When Wang Mang looked at Meng Shu, Meng Shu's gaze also cut to Wang Mang, the two looked at each other, and finally Meng Shu bowed to Wang Mang with a solemn face and said: "Meng Shu has seen His Majesty the Emperor of Great Qin, please forgive Meng Huo for having rattan armor and not being able to see His Majesty with a big bow." ”

See you in the big bow?

Wang Mang smiled in his heart, this Meng Shu can speak, but he doesn't believe that Meng Shu will really pay a big respect, in the eyes of Meng Shu, Wang Mang does not see the slightest reverence.

Not interested in saying these non-nutritious words, Wang Mang said directly: "What do you want to do, or what do you want?"

Unlike Guo Yi, who was only appointed by Guo Changfu as the leader of the army present, Meng Huo was the real leader of these rattan armor soldiers, which could be seen from the eyes of the rattan armor soldiers looking at Meng Huo.

"Meng Shu, like these rattan armor soldiers, is now just fish and meat on His Majesty's chopping board, how dare he negotiate terms with His Majesty. Meng Shu smiled bitterly and said, "Meng Huo wants to know what His Majesty wants?"

"Then what do you think I want?" Wang Mang looked at Meng Shu meaningfully.

Meng Shu cleared his throat and said loudly: " His Majesty is the son of the Holy Tomorrow, the Son of Heaven is rich all over the world, there is nothing in the world that His Majesty puts in his eyes, if you have to say what Your Majesty wants now, it must be the work of opening up the territory and expanding the territory, the Great Qin has been established for hundreds of years, since the Holy Ancestor Emperor, the territory of the Great Qin has not changed, if Your Majesty takes the Kingdom of Yu this time, and successfully expands the territory for the Great Qin, then Your Majesty's prestige will be comparable to the Great Qin opened the Holy Ancestor, this is what Your Majesty wants, this is the ambition of an excellent king, and now Your Majesty is only one step away from this ambition. ”

"Then why is it one step?" Wang Mang said: "According to the agreement between the Continental Alliance and me, the Kingdom of Qiu is now the territory of my Great Qin, and I am not only one step away from annexing the Kingdom of Qiu, but has already annexed it. ”

"Really?" Meng Shu smiled and said, "Your Majesty, do you know who the vine armor soldiers are made of?"

"I want to hear about it. Wang Mang said, his understanding of the powerful class of rattan armor soldiers was limited to its strong strength, but he did not understand the deep meaning of it.

"There are 80,000 rattan armor soldiers in the country of Qiu, this is a fixed number, it is the agreement made by the monarch of the country of Qiu and the major families of the country at that time when the country of Qiu was founded, this number can never be changed, and it will always be maintained at 80,000 people, so it is not that there are no more rattan armor soldiers in the country of Qiu, but because of the agreement of the ancestors, the number of 80,000 rattan armor soldiers has been maintained. Meng Shu said: "Today, on the battlefield, my country has dispatched a total of 50,000 rattan armor soldiers, and now about 35,000 people have died on the battlefield, but I can tell Your Majesty that now in the territory of the Kingdom of Qiu, there are 35,000 people who have put on rattan armor and re-formed the rattan armor legion. ”

Meng Huo's words fell on the ears of the Qin Dynasty monarchs and ministers, and at that time, Wang Mang looked at Meng Huo with a shocked face, Wang Jian grabbed Guo Yi and said: "What Meng Huo said is true." ”

Guo Yi laughed dryly and said, "It should be true." ”

"What should be true?" Wang Jian said.

"Actually, I don't know much about the vine armor soldiers. Guo Yi made Wang Jian anxious, and said directly: "As I said to Meng Shu before, the rattan armor soldiers do not belong to the Guo family, but belong to the kingdom of Qiu, according to the agreement of the ancestors, the country of Qiu is controlled by the Guo family, but the supreme power of the country is controlled by the family alliance of the country of Qiu, and the Meng family is the great elder of the family alliance, and the leader of the vine armor soldiers has always been the leader of the Meng family, and now the leader of the vine armor soldiers is Meng Shu's father Meng Shan. ”

After Guo Yi's explanation, the Great Qin courtiers understood the belonging of the vine armor soldiers, Wang Mang looked at Meng Shu, raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you want to say?"

"Your Majesty, the rattan armor soldiers are the army jointly formed by the alliance of the kingdom of Qiu, there are seventy-two families in the kingdom of Qiu, these seventy-two families control eighty percent of the land and population of the kingdom of Qiu, and all the rattan armor soldiers are elite disciples selected from the seventy-two families, if Your Majesty insists on exterminating all the vine armor soldiers here, then the seventy-two families of the kingdom of Qiu will definitely fight with Your Majesty. Meng Shu said lightly: "The strength of the rattan armor soldiers, Your Majesty has also seen it, fighting in the territory of our country, the strength of the vine armor soldiers will be higher, and Your Majesty's heavy armor infantry or heavy armor cavalry in the land of our country, there is no advantage, Your Majesty is the son of the Holy Heaven, naturally knows how to choose." ”

Wang Mang looked at Meng Huo deeply, he understood what Meng Shu meant, Meng Shu's meaning was very clear, their rattan armor soldiers here were just elite soldiers selected by the seventy-two families of the Kingdom of Qiu, elite soldiers like them, there were many in the seventy-two families, and the family alliance and the Guo family of the royal family were not harmonious, they would not give the Guo family very face, if Wang Mang insisted on killing all the vine armor soldiers, it would definitely be a mortal enmity with the seventy-two families, in this way, if Great Qin wanted to really annex the Kingdom of Yu into his own land, it would be a very difficult thing。

"The Continental Alliance should know about these secret things of your kingdom, right?" Wang Mang asked suddenly.

Meng Xu looked stunned for a moment, and said directly: "Of course they know, after all, my Kingdom of Yu is also a member of the Continental Alliance, as early as hundreds of years ago, the Continental Alliance also recruited vine armor soldiers to fight, and it was also at that time that they knew that our Kingdom of Yu was actually a state of co-governance between the king and the Family Alliance." ”

Hearing this, Wang Mang couldn't help frowning, it turned out that he was really kind enough to give him the Kingdom of Yu when he was in the Continental Alliance, but he never thought that the Continental Alliance would put him together here.

Due to the existence of the Family Alliance, even if Wang Mang defeats the royal family of the Kingdom of Qiu, he can only occupy the land occupied by the Guo family, as for the Kingdom of Qiu, which has more land in the hands of the Family Alliance, Wang Mang can't take it at all, or in other words, if he wants to take it down, Daqin will pay a very high price, and these are the pits dug by the Continental Alliance for Wang Mang, poor Wang Mang doesn't know anything, and jumps off the pit with a grateful face.

After thinking about it, Wang Mang looked at Meng Shu again and said: "Very good, you have successfully persuaded me, you are so smart, you must know that I will never let you leave easily, I can tell you very clearly, Yu Guo, I am going to decide, since you persuaded me not to kill these rattan armor soldiers behind you, then you have to give me an explanation, a statement to let you go." ”

"I can't give His Majesty an explanation, but I can find someone who can explain it to His Majesty. Meng Shu said preparedly: "The rattan armor soldiers here, I can order them to lay down their weapons, Your Majesty can look at them, but Your Majesty must not kill them, and I, I will return to the Kingdom of Yu and report the matter here to the Great Elder of the Alliance, and they will decide the matter here." ”

Wang Mang looked at Meng Shu and said, "What you are saying now, in my opinion, most of them are empty words, show your sincerity, and let me believe you." ”

Meng Shu looked at Wang Mang, and after a long time, he carefully took out a piece of animal skin from his arms.