"Okay!" A smile appeared on Lin Xi's face.
The old face belonging to Wen Yuanxiang was now wrinkled into an old chrysanthemum.
"Please give me a token of honor and make it a covenant. When I ask for the emperor's edict, I will reply." Lin Xi said.
Shan Bao relayed what Lin Xi said.
The barbarian leader took a piece of crystal stone talisman and gave it to Lin Xi.
The three people in Linxi were entertained that day.
Although there were some barbarians, the look they looked at made Lin Xi feel familiar, vaguely like the look he looked at others.
But overall, the atmosphere was cheerful.
Most barbarians have simple minds.
If they weren't naturally strong and protected by the cold and wild millions of wild mountains, they would have been eaten by those outside the mountains without leaving any bones.
On the way back, Shan Bao finally couldn't help but asked Lin Xi: "Do you... really have a way to get the emperor's support?"
Shan Bao didn't have much experience, but after all, he was still different from the barbarians in the mountains.
He knew that Lin Xi's identity was not simple, but... it was not reliable to find the emperor as a guarantee and do business with the barbarians.
"If it's business... of course I can't do it." Lin Xi did not hide Shanbao.
Many of the things that need to be dealt with next require help from the border towns. Lin Xi alone is not enough to accomplish the task.
Therefore, it is actually necessary to tell some 'truths' calmly.
Among them, Shan Bao is responsible for communicating with the barbarians, and his value is currently irreplaceable.
Therefore, it is even more important to know him in advance.
"You can't do it?" Shan Bao looked at Lin Xi with a collapsed expression, and layers of malice rushed towards Lin Xi.
"I will report to the court and say that there is a barbarian tribe that is willing to naturalize Da Zui. Not only is it offering the tribe's treasures as a sign of sincerity, but it is also willing to take out a large amount of treasures collected in the millions of barbarian mountains and offer them to the emperor." Lin Xi said leisurely .
"Are you lying? Are you deceiving me? Deceiving the Tian Yan Que Department?" Shan Bao looked at Lin Xi angrily, and his body began to swell again.
"Deception? No! This is just a skill of speaking. With the great etiquette of the country, if any foreign country converts and surrenders, tribute gifts will be given. The emperor will reward him and return three times the total price of the tribute."
"Three times the gift, in exchange for cloth, oil, salt and various items needed by the barbarians, is more than enough to satisfy the Tian Yan Que tribe. This method is not business, but it is better than business." Lin Xi said.
Lin Xi's method was, to put it bluntly, deceiving both sides.
Tell the barbarians that they are just doing business, exchanging things outside the mountains for things inside the mountains.
But what he said to the court was that the barbarian tribes were naturalized and willing to accept the control of the court, which was equivalent to opening up territory for the evil spirits 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 stage of Daxi, but also gain a lot of benefits.
Of course, this has to be risky.
Even if Lin Xi could continue to make the cake bigger, bring in more powerful people, and use the benefits to get many people to help him complete the lies.
But as long as something goes wrong, the entire interest link will collapse.
Lin Xi will be beyond redemption.
But... for the time being, Lin Xi won't care about this problem.
He doesn't have many chips available right now.
If you don't use the barbarians and think of other ways to return to Yong'an and fulfill Wen Yuanxiang's last wish, you don't know how long it will take to go there.
A nine-fold letter to the court!
Three days later, the emperor's special envoy Qi He came, inquired about the details, took away the token, and returned to Yong'an to report to the emperor.
Later, under Lin Xi's central adjustment, a large number of treasures in the mountain were transported out of the mountain.
The rewards from the emperor were secretly exchanged for cloth, grain, oil and salt, and sent to the Tianyan Que Department.
On Da Sui's territory, there is an extra small piece.
It is located among millions of wild mountains and is extremely difficult to reach.
It was difficult for the emperor to arrange officials to guard the country, so he had no choice but to let the barbarians govern themselves.
He just ordered that the barbarian tribe arrange for the next sacrifice head to be put into Yong'an as a pledge.
This is not difficult to solve either.
Shan Bao helped Tian Yan Que Department solve a big problem.
With the approval of the priest, he was allowed to return to the tribe, and he personally washed his body with the blood of hundreds of barbarians and rebuilt his barbarian body.
In addition to retaining certain appearance characteristics of ordinary humans, Shan Bao looks no different from most barbarians.
Therefore, Shan Bao was regarded by Lin Xi as the next head of the Tian Yan Que tribe and sent to Yong'an to become a hostage.
In fact, the addition of a barbarian tribe in the millions of barbarian mountains to Da Sui's territory does not bring any substantial benefits to Da Sui.
But that's what a mature country is like.
Every inch of ground must be fought for, and no inch of ground must be lost.
The emperor was delighted to expand his territory.
The ministers felt that they had civilized the barbarians.
The rich and powerful can make profits from it. Based on Lin Xi's method, they can continue to expand, and everyone can be happy and gain something.
Although the whole thing was based on a lie, it seemed that no one really suffered.
At the same time, Wen Yuanxiang's name once again jumped into the eyes of many people, making them uneasy but unable to turn a blind eye.
As far as the country is concerned, Wen Yuanxiang made great contributions to the expansion of territory.
Don't refuse to reward, otherwise the country's unclear rewards and punishments will make all officials alienated from morality, and the soldiers will have no intention of protecting the country.
But from the emperor to the ministers, few wanted to see Wen Yuanxiang return to the court and take charge of power.
So after waiting for many days, Linxi finally received a reward from An Nanbo.
He was given a title but not an official position. He just let the people go and continued to wait and see.
"Sure enough, it is not so easy to return to Yong'an. Of course... I am no longer a criminal, so it is not difficult to return to Yong'an quietly. But this is not what I want, let alone Wen Yuanxiang want."
"So, it's time to make the next plan!" Lin Xi looked at the distant mountains with a smile.
Shan Bao left, and the person who took over Shan Bao's role as the barbarian's liaison with the outside world was the son of the Tian Yan Que tribe.
He is learning the language and culture of the outside world, and his progress is not slow.
Of course, Lin Xi is also learning the language of the barbarians.
The language of the barbarians is not difficult. They have a small vocabulary and fewer characters and syllables. As long as you fully understand the intonation and tone in different situations, it is quite fast and convenient to learn.
Lin Xi, who had secretly hunted and killed two barbarians and devoured their human souls, had obtained a large number of barbarian memory fragments, felt this way.
"Tit!" Lin Xi waved to his son who was offering sacrifices.
The stupid guy immediately dropped the big bone stick in his hand and ran towards Lin Xi with his big feet.
He shouted from a distance: "Yeah!"
Tit's accent was so thick that Grandpa was called "Yeah".
"Titmouse! Do you think you barbarians prefer to keep dragon tigers or blue sheep in burrows?" Lin Xi asked Titmouse in barbarian language.
Titmouse thought for a while and replied: "Of course it's Jiaohu!"
"Do you know why?" Lin Xi asked again.
Titmouse replied: "Because tigers are very dangerous, a hundred barbarian warriors may not be able to kill an adult ferocious tiger. But blue 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 barbarians know.
Now Lin Xi, under the identity of Wen Yuanxiang, has made great contributions to the court.
The court was unwilling to reward him, but gave him the status of an empty count and sent him away.
This is entirely because Lin Xi has no threat.
Like blue sheep, they can be slaughtered at any time.
But if Lin Xi turns into a dragon...then the court will have to use a big cage to lock him up to avoid being hurt by him.
And for this great evil, where could there be a better place to serve as a cage than the imperial capital of Yong'an?
"Ti Que! How did your father think about the proposal I made to him last time?" Lin Xi asked Ti Que.
Titmouse scratched his forehead, and then replied: "My father said that when goods enter the mountain, they will naturally be escorted by the warriors of the tribe. But the barbarians belong to the Million Barbarian Mountains and do not belong to the outside world. We will not go down the mountain."
Lin Xi wanted to take the lead in forming a team of barbarians to go down the mountain in the name of the increasing number of goods and the fear of being robbed by other barbarian tribes or attacked by monsters.
But it was obvious that the priest from Shanyanque tribe rejected Lin Xi's proposal.
Lin Xi said nothing more.
If people don't feel pain, they won't cover the wound with their hands.
Some time later!
In another month, the entire Million Barbaric Mountains will usher in the coldest period.
Because of Lin Xi's mediation, the Mountain Flame Birds obtained sufficient materials to survive the cold wave.
But more barbarians are still fighting for their lives.
They are not blind.
Naturally, we can know the connection between Shanyanque Department and the outside world through various methods.
Those hyenas among the dignitaries in the imperial court who smelled the fishy smell have not yet fully arrived.
They are also looking for opportunities to cooperate with other barbarian tribes.
Therefore, many barbarians, because they cannot survive, will keep their eyes on the materials sent to the Mountain Flame Bird Department.
"Wen Lao Fu!"
"Come out and say something!" A disgraceful roar came from outside the county government office, which had been simply renovated.
Two black horses that had entered the threshold of the spiritual beasts raised their iron hooves and trampled through the gate of the county government office.
A strange locomotive with mechanism control spontaneously drove into the county government office, which seemed small to the locomotive.
From the locomotive, a tall, dark-skinned man wearing a black brocade robe, a full beard, and a tall build came out.
"Old man Wen! I ordered you to contact the barbarians in the mountains and build relationships with them. Why have you been perfunctory with me for three days but still haven't replied? Do you really think that you are still the leader of the officials in the past and the prime minister of the dynasty?" The big man with dark skin and full beard is Dingxiang Hou Tianzheng.
The Tian family is the founder of the country.
At the same time, they are also from a family of practitioners.
He followed the path of a military strategist and cultivated the aura of killing and killing on the battlefield.
In Lin Xi's eyes, this type of practitioner is actually closer to the devil's path. To the devil... he is actually a plaything in the palm of his hand.
