should do.
Mongolian warriors are not afraid of life or death.
The three women glared at him without saying a word.
Seeing that his brother was getting further and further away and he could no longer hear any humming sound, he became anxious and immediately agreed to the amount and conditions proposed by Yangjin.
He only begged for his brother's life.
After Yangjin picked up the tea bowl and drank it, she said calmly: That's right.
She waved her hand and asked the deacon outside the door to pass on the message to the guards to release Suoni.
Shunzhidi had already taken out a box and put it on the table.
Zhao Feiyan opened the box, which was full of brand new coins. She closed the lid with a click and said that although it was a verbal agreement, the New Song Kingdom believed that your country would keep its promise. If you continue to humiliate her family and the people of the New Song Kingdom, our Shenwei Army will definitely repay you double.
Then she shouted, "Let's go."
The women didn't even bother to say hello to the Mongolian envoy and filed out.
You readers may ask, why didn’t Zhao Feiyan kill the Mongolian envoy Suoni when she gave the order so fiercely?
In fact, Yangjin had long been worried that Zhao Feiyan would act emotionally and overreact due to her youth. Last night, she and Wu Yuqi made a plan and specially selected several tall and mighty guards to guard the meeting room, just to use Zhao Feiyan to scare the Mongolian envoy.
Unexpectedly, Suo Ni was fooled and was caught by Zhao Feiyan and was dragged out to be beheaded, so it was easy to use.
This man only has one head, how can he be beheaded casually? Wu Yuqi had been waiting outside for a long time, and when the guards dragged the guy out, he told them to take his head for the time being.
Only then did Zhao Feiyan sober up completely, and gratefully pulled her sisters to have some wine, so that she could drink to her heart's content. The sisters knew that she was upset and needed to vent, so they quickly prepared wine and food, and the family set up a battlefield in the flower hall.
After a few rounds, Feiyan became confused.
Ma Linger said with a laugh that Feiyan would become the ruler of a country in the future, and we all had to help her.
Zhao Feiyan's eyes were blurry. She lay on the table, shaking her wine glass and asked why she had to be the leader?
Can't I be your sister or younger sister?
Why does it have to be her?
Yangjin smiled but said nothing, telling everyone to continue drinking. Hulan shouted for more wine, and everyone went back to their rooms to sleep after getting drunk.
When they woke up, the group of women found themselves squeezed into a big bed, laughing and teasing each other.
In Yingzhou in Huaibei, Zhao Yulin admitted his mistakes as soon as he entered the government office in Yu Street, and reviewed his own failure to judge people and supervise his subordinates well, which brought disgrace to the Shenwei Army.
Yu Jie was aware of the fact that his subordinate, Wang Yinlun, embezzled military pay and resold military supplies, but he still let him lead the troops out of consideration for their comrades-in-arms. After Jiangbei launched a major military reorganization, Wang Yinlun was worried that his scandal would be exposed and he would be punished, so he decided to mutiny and surrender to the enemy.
Cao Youliang angrily cursed: "Damn it, let's mobilize our brothers to go and kill these bastards."
Du Yuhou reported to him that this corps had just changed into the brand new uniforms of the Shenwei Army and immediately ran towards the Mongolian Army, so they must all be wiped out.
Otherwise, if this group of people wear our Shenwei Army's uniforms and run out to harm the people, the people will definitely blame their crimes on our Shenwei Army.
Yu Jie told him that troops were mobilized here to make siege arrangements, and the rebels were in Dachuan Town, northeast of Yingzhou. He wanted to personally lead his men to kill the lieutenant general Wang Yinlun.
Zhao Yulin waved his hand and said that Yujie didn't need to go up, he just needed to stay and command, and coordinate the troops. He and Youliang would do it, and the soldiers Youliang brought from Jiangnan would be used in this battle.
Because these rebels defected from Yu Jie's subordinates, if Yu Jie's original troops were used to suppress them, it would inevitably be difficult to carry out the operation due to the presence of relatives, acquaintances, and comrades-in-arms.
Yu Jie fully agreed with this, but he firmly disagreed with Zhao Yulin's request to go in person to persuade them to surrender and quell the rebellion, because the disaster was caused by him, so how could he let the third young master take the risk?
