During the morning court the next day, Emperor Jingping refused Maodun's request for an audience without hesitation.

It is rumored that after Maodun learned the news, he was furious in the inn and smashed all the gifts he had prepared to offer to Emperor Jingping.

Xiao Zicheng was skeptical about this. After all, if an ambitious prince had no such conscience, he would not have lived until now.

The facts were just as he had guessed. When he took Wu Tian to see Mao, the other party showed a calmness that was extremely inconsistent with his age.

Although Maodun is only twenty-five or twenty-six years old, he looks much bigger than Xiao Zicheng imagined.

After he informed Maodun of the results he discussed with Emperor Jingping yesterday, the other party rarely showed a hint of joy.

“When will the delivery be made?”

After confirming this matter repeatedly, Maodun couldn't wait to ask about the specific transaction time.

Seeing this, Xiao Zicheng laughed in his heart. It seemed that the other party's situation was much worse than he expected:

"It will take some time. I think you know that I, the Emperor of Great Zhou, cannot support you on the surface in this matter.

Everything must be carried out in secret. Since we have to cover up our eyes, these weapons cannot pass through the Ministry of War, and can only be provided by the military weapons for you."

Maodun frowned when he heard this, obviously a little dissatisfied with this result:

"What about...the exact time?"

Xiao Zicheng glanced at Mao and roughly estimated the time for renovation inventory in his mind:

"At the earliest, it will be early next year. In short, I will find a way to get out that batch of arms as soon as possible. As for you..."

"I see."

Maodun interrupted Xiao Zicheng's words and said lightly:

"After I went back, I began to raise horses, cattle and sheep."

As he said that, he suddenly looked at Xiao Zicheng and asked cautiously: "How much do you want?"

Xiao Zicheng raised a finger at Maodun without blushing.

Seeing his gesture, Maodun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. If he said ten taels of silver and a pair of armor, the price could be said to be very conscientious.

"If it's this price, I think we can cooperate deeply. All the equipment of the 80,000 people under my command will be handed over to you, Mr. Xiao."

"How many? Eighty thousand people?"

Xiao Zicheng's eyes lit up, and he stood up and stared at Maodun with an incredible gaze.

Your grandfather, is this little prince in the grassland so rich? He even asked for 80,000 sets of armor with a set of 100 taels!

That's eight million taels of snowflakes... It's better to be cautious and confirm it.

Xiao Zicheng forcibly suppressed his excitement and said in a suppressed tone:

"Eighty thousand sets of armor, calculated based on one set of one hundred taels of silver, a total of eight million taels of silver."

Maodun, who was in the midst of fantasy, was shocked by the numbers reported by Xiao Zicheng.

He even asked back with a little dislosal:

"How much?! One hundred taels of silver!!!"

Maodun widened his eyes and almost gulped out an old blood.

One hundred taels of silver per set, and eighty thousand people would be eight million taels of silver. Even if they sold all the cattle and sheep in his fief, they would not be able to make up this number...

"Are you joking with me?"

Mao Dun's face turned pale. If his annoying brother hadn't noticed his ambitions recently, he would have urgently needed to accumulate strength in a short period of time.

He wanted to overturn the table directly on the shameless guy in front of him.

Facing Maodun's incompetent fury, Xiao Zicheng was not afraid at all, and his two fingers were calm:

"First, this is the armor of my Great Zhou Wushu, including breastplate, shoulderplate, wristplate, abdominal armor, etc.

Your Touman tribe has been fighting with me in the Great Zhou for many years. You should understand the strength of the armor of my Great Zhou Wushou."

Hearing this, Maodun couldn't help but fall silent.

As Xiao Zicheng said, after Touman Khan unified the grassland, he gathered various grassland tribes to attack the Great Zhou many times.

The grassland advocates force, so as a prince, he naturally has to go to the battlefield in person, and naturally he has seen the power of the Great Zhou armor.

Under the protection of the armor that can be called armed to the teeth, the riding and shooting that the grassland warriors are proud of have greatly weakened their lethality.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty do not have armor, it would be completely difficult to compete with the grassland warriors based on their individual combat capabilities.

"Even so, it's not worth a hundred taels of silver, right?"

Maodun frowned. Although what Xiao Zicheng said was very reasonable, he was really unbearable to bear the price.

"Don't worry, please listen to me and you will make a decision."

Xiao Zicheng picked up the teacup and said lightly, blowing his breath.

Maodun was speechless for a moment. After all, he now had a request for Dazhou, so he had to patiently squeeze out a smile:

"Please say it."

"As for this second point, you should know better than me. In terms of geographical location, the capitals of Chen and Zheng are much closer than Bianliang.

His Highness the Prince, however, came to our Great Zhou to ask for help. I believe that neither Chen nor Zheng is optimistic that your Excellency can win, right?"

Upon hearing this, Maodun stared at Xiao Zicheng's eyes and couldn't speak for a long time.

The fact is just as Xiao Zicheng guessed that Chen and Zheng both favored his brother Qiang and both refused his request without mercy.

"I can accept worn armor... fifty taels!"

Maodun knew in his heart that although Zipeng was a mediocre person, he still had many capable people under his command.

He can only use the shortest time to make his strength stronger, otherwise, once the incident is revealed, it is impossible for him to let him go.

"make a deal!"

Xiao Zicheng agreed readily and did not continue to bargain with Maodun.

First of all, with Maodun's current strength, this price is probably the limit he can accept. Only by being sluggish can there be a possibility of continuing cooperation.

Secondly, those arms were eliminated for a long time in the Great Zhou Dynasty and were ready to be re-smelted and forged by military weapons.

Not only can I sell it to Maodun at a high price, but I can make a lot of money, the R&D funds of the Military Equipment Institute have also been settled.

Maodun was a little surprised by Xiao Zicheng's sudden pleasure, which made him feel a little at a loss.

However, in the current situation, it is already a blessing for Changsheng to negotiate this deal:

"In addition to silver, can we trade cattle, sheep, war horses and other items?"

"Well..."

Seeing Maodun proactively propose to exchange things for things, Xiao Zicheng was secretly happy, but he didn't show any expression on the surface, and said slowly:

"Your Highness the Prince must know that things are precious because they are rare. Although cattle, sheep and horses are in short supply, they will inevitably depreciate if they have too many."

Hearing this, Maodun's original mood fell to the bottom in an instant:
Chapter completed!