Iron Dynasty

King Yan is really cunning.

In the Qingzhou government office, Fiji is watching the letter sent by Zhan Xingchang.

He just came back from Pengzhou yesterday. Now that the Pengzhou City Government Office is officially put into operation, the governor of Pengzhou has taken over government affairs, big and small. There is no need for him to stay.

Pang Yukun said: King Yan wants to get the arquebus technology and also wants to contain us. It's really ulterior motives, but he really gave us a problem.

Xiao Ming's face was gloomy. The last thing he wanted to see happened. Judging from King Yan's reaction, King Zhao probably would also be very afraid of his annexation of Wei Di.

Sure enough, after another ten days, Zhan Xingchang returned from Chang'an with a reply from King Zhao.

His Royal Highness, now only King Liang agrees to Xiao Qi's cooperation. King Zhao and King Yan are both in the swing, just waiting for our reply. Zhan Xingchang said.

Then what are the conditions of King Zhao? Xiao Ming asked.

Zhan Xingchang said: After meeting King Zhao this time, King Zhao wanted to threaten His Highness with a matter of co-existence, but when the lower official mentioned the covenant with King Chu, King Zhao changed his mind. I ask Your Highness not to continue to occupy Wei land.

After taking a breath, he continued: This time King Wei spent a lot of money to move and rescue soldiers. It is said that in order to recruit soldiers, he asked Xiao Qi to give Zhao King no 80 taels of silver, but now Zhao King and Shu King are at war. I don’t want to fight on both sides.”

So, only King Liang is willing to send troops now? Xiao Ming asked.

Yes, Your Highness, now the most important thing is King Yan's attitude. If King Yan does not give up his troops, this joint vertical will basically fail.

Xiao Ming paced back and forth. Now the vassal kings of the Great Yu Kingdom stand on their own, each vassal king has his own interests, and no vassal king wants to see other vassal kings being too powerful.

If it wasn't for his overpowering performance, it is estimated that he would be the King of Zhao now being attacked.

After thinking about it carefully, he said to Zhan Xingchang: In this case, we will agree to King Yan's conditions and provide him with arquebus technology.

His Royal Highness, just like this, do we have to let go of the strategy against Wei Di? Niu Ben was also in the government office, he was very unhappy about this matter. Now that the Nanzheng Army and Dengzhou Army are like broken bamboo, this is the pursuit of victory. when.

Fiji and Pang Yukun are both old foxes. They looked at each other and seemed to see through Xiao Ming's strategy.

In order to avoid being besieged, we can only temporarily agree to this condition, and now that we have Pengzhou City and Tongzhou City, we also need time to completely transform these two places. Now King Wei has involved King Zhao, King Yan, and King Liang. This time, it seems that a contract must be signed. Xiao Ming looked at Zhan Xingchang.

His Royal Highness has a clever plan. Both King Yan and King Zhao proposed to send envoys to Qingzhou, and let the five envoys sign a truce contract in Qingzhou to maintain the status quo. Zhan Xingchang said in surprise.

Fiji said: This incident reminds the lower official of the incident of the Six Nations united to attack Qin, and now the situation is quite the same as it was back then.

Hahaha... So now we are stronger than Qin. Xiao Ming said.

Pang Yukun agreed: That's right, because of this, these vassal kings are afraid that we will continue to be strong. This time His Royal Highness attacked Wei Di, it seems that they are really afraid. In this situation, even if King Wei does not send people to cooperate, It is estimated that other vassal kings will not be able to sit still.

Pang Shoufu said that this king also saw this and was ready to do it. Since they want a contract, we will give it to them. After Pengzhou and Tongzhou are stabilized, we will continue to take other cities in Wei. Xiao Ming said loudly.

Everyone nodded when they heard the words, and now the initiative to attack or defend is in their hands.

Today, Pengzhou has a population of 500,000 and Tongzhou has a population of 200,000. Now they only need time to recruit soldiers from the two places to train them into an army. Once they add another 50,000 troops, then even Zhao Wang, Liang Wang, Wei Wang, Yan Wang Yi They are not afraid to rise up and attack them.

Niu Ben sighed and said, It's just that the end general still feels at a loss. If this contract is signed, wouldn't it mean that only King Wei can attack us, and we can't beat him.

This cattle governor is at ease, since we are going to sign a contract, this king naturally wants them to admit our occupation of Pengzhou and Tongzhou, and this king has an idea, maybe we can take the opportunity to win Huaizhou!

Xiao Ming already had a plan in his mind, and then he told Pang Yukun and others about the plan.

After everyone heard it, Fiji looked shocked. He said, I didn't expect words to come like this. The lower officials are really knowledgeable. If this is the case, King Wei and other vassal kings are really suffering.

Xiao Ming smiled and nodded.

This time, it wasn't that Xiao Ming was persuaded to sign this armistice agreement. In fact, even if the four kings came to attack, he might not necessarily lose, but he never forgot that the barbarians had been watching the changes in the Great Yu Kingdom.

At that time, even if he won, it was a tragic victory, and the four kings would also suffer heavy losses, and this situation was exactly what the barbarians wanted to see most.

Once this happens, then he will no longer have the energy to deal with the real enemy of the Great Yu Kingdom.

Therefore, at this time, he must avoid King Wei's joint strategy. After all, he has already taken advantage of it now, and he only needs to digest the fruits of victory.

When his strength is further enhanced, Wei Di will be completely annexed in a very short period of time, making King Yan and others too late to react.

As for now, he still needs time to digest the land and population he has captured, and the most important thing is that he is ready to capture an overseas food supply area, the Sanshan Kingdom currently controlled by the Japanese state.

In this era, the big island opposite Fuzhou was called Ryukyu, and a series of islands from Ryukyu to Japan were called the Three Mountains Kingdom, that is, Okinawa and its nearby islands in later generations.

According to the information provided by Wang Xuan, the Sanshan Kingdom has a population of 200,000. Now the Sanshan Kingdom is forced to pay tribute to the Japanese country and provide a large amount of food to Yamada Nobunaga every year. During the time when Yamada Nobunaga unified the Japanese country, the food provided by the Sanshan Kingdom can be said to be helpful. Yamada Nobunaga is quite busy.

In contemporary history, successive dynasties have twice missed the opportunity to regain this kingdom. Xiao Ming doesn't want to miss it now. Besides, this is a place that can provide food for free?

Therefore, Xiao Ming also took this aspect into consideration when he signed the armistice contract. The supply of food was stable, and he would not worry about logistical issues in the future.

After negotiating the matter, Xiao Ming said to Zhan Xingchang: This time you will be responsible to the end. You should inform them now, saying that this king agreed to their conditions and asked them to send envoys to Qingzhou to discuss.

Yes, Your Highness. Zhan Xingchang bowed and said.