Steel Dynasty - Chapter 79

[Chapter 79 Unknown]

“Your Highness, if you have offended King Wei this time, you are not afraid of chaos in the world in the future. Will King Wei send troops to attack Your Highness?”

At the south gate of Qingzhou, a group of officials in Qingzhou watched as King Wei’s sedan disappeared at the end of the official road. Qian Dafu asked at this time.

“That’s a good question. If you don’t offend King Wei this time, will he not attack me in the future? Everyone says that King Wei is as timid as a mouse. From this incident, it seems that this uncle of the Three Emperors is not only not timid, but also He is also extremely shrewd, and I am afraid that many people have been deceived by him, including my father.” Xiao Ming said.

“Your Highness, you mean that King Wei has been secretly accumulating strength and waiting for the opportunity?” Qian Dafu said.

“I’m afraid it’s true. Over the years, King Wei has purchased far more war horses than his father promised him. He also secretly intercepted and killed other merchants of different surnames who were buying horses on the grassland. His ambition was not small, and he was so wooing him. The Huyantuo tribe is not as simple as buying a horse, I’m worried…” Xiao Ming frowned.

“What are you worried about?”

“I’m just guessing about this, that’s all. Let’s take it one step at a time. The most important thing now is our fiefdom’s own affairs. The four major wealthy families must be castrated.” Xiao Ming said firmly.

Now he wanted to completely control the military and political affairs of the fiefdom and use slaves to earn enough war capital. It was precisely because of this that he asked the King of Wei for 100,000 slaves.

The purpose of these slaves is to provide artificial power. The number of these 100,000 slaves is not large, but the labor force they bring is comparable to thousands of water-powered forging hammers. Now that machinery is far from popular, these slaves are crucial to his industrial development. important.

As for why he doesn’t want 300,000, 500,000, or 1 million, it’s very simple. If he wants it, he can’t afford it.

Even so, he still asked for 2 million shi of food, which was enough to feed 100,000 slaves for half a year.

As for why he didn’t impeach the King of Wei, it’s very simple. The anxious King of Wei would be the first to take it out on him. Moreover, even if the King of Wei was punished and the King of Wei was imprisoned, he wouldn’t be able to take advantage of Wei. , it will only make his brothers and brothers cheaper.

Instead of doing this, it is better to gain some pure benefits.

At this time, at the Tuojiang pier, King Wei got on the boat surrounded by his guards. He turned back and looked at Qingzhou City. King Wei sneered and said: “Xiao Ming, I can still take back whatever I can give you. Just wait. , I will make you pay back ten times.”

At this time, a young man in white walked up to King Wei and shouted respectfully, “Uncle Three Emperors,”

the anger on King Wei’s face suddenly disappeared. With a doting look on his face, he said: “Yu’er, your body is weak. Why did you come out? Why don’t you go back and rest quickly.”

The young man smiled casually and said: “Uncle Sanhuang, if you don’t come out and walk around, I will get moldy.” “Since we have arrived in Qingzhou, why do we have to go to the city to see it?”

“You went to Qingzhou City?” King Wei said in surprise.

The young man nodded, “I also went to the workshop area outside Qingzhou City. However, it was heavily guarded and it was difficult for outsiders to enter.”

Cao Yu said at this time: “Your Highness, how difficult is this? Five thousand soldiers are enough to level Qingzhou. “

Cheng, I will lead people to clear the way for His Highness!”

“General Cao must not be reckless.” The young man looked serious, “Although King Qi is weak, he is a prince after all. It depends on the master, not to mention that he is a prince.”

Hearing this, King Wei looked at the young man sadly and said: “Yu’er, in my eyes, Xiao Wenxuan has never been the emperor of the Chongqing Kingdom, and those princes are not the princes of the Chongqing Kingdom. The throne originally belonged to your father. , and you are the prince of the Great Yu Kingdom. “

“Uncle Three Emperors, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. This is the struggle for imperial power. Why do you need to be prime minister? The real enemies of the Great Yu Kingdom are the barbarians now. They are the Han people who have lived for thousands of years. The most powerful enemy, if my father were still alive, he would not want to see brothers fighting each other,” the young man in white advised.

“Yu’er, your ideas are still too naive. After having interacted with the Huyantuo tribe for such a long time, from all aspects, today’s barbarians are already a dynasty that is not weaker than the Great Chongqing Kingdom. But if you look at the Great Chongqing Kingdom now, “There are many vassal kings, fighting on their own, and they are scattered. The noble families control the government, and the local noble families are divided into villages. If the whole country of Chongqing cannot work together, how can they resist the barbarian cavalry?” King Wei said loudly.

After a pause, King Wei continued: “After much thought, the only thing that can eliminate the gentry is not politics, but war, a thorough purge.”

The young man in white was silent for a long time, and finally sighed, “Uncle Three Emperors, you What he said is exactly the same as what his father said back then. It’s just that you and I can talk about it. Don’t say it to outsiders, otherwise they will attack in groups. My father is a lesson learned from the past.”

King Wei looked at the rolling river with a distant look. , I don’t know what I’m thinking about.

As if he didn’t want to mention such a heavy topic again, the young man in white suddenly smiled and said: “Uncle Three Emperors, this King of Qi is quite interesting. I saw a lot of interesting things in Qingzhou City, including the Chamber of Commerce, the Patent Department, and the army stationed in the fields. This Qi King is quite interesting.” “The king

is really different. He just blackmailed me into getting 100,000 slaves and 2 million stones of food. Although my land in Wei is rich, I still have a lot of these things. “

The young man in white is more interested .

“I didn’t expect Uncle Sanhuang to suffer losses at his hands, but with these transactions, I don’t have to worry about the secret message being exposed. After all, after the transaction is completed, he is also an accomplice.”

“Well, that’s why I I promised him, and I even tried to scare him, but this boy has changed a lot, and he actually said that although the Qingzhou soldiers are weak, they still dare to fight, haha, he is bloody, and I am starting to like this boy a little bit. “Haha, King Wei.” laugh.

The young man in white said with a smile: “In my opinion, this King Qi is different from other princes. Maybe he can bring us other different things.”

King Wei smiled and his face gradually became colder, “But no matter what No matter what, he is our roadblock. He is still useful to us now, but if one day we are at war with each other, we cannot show mercy.”

The young man in white nodded, and he looked at the huge fleet in Qingzhou City. He started to move slowly, but he always had a feeling that this King Qi would be their strong enemy in the future.

On the shore, a cavalryman galloped towards the south. He passed King Wei’s order to mobilize slaves to Wei. One hundred thousand slaves gathered from various cities in Wei to Jinling, and started to go to Qingzhou in batches on ships.

On the tenth day after King Wei left, the first batch of slaves and grain arrived in Qingzhou, totaling 10,000 people and 500,000 shi of grain.

Looking at the huge warships from King Wei’s fiefdom, Xiao Ming sighed in his heart, this King Wei’s navy is really extraordinary.

(End of chapter)