In fact, Su Yuanjing's words were really heartfelt. In his opinion, this was the ultimate that he could get as a minister. He himself has always worked hard on this goal. In his opinion, Du Jia and others are all grassroots after all. Being able to get this opportunity is accumulating virtue from their ancestors. The loser counterattacked. He worked diligently and worked hard for so many years. Isn't it just this point? What else are you not satisfied with?

But he still underestimated Du Jia and the people of Tang State, especially after Song Jiang defected with his confidant, there were almost no one willing to recruit the amnesty, so Du Jia just smiled faintly: "It seems that the Taiwei still doesn't know that since the moment our Tang State announced its founding, we will not be inferior to anyone. We are just a good water and water that is not invading the rivers of the Song Dynasty. Don't talk about the amnesty again. If you have anything to cooperate, you might as well talk about it."

Su Yuanjing couldn't believe his ears. He thought that Du Jia and the others would take the opportunity to bargain for rewards at most, but they never expected that they would refuse. He raised his head and confirmed Du Jia's eyes seriously - he found that the other party was really not a joke, and then he secretly looked at the officials of Tang State around him - they were all full of indifferent, without any excitement or even touching for the mighty emperor's grace.

At this time, Su Yuanjing finally had to admit painfully that the other party was different from him and that he really didn't care about the imperial position.

This made him very depressed. His biggest trump card was the high-ranking officials of the court, but if the other party didn't care about this, he would have no choice but to use what method should he use to lobby them to send troops?

Du Jia seemed to see Su Yuanjing's embarrassment and said gently: "Sir Su don't have to make things difficult. I heard that a group of bandits in Xixia recently sneaked in to cause trouble. Is it related to this incident that lord came here?"

Su Yuanjing was shocked and sighed and completely gave up struggling. It seemed that Tang's intelligence system was even better than he thought. Even such a thing had been discovered. This was equivalent to a woman's photo having been seen by others. Now it is necessary to pretend to be a lady.

He had no choice but to admit: "Wang Yingming of the Tang Dynasty, there is indeed such a matter. Since Your Highness clearly stated that the officials dare not hide it, I came for this matter this time. I hope that your side can help you. If you have any conditions, as long as the officials are within the scope of their power, they will inevitably make promises."

In fact, the Tang Dynasty's ruler and ministers had already discussed this matter, and Du Jia said directly: "That's great. Although our Tang Dynasty does not interfere with the Song Dynasty, it is considered a friendly country at least, and its relationship is always better than those foreign barbarians. In the case of trouble in the Song Dynasty, our Tang Dynasty is naturally willing to send troops to help, but it cannot allow us to consume manpower and material resources in vain. The court must provide sufficient compensation."

Su Yuanjing was immediately overjoyed when he heard this. The two sides were not afraid of the other party not asking conditions for negotiations, but were afraid of not speaking at all. He hurriedly said: "This is nature, this is nature, so what your country plans to ask for is just speaking."

Du Jia gave a wink to Li Ying, the puffed eagle beside him. He is now serving as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, so these money and grain matters are naturally his responsibility. Li Ying hurriedly said: "Su Taiwei, the Xiaguan is the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue of the Tang Dynasty. We don't have to worry about this kind of small matter, so the Xiaguan will negotiate with the Taiwei."

The Grand Marshal Su did not dare to look down on him, so he hurriedly came to meet Li Ying. Li Ying talked to Su Yuanjing with the conditions he had prepared long ago, which shocked Su Yuanjing to the point of being as beautiful as earth.

It turned out that there were three conditions for the Tang Dynasty. First, this time the court had to pay 500,000 jin of military expenditure, or replace it with equivalent food, cloth, silk, horses, tea, wine and other materials; second, Liangzhou was the largest salt pond in the Song Dynasty, and one-third of the salt would be given to the Tang Dynasty as a gift every year; third, a prefecture in Yongzhou was cedeed to the Tang Dynasty, no matter which one would be.

Moreover, Li Yingyouyan was the first. These conditions must be announced by the court before Tang State will send troops. If the debt is not allowed to be negotiated, bargaining is not allowed. There is no need to open the verdict. There is no situation where Tang State finishes the matter but is busy in vain. This happened repeatedly in the original plot, and Du Jia also specifically reminded everyone below to be more careful.

Su Yuanjing suddenly became embarrassed. In fact, the first condition was nothing. You should know that in order to avoid the invasion of the Western Xia Kingdom, the Song Dynasty had to "reward" 100,000 taels of silver, 100,000 pieces of silk, many tea and other materials to the other party every year. The total amount was far more than 500,000 guan. Now, the money that Xixia Kingdom violated the agreement was naturally not necessary. As long as the Tang Kingdom could defeat Li Dezhong and Chamuer and the court, they still made a profit.

But the second point is not easy to deal with. In this era, the imperial court can monopolize the money-making industry in addition to taxes. One of them is salt salt. Don’t underestimate this thing. People eat some good food when they have money, and eat some bad food when they have no money. But they must not lose salt. Otherwise, let alone the food is not delicious, they can’t even give birth to strength. Therefore, those foodies Lu Zhishen and Wu Song, who don’t eat meat for a few days, would describe it as “a bird fading out of their mouths”.

Therefore, the people can not drink alcohol or even eat meat, but they cannot ignore salt. However, the mining and selling rights of salted salt are firmly controlled by the court. Everyone can only buy it from vendors opened by the government - commonly known as official salt. As for the price, it is completely determined by the government. Some local officials who are unwilling to join forces with those bad merchants to raise the price and make a fortune.

In this way, some people can't stand it anymore, or if they are greedy for the profits in it, they will find ways to make salty salt by themselves - commonly known as private salt. Cheng Zhijie, the founding general of the Tang Dynasty (that is, Cheng Yaojin, who sat in Wagang in the Romance of the Romance), had worked in this industry before and did a very good job. Of course, this is equivalent to grabbing food from the country's bowl and eating the court naturally quit. Therefore, it is a resolute blow. The two sides have been in a struggle openly and secretly, but no one can destroy anyone, but the danger of selling private salt is extremely great. If you are discovered, you will just start doing it directly, and if you catch it, you will be sentenced to death.

Now Du Jia actually wants one-third of the salt in Liangzhou, which is a lot of money. More importantly, after setting this precedent, the reputation of the court will inevitably be greatly hit. If the rest of the country is not properly prepared, they will make this request one after another. What should the country do then? Therefore, Su Yuanjing felt extremely troubled. Although he was the Grand Marshal and was a favorite minister of Huizong, this request obviously exceeded his authority.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!