"Good!" a smile appeared on Lin Xi's face.

The old face that belonged to Wen Yuanxiang was wrinkled into an old chrysanthemum at the moment.

"Please also ask the priest to give a token, which will be a covenant, and I will reply when I ask for the edict of the Son of Heaven. Lin Xi said.

Shanbao relayed Lin Xi's words.

The leader of the barbarians took a piece of crystal stone talisman and gave it to Lin Xi.

On the same day, Lin Xi and the three of them were entertained.

Although there were some barbarians, the eyes that looked at them made Lin Xi feel familiar, vaguely like the way he looked at others.

But overall, the atmosphere was cheerful.

Most barbarians have simple brains.

If it weren't for their natural strength, and with the bitter cold and barbaric millions of barbarian mountains as a cover, I am afraid that those people outside the mountain would have eaten no bones left.

On the way back, Shanbao finally couldn't help but ask Lin Xi, "You... Is there really a way to gain the emperor's support?"

Shanbao doesn't have much knowledge, but after all, he is still different from the barbarians in the mountains.

He knew that Lin Xi's identity was not simple, but... Finding the emperor as a guarantor and doing business with the barbarians is unreliable.

"If it's a business... Of course I can't. "Lin Xi didn't hide the mountain treasure.

Many things to deal with next need the help of people in the border city, and Lin Xi alone is not enough to succeed.

Therefore, it is actually necessary to openly tell some 'truths'.

Among them, Shanbao is responsible for communicating with the barbarians, and his value is now irreplaceable for the time being.

Therefore, it is more important to prophet him.

"You can't do it?" Shan Bao looked at Lin Xi with a collapsed expression, and surged towards Lin Xi with layers of malice.

"I will report to the imperial court that there is a barbarian tribe that is willing to naturalize Dazhen, not only offering the treasures of the tribe as sincerity, but also willing to take out a large number of treasures collected in the millions of barbarian mountains and present them to the Son of Heaven. Lin Xi said leisurely.

"Are you lying, are you deceiving me, are you deceiving the Tianyan Sparrow?" Shanbao looked at Lin Xi angrily, and his body began to swell again.

"Deception? No, it's just a skill to speak. With the etiquette of the great country, if there is a naturalization and submission of a foreign country, tribute gifts. The Son of Heaven shall be rewarded, and shall be returned three times the total price of the tribute. ”

"Three times the gift, exchanged for cloth, oil and salt, and all kinds of items needed by the barbarians, it is enough to satisfy the Tianyan Sparrow and more than enough. This law is not about business, but it is better than business. Lin Xi said.

Lin Xi's method, to put it bluntly, is to deceive at both ends.

Tell the barbarians that they are just doing business, exchanging things outside the mountains for things inside the mountains.

What he said to the court was the naturalization of the barbarian tribes, and their willingness to accept the moderation of the court was equivalent to opening up the territory for the great emperor without spending a single soldier.

And as the 'magician' in the middle.

Lin Xi will not only regain the opportunity to re-enter the political arena, but also obtain a lot of benefits.

Of course, this also had to be risked.

Even if Lin Xi can continue to make the cake bigger, pull more powerful people in, and use the benefits to let many people help to settle the lie together.

But as long as there is any difference in it, it will lead to the collapse of the entire interest link.

Lin Xi will never recover.

But... For the time being, Lin Xi will not care about this problem.

He doesn't have a lot of chips available right now.

If you don't use the barbarians, and then think of other ways, if you want to return to Yong'an and fulfill Wen Yuanxiang's last wish, then I don't know when you have to wait.

A pilgrimage to the ninefold!

Three days later, the envoy of the Son of Heaven came to ask for details, took the token, and returned to Yong'an to return to the Son of Heaven.

Subsequently, under the central adjustment of Lin Xi, a large number of treasures in the mountain were transported out of the mountain.

And the rewards from the Son of Heaven were also quietly exchanged for cloth, grain, oil and salt, and sent to the Tianyan Sparrow.

On the map of Dazhen, there is a small extra piece.

It is located in the middle of a million mountains, and it is extremely difficult to reach.

It was difficult for the Son of Heaven to arrange for officials to shepherd and guard, so he had to let the barbarians govern themselves.

Just ordered that the barbarian tribe arrange for the next priest to enter Yong'an as a hostage.

It's not hard to fix either.

Shanbao helped the Tianyan Sparrow Department solve a big problem.

With the approval of the priest, he was allowed to return to the tribe again, and personally washed him with the blood of a hundred barbarians, and recast the barbarian body for him.

Except for retaining a certain amount of ordinary human appearance, Shanbao looks no different from most barbarians.

Therefore, Shanbao was regarded by Lin Xi as the next priest of the Tianyan Sparrow Department and sent to Yong'an to become a proton.

In fact, there is an extra barbarian tribe in the million barbarian mountains on the territory of Da Zhen, which is of no substantial benefit to Da Zhen.

But that's what a mature country is.

Every inch of land must be contested, and every inch of land must not be lost.

The Son of Heaven rejoiced in the expansion of his territory.

The courtiers felt that they had edified the barbarians.

The powerful can make profits from it, and use Lin Xi's method as the basis to continue to expand, and each rejoices and gains from it.

The whole thing, although built on a lie, doesn't seem to really hurt anyone.

At the same time, Wen Yuanxiang's name once again jumped into the eyes of many people, which made them uneasy, but they couldn't turn a blind eye.

As far as the country is concerned, Wen Yuanxiang has made contributions to expanding the territory.

It is necessary not to be rewarded, otherwise the country's rewards and punishments are unclear, which will make the officials deviate from morality, and the soldiers have no intention of protecting the country.

But up to the Son of Heaven and down to the ministers, few are willing to see Wen Yuanxiang return to the court and take power.

Therefore, after waiting for many days, Lin Xi finally received a reward from Annanbo.

Giving knighthoods, but not official positions, a faction of stocking, continue to wait and see.

"Sure enough, it is not so easy to return to Yong'an. Of course... I am no longer a sinner, and it is naturally not difficult to return to Yong'an quietly. But this is not what I want, let alone what Wen Yuanxiang wants. ”

"So, it's time for the next step!" Lin Xi looked at the distant mountains with a smile on his face.

Shanbao is gone, and the one who succeeds Shanbao as a barbarian to contact the outside world is the son of the head of the Tianyan Sparrow Division.

He is learning the language and culture of the outside world, and his progress is not slow.

Of course, Lin Xi was also learning the language of the barbarians.

The language of the barbarians is not difficult, their vocabulary is not much, and the characters have fewer syllables, as long as they are fully understood, the intonation and tone in different situations are still quite fast and convenient to learn.

Lin Xi, who had secretly hunted two barbarians and devoured their human souls, and obtained a large number of barbarian memory fragments, felt so.

"!" Lin Xi beckoned to the son of the priest.

The stupid big man immediately threw away the big bone stick in his hand and ran towards Lin Xi.

From afar, he shouted, "yes!"

The accent of the is very strong, and the grandfather is called yes.

"Titfuck, do you think you barbarians prefer to keep the tiger in the crypt or the rock sheep in the crypt?" Lin Xi asked the in the language of the barbarians.

The thought for a moment and replied, "Of course it's a Jiaohu!"

"Do you know why?" Lin Xi asked again.

The replied, "Because the tiger is very dangerous, a hundred barbarian warriors may not kill an adult fierce tiger." Rock sheep are very docile, and they will not be aggressive except when they are angry. ”

Lin Xi smiled.

Look! A simple truth that even the stupid big barbarians know.

The current Lin Xi, with the identity of Wen Yuanxiang, has made great contributions to the imperial court.

The court was unwilling to reward him, so he gave him the status of an empty earl, and sent him away.

This is entirely because Lin Xi is not a threat.

Just like a rock sheep, it can be slaughtered at any time.

But if Lin Xi becomes a tiger... Then the court had to use a big cage to lock him up to avoid being hurt by him.

And this is all the rage, where is there more suitable to be that cage than the imperial capital Yong'an?

"Titfucker, how did he think about the last time I made the proposal to your daddy?" Lin Xi asked the.

The scratched his head, and then replied: "Daddy said, the goods enter the mountain, and they will naturally be escorted by the warriors of the tribe." But the barbarians belong to the million barbarian mountains, not to the outside world, and we do not go down the mountain. ”

In the name of increasing goods, fearing that other barbarian tribes would sneak attack and rob, as well as demon beast attacks, Lin Xi wanted to take the lead and form a team of barbarians who would go down the mountain.

But it was clear that the priest of the Mountain Flame Sparrow Division had rejected Lin Xi's proposal.

Lin Xi didn't say anything more.

If you don't feel pain, you don't cover the wound with your hands.

A little longer!

In another month, the entire Million Barbarian Mountain will usher in the coldest time.

Because of the mediation of Lin Xi, the mountain flame finch department has obtained materials that can abundantly survive the cold wave.

But more barbarians are still fighting for their lives.

They are not blind.

Nature can know the connection between the Mountain Flame Sparrow and the outside world in various ways.

Those hyenas who smell fishy in the court, among the magnates, have not yet been completely in place.

They are also looking for opportunities to cooperate with other barbarian tribes.

Therefore, many barbarians, because they can't survive, will keep their eyes on the material sent to the mountain flame finch.

"Wen Lao Pifu!"

"Come out and talk back!" Outside the county office, which had been simply renovated, there was a roaring voice.

Two black horses that entered the threshold of the spirit beast, raising their iron hooves, broke through the gate of the county office.

A strange machine car with a mechanism drove spontaneously into the county office, which seemed small to the machine car.

In the machine car, a big man wearing a black brocade robe, with a full beard, a burly figure and dark skin came out.

"Wen Lao Pifu, Ben Hou ordered you to contact the barbarians in the mountains and pull the relationship from it. Why did you perfunctory this marquis for three days, but you still didn't reply? Could it be that you really be yourself, or the head of the hundred officials in the past, and the prime minister of the court?"

The Tian family is the founding noble.

At the same time, it is also a family of cultivators.

It is the path of a soldier, and the cultivation is the atmosphere of soldiers and kills on the battlefield.

In Lin Xi's eyes, this kind of cultivator is actually closer to the Demon Dao, and for the Heavenly Demon... It's a plaything in the palm of your hand.