Chapter 1007: 1008 National Gift

Chapter 1007: 1008 National Gift

 Chapter 1007 1008 National Gift

 There has been a lot of interaction between Qin and the Tang Empire recently, so the war in Fengjiang is really sloppy. Everyone was just preparing for a big fight, but because they had to take the Tang Dynasty train, these battles had to be stopped.

 In fact, the Dahua Empire also took advantage of it, which is why Zhao Chen is more and more willing to tolerate the Fengjiang truce.

 Some materials imported by the Dahua Empire from the Tang State were directly transported to the Dahua Empire via Fengjiang, allowing the Dahua Empire's industry to be maintained to this day.

In addition, the luxuries urgently needed by the Dahua Empire are also traveling on this railway: luxury cars, brand-name bags, luxury goods, cutting-edge drugs...all needed by the nobles are mixed with new weapons and openly delivered to the Dahua Empire. within the territory.

 Sometimes Zhao Chen doesn’t even know the meaning of his hard work in Fengjiang: today he has to stop fighting for one day for someone’s medicine, and tomorrow he will stop fighting for one day for someone’s car…

The problem is that this person cannot be offended. They are either the emperor's relatives, his brothers and sisters, or the emperor himself and his cabinet ministers. The other party was not arrogant either. The greeting card he sent was humble and respectful. It was full of words of begging for favors. How could Zhao Chen refuse?

Then there was the battle situation that the frontline soldiers sacrificed their lives for, a little bit of collapse, a little bit of embarrassment, and a little bit of deviating from the original track.

 In the past, there were orders for him to attack desperately, but now such urging orders are rare. Even if an order came out occasionally, it was said in an extremely tactful manner, as if he was afraid that Zhao Chen would take the order to attack seriously.

Another train from the Tang Dynasty passed through the Dahua Empire and arrived at Wuyang, the capital city of Qin. This time, those arriving in Qin were officials from the diplomatic department of the Tang Empire who were ordered to deliver gifts.

The Qin State did not dare to neglect it. After all, the two countries were in the honeymoon period. The marriage relationship made the two countries seem so close. Now the diplomacy of the two countries basically revolved around the princess' marriage. The Tang Empire His Majesty the Emperor's wedding unfolded.

In order to show his importance, King Yingduo of Qin received envoys from the Tang Empire at a small court meeting. Under normal circumstances, such court meetings would not receive foreign officials.

Allowing the diplomatic officials of the Tang Empire to attend was a courtesy in itself. The officials of the Tang Empire were also very polite and explained their intention after receiving permission: "Your Majesty, the foreign minister is ordered to present a national gift. I hope that the friendship between the two countries will last forever. "

After he finished speaking, the waiter holding the gift came forward and handed a long scroll to Qin's waiter. Zhou Huaiyuan, the head of the advisory group of the Tang Empire in Qin who was specially present at the side, seemed to be smiling but not smiling. He already knew what the empire sent.

 King Qin Yingduo, who still didn’t know what the gift was, was very happy. The return gift from the Tang Empire at least showed that the relationship between the two countries was still very close in appearance.

This is the effect he wants: at least in the eyes of outsiders, the relationship between Tang and Qin is solid, which can make Qin more powerful when dealing with relations with Shu and Chu.

 Being strong sometimes represents interests.

Yingduo smiled with a smile on his face and started talking about the situation: "Your country is really too polite. We will be relatives from now on, and we should reciprocate courtesy."

"Reciprocity should indeed be courteous, Princess Yingyue, oh, she should be called Princess Yingyue now. Her Royal Highness Princess Yingyue brought a map of Qin when she arrived in the Tang Dynasty, and this map of Qin was not on the gift list. "The envoys from the Tang Dynasty who came to deliver the gifts were very honest, and their faces were filled with shock on the faces of the Qin ministers.

Brother, how come you are so honest and tell what is going on behind the scenes: Isn’t this because the Tang Empire is taking advantage of you? Wouldn't it be better to just go there secretly with the map?

 You said it so bluntly, how could you let the matter end? What kind of weird operation is this? Have you ever married a princess in the Tang Empire? What is tradition at every turn?

 As expected, it is a newly rising country with no foundation. It doesn’t even know the unspoken rules, and it doesn’t even study its history...wait a minute! Wouldn't the emperor of the Tang Empire not even understand the political significance of "princess marriage"?

Since marrying a princess in the Western Continent is a default behavior of "losing money", the political significance of Qin's initiative to make a marriage is actually very huge. To a certain extent, it represents weakness and compromise, and it has a clear meaning of being tempted to submit to weakness.

But if all the young people in the Tang Empire just thought that the Qin State had sent a beautiful woman to the Tang Emperor, then wouldn’t the Qin State be flirting with a blind man?

King Qin Yingduo was obviously shocked by the direct remarks made by the special envoy of Tang State, but he quickly regained his composure and spoke in an official tone: "I don't know about this matter yet, it should be Yingyue's own idea... Frankly speaking I can only express my deep regret for this matter.”

What the special envoy of the Tang Empire said was righteous: "Our country also attaches great importance to this matter. His Majesty the Emperor of our country feels that we should not owe others favors on this matter. Marriage is marriage, and other factors should not be involved. So. This time, he ordered me to send a national gift to make up for your country’s losses.”

  It is a pity that no one present believed this argument: If your emperor had no political considerations, how could he marry the Qin princess so freely? Shameless!

King Qin Yingduo was no longer good at playing. It was really the first time for him to see such a diplomatic method that was both serious and assertive. He could only bite the bullet and asked: "So, what is the gift from your country? "What is it?" "A map of Qin," the Tang envoy replied immediately.

"Huh? You mean, return that map to our Qin State?" King Qin was stunned for a moment, and then asked with a smile: He feels that he can fight back. After your Tang State got the map, read it and copied it, then give our Qin State Wouldn't it be a little too naive to return the country's map?

The surrounding Qin ministers also showed a bit of disdain on their faces: they had been doing this for a long time, just like children. return? How about I **** your wife and live in my house for a month and then give her back to you?

The special envoy of the Tang Empire smiled and replied: "Yes, and no. Wouldn't it be a joke if we just returned the original thing? Our Emperor liked the map that His Royal Highness the Princess brought very much, so he kept it as a gift. Get up. What is sent this time is the map of Qin drawn by our Tang Empire."

"Your Majesty, please take a look. The accuracy is not high, so I hope you don't mind it." After he finished speaking, he stood there, as if looking at a group of clowns in the main hall.

The waiter walked to King Qin holding the map, and Ying Duo didn't know whether he should look at it or not. After a few seconds, he gritted his teeth and waved to the waiter holding the map, gesturing for him to unfold the map.

The waiter unfolded the map, revealing the beautifully drawn mountains, rivers, cities and roads. This map even has the approximate population and farmland marked on it, which is very detailed and perfect.

 When he saw this map, King Qin Yingduo was dumbfounded. He really never thought that Tang Mo had such a detailed map of Qin in his hand, and he had indeed made a joke.

Even though he wanted to suppress his expression, he still let out a slight sigh: "This..."

The special envoy of the Tang Empire obviously expected that the King of Qin would be in such a state. He bowed his head slightly and said goodbye: "If His Highness the King of Qin is satisfied, the foreign minister will go back and resume his duties."

"Ah, ah... OK! Mr. Special Envoy, you have worked **** your journey. Come, please treat me with good wine and good food. I must make Mr. Special Envoy happy!" King Qin Yingduo hurriedly ordered the people to be seen off, and Zhou Huaiyuan also said goodbye and left the hall at the same time.

There were no outsiders. The ministers of the Qin State had just seen the fear of King Qin Yingduo, so they naturally asked quickly: "Your Majesty..."

"Come and take a look." Ying Duo stopped hiding, slumped down on the chair, and ordered.

The ministers received the consent and immediately gathered around the waiter. When they saw the map, they all felt as if they had seen a ghost: "This is it!"

“Yes, a map of our Qin country.” Ying Duo replied with a wry smile.

Qin General Wang Luo glanced at Ying'an, the royal clan general who was also shocked, and said with a worried look on his face: "This accuracy... is much higher than our own military maps."

Ying Duo took the words and said directly: "I know, this is why I lost my temper just now! Their Tang State, unknowingly, drew the map of our Qin State! This is beating me up!"

Ying'an realized the problem. This was clearly Tang's warning to Qin, telling Qin that they had already plotted against Qin.

So, he asked Qin Wang Yingduo who was sitting on the chair with some anxiety: "Then... Your Majesty, should we restrain ourselves... next?"

Ying Duo originally wanted to agree, but suddenly he stretched out his hand to stop her, and gritted his teeth and said, "No! Just do whatever you have to do! No matter what you say, you can't marry a daughter in vain!"

This map was definitely not mapped in the past two years. The Tang Empire had been plotting against Qin for some time. Now that the other party has confessed, what does Qin fear?

The key point is to use the period of marriage to gain the most benefits. Will the Tang Empire let Qin go if Qin is honest? Are you kidding me? Don’t you see that I’ve even drawn a map?

No matter what, after annexing Shu first, and then carving up Great China with the Tang Empire, Qin now has enough strategic depth to confront the Tang Empire head-on!

If you give up now, when the Great China Empire returns to the Tang Dynasty, what barrier will Qin have to resist the Tang Empire's attack?

“Let Zhang Xuan continue the attack, let’s... continue to prepare for this grand wedding!” Ying Duo ordered with a fierce look and clenched his fists.

 (End of this chapter)