Chapter 369: The Messenger

Unbeknownst to the elders of Mara, their demand for negotiations only boosted Li Changning and strengthened his desire to continue the shelling. 【Full Text Reading】Hand-typed Novel [-] Free Text Update!

The use of tank guns as artillery comes at a cost. First of all, the price of grenades, the factory price is not high, but Mo Shaoqiu's price is very expensive. The second is the life of the barrel of the tank. The quality of Soviet artillery has always been poor, and the old tanks in the late World War II had a good barrel that could hit 3oo, and the initial high armor-piercing shells were only 200. If the shelling continues for another three days, all these old tanks will have to change their barrels. As far as the environment of the Western Continent is concerned, this tank can be considered temporarily scrapped.

Of course, now with a clear agreement with Muse, just four barrels is a matter of xiao.

Li Changning attended the negotiations attended by Sir Muse, and the agreement of the Senate was clear: "All agreements in the slave camps are null and void, and anything can be negotiated." ”

The same euphemism is tantamount to agreeing to the continued slave trade in the slave camps.

With this guarantee, Liao brought back 25oo slaves on the same day, almost double the number used before, and the price was half that of less, without any hindrance.

Seeing this effect, Chen Yi really allocated 2 new tanks to the tank company, plus 2 training tanks, the tank battalion is equal to 6 tanks. Enough to replace the shelling for a week.

Li Changning, of course, will not give up the shelling.

He didn't even tell the Muses what he wanted, but used shelling, native-fired shots, shelling, native-shot shots to prevent Mara from repairing a third of the ruined walls, and then waited for them to come up with harsher conditions of submission.

The shelling and long-range shooting were very safe operations for the Xijiang Walled City - perhaps not so safe for the indigenous companies, but they were finally protected by Samison armored vehicles, and there were no casualties in a short period of time.

After a few days of waiting, the riverside West Malaysia Market finally made a choice between danger and copper coins, and most of the merchants reopened on the day of the muse's arrival.

But for the soldiers of Marat, it was a nightmare day.

At first, they drove slaves to repair the walls, but later the slaves preferred to be killed rather than go to the eastern walls, so the soldiers were expelled by the knights...... If they win in the end, the so-called "Xijiang Artillery Battle" will emerge with many singing and crying stories.

It is a pity that the Senate sued for peace.

They must make peace. Because the Temple War is about to begin, all the troops will be fully armed, and the number of people who are short will determine the position of the priest Iyar. The absence of a certain structure would have him step down and have a serious impact on the temple's perception of the city-state - any reason for the temple would be inaccurate, and any city-state would have problems, in fact, there would be so many rebellions during temple wars, and even the most remote hill dwellers knew that their armies would be moved to the front......

Therefore, the temple always requires a fully staffed formed unit, without exception.

Unwilling to step down and lose his army, Iyar forbade any Temple troops to fight back. Iyar also didn't want to be demoted or belittled, so he asked the Temple troops to go to the battlefield as scheduled......

The elders of Mara had no choice but to make peace, and anxiously for peace.

The muse once lowered the conditions to the point of compensation, but still did not get a response from Li Changning.

Had it not been for the reduced time of his bombardment, the nobles of Mara City would have almost thought that they wanted to take the city-state. Although they do want to.

On the last day before Chen Yilin's departure, Sir Damas stood in front of the gate of the Xijiang Walled City. This high-ranking envoy also visited the newly built Xijiang Water Village, so he was elected by the nobles.

If Sir Damas was still a little interested in Xijiang City in the past, he walked into the city gate today like a rabbit cornered by a wolf, having to burrow into a skunk's room and endure endless long farts......

Sir Damas wrinkled his nose vigorously, and he didn't even have time to enter the hotel on the second floor of the Xiao Building on the east side of the square, and asked first: "Who is Li Changning?" ”

The only work that the Muse has done over the past few days has been to identify the person responsible for the shelling and negotiations.

"Maybe you'd like to rest for the night, this long way." Dai Adi smiled a little infiltratively, and chose him to be Sir Damas's receptionist, that is, Li Changning's filth can come up with

"No, I'm not tired." Where did Sir Damas dare to delay his efforts any longer. The Lord Priestess was almost seated in the Senate and urged his temple troops to set off.

If they don't solve the problem of Xijiang City, who would dare to let them go.

"If you can, let's invite Mr. Li Changning to come."

"Where would you like to meet?"

"What?"

Dai Adi smiled like a skunk and said: "We have three reception points, respectively by the river, by the square, oh, and there is a central hua garden we built, which has pavilions and pavilions, Taihu Lake Stone, really Taihu Lake Stone, really good Taihu Stone." What do you like? ”

"When will I see Li Changning."

"Oh...... This one. Dai Adi said with a smile: "Our foreign office requires you to meet with a few officials first, so as to preliminarily determine the content and scope of the negotiations, as well as the degree of details......

Sir Damas didn't understand most of what he said, but he understood one thing, and the other party wanted to stall for time.

As a political figure, this made his imagination run wild......

The direct result of delaying time is delaying the dispatch of troops from the Mara city-state, which changes many things. The temple's view of the temple of the Mara city-state, the appointment and dismissal of the celebrants, the funding received by the city of Marat, the distribution of the spoils of war, the borrowing of the temple's force......

"What do you want?" The negotiations that Damas decided to begin immediately were here, right now, at the gates. He didn't have long to go to 1ang fee.

"I don't have permission to talk about that." Dai Adi has a strange voice, partly brought by konjac, partly because of himself.

"If you don't want to talk, I'll have to leave." Damas retreated as an advance and made a last resort.

Dai Adi made a gesture of congratulations.

Damas did not move, but said: "It seems that you really want to negotiate, but I must see His Excellency Li Changning before I can start negotiations." ”

"Well, maybe you'll see you tomorrow." Diadi insisted on taking Sir Damas to rest, and it was the most crowded Plaza Hotel, so that merchants from distant city-states could see the Marat emissaries who had come to sue for peace.

The West Malaysia market was back to normal that night - and the reason for this is that savvy merchants would sign up to buy goods that night from those who were not well-informed.

This is an act of self-interest, without the indoctrination of anyone, the invisible hand of the market will lead them.

The next day, Chen Yi left the Xijiang Walled City. He demanded only two things from Li Changning, to clarify the property rights of the natural rubber plantation, to at least demolish the eastern wall of Mara City, and not to rebuild it for 1o years.

Of course, Li Changning's goal is more than that, this is the most important task he has undertaken since he came to the Western Continent, and he must be brilliant enough to gain a firm foothold in the diamond-shaped conference hall.

Therefore, after Chen Yi left, he did not immediately meet Sir Damas, but asked Dai Adi to lead them around the city, especially the Xijiang Wharf.

Like all commercial cities, Xijiang Wharf is the most prosperous area of the walled city.

Merchants from afar will come to the Xijiang wharf at a rate of 3o% loss, and then load a shipload of "Jiangning cargo" home—the same risk of losing 3o%......

Among the materials that Chen Yi transported from Jiangning, a large number were sold out in this way, in exchange for countless goods, manpower, copper coins and snail shells.

He was able to nong about 2 tons of platinum almost every month, mainly because there were more cases of bartering, and the copper coins were only a little xiao, far from being lightweight...... It is most common for merchants to bring goods and take them away, and the currency is only the difference.

Such a dock is too common on Earth, but in the Western Continent, even if the trainees are not advanced enough to manage it, it is already amazing.

The entry and exit of bulk materials is even more mouth-watering, and in some cases, it is also terrifying.

It's like tigers frightening wild dogs when they are in Jiao Yi Wolf Rou.

The tendons used to serve as ballista bowstrings, the ore that has not yet been condensed, and slaves from other city-states......

Wandering through such a street, Damas has a lot of feelings.

"You see, again."

Dai Adi put away the posture of the red wolf, smiled like a normal person and said, "In our words, it's Zhan." ”

Damas took the opportunity to ask, "What's that?" ”

"Jiangning dialect." Dai Adi laughed.

A Xiao boy from Yun Village ran over, raised the gray-yellow Xiao booklet in his hand, and shouted: "Information book, intelligence book, the same information book as the people of Jiangning." ”

Damas's heart moved, took out the money bag, and said, "Give me one." ”

"A small penny." Xiao handed Damas Xiao the booklet.

"Here you go." Damas gave him a copper coin.

Xiao was grateful for his kindness, but he didn't salute him.

Damas opened the xiao booklet with an unchanged expression and saw the numbers and words inside.

There are two kinds of writing: lingua franca and Jiangning characters, the latter he studied for a period of time, and Xijiang Walled City struggled to implement it.

"What is this for?"

"Commercial use." Dai Adi smiled, pointed to the ship in front of him and said, "Serve them." ”

On the dock ahead, there are at least 3oo ships docked. Among them, there are many large ships of two or three hundred tons.

Although Mara City is close to the river, the ships they have are at most dhows for fishing, and the temple has a special water combat unit, so they don't need to build ships.

Damas was a little depressed, but he quickly recovered and asked, "How can this xiao booklet serve them?" Did you really make it? ”

"No, our own booklet, now called Neisen. Their brochure is used to make easy guidance, such as price, demand, and most importantly, our tax reduction policy. Dai Adi pointed to a big boat in front of him and said, "For example, the animal tendons on it were sent to Mara City, 40,000 long animal tendons, 20,000 bifid cow tendons, you seem to want to make a lot of crossbows." ”

Damas's heart beat and he said, "That's for the Temple War, you ...... You ......"

"Don't worry, brother." Dai Adi patted Damas on the shoulder as if he was taking a younger brother, and said with a smile: "We are just overtaxing, ballistas, and they are not within the scope of control." ”

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