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Zhao Ziliang wore a royal robe and a crown and walked up to His Majesty, and the civil ministers and military generals who stood neatly in the hall bowed down and shouted: "Wait for the ministers to meet the king!" ”

Zhao Ziliang sat down on the throne, put his hands on the golden armrests and said, "All the secretaries are flat!" Someone, the new envoy of the Xuanda Food Country, Nasser, will meet you! ”

The ministers got up one after another, and the civil and military stood on one side, and the middle was empty. The eunuch on duty shouted loudly: "The king has a decree, and the new envoy of the Great Food Country, Nasser, will meet you!" ”

The eunuchs outside shouted one after another, passing Zhao Ziliang's will to the palace gate, and the eunuchs who were accompanying him outside the palace heard it and said to Nasser, the new envoy of the Great Food Country: "Your Excellency, the king's will has come down, announce your visit!" You can pay homage to the king according to the etiquette of your Great Food Country, but you must also abide by the customs of our country and the rules of the royal court! ”

Nasser nodded in understanding, and the eunuch then led him and an entourage into the palace gate, where he got into a carriage and walked up the hill for half an hour before reaching the gate of the Ice Palace.

Outside the hall, the Thai building explained again, and then took Nasser and his entourage into the main hall, and entered the main hall, the eunuch stood aside, and Nasser walked to the middle of the main hall with his entourage one after the other according to the etiquette of the big food and saluted Zhao Ziliang and said: "The new envoy of the Great Food Country, Nasser, came to visit the king on the order of our caliphate, and was stationed in Xinjing to perform the duties of our envoy in Xinjing. ”

The entourage took a few steps forward and held up the national letter with both hands, and a eunuch on His Majesty Dan walked down to take the national letter and presented it to Zhao Ziliang, Zhao Ziliang took the national letter and glanced at it, put it down and said: "Is it the first time for Your Excellency Nasser to come to Xiqin?" ”

Nasser said: "Yes, Your Majesty! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Okay, this king hopes that Your Excellency will be familiar with the customs and customs of my Western Qin and the rules of the royal court as soon as possible, adapt to this position as soon as possible, and strengthen the communication and contact between the two sides in the relationship between the two countries!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Nasser saluted and immediately changed the subject: "I very much agree with Your Majesty's words, but as far as I know, half a month ago, your country's border garrison in Huathornzim actually invaded our territory and occupied the northeastern border towns of Guchang and Mashad in our country!" As two countries with normal diplomatic relations, this behavior is extremely wrong, and I hope that His Majesty the King will immediately issue an edict to withdraw the troops that invaded our country, punish the relevant generals, compensate our country for the losses, and apologize in writing to our country! ”

"Fart!"

"Impossible!"

"It's your rudeness that comes first!"

For a while, the civil and military ministers in the court scolded Nasser, why only allow the governor to set fires and not allow the people to light lamps, only if you cross the border and invade our territory, will not allow our army to kill your territory? Want us to withdraw our troops? You apologize first! Finally compensate and apologize, don't even think about it!

Zhao Ziliang raised his hand to stop the insults and angry rebukes of the ministers of civil and military affairs, and said to Nasser: "Your Excellency the envoy of Nasser, this matter was caused by the unauthorized invasion of your Great Food Army into our territory and the first to cause a conflict. We fought back when we couldn't bear it! If you are unreasonable, then don't blame us for being unreasonable! If you want to resolve this dispute, should you first show good faith? ”

Nasser frowned and said, "I wonder what His Majesty wants?" ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head at Dugu Wenshi, and Dugu Wenshu stood up and said to Nasser: "Your Excellency, my country's request is very simple, your caliph must first apologize in writing to my king and admit his mistake, this is the basis for our two sides to negotiate and resolve this matter, without this, everything is free to talk!" ”

Nasser's face changed: "This is impossible! In this matter, our caliph is absolutely right, if you really want to find a person who is at fault, it is the general Maninta, who has been killed by your army, is there anything more to bear the fault than to die? At the beginning of this matter, our country was indeed at fault, General Maninta should not have led his army into your sphere of influence, but he and the army he led did not cause any losses to you, and your army not only surrounded and annihilated them, but also entered our territory and captured the cities of Guchang and Mashad, the actions of our army can only be regarded as provocations, but the actions of your army are aggression! ”

Ge Yutai, the head of the household, jumped out and retorted: "Who said that the behavior of your army is just a provocation? Your army is an invasion if it sets foot on our land without the permission of our side! ”

Nasser's face knew that no matter what he said, he would not be reasonable, after all, this matter was provoked by the Great Food Eater first, and now they have retaliated and bitten to make the Great Food Country apologize, and let the Caliph apologize himself, which is not something he can decide.

Nasser froze and said to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, I hope that both of us will exercise restraint, we have been fighting with the Eastern Roman Empire for many years, our people need to recuperate, and the people of your country do not want war to break out, we think we can sit down and talk, can we withdraw your army from our territory first, and then we will discuss further?" ”

Zhao Ziliang refused expressionlessly: "You are unwilling to admit your mistakes, do you think it is possible for us to sit down and negotiate?" ”

Nasser sighed and saluted Zhao Ziliang: "This is really a pity, I will send someone back to Baghdad as soon as possible to convey the wishes of His Majesty the King and your country to my caliph!" ”

On the occupation of Guchang City and Mashad by the Western Qin army, the Great Food Country and the Western Qin State have been in constant negotiations for more than two months after that, and the Great Food Country insisted on refusing to apologize for being the first to enter the Western Qin sphere of influence, and the Western Qin insisted that the Great Food Country apologize first before sitting down to negotiate a settlement of the dispute, so the two sides were deadlocked.

Both sides are secretly deploying troops and hoarding grain, grass and other strategic supplies, and ordinary people are unaware that the situation has quietly begun to change. By the end of August, Nasser may have received instructions from Baghdad to request peace talks with the Honglu Monastery in Western Qin.

Honglu Temple Qing Hong Xu immediately came to report to the Prime Minister of the Government Council, Dugu Wenqing, and Dugu Wenshu reported to Zhao Ziliang.

"Are you saying that the Great Cannibal wants to make us withdraw to Yang Guangliang's Ministry with these compensation conditions?" Zhao Ziliang asked after looking at the music presented by Dugu Wenqing.

"Yes! However, they refused to apologize in writing. Weichen thinks that it is indeed difficult for them to apologize, so it is better to increase the asking price on these and talk slowly! Dugu Wenshu is quite enthusiastic about this, he is not afraid of fighting with the Great Food Country, he does not want to fight immediately, it is best to delay the fight until next year.

Zhao Ziliang looked at the compensation conditions proposed by the big cannibal again, thought about it, and said: "You can talk to them, but these compensation conditions must be doubled, for example, the tax revenue of China's goods entering the big food country must be reduced by half; The amount of copper ore sold to China must triple every year, and the price must be two percent lower than before; twice as many of the high-quality war horses that were given to our country; The amount of compensation money has been increased to 4 million! ”

Dugu asked: "Yes, Weichen asked Honglu Temple to arrange officials to talk to Nasser!" ”

Within a few days, Honglu Temple sent officials to negotiate with Nasser, and Wang Can hurried to the Cold Ice Palace to see Zhao Ziliang, and reported: "Wang, Weichen heard that Honglu Temple is negotiating with Da Shiguo?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Yes, do you have any ideas?" ”

Wang Can said: "Wechen doesn't have any ideas, but there is some movement on the side of the Great Food Country, and the opposition of the Caliphate of the Great Food Country is mobilizing the people everywhere to express their dissatisfaction with the caliphate authorities, forcing the Caliph to immediately launch a war to fight for back Guchang and Mashad , Wechen thinks that this is probably the purpose of Nasser's active negotiations with our side to ask for peace talks!" ”

Zhao Ziliang became interested: "Why do you think so?" ”

"Great King, after many years of civil strife and many years of fighting with the Eastern Roman Empire, the national strength has long been overwhelmed, and their soldiers can't eat or dress even if their faith is strong, right? He used to secretly support the border generals to provoke our country, that was to test our reaction and tolerance, he probably did not expect the king to suddenly return to Xinjing, nor did he expect that we would respond to them in such a strong way, so he knew that now is not the best time to go to war with us, his army needs to rest, his country needs to recover from the war, and now the opposition is forcing him to send troops to retake Guchang and Maskad, in order to calm the internal opposition, he can only find other ways to take back Guchang and Maskad, That's why Nasser is in such a hurry to put forward some conditions for reparations to negotiate peace with us! ”

Zhao Ziliang listened to Wang Can's words, and his heart moved, and he immediately instructed the eunuch next to him: "Immediately announce Dugu and ask the vulgar to meet!" ”

Dugu Wenshu quickly followed the eunuch to the Cold Ice Palace, and when he saw that Wang Can was also here, he arched his hand to Zhao Ziliang and said, "King! ”

Zhao Ziliang asked, "How are the negotiations with Nasser going?" ”

"It's still talking, but it's almost over!"

Zhao Ziliang said: "Make a request to them, let them pay the compensation first, if they don't pay the compensation, we won't withdraw the army!" When the reparations are paid, we will withdraw the army! ”

Dugu Wenshu was stunned for a moment, "King, what are you?????? Are you worried about the big cannibals? ”

"Money is the most tangible thing, if you don't get money, all agreements are waste paper!"

"Yes, Weichen asked Honglu Temple to add this one!"