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On the day of the peace talks, the prince asked Gulang to take people to invite the Tatar envoys to come for peace talks.

The Crown Prince, Murong Yuanbo brought Deputy General Chang, Gao Zhijun brought Qinglong and Moxue, and Canglang stayed to protect Liu Ningchu and Huo Jinqian.

When they arrived at the posthouse, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Eunuch Wang and others were already waiting at the entrance of the posthouse.

Everyone came to Yijietang for the peace talks, which Gao Zhijun had decorated very warmly.

"Wow, girl, this is what you arranged. It's so beautiful."

Seeing the layout around him, Murong Yuanbo was shocked. They were not here for negotiations, but simply to chat and visit each other.

The prince also liked it very much, it was very warm and cozy, and if the home was decorated like this it would really make people feel happy.

There will be a battle soon, which is incompatible with this arrangement.

The Minister of the Honglu Temple looked at the warm arrangement and was a little confused. Shouldn't negotiations be fierce and cruel? What results could be achieved by negotiating in such a warm environment? It must be a joke.

"Princess Xiangyun, are you coming here to negotiate with me in this arrangement? Are you trying to make me laugh?"

The Minister of the Ministry of Rites looked at Princess Xiangyun with contempt and said coldly.

"How dare you! How dare you question this general's daughter? Who gave you the courage?"

Hearing that the Minister of the Ministry of Rites dared to look down on his daughter and said such unpleasant words, Murong Yuanbo was furious.

"Minister of the Ministry of Rites, this is too much. She is a princess, and her official rank is higher than yours. How dare you disobey her and question her decision? Why don't you apologize to her?"

The Crown Prince also felt that the Minister of the Ministry of Rites had gone too far.

Although the negotiations were really out of place and somewhat inappropriate in this atmosphere.

"My lord, I'm sorry! I have overstepped my authority. Please forgive me!"

The Minister of the Ministry of Rites immediately apologized to Gao Zhijun and begged for mercy.

"It doesn't matter! Let's forget about it this time. I hope there won't be a next time!"

Gao Zhijun didn't intend to argue with him. She had her reasons for doing so.

Negotiation is actually a battlefield without the smoke of gunpowder, where both sides are on the verge of a fight and a contest of wisdom and courage.

If the environment is bad, everyone's emotions will become more agitated.

She decorated the place so warmly that I couldn't get angry or hit her even if I wanted to.

Fighting a war requires military books and strategic planning, and negotiations also require arrangements and strategic planning.

Because negotiation requires strategy, and strategy is the art of war.

"Thank you, Princess!"

The Minister of Honglu Temple said.

Everyone sat down, and soon the Tatar envoy arrived.

"Your Highness, the Crown Prince, the General of the Cavalry, this is our Prime Minister, he will be in charge of the peace talks this time."

General Xuanyuan came in with his men and introduced them to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Murong Yuanbo.

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister, right? I hope our peace talks will be successful. I am the Cavalry General in charge of the peace talks this time."

Murong Yuanbo introduced himself and then said.

"Now let's talk about our emperor's demands for compensation."

"First, we cease fire for fifty years!"

"Second, you must compensate us with 10,000 taels of gold and 100,000 taels of silver every year, and you must also pay tribute to our dynasty with rare treasures every year."

"Third, we have to pay 10,000 cattle and sheep every year, and 10,000 dairy cows."

"You must not break the agreement within fifty years, or you will have to pay us ten times the indemnity. If you agree, we will sign the treaty immediately."

Murong Yuanbo stated the emperor's demands for compensation, except for the last one, which was written by Gao Zhijun. She wanted to open a milk tea shop and needed a lot of milk, and cows were the source of milk.

The Prime Minister was relieved when he did not hear any request to cede land or cities.

He was afraid that the other party would ask for too much, such as two cities or ceding land. If so, he could agree.

In fact, what the Prime Minister didn't know was that the Emperor wanted to cede cities, and those two cities near the border were taken away by Gao Zhijun.

Taking these two cities would not only bring no benefits, but would also bring disadvantages.

Think about it, will the people of those two cities obey the arrangements of outsiders? They will try every means to create chaos or assassinate people. Will you intervene or not?

When you take over a city, you need to send soldiers to garrison it. Not only do you need to protect their safety, but you also need to find ways to help them improve their lives. Will they be grateful to you? Definitely not. They will only hate you and despise you, thinking that it is because of you that they have become slaves. They will make a move in secret from time to time, making it hard for you to defend yourself.

Since it is a thankless task, it is better to empty their treasury as much as possible so that they have no extra money to do bad things.

It sounds like a small amount of money, but if you have to pay it every year, it will be a large sum in fifty years.

"This Prime Minister agrees on behalf of our Emperor, but we also have a request, which is a marriage to consolidate the friendship between the two countries."

The Prime Minister stated their demand, which was a marriage alliance.

In fact, marriage alliances were very common, because the defeated party would usually send a princess or a county princess to marry the other country, in order to bind the two countries together and make them brother countries.

"Marriage?"

Gao Zhijun asked curiously.

She felt that there was something fishy going on here and that the other party must have some ulterior motive, otherwise they would not have proposed a marriage.

Gao Zhijun's idea made sense. In fact, the emperor of Tatar did have a conspiracy. He sent his most proud youngest daughter to marry the emperor in order to use the relationship of marriage to steal the recipes of the ten-link crossbow and grenade. If the open way didn't work, he would send someone to steal it.

"Yes, marriage. To show his sincerity, our emperor is willing to marry the youngest, most beautiful and most favored princess of our dynasty, hoping to form a friendly relationship with Daliang and become a brother country."

The Prime Minister told the matter of the princess's marriage.

"Princess? What conspiracy do those Tatars have?"

"I think so. He must have a purpose for marrying the favored princess here."

"Isn't their emperor going to marry the princess to our emperor?"

"Think about it, even if she doesn't marry the emperor, she will be the crown prince or the prince."

"That's true. The Crown Prince should have a better chance. The Crown Prince is young and promising, handsome, and he will be the future ruler of a country. If you marry him, you will become a concubine if you can't become a queen in the future."

The people in the Honglu Temple were talking about it, and they all felt that the Tatars had evil ambitions.

Gao Zhijun, Murong Yuanbo and the Crown Prince were also discussing it.

"Your Highness, do you think you can agree to this? Their intentions do not seem to be pure."

Murong Yuanbo asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Although he was in charge of the peace talks this time, such a major event still required the crown prince's consent.

"I don't want to agree. They seem to have a purpose."

The prince refused in his heart.

He and the Crown Princess have a good relationship, and he doesn't want another troublemaker in the palace. Moreover, the other party is a princess, and the title given to her cannot be too low. If she is not the Crown Princess, she will be a concubine. With great power, it will be easier for her to stir up trouble in the palace.

"Actually, you can agree. However, we must have the initiative to decide who the princess wants to marry."

Gao Zhijun said.

She felt that the Tatar emperor must have a purpose, and the princess came with a purpose, so she was left behind to facilitate surveillance.

"Girl, what do you mean?"

Murong Yuanbo asked Gao Zhijun.

"Father, Prince, if we hold the initiative and decide who the princess will marry, are we still afraid that she will act recklessly?"

Gao Zhijun already has a candidate in mind, and that is the Prince of Anyang.

Yes, as long as he holds the initiative, he will not let her marry into the Prince's Mansion, or even disturb him and the Crown Princess.

"But will they agree?"

The prince said uncertainly.

Don’t let the opposite happen. The princess has to marry into the prince’s mansion.

"Don't worry, Prince. We are so familiar with each other that we will definitely not let her enter the Prince's Mansion to harass you. If they disagree, we will also disagree. At worst, the two countries will go to war again, and the consequence will be to attack the Tatar Kingdom directly."

Gao Zhijun didn't believe that they would give up.

The fact that he could even sacrifice his most favored daughter shows that he is a selfish emperor who only cares about himself. In his heart, his children are just pawns.

"Yes, Your Highness, my daughter is right."

Murong Yuanbo felt that his daughter's analysis was correct. The emperor of Tatar was a selfish person.

If it were him, he would not be willing to let his daughter marry so far away.

"Okay, I trust you and will do whatever you say."

The prince also felt that the princess was right and he believed that she could handle it.