I am the empress, you still tell me to run away?

Ah this.

They talk about fighting, and they talk about a hundred thousand troops, but in fact they are all chicken feathers and nothing.

Moreover, if the real information is leaked, it is not a diplomatic negotiation, but the negotiating officials are suspected of collaborating with the enemy.

Of course, if the emperor approves speaking out during the negotiation process, it will be fine.

Just like this for a few days, both sides spent with dry mouth and tongue.

Lin Xuan didn't say much, just listened to the Wei Guo envoy's continuous output of dialect in front of him, neither nodded nor said much.

After all, if the other party scolds you in dialect when you don't understand it, but you still nod when you don't understand it, it's like neglecting the country's prestige or something.

What's more, keeping silent is also a means of negotiation.

Taking a step back, there are other high-ranking officials around who are negotiating, and it's okay if he doesn't talk.

However, Lin Xuan looked at the daily negotiation process and seemed to feel that something was wrong.

On the fifth day of the negotiation, Luo Wenlun, the Minister of Honglu Temple, suddenly let go: "You are right, I am willing to return the five counties of Wei State, but the remaining six counties must sign the covenant and belong to them forever. Do it to me!"

As soon as these words came out, the Wei Guo Mission was in an uproar.

There is anger, there is shamelessness, and there is clamor to continue the war.

Luo Wenlun's temper also came up: "Everyone, don't forget that Wei Guo took advantage of the fire to loot when I ascended the throne. This old account has not been settled. How can you have the face to mention that I am attacking Wei Guo this time?" about?"

"What's more, if it weren't for the 30 troops of your Wei State going south to attack me, would there be such a battle?"

"Wei Guo is lifting a rock to shoot himself in the foot!"

"If you want to fight, then fight!"

In one word, the whole negotiation came to an impasse.

When Lin Xuan heard the conditions proposed by Luo Wenlun, he felt inexplicably familiar, but for some reason, he couldn't remember clearly.

On the opposite side, Wei Guozheng made Fang Fangyi angry and left the negotiating table temporarily.

Le Danyang, deputy envoy of the State of Wei, stated that such conditions would never be accepted.

Wei Guo's deputy envoy Heng Yanjun still didn't speak, but his brows were tightly frowned, as if he had foreseen the subsequent development of this negotiation.

Lin Xuan glanced at the change in the expression of the Wei State Mission. For some reason, he felt that in this negotiation, the one in the Wei State Mission who could really make the decision seemed to be Heng Yanjun.

Noticing Lin Xuan's gaze, Heng Yanjun nodded slightly at Lin Xuan, and proposed to suspend today's negotiation and discuss it tomorrow.

"Phew, it's really hot..."

Lin Xuan opened the folding fan and fanned himself quickly.

To be honest, the negotiations these days are really not ordinary hot!

Oh, it seems that there are still a few people who are in poor health and have passed out due to heat stroke. It is not easy to be an envoy.

Every time the negotiation ends, Dagan will hold a small meeting to talk about their respective progress, summarize it, and continue the negotiation tomorrow.

When it was Lin Xuan's turn, Lin Xuan said, "I don't have anything here, it's just that Wei Guoxin's envoy has suffered from heat stroke again."

Ah this.

Luo Wenlun glanced at Lin Xuan and recorded it on the bamboo slips, with a strange expression on his face.

It seems that at the negotiating table, the negotiator of Wei State who has suffered from heat stroke these days, the person sitting in front of Lin Xuan has already suffered from heat stroke for three times.

Chapter 47 There is a problem with the result of this negotiation

At the end of the negotiations every day, Luo Wenlun sent a copy of the sorted bamboo slips to the palace for the empress Ji Handan to review, and a copy to the cabinet for the elders to refer to.

Empress Ji Handan looked at the bamboo slips and couldn't help laughing out loud.

The chief eunuch An Yiyan stood aside respectfully, did not say anything, and quietly waited for orders.

"Go to Taining Palace!"

"According to the order!"

After a while, Empress Dowager Li Ningyan also laughed out loud when she saw the bamboo slips.

"What method did this boy Lin use to make the envoy of the State of Wei suffer from heat stroke? If he suffers from heat stroke a few more times, the negotiation may not be able to continue."

Empress Dowager Li Ningyan said with a smile: "We still have to implement the strategy we should have, and we can't really push the Wei mission into a desperate situation."

Empress Ji Handan nodded: "Don't worry, Queen Mother, I know what's going on."

Putting down the bamboo slips, the Queen Mother Li Ningyan asked again: "Has the case of assassinating Lin boy been thoroughly investigated? How many other companies are there?"

Mentioning this matter, Ji Handan's eyes were fixed: "When the house was ransacked, a few old men who knew about it committed suicide without leaving any clues."

Empress Dowager Li Ningyan shook her head: "These old things put their fate above everything else. Even if they want to commit suicide, it will not be so simple. There should be other aristocratic families intervening behind them."

"Emperor, kill a few families first, and recruit more talents at the same time. If there are more talents, you can let go and kill them!"

When it comes to talents, Empress Dowager Li Ningyan is worried for a while, how can we increase the number of talents?

Ever since Empress Ji Handan ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Li Ningyan asked Ji Hantan to issue three "Orders for Seeking Talents".

Because only a few scattered talents were recruited, there was not even a wave of waves after they were filled into the Daqian court.

The most important thing is that there are only half of the talents who have the ability to replace those important ministers.

The reason is that there are too few talents recruited.

As for the root cause, those so-called talents who worked hard couldn't bear the emperor's position being taken by Ji Hantan. Simply put, they looked down on the emperor's position being occupied by a woman!

In addition, Ji Handan used a large number of female officials to occupy important positions in the court, which made those people even more angry and expressed their unwillingness to enter the court.

It is even ridiculous to think that they are humiliating themselves by entering the court like this.

Therefore, under such a social atmosphere, the "Decree for Seeking Talents" of the Dagan court was very ineffective.

Empress Ji Handan was also very worried about this issue, so she found many talented women from Yongle Lane to fill the vacancies in the court.

"I'll figure it out."

"Perhaps, after the negotiation is over, you can ask Lin Xiaozi, but don't bring alcohol this time. The same trick has been used too much, and it's not good for him to notice."

Empress Dowager Li Ningyan reminded.

Empress Ji Handan smiled: "Who made him think about running away, and also wanted to take me along with him?"

……

Is there a problem with this negotiation?

Lin Xuan sat at the negotiating table, watching the verbal confrontation between the representative of Qian State and the delegation of Wei State, which was extremely fierce.

The two sides finally came up with a plan, and Dagan was willing to return the eight counties of Wei State, but Wei State must pay a certain amount of war reparations, and always admit that the remaining three counties belong to Qian State forever.

However, this plan is of great importance, and the Wei State Mission stated that it must report to the Emperor of Wei State before making a decision!

Wei Guozheng envoy, Foreign Minister Fang Fangyi was extremely angry: "You guys are trying to eat my big Wei, it's really shameless!"

The Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, who hadn't shown up for a long time, said with a silent smile: "In the final analysis, you Wei Guo is to blame for this. The old man also won the conditions for you because Wei Guo and I were in-laws. If you don't If you like, these bamboo slips can be thrown into the brazier and burned."

"If you really don't want to, you can attack me again in the future."

Foreign Minister Fang Fangyi was extremely sad and indignant. If Wei Guozhen had the strength to attack Dagan, why would he need to send a mission to Dagan to negotiate?

Just push and hit it directly.

Deputy envoy Heng Yanjun has been paying attention to Lin Xuan from the beginning to the end, and seems to be very curious about Lin Xuan's every move.

She has carried out many deductions on the terms related to the Qian State and the Wei State. It is the limit of the Wei State to be able to recover eight counties without a single soldier in the negotiation process. The rest must be recovered by force. .

In addition, someone from Dagan disclosed the news to her, telling her that the final terms of the negotiation were actually Lin Xuan's suggestion.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been paying attention to Lin Xuan.

However, Heng Yanjun did not find out what the source of the person who revealed the news was, and what faction he came from.

Of course, this may have something to do with the fact that the person who sent the news was beaten to death in an underground gambling hall in Tiandu that night, completely cutting off the clues.

There is no doubt that Dagan is unstable internally, and some people want to get rid of Lin Xuan with the help of the Wei State Mission.

At the same time, Lin Xuan's ability to set up such a strategy of encroaching on the Wei State for Daqian's internal affairs is enough to prove Lin Xuan's talent and the importance that the Dagan court attaches to Lin Xuan.

Then, if Lin Xuan can be abducted to Wei State and let Lin Xuan play for Wei State, Wei State may be able to exchange offensive and defensive positions with Qian State in a short period of time.

It has to be well planned.

Lin Xuan didn't pay attention to the situation of the envoy from the State of Wei. After seeing the silence of the Minister of Commerce, he seemed to think of something.

He seemed to be drunk that day and talked a lot about the negotiations between Gan Guo and Wei Guo.

For example, if you occupy 11 counties in Wei State, you will return 8 counties in Wei State.

The only ones who heard his words were Zhao Yuehan, who was an official of the Ministry of Commerce, and Li Mu, the old servant.

In this way, it makes sense for Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce to be the main person in charge of this negotiation, and it also makes sense for him to have an important seat here.

"Brother Zhao, you are cheating me!"

Wanting to understand these things, Brother Lin sighed in his heart.

We have reached this point, we can only take one step at a time, we will talk about it tomorrow if there is anything to do.

After all, Taiwei Sima Zhao, an old Yinbi, did not know where to send someone to watch him secretly, and he was waiting for the opportunity to kill him.

Fortunately, Heng Yanjun of the Wei State Mission has not continued to look for him since the last time, which made Lin Xuan somewhat relieved that he would not be accused of colluding with the State of Wei.

Today, this negotiation has also entered the final stage, and it is waiting for the Wei Guo Mission to sign.

Of course, this has to wait for the new emperor Wei Guo to give the imperial edict permission.

get off work!

With sweat all over his body, Lin Xuan left the negotiating table and went straight home.

After so many days of negotiations, it almost made people feel sour.

I must take a good bath when I go back today.

"Fuck!"

Who would have thought that when they got home, they would see two people sitting under the grape arbor.

One is Zhao Yuehan!

One is Heng Yanjun!

Chapter 48

hiss!

Standing at the door of the house, Lin Xuan took a deep breath.

He never expected that Zhao Yuehan and Heng Yanjun would appear under the grape trellis in the small courtyard at the same time, and, according to the normal situation, the owner is not at home, shouldn't they come to visit later?

Why just sit in the yard and wait?

However, what Lin Xuan didn't know was that the situation he saw Zhao Yuehan and Heng Yanjun sitting on the grape trellis was more explosive than what he had predicted.

As the deputy envoy of the Wei State Mission, Heng Yanjun had met Empress Ji Handan in the Dagan Hall of Supreme Harmony a few days ago.

In addition, she is the number one swordsman in the Wei country, the number one talented woman in the Wei country, the Minister of the Imperial History, and her power of observation is many times stronger than that of ordinary people.

Therefore, as soon as the female emperor Ji Handan disguised as a man appeared, Heng Yanjun recognized Zhao Yuehan in front of her as the female emperor Ji Handan.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Heng Yanjun roughly guessed some intentions of Empress Ji Handan, but she didn't expose it.

If it was exposed, it would be difficult for her to guarantee whether the decisive female emperor Ji Handan would kill her.

Zhao Yuehan asked: "I heard that your sword is very fast, and you are the number one sword master in the Wei Kingdom?"

Heng Yanjun smiled: "It's all a false name. I don't know what Brother Zhao is here for?"

Zhao Yuehan responded lightly: "Visiting a friend. Where's Deputy Envoy Heng?"

Heng Yanjun said: "Visiting the great sages."

The two looked at each other, tacit understanding.

Little Luoli, who stood aside and was in charge of refilling tea for the two, was inexplicably nervous, always feeling that the adults in front of her were too scary.