Iron Dynasty

Jinling City.

Just two days after Xiao Qi's message arrived in Jinling City, the news of Yongzhou City's fall came.

Hearing this news, King Wei slumped on the seat.

Father, things are clear now. If you don't sign the truce, Xiao Ming will continue to attack the city, while King Yan and Zhao will only sit on the sidelines. After all, this time, it was the father who did not agree to the truce conditions that led to the fall of Huaizhou.

Xiao Han looked anxious. In this situation, his father was still as stinky and hard as a stone in a ditch. If things go on like this, all the cities in Wei Di will belong to Xiao Ming, so what kind of land will he have in the future? able to inherit.

Therefore, after Huaizhou fell, he immediately joined his loyal ministers to go to the palace to persuade him.

King Wei on the throne's eyes were sluggish. In the last battle of Pengzhou, the defenders were involved in escaping. This time the defenders of Huaizhou were either killed or captured, and only a few people were able to escape.

The battle of Pengzhou was a fluke, and Tongzhou might also be a fluke, but now that Huaizhou has also been conquered, he finally realized the gap between the Wei army and the Qi army.

Without artillery and muskets, he could not defeat Xiao Ming at all.

His Royal Highness, the most important thing now is a truce. Only by giving us time can we reorganize our army, otherwise Wei land will perish.

Xiao Han looked distressed: Father, the result of Xiao Qi's hard work this time is this truce letter. If you don't seize the opportunity, other vassal kings will definitely not pay attention to our Wei land!

King Wei's face was extremely ugly, he was ambitious, he was going to ascend to the supreme throne in Chang'an, but now he can only live humblely in the shadow of Xiao Ming.

The police told Xiao Qi that this king agreed to the conditions of the truce. King Wei finally said word by word.

Xiao Han and the other officials breathed a sigh of relief. Wei Di had thirteen states, so what if they lost three? They can talk about anything as long as they can keep their glory and wealth.

Soon, one person and one horse went to Qingzhou with a message from King Wei.

Five days later, the envoys from the five parties did it again.

Compared with ten days ago, Zhan Xingchang was more energetic at this time. Huaizhou was conquered, and officials from the top and bottom of the Fengguo were in a frenzy.

It is their duty as ministers to open up the territory and expand the land. Now that they see more and more land in the vassal state, of course they are happy.

Xiao Qi, that day I told you to sign it. Didn't you ask for this? Now Huaizhou is lost again. Cui Zhang sneered.

When Xiao Wenxuan was in power, King Wei had the largest area of ​​the kingdom, and the largest city and population.

It is for this reason that other vassal kings with different surnames are somewhat afraid of him, but now even if he loses three cities, it will not hurt Wei Di.

Wang Xi's expression was a bit complicated. King Qi's army had moved to another city in such a short period of time, which shocked him. Thinking that the battle between King Zhao and King Shu still failed to achieve any results, he became more and more apprehensive of Xiao Ming. .

It's just that this time he came to Qingzhou to take advantage of the harmony and the mud. Now King Zhao has no power to attack Xiao Ming with others, so even though he knows that Xiao Ming is going to another city, he has nothing to do. If he talks too much, he is afraid of being forced to In a hurry, Xiao Ming provided the King of Shu with a large number of firearms.

While the five of them were chatting without a word, Xiao Ming walked in.

Lu Fei had already sent the battle report to Qingzhou. This time, Lu Fei easily won Huaizhou, which gave Xiao Ming another understanding of the combat effectiveness of the current feudal army.

In the past, he seemed to have overestimated the army of these vassal kings. Now that Lu Fei has proved the fighting strength of the vassal king's army with facts, he suddenly realized.

Just as Pang Yukun said, today's Great Yu Kingdom is a rotten country. This rottenness is not only about the royal family, but also in the peak of land annexation in the feudal kingdoms of the vassal kings.

The clansmen and clans were originally too big to lose, and now they have scoured the world's wealth, and the battle report returned by Ye Qingyun further illustrates this problem.

The indifference of the people when they attacked Tongzhou City was surprising.

So after analyzing this problem, Xiao Ming realized that maybe he could be bolder. After all, although there were many vassal kings, he was the only one who fundamentally changed.

Your Highness.

When Xiao Ming arrived, everyone stood up to greet him.

At this time, Xiao Qi took the initiative to say: His Royal Highness, King Wei is willing to agree to the truce contract, hoping to sign it as soon as possible.

Yes, Your Highness, we have lived in Qingzhou for some time, and we should go back after counting the days. I hope Your Highness will make a decision as soon as possible.

Xiao Ming did not speak, but suddenly spread a map on the table.

Others looked at them one after another and found that this was a map of Wei land, on which the current cities of Wei land and the cities that had been captured were marked.

When Xiao Qi saw this map, her complexion changed greatly, because in addition to the marked cities that had already been captured, a circle was drawn in Yangzhou.

His Royal Highness, what do you mean? Xiao Qi was shocked and angry, he had already guessed a few points.

It's very simple, in addition to Pengzhou, Tongzhou, and Huaizhou, the three cities belong to this king. In addition, Yangzhou will be ceded and five million silver will be indemnified. If this condition is met, this truce book will be stamped by this king. Xiao Ming said loudly.

Xiao Qi's face suddenly flushed, Your Highness, you are too deceiving.

It's King Wei who deceives people too much. Originally, this truce book gave him face, but he refused to accept it, so I can't blame this king. Xiao Ming's tone was a little tough.

At this time, Zheng Hao looked at Xiao Qi and then at Xiao Ming, His Royal Highness King Qi, this is a bit too much. Since His Highness has taken Huaizhou, this Huaizhou should be given to His Highness, but how can Yangzhou be ceded? ?

There are a lot of grievances between this king and Wei king, but it's not something that can be said clearly in a few words. Now this is the condition of a truce, otherwise this king can only go and get it in person.

Xiao Qi and Zheng Hao looked at each other, then Zheng Hao said, Since Your Highness is so aggressive, it is impossible to say that we Wei, Zhao, Yan, Liang will have to deal with His Highness.

Negotiations are originally quarrels, relying on mouth on the table and strength under the table.

At the same time, mutual intimidation is also a way of negotiation, and now Xiao Qi and Zheng Hao obviously want to use this trick too.

Don't take Yandi. King Wei has thirteen prefectures. It is reasonable and reasonable for the four prefectures to be compensated. Besides, Weidi is rich and prosperous, the five million taels are trivial. Cui Zhang waved his hands again and again.

Wang Xi smiled under Xiao Ming's gaze, Your Highness, I didn't say anything.

Xiao Qi and Zheng Hao's faces suddenly became a little embarrassed. This time the merger was a complete failure.

So King Wei and King Liang are going to fight with this king? Xiao Ming said with a smile: Then this king can only accept the move!