"That language is too difficult, I can't learn it, and I have to speak my tongue~~~" Krisna said with an ugly face.
She had taken a language class a few days ago, and she was almost bored to death for half an hour. She survived the tea break and spent most of the rest of it dozing off.
"Sit down~~!"
How could Yang Gan let her go? What's the point of learning alone? It was indeed difficult. After Yang Gan traveled through time, his memory was very different from before. Learning was a bit difficult, but it didn't mean he couldn't learn it.
It's just that the language is easy to learn, but the writing is difficult. This kind of writing feels like every word is almost the same, which is extremely difficult to learn.
"General, urgent report~~~!"
A soldier rushed into the house and shouted loudly downstairs.
Yang Qian didn't dare to neglect. After getting down, he immediately took the letter bucket, checked the seal, and then opened it to read.
After reading the letter, Yang Qian fell silent, waved Gulandanna back, and called Mu Qing and Xiao Yu up.
"Look, if you have any suggestions, please feel free to speak~~~!"
Yang Gan handed them the official document.
After the two women finished reading, they were also silent.
Xiao Yu shook his head and said, "Liao Guo and Shang Guo actually sent envoys to negotiate peace with Xia Guo at the same time, hoping that the two countries would go to war. Xia Guo promised not to interfere. Does this letter to the young master mean that you are going to make conditions?"
Yang Qian pinched the bridge of his nose and said speechlessly, "Do you still need me to handle this kind of thing? Are all the ministers in the dynasty doing it for a living?"
Mu Qing looked at the official document carefully, scanned it a few more times, pursed his lips and said, "Sir, are you afraid that the king intends to test you?"
Yang Gan asked curiously, "Test? What is the test?"
Seeing Krisna walking downstairs, Mu Qing quickly said, "Of course it's a test for you. After all, being the king of a country is a very cautious thing."
Yang Qian frowned deeply, "The cheap old man, is your health going bad so quickly?"
"I guess I planned in advance, otherwise if I died suddenly, wouldn't it be a chaos in the court?" After Mu Qing finished speaking, he glanced at Yang Gan, fearing that what he said would make him angry.
But it turned out that Yang Gan's face was as normal, probably because of hysteria.
Yang Gan scratched his head with a headache, "How can we raise this condition?"
Yang Qian is a little clever, but he still doesn't know enough about Xia Guo's entire strategy.
Xiao Yu pointed to the document, "It says that the mission has not set off yet, it is just an intention."
Yang Gan thought about it and then told the soldiers waiting downstairs, "It's a very important matter. You stay here for two days. After I write a letter, you can send it back together."
"No~~!"
The soldiers were welcomed outside the mansion by the mistress. There were some houses not far from Yang Gan specially for these people to live in, and it was also convenient for summons.
A large pot of mutton, a plate of vegetarian dishes, a large pot of soup, and a small bottle of wine were placed on the dining table. Seeing such sumptuous dishes, the orderly couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
Many people said that after going to Yuntong County, they no longer wanted to go to court. He thought it was just talk. Who would have thought that there would be such rich food as soon as he arrived, let alone waiting for a few days, he would be here every day. Either way.
He immediately sat down and started to feast. The mistress smiled at the door and said, "Eat slowly, no one will compete with you."
The orderly soldier kept swallowing the food and slurred to the mistress, "Sir, do you have enough food here?"
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As the saying goes, there are seven rank officials in front of the prime minister. Who is Yang Gan? How can the people in his mansion, who is a proper feudal official, be simple? So the messenger was smart enough to address him as “sir.”
"Um?"
Although the mistress is just a servant, he has been following Yang Qian and has learned a lot from him.
He did not answer the question directly, but instead chuckled and asked, "The counties outside should be having a much better life now."
The messenger glanced at him, took a sip of wine happily, shook his head and said, "This year is better than last year. After all, it has just been spring plowing, and there is still food left. I heard that last winter, some counties were already eating tree bark. I'm hungry." Many people died."
The mistress was startled, and immediately calmly exchanged a few words with the messenger. These words would reach Yang Qian's ears intact in a short time.
On the third floor, Yang Qian was lying in Mu Qing's arms, eating snacks. "What conditions do you think should be offered?"
"Food? After all, this stuff is hard currency."
Yang Gan shook his head, "It's hard currency, but it's not valuable."
Mu Qing asked, "If you really don't want it, you can let them cede the land."
"Certain land?" Yang Qian became more energetic. This is a good deal with huge profits.
"Will they?"
Mu Qing shook his head and said, "I don't know about this. Although I have traveled around the world, I have never participated in the temple's decision."
Mu Qing was very popular, and all kinds of young men wanted to get her. Unfortunately, they just wanted a woman. How could a woman take charge of a country's policies and decisions?
"Wait~~!"
Yang Qian sat up directly. He suddenly thought that if he wanted to cede land, it would be better to cede the land leading to Loulan.
Yang Gan immediately brought the map over, pointed at it and said, "Look, Gulandanna came in from here, but the place she came in is indeed within the territory of Liao State. If we take this territory, what do you think? Is it good for us?"
Before Mu Qing could understand, Xiao Yu looked at Yang Qian in horror, "Master, are you planning to take action against Loulan and other Nine Kingdoms?"
Yang Gan shook his head, "Do it? That's the Gobi. Many places are deserts. We must pay a lot of casualties in the battle. I think commerce is more suitable. By the way, I can understand the mode of fighting there and learn more about it. It's best to be prepared with both hands. .”
Mu Qing asked, "What if Liao Guo disagrees?"
Xiao Yu said decisively, "The probability of agreeing is very high. The Liao State is a vast country, and I have known this place before. The moss is yellow, and there is no communication with Loulan and other places. I thought that the west is a desert with no human habitation."
"The people in this place are very poor and often don't have enough food. They still need food from the court. I believe they will agree."
Yang Qian was immediately overjoyed. Wouldn't this directly open up the trade to Loulan? It would be difficult not to make a fortune.
"If ceding land can be regarded as a condition, how about also ceding land to Shangguo?"
Xiao Yu shook his head and said, "No, Shang Guo will never agree."
"Why?"
"Shang Guo, the land area is small and there is not enough arable land. How can we cede the land? As soon as you talk about ceding the land, that bastard may become anxious."
Yes, Yang Qian nodded with satisfaction. He didn't expect Xiao Yu to analyze the general situation of the country so thoroughly. It was not simple.
In two days, not only Yang Qian, Xiao Yu, Mu Qing,
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Ran Jing, Krisna and other close people.
He also called Tan Tianyan, Xun Sheng, Li Si and other well-educated people from poor families to discuss the details together.
No matter where they are from, it doesn't matter, because it is almost impossible for them to leave Zhuangzi here. Even if they leave Zhuangzi and go to Yuntong City, they will be under the surveillance of many people. Yang Gan believes that if this can make people run away , then he stands upside down and flies.
So he allowed everyone to speak freely without formality.
After two days of discussion, it was decided that the Liao State needed to cede two lands to the Xia State so that the Xia State could guarantee not to send troops. Of course, this was an empty price and could still be negotiated.
As for Shang Guo's words, Yang Gan proposed an idea, which was to send troops to the battlefields of the two countries.
In terms of national strength, Liao State is stronger than Shang State, with more land and more people than him, and the equipment is not much worse. However, judging from the historical wars, Shang State is actually more than one step stronger than Liao State.
The advantages of the two sides cancel each other out. Every battle is almost always a stalemate. There are rare occasions when one side is defeated.
Yang Gan's condition was to collect the seriously injured soldiers and prisoners of Liao State that Shang Guo didn't want for free.
Before the appearance of Yang Qian, the vassal states rarely had the habit of retaining prisoners during wars. In the eyes of the king, these people were a factor of instability.
If there are fewer people, it won't have much effect. If there are more people, more food and grass will be consumed, which is purely useless.
However, in Yang Gan's eyes, a powerful country must have two things. First, it has a large land. For example, a country like Singapore can be a developed country but cannot be a powerful country because it does not have much land and cannot support many people.
The second is population. Population can not only be used to fight wars, but also produce more food. The most important thing is that if the population base is large, the probability of producing talents will be much greater.
Therefore, if a country wants to have a foundation, land and population are necessary items. If it wants to become a powerful country, it must have a strong and forward-looking court based on these two foundations. More than ten years will be enough to build a country. A powerful empire.
Recruiting two prisoners of war is a trade-off. It takes a certain amount of time for the population to grow. Yang Gan can not only take the ready-made ones, but also directly attack the key points of Shangguo.
They don't have enough food and grass to feed so many people.
After the matter was agreed upon, Yang Gan immediately drafted a document, wrote a bunch of words in a eloquent manner, stamped his seal, touched the sealing mud, and called the messenger over.
When he saw the messenger, Yang Gan was stunned for a moment and asked uncertainly.
"You~~are you fat?"
The messenger smiled naively and said, "General, here, the food here is very good. I seem to be a little heavier."
"Okay, okay~~~"
Yang Gan took out a few taels of silver and documents from the box on the desk and handed them to the messenger.
"General, what is this?" The messenger looked at the shiny silver in his hand and was a little confused. This was his first time here and he had never seen such an operation before.
Every time I go to a place to deliver orders and take care of a few meals, it's already pretty good. What's up with the money?
"Send the documents to Chao Xian as quickly as possible. As for the money~~hehe, think of it as drinking money."
The messenger was overjoyed and said, "General, don't worry, I will deliver the document as quickly as possible."
After saying that, he ran outside like a gust of wind.
Yang Qian understood that if he wanted the horse to run fast, he had to feed it well. Anyway, he didn't need this little money, so he just thought of it as buying peace of mind for himself.
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