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Chapter 733: Chapter 324: Alliance and Marriage

Gold, spiritual medicine, and women.

These were what the Snow Plains Nomads were offering, hoping to persuade Lu Yuan to send troops to assist them.

However, just hearing this couldn’t help but sound somewhat laughable.

“Messenger, do you know that I am the ruler of the Chu State?”

Lu Yuan looked at the confident Great Mohism Messenger below and said with deep meaning, “Chu State spans thirty thousand miles, with five provinces and three nations, and has a population of tens of millions. In this vast land, just the annual tax collection allows me to obtain forty million silver taels each year.

Similarly, in these thirty thousand miles of land, with deep mountains and great marshlands, who knows how many Blessed Lands and Cavern Heavens there are?

If I want spiritual medicine, all I have to do is give an order, and what medicine is unattainable?

As for women.

In my harem, there are already three thousand beauties, all with innate talent and unsurpassed beauty.

If that is not enough, I only need to spread the word and within the Nine Provinces, the women who are willing to share my bed can form a line from the source of the Yangtze River to the sea.

To move me with just these three things is rather an underestimation of me and makes others look down on the Snow Plains, isn’t it?”

After finishing his speech, Lu Yuan looked at the messenger with interest, waiting for his response and explanation.

As he said above.

As the ruler of Chu State now, gold, spiritual medicine, and women, which of them are unattainable?

Although the Snow Plains Nomads are outsiders and not part of the legitimate Nine Provinces, they are all quite formidable, not inferior to any small country, and not short of vision.

Lu Yuan could see the problem clearly, and so could those who proposed these offers.

To use these readily available things in exchange for an alliance between Chu and them to jointly target Zhou Country is definitely asking for too much.

But strangely, these simple problems that they are clearly aware of, these five representatives of the Snow Plains Nomads, they still seriously proposed it, and they were so confident.

Lu Yuan believed that these messengers were definitely not stupid.

The Snow Plains’ rulers behind the messengers, who could control their territory, naturally would not be stupid either.

So, if they are not stupid yet proposed these stupid methods, the only explanation is that their proposals were not as foolish as they seemed.

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Gold, spiritual medicine, and women, the bargaining chips proposed by the Great Mohism Messenger in front of him, were not ordinary bargaining chips, but special ones, those that could move Lu Yuan.

This made Lu Yuan feel intrigued and curious.

To move him was not that easy.

He was looking forward to what surprises these barbarian messengers would bring to him.

“Your Majesty.”

Upon hearing Lu Yuan’s questioning, the Great Mohism Messenger still maintained a respectful expression without any panic. He bent over slightly and said sincerely, “As you said, Your Majesty, you have vast territory and millions of subjects as a ruler of a land.

As a king, the wealth you possess could fill a lake, making it difficult to count.

The treasures you own are as numerous as the stars of the night sky.

As for the unparalleled beauty of the world, you could change them daily without repeating a single one.

However, we, the people of the Snow Plains, can also offer all these and even better ones.”

At this point, the Great Mohism Messenger paused briefly and then spoke with a little more passion, “As long as you are willing to send troops to help us fight against the Zhou People, we, the people of the Snow Plains, are willing to offer one hundred million silver taels as the cost for inviting the Great Chu warriors to fight.

At the same time, to maintain the relationship between our Snow Plains and the Great Chu, the spiritual woman from our Great Mohism is willing to marry into the Chu State and become your concubine.

In addition, we will also offer 500 Divine Pills refined from spiritual medicine as dowry for our spiritual woman.

This is the gold, spiritual medicine, and women that we, the people of the Snow Plains, offer as our sincerity.

Your Majesty of Chu, we, the people of the Snow Plains, are willing to offer these treasures in exchange for your help. Are you willing to lend us a helping hand?”

As the Great Mohism Messenger finished speaking, his eyes were full of confidence yet with a touch of anxiety as he looked at Lu Yuan, clearly still somewhat uneasy.

Behind her, the other four barbarian messengers also looked at Lu Yuan with trepidation and anticipation, hoping for a response that would make them happy.

After hearing the conditions of the barbarians, Lu Yuan could not help but fall silent.

A hundred million silver taels, a spiritual woman, and five hundred Divine Pills.

My goodness, this is quite something!

After hearing the generous offers of the barbarians, Lu Yuan couldn’t help but gasp, feeling shocked by their extravagance.

First of all, a hundred million silver taels.

Such a large sum is not something that anyone can just take out.

It is important to know that the Zhou Country’s external claim is only an annual income of a hundred million silver taels.

In Ning Country, after ten years of recuperation, it has almost fully recovered its vitality, but its annual income is still no more than seventy million silver taels.

Chu State, with a worse foundation, has an annual income of only forty-three million and four hundred thousand silver taels today.

If it were the Snow Plains Barbarians, with their poverty, even if the total population exceeded ten million, their annual income would be considered good if it reached ten million silver taels.

Of course, the barbarians on the Snow Plains still practice tribal slavery, and apart from the tribal chiefs and nobility, the others there barely need gold or silver.

Even the chieftains and nobility of the tribes barely use these gold and silver assets in transactions with outsiders, such as the Western Liang and Zhou Countries.

So, in terms of spending on gold and silver, those Snow Plains Nomads didn’t actually have as much as they thought, and much of the acquired wealth was mostly stored away.

Over time, it did not seem strange that they could come up with a hundred million silver taels.