The end of the world begins with the king

Chapter 856 Eight Horses
"You Huns also like to burn, kill and loot, so why don't you cooperate with that barbarian, and instead negotiate peace with me?"

Hearing Luo Lun's words, Yu Lixi's expression was extremely ugly, even though the other party was telling the truth.

"We can't cooperate with the barbarians. Except for the three core countries, people from other countries and tribes can only become their slaves!" Yu Lixi said coldly.

In other words, the Xiongnu could not trust the huge Huns, so the two sides could not cooperate.

In comparison, the Jin court in the south is a more suitable partner for cooperation.

"Having said so much, what do you mean? Do you want to negotiate a peace?"

Yu Lixi said in a cold tone: "If you don't want to negotiate a peace, then we can only fight south instead of fighting those barbarians!"

Persimmons should be picked softly. There is no doubt that in the hearts of the Huns, the Jin court is completely soft persimmons.

Lauren then asked, "How much food do you want? How many weapons?"

"For food, one hundred thousand shi per month!"

Hearing this, the corners of Lauren's mouth twitched. These guys are still really lions.

The entire [-] army in the Northwest consumes only [-] shi of food per month, which is enough to feed [-] soldiers.

But at this moment, Yu Lixi didn't feel that the request was too much, and continued: "We don't need many weapons, one hundred thousand sabers, thirty thousand bows, plus 30 arrows!"

Luo Lun didn't speak, but Zhang Ziming couldn't help cursing: "Isn't it better to transfer all of my Dajin treasury to you?"

Seeing Zhang Ziming speaking, Yu Lixi jumped up and said, "Do you have a part to speak here?"

"Your wolves' hearts, how can I say no?"

Just when the quarrel was about to become more intense, Luo Lun yelled angrily: "Enough!"

Afterwards, Luo Lun glanced at Yu Lixi and said, "Let's talk about this for the time being today, and I will report your conditions to the emperor!"

After saying these words, under the current frozen atmosphere, Lauren got up and left directly.

He thought that the next step would be bargaining, but Yu Lixi didn't expect that Luo Lun would withdraw directly, and the negotiation was also suspended.

"My lord, negotiations have always taken time, we don't need to rush!"

"As your Majesty expected, Governor Luo can't decide many things!"

When Yu Lixi returned to his residence, the latest news about the negotiation had also been sent back to Qian'an Palace.

"But I didn't expect that there would be such a family of tigers and wolves in the Far West!" Lu Chaowen was extremely surprised.

Zhao Yanxun was not at all surprised that the meteorite hit the "earth" and caused an earthquake, tsunami and volcanic eruption.

In his previous life, a meteorite hit the earth, which directly wiped out dinosaurs.

Perhaps the lower temperature is also related to the impact of the meteorite on the earth... Zhao Yanxun secretly guessed.

The problem now is that if what Yu Lixi said is true, it means that those "western barbarians" will inevitably move eastward and compete with the Jin Dynasty for living space.

Even the invincible Huns felt that those Western barbarians were terrible, and obviously those people were indeed powerful.

Thinking about it, it makes sense, those people killed thousands of miles from the Far West, and those who survived were naturally violent.

On the dragon chair, Zhao Yanxun was thinking, and the ministers below were also talking about it.

"Everyone..."

As soon as Zhao Yanxun opened his mouth, the discussion stopped abruptly, and everyone quickly bowed to Zhao Yanxun.

"How to deal with this matter?"

Facing this problem, we can draw different conclusions from different angles.

"Your Majesty, I think that we should send more troops to the north as soon as possible to meet unexpected needs!" Zeng Changsong, Minister of the Ministry of War, said.

Once the troops are deployed and more food is allocated, the court's finances will only become more difficult.

To maintain finances, there are two ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

Throttling is simply unrealistic, so we can only open source.

Changing the tax system and increasing tax-paying land is an open source and a once-and-for-all solution, but it takes a long time to implement and it is difficult to see benefits in a short period of time.

This method is not useful for the time being, so there is only another way... to increase taxes.

Nowadays, ordinary people are indeed having a hard time, but the large number of big families in the south have no shortage of food in their granaries.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yanxun immediately made up his mind to levy "Pingluxiang" on the five counties in the south.

"Your Majesty, I thought that... I sent people to Yinjia to go to the Western Regions to investigate the situation and find out the details of the Western Barbarians!"

Cheng Wenguang glanced at the other ministers and said, "We can't just believe what the Huns say!"

"That's the truth!"

Cheng Wenguang's words were approved by Guan Hetai, and the other ministers also nodded one after another.

"The people of Jinyiwei only cared about the situation of the Xiongnu royal court, but didn't send many people to the Western Regions. Now it seems that it was a mistake!" Zhao Yanxun felt helpless.

"Not only do we need to send people to investigate the Western Regions, but we also have to send people to keep an eye on the northern part of Tianshan County. We can't let the Huns do anything wrong!"

"The emperor is wise!" All the ministers said.

After everyone was quiet, Cheng Wenguang said again: "Your Majesty, I have another idea!"

"Chengqing, let me tell you!"

"Your Majesty, diplomatic relations between the two countries is a major event. King Dingling is inferior to the Huns, so I'm afraid he can't represent the Huns!"

"I think that the Huns should send someone with a higher status to talk, and I can also ask for news during this time!" Cheng Wenguang said solemnly.

Zhao Yanxun glanced at the ministers and asked, "What do you think?"

"The minister waits for the second opinion!"

Ever since, the matter was settled.

Although the news quickly spread to Beidi, Luo Lun was not in a hurry to find Yu Lixi, after all, he couldn't be too "enthusiastic".

It took three full days before Zhang Ziming appeared in front of Li Xi with Luo Lun's order.

"You mean, let me go back? Let Da Shanyu send someone again?" Yu Lixi didn't want to believe it, so he asked again.

"Exactly!" Zhang Ziming replied simply.

This undisguised contempt made Yu Lixi so angry that he wanted to hit someone with a stool.

Zhang Ziming took a step back, and then said: "This is not Governor Luo's intention, but His Majesty's will!"

"The emperor's will?"

At this moment, Yu Lixi was stunned, he was doubting the truth of Zhang Ziming's words.

After all, this place is more than 2000 miles away from the capital, how could the emperor's decree spread so quickly.

But the next moment, Yu Lixi thought of the answer.

Maybe...the emperor of Jin court is really in Beidi County.

At this moment, the situation of the negotiation three days ago appeared in front of Yu Lixi.

"I believe you. Since it is His Majesty's will, I will go back to the grassland now!" Yu Lixi said solemnly.

Although he didn't like the Jin court, he also knew the emperor's golden words, and since he said he wouldn't talk to him, it was meaningless for him to stay here.

Of course, if the Huns are really confident, he can also play tricks, but now the Huns can't afford it.

The matter of cooperating with the Jin court must be finalized as soon as possible, and the time left for them by the "Western Barbarians" is running out.

The Xiongnu have not invaded Tianyu Pass recently, but it does not mean that they have not fought, and the battle with the "Western Barbarians" has never stopped.

Yu Lixi agreed to leave, but when he got the horses, he found that there were only a hundred of them.

"These two hundred people, in addition to eating and drinking, broke a lot of bowls and used up a lot of tables and chairs. It should be worth [-] horses!"

"My lord is refreshing, I wiped out eight horses for you, and it's fine to accept a hundred horses from you!"

A thousand households snapped their fingers and calculated accounts with Yu Lixi, while Oreki was arguing with him.

I came here to ask for food and weapons, but in the end I didn't get what I wanted, and I was ignorant of a hundred horses by the Jin people.

What is this?

From the beginning to the end, he didn't go smoothly, which made Yu Lixi extremely aggrieved.

The horse obviously didn't want to come back, and now he just wanted to get out of this sad place as soon as possible.

"Okay, let's go!"

Yu Lixi's roar interrupted the dispute between Oreki and Qianhu.

"You people from Jin are really shameless!" Oreki scolded angrily.

Then they led a hundred or so horses, and slowly walked out of Tianyu Pass.

This time they came with 200 people, bringing a total of [-] horses, and the remaining [-] horses were placed outside the city.

Therefore, Yu Lixi was not worried about the strength of his feet, it was just that he suffered from a loss.

(End of this chapter)