Jiankang, Taicheng, and the officials from Sanchao walked towards the palace gate. They walked together in groups of three or five, and were talking. Outside the palace gate, Ouyang Xun stood beside the carriage, and his eyes swept around the crowd.

Compared with many well-known officials, Ouyang Xun was "sleeping in his appearance", that is, his appearance was ugly. In addition, his special life experience was over thirty years old, so as a white man, he could only wait outside the palace gate with the coachman and servants of the Jiang Mansion to scatter the court.

The "Jiang" in Jiang Mansion refers to the "Jiang" of the dynasty's prime minister, General Jiang. General Jiang is famous for his literature. Now he often enters the palace to accompany the emperor to drink and write poems. Today, he meets the court. After the court is dispersed, General Jiang may not leave the palace soon, so the carriage in Jiang Mansion is waiting outside the palace gate.

This is a duty for the servants of the Jiang Mansion, and for Ouyang Xun, it is filial piety, because as an adopted son, it is natural to serve the adoptive father.

Ouyang Xun's surname is "Ouyang". From this we can see that he is not the biological son of General Jiang. Ouyang Xun's father Ouyang He was the governor of Guangzhou at that time. He was the military affairs of the nineteen states. Because he was suspicious of Emperor Xuan Chen Xu, he rebelled in Guangzhou.

The rebellion was soon put down by the Jiankang court. Ouyang He and his family were only Ouyang Xun escaped by chance, and the rest were killed.

Not long after, the Empress Dowager died and the court immigrated the world. Ouyang Xun was spared from death and escaped. He was adopted by his father's friend Jiang. For more than 20 years, as an adopted son, Ouyang Xun served as his father's courtesy.

Because of his identity as a ruthless son and being considered ugly, even though Ouyang Xun wrote good writing, he never entered the official position. Even though his adoptive father, Mr. Jiang, was deeply trusted by the officials, he was still a white man.

Mr. Jiang has several sons, all of whom are officials in the court. Ouyang Xun, who is an adopted son but has no official position, took on the heavy responsibility of filial piety and often accompanied his adoptive father. Now he is waiting for his adoptive father to leave the palace, but all the officials are about to leave and there are still no one to see him.

After a while, an eunuch came hurriedly. Seeing Ouyang Xun who was familiar with him, he went straight forward and said that Duke Jiang (General Jiang) accompanied the officials to discuss matters, and later the official family would send someone to send Duke Jiang back to his residence.

After receiving the news, the car from Jiang Mansion drove back home, but Ouyang Xun did not follow him, but walked slowly towards Qingxi along the street.

Qingxi is a place where the mansions of high-ranking officials and nobles gather. Of course, the Jiangfu is also next to Qingxi, but Ouyang Xun is not in a hurry to go back. It is rare to have a chance to take a walk. He wants to take a closer look at the street scene of Jiankang.

Ouyang Xun knew that the situation was not good, and the Northern Barbarians might invade the south again. At that time, the golden bowl was broken and Jiankang was trapped. He might leave Jiankang. He wanted to see the street scene of Jiankang in the future, but he didn't know when it would be.

Although Ouyang Xun was studying calligraphy hard, he was not a nerd who turned a blind eye to the outside world. He knew that two things had happened recently that would cause the war to resurrect. The envoys of the Beilu (Zhou Kingdom) had arrived in Jiankang, and the people who came were not good.

Seeing that the two countries were about to meet each other, and the strength of Chen State was exhausted, it was likely that it could not stop the Northern Captains' Tiger and Wolf Army. Ouyang Xun was worried, but he didn't know how to relieve his mood.

For Ouyang Xun, whether Chen Guo’s rise and fall has nothing to do with him, and he is not qualified to worry.

But the country will inevitably lead to the destruction of the family. If Chen State can survive the current crisis, that would be great. At least the elderly adoptive father can spend his old age and not suffer from the suffering of war.

As I thought about it, a sudden scream came from my ears: "Isn't this a shame to the country!"

Ouyang Xun looked over the sound, but saw several officials gathered on the road ahead, and it seemed that they were talking about something. The sentence "Isn't this a loss of power and humiliation of the country?" should be said by one of them.

Because the sound was a bit loud, Ouyang Xun could hear it. When the officials saw someone nearby, they quickly stopped talking and got on their horses and left.

Ouyang Xun understood the four words "lost power and humiliated the country" by Ouyang Xun. He was not a fool. Thinking of the current situation, he quickly guessed that it might be the court that made concessions to the Zhou State. The concessions were so great that some people used "lost power and humiliated the country" to evaluate it.

So, what kind of concessions will be made, so that there will be comments that are disgraceful and humiliating?

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After the envoy's residence, the banquet ended. Wang Shao, the envoy of Zhou State, returned to his bedside. While drinking sobering soup, he was thinking about things. When he first arrived in Jiankang, he was full of confidence, but now he had become inconsistency.

Wang Shao was ordered to go to Chen State to be envoyed, but in fact he wanted to find a way to make things difficult for the other party and make excuses for the war. However, in order to avoid the war, Chen State tried his best to compromise and made many concessions.

The many concessions made Wang Shao feel a little embarrassed.

Chen State said that the previous attack on Zhou ships and the seizure of personnel, the main officials have been dismissed, and officials from the Sanjiangkou Sea Port of Kuaiji County, as well as the "troubled people" who slandered Zhou's crew as pirates, can all be handed over to Zhou State for disposal.

Similarly, Chen State has arrested some people at the mouth of the Qinhuai River in the suburbs of Jiankang City, and also tortured the envoy behind the scenes and captured them. These people can also be handed over to Zhou State for disposal.

Chen State compensated all the losses suffered by Zhou's ships in these two incidents. Not only that, but also compensated the detained personnel for a "compensation" for comfort.

This is Chen's approach to dealing with the two incidents, and there are still many subsequent remedial measures:

First, after being inspected by the Chen State's official army, the Zhou State ships could go downstream as usual to reach the Qinhuai River estuary outside Jiankang City. The Chen State Council specially opened an area to allow Zhou State merchant ships to berth and allow Zhou people to stay ashore.

This area is also a trading market for the two countries to trade and stay here. Merchants from Zhouguo do business and accommodation, so that they can be protected by Chenguo's official army to avoid accidents.

At the Sanjiangkou of Kuaiji County, Yangzhou, Chen Guodong, a similar area is also set up so that Zhou Guohai ships who stayed in the middle can stay and do business under strict protection.

Secondly, if something happens to the Zhou people in these two areas, the Zhou State will deal with it themselves. The officials of the Chen State will not arrest anyone and will not be held accountable.

Third, I hope that Zhou State's permanent envoys in Jiankang can carry out various diplomatic matters on behalf of the Zhou State court and Chen State, and are also responsible for coordinating various emergencies during trade.

If the Zhou people violate the law in the mutual market area, the envoy will deal with it.

If the bitter master is from Chen, officials from Chen and envoys from Zhou will negotiate related matters, there will be no incidents where officials from Chen arrest people without authorization and imprisonment.

Fourth, if the Zhou State sends envoys to Jiankang, the Chen State Council shall define an area as the "embassy" for the envoys. The location of the embassy can be regarded as the territory of the Zhou State, and officials and civilians of the Chen State shall not enter without permission.

The embassy can be regarded as the envoy's official office and handles all affairs of the people in Jiankang Zhou.

The four measures proposed by Chen Guo’s side were so concessions that Wang Shao, who was holding his strength to find fault, seemed to hit a large ball of silk cotton with his punch, and he couldn’t use his strength.

In order to avoid finding excuses for the Zhou State to start a war, the other party took the initiative to propose these four points, according to Wang Shao's understanding, were "losing power and humiliating the country."

Foreigners violate the law in their own country, but their own departments cannot arrest people, let alone punish them. This is to give up their power in disguise, that is, "lost their power."

Allow foreign countries to set up embassies in their own capitals, and promise that the embassy is located in the territory of Zhou, so that the other party’s envoys can interfere in their own domestic affairs. This practice will be a disgrace to the national character, that is, “insulting the country.”

Wang Shao felt that this was even more humiliating than cedeing land and seeking peace, which was simply "shocking". He didn't understand how the Emperor of Chen could agree to such a humiliating proposal.

After all, you are the lord of a country. Can you be a little bit proud of a monarch?

Did the Southern Dynasty have no ministers, loyal and righteous men, and the heroes of the Tiger and Ben, who stood up to oppose such a proposal to lose power and humiliate the country?

Wang Shao complained about Chen Guo's humble behavior. He really couldn't understand what happened to the king and minister of Chen Guo, and why he had no backbone at all.

The development of the situation was beyond Wang Shao's expectations. He and the deputy envoy discussed for a long time but were still unsure of their minds. Because in this way, they were not sure whether the Prime Minister who was eagerly waiting for the war would still be so determined to use troops this year.
Chapter completed!