When Ying Wu's urgent and secret message was delivered to Xijing City, Song Jue was receiving the messenger sent by Wan Yanping in Taichong Hall.
The purpose of the messenger was still to ask for help. This time Wanyanping learned the lesson wisely. Instead of delivering a letter asking for help to the emperor like the previous times, she sent her closest bodyguard as a messenger to Xijing to meet the Emperor of Great Xia. Your Majesty, please personally explain your request to His Majesty the Emperor of Daxia.
In order to express her sincerity, Wanyanping even asked the messenger to bring a gift list. She told the messenger that once Daxia agreed to her request, then this gift list would be a reward for Daxia. If Daxia had other All requests, as long as they are not particularly excessive, will be granted. Even if the other party wants several cities, there is no problem.
Wan Yanping had a good idea. After this chaos, Jin, Xia, and Liao all needed to recuperate, but one day, the war between the three kingdoms would restart, and the city ceded to Daxia might be One day they will return to their Kingdom of Jin, and they will even ask Daxia and Liao to compensate them. Therefore, it doesn't matter much if you endure the humiliation for a while.
The messenger fully understood what Wan Yanping meant, and with Wan Yanping's instructions and expectations, after many twists and turns, he quietly arrived in Xijing of Daxia, found the envoy of Daxia stationed in Xijing, and conveyed part of Wanyanping's meaning to the envoy. .
Although the envoy was helpless, because it was Wan Yanping's request, he couldn't say anything. He could only try his best to successfully bring the messenger into the palace and introduce him to Song Jue.
After meeting Song Jue in Taichong Palace and explaining his purpose, the envoy hurriedly resigned to Song Jue. He was afraid that if he stayed for a moment longer, his life would be in danger. The next moment he would be angered and push out of the palace with the envoy. As if asking questions.
He ran out of the palace as if running for his life and walked to a relatively safe place. The envoy turned around and looked around, sighing softly.
Having lived in Xijing for a long time, away from the strange circle of Yiqing Prefecture, I have become extremely clear-headed. I can understand people and things that I couldn't understand before, and I can figure out problems that I couldn't figure out before.
Daxia...or rather Song Jue himself and the ministers around him, their disgust and hatred for Wanyan Ping are obvious. Although the envoy is not sure where this disgust and hatred comes from, But his intuition told him that it was most likely to be closely related to the case at the Wuding Hou Mansion many years ago. How sensational that case was in Xijing, he still has fresh memories of it. What kind of role Wan Yanping played in that case? Although he is not in Yiqing Prefecture, he can more or less deduce it from his friends' letters. come out.
There is such a deep hatred between each other, and Wanyanping still has the wishful thinking that Daxia will lend a helping hand to help her defeat those rebellious nobles. It is really too fanciful. If the Song family, Xue family, and Shen family were not at this time, they would have added insult to injury. It’s about being kind to others.
The envoy turned around and shook his head helplessly. That messenger may wish himself well. Although the two countries are at war and will not kill the envoy, the temperament and temperament of the people around Wanyanping will be more or less similar to hers. Once you have angered Song Jue, don't blame him for killing him so that this noble messenger will never come back.
But the special envoy never expected that while he was feeling compassion for others, the Tai Chong Palace would be a happy scene.
"The guilty minister, Ah Liang, has met your Majesty. Long live your Majesty!"
"Get up!"
Song Jue raised his hand towards Ah Liang, who was kneeling on the ground to salute, and lightly knocked on the table. Three people came out from behind the throne's screen.
Seeing these three people, Ah Liang quickly saluted again.
"I have seen the Duke, the General, and the Commander-in-Chief!"
Shen Cha walked up to Ah Liang, looked her up and down, and patted her shoulder gently.
"It's been hard work for so many years."
"I don't have to suffer, this is what I should do." Ah Liang shook his head, took out a gift list from his arms, and handed it to Shen Cha respectfully. "My subordinate's visit to Beijing this time is the same thing as before. Wanyanping wants to ask Daxia to send troops to help suppress the rebellious nobles."
"This is..." Shen Cha opened it and looked at it, frowning slightly, "Is this a reward for us?"
"Remuneration?" Bai Meng came over to take a look curiously, and curled his lips in disgust, "This is not sincere enough. You want to bribe us and work for her, but... are you willing to pay this little? She thinks too highly of us. Do you still look down on us too much?"
"Commander, this is the limit." Ah Liang sighed, "Wanyanping's family wealth is actually not as evil as the rumors outside. Over the years, she has spent a lot of real money on raising soldiers. Wanyan Zongcheng plundered She had spent almost all the good things she had, and it was already very difficult to keep them. However, before she came down, she also said that if Daxia wanted to put forward other conditions, as long as she did not If it’s particularly difficult, just agree to it.”
"Isn't it particularly difficult?" Shen Cha looked at the gift list and sneered, "If I ask her to cede all the eighteen cities bordering Daxia to Daxia, will she agree?"
"As long as it's not the one hundred and thirty cities and counties surrounding Yiqing Prefecture, anything else is fine."
"Oh, it's such a big deal. Did you spend a lot of money?" Song Jue looked at Ah Liang, then at Shen Haolin and the other two, and then focused on Ah Liang. "I don't think that I can make a comeback one day. Take back eighteen cities, and ask Daxia to pay for thirty-six more, right?"
"Your Majesty is wise,"
"Wan Yanping's heart is known to everyone on the road, let alone us who have been dealing with each other for so many years!" Song Jue sneered, "What's the situation like over there? She has already asked for help. You can imagine that it is very difficult. "
"It's particularly difficult. Your Majesty, the Duke, the general, and the commander-in-chief are in Xijing. They can't imagine what the Yiqing Mansion is like now." Seeing Song Jue let him sit down, Ah Liang complained, and the rules Sitting down properly, "The moment the sinner returned to Daxia, he really felt what ice and fire were. The prosperity of Daxia formed a sharp contrast with the Jin Kingdom at this moment."
"The floods, snowstorms, plagues at the end of last year, and the current rebellion..." Shen Haolin sighed softly, "The people of the Jin Kingdom are indeed living in dire straits. The big nobles only care about fighting for power and profit, and don't care about ordinary people. life and death."
"As a result, not only the common people's life is very difficult now, but these big nobles are not much better off either." A Liang shook his head, "Yiqing Prefecture has been besieging the city for some time. Not to mention anything else, the lack of food supply is a problem. It’s a very serious problem. If the current situation doesn’t get better before summer begins, and this confrontation doesn’t end completely, the great nobles and Wanyan Ping will starve to death without us taking action.”
