Chapter 669, Negotiation
So Qi Ling and Bibi Dong then rushed to the Tiandou City Palace. When the people in the palace saw the return of Prince Qi Ling, they were all filled with unconcealed joy, and someone hurriedly reported it to Xue Ke. [γ
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Everyone in the Tiandou Empire knows that the difficulties encountered by the empire recently have threatened the existence of the Tiandou Empire. Once the five major principalities completely break up with the Tiandou Empire, the Tiandou Empire will face the crisis of division at any time.
At the same time, everyone is more aware of the fact that the one who can solve this problem is not the current Queen Xue Ke, but the Prince Qi Ling!
So now after seeing Qi Ling, everyone just feels that the country is finally saved, and they donβt need to worry about it day and night. For a time, even everyone feels that the crisis has been resolved.
Bibi Dong, who was standing aside, looked at this situation and shook her head helplessly. Even though Qi Ling had not appeared for half a year, the situation had not changed at all. Qi Ling's prestige and status had not weakened at all, but had become even greater.
If this happened in any other country, it would definitely be a disaster. The merits of the emperor would surely lead to the rift between the emperor and his subjects, and the people would suffer.
But in the Tiandou Empire, there was no such disaster at all. Xue Ke completely trusted Qi Ling. Even if Qi Ling had this intention, she could give up the throne to Qi Ling, and she would just stay by his side.
But now that she is the queen of the Tiandou Empire, she must not disappoint her teacher's expectations, nor the people's expectations. The Tiandou Empire is lucky enough to be in Xue Ke's hands.
Seeing Qi Ling again, Xue Ke was naturally very happy, and couldn't help but act like a spoiled child to Qi Ling. Qi Ling was also helpless. If anyone saw Xue Ke like this, they would not believe that she was the queen who was so high above.
After Xue Ke calmed down, Qi Ling asked her to tell him about the five principalities. At least he had to know the details of the matter before he could deal with them.
After Xue Ke's narration, Qi Ling knew the ins and outs of the matter, which was basically consistent with what Bibi Dong said. Moreover, these principalities were indeed very greedy. Before this, they had sent their own envoys to negotiate with Xue Ke.
Their request was that they wanted more autonomy and that the empire recognized their independent status. They would still call themselves vassal states in the future, but the connection between them and the Tiandou Empire would naturally be almost non-existent.
Xue Ke naturally could not accept such an approach, otherwise she would be the sinner who caused the division of the Tiandou Empire. The five principalities insisted on their own statements and did not intend to let go at all, so the matter was put on hold until the negotiation meeting was held.
"Teacher, this is the situation. Do you think that I am not capable enough to solve this matter?" Xue Ke said sadly.
In front of outsiders, she is a queen of high status, so she naturally cannot show weakness easily, but in front of Qi Ling, she can be carefree, because this is her teacher.
Qi Ling touched Xue Ke's head and smiled: "You have done a good job, but these people are greedy. Such people will always pay the price!"
"Leave the rest to me, Xue Ke, when the negotiation comes, my sister and I will accompany you."
With Qi Ling's guarantee, Xue Ke finally put her mind at ease. After all, no matter how difficult the matter is, as long as her teacher says there is a way to solve it, then it can definitely be solved.
In this way, the date of the negotiation meeting soon arrived, and the place of negotiation was in a city that did not belong to Tiandou City and the five principalities. From a geographical point of view, it can basically be regarded as the middle of everyone.
Qi Ling knew that the reason why these principalities made such a request was because they wanted to create an atmosphere, that is, the relationship between them and the Tiandou Empire was an equal and evenly matched relationship, rather than a subordinate relationship.
Qi Ling did not say anything about this. Together with Xue Ke and Bibi Dong, they arrived at the meeting site on time, asked the imperial guards to stay outside, and walked in together.
After entering the venue, Qi Ling immediately saw that none of the people from the five principalities came. It was clearly time for the meeting, but they did not show up, which was undoubtedly a show of power to Qi Ling and others.
"Damn it! These people are really too much! Who do they think they are!" The captain of the imperial guard said angrily. For him, the humiliation of the queen and the prince of the state was an insult to himself.
Qi Ling sat in his seat and said slowly: "Don't worry, we will wait here to see what these people want to do."
It was not until half an hour later that the people from the five principalities arrived at the scene, and the five principalities arrived together. With such a coincidence, everyone knew that they did it on purpose.
The queen of the Tiandou Empire, Xue Ke, came in person, and the kings of the five principalities naturally had to come in person, otherwise there would be no need to continue the negotiations.
As soon as the five kings walked in, they immediately apologized to Qi Ling and Xue Ke, saying that they were late because they had encountered some trouble on the road, or they forgot the time and remembered the wrong place, and it was definitely not intentional.
Qi Ling just slowed down and said to everyone, "Don't be polite, it's human nature, and it's understandable. Please take a seat first."
Seeing Qi Ling's expressionless expression, the five kings couldn't help but feel depressed. Sure enough, the man who could decide the fate of the Tiandou Empire was still this man!
So since he didn't hide it anymore, he immediately expressed his intention after sitting down, and put forward the previous conditions again, and wanted to completely separate from the Tiandou Empire.
Xue Ke couldn't help but say at this time: "No, we can't agree to this! Don't forget, you are all people of the Tiandou Empire. How can you bear to split your motherland for your own selfish desires!"
Among the five kings, a king named Otto said: "Your Majesty, the times are different. Although we are people of the Tiandou Empire, the Tiandou Empire can no longer meet our needs!"
"That's right!" "Our needs are not to continue like this, but to change!" The other kings also echoed.
Xue Ke naturally disagreed with such a statement, so she started a debate with several kings, but no matter what they said, they refused to change their demands.
In the end, Otto even said with a rogue look: "In this case, let's temporarily stop the negotiations, so that we can have more and more sufficient preparation time!"
