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"Emperor Ningchuan hopes to return the 40,000 captives to Ningchuan, and for the two countries to form an eternal alliance."

Dong Bo spoke, somewhat lacking in confidence.

According to his original plan, he would start by talking about 500,000 taels of silver, and then pretend to be careless and raise the price to 1,000,000 taels of silver and 1,000,000 shi of grain, so as to reduce Lin Xiaofan's vigilance to the greatest extent.

But who knew that the other party did not play by the rules at all, and wanted to fry him right away. In a hurry, he said his bottom line.

The alliance between the two countries was like a joke in this era. He himself was reluctant to believe that a million dan of grain and a million taels of silver were used to exchange for 40,000 prisoners of war who were of no use to Daqian.

"Is this all you ask? Emperor Ningchuan's sincerity is a little too great."

Lin Xiaofan said with a smile.

"Marquis Champion, I am not joking."

Dong Bo was afraid that Lin Xiaofan would not believe him and would fry him in oil again, so he spoke hurriedly.

"Emperor Ningchuan is so sincere, so I will naturally have no problem with it. As long as Emperor Ningchuan can send food and silver, I will return all the 40,000 captives under my command to you."

Lin Xiaofan also nodded.

"That's the best. Emperor Ningchuan has already prepared the food and silver. Don't worry, as long as I bring the news back, these things will be sent from Ningchuan to Daqian immediately."

Dong Bo bowed.

"Go and serve some dishes to entertain our friends from Ningchuan."

Lin Xiaofan then looked at Dong Bo, raised his teacup and said:

"There are strict orders in the army not to drink alcohol. Here I will use tea instead of wine to toast Ningchuan country."

"Well, I wish the friendship between our two countries will last forever."

Dong Bo heaved a sigh of relief that he was fooled so easily.

When he left the military camp, his mission would be considered successfully completed. Although two people fell into the frying pan, they were both insignificant people, and the emperor would only remember his own merits.

Several people held tea and toasted each other. After more than half an hour, Dong Bo felt that the time was about right, so he said:

"Marquis Guanjun, General Jian, it's getting late. I have to go back early and tell my emperor and other ministers the good news so that they can be happy. I won't stay here for long."

After saying that, the messengers around also stood up, thinking that they could finally leave.

"Don't leave in such a hurry, everyone. You haven't even taken a few bites of the food yet. Is it because the food doesn't suit your taste?"

Jianfeng stood up and tried to keep him.

"I have traveled all the way here, so I really don't have much appetite."

Dong Bo made an excuse.

"It's getting late, why are you in such a hurry to leave? Stay here for one night. Besides, the alliance between the two countries has to be decided by the emperor, and we two can't make the decision."

Lin Xiaofan said.

"Yes, I have just ordered people to rush to Daqian Capital and tell the good news to my emperor. You guys should stay here for a few more days to finalize the matter. It won't be too late to leave then."

Jian Feng blocked the door intentionally or unintentionally, and several bodyguards stood closely beside him, blocking the entire exit.

Dong Bo thought to himself that something was not good. He actually forgot about this matter.

Nothing has been decided yet, and if he just leaves, he will definitely be exposed.

But he didn't want to stay in this damn place for even a second.

"If you are worried, I can send some people to escort you to the capital to have a talk with my emperor."

Lin Xiaofan said.

"Don't worry, the Great Emperor is a reasonable and wise king. There are many benefits to the alliance between the two countries. I believe that the Great Emperor will agree."

Dong Bo laughed dryly. If he went to the capital of Daqian, it would take two months to go back and forth. Ningchuan would probably have attacked long ago, and he would have no chance of escaping.

In order to prevent Lin Xiaofan and others from getting suspicious, Dong Bo could only say:

"Yes, I was too impatient. Then I will stay here for a few days. I hope Daqian can give us a reply as soon as possible so that I can tell our emperor the news."

"That's for sure."

Lin Xiaofan nodded in agreement.

After arranging several people in the vacant military camp, Jian Feng couldn't wait to ask:

"What do you think?"

"It's a trick."

"Indeed. What do you think?"

"Why don't we just take advantage of their trick and pretend we don't know? We can call back most of the scouts and only keep a few elite troops to be stationed on the road their army must take."

"After finding the trace of Ningchuan's army, arrange an ambush."

Lin Xiaofan said.

"That's what I thought. Lu Gou, make some arrangements so that the soldiers don't have to be so vigilant anymore and can return to their previous scattered appearance, but they must always be ready for battle."

Jian Feng said.

"clear."

"Jiang Li, take back the scouts and only leave a small part behind."

"clear."

"Brother Feng, I have a team under my command that is more suitable for scouts. Why don't you let my people do this mission?"

Lin Xiaofan asked.

In his vanguard army, there is also a 300-man Anbu. After two years of devilish training by Little Witch and Xiao Han, the reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance capabilities of each member of this team far exceed those of the veterans in the Daqian army.

"That's best."

Jian Feng nodded slightly, showing absolute trust in Lin Xiaofan.

The Qingzhou army returned to its previous loose state, sending several hundred people to the city of Daliang every day to give a scolding, while the rest were mostly in various parts of the military camp, chatting in groups of three or five.

Regarding the daily verbal battles, the soldiers in the Daliang capital city have gone from being angry at the beginning to being completely indifferent now.

One reason is that they have experienced a lot, and the other is that the food supply in Daliang City is almost running out, and they have no time to care about the situation outside the city.

With nearly 400,000 people, the amount of food consumed every day was huge. In addition, as the food crisis gradually emerged, those high-ranking officials and grain merchants began to hoard food, resulting in many people having no food to eat.

Even the soldiers themselves, instead of having two meals a day, each consisting of a bowl of porridge and a piece of bread, now only have one meal a day, and the porridge is almost all water, and the amount of bread is much smaller.

They realized that the food in the Daliang treasury was about to run out.

"Hey, I have four children at home. Now the whole city is out of food, and I don't know how they are doing."

A soldier looked at the people outside the city who were scrambling for relief porridge with a bitter look on his face.

The so-called relief porridge had barely a few grains of rice in a bowl. Even so, many people still couldn't get any.

"The last time I went home, my family had run out of food."

The other soldier also had a worried look on his face.

"They neither want to fight nor surrender. Now even we soldiers are going hungry. I estimate that in a few days, there will be people starving to death on the streets of the city. I don't know what those people above are thinking."

"Hey, brother, keep your voice down. You can't say that."

"Huh, what? I've been wronged, and you won't let me speak up?"