Steel Dynasty - Chapter 543

[Chapter 543 King Wei attacks]

“Warships?”

Niu Ben’s suggestion made Xiao Ming nodded lightly. Although the Bianshui River is not wide, it is more than enough for the three warships that Yue Yun sent to the south to pass through it. After all, these three This battleship is only a fifth-level battleship, only equivalent to the size of an ordinary merchant ship.

“This is a way, but these warships are currently cruising on the sea, and I need to gather them together.” Xiao Ming said thoughtfully.

Pengzhou City on the sand table is built near the water. If you want to enter Pengzhou City, you can only pass the wooden bridge in front of the gate. But by then, the Pengzhou City army will inevitably tear down the bridge.

At this time, the three warships were cruising in the river, transporting soldiers to the opposite side, and providing artillery attack.

“It doesn’t matter. It will take some time for the armies of the three states to gather for training.” Niu Ben said happily. He has been thinking about warships because the further south you go, the more cities built on the water will be. If there are not The navy provided protection and they could not even cross the river at all.

While everyone was watching the sand table, a guard came in from outside the door and said to Xiao Ming: “Your Highness, King Wei’s envoy has arrived.”

Lu Fei heard this and said with a smile: “Your Highness, does King Wei regret it? We have formed an alliance with His Highness.”

“The King of Wei is very ambitious and will not give in to His Highness so easily. Maybe he has some bad intentions,” Niu Ben said.

Xiao Ming frowned and said, “I will find out when I go there. You continue to observe the sand table and formulate a battle plan, and then submit the plan to me for review.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Niu Ben and other generals responded. .

After that, Xiao Ming followed the guards to Prince Qi’s Mansion. In the main hall of the Prince’s Mansion, a middle-aged scribe was waiting for him.

Seeing Xiao Ming, the middle-aged scribe saluted and said, “Your Highness, King Qi, this official was appointed by King Wei. I want to talk to His Highness about Tongzhou.”

“Tongzhou?” Xiao Ming’s eyes narrowed. He got up, thinking that what was supposed to happen had finally happened, and he knew that King Wei would make a fuss about Tongzhou.

Sitting down at the main seat, he said: “If the King of Wei has any idea, just say it.”

The middle-aged scribe said: “His Royal Highness the King of Wei said that the world is in chaos now, and members of the same royal family should support each other, so His Highness the King of Wei I am willing to continue to provide supplies for the Qingzhou battleship, but I hope that His Highness can rent 20,000 matchlock guns and 300 artillery pieces. “

The King of Wei is really a lion,” Xiao Ming said coldly. What if I don’t agree?”

“Then His Highness, King Wei, can no longer provide supplies to His Highness in Tongzhou. I hope Your Highness will think twice,” the middle-aged scribe said calmly, “Your Highness, if the Tongzhou port is lost, it will be difficult for the warship to go south. “

The arrogant tone of the middle-aged scribe made Xiao Ming angry. He hated being threatened by others. In this case, he wanted to teach King Wei a lesson to let him know how high the sky is and how thick the earth is.

He said: “Go back and tell King Wei that if he stops the supply of Tongzhou, I will make him pay the price.”

Xiao Ming’s tone was stern, and the middle-aged scribe was startled. King Wei was full of words when he came this time. Confidence, after all, Tongzhou is within the territory of Wei, and Xiao Ming has nothing to do about it.

“Your Highness, you have to carefully weigh the pros and cons.” The middle-aged scribe did not expect Xiao Ming to be so tough, and he didn’t know what to do for a while.

Xiao Ming stood up at this time and said to the middle-aged scribe: “I have considered it very clearly. Go back and tell King Wei that I will remember the battle of Cangzhou and the battle of Jizhou. Now he does not remember the royal family.” Due to the kinship and the refusal to form an alliance, this king has treated him with utmost benevolence and righteousness. From now on, he does not have to show mercy to me, and I will not show any mercy to him.”

The middle-aged scribe was originally very calm, but now Xiao Ming’s words are. This completely frightened him. In his opinion, Xiao Ming was officially starting a war against the King of Wei.

I’m going down… I’m going to resign. “Confused, the middle-aged scribe wiped the sweat on his forehead and walked out without looking back. He was afraid that if he left any later, he would be decapitated and sacrificed by Xiao Ming.

Send him away .

As the envoy of King Wei, Xiao Ming’s eyes narrowed. He originally had some illusions about King Wei, but now he was completely disappointed by King Wei’s expression.

Moreover, he was not the former Xiao Ming, so he didn’t care about royal blood. He only knew that. At this point, if this continues, Dayu may really have to take jujube pills.

So before these vassal kings have reduced the population of Dayu from 100 million to only a few million, he must take an active offensive. With the current situation, we can seize as much land as we can, especially in a rich and populated place like Wei.

After driving away the Wei King’s envoy, Xiao Ming immediately ordered Yue Yun to mobilize three warships from the fleet .

Qingzhou cooperated with the battle against Pengzhou City. At the same time, he and Niu Ben began to intensively plan the attack on Pengzhou City.

It seemed that it was to retaliate against Xiao Ming. After the envoy returned to Jinling City, the King of Wei quickly cut off the supply to Tongzhou. The King of Wei ordered that no Qingzhou merchants should trade in Wei, otherwise they would be killed.

After the order was issued, three Qingzhou merchant ships that did not have time to evacuate were seized.

“Your Highness, the King of Wei is so hateful. He let our people go.” When he came back, he said that if he wanted to redeem the merchant ship, he would need five hundred thousand taels of silver. “Li Kaiyuan was filled with righteous indignation. It is difficult to do business now because of the war.

Unexpectedly, King Wei suddenly made such a move at this time. The goods transported by these three merchant ships plus the merchant ships themselves were worth more than 200,000 taels. Li Kaiyuan I have to feel bad.

The retaliatory measures taken by King Wei really caught him off guard. According to Li Kaiyuan, some wealthy families in Wei took the opportunity to attack the merchants from Qingzhou,

but in fact they only expelled King Wei and some wealthy families. There had been evil intentions for a long time, and the arrest of these three merchant ships already showed the problem.

I have to say that this incident really made Xiao Ming very upset. These merchant ships were all owned by the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce, even though they had a falling out with King Wei. He ordered to withdraw, but there was still no time to evacuate.

This was not because the merchants were too slow to withdraw, but because these Wei kings had premeditated and seized the three merchant ships before giving the order.

“Your Highness, it’s hard to do business in the Chamber of Commerce now, what should we do?” Li Kaiyuan sighed.

“If it is difficult to do domestic business in Dayu, then we will do foreign business. Do you think that the king has worked hard to open up sea routes just for fun? I planned in advance to deal with this situation. Now you will shift your focus to maritime trade. “

Enter.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Li Kaiyuan said, hesitated, and then said, “Your Highness, where are these three merchant ships?”

“Huh, if he takes my three merchant ships, I will take his three cities.” “Xiao Ming slapped the table hard.

(End of chapter)