"Battleship?"

Niu Ben's proposal made Xiao Ming nod slightly, although this Bianshui is not wide, but the three battleships in Yue Yunnan's time are more than enough to pass through it, after all, these three battleships are only fifth-level warships, which are only equivalent to the size of ordinary merchant ships. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"That's a good idea, but at the moment these ships are cruising the sea, and this king needs to gather them." Xiao Ming groaned.

Pengzhou City on the sand table is built near the water, and if you want to enter Pengzhou City, you can only use the wooden bridge in front of the gate, but at that time, the army of Pengzhou City will inevitably tear down the bridge.

At this time, three warships were cruising in the river, which could transport soldiers to the opposite side and provide artillery attacks.

"It's okay, it will take some time for the tri-state army to assemble and train." Niu Ben said happily that he had been fighting the idea of warships, because the further south he went, the more cities were built near the water, and they couldn't even cross the river without the protection of the sailors.

While everyone was observing the sand table, a guard walked in from outside the door and said to Xiao Ming: "Your Highness, the envoy of King Wei has arrived. ”

Lu Fei smiled when he heard this: "Your Highness, does this King Wei regret it and want to form an alliance with His Highness again." ”

"King Wei is ambitious, but he won't give in to His Highness so easily, maybe he has some bad water." Niu Ben said.

Xiao Ming frowned, and he said: "This king will know when he goes, you continue to observe the sand table to make a battle plan, and then hand over the plan to this king for review." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Niu Ben and the other generals responded.

After that, Xiao Ming followed the guards towards the Qi Palace, where a middle-aged scribe was waiting for him in the main hall of the palace.

Seeing Xiao Ming, the middle-aged scribe saluted and said, "His Royal Highness the King of Qi, this time the lower official was appointed by the King of Wei and wanted to talk to His Highness about this Tongzhou. ”

"Tongzhou?" Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed, thinking that the things that should come were still coming, and he knew that King Wei would make a fuss about Tongzhou.

Sitting down on the throne, he said, "If the King of Wei has any ideas, just say it." ”

The middle-aged scribe said: "His Royal Highness the King of Wei said that if there is a big chaos today, the relatives of the same royal family should support each other, so His Royal Highness the King of Wei is willing to continue to provide supplies for the Qingzhou warship, but I hope that His Royal Highness can use 20,000 arquebuses and 300 artillery pieces as the rental fee." ”

"King Wei is really good at opening his mouth." Xiao Ming snorted coldly, and he said, "What if this king doesn't agree?" ”

"Then His Royal Highness the King of Wei will not be able to continue to provide supplies for His Highness in Tongzhou, I hope His Highness will think twice." The middle-aged scribe said lightly, "Your Highness, if you lose the Tongzhou port, it will be difficult for this warship to go south." ”

The arrogant tone of the middle-aged scribe made Xiao Ming angry, he hated being threatened by others the most, so he had to teach King Wei a lesson, let him know how high the sky was and how thick the earth was.

He said, "You go back and tell the King of Wei that if he stops the supply of Tongzhou, the King will definitely make him pay." ”

Xiao Ming's tone was stern, and the middle-aged scribe was startled, this time he came to the King of Wei full of confidence, after all, Tongzhou was in the territory of Wei, and Xiao Ming had nothing to do about it.

"Your Highness, you have to weigh the pros and cons clearly." The middle-aged scribe didn't expect Xiao Ming to be so tough, but he didn't know what to do for a while.

Xiao Ming stood up at this time and said to the middle-aged scribe: "This king has thought about it very clearly, you go back and tell King Wei that the king of Cangzhou remembers, and the king of Jizhou also remembers, and now he doesn't remember the royal family and clan affection, and refuses to form an alliance, this king has been benevolent to him, from now on, he doesn't have to keep his hand on this king, and this king will not keep his hand on him." ”

The middle-aged scribe was originally very calm, but now Xiao Ming's words completely scared him, in his opinion, Xiao Ming was officially starting a war against the King of Wei.

Xiaguan... The lower official retired. Touching the ashes of his nose, the middle-aged scribe wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, and walked out without looking back, he was afraid that if he left later, he would be taken by Xiao Ming to kill his head and sacrifice the flag.

Sending away the envoy of King Wei, Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed, originally he still had a trace of illusion about King Wei, but now King Wei's face completely disappointed him.

And he is not his predecessor Xiao Ming, but he doesn't care about any royal bloodline, he only knows one thing, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid that the Great Yu Kingdom will really have to eat jujube pills. ’

Therefore, when these vassal kings had not yet reduced the population of the Great Yu Kingdom from 100 million to only a few million, he had to take an active offensive posture and seize as much land as he could, especially in a rich and populous place like Wei.

After driving away the envoys of the King of Wei, Xiao Ming immediately ordered Yue Yun to mobilize three warships from the fleet into Qingzhou to cooperate with the campaign against Pengzhou City, and at the same time he and Niu Ben began to intensively plan an attack on Pengzhou City.

And it seems that in revenge for Xiao Ming, after the envoy returned to Jinling City, the king of Wei quickly cut off the supply to Tongzhou, and at the same time the king of Wei ordered that any Qingzhou merchants should not trade in Wei, otherwise they would be killed.

After the order was issued, three Qingzhou merchant ships that did not have time to evacuate were seized.

"Your Highness, the King of Wei is simply too hateful, he let our people come back, saying that if you want to redeem the merchant ship, you will take 500,000 taels of silver." Li Kaiyuan was indignant, and now business is difficult to do because of the war.

Unexpectedly, King Wei suddenly made such a move at this time, the goods transported by these three merchant ships plus the merchant ship itself were worth more than 200,000 taels, and Li Kaiyuan had to feel distressed.

The retaliatory measures taken by the King of Wei did catch him off guard, and according to Li Kaiyuan, some wealthy families in Wei took the opportunity to attack merchants from Qingzhou.

Although it was only an expulsion on the surface, in fact, the King of Wei and some big clans had long been in trouble, and the detention of these three merchant ships has already explained the problem.

I have to say that this incident really made Xiao Ming very troubled, these merchant ships are the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce's own merchant ships, although he ordered to withdraw when he fell out with King Wei, but he still didn't have time to withdraw.

It's not that the merchants withdrew too slowly, but that these Wei kings had premeditated and seized the three merchant ships before they gave the order.

"Your Highness, it's difficult to do business in the Chamber of Commerce now, how can this be good?" Li Kaiyuan sighed.

"Dayu's domestic business is difficult to do, so do you do foreign business, do you think that this king worked hard to open up sea routes for fun? This king planned in advance to deal with this situation, and now you have turned your attention to maritime trade. ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Li Kaiyuan said, hesitated, and said, "Your Highness, what about these three merchant ships?" ”

"Hmph, if he takes the king's three merchant ships, the king will take his three cities." Xiao Ming slapped the table hard.