Bailiyan had long wanted to gain a foothold in the Qianyue Mountains in the Xian Kingdom, and the grazing privileges provided by the royal guests alone were still not enough to better exploit the vast land and natural resources in the local area.

Qianyue Mountain is vast and sparsely populated, the territory of a main city is less than 100,000 square kilometers, more than hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, everywhere is the uninhabited area of plateau grass mats, the underground mineral deposits are extremely rich, the amount of snow melt in the snow mountains is extremely abundant, and it has unique natural resources.

It can not only be used for grazing and storing a large number of livestock, but also as the economic strategic fulcrum of Xianguo in Qianyue Mountain, building an important economic town, and better serving Jinxuedi's commercial exchanges.

Due to the constraints of the current infrastructure and means of transportation, most of the materials in the Qianyue Mountains cannot be transported to the inland at a low cost, and the materials in the inland cannot be exported to the Qianyue Mountains at a low cost.

However, the southern part of the country also has a large amount of grassland, which is sufficient for raising horses and grazing, and the economic value of Qianyue Mountain in peacetime is relatively average, and the war with the Jinxuedi people has become an economic burden. Bailiyan proposed to exchange for a city at this time, which was just right to give Weiguo a chance.

Soon after reaching a consensus with Chu Ye, King Xian ordered Xue Zhong to send a note to the envoy of Yan to make an official reply to Yan Guo's request.

Nuo Yiyan is old, and now nominally wears the hat of a foreign envoy, but he has taken a back seat to train diplomatic officials, and Xue Zhong is responsible for the main foreign diplomatic work.

Xue Zhong is a disciple of the Xue family who was trained by Baili Yanxiang eleven years ago, and has been serving as a lower-level official in the Foreign Ruling Mansion since then, but he often arranges going abroad and foreign affairs activities.

And if there is no accident, a hundred years after Bailiyan, Xue Zhong is in his prime, and he can work for another twenty or thirty years, and at that time, he Jiang Yu will drive the crane to the west early, and he will be suppressed in the cage of the cabinet forever during his tenure.

Yan Guo finally obtained lucrative conditions from Xianguo, and the news soon spread to the Liang State Legation's Mansion, which Mo Qingzi was quite surprised.

"I really didn't expect that Xianguo actually gave 200,000 guns, if it develops like this, the other princes may get more."

At this time, Xiangguo Jia Zhou answered:

"But they are both two old guns, there are only a few thousand good 651 guns, and there are only 100 rear-loading guns."

"But did Jia Xiangguo ever think that so many guns and cannons were enough to compete with any prince outside of the Xian Kingdom today, didn't Xiangguo feel that there was a difference?"

"The master of the head of the family is indeed reasonable, I just thought that Xianguo only gave 350,000 guns to perfunctory Yan Guo, now that I think about it, the Yan army got 200,000 guns in one night, and its strength soared, could it be that Baili Yan did it intentionally."

"Yes, I think he must have another plan. Moreover, Xiao Xiaoyan Kingdom gave 200,000 guns, and the other princes should not give them in multiplication, there must be secrets that we don't know. ”

Arms were nominally given, but not gratuitous, and the princes still had to buy them with funds, barter, and of course, at a much lower price.

With the national strength of the Yan State, it is impossible to buy 200,000 old guns at the normal market price, not to mention that there are 100 rear-loading guns, and it is easy to buy guns and difficult to raise guns, and the guns and ammunition that are knocked out are all money.

Although the performance of the 648 Yongxing rifle has lagged behind, the first battle of the defense also exposed many problems, after the improvement of the paper shell ammunition process, the reliability has been greatly improved, the firing rate has basically reached ninety into five, and the heavy rain weather is about seventy percent, which can meet the combat needs in most cases.

The news that Yan Guo had obtained the arms of Xianguo spread quickly, and naturally it also spread to Xihuan Palace:

"What, 200,000 guns, so many!"

"Yes, Bailiyan did sell two hundred thousand guns, one hundred rear-loading guns, and other military supplies and industrial products."

Ji Jinsheng reported truthfully, and Xihuan said after thinking carefully:

"Brother Wang asked for 350,000 guns, but he gave Yan Guo 200,000, what did he think. There are more guns in the hands of the country. ”

"Even if there are no more guns, there will be no less reserves. Although I don't know how many guns Xianguo made in the past ten years, the minister has carefully calculated that there are not 2 million guns of various types, but 1.5 million, and I am afraid that in fact there are even more.

At present, the Xian Army has more than 500,000 or 600,000 troops, all of them are good guns of the 651 type, more than 200,000 soldiers of the baggage battalion and railway, 300,000 foreign soldiers, and about 300,000 old guns.

If he took out 200,000 guns and sold them to Yan Guo, the guns given to his princes could only be out of the remaining 300,000, but it was obviously too few. Baili Yan must have a plan to act, so the minister judged that there were at least 1.23 million guns in the current reserve of Xianguo, and 200,000 were given to Yan Guo, and the rest was enough for the princes to use. ”

"That's not enough, Brother Wang wants 350,000 guns, Zhiguo and Weiguo are both bigger than my Jin Kingdom, how can it be less, such a point, where is one million guns enough. Didn't the other princes of Liang, Xu, and Qi give it? ”

"But no more, it's unlikely. The minister thought that the princes had asked for a lot this time, and there was still no sign of an alliance in the stalemate, and Bailiyan would definitely not wait for the war to slide to the edge of danger, there must be other arrangements, and Her Royal Highness might as well wait and see what happens. ”

"If Brother Wang knows that the Jin Kingdom is not as good as the Xiaoxiao Yan Kingdom, I am afraid that he will be angry to death."

"I'm afraid that Wang Sima has already called Pingtang."

"Then according to what General Ji said, what arrangements will Bailiyan make."

"We don't know yet, but it's going to be good for the situation, so it's better to wait and see what happens. Don't rashly provoke trouble and disrupt the deployment of Bailiyan, otherwise it will not only hurt Xianguo, but the overall situation of the entire Central Plains. ”

Ji Jinsheng kindly reminded Xihuan not to do anything that is detrimental to the overall situation at this moment, Xihuan obviously understood what Ji Jinsheng meant, she said:

"Rest assured, this palace is not so unbearable. After all, Xianguo is Tuo'er's foundation, how can this palace destroy it in one fell swoop. ”

"The queen is wise."

In fact, as early as 18 years ago, Xihuan's mentality has changed significantly.

The suppression of the black scarf made the prestige of the Xianguo great, the economic strength appeared, the reform of Bailiyan was an unprecedented success, and Fang Dan successfully entered the economic system of the Xianguo, so that Xihuan had the intention of stealing the Xianguo. And before that, Xihuan just regarded Xianguo as a broken jar that could be annexed by the Jin State at any time.

Now, Xianguo is overwhelming, sitting on the only industrial base, monopolizing the economic power of the world, Xianguo's hegemony and even achieving unification is just around the corner, and it is very likely to be realized in her son Jiang Tuo. Such an accidental pie falling from the sky and smashing on Xihuan's head was a harvest she never dreamed of.

In this case, Xihuan naturally did not want the Xian State to go astray or even be overthrown, and there was naturally a crack between its political position and that of the King of Jin. When Xihuan looked at Xianguo with such a mentality, he invisibly reached a de facto political alliance with Bailiyan, and this was also the result that Bailiyan hoped to see.

The bloody suppression of the enemy for its own use, rather than the party's collusion and elimination of dissent, is the highest state of the golden mean.

Unbiased compromise and reconciliation is only an attitude and goal in dealing with people and things, bias or impartiality, is the means and strategy to achieve the end. It may take ten or twenty years, or even longer, but as long as the final attitude remains the same and the minimum cost is made to achieve the goal, you will be successful.

At dusk of the same day, Wang Li and Gao Ji Gao rushed to the Yongxing Marquis Mansion to ask Baili Yan for an explanation on the affairs of Yan Kingdom.

"If you give Yan Kingdom 200,000 guns, isn't my Jin Kingdom as good as the small Yan Kingdom?"

Wang Li asked angrily, extremely annoyed in his heart, although he had a deep friendship with Bailiyan, but now that he was fighting flesh and blood, in front of the interests of the Jin army, he had no room to retreat, not to mention that there were still the King of Jin and the crown prince standing behind him, even if he didn't think about himself, he had to think about his nephew. The friendship with Bailiyan has long been indifferent at this time.

"If Brother Wang comes to question me, I can only tell Brother Wang that there is no war in the Jin army for the time being, and these equipment are idle in the hands of the Jin army. Although the national strength of our Xianguo is acceptable, the guns and cannons are not enough to meet the needs of the princes, so we can only give priority to equipping the war princes.

If the Jin army is willing to send 500,000 troops, Ben Hou immediately provokes 500,000 guns and ammunition to supply the Jin army, what does Brother Wang want. ”

Wang Lijie was dumbfounded by Bailiyan, he knew Bailiyan's temperament very well, and he made 500,000 guns.

But if it agreed, the Jin army had to go to the Yan Kingdom for a bloody battle, which was not the result that the King of Jin wanted to see. But if he didn't agree, he would naturally not be able to get the gun, and he didn't have the confidence to continue to question Bailiyan, after all, they didn't shed blood, so why should they occupy the equipment, it was unreasonable to be reasonable.

Seeing Wang Li stunned there, Gao Ji on the side answered:

"Yongxing Hou don't misunderstand, Wang Sima hopes that Xianguo can provide guns and artillery for our army to practice as soon as possible, so that it can quickly gather combat strength, if there is really a big war, it is not impossible to go to the front line."

"Huh." Bai Liyan sneered, and he said: "The sincerity of the King of Jin is still known, and he has never been allowed to believe it, so don't talk about it." ”

"The Marquis of Yongxing is serious, people can't stand without faith, let alone the king of a country."

Gao Ji refuted, and Bai Liyan said coldly:

"Yes, the eldest grandson has suffered for several years, and the Jin State, as an ally, why don't you send troops."

"This ......" Gao Ji was speechless, to be exact, he was not embarrassed to refute at all.

Although the two countries broke up because of the eldest grandson's land cession and the Jin State did not move, the nominal alliance was still there.

But at the beginning of the armpit invasion of the eldest grandson, the eldest grandson did not ask for anyone, the first to send an envoy to the Xian State for help, the Xian King did not agree, and then went to the Liang State, and finally begged the grandfather to tell the grandmother to ask for the Jin State. As a result, Guangxin fought two naval battles, the king of Jin was scared enough, and the Xian country was still enough to drink a pot, where could the Jin state withstand the toss, and did not agree to send troops.

In addition, in the past 30 years, the Jin State has fallen on the wall, which side of the wind is strong and which side is falling, the foreign policy is hesitant and indecisive, and the other princes have patted their chests and said that people do not believe in it, Bailiyan believes it, and he definitely does not believe it in the Jin State.

It is because the Jin Kingdom continued the consistent political style of Gong Shukuo, but Fan Tao did not learn the essence that he ended up in today's situation.

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