My Red Mansion Career

Chapter 173 Negotiations

The next day

When the sun rose, Jia Yu led five hundred people to face the rising sun and escort Wang Zhijie and other envoys to the preset tent outside the city.

Before arriving, Jia Yu had quietly used a drone and a thermal imager to survey the surrounding area. After confirming that there were no ambushes within dozens of kilometers, he escorted Wang Zhijie and his party there.

At the right time (eight o'clock in the morning), Tuotuo Buhua arrived.

This was the first time that Jia Yu saw the Mongolian Mobei Great Khan who had dominated Mobei for decades at close range.

Tan skin, long, rough black hair, prominent cheekbones, a big pie face with slender eyes, are typical Mongolian characteristics. Coupled with a strong figure and a muscular face, he has a It looks very aggressive.

Qinggeltai, standing next to him, looked thin and cold.

After the two sides met, everyone was looking at each other.

Tuo Tuo Bu Hua's eyes just glanced at Wang Zhijie and others, and finally fell on Jia Yu and never left. His eyes were almost on fire, and he uttered words word by word.

"Jia Yu!"

"Tuoduo Buhua." Jia Yu laughed, "You have sharp eyes, you actually recognized me at the first sight."

"Of course, I can recognize you even if you turn into ashes." Tuotuo Buhua said coldly, "How many of our Mongolian warriors died tragically at your hands during this period. I will remember this account."

Jia Yu smiled faintly: "On the battlefield, swords and guns are silent. Either you kill me or I kill you.

Is it possible that the Great Khan is only allowed to slaughter my people in Daxia, but Jia is not allowed to kill the Mongols? There's no such thing as this in the world, right? "

"It doesn't make sense, but you ruined Ben Khan's good deeds and frustrated Ben Khan's years of planning. Do you think you should die?"

"Then there's nothing we can do." Jia Yu shrugged: "But my country is full of talented people. Even if there is no Jia, there will be others to deal with you. Doesn't the Great Khan not know this?"

"Profusely sweat...be careful what you say." Qing Geertai on the side reminded him in a low voice in Tuotuo Buhua's ear.

He was also a little strange in his heart. His great Khan was usually very dignified. Why did he lose his composure after meeting this Jia Yu?

In fact, Tuo Tuo Bu Hua doesn’t understand what’s going on?

How could he be just a reckless man if he could lead the Chahar tribe to develop and grow to this day?

What's more, on the battlefield, swords and guns are silent. He knows better than anyone else why you will die or I will live.

But he didn't know what was going on. As soon as he saw Jia Yu, Tuo Tuo Bu Hua felt an unknown fire welling up in his heart.

It was as if the other party had taken away the most important thing in his life. The feeling made him want to take out the scimitar from his waist and cut him into pieces to eliminate the anger in his heart.

This may be some kind of telepathy in the dark. Some people can like each other as soon as they meet, but some people will get bored as soon as they meet. Some people even regard them as enemies. Tuotuo Buhua and Jia Yu It should belong to the latter.

Taking a deep breath, Tuotuo Buhua forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, turned to look at Wang Zhijie, who was standing aside and looking at him thoughtfully, and said: "You must be the envoy sent by the Great Xia Dynasty. Are you the leader here?"

Wang Zhijie stroked his beard and said: "I, Wang Zhijie, came here to negotiate with you on the order of my emperor. I can be considered the one who can make the decision!"

“Hmph… you Han people are just hypocritical.

If it is, it is, if it is not, it is not, so let’s just say it is. " Tuotuo Buhua responded unceremoniously.

Then he strode into the tent.

The faces of the group of people behind Wang Zhijie showed anger. This Tao Tuo Bao Hua was too arrogant. He didn't take them seriously at all.

On the contrary, Wang Zhijie waved his hand to signal everyone to calm down, and then walked into the tent.

The rest of the delegation, Jia Yu, Qinggertai and other negotiators also entered the tent, leaving only the guards they brought to guard outside the tent.

This is a tent with an area of ​​more than [-] square meters, more than enough to accommodate dozens of people. There is a long table in the center of the tent with wooden pillars on both sides.

After both parties entered the tent, they came to sit on both sides.

Tuotuo Buhua was the first to speak. He stared at Wang Zhijie and said, "Master Wang, since you are the one who can make the decision, I will tell you straight to the point.

If you want us to withdraw our troops, you can, but you Daxia must compensate us.

You must compensate us with two hundred thousand shi of grain, a thousand carts of tea bricks, a thousand carts of salt, five thousand bolts of cloth, and one million taels of silver as conditions for our withdrawal.

Of course, there is also the most critical condition, which is to return to me the Ketun that was snatched away by you a few days ago, otherwise I will fight you to the death! "

The people in the mission exploded when they heard this.

Mo Mengsong, the Minister of Rites, took offense to the case: "You bastard...it's obvious that you lost the battle, but you didn't think about how to make amends, and you actually dared to take the opportunity to blackmail me. How is that possible?"

"The truth?" Tuotuo Buhua sneered: "Is Ben Khan's scimitar the truth?

If you don't give it to me, I will send someone to get it myself!

With the help of Mongolian cavalry, where can Khan go in the huge Central Plains? "

"Can I go anywhere?" Wang Zhijie said leisurely: "Then please Khan, go to Shenjing City for a walk now and see if I, Daxia, am afraid of you."

"Uh……"

Tuo Tuo Bu Hua stammered for a moment, then snorted softly: "Don't be complacent. This is just a temporary defeat. After a while, I will regroup and fight against Shenjing, but I won't be so easy to talk to." .”

"Everyone will say harsh things, but whether you can do it or not is the most important thing."

As soon as the two sides sat down, they immediately began to bicker and argue with each other.

"I will also tell you about my conditions in Daxia."

Wang Zhijie also put forward conditions: “All Mongols must withdraw from our territory in Daxia and return to the status quo of three months ago.

Moreover, your department is the first to invade our territory this time, and all losses must be compensated by you.

You must also compensate us with [-] cattle and sheep each, [-] uncastrated horses, [-] sheep and cow hides each, and two million taels of silver..."

"Don't even think about it!"

Before Wang Zhijie finished speaking, Tuo Tuo Bu Hua almost jumped up.

"Impossible...absolutely impossible..."

"The descendants of the great Genghis Khan will never accept such humiliating conditions!" As soon as Wang Zhijie finished speaking, the tent immediately began to boil.

Not only did they take off their clothes, almost all the high-level Mongolian officials and tribal leaders jumped up, glaring at the envoys with a pair of eyes as if they were selecting people to eat. Some of them even had a bad temper and even pulled out the scimitars from their waists. The deputy staged a full martial arts posture.

The actions of the Mongolian side also surprised everyone. No one expected that the reaction of the Tuotuo Buhua side would be so violent.

Almost all the people in the mission were civil servants. They had never seen such a scene. Many people turned pale with fright on the spot, and began to secretly curse Jia Yu for having such a bad idea. If it hadn't been for him, how could these Mongolian Tatars be so mad? .

Although Wang Zhijie was not as helpless as those people, he was secretly wondering whether he had lost his mind and actually listened to Jia Yu's words and used such harsh conditions to anger the Mongolian Tatars.

Seeing the excited group of Mongolians, these civil servants didn't know what to do for a while.

Jia Yu sighed secretly and stood up slowly.

He reached out and slapped the table, making a snapping sound, which instantly attracted everyone's attention.

I saw a sarcastic look on his face: "It seems that both of us are not very satisfied with the conditions proposed by each other. I have an idea.

Let's stop negotiating. Let's all go back and gather our armies to fight again, gong to gong and drum to drum.

What do you think about the losing party fully accepting the other party’s conditions? "

As soon as these words came out, those representatives from the Mongolian side who had been clamoring for action just now were all speechless.

"How about...my method is fair, right?"

Jia Yu glanced at Totu Bohua and the Mongolian nobles behind him, "If I remember correctly, you still have an army of [-]. The total number of all of us is just over [-]. Speaking of which, you are taking advantage. .

Do you dare to assemble the entire army for a big fight now... The loser is not allowed to retreat until the last person is killed! "

Jia Yu's voice echoed in the tent, but all the Mongolians looked unhappy.

Others don't know, don't they know how difficult the pervert in front of them is?

A few days ago, when Totuo Buhua personally led an army to attack the city, in less than an hour, they lost more than [-] warriors and almost all the returning artillery. The power of their firearms is evident.

Now that the army of their court has arrived, if there is another fight when the numbers of both sides are about the same, even a fool will understand who will lose and who will win.

Seeing the collective loss of speech on the Mongolian side, Wang Zhijie suddenly remembered what Jia Yu said yesterday: Reason has never existed for those barbarians. If they suddenly reason with us, it must be because they are forced to do so.

Wang Zhijie, who came to his senses, slowly spoke out: "If I remember correctly, our side has the upper hand in this battle so far, right?

If Tuo Tuo Bu Hua Khan thinks that what he said is wrong, we can do as Mr. Jia Yu said, and the two sides can square off and fight again until the winner is decided before discussing the issue.

If the Great Khan thinks that Jia Yu is right, then I would like to ask, from ancient times to the present, who has won a battle and still compensated the losing side with silver and grain?

There's no such thing as this in the world, right? "

Now it was his turn to take off his claws, and he could only glance to the side with his eyes.

Qinggeltai understood, stood up and said loudly: "Master Wang, we admit that you have indeed had the upper hand these days.

But this does not mean that we have been completely defeated and allowed to be slaughtered by you. We, the Great Khan, just sympathized with the many warriors on both sides who had been killed and injured, so we proposed a ceasefire to the court of Daxia.

But this does not mean that you can freely open your mouth and blackmail us!

In return, two million taels of silver, one hundred thousand cattle and sheep, fifty thousand war horses, and countless cattle and sheep skins. Do you know what this means?

This means that countless herdsmen on the grassland will freeze to death and starve to death because of your greed. Don’t you claim to be a country of benevolence and righteousness, and this is what you do? "

Looking at Qinggeertai who was talking and trying to condemn them from the moral high ground, Wang Zhijie just smiled indifferently: "You can tell a thousand words, don't forget that it was you who started the war first, and now I, Daxia Defeated.

We want some compensation, shouldn’t it? "

Qinggeltai looked embarrassed, but then smiled again: "But what you want is no longer compensation, but the death of our clan.

Two million taels of silver, where are we going to get so much silver? Besides, we don’t have that much of the cattle, sheep, sheepskins, and war horses you want. How can we give them to you? "

"We didn't tell you to deliver it all at once." Seeing Qing Geertai's actions, Wang Zhijie became more confident in Jia Yu's words yesterday, "You can choose to deliver it in several times.

For example, five or ten years are acceptable, and you only need to pay a little interest.

We in Daxia have always been generous to others and will not push you to a dead end. "

"hiss……"

Jia Yu on the side took a breath of cold air.

He felt that he had definitely underestimated the old man named Wang. He only proposed the concept of installment payment, but this guy actually proposed to ask the other party to pay interest without any knowledge.

Black... really damn black.

Could it be that this old man had a background in loan sharking?

Jia Yu knows very well how powerful the word "interest" is. With such operations as compounding interest and adding interest, these Mongolians may not be able to finish it in a hundred years.

However, Qinggeltai was not a fool. Although he did not understand the power of loan sharking, he was sensitively aware that he must not be led by the other party, otherwise the negotiation would be lost.

"We will never agree to your conditions."

Qinggeltai said firmly: "I admit, we did lose this time.

But this does not mean that you can blackmail us. At worst, we will retreat to the grassland first.

Let's rest and recuperate for a few years before regrouping, and then we can compete again. "

Hearing this, Wang Zhijie and others all frowned.

The most difficult thing about the nomads is that even if they fail in their southern invasion, they can retreat to the grasslands to lick their wounds.

It will come back again in ten or twenty years. The Han people are a farming nation, and the cost of conquering the grasslands is too high for them to afford.

This resulted in the fact that a few years ago, the nomads could continue to move south and invade the borders, while the Han people could only stick to the Central Plains.

When the Han Dynasty was strong, there was no need to fear the nomads. But once the Han Dynasty fell, the nomads would pounce on them like hyenas. This was the case in all dynasties.

"That's the old almanac you're talking about." At this time, a voice suddenly came from the side.

Everyone turned around and saw that it was our Master Jia again.

(End of this chapter)