"Big plan, Lord Duke, you have brought so many weapons and equipment, as well as a large number of war horses, is it possible that you want me to recruit troops to attack other territories?"

Li Yunyang has just taken over the town of Parvas, and it can be said that there is a lack of everything, especially the last time he broke the boat and led the army to evacuate the town of Pavas, almost all the ordnance and equipment were destroyed.

If it weren't for the fact that the town fell too quickly at that time, Li Yunyang would have wanted to burn down the granary of Parvas, and would never leave half a grain of grain for the enemy.

During the period when the enemy was in control of the Pavas, in order to strengthen the military defense of the town, the eastern side of the town was destroyed and devastated. Large swaths of houses have been demolished into ruins, moats have been more than tripled, and farmland downstream has been flooded.

Although the small town of Parvas is vast, the destroyed houses and buildings are only the tip of the iceberg, and it is the turn of summer and autumn, and the grain harvest is on the verge of harvest, and the flood problem can be completely dealt with with only the care of the heart.

On the surface, there seems to be no big problem with Parvas, but in fact, there are many hidden dangers in the town, not to mention how long the upper-class family of Parvas can be controlled by Li Yunyang.

Let's just say that last time behind the war, he intended to kill Sjerdken by assassination, and planned to share the Duke of Parvas with Watson Gill in private, Li Yunyang still doesn't know the identity of the other party.

Even if Li Yunyang did not have a head-to-head confrontation with the Duke who was hidden in the dark, judging from his methods, he dared to attack Watson Gill, who was his ally, for the sake of interests. Li Yunyang would not believe that this Duke would not come to him after the war to destroy his entire plan.

However, Duke Zhuoen actually came with a large number of ordnance and war horses at this time, although there were still some goods, but Li Yunyang knew very well that the use of these things was just for ordnance as cover. After all, the blatant delivery of ordnance is a violation of the Empire's prohibition.

Duke Zhuoen's move was clearly to help Li Yunyang and expand the military strength of the town of Parvas. But Watsongill has been wiped out, and the town will have no worries about war for at least half a year, and the only thing to guard against is the revenge of the Duke.

According to Li Yunyang's analysis, Duke Zhuoen and the Duke hidden in the darkness seem to have irreconcilable contradictions.

The reason why Duke Zhuoen chose to assist Li Yunyang was just to borrow his hand and cause some losses to the duke, and the relationship between the two was to use each other.

However, Li Yunyang couldn't tell him about the fact that he knew that the duke was saving, otherwise his cooperation with Duke Zhuo En would become Duke Zhuo En's help to him.

In this way, Li Yunyang will not only owe Duke Zhuoen a lot of war funds, but also owe him a great favor.

Therefore, Li Yunyang simply pretended to be stupid, and said that he didn't know anything about the Duke's existence, and wanted Duke Zhuoen to raise this topic, at least in the early stage of cooperation, so as not to fall into passivity.

Duke Zhuoen glanced at Li Yunyang in surprise, thinking that he didn't know about the Parvas War, the mastermind behind the scenes, and quickly explained: "No, Lord Allen, you misunderstood what I meant, I didn't let you have the idea of waging war against other territories, but I wanted you to use this batch of weapons to arm a large number of soldiers to deter those who want to do it to you." ”

Hearing this, Li Yunyang knew that he had deceived Duke Zhuoen, and immediately pretended to be shocked and got up from his chair, and hurriedly asked, "What, Duke Zhuoen, do you mean that there are still people who want to wage war against my territory?"

Looking at Li Yunyang's expression, although Duke Zhuo En didn't believe that he didn't know the existence of the duke, he still nodded and lowered his voice: "That's right, Lord Allen, maybe you don't know that in this war of Parvas, you have offended a powerful duke!"

Listening to Duke Zhuo En say what he wanted to hear under his own guidance, Li Yunyang knew that his goal had been achieved, but he pretended to be full of vigilance and stared at Duke Zhuo En and shouted: "Lord Duke, are you also interested in my territory!"

“...... Lord Allen, relax, you seem to have misunderstood me. ”

Li Yunyang's performance of pretending to be stupid made Duke Zhuo En gradually eliminate the doubts in his heart, beckoned to him, and said with a smile: "If I wanted to attack the town of Parvas, I wouldn't have brought only weapons today, and I wouldn't have lent you troops at the beginning, Lord Allen, you must know that the Duke of the Star Empire is not the only one!"

"Duke Drown, you mean that the one who covets the town of Pavas is another duke?"

Finally talked about the topic that Li Yunyang was most concerned about, he asked a little angrily, and his face was a little dazed, making it seem as if he didn't know about it at all.

But in fact, as early as Li Yunyang knew that there was this mastermind behind the scenes, he asked someone to analyze which duke would be behind the scenes.

However, Li Yunyang did not find a definite candidate. It's not because all the dukes of the Starlight Empire are not suspected of attacking the town of Parvas, but almost all of them have expressed their intention to turn Parvas into their territory!

Analyzing layer by layer, this made Li Yunyang have no way to determine who the enemy hidden behind it was, but fortunately, Duke Zhuo En seemed to have a grudge against that duke, so he was not afraid that the mastermind behind the scenes would not surface.

However, Duke Zhuoen was a little hesitant, looked at the nobles and merchants attending the banquet around him, and said without words: "Lord Allen, I can't tell you about the identity of that Duke yet, but you have to believe that I will be on your side." ”

This answer made Li Yunyang a little disappointed, but he didn't get to the bottom of it, because he knew very well that Duke Zhuoen's seemingly embarrassing performance was actually to gain the initiative to talk about cooperation in the future.

But how could Li Yunyang give him this opportunity, but clenched his fists, looked at Duke Zhuo En with confidence and said: "Lord Duke, I believe in your sincerity, as long as you are on my side, no matter what the enemy, we can join forces to defeat it!"

The unexpected answer immediately made Duke Zhuo En choke and cough, and he also wanted to use this topic to put Li Yunyang at a disadvantage, but he didn't expect Li Yunyang to accept his offer at all.

At this time, the two of them had no room to go around in circles, and in desperation, Duke Zhuoen had no choice but to nod and say: "Lord Allen, I also feel your sincerity, so I'll say it directly, this time I want to talk to you about cooperation, I want to provide you with all kinds of sophisticated armaments in exchange for a certain share of Huimei Group." ”

Duke Zhuoen is quite clear about the earning power of the Huimei Group, which is why he stood up to stop Li Yunyang at the Parvas meeting at that time.

Duke Zhuoen's territory is in the Fengqiu Plain on the north side of the imperial capital, according to common sense, where there is the name of the plain, most of the land is fertile and rich in grain crops, but the Fengqiu Plain is not a place to produce grain, but the territory is full of iron ore.

The vast plains are filled with countless underground veins containing copper and iron, which makes Duke Zhuoen's territory directly become the source of the Empire's ordnance production.

And because of the large number of mines, Duke Zhuoen's territory is extremely short of food, and most of the other trade is related to metals, although every time the various territories of the empire change armaments, or when there is a war, Duke Zhuoen can make a lot of money from this.

However, all this money was used to buy grain and maintain the daily expenses of the territory, and there was not much money that really fell into the pocket of Duke Drown.

In addition, the Star Empire promulgated a few years ago, a regulation restricting the sale of ordnance, which directly reduced the sales of Duke Zhuoen's usual bulk ordnance, and in recent years, there have been some signs of making ends meet.

So in order to make money to maintain the cost of the territory, Duke Zhuoen targeted Li Yunyang, who had great potential, and his Huimei Group.

And Li Yunyang also knows a little about these things, hearing that Duke Zhuo En proposed to exchange ordnance for shares, Li Yunyang immediately smiled, and after going around for a long time, the initiative of this negotiation is still back in his hands.

However, Li Yunyang did not show the slightest smugness, but pretended to be a little embarrassed and asked: "I don't know how many shares do you want to exchange for from me, Lord Duke?" You must know that at the beginning of the establishment of my Huimei Group, because of the relationship of development and cooperation, a lot of shares have been divided......

"Don't worry, Lord Allen, I don't want much of a stake. ”

Before Li Yunyang could finish speaking, Duke Zhuo En interrupted him and said: "Ten percent, I only need ten percent of the shares of Huimei Group, and the armaments needed for your territory in the future will be all wrapped up in me, as long as it is within the validity period of the agreement, no matter how many ordnances there are, I can make them for you!"

Li Yunyang was originally worried that Duke Zhuo En would oppress people with power and open his mouth, but he didn't expect his requirements to be so low, only ten percent of the shares, he could still afford it.

Moreover, the quid pro quo proposed by Duke Zhuo En also made Li Yunyang very excited, you must know that he has a lot of ambitions, who knows how many battles he will fight in the future, and how many people the army in the territory will expand.

However, Duke Zhuo En actually proposed that all the ordnance needed by Li Yunyang's army in the future would be provided by him, which might be enough to save Li Yunyang a lot of trouble.

It's just that poor Duke Zhuoen didn't know that Li Yunyang had a grand blueprint in his heart, and thought that after he became the lord of the three territories, he would devote himself to commercial development and would not be involved in too much war. He wanted to use the ordnance that Li Yunyang might never use in the future in exchange for 10 percent of the shares of the Huimei Group, which had a bright future.