In the first year of Yuanyou in the Song Dynasty, in the first year of Yizhiping in the Western Xia Dynasty, Gengshen (the sixth day of the first lunar month).

In a Xixia Village Fort west of Maxian Mountain, Liang Yibu finally met Liang Ziqing, an envoy who sent to Xihe to ask for peace more than a month ago.

Since Liang Ziqing was sent out by him, there has been no news again.

The Xihe side of the Southern Barbarians has also remained silent.

But now, he has returned and his identity has become a messenger of the Southern Barbarians.

"The Prime Minister..." Liang Ziqing bowed his head and said, "This is the official affairs of the Nanman Xihe River Prevention and Investment Company, and I ordered me to give it to the Prime Minister..."

Liang Yibi took the letter handed over by Liang Ziqing in suspicion.

He did not take it apart immediately, but looked at Liang Ziqing and asked, "I heard that Xiang Zonghui is the younger brother of the Queen Mother of the Southern Barbarians?"

"yes……"

"How is that person?" Liang Yibi asked.

Liang Ziqing thought about it and recalled the appearance of Xiang Zonghui, the brother of the Southern Barbarian Empress Dowager whom he saw in Kangu City.

In his impression, Xiang Zonghui always smiled, and spoke to anyone in a gentle voice, very elegant manner, looking at the harmless appearance of people and animals.

His portraits are far better than those of officials and nobles.

He likes to talk about benefits and profits any time.

For him, it seems that as long as there are enough benefits, he can sell all his conscience!

only……

Liang Ziqing knew that he could never say this, and he had to add some materials and exaggerate it. Otherwise, where would the face of the Prime Minister be put? So he bowed: "I will tell you that the Prime Minister of the National People, and the man looked at the wolf, and the man was treacherous and fierce, and he was not like an ordinary Southern Barbarian and noble... I think he would be a powerful minister of the Southern Barbarian sooner or later!"

"Yeah!" Liang Yibi nodded.

That's right!

This time, he attacked the Nanman, and the plan he formulated was completely failed.

Not only did he lose or lose in other directions, but he also suffered a major setback in the direction of Dingxi City!

Don't look at the loss of little - you will die in battle, escape, disappear, and be captured in total only 20,000 people.

Most of them are tribal troops.

The real elite will not lose more than two thousand.

However, when the war came to the back, he and his army faced a terrible scene of more than 100,000 or even more troops from the Southern Barbarians, constantly attacking and harassing along the long Mazhi Mountain.

At the same time, the main force of the Southern Barbarians also encircled his main force from Huichuan and other places.

Once his goal is achieved, he may be left in the valley between the mountains, rivers and mountains of Mazhi Mountains, and Tiandu Mountains.

This forced him to mobilize his elite troops to defend against possible raid paths of the Southern Barbarian cavalry.

At the same time, he had to send heavy troops to protect the food route to prevent it from being cut off by the Southern Barbarian Cavalry.

All of this has greatly increased the loss rate of his army.

This made Liang Yi very embarrassed!

Because at the beginning of the war, Zhao Cheng was in his eyes a dry bone in the tomb of an old and stupid person.

When Xiang Zong returned, Gao Gongji was greedy, cowardly, fearful and fearful of all the five poisons.

Will definitely help him succeed!

In fact, he also used this reason to convince the country - what does the foreign relatives of the Southern Barbarians look like? Don’t you know?

Now, these two relatives in Lanzhou are here.

This is a god-given fighter, and you must not miss it!

Now that Liang Yibi is defeated, these original propaganda have become the thorn in his heart.

If Zhao Cheng was the old and stupid bone in the tomb, but Xiang Zonghui, Gao Gongji was a greedy, cowardly and fearful relative of the Southern Barbarians.

Then what is he?

Liang Ziqing's reward made Liang Yi very satisfied - that's right!

He asked with the letter, "Xiang Zong recalled what he said to me?"

Liang Ziqing bowed again: "If you believe in the country, you will know..."

Liang Yifu frowned and opened the letter suspiciously.

However, his face was stunned.

Immediately, his face turned red.

"It's too much!" Liang Yibi slapped the table and said, "What did the Nanman treat me as?"

In the letter, the queen mother's brother from the Southern Barbarians proposed a deal to him.

Xiang Zonghui said in his letter that he had received mercy from dozens of leaders of the Qiang tribe of Hengshan.

All the leaders said that there were a large number of men, strong men, women and children in their tribes, who were forced to be conscripted or kidnapped by him.

The teachings of sages lie in the words benevolence and righteousness.

Therefore, he upheld the teachings of benevolence and righteousness to Zonghui, and was willing to follow the story of Zigong redeeming people, and pay Liang Yibu to redeem those who were unfortunately abducted by the Ding Zhuang and the women and children.

As for the price, Xiang Zonghui offered a price of 70 stakes for each child, 50 stakes for each child, and thirty stakes for each child.

This is indeed a bullying!

Yokoyama is from the Great White Takashi country!

All the Qiang in Hengshan are all subjects of the great country!

The army was sent to recruit the people to join the army, which was the national law. Why should you, the Southern Barbarians interfere?

Still sarcastic and kind?

What really made Liang Yi break the defense was the price tag offered by the other party.

A man and a man with seventy stakes of iron, a woman and a child with fifty stakes of iron, and a child with thirty stakes of iron?

In terms of conversion, isn’t the other party planning to buy the population of a man with a man with seven stakes, a woman with a man with five stakes, and a child with three stakes?

What about sending the beggar?

Besides, why should he ask for iron money?

The Great Kingdom of Dabai also has cast iron coins. Why did he want the iron coins of the Southern Barbarians?

Is he that stupid?

Until Liang Ziqing took out a grayish-white coin from his arms.

Liang Yibi's expression changed immediately.

He reached out to take the coin, weighed it in his hand, looked at it for a moment, and then exclaimed: "Jing Tie?"

The Dangxiang people have very high forging skills.

The iron armor worn by its elite ace Iron Harrier is called: wart armor.

This armor is made of cold exercises and can defend against most bows and arrows.

Even the Divine Arm Bow can only have a chance to penetrate at a distance of about ten steps!

This is the basis for the Iron Harriers to dominate the world.

It is also the bottleneck that the iron kites can never exceed 3,000 people - the fine iron required for cold briquette is too expensive!

It is so expensive that the whole country can only be forged about 3,000 pairs of wart armor and maintain their normal renewal.

No matter how many, the financial situation may go bankrupt!

But now, the iron coin sent to him was cast by fine iron and was not mixed with other impurities that cannot be melted.

This means that after taking back such fine iron coins, you only need to mobilize the skilled craftsman to forge them into wart armor.

Therefore, its weight is only equivalent to small flat money.

But the value may be higher than that of copper coins!

Especially in today's situation, this kind of iron cast iron has an irresistible and fatal attraction to Liang Yip!

As long as there is enough such iron money, he can take it back and let the craftsmen make it into wart armor.

He can use these wart armor to create an iron kite that belongs to him!

Once this is the case... Liang Yi's heart jumped up.

Liang Yibi looked at Liang Ziqing, barely maintained his calmness, and asked: "The relative of the Southern Barbarians is willing to use the iron coins made of fine iron to redeem those Qiang people, strong women and children?"

Although Liang Yipeng is not very proficient in arithmetics.

But he also knew that the copper coins of the Southern Barbarians were always weighing about two and a half pounds.

Seventy silos is one hundred and fifty kilograms!
To be continued...