dognovel Chapter 304 No money, no discussion
Chapter 304 No money, no discussion
Daqin's first ship review at sea once again aroused the enthusiasm of the people of Daqin for great voyages.
In just a few days, [-] Daqin citizens signed up to join the navy, and the additional investment of the merchants in opening the sea exceeded ten million yuan.
Daqin's pace from land to sea has taken another big step.
Yingzheng and the courtiers have already planned to choose an ice-free port for construction in the newly developed Liaodong County.
Let Liaodong County also join in the great voyage, so that the people of Liaodong can also share a wave of dividends.
And the Roman envoy Aemilius, who had been waiting for a long time, finally saw Ying Yu.
"The envoy of Rome, Aemilius, pays homage to His Royal Highness the Great Qin Crown Prince!"
"Please allow me, on behalf of the Roman consul, His Excellency Scipio, to express my most sincere respect to Daqin!"
Aemilius, seeing Ying Yu's expressionless expression, couldn't help panting, and hurriedly saluted and paid respects.
"If my prince remembers correctly, Daqin and Rome are still warring states, so your so-called respect will be exempted!"
Ying Yu waved his hands, with a hint of displeasure on his face, and said in a cold voice.
"His Royal Highness does not know that the battle between Rome and Daqin was purely a misunderstanding.
Before this, I, Rome, had no idea that I was at war with the Great Qin State. "
Aemilius quickly quibbled.
"Really? If I remember correctly, before the war started, someone had told Rome that Seleucus was our protectorate, right?
But until our Great Qin Expeditionary Army arrived at the Seleucid front line, you Rome didn't mean a truce. "
Ying Yu sneered unhurriedly.
"This... this time it is indeed my Roman Empire's fault. I, Rome, would like to express my sincerest apology to the Great Qin Kingdom!"
Aemilius sighed helplessly, who let the 30 elite Roman legion be defeated by the hand of Daqin and the whole army was wiped out.
The rule of the battlefield is that the winner is king, and Rome is now the defeated side, so it has to accept Qin's difficulties.
"You can be sent here by Scipio, and you must not be an ordinary person. Let's be honest, how do you Romans express their apologies?"
Ying Yu said indifferently: "If the sincerity is not enough, the Crown Prince doesn't mind talking to Carthage. Presumably, Carthage will be willing to pay a high price for Daqin's support."
Aemilius suddenly smiled wryly. His Royal Highness, the Great Qin Crown Prince, really doesn't take hard and soft, and only pays attention to interests.
Taking a deep breath, Aemilius bowed again and said:
"His Royal Highness, there are indeed many misunderstandings in the war between Rome and Great Qin!
In order to express my apology, Rome is willing to pay 50 catties of gold and [-] catties of silver. I don’t know if this apology is satisfactory, His Royal Highness? "
Aemilius carefully observed Ying Yu's expression, and asked with some uncertainty.
In the previous negotiations between Rome and Carthage, there was a situation where the envoy was directly imprisoned, although I heard that Daqin had a fine tradition of not killing envoys when the two countries confronted each other.
However, His Royal Highness, the Great Qin Prince, has always been a maverick, and Aemilius does not want to risk his own life.
After all, in the face of Daqin, Rome is now in a weak position, and Aemilius' death is in vain.
It will even become the handle of the Roman Senate and the other five major families to attack Scipio.
As for whether Scipio would avenge him, if Rome had the ability, he would not bow down to the Great Qin Prince.
"Fifty thousand catties of gold, are you begging for food? Is this the sincerity of your Rome?"
Ying Yu raised his eyebrows, stood up immediately, and turned to leave.
Emilius was speechless for a moment, 50 jins of gold and [-] jins of silver are definitely astronomical sums.
And it was already close to the final bottom line given by Scipio.
But thinking carefully about what he saw and heard in Daqin, Aemilius couldn't help but smiled wryly.
Given the prosperity of Daqin's business and the strength of its national power, this amount of gold and silver seems to be nothing to Daqin.
Seeing that Ying Yu was about to leave, Aemilius gritted his teeth and said directly:
"Another 50 taels of silver."
This is already the minimum that Rome can bear.
"With this amount of money, even my Daqin New City's tax revenue is less than a month. If Rome's sincerity is only this, then there is no need to continue the negotiation."
"Oh, by the way, let me tell you something, Ptolemy Egypt has surrendered to us, Great Qin, and is planning to build a Grand Canal in the Suez Strait."
When Aemilius heard the words, his face turned pale with shock, and his heart sank to the bottom of the valley.
"I, Rome, am willing to add another million catties of silver!"
My previous worries were fully fulfilled, and Daqin really dug a canal in the Suez Strait.
This is to directly open up the Mediterranean Sea.
Thinking of the huge and extremely powerful Great Qin Fleet that he saw on the ship review before, if it entered the Mediterranean Sea, Aemilius couldn't help but shudder.
Their Roman fleet is no match for the Great Qin Navy.
Not a level of existence at all.
And Rome, the capital of Rome, is just above the coastline.
Once the huge Qin fleet approached, the city of Rome would probably repeat the same mistakes that were broken by the Gauls and razed to the ground a hundred years ago.
Thinking of this, Aemilius couldn't help but tremble all over.
It was a terrible sight.
As for preventing Daqin from building the Suez Canal?
Rome also needs to have that ability!
Aemilius, who has been in Daqin for a long time, has no doubts about whether Daqin can successfully dig the Suez Canal.
Daqin is really powerful and daunting!
"Don't talk about money all the time, do you think Daqin is short of money?"
Ying Yu turned around and returned to his seat, and said with a light smile.
"I don't know what I should do in Rome to show my sincerity. I would like to ask His Royal Highness to make it clear so that I can report to the city of Rome and seek a reply from His Excellency Scipio."
Aemilius smiled bitterly.
I'm afraid that after the news is sent back, the city of Rome will also be in chaos.
"Since that's the case, then the prince will not be polite! First of all, Rome will surrender to me, Great Qin!"
Ying Yu said calmly.
"no problem!"
Aemilius agreed without even thinking about it.
He had already told Scipio about this before coming here.
Anyway, Daqin is thousands of miles away from Rome, as long as they can hide the news, they don't care about this nominal surrender at all.
"Secondly, Rome must not launch any attacks against Macedonia, Seleucid, and Ptolemy Egypt, otherwise our soldiers from Great Qin will appear on the battlefield!"
"can!"
Aemilius hesitated for a moment, then suddenly reacted, and quickly agreed.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Daqin did not seem to have mentioned Carthage.
In this way, they actually have room for maneuver in Rome.
Those greedy and extremely stingy nobles in Carthage were very rich.
"The last condition is also very simple, that is, Rome will provide Daqin with sincerity worth [-] million yuan."
After Ying Yu finished speaking, Aemilius was stunned.
"Thirty thousand... ten thousand dollars?"
Looking at the dumbfounded Aemilius, Ying Yu said calmly:
"That's right, it's [-] million yuan, but this prince is not unreasonable.
This [-] million yuan is indeed a bit too much for you Rome.
In this way, the crown prince can give you ten years!
Within ten years, you Rome only need to pay me Daqin every year, 3000 million yuan! "
"By the way, this is a prerequisite!
To put it bluntly, if you don’t give money, you don’t have to talk about it, you know what I mean? "
Under Aemilius, he really understood why all the foreign envoys said that the Great Qin Prince only valued interests.
It was also said just now that Daqin is not short of money!
How come in a blink of an eye, you won't give money or talk about it?