bookcurios Chapter 259 Settlement of Accounts
Chapter 259 Settlement of Accounts
Those who came from Fanshan County included the Fanshan County Magistrate, the head of the Lu family and Zhang Xiaofeng.
These people had to come out because the bombardment of the city walls was too terrifying. If they continued to be stubborn, they would only wait for death in this small county town.
Sun Bing saw these people in the big tent and said straight to the point, "All this is caused by the Lu family's disobedience to the rules. The King of Yan could have punished the Lu family, but considering that we once got along well, I will let you go this time."
The Lu family was mentioned many times. The representative sent by the Lu family this time was Rwanda, accompanied by the housekeeper Lu Sha.
"Thank you, King Yan, for your magnanimity. Our Lu family is grateful." Rwanda was so excited that he almost knelt down to Sun Bin.
Seeing that their Zhang family was not nominated, Zhang Xiaofeng looked at the magistrate of Fanshan County and chose to turn a blind eye to Li Wanda's behavior.
"But..." Sun Bing dragged out his words, "From now on, the Lu family will use the area north of Fan Mountain as their boundary. You'll have to pay the price."
The implication is that Yizhou will no longer be the Lu family's territory.
The ancestral land where our family made its fortune was gone, Luwanda felt unsatisfied and said, "Yizhou is where our Lu family made its fortune and it is the foundation of our Lu family. We, the Lu family, plan to go back."
"Haha~" Sun Bing chuckled, looked up at Zhang Xiaofeng and asked, "How's General Zhang doing lately?"
General Zhang refers to Zhang Xiaofeng’s father Zhang Xuegeng.
"My father has been in good health lately, and he's been living in Xinghe City, trying to make ends meet."
"Xinghe City is a bit small, but it's not impossible to develop. Xinghe is a strategically important place. It's wise for your Zhang family army to occupy it. The King of Yan calls this place Zhangjiajie."
"Zhangjiajie? This is a good name." Zhang Xiaofeng knew what King Yan meant. He wanted to use Xinghe City as bait to recruit the Zhang family and serve them with this as the boundary.
"If General Zhang is interested, he can establish peace between this world and my Yanzhou. What do you think, Young Master Zhang?" Sun Bing asked thoughtfully.
"That's great." Zhang Xiaojun replied happily.
In fact, Xinghe City used to be the sphere of influence of the Lu family. Because of their cooperation with Zhang Xuegeng, they intended to give up this place, and the Great Zhou Dynasty was unable to recover it. Rwanda never expected that Zhao Hui would allow the Zhang family to legalize this place.
"Shangguan, is the King of Yan doing this for peace?" Rwanda was anxious. If Xinghe City was legalized, there would be no reason for the court to spend huge sums of money to conquer this place in the future.
After all the back-and-forth over the years, most of the money went into the pockets of the Lu family.
Zhang Xiaofeng knew that the Lu family was not convinced, so he teased, "Our Zhang family is the heir of the Central Plains. Can't we return to the Great Zhou?"
Lusha stepped forward and pulled Rwanda's sleeve, meaning that he should stop talking.
Seeing Zhang Xiaofeng's satisfactory answer, Sun Bing turned back and said to the attendants outside the tent, "Go and invite Prince Consort Zhao!"
A moment.
Zhao Sheng walked into the big tent, followed by Liang Dong and Yang Chuanfeng.
"Prince Consort, everything has been settled here. Is there anything else you would like to say?"
The princess was injured, and Sun Bing knew that Zhao Sheng must have something to say.
"Is Zhang Xiaosi from the Zhang family here?" Zhao Sheng asked.
Zhang Xiaofeng hadn't expected Zhao Sheng to ask this. He stepped forward, bowed, and said, "Zhang Xiaosi died in Yishui, his body nowhere to be found. Now the Zhang family serves the Great Zhou. Please, my dear consort, let this vengeance be put to rest."
"Just because Zhang Xiaosi is dead, can we let go of our grudge? The Lu family manipulated this matter, so they should at least give me an explanation."
The subject changed and the conflict was directed towards the Lu family. Zhang Xiaofeng felt relieved, but the Lu family felt worried.
"Uh, the Zhang family going to Dingzhou has nothing to do with our Lu family." Rwanda was anxious and howled at the top of his voice.
"How dare you say that the Zhang family was not invited to enter the pass by your family?" Zhao Sheng glared at him.
"Uh..." Rwanda was speechless, his face flushed and he dared not speak.
"It's so cold today, and we've brought our troops here to chase them. Do you think we can just let it go?" Zhao Sheng asked again.
Sun Bing was worried about the situation and was a little anxious. He frowned and looked at Zhao Sheng. He only heard Rwanda ask, "What do you want?"
"My army's rations and consumed weapons and ammunition all cost money. You, the Lu family, can't say you don't have any responsibility at all."
When he heard that it was about money, Rwanda's expression improved a lot. A playboy like him was least worried about money. The Lu family was a wealthy family, so why would they worry about a few taels of silver?
"Tell me, how much do you need?"
When Zhao Sheng saw the landlord's silly son, he almost burst out laughing at his silly behavior.
"Let's not talk about distant events. Just like today's bombing, it's worth a million ounces of gold. We've had four such battles in the past few days. The Zhang family knows this best."
When Zhang Xiaojun heard that they had their own things to do, and then heard that it was for money and they were just asking the Lu family for it, he nodded in agreement.
"There were more than ten battles, big and small, including the defense of Weizhou, the defense of Guangchang County, the battle of Junzhen, the battle of Dingzhou County, the battle of Luancheng, the battle of Jing County, etc., with casualties and various losses. How should we compensate them?"
Zhao Sheng kicked the ball to Rwanda and asked him to count first.
Rwanda was an educated man after all, so he had no problem calculating the accounts, and his mind was turning rapidly.
"Two hundred thousand taels of gold?" Rwanda asked Lu Sha tentatively.
Lu Sha thought about it and felt that it was not impossible.
Zhao Sheng also heard Rwanda's question and understood it in his mind.
"Do you think my Lu family can pay 20,000 taels of gold as compensation?"
Two hundred thousand taels of gold is equivalent to three million and two hundred thousand taels of silver. The Great Zhou uses hexadecimal conversion.
"No, at least 400,000 kilograms of grain must be offered before this matter can be concluded."
"Isn't this... a bit too much?" Lu Sha was a little dumbfounded. It was a famine year now, and the price of grain was already two thousand coins per stone. What Zhao Sheng wanted was really too much.
"Prince Consort Zhao, the price of grain is skyrocketing right now. You're asking for six hundred thousand taels of gold."
Zhao Sheng heard this and thought about it. It was true that it was difficult to ask for food even if you had money now.
"I won't let your Lu family suffer any loss. Give me so much grain, and I will exchange it for a normal amount of grain to use as a discount for wine. This way, you can sell it again and definitely make a profit."
"Wine?" Lu Shake knew that the price of Xinjun wine was so high that even if one had money, he couldn't buy it. One pound of wine cost one thousand coins, and it would be even more expensive if sold.
He pulled Rwanda again with his hand and gave him a look that said he could go ahead.
"Since the Prince Consort has said so, our Lu family will temporarily agree. I will go back and inform the head of the family, and then I will give you a definite answer."
"Okay, that's it. We have some good wine with us. Do you want to drink some before you go back?"
When I heard that Zhao Sheng could bring wine into the army, generally speaking, this is a taboo, but isn't it a sin not to drink the wine?
As a result, scenes of boiling water and killing sheep appeared in the military camp.
The sheep were all sent from Fanshan County, and the wine was the alcohol from the military medical team, which was blended into strong liquor, and all of them were over 50 degrees.
After they had eaten and drunk their fill, they returned with their tongues agape.
Sun Bing also drank a lot, and Zhao Sheng did not keep him, but asked his followers to take him back in a carriage.