The Heavens: Falling Ink From Douluo

Chapter 960 Six Kings and Eight Dukes
The eye contact between Qu Tianze and Qu Xiaofeng was silent.

But in this majestic Mingguang Palace.

In front of the temple.

Faced with Emperor Chongping's doubts, the Xizhou envoy could not remain silent, nor could he silently communicate with Emperor Chongping with his eyes. He cupped his hands and said: "Yes, Xizhou is willing to form an alliance with the Later Han Dynasty. I wonder... what do you think?"

"Dai Quan?"

"Show this envoy the letter from the fifth prince."

Emperor Chongping said this with a subtle tone and shook the letter in his hand. Even though he had thought about Xizhou being a group of barbarians, he never expected that the negotiation methods of these barbarians could be so simple and crude: "I read this letter. Many words in "Xizhou" express the current predicament of Xizhou. Rather than forming an alliance, it is better to say that I, the Later Han Dynasty, need to send troops to help you restore Xizhou and Danchi, right? "

"If you understand this, I have nothing to say."

"Xizhou has not perished."

"Danchi is not dead either."

"We were only defeated by the Toyo Dynasty's shameless raid, and we were far from destroying the country. Therefore, there is no need to restore the country."

“An alliance is just an alliance.”

"I hope that the Later Han Dynasty can put pressure on the Toyo Dynasty."

"The land lost by Xizhou and Danchi will be taken back by the men of Xizhou and Danchi myself. You can rest assured about this."

The Xizhou envoy took the letter from Dai Quan with a normal expression. He opened it, looked at it twice, folded it up, held it in his hand, and said in the same tone: "Besides, it is not polite to come back but not to go back." ; In this war, Xizhou and Danchi will definitely compete with Toyoto. Either Xizhou and Danchi will be destroyed by the iron hoofs of Toyoto's soldiers and horses, or Toyoto will be destroyed by the iron hoofs of Xizhou and Danchi's soldiers and horses. Next, you are a talented and strategic emperor. Will the Toyo Dynasty with a great master stop it after destroying Xizhou and Danchi, or will the Toyo Dynasty continue to wage wars with foreign countries? Even if I don’t tell you, you should I also know the answer..."

This is a very classic question: In a three-legged situation, when one of the parties breaks the balance in the blink of an eye, which party should help the neutral party that has not suffered any losses?
There are many ways to maintain balance.

Alliance is the most effective way.

However, if you don't want to maintain a balance, if you want to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf from this sudden imbalance, and become the final winner, preserving your own strength and weakening the opponent's strength as much as possible is the only way.

The saying goes that everything can change without departing from its roots, and the truth is nothing more than this.

The same reason.

The problem before Emperor Chongping was: as a semi-neutral country, he could not guarantee that the Feng Dynasty would not attack the Later Han Dynasty after destroying Xizhou and Danchi, and use external conflicts to alleviate internal conflicts. This was what most emperors would do. One move, to put it bluntly, is to establish a common enemy, so that everyone who is fighting internally can find a common goal, temporarily put aside their hatred, and cultivate a new tacit understanding from the external struggle, and use the new tacit understanding to offset the old hatred; therefore, instead of Facing a prosperous Toyoto Dynasty that integrates Xizhou and Tanchi, should we attack the Toyoto Dynasty in its current incomplete state and take advantage of its illness to kill it? Can the pressure be less?
The pressure of fighting on two fronts is greater than that of fighting on one front.

This is for sure.

However, as an emperor, the art of checks and balances is also a required course for him: "Your envoy seems to have misunderstood something... Facing the Toyo Dynasty with a great master, I, the Later Han Dynasty, are indeed no match, but I, the Later Han Dynasty, have gained a foothold. I am not without support at the moment, let alone a great master, even if there is another great master, I will not be afraid at all with Duke Ping here, but what about Xizhou and Danchi behind you?"

With Duke Pingguo here, even the great master has nothing to fear?

The Xizhou envoy frowned slightly.

His eyes swept around the civil and military officials.

Then, he passed the princes in the front row.

It fell on Lin Chaoci who was sitting on the stool. His tone was a little tactful, and he asked tentatively: "Could it be that Duke Ping of your country is also a great master, or is he capable of rivaling a great master?"

Emperor Chongping Longyan was delighted.

What is confidence?

This is confidence!
Something to straighten your back!

As soon as you reveal this card, you don't even need to play it. The opponent's momentum will be weakened by three points first, and they will be restrained because they are afraid of your card!
However, there are some things that don’t need to be said clearly.

Nor does he have anything to prove to a messenger.

Whether Lin Chaoci is a great master or not, they only need to know in their hearts that the Later Han Dynasty was indeed in embarrassment under the oppression of the soldiers and horses of the Feng Dynasty, but Xizhou and Danchi were even more in danger under the oppression of the soldiers and horses of the Feng Dynasty. , even if the great master of the Toyo Dynasty was on the front of the Later Han Dynasty, frightening the soldiers and horses of the Later Han Dynasty, Xizhou and Danchi, who were crippled, still could not turn from defense to offense. It is conceivable that what happened to Xizhou and Danchi How embarrassing.

Therefore, he had enough time to play the game of "Guess, I guess" with the Xizhou envoy, but the Xizhou envoy did not.

Although the conditions given by Xizhou are very sincere.

But, it's not enough!

Send your son as a hostage to form an alliance?
If the Later Han Dynasty had no choice, this alliance condition would be forgotten. But since the Later Han Dynasty had a choice, it would be a shame to not speak out once, not to mention that in the eyes of the emperor, the heirs were just consumables!

It is said that there is no family affection in the Tian family, and this is true!

Does he favor Xianning?
pet!

But when he needed to use Xianning to win over Lin Chaoci, he was still able to abandon the love between father and daughter and give Xianning command-like results without any room for negotiation!

Because of this, one heir is not enough!
Even if Xizhou and Danchi send all the heirs of the royal family over...it seems as if King Xizhou and King Danchi can no longer marry and have children!
The heir thing is just a symbol at best!

He didn't know if others could do this, expecting to use his heirs to control King Xizhou and King Danchi. Anyway, he didn't believe it himself, and he didn't believe that this kind of operation could control the emperor from thousands of miles away!
However, Emperor Chongping didn't believe it, but Lin Chaoci did!
"If you send your son as a pledge, you can believe it."

"The humanities and customs of Xizhou and Danchi lineage have caused Xizhou and Danchi lineage to attach great importance to family ties. As long as it is not an heir that is hated by people and dogs, Xizhou and Danchi lineage can at most use some small means to bring the heir back. , will never start a war while the heir is still in the hands of others."

Even if Emperor Chongping didn't read the letter to him, Lin Chaoci knew what conditions were written in the letter. As for what Emperor Chongping wanted, he naturally knew very well: "The reason why Xizhou and Danchi decided to fight Feng Chao to the end. , that is, the Toyo Dynasty deprived them of their autonomy over their own territory, which seriously offended the suspicion of the emperor of the Toyo Dynasty... However, after all, there are only two kings in Xizhou and Danchi, one is the King of Xizhou, and the other is Danchi. King Chi, since we have four princes and eight princes in the Later Han Dynasty, your Majesty shouldn’t mind having two more powerful princes, right?”

As soon as Lin Chaoci said this, there was an uproar in the court.

No name-calling.

Some are just controversial.

Fortunately, Dai Quan shouted the word "quiet" three times in a row.

Only then did the hustle and bustle in the court hall almost disappear.

However, Emperor Chongping also had his own thoughts: "Since Duke Ping said so, then our Later Han dynasty does not mind adding two more princes. If your envoy agrees to merge Xizhou and Danchi into our dynasty, then, There is no need to send my son as a pledge. I would like to be my in-laws with King Xizhou and King Danchi. I wonder what King Xizhou and King Danchi think?"

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