After Luo Ningxin took care of some minor matters, she waited for the envoy from the Daqian Empire.
Yesterday afternoon, the Minister of Rites sent a message that envoys from the Daqian Empire would come to meet with the imperial edict today.
Under normal circumstances, when envoys from other countries are to meet the Holy Spirit, they will notify you in advance and rush to the early morning court time to come with all the ministers.
But today, Luo Ningxin and the ministers have been waiting for an hour, but no one has come to court yet!
Recently, everyone has been worried about the salt issue. Fang Chen and Ye Fan went to Nanhai City to discuss with the Qiankun Chamber of Commerce, but there has been no news yet.
At this time, the envoy of the Daqian Dynasty suddenly wanted to meet the saint, which gave Luo Ning a bad feeling.
It was almost noon when the messenger eunuch shouted: "The envoy of the Daqian Dynasty, Lord Xuanyu, has arrived!"
finally come!
All the civil and military officials looked towards the entrance of the hall and saw that the person coming was a woman!
She is not wearing an official robe, but a very simple purple dress!
She was dressed very appropriately, like a lady from a wealthy family.
Regardless of any empire or dynasty, women cannot serve as officials.
And the envoy of a country represents the entire country. No one expected that a woman came over.
Xuanyu came to the front of the hall and saluted Luo Ningxin.
"Princess Xuanyu, the daughter of the third prince of the Daqian Dynasty, pays homage to Your Majesty!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present was extremely shocked!
Unexpectedly, the woman in front of me turned out to be the daughter of the Third Prince of Daqian and a princess!
The princess is a wealthy person. She usually lives in the palace, just like a princess. She is not allowed to come out unless there are special things.
And the Daqian Dynasty actually allowed noble princesses to go on missions to other countries.
Luo Ningxin was also surprised, "It turns out to be Princess Xuanyu. I never expected that the princess would deign to condescend to be an envoy to us, Dayan. If I had known that the princess was coming, I would have sent someone to greet the princess."
Xuanyu smiled and said: "Your Majesty, there is no need to be polite. I came here this time to tell you some good news."
"Our Daqian Dynasty is willing to continue to cooperate with the Dayan Dynasty and continue to export all salt to the Dayan Dynasty. The price will remain unchanged as before, and the cooperation model will be exactly the same as before."
what's the situation?
Luo Ningxin and all the civil and military officials at the scene were puzzled. If they wanted to continue to cooperate, why did they cut off the cooperation before? Why was the attitude so tough?
Is this just for fun?
Many people are wondering, could it be that Fang Chen's negotiation was successful this time?
But Fang Chen hasn't brought any news yet! Not even a letter sent by a flying pigeon.
Luo Ningxin felt that something was wrong, and the other party must have something to say.
Luo Ning remained calm and said: "Recently, there have been some problems with the import and export of salt. General Lu and the Qiankun Chamber of Commerce have had many discussions with no results. This time the princess came to resume the salt trade between the two countries. , it is indeed good news, but does the princess have any conditions?"
Civil and military officials also felt that the other party would definitely put forward some difficult conditions.
However, Xuanyu said: "I don't have any conditions, but this time the salt business cannot be left to General Lu. The Daqian Dynasty has decided to cooperate with the Tongtian Chamber of Commerce, the first chamber of commerce of your Dayan Dynasty!"
"We will hand over all import and export rights of table salt to the Tongtian Chamber of Commerce!"
When everyone heard this, their complexions suddenly changed!
No one expected that the other party would actually put forward this condition!
Everyone present knows that the owner of Tongtian Chamber of Commerce is Bai Yongliang, and His Majesty has been suppressing the Bai family recently, and even asked Fang Chen to completely destroy the Bai family and uproot the Bai family!
At this time, the Daqian Dynasty was supporting the Bai family and handed over such an important business as salt to Bai Yongliang.
This is tantamount to the Daqian Dynasty going against His Majesty!
The atmosphere suddenly became very depressing.
Luo Ningxin asked: "The Qiankun Chamber of Commerce represents your Daqian Dynasty, but the Tongtian Chamber of Commerce does not represent our Dayan Dynasty!"
"There have been no problems with our cooperation before. Why did your Daqian Dynasty suddenly make such a decision?"
Xuanyu explained: "Everyone must know that our Daqian exports a large amount of salt and exports it to many countries. However, as time goes by, our salt production is getting less and less, which is very scarce. Your Dayan population base It is too big, and the demand for salt is also too great. We have begun to exceed supply, and we are considering whether to abandon other small countries or abandon Great Yan."
"Before, our people wanted to have a negotiation with Mr. Fang. The most important thing was to get some black powder from Mr. Fang. As long as everyone reaches an agreement, the import and export of salt can be resumed."
At this point, Xuan Yu's face suddenly filled with grief and anger: "However, Lord Fang was arrogant and killed dozens of guards of the Qiankun Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, the steward of the Qiankun Chamber of Commerce, who was a high-ranking member of our Daqian Dynasty, was also killed by Lord Fang. He is dead, and in the subsequent negotiations, Mr. Fang targeted us everywhere and did not intend to cooperate with us!"
When this incident was exposed, everyone at the scene was extremely shocked!
They all believed that Fang Chen and Ye Fan would definitely be able to resolve the matter during their trip and negotiations with people from the Qiankun Chamber of Commerce. What they didn't expect was that Fang Chen not only refused to give face to the other party, but also killed many of the other party's people.
However, Luo Ning had doubts!
Fang Chen would not be so impulsive, and Ye Fan is also a cautious person. Something must have happened that made Fang Chen and Ye Fan intolerable, so they killed someone.
Luo Ning thought: "We haven't received any news about this matter yet. If what the princess said is true, then I want to know the whole story. What is the motive for killing? Why did you kill?"
Xuanyu's face turned cold.
"At that time, Master Fang and Master Ye went to discuss with people from the Qiankun Chamber of Commerce. We wanted Master Fang and Master Ye to lower their posture, and then slowly negotiate and agree to our terms."
"In the end, Mr. Fang was arrogant and said that our people had humiliated them and the court, so he was furious and killed all our people!"
"After that, we took a step back, forgiven Mr. Fang for what he did, and then put forward conditions. As a result, Mr. Fang flatly refused and humiliated the people of the Qiankun Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Fang is really arrogant, domineering and lawless!"
What Xuan Yu said was true, but he did not tell the details of what happened.
Her words made everyone at the scene believe that Fang Chen was at fault for this incident and that Fang Chen was arrogant and went on a killing spree.
Previously, when Fang Chen was leaving, all the civil and military officials, as well as His Majesty, asked Fang Chen to handle the matter well, lower his profile, and agree to any conditions.
But Fang Chen did such a thing, which immediately disappointed all the officials present.
Everyone believed what Xuan Yu said because the other party was a princess and said these things in front of His Majesty.
Even if there is some moisture in it, it is very small. In short, everything is wrong with Fang Chen.
Luo Ningxin continued to ask: "Since Mr. Fang killed your people and did things that were disgraceful to your country, why did your country send a noble princess here and hand over the business to the Tongtian Chamber of Commerce?