Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 224

[Chapter 224 Anger]

“His Royal Highness, this means that we have not gained anything. This business matter was deliberately set up by powerful people. Even if they don’t make things difficult for us now, they have nothing to lose, and let them buy it for nothing.” Artillery, we still have to sell.”

Wangfu study.

Zhao Xu showed Liu Fu Zhao Heng’s handwriting, and he immediately complained.

Zhao Xu’s face was sullen.

He was already dissatisfied with the matter of the Yuan family.

It is suspected that Zhao Heng is colluding with the powerful family and using the Yuan family to restrain him.

Now Zhao Heng has rejected his request for maritime trade rights, trying to balance the artillery issue.

Overall, it still made him suffer.

This made him even more angry.

Liu Fu did not answer.

He tore open the letter Dong An sent, just glanced at it, and was so angry that the hand holding the letter kept shaking.

He slapped the book table heavily, and Zhao Xu scolded: “Zhao Heng, you are a fool!”

Liu Fu panicked when he heard this, and wanted to cover Zhao Xu’s mouth, but he didn’t dare. It’s a felony, Your Highness, please keep your voice down, be careful that walls have ears.”

“Take it and read it yourself!” Zhao Xu threw the letter to Liu Fu.

Liu Fu took it, glanced at it slightly, his face turned from white to red, then from red to yellow, he came to the door of the study, and after confirming that no one was there, he stomped his feet, “Foolish lord, treacherous minister, this court is really full, it’s ridiculous It’s ridiculous, if it wasn’t because of the artillery, I’m afraid they would really dare to trick His Highness to Jinling and send him to Beidi as a hostage.”

Zhao Xu felt as if a piece of ice had been placed in his heart, and the blood rushing to his whole body was tinged with chill.

Dong An wrote all the things in the court in the letter.

For the sake of peace for a while, Zhao Heng and Shizu, under the threat of Beidi envoys, all moved to send him to Beidi.

As Liu Fu said, if they hadn’t missed their artillery.

I’m afraid they will agree.

“Your Highness, just turn the other way, such a powerful family, such a foolish king is not worth our life and death for them.” Liu Fu’s eyes were red, and then he shed tears, “Your Highness has been crazy for three years. Now that he has recovered, and just now he has made some achievements, they did such shameless things like crossing rivers and tearing down bridges.”

Wiping his tears, he gritted his teeth and said, “No matter what your Highness does next, I will follow you to the death.”

Just now, Zhao Xu really had Reverse the impulse.

But looking at the crying Liu Fu, he immediately calmed down again.

“Hahaha…” Zhao Xu laughed out loud.

This laughter contained great anger, great helplessness, and at the same time, great disappointment.

After laughing for a while, he suddenly patted Liu Fu on the shoulder, “I don’t rebel, and I can’t rebel now.”

“Why!” Liu Fu fixed his gaze on Zhao Xu.

“This time, Bei Di was afraid to kill two birds with one stone. The court agreed, and the king would surely die. But the court refused. They released the ugly appearance of the powerful family and the emperor in the court to provoke the king to rebel. Once the king rebelled, the king would die The king has become the common enemy of Dasong and Beidi, and will face the joint strangulation of the two.” Zhao Xu said.

Unprecedented calm now.

He was completely disappointed with Zhao Heng and the powerful clan.

From now on, the only thing he can rely on is his own land and the people on it.

All he did was to seal the soil under his feet, and his subordinates and people who were loyal to him.

As for the imperial court, as for the powerful clan, when friends come, there is good wine, but when jackals come, only shotguns are greeted!

In order to defend his own land, except for the 120,000 soldiers and horses given to him by the imperial court.

He will also officially launch his own armed caravan program.

Of course, he wouldn’t admit to his affiliation with the armed caravan.

But the guards of the secretly armed caravans are his soldiers, and the warships of the caravans are his ships.

What bullshit maritime trade power! Can’t restrain him.

“It’s Meng Lang, the next official.” Liu Fu thought for a while and sighed.

At present, there are only 30,000 veterans and 30,000 recruits in the four northern counties, and the remaining 60,000 soldiers are being recruited, but there is still a long way to go.

Rebelling with such a force is simply hitting a stone with an egg.

“Don’t sigh, from now on, this king will work with you to build the four northern counties and make the four northern counties the most prosperous place in Dasong. When we are strong enough, we will no longer have to look at anyone’s face, and the enemy will also be on our side! My feet are trembling.” Zhao Xu said slowly, his eyes seemed to be twinkling like stars.

Liu Fu looked at Zhao Xu. At this moment, he felt that this King Yan who was younger than him was so dazzling.

“Your Highness, if only I, Liu Fu, live for a day, I will work hard for His Highness.” Liu Fu bowed deeply.

Zhao Xu nodded and helped him up.

He appreciates one sentence – anger without strength, meaningless.

A three-month-old milk dog, even if it shows its teeth and claws again, it will only increase the laughter.

Regarding the resurgence of the Yuan family after the Yanzhou incident, this time when Beidi envoys came, the monarchs and ministers in the court were ugly.

He responded to them only by continuing to expand his strength.

There will be a day when the word Yan Wang will make them unable to sleep peacefully at night.

The two have a tacit understanding.

Zhao Xu also talked to Liu Fu about the defense projects that are in urgent need of construction.

The first is the five bastions under construction.

If Beidi’s threat fails this time, a war will inevitably break out.

After the snow in Yanshan melts, Beidi will continue to harass Yanzhou.

So this bastion has to continue to be repaired, and the progress must be accelerated.

At the same time, he had another idea, which was to transform the north wall of Yanguan.

During this battle of defending the city, he realized that the straight-line city wall of Yanguan was not defensive enough.

Therefore, he wanted to build several protruding sharp-edged walls on the outside of Yanguan City Wall like a bastion.

In this way, the north wall has a bastion shape.

Not only can more artillery be placed on it, but it also expands the defense surface.

At the same time, it can also defend in all directions without dead ends, increasing the difficulty of the enemy’s siege.

He can’t be careless.

The artillery is indeed powerful, but this time it can achieve such a good effect is entirely the miraculous effect produced by its first use.

During the battle, Beidi soldiers behaved fiercely.

And in the era of alternating hot and cold weapons, it cannot be said that with firearms, everything is safe.

After all, the cavalry gradually withdrew from the stage of history after the appearance of machine guns and tanks.

Previously, highly mobile cavalry had always been a formidable force on the battlefield.

Therefore, for him at present, defending Yanguan is still the first choice.

It’s just that the transformation of Yanguan is a huge expense.

This once again highlights the importance of business to King Yan, it can almost be said to be the lifeblood.

After all, the four northern counties withered due to the war.

Even if he levied heavy taxes on the people, the money he collected could not support his huge expenditure on land.

Building bastions, repairing Yanguan, building warships, the military pay and equipment of the soldiers of the palace, each sum is not a small sum.

Fortunately, Zhao Heng gave the Yan County Commercial Bank the status of Emperor Merchant.

The powerful clan no longer made things difficult for him in business.

And the price he paid was artillery.

But to him, it doesn’t seem like it’s worth the price.

He had originally planned to sell artillery to make money from the arms trade.

In this letter, Dong An also revealed that the Liang family also owned artillery.

Although he was surprised, he felt that it was reasonable.

The Liang family presented matchlock guns to the imperial court. It is unreasonable that the Liang family has never seen artillery.

This time, the Liang family no longer concealed it. In addition to using it as a bargaining chip to stop him in the matter of maritime trade, there was another artillery piece that was used as a competitor to suppress him.

For this matter, he dismissed it.

He is still full of confidence in his artillery.

However, he originally planned to launch two types of artillery.

The lowest-grade white iron cannon, and the higher-grade gray iron cannon.

Give it to the powerful family in vain, and give it to the court in vain, so as to strengthen the royal family and suppress the powerful family.

But now Zhao Heng is no different from a powerful family in his eyes, not worthy of his gray iron cannon.

It would be kindness to sell them the cheapest tin cannon.

(end of this chapter)