"Live in peace? Stop plotting against Loulan?"

"Yes, your Majesty."

"But I'm planning to attack you now. You're going too far. Loulan has never had any grudges with the Western Regions. Even if there were any misunderstandings, I would have personally visited them. This time, you actually targeted my Loulan. Don't you think that's too much?"

Seeing the king's rage, the messengers quickly explained:

"It's a misunderstanding. It's all your brother, Count Ranke, who deceived our king. He said you were the one who seized the throne. He wanted to take back everything that belonged to him. Fortunately, our king woke up in time and didn't continue to be deceived by him."

"Oh, I see. If you hadn't been defeated this time, would the misunderstanding have continued?"

The King of Loulan joked.

"No, no, no, our king will also wake up. We are all peace-loving people. So we don't want to continue fighting and killing each other."

Of course, the king was just venting his anger and would not really fight back.

But if they dismissed him with just one word, wouldn't that be a disdain for themselves?

"Alright. Since you don't want to fight anymore, that's fine."

"Since the king has agreed, that's great. We will go back and report to our king."

"Wait! Did I say that this is the end? Don't you even have an apology?"

"I'm sorry, it was our fault! We won't make this mistake again."

The messengers had no qualms about apologizing.

But for the King of Loulan, this is just the first step. Since the other party has this attitude, they can continue the talks.

"Yes, that's right. Then the next thing is compensation. You drove us out of Loulan and then occupied it for so long, causing us to live in someone else's house for so long and causing so much damage. It would be unreasonable not to compensate you."

Now the messengers found it difficult to answer.

The king hadn't mentioned anything about compensation before they came.

"Well, well... Your Majesty, this is a ceasefire, not a surrender. There's no such thing as war reparations. It was all a misunderstanding, and we didn't want to initiate a war. It was all your brother's fault. So you have to talk to Duke Ranke about this. Besides, our allies have suffered heavy losses and can no longer bear them."

"Oh, so the losses are too great, so we have to negotiate. What if I don't want to negotiate? Anyway, it doesn't matter to me, Loulan, right now. We have plenty of time to play with you."

Realizing that he had let the cat out of the bag, he quickly shut his mouth.

Another messenger immediately said:

"Your Majesty, that's not the case. We simply want peace talks. We love peace and don't want to continue like this. I hope you can understand. If you give up your demand for compensation, you can discuss other conditions with us. If possible, we will agree to them."

This was exactly what Fengyun wanted to hear, and he immediately signaled his father-in-law to agree.

"Hahaha, that's fine. Since you mentioned peace talks, let's talk. Loulan wants to form an alliance, how about you join?"

When the envoys heard about another alliance, they were overwhelmed and quickly refused:

"No, no, we will not continue our military alliance. Suffering a loss once is enough."

"Tsk tsk tsk! You're putting me in a difficult position. You don't want to pay the war reparations, and you won't join the alliance I founded. What on earth do you want to do?"

Seeing that the king was angry again, the messengers said:

"Your Majesty, this is truly unacceptable. We were deceived so badly by Duke Rank, and we are deeply troubled. Please forgive us."

The king couldn't think of any other requests and was about to give up when Fengyun came up with an idea.

"Then in my opinion, since we can't form a military alliance, then let's form an economic alliance. Let's form a trade alliance."

The envoys all looked at the King of Loulan.

They didn't know Fengyun, so naturally they didn't know what the King of Loulan meant.

After hearing Fengyun's words, the king laughed heartily and said:

"This is my son-in-law. What he says is what I say. I have no opinion. What do you think?"

The messengers then looked at each other.

After everyone looked at each other for a long time, they nodded and asked:

"We agree in principle. But how do we cooperate?"

Fengyun smiled and said:

"It's very simple. It means trade is mutually accessible. The alliance cannot increase tariffs on any goods from member states."

Everyone waited for a long time and wanted to hear Fengyun continue, but Fengyun shut his mouth and didn't say another word.

"That's all? My Lord, please finish speaking in one breath."

"That's all. This is all I ask of the alliance members."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. What kind of request was this?

It would be fair if no one had to pay more taxes.

Everyone agreed without thinking.

"Okay, on behalf of our respective countries, we agree to join this trade alliance."

Subsequently, the Fengyun Western Region Trade Alliance was officially established.

Fengyun then showed a satisfied smile.

He preferred this invisible plunder to their compensation.

Not to mention the supplies on Life Island, the items he obtained in Han, Yingzhou and Europe can enter with zero tariffs.

Regardless of whether it will have an impact on these countries, at least he will make a fortune.

Of course, he cannot monopolize this business.

Merchants from the Han Dynasty also need to join, but there are definitely conditions.

The most basic commission is indispensable.

As for other conditions, Fengyun is still thinking about it.

Although the countries in the Western Regions are all small, their number is very considerable.

Everyone wants to get in and get a piece of the pie.

Of course, Fengyun has to go with the flow, but of course he cannot give up his own interests.

After signing the agreement with the envoys, these countries immediately became members of the trade alliance.

Fengyun had a request, which was to ask them to invite other Western countries to join.

They did not refuse this.

Every country has its own specialties. If there were no trade barriers, trade between them would be very prosperous.

This will benefit people in all countries.

Fengyun will then have to consider how to protect his own interests while attracting more allies.

After much deliberation, he decided to choose some allies from the NPCs first.

Although the strength of today's players cannot be underestimated, their uncertainty is too great and the situation is difficult to control.

Although NPCs also put profit first, they still have some bottom line.

This is why Fengyun gives them priority.

In order not to irritate the major families of the Han Dynasty too much, Fengyun asked Qiubaicheng to release a list of supplies to be purchased.