Chapter 146: Ma Rong who was tricked

"The foreign minister Ma Rong pays homage to King Deng." In Jingyang Hall, Ma Rong bowed to Deng Sheng.

"Please get up, please." Deng Sheng raised his hand and said.

"Thank you, King!" Ma Rong stood up and said.

"System, let me test Ma Rong's thinking."

"Ma Rong, force: 51, commander: 82, intelligence: 93, politics: 94."

"Ma Xiang came from afar, but he didn't know what was going on?" Deng Sheng asked knowingly.

"Back to the king!" Ma Rong replied: "Foreign ministers came to resolve some small conflicts between our two countries on the border a few days ago, and some prisoners in our country were in the hands of your country. For the sake of the soldiers' families, missing their fathers, children, and husbands, they would return these people to our country."

Deng Sheng couldn't help but smile and joked: "Ma Xiang, this is not a small conflict, and our army has also killed many soldiers for this. This cannot be resolved by Ma Xiang in just one sentence."

"Oh..." Ma Rong sighed, "I wonder how the king can eliminate the misunderstanding and return our soldiers to the country?"

Deng Sheng ignored Ma Rong. Instead, he said to Cui Hao and Su Hong: "Cui Qing, Su Qing, the specific matters will be left to you and Ma Xiang to negotiate with him and leave the court."

"Here!" Cui Hao and Su Hong responded.

"King! King!" Seeing that Deng Sheng was about to leave, Ma Rong was anxious and hurriedly wanted to stop Deng Sheng, but Deng Sheng ignored him and left Jingyang Palace directly.

"Ma Xiang." Cui Hao walked to Ma Rong and said, "Ma Xiang, let's go, follow Zaixia and Shangshu Su to sit in Xiamenxia.

"Oh..." Ma Rong sighed and followed Cui Hao and Su Hong.

In the living room of the provincial capital of the Menxia Province, Cui Hao, Su Hong and Ma Rong sat opposite each other.

"Ma Xiang, come, please have a glass of water and wine." Cui Hao smiled and pushed a glass of wine in front of Ma Rong, making a gesture of invitation.

Ma Rong did not take the drink, but said to Cui Hao and Su Hong: "Cui Xiang, Shangshu Su, let's talk about some serious business."

Cui Hao and Su Hong looked at each other and had a quick eye contact. Cui Hao said, "Why should Ma Xiang be anxious? Ma Xiang came to Wancheng from Puyang, so he had to entertain him well. It would be not too late to talk about these things later."

This is a routine that Cui Hao and Su Hong discussed. The purpose is to make Ma Rong anxious. As long as Ma Rong is anxious, he will follow their routine without realizing it.

However, Ma Rong is not a good person. He also knew that whoever is anxious first will lose, so Ma Rong pretended to be calm and picked up the wine glass and drank it.

In this way, a very embarrassing scene appeared, three old men with different thoughts, and they were very harmonious. You and I were drinking one cup after another.

After more than half an hour like this, Ma Rong finally couldn't help it. Logically speaking, Ma Rong's decades of official career have been ups and downs, so he should be very calm, but he can't stand the chips in his hands. Eighty thousand Wei army captives are Cui Hao and Su Hong. This is Cui Hao and Su Hong's biggest bargaining chips. Unless Ma Rong doesn't want these 80,000 prisoners, he is destined to be less calm than Cui Hao and Su Hong.

"Oh, I'm old, I'm not as good as Cui Xiang and Su Shangshu." Ma Rong sighed and said, "Tell me, let's talk, how can your country release our prisoners back to China?"

Seeing this, Cui Hao and Su Hong looked at each other and smiled. Cui Hao said with a smile: "Ma Xiang was joking. In fact, our conditions are very simple. As long as your country compensates the land of Chenliu County in our country, with a total of one million gold, 10 million stones of grain, 500,000 pieces of cloth, silk, and silk, you can return the 80,000 surrendered soldiers from your country."

"What! Are you too much? Are you too much?" Facing Cui Hao and Su Hong's lion's mouth wide open, Ma Rong held back his anger and said.

Cui Hao shook his head and said, "What does Ma Xiang mean? Why are we too much? You must be clear that our two countries have no deep hatred, but your country actually used an army of 200,000 to march south and ravage Yingchuan. What is this trying to do? What's more, it was because of your country's invasion for no reason that my great Deng and tens of thousands of children died on the battlefield. This is not an exaggeration."

"Anyway, I will never accept these conditions." Ma Rong said furiously, jokingly, if you really pay compensation according to the conditions raised by Cui Hao, would Wei State still want it? Chenliu is the richest county in Wei State. It would be better to take the life of Wei State than to ced Chenliu. A million gold is not a big problem. The key is 10 million stones of grain. Wei State is rich and there is a lot of grain, but this ten million stones of grain is a full third or even half of the grain stored in Wei State. If it is gone, Wei State may have been living a tight life for several years.

"Since Ma Xiang disagreed, I have to report to the king and captive the 80,000 Wei troops and send them to the frontier to repair the city walls. As for what your country is like, it is not related to the matter." Cui Haohan replied with a face.

"This..." Ma Rong was anxious. How could he talk about this? The script was not like this. Next, you shouldn't ask me how much I can give? Why did the jar break so quickly? How could he talk about this?

"Cui Xiang, Ma Xiang is calm." Su Hong, who was standing aside, persuaded with a smile. This was agreed upon by Cui Hao and Su Hong in advance. One was a singly singly singly singly singly singly singly singly. Now it's his turn for Su Hong to appear.

"Cui Xiang, don't make things too difficult for Ma Xiang. If you are below the officials, you might as well just go down. As for the land of Chenliu, that is the lifeblood of Wei. If you give it to us, Wei will probably be in big trouble. Let's forget it?" Su Hong said to Cui Hao.

"Well, let me give Su Shangshu a face, because Ma Xiang is our predecessor, and then he will fall down again." Cui Hao said with a pretentious struggle.

Cui Hao pretended to think and said, "Let's do this, we don't want it all over Chenliu. And what if the food is only eight million stones?"

This turned out to be one million gold, eight million stones of grain, fifteen hundred thousand each of silk cloth and silk.

"This is still too high. Cui Xiang, can you give in a little more?" Ma Rong still couldn't accept it and said with a bitter face.

"This is not possible, that is not possible. Ma Xiang, are you here to redeem people? Is it so unsincere?" Cui Hao said loudly.

"Cui Xiang, don't be angry, first see what Ma Xiang said." Su Hong advised Cui Hao very promptly, and then said to Ma Rong: "Ma Xiang, why not tell me how much your country can take out, right? I'll persuade Cui Xiang again."

"This..." Ma Rong gritted his teeth and said, "Minety-hundred thousand gold, five million stones of grain, two hundred thousand cloth, and two hundred thousand silk. This is the limit of our country. If there is more, you can't take it out." This number is the greatest authority given to Ma Rong by the King of Wei. He was cheated out by Cui Hao and Su Hong.

Cui Hao and Su Hong looked at each other and nodded silently, but Cui Hao still pretended to be angry and said, "Ma Xiang, you are insincere, I don't think we need to continue talking." After that, he closed his eyes and stopped looking at Ma Rong.

Ma Rong was anxious and pulled Su Hong to say: "Shangshu Su, look at this, this is really the largest number that our country can produce."

Su Hong patted Ma Rong's back of his hand and said, "Ma Xiang is calm and don't be impatient. I'll advise Cui Xiang again."

Then Su Hong pulled Cui Hao and said, "Cui Xiang, I think Ma Xiang is already very sincere. Why not just do it, and we won't lose money."

"Su Hong, you..." Cui Hao stared at Su Hong with wide eyes, then shook his head, waved his hand, and said, "Forget it, forgot, since you have said this, what else can I do? But let's make a statement first, you will tell the king yourself, you have to bear the blame for it." After that, he left.

Seeing Cui Hao leave directly, Ma Rong looked at Su Hong for no reason.

Su Hong smiled and said, "Ma Xiang, Cui Xiang has agreed."

"Really!" Ma Rong said happily.

"Of course." Su Hong nodded and said with a smile: "I will draft the document later. When your country's compensation arrives at our border, how about paying money with one hand and the other hand?"

"Okay! OK! That's it." Ma Rong said.

However, after saying that, Ma Rong looked at the smile on Su Hong's face, thoughtful, suddenly understood something, and said furiously: "Shangshu Su, I didn't expect that you are so insincere and actually cheated on me like this."

Seeing that Ma Rong finally understood, Su Hong smiled and said, "What does Ma Xiang mean? Why did we cheat you? Isn't this the condition proposed by Ma Xiang? We agreed only for the sake of the people of Wei. You also saw that even Cui Xiang was angry for Ma Xiang."

"You...you..." Ma Rong suddenly didn't know what to say. He said the compensation number himself, and he agreed. Everything was final. What else could he say? Ma Rong could only swallow this bitter fruit. Ma Rong sighed. Unexpectedly, he had been trampled by two young people today, and beat the eagle all day long. Today he was pecked by the eagle. It was really the waves of the Yangtze River pushing the previous waves. The waves of the previous waves died on the beach. The younger generation is so terrifying.
Chapter completed!