Of course Princess An Qi knew that Xiahou Ji came to see her for negotiation, so she just deliberately frightened Xiahou Ji.

So he asked: "What is the bargaining chip you brought?"

Xiahou Ji said tremblingly: "Back to your Royal Highness, the empress knows that she is too old and is powerless to deal with major political affairs, so she decided to abdicate in favor of Princess Diewu, who will succeed her and take charge of the Northern Yi regime."

"Furthermore, the civil, military, and nobles of the entire dynasty all knew that the rebel army had grown beyond control. If they continued to fight against the rebel army to the end, the lives of the northern barbarians would surely be ruined."

"For the sake of the Northern Yi Dynasty, all the officials and nobles decided to compromise with the rebels. They are willing to hand over half of their wealth and pastures to the rebels and share them equally among the people of the world. In addition, the treatment of civilians will be improved in the future. The nobles can no longer enslave the civilians and trample on them.

, treat everyone equally and are all Northern Yi people, I wonder what Her Royal Highness Princess Anqi thinks?"

Nalan Anqi was thoughtful.

Logically speaking, it is very rare and valuable for officials and nobles to make such a big concession, and I should agree to it.

However, so many civilians fought bloody battles, but what they got was half the wealth of the nobles and half of the land. This was obviously not enough. If he agreed, he would not be able to explain to the rebels, let alone the civilians.

So, she looked at Xiao Zhan and asked, "What does the Grand Marshal think of the conditions imposed by the imperial court?"

Xiao Zhan said: "Half of the wealth does not need to be given to the common people. It should be given to the imperial court to be used to build Beiyi so that the people of Beiyi can live in wooden houses. The pastures must be handed over in full and divided together with the common people according to the number of people. If the nobles hand over the pastures,

Even if you control a lot of pastures, you can still enslave the common people, and there will be all kinds of conflicts in the future."

Nalan Anqi thought about it carefully and felt that Xiao Zhan's proposal was a good one.

If wealth is distributed to the common people, some people will not use it to build houses but squander it, and then they will be empty-handed. Moreover, there is too much money in the hands of the common people, which is not conducive to the common people's struggle.

It is undoubtedly the best to hand over the wealth to the court and make unified arrangements to build houses so that people all over the world can live in them.

As for pasture, more of it is allocated to civilians, which is conducive to the struggle of civilians.

"It's not okay to hand over all the pastures!" Xiahou Ji objected and said angrily: "The pastures are the inheritance passed down from the nobles' ancestors. Why should we hand over all the pastures and divide them according to the number of people like the common people? This is not a good thing for the nobles.

It’s so unfair!”

Xiao Zhan said: "Most of the pastures were snatched from the hands of your nobles by your nobles. Then they created a lot of wealth for your nobles by relying on the pastures."

"Now that you nobles have wealth, shouldn't you give more pastures to the common people?"

"Even if those pastures were leased to you nobles by common people, the interest would have increased several times over thousands of years, right? You just returned the pastures belonging to the common people to the common people and gave you a little more interest. Where did you suffer any loss?"

"this..."

Xiahou Ji was speechless immediately.

Xiao Zhan said resolutely: "My condition is that all the pastures will be divided equally between the nobles and the common people. They can be rented but not bought and sold. Half of the wealth will be handed over to the court, and a new beiyi will be established, so that the common people can have small buildings to live in."

"If you nobles can accept it, the war can stop here. If you don't accept it, then I will lead the rebel army to kill all your nobles in one go and seize your nobles' wealth and pastures!"

"As for whether you accept it or not, you can decide for yourself and give me a reply within three days. If I don't get a reply within three days, I will order the entire Northern Yi nobles to be crushed!"

After speaking, Xiao Zhan ordered the army to camp on the spot.

The Minister of Revenue did not dare to say anything more, so he could only return to the imperial capital and inform the empress, officials, and nobles of the results of the negotiations.

"Half the wealth, all the ranch, that's too much!"

"This is trying to drain the bottom of the cauldron for our nobles!"

"If we agree, our nobles will lose even their pastures, and we'll still be such useless nobles!"

"This Xiao Zhan is so cruel, how could he speak so loudly like a lion!"

All the officials and nobles were jumping up and down in anger. They all felt that their interests had been seriously violated, and they all wanted to crush Xiao Zhan to ashes.

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