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Chapter 518: Deal Done, Quality Inspector Wei Yan

"Well then, now that the terms of the exchange have been agreed upon, let's talk about other things next."

A smile had replaced Gu Rubing's face. This trip was not in vain. Five thousand first-class horses and five thousand fine iron armors were Gu Rubing's original bottom line. Now there were two thousand more long spears, which was beyond his expectations.

Sun Jian didn't want Sun Ce to die, so why did Gu Rubing want Huang Zhong to die? In Gu Rubing's opinion, Huang Zhong was definitely more important than Sun Ce, so he wouldn't push Sun Jian too much. If Sun Jian suddenly turned against him, it would be a loss.

Therefore, Gu Rubing decided to stop while he was ahead. After seeing that there were benefits to be gained, he loosened his grip.

"What do you mean? Are you going to increase the stakes?"

Sun Jian's face was full of black lines, and he didn't hide his resentment at all. He just stared at Gu Rubing.

Gu Rubing drank the tea that had cooled down a little in the cold winter night, and put it back on the table. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, he moved the cup closer to Sun Jian, and the teapot was also next to Sun Jian.

Looking up at Gu Rubing's smiling face again, Sun Jian understood Gu Rubing's thoughts, but now their lives were in the hands of others, so they had to bow their heads.

He only felt that their current situation was like two warriors fighting. Both sides had grabbed each other, but Sun Jian grabbed Gu Rubing's neck, while Gu Rubing grabbed his vitals. If he exerted force, he would be crippled.

Sun Jian shook his head gently, throwing such vulgar thoughts out of his mind, then picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for Gu Rubing.

The smile on Gu Rubing's face became even wider, and he was almost about to laugh out loud.

"It's not about raising the stakes, it's about discussing the next transaction method. There are only five of us. Even if you give us the horses and armor now, we can't take them away."

"What do you want?"

"I'd like you to send some men to deliver the horses, armor, and weapons to where we are now stationed. Once there, I will hand your son over to the messenger and he will bring him back. How do you do that?"

Sun Jian stared at Gu Rubing, as if he wanted to see through him and see if he had any other plans under that smiling face.

Just when Sun Jian was thinking for a long time and wanted to agree, there was a sudden commotion in Yangzhou's camp.

Soon, a deputy general in charge of guarding the camp staggered over.

"Report! Outside the camp, there is a cavalry of 10,000 people, shouting. The man said his name is Wei Yan, and he is here to pick up his master."

After these words were spoken, Gu Rubing and Sun Jian both sat up straight. According to what Huang Zhong said, Wei Yan should have already reached Yangzhou by now, so why was he appearing outside the camp?

But it’s better this way. Gu Rubing brushed off the dust brought by the wind, stood up, and looked at Sun Jian with a smile.

"That's all right. No need to bother. The terms have been agreed upon. I'll take Han Sheng away first and wait outside for you to make preparations. I'll release him when I see what you promised me."

Although Sun Jian didn't want to agree, he had no choice but to agree as Sun Ce was in other people's hands. His life and death were at stake, and he didn't have enough bargaining chips, so he had to agree.

"it is good."

As he said this, Sun Jian waved his hand at Gan Ning behind him, signaling Gan Ning to release the people. Gan Ning was not willing to tolerate such an unequal transaction, and immediately shouted angrily.

"My lord, you can't hand Huang Zhong over to them!"

"Let go."

Sun Jian spoke in a calm tone. He knew the grudge between Gan Ning and the Huang family of Jiangxia. Now that Huang Zu was dead, only Huang Zhong was left. It was normal for Gan Ning to be unwilling to let Huang Zhong go. He understood Gan Ning's reluctance, so he did not blame Gan Ning.

Unexpectedly, Gan Ning still refused to give in.

"My lord! Huang Zhong cannot be released. If he is released, it will be like letting a tiger return to the mountains, my lord!"

"I said let him go!"

Sun Jian could no longer suppress his anger, and he slammed the stone table. With the bonus of Sun Ce's Overlord characteristic, Sun Jian was far stronger than a second-rate general. He even slammed the stone table in the pavilion and made a crack.

Seeing Sun Jian so angry, Gan Ning stopped and said nothing more.

But his eyes were still full of unwillingness. Before letting Huang Zhong go back, Gan Ning suddenly took a step forward, swung his arm, and punched Huang Zhong in the abdomen. Then he grabbed Huang Zhong's hair and forced Huang Zhong to look up and look at him.

"Huang Zhong, you were lucky this time and escaped. You won't do that again next time!"

Huang Zhong was already seriously injured, and was extremely weak due to the poison. The punch hit Huang Zhong's abdomen and knocked him unconscious.

The smile on Gu Rubing's face froze.

"Gan Ning, right? I'll remember you."

"Oh? Then King Lie must remember this."

Gan Ning looked at Gu Rubing with a grim smile on his face, without any sign of retreat.

Gu Rubing said nothing more and turned to walk outside.

Outside the camp, Wei Yan was holding his White Tiger Sun-Devouring Sword and yelling and cursing like crazy, using all sorts of dirty words. Two first-rate generals who couldn't stand it and came out to challenge him were chopped down by Wei Yan, including Ma Zhong. He also captured him alive and tied him up.

Wei Yan continued to shout and curse, but when he saw Gu Rubing and Zhang Fei and their group coming out, his face showed joy, and he immediately spurred his horse forward and came in front of them.

"My Lord! You rescued Han Sheng."

Gu Rubing nodded slightly.

"This is not the place to talk. Take Han Sheng back to heal his wounds first, and we'll talk later."

"okay."

Just when Wei Yan was about to turn around, he was stopped by Gu Rubing again.

"Please accept the compensation Sun Jian gave us."

"Compensation? What compensation?"

Wei Yan asked with some doubt.

"War reparations."

After Gu Rubing finished speaking, he suddenly realized that this way of saying it seemed inappropriate, so he changed his way of saying it.

"Ransom, really."

"The ransom for that kid Sun Ce." Wei Yan on the side said with sudden realization, and Gu Rubing became curious.

"Have you been to the station?"

"Yes, I originally wanted to attack Huanglong with Xu Rong, but after careful consideration, all the troops of that old man Sun Jian are here, and Xu Rong and Wen Yuan should be enough, so I came back to see if I could save Han Sheng. It was not until I met the Bai Li soldiers that I knew you and my third brother were here, so I hurried over here to see if I could help."

Gu Rubing understood and looked at Wei Yan with approval. He was a man of loyalty and righteousness, and indeed did not look like the type of person who would rebel. Historically, Wei Yan had been criticized a lot for his rebellious nature at the back of his head. Now it seemed that one could not fully trust things like bone structure.

"Collect our spoils and take everything back."

"Okay. Um..."

After agreeing, Wei Yan stood there in a daze, as if he wanted to say something.

"What's wrong? Tell me what you have to say."

"Well, my lord, I caught another one. Do you want to exchange it for something?"

As Wei Yan spoke, he pointed his finger at Ma Zhong who was tied up in the distance. Gu Rubing was stunned at first, then he chuckled.

"Give it back to him. If it's Zhou Yu and the others, they can still bargain, but for him, there's no need."

"Okay, leave it to me!"

Wei Yan waved his hand, and the person in charge of guarding Ma Zhong immediately understood and brought Ma Zhong over.

Sun Jian and his group, who followed Gu Rubing, looked uglier than if they had eaten a fly after seeing the tied-up Ma Zhong. Sun Jian was so painful that he almost pounded the wall. However, there was no wall, so Sun Jian couldn't pound it even if he wanted to. He could cry though.

"Sir Sun, my master said that this is a gift for you, buy one get one free."

Wei Yan took Ma Zhong from his men as if he were receiving goods, and then threw him to Gan Ning on the opposite side, with a very clear target.

They were all once Huang Zu's subordinates and were old acquaintances of each other. Huang Zhong and Gan Ning had a bad relationship, while Wei Yan had a good relationship with Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong was also a man of great righteousness, so naturally he became enemies with Gan Ning.

After throwing it to Gan Ning, Wei Yan put his hand on his neck again and made a gesture of wiping his neck with an extremely provocative expression.

"Boy, wait for me to kill you, but don't die in the hands of others."

Gan Ning just smiled contemptuously at this.

"Since I failed to kill Huang Zhong this time, I will send you two on the road together next time so that you will have company on the road."

The few of them already had a deep hatred for each other, and now that Huang Zu was dead, their conflict was naturally intensified. Now they were even closer to drawing swords against each other whenever they met.

Neither of them paid any attention to the other. Wei Yan kept walking around in front of the formation, personally counting the things the other side had sent.

"This horse is so short, how can it be called a first-class horse? No, change it!"

"And this one, this one looks weak, with no meat on it. Didn't I say that you Jiangdong are too poor to feed horses? If you really can't afford to raise horses, send them to us. We will take as many as you can. Don't let good horses be raised like this."

"What is this? Is this a horse? It's so fat, can it still run? Is this a horse or a pig with long legs? What do you feed it every day? Are you so rich? If you have too much silver and don't know where to spend it, just send it to us, we are short of money!"

"This one is so ugly, and you still have the nerve to call it a first-class horse? This ugly one, that fat one, and the one that looks like a bamboo pole, change them all for me, I don't want them!"

Wei Yan was standing by like a quality inspector, giving advice on every horse and sending back all those he disliked.

At the beginning, the people in Jiangdong were unwilling to change, but Sun Jian just said one sentence.

"What's the matter? Your eldest son is still in the hands of my third brother. It would be bad if my third brother accidentally breaks your eldest son's arm or leg."

Sun Jian's face turned black when he heard this. He felt chest tightness and shortness of breath, and a little suffocated. He waved his hands.

"Change it for him! Change it for him! Gongjin, go with them and bring Bofu back."

Sun Jian snorted coldly and turned away. Wei Yan's voice floated from behind.

"Thank you, Lord Sun, for your generosity!"

Sun Jian, who had already walked far away, staggered suddenly and almost fell when he heard these words.

After everyone left, Wei Yan immediately began his advice on how to advance the country. After he had pointed out the problems with the horses, the next thing to do was to deal with the armor.

Although they were all made of fine iron, they were not produced in the same batch, so the quality was definitely uneven. Wei Yan made a big fuss about this.

"This won't do. All of you people from Jiangdong, come and take a look. Is this fine iron? This is not even as good as Crazy Iron. How can you call it fine iron? Do you have any shame? Change it for me!"

"And this, it's covered with knife marks. You took it off the corpse, right? It's fine if you use this unlucky thing, but why do you use it to deal with us? This is in exchange for your eldest son's life. Why, is your eldest son's life so worthless that you use this kind of rubbish? Aren't you afraid that we will turn against you?"

"Hey, you, you, you little dwarf, who are you looking at? I'm talking about you, a little 1.5 meters tall. What's the use of you? People like you are being dragged to the battlefield. Don't you have anyone left in Jiangdong? Look at those armors you are holding. What are they? They are tattered. They are hundreds of years old. You must have dug them out of graves. We don't want them. We have to replace all of them."

Wei Yan was giving orders in front of the crowd, looking like a great general, but what he said was really unbearable to hear.

The soldiers who received Sun Jian's orders did not dare to say anything at this moment. If Wei Yan asked them to change, they would change until Wei Yan was satisfied.

As for the lances, Wei Yan found even more faults with them. He disliked almost all of them. If Zhou Yu had not been unable to bear it anymore, he would have told Wei Yan that these were all the lances they had. The fine iron armor and horses would have been replaced as Wei Yan wished, but the lances were really not good. It was not that they did not want to replace them, but that they really had no more.

Only then did Wei Yan accept the two thousand long spears with a curse.

In fact, Wei Yan also understood the reason. After all, ordinary armies would not forge weapons like the lance. Only families with generals as ancestors would have such weapons as the lance.

Although the long spear is a powerful weapon for cavalry on the battlefield, it is only suitable for those generals with extraordinary physical strength. If ordinary soldiers use this weapon, their strength will be exhausted after a few rounds. Exhaustion on the battlefield means death.

Therefore, the lance could not be popularized at all. Even in this kind of game world, if a special soldier was picked out to become a general in history, there would be relatively many lances. Otherwise, let alone two thousand, I'm afraid Sun Jian would be lucky if he could gather a few hundred. Even in Liangzhou, which used the most lances, he could only prepare a thousand at most.

Looking at the piles of spoils, Wei Yan's mouth was almost grinning from ear to ear.

"The life of this eldest son of Jiangdong is really valuable. How about releasing Sun Ce and letting my third brother beat him up, then tying Sun Ce back, and then asking that old man Sun Jian to redeem him again? If there is no Han Sheng in exchange this time, it will be even more expensive. At least ten thousand war horses, ten thousand sets of fine armor, and their..."

Wei Yan muttered quietly to the side, counting on his fingers to see how many times he had to tie up Sun Ce to move Yangzhou away. Zhou Yu, who was beside Sun Ce, couldn't stand it any more and could only watch and pretend he couldn't hear anything.

If Gan Ning were here, the two would probably start arguing again. Moreover, since Sun Jian and Gu Rubing are not here, it is possible that they would fight.

(End of this chapter)