The scandal he had done before was now revealed in person. Xiong Jing felt embarrassed and had a hot face. Fortunately, the curtain was dark and no one could see this. He had to explain it, "Qinni is an enemy country in battle. If those artillery did not explode, the soldiers of Chuni would die."

"Archite?" Neacas repeated the word, and he and others have always called artillery a Thunder weapon.

"Yes, artillery." Xiong Jing nodded. "The lifespan of the artillery is measured by the number of shots fired. I can guarantee that the lifespan of the artillery can fire 1,000 solid shells. Under normal circumstances, the number of fires of artillery in a large battle will not exceed 100, so each artillery is equipped with two hundred rounds of ammunition. You must pay to buy ammunition after use. The price of 200 rounds is about 30 gold, and more than 6,000 dramak."

Xiong Jing specifically raised the ammunition issue to see everyone's reaction. Zaras was a little anxious and said, "Baktria's artillery must be equipped with one thousand shells."

"This is impossible." Xiong Jing shook his head and refused. "In addition to paying other money, the Gunpowder Mansion will never agree to this practice, including selling artillery to other Chuni nobles. You can only purchase new ammunition when it is almost finished, and only two hundred rounds can be purchased at a time, so it is best to produce ammunition by Bactricia."

As soon as Xiong Jing said it would be best to produce it himself, Zaras looked at Neacas. By chance, Egypt did not provide Qin's gunpowder manufacturing technology, and also dragged it to Baktria. Now that the Chuni army was destroyed, the country will soon fall, and there is no need to give gunpowder technology. This is the reason why Qin sent Ganluo to Egypt and did not return to Qin immediately.

Zaras's eyes made Xiong Jing realize in his heart. The Qin people collected the silt soil but there was no gunpowder on the battlefield. It turned out that they didn't know how to make gunpowder. Baktria also didn't know how to make gunpowder, even if they could obtain sulfur. It was Egypt who knew how to make gunpowder, but how did the Egyptians know?

Zaras looked at Neacas. Neacas didn't want to talk about ammunition. He looked at Xiong Jing and said, "I believe you, the artillery delivered is a normal artillery, but what about the warships? Without sailors, you can't drive the warship?"

"It's very simple. It can take several months to teach them how to drive when delivered," said Xiong Jing. "If there are qualified sailors in Egypt, two months are enough to teach sailors how to use sails."

Crimenides was a naval general, and he knew that the real sailor could not teach it within two months. "In two months they could only drive warships and would not fight. They also did not know how to go from Chuni to Dahracles' stone pillars into our sea."

"There are only three people in Chuni who know about the chart, one is King Chuni, one is the commander of the fleet, and the other is the commander of the combat department. If you want to ask for the chart..." Xiong Jing immediately rejected Crimenides' request. "Fighting is not a church, you can only try and train yourself at sea. If you must meet the requirements you want, I can say with certainty that this is impossible."

Xiong Jing watched Crimenides speak, and Crimenides also looked at him. The two of them looked at each other and were unwilling to compromise.

"If you don't know how to go to the east, what does the warship do?" Neacas asked.

"So I suggest not to warships. I can pay gold and silver coins according to the construction costs of these warships." Xiong Jing suggested. "In our sea or in the Red Sea, warships are not as practical as galleys."

Neacas pushed the problem to Xiong Jing, and Xiong Jing directly solved the problem itself.

"If I give up five warships..." Crimenides made another suggestion.

"You give up ten warships, 30,000 sets of armor, and 100,68-pound short-barrel cannons, which is less than one hundred thousandth of the value of the chart." Xiong Jing interrupted. "I can't pay this ransom."

"If King Chuni does not agree, Egypt will help the Qinnis destroy Chuni." Crimenides, who was rejected, was very dissatisfied.

"If it weren't for the cold weather, the one who asked for redemption of himself should be yours?" Xiong Jing smiled without showing any weakness. "How can such a country destroy Chuni if ​​it can't even make gunpowder, a country that can't even produce giant iron, and a country that relies on slave soldiers instead of noble warriors?!"

"But Chuni was defeated and could only escape to the island. And you could only become our prisoner and beg us to accept the ransom..." Crimenides said sarcastically. Xiong Jing suddenly stood up and glared at him, touching his waist with his hand, but he didn't touch anything.

"You will definitely pay the price for your offense today!" Xiong Jing had no sword to draw. Even if he drew his sword, he could not duel with Crimenides. However, his momentum also shocked Crimenides' heart and his hands were tightly held on the hilt of the sword.

"Haha..." Crimenides was stunned and laughed loudly, laughing at himself being shocked by a barbarian without weapons. He said disdainfully: "I look forward to your revenge, and my only worry is that that day will never come."

Xiong Jing looked at him disdainfully, and he asked Neacas: "Should I leave?"

"Of course not." Neacas quickly denied it. He did not care about the charts like Crimenides. It would be useless to have only the charts and no warships. Instead, it would be better to get ten warships, 30,000 sets of giant armor and 100 artillery first. Seleucaud got the giant iron armor produced by Chuni a few years ago. If the two countries had not had the sudden evil between them, not the Anatolia and Parthia rebellion, Seleucaud II had launched a battle and attacked Egypt. The situation was very unfavorable to Egypt.

"My third condition is that the delivery location of warships and weapons is only in the Red Sea." Xiong Jing, who was angry with Crimenides, did not want to make more requirements. He wanted to reach the deal as soon as possible.

"In the Red Sea?" Neacas didn't know where the Red Sea was.

"The Red Sea is the Eritrea Sea." Xiong Jing said. "These things are delivered at the Egyptian ports in the Eritrea Sea, and the artillery of Baktria is also among them, and the personnel also leave Egypt from these ports."

"I agree." Neacas had no doubt about this, and he then looked at Crimenides. Delivering these weapons in the Red Sea, not in the Mediterranean, had no effect on Egypt, and the Pharaoh Canal had been re-opened during the Ptolemy II period. Despite this, Crimenides asked: "Why can't it be in our sea?"

"Because this is more convenient." Xiong Jing explained briefly. "Neither side should wait for a long time."

"I agree." Neacas didn't want to worry about this little question. "What are the conditions you have?"

"Everyone went to Egypt, including the twenty soldiers in Baktria. They enjoyed the treatment and respect they deserved, as well as their personal safety. They were not slaves but citizens, and some were nobles." Xiong Jing said again.

"I agree." Neacas continued nodding. Just as he was about to ask Xiong Jing whether all of his conditions were agreed to his side, Xiong Jing said: "I agree with your conditions and pay ten new Suzaku-class warships for this purpose, together with the sixty ten-pound naval guns on it, as well as 30,000 sets of huge iron armor, one hundred sixty-eight-pound short-barrel cannons and supporting gunpowder."

After Xiong Jing finished speaking to Neacas, he looked at Zaras, "I promised to deliver forty sixty-eight kilograms of short-barrel guns and their supporting gunpowder. The twenty soldiers must go to the Egyptian port in advance to wait.

If you all agree, tomorrow both sides can swear, and I will send a messenger to Chuni.”

Xiong Jing used to think about it, but now he agreed without any refusal. Neacas felt that it was not that he asked for too little, but that the other party agreed too quickly. As Xiong Jing said, these weapons could conquer an empire - Alexander defeated Darius in just three battles and captured the entire Persian Empire. Unlike Baktria, Egypt did not need to buy subsequent ammunition, and Egypt could configure gunpowder by itself.

"I..." Zaras was not qualified to conduct such negotiations, but obviously, even if he had another person to negotiate, he could only talk about it based on Egypt's conditions. Egypt would never raise the issue of subsequent gunpowder, and Egypt could make gunpowder. Since Egypt could make gunpowder, Egypt naturally had to raise the conditions so that Baktria would not have ammunition available after using the two hundred rounds of ammunition. The more advanced the weapon, the more it should be exclusive.

"How long will it take to deliver these weapons?" Neacas was more concerned about time.

"Maybe it takes three years, and the longest should not exceed five years," Xiong Jing replied. "A more accurate time will be confirmed after my servants come to Alexandria. If they can receive the information in time, they will arrive in Alexandria next summer."

"Five years?" Neacas was slightly surprised, but when he thought of Chuni's current situation, he felt that it should take so long. Maybe Chuni could survive on the island, but she was obviously no longer strong and would no longer compete with Egypt for the origin of spices and trade in spices.

"I think we need at least a whole day to think about all the details," Crimenides suggested. He spoke not to Xiong Jing, but to Neacas.

"Of course. I agree completely." Xiong Jing smiled. "You can even disagree with accepting the ransom, but don't forget that we are just a group of prisoners, no longer mercenaries employed by Egypt."

Xiong Jing left the main account with a smile. Crimenides gritted his teeth when he saw the smile on his face. He felt that he had fallen into a trap that must be redeemed. Because of his own reasons, the identity of the Chuni soldier was no longer a mercenary and would no longer serve in Egypt. If he did not accept the ransom from Chuni, he would get nothing.

Xiong Jing walked back to the tent, and before he could get close to the tent, a group of people flashed out. Under the silhouettes of lights, the wooden pestle in their hands was extremely conspicuous.

"I've seen Da Ao." Lu Yangyan and others stepped forward and bowed.
Chapter completed!