In the lobby of Zhizhou Mansion, Tang Ao, Zeng Tong and Han Ce had already set up the incense table here, waiting to receive the imperial edict.
Although Tang Ao didn't have any feelings for this cheap father, the way of a monarch and his ministers was there, but just acting like one could save a lot of trouble, so he listened to the two gentlemen and waited here in advance.
With.
"The imperial edict has arrived." As soon as Yin Ping entered the lobby and saw the formation put up by King Ji and the trace of impatience on Tang Ao's face, Yin Ping made the right decision, and that was to wait for a while with polite words.
Besides, he had to read out the imperial edict first. Otherwise, he couldn't guarantee whether King Ji would walk away if he continued writing the ink here. If that was the case, he really would have no way to go back and deliver the mission.
With Yin Ping's understanding, Tang Ao naturally knelt on the ground in cooperation. Tang Ao, who had straightened his clothes and was ready to receive orders at any time, raised his head and saw Gongsun Guang, who was about to tilt his head behind him.
He said angrily: "The holy decree is here, why don't you kneel down? Someone, let him kneel down."
Eunuch Yin Ping was about to recite the decree when he was suddenly stopped by Tang Ao's roar. Another person who was frightened was Gongsun Guang.
Are you kidding? He is the envoy of Di. Dadi and Daqian are not subordinate relations, but countries with mutual sovereignty. Even when he went to the Jinluan Palace, Yin Ping only bowed his head and saluted without kneeling. Now the imperial edict is not
It was given to him, so why should he kneel down?
"Hmph, I won't kneel down...uh..."
Gongsun Guang only had time to say such a sentence, and then Ao Qi came over and strangled his neck as soon as he stretched out his arms. A huge force was also transmitted from his hands. The intense pain made Gongsun Guang say no more.
Without uttering a word, he could only kneel on the ground obediently.
Seeing Gongsun Guang kneeling on the ground, Tang Ao nodded with satisfaction, looked at Yin Ping who was holding the imperial edict and said, "Okay, just read it."
"No." Yin Ping respectfully agreed, then unfolded the imperial edict and began to read it out.
During the process, Gongsun Guang kept kneeling on the ground and struggled twice from time to time. He was the Di envoy, and Tang Ao's behavior was clearly trampling on his dignity and slapping the Di people's face. He swore that he would wait until
After returning to Di Realm, he will definitely tell King Di about this matter, and he will make King Ji Tang Ao pay the price for his reckless behavior.
Yin Ping didn't even know how he finished reading out the imperial edict. When he handed the edict into Tang Ao's hands, he realized that his whole body was soaked. It can be imagined that this scene just now really scared him.
"Eunuch Yin has been working hard all the way. Someone will take your father-in-law down to rest." Tang Ao said with a smile on his face after receiving the imperial edict.
"No, everything will be arranged by King Ji." Yin Ping completely forgot at this time that his task was not completed, because he still had to supervise Tang Ao to hand over the captured Di soldiers to Gongsun Guang. But at this time, how could he dare
Think about these things. If he insists on staying here, I am afraid that what happened to Gongsun Guang will happen to him next.
This is a man who beats the prince and prince even if they ask for it. What qualifications does a eunuch have to be so crazy?
Yin Ping left quickly, Tang Ao's eyes casually glanced at Gongsun Guang, and gave Ao Qi a letting go look.
"Ah!" As soon as the pressure on his body relaxed, Gongsun Guang suddenly let out a long breath. Then he shouted loudly, "King Ji, if you dare to insult Ambassador Di like this, Dadi will definitely not let you go.
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"Qi Zao, Zhang Zui." Seeing that Gongsun Guang was a man who had suffered enough, Tang Ao was not polite to him. As soon as these words fell, Ao Qi took action again, with two big mouths and four teeth.
It flew out of the mouth together with red blood.
As soon as these two slaps came down, Gongsun Guang's face turned red and his eyes seemed to be able to eat people. But then he really calmed down. I'm afraid he also saw the situation in front of him. If he dared to shout, he might have a mouth full of teeth.
I can't even save it.
Zeng Tong and Han Ce couldn't help but gasped when they saw what was happening. Their Highness seemed to do things unconventionally, which seemed to be a great relief. But in this way, with Di Ren,
A war will be inevitable.
Inhaling and exhaling, it took a while for Gongsun Guang to suppress the anger in his heart. When he looked at Tang Ao, he did not mention the matter of kneeling down and being slapped, but asked,
"His Royal Highness King Ji, now that your Emperor Qian's will is here, when will you release him and let me take him back?"
"Release them? Oh, of course you can, but you also have to use money to redeem them. Do you know that these days, these captives are enjoying good food and drink here with me, but it costs a lot of money."
Ao felt distressed as he spoke. All this fell into Gongsun Guang's eyes, making him want to jump up and slap him on the face to express his anger.
Naturally, this was just an idea, and he absolutely did not dare to do it. If he really did it, let alone whether it would hurt King Ji, he would definitely die.
"Redemption? How much money does it cost?" He said almost as if he was gritting his teeth. Ten thousand grass-mud horses flew through Gongsun Guang's heart. Who doesn't know that these Di Bing prisoners do hard work every day and are overloaded? What delicious food and drinks are there?
, go ahead and lie to ghosts.
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Deep in the backyard of Zhizhou, this is a very mysterious place. Except for a man named Jiwang Tang Ao, no one else has the qualifications to enter here.
The four girls, Bai Qiutong, Shen Min, Oyadan, and Xu Qing, are listening here attentively and are not good at talking. Xuefei, who can only let go in front of a few girls, is "talking" here.
What was said was exactly the conversation between Tang Ao and Di's envoy Gongsun Guang.
According to what Xue Fei said, the young master first asked Gongsun Guang for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at the price of one hundred taels of silver for the capture of a Di soldier.
Of course, Gongsun Guang did not want to agree to this. He asked Tang Ao to release him unconditionally in the name of Emperor Daqian's imperial edict. In response, the young master's answer was that the imperial edict only asked for his release and did not say to release him immediately. If
If Gongsun Guang doesn't take the money, he will wait until the prisoners earn enough money through hard work before releasing them.
This reason is a bit far-fetched, but it is not unreasonable at all. When Tang Ao said that if a Di Bing prisoner was not worth even one hundred taels of silver, he had nothing to say. He would only describe this situation as
Explain to the prisoners.
Is a prisoner worth a hundred taels of silver?
It's absolutely not worth it.
At this time, an ordinary slave in Da is only worth a few taels to more than ten taels of silver. A slightly better one is worth dozens of taels or even hundreds of taels. But there is no doubt that valuable slaves can be found.
Unable to ask for. Just like the Tielong and Tiefeng brothers and sisters at that time.
Knowing this, Gongsun Guang did not dare to say such a thing. If he said it was not worth it, once the news spread, especially back to Beidi, those generals and soldiers would kill him. This kind of people would not take action when seeing their colleagues.
The rescue incident was enough to kill the Di envoy. At that time, who would care about what caused it? Who would listen to Gongsun Guang's explanation?
Victory in the first battle.
Gongsun Guang bowed his head and agreed to pay the hundreds of thousands taels of silver to take away the more than a thousand prisoners. But he didn't know that this was just the first request made by Tang Ao. The second condition followed.
After that, we have to settle the accounts. Calculate the food and drink issues that these prisoners have been worried about during this period. It takes a total of one month and they collect ten taels of silver every day, which is another three hundred taels per person.
This directly caused Gongsun Guang to stand up and curse without any form.
According to the information he got, the number of prisoners in Beidi is now only about 1,200, and more than 200 people died in a month. Why? Isn't it because they were too tired and couldn't keep up with nutrition, so they died of exhaustion?
?
They eat the least food and do the most work. If they do not do well, they will be beaten and scolded by the Jizhou Army soldiers guarding them. Once they get sick, they have to bear it all by themselves. Even so, they can't work better than others.
You can't do less work even at night.
With such conditions, how dare you ask for ten taels of silver a day for food and drink? This is simply blackmail, okay?
Gongsun Guangda objected vigorously, even blushing and shouting for this. However, Tang Aoli ignored him and turned around to leave. He also dropped a sentence, "If we can't reach an agreement, then let's not talk about it for now."
Ambassador Di thought it over carefully before speaking.
God knows when Tang Ao will have time to see him after leaving. If he had been delayed for a month, hundreds of prisoners would have died of exhaustion. Gongsun Guang was not willing to comply, so he stood up and wanted to stop Tang Ao. Ao Qi
Then he stood up and waved his muscular arms toward him.
It was this arm that pinned Gongsun Guang to the ground just now, making him unable to move. Gongsun Guang, who had already experienced the power in it, was really scared. "Okay, I agree, I agree. Even so.
, five hundred thousand taels of silver should be enough, please let him go immediately."
Gongsun Guang compromised again, and what he got in exchange was not Tang Ao's nod, but talking about another thing, which was the losses caused to the Jizhou Army in this battle. Should the soldiers be compensated if they were injured?
That's definitely what you need.
That is to say, only one person in the Jizhou Army was injured in this battle, and no one was killed. Moreover, there were many injured people but the injuries were not serious. In the end, they just asked for another 500,000 taels, which happened to be one million silver.
Gongsun Guang, who had already learned Tang Ao's methods, did not raise any objections this time and agreed on the spot. Maybe he was worried that if he didn't agree, the lucky king would ask the lion again after a while.
It was impossible for Gongsun Guang to carry so much money with him. What he took out was the banknote from Daqian Bank. This was given to him by a Dadi merchant in Daliang City when he was in Daliang City and asked him to help bring it back.
