Looking at the Song envoy, Xiao Feng said meaningfully: "Everyone, I, the Emperor of Liao, gave you a month, but there has been no progress at all. Where can I put your Majesty's face? How can my court explain to the people?"
Chen Ke really wanted to say, that's your business, but that's not bullshit but bullshit. The people of Liao will definitely go crazy.
After a pause, Xiao Feng took out his trump card and was shocked to hear him say: "Furthermore, I heard that before your envoy came, the emperor of the Southern Dynasty promised an additional five hundred thousand coins. Why can't you resist the decree?"
Chen Ke's scalp exploded immediately, and Zhao Bian's face suddenly turned pale. The trump card in the negotiation was the highest secret of the imperial court. Only the officials and the princes of the two governments knew about it. How could the Khitans know?
Unable to think about what went wrong, Chen Ke calmed his mind and said flatly: "There is absolutely no such thing!"
"Really?" Xiao Feng sneered: "Why don't we write a letter to verify it?"
"Okay!" Chen Ke nodded and said: "You can write a letter now. If the court replies and says, yes! Then there is nothing to talk about. I will sign the contract obediently." After a pause, he said coldly: "But that is a waste of time.
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"That's right..." Xiao Feng is also a sensible person. How could the Song Dynasty admit that it was preparing to increase the currency before negotiations? Don't the officials and the husband want to be scolded to death? So he will never admit it. After a pause, he was smiling but not smiling.
He said: "But you and I both know that this number exists." He stood up and said word by word: "Five hundred thousand taels, not a penny less, this is our bottom line!" After speaking, he led the crowd.
Left the big tent.
Chen Ke also stood up slowly. Without even looking at Zhao Bian, he went back to the concierge tent.
"How was the talk?" Zhao Zongji had been waiting for Xiao Xing. When he saw Chen Ke coming in, he stood up and said accordingly.
"The Liao people know about the upper limit of 500,000 yuan." Chen Ke was in a bad mood and sat down on the chair.
"How did they know?" Zhao Zongji was shocked and asked, "Could it be that they were tricking you?"
"You would use this kind of thing to deceive others? If you guess wrong, wouldn't you be laughed out of your mouth?" Chen Ke didn't use a teacup, just picked up the teapot and drank.
If someone knows the bottom line, why do you still talk about football? But if you sign like this, how can you have the nerve to go back?
At this time, Zhao Bian also came in, and both of them looked at him with a somewhat unkind look.
"Why do you look at me like this?" Zhao Bian frowned.
"Old man, how could the Liao people know about the five hundred thousand taels?" Zhao Zongji asked.
"How do I know?" Zhao Bian shook his head and said, "I think there might be a traitor." He suddenly raised his head and said, "You don't think it was me who leaked the news to the Liao people, right?"
"We didn't say that." Chen Ke said.
"That's what I think!" Zhao Bian seemed to be greatly insulted. He threw his official hat on the ground and said: "Yes, I am the traitor. I have had enough of you two arrogant and selfish guys. I want to
Go home early, so I leaked my trump card to the Liao people! Let’s see how you two play!” After saying that, the old gentleman rushed out of the door in anger.
Looking at his leaving figure, Zhao Zongji said: "Is this an angry talk?"
"I hope so." Chen Ke sighed softly and said, "I don't hope it's him either, but we are the only three in the mission who know."
"Could someone in Beijing leak the secret..." Zhao Zongji asked.
"That's too abominable." Chen Ke clenched his fist tightly.
"Forget it. Let's forget about this for now." Zhao Zongji sighed and said, "Let's think about what to do next?"
"You must not let go!" Chen Ke said in a deep voice: "If it is really determined to be 500,000 taels, how will you fool around in the future?" He paused and said: "Not even 400,000 taels, at most 300,000 taels, which is the same as Chanyuan's.
The league’s numbers were flat.”
"The people of Liao will not agree." Zhao Zongji shook his head and said: "The imperial court promised to give 500,000 taels, how could they ask for 300,000 taels?" He said in a low voice: "If it doesn't work, 500,000 taels will be five.
One hundred thousand, let’s remember this humiliation and let them repay it ten times or a hundred times in the future!”
"I gave you five hundred thousand. You may have no future, you know?" Chen Ke said angrily: "It might be fine if it had been someone else, but if you were the one, you would definitely be drowned by Tumo Xingzi!"
"Then what can you do?"
"Let me think about it, let me think about it..." Chen Ke rubbed his head and fell into deep thought.
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Because the commotion broke up, the regular meeting in the evening was cancelled. Chen Ke ate a few mouthfuls of food and started thinking in the tent. Before he knew it, it was getting late, and the guard came in and reported: "My lord, please sleep with me."
The girl is here." He said with a strange expression on his face: "It's a bit bad this time, why don't we let her come back."
Chen Ke wanted to ask the woman last night, so he shook his head and said, "Let her in."
After a while, he saw a tall woman with a face like the bottom of a pot and a strange smell all over her body. She was wearing an obviously smaller palace dress and appeared in front of him.
"Did you go to the wrong place?" Chen Kezhen wanted to cover his nose, but his conscience did not allow him to do so.
"I made the right move," the woman said with wide eyes, "They asked me to serve you."
"Who asked you to come?"
"It's up there." The woman said confusedly, "Today I was collecting cow dung, and someone came to see me from above. They changed me into these clothes and asked me to come here to serve you."
"..." Chen Ke was stunned, but the guards could hardly hold back their laughter and burst out laughing.
"Who is teasing me?" Chen Ke asked someone to bring some money and food to the woman and sent her away. He couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Could it be that they were angry at me for going back on my word and deliberately gave me some color?"
At this time, Chen Yi walked in and said softly: "Sir, the letter from home has arrived."
"Oh." Chen Ke nodded and said, "Keep an eye on the door."
"yes."
After Chen Yi retreated, Chen Ke picked up a silver letter opener and cut the letter open. Inside was a report from his financial officer Zhou Dingkun. They were all daily trivial matters. For example, someone had been sent to Shuzhong to pick up the letter.
The Su family arrived in Beijing in their service. For example, Liulang has been honest these days and has not caused any trouble. For example, the house selected for the Su family has been bought and decoration has begun. For example, his outer house has been tidied up.
The group of maids brought from Japan have already moved in. Du Qingshuang found a tutor and began to teach them the etiquette of the Song Dynasty; for example, the theater Chen Ke wanted to build has already bought a store on the most prosperous Mahang Street...
All in all, everything went smoothly, so don't worry.
After reading, Chen Ke took out a small tin bottle from the purse he carried with him. He poured some into the basin, and the water turned purple. Then he flattened the letter paper and slowly immersed it in the water. Once in,
The letter paper was dyed purple, and some transparent writing emerged.
This is a secret message given to people in the industry, specially used to convey secret messages. Chen Ke stared at the writing on it, glanced at it for a few times, and said with a fierce look in his eyes: "So that's it..."
The writing on the paper gradually became blurred, and the letter gradually decomposed.
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The next moment, in Zhao Zongji's account.
"After we left, Xiao Tianyi went to the Song Dynasty, and then returned quickly. My people kept following him..." Chen Ke lowered his voice and said, "Where do you think he went?"
"Zhongjing?" Of course it's not difficult to guess.
"Yes, thirteen days ago, he moved into the Zhongjing Left-behind Mansion." Chen Ke said, "It seems that we mistakenly blamed Mr. Zhao."
"Nerugu...Yelu Zhongyuan..." Zhao Zongji said in a deep voice: "Xiao Tianyi...Zhao Zongfu..." He punched the table with hatred and said angrily: "These bastards!"
It is difficult to describe his mood at this moment. Is it sadness, anger, or uncontrollable contempt? It is simply indescribable! Those people have no bottom line. Just to suppress themselves, they can leak the country's secrets to the enemy!
Is there anything in this world that they can’t sell?!
Neither of them is a person who never corrects his mistakes. Since they wrongly blamed Mr. Zhao, they went to Zhao Bian to apologize.
Zhao Bian didn't eat dinner either and was lying there sulking.
After the two came in, he turned towards the wall, but Chen Ke and Zhao Zongji still saluted him and asked him to forgive the young man's rashness and that adults would not remember the faults of villains...
After saying a lot of good things, seeing that the old gentleman still didn't look back, the two had no choice but to exit in dismay. When they got to the door, Chen Ke sighed and said, "What a small-minded person..."
"Who is so evil?" Zhao Bian kept his ears pricked up. Hearing this, he said angrily: "Come back here!"
The two of them turned back and said with a calm smile: "We are talking about ourselves..."
"Ball..." The old gentleman rolled his eyes at them angrily, and said with a straight face: "Before you say hurtful words in the future, think more carefully! I am in my forties and fifties, and I will do this kind of thing that will last forever.
What happened?" If it was him who did it, the Liao people would not hide it for him when compiling history. The old gentleman's behavior of liaising with foreign countries would be exposed in history. This is the greatest shame for traditional scholar-bureaucrats.
Chen Ke let him vent his anger. After he finished venting, he chuckled and said, "I haven't eaten yet, have you? We haven't eaten either. Let the cooks make two side dishes. Let's add them up while we eat."
"Yes, yes, yes, there are three cobblers, but they are even better than Zhuge Liang."
"I think you two cobblers are just like Zhuge Liang." From the beginning until now, the old man has been excluded from the decision-making circle by the two of them, and he must be unhappy.
But when I say it, I feel happy. Although the old gentleman has a close friendship with the king of Runan County, he is an orthodox gentleman and scholar-bureaucrat after all. In the face of righteousness, personal kindness will naturally be put aside. He is also very indignant at someone's traitorous behavior.
, even in order to prevent Da Song from making a fool of himself, he had to do his best to plan for the two of them.
The three of them finally thought about the same thing in a critical moment and became a rope...
