Charlie Cao was not satisfied that only these wall grasses drew a clear line with the Eastern Empire, and the vast majority of them did not express their position, this is not good, they must find a way, he looked at the nobles who were sitting on the chairs of the councilors, but their eyes were looking at the dome of the conference room, and he knew that he had to take some fierce medicine, otherwise these nobles who were above the top would not give in, he pointed to one of the old nobles who looked at the top and asked: "You, yes, it's you, are you dissatisfied with our Xiongnu Empire?" And a few of you, do you look down on our Hun Empire? Did you kill our soldiers with your own personal forces when our army entered the city? I don't need you to admit that your expressions have betrayed you, come on, drag these eight guys who are armed to resist us down and cut them down! ”

"Follow me!" Charlie Cao's chief guard was about to wave his hand, and the soldiers rushed in from outside, grabbed the six nobles pointed by Charlie Cao, and dragged them to the corridor near the door, and cut off all six people's heads one by one.

This bloody scene is extremely metamorphosis for those who suffer from extreme changes. It is a very beautiful picture for the nobles who are symptomatic, but for those nobles who rarely see blood and grew up in a greenhouse, this kind of scene is too cruel, many people screamed in fright on the spot, and some even fainted to death, and the rest were uneasy, they were afraid that Charlie Cao would cut them, this kind of game is not fun.

So all the nobles and wealthy merchants present raised their hands to express their willingness to break away from the Eastern Empire and be willing to join the Xiongnu Empire. In this kind of shì, only a fool will die to the end.

Charlie Cao was so pleased with the result he had made that he waved his hand to bring parchment, quill, and ink. Let these nobles and wealthy businessmen write their names on the names of each one, as a certificate, if someone makes trouble in the future, or is not honest, the names they signed will appear in the hands of Leo I, the nobles and wealthy businessmen know that signing this vote is equivalent to completely selling themselves and their families to the Huns, tying themselves and their families to the ship of the Hun Empire. But they have no choice, if they don't sign it, they will die!

Charlie Cao was very happy to put away a large number of letters of submission and handed them to his chief of guard for safekeeping, and then proceeded to the next step. Now that these nobles and wealthy businessmen have joined the service, the next step is to slaughter the fat sheep, what is the fat sheep? Rich aristocrats and wealthy merchants, they are fat sheep. The nobles with slaves and private armies in their hands are fat sheep. These people must be slaughtered, if they are not slaughtered, they will not be slaughtered, they will not be slaughtered, and if they are not slaughtered, they will be sorry for themselves, before he came, Qin Dong clearly said this to him.

After leaving the certificate of nomination to the chief of the guard for safekeeping, Charlie Cao looked at the nobles and wealthy merchants in the seats with a smile, his expression was too evil. made these nobles and wealthy businessmen can't help but shiver.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our army is new to Constantinople. But we found that the treasury of Constantinople was so empty that it could run a carriage, and a large number of rats starved to death in the granary of the government, from which it can be seen that we got nothing in Constantinople! ”

Who believes! The nobles and wealthy merchants couldn't help but muttered in their hearts, but they didn't believe Charles's words, if it were other cities, they would like to believe that this situation might really occur in the treasury of the government, but it was absolutely impossible for Constantinople to have this situation, there must be a large number of gold coins, silver coins and copper plates in the treasury, and there should also be many gold bricks and a large number of gold and silver utensils and all kinds of beautiful and precious works of art, and the grain in the granary can be enough for the entire citizens of Constantinople to eat for five years without lack of food, In history, Constantinople has not been besieged, and once relied on several walls to hold on to three years without falling.

Charlie Cao ignored the colorful expressions on the faces of those nobles and wealthy merchants, and he continued: "There are still two legions of the Eastern Empire outside the city, the twenty-fourth legion and the twenty-ninth legion, but you don't have to worry, I can tell you, now that our army has gone out of the city to raid their barracks, there will be good news in a few hours!" ”

This news came out of Charlie Cao's mouth, and suddenly those nobles who still had a glimmer of hope completely lost the hope of breaking away from the rule of the Huns, these people's faces were dead, and their expressions became dull, Charlie Cao noticed, but he didn't say anything, but continued to speak.

"Since we didn't get much money in Constantinople, we didn't even have the military expenses for this trip, and this time we have to send troops out to attack the 24th Army and the 29th Army, and then the army will advance westward, like a sharp knife to the back of the five army corps on the border, which has caused our military spending to be insufficient, since you are all nobles and wealthy merchants in Constantinople, and you are also the richest group of people in Constantinople, should you support the military operations of the Empire? I don't know if you can help with this military spending? ”

As soon as these words came out, the nobles and wealthy businessmen were stunned for a moment, but they instantly understood that this was a blatant demand for money! And it has to be so natural, but Charlie Cao's words have been said, if no one echoes the answer, it is estimated that there will be another death, or the fat pig Pete spoke first, he knew that even if he didn't speak first, there would be other people who spoke, and speaking first was not necessarily a bad thing, nor was it necessarily that he paid the most.

"Venerable National Teacher, I don't know how much military money my army needs? How much do you need to get for each person? ”

Charlie Cao said with a smile: "Of course, the more military spending, the better, the more military spending, the longer the army will fight, as for how much each of you will pay, it depends on your own wishes, the more you pay, the more loyal you are to our Hun Empire, and vice versa!" ”

Shameless, it's really shameless, even linking loyalty to the amount of money paid, is there anything more shameless than such a person in this world? The nobles all scolded in their hearts, but there was no trace of anger on their faces, and in order to maintain their dignity, they tried to keep smiling, even if they wanted to pluck Charlie Cao's skin in their hearts, they had to pretend to be flattering. This is the face of the upper nobles of the Eastern Empire.

Seeing that no one else spoke, the fat pig Pete raised his hand with a roll of his eyes and said: "Honorable National Teacher, the villain Pete is naturally extremely loyal to the Hun Empire. The villain is willing to give out a thousand gold coins, oh no, two thousand gold coins! ”

"Ahem!" Charlie Cao coughed twice and said, "Pete, since you are extremely loyal to the empire, if you don't give 10,000 gold dollars, how can you show your loyalty to the empire?" ”

"Huh?" Pete's mouth opened wide in shock, he had already thought of taking out two thousand gold coins. Unexpectedly, Charlie Cao was still not satisfied, and directly raised the number to 10,000, and it was not a gold coin. Rather, it is the gold dollar, the currency of the Xiongnu Empire, and according to the current ratio of huàn, one gold yuan can be exchanged for huàn three gold coins. And so on 30,000 gold coins. It's a fifteen-fold increase!

"Why, Pete, don't you want to?"

When Pete heard this, he was so frightened that beads of sweat instantly welled up all over his body: "Oh no, the villain is willing, willing, willing to serve the empire and calculate all the family property!" ”

"Hahaha!" Charlie Cao smiled: "Your kindness is understood by the national teacher, and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent also knows, so you don't need to take out all your family property." We're short of money, but we're not going to do this kind of thing. In the future, the empire's economy will still need to be maintained by you! Since you are the first person to come up with 10,000 gold dollars, and you have no title in your hand, I hope you will be rewarded with the title of baron of the first class after your national division has informed His Royal Highness the Regent, and I hope you will live up to the expectations of the Lord Regent and your national division! ”

"Ah, thank you, thank you, thank you, the villain was so moved that he cried bitterly" Pete knelt on the ground and trembled with excitement. Although a person like him is rich in Constantinople, his status is really not high, and a down-and-out nobleman can bully him, but now it is different, he is a baron and a nobleman, who dares to bully him casually?

With Pete's example, other nobles and wealthy merchants rushed to report the amount of money they had donated to the army, ranging from a few thousand gold coins to tens of thousands of gold coins, and the least of them exceeded three thousand.

Half an hour later, all the nobles and wealthy merchants reported the amount of their donations, which were recorded by special people, and after statistics, the figure of 2.4 million was obtained.

These nobles and wealthy merchants of Constantinople are really rich, Charlie Cao felt in his heart, but now is not the time to feel the feelings, there is still something to do!

"Hahaha, thank you for your generosity and generosity, which alleviated the dilemma of insufficient military funds for my army, and I once again express my gratitude to Your Highness on behalf of the regent!" After such a long time of mixing with Qin Dong, he also learned some of Qin Dong's tunes, and now he is showing off in front of these noble lords.

Without waiting for these nobles to understand, he continued: "Although there is no problem in terms of military spending, but now there is a new problem, everyone knows that there are five legions waiting for our army on the border, although we are not afraid of them with our current strength, but if we really fight, we will have no problem winning, but the casualties will be very large, so we still need some troops, but we only have so many troops in Constantinople, and we can't conjure them out of thin air. It's just that this method needs your support, the national division heard that there are a lot of armed guards and armed slaves in your house, these people have a certain combat effectiveness, if they are gathered together, it must be a very considerable combat effectiveness of the army, I have made up my mind, after dawn, the national division will send troops to your house to receive these armed forces, but you can rest assured, wait for the end of the war, the national division promised to return these people to you, but now it is wartime, there is no way! ”

The nobles couldn't help but smile bitterly when they heard this, did these armed guards and strong slaves come back after they were borrowed? Isn't this obviously a fool? Although they were very reluctant, they had no choice but to obediently hand over the armed forces of their own government.

The reason why Charlie Cao did this was also on the orders of Qin Dong, which had several advantages, first, it could eliminate the hidden dangers brought by these people to Constantinople, and second, the combat effectiveness of these armed guards and slaves was good, and if it was pulled into the battlefield after some training, it was also an army with good combat effectiveness, and with these participating in the battle, it could reduce the casualties of the Hun army. It's a win-win. (To be continued......)