After some thought, Zhang Jie said:

"Yongxing Hou, can't you have less?"

"The so-called less is less, how much less, it's better to make a price." Bailiyan's tone was flat, without the slightest intention of dissatisfaction and pressure, but Zhang Jie's voice was not like this, he pondered carefully and said:

"One hundred and fifty stones!"

Bai Liyan raised her eyebrows and said dissatisfiedly:

"Don't you think it's too much to take out one hundred and fifty stones!"

Zhang Jie's cheeks stiffened and his eyes darkened, and he said:

"One hundred and fifty stones at most, no more."

Bailiyan pretended to be surprised when she heard the news:

"Ben Hou heard me right, it's not to take one hundred and fifty stones, but only to give one hundred and fifty stones!"

Hearing Bai Liyan's tough tone, Zhang Jie said almost pleadingly:

"Yongxing Hou, one hundred and fifty stones is already a lot, no matter how much, how can this envoy explain to my king, and how can my king explain to the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty."

"It's just a business between Ben Hou and the eldest grandson, what do you want to explain, 1,500 stone raw silk is traded at the market price, is it so difficult, did Ben Hou forcibly ask or rob it, didn't he give you money?"

"Your Excellency can't say that, the war is like water with money, if it is a peaceful and prosperous world, five hundred stone raw silk will be counted, and now the war continues, where can I get fifteen hundred stone raw silk to Your Excellency."

"If you can't give it now, then we'll give it when the war subsides. Ben Hou has already given in one step, and Zhang Envoy will not gain an inch. ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Jie's anxious jump, where did Bai Liyan take a step back, this was to force him to death.

As soon as the war began, money was like water, and now the country has attacked the eldest grandson's homeland and committed misdeeds, the local area has been damaged, and the mess of pacification and relief after the war is a huge expenditure, and every year where can 1,500 stone of raw silk be paid to Bailiyan.

Now it is said that he has made a concession, which not only makes Zhang Jie have nothing to say, but also has to take on foreign debts after the war. Because of this, Bai Liyan's step was just right, not only making a gesture, but also making the eldest grandson unable to accept this condition. If it is accepted, even if there is a truce in the future, its finances will lose a large amount of revenue, there will be a deficit, and finally the national treasury will be collapsed.

"Yongxinghou, do you think this is good, in the future, as long as your cargo ships pass through our country, they will be exempted from taxes, and inland waterways will also be open to you. The goods for export must also be sold to you at the lowest price, just ask you to raise your noble hand and ask for less raw silk. ”

Zhang Jie almost asked Bailiyan in a pleading tone what he meant, but Bailiyan was unmoved, but his face became a little serious:

"Your country overcharges a penny of taxes, and the price of the iron sold by Benhou to your country is raised by two cents, which is cheaper than the iron produced by your country, and the quality is also better. Since Zhang Envoy was not sincere, Ben Hou had no choice but to leave. ”

After finishing speaking, Baili Yan stood up and turned around to leave, and at the last moment, Zhang Jie gritted his teeth and said:

"Two hundred stones, two hundred stones can't be more!"

Baili Yantou did not stretch out the five fingers of his right hand without replying, and said without any room:

"Fifteen hundred stones, one or two can't be less, below this number, Ben Hou can't help, farewell!"

After finishing speaking, Baili Yan walked away, leaving only Zhang Jie's depressed face and stunned in place.

Two hundred stones of raw silk can be made of medium and high-quality silk can produce about 2,000 horses, or more than 8,000 horses of fine silk, this income is actually a lot, converted into gold has to be a small 10,000, about 100,000 inches of silver, even if it is converted into the purchase price of raw silk and labor costs, the profit is also very amazing.

Of course, in reality, the production of silk fabrics in the Central Plains is far more than the circulation of gold and silver and the annual output of mineral gold and silver, so a considerable part of silk fabrics are used as high-end luxury goods as currency settlements to trade other controlled commodities.

Changsun Guo took into account that Baili Yan was rich and generous, and ordinary small favors and small favors were not in his eyes at all, so he offered two hundred stone raw silk as a bribe. Unexpectedly, Bailiyan opened his mouth to have an appetite of 1,500 stones, asking for a price all over the sky, and he also gave up a step in the name of beauty, how shameless.

Back to the Hou Mansion it was already a little dark, Zhao Anling and Zong Botai rushed to the Hou Mansion in the afternoon, and waited for more than an hour, Bai Li Yan led the two of them to the study, and asked Wei Qi to send the meal into the house.

Previously, Zong Botai and Zhao Anling had vaguely heard some rumors from Su Fangyi, because the situation was too serious and shocking, Su Fangyi only said the fur, and after listening to Bailiyan's detailed explanation, Zhao Anling was suddenly a little disgusted.

"If such monsters are allowed to invade the Central Plains, it may be a great misfortune in the world, it is hard to imagine that people have become monsters, and ordinary people like us have no way to live."

Zhao Anling said in surprise, his face was blue and sweating profusely, and then Bailiyan said:

"This matter is on high alert, and has sent a capable force to the Haitian County of the Eldest Sun Country to closely monitor it. But I was still worried that the sea would not be able to stop the armpit invasion, so I asked Mr. Zongbo to come with me and calculate the situation for Ben Hou again. ”

"Master Hou wants to know when the armpit people will be in trouble?"

Seeing that Zong Botai Chengzhu seemed to have expected it in his chest, Bai Liyan hurriedly asked him:

"Mr. Fei has already deduced it?"

Zong Botai nodded and said:

"According to the calculations, the time is as short as three or four years, and as long as five or six years, disaster is coming, and there is not much time left for Hou Ye."

"Does that gentleman have a plan to help me?"

Zong Botai's expression suddenly became serious, he leaned over and whispered:

"The Changsun Kingdom is in the north, and according to Hou Ye's previous calculations, the armpit people should first land with the Changsun Kingdom when they go south, and then attack the coast with ships. If this is the case, Hou Ye must not send troops at that time, because he is accumulating strength and waiting for the situation to be clear, while looking for flaws and seeking a decisive battle with the main force. ”

Zong Botai's words made Bai Liyan cry and laugh, and he said:

"Mr. Zongbo, it is almost certain that the armpit people are difficult to kill except for the head, if Ben Hou watches the armpit people attack the eldest grandson, attack the Central Plains, and then fight a decisive battle with its main force, not to mention whether our army is sure to defeat it, then the north of the Central Plains will become a white land, and the victims will be tens of millions, how can such huge losses be beared."

"Hou Ye's words are true, but if Hou Ye rashly sends troops, not to mention that we don't know the details of the armpit people, but the armpit people know the details of human beings, so rashly sending troops can win. Taking a step back, the armpit people are not familiar with our Central Plains, so they must first establish a foundation and then find out the inside story of our Central Plains.

With the vastness of the land of the eldest grandson, it would take more than ten years or even longer for the armpit people to fully conquer it. And Hou Ye took this time to step up preparations for war, recuperate and recuperate, so that the armpit people mistakenly thought that our Central Plains was still lagging behind it, and when it was paralyzed, my Central Plains could also find out its weakness, and then hit it hard with the power of thunder and drove it out of the land.

If we get involved in the war too early, expose the details of our army, and let the armpit people know that the Central Plains is a powerful country in Xian, it will go all out to pounce on our country, and the victims will not be our Xian country. ”

"This ......" Bai Liyan clenched his left fist, thinking about Zong Botai's statement, there was some truth.

If the Xianguo is inland, it can still rely on other princes as a barrier, take the initiative to dispatch elites to avoid inland losses, and slow down the offensive of the armpit people on the inland hinterland.

Now Xianguo is in the North Sea, the Changsun State Haitian County said that it is far away, the land route is quite far, it is said that it is near, the sea is actually not far at all, the armpit people invaded south, it is bound to find out the situation of the southern hemisphere continent, first of all, it must sail along the coastline, draw a map, and then it will be discovered that Guangxin and the North Sea Fleet is the inevitable result.

At that time, Guangxin's complete dock facilities, towering fortress artillery, and powerful naval fleet formed a sharp contrast with the Changsun Kingdom, and the armpit people would soon understand that the Central Plains was not all bronze and iron, but a civilized civilization with an industrial base.

If it is Bailiyan, he will first turn the target to key industrial facilities, when Guangxin hits, the Xian army and the sea and land will inevitably be saved, and a rescue will inevitably expose the military strength of the Xian country, which further speculates that the Xian country is an industrial power in the southern hemisphere, and the focus of the war of the armpit people will quickly turn to the Xian country. As long as the Xian State is eliminated, the Central Plains will be finished.

In addition, the war between two species cannot be used as a benchmark to measure the mindset of species other than humans based on the values of human interests.

It is not difficult to see from the white man's staccato statements and fears that the axillary man, with his astonishing physiology and technological superiority, kills humans almost one-sidedly.

Under this disadvantage, Zong Botai's suggestion said that it is ugly to say that it is called seeing death and not saving, and that it is good to listen to it is to exchange space for time and strive for the greatest time initiative.

With the current technical conditions, it is not realistic for the axillary people to fully invade the Central Plains, and the Changsun Kingdom is a peninsula-type power protruding from the northernmost part of the entire Central Plains continent, covering an area of millions of square kilometers, and is the closest to the northern hemisphere.

However, the territory of the Central Plains continent is too huge, the northern coastline is very long, far from the current technical conditions, the armpit people are far from enough to support a full-scale invasion in the short term, and Bailiyan does not believe that the armpit people can transport hundreds of thousands of people in sailboats from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere in a short period of time, not to mention that their food, drink, and ammunition supplies must be supplied locally, and military expenditure requires huge military expenditures, which require long-term preparation and production coordination. In the short term, it will not cause a devastating disaster to the eldest grandson country.

While pondering, Zong Botai said:

"There is one more thing, Master Hou may have to take precautions."

"What?"

"Move the capital!"

"What, move the capital!" Bai Liyan was taken aback, he knew very well what it meant to move the capital, these words came out of Zong Botai's mouth, and its significance was far more than the fall of the capital. It must be that the situation is so bad that it cannot be controlled, and the Central Plains will all fall.

"Sir knows what to say!"

Zong Botai nodded solemnly, and his attitude became cautious:

"It is clear below, so Hou Ye should prepare for the aftermath as soon as possible. Hou Ye needs to know that if Beihai falls, Beihai County and Dongyuan County are flat and flat, and there is almost no danger to defend, if the armpit people invade early, Hou Ye can have a few chances of winning! ”

"Then it won't be enough to move the capital."

"It is very clear that the capital can only be moved as a last resort. As for moving or not moving, it is not yet known, and it is always necessary to plan ahead. ”

Zong Botai's words were amazing, and at this time, Zhao Anling was stunned when he listened, and he hurriedly said:

"The national capital cannot be guaranteed, where is the world home?"

"Wan Chuan! Wanchuan can make a home. ”

Bai Liyan was silent for a moment and said:

"I know, Wanchuan was originally an important town for me to operate in the future, and now it seems that it can only be advanced."