Chapter 1793
He Bianmalu was relieved to hear Li Chengqian's resignation. As long as Datang is willing to withdraw troops from the Japanese country, the conditions can be negotiated. Let Datang stop the war against the Japanese country first. As for the conditions, take your time
Hebian Maru felt that although the army of the Tang Dynasty was on the side of the Wa country, it was too far away from the mainland of the Tang Dynasty. The supply line of the army was stretched. Even if they fought in the Wa country, it would not be too long. The time to negotiate the conditions will be longer. As long as there is no war there, it will be beneficial to the Wa country.

Hebianmalu wants to take advantage of this, so that Datang can't open his mouth to the lion on the Wa country, while Li Chengqian wants to drag Hebianmalu to Liu Rengui to buy time for Liu Rengui.

Both parties wanted to negotiate slowly, but it was absolutely impossible for Li Chengqian to order Liu Renyuan and Liu Rengui to withdraw before the negotiation was successful.

In this way, it is impossible for Hebian Malu to follow his wish. Once he sees that Li Chengqian is in the middle of the negotiation and has not made an order to send it to Xiongjin and send it to Liu Renyuan, he must be the one who is anxious first.

In the Xuanzheng Palace, Li Chengqian and Hebian Malu were talking with each other with their own thoughts. As for Li Chengqian's conversation with Tubo, let's wait for a while and let Tubo know that they are in a hurry. The narrow-minded Tang didn't know that there are still people from Baiqisi in the Luoxi city of Tubo, can you not know?
As for the country of Wa, the people from the Baiqi Division of the Yinshan Mountain have already found out, and the news has been sent back to Chang'an. Now it depends on how Li Chengqian will talk to the envoy of the country of Wa.

"In this case, did the envoy bring the conditions you want to ask for an armistice and peace?" Li Chengqian asked.

"Returning to Your Highness, this is the letter of credence that His Majesty asked the envoy to submit to your country." Hebe Maro took out the letter of credence written by Emperor Qiming himself from his bosom.

Although Hebian Malu and his party suffered a lot on the way from Wa Kingdom to Tang Chang'an, and they were already dressed in rags when they "survived on an isolated island" at sea, but this letter of credentials was preserved intact by them.

Maro by the river and the people accompanying him on the boat were able to reach the city of Chang'an safely, relying on an unrivaled uprightness that ordinary people can't match, with a little luck in it.

If God doesn't let them come, there will be a strong wind, heavy rain or something while they are still on the sea, and a wave will kill them.

Lin'an went down, walked to Malu by the river, took the letter of credence, held it, walked to Li Chengqian's side, and handed it to Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian opened the letter of credence and looked at it carefully. Basically, what was said in the letter of credence was not different from what Hebian Malu said. If there were too many words, they were just polite words, and the words of pleading guilty seemed decent. , As for how much falsehood, how much falsehood, and how much truth, it's hard to say.

"The attitude of the emperor of your country to admit his mistakes is very pertinent." Li Chengqian put down the letter of credence in his hand and said, "However, a swordsmanship war cannot be resolved with a letter of credence. The foreign envoy said, is this the truth?"

Li Chengqian now wants to take advantage of the Wa Kingdom, especially the silver mine in the Wa Kingdom.

Datang's currency reform has now basically spread throughout the thirteen ways of Datang. Of course, there are still some remote places that still need the efforts of local governments, but gold and silver can only be more, not less, as the reserves of the treasury.

His Majesty Li Er and Li Chengqian and his son have always looked at the treasury of the Tang Dynasty with an attitude of being prepared for danger in times of peace. Both of them came from that poor year. Well, Li Chengqian, the crown prince, didn't live very well when he was young.

At that time, the East Palace in Chang'an City seemed to be about to be demolished. In order to save money, even new clothes became a rarity all year round.

It's not that the prince is so poor that he can't afford new clothes, but even the prince's mother wears old clothes. Can the prince wear new ones?
Be thrifty!Because there is no money in the treasury, and there is no money in the Ministry of Internal Affairs!

"If Datang is willing to withdraw troops, His Majesty the Emperor is willing to pay 10 taels of silver to Datang every year within ten years." Kawabe Maro said.

"Ten years? 10 taels a year." Li Chengqian smiled contemptuously: "The foreign envoy thinks that one million taels of silver can send Datang off? Does the foreign envoy know how many troops were mobilized by the Tang Dynasty? How much food was paid? How many soldiers died on the battlefield? And for these dead soldiers, how much food subsidy will the Datang treasury allocate to their families?"

Asked in such a tone by Li Chengqian, Hebian Malu's heart trembled, and then his heart sank.

"Don't you know? Then let Ben Gong tell you." Li Chengqian stood up from his seat and walked down the steps: "This time the Tang Dynasty raised troops, more than 40 people, if nothing else, even It is a military salary of only one tael per person, which is [-] taels of silver."

Li Chengqian walked up to Ma Lu by the river, paced around him calmly, and settled the score for him while walking.

"40 soldiers, judging from today's reports, if the Ministry of War draws up compensation for the current number of casualties, it is estimated that there will be more than 30 taels of silver." Li Chengqian said.

Of course, there were not so many casualties, and the 30 taels of silver was folded by Li Chengqian himself.

The compensation for the dead and wounded soldiers, in addition to money, will also give fertile land and exempt them from taxes. This is equivalent to money for the treasury.

"This is not counting the tax that the imperial court wants to exempt their family from. This is also a loss for the imperial court. It should be regarded as an addition, and I will not calculate it with you." Li Chengqian said: "Just like this, it is more than 70 years old. Ten thousand taels of silver, and other things, marching and fighting, there will be wear and tear, and the wear and tear of the warships on the navy side is also very serious. After all, it is fighting on the sea, and there are also wear and tear of weapons and armor of the army, food, grass and horses. In addition to these, the soldiers returned in triumph, and the treasury will always give them rewards. I have roughly calculated that if it is filled with silver, the 100 million taels of silver that your country has paid in the past ten years, that is, a fraction."

As soon as the cannon rang, the gold was ten thousand taels.

Although Datang didn't have cannons, war was essentially a matter of burning money. If you want to make money from war, what you can earn is limited, especially for the Japanese side. Their goal is silver, so in During the war, one should not do too much to the civilians on the Wa side, otherwise it will be sooner or later that something will happen there in the future.

What Datang wants is a stable environment over there.

(End of this chapter)

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