Both Li Yuan and Yu Xin knew very well that if they wanted Zhao State to help this time, then Chu State, or Li Yuan, must pay a price that would satisfy King Zhao.

Yu Xin said in a deep voice: "It is actually very simple to satisfy the king. First of all, in addition to the Korean land occupied by Chu State in the last war, Chu State has to pay at least two counties. Secondly, you will definitely not be able to get involved in the command of the army. If the army enters the territory of Chu State, then how to act is the matter of our Zhao State commanding general, and you cannot interfere with it."

Li Yuan seemed quite dissatisfied when he heard this, and immediately said angrily: "Two counties? Today's Chu State is only a place with six counties. If two counties are cedeed to Zhao State at once, how can I gain a foothold in the future Chu State? Moreover, if the Zhao army takes action after entering the country, how can I know that the Zhao army will not destroy me directly after destroying the three major families such as Jingtong?"

Yu Xin shrugged his shoulders, put on an incomfortable expression, and said, "I can tell you clearly that your plan has been successful. I will indeed help you in this matter. But the premise of helping you is that your conditions cannot be much different from the conditions set out by Jingtong. Otherwise, even if I strongly support you, the king may not necessarily adopt my opinion."

Li Yuan's face was gloomy and gloomy. After a long time, he said gritted his teeth and said, "Since that's the case, I can ced a county to Zhao State, but I don't need Zhao State to send troops. I just need Zhao State to return the Chu army captives captured in the past few years to me."

Yu Xin was silent for a moment and said, "If this is the case, these prisoners must be redeemed with money, and the maximum number of redemptions cannot exceed 20,000."

"Twenty thousand?" Li Yuan stared at Yu Xin fiercely and said, "Now I and Jingtong each have nearly 50,000 troops. What kind of usefulness can these 20,000 people do? No, at least 50,000 people! Otherwise, you will wait for the news of your affair to appear on the desk of King Zhao of Longtai, Handan!"

Yu Xin snorted, obviously dissatisfied with Li Yuan's blunt threat, but finally gave in and said, "Then let's have 30,000 people, no more. I can persuade the king to send them some armor and weapons. You should know that your subordinates are now all scattered soldiers and rascals, how can their combat power be compared with those prisoners of the Chu army that have been through the battlefield? With these 30,000 people, you are already enough to sweep the troops of the three major families."

Seeing that Yu Xin had already let go, Li Yuan was naturally unwilling to force him too much, so he slowed down and said, "It's good, you tell me, can such conditions satisfy your King Zhao?"

Yu Xin thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "Whether this condition can satisfy my king, the key is to see what chips Jingtong can see."

"This damn Jingtong!" Li Yuan punched the table angrily.

What Yu Xin said is indeed true.

The people of Zhao now clearly want to wait for a price, and see which side of the two sides has a higher bid, and then send troops to help which side.

This made Li Yuan very passive even though he had plotted against Yu Xin, because the bid from Jingtong was not something that Li Yuan could decide.

After thinking about it, Li Yuan said unwillingly: "Zheng Zhu is your deputy envoy. Can't you communicate with him and hide the chips from the three major families?"

Yu Xin snorted, looked at Li Yuan with an idiot's eyes, and said, "Don't you know that this mission is full of Hu Yiwei's eyeliners? It's impossible to hide this matter. Besides, Zheng Zhu is not in the same mind as Ru, otherwise how could the king send him as the deputy envoy to come with me?"

...

After the two discussed it, it was already lunch time before they knew it.

What surprised Yu Xin, or was embarrassing, was that while having lunch, the Empress Dowager Li of Chu who had spent the spring night with him last night also appeared.

Of course, this time, Empress Dowager Li did not appear as a singer or palace maid like before, but instead appeared with the young King of Chu, in the name of having lunch with the envoy of Zhao.

During the whole lunch, Yu Xin could always feel Empress Dowager Li's eyes staring tightly on him, as if he wanted to eat him completely.

This made Yu Xin suddenly realize a fact, that it has been almost a year since King Yuan of Chu died. As a woman, Empress Dowager Li is now at a age like a wolf or a tiger.

"It's no wonder she was so crazy last night..." Yu Xin thought about the charm of last night, and he felt a little passionate in his heart unknowingly.

But Yu Xin quickly suppressed this feeling, because Yu Xin also knew very well that the reason why Li Yuan brought out Empress Dowager Li again was actually because he wanted to use Empress Dowager Li's beauty to the extreme so that he could fall in love with him and make the situation more beneficial to Li Yuan.

After thinking of this, Yu Xin left the palace city of Chu in the name of discussing with Zheng Zhu after dinner.

Yu Xin soon met Zheng Zhu.

Judging from Zheng Zhu's face was blushed and smiling, and his path was a little frivolous, Yu Xin suddenly had some malicious speculation in his heart. Perhaps Zheng Zhu should have experienced a long and comfortable night just like himself yesterday.

However, even if Zheng Zhu slept with more women from the three major families, the three major families would not use this matter to threaten Zheng Zhu, but Yu Xin...

Yu Xin coughed, suppressed his complicated mood, and then said to Zheng Zhu: "Zheng Qing, let's talk about the information you got from the three major families."

What surprised Yu Xin was that the conditions Zheng Zhu got were actually not much different from those Yu Xin got from Li Yuan.

The same ceded a county, the same requirement was to require the Zhao army to not enter the territory of Chu, and the same requirement was to require the Zhao State to release the prisoners.

However, the three major families looked more generous and expressed their willingness to use money to purchase equipment from Zhao State to arm the prisoners so that they could re-enter the battle at the fastest speed.

Yu Xin pondered for a while and said, "It seems that this should be the bottom line of the Chu people. The Chu people are still very worried about the entry of our Zhao army."
Chapter completed!