The Lord of Goguryeo looked at the handsome young man in front of him, his mind bewildered.
He recognised the other man, of course, and the scene of his opponent’s single finger smashing ten thousand people was the nightmare he had been having in his sleep for the past few days.
But what he didn’t understand was that the other man just seemed to have said that he would send troops to help him?
To be honest, he was not in a good position right now.
He had wanted to take his men back to live on, but never thought that he would be caught halfway by Hai.
Even if he was caught, the other side even used his identity to change into the clothes of his guards and tricked the city gates open.
Then in one fell swoop, they took the border city, and then the other side used him as a condition to make the people of the king’s city pay to ransom him.
But the people of Goguryeo had long resented him, and now it was simply a disgrace to the whole of Goguryeo.
In the past few days, I heard from the people of the city that the ministers in the royal city had already elected one of his cousins to be the lord of Goguryeo.
It was impossible to pay for his ransom.
But at this very moment, the man in front of him, who had single-handedly wiped out his army of 70,000, said he would help him.
“What, you don’t want it?”
Looking at the Goguryeo lord who was frozen there, Zhao Lang asked blandly.
The Goguryeo State Lord came back to his senses at this time and said, evenly
“Great Qin nobleman is above, I want it! I want it!”
No matter what the other side had in mind, he did not have any choice now.
Zhao Lang said at this time that
“Just want it, as long as you want it, we will help you take back all the cities, and your throne.”
“But my people are all very valuable, and this price…”
Without waiting for Zhao Lang to finish his sentence, the Lord of Goguryeo said that
“Great Qin nobleman, you can have as much as you want!”
Hearing this, the people around Zhao Lang showed a hint of disgust, even though the other party was now pandering to Zhao Lang, but this kind of people who turned their backs on their ancestors and betrayed their own country.
They all disliked it.
However, Zhao Lang revealed a smile and said that
“One hundred million taels of gold.”
Hearing this figure, none of the people around showed any expression of surprise.
The Lord of the Goguryeo Kingdom was the same, and asked, somewhat confused
“This 100 million, how much is it?”
Zhao Lang did not answer, but said that
“Not a lot, and I will treat you very favourably.”
“There’s no rush to pay it back in one go, just take your time. ”
“And in the meantime, I will send someone to protect you in addition to helping you recover your country.”
Hearing such conditions, the Goguryeo lord felt that he could not even do the math.
Had he lost or won a battle?
In addition to the money he had to pay, how could the other side offer him men and labour? And guarantee his safety?
Ask yourself, if you were in his shoes, even if you wanted money, you could just kill and rob.
But the more he couldn’t understand the other side’s thinking, the more awe he felt in the heart of the Goguryeo lord.
With a little apprehension, he asked.
“Great Qin nobleman, I do not yet know your identity.”
He had been captured, but until now, he did not know what the other party was.
Zhao Lang smiled and said back.
“I am the Crown Prince of the Great Qin!”
Bang! Bang!
Several muffled thuds rang out in the room in a flash.
The Goguryeo lord fell straight to his knees, and Hai and Fishball failed to hold up, falling aside with stunned faces.
The others did not laugh at each other, when they were even worse.
The Goguryeo lord crawled straight to Zhao Lang’s feet at this time, saying that
“Your Majesty, I, Goguryeo, am willing to be a dog of the Great Qin!”
How could he not have imagined that the other party was actually the Crown Prince of Great Qin!
Zhao Lang gave the other party a cold look, but a smile appeared on his face and said that
“Why do you say that, Lord of the State?”
“We are the same as the royal clan, we should take care of each other, so you should go and have a good rest first.”
“We’ll talk about the details afterwards.”
With that, he let Hai, who was still on the ground, take the Goguryeo lord, who was also on the ground, down.
When the Goguryeo lord had gone, Hu Hai, who was dissatisfied, said to one side that
“This dog is really blind, he didn’t even recognise me!”
He had already recognised the other party as soon as he entered, as the Great Prince of Goguryeo from before.
He’d been waiting for days, but the other man hadn’t even recognised him from start to finish!
It was simply outrageous!
After cursing the Goguryeo lord, Hu Hai then said to Zhao Lang with some doubts.
“Brother Long, why don’t you just kill this kind of person! This dog has caused us a lot of trouble!”
“If we want money, let’s just fight our way through and rob their kingdom!”
He was hating the other side right now, hating them with a passion.
If it weren’t for what happened on Goguryeo’s side, Zhao Lang would have joined his father right now and exterminated the remaining members of the Six Kingdoms.
Zhao Lang sent for pens and silk before he returned.
“Even if we robbed the whole of Goguryeo how much money could we get?”
Hu Hai bristled and said that
“It should be more than a hundred thousand taels of gold at any rate.”
Zhao Lang continued to ask the
“And how long will that take?”
Hu Hai understood at once that it would take a lot of time to fight all the way there, even if the other side was weakly defended.
But they didn’t have that much time, the Xiang allied army could attack at any moment!
They had to go back.
Soon, Fish Egg sent over the pens and silks.
Zhao Lang lifted his hand and wrote, and in no time he had finished the
“Here are a few key articles, take a look and see if there is anything you want to add.”
Han Wangcheng took it up first, there were just a few here who could come up with ideas.
Looking at the terms on the silk, his face quickly looked a little puzzled as he asked
“King Qin, this indemnity of 100 million, how much is it exactly?”
The Great Qin did have the word ‘billion’, which meant a lot and did not have a definite number.
That’s why they were a little confused just now.
Zhao Lang said blandly at this time that
“In the future, a hundred million, is ten thousand ten thousand.”
Gulp!
A few gulps rang out directly from the room.
Han Wangcheng said with a few moments of confusion that
“10,000,000 taels of gold? How long is this going to be paid back?”
Even for himself, more than 10,000 taels of gold was a huge amount!
At this time, Wei Wang Gui also came over, looked at the terms written down by Zhao Lang, and said that
“Don’t forget to read it, King Han, there is still three cents of interest for each year.”
Three cents of interest, that is, thirty percent of Zhao Lang’s interest in his previous life.
Han Wangcheng continued to read on, and
“If you don’t have enough money, you can use land, minerals, labour, taxes, etc. to offset it.”
“And…”
Listening to Han Wangcheng read out line by line, Wei Wangguo gave Zhao Lang a look, the other party was trying to make Goguryeo never recover!
Zhao Lang asked, with a bit of sincerity
“Do you have anything else to add?”
After all, there was always something he couldn’t think of alone.
Han Wangcheng shook his head like a rattle and said that
“No more! No more!”
Although they originally had some terms in mind, they simply didn’t have the face to mention them when compared to Zhao Lang.
Zhao Lang could only nod regretfully at this point, and then handed the silk to Fish Egg.
“Tell Hai to ask the Lord of Goguryeo to sign it and tell him that as long as the terms are there, so is his royal family! By the way remember to leave some blanks.”
Just in case you think of something later, it’s good to add to it.
When the fish eggs had left, the king of Wei blamed himself for thinking about it and said that
“King Qin, this Lord of Goguryeo is not loved by the people nowadays, I’m afraid it will be difficult to implement.”
“Even if we suppress it by force, I’m afraid it will be very costly.”
He now understood Zhao Lang’s meaning, to put it simply, he was treating Goguryeo as a long-term gold mine.
No matter how Goguryeo develops in the future, all the money and wealth will be owned by the Great Qin!
Zhao Long said with a smile at this time.
“It is to have the lord of the country and the people at odds, so that we can be useful.”
“Don’t worry, after we help him take back the kingdom, our people will be extremely kind to the people here.”
The king of Wei, Blame, listened once again and a scene appeared in his mind.
The Lord of Goguryeo was brutal, but the army sent by Zhao Lang, however, was extremely kind.
In this way, sooner or later, the people of Goguryeo would, sooner or later, hate their own lord to the bone, but be close to the people of the Great Qin.
But the truth is that all their money and wealth were siphoned off by the Great Qin.
If one day, the royal family of Goguryeo disobeyed or tried to rebel.
Then Great Qin got rid of them, easily, even in accordance with the wishes of the people.
Then another puppet would be supported.
And on the side of the Goguryeo royal family, Zhao Lang offered extremely generous terms for the money for these compensations.
There would be a layer of it for them!
In other words, as much as they raided, the royal family would get more!
In this way, the royal family and the people were completely on opposite sides, with the Great Qin as the judge.
No matter who loses or wins, it’s all for the benefit of Great Qin!
When he thought of the implications, the king of Wei broke out in a cold sweat.
The look in his eyes towards Zhao Lang was filled with awe.
He could not think of what kind of person could come up with such a poisonous ploy!
Fortunately, he had already subordinated himself to Zhao Lang.
Otherwise, if these stratagems were used on Wei.
The entire royal family of Wei would surely be left in disgrace for all time!
Of course, no one noticed that Tian Yi, who had been escorting Zhao Lang, was looking more and more worried.
By the time Zhao Lang got the fish egg delivered to him, the silk that had been signed and stamped with the jade seal of the kingdom lord.
Satisfied, he put it away.
With this, when Great Qin had to develop afterwards, the finances could be slightly easier.
“Little Six take the men and stay behind to help regain the King’s City.”
“Fish Egg, tell Hai to leave all the men here for Little Six.”
“You take the fleet of ships and return to the Liaodong docks immediately and prepare to deliver supplies, the sergeants.”
Zhao Long quickly instructed.
Xiao Liu was Pop’s Black Soldier Guard and was just right for this kind of thing.
Xiao Liu nodded bitterly.
Soon, Zhao Lang made the arrangements; it would take time to take Goguryeo completely, and he couldn’t afford to run out of time now.
And what came after that would be a long process.
None of these people in the Great Qin had any similar experience.
He still had to watch it.
First thing tomorrow morning, he’ll go back to Liaodong, and once he’s got Liaodong set up, he’ll head straight for Dingtao!
Let’s hope it’s in time.
“Alright, all go and rest, first thing tomorrow morning, we’ll return to Liaodong!”
Zhao Lang said, and prepared to leave.
Just then, there was a sudden sound of thunder from outside.
Before anyone could react, a figure blocked Zhao Lang’s body, not letting him go out, and then shouted at the sky that
“Don’t strike the chief! Strike me!”
When everyone looked back, they saw Tian Yi protecting Zhao Lang.
For a moment, everyone looked a little puzzled.
Zhao Lang looked at Tianyi in front of him and was so angry and amused, this was just a normal spring thunder in spring.
He himself was so deserving of being struck by lightning in this fellow’s heart?
“You want me to be struck by lightning that badly?”
Zhao Lang said without good humour.
Tianyi looked at the silk in Zhao Lang’s hand and thought about what these people had just said.
Zhao Long alone wanted the whole of Goguryeo to never be rehabilitated, so he was not struck by lightning? Who will be struck by lightning?
So he nodded his head straight away.
Zhao Long clacked his lips, although he wanted to beat up Tianyi, but when he thought about the force of this b*****d, he chose to give up.
And someone who was willing to block the thunder for himself was still worth cherishing.
Reaching out directly, he raked Tianyi aside and said.
“Don’t worry, your family’s chief doesn’t die that easily!”
“Hmph, if the heavens really want to split people, how come it’s not my turn to be the chief!”
After saying this, Zhao Lang looked further east of the sea.
Before all the people there were split by the heavens, he was absolutely safe.
Then with big strides, he walked out towards the outside, and just then, a spring thunder rang out in the sky once again.
Of course, Zhao Lang was unharmed.
It was just that apart from Zhao Lang’s entourage, no one else coincidentally did not follow Zhao Lang.
“King Han, after you?”
“No, no, no, you first, King Wei, you first!”
“Imperial son Hu Hai why don’t you follow the King of Qin?”
“I’m afraid of being struck by lightning.”
Seeing that Hu Hai had directly pierced everyone’s mind, they all could not help but reveal a bitter smile.
For all the things Zhao Lang had done, being struck by lightning was really not an uncommon thing.
It was too poisonous!
After a night’s rest in the border city, the next morning was early.
Xiao Liu led the men to reluctantly send Zhao Lang off.
“Your Highness, the Crown Prince, I…”
Zhao Lang said indifferently, the
“When will you take back the King’s City and return to me.”
Xiao Liu’s eyes lit up as he heard this and said that
“As you command!”
Zhao Lang nodded, and led the men in the direction of Liaodong.
Xiao Liu also left the place at this time and led the Goguryeo kingdom lord aside towards the border city, he wanted to recover the Goguryeo kingdom as soon as possible!
A few days later, a group of fast horses appeared in the territory of Liaodong.
“Why does it smell like roast meat? It smells so good!”
Hu Hai said suspiciously as he inhaled his nose.
But hearing this, everyone else’s faces couldn’t help but turn white.
Hu Hai also reacted at this time, and suddenly dry-heaved a few times.
Zhao Lang ignored the place, these things didn’t affect him much anymore now.
“Go back to the camp first!”
Zhao Lang was directly prepared to go and meet Ji Wushuang first, how could he settle this matter first.
Then he would make a trip back to the manor and meet with his teacher and the others.
Then he was ready to go to Dingtao.
Back at the previous camp, it was still a busy place, so many corpses, all of which needed to be dealt with.
There were also some seriously injured people to look after.
And this is also Zhao Long’s back-up base.
Zhao Long found the big dog straight away.
“Where is the white girl?”
The big dog blinked and said that
“Miss White has left, saying it’s all right here now, and she’s going to the Chu land to organise manpower for the farming family.”
Zhao Lang listened with itching teeth, the b*****d had run away again!
said the big cat on the side.
“Yes, house master, the white girl just robbed my good horse.”
Just now?
Zhao Lang’s eyes lit up and he rode off in the direction of Chu Di, leaving behind a dumbfounded Big Cat and Big Dog.
Soon, Zhao Long saw Ji Wushuang’s figure, and he shouted at once that
“Ji Wushuang! Stop right there!”
It seemed that she heard Zhao Lang’s voice, so she ran even faster.
Seeing that he was about to lose him, Zhao Lang shouted that
“Don’t run away! I’ll help you take revenge!”
Hearing these words, Ji Wushuang in front of him could not help but stop his horse.