Chapter 740 – Yunzhou’s Conditions (I)

Song Tingfeng did not change his color and said indifferently:

“This is the capital, not Yunzhou, if Your Excellency wants to sue, go ahead.

“If you really dare to do that, I still admire you as a person, if you don’t dare, you are a goon without a soft egg.”

He pressed the knife with one hand, his expression untamed.

It wasn’t intimidated by Ji Yuan in the slightest.

Is this a rash ……… Xu Yuanxiang was surprised to scrutinize Song Tingfeng, according to the current situation, the Emperor of Dafeng and the princes can t wait to negotiate peace and stop the war.

The entire Dafeng high-level were supervisor “perished” event scared out of their wits, at this juncture, dare not be afraid of Yunzhou mission, and so tough, either rash, or have a backer.

But even with the dynastic eunuchs as his backers, I’m afraid that if he angers Brother Jiu, he won’t be able to protect him.

“Unbridled!”

Ji Yuan didn’t open his mouth, but the Yunzhou officials behind him became enraged and pointed at Song Tingfeng to reprimand him:

“How many heads do you have to chop off if you dare to talk to the Ninth Prince like that?”

“Insulting the messenger of peace talks in public can land you in jail for that offense alone.”

“Crude martial artists who don’t know what they’re doing.”

Ji Yuan “snapped” opened the folding fan, scrutinized Song Tingfeng, smiled:

“Oh, it looks like there’s a backer, tell me about it.

“My lord would like to know who instructed you to lurk at the stagecoach station, trying to sabotage the peace talks and plotting against you.”

A big hat is said to be deducted, if Song Tingfeng has an average backer behind him, or no backer at all, this accusation from the Yunzhou Mission alone could get him imprisoned and questioned.

Of the group of night watchmen guarding the post, this was the one who dared to look at him with hostile eyes with impunity, and Ji Yuan had noticed him when he checked in yesterday.

Although Ji Yuan did not go so far as to take the initiative to give a silver gong a downward spiral, he could not allow him to act recklessly under his nose.

Xu Yuanfang frowned and glanced at the sky:

“Ninth Brother, let’s go, the hour is almost up.”

A scarlet-robed old man behind Ji Yuan laughed:

“A few words, it’s not a big deal, besides, there’s a reason for this, isn’t there? If the Dafeng court asks, we’ll just tell the truth.”

This is both to make things difficult for this little silver gong, deliberately arriving late, but also can give the court officials heart pressure.

A light sentence was blocked back, and Xu Yuanfang did not speak.

Song Tingfeng sneered, maintaining his stance of pressing the hilt of his sword with one hand, looking disdainfully at the crowd.

Neither put up a hard word nor gave in.

“Pop!”

Ji Yuan gathered his folding fan and glanced at Song Tingfeng, not wasting too much time on this little person.

He had the leverage in his hand to make Emperor Dafeng submit, and a small silver gong in the district could be dealt with however he wanted.

Looking at the back of the crowd leaving the post, Song Tingfeng turned his head and spat out a mouthful of saliva.

“Chief, you were awesome back there.”

A few gongs on guard duty nearby came over, full of admiration.

“But chief, won’t you get in trouble for that?”

One gong expressed concern.

With the well-informedness of the night watchmen, they were aware of the attitude of His Majesty and the princes; Qingzhou was lost, the treasury was empty, and even the Supervisor, a divine figure, died in battle in Qingzhou.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that if the fight goes on like this, the court will definitely be finished.

It would certainly be best if we could refrain from fighting, and so negotiating peace became the light of day in the eyes of the princes and His Majesty.

It was irrational for Head Song to offend the Yunzhou Mission at this juncture.

Song Tingfeng sneered:

“What did I tell you guys before?

“Xu Ning Banquet was brought up by me, and now that he’s soaring, he still has to call out to me as Brother Song when he sees me, so for this little matter, do I need to be afraid.

“What the hell Yunzhou mission, as soon as it enters the capital, it flaunts its power and fools around. If this was back then, when I was still in Yunzhou, with Xu Ningyan and Zhu Guangxiao two little old brothers, without saying a word, directly a knife clicked him.”

Newly recruited a few gongs will be skeptical, although the head of the Song has been advocating that he and Xu Yinluo is a hardcore friendship, they privately find other seniors to seek confirmation, also said that Xu Yinluo and the head of the Song, as well as Zhu Yinluo close to.

But we all know that Chief Song likes to brag, and there must be an element of exaggeration in it.

For example, Chief Song often says:

“Xu Ningyan this person, a hobby, a day not to go to the hook bar on the body, especially like to go on duty. I and Zhu Guangxiao so decent people, said not to go not go, to patrol the streets. But hard to be pulled by him to go to the hook bar. You want to ask me why I have to go on duty, of course, because he has to go to the Church Department in the evening to whore floating incense girl, no time to go to the hook bar.”

This is not a joke, the whole capital knows that Xu Yinluo in the Church Department to sleep with the flower girl are not paid.

He’s not interested in a mere hooker?

That’s why the tongluos only believed Song Tingfeng’s words three times.

…………

On the other hand, the Golden Palace.

The deliberations in front of the temple had already ended, and Emperor Yongxing pressed down his agitation and glanced at Zhao Xuanzhen, the eunuch in charge of the seal, without moving.

The latter understood and raised his voice:

“Declare an audience with the Yunzhou Mission!”

Quietly waiting for half a teacup of effort, outside the temple door is quiet, no movement.

“Declare an audience with the Cloud State Mission.”

Still no movement.

Zhao Xuanzhen glanced at the stony-faced emperor, his forehead suddenly sweating slightly as he turned and bowed towards the imperial throne, walking briskly out of the hall from the left side to find out what was going on.

In a short time, trotting back, he came to the imperial throne and whispered:

“Your Majesty, the Yunzhou delegation has not yet entered the palace.”

Emperor Yongxing’s face sank as he gave him a cold look.

Zhao Xuanzhen didn’t explain, but only gently said:

“It has been sent for.”

Yongxing Emperor retracted his sight and faintly said:

“Wait a quarter of an hour more.”

“Yes!” Zhao Xuanzhen answered in a low voice.

Although all the officials in the hall did not hear the conversation between the king and his servants, they could guess what the situation was, it was just that the Yunzhou delegation “came late” and missed the time.

The princes were all experienced in great storms and did not move, but secretly assessed up in their hearts.

The leader of the Yunzhou legion was a young man named Ji Yuan, who called himself the Ninth Prince, the ninth son of the Subterranean City’s lineage of city lords.

In terms of lineage, it belongs to the Daebung clan.

This Ninth Prince’s style of behavior was already known in the hearts of all the dukes, sharp, domineering and strong.

Luckily, not a quarter of an hour later, Ji Yuan and his group stepped into the Golden Palace under the leadership of the eunuchs.

The princes turned around and gazed at the young man who stepped into the hall.

He wore a moonlight-white Chinese dress, embroidered with exquisite cloud patterns, his sleeves hanging down naturally, his waist ring pendant jingling, and his features were handsome, his skin was extremely good.

Behind him was a pair of teenage girls with a few similarities in appearance, one aloof and the other cool.

Further back, of the six old men in official robes, two wore scarlet robes embroidered with clouded geese, and four wore green robes embroidered with white pheasants and herons.

The official robes on them undoubtedly pricked the sensitive hearts of Emperor Yongxing and the princes, the district is a cloud state, the envoys are wearing proper official robes, how many meanings?

“Envoy Ji Yuan of Yunzhou, meet Your Majesty.”

Ji Yuan wore a smile and bowed slightly, with his own air of nobility and quietness.

Yongxing Emperor nodded his head a little, his voice loud and calm:

“Lord Ji came to the capital to negotiate peace on behalf of Yunzhou, and I gave you the utmost courtesy, yet you came late.

“Is this the sincerity of Yunzhou’s peace negotiations?”

With a serious expression, he looked out of the corner of his eye at His Highness’s Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan was not the least bit flustered and smiled as he bowed:

“It was not really my intention, but before I left today, I was made difficult and abused by a silver gong at the post station, and I was delayed for some time.

“This official came with sincerity, I didn’t expect that a mere Yinluo would dare to browbeat and verbally abuse this official, Ji Yuan dares to ask Your Majesty, is this the sincerity of the Da Feng peace talks?”

Xu Yuanfang and Xu Yuanhuai listening to the side, the siblings know Ji Yuan’s eloquence, not to mention a quarter of an hour late, or even an hour late, he can make the reasoning clear.

Make yourself reasonable by being unreasonable.

No, it was a counter-attack, and at the same time, in front of the Emperor and the princes, it put a cap on that unknowing silver gong.

If the Yongxing Emperor did not deal with it, it would be to sit on the intention of neglecting and making things difficult, leaving a handle.

As expected, Emperor Yongxing frowned and pondered for a moment, saying:

“Who is the one who has been unruly and abusive to the Ji envoys?”

Ji Yuan replied in a calm tone:

“The silver gong Sung Ting Fung.”

Emperor Yongxing went over the name in his head and had no impression of it, his first thought was that that unknowing Yin Gong, who might have someone behind him, was instructed to sabotage the peace talks.

Disposing of a silver gong naturally does not require hesitation, he was about to give his word, at this time, the left imperial historian Liu Hong stood out and said:

“Your Majesty, there must be a misunderstanding here.”

An official in scarlet robes behind Ji Yuan retorted:

“Does this lord mean that our Lord Ji is making things up?”

Liu Hong ignored it and continued:

“Song Yinluo was loyal and righteous, fighting alongside Xu Qi’an when he fought against the rebels in Yunzhou, and then experienced repeated successes, and was Xu Qi’an’s right-hand man when he served as Yinluo. He would not deliberately insult or make things difficult for the Yunzhou mission.

“There must be a reason for this, I ask Your Majesty to investigate thoroughly.”

Yongxing Emperor said lightly, “What Liu Aiqing said is very true, I will find out the situation and give an explanation to Ji Envoy.”

Check what? No need to check!

Liu Hong’s words made it clear that the silver gong surnamed Song was Xu Qi An’s man.

With such a big backer behind you, as long as you don’t kill or set fire to the wrongdoers, you can basically rest easy.

Yongxing emperor naturally will not because of this small matter must be with Xu Qi’an bad, back to send someone to admonish that silver gong, and then transfer him back to the night watchman Yamen is also.

Ji Yuan froze and suddenly realized why that guy dared to be so reckless.

It turns out that the back is against the first martial artist of the Daebung.

“Then thank you, Your Majesty.”

He took it as it came and didn’t bite.

Obviously, the little emperor would not offend Xu Qi’an because of this small matter, and he would only be making a fool of himself by holding onto it.

The six officials who accompanied the audience were stunned and looked at each other, no wonder the district was so arrogant and domineering as a silver gong.

The heart is still dissatisfied, but today’s negotiation of peace is a big matter, so do not bother with that small person.

After some small talk and bullshit, Ji Yuan said in a loud voice:

“Since the beginning of winter, my Yunzhou and Dafeng have been at war for two months, resulting in the suffering of the people and the destruction of lives, as well as the deaths and injuries of generals on both sides. This official was ordered to arrive at the capital to negotiate peace, and was honored by the great justice of His Majesty and all the princes, who agreed to peace talks ………”

The specific process of the peace talks is to set the main tone, and then the Honglu Temple is responsible for the negotiations, to confirm some of the minutiae, if the matter is particularly significant, then the Ministry of Rites should also be involved.

In the process, the daily negotiation process must also be given to the Emperor for overlooking.

The final result will also have to be discussed between the emperor and the princes before it can be finalized.

Today, the “keynote” has been set, and the framework for negotiations has been put in place.

Ji Yuan finished his long speech and said:

“My Yunzhou army is so powerful that it has already occupied Qingzhou, and the Dafeng Supervisor was martyred half a month ago. However, my father is kind-hearted and cannot bear to see the people face another military disaster, so he is willing to negotiate peace with the Dafeng, who needs to agree to our four conditions.”

The Subterranean City Lord had long since claimed the title of Emperor in the Cloud State.

Father …….. Supervisor falls …….. Yongxing Emperor swept over behind Ji Yuan, the several Yunzhou officials wearing official robes, took a deep breath, and said:

“Envoy Ji please.”

Ji Yuan said:

“First, the Dafeng will pay an annual tribute of 500,000 taels of silver in annual currency and 600,000 pieces of silk to Yunzhou, to take effect immediately after the conclusion of the peace talks, and this official will first bring back this year’s annual tribute.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the Minister of the Household jumped out and rebuked:

“Yellow mouth, open eyes.

“Five hundred thousand taels of silver? Six hundred thousand pieces of silk? You’re not afraid that the wind will blow your tongue.”

There is a reason for the Secretary of the Household to jump, and this money is nothing in times of peace and prosperity.

But now the treasury is empty, in order to maintain the functioning of the court, military expenditure, would have been struggling to support, and even the money and food to provide relief to the victims are not.

To take away half a million taels of silver at once, Yunzhou does not even need to fight, just sit and wait for the court to collapse.

This is not peacemaking, this is harboring evil intentions to force Da Bong to die.

The Minister of the Household was afraid that Emperor Yongxing did not understand the “economy” and hastily agreed to it, so he jumped out first to start spraying.

Ji Yuan “snapped” unfolded his folding fan and shook his head:

“The land of the Central Plains is rich, a mere half a million taels is nothing.”

His eyes snapped up and he said:

“Could it be that the court has been unable to take out even half a million taels of silver?”

The Minister of the Household’s heart flinched and coldly grunted:

“I, Da Feng, am a strong nation, how can you, a yellow-haired child, speculate.”

Ji Yuan pressed:

“Oh, in that case, it means that the Da Bong has no intention of negotiating peace.”

This son has sharp teeth ……… The eunuchs frowned darkly.