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Chapter 132 Negotiation Tug of War

The Khitan deputy envoy said: "If your country hadn't cut off the only remaining trade channel with our Daliao, how could our Daliao start a war for no reason? So the root cause is still your country! As we all know, our Daliao produces Not abundant, spices, tea, porcelain, lacquerware, rice and silk fabrics, etc., all need to be obtained from your country’s trade. Your country has cut off trade routes, and my Daliao has no sources of these daily necessities, so how can we not use our weapons?”

Feng Chengping and Liu Geng exchanged eye contact, and they both saw in each other's eyes that the Khitan people were really shameless.At this time, Liu Geng, who was not very talkative compared to Feng Chengping, who was a good old man, said: "This statement is wrong. Your country and my Dashun have never had any trade relations, and my Dashun has never opened in the name of the court." The trade channel. But your country, every year, you must go south to violate the border, capture our border people, and rob property. These things, are you doing these things? It must be obvious to all who started the war, and there is no need to argue about this!"

The deputy envoy of the Khitan ended his speech, which cannot be refuted.Another deputy envoy said: "Even if my Daliao started the war, it is because your country does not trade with my Daliao!"

Feng Chengping said with a smile: "My Dashun and the Liao Kingdom have always met swordsmen. How did they actually sit down and talk about trade? Besides, your country doesn't have what I, Dashun wants, and opening up trade is not worth the loss. Why bother?" ?”

This sentence is true, except for war horses, Dashun really does not need other things from the Liao Kingdom.The Liao Kingdom needs more things, such as spices, rhino horns, ivory, tea, porcelain, lacquerware, rice and silk fabrics, etc., all of which are necessary for the life of the Khitan people, and they cannot be self-sufficient. After the trade, they could think of no other way but to rob.

Yeluliang was finally able to intervene at this moment, and said: "Master Feng is exaggerating. Although our Daliao products are poor, they are not without trade. Gold is piled up like a mountain in our Daliao, and silver is everywhere. How can we not trade it? We Dare to say, if your country opens up a mutual market, there will be no more wars in Shunliao, and the two countries will shake hands and talk about peace, wouldn't it be beautiful?"

Liu Geng smiled and said: "It turns out that Ambassador Yelu is Xiang Zhuang's sword dance, aiming at Peigong. But today's matter is about your country's desire to redeem captured soldiers, not about the mutual market. Even if we His Majesty promised to open a mutual market, but you need to pay the ransom first before we can talk about it. In other words, the ransom is a prerequisite for negotiation, without this prerequisite, there is no need to talk about it."

The two parties talked about this, but the talks have actually collapsed.One wants a ransom, the other does not want to pay the ransom; one wants to open border trade, and the other does not want to open border trade.The two sides are simply at odds with each other. If they can't talk together, how can they not collapse?
The two sides started a tug-of-war, trying their best to want the other party to agree to their conditions, but they didn't want to pay the slightest price.When it comes to noon, coming and going are caught in this endless loop.What's even more ridiculous is that these three Khitan deputy envoys wanted to refute by citing scriptures, but they were asking for trouble.The Minister of Rites in front of me, although his eloquence is not very good, but he has a lot of memories of classic historical books, and he is not second-guessed in this world.Liu Geng, a member of the cabinet, is not a vegetarian either. As No. 6 in Jinshi Yike, he is also a great man. As for the classics, how can the Khitan people who have not studied Chinese classics for a long time be able to compare?These three Khitan people are like a gangster, under the attack of these two people, even if they are the three most knowledgeable among the Khitan people, they were also refuted speechless, and in the end they still acted like a rascal, saying that they would not agree to the exchange market. , never pay the ransom.

Seeing that the Khitan people had no sincerity in negotiating, Liu Geng and Feng Chengping stopped talking and wasted their time.Seeing that it was noon, he left with Dashun's negotiating team and reported the progress of the negotiation to Lu Chengqi.

When Lu Chengqi heard that the Khitan people wanted to open a mutual market, he thought silently in his heart: "What kind of medicine do the Khitan people want to sell in their gourds? There is no benefit for them to open the mutual market! You know, even in history, the Khitan The Song Dynasty is also in a trade deficit, and the old coins obtained from the Chanyuan Alliance are sent back to the Song Dynasty in a blink of an eye. With my development, Dashun’s business cannot be said to have surpassed the Song Dynasty, and it is probably the same There are not many. Without the old coins of the Chanyuan Alliance, how can the Khitan people have the confidence to trade with us?"

But after thinking about it, Lu Chengqi thought of another bad idea: "Since my Dashun's economic strength is the strongest, let's use my economic strength to crush them! If they earn all their money, then the Liao Kingdom will die without a fight." Defeated. It’s just that after the collapse of the Liao Kingdom, the Jurchens will be given a chance to rise, and the Jurchens, who are more ferocious than the Khitan people, are even more powerful enemies, so what should we do?”

For a while, Lu Chengqi couldn't make up his mind, and walked up and down in the Chuigong Hall with his hands behind his back.Finally, he said to Feng Chengping and Liu Geng who had been waiting for a long time: "Since those Khitan people have no sincerity in negotiating, let's procrastinate. Anyway, I can afford to procrastinate, but I don't know if Yelu Hongji can afford to procrastinate. "

I have to say, this is really a crooked hit.Cui Jie'an's strategy for Yeluliang and the others was also a trick of procrastination.Based on the analysis of Lu Chengqi's personality, they concluded that Lu Chengqi is a very impatient person, eager to leave his name in history and become an emperor through the ages.If they had a role model, they would definitely say that Lu Chengqi was another Sui Yang Emperor.It's a pity that in this different time and space, there is no Sui Dynasty, so they don't know who Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang is.But this does not hinder their judgment, they firmly believe that Lu Chengqi is a person who is eager for quick success, as long as he delays, he will compromise.

Never thought that Lu Chengqi's original intention was to hold back the Khitan people and buy time for development.Dashun's army was still very weak. Even if they were equipped with enough cavalry, they might not be able to defeat the nomads who were born on horseback in field battles.

In this case, it can only be made up for by training and weapons.However, these two items take the most time, so what Lu Chengqi lacks now is time.Waiting for Lu Chengqi to equip a musketeer team of tens of thousands of people, are you afraid that these Khitan people will fail?

Of course, we must first solve the production bottleneck of the Hongxiang rifle and solve the problem of logistics support before we can have such confidence.Otherwise, with the status quo of the Dashun Dynasty, it can only withstand partial wars and limited defensive counterattacks.To counterattack and break into the hinterland of the Liao Kingdom would be deliberate but powerless.

Based on the unanimous procrastination ideas of the two sides, it depends on the next few days, the two sides first ask to start negotiations again, and whoever loses the initiative will lose the initiative.

Lu Chengqi didn't care about this, and instructed Feng Chengping and Liu Geng to continue to delay them, and they would be sure to win.Next, it is time to deal with the envoys of Korea.

Compared with the inexperienced envoy of the Liao Kingdom, Cui Jiean of the Goryeo Kingdom is the formidable enemy.This person is familiar with the classics of the Han family, Lu Chengqi dare not compete with him in citing the classics.If you want to completely overwhelm this opponent at the negotiating table, you must take the opponent by surprise, pull the opponent's level to the same level as your own, and then defeat him with your own rich experience.It is reiterated that Lu Chengqi, who has experienced several negotiations before, has a little experience in this matter, and he can lead the direction of the negotiation with a little preparation of what to say.

(End of this chapter)