"Qin Ren Yingkang visited the monarch and met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Lord Liu." After seeing the loose plate and the others, Yingkang said.

"Lord Sima, please get up, I don't know what you have to do when you come to Sancheng this time?" After Yingkang got up, he asked.

"Yingkang came here this time to report the situation of Qianyi to the king and all the lords, and to send our tribute to the king by the way." Yingkang said politely.

In his speech, Ying Kang was very low-key, very humble, and always put himself in the perspective of the courtiers of the scattered country.

This made the loose plate and others somewhat surprised.

"Lord Sima is polite, you are originally a Qin person from Inuqiu, there is no need to be so respectful of the widow." Loose plate politely replied.

"Your Excellency's words are wrong, although Yingkang is a Qin person, but now Tisan is stationed at the border, and he should serve the monarch with the courtesy of the king." Ying Kang replied more humbly.

"Okay, well, in that case, then you can report the situation of Qianyi to the widow!" To be able to get someone like Yingkang to report his work to him, he is still a little proud.

"Your Excellency, my lords, since the autumn and winter of last year, Fengrong in the north has launched many attacks on my Qianyi many times, two of which were the most violent, led by their Left Bone Duhou and Right Gu Liwang. Trying to take down Qianyi and pacify the Qin people. ”

"Well---, you're right, the widows have also heard about this, and they have also heard that your Qin people, with the support of the Kingdom of Qiu, defeated Fengrong's attack, and also killed their left bone Duhou. Isn't that so? Loose plate said.

"What the king said is extremely true, but what the king doesn't know is the casualties of the Qin people in these two wars."

"So you Qin people have also suffered casualties? How's it going? Hearing this, the loose plate immediately became interested.

"Your Majesty, my lords, since ancient times, wars have been to kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 of ourselves, although in the last two wars we finally defeated Fengrong's attack, but the casualties of our Qin people are also very serious, at least 30% of the soldiers and horses have been lost. In addition, there were many casualties among the Qi people who resisted Fengrong with our Qin people, 5,000 soldiers and horses, and nearly 2,000 people were lost. ”

Ying Kang was quite surprised by the loss of troops on both sides, and it was the first time that Sanpanzi and the others heard it, "So you and Yu Guo also suffered a lot of casualties in the battle last year?" ”

"Your Majesty, Rong Di is barbaric, and it is a fact that everyone knows that he will not die when he fights, and Feng Rong is especially powerful in these Rong Di. Since we are fighting against Feng Rong, although we have won the others, we are also narrowly defeated, and the casualties will definitely be very large. After this battle, the Qin people and the Yu Kingdom will definitely need a long time to rest, otherwise in the autumn and winter of this year, when Rong Di goes south again, it is difficult to say whether he can withstand the enemy's attack. "Ying Kang deliberately said that the casualties of himself and the Kingdom of Yu were larger, and his purpose was also very clear, that is, to put Sanpanzi and others at ease, the Qin people and the State of Yu did not have the strength to annex the State of San.

After hearing this, he smiled slightly, and now he was somewhat relieved, "That's good, that's good!" ”

At this time, Prince Zhao smiled faintly and said, "Lord Sima, you keep saying that you are stationed at the border for our scattered countries, but I always have a feeling. Of course, this feeling is not necessarily accurate, and you should not be surprised to say it! That is, what should you Qin people do if you Qin people take the opportunity to garrison the border for us and stay in our Longchuan and not leave? ”

Ying Kang knew that the matter could not be avoided in the end, even if Prince Zhao didn't say it now, he would take advantage of other opportunities to say it in the future, so Zhengse replied: "For this point, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can rest assured, when we Qin people came to Qianyi, we had already made a clear agreement with the Sanguo, just to guard the border for the Sanguo, and not to covet your land." Oh---, speaking of which, I also reported to you about the recent situation in Qianyi by the way. ”

Oh? There are also reports.

After hearing this, the scattered plate said, "If there is something, just talk about it." ”

"Your Majesty, since we defeated Fengrong's attack in last year's battle, the surrounding people have been flocking to Qianyi in a steady stream since the beginning of this year, and among these people, the people of the original Qianyi are the mainstay, and there are about 10,000 people now." Ying Kang knew that the most effective way to eliminate others from himself and the Qin people was to tell the truth and tell him what the other party wanted to know.

After listening to Yingkang's report, Sanpanzi glanced at Prince Zhao.

Ying Kang continued: "Your Majesty, no matter where the people are, as long as they come to Qianyi, they will be the people of our scattered country, and I hope that your lord can sympathize with the people and let them belong to my scattered country, and then strengthen the strength of our scattered country." ”

"Well---, you're right, the widows think so too, what do you think about what we should do with these people who are pouring into Qianyi?"

"Give them land, give them shelter, so that they can live in Qianyi with peace of mind. When all the people can live in Qianyi with peace of mind, they will naturally be willing to be the subjects of our scattered country. What do you think? ”

After listening to Yingkang's analysis, Sanpanzi nodded slightly, "What you said is very right, the widow approves of your approach." ”

Seeing that his sovereign father was about to be persuaded by this Qin boy named Yingkang again, Prince Zhao immediately said: "Gongzi Yingkang, what you said is all about things, Ji Zhao thanks you for your sincerity, but I still have something to ask Master Sima to explain clearly, so as to dispel our doubts." ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, please speak."

"Young Master Yingkang, you also said it just now. The last battle of Qianyi was won by the cooperation between you and the kingdom of Yu, right? ”

"Exactly." Ying Kang replied.

"Hey, hey---" Prince Zhao said with a smile: "Since Lord Sima regards himself as a courtier of our scattered country, then I will tell you the truth about some things." As for this country, although the relationship with us is okay now, there have been many wars between our two countries over border matters in history. ”

After listening to Prince Zhao's words, Ying Kang asked in surprise: "There is still a national war between the two countries?" We really don't know about this, I remember the last time I got married, the gentleman and Gong Yu had a good chat! I thought that the scattered country and the kingdom of Yu were getting along very well? It seems that those of us who are located in Xituo really don't know much about the affairs of the Central Plains! Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, please continue. ”

"Since the two countries have fought many times over border matters, and now that you Qin people have come to Guanzhong, and you are so close to the Kingdom of Qiu, and Gong Yu has also married Princess Ruoxi, the pearl of his palm, to you, so many things together we can't help but worry! I'm worried that once you get too close to the Kingdom of Yu, you will join forces to deal with us in the future, and if that time really comes, our Scattered Kingdom will suffer. ”

Prince Zhao finally made his deepest worries clear.

After listening to Prince Zhao's words, Ying Kang was slightly taken aback and then said: "Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is so honest, Ying Kang can only treat each other with sincerity." First, in last year's battle, the reason why we asked the Kingdom of Qiu to come forward to help us fight against Feng Rong was because among the countries of Guanzhong, except for the Kingdom of Qiu, no country had the strength to fight against Feng Rong. Am I right? ”

Although Yingkang's did not say that Sanguo did not have the strength to dare to confront Feng Rong at all, the meaning was already very clear.

(End of chapter)