Compared with other aspects, Tang Ning's most prominent ability is his mouth. This mouth can pat Zhao Xu's sycophancy, can please Wang Shi, and similarly, can also make the envoy of Liao disgusted and speechless.

The once glorious dynasty is now under the attack of the Jurchens, showing the state of the twilight of the western mountains. Under the rule of Yelu Yanxi, people of insight were excluded, and the court was full of idle people who trusted their relationships to go through the back door, and Xiao Fengxian was the best example.

He relied on his sister's relationship with Yelu Yanxi to become Yelu Yanxi's No. 1 favorite minister, but everything he did and said was to squander the little luck left in the Liao Kingdom.

However, he is very good at being an official. In the area of forming a party for personal gain and persecuting officials who disagreed with him, Xiao Fengxian has always been an unattainable existence for Liao officials.

Therefore, the envoy sent to the Song Kingdom by Yelu Yanxi was not as eloquent as he imagined, nor was he as unpredictable as he imagined.

He got the opportunity to go on this mission by bribing Xiao Fengxian, and in essence, he was still a life-sparing and timid person.

This is not in line with the identity of the messenger, and the envoy should be a person who puts life and death out of the way, and is awe-inspiring and upright.

From the time Tang Ning heard that the reward for himself was issued by the envoy of the Liao State, Tang Ning felt that this envoy was not very good. He didn't care if he found a scapegoat to do this, and Tang Ning would look at him squarely.

However, he personally went to muddy the waters, which shows that he is not a smart person himself.

So after Tang Ning learned that he wanted to see him, he was very relaxed. There are no more than two reasons for him to find himself, one is to ask for guilt, and the other is to let himself cancel the reward for him.

Unfortunately, either of these two reasons is unacceptable to Downing.

The envoy of the Liao State was disgusted by Tang Ning's words, and he found that he seemed to have been led down a crooked path by Tang Ning. So he slapped the table and said angrily: "You are enough!

Obviously, you sent troops to attack Canzhou and sabotage the Liao-Song alliance first, why do you want to act like you are a victim?! Don't go on shamelessly! ”

Speaking of this, the envoy of the Liao State stood up and hugged his fist at Zhao Xu and said: "Respected Emperor of the Song Kingdom, the two countries of Liao and Song have been brother countries for a hundred years.

At the beginning, the signing of the alliance and joining forces to resist gold was also your country's proposal. However, your country took advantage of the fierce battle between our Da Liao soldiers and the Jin army to seize half of the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Suffering from the entanglement of war, I, the Emperor of Great Liao, have not reacted to your actions.

Now that the war is dying, should your country give us an explanation? Is perfidy to break the covenant a common thing in the eyes of your country? ”

Buttoning a big hat has always been the art of negotiating conditions, just like a lion opening his mouth. The latter is to give the other party room to express their own expectations, while the former is to accept more conditions by condemning the other party and making the other party feel guilty.

Although the envoy of the Liao State was not a qualified envoy in Tang Ning's opinion. But he still understands these most basic things.

When Zhao Xu heard this, he smiled and said, "Since the envoy said so, then I don't know what your Son of Heaven of Da Liao means?" ”

"Return the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and hand over Tangning, we will treat this incident as if it never happened." The envoy of the Liao State glanced at Tang Ning, who was silent, and said boldly.

Before Zhao Xu could reply, Tang Ning slapped the table and stood up and shouted, "You really fucking dare to say it?!" ”

The movement was violent, causing a pain in the wound on his buttocks, and Tang Ning covered his buttocks with his teeth grinning after roaring.

The envoy of the Liao State was startled by Tang Ning's sudden voice, and his guards also stood up very nervously to block in front of him.

The envoy was not allowed to bring weapons into the audience, and if there was any emergency, the bodies of the two of them were the shields of the envoys.

"Nonsense!" Zhao Xu also lost his temper with Tang Ning: "Don't be rude to the envoys of the Liao State!" ”

"Wechen is guilty." Tang Ning nodded helplessly, and casually bowed his hand to the envoy of the Liao State: "I'm sorry, you shouldn't have heard of what you said." ”

How could you not have heard it! The envoy of the Liao State is scolding his mother in his heart, you talk like drinking soup, do you know how scared I am by you?

Zhao Xu saw that Tang Ning had already apologized, so he turned his head and said to the envoy of the Liao State: "My majesty is not strict, let the envoy see the joke." ”

The envoy of the Liao State knew that this was Zhao Xu singing a double reed with Tang Ning, and he didn't dare to get an inch, so he smiled dryly: "It's okay, it's okay." It's just the conditions below, please think about it, Your Majesty......"

"You still dare to mention it?!" Tang Ning slapped the table again and roared, and the envoy of the Liao State was directly frightened this time.

"Nonsense!" The envoy of the Liao State always felt that he had seen this scene somewhere: "You must not be rude to the envoy of the Liao State!" ”

"Wechen is guilty...... I'm sorry, but you shouldn't have heard of it. ”

"My majesty is not strict, let the messenger see the joke."

“……”

The envoy of the Liao State directly closed his mouth this time - I won't say anything, you have no reason to yell at me, right?

"When the official family talks to you, you don't hear it?! Do you have a culture?! Tang Ning got up again and roared.

"Fooling around ......"

"Wechen is guilty......"

"My Majesty is not strict......"

These two can play like this for a day. The envoy of the Liao State thought silently.

In the end, it was Zhao Xu who untied this dead loop, and after coughing a few times, he spoke: "It is impossible to return the land of the eight states in the east of the sixteen states of Yanyun.

As for handing over Tang Qing to you...... or

Some of the ministers would have expected this, but I disagreed.

I don't agree to either of your conditions. ”

It stands to reason that at this time, a capable messenger should get up and walk away. When leaving, he also left a cruel sentence, such as: "Since Your Majesty is obsessed, don't blame us for being polite!" Then he snorted and walked away proudly.

But the Liao envoy in front of him didn't, he was very afraid that if he did this, he would not be able to leave Tokyo City alive.

Moreover, he came to Tokyo City for three days, except for the day when he first came, he was summoned by the emperor and had a banquet, and the rest of the time he lived in the Tongbunkan.

This time, for the reason of seeing Tang Ning, he met Zhao Xu at the same time, which was the opportunity for him to negotiate conditions with Zhao Xu on behalf of Yelu Yanxi.

He originally wanted to achieve his own goal by managing the lord and faction of the Song Kingdom to let them blow the wind in Zhao Xu's ears. But it takes time to do this, and it will definitely not be possible to do this in a few months and a lot of human and financial resources.

And Downing's bounty had already made half of his head drop, and he didn't even dare to eat food made by anyone but himself.

Even when choosing ingredients, he has to remove a layer of skin under running water, and then feed the middle part to the pigs or dogs bought at a high price, to see how they react, and if they are not poisoned, he dares to cook.

Such days are a kind of torment, so he proposed to see Downing.

But he never expected Tang Ning to be so tough in front of him, as he said at the beginning, it was obviously he who took the lead in breaking the covenant and attacking the Liao soldiers in Canzhou, why did he seem to be at his own loss now?

He thought about it for a long time and didn't figure it out, and Zhao Xu vetoed his proposal again. But this is not unexpected.

So he nodded and said, "In that case, then there is a proposal below, I wonder if Your Majesty can consider it?" ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it." Zhao Xu said with a smile.

"Now, although the eight eastern states of the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures have actually been occupied by your country, the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures are still the nominal territory of our Liao State.

Considering that the Liao and Song dynasties have been brotherly countries for more than a hundred years, and there has been no major war for more than 100 years, my great Liao Tianzi reluctantly parted his love and was willing to hand over the governance of the eight eastern states of the sixteen states of Yanyun to His Majesty.

But it doesn't come without a price, we still have two conditions.

First, the governing power of each state capital is 1.6 million taels of silver, and the governing power of Youzhou is 2.8 million taels. Eight state capitals, totaling 14 million taels of silver.

If Your Majesty is willing to give up these four million taels of silver, then we will give up the eight eastern states.

The second ......" The envoy of the Liao State glanced at Tang Ning, who had a playful look in his eyes, swallowed his saliva, and said stubbornly: "The second is still the condition just now, hand over Tang Ning's ......"

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