Chapter 318 Border Negotiations
The city-state of Buelada, the ground city, and the Sayil Manor.
In the spacious reception room, Sayil, wearing an expensive, ornate, and exquisite robe, smiled broadly as he humbly addressed the ratman noble before him, "Sir, the mayor of the Undead Rat Border City has agreed to a meeting."
The ratman noble in front of Sayil came from the Ratman Palace and was a member of the royal family. He was responsible for communicating with Sayil and telling Sayil the message that the emperor wanted to convey.
Hearing Sayil's words, the rat noble nodded in satisfaction, "Mr. Sayil, thank you very much for your contribution to the rat people. You have done a great job. I will convey this message to the great emperor."
After exchanging compliments and chatting for a while, Sayil sent the rat noble away.
After watching the ratman nobles leave, the smile on Sayil's face disappeared and he looked silently towards the direction of the palace.
He had made his way from being a small street vendor in the border city-state of Ilemaha to the imperial capital, and in a short period of time, he had amassed wealth and resources that most rat people had been unable to obtain in generations.
All of this was because he turned to the undead and signed a soul contract with the Lord of the Undead.
Sayil never regretted this and only felt endless gratitude towards the dead.
If there was a conflict between the ratmen and the undead, and he was asked to choose sides, he would stand on the side of the undead without hesitation.
With his recent rapid rise, he holds a large amount of Undead goods in his hands and is protected by the Undead, which makes many people call him a traitor.
Sayil also knew that his actions were tantamount to treason.
But what does that matter?
He just wants to survive and live a better life.
The ratmen are sick, very sick.
The upper class rat people have accumulated a lot of wealth and indulge in pleasure every day. Their children are winners in life from the moment they are born, and they are at the end point of most people.
The rat people are able to reproduce and can leave behind many children at a time, which requires the upper class to constantly occupy more resources to maintain the family.
If this continues, there will be no way out for the lower class people.
Sayil's family says it all.
His ancestors had been working hard, but all their efforts only bought him freedom.
The upward channels for the lower class people are almost cut off, and their hope is extremely slim.
He wanted to live a better life, but there was no hope among the ratmen themselves.
The appearance of the undead gave him an opportunity.
After gazing at the palace for a long time, Sayil took a breath, turned back to his room, and muttered to himself, "Emperor, I hope you will not conflict with the undead. It is not the undead that need to be changed, but ourselves."
He obtained information about the last meeting of the Ratmen Council, learned about the decision made by the Emperor, and became even more aware that many elders and nobles were very dissatisfied with the undead.
This seemed ridiculous to Sayil.
What do they think of the undead?
A vassal race of the ratmen?
The elders and nobles of the House of Representatives still didn't see clearly that the undead were not a vassal race of the ratmen, nor were they a weak race. They were equal to the ratmen.
The Undead did not obtain their territory by relying on the charity of the ratmen, but by conquering it with their own strength!
The condescending attitude of the Ratmen and the arrogance of their elders and nobles will eventually bring disaster to the Ratmen.
After the emperor knew that the undead agreed to communicate, he immediately began to make arrangements.
Initially, he planned to have the undead come to pay homage to him in the city-state of Buiilada, the capital of the ratmen, but Zhang Peng rejected this proposal on the grounds that the rat-dead border city was busy with affairs.
The Rat King was so angry that he didn't eat for two days, and roars could be heard from time to time in the palace.
"Who does he think he is? A mere city lord, how dare he reject me!"
"The undead, a proud race!"
"They ignored us and slapped the Rat Man in the face. We can't just let them go."
"Destroy them, I will destroy them!"
In the eyes of the Rat King, letting Zhang Peng come to the Builada city-state to pay homage is giving face to the undead and a great honor.
I thought the Undead would agree excitedly, but I didn't expect them to reject me directly without mercy.
This made the Rat King feel that his dignity was challenged.
If it were in the past, he would have called a meeting of the elders to discuss sending troops to eliminate the undead.
But the current situation does not allow this. They are already facing enemies from all sides, including the infected, demons, rebels, and other powerful races who are eyeing them covetously. They cannot tolerate the addition of another undead race.
The consultants in the Royal Intelligence Group finally calmed the emperor down and communicated with Zhang Peng again, and finally set the meeting place at the border between ratmen and undead.
This is a result that everyone can accept.
After deciding the location and time, the ratman delegation set off from Builada, with Sayil accompanying them.
There was no way. Among the ratmen, Sayil was the one who was most familiar with the undead, and the undead gave Sayil face. He had to go and be present at the meeting.
A few days later, the border between the ratman territory and the undead territory.
A temporary structure was constructed across the border for this meeting.
The building was built by the ratmen. It used several exquisitely carved stone pillars to support a roof, and there was no shelter around it.
The ratman and undead delegations arrived one after another.
The two sides gathered in a temporary building.
As a diplomatic mission, the ratmen are serious.
Everyone in the delegation was dressed in exquisite clothes. The fabrics of their clothes were of high quality, with patterns painted with expensive special dyes and embellished with gems. Everything about them highlighted one word - expensive!
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