After seeing Yuan Laiguang's attitude, Zhao Weiji felt that he might be able to catch more than he imagined.

"Actually, what I need is not too valuable, I just need women, a lot of women."

Yuan Laiguang had considered countless kinds of requests that Zhao Weiji might make, such as a large amount of silver, and for example, he wanted Genji to have any political help after he gained power, but he never thought that what Zhao Weiji asked for was actually a person, and it was a woman.

"Lord Wang, it may be that my Chinese is not very good, can you say it again, what do you want?"

"Women, I need a lot of girls of marriageable age."

After confirming Zhao Weiji's needs, Yuan Laiguang was greatly pleased, because there was no shortage of a large number of marriage-age girls in his territory. And even if he didn't, he would find a way to get it, because compared to silver or other things, women were too insignificant in the eyes of the nobles of District 11 in this era.

"Lord Wang, how much do you need?"

"How much can you give to a woman between the ages of 16 and 28?"

"It depends on how many of these crossbows you can provide, in addition to the steel that can forge five thousand knives."

Hearing Yuan Laiguang ask like this, Zhao Weiji didn't answer directly, he just compared it to four.

"Four hundred?"

"No, it's four thousand, and I have another four thousand of these crossbows here."

Four thousand is not a small number, and with those steels, at least it can arm an army of nearly 10,000 people. This is already a great temptation for the Genji family.

For these things, Yuan Laiguang thought that there must be many women that Zhao Weiji needed, so he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet to report a number, "I can provide you with sixteen thousand women between the ages of sixteen and twenty-eight." ”

Sixteen thousand, even if Zhao Weiji thought that it was possible to get more than he imagined, but the number of sixteen thousand was too much beyond his imagination.

In fact, Zhao Weiji's psychological bottom line is 5,000 people, as long as he gets 5,000 people, he will earn it.

The reason why the price given by Yuan Laiguang was twice as high as Zhao Weiji's psychological expectation was because in Zhao Weiji's eyes, neither steel nor crossbow machines were of too high value.

Due to the discovery of the veins containing iron ore in the mainland near Xinhua City, as well as the excavation of coal mines, steel has been able to be mass-produced in Xinhua City, as long as the labor force is sufficient, a large number of steel can be produced continuously.

And the crossbow machine, which Zhao Weiji is already preparing to eliminate, is not too valuable, so Zhao Weiji did not give a high estimate of the value of these two things combined. Although he also considered that these two things might have a relatively high value for the warlords of District 11, he still did not dare to estimate too highly.

Another point is that Zhao Weiji's overestimation of the value of women. Zhao Weiji, who is always influenced by the idea that modern women can hold up half the sky, has never looked down on women.

At home, he also has a lot of respect for the two ladies, and Chai Yu and Li Nian have also discussed this matter together in private, although they don't know why Zhao Weiji has such respect for women, but it is a great blessing for them, and in the end it can only be explained by marrying the right person.

So even if the woman who guessed this matter might have a very low status in District 11, Zhao Weiji didn't expect it to be so low.

And Yuan Laiguang's valuation of these things and women in his heart is completely opposite to Zhao Weiji's, so there is such a different quotation.

However, although the number is much larger than his estimate, Zhao Weiji is still ready to eat all these populations, because even if a woman who can't get married, there are still other uses.

These women can become new weavers, North America is a pretty good cotton plantation, now most of the cotton income in the Central Plains has gone to the imperial court, now Zhao Weiji can use these textile women to restart his textile industry in North America, and then dump a large amount of cotton cloth to the countries around the Great Song Dynasty, so as to further accumulate capital.

But at this time, Yuan Laiguang spoke again: "Lord Wang, although I can provide you with sixteen thousand marriage-age girls, it is not a one-time event, but I hope it will be divided into several batches, I hope you can agree." ”

This request is actually not too much for Zhao Weiji, because he did not expect to be able to get such a large female population, so at this time, it is impossible for the remaining ships in the fleet to reach Area 11 to transport such a huge population back to North America at one time, so Zhao Weiji also needs several batches to be able to eat all these populations.

"That's fine."

After getting Zhao Weiji's consent, everything was easy to do, Yuan Laiguang immediately signed an agreement with Zhao Weiji, and then sent someone to Tsuruga Port to pick up the goods.

During this period, Zhao Weiji and his entourage temporarily stayed in Heianjing.

And Zhao Weiji, who had nothing to do in Heianjing, decided to take his family out for a walk, feel this city with the legacy of the Tang Dynasty, and then visit the next person, a person who later had countless legends.

"Yin and Yang Liao? What is this? Dad, why did you bring us here? Zhao Ling'er, who had gone crazy on the street, didn't understand why his father stopped in front of a house with such a strange name.

Not only did his daughter not understand, but even his two wives did not understand.

"Husband, what is this?" Li Nian also asked the same question as Zhao Ling'er.

"You ask this Yin Yang Liao, this is Dongying's Si Tianjian. I'm here today in the hope of meeting a strange person. Saying that, Zhao Weiji took out a letter and a piece of jade pendant from his cuff, which he asked for from Yuan Laiguang before going out. Then he handed these two things to the guard at the gate of the Yinyangliao.

The guard was taken aback when he saw the jade pendant, and immediately turned around and ran in, and after a while, an old man came out of it, followed by a bunch of people.

The old man was dressed in a wide robe with large sleeves, and a very tall hat on his head.

As soon as he saw this person, Zhao Weiji immediately affirmed that he was the person he was looking for, and what Zhao Weiji was looking for was the onmyoji who had a very legendary name in the history of District 11: Ampei Qingming.

"Sure enough, he looks a bit like a fox, no wonder the legend says that he is the child born of a fox." Seeing An Pei Qingming's first glance, Zhao Weiji suddenly had such an idea.

"The arrival of the prince of the Great Song Dynasty, Qingming has missed the distance, and he should really atone for his sins." As soon as An Pei Qingming came out, he immediately apologized to Zhao Weiji.

"It's okay, my visit to the master is also a whim when I went out today, so naturally no one knows the master."

"The prince is polite, please come in." After saying that, An Pei asked the people behind him to make way for Zhao Weiji's family, and then personally led the family into the Yin Yang Liao.

Because the Yinyangliao is completely different from the Taoist temples in the Central Plains, Zhao Weiji's three children are full of curiosity, looking east and west.

"The faces of the three sons and daughters of the prince are all indescribably precious, Qingming is here to congratulate the prince." When walking into the house, An Pei Qingming deliberately observed the faces of Zhao Weiji's three children, and then came to the conclusion that it was unspeakably expensive, and even the boy's face actually showed the appearance of an emperor, so that An Pei Qingming did not make too much trouble.

Although he knew that the Onmyoji of District 11 also had the ability to meet each other, he Zhao Weiji didn't believe in this, so he only smiled politely at An Pei Qingming.

And Zhao Weiji's two wives didn't know exactly what An Pei Qingming was doing, but they were also praising their children, so they also smiled politely.

The Yin Yang Liao is not big, and after walking for a few minutes, I arrived at a living room, so An Pei Qingming opened the door of the hall and let Zhao Weiji's family into the hall to sit.

After everyone was seated, Ampei spoke: "I don't know what the prince came here today, what is Qingming can help." ”

"Actually, I didn't have any masters when I came to find the master, but I just came here because I had heard the name of the master."

Although An Pei Qingming didn't know that Zhao Weiji hadn't heard of his name in the Central Plains, but knew him in countless cartoons later, it was still very happy for someone to come to visit, especially if this person was still the prince of the Great Song Dynasty of the Central Plains Dynasty.

"The prince praised it falsely, and the cheap name can actually let the prince know, Qingming is really scared."

Hearing An Pei's words, Zhao Weiji didn't take it seriously, just smiled, and then said: "I saw the master just now look at the faces of the children one by one, I wonder if the master can take a look at me at this time?" ”

Hearing that Zhao Weiji wanted to meet himself, Ampei Qingming naturally couldn't refuse, so he stared at Zhao Weiji's face and looked at it.

But Zhao Weiji's face is really too strange, from the face An Pei saw two completely different destinies, one is the emperor's face, and the other is inaction, these two completely contradictory faces appear on the same person's face so that An Pei can't make a judgment at all.

"The prince's face is too complicated, and he is only shallow in his studies, so he can't judge it for the prince."

Since Ampei couldn't say why, Zhao Weiji didn't care too much, he didn't believe in these things very much, and this time he came was just a problem with the psychology of otaku, and it was a holy land parade.

After some disturbance in Yin and Yang, Zhao Weiji led his family back to Genji's mansion.

After about ten days, the Yuan clan finally gathered the first wave of women, and Zhao Weiji was ready to carry these women back to Xinhua City.

Before taking away, Zhao Weiji and Yuan Laiguang had a separate meeting, and the purpose of this meeting was very simple, that is, Yuan Laiguang hoped to establish a long-term cooperative relationship with Zhao Weiji.

This is a bit in Zhao Weiji's arms, because in addition to the women in District 11, Zhao Weiji actually fell in love with one thing, that is, a large amount of silver ore rich in District 11.

Don't look at this island country, there are many volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis when nothing happens, and then there are not many resource-based mineral deposits, but there are a lot of silver mines and sulfur here. These two things are what Zhao Weiji values more.

Therefore, Zhao Weiji took the opportunity to ask Yuan Laiguang for the exploration right and 30-year development right of new mineral deposits on his territory in District 11.

Since a large amount of silver ore in District 11 was only discovered in the 16th century, Yuan Laiguang did not realize the importance of the problem at this time, and in his heart he still thought that there were not too many resources to be mined in his country, so he agreed to Zhao Weiji's request, as long as there was a supply of weapons and steel in the future.

Unexpectedly, everything went so smoothly, Zhao Weiji left District 11 with a lot of money and started the voyage back to Xinhua City.