Dad, this seems to be the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 278 Negotiations
After Sun Yue's "unremitting efforts", the Southern Han Dynasty finally pulled Da Song from the battlefield to the negotiating table, and the war that has been tossing for more than half a year has finally been temporarily subsided. It's really good. At least you can do things for the money.

The negotiator sent by the Southern Han Dynasty was Gong Chengshu, and Sun Yue was naturally in charge of the Song Dynasty. Originally, the Southern Han Dynasty wanted Da Song to retreat about fifty miles before negotiating, but Pan Renmei directly suppressed it. Guo Chongyue went another [-] miles, and Gong Chengshu was so frightened that he immediately showed up at the door of their camp with the mission.

"Foreign Minister Gong Chengshu, please refer to the Song Dynasty Supervising Army."

Because it is in the military camp, the conditions are a bit rough, just a little cleaning, it is considered a ceremony, but at least Sun Yue's attitude is very good, his face is very kind, and he doesn't mean to be arrogant at all. , smiled and said some polite words such as long-admired names.

"Sun Jianjun, we in the Southern Han Dynasty can make a condition, remove the title of emperor, change the name to the lord, and the annual tribute is the same as in the Southern Tang Dynasty. I don't know what to do?"

Sun Yue laughed and said, "It's meaningless for you to talk like this. Although negotiating is a matter of demanding a price and paying back the money, but if your offer is too low, it will appear insincere."

"Then I don't know what Supervisor Sun means?"

"First of all, don't even think about the land other than Shaoguan. These lands are originally the homeland of Chu State and belong to Hunan. However, in order to show sincerity, Shaoguan can be left to you."

This was not beyond Gong Chengshu's expectations, so after a symbolic bargain, he nodded and agreed. After all, as long as Shaoguan is in hand, everything can still be saved.

"Let's talk about the issue of annual tribute. Since you have set the Southern Tang Dynasty as a target, then, it has been seven years since the Southern Tang Dynasty became a vassal of our Song Dynasty. This does not include the previous and subsequent weeks. Do we need to make up for the annual tribute? ?”

Gong Chengshu twitched in his heart, and said, "Then what do you mean...how much?"

"I don't bully you either, how about it, ten treasure ships like before, as a one-time compensation, one ship per year in the future, just calculate how much it is converted into copper, how about it?"

"Ten...ten ships? This is too much! This is going to hollow out our Southern Han Dynasty."

"Master Gong, are you bullying me for not understanding your Southern Han situation? Lingnan is a land of many treasures, and the sea trade is well developed. For you, this money should be far from empty.

Do you want to be more open-minded? Gold and silver cannot be eaten by hunger or drink by thirst. What is the use of gold and silver left in the treasury of your king apart from looking good?Lord Gong, you have to understand me. The battle has ended like this. If I am too gentle with the knife, how will I explain to the emperor when I go back? "

"This...but so much money is far beyond the limits of what I can decide. To tell you the truth, when I come out this time, our lord gave me a total of 200 million coins."

"200 million guan? Are you sending beggars? Don't say that such a big country, even our Sun family can afford this money. Since you are so dishonest, then let's not talk about it. Continue to fight, hit Guangzhou Let's talk again in the city, what do you think?"

"Don't, don't, everything is easy to discuss, is everything easy to discuss. After I ask our country lord, how about letting the lord decide?"

"Well, you can just go back and ask for instructions slowly, but, you know, Pan Shuai and I are at odds, although I want to talk, but he is very unwilling. It will continue to fight day by day, even if I hold him back, all of your soldiers are just useless."

"You... this is a bit deceptive, I think you Da Song are not sincere."

"Yeah, I advocate the peace talks. Isn't Pan Shuai not sincere? If I'm willing to cooperate sincerely with him, wouldn't it be difficult to drive directly to the city of Guangzhou? Just say if it's okay. We will not retreat."

"........."

To be honest, before Sun Yue thought about being like the representative of the Neon Kingdom after the Sino-Japanese War, he directly took out a treaty and asked a question, but there were only two words: yes or no.

But when he thought about it, his purpose wasn't really reconciliation, so he had no choice but to continue to accompany him in the ink, the lion opened his mouth, for Liu Yu, he didn't believe that money could be more important than life and Guozuo.

Even Liu Jiyuan can measure the power of the Northern Han Dynasty to make friends, why can't you Liu Yan?This is called a protection fee, which means to protect you from being beaten by me.

Naturally, there is nothing to say about other aspects, and Sun Yue raised seven or eight requests one after another, including sending protons to the DPRK, because the so-called negotiations were not planned to be successful, so Sun Yue didn't care much. This is embarrassing for them, so after more than an hour, they have nothing to talk about.

"Master Gong, let's have a drink here? It's said that you are a guest from afar. I feel friendly as soon as I meet you. Why don't we also show our friendship as landlords? Let's make friends."

Gong Chengshu refused again and again, dumbfounded, "It's no good, business is important, and the foreign minister has to send all these conditions of yours back to our lord for decision."

Just kidding, you guys are talking and fighting, wishing you could travel thirty or fifty miles a day, how big of a heart do I have to waste time making friends with you.

So the two parties exchanged simple greetings, and the guy rode back overnight.

Pan Renmei was quite confused and said: "Is it really okay for you to do this? Not to mention whether Liu Yan can agree to such a large amount of money, even if he agrees, don't you plan to sign it?"

Sun Yue said with a smile: "With so much money, Liu Yu will definitely die of pain. I reckon that even if they don't empty out their treasury, it won't be too much difference. Even maintaining the basic operation of the country is difficult, but what about human nature? For him, as long as he is still the lord of the country, money can be slowly saved, but if the country is gone, what is the use of more money?
As for signing the contract, it doesn't matter, as long as he thinks about it, then he has to prepare the money in advance, so he doesn't have to worry about shipping the treasure overseas in advance. "

"Well... In that case, aren't we still far away from them now?"

"Yeah, so I'll work hard for you later, and then go forward for seventy or eighty miles, trying to reach the outskirts of Guangzhou before they reply."

"........."

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But after Gong Chengshu returned to the court, he explained Sun Yue's conditions. As expected, Liu Yuan lost his temper and even killed Gong Chengshu without any impulse. His first reaction was absolutely no.

However, Pan Renmei's offensive was too fast and fierce. If they really refused, what would they do?fight?Don't be kidding, Liu Yan knows very well that he will never be able to beat him.

Since he couldn't beat him, all he had to do was to run away. He had already found an offshore island as a place to hang out for the rest of his life, and even took a boat to Siam.

But since he is willing to throw away even his family business, is he still reluctant to part with a few boats of gold and silver?
So, in less than two days, Gong Chengshu came again.

"Sun Jianjun! Sun Jianjun! Our lord has agreed to Da Song's terms, so please tell Pan Shuai to stop fighting!"

Sun Yue said very politely: "Sorry, that was the price three days ago. Just now I received a letter from Master. Here, we have raised the price."

(End of this chapter)