On the first day of June, there will be a court meeting.
Zhao Ziliang, wearing a royal robe and a crown, walked up to the throne.
The civil servants and generals standing neatly in the hall bowed together and shouted: "I will pay my respects to the king."
Zhao Ziliang sat down on the throne, put his hands on the golden armrests and said: "All the ministers, please stand down.
Come, Nasser, the new envoy of Xuan Da Shi Kingdom, is here to see you."
The ministers stood up one after another, with civil and military personnel standing on one side, leaving the middle empty.
The eunuch on duty shouted loudly: "The king has an edict to announce that the new envoy of the Kingdom of Shit, Nasser, has an audience."
The eunuchs outside shouted one after another, conveying Zhao Ziliang's decree to the palace gate.
After hearing this, the eunuch accompanying him outside the palace said to Nasser, the new envoy of the Dashi Kingdom: "Your Excellency, the king's decree has been announced.
You can pay homage to the king according to the etiquette of your country, but you must also abide by the customs of our country and the rules of the royal court."
Nasser nodded to express his understanding, and the eunuch immediately took him and an entourage into the palace gate, and got on a carriage inside the palace gate.
The carriage walked up the mountain for half an hour before arriving at the gate of the Ice Palace.
Outside the hall, Tai Jianzhu explained again before taking Nasser and his entourage into the hall.
After entering the hall, the eunuch was standing aside.
Nasser and his entourage walked to the middle of the hall one after another and asked Zhao Zi in accordance with the etiquette of eating. good manners Said: "The new envoy of the Great Food Kingdom, Nasser, came to visit the King on the order of the Caliph of our country and will be stationed in Xinjing to perform the duties of the envoy of our country in Xinjing.
This is the letter of credence written by His Majesty the Caliph of our country to His Majesty the King, please Your Majesty "Have a look" The entourage took a few steps forward and held up the certificate of credence with both hands.
A eunuch from Lord Dan came down and took the certificate of credence and presented it to Zhao Ziliang.
Zhao Ziliang took the certificate and looked at it, put it down and said, "Is this the first time for Your Excellency Nasser to come to Western Qin?"
Nasser said: "Yes, His Majesty the King" Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Well, I hope that you will become familiar with the customs of our Western Qin and the rules of the royal court as soon as possible, adapt to this position as soon as possible, and strengthen communication and contact between the two countries in the relationship."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Nasser saluted and immediately changed the topic: "I very much agree with what Your Majesty said, but as far as I know, half a month ago, your country's border garrison at Khwarizm actually invaded our territory and occupied the northeastern part of our country. border town As two countries with normal diplomatic relations, Guchang and Mashad, this behavior is extremely wrong.
I hope that His Majesty the King will immediately issue an order to withdraw the troops that invaded our country, punish the relevant generals, compensate our country for its losses, and issue a written apology to our country."
"fart" "impossible" "You were the first to be rude" All of a sudden, the civil and military ministers in the court were yelling at Nasser.
Why are the state officials only allowed to set fires and not the people to light lamps?
You can only cross the border and invade our territory.
Don't you allow our troops to enter your territory and want us to withdraw?
You apologize first.
Besides, finally making compensation and apologizing is a no-brainer.
Zhao Ziliang raised his hand to stop the abuse and annoyance of the civil and military ministers, and said to Nasser: "Your Excellency, Envoy Nasser, this incident was caused by your food army trespassing into our country and taking the lead in causing a conflict.
Before our army took action, Our royal court, Honglu Temple, and the envoy in Baghdad have conducted urgent consultations with relevant officials of your country on this matter. , demanding that your troops withdraw immediately, multiple negotiations have yielded no results, and your Caliph Mansour has not made any response to this matter, and has repeatedly condoned the cross-border troops.
We will only launch a counterattack out of intolerance.
If you do not If you want to be reasonable, don't blame us.
If you want to resolve this dispute, shouldn't you show sincerity first?"
Nasser frowned and said, "I don't know what His Majesty the King wants."
Zhao Ziliang shook his head to Dugu Wensu, who stood up and said to Nasser: "Your Excellency, our country's request is very simple.
Your caliph must first apologize in writing to our king and admit his mistakes.
This is a negotiation between our two parties.
The basis for resolving this matter.
Without this, nothing can be discussed.”
Nasser's face changed: "This is impossible.
Our Caliphate is absolutely right in this matter.
If we really want to find someone who is at fault, it would be General Manyinta.
He has been killed by your army." , is there anything better than death to bear the blame?
At the beginning of this matter, our country did make mistakes first, Man General Inta should not have led his army into your sphere of influence, but he and the army he led did not cause any losses to you, and your army not only surrounded and annihilated them, but also entered our territory and captured Guchang City and Mashad City, the behavior of our army can only be regarded as provocation, but the behavior of your army is aggression."
Ge Yutai, the Minister of Household Affairs, jumped out and retorted: "Who said that your army's behavior is just a provocation?
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Your army's setting foot on our land without the permission of our country is an invasion."
Nasser's face knew that no matter what he said, it was unreasonable.
After all, it was the Great Food Country that started this matter.
Now they have retaliated and are demanding an apology from the Great Food Country, and the Caliph himself.
This is terrible.
It's not something he can decide.
Nasser calmed down and said to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, I hope that both of us will exercise restraint.
We have been fighting the Eastern Roman Empire for many years.
Our people need to cultivate and live, and the people of your country do not want an outbreak.
War, we think we can sit down and talk about whether we can first withdraw your troops from our country, and then we can discuss it further."
Zhao Ziliang refused expressionlessly: "You are unwilling to admit your mistakes.
Do you think it is possible for us to sit down and negotiate?"
Nasser sighed and saluted Zhao Ziliang: "This is really a pity.
I will send someone back to Baghdad as soon as possible to convey the wishes of His Majesty the King and your country to the Caliph."
Regarding the occupation of Guchang City and Mashad by the Western Qin Army, the Dashi Kingdom and the Western Qin Dynasty continued to negotiate for more than two months.
The Dashi Kingdom insisted on not being the first to enter.
Xi Qin apologized to the Western Qin State for its influence, but the Western Qin Dynasty insisted that the Dashi Kingdom apologize first before they could sit down and negotiate to resolve the dispute, so both sides were in a stalemate.
Both sides are secretly deploying troops and hoarding grain, grass and other strategic materials.
Ordinary people are unaware that the situation has quietly begun to change.
By the end of August, Nasser may have received instructions from Baghdad to request peace talks with the Honglu Temple in Western Qin.
Hong Xu, the minister of Honglu Temple, immediately came to report to Dugu Wensu, Prime Minister of the Government Affairs Council, and Dugu Wensu reported to Zhao Ziliang.
"Are you saying that the Big Eater wants us to withdraw Yang Guangliang's ministry on these compensation terms?"
Zhao Ziliang asked after looking at the memorial presented by Dugu Wensu.
"Yes, but they refused to apologize in writing.
Wei Chen thinks that asking them to apologize is indeed a bit too much.
It's better to add some price to these and talk slowly."
Dugu Wensu was quite enthusiastic about this.
He was not afraid of confronting Dashi.
When the country goes to war, he does not want to start the war immediately.
It is best to postpone the war until next year.
Zhao Ziliang once again looked at the compensation conditions proposed by Da Shiren, thought about it, and said: "We can negotiate with them, but these compensation conditions must be doubled.
For example, the tax on our goods entering Da Shi Country must be reduced by half; The amount of copper ore sold to our country every year must be doubled, and the price must be 20% lower than before; the number of high-quality war horses sold to our country must be doubled; the amount of compensation this time must be increased to four million guan."
Dugu asked Su: "Yes, I asked Honglu Temple to arrange officials to talk to Nasser."
A few days later, Honglu Temple sent officials to negotiate with Nasser.
Wang Can hurried to the Ice Palace to see Zhao Ziliang and reported: "Your Majesty, I heard that Honglu Temple is negotiating with Dashi Kingdom."
Zhao Ziliang said: "Yes, do you have any ideas?"
Wang Can said: "Wei Chen has no idea, but there is some movement in the Great Food Country.
The opposition of the Caliphate in the Great Food Country are mobilizing people everywhere to express their dissatisfaction with the Caliphate authorities, forcing the Caliphate to immediately launch a war to recapture Guchang and Mashad.
Wei Chen I think this may be Nasser’s purpose of actively negotiating with us and requesting peace talks.”
Zhao Ziliang became interested: "Why do you think so?"
"Your Majesty, Dashi has been in civil strife for many years and has been at war with the Eastern Roman Empire for many years.
The national strength has long been overwhelmed.
Their soldiers cannot eat or wear clothes no matter how strong their faith is.
He used to secretly support the border generals to provoke our country, then He was testing our reaction and tolerance.
He probably didn't expect that the king would suddenly return to Xinjing, nor did he expect that we would respond to them in such a strong way, so Therefore, he knows that now is not the best time to go to war with us.
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His army needs to rest and recuperate, and his country needs to recover from the war.
And now the opposition forces him to send troops to retake Guchang and Mashad.
In order to quell the internal opposition, he We can only think of other ways to get Guchang and Mashad back.
This is why Nasser was so anxious to put forward some compensation conditions and negotiate with us."
Zhao Ziliang was moved after hearing Wang Can's words, and immediately ordered the eunuch next to him: "Immediately declare Dugu to pay homage to the common people."
Dugu Wensu quickly followed the eunuch to the Ice Palace.
When he saw Wang Can was here, he raised his hands and said to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty."
Zhao Ziliang asked: "How are the negotiations with Nasser going?"
"We are still talking, but we are almost done talking."
Zhao Ziliang said: "Make a request to them, let them pay the compensation first.
If they don't pay the compensation, we will withdraw the troops when we pay the compensation.
We will withdraw the troops when."
Dugu Wensu was stunned for a moment, "My lord, are you worried that the cannibals will default on their debts?"
"Money is the most real thing.
Without money, all agreements are useless paper."
"Yes, Weichen asked Honglu Temple to add this one":