Chapter 259 Set up
"If the price is right, our frontier army will naturally need it."
Qian Shuisheng didn't even want to accept it directly, so he asked with a smile, "I just don't know how you plan to sell it, Mr. Zhou?"
Zhou Chen licked his lips when he heard the words:
"Hehe. My lord wants this number."
said,
He slowly stretched out one palm, stretched out three fingers and spread them among the dozen generals in the tent.
Looking at this gesture, Qian Shuisheng looked as usual:
"Three million taels is not bad"
"thirty million."
"." Qian Shuisheng.
Zhou Chen broke the silence with a dry laugh, with a smile in his eyes:
"Elder Qian, the Yunqi bomb is expensive to make, and the cost of three million taels cannot be recovered."
The camp fell silent, Qian Shuisheng didn't speak anymore, but his eyes swept across the rest of the people calmly.
"well"
After a brief silence, there was a sigh, and the tone of a middle-aged woman in armor was a bit of a joke after the sigh:
"Mr. Zhou, we are waiting for the 300,000 frontier troops to fight the **** battle here in order to regain Beifeng. The imperial court will not arrange soldiers to reinforce it. Now even the ordnance has to be purchased by me privately. Isn't this... not afraid of the hearts of the soldiers?"
Zhou Chen glanced back at the woman.
Someone in Zhou thought he was already thick-skinned, but this woman just gave up her face.
Paused for a moment, Zhou Chen's mind turned, and he smiled:
"Hey old sister's words are a bit exaggerated. My lord is not in the imperial court. The Yunqi bullets on this trip are also from his private inventory. Why do you want to chill the border soldiers?"
Speaking of which,
Zhou Chen stood up straight, clasped his fists and cupped his hands towards the sky, and said loudly: "On the contrary, my lord is worried about the country and the people, and the lives of the 300,000 soldiers under the Beifeng City, so that Mr. Zhou I came here to ask you, I hope you can understand this time."
The middle-aged woman snorted coldly.
And at this time,
General Hou, who had a scar on his face, suddenly let out a low laugh:
"So, Mr. Zhou is not an envoy of the imperial court?"
If you are not an envoy of the imperial court, you don’t have that layer of skin as a talisman. If you kill you, settling accounts in the future is at most a personal conflict, not a dispute of righteousness.
Zhou Chen cursed inwardly when he heard the words, stared at the person who made the sound, and paused every word:
"This old man, Mr. Zhou is just a mouthpiece for my lord, his life is so cheap, it should not be comparable to the lives of all the famous families, let alone these 300,000 soldiers."
Don’t do this to me, it doesn’t matter if you kill me, but without Yunqi bombs, can you fight against the hundreds of thousands of barbarians who occupy the absolute sky?
General Hou narrowed his eyes, revealing a killing intent:
"Mr. Zhou, it's a festival of righteousness and death."
"okay."
At this time, Qian Shuisheng interrupted General Hou's words again, and turned to Zhou Chen with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, if we agree to the conditions of the adults of the Ni family, in what way will the Yunqi bomb be handed over? And in what way?" payment?"
"Elder Qian simply."
Zhou Chen felt slightly relieved when he heard the words, cupped his hands, and said with a smile:
"The delivery of the Yunqi bomb. You can set a time, and my adults will arrange the manpower to deliver it on time."
"Chi"
With a low laugh, the young female general Liu Mei sarcastically said, "Mr. Zhou, the empty-handed white wolf also needs a limit. How can we trust you? If Yunqi Bomb is fabricated, wouldn't the property of our frontier army be justified?" Was it taken away by you for nothing?"
Zhou Chen had already made up his mind about this, and said without hesitation:
"The Yun-Qi bomb has also been supplied to your army with two pieces before. I think there should be people among you who have seen the real thing, and you should know that the structure of the Yun-Qi bomb is not stable and cannot be stored in Xumijie. If your army is willing to send elites Go get it, my lord can provide your army with a place to hide the Yunqi bomb."
“.”
The young female general sneered: "It's snowing outside, why send troops to escort? Do you think that barbarian wolf cavalry is blind?"
Zhou Chen spread his hands like a bachelor:
"Since your army is unwilling, then arrange for a high-level cultivator to go with Zhou to pick it up, so that the possibility of exposure will be smaller. The three delivery methods are up to your army to choose."
"This is not stated beforehand."
Qian Shuisheng pondered, and asked calmly: "Then Mr. Zhou, how will your lord plan to take over the payment from me?"
Zhou Chen grinned, and cupped his hands upward again:
"My lord has said that he doesn't want land deeds, no shares in the chamber of commerce, and no certificates of property related to the Northern Territory Industry. He only accepts cash, bank notes or cultivation resources. Of course, if your army is willing to sell military supplies, my lord is willing to pay Five times the market price for a premium purchase.
The voice fell, and there was a brief silence.
The expressions on the faces of more than a dozen commanders holding heavy troops became a little weird.
The amount of information in these words is a bit large.
Do not want any real estate
The Tianan Chamber of Commerce of Xiangguo Mansion and the Royal Chamber of Commerce of the imperial court have broken their heads and longed for their northern border in recent years. Now there is such an opportunity to intervene in the northern border market openly. It is impossible for the people behind Mr. Zhou not to seize it.
It’s not that I don’t want it, but the people behind Mr. Zhou can’t.
Even if you let your cronies name the real product, you don’t participate in the management and only accept dividends every year, but every time you deliver benefits, there is an additional possibility of exposure.
Time passed by every minute and every second,
Qian Shuisheng stared at Zhou Chen with a half-smile:
"May I ask a question, why doesn't your lord not want the real estate in the Northern Territory?"
Zhou Chen didn't even think about it, he just followed Xu Yuan's instructions and said directly:
"My family can't bear the responsibility for the outflow of strategic resources like Yunqi Bomb."
“.”
The originally tense atmosphere in the camp gradually became relaxed after these words, and many generals even showed faint smiles on their faces.
Yes, the person behind Mr. Zhou seems to be a high-level executive of the Xiangguo Mansion who resells supplies.
If you have power in your hands, you should make the best use of it, and if you don’t use it, it will expire and become invalid.
Empty the public house and feed the small family.
Many formations of the Xiangguo Mansion are ahead of the entire Great Yan, just like the ghost fog formation back then.
Gewuyuan was strictly guarded against death, but it was still resold at a high price in the end.
But that's not what makes them happy.
Since the person behind Mr. Zhou is reselling privately, it means that the other party dare not make it public and can bargain, and there is a lot of room for bargaining.
Qian Shuisheng's old face trembled, and he said with a smile:
"Mr. Zhou, 30 million taels is not a small number, can you please wait outside the account for a while, we need to discuss later."
Zhou Chen cupped his fists and smiled at Qian Shuisheng when he heard the words:
"Since that's the case, then I will wait for the good news outside the tent."
After finishing speaking, Zhou Chen walked out of the tent under the eyes of a room full of strong men.
The tent curtain fell, and the originally relaxed atmosphere in the tent suddenly became dignified, even chilling.
Qian Shuisheng on the main seat narrowed his eyes, and suddenly sneered:
"Who do you think is behind Mr. Zhou?"
"It should not be Lou Ji and Zong Qingsheng."
The man with the scar face said: "They have no sons or daughters, and they are all loyal to Xu Yinhe. Moreover, their positions are too high, and it is unlikely that they will do anything to betray the interests of the Prime Minister."
The entire Xiangguo Mansion is theirs, and they can just ask for whatever they want, and there is no need for such means to gain benefits.
The young female general chuckled and said:
"Elder Qian, I don't think it matters who it is, as long as they can provide us with cloud energy bombs."
The grumpy, burly man snorted softly:
"Thirty million taels is a bit too much. Last year's war situation was unfavorable. The combined military expenditure of our hundreds of thousands of frontier troops in the north was only about 70 million taels a year."
The man with the scar face smiled:
"The expenses are indeed too high. I have to ask the sects in the south to ask for more benefits. Our northern sects will withstand the pressure for them. When the Tianyuan Grand Competition is held next year, we will have to find the sects in the south of the Yangtze River to redistribute the resources." Those old immortals ask for more benefits."
After the words fell, there was a low-pitched laughter.
Zongmen is a large group, and there are rules within them.
Border sects send people and efforts, and rich lands get supplies.
The holy majesty's counterattack before his death was resisted by their northern sects. Naturally, they had a reason and righteousness to seek benefits from sects in other places.
The chatterbox opened, and some generals who had been friends with each other began to chat and laugh about planning for the coming year.
But when someone is talking and laughing, someone will be silent, and there are not a few people who are silent.
The atmosphere in the tent was quickly interrupted by a gentle voice:
"It's not even halftime yet, are you ready to celebrate?"
The person who spoke was the handsome young man from the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines, but he looked at the silent old man on the main seat if he could not take the lead.
"Elder Qian, you should have something to say?"
“.”
Qian Shuisheng slowly raised his eyes when he heard the words, and exhaled:
"Everyone, maybe the people behind Mr. Zhou provided us with cloud energy bombs for personal gain, but they also wanted to watch us fight to the death with that barbarian. How do you react?"
The grumpy and burly man cupped his hands, with an excited smile on his lips:
"Elder Qian, the snow clouds are dispersed, and those barbarians lose the blessing of heaven and earth, so they will inevitably avoid the edge of our army. We can just attack Beifeng City and stick to it."
"If they don't avoid it?"
Qian Shuisheng asked back, and then said: "The barbarian king is not a fool, once Beifeng is taken back by us, they will directly become the turtle in the urn."
Speaking of which,
Qian Shuisheng sighed leisurely: "Yunqi bomb directly changed the whole situation of the battle. Now the barbarian army near Beifeng is roughly estimated to be more than 400,000. If we fight a tough battle with them, even if we win, we will lose a lot , when the time comes, the imperial court will be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman."
The young female general frowned slightly, with a bit of hostility in her eyes:
"Then we just drag it like this now? If we had chosen to reinforce Beifeng back then, this kind of thing would never have happened."
The middle-aged woman in armor glanced at the young female general and sneered:
"Little girl, everyone made the decision at the beginning. Why, now that the dilemma is coming, do you want to rush yourself out?"
The scarred man heard this, chuckled and said:
"Mrs. Wang, the original decision was indeed made by us together, but I remember it should be you and your husband"
"Okay! Don't say a few words."
Qian Shuisheng saw that the atmosphere below was becoming tense, and immediately stopped: "What we need in today's situation is unanimity! Let's talk about our own countermeasures."
“.”
Silence spread and no one responded.
Quiet,
Suddenly, someone suddenly said:
"Can we think of a way to lure the barbarians north?"
Another person said directly:
"How to lead? The barbarians know that Houting County has astronomical weapons such as cloud energy bullets, and they attack the well-equipped defensive circle of Houting County against a sunny day? Heh. As long as the barbarian Yi Wang doesn't have the same brain as you, he will It's better to attack knowing we're here."
The eyes of the person who spoke showed murderous intent:
"Dai Xiangfei, have the face to say that I will give one-third of the supplies, I really don't know."
"Shut up!"
Qian Shuisheng whispered again, with helplessness in his eyes.
He had actually expected this situation.
Given the current situation, it will be a matter of time before the internal conflicts of the coalition forces erupt. The Mr. Zhou who came with the cloud energy bomb just detonated the conflicts in advance.
Following the wind, everyone is brothers, but against the wind, there are mother-hunters.
The disadvantages of the chaotic command system of the coalition forces are beginning to be gradually revealed at this moment.
Rubbing the center of his brows vigorously, Qian Shuisheng swept the generals around and said:
"It's useless to talk too much. Now there are only two roads in front of us. First, we will continue to stick to it and wait and see what happens. Second, we will use Yunqi bullets to attack Beifeng City."
"Didn't the two roads end with those barbarians?"
"yes."
Qian Shuisheng's tone remained unchanged, and he said in a deep voice: "We can't avoid this at all in the current situation."
Several mistakes in decision-making directly led to the current situation being a dead end for them.
He was designed to abandon Houting County to come to Beifeng to reinforce Beifeng, and then because of a decision-making misjudgment of the ambition of the barbarian king and the speed of Wu Chenghou and Zong Qingsheng's southward travel, he was directly stuck outside the city of Beifeng, allowing the barbarian army to surround him. Serve on the side.
To break the game, they must fight a tough battle.
After pondering for a moment, the man with the scar face asked:
"Elder Qian, I wonder which path you prefer?"
Qian Shuisheng glanced at him and tapped on the armrest of the main seat with his fingertips:
"the latter."
"The latter?" The man with the scar frowned, his eyes revealing thoughtfulness, but he soon realized that this was the best choice now.
Qian Shuisheng said in a low voice:
"Our army is in prison, but the barbarians are more anxious than us. The longer they wait, the more likely the imperial army will go south. By then, our camp without formations will not be able to play any protective role at all.
"We use cloud energy to open the way and regain Beifeng City as quickly as possible, so that the barbarians may retreat in the face of difficulties and return to the depths of the northern border along the mountain road they came from.
"This is the style of play that we have the least loss of today.
"Of course, we still need to plan in detail the details of the march."
Zhou Chen left, and quietly left the Zongmen camp with a few Xumijie and two second-rank Yuanchu through the wind and snow.
And as they departed,
A pair of eyes shining with faint blue light was quietly standing on the hillside in the distance watching them.
Until the three of them completely disappeared from his sight, the burly figure turned and left silently, disappearing into the wind and snow
(end of this chapter)