Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 668 - 668 0430 The Crown Princes Opinion

Chapter 668: Chapter 0430: The Crown Prince’s Opinion Chapter 668: Chapter 0430: The Crown Prince’s Opinion Chapter 0430 The Crown Prince’s Opinion

In fact, the Emperor Bei Rong really hoped Qi Tian would agree to his proposal, not to get silver, but to get cultivation resources worth forty million taels of silver. It seems a lot, but in reality, it’s just that. A piece of low-grade spirit stones could worth ten thousand taels of silver, so forty million taels of silver would just worth four thousand pieces of low-grade spirit stones. Even though Bei Rong was also short of cultivation resources, he was, after all, a ruler of a nation, and could easily gather four thousand pieces of low-grade spirit stones. On the contrary, silver was not that easy to gather.

Silver mines were limited and everyone in Bei Rong, especially the common people, needed to use it. Unlike these cultivation resources, which seem precious, but the number of users in Bei Rong was limited. The annual income of the treasury of Bei Rong was only about twenty million taels of silver. The fifty million taels of silver Qi Tian demanded could be said to have dealt a heavy blow to Bei Rong.

The Emperor of Bei Rong meant that if possible, he would rather give Qi Tian more cultivation resources, also to try and make Qi Tian change his mind, but now it seemed Qi Tian was not willing to do it. Since Qi Tian insisted, he didn’t have a better solution, so he just laughed and said: “Since Master won’t accept more precious cultivation resources, and insists on silver, I can only accept this goodwill from Master. However, there is something I want to negotiate with Master here. Can Master accept gold?”

Qi Tian nodded. Gold was also money, why not accept it?

“And what about other gems?” asked the Emperor Bei Rong.

Qi Tian replied: “I only want gold and silver. I don’t want other gems or gold and silver notes. Even for gold or silver ornaments, I will only calculate their value according to its weight.”

The Emperor Bei Rong was almost spitting blood, but he had to laugh. He endured the pain, took out a Storage Bag and handed it to Qi Tian, saying: “I only brought this much in a hurry this time. The gold and silver in it is probably worth twenty million taels of silver. As for the remaining twenty million taels of silver, please give me half a year to raise the money. At that time, I will definitely offer up the twenty million taels of silver.”

“Delaying for half a year can be negotiated, but the interests have to be calculated. Half a year later, you have to take out twenty-two million taels of silver.” Qi Tian replied indifferently.

The Emperor Bei Rong gritted his teeth and said: “Fine. Let’s do it as Master says.”

“Now that the issue of compensation has been settled, let’s discuss the apology. I have prepared a Self-Admonishment Edict for Your Majesty. Please sign and seal on the Self-Admonishment Edict.” Qi Tian took out two copies of the paperwork and handed them to the Emperor Bei Rong.

The Emperor Bei Rong almost clenched his teeth looking at the Self-Admonishment Edict. In the history of both Great Zhao Nation and Bei Rong, Chi Di, and other countries, emperors or Heavenly Khans rarely issued Self-Admonishment Edicts. But even those who did, they would always find various objective or subjective reasons to excuse themselves in the Self-Admonishment Edict or simply blame all the mistakes on a few scapegoats. But in the Self-Admonishment Edict drafted by Qi Tian, there was no whitewashing of mistakes at all. He simply took all the blame, scolded himself bluntly, apologized to everyone, including the people of Great Zhao, and felt guilty. Not only that, the Emperor Bei Rong needed not only to reflect on himself in the Self-Admonishment Edict, but also to promise that he would never wage war against the Great Zhao Nation in his lifetime, and demand his descendants not to wage war against the Great Zhao Nation, otherwise, they would be considered as unworthy descendants and could not be admitted to the Ancestral Temple after death.

What the Emperor Bei Rong found the most difficult to accept, was not just these, but Qi Tian, in the end, also requested the Emperor Bei Rong to sent this Self-Admonishment Edict to the whole world and to hand a copy to neighboring countries, including the Great Zhao, to allow both the rulers and subjects of these countries to feel his sincere apologies to everyone.

The Emperor Bei Rong is not only a king privileged by the Heavenly Dao, but also a powerful cultivator in the Gold Core Realm. Neither of his identities allows him to do this kind of thing that is almost a humiliation to him. Qi Tian had just proposed a lot of conditions, and he could laugh and agree. But this time, he did not immediately agree, instead, holding the Self-Admonishment Edict given by Qi Tian, his face was changing with uncertainty, and a fierce battle took place in his mind, weighing the pros and cons.

Seeing the Emperor Bei Rong reacting this way, Qi Tian did not say anything. Gao Jinmei had again locked on the Emperor Bei Rong with his Divine Sense. As long as Qi Tian gave the order, she would definitely take action confidently, aiming to capture the Emperor Bei Rong in the shortest amount of time.

Bei Rong National Teacher Jiang Yalin had a bitter taste in his mouth. He had not expected Qi Tian to confront them with such a kind of Self-Admonishment Edict, which is even harder to accept than a huge economic compensation as it greatly damages his reputation. However, he dared not to make a sound. Neither Qi Tian nor the Emperor Bei Rong was someone he could offend, especially under such a delicate situation. Whichever side he tries to favor, it would greatly offend the other. If he offended the Emperor Bei Rong, he would definitely not be able to survive in the Bei Rong court. If he offended Qi Tian, he could be risking his life, which was much scarier than offending the Emperor Bei Rong. Therefore, the wisest choice at this moment was to keep silent, playing dumb.

The other person who kept silent was the Bei Rong Crown Prince. Since meeting Qi Tian, he had basically been playing dumb throughout. Unless it was his turn to speak, he would only make some simple responses, and absolutely not say too much. Each sentence he said was very short, and whenever he spoke, you had to pay attention at all times. Otherwise, with a slight lapse of attention, you might have missed it.