De Fei laughed dryly twice, and finally said helplessly: "I will tell my clansmen about the emperor's sincerity and intentions. I believe this matter can still be discussed."

The emperor didn't care about all this. He just waited quietly in the palace for the foreign envoys to take action.

This time, Zhao Ji was not secretly observing the actions of the foreign envoys, but was following the emperor's order to observe the envoys' whereabouts.

Sure enough, just as Zhao Ji expected, when he received the news from Concubine De from the palace.

Gutali and the others were also shocked.

"How could the emperor of the Celestial Empire be so shameless as to donate money to build a palace... Does he really think we don't know that all the officials of the Celestial Empire boycotted the court that morning?"

Gutali paced around the place in a rage.

Zhao Jize was leisurely standing on the roof admiring the frustrated looks of these people.

In fact, Zhao Ji did it on purpose, deliberately making things difficult for them so that they wouldn't cause trouble every day.

The Third Prince's face darkened. "I wonder who offered such a tricky method to the Emperor. If we disagree with this matter, they can naturally suppress us in the mutual trade!"

"If we let them have the upper hand in this regard, we won't be able to rely on us to set the pace and delay time like we are doing now. I'm afraid that by then the matter will be finalized very quickly. Once it's finalized, we will have to leave the capital immediately."

The third prince and Gutali looked at each other and saw helplessness and frustration in each other's eyes.

"So we can only agree to this matter?" Gutali said dryly.

The Third Prince's face was filled with pain. "What else? Do we have the room to refuse? Unless we put all our affairs aside for the time being?"

Early the next morning, when Gutali wrote back, he inserted a silver note worth three million taels of silver with great reluctance.

This was the amount given after discussion with the third prince. Let’s put it this way, almost these three million taels of silver were collected by emptying the fortunes of everyone in the envoy team.

Everyone looked at the pile of banknotes with great pain.

Finally, he could only grit his teeth and whisper softly: "For the greater cause!"

Originally, Gutali wanted to send less, but the Third Prince sighed, took out the letter sent by Concubine De and said, "Just look at this letter, which arrived in our hands earlier than the previous letters, and you will know that the emperor has always been aware of our exchanges."

"The fact that this letter was sent out so quickly is a testament to this. So if we send less money, I'm afraid that when the emperor is unhappy, he will think of this matter and continue to control us."

"If they accuse us of being insincere, our donation will be in vain!"

The foreign envoys gritted their teeth and took out the money.

Little did people know that even the emperor was shocked when he saw the amount of the banknote.

"It seems that the foreign countries really want to cooperate. They are so generous, offering a full three million taels!" The emperor said to Zhao Ji with emotion.

Zhao Ji smiled and nodded: "Building a palace is not like other expenses. Naturally, it requires more funds. From this point of view, they are also very sincere."

The emperor also nodded.

Now no one can stop the emperor from building the palace.

Even the officials in the court were shocked and wondered where the emperor got all this money.

However, because of the previous incident of Bai Chao's dismissal, the emperor also had a rift with these ministers. Even when a minister asked, the emperor just lazily replied that he took it from his own private treasury.

This stopped the ministers from asking further questions. After all, no one could ask how there was so much money in the emperor's private treasury.

But well-informed people like the prime minister had more or less guessed where the money came from.

After donating the money, the envoys felt that they could walk with their backs straighter.

After all, it cost money.

At Zhao Ji's suggestion, the emperor also symbolically awarded some useless imperial edicts of praise.

The money had been spent, and Zhao Ji was no longer as aggressive as before when he discussed the trade matters with them.

Now, no matter how these envoys want to delay, Zhao Ji will cooperate.

After all, the other person was the one who was wronged and spent money, so there was no need for Zhao Ji to be the bad guy.

This also made Gutali and the third prince feel a little comforted after they took out the money.

"Now everything is basically settled. Now we just need to discuss the last city."

Zhao Ji and Guo Yunchang met, and Guo Yunchang spoke to Zhao Ji with excitement.

He didn't want to continue working on this job. After all, it was tiring to deal with these envoys every day.

However, Zhao Ji did not look relaxed: "Now they are gradually starting to relax, which means they have had enough fun in the capital."

At this time, Guo Yunchang naturally did not react to the deeper meaning of what Zhao Ji said.

He was just excited to get this shit done right away.

Zhao Ji looked at the sky outside and knew that it would soon change.

Gutali and the third prince have been becoming more and more excited during this period.

They will soon accomplish what they want to do.

Perhaps because of the influx of foreign envoys into Beijing during this period, the people were no longer as curious and surprised about the foreign faces appearing on the streets as before.

Now seeing these foreigners is just like seeing ordinary people.

Some shops even preferred to invite these foreigners into their stores because these people were more polite and they would not be able to cause trouble under the imperial city.

After all, you never know when you might be able to meet the emperor in person.

As a result, other playboys in the capital also became more restrained. After all, if they were to run into these foreigners, it would be bad if they told the emperor about it.

This also provided great convenience to Gutali and the three princes.

The Jingzhao Prefecture sent another memorial to Zhao Ji, saying that many unfamiliar foreigners had appeared in Jinzhong recently.

Zhao Ji understood it in his mind, but he still explained that one of the clauses in the agreed trade rules was that the capital was willing to allow merchants from foreign countries to come and learn.

So these people who suddenly appeared actually appeared under the guise of businessmen.

The prefect of Jingzhao also felt that something was wrong, so he privately asked Zhao Ji to have dinner in a teahouse.

In fact, he wanted to ask Zhao Ji what to do in this situation, because any discerning person could see that there were some people with martial arts skills among these businessmen.

When such a dangerous signal was transmitted, even Wen Tun Fuyi, who always liked to hide in the back, could not stay any longer.

Zhao Ji just drank his tea leisurely: "Don't worry, if you have time, you might as well add a few more layers of guards outside the imperial city."