Chapter 108 Peace Talk
"I remembered it wrong." Seeing that the other envoys had no intention of speaking, Wang Hu sighed slightly disappointedly and said, "Please forgive me."
"Haha, it's okay. Mr. Wang is busy with many things every day, and his memory may be biased, which is understandable." The official of Honglu Temple released his hand holding the sword from his waist and said with a smile: "My lords, envoys, please come."
Several Xuanyitang soldiers who followed the Honglu Temple officials walked up to the envoy, bent down and whispered: "Your Majesty the envoy, please."
The envoys looked at each other, smiled bitterly, walked out of their residence obediently, got on the carriage, and headed towards Honglu Temple.
After they left, Feng Yun Shang opened the curtain of the carriage, took a look, turned around and asked the Minister of Honglu Temple: "Isn't it not good to treat the envoys like this? It's a bit rude."
Honglu Temple Qing smiled. If it had been before, he would have thought that Fengyun Shang was questioning him. But this time, Xuanyitang indeed put himself in a position to strike, and Honglu Temple Qing believed it.
Feng Yun Shang’s words of learning.
He opened his mouth and said, "It doesn't matter. I am the knife and he is the fish. You can cut them how you want. Etiquette is only applicable to people of the same level."
Fengyun Shang was silent for a moment and said, "Thank you, sir, for your advice." Then he leaned forward a little, opened the front curtain and said to the coachman, "Let's go."
The carriage slowly headed towards Honglu Temple.
The Minister of Honglu Temple was not here, so when the delegation arrived at Honglu Temple, they just changed places and continued to wait. Their complaints were suppressed by the few soldiers wearing black cloaks around them.
"I need to go to the toilet." An envoy placed the water glass heavily on the table. The voice was loud at first, but after a glance, it became quieter and quieter.
"Take him there." A Honglu Temple official opened his eyes a little and said, "Other adults can come together if necessary."
Wang Hu put down the tea cup that had lost its tea flavor, stood up and said, "I'll go too."
The officials of Honglu Temple were a little surprised. This Wang Hu was specially assigned by the Minister of Honglu Temple to take care of him. How could he be so docile? It should be noted that there were many masters hiding around Honglu Temple, just waiting for the envoy to attack, so as to take the opportunity to seriously injure him.
Wang Hu is gone.
"Master Wang, please help yourself." The eyes of the Honglu Temple official from before were fully opened. After saying this with a smile, he whispered a few words in the ear of a young official next to him. The young official stood up.
left,
After a while, the minister of Honglu Temple and Fengyun Shangcai arrived belatedly. The minister of Honglu Temple stepped forward, bent down and said with a smile: "I have kept you all waiting for so long. I will first apologize to you all."
Then he turned to Feng Yun Shang and said, "This is our Feng Kingdom's deputy envoy for this peace negotiation, the leader of Xuanyitang." In fact, the envoys could probably guess it without his introduction.
The Feng Kingdom has a list of their envoys, and naturally they also have a list of the Feng Kingdom. The name of the leader of Xuanyitang is impressively ranked second.
"In that case, please envoys over there to move to the main hall and officially start negotiating peace." The leader of Honglu Temple smiled and made a gesture of invitation.
An older envoy smiled and said: "Don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, just wait a little."
The envoy naturally had to wait for Wang Hu and the two of them, so it wasn't that they were afraid of anything. It was just that during the peace talks, two of them were not present, which was hard to say.
Normally, they can be cowardly and it doesn't matter. But when the country's reputation is involved, they can't back down even half a step.
This time it was the envoy's turn to leave Honglu Temple in the dark. The minister of Honglu Temple smiled and said: "Since all the envoys still have something to do, it won't be too late to hold peace talks tomorrow."
"Nothing, nothing. We can have peace talks today." Wang Hu smiled and walked in from outside the palace, followed by another envoy, but the Honglu Temple official who led the way was nowhere to be seen.
"I wonder where the official of Honglu Temple is?" The deputy minister of Honglu Temple looked up at Wang Hu and said in a low voice: "Why didn't you come back together?"
"Officials of Honglu Temple? Aren't they all in the temple?" Wang Hu smiled and said with surprise: "Did anyone go out with us just now? No, this gentleman must have remembered it wrong."
The deputy minister of Honglu Temple said: "Oh? Really? Mr. Wang must have remembered it wrong."
"My lord, you have misremembered." Wang Hu took a step forward, stretched out his hand to hold the dagger at his waist, and the smile disappeared from his face, and said, "Why don't you think about it again, sir?"
The deputy minister of Honglu Temple snorted coldly, and was about to have an attack. But the minister of Honglu Temple suddenly said: "No matter what, peace talks are more important. You envoys should go to the main hall."
"Haha, Lord Honglu Temple is still sensible and has a good memory." Wang Hu laughed loudly, released his hand on the hilt of the sword, and said.
Fengyun Shang, who was standing behind Honglu Temple Minister, suddenly handed out a sword and stopped it three inches away from Wang Hu's throat. However, the magical power swallowed by the sword pierced Wang Hu's skin a little.
Swinging his sword to pull out the sword from Wang Hu's waist, Feng Yun Shang let go of the long sword in his hand, let it fall to the ground, and said, "You are entering the hall for peace talks, so it's better not to bring a weapon."
Wang Hu's face looked a little ugly. Being picked off his sword was naturally not a glorious thing, not to mention that he had already recognized Fengyun Shang as the person who shot him off the carriage that day.
"Haha, easy to say." Wang Hu sneered, picked up Fengyun Shang's sword and threw it back. Fengyun Shang caught the sword and handed it to the officials of Honglu Temple.
The envoys in the mission and other officials of Honglu Temple breathed a sigh of relief, and there should be no more trouble in the future.
Entering the main hall, after both parties sat down one by one, the minister of Honglu Temple said: "For this peace negotiation, our Feng Kingdom has only two conditions. One is that you must not give up an inch of the land you occupy. The other is that you need to compensate our Feng Kingdom.
The military expenditure is one billion taels of silver."
After finishing speaking, the minister of Honglu Temple picked up the tea cup in front of him and ignored the excitement of the envoys.
The envoys had already expected the unyielding conditions for the occupied land. After all, this was the habit of the Feng Kingdom. Although there was a county, in fact, they did not have much for each country. Not to mention those territories.
It has been changing hands between Feng Country and them all year round. It was lost today and brought back tomorrow. It doesn't hurt that it was taken over by Feng Country this time.
It's just a bit embarrassing, but isn't it just to save face that they brought Wang Hu here this time?
On the other hand, the compensation for the military expenditure was one billion taels of silver, which was somewhat beyond their expectations. This was like a lion's mouth. They raised the price on the ground and paid back the money. The envoy immediately reduced the military compensation to one hundred thousand taels of silver.
The Minister of Honglu Temple still bowed his head and drank tea without saying a word. Naturally, other officials of Honglu Temple were there to argue. He only needed to keep an eye on the envoy and Wang Hu in the mission.
At the end of the day, the mission agreed to the first condition, and the military compensation was increased to 50 million taels. However, there was still a big gap compared to the 800 million taels of silver from Fengguo Honglu Temple.
After dinner and a night's rest, the noise continued the next morning.
After much quarreling, the final military compensation was set at 100 million taels of silver, to be paid off in fifty years. However, everyone knew in their hearts that the peace between the two sides would never last as long as fifty years. When will the war start again?
, when will the compensation be considered over?
After the peace agreement was signed, it was time for the night banquet. Everyone gathered together to eat and drink. If anyone still had something to do, this was their last chance.
Fengyun Shang and Honglu Siqing, the two people who participated in the peace talks, will definitely go. Other officials at all levels can participate as they wish. After all, they are just small countries. If it were a medium-sized country equivalent to Feng Country or Kunlun
Thirty-six kingdoms, six ministers and some senior officials accompanied the whole process.
All procedures of the entire night banquet are in charge of the Etiquette Department, and Honglu Temple will only be responsible for eating and drinking tonight.
In the middle of eating and drinking, Wang Hu suddenly stood up and said, "I am very impressed by Feng Country's victory this time. I would like to find some masters from Feng Country to compete with each other."
The bowls and chopsticks in everyone's hands stopped. Only Feng Tianju stuffed a piece of vermicelli into his mouth, and then he smiled and said: "Wang Hu, I have heard of your name, and I have killed Jin Dan."
Wang Hu bowed his head humbly, smiled, and said, "I dare not trouble Your Majesty."
"You lost the land and paid the compensation, so you must be upset." Feng Tianju put down the chopsticks in his hand and said with a smile: "If you want to fight, then let's fight."
"But it's a festive day after all, so no blood."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wang Hu bowed down and bowed. He walked to the center of the hall and subconsciously touched his waist. He suddenly remembered that the dagger at his waist was put away when he entered the hall.
"I wonder if there is any master from the Feng Kingdom who can give me some advice." After Wang Hu finished speaking, no one was willing to fight with him for a long time.
In this situation, those above the Chengdan realm cannot take action, otherwise they will bully the small ones, and Feng Guo will not gain any face. No one at the Chengdan realm can defeat Wang Hu 100%, and I am worried that Feng Guo will lose face.
, dare not take action.
After waiting for a while, Feng Tianju picked up the wine glass in front of him, poured out the wine inside, and said: "Chief, I know you are also upset, so let's have a fight."
Chapter completed!