ebookslot Chapter 148: The Negotiations Begin
Chapter 148: The Negotiations Begin
Honghe Temple.
After the news that the Xiongnu broke through the Yanmen Pass last night, it spread throughout the entire capital in just a few hours.
On this day, I do not know how many people were awakened at midnight.
For such a big event, it is completely impossible to block the news.
Early this morning, many officials of Honglu Temple were waiting for Lu Qi's arrival in the temple.
"This is too bad. The Yanmen Pass was breached and King Zhenbei died in battle. Is it possible that what happened five thousand years ago will happen again?"
"Oh, that day we should jointly impeach Jing Anbo. He offended the envoys of the Huns, but today he wants me to take the blame. Damn it."
"Everyone, I have been rude to the envoys of the Huns recently, and I will make amends later, and don't be implicated by Bo Jing'an."
While waiting, many officials whispered, their mouths were full of complaints and regrets.
After waiting for about an hour, Lu Qi didn't come, but the Huns' envoys arrived first instead.
Today, the envoys of the Huns have behaved in the past few days, and everyone in 07 is arrogant, wishing to look at people directly with their nostrils.
There's no way, it's not just Prince Xiongnu and Princess Lingyu who have been aggrieved in the past few days.
Although the negotiation process was terrible, the princes and princesses of the Xiongnu could see it without seeing it, but they, the officials in charge of specific matters, could not.
Every day, one or two Hun envoys were carried away from the negotiating table in anger.
Today I can finally show off my prestige.
"Your Majesty has seen the prince, it's been a kilometer!
As soon as they saw the envoys of the Huns coming in, many officials of Honglu Temple immediately saluted with flattering smiles.
The Hun prince snorted coldly with disdain: "Hmph."
He has always looked down upon such flatterers.
The officials of Song Dynasty have no backbone at all.
The prince's indifferent and arrogant attitude did not arouse the dissatisfaction of the officials of Honglu Temple, but the flattery on his face was more obvious.
They came up one by one in turn and began to ask the Hun princes and princesses how they were doing, probably not caring so much about their own father.
Perhaps it was because he was tired of being asked, the prince of the Xiongnu pushed away the people surrounding him, walked to the upper seat in the house, sat down carelessly, then put his feet on the negotiation table, and said proudly: "You What about that Uncle Jing An? Why, could it be that he is afraid of the king and dare not come?"
The sarcasm in his tone was unabashed.
"His Royal Highness, please wait a moment, Bo Jing'an will be here soon." The Honglu Temple official replied hastily.
"Hmph, what a big show. This prince has come, but he hasn't arrived yet. It's really rude of you to come here." Prince Xiongnu frowned.
"It's because I waited wrong, please calm down, Your Highness." All the officials nodded and bowed again.
"Come here, why are you still standing there, serve tea to His Royal Highness."
Immediately afterwards, the tribute tea was served, and then the Honglu Temple prepared the best cakes for the Huns envoys.
Two officials even surrounded the Hun prince and beat his legs and shoulders.
In this way, the Hun prince was barely appeased.
Finally, about half an hour later, Lu Qi arrived late.
Walking into the house, you can see many officials of Honglu Temple surrounding the Xiongnu prince and them, constantly showing courteousness.
Lu Qi didn't say anything, just walked in with big strides.
"Your Highness, Boss Jing'an is here." The man who was beating the leg of Prince Xiongnu saw Lu Qi first, and said in surprise.
The tone was even a little gloating, with an expression on his face that he was ready to watch a good show.
After all, when the Xiongnu envoys came to Beijing, Lu Qi's actions not only frightened them, but also frightened many officials of Honglu Temple.
Almost all the officials of Honglu Temple were complaining about Lu Qi in their hearts. If he hadn't been so arrogant that day, the matter would never have reached the point it is today.
Not only that, but many officials were already impeaching Lu Qi during the early court today.
They shifted the responsibility for the failure of Yanmen Pass to Lu Qi, and made it clear that Lu Qi must be responsible for this matter.
Of course, Lu Qi doesn't know this yet.
After seeing Lu Qi coming in, the Xiongnu prince continued to enjoy the service of the officials of Honglu Temple without raising his eyes.
In this regard, Lu Qi did not say anything.
In his eyes, the prince of the Huns is already a dead man, and the condemned prisoner will not let him have a good meal before execution.
"Since Bo Jing'an has arrived, let's start the negotiation." At this moment, Princess Lingyu said.
Upon hearing this, the ten officials of Honglu Temple nodded quickly.
Hurry up and talk, as long as the talk is completed, this group of ancestors can be sent away, and they don't have to be tortured.
Lu Qi randomly found a place to sit down, and then said softly: "Then let's talk with him, let's talk about your conditions first.
After a few days, both parties actually lost patience with the negotiation matters.
So without saying any polite words, a group of Xiongnu officials headed by Princess Lingyu began to put forward their conditions.
"First, Da Song must give us an additional compensation of one billion taels of silver, and demand that the annual payment of old coins be increased to 20 million taels.
As soon as the first condition came out, even the officials of Honglu Temple had been prepared in their hearts, and they were taken aback.
This item alone is twice as high as the conditions they proposed in the previous negotiations, which is simply a lion's mouth.
Da Song's annual taxes were less than 100 million taels of silver, and last year it seemed that the total was only more than 80 million taels.
That is to say, Song Dynasty not only had to pay at least ten years of treasury revenue at one time, but also gave away one-fifth or even one-fourth of the treasury to the Huns every year thereafter.
043 This is almost the same as Song Dynasty working for the Xiongnu in disguise.
But no matter how deceptive the conditions were, the officials of Honglu Temple did not dare to say anything.
He could only criticize Lu Qi in his heart: "It's all Jing Anbo's fault."
Lu Qi didn't say what it was, quietly picked up the tea on the table, took a sip, and asked, "And then?"
Seeing Lu Qi's attitude, everyone thought he was screwed.
So the envoy of the Huns began to say:
"Second, this time the Great Song Dynasty disrespected our royal court, it should give the three hundred li area around Yanmen Pass to my royal court as a gift of apology.
When the second condition came out, there was another uproar.
This one is even more extreme than the one just now. Yanmen Pass is the last barrier between the Song Dynasty and the Xiongnu. If Yanmen Pass is handed over to the Xiongnu, then the Song Dynasty will be an absolute backyard for the Xiongnu in the future, and they can enter as they want.
At that time, after the Great Song Dynasty, we will completely look at the face of the Xiongnu to do things.
If it was before, no matter how unbearable the officials of the Song Dynasty were, they would not agree to this condition.
It's a pity that now that Yanmen Pass has fallen into the hands of the Huns, they just let them know, and it's up to the Song Dynasty whether to give it or not.
The meaning of the Huns is obvious.
If I shoot it down, it is naturally mine, and there is absolutely no reason to return it. .