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Chapter 1588 Testing each other

"Your Majesty wants to sign an agreement with the Empire and the Church. If Your Majesty is willing, I can help you make the connection."

Baldwin IV looked at Sun Lei and said that he knew that he, as a king, was not qualified to negotiate with the Eastern power, but he could contact the Empire and the Vatican.

"Let's talk about it later. I can't stay here for long. How about letting your Pope and Emperor go to the East?"

Sun Lei looked at Baldwin IV and asked.

"Your Majesty, are you going back?"

Baldwin IV looked at Sun Lei and asked, he couldn't let the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and the Pope of the Roman Church go to the East, but if Sun Lei was willing to leave, perhaps the war would not break out.

"Of course I have to go back. This place is very desolate. If it wasn't for my first westward expedition, I would have come here to take a look. I wouldn't have wanted to come to this godforsaken place."

Sun Lei looked at Baldwin IV and said that as an emperor, it was inappropriate for him to leave the Central Plains for so long, so of course he wanted to go back as soon as possible.

"So that's it!"

Baldwin IV was delighted, thinking that everything would be fine as long as Sun Lei left.

"Well, I will leave, but the army will stay here and build a city and manage the place! This is already the territory of my Qi State!"

Sun Lei looked at Baldwin IV and spoke. He knew what this guy was thinking. He thought that the war would end as long as he left, but he never had the idea of ​​putting his weapons into storage and releasing his horses to the Blue Mountains.

"The army stays!"

Baldwin IV's voice was a little hoarse. If the Qi army did not leave, the war would most likely continue.

"Your Majesty, I will send someone to inform the Holy See and the Empire and ask them to send envoys to discuss the affairs of the two countries immediately!"

Baldwin IV saw Sun Lei's nonchalant smile and immediately spoke.

"Then hurry up. I don't have much time. If I go back, you can go to the East. I will leave all the matters here to the garrison. I won't care about anything they do!"

Sun Lei reminded Baldwin IV.

Baldwin IV stood up, bowed, and left.

"Your Majesty, if you really want to go to war with them, it's already inconvenient to fight at such a long distance. If the war expands in scale, I'm afraid it will be more trouble than it's worth!"

Hu Sanniang looked at Sun Lei and spoke. As a military general, she also participated in this battle. She also experienced the hardships along the way personally. No other dynasty could withstand such a war. Only Qi State could do it.

"You're soft-hearted!"

Sun Lei looked at Hu Sanniang and asked.

"I just think it's too risky to continue fighting!"

Hu Sanniang said that there had never been an expedition of this scale before. Not only was she nervous, but everyone in the army was also nervous, but no one dared to say it, so she said it out loud.

"If you are kind to the enemy today, they will not be kind to us tomorrow! Of course, this is impossible in the short term! But what about fifty years later, a hundred years later, two hundred years later, five hundred years later?"

"Look at those people. They are ignorant and stupid. But can you underestimate them? The Khitans started out as a small tribe, but didn't they eventually unify the grasslands?"

"The Jin Kingdom is just a bunch of idiots hunting and fishing in the mountains, but they directly destroyed the Liao Kingdom. If it weren't for me, the Central Plains might belong to the Jin Kingdom now!"

Sun Lei looked at Hu Sanniang and spoke.

"Your Majesty, are you saying that these people may also become powerful?"

Hu Sanniang reacted quickly and made a guess.

"Anything is possible. If we don't kill them now, we will leave trouble for future generations! Then our sons and grandsons will have a headache!"

Sun Lei nodded. "Then kill them!"

Hu Sanniang said with a murderous look on her face. She was also a military general, and killing people was just a common thing for her. Killing one person was killing, and killing ten thousand people was also killing. Killing any number of foreigners was no different from slaughtering sheep and cattle.

"That's right, this is what we call husband and wife following each other. I am the Great Demon King, and you are the Lord Demon King!"

Sun Lei smiled and pulled Hu Sanniang into his arms, causing Hu Sanniang to scream. Although she was bold, she did not dare to do so in broad daylight, not to mention that there were many female soldiers from the women's barracks around her. She would be laughed to death when she returned.

"What are you afraid of? We are a legal couple. I don't want anyone to gossip about us!"

Sun Lei said nonchalantly that it was natural for him to be close to his wife.

Baldwin IV, who had not walked far, heard the noise, turned around and saw Sun Lei being intimate with the princess.

"This...how can this be possible!"

Baldwin IV was shocked. He had seen many lustful kings and nobles, but he had never seen one so bold.

"Your Majesty, this emperor seems to be nothing more than a lecher. To deal with such a person...all you need is a beautiful woman..."

An official whispered to Baldwin IV with a lewd look on his face.

"Beauty!"

Baldwin IV's eyes lit up. He was very good at this trick. He succeeded to the throne of King of Jerusalem at the age of thirteen. At that time, the small Jerusalem was coveted by various forces, and the nobles all wanted to seize the throne.

At that time, Baldwin IV used a very simple method. He married several of his sisters to the most powerful nobles. He quickly won the hearts of the people through marriage and stabilized Jerusalem.

"But can the emperor really be seduced by women?"

Baldwin IV was a little hesitant. Although the idea was good, there was no man in the world who was not lustful. But from his contact with Sun Lei in the past two days, Sun Lei was definitely not a simple man. He might not be seduced by women.

"Your Majesty, that depends on the woman. Look, this guy is so promiscuous in broad daylight. If she's beautiful enough, can he hold back?"

Several officials immediately said with lewd smiles.

"Okay, let's start looking for beauties when we get back!"

Baldwin IV immediately spoke up, saying that he had found Sun Lei's weakness and had gained a lot today.

When Baldwin IV returned to the camp, he saw a group of dizzy generals washing their faces with cold water outside.

"His Majesty!"

William looked at Baldwin IV somewhat embarrassedly. He got drunk yesterday and really lost face.

"Teacher, did you gain anything?"

Baldwin IV shook his head, looked at William and said that he had asked William to go out for a drink yesterday, and he also asked William to go out to gather intelligence.

"Yes, we know the specific situation in the East. The Eastern Qi State is 100,000 miles away in the East. We can reach it by crossing the Western Liao Dynasty, crossing the Pamir Mountains, and passing through the Western Regions. The Central Plains is the richest in the world, with a population of over 100 million. The capital is big enough for 3 million people, and there are millions of soldiers in the Central Plains..."

William spoke to Baldwin IV.

"What... Is this the Central Plains or the Kingdom of Heaven..."

Baldwin IV said that if it was as William described, it would not be an exaggeration to call it heaven.

"I don't think it's credible! There is no such place in the world. Those people must be bragging!"

A noble immediately said, how could there be such a good place in the world.