Emperor Phoenix Policy: Feng Qingtian

Chapter 455 I Knew You Couldn't Help It

In the past, even if Ah Jin woke up first, she would continue to nestle in his arms and wait for him to wake up, but now, when she wakes up first, she sneaks to see the child and leaves him alone, without worrying that he will Will be cranky.

Seeing Wuming's expression, Feng Jin finally came to his senses, Wuming is competing with the child to be jealous?no?This is too unbelievable!

Feng Jin stared wide-eyed, looking up and down at Wuming, Wuming was confused by her look, "A Jin, what are you looking at?"

"Wu Ming, are you jealous with Yao'er?"

Wuming blushed first, then said stiffly, "Why? No way?"

"Yes, of course! It's just Wuming, why are you jealous with a newborn child? He doesn't understand anything, even if you argue with him..."

"I don't want him to understand, I only want you to understand."

While talking, Yao'er started to cry for some reason, Feng Jin wanted to go to the child impatiently, but Wuming dragged her back, "Don't go! The child will be watched by the nanny and Aunt Zhong, so he won't be hungry or cold."

He originally thought that Feng Jin would definitely make a fuss, but Feng Jin's dark eyes rolled and he said obediently, "Well then, I won't go, I'll listen to you!"

Seeing that Ajin's heart was still leaning towards her, Wuming immediately became happy, but within a few seconds of being happy, hearing the child's aggrieved cry, Wuming couldn't sit still for a while, and tentatively said, "Why are you always Crying? Are you feeling unwell? Do you want to let the imperial doctor take a look?"

"It's okay, the child will be well taken care of with the nanny and so many palace people watching over him."

Feng Jin said calmly, with an expression of indifference, Wuming pursed her lips, and looked in the direction of the child worriedly, "You're still crying, is there something wrong?"

"It will be fine, there is a nanny..."

Before the words finished, Wuming had already blown past Feng Jin like a gust of wind, walked over in three steps at a time, hugged the child from Aunt Zhong's arms, and coaxed her in a low voice.

Feng Jin burst out laughing, and Wuming finally came to his senses, his face flushed slightly, and he smiled embarrassingly, Feng Jin walked over, and kissed his forehead affectionately, "I know you can't help it!"

Wuming looked a little uncomfortable, smiled, but said nothing, he held the child carefully, coaxed him softly, Feng Yao slowly stopped crying in his arms, and opened his round, black and bright grapes Looking at him with the same eyes, the nameless heart almost melted.

Feng Jin sat on the side, looked at Wuming who was holding Feng Yao and didn't let go, and joked, "Now, I should be fighting for favor with Yao'er, right?"

Wuming just laughed and didn't refute.

Of course, he can't take care of the child all the time, Feng Jin is going to confinement, and he has to deal with state affairs.

Negotiations with Prince Saya were reselected, and it was the third day after Feng Jin gave birth to Feng Yao.

The negotiation did not take place at the Golden Luan Hall, but at the Chongwen Hall.

The five volumes of Yipin Shangshu are all there, as well as Mr. Deng, the censor Ling of Yushitai.

Wuming didn't want to waste too much time on this matter, he just wanted to settle it once and go back to accompany Ah Jin and Yao'er, but Prince Saye obviously didn't want to settle it all at once, he wanted to drag it out to see if he could get some benefits back.

The officials of Dazhou sat on the left, and Prince Saye and his envoys sat on the right.

Master Liu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, took the lead, "After the discussion between the emperor and the court, if the Huns want to negotiate a peace, it is fine, as long as they agree to the three conditions of Dazhou."

The envoy of the Huns immediately jumped out, "Didn't you say two conditions? Ceding the northern border and paying tribute every year, why has it changed?"

Master Liu calmly said, "My lord, don't be in a hurry, first listen to what Da Zhou's three conditions are."

The envoy looked at Prince Saye, and Prince Saye nodded slightly, "Master Liu, please speak."

"One, the Xiongnu completely ceded the northern border to the Great Zhou Dynasty. Second, the Huns pay tribute every year. The list of tribute will be presented to His Royal Highness later. Three—"

Master Liu paused, Prince Saya and the envoy stared at Master Liu's lips without blinking.

"Three, if the Great Zhou goes to war with the neighboring small countries, the Xiongnu must fully support the Great Zhou."

"Da Zhou is taking advantage of...while..."

The envoy was impatient and couldn't remember the idioms of Da Zhou, so Wu Qingshan kindly answered, "Take advantage of the fire to rob."

The envoy felt a little embarrassed, and glared at Wu Qingshan. Wu Qingshan was aggrieved by the stare. He saw that he couldn't say anything, it was just kindness, and he didn't mock him.

"Da Zhou is taking advantage of the fire to rob, and he didn't mention this at all before!"

Prince Saya glanced at the enraged envoy, who had no choice but to sit back, his face full of displeasure.

Saye looked at Wuming on the dragon chair, "It's not that the Huns can't agree to this one, but there is a condition."

The envoys of the Huns looked at Saya in astonishment, not understanding why he agreed.

Wuming had no expression on his face, "Say!"

"There is a saying in the Great Zhou that reciprocity is courtesy. If the Huns go to war with others, the Great Zhou must also fully support the Huns. This is a necessary condition for the Huns to agree to this."

The audience was silent, and the Xiongnu envoys looked at the officials of the Great Zhou triumphantly.

"This condition is not accepted."

In order to distinguish it from Feng Jin, Dijun calls himself Gu, which is also a kind of name that the emperor calls himself.

Prince Saya's face was very ugly, "So, this is Da Zhou's unilateral condition for the Huns?"

Wuming raised his thick black and cold eyebrows, and admitted frankly, "Yes."

Prince Saya's face turned black, and the envoy who sat down couldn't help but jumped up, "You guys are simply bullying, bullying..."

"Too deceiving."

Wu Qingshan kindly answered another sentence, the envoy's dark face, the muscles twitched lightly, he didn't bother to stare at Wu Qingshan, and said angrily, "It's really bullying! Don't think that we Huns are easy to bully! , I tell you..."

"If you think Da Zhou is too deceitful, then so be it."

Wuming said coolly, "It was you who asked for peace, not the Great Zhou. Besides, the Huns have always been wolves, and the Great Zhou has always been sheep. They regard themselves as a state of etiquette, but now, I don't want to be a sheep anymore! Negotiations are such a thing , the one who has the upper hand, the one with more chips will overwhelm the weaker ones, and the one with few chips will fight, so could it be that you think that you will feel pity for the lonely ones, and you will be lenient?"

"If Her Majesty hadn't been pregnant, I would have come back before she gave birth, I would have continued to fight and wiped out your Huns!"

The hall was quiet, not only the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty were silent, but even the envoys of the Huns were silent.

No one dared to come out and accuse Wuming of being too arrogant, just because he did have the ability to make the Huns exterminate.

Why not exterminate the genocide?Firstly, too many innocent Xiongnu people need to be massacred; secondly, it will make the surrounding small countries feel cold, which will cause them to join hands to fight against the Great Zhou; thirdly, the people of the Great Zhou have always been educated in Confucianism. The doctrine of the golden mean, loyalty and benevolence, such a matter of destroying a whole family will be criticized by people all over the world.

The massacre of the Xiongnu royal family was already the limit. After all, those royal families uttered obscenities towards the Dazhou royal family and the empress, which also aroused the righteous indignation of the Dazhou people, but it would be wrong to slaughter ordinary Huns!

Therefore, although Wuming has the ability to exterminate the clan, he will not do so.

After an unknown amount of time, Prince Saya sighed, "Your Majesty, this third article was not included in the original discussion, can it be removed?"

"can!"

Prince Saya's eyes lit up, Wuming glanced at him coldly, "As long as you agree to the first two!"

Ceded northern Xinjiang and the annual tribute?
Prince Saya felt very bad in his heart. If it was just these two items, the Emperor of the Great Zhou would not have caused such trouble.

Wuming glanced at Liu Shangshu, "Give him the list."

When Saye took the list and saw the details on it, his face changed a little bit.

The first one, the cession of northern Xinjiang was not just about the icy and barren northern border, but also the Qilian grassland bordering on the northern border, which was the most fertile grassland for the Xiongnu.

The second item is to pay tribute every year. On top of the list submitted by Saye, the list returned by Da Zhou is fully doubled. This is the limit that the Huns can bear.

Da Zhou is not negotiating, but is trying to force the Huns to death. With such a heavy annual tribute, the Huns have no way to raise soldiers, let alone his lifetime, even if it takes a hundred years, he will not be able to recover.

Da Zhou was really talented, and he knew exactly how many cattle, sheep, horses, and gems the Xiongnu could provide each year, and he firmly grasped the lifeline of the Xiongnu.

With slightly trembling hands, Prince Saya slowly closed the list, his expression kept changing, and finally fell silent, "Sorry, Your Majesty, the king cannot agree to Da Zhou's conditions!"

He raised his head and looked straight into Wuming's eyes, "Da Zhou wants to start a war, so go ahead!"

(End of this chapter)