Xu Shiyang's ultimatum-like notice was very rude and disgusting.

However, Yang, Ding, He, Guo, Zuo, Qiao, Chang, Cao, Hou, Qu, Kang, Fan, and Kong, a total of thirteen Shanxi, Shaanxi and Han military families, did not dare to clearly say to Wang Qinian, who came to announce, that they would never obey the orders of Qi State.

The reason is very simple: the power of Qi is too great!

If you really want to talk about it, the thirteen Han armies are all combined, and they are also the land of two provinces, with nearly 6 million people in 1.2 million households, of which more than 2 million are Zhuangding and Banding.

Judging from these numbers alone, it seems that the strength of Shanxi Shihou is not below that of the Qi State.

However, in terms of actual performance, this is far from being good.

After all, when the Great Zhou was still in Jiangbei, the children of the Western Army in Shanxi were the strongest army in the imperial court, and since the people of Shanxi were in their own interests, helping the Jurchens boast of being invincible, then everyone had to believe it.

But since the sudden rise of the Qi army 7 or 8 years ago, the heralds have found that the cowhide of the Tartars, which is stronger than that of the Han people, has been punctured.

The Jurchen Tartars, who have always been beaten by the Muguls, have been defeated in Qi Province in successive battles, and in the end they were even beaten to their hometown in Liaodong, and in recent years, they have been suppressed and can't even get out.

This led to a not-so-good trend, and some young people in the Thirteenth Hou family, who had little impression of the might of the Tartars, admired the brilliant victory with the Qi army, and gradually formed a point of view:

The Qi army is also a Han Chinese, everyone is the same, since they can defeat the Tartars, then why can't they, the descendants of the Western Army, the strongest army of the Han people?

Many of the elders of the family were heartbroken by this, for fear that some conflict between these young men and the Muguls would make the twenty-year peace uncontrollable.

However, as the news of the victory of the Qi army came again and again, the young people gradually became more impulsive, and the young people led by the Zuo family and the He family wore armor and swords all day long, wandered around the streets with a group of tenant children, and even broke out several fights with the Muguls who came to trade and accept tribute.

In order to settle the consequences of these brawls, the old people had to give the Muguls more money, but the young people enjoyed it, which was a great headache for the families.

This year, the Qi army suddenly went out of the customs to sweep the north, which made those restless young people even more excited.

Zuo Helin of the Zuo family once ran directly to the parents, and asked unashamedly to take the initiative to contact the Qi State to expel the Mugwus, but the angry parents of the Zuo family gave Zuo Helin a whip.

However, beating one's own boy is different from beating outsiders.

Whips are not convincing.

Moreover, no matter how much they were afraid of the Tartars in their hearts, no matter how they suppressed the voices in the family calling for the expulsion of the Tartars, when the Qi State sent Wang Qilai, the herds finally could not continue to shrink their heads.

The news brought by Wang Qinian is very clear:

Either on the side of the Qi State, or on the side of the Tartars, there is no middle ground.

For Qi Guo's announcement, the old people sighed, and the young people cheered.

Zuo Helin immediately asked himself to lead the team to Qi Kingdom, and there were also some boys from each family who asked to go to Quancheng to have a look.

However, the old people were worried that these young people would be deceived by the people's words, and they would dedicate their family's inheritance to others, so they were resolutely not allowed to go to the Qi Kingdom on behalf of their families.

In the end, each family selected some "old and respectful" people to form a delegation to prepare to go to Qi State.

The purpose of the hermologists is very simple:

We must test the bottom line of the Qi country, and how much price they have to pay in order for His Royal Highness the King of Qi to recognize the independent status of the Shanxi candidates.

The psychological bottom line revealed to the delegation is that each family will pay 100,000 guan to Qi every year, a total of 1.3 million guan in taxes.

The weddings and funerals of the Qi royal family, various festivals and other days, the world's greetings also prepare generous gifts and tribute.

This is basically the price that the Great Zhou Dynasty has offered to the Muguls for more than 20 years since they moved south, and the Muguls are very satisfied with this, and the two sides have generally maintained peace.

The world's greeters hope that with such a generous gift, they can buy the king of Qi.

……

"Big brother, I don't listen to you!"

In the courtyard of the Zuo family somewhere in Datong Mansion, a young man dressed up with a scimitar pinned to his waist was anxiously shouting to another young man sitting at the top of the house:

"Eye asked Uncle Nine to lead the team to Quancheng, but he didn't let E! What can I do? ”

"Eh, too, E's family won't let Ego to Quancheng!"

"Well, too! Eda let Big Brother go! ”

"Hunger is also ......"

A kind of young man in the room was shouting, obviously very dissatisfied with his own parents.

The young man who was called the eldest brother picked up the tea bowl, took a sip lightly, smashed it and smashed it, and then put down the tea bowl and said:

"If you don't let the tenders go, the tenders won't go?"

"But ......"

"No, but."

The name of the person who spoke was Zuo Helin, the eldest of the Zuo family in the thirteenth generation, because of his superb kung fu and his short age, he had a lot of reputation, so he was regarded as the leader by the younger generation of the Shihou family.

"If you don't go casually, you want to go to Quancheng, and no one can stop you."

"Nen Ye let Nen go?"

"Hmph, the six hundred heroes under the forehead are used at this time."

Zuo Helin said with a little smugness:

"Tell the tenders, the tenders don't go to pull down, the fold can be big, and the fold can beg them to say that they want to go to Quancheng with the forehead."

The two people he said were born in a folded family, this family is similar to the Han army lineage, and they also live in Qin Province, and they are also married to the thirteen Han army families for generations, but they themselves are not Han people, but party members independent of Daxia.

It is also because of this that the Zhi family is not considered to be the Han army, and when Wang Qinian conveyed the order of the King of Qi, he did not inform the Zhi family - the party members are also Tartars, and for Xu Shiyang, they love to surrender.

But listening to Zuo Helin's statement, it seems that some of the younger generation of the Zhe family also want to go a different way.

"If the forehead is big, it doesn't matter, the forehead has six hundred heroes, plus the fold can be big, the fold can beg them, get together a thousand people, whoever dares to stop the forehead will beat whom."

"Tell the gentlemen, they will set off in two days, if they want to live a good life, and when the time comes, they want to continue to be a dog for the tartars, and they will be sleepy at home!"

If someone else says that whoever stops them will beat him, then eighty percent is talking big.

But the young people here all know that Zuo Helin is different.

Because he is indeed an unruly guy, he is also a concubine in the Zuo family, but he has been quite brave since he was a child, and he has beaten several brothers-in-law several times against family law, so that the son-in-law of the Zuo family has been afraid of him until now.

When Zuo Helin was sixteen years old, he once took people to the grassland to do business with the Mugyu people, to Yinxia to do business with the party members, and to Sichuan Province to do business with the Great Zhou.

He made a lot of money for the Zuo family, and he spent money lavishly, especially fond of making friends with heroes from all walks of life.

The so-called 600 heroes under Zuo Helin, including Han Chinese, Mugyu people, Dangxiang people, Tubo people, Uighurs, Gaochang people, Qiang people, and other ethnic groups, were all warriors recruited by him, and he only recognized Zuo Helin, not the Zuo family.

is equivalent to a small warlord among the warlords, he said that he doesn't care about the family's obstruction, that is, he really doesn't care, unless the head of the Zuo family wants to fight a civil war.