The leader of the Yongye Army and the Kingsley Family's Eastern Army, two forces that openly and secretly clashed with each other, held a high-level meeting.
On the Donau River, there are many warships and elite troops, which are encircling Brother Port. If there is a problem with the meeting, Yong Ye's commander will launch a full-scale landing operation.
In Brothers' Port, the Kingsley Family's Eastern Expeditionary Army was equally nervous. Outside Pier 1, the army was surrounded, and even defensive siege equipment was pushed up. They were also afraid that the leader of the Yongye Army would resort to small tricks.
During the first meeting, the two sides had not yet established the most basic trust, and both were afraid that the other would attack their commander-in-chief.
The two parties racked their brains and argued over this meeting place for several days.
In the end, the leader of the Yongye Army made concessions and reached an agreement.
Compared to Akmeser, the leader of the Yongye Army is more confident in terms of both the overall situation and the means.
Whether it's the black collar air support or the soul beast card, it's all Sean's means to save his life. Akmatheir knows the former, but he doesn't know the latter.
Once the plan fails, Akmeser will push the Eastern Conquest Army into an eternal hell, and the angry Eternal Night Army will cut off all possibility of negotiation.
Due to thorough preparation, the initial meeting went smoothly without any surprises.
Both sides entered the scene in a very low-key manner, and there was no sensitive move to show off force. It has no meaning other than stimulating the other side's sensitive nerves.
After all, the two sides have fought countless rounds overtly and covertly. They are truly old opponents and can be considered to know the ins and outs.
"Your Excellency Baron, you are younger than I expected." Akmesser said with a smile.
"The Marshal is not the first to say this, and I believe he will not be the last to say this." Sean responded with a smile, "Your Excellency, the Marshal, is also younger than I expected."
"Baron, are you complimenting me? Or are you scolding me?" Akmesser flipped up his gray and white hair and beard and said, "Is this still called young?"
"Your Excellency Marshal, your serious personality is consistent with the rumors." Sean laughed and changed the topic, "Let's get started."
"Let's get started!" No matter how serious his character was, Akmesser would not hold on to a compliment. If he were so serious, he would not be sitting in his current position.
Sean sat upright, opened the door and entered the mountain and said: "I believe the people below have finished the test work. Your Excellency, Marshal, let's not waste any more time on both sides. You should know that the lives of 20,000 Crocodile Clan civilians cannot be your amulet.
Make a real price so that we can move on to the next step. The longer these 20,000 Crocodile Tribe civilians stay in your hands, the faster they will depreciate. When they are all dead, you won’t even be able to exchange them for food.
One grain."
"The Baron is not only a qualified lord, but also a qualified businessman." Akmeser couldn't help but sigh.
"Thank you, Marshal, for your compliment."
"For a thousand merchant ships, each ship must carry no less than twenty tons of grain." Akmeser directly quoted the price.
"Twenty thousand tons of grain, with an average of one ton of grain per person. Are you treating us like fat sheep and slaughtering us? Or are you treating these 20,000 Crocodile civilians as real money? Marshal, you still have no sincerity."
Akmesser is a typical lion with his mouth open. Twenty thousand tons of food is enough for his two hundred thousand army. They can eat frugally for half a year, and they really take advantage of the Yongye Army.
Sean sat on the ground and paid back the money: "Two hundred tons of grain, no more."
"His Excellency the Baron has always asked me to have some sincerity, but when it came to his side, he couldn't see the slightest sincerity. He cut off 99% of it as soon as he started. It was a bit too cruel. That was 20,000 living people. Even two
Ten thousand pigs are worth more than this, right?"
"Everything depends on the situation. If it is a normal situation, human life is priceless. Let alone 20,000 lives, even if it is two lives, we will not hesitate to start a war. But now is a war period, and human lives are more valuable than pigs.
It's cheap, at least the pigs can still eat it. If they are in the hands of the marshal, it will be an outright trouble. Do you think that's the truth?" Sean defended seriously.
"You are an out-and-out sophistry." Akmesser said with a cold face, "Human life is human life, and this will never change. I heard that the Baron just annexed the Crocodile tribe, doesn't he care about the life and death of his own tribe?
? Just like the Baron said, if you just delay like this, your people will die by then. Whether this bad debt will be recorded on us or on His Excellency the Baron, it is really hard to say. After all, our Kingsley family has withdrawn.
The Swamp of Despair has become a foregone conclusion, and His Excellency the Baron will continue to rule here. So, you and I will each make concessions, eighteen thousand tons."
"Your Excellency, Marshal, are you confusing the concept? It's obviously you who did the evil things, how can you put this bad debt on our heads? You see, even if it is unsuccessful, we have already expressed our sincerity, and I have come personally.
, the final result is caused by your sky-high asking price. How can it be successful if you ask others to do an impossible task? Two hundred and fifty tons, no more."
"An impossible task? Are you kidding, Baron? Let's not talk about how easy it is to directly adjust grains from the Asia Minor Plains. Let's just say that the grain merchants in the Huayu Plateau have no less than 8,000 tons of grains. You just didn't
Has an agreement been reached?"
"The Marshal's information is really well-informed. Yes, we have indeed reached an agreement, but reaching an agreement is one thing. Whether we can afford it is another matter. Our family has a small business and is engaged in construction.
, it’s a war again, we have already made ends meet, there is no way we can eat it all at once, and being able to capture a small part of it is already the limit, not to mention that our troops and citizens also need to eat."
The exchanges between the two sides, and the bargaining back and forth, are not much different from the confrontation between the vendors and the aunties buying vegetables at the vegetable market, except that the numbers in their mouths are larger.
As the seller, Akmeiser asked for a high price, and as the buyer, Sean sat there and paid back the money.
It's just that the psychological prices of the two are far apart, with a gap of nearly a hundred times, and it will be difficult to reach an agreement in a short while.
In the end, Akmesser insisted on ten thousand tons and refused to drop any more, and his eyes were fixed on the eight thousand tons of military rations that the Huayu Plateau grain merchants were supposed to deliver to them.
Sean has raised the price to 1,000 tons and is unwilling to increase the quantity any more. It is true that the Yongye military leader wants to rescue the 20,000 crocodile civilians, but that is without affecting their overall plan.
If you put too much military rations into Akmesser's hands, it will increase the variables, and only a fool would do it.
The meeting lasted three hours on the first day and ended on bad terms.
The two seemed to have been talking about food, and there were many things mixed in their gossip.
For example, Sean hinted in a roundabout way that as long as Akmetha is willing to lead his army to surrender, the leader of the Yongye Army will treat him with the highest standards of treatment and will still lead an army.
Akmeser not only refused cleanly, but also expressed that as long as the Yongye Army leaders opened the river and allowed the Kingsley family's Eastern Army to return home, they would not only unconditionally let go of the 20,000 crocodile civilians in their hands, but also promised Kingsley
The family can sign a non-aggression pact with the leader of the Evernight Army and give up peeking into the Swamp of Despair.
This suggestion was also ignored by Sean. After finally catching a big fish, how could he be worthy of his previous hard planning without exploding two kilograms of oil from him?
Both sides are taking this opportunity to test each other's bottom line, and the results are not very good.
For the leader of the Yongye Army, Akmeser's will to resist was still very tenacious and was not affected by the difficulties at all. This experienced and indomitable veteran was the most difficult to deal with, even if there was no hope ahead, he
I can persist until the end.
Such a person makes the Yongye Army lead the rats to drag the eggs, and there is nowhere to start. It is too difficult to find a breakthrough from him.
For Akmeiser, Sean is more difficult than expected. At a young age, his political skills are very sophisticated. His words are so subtle that you can't tell which of his words are true and which.
Fake.
If it was said that Xiao En did not value the lives and deaths of the 20,000 Crocodile civilians, the Yongye Army Leader not only agreed to negotiate, but as the top leader, Xiao Xiao personally took action.
If they were serious about it, Sean showed endless indifference in every word and deed. In his words, the 20,000 Crocodile Tribe civilians were just a cold number, and he was not willing to pay even one more grain of food for them.
The lives and deaths of these twenty thousand Crocodile Clan civilians must be sidelined for the benefit of the Yongye Army Leader.
Their current behavior is like the ropes thrown from the city wall during the defensive battle of Brother Port.
They only care about whether they make such a gesture, and how many people they can save is secondary.
This is a battle of wits and strength.
Both sides are dragging their feet, it’s up to them to see who can’t hold back first and make the biggest concession.
Time is obviously not good for the Kingsley family's Eastern Army. As time goes by, the military rations in their hands are shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Normally, we can save money on food and clothing, and everyone eats half full, but now we are in a nervous negotiation state, so naturally we cannot do this, otherwise, if our own people get into chaos before the enemy takes action, then we will be in big trouble.
With an army of 200,000 men and horses chewing, the amount of food and grass they consumed in one day was a terrifying figure.
I don’t know if the leader of the Yongye Army was aware of this, but Sean seemed to have consciously dragged the negotiations into a deadlock, dragging Akmeise here and there every day, and in the end he was pulling out tons of food.
Akmesser's asking price is tens of thousands of tons. According to this method, can you get it in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse?
Before the results could be obtained, the Kingsley family's Eastern Army ran out of food.
It's useless even if Akmesser is anxious. Once he makes a concession, he will fall into the trick of the leader of the Evernight Army.
Just as the negotiations in the Swamp of Despair reached an impasse, a political confrontation was taking place in the royal capital of Valesta, thousands of miles away.
"I'm sorry, Your Excellency, the Grand Duke, the Princess went to the Notre Dame Convent for retreat and has not come back yet." Bi Luo, the Princess Regent's personal bodyguard, stopped in front of Grand Duke Buck and said.
"How long will it take for Her Royal Highness to come back?" Grand Duke Buck asked patiently. This was already the thirteenth time he had visited the Regent Princess Sophia, but he had not been successful once.
Every time, Her Royal Highness the Princess Regent is either ill or happens to be out on business.
It's so pitiful, when did the great knight become as fragile as the aristocratic ladies in the boudoir?
I have consciously blocked the other party several times, but all ended in failure.
This is the royal capital of Valesta, and the other party's world belongs to the other party. If the other party is blocked by an outsider like him, then something will really go wrong.
Knowing that the other party was deliberately hiding from him, Archduke Buck could only hold back his anger. After all, he was here to ask for help this time.
"It's hard to say, it can be long or short. Sometimes it only takes two or three hours, sometimes it takes several days. The regent princess will stay at the Notre Dame Convent for a few days." Bi Luo answered ambiguously.
"No matter what happens today, I have to see Her Royal Highness the Princess. No matter how long it takes, I will wait here." Grand Duke Buck was also determined to see Sophia Liya.
However, they didn't mention going to the Convent of Our Lady. Who would have thought that after they ran away, they found that the Princess Regent had returned to the palace by a very coincidental route through another route. When they caught up, the other party had gone out again due to other coincidences.
He has seen this kind of coincidence too many times. No matter how fast a person runs, he can't keep up with the speed of an eagle.
This time he made up his mind to defend the palace, but he didn't believe that the regent princess could hide for the rest of her life?
The supreme ruler of the Kingsley family is shameless, and the Lancelot royal family is also shameless, right?
Grand Duke Buck sat down in front of the palace with great dignity and ignored Biluo's request to invite him to the drawing room.
On the turret of the palace, which was no more than a hundred meters away from Grand Duke Buck, a group of people were looking down at Grand Duke Buck's every move.
The leader was none other than the regent Princess Sophia, who Biluo said should be retreating to the Virgin Women's Monastery.
The middle-aged man standing side by side laughed when he saw this and said: "The situation is so bad that the Grand Duke, the leader of the army, uses such despicable methods?"
"Uncle Arnold is not unaware of the greedy faces of those old guys. They can make things happen for you no matter the wind or waves, let alone the Kingsley family this time. They are like sharks smelling fishy smell.
Everyone wanted to take a bite out of the Kingsley family. Just three days ago, the Southeast Army Marquis Adolf's family brought up the old matter again and requested a new ruling on the ownership of the disputed Nansi Hills area. Then they mobilized five thousand people.
The private army of the nobles blocked all the roads leading to the Carthusian army in the Nansi hills area, and expelled all the nobles and mine owners here."
"So serious?" The smile on Arnold's handsome face couldn't help but shrink.
There is a dispute over the ownership of the Nansi Hills area. It is not a matter of a day or two. The Byron Alliance was not able to clarify it when it was first established. Not to mention that after three hundred years of inheritance, the nobles here have married each other and the inheritance rights have changed back and forth.
It's even more unclear. Anyway, the public says the public is right and the mother-in-law is right, and both sides hold their own opinions.
Most of these areas will fall to the side with the bigger fist.
As for axioms?
Many times, it is axiom that the fist is big.
The Nansi Hills area has been under the rule of the Carter Army for the past fifty years. This is undoubtedly a military provocation to the Kingsley family by the Adolf family.
In the past, the Kingsley family's army would have passed by long ago.
Even if we want to talk, we should wait until the claws extended by the Adolf family are cut off.
Because once they show weakness, neighbors in other disputed areas will use this as an excuse to take action.
At that time, they will not just take back the ownership of the disputed areas, but will even take the opportunity to create more disputed areas.
Although Arnold did not play politics, he was open-minded and very familiar with politics.
"Grand Duke Buck, they gambled too much this time. They invested too much in the Swamp of Despair. Victory will be a glorious victory, and defeat will be a complete defeat. The current result is the latter. The most elite troops of the family are trapped in the swamp."
Not to mention the Swamp of Despair, it is also in financial crisis. Even if the trapped troops are rescued, they still cannot escape the scrutiny of the wolves." As a bystander, the Princess Regent was aware of the Kingsley family's dire situation.