North Korea sent envoys to negotiate with Tiger Flag again, so naturally they would not send them out immediately.
The King of Joseon and a group of ministers negotiated a bottom line based on the three conditions proposed by the tiger-character flag, and then handed it over to Park Judge of Li Cao and Da Si Xian of the Si Xian Mansion, asking the two to follow the bottom line with the tiger. with word flag people negotiating.
For the King of Joseon, even if the first two conditions proposed by the Tiger Flag were appropriately relaxed, he could not agree to the Tiger Flag's request to station troops on Ganghwa Island. The most he could do was to allow the Tiger Flag to continue garrisoning troops on Jeju Island.
At the request of the King of Joseon, after setting such a bottom line, Park Bang-soo and Dae Si-heon were asked to return to Wangjing with some of Ye Cao's personnel the next day.
Park Sanshu and Dae Sixian were political enemies in court, but they naturally disliked each other privately. Neither of them paid attention to the other, and they rode in their own carriages.
Because the King of Korea had to wait for the outcome of the negotiations, he simply stayed in the village and did not continue to Pyongyang.
Park Sanshu and Dae Sixian quickly returned to Wangjing.
In terms of rank, Liu Cao's judgment is higher than that of Da Si Xian of Si Xian Mansion. Naturally, the negotiating team is led by Park Banshu, with Da Si Xian as his deputy.
The team arrived at Wangjing and were stopped at the city gate.
The entire Wangjing fell into the hands of the Tiger Flag, and the city gates were guarded by soldiers of the Tiger Flag.
"You will be stopped even if you return to your own royal capital, Park Banshu, don't you feel ashamed when you see this?" Da Si Xian took the opportunity to ridicule Park Banshu who was standing beside him.
Park Judge glanced at him coldly and said, "If you hadn't held back and delivered the things they wanted earlier, things like this wouldn't have happened today."
"Hmph, it's an unreasonable request in itself. It's impossible for North Korea to agree to it." Da Si Xian snorted coldly.
Park Sanshu sneered: "It is precisely because of your refusal that North Korea will lose more things. Now the other party has proposed to station troops on Ganghwa Island. I want to see how you can persuade them to give up this condition. "
"The king has promised to give them more money and food. As long as the other party is not stupid, they will never refuse such benefits." Da Si Xian retorted.
"I hope it's as you think." Park Judge stopped him from arguing with the other party at the gate of the city.
And he had a hunch that of the three conditions proposed by the Tiger Flag, the condition of garrisoning troops on Ganghwa Island was probably the key.
Because the gate of the city was guarded by people with tiger-character flags, neither of them dared to call tiger thief. Even when communicating in Korean, neither of them dared to mention these two words.
Most of them, the high-ranking officials and aristocrats of North Korea, understand Chinese. There is no guarantee that there are people in the Tiger Flag who understand Korean.
Neither of them wanted to have any accidents in the end because of their unbridled words.
Looking at the familiar Wangjing City Gate in front of them, the two people did not dare to break through forcefully and waited patiently at the city gate.
After a while, a man finally came out of the city and said a few words to the tiger-character flag soldiers guarding the city gate before leading the North Korean envoys into the city.
The two men were taken to the Joseon Palace.
This made both people's faces look very ugly.
The Royal Palace of Joseon is the symbol of the King of Joseon, but now it is occupied by the people of the Tiger Flag, which makes the two Korean courtiers feel very uncomfortable.
However, Zheng Chao didn't care about this.
Since we have captured Wang Jing, we naturally want to live in the best place, and the best place in Wang Jing is the palace and the residences of the ministers.
Even so, the Joseon Palace was not as good as the Daiwang Palace he had visited in Datong.
Zheng Chao met with Park Bangshu and Daesixian in the main hall where the King of Joseon held meetings.
He sat on the seat at the top, but it was not the seat of the King of Korea. There was a chair next to him.
This made Park Sanshu and Dae Sixian feel a lot better when they saw it. They felt that the people in the Tiger Flag still respected their King of Joseon, otherwise they would not leave the throne and not sit on it.
Fortunately, Zheng Chao didn't know what the two of them were thinking, otherwise he would have scoffed at them.
He did not sit on the seat of the King of Korea, not because he respected the King of Korea, but because he knew that no one else was qualified to sit on this big chair except his lord Liu Heng.
He is alone overseas and doesn't want to be criticized for such a trivial matter.
"Come here, please seat the two North Korean envoys." Zheng Chao took the initiative.
Soldiers on the side brought two embroidered embroidery pillars and came up, placing them behind Pu Yanshu and Da Sixian respectively.
The two of them sat down without any courtesy at all.
And in the hearts of the two people, this was originally their North Korean palace, and they were the masters here.
"Since you two are here, it means that the king of North Korea must have given you an explanation. Let's talk about it! Don't waste time, be direct." Zheng Chao looked at the two people in front of him and asked straight to the point.
Upon hearing this, Da Si Xian frowned subconsciously, feeling that Zheng Chao was vulgar and not at all like the envoy from the Kingdom of Heaven that he had known before.
On the other hand, Pu Banshu, because he had several contacts with Zheng Chao and knew his way of doing things better, said directly: "Your three conditions, the first two are that we hope that the money and food can be less. The lives of the North Korean people have also been poor in recent years. It’s not easy, and it’s very difficult to come up with so much money and food in a short period of time. As for the third condition, such an unreasonable condition as garrisoning troops on Ganghwa Island, my king will never agree to it, and it is impossible to cede Ganghwa Island to you.”
"Since we don't agree, there's nothing to talk about. Get ready for war! No farewell." Zheng Chao raised his hand to say goodbye.
And his actions directly dumbfounded Park Judge and Dae Sixian.
How can you drive people away without even talking about negotiations?
Park Sanshu said hurriedly: "We haven't talked about it yet? There is a saying in Ming Dynasty that you can ask for a high price and pay it back. You can also talk about your own conditions."
"Yes, yes, tell me your conditions." Da Si Xian said from the side.
He can still clearly distinguish between internal conflicts and external conflicts. At this time, he will naturally not undermine his own people. If the negotiation fails, it will not do him any good.
Zheng Chao tilted his neck slightly and said: "Have I already told you the conditions? None of the three conditions are negotiable. Of course, if you still want to negotiate ten days later, the first two conditions will be doubled."
"Why will it double after ten days?" Da Sixian looked puzzled.
Zheng Chao said to him: "The army lives in Wangjing and consumes money and food every day. These expenses will naturally be paid by you. Of course, if you don't want to negotiate, you don't need to pay the money and food. We only need the battlefield." See you above."
"If we really want to start a war, do you think we will be afraid of you?" Da Sixian glared at Zheng Chao.
Hearing this, Zheng Chao chuckled lightly and said, "Then let's start the war."
"You can't say that. A war would be the worst thing for your tiger-character flag." Park Manshu was unwilling to start a war with the tiger-character flag, but he showed no sign of weakness in his momentum, and his tone even contained a hint of threat.
(End of chapter)
