Chapter 1583 - Chapter 1583: Uncompromising!
Chapter 1583: Uncompromising!
Translator: Lonelytree
Lin Yuelan immediately stopped him.” There’s no need, Eunuch Zhang. Brother Nan and I will wait outside for a while.’
When Eunuch Zhang heard this, he said,” Alright then! Please wait here,
princess and general.”
The two of them nodded.
Then, they looked around casually, but in fact, they were listening to the conversation inside.
In the royal study, Xiao Jingrui’s face was dark, but there was a faint trace of anger. He gritted his teeth and asked,” Your Majesty, what do you mean?”
Yuwen Longyan said calmly,” Just like what we discussed before. Either you choose another princess from your country for the marriage and send
Princess Linglong to a nunnery to cultivate her character; Or the Black Clouds Kingdom’s army would have to retreat a hundred miles from my kingdom within these three years, and Princess Linglong would be demoted from the position of the main consort to a concubine!”
Listening to his condition, Xiao Jingrui frowned. He was somewhat dissatisfied with these two requirements.
He didn’t want to waste any more effort to find a spy candidate who matched his conditions because no one was more suitable than Zhou Wenya. If it were just changing people, it would take a lot of time, and he didn’t have the time to waste.
As for the second option, the Black Clouds Kingdom had always been eyeing the Longyan Kingdom covetously. As long as he found an opportunity, he would capture the city of the Longyan Kingdom. Therefore, the Black Cloud Kingdom’s army was stationed at the border of Longyan Country. As long as something happened to Longyan Country, the army would have the most advantage and opportunity to stay close.
As for whether Xiao Jingyu was a concubine or the main consort, he did not care much.
If Xiao Jingyu had the ability, she would be the main consort even if she was a concubine. So, it would depend on her own ability. Xiao Jingrui frowned and then said,” Thirty miles!” “A hundred miles!” Yuwen Longyan insisted.
“Thirty-five miles! ”
“A hundred miles!”
Xiao Jingrui looked a little angry.
Even if the enemy attacked them, they wouldn’t be able to react in time at such a distance, let alone invade the Longyan Kingdom’s city.
However, now that this had happened, he had to compromise or else it would be difficult to place Zhou Wenya as a pawn.
This was the wonderful use of Zhou Wenya as a chess piece. No one knew that she was a noble of the Longyan Kingdom in the disguise of the princess of the Black Cloud Kingdom. Therefore, she knew the upper class of the Longyan
Kingdom very well. With Zhou Wenya’s intelligence, she could defeat them one by one from the inside. Then, with the help of the inside and the outside, it would be easy for the Black Cloud Kingdom to annex the Longyan Kingdom.
“Forty miles!” Xiao Jingrui thought for a moment, then asked sharply,” Your
Majesty, please consider it carefully! 1 can’t risk the safety of the entire Black Cloud Kingdom for a woman. Moreover, the marriage agreement at the exchange meeting was to coexist peacefully and not invade each other for 30 years!
“Therefore, if Your Majesty still doesn’t agree, then our two countries’ marriage alliance will fail. Naturally, the previous agreement will be considered invalid! ”
There was a hint of threat in his words.
When Yuwen Longyan heard this, he thought for a moment and said,” Alright, fifty miles! However, we have to sign an agreement!”
Yuwen Longyan had learned this from Lin Yuelan.
Because Lin Yuelan had said that any verbal agreement or agreement was not as secure as those written in black and white!
The two of them could be said to be the rulers of a country. It should be that the rulers did not joke around.
However, the two of them represented the interests of their respective countries. When the interests were contradictory, any verbal agreement or agreement was just nonsense!
Although a written agreement was not a 100% guarantee, when one party violated the agreement, they would be despised by the world.
Xiao Jingrui thought about it and nodded slightly.
“Eunuch Zhang!” Yuwen Longyan shouted.
“This old servant is here!” Eunuch Zhang came in from outside.
“Grind the ink!”
“Yes, Your Majesty!’
After Eunuch Zhang finished grinding the ink, Yuwen Longyan began to write.
After he finished writing, he put down his pen and ink and said to Xiao Jingrui,” Second Prince, take a look.”
Eunuch Zhang carefully picked up the agreement from the table and handed it to Xiao Jingrui.
Xiao Jingrui looked at it and nodded without objection.
Yuwen Longyan wrote another one.
After comparing the two copies and confirming that there were no mistakes, Yuwen Longyan stamped a jade seal and signed his name.
Then Xiao Jingrui signed it..