Steel Dynasty - Chapter 361

[Chapter 361]

Outside the Qingzhou camp, King Yong was wearing armor and a sword at his waist, looking like a fierce general on the battlefield.

Chen Xinran stood behind King Yong feeling helpless at this time.

The barbarians retreated, and King Yong was naturally overjoyed, but then he thought of how to get the maximum benefit from this victory.

One of these benefits is naturally military merit, and the second is the spoils of war on the battlefield.

This time the barbarians left behind a large number of horses and two hundred artillery pieces.

It’s just that neither the Jinwu Guards nor the Qingzhou Army seemed willing to share these trophies with King Yong. Naturally, he knew the reason clearly.

While King Yong was shouting, Xiao Ming walked out of the camp.

At this time, Xiao Ming looked majestic, with no smile on his face.

Seeing this, King Yong suddenly felt a chill in his back, and immediately put away his domineering look.

It’s just that he is used to being domineering in the fiefdom, and he is Xiao Ming’s elder. With this status, he still said to Xiao Ming: “King Qi, what do you mean by your Qingzhou Army monopolizing the artillery? Do you want to be alone? Don’t forget, this But this king’s fiefdom.”

Xiao Ming glanced at King Yong indifferently. The two had not seen each other for five or six years, and their previous relationship was not good. He said: “Uncle Four Emperors, please respect yourself. The war between the Four Emperors in Jizhou this time. Don’t you still know why? How did the Fourth Emperor fight after the war broke out? Does the nephew still need to tell the Fourth Emperor about these things? Or does the Fourth Emperor want his nephew to tell his father?”

When King Yong heard this, his expression suddenly changed, and he said angrily: “Xiao Ming, what do you mean by saying this? Don’t think that I don’t know that you are recruiting refugees in my fiefdom. If this matter is brought up, you will not be able to get rid of it. “

Hahaha…” Xiao Ming laughed when he heard this, “This time I won’t do it because of my military merit. At most, I will be scolded by my father for the disaster victims. What am I afraid of? It is the emperor’s uncle who resold the disaster relief food and grass, resulting in ineffective disaster relief.” , the barbarian troops arrived, and the emperor’s uncle was unable to defend himself. I wonder if the two things combined were enough to remove the emperor’s title of king. “

In Dayu Kingdom, the honorary title of king of one word is higher, such as King Yong. , King of Wei, the status of the two-character king is relatively low, such as the King of Huainan.

The vassal king made a big mistake, and the court could lower the vassal king’s title as a punishment. From then on, the two-character king would need to pay courtesy when he saw the one-character king.

King Yong had a guilty conscience, but Xiao Ming’s toughness frightened him.

It’s hard to say that Luo Quan is affected by his status as King Yong. Now that Xiao Ming refuses to take hard and soft measures, he naturally has no other tricks.

Rolling his eyes, King Yong suddenly forced out a smile and said, “My dear nephew, you and I are both members of the royal family. If we try to undermine each other, wouldn’t it be a joke to outsiders? That’s all. I don’t want this cannon, but this war horse is the boss.” Can you share some with me?” “No, my nephew has worked hard and spent a lot of food and grass this time, and it is to save the emperor’s uncle. I heard that the emperor’s uncle never does business at a loss, and my

nephew

does not do it either.”

Ming said word by word.

The incident in Jizhou this time was so sudden that he could only forcefully support him. However, in order to lift the siege of Jizhou, not only the soldiers were killed or injured, but a lot of money was consumed in food, grass, shells, gunpowder and other supplies.

Although he had deceived more than 200,000 refugees into migrating to the fiefdom, this was still not enough to satisfy him.

King Yong had a hot temper, and Xiao Ming couldn’t do this or that. He said impatiently: “This won’t do, and that won’t do either. Nephew, please don’t force the emperor to be rude. Don’t forget, this is mine. “Fiefdom.”

“So what, the emperor still wants to fight with me?” Xiao Ming sneered.

After expelling the barbarians on the grassland and taking over Shanhaiguan, he no longer needed King Yong to guard the western gateway for him.

Moreover, once he occupied Shanhaiguan, the passage for barbarians to enter and leave the Central Plains would be in his hands. These feudal kings should pay him protection fees, so Xiao Ming was not polite to King Yong at all.

He did it to vent his anger, and also to let these people understand that Xiao Ming was not something everyone could handle, and also for the sake of future development.

Without subduing King Yong, how could he freely profit from King Yong’s fiefdom.

King Yong wanted to say something else, but Chen Xinran suddenly stopped King Yong. He said, “His Royal Highness King Yong has misunderstood. The Qingzhou Army is extremely powerful. How can we be opponents?”

Then Chen Xinran pulled King Yong to one side and said, He said softly: “Your Highness, now is not the time to offend King Qi. Not to mention the artillery, now the Qingzhou Army has added muskets and hot air balloons. Now we are begging him. After all, the Jizhou Army suffered serious losses in this battle. , If the artillery is not fired, the King of Liang will ride on top of us.”

King Yong’s eyes rolled, he nodded slowly and said, “But what can we do?” It’s simply too rude to offend King Qi.”

Chen Xinran said at this time: “Your Highness, King Qi has actually made it very clear that what he wants is compensation for sending troops. As long as this is met, I believe King Qi. He will still be able to work around it.”

King Yong nodded when he heard this and said to Xiao Ming: “My dear nephew, thank you very much for coming to Jizhou to save me this time. The emperor understands that my nephew’s fiefdom is in dire straits and is in dire straits. I am willing to take this cannon. I need to exchange things, I don’t know if my nephew needs food or…”

After saying this, Xiao Ming showed a smile.

He saw Chen Xinran, and it seemed that there were sensible people around King Yong.

So he said: “These barbarian artillery are of little use to me. They can be given to the emperor’s uncle. However, the emperor’s uncle also knows that his nephew’s fiefdom is vast and sparsely populated and lacks manpower. My nephew’s requirements are not high. He only needs the emperor’s uncle.” He allowed his nephew to gather the victims of the disaster in Jizhou and hand over the victims of the Qinglong King and his subordinates to his nephew.

When he mentioned the Qinglong King, King Yong looked fierce and said, “Everyone can punish this thief.” , the barbarians retreated, and I was about to deal with him and the rebels. Since my nephew needs manpower, I will demote them all into slaves and give them to my nephew.”

“That is not necessary, the emperor only needs to cooperate with Qingzhou. The army captured the Qinglong King, and I will deal with these victims myself,” Xiao Ming said.

There are many victims of the disaster under the command of King Qinglong. These people are all innocent. If King Yong were to deal with it, there would probably be many casualties.

Therefore, he just needs to borrow the power of King Yong to defeat King Qinglong and gather the victims.

“Easy to say, easy to say.” King Yong laughed.

To him, these rioters were a threat and he wanted to kill them immediately. Moreover, even if these rioters surrendered, he would have no food for them to eat.

Therefore, he did not resist Xiao Ming’s request.

Xiao Ming nodded when he heard this. With King Yong’s knowledge, he could not see the importance of population. He saw this exactly. If he could add four to five million people to the fiefdom this time, he would have fought this battle in vain. .

(End of chapter)