Is morality such an inconvenient thing?

Xu Yanmiao thought for a moment: "Your Majesty, it may not be clear enough just by talking. Can I command a team of infantry? And then a team of cavalry to attack?"

Daxia can make wire. There is steel chain mail in the army's equipment.

So, soon, the Ministry of Industry sent the wire mesh that Xu Yanmiao needed.

- Mobile accordion-shaped wire mesh.

As the name suggests, it is a kind of wire mesh that is rolled up and looks like both a accordion and a cylinder. This form of wire mesh does not require stakes and is very mobile.

The old emperor walked over to take a look and raised his eyebrows: "And barbs?"

Xu Yanmiao nodded.

The old emperor hesitated to speak.

Xu Yanmiao asked politely: "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"

The old emperor tried to tell this military rookie tactfully: "The cavalry are not rabbits that will hit the tree. When they see the wire mesh from a distance, they will run away and take a detour."

Even if your barbs can scrape off a layer of skin from others, it depends on whether the other party can get close.

Xu Yanmiao replied politely: "Your Majesty is right."

[Just like the French Maginot Line? That's right, it was called the "insurmountable Maginot Line" but was still bypassed by the German army. On the contrary, it was the French army that was lax because the Maginot Line was extremely deep and wide, and it was extremely long in width, and it was stolen. 】

【Fortunately, this is just a wire mesh, and it doesn't look like a copper wall or an iron wall, so no army will rely on it to the point of relaxing its defense.】

The Great Xia emperor and his ministers: "?"

So you know it can be bypassed?

They were even more curious.

Since Xu Yanmiao knew this, why would he still pin his hopes on the barbs on the wire mesh?

Xu Yanmiao: "Your Majesty, the cavalry here can't be deployed, why not go to the suburbs?"

There is spacious space there, which is more suitable for cavalry to display their skills.

The old emperor nodded: "Okay."

The Mongolian envoys also came, and the old emperor tacitly allowed them to watch from the side.

When the cavalrymen started running, the leaves of the trees around the delegation were shaking slightly. In the distance, the sound of thunder came closer and closer. The iron cavalry of Daxia rushed over like a black torrent.

The barbaric delegation was shocked.

Among the delegation, the man who often challenged officials from the Ministry of Rites to archery competitions was even more shocked. After being shocked, he felt the vibration of the ground and the wind and sand brought by the cavalrymen. He was embarrassed and didn't know what to do.

"It turns out..."

It turns out that the real cavalrymen of Daxia are so good at riding!

After he went crazy, he was scolded by other people in the delegation. Although he promised not to make trouble again, he still disdained the archery of Daxia in his heart. Although he doesn't see 'shooting' now, he is still good at 'riding'... He suddenly realized that the riders who came to compete with him in those days were not the top riders in Daxia.

He was ignorant and had a narrow view of the world.

The old emperor noticed that the atmosphere in the delegation was not right. After taking a glance, he felt much happier.

"I didn't expect..." Below, Prime Minister Dou also noticed the changes in the delegation, and sighed with the prince beside him: "There is such a miraculous effect."

The prince's response was to take a breath of cool air.

"!!!"

Prime Minister Dou turned around immediately.

*

In the distance, the cavalry was in a dark pressure. When facing them, the infantry was like a small boat in the waves, which could be smashed at any time.

They held the Five Thunder God Machine and the Thunder Gun. Although his face was resolute and he seemed not to be afraid of the cavalry's charge, it still made the onlookers worried.

Some generals wondered: "Why haven't you put up the barbed wire yet? Are the cavalry about to make their final charge?"

The cavalry did not rush to the enemy's flank to harass them in one go. They usually started to trot when they were 200 steps away from the enemy, and then made a sprint in the last 20 steps.

200 steps, for light cavalry, is just "a moment (one minute)".

"It's okay." Xu Yanmiao encouraged them: "Follow my instructions--"

Xu Yanmiao stared at the cavalry closely. Estimate the distance, and then: "Fire!!!"

In an instant, the infantry "bang--" threw the prepared concertina wire mesh around them.

Three pieces of wire mesh were piled into a "品" shape, quickly blocking the passage, like a real big snake, blocking the enemy's iron cavalry.

The horse's hooves stepped on the smoke and dust, blinding the cavalry. By the time they found something strange in front of them, it was too late.

"Raise your guns--" The young man raised the flag calmly.

The infantry held the Five Thunder God Machine and Thunder Gun. The former was said to be "the earliest revolver in the world", and the latter was praised as "the predecessor of the Gatling gun."

- Regardless of whether it is exaggerated or not, their range is indeed more than a hundred steps.

The guns were fake, to prevent the real guns from misfiring and killing their own people. Although no cavalrymen were killed by bullets during the performance - they were sprinting, which was inconvenient. But the people present could almost imagine the scene of intensive firepower.

The Five Thunder God Machine and the Thunder Gun were the weapons of the Northern Army of the Xia Dynasty. Their characteristics were "fast killing", "fast firing" and "wide striking area". For this reason, they gave up "strong power" and took the route of using firepower coverage to compensate for power.

In other words, the guns of the Northern Army were used to kill the cavalry outside the pass.

There were still many cavalrymen who rushed out of the firepower coverage.

Then, the horse's hooves stepped into the wire mesh.

The murderous spirit suddenly rose.

The wire mesh rolled up like a giant snake, with hooks piercing the flesh and scraping in the same direction, causing blood to fly. The horses cried and fell to the ground, and the cavalrymen rolled off their horses and were immediately reloaded with guns from the Five Thunder God Machines and Thunder Guns.

The guns were fake, but the wire mesh was not fake. The legs of those horses were useless.

If you say that the Minister of Revenue had a look of heartache on his face at this scene, then the barbarian delegation was really scared.

They suddenly stood up, staring at the wire mesh and the bloody horses' hooves, and the smell of blood in the air was particularly strong. A sense of crisis arose.

I don't know who brought a plate of cakes to the old emperor. He sat there, weighing the small plum cakes, and ate a few pieces himself. He was so disgusted by the desserts eaten by the rich that he frowned for a moment. Then he asked the eunuch to give it to the Mongolian delegation.

"Messengers." The old emperor asked with a playful smile: "What's the matter? Why did you stand up suddenly? Are you hungry? Here is a plate of plum blossom cake, which is sweet and delicious..."

How could the Mongolian envoys eat anything? The food went up to their throats and fell back into their chests in one breath. In an instant, the sweat oozed out from the joints of their bones. What was on their faces was no longer awe, but fear.

The envoys looked at each other and lowered their proud heads in unison. One of the envoys saluted Emperor Tiantong: "Respected Emperor of Great Xia, Great Khan..."

- Great Khan is the title of the supreme leader of the barbarians outside the Great Xia. Some of these barbarians defected to Great Xia, and these tribes offered the title of Great Khan to the old emperor to show their submission.

"The Mongols plead with the Great Khan to make the decision."

These people are finally going to mention the purpose of this mission.

The emperor's eyes moved slightly: "Oh? What do you need me to do?"

The Mongols' envoys heard this and looked extremely sad: "Great Khan! The Golden Man are really too much! They always send troops to attack the small tribes here. Once they find that the war is beginning to fail, they will negotiate for peace. When the warriors of our tribe go to report, they will start to rebel again. In this way, they have swallowed up many of our tribes."

The sad thing is that unless they plan to wipe out the Golden Man in one go, they can only pinch their noses and accept it. Otherwise, should they change the policy and allow border guards to decide whether to accept the surrender of enemy tribes?

[Huh? ]

The old emperor was about to speak, but when he heard Xu Yanmiao's voice, he subconsciously looked up.

The little bastard is back?

[Golden Man? Aren't they the barbarians who chased the old emperor at Shanhaiguan before? 】

【But it's really a pity for them, otherwise the old emperor would not have had the opportunity to make friends with the officers and soldiers of the previous dynasty. 】

The old emperor: "..."

As expected, he is a little bastard, stabbing a knife into people's hearts as soon as he comes back. This fate is given to you, do you want it?

But...it turned out that it was done by the Jinman?

When the old emperor thought of his bizarre experience when he was forced to pretend to be the emperor of the previous dynasty, his face suddenly darkened: "How do you want me to help you?"

The Mongolian envoys misunderstood the reason for the emperor's dark face and became more cautious. As for the bold words before coming, trying to make Daxia stop trading with the barbarians outside the pass in the future, and only trade with the Mongolian barbarians, so as to control the barbarians, the idea was directly pressed into the depths of consciousness.

"Respected Great Khan of Daxia." The Mongolian envoys tried to smile and spoke in a cautious tone, so as not to make the other party think they were greedy: "We ask Daxia to open trade with the Mongolian barbarians in advance? Most of the tea brought by trade was snatched away by the Golden Barbarians. Now many people in the tribe can't even eat meat."

Tea is basically equivalent to salt for the barbarians. Without tea, they will lack vitamins and then suffer from muscle weakness. For nomadic people, the consequences of muscle weakness and inability to bend the bow and shoot arrows are very terrible.

The old emperor's eyes scrutinized them.

It's not impossible. It is just right to support the Mengman - that is, verbal support, no real goods, if you must have supplies, then it can only be trade support - to fight the Jinman, let them fight each other, and when the Mengman and Jinman are both defeated, Daxia can easily conquer the two tribes.

When the Mengman delegation saw that the emperor of Daxia had not spoken for a long time, their hopeful eyes gradually turned into despair, and their faces turned pale.

One of them was desperate and suddenly knelt straight to Xu Yanmiao: "Shangguan! Please say a good word!"

Xu Yanmiao was shocked and jumped to the side: "Don't kneel to me!"

I am just a small official, what can I do to help you!

The Mengman who begged Xu Yanmiao insisted on his decision. In his opinion, no matter what the young man in front of him was like in the past, since he proposed such a policy that benefits the country as the barbed wire, promotion is inevitable.

Moreover, he had discovered before that the Great Khan of the Great Xia would pay attention to the young man in front of him from time to time!

This person must be of extraordinary status!

Maybe he is a prince! Maybe he is

the prince! It’s always right to ask for help!

Xu Yanmiao looked at the Minister of Personnel, who gave him a helpless expression. Xu Yanmiao looked at Prime

Minister Dou, who was very sympathetic, but his eyes just wouldn’t meet Xu Yanmiao’s.

Xu Yanmiao looked at the Minister of War, who was just short of writing "It’s better to die with a comrade than to die with poverty" on that dark face that hadn’t been washed for several days.

Xu Yanmiao looked at it with his eyes, and went over the description of that face in his mind. After thinking about it, he looked up.

…Why does the Minister of War look even darker?

Xu Yanmiao was confused.

[Strange, did I offend the Minister of War? No? ]

[Why is his face so dark? ]

Xu Yanmiao pondered for a while.

[Could it be that the news that his son was raped by the wife of a certain barbarian chieftain for seven days and seven nights finally reached his ears? ]

[He is so well-informed! I just found out about this too! ]

Minister of War: “?”

I just found out about this too!!! He

quickly went over it in his mind. His eldest son is in the capital, so it must not be him. The second son has not returned from his father-in-law's house yet, so it's definitely not him. Only his youngest son, who is handsome and white as jade, seems to have... indeed... gone to the border for a trip, and sent him two poems some time ago!

Could it be that -

the pupils of the Minister of War were shaking.

[...Is this also considered a marriage of peace? ] Xu Yanmiao's thoughts floated over hesitantly.

[After all, the wife of the chieftain said in public: If you sleep with me for a few days, I will sign an alliance with Daxia - although the chieftain of that tribe is still alive, it is still the wife who is in charge of the affairs. ]

The hands of the Minister of War were shaking.

What a shit!

"Loyalty -" The old emperor slapped his thigh, his expression excited.

Loyal minister! Naked loyal minister!

I don't know if there are any good-looking sons or nephews in other noble families. There are eighteen barbarians outside the Great Wall, but only ten of them are obedient. If... Actually... It's not impossible...

The nobles who felt the burning gaze of His Majesty were immediately terrified.

No no no!

No! There is no beautiful boy in our family!

[Loyal to what? ]

Only Xu Yanmiao was at a loss.

The old emperor was silent for two breaths, then slapped his thigh again: "Right! I think it's right! You are so stupid, right? Regarding the trade, I think it's right, but I still need to discuss this with the ministers. You can leave first, and I will inform you later."

The Mongolian envoys were overjoyed and thanked him.

Xu Yanmiao suddenly realized: [Oh! It's not 'loyalty', it's 'right'! ]

[But...]