Chapter 324: Alliances and Marriages
Gold and silver, elixir, women.
This is the confidence of those Snow Plains people who are ready to take it out this time, saying that Lu Yuan will send troops to help.
Just listening to this, it can't help but make people laugh.
"The envoy knows that I am the lord of the Chu country."
Lu Yuan looked at the confident envoy of the Great Mo Sect below, and said with deep meaning: "The country of Chu is 30,000 miles wide, with five counties and three kingdoms, and tens of millions of people. In this vast land, just collecting taxes every year can get 40 million taels of silver in a lonely year.
Similarly, these 30,000 miles of land, deep mountains and great rivers, I don't know how many blessed lands are there?
If you want an elixir, you only need an order, why can't you get it?
As for women.
In the lonely harem, there are 3,000 beauties, all of whom are talented and national.
If it is not enough, I just need to let out the wind, and within Kyushu, the woman who wishes to enter between my pillows can be discharged from the source of the Yangtze River to the sea.
The envoy used these three things to impress me, but he also underestimated Yu Gu too much, and it also made people despise Yu Xueyuan. ”
After saying this, Lu Yuan looked at the envoy below with interest, waiting for the other party's reply and explanation.
As he said above.
With his current identity as the lord of the Chu country, gold and silver, elixirs, and women, what of these things can't be obtained?
Although those snowy people are in the outer regions and are not orthodox in Kyushu, they are also quite climatic, not inferior to ordinary small countries, and they do not lack vision.
Lu Yuan can see the problem clearly, and they, the proposers, can naturally also be clear.
It is definitely too much to want to use these low-hanging things in exchange for the Chu State to unite with them and target the Zhou State together.
But such a simple question, a question that they also knew in their hearts, these five messengers representing the people of the Snow Plains still put it forward seriously, and they were still so confident.
Lu Yuan believed that these envoys were definitely not stupid.
Those snow lords behind the envoy can dominate one side, so naturally they will not be stupid.
Then they are not stupid people, but they still come up with these stupid methods, and the only explanation for this is that the methods they propose are not so stupid.
Other words.
Gold and silver, elixir, women, the chips proposed by the envoy of the Great Mo Sect in front of him were not ordinary chips, but special chips that could impress Lu Yuan.
This made Lu Yuan feel curious.
It's not that easy to impress him.
These envoys in front of him don't know what kind of surprise they will bring to him, he is looking forward to it.
"Your honorable king."
When the envoy of the Great Mo Sect heard Lu Yuan's slightly questioning words, his expression was still respectful, and he couldn't see much panic, he bowed slightly at this time, and then said sincerely: "As you said, you sit on a territory of thousands of miles, have tens of millions of people, and are the king of one side.
As the king, you have more wealth to fill the lake, and it is impossible to count.
The treasures possessed are like stars, and they are innumerable.
If you want the best color in the world, you can change it every day, and it will not be the same.
I can get these, and I can take it out of the snowfield, and even better one. ”
Speaking of this, the humble words of the envoy of the Great Mo Sect paused slightly, and then his voice was a little higher, and he said with a little passion: "As long as you are willing to send troops to help us deal with the Zhou people together, then we people in the snow field are willing to give 100 million taels of silver as the cost of inviting the Great Chu warriors to send troops."
At the same time, in order to maintain the relationship between our Snow Field and Great Chu, the spirit daughter of my Great Mo Sect is also willing to marry the Chu State and become your concubine.
And it also comes with 500 elixirs refined as a dowry for our spirit girl.
These are the gold and silver, the elixir, and the woman, the sincerity of the people of my snowfield.
King of Chu, I, Xue Yuan, am willing to take out these treasures in exchange for your help, I wonder if you are willing to lend a helping hand? ”
At the end, the envoy of the Great Mo Sect looked at Lu Yuan with a pair of eyes, confident with a little apprehension, obviously still a little uneasy.
Behind her, the other four envoys of the Tibetan people also looked at Lu Yuan with apprehension and longing, expecting him to give a happy reply.
And after Lu Yuan listened to the conditions of these Tibetan people, the whole person couldn't help but fall into silence.
100 million taels of silver, a spirit girl, and 500 divine pills.
Good guys, really good guys.
After listening to the generous gestures of these people, Lu Yuan couldn't help but gasp in his heart, shocked by the other party's generosity.
First of all, 100,000,000,000 taels of silver
Such a large amount is not something that anyone can take it for.
You must know that Zhou Guo's claim to the outside world is only an income of 100 million taels of silver a year.
On the Ning side, after ten years of recuperation, he has almost recovered all his vitality, but his annual income is only 70 million taels of silver.
The background of the Chu State is even worse, and it has not been able to collect 43.4 million taels of silver this year.
If it is replaced by the people of the Snow Plains, with the poverty over there, even if the population all adds up to more than 10 million, but the income of 10 million taels of silver a year can be regarded as a good year.
Of course, the Tibetan people on the snow field are still tribal slaves, and there is basically no need for gold and silver except for the head of the tribe and the nobles.
Even the head of the tribe and the nobles basically only used these gold and silver finances when trading with outsiders, that is, the merchants of the Xiliang Kingdom and the Zhou Kingdom.
Therefore, in terms of gold and silver, those snowy people did not spend as much as they imagined, and most of the wealth obtained was stored.
Over time, it is not unusual to be able to come up with 100 million taels of silver.
Even if they could come up with another two or three hundred million taels of silver, Irito would not be surprised.
After all, tens of millions of people have accumulated for hundreds of years, and it is normal to have such a little background.
But even so, it doesn't mean that 100 million taels of silver is less.
With such a sum of money, Lu Yuan can expand his army by another 500,000 at this time, and bear the military expenses of this 500,000 army for three and a half years.
If you count the silver taels in Chu and the balance of previous years, it is enough to increase the military expenditure of 500,000 troops for seven years.
Other words.
With this amount of silver, Lu Yuan was able to expand the standing army of Chu to millions of people, and maintain it for seven years without affecting the development of the country.
And if the state of Chu can maintain an army of one million for seven years, the benefits that can be brought during this period are simply immeasurable.
The easiest.
If the state of Chu has an army of one million, then as long as the wind is released slightly, the Hanzhong County that is ready to be swallowed at this time will not be repeated.
As long as those Zhou people knew that Chu had a million troops, even if they were angry and unwilling in their hearts, they would never dare to provoke such a strong enemy again and bring destruction to themselves when they were surrounded by strong enemies.
At the same time, Ningguo and Nanhai are on their side.
Originally, with the strength of the Chu State, if he wanted to eat these two small Lingnan countries, he still had some strength.
But if there can be an army of one million, it will be easy to swallow these two places by waving 500,000 troops at will, crossing mountains and mountains, and going south.
And Su Guo's reliance on Su Xuange, a mere innate first realm grandmaster, without Lu Yuan's move, whether it is Huang Xuan or Qing Yunzi, they can easily cut it under the sword.
At that time, without this innate grandmaster, the national strength of the Su State would be even worse than that of the South China Sea State, and it would not be an obstacle to the Chu State at all.
As for the problem of no one guarding Lingnan after it was defeated, someone also helped you solve it intimately at this time.
On the side of the Fan people, a spirit girl was sent in a hurry.
Since the winter war between the Fan people and the Zhou State in the Snow Plain, Lu Yuan has continuously sent spies to collect information about the Fan people and conduct in-depth research on his neighbor.
Therefore, he also has a lot of understanding of the spirit girl of the Da Mo Sect.
As one of the twin spirits of the Da Mo Sect, the Spirit Maiden is known as the pious attendant of the Da Mo God and is the attendant of this god in the mortal world.
To put it simply, you can think of her as the handmaiden of the god Damo, the real personal person of the god.
Of course.
As a handmaiden of a god, even if she is nominally a maid, can her identity be the same as that of an ordinary mortal?
In ancient times, when Xianfan appeared to the saints, it is rumored that the god Da Mo, who created the Snow Plains, was comparable to the three emperors of Kyushu, and once competed with the ancient Huaguang Emperor.
Although the army was defeated in the end, it also preserved the foundation of one of the ten domains of the snowy plateau, and became the creation god of the Tibetan people, and the name of the god has been passed down to this day.
Emperor Huaguang is the first emperor of the human race in Kyushu, which can be called a groundbreak, and he laid the orthodox ancestral emperor for the human race in Kyushu.
Although this emperor is not as good as Emperor Xia Xi and Emperor Haotian who are standing on the shoulders of their predecessors because they only relied on themselves to create them all the way and made a lot of mistakes, they are also first-class characters who have condensed the earth flower and ranked among the earth immortals.
That Da Mo God can compete with Emperor Huaguang of the Earth Immortal Realm, and he is naturally also a figure of the same level, the Earth Immortal Realm.
can be a maid of an earth immortal, that strength and identity are extraordinary, and they must be immortals.
Of course, this is the time when the ancient aura is abundant and all things are flourishing.
At that time, the opportunities were limitless, and all kinds of gods and men were rampant.
By the peak of antiquity, that is, when Emperor Haotian was in power, the smallpox immortals were at the pinnacle.
Not to mention human immortals, even if they are earth immortals, they are nothing more than Erer.
Now that the years have passed, the gods and men have disappeared, the aura has dried up, and the great Mo God, who used to be known as the creator of the world, is now gone.
The spirit girl who once had to be in the realm of human immortals to be able to serve the left and right has also fallen to the innate realm of martial arts now.
During this period, it is really embarrassing.
However, although compared to the peak, now she is only a spirit girl in the innate realm, and she seems a little down.
But for Lu Yuan, if he can marry a congenital spirit girl, he will definitely make a lot of money.
First of all, marrying the spirit girl, this matter can improve the relationship between the Chu State and the people of the Snow Plain, there is no need to say much.
For thousands of years, the god Da Mo has long become a legend, and no one can tell whether there was really such a figure.
But as the maid of the gods, the position of the spirit maid has been passed down for thousands of years.
With the inheritance from generation to generation, as well as the spread and cultivation of the spirit girl in the past generations, now on the snow field, the spirit girl has a little bit of the belief in the god of Da Mo, and is gradually deified.
You can think of her as the reincarnation of the living Buddha in Lu Yuan's previous life, in the plateau region, and the status of the two is actually not much different.
At most, as the leader of the faith, there is also a spirit son in addition to the spirit girl, which dilutes her power as the leader of the faith, so that she has no unspeakable status on the plateau.
But even so, the significance of the spirit girl to those of the Fan people is also undoubted.
If he can marry her, if Lu Yuan wants to use the Fan people in the future, he can directly call on a large number of faith warriors in the name of the spirit girl to serve the Chu State.
And that's just the long-term benefits for the future.
In the short term.
As for the river valley county that the Chu State had just annexed, if the news of the spirit girl's marriage to the king of Chu came to pass, then the people who were still dissatisfied with the rule of the Chu State and were always thinking about restoring the tribe and recapturing the river valley snow field.
Under the influence of the spirit girl, the original heart of resistance will be cut in half in an instant.
Those rebels who gathered would also give up confrontation with the Chu State because of their faith.
Hegu County, which might have needed to be turbulent for another five or six years, will instantly settle down and become a solid foundation for the Chu State.
All of the above is the influence of a spirit woman.
In addition to her influence, as the leader of the Da Mo Sect and the faith leader of the tens of millions of people in the Snow Plain, the spirit girl has practiced the inheritance of the Da Mo Sect for generations, and her cultivation is also the best in this world.
How strong it is, Lu Yuan doesn't have much information, and it's not clear.
But the Great Mo Sect has been inherited for 10,000 years, and its origin comes from mythology, even if it has fallen in recent years, but the heritage is definitely stronger than the ordinary innate inheritance.
As the spirit girl at the core of this sect, cultivation is definitely the first level of innateness, and it may even be a stronger group of innates.
With this person joining the Chu State, the Chu State is simply like a tiger with wings, and it has directly increased by three points.
"When I marry the spirit girl, the innate combat power of the Chu State can directly increase to as many as seven.
At that time, even if the Su State and the Nanhai State were defeated and Lingnan was annexed, the Chu State would only be the land of eight counties.
No, the two counties of Xiangyang and Hegu, as well as Tonghai County of the Soviet State, are only half of the county.
So in fact, the state of Chu actually only has six and a half counties.
There are seven innate guards on this territory, which is enough to be safe and worry-free. ”
Lu Yuan calculated the benefits of the Spirit Queen, and couldn't help but feel excited in his heart.
Originally, with the strength of the Chu State, only swallowing one Hanzhong County was almost the limit.
But if he formed an alliance with the people of the Snow Plains and married the spirit girl, it would be enough to make the strength of the Chu State skyrocket by three percent, and he would become a little fat man in one go.
If you can really swallow the Su State and the Nanhai Kingdom, plus the Hanzhong County that is now preparing to be taken, and digest the territory of these three and a half counties, then the Chu State will be a real overlord, and the strength will directly crush the Ning State.
At that time, after ten years of cultivation, you can start the Eastern Crusade, eliminate Ningguo, and unify Yangzhou.
In the face of this vast prospect, the last bargaining chip of the Fan people, that is, the five hundred divine pills, seemed insignificant.
The Divine Pill is actually the Spirit Pill, which is made of the spiritual blood of the Divine Blood Xenomorph, but the names of the Snow Field and Kyushu are different.
Previously, after the Baifeng Temple was contributed, the Chu State had a reserve of 1,200 elixirs.
In the past few years, the three kingdoms of Jianchuan, Chili, and Kunhai have successively donated dozens of them, plus the elixir produced by Chu State itself, it has barely increased by about a hundred.
Therefore, the total number of elixirs in the Chu State is 1,300, and it is still increasing, and it is no longer scarce.
At this time, even if there are five hundred more, it is nothing.
However, five hundred spirit pills can cultivate an innate grandmaster, and those people in the snow field sent so many elixirs to the Chu State, which is almost equivalent to sending a future innate grandmaster to the Chu State.
This is not a small stroke.
One hundred million taels of silver is equal to an army of five hundred thousand.
A spirit girl is equal to a spiritual belief of the Tibetan people, and there is also an innate combat power.
Five hundred divine pills are equal to a future innate being.
"These three treasures are really precious. The people of the Snow Plains took these out, I'm afraid it would be hemorrhage. ”
While pondering, Lu Yuan couldn't help but have more experience of the difficult situation of the Tibetan people today.
Silver and the elixir can also be said to be things outside the body.
But the spiritual belief of the spirit girl, which can even be said to be the core high-level of the Tibetan people, was offered as a gift.
The situation of the Tibetan people at this time can be imagined.
In the past few years, Lu Yuan has also paid a lot of attention to the war between the Fan and the Zhou people, and often hears the news coming back from there.
Almost every autumn, that is, before the beginning of winter, the people of the snow fields would gather and form a mighty army to invade the Zhou state in order to plunder enough supplies for the winter.
Similarly, every spring, after winter, the Fan people would gather and invade the Zhou Kingdom to carry out plundering wars to replenish the few remaining material reserves of the tribe after a winter of consumption.
In this kind of war, it is common to hear the news that which county and which prefecture of the Zhou State were attacked by the Fan.
Even the county town of Hexi was breached the year before last.
After more than four years of war, the two counties of Hexi and Longxi of the Zhou State have been attacked and plundered by the Tibetans, and there have been more than 100 cities.
During this period, more than one million people were looted and slaughtered, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed in battle.
Between the Zhou people and the Tibetan people, it can be said that there is a deep feud in the sea of blood.
But the Zhou people suffered heavy losses, and as the attacking party, the Fan people were even more so.
In the investigation reports sent back by the Imperial City Division, as well as the news released by the Zhou people, you can often see the words of the Great Breaker, the annihilation of 100,000 enemies, and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of thieves.
Even the Zhou people sent people deep into the snow fields from time to time to find the Fan tribe and counterattack.
In these initiatives, they also achieved a lot of victories, and often reported back how many tribes were destroyed and how many thousands of cattle and sheep were plundered.
If we count these great victories a little, we can be shocked to find that in just over four years, the number of Tibetan warriors eliminated by the Zhou people has exceeded 1.5 million.
The population of the Tibetan tribe that was taken by the Zhou people took the initiative to attack and plundered was also about one million.
In this war alone, the Tibetan people lost more than 2.5 million people, of which the strong men accounted for most of them.
And that's just the demographic toll of war.
And what about outside the war?
You must know that the reason why the Fan people are so desperate to invade the Zhou State regardless of the cost is only to seize enough supplies so that their tribe can survive.
The flood in the sixth year of Shenwu, the cold winter in the past few years, and the natural disasters again and again, how many people have lost on the snowfield?
I'm afraid it's not much worse than the losses of the war, right?
"Tut, I didn't pay attention to it before, but now I calculate that those people on the snow field have lost nearly five million people in the past four or five years.
With such a large population loss, no matter how deep the background of those Tibetan people is, I am afraid that they will lose half their lives in one go.
The rest of the Tibetan people, I don't know if there are tens of millions?
However, even if there is, after losing so much vital force, they still have to face continuous natural disasters, as well as the increasingly oppressive Zhou people, as well as the dilemma of increasing lack of food and materials in the tribe.
Under the internal and external troubles, if you don't make changes, seek a way to break the situation.
Then the Tibetan people, who have been inherited for tens of millions of years, are afraid that the day of destruction is not far away.
With this threat, it is no wonder that they are willing to spend so much money and send all the spirit girls out, just to ask for help from the Chu State. ”
After thinking about it before and after, Lu Yuan completely understood the thoughts of the Fan people, and there was no trace of doubt in his heart.
And in the face of the proposal put forward by the Tibetan people.
He looked down, looking forward to the five envoys who were looking at him, a smile appeared on his face, and then he said righteously: "The Zhou people are tyrannical, and they have sent troops south to overpower the people in the south of the Yangtze River. Now he is good at provoking the border and slaughtering the people of the snowy field.
is so perverse, bullying the weak, the heroes of the world are eager to punish them.
Therefore, the northern Wei State attacked Shuofang County of the Zhou people.
Qingzhou Liang State, attacking Henan County of the Zhou people.
Now that your envoy is coming, I, Dachu, as a benevolent and righteous country in the world, is naturally willing to make a modest contribution to the people of the world.
The marriage and alliance with the people of the snowfield, Lone agreed.
Soon after, I sent a large army to the north to conquer the Zhou people, so as to show the way of heaven and respond to the covenant. ”