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Suba was reluctant to sign the agreement, not because he wanted to regret it later, but because he felt that he was too stingy to do so, as if he didn't trust Shangguan Xiu. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In fact, the person who really wants to sign the agreement is Shangguan Xiu himself.

In the future, you can set up a garrison in Shah, which is equivalent to firmly controlling the entire Shah area in your own hands, and all the garrison military rations and military funds are still from Shah, where can you find such a good thing in the sky?

Seeing Shangguanxiu's resolute attitude, Suba was also willing to accept it, and the two sides hit it off and took what they needed.

This formal agreement is not signed by both parties, and in the future, it must be strictly enforced by the contents of the agreement, and if one party fails to do so, the other party has the right to punish for breach of contract.

In terms of the content of the agreement, it was stipulated that the Zhenjun army must send troops to assist the Ba people in the military operation to unify Shah within one year, and there was no specific provision in the agreement as to the specific number of troops.

In return, after the unification of Shah, the Ba people should allow the Zhenjun army to be stationed in Shah, including the construction of military buildings and other projects, in addition, Shah also needs to provide food, grass and military supplies for the Zhenjun army garrison.

The two sides negotiated for lunch, and in the evening of the same day, the agreement was signed. In the evening, Shangguan Xiu held a banquet in the mansion to entertain Suba Gucheng and Qing'er.

During the banquet, Shangguan Xiu suddenly remembered something, his face was straight, and he asked, "Patriarch Suba, I heard that there are saltpeter mines in the territory of the Ba tribe?"

Suba was stunned, he really didn't know this, he turned his head to look at Gu Ji and asked, "Is there a saltpeter mine in my clan's territory?"

"Yes, yes, but it doesn't work. Gu Cheng looked at Shangguan Xiu in confusion and asked, "Lord Shangguan suddenly asked what the saltpeter mine meant?"

Shangguan Xiu smiled and said lightly: "I plan to mine some." ”

The ancient transcript shook his head incomprehensibly, and in his mind, saltpeter had no other use than as a pigment. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "There are a lot of saltpeter mines in the territory of the Ba tribe, and if Lord Shangguan wants as much as he wants, just send someone to mine it." ”

To put it bluntly, in his eyes, saltpeter is no different from ordinary stones, and since Shangguan Xiu wants this kind of thing everywhere now, he is also willing to be a favor.

Shangguan Xiu smiled: "Thank you so much." ”

Unbeknownst to Suba and the Gushu, saltpeter was one of the important raw materials for the manufacture of gunpowder. In the gunpowder formula provided by Jin Wan'er to Shangguan Xiu, it was clearly written: one nitrate, two taels of sulfur, and three taels of charcoal. With saltpeter as the main ingredient, doped with a little sulfur and charcoal, this is gunpowder.

In Zhenjun, sulfur and charcoal are easy to find, and these two ingredients are not very much, the largest amount of saltpeter is needed, but Zhenjun does not have it, if you buy it from other counties, and it costs silver, the best way is to go to the territory of the Ba people to mine it yourself, so you can save a lot of expenses.

In the past, Shangguan Xiu was not such a careful person who loved to be greedy for small gains, but now, the Zhenjun army wants to recruit 200,000 recruits and purchase 200,000 sets of armaments.

The Zhenjun army recuperated and restored its strength, and a steady stream of new recruits joined in, first they were put into the recruit camp, and after a period of training by Sui Tangjing, they were assigned to various regiments to supplement the establishment of each army.

The organization of the forging workshop in Jin Wan'er has already taken shape. At first, Jin Wan'er was the only one in the forge, but a month later, the personnel were replenished one after another, and a large number of Ningnan craftsmen passed through the Shah region and entered Zhenjun in the Wind Country.

These craftsmen are all Jin Wan'er's apprentices before his death, after Tang Qing's death, they are also hiding incognito, evading the pursuit of the imperial court, and receiving a letter from Jin Wan'er, it can be said that it is a hundred responses, these craftsmen who were unloaded and killed donkeys by the Ningnan Imperial Court have come to vote.

The forge established by Jeongjun is a blank sheet of paper, there is nothing, and all the equipment used to make the fire gun needs to be rebuilt by them. However, even if it is necessary to rebuild a nail, it will take money, and right now, what Jeongjun lacks most is silver.

Although Shangguan Xiu has Qian Jin by his side, a business-friendly bookkeeper, he is not the God of Wealth after all, and it is impossible to conjure up silver out of thin air, and the silver that Qian Jin earns for Zhenjun is far from satisfying Zhenjun's current consumption.

There is nothing to do without silver, and hundreds of craftsmen and blacksmiths in the forge are already in place, but because of the lack of raw materials and equipment, nothing can be done.

For this reason, Shangguan Xiu is also at a loss. A penny is hard to beat a hero, that's the truth.

In the end, he was forced to have no choice, and Shangguan Xiu could only think of grabbing it. To the east, it is the territory of the Wind Country, and it is impossible for Shangguan Xiu to make trouble inside the Wind Country, so his eyes naturally fall on Shah in the west.

The White Bird Clan near Huya Pass has been wiped out, and the Qixi tribe farther away has also been wiped out, the Ba tribe is a friendly country, and they can't move, Shangguan Xiu finally focused on the only Shah tribe near Huya Pass, the Xi tribe.

The Xi tribe is a small and medium-sized tribe, with a small territory, and a large population, as many as fifty or sixty thousand, which is already a lot of people in Shah.

In the past, when the patriarch of the Ba tribe was Kunpeng, the relationship between the Xi and the Ba tribe was very good, and later Kun Peng was killed, Suba took over as the patriarch, although the exchanges between the Xi and the Ba tribe are still very frequent, but the patriarchs of the two tribes are far from being as close as before.

It is worth mentioning that in the territory of the Xi tribe, there is a gold mine, which is both the luck and the misfortune of the Xi tribe.

Fortunately, because of this gold mine, the Xi tribe is an extremely wealthy tribe, and unfortunately, it is precisely because of this gold mine that it has attracted the coveted attention of foreign tribes and caused trouble for the Xi tribe, such as Shangguan Xiu, who is now so poor that his eyes are green.

Shangguan Xiu sent people to the Xi clan to ask for compensation. His reasons for proposing reparations are ridiculously absurd.

In the past, the White Bird Tribes of the Fine Tribes had helped the Ba people attack the Huya Pass, and later the three tribes were repelled by the defenders of the Huya Pass, for this matter, Shangguan Xiu also personally led the army to sneak attack the station of the White Bird Tribe-Xibu Mountain, and directly wiped out the White Bird Clan, and then the Feng army occupied Xibu Mountain in a grand manner. Nearly two years have passed since this incident, and people have almost forgotten about this matter, but now Shangguan Xiu has brought up the old matter again, using the reason that the Xi clan had attacked Huya Pass and caused huge losses to Huya Pass, and asked the Xi clan to claim compensation.

What Shangguan Xiu never expected was that the Xi clan finally agreed to compensate, and it was 20,000 taels of gold. At that time, if one tael of gold was exchanged for ten taels of silver, twenty thousand taels of gold would be two hundred thousand taels of silver.

The fine clan took out such a piece of gold, not only did not dispel Shangguan Xiu's greed, but made Shangguan Xiu realize that the fine clan was so rich that it would be able to extort more oil and water from the fine clan. Not long after receiving the gold from the Xi clan, Shangguan Xiu sent someone to the Xi clan for a second time to ask for more compensation.

Shangguan Xiu's second request for compensation caused strong dissatisfaction among the fine clan, and now the fine clan finally saw that the Feng people were simply greedy and insatiable, and no matter how much gold they were given, they would not be satisfied.

But with the strength of the Xi clan, he couldn't afford to offend the Feng people, and in the end, the patriarch of the Xi clan had no choice but to go to the Ba tribe, find Suba for help, and ask him to coordinate it. He thought that Suba could stand on the side of the Xi tribe, but he didn't know that Suba had already eyed the Xi tribe.

Suba gave warm hospitality to the patriarch of the Xi tribe and repeatedly assured that he would reconcile with it.

However, while Suba entertained the patriarch of the Xi tribe, he quietly sent someone to send a message to Shangguan Xiufeiying in Xijing, saying that he would drag the patriarch of the Xi tribe in the Ba tribe for a few days, and these days were a good opportunity for the Zhenjun army to make a sneak attack.

After Shangguan Xiu received the report, he immediately found Guangfang and asked Guangfang to lead 10,000 brothers to sneak attack the territory of the Xi clan at night.

In fact, to deal with the small tribe of the Xi tribe, it was easy for the Zhenjun army, and the reason why Shangguan Xiu used Guangfang to go was mainly to exercise his ability to lead troops in battle and the accumulation of actual combat experience.

Before Guangfang set off, Shangguan Xiu told him thousands of times that in this sneak attack, he would try not to hurt others if he could, and his purpose was only for money, not for his life. If you rob all the money and keep people, you can continue to give birth to money in the future, and if you kill all the people, you won't have to rob them in the future.

Guangfang gladly accepted the order, went to Huya Pass alone, and then transferred 10,000 soldiers from the garrison of Huya Pass, and attacked the territory of the Xi tribe at night.

The patriarch of the Xi tribe was not in the territory, the dragons were leaderless, and the wind army came suddenly, and there was a top-level master of Guangfang, so the battle was very easy, and the people of the Xi tribe were scattered and fled by the wind army that suddenly appeared.

The battle ended before half an hour, and Guangfang did not order the pursuit and killing, so that the soldiers of the whole army launched a large-scale search in the territory of the Xi clan, and took what was valuable, but everything that could be taken away was taken away, and what could not be taken away was not destroyed.

This sneak attack battle, the first half of the wind army out of the Huya Pass, half of the wind army withdrew from the Huya Pass, out of the wind army is empty-handed, when they come back, each person is a big bag and a small package, just the animal skin to grab back thousands of sheets, in addition to snatching back more than 20 boxes of gold and silver products and jewelry, the savings of the fine people over the years, in the night by the wind army robbed a fine light.

However, in this battle, not many people died in the Xi clan, and most of them were wounded.

Hearing the news of the attack on his own tribe, the patriarch of the Xi tribe in the Ba tribe was furious, and asked Suba to seek justice for him, recover the looted property, and severely punish the murderer.

Suba spread his hands, saying that he had no choice but to take the Feng Army, if the Xi people didn't want to suffer this disaster in the future, there was only one way to go, that is, to merge with the Ba people, the relationship between the Ba people and the wind people, as long as the Xi people merged into the Ba people, the wind people would never go to the trouble of the Xi people in the future, and there would be no more such evil ** things.

The Ba tribe is a large race with a population of hundreds of thousands, while the Xi tribe is only a small race with a population of tens of thousands, and after the merger, for the Xi tribe, it is equivalent to extermination, how can the patriarch of the Xi tribe agree?

Suba didn't force it, but secretly passed a letter to Shangguan Xiu, so that the Feng army could continue to attack the Xi tribe, and after the Ba tribe annexed the Xi tribe, he was willing to take out the gold mines in the Xi tribe's territory and share it with Shangguan Xiu.

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