Chapter 1078: Recovering the Lost Ground

Then in this case, judging from the ambitions shown by the Emperor of Chu before, it is categorically not in such a comparable situation.

It is so easy to agree to the negotiation of reconciliation between the two countries.

But in the final analysis, no matter the truth of the matter and the emperor of Chu, what is the real purpose of this time, since this negotiation was initiated by them, and the other party has already taken the initiative to agree.

It is also impossible for them to refuse, or do something else because of this doubt in their hearts, so that in this case, in the end, they do not make any other move to guard against it.

It's just that this defensive heart is hidden in the dark, and it is also a private beginning, and he has always been on guard against the Chu State.

After all, in the final analysis, in this matter, the other party will only send an envoy of the Chu State to negotiate, and there may be a few servants with him, but it is far from possible to bring a real army to infiltrate the Tiansheng Dynasty.

Therefore, in this negotiation, they really don't have to worry about whether the other party will directly take advantage of such a great opportunity to directly send troops to attack the Tiansheng Dynasty.

From every point of view, it is obvious that the emperor of the other party is not stupid enough to be so stupid.

What's more, it has to be said that now Emperor Sheng is already old today and has the intention of abdicating, and the things taught by the crown prince can also be said to be almost well known.

As the emperor of the Chu State, even if he didn't deliberately inquire about this matter, he must have known about it a long time ago, so in this case, it is impossible for the other party to be stupid enough to send assassins to assassinate Emperor Tiansheng in the process of this negotiation.

If Emperor Tiansheng is now in the prime of life and has no children under his knees, this kind of assassination is still useful, so it is naturally impossible for them to show any excessive vigilance in this negotiation this time.

Otherwise, it may make the other party suspicious of this and change their real plan.

After all, judging from the current situation, the other party did not really want to attack the Tiansheng Dynasty, or have the mind to be hostile to the Tiansheng Dynasty.

It is really because of this that the more the other party reveals this situation, the more they are suspicious of this matter, and it is difficult to figure out what kind of mind the emperor of Chu has in mind to send envoys to negotiate, and what is the purpose of it.

But now, this matter of negotiation between the two countries has been decided, so in this case, they naturally want to select an envoy of the Tiansheng Dynasty who can negotiate with the envoy of the Chu State.

Because this matter itself was arranged for Long Yuanxiu to do, so that in this situation.

Emperor Tiansheng naturally arranged this, and asked Long Yuanxiu and Zhuang Mingyue to go to take charge of the negotiation with the envoy of Chu State.

And Long Yuanxiu and Zhuang Mingyue here naturally will not refuse this matter, and in the eyes of the two of them, there is indeed no more suitable than the two of them in the court this time.

Seeing that the envoys of the Chu State came to the Tiansheng Dynasty day by day, the two people who had also prepared early on the side also began to prepare for the matters to be negotiated with the envoys of the Chu State.

Seven days later.

However, after waiting for the day when the envoy of the Chu State came, after a short time of getting along, they found that the envoy of the Chu State was not only very good at talking, but also did not take advantage of this negotiation, because it was the Tiansheng Dynasty that took the initiative to speak, and the lion opened his mouth and asked for it directly.

On the contrary, it is polite and good-looking, and people can't find any mistakes.

In this case, although Zhuang Mingyue really couldn't find any mistakes on the other party, she couldn't see where the other party's true ambition was.

But this was not enough for her to completely let down her guard and believe that the other party really had no ambitions.

What you must know is that in the current situation, if the other party really has no ambitions, it is impossible to do this kind of continuous annexation of nearby small countries and build their own strong Chu army.

Therefore, in this case, when the negotiations between the two sides were quite fruitful, Zhuang Mingyue smiled and asked tentatively: "I don't know what the meaning of Your Majesty this time is to draw those small countries on the surrounding border into the power of Chu State?" ”

It stands to reason that Zhuang Mingyue should not ask such things directly, but under her previous roundabout temptation, the other party has indeed been pretending that she doesn't understand her kind of roundabout temptation at all.

Instead, she kept tearing away her words and answering her other things that were not related at all.

Under such circumstances, it was naturally impossible for Zhuang Mingyue to continue to let the other party pretend to be stupid and answer her like this, so she asked directly with a little unreasonableness.

And the envoy of the Chu State here still had a smile on his face, and after hearing Zhuang Mingyue's words this time, there was indeed a bit of a real smile in his eyes, and this time he had completely sunk down.

Although there is indeed a smile on the corner of his mouth, but in this situation where there is no smile in his eyes, it is enough to see how hypocritical this smile is.

Zhuang Mingyue and Long Yuanxiu, when they saw the face of this envoy of the Chu State, completely changed in an instant.

It is also understood that this matter must not be as simple as they thought, and since the beginning, the envoys of the Chu State have been deliberately avoiding this matter, and they don't want them to ask.

I saw that after hearing Zhuang Mingyue's question, the envoy of the Chu State was silent for a moment, and he didn't know whether he was thinking about how to answer, or if he wanted to use this silence to show their unreasonable inquiry.

But for this matter, Zhuang Mingyue and Long Yuanxiu, who were also not in a hurry, did not continue to ask, but still stared at the envoy of Chu State like that, obviously wanting to hear his answer.

This kind of gaze used by the two people here gave the envoy of the Chu State who was staring at him silent for a moment of silence.

The smile in his eyes only then recovered, although he didn't know how much the true meaning was, but from this questioning, it could be seen that the other party did not intend to tear his face with them.

I saw that the corners of his lips were still smiling, and his tone did not answer without any fluctuations.

"Thinking about His Royal Highness the Second Prince and His Royal Highness the Second Princess, this time I am too worried, Your Majesty of our country is doing this, itself is just to recover some of the small subsidiary countries that were annexed by other emperors in the former Chu State.

It is reasonable to take them back now, and the two of you don't need to have any doubts about this matter, and there is no need to be so curious. ”

However, his so-called answer, for Zhuang Mingyue and Long Yuanxiu, naturally would not believe it.

In their opinion, if the Chu State was really in order to recover the land that was lost at the beginning, it would not be possible to start recovering the so-called lost land directly without warning in this situation.

So when the two of them heard this, after the envoy of Chu State replied like this, they subconsciously refuted his words from the bottom of their hearts, and even understood that what the envoy of Chu State said was a lie.

Although they also understood that in this kind of situation where the other party was an envoy of the Chu State, he would definitely not directly tell the emperor of the Chu State the real purpose of doing this.

But when they asked like this, they just wanted to get some clues from the mouth of this envoy of the Chu State, not such a smiling answer.

Just when the two of them were about to speak out and ask again, the envoy of the Chu State, who saw the intentions of the two of them, took the lead and directly blocked their words.

"Please also rest assured, Your Highnesses, what Your Majesty has done this time is just to regain the lost territory, and it has not threatened the rule of the Tiansheng Dynasty. There is no intention to have any disadvantage to the Tiansheng Dynasty. Therefore, please don't worry, Your Highness, and don't stop it, so that you and I can live in peace like this time. ”

For this, it can even be said that it is a threatening word, and the two people who originally wanted to say something here and ask for it.

Immediately, they also understood that they couldn't continue to ask too much, otherwise their negotiation this time would definitely be meaningless, and it might even anger this envoy of the Chu State.

When he returned to the state of Chu, it is unknown how he would mention this negotiation to the emperor of the state of Chu.

Now that the negotiations have been successful, there is no need to make such a thing self-defeating and create a worse situation.

In this case, in the end, Zhuang Mingyue and Long Yuanxiu could only give up too many inquiries in desperation, and then conveyed the news that was not news to Emperor Tiansheng.

After hearing such news, Emperor Tiansheng also had a cold face.

Even if the envoy of the Chu State did not say it, but under the deliberate behavior of the emperor of the Chu State now, in fact, it is not difficult for the three of them to clearly guess in their hearts, what kind of calculation is this Chu State.

After all, in the final analysis, as an emperor, there are only a few possibilities for anything ambitious.

Since the other party started by annexing these small border countries, it gradually annexed the small countries affiliated to the Tiansheng Dynasty.