Chapter 174
Li Ke and Di Zhixun walked into Jie Li's tent under Chen Qi's escort. They saw the leaders of the Turkic tribes sitting in two rows. Jie Li Khan sat upright in the middle and was watching Li Ke.
A middle-aged man was sitting at the lower right hand. The man was rough but reckless. He had a pair of smart eyes on his face, which seemed to be vicissitudes. He looked like a scheming person. This man was also staring at Li Ke while he was watching him. Li Ke read from his eyes that he was disdainful of everyone present.
Therefore, he guessed that this person was Erkhan Tuli from Ashin's poem.
The lower left hand is a man about fifty years old and rough-looking, and he is a man with a big head and brainless look at it. Li Ke understood that he was the most loyal confidant of Jie Li of Ashina, the Left King Ashina Roald.
"Li Ke, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, has seen the Great Khan."
Li Ke held his arms in his right hand, bowed slightly, and treated Jie Li with the etiquette of the Turks.
"Di Zhixun, deputy envoy of the Tang Dynasty, has seen the Great Khan."
Di Zhixun’s actions are the same as Li Ke.
"The Tang Dynasty really had no food, why did it come from some skinny people?"
A tribal leader chewed mutton in his mouth and said vaguely.
At the same time, his words caused laughter from the tribe leaders present.
Some people even began to ridicule Li Ke and the other two without any scruples, "The woman from the Tang Dynasty is so beautiful, but this man is a little weak. No wonder those women are all hiking into our Turkic tents."
"No wonder such a weak man is breathing under the iron hooves of our Turks."
"The Tang Dynasty men are really vulnerable."
The Turks began to tease Li Ke and Di Zhixun, who looked thin except Chen Qi, with their way of laughing at the weakness of the Tang Dynasty's Wu Bei.
Jie Li Khan was a rare silent person, and he wanted to see what Li Ke reacted.
However, he was disappointed, and Li Ke did not show the anger he expected on his face. He always kept smiling, looking harmless.
Although Di Zhixun's expression beside him was a little unnatural, there was always a smile on his face.
Only Chen Qi clenched his fists tightly, Li Ke could hear the sound of his finger joints because of his fists being tightly clenched.
Li Ke just looked at Jie Li with a smile, making Jie Li feel embarrassed that he did not stop everyone's ridicule of Li Ke in time.
"What's the point of arguing?"
Jie used his anger to hide his embarrassment, "You may not have met His Highness the King of Han in the Tang Dynasty."
After Jie Li finished speaking, the leaders of various tribes looked at him strangely, then stood up reluctantly, shouting, "I have met His Highness the King of Han."
Then, he sat down with a bad expression.
Jie Li himself also noticed his ridiculous actions just now in the eyes of everyone, and felt angered in his heart.
This Li Ke is indeed not simple. No matter how he treats him, he always seems very calm. He is like punching a cotton, weak.
"Your Highness the King of Han, please sit down. Today, the leaders of our Turkic tribes will welcome you to the Yinshan Mountains, the holy land of the Turkic people."
Jie Li's heroic posture was fully displayed, and his speech was ups and downs, which moved Li Ke quite well.
Li Ke did not answer Jie Li for the time being, and then glanced at the meat and horse milk wine placed on the tables of the leaders of each tribe. He looked a heartbroken expression, "Shan, I wish I could not eat with you in the same tent."
It’s not that I did it intentionally, but I was worried about the people of Suzhou. I just wanted to reach a peace talk with you first. It would not be too late for me to drink with you at that time."
Then, just as Jie Li was about to speak, Li Ke suddenly said, "It's snowing heavily on the grassland, and countless cattle and sheep are frozen to death. The tribe's people are enduring the freezing and starving. I think the big sweat is also worried about the tribe's tribe's members.
Therefore, Li Ke thanked the Khan for his kindness first. Why don’t we put the overall situation first, negotiate first, and then welcome the crowd?"
Li Ke saw that Jie Li wanted to delay time today, so he took the initiative and used such a high-sounding reason to make Jie Li unable to refuse.
"Okay, then we will have a peace talk first, and then we will welcome His Highness the King of Han after that."
Jie Li said.
As soon as Jie Li finished speaking, the leaders of each tribe suddenly stared at Li Ke to see what he was going to say and how much money he wanted to pay for this peace talks.
However, they couldn't wait until they saw Li Ke speak for a long time.
The leader of Shaber suddenly shouted, "Your Highness, the King of Han, I don't know how many gold, silver and treasures you have prepared in the Tang Dynasty to redeem your people."
Li Ke turned his gaze to the tribe leader who asked him, "This leader, do you have multiple Suzhou people on your hands?"
"Your people are all in our Khan's hands."
Shabo said, he didn't know that Li Ke was already provoking the relationship between the Turks and continued, "We Khan has more than 10,000 of your people in our hands."
"So," Li Ke pulled his voice very long, "I shouldn't tell you how much gold, silver and money we have prepared in the Tang Dynasty, right?
I should talk to you khan, because people are in his hands, not in yours."
As soon as Li Ke said it, Shaber's face suddenly turned red. He was angry with Li Ke's contempt for him. At the same time, he heard the meaning of Li Ke's words and developed a little dissatisfaction with Jie Li.
Although the expressions of the leaders of each tribe were not like Shaber who was just talking, they were obviously dissatisfied with Jie Li.
The reason was that when Jie Li Khan was in Suzhou, he did not tell them to loot the people. Not only did he not tell them about this, but he also put all the people they robbed into his own hands.
Jie Li originally wanted Li Ke to take the initiative to find the price with him and then raise the price with him, but he did not expect that as soon as he spoke, he would provoke internal disagreements.
So, after Li Ke finished speaking, he smiled and said, "Your Highness is too worried. Your people are in our Turkic tribe, you can talk to any leader."
At the same time, he glanced at everyone with his cold eyes, warned everyone not to speak, and then continued, "I wonder how many gold, silver and treasures your highness have prepared to redeem your people?"
"How much money does Dahan want?"
Li Ke asked.
"Three million stones of grain and five hundred thousand pieces of brocade."
Jie Li said proudly.
As soon as he finished speaking, the leaders of the Turkic tribes had even less expression on their faces. If Li Ke really gave him the money at Jie Li's price, wouldn't he have lost a lot this time?
Thinking of this, their dissatisfaction with Jie Li deepened a lot.
"The khan is joking."
Li Ke said calmly, "This price is fair, but I think Dahan wants me to agree to this condition and need to add something."
"What?"
Seeing Li Ke’s intention, Jie Li asked hurriedly.
Three million stones of grain and five hundred thousand pieces of brocade.
It took them for a year to eat them, so how could he not be excited?
"One hundred thousand good horses."
Li Ke said lightly, "As long as the sweat gives me 100,000 good horses, my Tang Dynasty will give you three million stones of grain and five hundred thousand pieces of brocade."
Jie Li's face turned red. He didn't expect that Li Ke had originally planned to beat him with a good Turkic horse. He said angrily, "Does the Tang Dynasty want their own people?"
When Li Ke saw Jie Li's angry face, he smiled and said, "Does the Turks want their own tribe members?"
"You," Jie Li was about to speak, but Li Ke snatched, "There are tens of millions of people in the Tang Dynasty, and how many Turkic people are there, Dahan himself knows it.
If the Khan insisted on making our peace talks go smoothly, I think you will let down the expectations of your tribe! When I came to the Turks, everyone in the tribe knew that I came with food. They all hoped that the Khan would be able to successfully negotiate with me and then distribute the food of the Tang Dynasty to them.
If the Khan let me leave like this and the food was not left behind, I am afraid that the tribe members would be very disappointed with the Khan."
When Li Ke said this, he couldn't help but laugh.
"Then you say, how much food and broth can you produce."
Jie Li looked at Li Ke's arrogant smile, suppressed his anger, and asked in a deep voice.
"Fifty thousand stones of grain, five thousand pieces of brocade."
Chapter completed!