sbdcsierra Chapter 335: Emperor Zhao Who Is Stupid And Rich
Chapter 335: Emperor Zhao Who Is Stupid And Rich
In this competition, although Zhou Guo said it sounds good on the surface and makes friends with literature, in fact, he wants to take this opportunity to discredit Chu State?
If Xu Qing were to evaluate it, it would be that Zhou Guo was trying to reduce Chu's international influence.
Of course, it's more likely that Zhou Guo's Deputy Envoy lost 10,000 taels inexplicably, and felt uncomfortable after realizing it later.
Oh, what a pity.
When Xu Qing saw him for the first time, his impression was that he was very easy to fool.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be more foolish than imagined.
How on earth did Zhou Guo send such a guy as his deputy?
Residence of Zhou Guo Mission
Deputy Zhou Guo's face changed when he heard the words of an envoy next to him: "What did you say?! Zhao Guo sent a congratulatory gift of 80,000 taels?!"
The envoy cupped his hands and said: "My lord deputy envoy, it is absolutely true! The investigation by my subordinates is very clear, and it is a total of 80,000 taels! Moreover, I heard that it is a national gift to Chu State on behalf of Zhao State."
Zhou Guo's deputy envoy's complexion suddenly sank, and he punched the table beside him: "What does Zhao Guo want to do?! It was agreed to form an alliance together to fight against Chu, but at this time, he sent 80,000 taels and said yes!" National ceremony?! It’s really unreasonable! Could it be that Zhao’s alliance with Da Zhou is fake? In fact, they are already making good friends with Chu?”
He couldn't help but think about it this way. After all, people's hearts are still separated, let alone two countries. If you laugh today, you can turn around and stab you tomorrow.
The messenger said: "Master Deputy Ambassador, could it be..."
Deputy Zhou Guo said: "Could it be something?!"
The envoy said: "Chu also used the same provocative method as ours against Zhao, so that the envoys of Zhao could be lured by sweet words to get the 80,000 taels?"
Zhou Guo's deputy envoy snorted and said, "Tricking? Swindling 123,000 taels is called tricking, and 80,000 taels are given out without blinking an eye. If there are such easy-to-deceive people in the world, this envoy doesn't have to be greedy...cough Cough, no need to make money!"
The young envoy said: "My lord, why don't we send someone to negotiate with the Zhao Guo envoys to see what they really think, so that we can deal with it early."
Zhou Guo's deputy envoy glanced at him: "Negotiation? If Zhao Guo really made friends with Chu State secretly, will he tell you the truth? If this is true, then what they said is just prevarication! Confused!"
The young envoy quickly bowed and said, "Yes, this subordinate knows his mistake."
Xianwang Mansion - Study Room
The Xian King looked at Xu Qing who had just been called by Xiao Ye, and said, "Would the envoys of the Zhou Kingdom be fooled by such a clumsy plan of alienation?"
What Zhou Guo found in this investigation was deliberately disseminated by King Xian and Xu Qing, and the news they got was only what King Xian wanted them to get.
Xu Qing said: "To be honest, my lord, it's definitely useless to have an envoy give orders, no, it should be said that it's useless to have a normal person give orders, but I have never seen someone who is as easy to fool as Deputy Envoy Zhou."
"It's not scary to be so foolish. What's scary is that this person is so self-righteous that the people next to him still can't persuade him. Besides, even if Deputy Envoy Zhou is smart once in a while, he can't be fooled at all. The two countries add up, and we are not alone. Have you made 93,000 taels? If you do the math, they may make a small profit, but we will never lose money!"
Xu Qing also didn't know how Zhou Guo and Zhao Guo chose their envoys. The deputy envoys of the two countries, one was stupid and the other was naive.
However, Deputy Envoy Zhao is stupid, but at least he looks pretty good, belonging to that kind of cute and silly type, while Deputy Envoy Zhou... well, it's hard to say! King Xian glanced at him: "Didn't you also deceive Zhao Guo's 80,000 taels? Are Zhao Guo's envoys stupid?"
Xu Qing shook his head: "Of course the envoys of the State of Zhao are not stupid, but a few months ago, after the Western Army of the State of Zhao won a battle with the foreigners in the southwestern part of the State of Zhao, the victorious State of Zhao actually wanted to Paying money to the loser every year is a rare occurrence in thousands of years, and I have never seen such a stupid and useless emperor, so it can be seen that it is not the envoy of Zhao who is fooling around, but the emperor of Zhao."
"So, Zhao Guo's envoy is willing to be fooled, and then go to fool the emperor to pay the bill. At worst, reporting him tens of thousands of taels more is probably a routine operation."
One thing, Xu Qing didn't say, he really didn't plan to ask for 80,000 taels at first, but the atmosphere was already set there...
The Xian King sighed: "Emperor Zhao's idiot really has no opinions all the time. He can believe what other people say. I'm afraid King Qi is better than him. How did such a person sit on the throne in the first place? Sigh, Zhao Guo is really so poor that all he has left is money."
Xu Qing nodded approvingly: "Yes, yes, people are stupid and have a lot of money, I'm really envious."
Suddenly, King Xian asked: "By the way, when it comes to false reports, how do you know that he will make false reports?"
Xu Qing said casually: "Tradition, that's something that's tacit..."
The virtuous king: "Have you ever falsely reported the money?"
Xu Qing, who realized that something was wrong, blinked, and said for a long time that the virtuous king was trying to trick him? !
Xu Qing quickly bit back:
"Of course not! The minister is the one who makes money for the treasury, not the one who spends it. He has never only paid taxes to the treasury, and has never applied for any sum of money from the treasury. You are so conscientious, you can doubt that the minister What about the trust between people..."
The more Xu Qing said, the more he couldn't hold back the face of the virtuous king, how could he doubt that such a person who was not short of money at all and had never asked for a penny from the treasury would make a false report of the money?
Does he have that false claim?
Thinking of this, King Xian quickly changed the subject and said, "Are you confident in fighting Zhao Guo and Zhou Guo's poems?"
Xu Qing said very modestly: "I will do my best."
The Xian King waved his hand: "It doesn't matter if you can't win, even if you lose, there are still Jiang Xiang and Qin Xiang, besides, there is still calculation, as long as you can win the next game, it will not be too ugly."
Anyway, it was impossible to win a game in the past, but at that time there was a strong force behind it, and no one dared to say anything, but this time it will not work. If Zhou and Zhao really form an alliance and really fight, the outcome will be really difficult material.
Wen Dao, Suan Dao and Martial Dao must be the same, right?
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Two days passed in the blink of an eye
Today is the day to meet friends through literature. As the host country, Chu State will face the chess, scriptures and poems from Zhao State, and also face the calculation method from Zhao State.
The Great Hall is already full of civil servants and military generals who came to watch the battle, as well as the editing time of the Beijing Xunbao, which is used to select materials for the next issue of the newspaper.
Even Su Qian was dragged by Xiao Ruxue to watch the battle, and sat on the female side's side.
Originally, Xiao Ruxue called Zheng Wan'er to come with her, but she was still in bed until morning, Xiao Ye told her that Wan'er had no energy today and couldn't come.
So, only she and Su Qian came here today.
I don't know why a well-behaved person doesn't even have the strength to get out of bed.
Xiao Ruxue made up her mind that she would go to the imperial hospital to find an imperial doctor to take a good look at her sister-in-law, so that she was not seriously ill.