A few fast horses rushed to Nakajima overnight and met Charles a few days later.

After listening to the order conveyed by the cavalry, Charles clapped his hands with laughter.

"Is this what His Royal Highness the Prince said about 'breaking the regional balance'? It's amazing. Go to the port now and wait for the merchant ships of the north! ”

In Uttar Pradesh, truckloads of silver mines depart from the special industrial zone, and the white silver ore makes people drool when they look at it.

These are all dug up by Rick these days. Since Daisy was no longer short of sulfur and bombs could be made, mining was easy.

Luo Lan greeted the silver ore at the port of Phuket City, along with Meade.

Mead took a merchant ship and a warship around the northern section of Phuket Island and arrived on the east coast.

It is only ten nautical miles away from Nanyuan, and if there are fishermen from Nanyuan, they are likely to see a large ship here.

However, Luo Lan was not worried, because it was Barron's order for the Aiman fleet to do business with him, and he would not care if he found out about the fleet.

Boxes of silver ore were loaded onto merchant ships, and even warships were placed in large quantities, and there were thousands of kilograms of silver ore here.

It is more difficult for Phuket to digest these silver ores, because there is no place to use them, but it is better to pull them overseas to exchange things. Of course, this is only temporary, and when the industrial technology is developed in the future, Luo Lan will not sell resources.

The merchant ships carried silver ore south, passing through small ports and finally arriving at the port of Nakashima State six days later.

This port is actually a fishing village ferry, but it has been expanded a little, barely enough to accommodate two large ships.

Mead met Charles here.

The nearby villagers came to see the excitement, they had never seen such a big ship, and even the coal ship was pitifully small.

Charles and Mead got to know each other, and then set off for Nanshan Country.

They deliberately drove close to shore and slowed down to pass specifically off the coast of Utan Pradesh.

Such two large boats, passing through the coast of Utan Pradesh, immediately alarmed the fishermen of Utan Pradesh, and many people were shocked.

In the city of Gargo, the courtiers drank wine with laughter, and today Gargo was happy and specially feasted the courtiers.

The ministers also complimented him vigorously.

"The new king is like a god, Luo Lan really didn't dare to wave his army south, he just deliberately scared us. It's been more than two months, and the peasant army hasn't grown at all, waving hoes and screaming all day long, laughing to death. ”

"That is, as soon as we release 2,000 elite soldiers in the grassland, his 20,000 peasant army will come to seek death."

Listening to the compliments of the ministers, Gargo smiled smugly.

He dismantled Luo Lan's insidious schemes, and instead of crushing his own agriculture, he made Luo Lan's peasant army shout in vain for more than two months, which makes people laugh when they think about it.

"Soon the spring harvest will be over, and after the last grain collection, this king will buy ten trebuchets and two hundred bows and arrows, and I will see how Luo Lan moves me, drink!"

"Drink!"

Everyone was happy, but at this moment, a soldier rushed in.

"New king, the fishermen said that there were two big boats from the north, both ten meters high and thirty meters long, which was too scary."

The palace was shocked, and Gargo's pupils shrank: "Is it a merchant ship or a war ship?" ”

"This ...... It's not very clear, but there was a ship with armor and trebuchets. ”

"It's a warship, a warship from the northern realm, that would come here? What do they want to do? ”

The courtiers were uneasy, and then another soldier ran in and reported: "New king, the fishermen in the port say that the people on the boat greet you, they are the subordinates of Prince Luo Lan, passing through the southern state, and there is no malice. ”

"What!"

Gargo stood up in shock, how could Luo Lan have such a big ship?

"Let's go, let's see!"

Gargo led his ministers and rushed to the harbor.

However, when I got here, I could only see the backs of the two big ships in the distance.

They sailed to the South Mountain Country.

Gargo's face was extremely ugly, and the courtiers also thought of something, and their faces changed greatly.

No one spoke, except for a fisherman.

The fisherman had just come up from the sea, and he was holding a silver stone in his hand.

Everyone looked over.

"Silver ore?" Someone was surprised, and the fisherman explained in surprise and joy: "It fell from the big boat, they didn't find it, I secretly went to pick it up." ”

The fishermen were happy, but Gargo and his party turned pale.

"They have silver ore? How can it be? Twenty years ago, the aristocratic mining campaign did not find a single iron ore, and now they have found silver ore? ”

An old minister exclaimed, and Gargo's fingers were pinched to death.

"Send someone to Nanshan Country immediately, we must find out about this matter!"

"Yes!"

A few days later, the capital of Nanshan Kingdom, a quaint castle built on the top of a hill.

Forty ministers attended the king's meeting, which included not only his own courtiers, but also two outsiders.

These two were none other than Charles and Mead.

The old king of Nanshan Kingdom must be in his fifties, his face was frowned, and his eyes were a little bad, he poked his head to look at the beautiful piece of polished silver ore in Charles's hand.

Silver ore is only as valuable as gold, but silver ore is no easier to mine than gold.

Since most of the silver ore is scattered, like the roots of a tree, it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to find a concentrated silver mine.

What's more, the miners did not have explosives, and only relied on manual excavation, which can be imagined.

So when Charles came to visit with two boatloads of silver ore, the monarchs and ministers of the entire Nanshan Kingdom were alarmed.

Nanshan is a poor country, with scarce arable land, mountains everywhere, and a population of only 2 million, most of whom are herders, and even rely on imports for food.

Fortunately, the craftsmen of Nanshan Country are very powerful, and they have brought the advantages of wood to the extreme in this "forest kingdom".

Trebuchets, bows and arrows, spears, wooden buildings...... Everything related to timber is very good at Nanshan country, and it is precisely by relying on this craft that Nanshan country can be maintained.

"Ah...... Prince Luo Lan of Phuket? Haha, I've heard of it for a long time, it's the heir of the Sea Spirit Kingdom. ”

The old king looked at the silver ore for a while and began to speak. He seemed to have phlegm in his throat, and he spoke rustlingly.

Charles stooped down and saluted, and handed the silver ore with both hands.

"Your Majesty, this piece of silver ore is so natural, it has only been polished a little to give it such a luster, it was originally intended to be collected by His Royal Highness the Prince, but I asked for it to be presented to His Majesty the King."

Charles's compliment made the old king laugh, and the courtiers also showed happy expressions.

The atmosphere between the two sides was very harmonious.

Then Charles made his intentions clear, and the atmosphere began to get cold.

A noble minister of very high status asked Charles, "I have heard that the prince of the north of Phuket is at odds with the lord of the south, and this time he has bought so many weapons from us, is it to attack the southern state?" ”

Nanshan and Nanshan are friends, so the minister has this question.

Everyone was staring at Charles.

Charles smiled faintly: "Hmm." ”

He responded briefly, but the ministers were in an uproar, they thought Charles would not admit it.

The old king coughed twice, looked at the minister and then at Charles: "This...... Our Nanshan country has always been friendly neighbors with the southern state, and two years ago there was a famine in our country, and it was the southern state that rescued us, so this ......"

The old king was coy, where would he care about any friendly country, he wanted to make war money, and now he did not agree to it was nothing more than to increase the price.

Charles saw through everything, and he took out a piece of parchment from his bosom and handed it to the old king.

"This is my edict from Prince Luo Lan, and I am willing to become a friend with Nanshan Country and be friendly forever. At the same time, Prince Luo Lan will not ask the Nanshan Kingdom to stop supplying weapons to the Southern Pradesh, and will not make any national-level demands, as long as they trade on an equal footing. ”

"Good...... That's good. The old king nodded immediately, but the minister hurriedly stopped: "Wait, Mr. Charles, you know that our country lacks arable land, and in the past, we imported from the countries of the Western Regions, and lost countless money. In these two years, you can import some of the people into the southern state, so that hundreds of thousands of people in the east will no longer go hungry, if you lay down the southern state......"

"If Prince Luo Lan conquers the Southern State, he will fulfill the original trade obligations of the Southern State and still provide grain to your country, and the amount will be more than ten times."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.

"Really?"

"For Phuket, silver ore is far more precious than grain, and if we can bring two boatloads of silver ore, we can bring twenty boatloads of wheat."