d dragon pillars."The former Zhao king, the eighth prince Li Yinhu, committed treason against heaven and rebelled. Fortunately, with the help of all of you officials, the matter has been resolved."Li...Chapter 856: Prince, You Can't

Now Li Chen and Gua'erjia Aoqin represent Qin and Jin respectively.

They are just making a big show of it, trying to gauge each other's limits.

Negotiations are, by nature, about conflicting interests. It involves magnifying one's own advantages and exaggerating the opponent's weaknesses to secure greater benefits and pressure them into making larger concessions.

Jin Guo's words seemed to be telling Li Chen, "Don't pretend anymore. We see that you can't possibly cooperate with Liao Guo, so don't even think about getting much benefit from us."

Of course, this is all an act. Otherwise, Guarjia Aoqin would not be here. Since he's here, it means they are still feeling guilty and afraid.

After all, there are no absolutes in this world. The Jin Kingdom truly didn't know if Li Chen would be so ruthless as to cooperate with the Liao Kingdom.

If this were to come true, and the Liao's target was truly the Jin Kingdom, facing cooperation between the Liao and the Qin, the Jin Kingdom would have no path but annihilation.

And Li Chen is also vying for acting accolades.

Just kidding, Liao Kingdom came for Qin Kingdom; there's no way he would cooperate with Liao Kingdom.

But this point, he knew, the Liao knew, but the Jin did not.

So, exploiting this information gap and putting on a show of strength, pretending to have the backing of something powerful, we might just be able to swindle a lot of benefits from the Jin Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Li Chen's expression gradually became ferocious and crazy. He said in a tone of astonishment: “Do you know what conditions they gave Gold, cattle, sheep, horses, all are the most basic, most importantly, they promised to return the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan and Cloud! And it's returning first, then cooperating!” mind small details.King Ning believed himself to be a mighty lord vying for control of the Central Plains. Now that Li Chen was young and ambitious, relying on his strength to make a show of it, what...