257. Take a step back
The imperial envoys who came to coordinate had long heard about the power of Badaling, and they also knew that the empire was unable to control the Great Wasteland, so this time they came, they were not as domineering as the other envoys, but showed a very good consultative face.
Yan Mei greeted the envoy of the empire very thoughtfully, and specially held a drinking party in the mansion of Star Picking City to receive the envoy. However, on the issue of Invenia, she insisted that Jiajing was not there, and she couldn't make the decision as a woman, and everything had to wait until Jiajing came back to deal with it.
The envoy also heard the prevarication in Yan Mei's words, but he was cheeky and stayed on Badaling, saying that he would wait for Jiajing to return, otherwise he would not have the courage to go back to see the king.
In desperation, Yan Mei had no choice but to secretly send a message through the Thieves Guild to find Jiajing, in order to convey the news to Jiajing as soon as possible.
The Thieves' Guild was indeed powerful, and soon found Jiajing, who had not left the border of the empire and was preparing to enter the Treant Empire.
The quickest way to get to the Kasia Empire is to travel north of the empire through the kingdom of Inru and another small country, through the Silverwind Empire, and then into Kasia's territory. However, Jiajing and Inlu have a mustard, and they also have Anqian and Dina by their side, Jiajing didn't want to make any extraneous branches, so he deliberately took the territory of the tree people and the elf clan, and went around for more than half a circle before entering the silver wind.
The people of the Thieves Guild found Jiajing in the Night City near the Ethiopian Great Forest, which is a high-reward task of 500 gold, and the Thieves' Guild is naturally very interested.
After Jiajing received the news, he pondered for a long time, and although the complete destruction of Indonia was vented, it was indeed very unfavorable to the future development of Badaling.
Gu Gen Lun has already spoken: If he lets Yin Xianya go like this, he will canonize the territory from Badaling to the Blood Sea Cottage to the Yanjing family, so that Jiajing can officially own his own territory, and give Jiajing a posthumous promotion and become an earl!
If you lose the face of Gugnarun, you will put Badaling on the opposite side of the empire.
Although Gu Gen Nalun will not take Badaling easily, but openly and secretly wearing small shoes for Badaling, stumbling will definitely be indispensable. Without the support of the empire, it was difficult for Badaling to conduct normal trade exchanges with outside merchant groups, and in addition, there were many inconveniences in various aspects......
All in all, if you are against the Empire, it will be much more difficult to develop quickly in the Great Wasteland in the future!
Jiajing's worst plan is to become a mountain eagle in the Great Wasteland like Gomez, but now that Gugnarun wants to canonize the area near Badaling to him, Jiajing will certainly not do that again, being a lord recognized by the empire is much better than being a bandit gang that occupies the mountain, and Jiajing has never included the bandit forces in the establishment of Badaling before.
Gugnaren seems to have sacrificed a lot of money by doing this, but if you think about it, it is actually not only not harmful to him, but it is very beneficial to him.
First, there are many benefits to be gained by acceding to the request of the Innia.
Second, although the territory canonized to Jiajing is large, spanning hundreds of kilometers and 300 miles long, it must be tens of thousands of square kilometers, which is about the same size as Hainan Islands, and it can be regarded as a large province in his hometown, which is very rare in the empire. It's just that if this territory is placed in a sparsely populated wasteland, it has no value. If it weren't for a powerful force like Badaling, who would be able to occupy this barren realm? In the past, when Badaling belonged to Cafirot, the star picking city, it was not allowed to run rampant with bandits, and the security was worried. Later, it was transferred to Jiajing, and Badaling and the Sea of Blood were originally the spheres of influence controlled by Jiajing, and there was no need for Gugna Lun to completely turn his face with Badaling, which has many powerful combat effectiveness, for the territory of this great wasteland, he might as well take the opportunity to show favor to Badaling, and now have a good relationship with Badaling, and when he needs to use Badaling's forces in the future, he can also speak.
Third, there is no problem in posthumously sealing the Earl of Jiajing, although there are not many counts in the empire, it is definitely not uncommon, so there is naturally no problem with one more Liu Fu Jiajing. Moreover, Jiajing's strength on Badaling has long exceeded the number of private soldiers allowed by the viscount, and Gu Gen Nalun doesn't want outsiders to gossip, so he simply canonizes Jiajing as an earl, which will definitely be able to block the big mouths of many people.
Jiajing swore a poisonous oath - he would never let the blood of the villagers of Thunder Shadow Village flow in vain, his face changed sharply several times, and he suddenly slapped himself hard before writing his request on a special communication paper.
It's okay to agree to let Yinnia go, but the rest of the slave trapping team that slaughtered the residents in Thunder Shadow Village that day had to be handed over to Badaling for disposal. At the same time, the Invenia must come up with 10 million gold and 500 craftsmen of all kinds to make up for the losses suffered by Badaling.
Jiajing didn't know what Badaling lacked after thinking about it, so he simply asked for money and people. The people of the slave hunting team must be killed, this is the poisonous oath he made at the beginning, as for the core class of India, it is better to let them go for the time being, and this is not a violation of the poisonous oath made by Jiajing at the beginning.
As for the five hundred craftsmen, it was Jiajing's plan for the future, and since Gu Gen Nalun had given him such a large piece of territory, he had to increase manpower to help take care of it. Workers can be recruited, but craftsmen and technicians are very rare, and Jiajing simply took advantage of the stubble of the Incalnia to ask the king for it. The territory near Star Picking City to Badaling nominally belongs to Cafirot, but in fact, Cafirot has never regarded those lands as his own territory, he is not as powerful as Badaling, and he can easily subdue the robbers outside Star Picking City, as for that area, Jiajing will buy it from Cafirot when the time comes, and his territory will increase a lot, as for the five hundred craftsmen he asked, I am afraid it is still not enough.
Engraved the magic letter paper with his own spiritual imprint, Jiajing handed the letter to the people of the Thieves Guild, and asked them to use the messenger Xiangying to return it to Yan Mei on Badaling as soon as possible.
Yin Qiannia gritted his teeth with hatred for Jiajing's request, how could there be any losses in Badaling in this battle, no one died, at most it cost 1.8 million gold to fight, and most of them were still equipped on the soldiers' bodies, where is the need for tens of millions of compensation, and the request to personally deal with the murderer who participated in the massacre of the villagers of Leiying Village is also very excessive! However, the situation is unsatisfactory, and Yan Mei will not give an inch.
Under the threat of Gugna Lun's soft grinding and hard bubbles, even if Yin Qiannia was unwilling, he still obediently took out tens of millions of gold, handed over more than a dozen slave catcher soldiers, and then selected 300 craftsmen from the slave craftsmen under their control and handed them over to Badaling.
10 million gold and the dozen or so slave trapping team soldiers, the Indian calnia is not very distressed, compared to this, they are more distressed by the five hundred craftsmen.
The craftsmen who could stay and work in the chain controlled by Invenia were naturally very good.