Various cleaning and rectification work are left to those behind. Bailu City is now the largest logistics base in the Pantuo River Basin, where Tianhao concentrated 200,000 troops and more than 3,000 propaganda personnel (working group, including political commissar). A huge inland fleet descended along the river, and continued to communicate between Hulao Pass, Gangwei City and Bailu City. A large number of prisoners and valuable materials were transported back, and then a large number of immigrants were transported to fundamentally consolidate the rule of the newly occupied area.

"Get a place and firmly stand firm." This is the order of His Highness the Regent and must be obeyed unconditionally.

The fleet supplies lasted for more than two hours. It was mainly the replenishment of shells and the replacement of damaged artillery. Six cannons were damaged due to recoil impacts and overheating of the gun barrel during the battle. Each ship received supplies through the transport ship, and the sailors and gunners also seized the time to eat and rest. As the night slowly descended, the storm issued a new order.

"Anchor, target Iron Jaw City!"

...

The territory of the tiger tribe, capital, and Blood Claw City.

There are hundreds of steps leading to the palace hall, and there are tiger imperial guards on both sides holding spears and battle axes. The messengers sent by Hulao Pass traveled day and night and finally arrived last night. The tiger tribe was in an uproar.

Libin is very young. He is twenty-two years old this year, but he has three months to celebrate his birthday. He looks pretty and has a fair skin, but has a burly and strong body, especially from the exposed arms on both sides of the sleeveless top, there are bulging muscles. Especially on his left arm, it is even more clearly and eye-catching marks of thousands of people.

The atmosphere here is very depressing. Not only the tiger guards standing on both sides of the stairs, but also the dense clouds formed by a mixture of anger, shock, fear, panic and other emotions.

As a Dragon Clan envoy, Li Bin ignored the fierce gazes of the tiger clan guards from both sides who were enough to kill people, and walked into the hall with his head held high.

Today is not a normal time for the dynasty meeting. Hu Yaoxian temporarily summoned important officials just to meet the sudden arrival of the Dragon Clan envoy.

The atmosphere in the hall became more and more dull. Dozens of hostile eyes looked over from different directions, concentrated on Libin, watching him walk straight to the steps under the throne, kneeling down on one knee without panic, completing the standard diplomatic etiquette between the northern barbarian tribes.

Regardless of the environment or the atmosphere, there was no impact on Libin. The tiger king Yaoxian sat on the throne, stared at the young man with a cold look, raised his hand and pointed at the other person's forehead, and said viciously: "Kneel down with both feet together and kowtow to me!"

Normal diplomatic etiquette is just kneeling down on one knee, which is a law recognized by all patriarchs at the tribal conference.

Libin kept kneeling on one knee, looking calm: "Your Majesty, I am a member of the Dragon Clan, not your people."

Only the Tiger clan members will obey the orders from Hu Yaoxian.

"So, do you refuse?" Hu Yaoxian's eyes flashed with dangerous light.

"Yes." Libin straightened his chest again.

Hu Yao nodded slowly and ordered in a twisted grin: "Cut off his legs. Since you don't want to kneel down, I will make you unable to stand up forever."

Libin did not argue or beg for mercy. He smiled slightly, "This is your power. But I promise, you will pay the price for this order. The great Regent will avenge me. It is not a compensation, but hundreds of times more revenge, and even the souls of the dead will be scared."

Although it was a threat, he spoke lightly, as if he was talking about the weather and today's lunch, rather than the bloody life and death.

A tiger leader in armor pointed at Li Bin and shouted angrily: "Bold, how dare you make a big statement in front of the noble His Majesty. Do you want to die?"

A regent minister standing on the right also shook his head and frowned, sneering and sneering: "How could the Niu Clan send you a guy who is ignorant of the world as an envoy? It seems that there is no one in the clan after the death of the Niu Clan! First, he made the regent who was overthrowing the throne, and then inexplicably changed the Niu Clan to the Dragon Clan... Humph, they are all guys who forget their ancestors and a group of useless waste."

More and more people were talking, and there were many discussions in the hall.

Libin's expression remained unchanged, but as long as he looked carefully, he could find that his eyelashes occasionally trembled slightly, and there was a little sweat oozing from his skin on both sides of his forehead.

Wu Lin kept staring at Li Bin. He shook his head secretly in his heart——As a matter of fact, he was still a young man. Although he had good quality and had received training in dealing with similar emergencies, he did not have the rich experience of middle-aged people.

After coughing hard, Wu Lin walked out of the crowd, stood side by side with Libin, bowed to Hu Yaoxian on the throne, and said seriously: "Report to Your Majesty, although this person is unreasonable, he is an envoy sent by the Dragon Clan. Even if he wants to deal with it, he will finish his words first."

Wulin is no longer the national teacher of the Tiger Clan. With his current identity, he is not qualified to participate in the dynasty meeting. However, the incident suddenly occurred and the northern border was in a hurry. Hulaoguan sent messengers to send a meeting day and night to ask for help, and there was no news. Hu Yaoxian had previously summoned the ministers to discuss, and most of them were pro-war factions, thinking that mobilization orders should be issued immediately, and large troops should be sent to Hulaoguan to teach those dragon clans who were ignorant of the sky and earth to a lesson.

To be fair, Hu Yaoxian also wanted to fight. But after all, he was the King of Tiger and knew more than the ministers, and had some secrets that could not be revealed.

Last year, when Hongyue City was defeated, the outside world only knew that the Cattle Clan and the Deer Clan joined forces. After the detailed battle was ordered to be blocked by Hu Yaoxian, only a very small number of people, including Wulin, knew that the Cattle Clan sent a fleet and used artillery during the previous war against the Deer Clan.

If you fight, you must fight. There has never been a reason why others come to you to give in and surrender directly.

The key lies in understanding and understanding of the war itself.

As long as Hu Yaoxian is willing, he can dispatch millions of troops at any time. This is the biggest feature of the northern barbarians. They are both soldiers and farmers, and even strong women can sign the sign of joining the army and killing the enemy.

A million troops sounded very good and enjoyable, but the problem arises was supplies. Their food consumption every day was a huge astronomical figure, not to mention all kinds of messy accessories. Clothes, shoes, oils, whetstones, ropes and leather bags that must be applied to keep their weapons sharp... all of these are indispensable. If a general mobilization order is really issued, the huge military supply will drive the logistics officers crazy.

If you win, it will naturally be easy to say.

But if you lose, the tiger clan is very likely to collapse.

Because of this, how to control the war to a level that one can accept? How many troops are sent out specifically? What is the actual limit of the logistics of the Tiger tribe?... The tiger king Yao never racked his brains to find the answer to the above questions. As a last resort, he had no choice but to order the Wulin to be recalled to participate in the dynasty meeting to meet the Dragon Clan envoys.

Hu Yao glanced at Wulin first. If he hadn't been sure that there was no collusion between the other party and the Dragon Clan envoy, he would probably directly think that there was a conspiracy between the two.

Wu Lin's words were a step. Hu Yao nodded slowly. He still looked at Libin with cold eyes: "Don't stand up, just kneel down and say."

Libin did not argue. He opened the leather bag cross-body, took out a letter stamped with a fire-painted seal, held it with both hands and raised it above his head. On the side of the throne, a tiger guard came over to take the letter away, turned around and presented it to Hu Yaoxian.

The content in the letter is very simple. In addition to the beginning and end of the formal sect between the tribes, Tianhao put forward two requirements: First, ceding the land in the entire north, including Iron Jaw City. Second, the tiger tribe compensated the dragon tribe 1,000 tons of gold and 5,000 tons of silver.

These precious metals sound like a lot, but in fact they are within the normal reserve range of the tiger tribe. The base computers performed fixed programs after the catastrophe to recreate humans. The long-standing memories from genes left important information about gold and silver in the depths of people's minds. Although these two metals cannot be eaten or worn, they are not suitable for making weapons and armor. Barbarians who have not yet fully entered the currency era cannot understand their value. The only thing they can do is to find precious metals scattered everywhere as much as possible, put them in the cellar like treasures, and collect them forever.

The white people in the south developed financial awareness very early. To some extent, this is because of the two high-yield crops of grain, especially potato and corn. The sufficient supply of food has greatly increased the population, which has led to a strong material demand. The unlocking of genetic memory is not as difficult as imagined. With just a simple opportunity, people suddenly realize the correctness of currency circulation.

The civilization of the northern barbarians evolved slowly, and their understanding and use of money was still in a state of ignorance. The Lion King was one of the most capable of learning among the many positions. He felt and understood the meaning of money, and then implemented it across the clan, and wanted to promote the currency system to other tribes through personal influence.

Unfortunately, it was not very successful.

After thousands of years of accumulation, various tribes have collected and stored precious metals to extremely large numbers. Taking the Cattle Tribe as an example, after Tianhao became the Regent, he found more than 8,000 tons of gold and an extremely large amount of silver in the palace treasury. There was no industry based on precious metals in this era. For a long time, they could only lock in the depths of the warehouse with the concept of "precious". Every barbarian knows the preciousness of gold and silver, but no one can say why it is precious.

When he saw the piles of gold and silver bricks in the warehouse at the first time, Tianhao felt a little dazed. He couldn't help but think of a story he had heard before he hibernation: It was the first time that the country issued large bills worth 100. A wealthy child took the bills to the convenience store to buy candy. A liar passed by and had the idea of ​​the child. He took out ten bills with one corner of the bill and exchanged them with the child, saying, "I'll exchange ten for yours." The child looked at him contemptuously: "I have ** on this one, do you have one?"

Hu Yao slowly put down the letter paper in his hand and stared at Li Bin with his fierce eyes. At this moment, he released a momentum comparable to a wild beast on his body, as if he was in a hunting state, and he might tear the target with his sharp teeth at any time.

"How dare you make such a request?" He raised the letter paper in his hand and let out a heart-wrenching sneer: "You'd better give me a reason to speak."

"The tiger clan must compensate the dragon clan." Libin was very serious, he kept a serious diplomatic tone: "You sent someone to kill our great master, and this is the reason why His Highness the Regent declared war on the tiger clan."

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the hall became intense again.

"What did you say? We sent someone to kill the national teacher of the Cow Tribe? When did this happen?"

"It's simply slander! This is impossible!"

"Just, why should we be responsible for the death of the National Master of the Niu Clan? It is obviously your own civil strife, so what does this have to do with us?"

“Bad talk!”

Wu Lin had returned to his original position. He did not participate in the comments, but just stood there and watched coldly. To be honest, Wu Lin also despised the young Dragon Clan envoy. Although he had never read the letter in Hu Yaoxian's hand, he could guess some of the content. What really changed his impression was the words just now. Of course, it was not the messenger Libin, but the regent far away in Black Horn City.

Civil strife among the Niu tribe has long been spread. Especially last year, through different channels, especially merchants who traveled between tribes, the north of the mainland has long been spread throughout the mainland. Whether complex or intense, it is equivalent to the annual blockbuster of the civilization era——the two princes revenge, the conspiracy of the princes, the death of the national teacher... People were full of curiosity about these things, because they involved the royal family, and many versions of different statements were derived.

From the tiger king Yaoxian to the ordinary civil officials in Blood Claw City, no one took these rumors seriously. After all, it happened in foreign tribes and had nothing to do with the tiger tribe. Even if the rumors were mixed with plots such as "the tiger tribe conspired with the prince's daughter and sent a killer to kill the national teacher of the Niu tribe", no one cared about it, let alone thought of curbing such rumors.

Wu Lin was experienced after all, and Li Bin's simple words were shocked and almost immediately figured out the key.

There is no doubt that the source of these rumors is the cow clan, which is the current dragon clan.

If no one was behind the scenes, it would be impossible to let these rumors spread to various tribes in a short period of time.

It is precisely because everyone regards these rumors as jokes and never takes them seriously that there is no official countermeasure.

Now, retribution has come.

Wu Lin, who figured out the joints, couldn't help but breathe a breath of air. He lowered his hands and looked at the Dragon Clan messenger with complicated eyes. Through this young stranger, he seemed to see the young Regent.

Not to mention that he used his strong quellion to quell the civil strife of the Niu clan and stabilized the situation within the clan in a very short period of time. Just spreading rumors and using the public's psychology to create a fait accompli, we can see the cleverness of the entire plan.
Chapter completed!