The strength of the Yun Kingdom was surprisingly strong, and as soon as Jiang Cheng's divine sense swept it, he saw that there were five cave Xuan, and there were more than ten people in the Divine Soul Realm, which was also considered a mid-stream level in Tiannan Prefecture.

Chen Chengyuan was extremely enthusiastic, and asked Jiang Cheng to land in the Yunguo Palace, Chen Chengyuan had never seen Xue Qingqing, and specially took out a piece of superb purple cloud sand and said that it was to make up for the wedding gift of the two.

"Cheng Yuan, this level of purple cloud sand can't be taken down without eighty thousand spirit jade in Tiannan Prefecture, you better keep it"

"Sir, you have the grace of reinvention for me, what is this purple cloud sand?"

"Haha, there is no need to mention the past, if you can have today, it is also your own creation"

Jiang Cheng laughed and said, in the past two days, Jiang Cheng has carefully understood the affairs of Yunguo.

The rise of Yunguo from a tribe was really a situation made by Jiang Cheng at the beginning, and such a rapid development was due to that group of loose cultivators, their arrival gave Chen Chengyuan the greatest confidence, so that he could rise quickly, including Chen Chengyuan himself, and now he is almost at the level of Dongxuan.

"Lord, I can't help it, I'll come on"

Seeing Jiang Cheng and Chen Chengyuan's greetings and politeness, one person next to him couldn't help but stood up.

"Ouyang worship, what do you have to do, say it"

"Yes, Senior Jiang, we in Yunguo invited you to come here and want to ask you to mediate for Yunguo."

"Good offices?"

"Yes, Great Xia is gathering troops and preparing to attack my Cloud Country"

"As far as I know, the highest level of the Great Xia Immortal Hall is only the Divine Soul Realm, how can it be your opponent?"

"Sir, I'll explain this matter, it's a long story..."

Chen Chengyuan saw that someone had mentioned the topic, and immediately explained.

More than ten years ago, the Great Wei Scattered Cultivation Rebellion broke out, and some of them went to the Southern Wilderness under the leadership of Ouyang Yangming.

But I didn't expect that the Southern Wilderness was really desolate, although there were many resources, but there was no organization to mine them, and there was nothing to loot at all, at this time, Chen Chengyuan took the initiative to contact Ou Yangming and them, formed an alliance with them, respected them as offerings, and enjoyed the wealth of the Cloud Kingdom together.

They thought about it, and learned that Sanxiu was defeated in Yongdu City, so they agreed, and from then on, Chen Chengyuan had the confidence to reform Yunguo, and the reform was extremely radical.

He forced the various tribes to integrate, and carried out Weiization, learning the culture, economy, etc. of Wei, this forced integration was a huge price, and a large number of tribes raised troops to resist, and the rebellious tribes were also reduced to slaves by Chen Chengyuan.

Therefore, Chen Chengyuan improved the treatment of the Weihua tribe on the one hand, and brutally exploited the rebel tribe on the other hand, because there were a large number of immortal cultivators to do the force, and they were actually made by them, and a large number of resources were developed, including a large number of mines, elixir gardens, and so on.

And with the resources, Ou Yangming and others continued to call friends and companions, and found hundreds of scattered cultivators from Tiannan Prefecture to reach today's pattern, and Yunguo has entered a virtuous circle.

All this is good, until two years ago, the Nanli Sect invaded the Seven Peerless Sects, although the Seven Peerless Sects defeated the Southern Sect in Beijiang City, but the Sect was injured and the vitality was greatly damaged.

After the war, if the Seven Peerless Gates wanted to recuperate, they needed a lot of resources to make up for it, so the Seven Absolute Gates suddenly tripled the tribute of Great Xia, and they had to hand over about three million resources every year.

Great Xia is poor, where can it hand over so many resources, so Great Xia started with the idea of Great Liao, and Great Liao was abandoned by Tianxu Sect after the Immortal Palace incident, and now it has been divided between Great Xia and Great Wei, and Great Xia probably occupies two-thirds of the territory.

Great Xia brutally exploited those Great Liao territories, and finally coped with the first two years of tribute, at the cost of a large number of deaths of the people on the Great Liao side, and this third year was not finished in any case, people were dying, and no one could be found in the mine.

Therefore, Daxia can only continue to invade, the target of the invasion is Dawei and Yunguo, compared to Yunguo, Dawei is not easy to provoke, not only is the backer of the stronger Tianlan Sect, but also the Great Wei itself is extremely strong, and there are more than 5,000 registered warriors in Yipintang.

Persimmon picks a soft pinch, then there is only to find Yun Guo, the strength of Yun Guo is stronger than that of Great Xia, but Yun Guo has no backer, Great Xia flew back to the Seven Absolute Gate with a letter of help, and the Seven Absolute Gate immediately sent a team of disciples to Great Xia, these people are served by three Dong Xuan, more than a dozen divine souls, although the number is small, but their Dong Xuan are all survived in the war, extremely strong, Ou Yangming These people are not opponents at all.

"I kind of get it, so what do you mean?"

Jiang Cheng listened to it for a long time, and finally knew what was going on, the butterfly effect, the war in Tiannan Prefecture finally affected the territory of the mountain ravine of Yunguo.

"Sir, I would like to ask you to mediate for Yunguo and negotiate with the Seven Peerless Sects, we are willing to pay a fee, please raise your noble hand for the Seven Peerless Sects"

"How much are you willing to give"

"Sir's fee, we are willing..."

"It's not mine, it's how much to give to the Seven Peerless Gates"

"Well, this, I haven't thought about it yet, but Daxia has proposed to let us cede the territory"

Chen Chengyuan said that Yunguo was run by him and a group of loose cultivators, and the scattered cultivators really couldn't resist the overlord of Tiannan Prefecture, and they wanted to surrender for a long time, of course, they had to have interests in surrendering.

"You discuss it, and if the conditions are right, I will help you do this"

"Thank you, sir"

Chen Chengyuan was overjoyed when he saw Jiang Cheng agree.

"Let's go and see the customs of Yunguo first, and come back in a day, so we don't have to bother entertaining"

Jiang Cheng left a sentence and flew away from the palace of Yun Kingdom with Xue Qingqing and the little ginseng, and it was a hundred miles away in the blink of an eye.

"Lord of the country, this Jiang Cheng seems to be already in the realm of a true monarch"

"So fast, didn't the news say that he only drew with Zhenjun a few years ago?"

As soon as Jiang Cheng left, Ou Yangming immediately said, Chen Chengyuan was a little surprised, they also had people in Tiannan Prefecture, but the news channels were not very developed, and they didn't know a lot of things.

"It should be so, other country lords, I think it's better for us to take refuge in the Tianlan Sect, the Tianlan Sect has no losses in many incidents, and the tribute is not harsh"

"I've thought so too, but it's hard to say whether the Tianlan Sect is willing to offend the Seven Peerless Sects for us."

"Lord of the country, if this Mr. Jiang is really a high-level member of the Tianlan Sect, I think there is a play"

Ou Yangming said that he didn't know what kind of relationship the great sects were, but he knew that if there were high-level officials who spoke for them, then they would definitely be willing to accept the Cloud Kingdom.

"Then I'll try it, how many resources do you think we give a year?"

"Great Wei is a million spirit jade a year, we must be less than this, our population and resources are not as good as Great Wei"

"That's okay, we'll take millions of spirit jade as the bottom line"

Chen Chengyuan said that the geographical scope of Yunguo is actually not smaller than that of the Great Wei, but the population is much smaller, and they still have a large number of places that are smoky and miasma, which are not suitable for ordinary people's lives, and the Great Wei has been developed for more than a thousand years, and the population density of the land south of the Yangtze River is extremely large.

The population of Great Wei is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions, while the Yunguo is only about 10 million, even if there are so many underground resources, they don't have so much manpower to exploit them.

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"This cloud country is indeed as Zhou Lao said, it is not liked"

Jiang Cheng and Xue Qingqing went deep into the Yun Kingdom to observe, and the Yun Country did retain slavery, and many tribes were beaten into slaves, the kind where the entire tribe was reduced to slavery.

And the Yun Kingdom is also hierarchical, the most honorable is the immortal cultivator, the warrior is second, the Wei people are again, followed by the natives of Weihua, and finally the slaves.

People of various ranks also have different powers, such as the Wei people, who live the best, most of them are wealthy and enjoy many policies, while the Wei people are the main force such as taxes, but they are better than slaves.

"Does the husband want to take over the Cloud Kingdom?"

"Madame sees?"

"This is natural, the vassal's annual tribute does not seem to be much, but it can be added up over the years, it is extremely considerable, and the Great Wei gave more than 10 million resources to Tianlan Sect after Li Hongsleeve took the throne, but it is a lot."

"You're right, I do have this idea, the Seven Peerless Sects can't compete with the Tianlan Sect now, if we take the Cloud Kingdom, the Seven Peerless Sects will never dare to say anything."

"What about the husband, don't get any benefits from it"

"It's nonsense"

Jiang Cheng smiled and said, he is looking for a vassal for the Tianlan Sect, he has so many benefits for nothing, how can he do it if he doesn't make a little money, if he is really a selfless person, he will definitely not be able to climb to the top.

A day passed quickly, Jiang Cheng took Xue Qingqing back to the Yunguo Palace, and Chen Chengyuan and the others were already waiting.

"Chen Chengyuan, have you thought about it, how to deal with it?"

"Sir, our Yunguo is just seeking safety, so we discussed yesterday that if the Tianlan Sect is willing to protect us and others, we are also willing to pay tribute to the Tianlan Sect."

Chen Chengyuan said that through Ou Yangming and them, Chen Chengyuan already knew that in Tiannan Prefecture, no sect or family could be neutral, and they must rely on one side to get shelter, so Chen Chengyuan did not have any discomfort with Yunguo's compromises.

"If you are willing to follow the Tianlan Sect, then we are naturally welcome, then how much tribute are you willing to give?"

"Sir, we are willing to give 500,000, 500,000 spirit jade per year"

"I'm afraid 500,000 is a bit difficult, but Dawei is a million a year, and it overflows slightly."

Jiang Cheng stretched out his hand and knocked on the table, Chen Chengyuan and Ou Yangming glanced at each other, and quickly understood the intention.

"Sir, help, our Yun Country is not comparable to the Great Wei, and the small people of our country are weak·····"

Chen Chengyuan immediately said, telling that it was not easy for him, but he turned his head and whispered to Jiang Cheng, willing to give Jiang Cheng the benefits of 300,000 spirit jade every year, as long as he continued to pay tribute, he would continue to give benefits.

The reason why Chen Chengyuan was reluctant to increase the amount of tribute was because giving Tianlan Sect was different from giving Jiang Cheng, giving Tianlan Sect was given for free, and it was deserved, and giving it to Jiang Cheng was able to obtain Jiang Cheng's friendship, which was extremely beneficial to Yunguo.

"Okay, I know, I'll handle this matter when I go back, I also have a group of people in Xianyun City of Tianlan Sect, and I have opened a few shops, and I will have people contact you when the time comes, and I will also take care of our business by the way"

Jiang Cheng nodded, and immediately reciprocated, Yunguo lacked resource exchanges, that help, and if the trade is done, they will not lose, and they will be able to earn some in a year at that time.