Chapter 507 Anger
When the war in the East China Sea was in full swing, the kingdoms of Shang, Tang, and Cai fell into a strange tranquility.
Cai Guo suddenly arrested almost all merchants and people from the Shang Kingdom and Tang Kingdom in his territory and took them as hostages. The Shang Kingdom and Tang Kingdom had to suspend their military operations.
At the same time, intense negotiations began.
Countries farther north and farther west also immediately stopped their military operations and waited and watched quietly. To be honest, Cai Guo's actions are a bit of a villain and a slapstick. This is not a method that a king should use, but it must be said: sincerity is effective.
But as the news spread, the people of Shang Kingdom were the first to get angry. Especially those businessmen, they were even more angry.
Before Li Xian could officially respond, a team of businessmen headed by Zhang Xianzhang, Wang Jingde, Xie Yuhua, Guo Youcai, Yuan Zhao, etc. found Li Xian.
These businessmen are all extremely shrewd people, otherwise they would not have worked hard to create the current industry. They realized the impact of this matter immediately.
If Shang Kingdom handled this matter a little weakly, the consequences would be disastrous. Other countries will use various means to extort, squeeze, and blackmail the interests of businessmen.
Li Xian met all the business representatives in the open space in front of the City Lord's Mansion. There are too many people, and the meeting hall cannot accommodate them.
Zhang Xianzhang was the first to speak: "King Xian, we must not give in to this matter! Otherwise, troubles will continue!"
Xie Yuhua also stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, this is a provocation, we must fight back forcefully. There are also many people from Cai Guo in our country..."
It really is a small belly chicken intestine.
Li Xian interrupted Xie Yuhua's words, "The top priority now is not to take revenge, but to rescue those hostages."
Zhang Xianzhang immediately sighed: "Cai Guo will not let people go easily! Even if we show too much importance, they will not let people go!"
The surrounding businessmen immediately made a noise, some said to save people as much as possible, but more businessmen thought that if they could save them, they would save them. If Cai Guo was tough, let Cai Guo be buried with these businessmen!
"It's a big deal to be buried with me! If I can be buried with a country when I die, I will die with a smile on my face!" Zhang Xianzhang also acted very tough.
And this kind of opinion has actually occupied the mainstream!
Looking at it, Li Xian had to sigh, the fairyland is the fairyland, and the thinking of the people here is more inclined to the theory of the strong and the survival of the strong, rather than the so-called democracy.
Knowing the opinions of the businessmen and the thoughts of the people, Li Xian can count them. Next, he appeased the businessmen and common people with kind words, and then discussed strategies with Xu Ren, Li Yuanming and others.
However, Ji Buxian, the secretary of Zhao Guozhong, had already left first, and went to find out about Emperor Cai Guo. In order to cooperate with Shang Kingdom, Ji Buxian also paid a lot.
In the afternoon, Ji Buxian came back. "A total of 4,000 hostages were captured in Cai Guo, and these people were detained separately, and the details are unknown.
Emperor Cai's tone was also very tough. Demand that we withdraw our existing military completely.
It also requires us to return all the land of Cai Guo in the past and restore the territory of Cai Guo five years ago. At the same time, let us cede the territory that originally belonged to Xiao State, such as Baofeng County, to Cai State.
In addition, Emperor Cai Guo also said that he would only give us three days. After three days, 40 to 50 people were killed every day. He also said that four thousand people can be killed for three months.
In addition, the technology, engineers, etc. of Shang Kingdom here will all send a complete set to Cai Guo. "
"Okay! That's great!" Even though Li Xian had made the worst plan, he was still furious now. "Such conditions cannot be negotiated at all!"
"We can talk!" Li Yuanming immediately interrupted Li Xian's words. "King Xian, you can talk, but only talk.
During this period, we immediately bribed relevant personnel in Cai's country to find out where the hostages were held. At the same time, those who have not been caught in Cai's country will be withdrawn.
Three days later, couldn't even wait for three days later, we swooped in to save lives. Saving one is one. For those who cannot be saved, take Cai Guo as their cemetery and use Cai Guo to bury them with them! "
Li Xian is now on the verge of anger, and is already a little irrational. Taking a few deep breaths, "Li Yuanming, you are responsible for this matter. It is important to save people first. For this, it doesn't matter if you pay some price. But for technology, you must not let go.
Gold and silver wealth, general arms, industrial products, and even land can all be promised temporarily, or even part of it given away.
When I save someone, I want Cai Guo to pay the price! "
"Understood!" Li Yuanming left immediately and began to operate.
Li Yuanming got Li Xian's permission to buy, intimidate, kidnap officials' family members, poison, etc., and he did everything he could. For such a Cai Guo, Li Yuanming has no worries at all.
At the same time, Li Yulong's side also started to get busy. Compared to Li Xian's side, Li Yulong turned a blind eye to such kidnappings! It seems like nothing happened. The army continued to attack.
Just when everyone thought that Li Yulong didn't care about these people's lives, Li Yulong also released a message - Emperor Cai, don't be complacent, we have already occupied Yongchuan, the most critical of the three rivers, and nearly five million people here are our hostages up.
If you dare to kill one hostage, I will kill ten thousand here! If you dare to insult a woman, you will kill 100,000 of them here. You can try it and see if I can do it.
The conflict immediately reached its peak. The two emperors, Cai Guo and Tang Guo, were not easy-going lamps. In the hearts of these two emperors, there is no such word as 'obedience'!
At the same time, Li Yuanming also started negotiating with Emperor Cai; of course, the negotiating is fake, taking the opportunity to buy people and inquiring about the news is real.
Needless to say, Li Yulong's move was very useful. Many people around Emperor Cai Guo had family members in Yongchuan; Li Yuanming used this to start buying people's hearts and information.
Things passed in a blink of an eye.
The naval battle in the East China Sea was over, and Liu Guo, who was willing to spend all his money, finally won a tragic victory; only three warships and two merchant ships returned to Liu Guo; the rest of the warships, including Jin's warships and merchant ships, all died in the sea. In this battle, the two sides lost a total of more than 300 million taels of gold!
But such information has been unable to attract the attention of the people of Shang Kingdom.
After all, this is someone else's business; and the kidnapping that happened in Cai Guo is our own business!
The surrounding countries are also paying attention to this matter, and the two kidnappings in a row made all countries discover the weakness and weakness of the Shang Kingdom.
Business world, business world, businessmen want to go out! If you go out, you will lose protection and face danger!
Although the Kingdom of Shang has the measures of "mercenary regiment", it can't stop the shamelessness of a country. For example, the current Cai Guo.
On the streets and alleys, the people of the Kingdom of Shang were all parading. They were filled with righteous indignation, and some even said that they wanted to wipe out Cai Guo completely, and not leave a blade of grass behind.
Things intensified, and many merchants in the Shang Kingdom even organized a large number of mercenary regiments themselves, preparing to rob the people of the Cai Kingdom and take them as hostages. Some people from the Cai Kingdom who made a living here in the Shang Kingdom and took refuge here were frightened.
Originally, today was the time for the computer to be sold publicly, and not many people paid attention to it.
The crowd was furious, but Li Xian was calm at the moment. It's just that calmness is the prelude to madness!