Crack hon temple Fang Xuanling is restless pacing eyebrows locked tightly as if there is sadness.
Yi Gong has promised him, which makes his heart more anxious. When will someone inform him of the good news?
The more hopeful I am, the more anxious I am. This is the case with Fang Xuanling at this time. He is deeply afraid that this hope will be dashed. What should he say in that case?
In the other room, Master Sheng Yanshi is also pacing. These days, he has been observing Fang Xuanling. If anything happens, he will cut him with a knife.
Just when they were anxiously waiting, the door remembered the hurried footsteps. When Sheng Yanshi opened the window, he saw a beadle come in a hurry and knocked on the door of Fang Xuanling. Sheng Yanshi sneered and walked past.
After the beadle entered the room, he bowed his hand and said, "Mr. Fang, I was ordered to come here to ask Mr. Fang to discuss Li Yuanji." The beadle was very polite, which made Fang Xuanling feel happy.
"Go!" Fang Xuanling some forced not to stay a little tidy up a ready to go Shengyan teacher leaned over and looked at him and could not speak.
Fang Xuanling nodded slightly, and then the beadle went out. Sheng Yanshi followed the two men and three people walked out of the crack hon temple. A carriage stopped outside and the beadle picked up the curtain. "Please!"
Fang Xuanling and Sheng Yanshi stepped into the carriage with a joy, and the beadle and other two people sat in and put the curtain, then ordered the groom to start, whipped his whip and whipped his ass, and the carriage began to run slowly forward.
The carriage Fang Xuanling hesitated for half a ring and said, "Yan Shi should be careful when negotiating this time."
"Hum, I will be careful, but don’t betray the interests of Datang!" Sheng Yanshi was very dissatisfied, and he didn’t have a good face for the red man around the king of Qin.
Fang Xuanling wry smile "YanShi I am a messenger of datang how can betray national interests? Don’t think too much. "
"If I want to know more!" Sheng Yanshi said that he turned his head away from Fang Xuanling Fang Xuanling and shook his head with a wry smile, thinking that you might as well not let him come. Isn’t this a bad thing?
The carriage stopped slowly after driving for two columns of incense. The beadle took out a jade card and handed it to the soldiers in the imperial city. The soldiers carefully examined it and asked a few words to put the carriage in.
Ma Chen stopped when he walked along the avenue and spent another half column of incense.
"Mr. Fang has arrived!" The beadle said
Fang Xuanling should jump into the carriage, only to find that he has arrived in the imperial city. Compared with Chang ‘an Imperial City, the imperial city looks too shabby, just like a child from a poor family meets a aristocratic brother. The gap between the two is big.
Sheng Yanshi also jumped out of the carriage and glanced around coldly. Everything Sheng Yanshi observed was different from that of Fang Xuanling. One thing he considered more was to observe the layout of Chengdu. It seems that capturing Chengdu is an important link. Unfortunately, the tang style organization was uprooted again. Datang really lost its wife and lost its soldiers
With a smile on his face, the beadle led two people through the garden and then boarded a bamboo building, which has five floors. The beadle took two people into the third floor and knocked on the door. "Mr. Assistant Minister Fang and Mr. Sheng Yanshi are here."
The petty official’s words made Sheng Yanshi quite dissatisfied. What does this mean? It’s contemptuous of him to call Mr. Fang Xuanling in Chengdu and call him by his own name! There was a flash of anger in Master Sheng Yan’s eyes, but he knew that he could not get angry at this time, and he needed to continue to observe.
"Come in!" There is a deep sound inside.
The beadle pushed open the doorway. "Please, Mr. Fang!"
Fang Xuanling nodded and walked slowly forward. Suddenly, he found that the back in front of him was so familiar! He was about to speak when the man turned his head and his face was so familiar.
"Is it you?" Fang Xuanling was speechless.
"Why don’t you want it to be me?" The man replied faintly and then sat in the chair. A small official came up. He filled the tea. The man took a long sip and looked at Fang Xuanling with a smile. "Why don’t old friends come to see each other?"
Chapter 61 Initial negotiation
Hearing the taunt from the opposite person, Fang Xuanling could smile bitterly. "I haven’t seen you for years and I didn’t expect to meet you again. It’s really embarrassing!"
The man opposite is Du Ruhui. He came to Fang Xuanling to meet according to Yang You’s instructions. When he heard Fang Xuanling’s words, he shook his head and said, "Didn’t you and I meet once more than half a month ago?" Du Ruhui suddenly laughed when he finished. "Although you and I are enemies now, it’s not that there is no room for redemption, brother Fang. I once said that if you are a big talent, you will bow down and imitate the Tang Dynasty?"
Fang Xuanling’s face changed lanes. "There is no need to say this topic again. I came here today to discuss the redemption of the King of Qi."
"Ha ha!" Du Ruhui sneer at two gave a way: "Since XuanLing is here to talk about state affairs, then talk about state affairs", said Du Ruhui, sitting in a very serious position.
There are two chairs in the whole room, one for Du Ruhui, and the other for Fang Xuanling, who was made by Datang Zheng. With a cold hum, Fang Xuanling sneered at the two men.
Du Ruhui rummaged through a large bundle of documents and found a document and handed it to Fang Xuanling. "Xuanling, this is a document for redeeming hostages. You can have a look."
Fang Xuanling should have taken it from Du Ruhui and opened it. Suddenly, his face changed. Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, was so precious that a ransom from the king of Qi was so precious! Twenty-two thousand gold or the equivalent of twenty-two thousand gold. That’s not to mention. There are four hundred mangoku grains! Four hundred mangoku grain!
A ransom of the King of Qi was so high that Fang Xuanling gasped. Not far from him, Master Sheng Yanshi had excellent eyesight. When he saw that he had to pay such a high price to redeem the King of Qi, he was also stunned. Duke looked so angry that his heart was as black as the bottom of a pot. He really ate people and didn’t spit bones.
Du Ruhui is very leisurely drinking tea and banging on the case. Suddenly, he hums a few songs from his mouth, which is relaxed and comfortable.
Fang Xuanling continued to look at the ransom of generals Liu Zhenghui, Muruo, Jiang Mo, etc. Each of them paid 1,000 gold, and each of them had to pay 5,000 stone of food. This is another big expense. The soldiers of Datang did not subdivide it. The total ransom of all soldiers was 32,000, and there was also 60,000 stone of food.
If there is no ransom from the King of Qi, his ransom is acceptable, and Datang also has enough financial resources to pay it. However, the ransom of the King of Qi alone is several times more than that of others. Datang’s national strength and strength have borne Fang Xuanling’s breath and thought at the same time.
After the autumn harvest last year, the Tang Dynasty spent about 300,000 yuan on soldiers. If it were collected from counties and counties, it would be theoretically possible to redeem the King of Qi. However, in this way, the state treasury would be empty. In the event of a war, it would be very difficult for the Tang Dynasty to pay the army without food.
After all, this time is not the golden age, because there are not many gold mines in China, and the price of gold is high. It is more a symbol of wealth and a symbol of collection. If it is normal, Datang will definitely take out tens of thousands of gold, but Datang has sent gifts to Turks several times, and the national treasury has long been exhausted. If it had not destroyed Liu Wuzhou and seized Liangzhou, they had hoarded wealth. Datang would have collapsed due to lack of financial resources.
Fang Xuanling meditated in his heart that the price was beyond the allowable range of positions, and he couldn’t make the decision, but since it was a big negotiation, Sui gave the price, he had a chance to bargain, so Fang Xuanling sighed deeply and said, "Gram …"
"Please call me Assistant Du!" Du Ruhui coldly tunnel seems to wake him up at this time is to discuss state affairs, rather than when two people talk.
Fang Xuanling coughed a sleeve to block his face and cover up his embarrassment. Then he said, "Is the ransom of Assistant Minister Du Qi Wang a little higher?"
"A little higher? You mean Li Yuanji is too expensive to buy? " Du Ruhui said.
"Oh, that’s not what I mean. Can you lower it?" Fang Xuanling tried.
Instead, Du Ruhui was not in a hurry and smiled. "Then tell me what the ransom in Li Yuanji is."
Fang Xuanling thought for a moment and said, "I think the price of the king of Qi is more reasonable."
Du Ruhui swept his one eye and laughed. "Xuanling, I also think this price is unreasonable."
"hmm!" Fang Xuanling’s heart is happy. I can’t believe that Du Ruhui is unreasonable. This is a good thing!
At this time, Du Ruhui smiled. "Since we all feel unreasonable, I think the ransom issue in Li Yuanji will not talk about other people’s prices this time. Do you have any opinions?"
"No opinions, no opinions!" Fang Xuanling said that suddenly he paused and hesitated. "Why don’t you talk about the ransom of Du Assistant Minister Qi Wang?"
"Since we have negotiated the price law, we naturally don’t need to talk about it. I think Li Yuanji should stay in Chengdu. My Lord said that a small Li Yuanji can’t eat much food. Although it is not rich, it is more than enough to raise a Li Yuanji!" Du Ruhui said with a smile, tidy up the table.
Fang Xuanling opened his mouth wide and was dumbfounded. It didn’t react. It’s unreasonable. He just came from Chang ‘an to redeem the king of Qi. Is this the main reason for the peace talks? If you redeem others, you must leave the king of Qi in Chengdu, and Tang gaozu will definitely unload him in Fang Xuanling.
Fang Xuanling coughed and smiled. "Assistant Minister Du, I didn’t say I wouldn’t redeem the King of Qi!"
"Well, that’s settled. I’ll tell you that when you pay the ransom, my Lord will send Li Yuanji back. You must remember that the ransom in Li Yuanji is 22,000 gold and 400,000 mangoku grain. One stone is indispensable!" Du Ruhui had an epiphany.
"honk? ！” Fang Xuanling leng is not clear or Du Ruhui listen to wrong? He hurriedly interrupted Du Ruhui’s words, "Dick is not like this!"
