Lu Heng looked at the shameless Honglu Temple Minister and felt helpless towards him.
As the old saying goes, if you are shameless, you are invincible!
And what he said was all true, even if he wanted to refute it, it would be unreasonable!
But who can tolerate other countries’ military exercises coming to their doorstep?
Now Zhao Guo has planned to attack the Shuzhou rebels, but his navy is still lingering at his door?
Can they still rest assured to attack Shuzhou?
Once the army here is mobilized, it will immediately be attacked from both sides!
What he didn't expect even more was that, after all, it turned out to be Zhao Guo's fault!
I remember that when the Zhao State wanted to hold a military exercise against the navy in the Yangtze River, they had to consider the feelings of the Chu State. They did not dare to make it too big or too long.
Nowadays, Chu State's naval military exercises last for ten days. From what he said, it is still far from being completed. Such long military exercises do not take into account the feelings of Zhao State at all.
really!
The prerequisite for a rational argument is that the national defense strength is equally matched.
Without strong national defense strength, your logic will be a joke in the eyes of others. This is undoubtedly the situation when Zhao State faces Chu State now.
Lu Heng looked at Chu Guodao: "So your country is determined to let our country compensate?"
Seeing Lu Heng who was about to smash the jar, the Minister of Honglu Temple changed his face instantly and said with a cheerful smile, "Oh, what are you talking about? Didn't I just say something in anger? Talking about compensation would hurt your feelings.
, let’s talk about something else. It’s hard for the envoy to come here, but how wasteful it is to just talk about this military exercise?”
At this moment, Lu Heng looked at Honglu Temple Qing's suddenly softened attitude and felt a little confused for a moment. No woman could change her face like him. How did he complete such a blunt turn?
But Lu Heng still looked at Honglu Temple Minister and asked: "What are we talking about if we don't talk about military exercises? I am here just for the military exercises."
The Minister of Honglu Temple whispered softly, and even had a strange smile on his face: "Let's talk about astronomy and geography... If not, let's talk about the future cooperation between the two countries, and talk about the impact on the international situation.
We can talk a lot about our opinions, so why bother holding on to the military exercise?"
Now the Minister of Honglu Temple has taken avoiding the important and taking the easy to the extreme.
You must know that Zhao State is really not short of money. If they really give the money and then turn around and leave, it will be difficult for His Highness the King of Han to explain!
Honglu Temple can only drag it on like this. It should look like there is some hope, right?
Now he has to treat the envoys from Zhao the same way Xu Qing treated the envoys from the grassland. He should treat them with courtesy first, and then catch them off guard when the time is almost up!
After Lu Heng was stabilized by the Honglu Temple Minister, Xu Qing was not idle either.
At this time, he and Long Bing'er were standing on the newly built watchtower, observing the stretching Shu Road with telescopes.
At this time, the Shu Road was full of caravans carrying food, and it was impossible to see the end of the road.
Xu Qing looked at Long Bing'er and asked, "Bing'er, are you relieved now?"
Xu Qing could see that Long Bing'er was restless these days. Although Xu Qing had repeatedly assured him, the food price issue was related to the stability of the people's hearts, so naturally he couldn't be careless.
Now, looking at the scene of a steady stream of food entering Shuzhou City along the trade route, passing through the city gate and being inspected one by one by the soldiers, a relieved smile finally appeared on my face.
She looked at Xu Qing, with a hint of apology on her originally smiling face; "I'm sorry, I... shouldn't have doubted you."
Xu Qing waved his hand and said, "It's okay. This plan is indeed too bold. You don't understand business, so it's normal to have misunderstandings. As a husband, I am still very generous."
Looking at Xu Qing's magnanimous look, Long Bing'er's face suddenly became even more embarrassed.
Xu Qing looked at Long Bing'er and continued, "So, Bing'er, my husband will not harm you, so you must listen to what my husband says in the future."
At this time, Long Bing'er naturally did not dare to refute Xu Qing's wisdom and kept nodding.
Xu Qing was naturally very satisfied with Long Bing'er's appearance and began to make the next plan.
At this time, the shopkeepers of the Li family and the Zhang family had collected enough food. They put the mountains of food in the warehouse and waited for the time to come when the military advisor came with the banknotes to buy it.
After all, the Li family prepared food faster and mobilized more manpower. The Li family prepared sufficient food earlier than the Zhang family.
Moreover, there are a lot of small grain merchants pouring into Shuzhou. There is no doubt that they all want to make a fortune in Shuzhou.
Although there are still hundreds of thousands of people in Shuzhou, they are still more inclined to sell food directly to the army than to sell food to these people.
Nowadays, the situation between the imperial court and Shuzhou is already quite tense. The sooner we sell out, the sooner we can get out.
No one knows when the imperial army will attack. If the imperial army attacks and their food has not been sold out, wouldn't it be a big deal?
This time they brought the grain in and had no intention of shipping it out again. It was said that there were military exercises between Chu and Zhou on the Yangtze River, which had been blocked. If they wanted to transport grain to Shuzhou, they could only go through the difficult route.
Shu Road.
In many places, horse-drawn carriages and oxen-carts cannot pass, so they have to rely on manpower to push wheelbarrows forward.
It is absolutely impossible to transport these unsold grains back.
Shipping it back means losing money.
But now that the Li family has taken the lead, the Zhang family has no choice but to sell their grain to the people. This risk is much greater than that of the Li family.
If the food is not sold out and the imperial army comes, they will pray that their horoscopes are strong enough.
Finally, ten days passed, and the Li family's day and night transportation of food finally caught up.
At this time, he had begun to wait happily for the military advisor to come to buy their food.
Shopkeeper Li was pacing in front of the granary at this time. As long as the military advisor came over to count the grain, they could leave immediately after getting the banknotes. And based on the current market conditions, the income from this transaction would be equivalent to what they had earned in the past two years.
profit!
This time they are really going to make a fortune!
Shopkeeper Li could be said to be so excited at this time that he even forgot to eat. At noon, he didn't even go to have a meal when his servants asked him to. Instead, he went to show off the power of the Li family in front of shopkeeper Zhang.
Finally, dusk came, and the military advisor still didn't come to buy their food, so they finally started to panic.
Could it be that the military advisor of Shuzhou wants to go back on his word?
Just when he was worried, the person who was inquiring about the news soon ran over and said in a panic: "It's not good, shopkeeper! It's not good!"
Shopkeeper Li said in a deep voice: "What's wrong? How unbecoming is it to panic?"
The servants of the Li family hurriedly said, "The Zhou State and the Chu State each came to the dock with a merchant ship, loaded with grain. Their grain is cheap grain. When the people got the news, they went over to buy grain!"
Shopkeeper Li's eyes suddenly froze when he heard this: "What did you say? Wasn't the Yangtze River blocked by the Zhou Kingdom?! How could there be merchant ships!"