"you!"
When Liu Wenjing saw this, she was so angry that she pointed her finger at Wang Renze and said, "Why is your Majesty acting so viciously?"
Wang Renze laughed loudly, "For no reason, I just can't stand that old dog Li Yuan!"
No matter how well-educated Liu Wenjing is, she is really angry at this moment, "You are so courageous, little thief, and so uncultivated. Sooner or later, I will cut you into pieces!"
Wang Renze's eyes flashed with a fierce light, "Why wait until the future, I'll kill you now!" He pulled out his saber and stepped forward.
"You two adults, please stop!"
The Sui Dynasty official who was in charge of entertaining at the post house rushed forward in a hurry, got sandwiched between the two groups, and whispered: "Both of you are guests from afar. If anything happens, I can't afford it." ah!"
Wang Renze lowered his head and thought for a moment, then he snorted coldly and walked out minding his own business.
Seeing Wang Renze walking away, Liu Wenjing hurriedly asked the person in charge of the post house: "Your Majesty, do you know who he is?"
"Mr. Liu, this..." the person in charge looked confused.
Liu Wenjing immediately took out two ingots of gold from her waist and said with a smile: "It's a trivial matter, not a sign of respect!"
The official calmly put the gold into his sleeve and whispered: "Master Liu, to be honest, the person just now was the envoy of Wang Shichong of Luoyang, his nephew Wang Renze."
"It turns out to be Wang Renze!"
Liu Wenjing nodded calmly and walked quickly towards his room, but did not notice that the person in charge of the post house behind him suddenly had a smile on his lips.
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In the room, Liu Wenjing wrote furiously, quickly finished the letter, put it in an envelope and sealed it, summoned his personal attendant Xiao Si, and whispered: "Immediately take this letter to Jinyong City and hand it to me personally. Li Mi, King of Wei."
Na Xiaosi has followed Liu Wenjing for many years, and he has some ideas under his influence. He immediately asked: "Master, although you and King Wei have a deep friendship, after all, each is his own master, so be careful to tell the truth!"
Liu Wenjing glared at Xiao Si and said, "What do you know, kid? Li Mi's survival is of no harm to Datang. The longer he delays in the Central Plains, the more certain we will be in the decisive battle with the Sui Dynasty in the future." I am not doing this for personal reasons, but for the great cause of the country!"
"I understand, little man!" Xiaosi agreed and hurriedly walked out.
The Sui soldiers who were watching near the post house discovered that Xiao Si, who was beside Liu Wenjing, left the post house at night and headed north, and immediately reported it to Yang Gao.
After hearing the report from the surveillance personnel outside the post house, Yang Gao smiled slightly and said: "It seems that the messenger to Li Mi has already set off. This Liu Wenjing is of little value. It's time to negotiate with him and give Li Yuan a hard blow!"
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Three days later, under Yang Gao's instruction, Xiao Yu pretended to be extremely reluctant to meet with Liu Wenjing and began to negotiate the peace talks between the Sui and Tang Dynasties to release Prince Li Jiancheng and Prime Minister Pei Ji.
In the meeting hall, Liu Wenjing, the newly appointed deputy peace envoy Feng Shaoshi, Xiao Yu and his deputy Yushi Huang Zheng sat in their seats facing each other.
Master Feng is Li Yuan's son-in-law, and he is a minister of the Ministry of Rites. He just arrived in Jiangdu two days ago. Li Yuan also knew that Feng Deyi, the deputy envoy, would not live long, so he had already identified the next deputy peace envoy. When news of Feng Deyi's death reached Chang'an, Li Yuan immediately ordered Master Feng to set off for Jiangdu.
However, Yang Lin's arrest of Feng Deyi at the city gate still made Li Yuan embarrassed, so while sending Master Feng, he secretly warned him that he must get this face back no matter what.
Because of Li Yuan's instruction and the fact that Master Feng had just married Li Yuan's daughter Princess Changsha half a year ago, he had always lived a high and aloof life, so Master Feng also arrogantly said to Xiao Yu at this moment: "Master Xiao, our master The Tang Dynasty may have had some misunderstandings with your country recently, and I hope your country can release our Crown Prince and Prime Minister Pei as soon as possible. Otherwise, once I, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, become angry, the consequences will be disastrous!"
Xiao Yu looked at Master Feng as if he were an idiot, and forced out a smile, "Feng Consort, there is no problem in letting the crown prince and prime minister of your country back, but if you want to let them back unconditionally, Feng Consort, don't you think so?" It’s a little too casual!”
"Yes, that's true!'
Master Feng nodded pretendingly, picked up the tea cup on the table, took a sip, and said slowly: "I don't know what your country's conditions are. Let's talk about it!"
Xiao Yu gave his deputy Huang Zheng a wink. Huang Zheng understood, picked up a report in his hand and read aloud: "My Majesty has formulated the following three requirements for this meeting. First, three hundred thousand stones of grain and grass, and one hundred thousand taels of gold. Second, one hundred thousand war horses. . Third, Li Yuan immediately resigned from the throne, changed his name to King of Tang, became a minister and paid tribute, and served the court every year. As long as your country does the above three things, our court will immediately surrender Li Jiancheng and Pei Ji with both hands, and promise never to invade Guanzhong!"
"boom!"
After hearing the conditions read out by Huang Zheng, Master Feng immediately slapped the table, stood up, glared at Xiao Yu and Huang Zheng, gritted his teeth and said, "You two adults are just daydreaming. I'll wait for such insincere conditions." How can you agree!"
Xiao Yu looked at the angry Master Feng and smiled without saying a word. Liu Wenjing, who was sitting next to Master Feng, shook her head helplessly.
Since ancient times, in negotiations, no matter what the situation is, the lion must first ask for a price, so that one party can still obtain the maximum benefit after one party negotiates to lower the price. Otherwise, if your bottom line is exposed as soon as you start talking, why bother negotiating at all?
Although Liu Wenjing thought so in her heart, due to Master Feng's status, it was difficult to accuse him, so she could only cough twice and said lightly: "My lords, the three conditions just now are really too harsh. We are determined not to agree to it, so why not Sir, please think again!"
Xiao Yu smiled slightly, "Then I wonder what conditions Mr. Liu thinks are reasonable?"
Liu Wenjing also smiled slightly and said: "Of the three conditions of your country, I will not talk about the third one. Everyone knows that this is absolutely impossible. The first one is that your country's asking price is too high. I think fifty thousand stones of food and grass , 10,000 taels of gold is more reasonable. As for the second point, to be honest, our dynasty also has few war horses, and it is true that we cannot produce 100,000 war horses. In my opinion, how about 5,000 war horses?"
Xiao Yu laughed and said: "Master Liu is really an expert in negotiation. Our terms were suppressed by Master Liu more than ten times. How can anything be so cheap in the world!"
Liu Wenjing smiled knowingly, "Then please ask Mr. Xiao to raise the price!"
