Chapter 19 Negotiation Without Art

Compared to the residents of Kyoto who were waiting to see what was going on, Fan Xian had little spirit. He was carefully writing some notes in his study, trying his best to recopy the intelligence analysis report of the Supervisory Academy into a slightly bookish judgment in the tone of a long-time Kyoto resident, so as not to make those officials at the Honglu Temple’s jaws drop to the ground when they heard his input, wondering when the Qing Kingdom had created another horrible intelligence agency in addition to His Majesty’s Supervisory Academy, and that this agency was still working for a mere eighth-grade Conciliator.

Fan Ruo Ruo wasn’t in the best of spirits either, and while copying in lower case, he taped up the note and said, “Brother, this is really strange, where did you get all this intelligence, and why don’t you just use it, and have to make the reason ridiculous.”

Fan Xian rarely hid anything from his sister, and at this point, even Lin Wan’er was not as good as Ruo Ruo. He said bitterly, “I was just being lazy at first, so I wanted to borrow the other side’s power, who knew that I would come up with such a meticulous and horrible case file. The source of this information cannot be seen in the light, so it cannot be given directly to Honglu Temple.”

“Who is the envoy from Northern Qi this time?” Fan Ruo Ruo was actually very happy that his own elder brother, finally, could participate in dynastic politics in an honorable manner. Although Fan Xian had begun to educate her from a very young age, she was, after all, a girl who had grown up in the world of Qing Yuan, and had always thought that being a manly man and going to make tofu every day was something that could only be used as entertainment, and not for long.

“It’s not the emperor’s party, nor the empress dowager’s party, nor the crown prince’s party, the soft rice party.” Fan Xian was organizing the information on the table while casually responding, “It’s the Northern Qi Empress Dowager’s brother, Changning Marquis, and I heard that he’s also a great talent. However, the most conspicuous character in the Northern Qi delegation this time is not him, but his teacher, a generation of literary greats in Northern Qi, listen to do Zhuang Mo Han, as long as the world’s readers, all quite worship him. I don’t know what price the North Qi side paid, even pulled him into the delegation. By the time the temple before the judgment, I’m afraid that his majesty will also have to give him a few points of face, this want land want money butcher style, I’m afraid that we have to restrain some.”

“Zhuang Mohan?” Fan Ruo Ruo was startled, and a kind of luster radiated from her face.

This was the first time Fan Xian had seen a stargazer’s look on his sister’s face; Ruo Ruo had always been an extremely light woman, and apart from her immense admiration for her elder brother, she had always been unfazed by other readers. Somehow, Fan Xian heart some slight jealousy, said: “Fortunately, the case file said clearly, this Zhuang Mo Han is seventy years old, or I really have to be careful.”

Fan Ruo Ruo was shy and said, “Being a brother, how can you not have a proper form.”

Fan Xian laughed and said, “If you really like that old man, that’s why you’re not proper.” Seeing that Ruo Ruo was extremely annoyed, he hurriedly waved his hand and said, “Seriously, what I said to you in the field that day, do you have an idea or not?”

That night, when the moon was shining, the two of them were worrying about the young girl’s future marriage on the ridge, but Ruo Ruo had been worrying for a while, but when she saw that none of the young talents around her had caught her eye, she had no choice but to leave it at that. At this time, Fan Xian remembered a pile of things, frowned and said, “Last time we met His Holiness on the banks of the Liujing River, did he not say a word?”

“What words?” Fan Ruoruo rarely showed a confused look, it looked like the siblings were too shocked at the time and their memories were a little fuzzy.

Fan Xian closed his eyes for a long time, then suddenly opened his eyes, slammed the desktop, and exclaimed, “The saint wants to arrange a marriage for you!”

“Huh?” Fan Ruoruo was shocked.

If there was one thing that children of official families were most afraid of? The fear was marriage. If they were lucky and were matched with Fan Xian like Lin Wan’er, it would be fine, but if they were matched with a tigress county princess like Ren Shaoqing of the Taishang Temple and were not allowed to be happy in their lives, then they would be miserable. And in all the marriage arrangements, the most terrible is from the palace marriage, the holy will can not be violated, even if you let you go to marry a playboy, you can not find a place to reason to go.

If in previous years the official family still existed to send their daughters to the palace, in order to invite the favor of the Holy, but the emperor is not good at female sex, this road is not possible. Even with the crown prince and the adult second prince, do not dare to accept more concubines, although the crown prince’s reputation for good sex spread all over Kyoto, but in the East Palace, but also only a cold and quiet three concubines.

Fan Ruo Ruo also remembered the words that his majesty seemed to have said unintentionally, and was horrified, her eyes gradually flooded with tears, and she said in a trembling voice: “What can we do then?”

Fan Xian’s brain was moving very fast, and he immediately calculated the possible families in his heart, narrowing his eyes, he said, “The eldest prince, the second prince, and King Jing’s son, even though my father is only a minister, with the status of the Fan family, I guess that if His Majesty appoints a relative, he will only be able to choose between these three. In case you want to choose which minister’s son to marry, then you are not afraid, if you are not happy, I naturally have a way to push the marriage.”

If the right relative of the appointed marriage was the son of a minister and his sister was unwilling, Fan Xian would naturally think of many ways; after all, behind himself now stood his father, Chen Pingping, and Lord Chancellor. The so-called trinity of bulls, even the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace is now trying to pull himself together. As long as it wasn’t those two emperors and Prince Jing, Fan Xian had this confidence to stir up all the marriages his sister wasn’t happy about.

But the biggest possibility was still those three young noblest. Fan Xian was quiet for a moment, and suddenly couldn’t help but open his mouth and curse, “I said that Li Hongcheng, the boy who strolls around greenhouses every day, prefers not to get married, so it turns out that he’s waiting here!”

Looking at his sister’s frightened expression, Fan Xian smiled and comforted, “The eldest prince has been fighting in the western barbarians for many years, and I heard that he’s also a great warrior. Although the Second Prince has never met him, I’ve heard that he’s also an extremely powerful character. As for King Jing’s son Li Hongcheng this guy, our brother and sister are familiar with, in addition to the temperament of some flowers, but there is no bad place. If you really want to marry Li Hongcheng in the future, I’m on your side, not to mention the greenhouse, even concubines I will not let him accept a room, sister rest assured.”

If he didn’t comfort him, Fan Ruoruo felt more and more that this matter was real, and seemed to be coming soon, and said sadly, “Brother, but I won’t marry any of these three people.”

Fan Xian sighed, do not want to continue to explore this growing pains, softly snickered: “What’s wrong with it, in the future to see you, you can have to honor a what a consort, in case the second prince in the future really became the emperor, you mother of the world …… will not become my old mother? ”

This joke is very not funny, so Ruo Ruo did not break into laughter, the study room an awkward silence. In the silence, brother and sister have their own affairs of the heart, Ruoruo heart is a piece of confusion, Fan Xian heart is a piece of determination, if there is really something in the future, they have to prepare some means to do so.

The place of negotiation is not very spacious, located in the largest room of Honglu Temple. Between Beiqi Laihou and Qing’s reception officials, they didn’t set up a very long table, but just sat on their own chairs like gossiping, with tea on the table, and talked about things in a general way. Fan Xian insisted on sitting on the lowest and most inconspicuous chair, coldly watching the scene and thinking of a word from his previous life: tea party.

Although he was nominally the deputy reception envoy, since the process hadn’t yet entered the final part and he insisted on sitting at the bottom, the Honglu Temple officials couldn’t do much about it.

Under the gentle words exchange, there are hidden swords and shadows, said not long, in the battlefield has seen the two countries ministers tone began to gradually high up, some anxious minister’s buttocks have even been about to leave the chair surface.

“Hmph! I wonder if this battle in the northern border, is it you Northern Qi that won or my dynasty?” A Sixth Grade Chief Minister in the Honglu Temple could no longer hold back the other party’s unreasonable claims and stood up to sternly rebuke.

“The war is much perilous, my majesty of Daqi is worried about the subjects of the world, so he has mercifully stopped the war, and before the victory is decided, how can we know who is the winner.” If the envoys of the Northern Qi country didn’t have thick skin, they couldn’t have been sent to be the tip of the spear, and looking at the bearded man’s way of speaking as a matter of course, even the always-calm Fan Xian couldn’t wait to rush forward and beat him up.

Honglu Temple’s young secretary Xin Qimo smiled faintly, but Fan Xian saw a few hints of insidiousness in this smile, which was the bottom of the Qing Empire’s twenty years of victorious wars. He only heard this senior official of the Qing Kingdom say softly, “In that case, your envoy please return, and between you and I, we will fight one more time, and after we really win or lose, then we will come back to negotiate.”

What is this? This is a naked threat, this is naked state terrorism, this is naked hooliganism.

Fan Xian didn’t show any shocked expression on his face, but deep inside he was marveling, “This Young Secretary Xin really dares to say it.”

As expected, as soon as this statement was made, the Northern Qi side began to attack the officials of the Qing State for speaking out indiscriminately, causing an irreparable impact on the friendship between the two countries, but unexpectedly, Xin Shaoqing continued to coldly return, “Between your two countries and mine, when has such a thing as friendship ever existed?”

“Wei Xiaobao negotiating is probably this kind of demeanor.” Fan Xian tsked in his heart, hall Honglu Temple young secretary, even in the two countries to play a rogue in the interaction, if it is not the Qing country is really strong, such a situation will never appear.

Honglu Temple negotiation, has always been well coordinated, red face black face take turns on the field, sure enough, immediately there is another chief book full of benevolence stand up: “all adults do not forget their own duties, do not because of emotional excitement, and affect his majesty’s original intention of repairing the two countries good.”

Both sides whisked their sleeves away, and the tea party ended there, the top officials had already brightened up their stature, and the things that were really fighting at the negotiation table were left to the subordinate lower officials who labored hard to do it.

Just negotiation into a deadlock, a moment shall not move forward. And north qi mission that generation of everyone ZhuangMoHan, into the official and the empress dowager spoke once, will rarely come out to see people, Fan Xian fell some wonder, that old man is to vacation?