"Why, Mr. Li is very disappointed that this general has become the peace envoy?" Ling Yun looked at him calmly and said with a smile.
"No...no!" Li Yuanji shook his head in panic and denied.
Although Li Yuanji didn't want to admit it, every move he made showed that he didn't want Ling Yun to be the messenger of negotiations. He never thought that fate would play tricks on people, and he would have to face Ling Yun after all the waiting.
This made Li Yuanji feel very unsure.
"Since there is no such thing, let's continue!" Ling Yun did not continue to dwell on this matter, but returned to the subject.
"Continue...continue with what?" Li Yuanji felt that his mind was still in a daze and he had no idea what to do.
"Of course it's about signing the covenant." Ling Yun didn't care about Li Yuanji's confusion and said straight to the point.
"Ah~ Okay, sign the covenant..." Li Yuanji hesitantly agreed, but his mental state was not very good.
"Master Li?" Ling Yun called out softly, but Li Yuanji didn't respond at all. He just kept talking to himself.
Ling Yun vaguely heard, "What should I do? What should I do now? It's over, it's over..."
"Master Li." Ling Yun shouted again, this time he deliberately increased the volume, and Li Yuanji finally reacted.
"General Lingling." Li Yuanji calmed down, and when he saw Ling Yun looking straight at him, his heart couldn't help but tremble slightly.
"Master Li, are you feeling unwell?" Ling Yun stared at him thoughtfully.
"Why don't Mr. Li go down and rest first? After Mr. Li has rested that day, we can discuss the covenant?"
"This..." Li Yuanji fell into hesitation. In fact, it was not that he was not feeling well, but that he could not accept the result. The thought of having a verbal confrontation with Ling Yun made him feel frightened.
"It's okay, just take a rest, just take a rest..."
Li Yuanji still did not retreat to rest, because after he calmed down, he thought that he would have to face reality in the end no matter what.
Instead of dragging it on, it's better to end it as soon as possible.
Ling Yun nodded and motioned for him to sit down and rest.
After a long time, Li Yuanji finally stood up.
"General Ling, please rest now."
After hearing this, Ling Yun looked at him and found that Li Yuanji's condition had gradually returned to normal.
So he nodded slightly, indicating that it was time to start.
"General Ling, Xixia and Daqian have always been on good terms. It was an accident that Xixia attacked Daqian before." After Li Yuanji gathered his emotions, he began to negotiate. He pretended to be innocent and said that Xixia attacked Daqian.
It was an accident. This also gave them a suitable reason, which was more beneficial to the negotiation.
Ling Yun frowned slightly when he heard this.
Knowing that the other party was trying to act crazy, he deliberately turned the long-planned attack into an accident.
Ling Yun raised his head, glanced at the other person thoughtfully, then said nothing, and leaned back silently, with an invisible smile at the corner of his mouth, making it difficult for people to figure out what he was thinking.
Noticing Ling Yun's changes, Li Yuanji's expression began to become unnatural, and his tone of voice became less smooth, mixed with helplessness. Perhaps he felt that Ling Yun had seen his routine clearly, so he felt that his words
Deficit.
After all, this war was indeed initiated unilaterally by Xixia. Although he described it as an accident, anyone with a discerning eye knew that it was not an accident, but an ulterior motive.
The accident was just an excuse for myself.
"Okay, Mr. Li." Ling Yun raised his hand to stop the other party from continuing.
"Speak directly if you have something to say, don't just say useless words, I don't like it very much." Ling Yun looked directly at him, with impatient words coming out of his mouth, causing Li Yuanji, who suddenly stopped, to panic.
"This war was initiated by Xixia, and now you Xixia cannot fight and want to cease the war?" When Ling Yun said this, his voice was cold and ruthless, like a basin of cold water falling from Li Yuanji's head, making him
My body couldn't help but tremble slightly.
Ling Yun did not hold on to this matter. He changed the topic and asked the other party, "Since you want to stop the war, how dare you ask Xixia how to stop the war? Let's talk about it?"
Ling Yun said, leaning back again, looking at Li Yuanji indifferently, with an expression as if he didn't care what he said.
Li Yuanji coughed lightly and said, "General Ling, our court is willing to compensate you 300,000 yuan in silver, 30,000 in horses and sheep, and 5,000 in camels."
After finishing speaking, he glanced at Ling Yun cautiously, wanting to know Ling Yun's reaction to this condition.
However, Ling Yun disappointed him. There was no emotional change on Ling Yun's face, and he still had a look of indifference.
"That's it?" After waiting for a while, Ling Yun asked after realizing that Li Yuanji had no intention of continuing.
"ah?"
"Xi Xia requested a truce and gave these conditions?" Ling Yun looked directly at him with sharp eyes and said with a disdainful tone.
"Ah... that's right." Li Yuanji swallowed and responded quickly. Perhaps because he felt that the conditions were a bit unsatisfactory, Li Yuanji's face turned slightly red, and then he lowered his head in embarrassment.
"Master Li, do you think these conditions are suitable?" Ling Yun sneered, sat up straight and asked in a lower voice.
"This..." Li Yuanji didn't know what to say. Of course he felt it was inappropriate, but the emperor's intention was to promote this peace negotiation with the lowest loss, so he had no choice but to do so.
What's more, there are even more shameless conditions behind it.
"Hey!" Li Yuanji sighed softly, he no longer had any extravagant hopes for Lanzhou City.
"Xixia needs to compensate me for three hundred thousand grains of silver, fifty thousand for horses and sheep, and ten thousand for camels." After a moment of silence, Ling Yun stated his conditions.
"These conditions are no problem." When Li Yuanji heard these conditions, he agreed without thinking and breathed a sigh of relief.
Just when Li Yuanji was about to ask for Lanzhou City, Ling Yun spoke again, "Also, Xixia needs to surrender to Da Qian."
"What?" Li Yuanji's eyes widened, thinking that he heard wrongly, because he had just heard that Ling Yun wanted Xixia to surrender to Daqian. How could this be possible?
How could the emperor agree to such harsh conditions?
"Why, you don't want to?" Ling Yun asked coldly.
"General Ling, there is nothing wrong with the previous conditions. I can make the decision, but this last condition..." Li Yuanji really couldn't agree to the conditions for Xixia to surrender to Da Qian.
"In this case, the peace negotiation ends here."
"Come here, take Mr. Li out of the city."
Ling Yun didn't waste any words and stood up directly, indicating that the peace negotiation was over.
"Ah?" Li Yuanji was unexpected by Ling Yun's determination.
Isn’t this just a lack of negotiation?
Maybe it would be better to discuss it further.
If there is any disagreement, the negotiation will be terminated directly?
"General Lingling, I really can't decide this matter."
Li Yuanji stepped forward anxiously and wanted to explain.
"Since Mr. Li can't make the decision, let's invite someone from Xixia who can make the decision. Otherwise, I, the general, won't have time to waste time here."
Ling Yun didn't give him any face, and directly asked Li Yuanji to be invited out.
"General..." Li Yuanji was extremely anxious, but Ling Yun deliberately did not look at him and pretended not to hear his shouts.
