Chapter six hundred and twentieth our party draws up conditions
News of the Byzantine Empire's attack from the Asian Peninsula reached Mulu City through various channels. Just yesterday, Li Siye had relaxed and ordered his soldiers to pack their bags and prepare to go on the road. He had given up hope for negotiations and often cursed to himself.
The kings and ministers of Constantinople were cowardly cowards who did not even dare to seize such a great opportunity.
The Nestorian missionaries came to Mulu City with the news. Li Siye had just laid down to rest. After hearing Cen Shen's story, he excitedly waved to Yan Xiaosi outside the door: "Call the priest over, I want to ask him personally.
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The priest walked into the flat-roofed house wearing a ramie robe, holding the cross hanging around his neck. He was afraid of these soldiers who smelled of blood.
Li Siye sat up from the couch and waved to him with a warm expression: "Hello, Father."
The priest thought that this was the only gentleman here, although he was also strong and intimidating. He quickly made the sign of the cross on his chest and said: "See Your Majesty the General."
"Father, please tell me in detail the news you brought. Constantinople finally went to war against the cannibal?"
"That's it. Your Excellency, General, Emperor Constantine IV has summoned the generals more than a month ago to cross the Taurus Mountains and invade the Asia Minor Peninsula. I know that this news is very useful to the General and can relieve your pain.
The pressure on the battlefield in Khorasan today.”
Not only is it useful, it is simply too useful. This is an opportunity for him to open his mouth to Bingbo Xilin Lion, and it is also an opportunity to develop the Anxi Army. Tianbao has been around for eleven years, and time waits for no one. He needs to grab a fortune
, this wealth will allow his strength to grow rapidly, and he can overwhelm the three towns of Heshuo in one fell swoop.
After the priest exited the camp, Li Siye walked around on the ground with his bare feet and said excitedly to Cen Shen: "Go and call everyone over and order the entire army to continue stationing. And Bo Xilin will send an envoy here soon, and we will discuss it."
Let me tell you how to raise conditions and what kind of conditions to raise. I will tell you that farming is not as fun as robbing."
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Everyone sat cross-legged on the left and right sides, looking up at Li Siye who was sitting on the bed. He had taken off his heavy armor today and was only wearing a purple robe. He crossed his arms and said casually: "The Great Food Society sent envoys to negotiate with us.
, the negotiation location is the station located in the Kizilkum Desert, I am going to send Duan Xiushi and Cen Shen as our representatives, please discuss what conditions we need to put forward."
All the generals looked at each other in confusion. It wasn't that they didn't understand, but that they had never heard of asking an enemy country for conditions, and they didn't know what to ask for.
Tian Zhen patted her belly and said: "Doctor Li, brothers are all rough people, how can they ask for any conditions? Dr. Li has made great efforts to promote this matter. If you need to mention anything, you just say it, and brothers just listen."
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Deputy Protector Cheng Qianli also crossed his hands and said, "Doctor, what conditions need to be mentioned? Please give us a sample first, and we will go into details later."
"Okay," Dr. Li rolled up his sleeves and spoke: "The so-called conditions imposed by the defeated side are nothing more than compensation and cession of territory. The compensation is naturally the dinar gold coin, the common official currency of the Dashi Dynasty and Byzantium, which is what you call
How many Sasanian gold coins are needed? Let’s work out a figure.”
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became ambiguous, and the generals almost showed an expression of greed for money. Some of them even swallowed secretly, for fear of being ridiculed by the doctor for their worthlessness.
"How much money should I ask them for?" Marching Sima Wang Zhengjian hesitated, stroking his pale beard: "Or, two hundred thousand gold coins?"
"Oh," Tian Zhencai waved his hand and said, "Too little, it should be at least three hundred thousand."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
At this moment, Li Siye showed a look of disdain for both of you, as three hundred thousand gold coins were not enough for the supplies and food consumed in this war.
The dinar gold coin system is popular throughout Eurasia because gold, a precious metal, is the favorite of all nations. The real dinar originated from the Umayyad Dynasty. Until now, all countries in Europe and Asia are using gold to mint coins, and the Tang Dynasty
Almost most of the gold on the market flows in through the Silk Road. Due to the small production of gold in the Central Plains, it has become a hard currency on par with spices.
A gold coin weighs about eight to ten grams. Four or five coins are equivalent to one tael of gold. The exchange rate between gold and Kaiyuan Tongbao is about one to two dozen guan. So 300,000 gold coins are equivalent to 600,000 guan. This is already
It was not a small amount, but Li Siye was still not satisfied. He inherited the greedy nature of later generations of businessmen and would rather break up the deal than take anything less.
"How much does the doctor think we should ask for?" As a Confucian disciple, Cen Shen was forced to talk about money and other things like A Du, which really went against his true intentions.
Li Siye twirled his beard and thought about it and said: "What we are asking for is war reparations, so naturally our war losses must be taken into account. A full year has passed since we set out from Qiuci. There are more than 20,000 Anxi athletes, and there are still more than 20,000 Anxi athletes. There are two allies, Ningyuanguo and Geluolu, who are always working hard with their heads raised, including the compensation for the families of the fallen soldiers and the financial contributions from Anxi. The intangible losses are difficult to estimate. I don’t think it is worse than this, three hundred and sixty years a year. For five days, Dashi will compensate you 10,000 gold coins every day, for a total compensation of 3.65 million gold coins."
The generals were all dumbfounded after hearing this. It was really a lion's mouth.
"What expressions are you looking at? If even you think it's much more, wouldn't it be more difficult to accept cannibalism? Just asking for gold coins is still not enough, the Abbas family also has to compensate us for 10,000 thoroughbred Arabian horses."
Li Siye asked for war horses, which made the generals' eyes light up.
"As for ceding territory, asking them to ask for the entire Khorasan Province is naturally unrealistic. Asking for Mulu City in the desert alone will not be of much use. It would be better to cut off the relationship between the nine countries in the river and even Tochara and Dashi at once.
It also cut off Dashi's access to India. Let the Dashi people recognize in the treaty the sovereign status of the Tang Dynasty in the Nine Kingdoms of Hezhong and Tochara. At the same time, the two sides agreed on a permanent boundary line. Take Mulu City as the boundary.
, it was ruled as a border free city, and the food army was not allowed to garrison in the city. At the same time, a boundary pillar stone tablet was installed, with Chinese characters and Arabic characters engraved on it, as a legacy of history."
After listening to this, the generals were deeply impressed by the familiarity and comprehensiveness of Dr. Li's conditions, as if they had already made a draft in their minds.
Everyone unanimously agreed on the amount of compensation and the demarcation of the boundary.
"You all should retreat first. Duan Xiushi and Cen Shen will stay, and we will discuss the specific details of the terms of the treaty."
The generals stood up and left one after another. Li Siye closed his eyes and meditated for a moment, then opened his eyes and looked at them.
"One more item must be added to the treaty. The Abbasid Dynasty must pay tribute to the sage Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty every year with nine white horses and nine white camels."
Cen Shen scratched his head and said, "I still want them to pay tribute. Can they agree?"
"They must agree to this, even if they reduce other conditions by 20%."
"Why should we reduce other areas by 20%? Although white horses and camels are rare, they lack actual value."
"Let me tell you why." Li Siye pointed to his feet and said: "It's really fun to ask the big cannibal for the actual value of money, but I can't just care about my own happiness. The most important thing is to make the saint happy. Only the saint
Only when I feel happy can I truly feel happy."
Cen Shen understood in a daze, nodded and said: "We have been on an expedition for so long. Is this battle nominally for the saint?"
"What do you think? Fighting is for the saints to see. If you write a better marching log, you can give it to the saints for viewing."