Thinking of this, Wang Li looked depressed, and he said:

"Needless to say, Brother Xian, I know very well the king's temperament, and he will not easily withdraw his troops from Xianguo. Even if they are withdrawn, they will reduce their troops to reduce their fiscal and tax expenditures, but they will never withdraw their troops. ”

"In this way, Brother Wang is willing to give up this opportunity to turn the tide in danger?"

"It's not that I don't want to, but the king insists on doing this, and as a courtier, I can't do anything about it."

"Then what is the matter with Brother Wang's here, as the Sima of the city government, he shouldn't leave the capital so easily and go to another country, right?"

"It's not a secret, the king will go to the Changsun Huimeng with the King of Song in the near future, preparing to pass through the Beihai Sea through the Lingling, and a part of the Northern Army will guard the king to the Changsun Huimeng, so let me come to protect the safety first. In addition, the king hoped that the Xian Kingdom would pay a tribute of 1,000 Jianbao horses as a tribute to the king of Jin. ”

"Hmph, it's really a big appetite, what a price for a thousand Jianbao, it is a loss to the king of Jin. I think that King Jin must have asked Brother Wang to bring a message to Xihuan, and Xihuan will be at the mercy of everything behind the scenes, right? ”

"I'm just doing my duty as a courtier, and it's useless to say anything else."

"Brother Wang is really frank, what if I don't give it to Xianguo?"

"Since the king is going to Huimeng through the Lingling, he has other plans, and I won't say anything else."

Wang Li's implication is that if he doesn't give face, King Jin will tear King Xian's face. Baili Yan hid the anger on her face, suppressed her heart and said:

"As long as King Jin dares to move, I Bailiyan will let him have a face, and he won't have the face to go back!"

"Swallow, why are you doing this? With only a thousand horses, why bother so much. ”

"Count!" Bailiyan sneered and said excitedly: "1,000 horses today, 2,000 tomorrow, 3,000 the day after tomorrow, is this for me to give or not!" Eroding our country's bottom line step by step is nothing more than trying to turn Xian into a vassal of Jin like the Song State in the name of the Alliance. ”

Wang Li was speechless, silent for a long time, and suddenly got up and wanted to leave:

"It's okay if you don't need this banquet, Wang has said goodbye!"

"Brother Wang, wait!" Bai Liyan called out and continued: "I suddenly remembered someone and asked Brother Wang about it. ”

"Who?" Wang Li looked back and asked.

"Miss Ximen Yunfang of Pingtang City Tongwen Yuan, is it okay?"

Hearing the news, Wang Li's color was like a landslide, Baili Yan felt bad, stood up and looked at Wang Li, and asked:

"Miss Simon has an accident!"

Wang Li hung his head and said in frustration:

"After being admitted to the harem by the king, I learned that you were still alive, and I committed suicide by cutting my veins."

Bailiyan only felt that the sky was spinning in front of her, and it was dark in front of her, and her heart was turbulent, rolling up and down. He endured his grief and said fiercely:

"Let's go, go back and tell King Jin that if you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself, let him do it himself, don't be the last king!"

"You!" Wang Li was furious, but when he saw Baili Yan's anger and murderous intent, he was immediately shocked: "Yanzi, why are you so hard, you are a discrete person, why do you have to work hard for Xianguo!" ”

"Hehe, hehaha......" Bailiyan roared, and pointed at Wang Li with his crossed hand: "Because you, Wang Li, don't know the benefits and disadvantages of the Southern Expedition." I, Bailiyan, am from Qiguo, but I am also from the Central Plains. This world is the world of the Central Plains, not the world of the Jin Kingdom and the Qi Kingdom. That's all, you Jin Kingdom will never be worthy of hegemony, you go! ”

"Humph!"

Wang Li hurriedly brushed his sleeves away, Jiang Jie immediately entered, and saw that Bailiyan was already paralyzed at the base of the wall, and hurriedly stepped forward:

"Master Hou, how are you?"

"Go home!"

"No!"

Ximen Yunfang's bad news was like a cold dagger, ruthlessly piercing Bailiyan's heart, torturing him repeatedly, even if his heart was like iron and stone, it was shattered.

Back at the Hou Mansion, Baili Yan returned home ahead of schedule for the first time, Jiang Rong was very surprised, and she was busy to greet her. But seeing Bailiyan's expression, he was in a trance, and hurriedly asked:

"Swallow, what's wrong with you?"

Bai Liyan ignored it and continued to walk towards the study. Jiang Rong frowned and asked:

"Yanzi, what's going on in the palace, you speak!"

Bai Liyan still ignored it and walked straight to the backyard. Jiang Rong was angry and immediately asked Jiang Jie:

"Say, what happened to the end, who made the Hou Ye angry!"

Jiang Jie's face was embarrassed, and he told Wang Li in detail, Jiang Rong heard that Bai Liyan had a good relationship in her early years, and she was very angry, but she sympathized with her husband when she thought about it:

"Alas...... Both of them have the same suffering, and they really can't live in this world. ”

At this time, Jiang Jie said:

"Big lady, my subordinates also heard that the queen of Jin is still the original wife of Hou Ye, this country hates family feuds together, Hou Ye must be ......"

Without waiting for Jiang Jie to finish speaking, Jiang Rongli glared at him:

"If you want to talk more, Mrs. Ben doesn't know!"

"Yes, yes, subordinates know their mistakes, subordinates know their mistakes......"

Jiang Jie was busy compensating, and then followed Baili Yan to the backyard, and at dusk in the afternoon, Jiang Jie took the secret letter of Baili Yan and went straight to Yongxing City from the West Gate.

At the same time, Wang Li did not rush back to his house after walking out of the Xuanting Pavilion, and wandered around in the city of Chenling for a long time, until his mood calmed down, and then he rushed back to the prince's mansion. At this time, Xihuan entered the palace and was not in the house, Ji Jinsheng came to the backyard lotus pond and said:

"General Wang, what did Bailiyan say?"

Wang Li said helplessly:

"If you don't give a single horse, you will never go to the Elder Sun League."

"Hmph, I can't help myself." Ji Jinsheng looked at him with contempt, and then said, "What else did he say?" ”

"Some of the past."

Wang Li disguised that Ji Jinsheng noticed something wrong, so he asked again:

"Why is General Wang so depressed?"

Wang Li's heart perked, and he hurriedly covered up his expression and said:

"General Ji knows the geometry of the middle-aged steel output in Yongxing City?"

"What, he told you?"

"No, but Bailiyan knows everything about my Jin State Iron Industry. In the next thought, Yongxing City's steel output is probably amazing, and listening to Bailiyan's tone, Xianguo has already created a sky-shaking fire, if so, Xianguo will soon become a big disaster. ”

"With the ability of Baili Yan, black fire powder can still be made, and with the help of the Ligong faction, it can't be made. However, the Xianguo Iron Production, with secret agents all the year round, should only be about 400,000 catties, even so, it is already a terrible output, how can it be increased! ”

Ji Jinsheng only sent people to keep an eye on every iron mine in Xianguo year after year, bribing iron mine officials, and comparing the iron ore output and the approximate content of local iron ore inside and outside, he could roughly calculate the iron production of Xianguo in a year.

However, Ji Jinsheng is smart, Bailiyan is not stupid, of course he also knows that there are always mistakes under strict defense.

Ore production comes from three sources, one is from the loading capacity of the miner's basket, the second is the original lever scale used in the mine, and the third is the amount of iron produced by the smelter.

Therefore, Bailiyan did not let the mine prepare a lever scale, but dispatched a new ship, taking the new ship's waterline as the standard, and it was fully loaded when it reached the waterline, and the tonnage of this waterline was only known internally.

The appearance of the 3,000-stone ship built by the Ligong faction looks like it is only more than 3,000 stones, but in fact, it can hold 3,500,600 stones, and it is 5,600 stones each time. At the same time, the newly opened mines were kept strictly secret, and through trade, ore and coal were transported back from Zhiguo to process pig iron and wrought iron.

Finally, slow down the replacement of iron farm tools in the country, and sell the pig iron of Yongxing City to other vassal states through smuggling, so as to compress the volume of goods on the books of Yongxing City, so that the annual iron output of Xianguo is only four or five hundred thousand catties, so that the iron price can maintain the high price that Xianguo wants, and at the same time hide the production capacity to accumulate iron.

Ji Jinsheng would never have thought that the iron production of Xianguo has exceeded 1.3 million catties, and if it were not for the instability of the national conditions, it should have an annual output of 2 million catties now.

That night, Jiang Jie arrived in Yongxing City with a secret letter and handed over the Bailiyan letter to Zong Botai and Zhao Anling.

"General Jiang Jie, can Master Hou say anything else?" Zong Botai asked.

"Hou Ye said that the King of Jin was not good this time, Hou Ye was upset, and he really didn't know the clue for a while, so please ask the two gentlemen to have an idea."

"Oh, wait for me and An Ling to see it first, and then reply to Master Hou."

Zong Botai opened the letter and looked at Zhao Anling in detail, and about a moment later, Zhao Anling said thoughtfully:

"The King of Jin wants to go to the Eldest Sun Huimeng, instead of taking the waterway in Jiangdong, it won't be because he wants to force the alliance under the city of King Xian."

"Yes, there is such a possibility, Hou Ye Xu should also think that if this is the case, Hou Ye will not write to you and me again. The eldest grandson is now the leader of the alliance, and when the hegemony of the Zhiguo still exists, if the king of Jin forces the alliance under the city of Xianwang in the Lingling, what will the eldest grandson think? I think that when the world met the alliance, the King of Jin did not dare to act so arbitrarily, and Hou Ye must have thought the same.

But there is another way in the Jin Kingdom, which can not only force the alliance under the Xianwang City, but also be justified, I think this is what the Hou Ye is puzzled about, so I came to ask for a plan. ”

"It is not only necessary to reach an alliance under the city, but also to convince the princes, it is ......"

At this time, Zong Botai had insight into what Zhao Anling was thinking, so he said:

"It seems that the virtuous brother has already thought of it."

"Brother Zong, can the eldest grandson choose the land of the alliance in the Xian country?"

"The Changsun Army's combat strength is weak, even if there is a sky-shattering fire, it is still vulnerable, but if the King of Jin sends troops from Xianxi County to flank the Black Turban Army in the south of Changsun Country as a condition, the lord of Changsun Country will definitely come to Xianguo Alliance."

"But the Jin Kingdom and the Sun Kingdom are neither connected by land, nor by land and water, and it is almost beneficial to attack the Black Turban Army. Taking a step back, if the king of Jin rebels and only makes a feint, what can the eldest grandson do about it? ”

Zhao Anling analyzed thoroughly, and Zong Botai thought deeply:

"Among them, I'm afraid that only the Jin Kingdom and the Eldest Sun Kingdom themselves know, and there must be another secret agreement that we don't know. If the place of the alliance is chosen in the Xian country, even if the Xian king does not want to meet the alliance, there is nothing to do, and then gather the strength of the seven kingdoms of Liang, Jin, Song, Xian, Xu, Qi, and Changsun to join the alliance, if the Wei Guo and the eldest grandson promise, then after the Hou Wei Guo captures the land of the Sun State, the eldest grandson and the Jin, Xu, Song, and Sun Zhuguo can use Kuang Fu Sun Guo as the name to cut it, so the Wei Guo is in a worrying situation.

Therefore, I think that if the place of the alliance is chosen in Xianguo, there will not be blood immediately in a short time, and it must wait for Weiguo and Zhao, Chen, and Yan to be consciously isolated, and then quickly send a special envoy to the Xianguo alliance. After the Black Turban Rebellion was put down in this way, the countries could be at peace, this was the calculation of the eldest grandson country. ”

"If that's the case, King Jin won't want to hit Yongxing City's attention!"

As soon as Zhao Anling said it, Zong Bo Tai suddenly opened:

"Yes, maybe that's what King Jin intended. The Seven Nations Alliance, but the Jin State has no benefit but wants to send troops, which is neither reasonable nor commonsense. Unless the king of Jin uses the alliance of the seven kingdoms to force the king of Xian to use Yongxing City as a capital to cede it, and at the same time send troops to flank the northern army of the Jin army in exchange for the assistance of the Changsun State. If the king of Xian does not allow it, the soldiers and horses of the four kingdoms of Song, Xu, Jin, and Changsun are all in Xianguo, and Zhao Xun's soldiers and horses are all on the front line, and the king of Xian will not be able to draw troops back to help, and he will be taken advantage of by the king of Jin.

But ......"

Thinking of the details, Zong Botai had a plan.