Hongdi

Yu Xun sat in the private room on the third floor of Fuman Building, quietly admiring the early awakening of the capital of the country.Here, it seems that the raging flames of war have never been ignited, and it seems that Hongguo soldiers have never invaded the border. Everything seems normal and prosperous.

The hustle and bustle of the night has not yet subsided, but Lincheng has become lively in the bright morning light.The stalls on the side of the street were already overcrowded, and shouts kept coming and going.Teahouses, inns, restaurants, cloth shops, and pawnshops have already opened their doors to attract visitors from all over the world.Shopkeepers walking around the streets, hawkers setting up street stalls, and ordinary people going to the city to do business, a small street is bustling with people, very lively.

The door was gently pushed open with a 'squeak', Yu Xun turned his head when he heard the sound, looked at the person who pushed the door and entered, and sighed in his heart: "What a handsome son!"

The visitor was estimated to be around 25 or six years old. He had a wheat-colored face with sharp eyebrows, a straight nose, and thin lips tightly pursed.A pair of brown eyes were bottomless, and there was a faint brilliance flickering between Gu Pan.A table of white clothes is like snow, with silver lines outlining a few poles of bamboo, noble but not flashy.

The visitor was also looking at Yuxun. Suddenly, he pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled faintly, "Hong Yuxun?"

Yu Xun also smiled, and got up to greet him, "Your Highness came down so fast, I thought I had to watch the scenery on the street for a while."

Yue Hexia sat at the table calmly, looking out the window at the bustling street.

"Xiao Tian, ​​serve tea." After Yu Xun finished speaking, he sat opposite Yue Hexia, "Your Highness, I have heard about your Yue family's affairs, do you want to make a deal?"

Yue Hexia looked at Yu Xun lightly, and smiled noncommittally, "A deal?"

"To be disrespectful, although His Highness is the crown prince, don't you think this throne can fly?"

"Hmph, we're in the same boat, aren't you the same?"

Yu Xun raised his eyebrows and smiled mischievously, "Well, almost."

Yue Hexia looked at Yu Xun's eccentric smile, his heart suddenly constricted, and the next moment it beat wildly.Yu Xun's white face was slightly morbidly tired, but that bright smile, those two lovely dimples, and those green eyes that were as bright as water hit Yue Hexia's heart directly.

"This king will help you win the throne, how about it? I have already thought of a plan."

Yue Hexia picked up the tea on the table and drank it all in one gulp, still speechless.

Yu Xun blinked his big eyes, his long silver eyelashes resembled the wings of a butterfly, plucking at the heartstrings of the person opposite him, but he didn't know it, "Your Highness, this tea is high-quality Biluochun, not wine. You drink like this, What a waste of money."

Yue Hexia closed her eyes slightly, calmed down the weird emotions in her heart, tried her best to keep her voice calm, and said, "What's your condition?"

"A piece of paper."

Yue Hexia's eyelids twitched slightly, and he said again, "How do you help me?"

"Pretend to be captured by you, and you lead your troops to lead the prisoners into the city and force the palace."

"Hehe, aren't you afraid that this king will betray you?" Yue Hexia looked at Yu Xun like a cat playing a mouse, but saw that the man was surprisingly calm.

"Your Highness won't." Yu Xun said firmly.

"Oh? How did you see that?"

"First, if you capture me, it will be your first achievement, and the emperor will reward you, but the King of England never wants to see such a scene, and the suppression will be even worse. Second, you will lead the troops into the city, Serious threat to the King of England, he will never tolerate you again. It is only a matter of time before you get rid of you." Yu Xun sipped the tea lightly, and said: "The relationship between the two of you has long been turbulent and tense. As long as one party has a little The action will be triggered at the touch of a button, although it may not necessarily be an army, but it will definitely be bloody."

Yue Hexia sighed inwardly. Before the battle of Hongyue, this state had maintained a delicate balance for a long time, so long that he thought he could turn hostility into friendship.However, things backfired. The king of England tried his best to fight, and the emperor obeyed the king's words. The deteriorating war made this balance fragile.Indeed, as Yu Xun said, as long as a small stone can trigger the fury of a pool of still water...

Yu Xun looked into Yue Hexia's bottomless eyes, kept thinking in his heart, and continued to pour out strong medicine, "One more thing, don't forget, Your Highness, this king has the lives of 15 soldiers of Yue Kingdom in his hands, and ..." As he spoke, he took a delicate sandalwood box from Jiang Tianyi, and placed it in front of Yue Hexia, "And this."

Yue Hexia was taken aback, and then opened the wooden box. A simple and simple silver hairpin was lying alone on the red flannel. The two blue gemstones inlaid on the hairpin were shining brightly in the bright morning sun...

Yue Hexia caressed the hairpin in a daze, and slowly tightened his fingers, his heart trembling violently.He forced himself to be calm and said, "how is she?"

Yu Xun smiled, "Very good. Yedi, Kong Xiang, Xu Jinshi, Hua Mengze, the four famous generals of the Yue Kingdom, hehe, they are my last life-saving talismans. Of course, I will take good care of them."

"That's good." Yue Hexia said, suddenly remembered something, said: "Di'er is a girl after all, you..."

"Hehe, rest assured, this king knows that she is a girl. Shan has built a yard for her, and the female general will take care of her in daily life."

"Female generals? You also have female generals?" Yue Hexia always thought that only Yedi was special.

Yu Xun smiled and didn't answer.

Yue Hexia weighed it for a while, and asked, "You want a letter of surrender? Is it too much?"

"No." Yu Xun shook his head seriously, "You just need to write in the letter of surrender, 'Yue Kingdom will submit to Hong Kingdom, eternal harmony, and sharing peace', and it will be fine."

Yue Hexia was taken aback for a moment, but did not dare to say anything: "There are no additional conditions?"

Yu Xun thought for a while, then nodded, "It makes sense, you should pay some jewelry every year."

Yue Hexia gave Yu Xun a supercilious look, and cursed inwardly: "Pretending! If I don't mention it, why don't you?!"

"These are all things to say later, the premise is whether we can cooperate successfully. The king has checked, and the fifty thousand forbidden troops in Lincheng are all under the king's men, and they are all elite soldiers. The tens of thousands of people left in your hands are definitely not as good as these Soldiers are incomparable, so if you want to win, you have to calculate carefully."

Yue Hexia smiled faintly, "Let's settle the accounts first. After all, how much jewelry do you plan to ask for?"

Yu Xun was taken aback for a moment, and then showed a fox-like sly smile. His watery eyes were shining brightly, like two big copper coins, and he turned straight, "Since Your Highness said to discuss this matter first, then I will speak directly. Wang asked someone to check, and the Yueguo treasury puts in 5000 to [-] million taels of silver every year, so..."

Yue Hexia looked at the prince of the enemy country in astonishment, and dared not underestimate this seemingly weak man, and said in his heart: "No one in the court knows the amount of the treasury's income except for the gang of the treasurer. He, an outsider, can actually check arrive……"

"I don't want too much, just take [-]%, okay?"

Yue Hexia suddenly felt like a treacherous minister who betrayed his country and sought glory, but he refused. , Kong Xiang's 12 soldiers, these people are almost the strongest combat power in the Yue Kingdom, and their lives are all in the hands of others, can I not agree?The king of England has been monopolizing the government for more than ten years, and his father is incompetent, and everything is left to him.Although the King of England has some skills in governing the country, and the people's livelihood has been prosperous these years, the throne should be taken over by himself after all, and the King of England and his son cannot be allowed to occupy it no matter what...The national treasury allocates one-tenth of the silver to Hongguo. Although the amount is quite a lot, it is not impossible. As long as the expenses in the court and the harem are reduced, this money can be saved, but...

Thinking of this, he smiled slightly, and said to Yu Xun, "[-]% is a bit much, half of [-]%, is that okay?"

Yu Xun rolled his eyes at him, and said in his heart, "Looking at your chicness, you are also a cheapskate."

"It's not impossible, but the king wants to add something."

Yue and Xia frowned.

"Fifty-inch boxes, ten boxes, high-grade Qunianxuan ice iron."

Yue Hexia was surprised again, this Qunian ice iron is a kind of black ice iron that is not easy to rust, which is abundantly produced by the Qunian River.This kind of iron will form a black protective film when it meets water, so that it will not rot.However, although the production is abundant, only thirty or forty boxes can be obtained a year, and most of them are collected by the government to refine weapons. Most of the goods in the private market are inferior goods, and the prices are extremely high, and the prices for export to foreign countries are even sky-high.He couldn't help cursing secretly in his heart: "This Hong Yuxun is really pushing his nose and face, he doesn't know what to do!"

"Five boxes!"

Yu Xun rolled his eyes, "Eight boxes, no less."

"You!" Yue Hexia was furious.

"This king has already halved the silver, this iron, absolutely not!"

Yue Hexia hesitated for a while, then said, "Six boxes, no more."

"Eight boxes, I didn't say anything! I said, Mr. Yue, it's not that we are rushing to beg you now. This king just doesn't want to break through Lincheng with iron hoofs, and the lives will be ruined! If you don't agree, then we can discuss it on the battlefield."

Yue Hexia was depressed for a while, and finally sighed quietly, "Okay, eight boxes will be eight boxes."

There was no change on Yu Xun's face, but he was happy in his heart, "These eight boxes of black ice iron are enough to equip a battalion of soldiers. Although they are not worth the half of the silver that was lost, they are much more useful."

"That's all? It's all right?" Yue Hexia looked at the person who was drinking tea leisurely opposite him with black lines all over his head, afraid that he would make another request.

"Well, and there is,"

Yue and Xia listened nervously.

"You have to agree to trade between the two countries. Now the merchants of Hongyue and Yue, there are too many procedures and too many taxes between them. For Hongguo, I will go and tell my father, but I hope you can do the same." Stop restricting them and do business freely."

Yue and Xia breathed a sigh of relief.

"this is okay."

"Then, it's a deal!" Yu Xun put down his cup and said solemnly.

"It's a deal!" Yue Hexia said seriously.