Chapter 48: Return of the Gift
Zhu Yuntai's words surprised Qin Feng a little.
There are hundreds of women collected from Lu Kang's mansions, and they are basically taken by that guy from the people, and there are not a few of them who are very good-looking. Due to the urgency of time, he didn't have much thought at the time, and after reading it in a hurry, he threw it to this advisor to deal with.
Since Zhao Yuan had something to say first, and Zhu Yuntai, who learned about the true relationship between his son-in-law and Jiedu, his worries were eliminated a lot, and even after carefully selecting and comparing, he brought the ten best women back to Qin Feng's mansion.
“…… Childe, these women are actually poor people, most of their parents were killed by the heartbroken Lu Kang, if you don't want them, they will also be homeless, why bother? ”
Seeing that Qin Feng was a little hesitant, Zhu Yuntai waved his hand and motioned for the two women to withdraw first, and then came over and explained in a low voice.
Qin Feng's brows furrowed, if these women were returned to Zhao Yuanjin, most of the final fate would be rewarded as gifts to those heroes, or they would simply be sold in exchange for silver taels for military supplies. Although it is a common thing in this era, Qin Feng still can't accept this kind of casual handling of women like goods.
"Well, since you're here, stay here."
Qin Feng is not a hypocritical person, and immediately said: "Tomorrow, you will give each of them five hundred taels of silver, and let them take care of their own family affairs." After this round of fighting subsided, they were sent back to Jingnan County to be managed by Zhang Qiuyun. ”
"Yes, I will do as my son instructs."
Zhu Yuntai agreed, and took out an account book from his arms and presented it: "These are the two best mansions in the county town, plus a number of other high-quality industries and acres, all of which have been selected by the ministers. Childe, please. ”
Qin Feng took it over and looked at it for a while, and said, "You can arrange and take care of this matter, if you don't have enough manpower, recruit another batch, don't let them be idle and wasted." ”
The mansions and shops in the city naturally hired servants to do things, and many of them also signed deeds of sale, which were also part of the property. Now that they have been transferred to Qin Feng's name, he, the new owner, will naturally have to take care of the livelihood of these people in the future.
After pondering for a while, Qin Feng said again: "Since Zhao Yuanjin is so goodwill, I won't let him suffer, I will transfer two thousand sets of Tiefutu plate armor, plus the matching inner armor and blades, you can send someone to him tomorrow." ”
"You have worked hard this time, and you can withdraw 1,000 taels of silver from the account books later, plus 50 acres of fertile land, which can be regarded as a reward for you......"
There are a lot of things that are ordered, and Zhu Yuntai wrote them down one by one. After the business was over, Qin Feng called the twin sisters in, put the meal on the table, and the two of them sat down to eat and talk, and only after half an hour did they go back to their rooms to rest.
Early the next morning.
Zhao Yuanjin, who had just gotten up not long ago, received a message from his close attendant, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly washed up and came to the treasury.
Two thousand sets of black-covered Iron Floating Tu plate armor have been delivered, neatly arranged in the spacious storeroom. This thing was already placed in Qin Feng's dimensional space, and it was just taken out directly when needed.
"My lord, this is really a good thing!"
Song Wu, the general of the guard, greeted him and said happily: "The ministers have tried it, not to mention the general sword, even the heavy axe and the hard bow are difficult to get this kind of armor, if the whole army can use such armor, I am afraid that the enemy army of three or five times can easily defeat it......"
"You guy is greedy enough, this armor is not cheap, if you really want that, Ben Shuai's treasury will be consumed!" Zhao Yuanjin scolded with a smile.
It is not a secret that Qin Feng's guards are equipped with the Iron Floating Tu Scale Armor in batches, Zhao Yuanjin Junchen is extremely enthusiastic about this kind of treasure armor with excellent workmanship and high defensive power, but the weight is quite light, but the unit price of six hundred taels of silver is too amazing, even with Qin Feng's strong support, this Jiedu envoy cannot afford it.
In the end, he just gritted his teeth and bought three hundred sets to equip his personal guards. And this time, Qin Feng was able to repay the favor by generously sending him two thousand sets of plate armor with higher defensive power, which was undoubtedly an extremely rare gift.
In the era of cold weapons, the weight of plate armor was about 50% lighter than that of scale armor under the same level of defense, for example, the Song Dynasty Bu armor at the peak of scale armor weighed about 35 kilograms, while plate armor with the same level of defense only weighed about 23 kilograms. Therefore, after switching to plate armor, the power of the machine will increase significantly under the same defensive power, which has a significant impact on the improvement of the army's combat power. Only due to the limitation of technical conditions, the cost of plate armor remains high.
Of course, this knotted envoy did not know that with the level of craftsmanship in the main world, with mechanical stamping technology, the difficulty of hand-building armor directly with steel plates was completely gone, resulting in a significant reduction in the production cost of plate armor, which basically only depended on the price of steel.
Therefore, Qin Feng purchased a complete set of high-standard tungsten steel alloy plate armor equipment in the main world, together with blades and inner armor, etc., and the cost has been reduced to less than 50,000 Huaxia coins, and 2,000 sets are only 100 million.
But Qin Feng's income from this raid is only the pair of glass imperial green bracelets, as long as one of them is taken out and thrown at the international auction, the final transaction price is far more than 100 million, not to mention other jewelry and gold and the like, so he also made a lot of money.
Moreover, Qin Feng ordered a large number of crafts in the name of craft collections, so he didn't have to worry about attracting the attention of some forces, after all, the main world was already an era when hot weapons were popular, no matter how many of these antique armor blades were, it was a joke in front of firearms, which big man would care? Comparatively speaking, those who play with arms, drugs, and smuggling are the targets that deserve their attention.
“…… My lord, how do you distribute these armors? Song Wu asked.
"Well, take out five hundred sets, and all officers above the rank of guard general in the whole army can receive one set. Let's distribute the rest to the guard battalion. Zhao Yuanjin said.
Song Wu happily agreed.
"That immortal chief is so generous, maybe he has discovered something important to him, right? It's better to do this way, it's better to let him do this errand of raiding the house every time he captures a city in the future. Zhao Yuanjin said to himself.
Two thousand sets of iron floating slaughter plate armor, according to the price standard of this world, 1.2 million taels of silver can't be beaten, and the Son of Heaven's own army does not have the capital to be so extravagant. If Qin Feng could send him a batch of such good things every time, Zhao Yuanjin felt that he would not lose anything.
Song Wu looked at his face, hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help but come over and whisper: "Lord, Qin Feng is indeed indispensable to our great cause now. But for the long term...... I'm afraid it's not a blessing for the community? ”
Zhao Yuanjin and Qin Feng's status as monarchs and ministers is just for outsiders to see, in fact, the two belong to the relationship of equal collaborators, and to some extent, Qin Feng's status is even higher. This can be seen from Zhao Yuanjin's extraordinarily preferential treatment of him, but he has no objections to his requests.
This move aroused the dissatisfaction and even jealousy of many people outside who did not know the truth, and even Song Wu, who knew Qin Feng's true identity, felt that his lord had done something too much.
Zhao Yuanjin's face was slightly cold, and he stared at him for a long time before he said lightly: "Can the power of mortal beings fight against immortals?" ”
"This ......" Song Wu's face was stunned and he shook his head slightly.
"Will the authority of the mortal world be looked upon by the gods?" Zhao Yuanjin asked again.
"......" Song Wu pondered, and finally shook his head.
"So, what do you have to worry about?"
Zhao Yuan stood with his hands in his hands, his eyes looking at the floating clouds in the sky with deep eyes: "I don't know if Qin Feng is a real immortal, but he has the means to threaten human immortals, but this can't be faked." An existence that can despise human immortals, how can the future court be able to fight against it? ”
"And I can see that he is not very enthusiastic about this worldly power, otherwise he could have raised a team to fight the country by himself with his ability, but he chose to support me. If it weren't for him, we would all have died months ago, wouldn't we? ”
"That's right, it's the minister who is too worried." Song Wu sighed.
Zhao Yuan glanced at his henchman, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said, "You are not the first person to sue Qin Feng in front of me, those few guys who have no eyesight have already gone where they should go." You grew up with me since I was a child, and your love is extraordinary, so forget it this time. Remember not to make mistakes again in the future. ”
"Yes, my lord."
Song Wu said solemnly: "And the ministers will admonish those who don't open their eyes, but anyone who dares to talk about Qin Feng behind his back will definitely be severely punished!" ”
Zhao Yuanjin bowed slightly.
In the next month or so, while the imperial army was dragged in the Huaiyang area, the Zhao army continued to march in a big way, and Yuhua County, Lingwu County, Changsha County, Jiangling County and other counties were captured one by one.
With a weapon like the return cannon in hand, the most tenacious county town will only have a few days to resist, and then the city will be breached, and there will be no casualties.
At Qin Feng's suggestion, every time the city was built, the Zhao army would purge the old hostile forces, reorganize and surrender troops, and appease the people. Rigidity and softness are combined to win the hearts of the people and stabilize the surrounding areas.
Such a move had an immediate effect, so much so that by the time Zhao Yuanjin's troops entered Jiangling City, the army of 40,000 had expanded to nearly 100,000 people, and the momentum was getting bigger and bigger.
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()PS: Say a few words of gossip, book friends are from God's point of view, and they know at a glance what the protagonist does, so there are always some friends who like to be more serious and like to pick thorns, thinking that the protagonist is not reasonable to do this, and doing so will also arouse the suspicion of the relevant departments. But I don't want to think about whether those so-called superiors have such an unparalleled intelligence advantage in the book?
At least on the surface, the protagonist's behavior is just that of an ordinary businessman, whether he buys or sells something, there is nothing illegal or out of line. Comparatively speaking, aren't those who are engaged in espionage, arms, drugs, goods, etc., more likely to attract attention than the protagonist? Why don't those who are in the upper echelons care about the big fish, so they have to stare at the inconspicuous little shrimp of the protagonist? Do they also have a golden finger?
Every time the protagonist buys or sells resources, the value is only hundreds of millions, and the number of hundreds of millions is very rare, compared with those super drug lords, smugglers, and arms giants?
Besides, this is just a novel after all, so what's the point of taking it too seriously? )