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After thinking for a while, reining in the unhappiness on his face, he motioned to bring Mazha to the left and right, and asked Gongliang Xiu to sit down and speak:

"Doctor Gongliang, please sit down first."

Gongliang Xiu knew that Baili Yan was willing to back down, so he pulled up his hem and sat down, still not daring to slack off in his heart:

"When is the Marquis of Yongxing going to return the six places of Xiaguan?"

"It can be returned at any time, but Ben Shuai has one condition, as long as King Zhi agrees, it is not a problem to return the six lands."

Bai Liyan said as soon as he spoke, and Gongliang Xiu was vigilant:

"What are the requirements?"

"The six lands of Xiaguan were bought by my Xianguo with a lot of money, and it is obviously impossible for King Zhi to spend gold and silver to ransom the land, so this commander wants to move away the family of soldiers and horses belonging to the rebels in the six places to compensate for the gold, silver, money and grain that my Xianguo has invested for this purpose, what does the Gongliang doctor think?"

"No way!" Gongliang Xiu categorically refused: "If you move the people away, won't the six lands become white land, what is the use of our army occupying it!" ”

"Then there is no way, my Xianguo spent a huge amount of gold and silver for this, it is convenient for Ben Shuai to raise his hand, after going back, how can Ben Shuai explain to my king."

Gongliang Xiu got up angrily and asked, his face was unhappy:

"You still don't want to pay it back!"

Bailiyan disagreed, and calmly coped:

"It's not that the commander doesn't want to pay it back, but that your army has not helped our army, but has caused our army to spend a lot of money to kill and wound soldiers, and this commander has to explain to the king, and he has to explain to the whole army, and the land in his hands cannot be cut away from the hands of the commander so unexplained.

Of course, King Zhi can be exchanged for Xingcheng and Zhaocheng, so that the commander is worthy of my king, and he can explain to the soldiers. What does the doctor think? ”

"You ......" Gongliang cultivates qi: "Speaking of which, you still have to Zhaocheng and Xingcheng, is it really that important!" ”

"Mr. Zhao has already told you that I have to take the land of Zhaocheng and Xingcheng. If King Zhi had made a decision before March, he would not have the situation he has today. ”

"What if I don't give it!"

"Ben Shuai knows very well that King Zhi must be waiting for my Xianguo to fight with the rebels, the eldest grandson, the Jin Kingdom, and the Patriotic State at this moment. However, Ben Shuai can clearly tell Brother Gongliang that this incident will never happen. If Zhiguo does anything different, he will lose more than just two counties and thirteen lands. ”

Baili Yan is aggressive, and Gongliangxiu is not afraid to compete against each other:

"You threaten me!"

"It's not that Ben Shuai threatens his brother, but that his brother threatens Ben Shuai with power. You and I are both people who have returned from the south to the north, what kind of heart is handsome, Brother Gongliang should know. I once treated you as a confidant, and even now you are your own master, and I have never treated you lightly.

Zhaocheng is related to the life and death of the Central Plains, you have to go useless, but it is very important to my Xianguo, if King Zhi insists on going his own way regardless of the overall situation, he will not blame Ben Shuai for turning his face ruthlessly in the future! ”

Baili Yan's sincere words were sincere, Gongliangxiu's face changed greatly, and there was a little awe in his heart.

Time seems to have returned to the eventful years when they fought side by side ten years ago, once upon a time they were not talking about the world with their hearts, and now at this point, they are not forced by the situation.

After being silent for a long time, Gongliang Xiu lowered his voice and said:

"What the hell do you want to do?"

"Make a cannon, that's all."

"Then why don't you look elsewhere, but use the gold and silver of the city. If you have no other plan, wouldn't it be better to look elsewhere, and why should you make the two countries unhappy for the sake of the city? ”

"It's not that I want to take Zhaocheng, but Zhaocheng gold and silver are rare in the world, and you can find it, but it can be found in two or three years, and it may not be found for more than ten years, and now Ben Shuai has no time to find it, there are ready-made, and naturally the sooner the better.

Let me make it clear, Yongxing City has spent three years and invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in refining new artillery iron, which is just cash, not other investments. If this continues, it will not be effective even for another three or five years. But if you can get the help of gold and silver, maybe you can reap the rewards in three or five years.

It's not that I have to take the city, but it's not easy to find gold and silver, and it's not cost-effective. ”

"Are you really making cannons?"

"Seriously, don't believe it for yourself."

Bai Liyan took out a fist-sized piece of platinum from the item box behind him, and Gongliang Xiu was taken aback when he held it in his hand:

"This ...... Why is this silver so heavy, as much as gold? ”

"This is a new type of gold and iron smelted in the gold and silver stone of Zhaocheng, even if it is burned with coal, it is difficult to melt it, if the Gongliang brother does not believe it, you can go back to the craftsman to identify, this commander guarantees that no one in the world can recognize this thing."

"You want to shine on the city, for this thing?"

"Exactly, although there are all over the world, the number is scarce and not easy to find, and the current achievements of the city can save me years or even more than ten years of looking for time, Brother Gongliang thinks that it is cost-effective to change the land of a city for more than ten years."

"In other words, if the Xian army has this thing, it can be refined into a new cannon with greater power in a few years, which is far more cost-effective than spending more than ten years to find it, so you don't hesitate to take the risk of turning against your eyes, and you also want to occupy Zhaocheng."

"Yes, it may take more than ten years to find this thing, but Brother Gongliang probably doesn't know, it will take several years to mine and refine this thing, and then integrate it into molten iron to make it usable, and it will take fifteen or sixteen years or even longer to come and go, do you think it is necessary for Ben Shuai to deceive you."

“……”

Gongliangxiu was silent, and Bai Liyan obviously didn't lie. It is not so much that Zhaocheng has any gold and silver treasures, but that Zhaocheng can fight for fifteen years, and time is undoubtedly the most important resource for Xianguo.

Thinking through this, the previous righteousness has become invisible at this time.

Seeing Gongliangxiu's face fluctuating and depressed, Bai Liyan continued:

"Brother Gongliang is a person who understands, if the Xianguo is strong, the Gongliang is strong, and if the Xianguo is weak, you and I will fight each other, which will be of great benefit to you and me. Ben Shuai has always been honest with his brother, regarding his brother as a confidant, although there is a deception, but it is also for the benefit of the country, Ben Hou has never harmed his brother. On the contrary, Brother Gongliang has calculated our army several times, which is really not righteous. ”

As soon as these words came out, Gongliangxiu's face was red and his ears were red, and he suddenly felt embarrassed. Reluctantly composed, he said:

"Alright then, let me think about it."

"Yes, Brother Gongliang, let's stay in our army for a while, when you figure it out, you can come to Ben Shuai at any time."

As one of the few people in the world, who can get his long-cherished wish with ambition, Gongliang is the kind of wise man who stands at the top of the times and sees through the general trend of the world, but the limitations of history imprisoned his vision of the world.

"Time", as an abstract and ubiquitous resource, can never be measured in terms of money and manpower.

The essence of today's world is still the space for the accumulation of material wealth, and the strength of the country depends on the size of the land and the base of the population, regardless of the quality of the ruling class, and the land population determines the strength or weakness of the country.

Technological limitations have shortened the cycle time required for economic cycles, and the productivity of bronze farming is limited to the development of agriculture and basic handicrafts, and the impact of time on national strength is negligible, except for demographic factors.

When the technology content is low enough to take time to pile up, it means that whoever has enough population, who has enough land to carry the economic circulation space, and who can shorten the time required to start a war.

Regardless of the losses of the Qianyue Mountains of various countries, Wei Guo, as the overlord of the Western Sea, has hardly been invaded since the Black Turban Rebellion, and its economic structure is much more complete than that of any other vassal state except the Jin State.

In addition, in the past six years, the national strength has recovered rapidly, and the digestion and recovery time required for the annexation of more than a dozen counties of the Sun State is far less than that of the Central Plains countries. Needless to say, the Jin State was the only vassal state that had been alone since the Black Turban Rebellion.

On the other hand, Zhiguo lost more than 3 million people in the past 15 years, and the long-term intense accumulation of troops and the southern expedition caused the national strength to be unprecedentedly weak.

Xianguo is also not much better, at best, the agriculture and industry with the capital county as the core are highly developed, but it is not enough to solve the digestion of the other six counties and the newly occupied land in the short term. This means that there is no way to wait for the Xianguo and Zhiguo to consolidate the existing achievements, and the Wei Guo will take the preemptive action.

Defending the country is not terrible, the political system under the old slave system is its biggest flaw, what is really terrible is the geopolitical fragmentation and economic turmoil brought about by the war, which will accelerate the reshuffle of the political pattern and the risk of military advance, and will be mired in the quagmire of war for a long time, which is not conducive to the realization of the set goals.

And it turned out that the six years of the southern expedition were the greatest waste, and without those six years, the Xian country would be much stronger than it is now. Frequent wars consume everything, create turmoil and death, and consume a lot of precious time.

The platinum of Zhaocheng is just a good medicine to shorten the steel used in artillery, and the distribution of platinum itself in nature is not much, and there are regions.

With the current technical foundation, it is more difficult than simply finding a new mine. Two or three years is short, maybe ten or twenty years can't be found.

Of course, platinum itself does not produce time, but Bailiyan believes that the truth is within the range of artillery, and the development of technology and the innovation of artillery will fundamentally change the form of war and the balance of power, but all this requires the accumulation of technology and the accumulation of time.

What Gongliangxiu had ignored was the mysterious and unpredictable time, and now that he was awakened by a word, the entanglement and frustration in his heart were like a shackle, pressing him out of breath.

He could think of what kind of freak the Xian Congress would be ten years later, but the cruel thing was for the sake of the family's interests, and he could only let this freak continue to grow.

Obviously, if it weren't for Baili Yan's maneuvering in Xianguo, King Zhi would have quickly attacked the Gongliang clan.

Gongliang Xiu, who left the handsome tent, was full of frustration, and he was in a trance. After he left, Zhao Anling sat back in Mazha and said:

"Master Hou, I have already explained it to him a while ago, but he doesn't believe it, why does Master Hou say the same thing, and there is such a huge contrast between Gongliang Cultivation?"

"That was because we didn't have enough money last time, so Mr. Zhao said to him, he only thought that we must be trying to Zhaocheng's underground gold. Now that I have exchanged the land of the six cities for two barren lands, he naturally does not doubt what Ben Shuai said.

Moreover, there is a new gold mine opened two years ago in Xiaguan County, which is in very good condition, and Ben Shuai is willing to exchange eleven cities for two pieces of partial land, even if there is gold under the city, at best it is one to one.

Gongliangxiu and I actually have a very good personal relationship, and he sees the earth-shaking changes in Xianguo over the years, and he sees it very clearly in his eyes. Now Ben Shuai uses Zhaocheng gold and silver stone to refine artillery iron, and Gongliang Xiu knows that I am not cheating him, so I think of Xianguo ten years later. "I want to talk about "Empire Travel" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~