Macho Wars

The queen mother smiled with relief. Although the prince was young, he was fortunately talented, not only good at thinking but also daring to ask questions.The ministers in the DPRK also performed their duties and worked hard to assist the government and solve problems for the country.

It's not that the Eastern Qin Kingdom has no rights to fight, but the factions above the court are all very well-versed people, and they can see the truth clearly.

At this time, a court attendant hurried in to greet him and handed a letter to the desk of Queen Mother Shuang.The queen mother picked it up and looked at it for a while, a smile on her face.

"Master Zheng moves very fast over there."

As the Queen Mother Shuang said, she put the letter in her hand on the table and pushed it forward, indicating that all the ministers present had a look. Everyone circulated it, with different expressions for a while.

Zhao Huan, Prime Minister Right, stepped forward and said hesitantly.

"Queen dowager, the minister thought that although Lord Zheng's thoughts are not problematic, after all, it is a sensitive period right now. Will excessive contact send wrong messages to the outside world?

"But I think Master Zheng is right. The world has already seen the power of this new weapon in the World War I in Red Rock Harbor. People are the deadliest, and technology is the primary productive force. Our country is in this field. Never fall behind too much."

"Yes, what Prime Minister Sima said makes sense."

The ministers present discussed and finally decided to make a cautious contact. The official meeting can be as originally planned, but in private, you might as well ask Zheng Hai, the second son of the Zheng family, to come forward to help the famous imperial general contact some Dong Qin private enterprise organizations. , The big deal is that when the politics on both sides are cold and economic, there will always be a way to get the technology.

So the Empress Dowager Shuang quickly replied a letter to the Zheng family. Although the Eastern Empire was sitting on a fertile New World colony and the local products were very rich, the industrial base there was suppressed by the central government for many years, and it had been used as a source of raw materials and had limited development Heavy industry and low-end industries, while the mid-to-high-end military industry cannot develop rapidly in a short period of time, it is obviously incapable of supplying military supplies for front-line operations and rear army expansion.

Although the officials on the East Qin side cannot publicly give support to any party, privately they will not restrict the "free trade" of private enterprises.

As long as the Eastern Empire is willing to produce good things, many things are negotiable.

Two days later, Queen Mother Frost met with Alicia, who represented the Eastern Empire, as an entourage, and accompanied her into the political power center of Eastern Qin.The two of them walked through the long corridor under the guidance of the palace inner room and came to the Royal Garden of the East Palace.

When Dragun saw the Queen Regent to meet them in such an informal place, he immediately understood what the Eastern Qin meant.But he had anticipated this, so he didn't feel surprised or outraged.

Dong Qin and the empire were not close friends like brothers. It was the best choice for them not to help each other. If it was Dragoon, he would choose the same way.

Chapter 506

When Dragon and Alicia met the Queen Mother, their first impression was "normal".This kind of ordinaryness is mainly reflected in the aspect of appearance. The Queen Mother Shuang is the mother of the Eastern Qin Dynasty, but her facial features are hard to be called beautiful anyway.If it weren't for wearing a blue and black gorgeous palace costume, it would be no different from an average middle-aged woman.

But neither of them was confused by this appearance. The Eastern Qin royal family's selection of concubines was completely different from the Sidney royal family.The latter valued ancestry more, and the emperor’s personal wishes were dominant, basically picking young and beautiful ones.

The restrictions on the Eastern Qin side are relatively large. First of all, the size of the harem of the Eastern Qin King is strictly limited. There are a total of 12 concubines and 13 wives.In the selection process, talents are more valued, and they need to be screened through layers of assessment. The appearance of a "middleman" is better, and those who are too beautiful will be first eliminated.

Therefore, there has always been a joke about Eastern Qin on the empire, ridiculing that the Eastern Qin royal family likes to use ugliness as beauty, and the queens of the past are more than one.

Queen Mother Shuang can stand out from such a strict selection, and has been with King Qin Chuan for nearly two decades. She is by no means a general generation as she seems.

After the two met, Alicia sat opposite the Queen Mother Frost, while Dragon stood behind his wife, deliberately making herself look like an accompanying guard.

The Queen Mother looked at him, then smiled and said to him suddenly.

"This place is not crowded, General Li might as well sit together. The Aijia has heard of General Li's name, he is the most outstanding general of the current generation of young people, and I hope that General Li can exchange some military issues, and I hope he can give him advice."

Queen Mother Shuang's tone is both kind and humble, with a decent smile on her face all the time, like a gentle elder, she feels very friendly.

Dragon couldn't refuse, so he had to sit down beside Alicia.

The two came here this time, the primary purpose is to obtain official support from Dongqin, and the second is to establish trade relations, directly importing a batch of industrial equipment from Dongqin.

The empire is not without technology, but technology alone is not enough to quickly form effective productivity. Therefore, in addition to stepping up self-production and upgrading related industrial hardware facilities, the colony also needs to import to make up for the current shortage of production capacity.

However, the essence of negotiation is never straightforward, and it directly shows that the intention of coming will inevitably be taken advantage of to raise the price. Therefore, before coming to the Eastern Qin, Dragon has discussed with Alicia, first to take the more than 10,000 of the Second Corps. The captive was used as a cover.

After the Second Corps crossed the border to surrender to the Eastern Qin Dynasty, Dragon sent people to negotiate with the Eastern Qin Frontier Defense Forces, hoping that these prisoners could be extradited back, but the Eastern Qin Army justified it on humanitarian grounds. Reject, even if you pay the ransom.

It can be seen that Eastern Qin deliberately wanted to use these prisoners as a bargaining chip, and this was not entirely a bad thing for the empire. At least it showed that Eastern Qin had a plan for the empire, and since it had ideas, then naturally there was The possibility of talking.

So the two sides simply agreed, Alicia followed the previously negotiated plan and directly brought out the prisoner issue.

After hearing this, the Queen Mother said that she was not very clear about this matter, but she would verify with the Ministry of War as soon as possible to ensure a satisfactory explanation to the Empire.

At this time, Empress Dowager Shuang suggested that the weather is good today and there are many flowers blooming in the imperial garden. Everyone might as well take a walk, watch and chat while walking.Dragoon and Alicia thought for a while but had no objection, so they got up and followed the Queen Mother, and walked into the depths of the royal garden of the Eastern Qin Palace with her.

Different from the "supernatural garden" of the imperial palace, the imperial garden of the Eastern Qin Dynasty is an ordinary royal garden, and at this time it is in the spring season. Therefore, the big trees and shrubs are generally just beginning to sprout, and the garden is also a piece of land. The peach blossom is worth seeing.

The three came to the Crescent Lake in the center of the Royal Garden. The shores of the lake were full of peach trees. At this time, a large area of ​​pink and white on the branches looked very beautiful.

The Empress Dowager Shuang raised her hand and called a court lady, who held a box.Dragon glanced into the box, one by one seemed to be fish food.This reminded him of some information about King Qin Chuan he had read before.

It is said that during the reign of King Qin Chuan, he was diligent, thrifty, and not addicted to luxury. He had only one innocuous hobby, that is, he likes to watch fish, so he ordered him to stock a lot in the Crescent Lake in the Royal Garden.

Empress Dowager Frost grabbed a handful of fish food and threw it into the lake. Not long after the water surface, a large group of big fish with bright red color and a little golden light came up, vying to swallow the fish food on the water with their big mouth open.

The Queen Mother looked at the greedy big red fish and said in a nostalgic tone.

"Do you know the red fish in this pond?"

"It's called Golden Red Armor, isn't it?" Dragon said afterwards.

"It seems that General Li knows a lot. When the former king was alive, he had to come and put some bait on these fishes after handling government affairs. These big fish were raised and cooked. As long as someone patted the water by the pool, they would Will gather here and be touched."

Dragon and Alicia quietly listened to Queen Mother Frost’s words, and they looked at each other, not sure if the other’s words were alluding to something, or just a smoke bomb, to influence them. Judgment.

The Queen Mother saw that they didn't say a word, just laughed and said nothing.

A group of people stopped by the lake to watch the red fish. After all, Alicia was young and not experienced enough. She wanted to continue to talk about serious matters with the Queen Mother several times, but was deliberately fooled by the other party, constantly killing her patience.

By the end of the day, Dragoon was still there, and right now they were asking Dongqin, and it was inevitable to fall into passiveness like this.The Empress Dowager Shuang knew this very well, so she deliberately played haha ​​with them. She took them to enjoy the flowers and fish. Seeing the sun slanting a little bit westward, she gradually had the color of the sunset.

So the Queen Mother Frost hosted the two again until they returned to the embassy where they were staying at 8 o'clock in the evening. Alicia found that they had been chatting with the Queen Mother for a long time. She was very annoyed.

"My dear, what are you thinking about that Queen Mother Frost?"

"I guess...she probably didn't think about anything."

Dragon smiled at Alicia, stretched out his hand and scratched the tip of his beloved wife's nose, kissed her swollen cheek, and sold it badly.

He was a little puzzled at first when he met the Queen Mother during the day, but then he wanted to understand.What the Queen Mother was thinking was to make another group of "imperial envoys" think randomly.The other party only saw them entering the palace and talking with the Queen Mother for a long time, eating together in the evening and enjoying singing and dancing in the palace, they would definitely think they had a good talk.

If Dragon guessed correctly, Empress Frost will meet those people the day after tomorrow.

This is all a routine!

Chapter 507: Dirty Deal

On the second day after returning to his residence, Dragon received the news that the envoy sent by Firavi to East Qin was received by the Queen Mother.This made him more and more convinced that the other party asked them to go to the palace yesterday to chat for a long time. It was indeed a premeditated routine.

However, even if "see through" the Queen Mother Shuang's thoughts, Dragon could not come up with any good way to deal with it for a while.Because Queen Mother Frost took advantage of the already intensified conflict between the two sides of their civil war, Dragoon could not communicate with another envoy.

Moreover, nine out of ten of the things that East Qin fancy is the aircraft that shined a while ago and the oil tree as a fuel source. Firawi also has these two things, but it lacks excellent flight instructors and related applications. Experience only.

Although Firavi was shrewd, Dragon did not rule out that out of political needs, he would grit his teeth and exchange important military technology for the support of a big country like the Eastern Qin, because the other side really has the power to intervene in the empire's civil war.And even if they do not change, it is difficult to guarantee that these countries will not master relevant technologies through other channels.