Chapter 54: Beauty as a hostage
"We're going to persuade the King of the East Sea to stay."
"Is that dangerous?"
"Yes, he will not listen to our advice, we will hold him hostage and force him to stay!"
"But it's too dangerous to do this, not only do we have to worry about our lives, but it may not work, so this method can't be used."
"Liu Kun, do you think we have anything else to do?"
"But but...
"Don't hesitate any longer, after we kidnap the King of the East China Sea, force him to promise the whole city that he will not withdraw his troops, and write a guarantee."
"Wouldn't that be too much?"
"For the sake of the people of Luoyang, we only have one fight, even if we are killed by the King of the East China Sea, we will not complain!"
"Since the eldest brother has made up his mind, then I have nothing to fear, go!"
The two were just about to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion, when suddenly three wooden kites floated in the sky, and they vaguely saw that there was one person on each of them, and the other wooden kite seemed to be carrying something, and the wooden kite with no one was flying staggering, as if it was about to fall down at any time, and sure enough, the wooden kite shook and fell down on the two, Zu Qi said: "Liu Kun, get out of the way!" ”
Liu Kun and Zu Ti hid in a nearby store at the same time, only to hear a bang, the wooden kite fell down, and fell heavily to the ground, and several compartments on it were also scattered, and a lot of gold and silver ingots and jewelry fell out of it!
The two went out, surrounded by many people, they all pointed and scratched, guessing the way of the treasure, at this moment, the two wooden kites carrying people also flew down, fluttering their wings and slowly landed next to the treasure, one of them went up and down, waved to the people, "The treasure is ours, no one is allowed to move!" ”
Liu Kun saw that this person was the gambling king Aolong!
The person on the other wooden kite also got off the wooden kite, and Zu Ti saw that it was Yunru!
Yun Ru saw Zu Ti and beckoned and shouted, "Brother Zu! Brother Zu! ”
Zu Ti hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Yunru, why are you here?!" ”
Yun Ru said: "Brother Zu, I came this time to give a big gift. ”
Zu Ti asked, "What is it?" ”
"I know that the eldest brother must have broken his heart for Luoyang, so I also have to worry about Luoyang, since you lost the gold coins last time and left Loulan, I want to raise a sum of money to help you make cannons, so I told the people of Loulan to let them donate money, fortunately, the people of Loulan are sensible and reasonable, and they have made up tens of thousands of taels of silver, although these are just a drop in the bucket, but it is always a little bit of the heart of the people of Loulan, and I am very worried about the part that is not enough. I thought of a way, in Loulan Royal Casino held a grand gambling king competition, all over the Western Regions gamblers, rich, royal princes and princesses gathered in the casino, the competition lasted for a total of three days, Aolong crazy with his amazing gambling skills, for the casino won countless gold, silver and jewelry, a total of 300,000 taels of silver! Mr. Aolong and I plan to transport it to Luoyang, but the distance is far away, whether it is by water or land, it will take at least half a month, so I thought of the eldest brother's flying wooden kite, you have drawn a picture book, and the skilled craftsmen of our palace have also built it for you, so I asked them to make three flying wooden kites overnight, and Mr. Aolong and I drove the three wooden kites to Luoyang, and look, all these fell to the ground, big brother, I think these should be enough for you to make cannons, right? Yunru said, pointing to the jewels on the ground.
"Enough, of course enough, Yunru, you are really timely rain, our hero of the Great Jin, with this money, I can build 5,000 "Lianzhu Cannon Cars"! Zu Ti said excitedly.
Liu Kun said: "Yunru, why did this wooden kite fall to the ground, did it lose control?" ”
"No, when we were outside the city, Zhao Jun threw arrows at us, and the wooden kite carrying the jewels was hit by the arrow, and when it came to Luoyang City, it staggered and fell."
"I see, it's really dangerous, fortunately, you and the predecessors of Aolong are fine."
"Thanks to Mr. Auron, if he hadn't blocked the arrow with martial arts, I'm afraid I wouldn't be talking to you here."
Zu Ti said: "Yunru, now is not the time to speak, you and Mr. Aolong will transport the jewels to the Heavenly Master Dao Dojo first, we still have important things to go to see the King of the East China Sea, and we will come back in a while." ”
"I know that the eldest brother is doing big things, okay, I listen to you, you just go."
Yunru and Aolong frantically transported the jewels to another wooden kite and transported them to the dojo.
Zu Ti and Liu Kun signed up to come to the Prime Minister's Mansion, only to see that the Prime Minister's Mansion was busy, and dozens of big cars and small cars were prepared, Zu Ti said: "It seems that the King of the East China Sea is really going to run away today!" ”
The two were waiting for the King of the East China Sea to summon them, and someone said, "I'm sorry, the prime minister doesn't have time to see you, please go back." ”
Zu Ti knew that Sima Yue had no opinion on them, so he broke in, and there were government soldiers to stop them, but they didn't stop them, and the two went all the way to the hall, Sima Yue saw the two of them come in and said angrily: "If you dare to break into this mansion, aren't you afraid that this king will kill you?" ”
Zu Ti said: "Please forgive us for being rude, but we also broke into the palace for Luoyang." ”
Sima Yue waved his hand, and the soldiers who followed him all retreated, and he asked, "Do you want to tell me why you broke into this mansion?!" ”
Zu Ti said: "Lord Wang, it is rumored that the official army is going to withdraw the defense, but is there such a thing?" ”
"I'm afraid you don't have the right to ask about it, do you?"
"Lord Wang, although we are not in the army, it is a matter of hundreds of thousands of people in Luoyang, and the matter is very high, and I hope that Lord Wang will tell the truth."
"So far, I won't hide it from you, you have also seen that the people in the palace are preparing, and this king plans to withdraw today and retreat south."
"The prince is also responsible for the defense of Luoyang City, why do you want to withdraw the army, let me ask you to leave, what will the people of Luoyang do, what will the emperor do?"
"The emperor has already told him, but he doesn't want to go with this king, and this king can't help it."
"Why did the prince withdraw his troops?"
"The Zhao army is powerful, fierce, we can't hold Luoyang, if the king doesn't take the army away, these hundreds of thousands of elites will also be eaten, in order to preserve the strength of our Great Jin, in order to make a comeback, so this king decided to temporarily withdraw the army, in order to avoid the edge of the Zhao army, this king did this is completely for the sake of the Great Jin, not for the sake of the king's selfishness."
"Lord Wang, I think Luoyang will definitely be able to hold it, and you don't have to withdraw your troops."
"What qualifications do you have to say that Luoyang can hold it?"
"Lord, Luoyang is difficult to defend because there is no artifact to defend the city, over the years, our Dajin armament is lax, there is no sense of distress, so that foreign enemies will be in a hurry, in a passive situation of being beaten, if we have advanced weapons to defend the city, not only can we defend the city, but also can completely eliminate the invading enemy, so I mean to build artillery."
"Cannon? What cannon? ”
"It's a Lianzhu artillery car, this is a cannon that can fire stone shells continuously, if you can build five thousand gun carriages, it will be a devastating blow to the Zhao army!"
"How much does it cost to have 5,000 gun carriages?"
"300,000 taels of silver."
"This king doesn't, not at all...
As soon as he mentioned silver, Sima Yue waved his hand again and again, between life and gold and silver, he would always choose money.
"Lord Wang, we don't need the prince to pay a tael of silver, we just need to send people around to summon skilled craftsmen and purchase the required materials, and all the applications will be spent from the dojo of the Heavenly Master Dao."
Sima Yue walked back and forth a few steps with his hands behind his back and said, "Zu Li, are you sure that your artillery carriage can defeat the Zhao army?" ”
"Yes, I will vouch for it!"
"This king knows that you are a capable person, but even if this king promises you, your artillery carriage will take a few days to build, if the Zhao army comes to attack the city again tomorrow, how can we resist it?"
"Lord Wang, I can build five thousand artillery carriages in just three days, so we can't fight with the Zhao army in these three days, and the only way is to let the Zhao army fight for a few days."
"How could the Zhao army listen to our words and make a truce, they wish they could take Luoyang City in one day."
"There is a way, and that is to surrender."
"What ?!!!!" Sima Yue said loudly.
"Lord Wang, of course surrender is just a fraudulent surrender, just to buy time, once we cause a gun truck, the victory is ours!"
"But how can you buy three days?"
"The prince sent a eloquent person to the Zhao camp to negotiate, only saying that the emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty was willing to surrender Zhao with the country for the sake of the people of Luoyang, and he would give a three-day buffer time to soothe the emotions of the army, appease the people, seal the treasury, and then the emperor personally took the princes and ministers out of the city to surrender to Zhao."
"This method can be tried, okay, this king will send Wang Yan to Zhao Ying tomorrow to negotiate."
"Lord Wang, at the same time as sending Lord Wang, I want General Beigong to accompany me to show my courage in the Great Jin."
"It makes sense, so do it."
"Lord Wang, negotiations and car building should be carried out at the same time, today I will invite the Lord to the south of Luoyang to gather craftsmen to buy materials, and there must be no delay."
"Exactly! The cannon building is under your full supervision! ”
The next day, the matter of making cannons was going on intensively, and Wang Yan and Beigong Chun went out of the city and came to Zhao Ying.
Liu Yao and Liu Cong heard that Wang Yan was here to surrender, and they were skeptical, after they met Wang Yan, Wang Yan relied on a three-inch tongue that did not show flaws, but Liu Yao still didn't believe it, he knew that there were Zu Li Liu Kun and others in the city, how could he surrender easily, he thought of a way, this is a way to get the best of both worlds, for him, he can see the beauty of the morning and evening, and he can also try the truth of Dajin, even if it is fake, he is willing to accept it.
I only heard Liu Yao say: "Lord Wang, we believe that the Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty has the sincerity to surrender to my Great Zhao, but for the sake of safety, I want you to promise one thing." ”
Wang Yan said: "As long as we can do it, we will definitely agree, you say come and listen." ”
Liu Yao said: "I want you Dajin to send one person as a hostage." ”
"Hostages? I wonder who you want to hostage? ”
"Sheep sacrifice!"
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