Three days later, on September 28, Zhao Hongrun received an edict written by his father.

There is only one word on the edict: Yes!

If it weren't for the edict stamped with his father's private seal, Zhao Hongrun really couldn't imagine that his father, who was kind and angry on weekdays, could write such a murderous font.

"It's really domineering......

Watching it repeatedly, Zhao Hongrun said secretly.

Although he is not proficient in learning, it is undeniable that he has some attainments in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so that he can see his father's attainments in calligraphy at a glance, even if he has always liked to sway elegant fonts, he has to admit that his father's handwriting is not a few grades higher than him.

No, Qiu Yu, the imperial history supplement who was idle and had nothing to do, Zhao Hongrun looked at the latter's eyes, as if he was eager to take this edict over and appreciate it carefully.

"For you?" Zhao Hongrun joked with a smile.

Qiu Yu subconsciously nodded with ecstasy, and then quickly shook his head.

It's no wonder, after all, this is an edict written by Wei Tianzi himself to hand over to King Su Hongrun, how can it be possessed casually?

To put it mildly, Zhao Hongrun may not be guilty of sending him this edict, but if he Qiu Yu dares to accept it, then there will be a problem.

Qiu Yu, who is the official of the imperial history, naturally knows this.

Therefore, he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "It is already a great blessing for Xia Guan to see His Majesty's Imperial Pen Dragon Book, how dare you touch it?" ”

In fact, Zhao Hongrun didn't care, but seeing that Qiu Yu was trembling and didn't dare to accept it, he was no longer reluctant, after all, it was indeed not good to give away such a thing as an edict without permission.

"Shen Yu, send someone to invite the two patriarchs of Baturu and Actun."

"Yes."

Shen Yu hugged his fists, left the felt tent, and called two Su Wangwei, asking them to invite the two patriarchs of the Qian tribe and the Ling tribe respectively.

About half an hour later, Baturu, the patriarch of the Qiang tribe, and Actun, the patriarch of the Antelope tribe, came to Zhao Hongrun's felt tent together.

Seeing this, Qiu Yu retired with interest.

I saw that in the tent, Baturu and Acton had just sat down, and Baturu, who was over forty years old but still had a quick temper, asked impatiently: "Respected King Su, you invited the two of us to come over this time, presumably the king of your country has already given a reply, right?" After a pause, he added, "I hope it's good news." ”

Zhao Hongrun smiled slightly when he heard this, nodded and said, "It's good news, that's right." ”

Hearing this, Baturu and Actun's eyes lit up, and they asked in unison, "King Wei agrees to support my Qiangling to attack Baguo?" Will the Wei State send troops? ”

"This ......" Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that his father only gave him a message of "Yun", but specifically, he did not indicate a word, obviously, it was intended for Zhao Hongrun to measure the scale of support for the Qian people.

But Zhao Hongrun had just chatted with Qiu Yu about Wei Tianzi's font, so that he didn't think of this stubble, so he subconsciously asked someone to invite these two patriarchs.

However, Baturu and Acton would be wrong, and after seeing Zhao Hongrun's hesitant look, Actun frowned and said tentatively: "Could it be ...... What are the conditions? ”

I have to say that Zhao Hongrun is very quick to think, after hearing the word 'condition', his brain worked quickly, put on a embarrassed expression on the wrong one, and said thoughtfully: "That's the case, this king's father, for the sake of the two tribes of the Antelope did not assist the Qiangjiao, but were willing to be friendly with my Great Wei, this king was allowed to give the two patriarchs a certain amount of support...... But the two great patriarchs also knew that although our Wei people had enmity with the people of Pakistan, it was more than a hundred years or even hundreds of years ago, and since then, there has been no conflict between my Great Wei and the Ba people. This time, the two tribes of the Gazelle are willing to be friendly with my Great Wei, and it is not impossible for my Great Wei to give the two patriarchs a certain amount of support, but if this angers the Ba people, causing the Ba people to hold a grudge and attack my Great Wei, I am afraid that the area of Nanliang in the western border of my Great Wei will be devastated......

In all fairness, Zhao Hongrun is just talking nonsense with his eyes open, and Nanliang's life is ruined? How many places in the world could be more barren and barren than Nanliang? It was a place where even the Ba people and the Chu people were too lazy to conquer, and it was inhabited and indistinguishable from the land of Guizhou, so how could there be any life to be destroyed?

No, after hearing Zhao Hongrun's words, the expressions of the two patriarchs became strange, after all, they didn't know the situation in the Nanliang area in the western border of Wei State, it was definitely a barren place where birds didn't, but Zhao Hongrun's worried expression when he said those words seemed to be a prosperous Wei land comparable to the royal capital Liang.

"What does Wei want?" Acton immediately understood what Zhao Hongrun meant.

And just when Zhao Hongrun was about to make a gesture, he saw Baturu raise his hand to stop him, and asked first: "Before proposing the payment, let's talk about what Wei can provide?" ”

Zhao Hongrun crossed his fingers with both hands, and said in a low voice: "Weapons, armor, food...... I, Great Wei, will not send troops, but I can give the two patriarchs enough supplies. ”

"Deal?" Acton asked.

"It's nature." Zhao Hongrun said: "The two patriarchs don't think that my Great Wei gave these to you in vain, right?" ”

Baturu and Acton glanced at each other and nodded slowly, after all, they didn't think that Wei had such good intentions.

"How many weapons can Wei provide?"

"Don't be busy just yet." Raising his hand to stop Baturu, Zhao Hongrun said with a smile: "Let's talk about the reward first." ”

"Remuneration?" Baturu and Acton looked at each other.

After half a ring, Acton seemed to have come to his senses, and asked with a strange expression: "Honorable King Su, do you mean that not only do we have to pay a price to get the weapons, armor, and food of the Wei State, but we also have to pay the Wei State an additional reward?" ”

"That's exactly what it is." Zhao Hongrun had an expression of "you have finally opened up".

Seeing this, Baturu asked unhappily, "Why do you want us to pay twice?" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun smiled at the corner of his mouth and said lightly: "Because the two tribes of the Antelope are not the allies of the 'Rainbow Alliance'. It stands to reason that I, Great Wei, will not trade with the two patriarchs. ”

"......" Baturu and Actun's faces changed slightly.

Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun said with a calm face: "The two patriarchs are not willing to join the 'Luoshui Alliance', and they also want the support of my Great Wei, so they can only pay an additional reward, otherwise, this king will not be able to convince those tribes who have joined the 'Luoshui Alliance'. …… Of course, in terms of price, this king can make an exception for the two to enjoy the treatment of the alliance. ”

Baturu and Acton exchanged glances, as if they were debating whether or not to join the Alliance, but in the end, they decided to pay a fee.

As the saying goes, they would rather be the head of the chicken than the head of the ox, they are all the patriarchs of the big tribes, as long as they have a choice, they naturally don't want to submit and attach themselves to the Wei State like those small and medium-sized tribes.

"I don't know what reward the respected King Su wants?" Acton asked cautiously.

"Iron Ore!" Zhao Hongrun lowered his voice and said: "There are rich iron ores in Badi, and this king hopes that after you capture the land of the Ba people, if you find that there are mines in the local area, you will ask someone to dig and transport the excavated ore to the Luo League." Rest assured, the king will not let the two patriarchs contribute in vain in this matter. ”

"That's it?" Baturu and Acton were stunned when they heard this.

They thought that Zhao Hongrun would make any harsh requests, but they didn't expect that they would just ask for Badi's ore.

What's so hard about that?

After conquering a piece of land, just send a group of slaves to dig it.

Anyway, their Sanchuan tribe does not have the so-called industrial and metallurgical technology, and the ore is of no use to them.

"Yes, that's what the king wants." Zhao Hongrun said with a smile: "In fact, not only iron ore, for example, there are trees in Badi, and there are insects on the trees that can spit out white wax, and this king does not ask the two patriarchs to snatch those trees, but the white wax that those insects spit out, this king will buy a large number of them." In addition, horses, silk, and all Badi specialties that are not used by the Antelope tribe but which I think are useful in Dawei can be sold to my Dawei by the two patriarchs. …… However, this king would like to remind the two patriarchs that if the two patriarchs accept the support of our Great Wei, they will not be able to sell such things to other countries in the future. ”

"What if we keep it for ourselves? For example, war horses. ”

"It's not against our agreement."

"Good!" After glancing at each other, Baturu and Acton said they were okay.

After negotiating the remuneration, Baturu couldn't wait to discuss the arms deal with Zhao Hongrun, and it has to be said that he coveted the weapons and armor of the Shang Shui Army, especially the ballista.

It's just that the offer given by Zhao Hongrun almost made Baturu swallow his tongue in fright.

"A set of weapons and armor for soldiers actually costs two sheep?"

"If the great patriarch wants to exchange ten sheepskins, this king will accept it."

"This ......" Baturu glared at Zhao Hongrun, eager to grab the placket of the other party's clothes and ask, is this the so-called preferential price of the alliance of the water alliance?

Doesn't this mean that if he wants to arm 100,000 slaves, he must hand over 200,000 sheep? Or a million sheepskins?

Facing the questioning eyes of the two patriarchs of Baturu and Actun, Zhao Hongrun said calmly: "The Shangshui Army is the elite division of my Great Wei, I didn't see them in Luoshui, and only 20,000 people blocked the more than 200,000 troops of Bitatu?" Since it is an elite division, the armor on his body is naturally expensive. ”

Baturu thought for a while, felt that this was reasonable, and said: "We just want to arm the slaves of our tribe, and we don't need such high-quality weapons and armor, is there anything cheaper?" ”

Zhao Hongrun thought about it, remembered the equipment that had been eliminated by the local county town guards, and the broken copper and iron that were piled up in the local county treasury waiting to rot, or were about to spend a sum of money to transform into farm tools and sell them to the farmers of Wei State, nodded and said: "Yes, according to this king's estimate, there are at least two or three hundred thousand weapons and armor, but this king has said first, those things, the two patriarchs don't expect too much." ”

But Baturu didn't mind this, even if it was a weapon that was eliminated by the Wei Rong army in the county seat of Wei, at least it was more powerful than sharpened wood, right?

Anyway, it's a slave army that is armed, and you don't need too good weapons.

"We want this, I don't know the price......"

"This king is too lazy to calculate, so let's add the cost of transportation, ten sheep in a basket of weapons or armor."

"This Basket ......"

"If you have a sword, it's about thirty or forty."

"Can it be cheaper?"

"Two ......"

For a whole hour, Zhao Hongrun was discussing with Baturu and Acton about the price of Wei's aid. (To be continued.) )