Seeing Yelu Guanyinnu's angry face, as if you had lied to my daughter, Cao Bin took a leisurely sip of tea, nodded and said:
"The eldest princess is right, but the rules of my Cao family are different."
"Just like my wife Du, the first day she came into my house, she gave me her body."
"Now she has to hand over half of her own business to the government to subsidize the expenses of my residence."
Yelu Guanyin Nu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and asked coldly:
"What do you mean by that?"
Cao Bin smiled and said:
"It means that as a woman of this rank, Qing Lian has to pay to support me!"
Yelu Guanyin Nu heard this and almost choked on her tea. She stared at Cao Bin in disbelief and said:
"You are so shameless..."
Cao Bin immediately became serious and said:
"This is the ancestral rule of my Cao family. Please respect it, eldest princess."
Yelu Guanyin Nu was immediately furious, and there was no one else who could say so confidently about eating soft food.
If the ancestors of the Cao family knew that this bastard had framed them at will, I wonder if they would be so angry that they would jump out of their ancestral graves to argue with him.
The women of the Cao family are a bit pitiful...
Cao Bin didn't care what she thought. If Chang Qinglian came to ask, he might not be too stingy.
But he won't get used to it when it comes to his mother-in-law.
Five hundred thousand guan is not a small amount, and it is for official business, so only a fool would take advantage of it...
Seeing that Cao Bin was so shameless and shameless, Yelu Guanyin slave couldn't help but tremble a few times with the cinnabar on his eyebrows, and said coldly:
"How are you doing?"
Cao Bin said thoughtfully:
"Don't worry, eldest princess, I have already thought about it for you, and I will never embarrass you."
"We, the Song Dynasty, can provide the Liao Kingdom with more than one million taels of low-interest money in the form of loans."
"The princess's supplies will be deducted from this one million yuan, and we can easily discuss loans in the future..."
If the Sui coins were directly abolished, not to mention that the Liao Kingdom would not agree, even the Song Dynasty court would not be relieved.
It's not that they are being mean and insist on giving money, but after giving money, if there is no huge temptation, the Liao Kingdom will not easily harass and invade in order to keep the coins.
That's why Cao Bin proposed such a compromise buffer method.
Moreover, apart from the useful war horses, the seized materials and the soldiers and armors were all in Liao style, which Cao Bin was not unfamiliar with.
It's better to let her redeem it with money.
When Yelu Guanyin Nu heard this, he stood up suddenly and said in disbelief:
"You actually want to cancel the annual coins?"
At first, she thought Cao Bin was going to give in, but she didn't expect that his negotiation ambitions would be so great.
Even if they give money, the Song Dynasty can quickly earn it back through trade. If it turns into borrowing money, aren't the resources of the Liao Kingdom waiting to be plundered by the Song Dynasty?
Although she had never studied economics, she could not accept the apparent loss and did not dare to accept it.
"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"
"Even if I agree to your conditions, my imperial brother and the Daliao court will not agree!"
As she spoke, she stared at Cao Bin carefully and said:
"I have no interest in continuing to trouble you. Please give me a sincere answer."
Cao Bin took a sip of tea and said:
"Why are you so anxious, princess? Why don't you ask His Majesty the Liao Emperor for his opinion, or think about it carefully."
Yelu Guanyin Nujue said:
"I don't need to ask or think about it. This kind of condition is absolutely impossible."
Cao Bin put down his teacup nonchalantly and said:
"I still say the same thing, please think carefully, princess..."
Seeing his scoundrel appearance, Yelu Guanyin slave refused to give in and immediately broke his guard:
"Are you delaying time on purpose?"
"In this case, there is no way for me to negotiate with you."
"I will ask the Emperor of the Song Dynasty directly."
With that said, he was about to leave the camp and return to Bianjing, not caring about the supplies that Cao Bin had detained.
She felt that Cao Bin did not understand negotiation at all, and the conditions he proposed were not the bottom line of the Song Dynasty court.
The Song Kingdom must be replaced. This bastard is too difficult to deal with. He is not afraid of war with the Liao Kingdom at all, and he does not even care about the crisis of the Song Dynasty court itself...
In her opinion, with Cao Bin's bastard character, even if the Zhao family of the Song Dynasty fell, he would not surrender to the Liao Kingdom.
Cao Bin saw her leaving the camp angrily and didn't care.
He believed that he had not pushed Yelu Guanyin slave to the limit.
Little did he know that she actually had the idea of substituting someone else.
However, this request is a bit rude. The emperor will definitely not change people until the conflict cannot be reconciled.
Although the Song Dynasty was a little afraid of the Liao Dynasty, it was not to the point of abandoning its martial arts.
In the blink of an eye, three days have passed.
Good news came from the south. Quzhou and Wuzhou were easily captured by Lu and Guan, and Muzhou City had also been cleared.
At this point, except for the 20,000 troops trapped in Wulong Ridge, Fang La has been basically wiped out.
Seeing that there was only one last chance to make a meritorious service, Ma Xuanzan of Chou County quickly went out to ask for orders:
"Master Hou, I would like to lead Jingxiang troops to capture Wulong Ridge, capture the stone treasures, and offer them to my tent!"
Quzhou and Wuzhou already didn't have much strength, so Guan Sheng and Lu Junyi only brought 10,000 horses south, and the remaining 10,000 were temporarily handed over to Commander Xuan Zan and obeyed Cao Bin's dispatch.
But based on his ability, he is still far behind Shi Bao.
After all, he was one of the four marshals under Fang La. He had extraordinary military skills. In the original work of Water Margin, he defeated Song Jiang several times and killed several leaders. Even Suo Chao, who had the strength of the Five Tigers, was killed by him with one blow.
Cao Bin shook his head and said:
"Don't worry about him. You only need to be stationed in Muzhou City. As long as you block Shi Bao's way out, it will be considered a great achievement for you."
Twenty thousand young men were trapped in the mountains. Even if Shi Bao had great abilities, he would still have to turn into a savage.
Since there is a way to win without fighting, why bother fighting with him?
When Xuan Zan heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and quickly accepted the order.
At this time, the magistrate of Hangzhou asked:
"Master Hou, now that there are 300,000 people gathered in Muzhou, is it time to send them back to their place of origin?"
Cao Bin glanced at him and said:
"They have no food. Should they be sent back to their hometown to die? Take them back to Hangzhou!"
Those prefectures and counties had been conquered by Fang La, and they no longer had imperial institutions, and were waiting for the imperial court to appoint new officials.
If too many people starve to death, Cao Bin, as the official in charge of military affairs in Jiangnan, will definitely not be able to escape his responsibility, so he should rely on Hangzhou first.
When the Hangzhou magistrate heard this, his face suddenly turned bitter.
Lu Junyi had already taken in hundreds of thousands of prisoners, but now he had to take another 300,000. Hangzhou was in big trouble.
On the same day, Cao Bin ordered his soldiers to escort the people back to Hangzhou.
In the following ten days, in addition to supervising the search for Manichaean remnants in various places, people were also ordered to continuously clean up believers among the refugees to eliminate hidden dangers.
On this day, when Cao Bin was planning to build weaving workshops to absorb some refugee women, Shi Qian suddenly came to report:
"Master Marquis, Pang Wanchun sent someone to report that Fang La and others plan to sneak into Hangzhou City and look for opportunities to assassinate you."
When Cao Bin released Pang Wanchun and other members of the White Lotus Society, he had already instructed them to go to sea and develop.
I also guessed that Fang La would bow his head and give up, temporarily give up the conflict with the White Lotus Society, and merge with it. After all, the teachings of the White Lotus Society have many similarities with Manichaeism.
If he honestly left the Song Dynasty, Cao Bin had no intention of pursuing him to the death.
Unexpectedly, he came to die on his own initiative, so Cao Bin was rude...
So he asked: "What are their specific plans?"
Shi Qian chuckled and said:
"The eldest princess of the Liao Kingdom gave them an idea, asking Fang Jinzhi to use a beauty trick to seduce the Marquis..."
Cao Bin was speechless.
After all, Yelu Guanyin slave got mixed up with Manichaeism and came up with such a bad idea.
