Chapter 259 Set up a set

  ”If the price is right, our frontier army will naturally need it.”

  Qian Shuisheng didn’t want to accept it directly, so he asked with a smile: “I just don’t know how you plan to sell it, Mr. Zhou?”

  Zhou Chen licked his lips when he heard the words:

   “Hehe. My lord wants this number.”

  Speaking,

  He slowly stretched out one palm, stretched out three fingers and spread them among the dozen generals in the camp.

  Looking at this gesture, Qian Shuisheng looked as usual:

   “Three million taels is not bad”

   “Thirty million.”

   “.” Qian Shuisheng.

  Zhou Chen broke the silence with a dry laugh, with a smile in his eyes:

  ”Elder Qian, Yunqi bombs are expensive to make, and the cost of three million taels cannot be recovered.”

   There was silence in the camp, Qian Shuisheng stopped talking, but his eyes swept across the rest of the people calmly.

   “Alas”

  After a brief silence, there was a sigh, and the tone of a middle-aged woman in armor was a bit of a joke after the sigh:

  ”Mr. Zhou, we are waiting for the 300,000 frontier troops to take back the Beifeng. In this bloody battle, the imperial court does not arrange reinforcements. Now even the armaments have to be purchased by me privately. Is this… Don’t be afraid of the chilling of the generals.”

  Zhou Chen glanced back at the woman.

  He, Zhou, thinks he has a thick skin, but this woman’s face is gone.

  Paused for a moment, Zhou Chen’s mind turned, and he smiled:

   “Hey old sister’s words are a bit exaggerated. My lord is not in the imperial court. The Yunqi bombs on this trip are also from his old man’s private inventory. Why do you want to chill the frontier soldiers?”

  Speaking of which,

  Zhou Chen stood up straight, cupped his fists and cupped his hands towards the sky, and said loudly: “On the contrary, my lord is worried about the country and the people, and worried about the 300,000 soldiers under the Beifeng City. This is why Zhou came here to ask you, and I hope you can understand this time.”

  The middle-aged woman snorted coldly.

  And at this time,

   General Hou with the scar on his face suddenly let out a low laugh:

   “So, Mr. Zhou is not an imperial envoy?”

  If you are not an envoy of the imperial court, you don’t have that layer of skin as a talisman. If you kill you, settling accounts in the future will at best be a personal conflict, not a dispute of righteousness.

   Zhou Chen cursed inwardly when he heard the words, stared at the person who made the sound, and paused every word:

  ”This old man, Mr. Zhou is just a mouthpiece for my lord. His life is cheap. It should not be comparable to the lives of all the famous families, let alone these three hundred thousand soldiers.”

  Don’t do this to me, it doesn’t matter if you kill me, but without Yunqi bombs, can you fight against the hundreds of thousands of barbarians who occupy the absolute sky?

  General Hou narrowed his eyes, revealing a killing intent:

   “Mr. Zhou, it’s a festival of righteousness.”

   “That’s it.”

  Qian Shuisheng interrupted General Hou’s words again at this time, and turned to Zhou Chen with a smile: “Mr. Zhou, if we agree to the conditions of the adults of the Ni family, in what way will Yun Qi bomb?” Handover? How to pay for the goods?”

   “Elder Qian simply.”

  Zhou Chen felt a little relieved when he heard the words, arched his hands, and said with a smile:

   “The delivery of Yunqi bombs. You can set a time, and my adults will arrange people to deliver them on time.”

  “Chi”

  Laughing lowly, the young female general Liu Mei sarcastically said, “Mr. Zhou, a white wolf with empty gloves also needs a limit. How can we trust you? If the cloud gas bomb is fabricated, our frontier army Didn’t the property just get taken away by you for nothing?”

  Zhou Chen had already prepared a draft for this, and said without hesitation:

   “The Yunqi bomb has also been supplied to your army with two pieces before, and you must have seen the real thing among you, and you should know that the structure of the Yunqi bomb is not stable and cannot be stored in the Sumeru Precepts If your army is willing to send elites to fetch it, my lord can provide your army with a place to hide the Yunqi bullets.”

  “.”

  The young female general sneered: “It’s snowing outside, why send troops to escort? Do you think that barbarian wolf cavalry is blind?”

  Zhou Chen spread his hands like a bachelor:

  ”Since your army is unwilling, then arrange for a high-level cultivator to go with Zhou to pick it up, so that the possibility of exposure will be smaller, and the three delivery methods can be chosen by your army.”

   “This is in advance and not shown.”

  Qian Shuisheng’s eyes were full of thought, and he asked calmly: “Then Mr. Zhou, how is your lord going to take over the payment I’m waiting for?”

  Zhou Chen grinned, and cupped his hands upward again:

  ”My lord said that he doesn’t want land deeds, no shares in the chamber of commerce, and no certificates of property related to Beijing Industry. He only accepts cash, bank notes or cultivation resources. Of course, if your army is willing to sell For military supplies, my family is willing to pay a premium five times the market price.

  The voice fell, and there was a brief silence.

  The expressions on the faces of more than a dozen commanders holding heavy troops became a little weird.

  The amount of information in this statement is a bit large.

  Do not want any real estate

  The Tianan Chamber of Commerce in Xiangguo Mansion and the Royal Chamber of Commerce in the imperial court have broken their heads and longed for their northern border in recent years. Now there is such a chance to intervene in the northern border market openly. The person behind Mr. Zhou is impossible don’t catch.

  It’s not that I don’t want it, but the people behind Mr. Zhou can’t.

  Even if you let your cronies name you for real production, you don’t participate in the management and only accept dividends every year, but every time you deliver benefits, there is an additional possibility of exposure.

  Time passed by one minute and one second,

  Qian Shuisheng stared at Zhou Chen with a half-smile:

   “May I ask, why doesn’t your lord want the real estate in the northern border?”

  Zhou Chen didn’t even think about it, he just followed Xu Yuan’s instructions and said directly:

   “The outflow of strategic resources like Yunqi Bomb, my family can’t bear the responsibility.”

  “.”

  The originally tense atmosphere in the camp gradually became relaxed with these words, and many generals even showed faint smiles on their faces.

  Yes, the person behind Mr. Zhou seems to be a senior executive of the Xiangguo Mansion who resells supplies.

  If you have power in your hands, you can make the best use of it, and if you don’t use it, it will expire and become invalid.

  Empty the public house and feed the small family.

  Many formations of the Xiangguo Mansion are ahead of the entire Great Yan, just like the ghost fog formation back then.

  Although Gewuyuan strictly guarded against death, it was still resold at a high price in the end.

  But that’s not what makes them happy.

  Since the person behind Mr. Zhou is reselling privately, it means that the other party does not dare to publicize and can bargain, and there is a lot of room for bargaining.

  Qian Shuisheng’s old face trembled, and he said with a smile:

   “Mr. Zhou, 30 million taels is not a small number. Could you please wait outside the account for a while, we need to discuss it later.”

   Zhou Chen clasped his hands together when he heard the words, and smiled at Qian Shuisheng:

   “In this case, I will wait for the good news outside the tent.”

   After finishing speaking, Zhou Chen walked out of the tent under the eyes of a room full of strong men.

  “.”

  The tent curtain fell, and the originally relaxed atmosphere in the tent suddenly became dignified, even chilling.

   Qian Shuisheng on the main seat narrowed his eyes, and suddenly sneered:

   “Who do you think is behind Mr. Zhou?”

   “It should not be Lou Ji and Zong Qingsheng.”

  The man with the scar face said: “They have no children and no daughters, and they are all loyal to Xu Yinhe. Moreover, their positions are too high, and it is unlikely that they will do anything to betray the interests of the Prime Minister.”

  The entire Xiangguo Mansion is theirs, and they can just ask for whatever they want, and there is no need for such means to gain benefits.

  The young female general chuckled and said:

   “Elder Qian, I don’t think it matters who it is, as long as it can provide us with cloud energy bullets.”

  The grumpy, burly man snorted softly:

   “Thirty million taels is too much. Last year, the war situation was unfavorable. The combined military expenditure of our hundreds of thousands of frontier troops in the north was only about 70 million taels a year.”

  The man with the scar face smiled:

  ”The expenses are indeed a bit too high. I have to wait for those sects in the south to ask for some benefits. Our northern sects will withstand the pressure for them. We will wait until next year’s Tianyuan Grand Competition to reunite.

To divide resources, we have to ask those old immortals in the south of the Yangtze River to ask for more benefits.”

  After the words fell, there was a low-pitched laughter.

  Zongmen is a large group, and there are rules that belong to them.

  Border sects send people and efforts, and rich lands will get supplies.

  The saint’s counterattack before his death was resisted by their northern sects. They naturally had a reason and righteousness to seek benefits from sects in other places.

  The chatterbox opened, and some generals who were friendly with each other began to talk and laugh about planning for the coming year.

  But if someone talks and laughs, someone will be silent, and there are not a few people who are silent.

  The atmosphere in the tent was quickly interrupted by a warm voice:

   “It’s not halftime yet, are you ready to celebrate?”

  The person who spoke was the handsome young man from the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines, but he looked at the silent old man on the main seat if he could not overwhelm the audience:

   “Elder Qian, you should have something to say?”

  “.”

  Qian Shuisheng slowly raised his eyes when he heard the words, and exhaled:

  ”Everyone, the people behind Mr. Zhou may indeed provide us with cloud energy bombs for personal gain, but they also want to watch us fight to the death with that barbarian. Once the cloud energy is dispelled, you How do you think that barbarian alien king will react?”

  The grumpy and burly man cupped his hands, with an excited smile on his lips:

  ”Elder Qian, the snow clouds have been dispelled, and those barbarians who have lost the blessing of heaven and earth will inevitably avoid the edge of our army. We can just attack Beifeng City and stick to it.”

  ”If they don’t avoid it?”

  Qian Shuisheng asked back, and then said: “The barbarian king is not a fool. Once Beifeng is taken back by us, they will directly become the turtle in the urn.”

  Speaking of which,

  Qian Shuisheng sighed leisurely: “The Yunqi bomb directly changed the whole situation of the battle. Now the barbarian army near Beifeng is roughly estimated to be more than 400,000. If we fight a tough battle with them, even if we win , I will lose a lot, and the court will be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman by then.”

  The young female general frowned slightly, with a bit of hostility in her eyes:

   “Then we’re just dragging on like this now? If we had chosen to reinforce Beifeng back then, this kind of thing wouldn’t have happened.”

  The middle-aged woman in armor glanced at the young female general and sneered:

   “Little girl, everyone made the decision at the beginning. Why, now that the dilemma is coming, do you want to rush yourself out?”

  The scarred man heard this, chuckled and said:

   “Mrs. Wang, we did make the original decision together, but I remember it should be you and your husband”

   “Okay! Don’t say a few words.”

  Qian Shuisheng watched the atmosphere below start to become tense, and immediately stopped: “What we need in today’s situation is unanimity! Talk about your own countermeasures.”

  “.”

  Silence began to spread and no one responded.

  In silence,

  Suddenly, someone suddenly said:

  ”Can we think of a way to lure the barbarians north?”

  Another person said directly:

  ”How to lead? The barbarians know that Houting County has astronomical weapons such as cloud energy bombs, and attack the well-equipped defensive circle of Houting County against a sunny day? Heh. As long as the barbarian kings don’t have a brain If you get into the water like you, you know we are better at attacking.”

  The eyes of the person who made the sound showed killing intent:

   “Dai Xiangfei, have the face to say that I will give one-third of the supplies, I really don’t know.”

   “Shut up!”

  Qian Shuisheng whispered again, with helplessness in his eyes.

  He had actually expected this situation.

  With the current situation, it will be a matter of time before the internal conflicts of the coalition forces break out. The Mr. Zhou who came with the cloud bomb just detonated the conflicts in advance.

  Following the wind, everyone is a brother, but against the wind, there are mother-hunters.

  The disadvantages of the chaotic command system of the coalition forces are gradually revealed at this moment.

  Rubbing the center of his brows vigorously, Qian Shuisheng swept the generals around and said:

   “It’s useless to talk too much. There are only two roads in front of us now. First, we continue to stick to it and wait and see what happens. Second, we use cloud energy bombs to attack Beifeng City.”

   “Don’t you have to fight those barbarians at the end of the two paths?”

   “Yes.”

  Qian Shuisheng’s tone remained unchanged, and he said in a deep voice: “We can’t avoid this at all in the current situation.”

   Several mistakes in decision-making have directly led to the current situation being a dead end for them.

   was designed to abandon Houting County to come to reinforce Beifeng, and then because of a decision-making misjudgment of the ambition of the barbarian king and the speed of Wu Chenghou and Zong Qingsheng’s southward travel, they were directly stuck in Beifeng Outside the city, let the barbarian army stand by.

  If they want to break the game, they have to fight a tough battle.

   After a moment of pondering, the man with the scar face asked:

  ”Elder Qian, which path do you prefer?”

  Qian Shuisheng glanced at him and tapped on the armrest of the main seat with his fingertips:

   “The latter.”

   “The latter?” The man with the scar frowned, his eyes revealing his thoughts, but he soon realized that this was the best choice now.

  Qian Shuisheng whispered:

  ”Our army is in prison, but the barbarians are more anxious than us. The longer they wait, the more likely the imperial army will go south. to any protective effect.

  ”We use cloud energy to open the way and regain Beifeng City as quickly as possible, so that the barbarians may retreat in the face of difficulties and return to the depths of the northern border along the mountain road they came from.

   “This is the way we play with the least loss.

  ”Of course, we still need to plan in detail the details of the march.”

  Zhou Chen left, and quietly left the Zongmen camp with a few Xumijie and two second-rank Yuanchu through the wind and snow.

   And as they left,

  A pair of eyes shining with faint blue light was quietly standing on the hillside in the distance watching them.

  Until the three of them completely disappeared from his field of vision, the burly figure turned and left silently, disappearing into the wind and snow

  (end of this chapter)