Gold, silver, elixirs, women.
This is what those Xueyuan people are planning to bring out this time to persuade Lu Yuan to send troops to help.
Just listening to this makes people laugh a bit.
"The envoy knows that I am the lord of the Chu Kingdom."
Lu Yuan looked at the confident Damo Cult envoy below and said with profound meaning: "The Chu State covers an area of 30,000 miles, with five counties and three kingdoms, and tens of millions of people. In this vast land, just collecting taxes every year, A single person can earn forty million taels of silver in one year.
Likewise, how much of these 30,000 miles of land are there in the deep mountains, great swamps, caves, heavens and blessed lands?
If you want a magical medicine, you only need to give an order. What medicine can't be obtained?
As for women.
In the palace of the lonely harem, there are three thousand beauties, all of whom are talented and beautiful.
If that's not enough, I just need to release the wind, and any woman who wants to be on my pillow in the Nine Provinces can be discharged from the source of the Yangtze River to the sea.
The messenger used these three things to impress me. It would be too small for Yu Gu, and it would also make people look down on Yu Xueyuan. "
After finishing his words, Lu Yuan looked at the messenger below with interest, waiting for the other party's reply and explanation.
As he said above.
As the current leader of the Chu Kingdom, gold, silver, elixirs, and women, which of these things cannot be obtained?
Although those Xueyuan people are in the outer region and are not orthodox in Kyushu, they are still quite capable, not inferior to ordinary small countries, and they do not lack vision.
If Lu Yuan could see the problem clearly, they, the proposers, could naturally see it too.
It is definitely overthinking to use these easily obtained things in exchange for Chu State to unite with them and attack Zhou State together.
But for such a simple question, which they knew very well in their hearts, these five envoys representing the Xueyuan people still raised it seriously, and they were still so confident.
Lu Yuan believed that these envoys were definitely not stupid.
The lords of the snowfields behind the envoys, who can rule an entire country, are certainly not stupid.
Then they are not stupid, but they still come up with these stupid methods. The only explanation is that the methods they proposed are not that stupid.
That is to say.
Gold, silver, elixirs, women, the chips proposed by the Damo Cult envoy in front of him were not ordinary chips, but special chips that could impress Lu Yuan.
This made Lu Yuan feel excited and curious.
It's not that easy to impress him.
He didn't know what surprises these Tibetan envoys in front of him would bring to him, and he was looking forward to it.
"Dear King."
When the envoy of the Damo Sect heard Lu Yuan's somewhat doubtful words, his expression remained respectful and he did not see much panic. At this time, he bowed slightly and said sincerely: "As you said, you have thousands of miles of territory and thousands of sons. The people are the king of one place.
As a king, you have wealth that can fill a lake and is incalculable.
The treasures he possesses are like stars, countless.
If you want to have the most stunning beauty in the world, you can change it every day and never look the same again.
You can get these, and I, a person from the snowy plains, can also get them, and I can even get better ones. "
At this point, the Damo Cult envoy paused for a moment in his humble words, 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, then we people in the snowy plains are willing to use our troops to deal with the Zhou people." One hundred million taels of silver were used as a fee to invite the warriors of Chu to send troops.
At the same time, in order to maintain the relationship between our Xueyuan and Da Chu, I, the spirit daughter of Da Mo Sect, am also willing to marry the Chu Kingdom and become your concubine.
It also comes with five hundred magical elixirs refined from elixirs as a dowry for our spirit daughter.
This is gold, silver, elixirs, women, and the sincerity of my snowy people.
King of Chu State, I, Xueyuan, am willing to offer these treasures in exchange for your help. I wonder if you are willing to lend a helping hand? "
At the end of the sentence, the envoy of Damo Cult looked at Lu Yuan with a pair of eyes, a little uneasy in his confidence, and obviously still a little uneasy.
Behind her, the other four Fan envoys looked at Lu Yuan with the same anxiety and longing, hoping that he would give a happy reply.
After Lu Yuan heard the conditions of the Tibetan people, he couldn't help but fell into silence.
One hundred million taels of silver, a spiritual girl, and five hundred magic pills.
Good guy, really good guy.
After hearing the generosity of these Fan people, Lu Yuan couldn't help but take a breath of air in his heart, and was shocked by the generosity of the other party.
First, one hundred million taels of silver.
Such a large amount cannot be obtained just by asking for it.
You must know that Zhou Guo's claim to the outside world is only an income of 100 million taels of silver a year.
Over in Ningguo, after ten years of recuperation, they have almost recovered all their strength, but their annual income is only 70 million taels of silver.
Chu State's background is even worse, and it has only been able to collect 43.4 million taels of silver this year.
If it were the people of Xueyuan, considering the poverty there, even if the total population exceeds ten million, an income of ten million taels a year would be considered a good year.
Of course, the Tibetan people in the snowy plains still have a tribal slave system. Except for the nobles and leaders of the tribes, there is basically no need for gold and silver.
Even the head nobles of the tribe basically only use these gold and silver finances when trading with outsiders, that is, merchants from the Xiliang Kingdom and the Zhou Kingdom.
Therefore, the Xueyuan people did not spend as much money on gold and silver as they imagined, and most of the wealth they obtained was stored away.
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 to three hundred million taels of silver, Ruyuan wouldn't be surprised.
After all, tens of millions of people have accumulated it for hundreds of years, so it is normal to have such a little foundation.
But even so, it does not mean that 100 million taels of silver are less.
With such a sum of money, Lu Yuan could expand his army by another 500,000 people and bear the military expenses of this 500,000-strong army for three and a half years.
If the Chu State's silver inventory and balances over the years are included, it is enough to increase the military expenditure of an additional 500,000 troops for seven years.
That is to say.
With this money, Lu Yuan could expand Chu's standing army to one million people, and maintain it for seven years while ensuring financial balance and not affecting domestic development.
And if the Chu State could maintain an army of one million for seven years, the benefits that would be brought during this period would be simply immeasurable.
simplest.
If the Chu State has an army of one million, then as long as the wind is released a little, Hanzhong County, which is ready to be swallowed up at this time, will never be repeated again.
As long as those Zhou people knew that Chu State had millions of troops, no matter how angry and unwilling they were, they would never dare to provoke such a powerful enemy again and bring disaster to themselves when they were surrounded by powerful enemies.
At the same time, there are Ningguo and Nanhaiguo.
Originally, with the strength of Chu State, it was still not enough to conquer these two small Lingnan countries.
But if there is an army of one million, it will be easy to command half a million troops at that time, go through the mountains and ridges, march southward, and swallow up these two places.
As for the Su State, relying on Su Xuange, any grandmaster in the first realm of Xiantian could easily be killed by the sword, whether it was Huang Xuan or Qing Yunzi, without Lu Yuan taking action.
By then, without this innate master, Su's national power would be even worse than Nanhai's, and it would not be an obstacle to Chu at all.
As for the problem of no one guarding Lingnan after it was conquered, someone will help you solve it at this time.
From the Tibetan people, a spiritual girl was rushed over.
Since the cold winter war between the Xueyuan Fans and the Zhou Kingdom, Lu Yuan has continuously sent spies to collect information about his neighbor and conducted in-depth research on the Fans.
Therefore, he also knows a lot about the spiritual girls of the Damo Sect.
As one of the two spirits of the Damo religion, the spirit girl is known as the devout attendant of the god Damo and is the god's mortal attendant.
To put it simply, you can regard her as the maid of Lord Damo and the true personal person of the god.
certainly.
As a maid of a god, even if she is a maid in name, can her status be the same as that of an ordinary mortal maid?
In the ancient times, when the immortals were manifesting their sages, it was said that the God Damo who created the people of Xueyuan was a figure comparable to the Three Emperors of Kyushu, and once competed with the ancient Huaguang Emperor.
Although he was defeated in the end, the foundation of one of the ten regions of the Snowy Plateau was preserved, and he became the creator god of the Tibetan people, and his name has been passed down to this day.
Emperor Huaguang is the first emperor of the human race in Kyushu. He can be said to have pioneered the world and established the orthodox ancestral emperor for the human race in Kyushu.
Although this emperor was not as good as Emperor Xia Xi and Emperor Haotian who stood on the shoulders of his predecessors because he had made many mistakes along the way, he still condensed the earth flower and ranked among the earth flowers. A first-class person.
The God of Damo can compete with Emperor Huaguang of the Earthly Immortal Realm, so he is naturally a figure of the same level as the Earthly Immortal Realm.
Being able to be the maid of an earthly immortal means that her strength and identity are extraordinary, and she must be a human immortal.
Of course, this was the ancient time when spiritual energy was abundant and all things flourished.
At that time, there were endless opportunities and all kinds of gods and men were rampant.
At its peak in ancient times, when Emperor Haotian was in power, the Smallpox Immortal was at the top.
Not to mention human immortals, even earthly immortals are nothing more than mediocre.
Nowadays, as time goes by, gods and men disappear, spiritual energy is exhausted, and the God Damo, who was known as the creator of the world in the past, has disappeared.
The spirit girl who once had to reach the realm of human immortality to serve around her has fallen into such a state that she can now reach the innate realm of martial arts.
All these things during this period are really disappointing.
However, although compared to her peak days, she is now just a spirit girl in the Xiantian realm, and she seems a little downcast.
But for Lu Yuan, if he could marry a congenital spirit girl, he would definitely make a lot of money.
First of all, the marriage with the spirit girl will improve the relationship between Chu State and the Xueyuan people. Needless to say.
Over thousands of years, Damo has become a legend, and no one can tell whether such a figure really existed.
But as the maid of the gods, the position of spirit girl has been passed down for thousands of years.
With the inheritance from generation to generation, as well as the spread and hard work of the spirit girls of the past generations, now on the snowy fields, the spirit girls have some faith in the Damo God, and are gradually being deified.
You can think of her as the reincarnated living Buddha in the plateau area in Lu Yuan's previous life. The status of the two is actually not much different.
At most, as a leader of faith, besides the spirit girl, there is also a spirit son, which dilutes her power as a leader of faith, leaving her with no unequivocal status on the plateau.
But even so, there is no doubt about the significance of the spirit girl to those Tibetan people.
If Lu Yuan can marry her, if he wants to take advantage of the Tibetan people in the future, he can directly call on a large number of religious warriors in the name of the spirit girl to serve the Chu Kingdom.
This is only the long-term benefit in the future.
In the short term.
As for the Hehe County that Chu State had just annexed, if the news of Lingnu's marriage to the King of Chu spreads, then those Tibetan people who were originally dissatisfied with Chu State's rule and were always thinking about restoring their tribes and retaking the snowy plains of Hehe River Valley would spread.
Under the influence of the spirit girl, the original resistance will be reduced by half in an instant.
Those gathered rebels will also give up fighting against Chu because of their faith.
Hehe County, which might have needed another five or six years of turmoil, would stabilize instantly and become the solid foundation of Chu State.
The above is the influence of a spiritual woman.
In addition to her influence, as a leader of the Damo Sect and the faith of tens of thousands of people in the snowy plains, the spirit girl has practiced the inherited mental methods of the Damo Sect for generations, and her cultivation is among the best in the world.
Lu Yuan doesn't have much information about how strong it is, so it's unclear.
However, the Damo Sect has been inherited for thousands of years, and its origins come from mythology. Even if it has fallen into decline in recent years, its foundation is definitely stronger than ordinary innate inheritance.
As the core of this sect, the spirit girl's cultivation level is definitely at the innate level, and she may even be one of the stronger ones among the innate ones.
With this character joining Chu State, Chu State has become even more powerful, directly increasing its strength by three points.
"When I marry the spirit girl, Chu's innate combat power will directly increase to seven.
Even if Su and Nanhai are conquered and Lingnan is annexed by then, Chu will only have eight counties.
No, Xiangyang and Hehe counties, as well as Tonghai County in Su State, are no more than half a county.
Therefore, in actual calculation, Chu State actually only has six and a half counties.
This bit of territory is guarded by seven innates, which is enough to ensure peace of mind. "
Lu Yuan couldn't help but feel excited as he calculated the benefits of the Spiritual Queen.
Originally, with the strength of the Chu State, it was almost the limit to swallow up only one Hanzhong County.
But if he forms an alliance with the Xueyuan Fan people and marries the spirit girl, it will be enough to increase the strength of Chu State by 30% and turn him into a fat man in one breath.
If it can really swallow up the Su Kingdom and the Nanhai Kingdom, plus the Hanzhong County that is currently preparing to take over, and digest the territory of these three and a half counties, then the Chu Kingdom will become a real hegemon, and its strength will directly crush the Ning Kingdom.
After ten years of self-cultivation, he can embark on an eastern expedition to destroy Ning State and unify Yangzhou.
In the face of this vast prospect, the last bargaining chip of the Tibetan people, the five hundred divine pills, seemed insignificant.
Divine elixirs are actually spiritual elixirs, made from the spiritual blood of different species of divine blood. They are just called differently in the snowfield and in Kyushu.
After the previous donation from Baifeng Temple, Chu State's reserve of elixirs totaled 1,200.
In the past few years, Jianchuan, Chili, and Kunhai have successively donated dozens more pills. Together with the elixirs produced by Chu State, the total has barely increased by about a hundred pills.
Therefore, the total number of spiritual pills in Chu State is 1,300, and they are still increasing continuously, so they are no longer considered scarce.
Even if there were five hundred more at this time, it would be nothing.
Only five hundred elixirs can cultivate an innate grandmaster. Those Xueyuan people sent so many elixirs to the Chu State, which was almost equivalent to giving a future innate grandmaster to the Chu State.
This gesture is not too small.
One hundred million taels of silver equals an army of five hundred thousand.
A spiritual girl is equivalent to a Tibetan spiritual belief and an innate fighting ability.
Five hundred magic pills are equivalent to a future innate.
"These three treasures are indeed precious. If the people of Xueyuan took these out, they might have suffered a lot of bleeding."
As Lu Yuan pondered, he couldn't help but have more understanding of the difficult situation of the Tibetan people today.
Silver and magic elixirs can be said to be external possessions.
But the spiritual belief of the spirit girl, which can even be said to be the core high-level leadership of the Tibetan people, was presented as a gift.
The situation of the Tibetan people at this time can be imagined.
In the past few years, Lu Yuan had paid a lot of attention to the war between the Tibetan people and the Zhou people, and he could often hear news coming back from there.
Almost every autumn, before winter, the Tibetan people in the snowy plains would gather together and form a mighty army to invade the Zhou Kingdom in order to plunder enough supplies for the winter.
Similarly, every spring, after winter, the Tibetan people would gather to invade the Zhou Kingdom and carry out plundering wars to replenish the tribe's depleted material reserves after a winter.
In this kind of war, you can often hear news about which counties and prefectures in the Zhou Kingdom were attacked by the Tibetan people.
Even Hexi County City was attacked the year before last.
In more than four years of war, more than a hundred cities in the Hexi and Longxi counties of the Zhou Kingdom were captured and plundered by the Tibetan people.
During this period, more than a million people were looted and massacred, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed.
There was a bloody feud between the Zhou people and the Tibetan people.
But the Zhou people suffered heavy losses, and as the attacking party, the Fan people suffered even more.
In the detective reports sent back by the Imperial City Division, as well as the news released by the Zhou people, we can often see words about destroying the Fan people, annihilating one hundred thousand enemies, and slaughtering hundreds of thousands of thieves.
Even the Zhou people would send people deep into the snowfields from time to time to find the Tibetan tribes and fight back.
In these proactive attacks, many victories were achieved, and news of how many tribes were destroyed and how many thousands of people were plundered, cattle and sheep could often be reported back.
If we tally up these great victories, we will be shocked to find that in just over four years, the Zhou people have wiped out more than 1.5 million Tibetan warriors.
The Zhou people took the initiative to attack and plundered the population of the Fan tribe, which numbered approximately one million.
In this war alone, the Tibetan people lost more than 2.5 million people, most of whom were young men.
This is just the population loss caused by the war.
What about outside of war?
You know, the reason why the Tibetan people are so desperate to invade Zhou is to seize enough supplies so that their tribe can survive, no matter the cost.
The flood in the sixth year of Shenwu, the harsh winters in the past few years, and natural disasters again and again, how many people did the Tibetan people in the snowy fields lose?
I'm afraid it's not much different from the losses in the war, right?
"Tsk, tsk, I didn't pay attention before, but now I calculate a little, those Tibetan people in the snowy plains have lost nearly 5 million people in the past four or five years.
With such a huge loss of population, no matter how rich the Tibetan people were, half their lives might have been lost in one breath.
I wonder if there are tens of millions of Tibetan people left?
But even if there is, after losing so much vitality, they still have to face continuous natural disasters, as well as the increasingly oppressive Zhou people, as well as the increasing shortage of food and supplies within the tribe.
Amid internal and external troubles, if changes are not made, we will look for ways to break the situation.
So the Tibetan people, who have been inherited for thousands of years, are probably not far away from extinction.
With such a threat, no wonder they were willing to spend so much money and send all the spirit girls out just to ask for help from Chu State. "
After thinking about it before and after, Lu Yuan finally understood the Fan people's thoughts and no longer had any doubts in his heart.
In the face of the proposals put forward by the Tibetan people.
He looked down, expecting to see the five envoys looking at him, with a smile on his face, and then said righteously: "The people of Zhou are tyrannical. They sent troops south to attack our people in the south of the Yangtze River. Now they are good at bordering. Provoke and massacre the people of the snowy plains.
The heroes of the world would like to punish those who behave so perversely and bully those who are weak.
Therefore, he marched to the north of Wei State and attacked the Zhou people's Shuofang County.
The Liang Kingdom of Qingzhou attacked Henan County of the Zhou people.
Now that your noble envoy is coming, as a country of benevolence and righteousness in the world, we, Dachu, are naturally willing to do our best for the people of the world.
Gu agreed to the marriage and alliance with the people of the Snowfield.
In a few days, I will send a large army to go north to conquer the Zhou people, to show the way of heaven and respond to the covenant. "
