Jiang Jie came to the outside of the pavilion and saluted Kuang Shuo respectfully:

"I'm sorry Da Sima, my lord asked his subordinates to pass on the message to you. At the moment, the limelight is tight, only after the marshal decides, the adults can meet the guests, and now the big Sima will please go back first. ”

"Then the little general didn't say General Shu Tong?"

"Having said that, my lord has a great friendship with Lord Shu Tong, and I deeply regret Lord Shu Tong's death, but the current situation is inconvenient, and I hope that Da Sima will wait for news for the time being."

"Alright then, Ben will leave for now."

Kuang Shuo politely saluted, turned around and got on his horse and left.

Jiang Jie returned to the pavilion and asked puzzledly:

"My lord, what did this marshal think, he didn't have any plans at the banquet yesterday, let me wait for a good life."

"In fact, Cao Chi is more passive than us. If he still has 300,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, the princes and armies will never dare to make such a mistake, I estimate that Cao Chi is already having a countermeasure, after all, Su Fangyi's thirty percent of gold and silver is not a small amount, which is enough for the royal guest to recover his vitality and strengthen his momentum in the future.

Cao Chizheng must be cautious now, if he is not careful, there are too many people who have offended Yuke, and once he falls into the handle, he will be besieged by other countries in the future. ”

The rules of the royal guest are strict, unlike the vassal states, which can be recruited from the country to expand the army in a short period of time, and the royal guest is based on the disciples, and the training of each disciple is from the beginning to the success, as short as seven or eight years, and as long as more than ten years, and the entire intergenerational renewal is very slow. Because of the strict door rules, the loyalty of the royal guest is extremely high, and the personal skills are fierce and abnormal.

In previous years, in the southern border operations, the losses of the royal guests have never exceeded 200,000, but this time the royal guests suffered more than 300,000 casualties, and the foundation has been shaken, and the deterrent ability has been completely lost.

Many vassal states that had suffered the loss of the royal guest before, especially in this battle in the south, the vassal states that were extorted and equipped by the royal guest have long held a grudge.

Cao Chi is swallowing this wealth for the sake of the royal guest, and he must not arouse the revenge of other princes, so he must have a reasonable excuse and opportunity.

Although according to the agreements and customs established in the early years, the gold and silver seizures belonged to the princes, but this time the money and seizures were really too large, and for the Central Plains, where precious metals were seriously scarce, they would not care about the rewards for meritorious deeds, and they could make a little profit.

Not long after Kuang Shuo left, Xu Guoren came to the door again, but was rejected by Bailiyan. In the afternoon, Yan Guoren came to the door, don't think about it, it was Wei Guo who was behind his back.

The goods of Xianguo are exported to Weiguo, and the goods of Weiguo are also shipped to Xianguo through the port of Yanguo, and they must first land in Yanguo at sea. Let Yan Guo be a shield to go to Baili Yankou, it is nothing more than to leave a step for Wei Guo himself, so as not to tear his face in front of Qi Guo and Jin Guo.

But the most disgusting thing is the Changsun Kingdom, this Changsun Country sent no more than 50,000 troops, and lost a lot of firearms, it's such a nonsense, and he actually wants to gnaw on a piece of fat.

On that day, all parties failed to get what they wanted, and in the evening Ji Yao went to Wang Yanfei's army to conspire:

"General Wang, Bailiyan hasn't seen a guest for a day today, Gongliangwen is the same, the royal guest shirked the marshal's drunkenness, and he avoided it, according to the general's opinion, it must be the three of them who made a secret agreement, otherwise they must not advance and retreat together like this."

"Then you need to say that the gold and silver are so huge, the three of them must have already divided it up, and now they are thinking about how to take the money away safely. If you want Ben to say, just don't do it and give them hard ones. Wang Yanfei's eyes showed a fierce light, and he said that he was hard, but in his heart he wanted to let Wei Guo take the lead.

Of course, Ji Yao also wanted to be hard, but he also knew that Wang Yanfei was by no means a good species, so he said again:

"But I heard that Bailiyan and Gongliangwen gathered hundreds of thousands of people in the south, and Bailiyan said 500,000 horses yesterday, which will never be a lie. If you really want to do it, you must do it immediately while the people are still far away. ”

"Yuecheng is a royal guest city, we have few soldiers and horses, and we act rashly, if other countries help them, what can we do about it?" Wang Yanfei asked rhetorically.

"Then join forces to defend the country and pull the other four countries of the West Sea to do it together, Zhijun and Yuke are definitely not our opponents."

"Hmph, you can't help but underestimate Cao Chizheng." Wang Yanfei scoffed: "At the moment, when it is still a coalition of soldiers, if you do it rashly, you will be bitten by the royal guest, how can you do it first." ”

"This is what your General Wang said, and now if you don't do it, it's your General Wang who said, General Wang, whether you do it or not."

"Of course, we have to do it, but we can't do it first, it's a whole body."

"Isn't that for nothing?" Ji Yao complained: "If I can't wait, how can I defend the country." ”

"This is not necessarily, there are a lot of transactions between the country and the country, and the oppression is also very much, as long as the country is forced to take another step, Bailiyan is definitely going to decide what the country wants, and if the country does not get benefits, won't he have to do it. Besides, if you want to go to the city, you must go to the city of Zicheng, which is defending the country, and the country will stop him, and he can't do anything about it. ”

"Oh...... I see, General Wang is still a step ahead, so how can he make the country obey. ”

"Ben will immediately go to Changsun Guo and ask Changsun to raise the water and land toll tax, General Ji will go to Yan Guo and ask them to raise the toll tax, and then let Changsun Guo go to Shen Bi to raise the price of coal to Xianguo by a few points, and the goods bought will be lowered by a few points, forcing him to have no way out of Xianguo, at that time Baili Yan will definitely be threatened by the out-of-stock, Shen Bi will use this as an excuse to trouble Baili Yan, when the time comes, let's look at it first."

"But will Shen Bi be in the trap?"

"As long as the price of Changsun Guo and Yan Guo rises, Wei Guo will definitely follow." Wang Yanfei is confident that this matter can be done.

So Ji Yao and Wang Yanfei went out one after another that night.

At the same time, Cao Chizheng was not idle, he needed to organize people to calculate the accounts one by one, because Wei Chiguang and other financial experts were not there, the accounts should be calculated in half a day, and it took a day and two nights.

"Fang Xin, how are the accounts counted?"

"Back to the royal marshal, more than seventy percent has been liquidated, and there are still two percent that need to be calculated. Seventy percent of the goods can be converted into more than 2.7 million inches of silver, and roughly calculate the remaining 20 percent, and the total amount of all goods is 3.1 million inches of silver. ”

"What about gold and silver coins?"

"There are more than 305,000 gold coins belonging to our army, and more than 6,515,000 silver coins, and after weighing and measuring, if the price of gold and silver remains unchanged, it can be discounted by about more than 4 million inches of silver, and there are also some gold and silver utensils, which must also have hundreds of thousands.

This does not include jewelry, jade, diamonds, and the treasures held by the royal guests accompanying his brother. Such a huge amount of gold and silver is not the savings of the Central Plains overlord for decades. ”

"I didn't expect it, the people of Jin Xuedi are so rich, no wonder they have repeatedly made northern expeditions, if there is no such gold and silver treasures and fertile land, how can they repeatedly violate the Central Plains."

According to his brother, the Jinxuedi people are constantly moving northward, and their land is increasing, while the south has a lot of gold and silver minerals, which are more than ten times the existing gold and silver mines in the Central Plains, and the color is excellent.

If this goes on for a long time, sooner or later my Central Plains will border it. If they can be bred, my Central Plains will also be able to go south to conquer them in the future. ”

"But have you ever thought about how you can go south to conquer them, when the Central Plains is in turmoil and the war is still raging, and self-defense is still difficult."

"Yes, this is the trickiest part of the Central Plains right now. However, this time Jin Xuedi people are also seriously injured, I am afraid that there will be no forty or fifty years, and it will be difficult to commit northward again, which can be regarded as a breath of relief. ”

While the two were talking, a secret agent from the royal guest quietly came to report, and the secret agent whispered something, and Cao Chi was asking the comer:

"Is the message accurate?"

"Absolutely." The agent affirmed.

"Well, keep watching."

"No."

After the spy left, Su Fangxin hurriedly asked:

"Imperial marshal, but Wang Yanfei and Ji Yao are secretly active."

"Well, in the past two months, all armies have been paying attention to this batch of treasures, and since Wang Yanfei has moved, we should also do it. In the second half of the night, the Soviet army division selected people who could distinguish to go to the five countries of Yan, Wei, Zhao, Chen, and Xu, and promised the weapons and armor captured by our army to the three kingdoms of Yan, Zhao, and Chen, and promised the goods brought back by Fang Yi to the bottom line of 1.5 million inches of silver at a discount of the goods, and promised them to Wei Guo, and they could bring some Jin Xuedi's war horses. Then the male and female unicorn parts, the seized weapons, and 500,000 inches of silver discounted goods were promised to Xu State, and the princes must reach a secret agreement with us. ”

"What about the Eldest Sun Kingdom and the Song Kingdom?"

"Changsun Guo, a repeated villain, doesn't give it at all. As for the Song State, after leveling the countries, the Song State had Bailiyan to settle it by itself. ”

"That's fine. In addition, this time, there are thousands of Bailiyan Dejian BMWs, and all countries have seen the BMWs ridden by Bailiyan and others. Although Bailiyan has been taken for himself, if Wei Guo, Xu Guo or even Song Guo raise criticism, what should be done? ”

Cao Chizheng thought for a while and said strongly:

"Just say that Ben Shuai wants it, let them shut up."

"Then I will immediately send out a discerning man to lobby the nations."

Cao Chi saw the situation very clearly, the goal of the vassal states was this huge amount of wealth, and it was not beneficial for the royal guests to gather the vassal states rashly.

Now that Wang Yanfei and Ji Yao have provoked the head, there is room to start, and the deceit between countries is very different from their own needs, and at the same time, the mutual suspicion and vigilance between the princes are not monolithic.

Yan, Zhao, and Chen are all small countries, and no matter whether they get money or gold and silver, they are finally blackmailed by Wei Guo, and they can't fall into their pockets at all. So Cao Chi was secretly giving them weapons and war horses.

And Weiguo is a wolf who can't be fed, Cao Chi is giving the goods to Weiguo, let Weiguo sit on the ground and start the price, earn as much as he sells, and let Weiguo take care of his own profits and losses, of course Weiguo is not stupid, why not share your cash?

The reason is very simple, the armistice agreement in the south was signed by Bailiyan, and the dirty cash has been divided, but who will share more and who will share less, the outside does not know, and no one has said.

Yuke can completely beat Lai Pi and say that he will get less and suffer a loss. Of course, the ghost will not believe this, and the defense of the country will not believe it. But Zhiguo took the benefits and kept silent, Jin Guo didn't get the benefits, and the mad dogs bit indiscriminately, and it is better to have goods than nothing in the country, right?

After leveling the West Sea, it was much easier for Xu Guo.

As for why Cao Chizheng hates the eldest grandson, it is also said that the eldest grandson is quite wronged, but it is not unreasonable.

Cao Chizheng sent people to Changsun Guo several times to ask for the earth-shattering fire and gunpowder, but Changsun Guo did not give it, so that the poor Yuke in his hands could not be fated, and there was no money to buy it, and the casualties were great.

But in fact, you can't blame Changsun Guo, the scrap rate of the earth-shaking fire is high, iron is far from popular, the price is higher than copper, and the cost is outrageous.