You must know that the Xia Dynasty is the master of the East, and the Qiban is a small country, and it actually requires Great Xia to open the coastline for them free of charge, and the trade tariffs between the two countries are even harsher.

In addition, they also asked Bactria to allow them to develop important minerals such as salt and iron on Bactrian land.

What's more, they actually demanded that Great Xia set aside land for them to govern in order to protect the interests of their own merchants.

In the eyes of Lin Huayao, who was in charge of the household department at the time, it was simply a fool's dream, and of course he could not agree.

That is, shortly after this agreement was repudiated, the merchants of Qiman in Jinhai and the merchants of Great Xia deliberately caused trouble.

The friction escalated into a fight, and the banner merchant was killed.

Then Qiman used this as an excuse to brazenly march into Jinhai.

At that time, the dynasty never thought that that the battle was actually the defeat of Great Xia.

Therefore, in the following years, Daxia and Qiman fell into a wrangling until Qiman completely invaded Daxia.

Listening to King Ming's words at this moment, Lin Huayao recalled the old things in his heart, and his mood suddenly became dull.

Although it is out of Great Xia, in any case, it is still uncomfortable to be bullied like this by a small country.

However, Lin Huayao is not an ordinary person, he knows very well that the situation is like this, and now that the flag is strong, he can only endure it if he is unwilling.

"His Royal Highness King Ming is polite, and it is precisely because of Emperor Xia's mediocrity that Ben Shuai has no choice but to rebel against the Xia Dynasty." Lin Huayao pretended to sigh.

"Dashuai is a minority of brave men in the Xia Dynasty, my flag country admires the courage of Dashuai to dare to fight, and my emperor has praised Dashuai more times as the most outstanding leader in the East, if the Xia Dynasty can be under the rule of Dashuai, our Eastern countries will be able to prosper together." King Ming stood up and praised Lin Huayao.

I have to say that King Ming's words made Lin Huayao's heart beat a few times involuntarily.

But he quickly calmed down, and he knew very well that Qi Man was good, but in the end, he just wanted to use him.

"His Royal Highness's intention, Ben Shuai knows, but I don't know what kind of cooperation the Banner Emperor intends to do with Ben Shuai?" Lin Huayao couldn't see joy or anger on his face, and asked softly.

"As long as the marshal is willing to cooperate, we are willing to support the marshal to overthrow the Xia Dynasty and establish a new dynasty with the marshal as the ruler, and promise to help the marshal resist all opponents from all sides when necessary." King Ming said.

"Oh? Naturally, there are giveaways and gains in cooperation, but you don't know what your country hopes to gain from cooperation? Lin Huayao asked lightly.

King Ming smiled bitterly: "Dashuai, please believe that we are here with sincerity, otherwise we don't have to come to see Dashuai, with the strength of our banner country today, if we want to conquer the Xia Dynasty by force, it is only a matter of time, it is precisely because we never planned to invade the Xia Dynasty that we will come to see Dashuai." ”

"Your Highness's words are also premature, although now your country occupies the Pearl and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but if you want to completely conquer Great Xia, I am afraid it is not easy, the Nine Directions Army of Great Xia, the strength is more than a million. Even if the disadvantage is only temporary, it is still unknown who will win or lose. Lin Huayao retorted.

"The marshal's words are wrong, since the beginning of the dispatch of troops in our banner country, the number of troops mobilized today is only two or three hundred thousand, and it has occupied the pearl and Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Speaking of this, King Ming was not arrogant, and his tone was very sincere: "According to the feedback from the front, the ratio of war losses between our imperial kingdom and the Xia Dynasty is as high as one to thirty, and there are still one million soldiers in our imperial kingdom, and the Xia Dynasty can have 30 million soldiers and horses to block it?" ”

Lin Huayao finally frowned, and after a moment of silence, Fang said slowly: "Your Highness, you can know that my Ming King of Great Xia once said a sentence, an inch of rivers and mountains, an inch of blood, 100,000 young men and 100,000 soldiers. I wonder what His Highness thinks of this sentence? ”

When the king of Ming heard this, his face changed slightly, and he had to say that the reason why the flag country hated the king of Ming was because of this sentence, which really made the flag country feel afraid.

Lin Huayao saw that His Royal Highness's face changed slightly, and said: "Your Highness, let's open the skylight and say something bright, in the thousands of years of history of Great Xia, we don't know how many wars we have experienced, but throughout history, no matter how our nation declines, the last defeat will always be a foreign race." ”

Speaking of this, Lin Huayao stood up and raised his head with his hands: "Your Highness, please understand that in the land of Great Xia, those who can overthrow the rule of Great Xia will never be foreigners, but only Great Xia people. ”

King Ming's mood stabilized a little, and he regained his smile: "Everything may not have a fixed number, presumably the handsome must also understand this truth, otherwise how could he take time out of his busy schedule to see Xiao Wang today?" ”

Both were silent.

Fang Cai's words are just to increase his bargaining chips, and in the final analysis, no one is sure about the future.

The arrogant rumor of Qiman's victory over Great Xia in three months has been broken, and the attitude of the Banner State towards the conquest of Great Xia has been changing.

From the very beginning of the military expedition to the present to find Lin Huayao to cooperate and support the puppet to conquer Great Xia, they are all constantly adjusted in the course of the war.

Not only was the confidence in whether they could defeat Great Xia shaken, but also because in the nearly one year since they won the pearl, they had not been able to completely dominate the pearl as expected.

On the contrary, because of the constant emergence of rebels, De Mingzhu still remained tense after a year of occupation.

So far, Mingzhu has changed several chief officers in a row, some iron-blooded and some soft.

But in the end, without exception, they were all defeated by Mingzhu, and they were never able to restore Mingzhu to the pre-war order.

The current pearl is still not half as prosperous as it was before the war.

With such a pearl, Qiman can't get big benefits from it at all, so Qiman is also considering changing its strategy internally.

If every city conquered in the future is like a pearl and needs to be suppressed by force all year round, it will be far from the intention of the banner barbarians to conquer Great Xia for a long time.

I'm afraid that in the end, the gains will outweigh the losses, the Great Xia is too big, even if the Great Xia is defeated, it will eventually be dragged down here.

And from Lin Huayao's point of view, regardless of whether Qiman can defeat Great Xia in the future.

At least he Nanyue is definitely not an opponent of the barbarians.

If he doesn't cooperate with Qiman now, he will soon become Qiman's sword, and there is no future at all.

Conversely, if you cooperate with Qiman, the result is very different.

It will be a major opportunity for him to embark on the road to the emperor.

He didn't believe that Qiman really helped him for free, but as he just said, he was never optimistic about Qiman's future, and he was not afraid of this Qiman with wolf ambitions.

"Your Highness, why don't you tell me, how does Qiman plan to cooperate with this marshal? It's better to be clear. Lin Huayao is the way of the end.

King Ming breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Lin Huayao was willing to cooperate, then everything could be discussed: "Okay, the handsome man is a hero in the world, playing with his wrists in front of the handsome, it is beyond his strength, and this king will say it openly." ”

This high hat, Lin Huayao just smiled and waited for the following.

"This king didn't lie before, this time he came to Great Xia, he really hoped to make progress together, and I can't hide it, the territory of my flag country is smaller than that of Great Xia, so many resources are lacking, so the imperial kingdom hopes to obtain some urgently needed resources from Great Xia, which is the premise of cooperation." King Ming pretended to be honest.

Lin Huayao was not surprised, and asked directly: "Obtained in a cooperative way?" ”

"The imperial dynasty supports the great marshal to overthrow the rule of the Xia dynasty, and hopes that the great marshal will agree to allow the imperial dynasty to trade freely in all areas ruled by the great marshal, and provide the imperial dynasty with urgently needed material resources."

"That's all?" Lin Huayao asked.

"Of course, in order to ensure that the interests of both sides are implemented, the dynasty must have the power to garrison troops in the place ruled by the marshal." King Ming said in a deep voice.

Lin Huayao's face sank suddenly, and without saying a word, he raised his hand directly: "Send off guests?" ”

When King Ming saw it, he immediately smiled bitterly: "Why is the handsome man so excited?" ”

"Your Highness, Ben Shuai received sincerely, but you came to play with Ben Shuai, this is too much." Lin Huayao's eyes sharpened.

"Where does this start?" King Ming pretended to be wronged.

"Where to start?" Lin Huayao sneered: "You want to garrison the army, isn't this telling the people of the world that this commander is the one who defected to the enemy, and he overthrew the rule of Great Xia in this way?" I'm afraid that someone in my Lin will betray his relatives in an instant and become a traitor who everyone will be punished. ”

King Ming sighed and shook his head slightly: "The marshal's words are wrong, let me ask, if there is no army from my dynasty to help, how can the marshal overthrow the rule of Great Xia?" ”

Lin Huayao frowned: "If your country really has the heart to cooperate, of course there is a way." ”

"It's handsome, but it doesn't hurt to say it." King Ming nodded sincerely.

"If your country sincerely cooperates, then your country can fight with the country, and the place of victory will be taken over by the marshal, and the benefits that your country needs will be provided by the marshal."

Lin Huayao's meaning is very clear, let Qiman fight in front, after the fight, Nanyue will make another move, and when the time comes, Qiman will feint, Lin Huayao will take over these places smoothly with a heroic attitude, and then supply Qiman's interests.

I have to say that this method is really good, but Qiman is not a fool, isn't this why they fought to the death, and finally made a wedding dress for Lin Huayao?

When the time comes, Lin Huayao will not fulfill his promise, what will they do?

"Dashuai's method is good, it can avoid the eyes and ears of the world, but since it is cooperation, both parties must be reassured." King Ming was not annoyed.

Lin Huayao also knew that it was impossible for the other party to agree, and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness can also make good suggestions." ”

King Ming shook his head: "Dashuai, this king is here with sincerity, and I also hope that Dashuai can consider it carefully, the reason why we are looking for Dashuai to cooperate is that in addition to admiring Dashuai's reputation, we are also unwilling to exist as an enemy of the Xia Dynasty." ”

"Then Your Highness insists on cooperating with me openly?" Lin Huayao shook his head and said: "This is impossible, let's not say whether I am willing or not, just say that once I cooperate openly, the whole world will regard me as a traitor, and I will attack him en masse, which in itself is not in line with your country's strategy." ”

"The marshal is too worried, our soldiers and horses are enough to conquer the Xia Dynasty, and all we lack is a collaborator who can be accepted by the Xia Dynasty." King Ming.

At this time, Lin Huayao completely understood what King Ming meant, and what Qiman wanted was just a buffer zone.

They still mainly conquer Great Xia by force, but they don't want the land they have conquered to be as strong as the resistance of the pearl.

That's why I found a titular Daxia person to come forward as a ruler, to put it bluntly, he was still a puppet.

Lin Huayao's heart was cold, he realized that Qiman didn't really take him seriously, and even this cooperation was just to break up Great Xia and form an anti-barbarian alliance.

"Sending off!"