my wife is a consul

Chapter 646
In the Battle of Red Eagle Valley launched by the United Matrix more than five years ago, armed helicopters appeared on the battlefield for the first time, which shocked the entire Western Region.

Moreover, with the civil strife in the empire, the embargo policy on weapons of mass destruction in the Western Regions has also been loosened.

King Baoyue even bought an armed helicopter. After all, he is rich and powerful, and ordinary city-states can afford it but cannot afford it.

However, the helicopter was not used in the war, but the eldest son of King Baoyue crashed in bad weather while riding, and his eldest son was killed.

King Baoyue was sad, and even issued a decree that no aircrafts were allowed in the southern city-state.

Of course, apart from him, no one in the southern city-state could afford flying machines, so this decree was unnecessary.

But today, a helicopter landed in the square in front of the temple in Baoyue City, and King Baoyue even brought his luxuriously dressed followers to play welcome music to greet him, causing a sensation in the city.

……

In the resplendent temple, the huge idol is made of pure gold, the tableware and dining table are also made of pure gold, dazzling yellow, and the dishes are extremely extravagant.

King Baoyue and Concubine Chong hosted a banquet for Lu Ming, saying that the three of them had a secret conversation, but there were dozens of male and female servants around.

To King Baoyue, these slaves were certainly not human beings, and they had no chance of leaking secrets.

For the dishes in front of him, Lu Ming just tasted them lightly, King Baoyue said with a smile: "The village wine and wild vegetables made Representative Li laugh!"

He is a white and fat man like a mountain of meat, a mass of flesh paralyzed there, fearing that it will be difficult to move, I don't know if An Lushan was the same as him back then.

In fact, even though Mrs. Sanjin must have softened the words and the like when translating, Lu Ming could see the arrogance in King Baoyue's eyes. He obviously felt that he didn't understand what these dishes were and how precious they were, so there was nothing wrong with them. All is simple to try.

For example, the tip of the tongue of an extremely rare bird was roasted on a plate. This bird was originally small, and the tip of the tongue was even smaller. If the plate was full, there would be hundreds of tongues.

In addition to the translation of Mrs. Sanjin, each of the four people has a plate on the table in front of them. There are thousands of birds. This is a bird that is endangered in the Western Regions. It is similar to a parrot and can learn human words. The nobles in the Western Regions all thought that eating the tongue of this bird would prolong their lives, but nowadays, it is very rare to see this kind of bird in the Western Regions. This simple roasted bird tongue will mobilize many people to hunt birds.

Lu Ming smiled at King Baoyue and said, "Your Excellency, these are not important, but if you really have great ambitions, not only to restore the glory of the ancestors, but also to not be dominated by the northern city-states, and now you should live frugally and fill the treasury. If so, use it more on armaments!"

King Baoyue's face changed slightly. Naturally, he rarely heard Lu Ming's harsh words.

Concubine Baoyue on the side looks very young, with a childish face on her face, she is clearly only thirteen or fourteen years old, but she can become the lord of Queen Baoyue's harem, obviously not just because of her pretty appearance and light body, black gem His deep eyes looked at Lu Ming with great interest, and he smiled lightly at this time: "What Representative Li said is true, but my lord is rich in the world, and the gold car is full of power, but he has no way to buy Dongfang's heavy guns and cannons. I asked Representative Li to make the connection on your behalf."

Lu Ming nodded: "That's not a problem, but for war, weapons are important, and the people who use them are the key. As far as I know, at the beginning of this year, when His Excellency King Baoyue was at war with the northern city-states, except for 'Moro 'Bing, the rest are vulnerable, and the Shrenis took the opportunity to conspire one after another?"

Mo Luo is a professional soldier in the southern city-state, similar to generations of military households, but with a high status.

'Shlieni' is a soldier recruited temporarily from civilians and slaves.

Listening to Mrs. Sanjin's translation, King Baoyue slammed the table and murmured a few words in a stern voice.

Mrs. Sanjin beside Lu Ming hesitated, but she didn't translate it. Presumably King Baoyue was furious and reprimanded Lu Ming.

Lu Ming smiled: "I think we don't have the mature conditions for in-depth communication now, so I'll take my leave first!" Then he stood up, turned his head and walked out.

Mrs. Sanjin hastily translated, and hurriedly followed.

Lu Ming'er heard the sound of dishes behind him, and he knew that King Baoyue overturned the table in a fit of anger.

The golden plate and golden bowl did not make a sound of breaking.

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In the evening, Baoriluo, the younger brother of King Baoyue, came to the Hall of Reincarnation.

The temple, palace and manor of the nobles in the center of the city can actually be regarded as an integrated grotto complex, covering an area of ​​over [-] mu. In Lu Ming's previous life, they were extremely majestic and magnificent monuments with superb architectural standards.

The Huishen Hall where Lu Ming lives is a part of the temple.

Lu Ming and his personal entourage were arranged to live here, which was the most solemn courtesy, at least when they first came to Baoyue City.

Baoyue City is located in the southern part of the Western Regions, and it is extremely hot in summer. Lu Ming feels that this place may be on the equator, and the surrounding mountains and deserts cannot radiate high temperatures.

It is the end of October now, it is already late autumn, but the city is still like a steamer.

In terms of the cold cave buildings with extremely thick stone walls, it is tantamount to heaven, completely isolated from the sweltering outside, cool and comfortable.

Moreover, inside the grotto, not to mention the generous style, the furniture is also very modern.

The temple grotto where Lu Ming lives is divided into more than a dozen spaces, which can generally be regarded as three floors. From the huge stone steps to the high-rise cave, the layout is of course completely different from the three-story building of modern buildings.

Entering the main hall, the naked eye can see the huge stone steps leading to the majestic statue, as well as the entrance of the three-tiered cave.

The function of the main hall is basically to receive guests, hold banquets and so on.

The five-story-high huge stone statue in the Huishen Temple is called Huishen Fawang. It is a very important god in the mythology system of the southern city-state. A colorful drapery.

The nobles of the southern city-states were not shy about gods, but thought they were qualified to live with gods, so that gods would protect their families.

This time, the most formal seat in the Hall of Reincarnation is instead the huge stone toe of King Huilun, on which Lu Ming is currently sitting.

Bao Ri Luo was sitting on a stone bench behind a low table a few steps away, the end of the silken sash on Hui Lun Dharma King's body.

Bao Riluo is in his early forties, at the extremes of his elder brother, clean and beautiful, with deep black eyes full of wisdom.

"My lord representative, my lord, is willing to give 36 holes of gold to buy military supplies, but I must have the latest weapons. Can my lord do it?" Bao Riluo smiled.

Lu Ming felt helpless, this King Baoyue lost his temper, so he wanted to show himself how big he was.

However, with such a response, the aggressive method I met at the beginning of the meeting can be considered to have played a role.

According to the unit of measurement of gold in the southern city-state, a hole of gold is about half a ton, and 36 holes is [-] tons.

Gold is calculated on the basis of imperial standard gold bars. A standard gold bar is about 1000 yuan, and a ton of gold is about 600 million imperial coins.

Eighteen tons, worth more than 1 million imperial coins.

Bao Riluo lowered his voice, "On behalf of my lord, the little girl told me what I said in front of the king on behalf of my lord, so I don't have to take my lord's joke seriously. , but sending weapons to our Western Regions, the outside world still has some scruples, and they don’t want to be caught talking about it. It’s hard to represent an adult with a weapon of [-] million yuan, but since the representative has been approved by the king, please work hard and do as much as possible for the representative. Our department has purchased sophisticated weapons!"

Lu Ming nodded. In fact, he came here with the intention of engaging in a proxy war.

Prepare to arm the southern city-states and contain the central city-state group supported by the punk trade.

It came with a budget of 2 million yuan, of which 1 million yuan was for the pitted punk trade.

Of course, the 2 million yuan is the entire budget of the Special Work Department in the Western Regions in the near future, and not all of them will be given to the southern city-states free of charge.

But looking at it now, it seems that instead of free support, there is an unexpected surprise, which can enrich the principality's gold reserves.

The Baoyue King family has ruled the southern part of the Western Regions for thousands of years, and it seems that they have accumulated a lot of hard currency like gold.

King Baoyue opened his mouth to 36 holes of gold, fearing that his family would have a hundred holes of gold.

Thinking about it randomly, Lu Ming smiled and said: "For the 36-hole gold, I think two Destroyers are fine, but if you use it to fight, you need to take off from the airport on the side of Soroston to support the battle. It's convenient, but you can't participate in it often. You can bomb the opponent at critical moments. It's best to fight at night, so that the opponent doesn't know where our attack planes come from. Otherwise, there will be some troubles. Delay the time for the other party to discover the truth."

"Destroyer? Attacker?" Bao Riluo obviously didn't understand, but he was very excited and curious.

Mrs. Sanjin directly transliterated these two words, but Bao Riluo would not understand the free translation.

Lu Ming smiled and said: "I'll talk to you later, let me think about it first, um, for the rest, let's buy conventional weapons. My think tanks have analyzed and studied the weapons that the punk trade supplies to the Central City-State Group. We can choose targeted weapons. However, I still say that the most important thing in war is people. Moreover, it will take time to train your Moro army to use new weapons and equipment proficiently. So, you still have a Choose, if the necessary funds are provided, I can help you contact mercenaries, and if the central city-state finds something is wrong and there are changes in the near future, you can use mercenaries to temporarily withstand it."

"Mercenaries?" Bao Riluo's eyes lit up.

"It's called United Matrix." Lu Ming smiled.

In fact, the real joint matrix of course no longer exists. The joint matrix stationed in the Western Regions was reorganized into the regular army of the principality.

The joint matrix that still exists in the Western Regions today belongs to the second generation. The successors are all local soldiers trained by veterans. If there is an enemy that they can't deal with, the oil corps in Petroleum City can immediately gather and become a powerful armed force if they see it in the end.

Over there, listening to Lu Ming's words, Bao Riluo's eyes brightened even more, "My lord, can you tell me about the joint matrix you mentioned, how is the combat effectiveness?"

Lu Ming smiled and said, "They..."

Lu Ming and Bao Riluo chatted for more than four hours until late at night.

When Bao Riluo left, his face was full of smiles.

……

In the bathroom cave on the second floor, Lu Ming lay comfortably in the stone bath, which was steaming. I don’t know how many slaves burned fires outside to heat up the hot water and pour it into the bath, and then flowed out from the side drain, which was a bit like an artificial bath. The hot springs are gone, but the artificial hot springs in this temple are all supported by huge manpower.

There were soft footsteps, Lu Ming opened his eyes, and saw Mrs. Sanjin and Papa Ya standing beside the bath, both of them were wearing thin snow-white nightgowns, Papa Ya lowered her head, not daring to look at Lu Ming, her white and slender hands were nervous twisted together.

Mrs. Sanjin's beautiful eyes are very peaceful, as if something is perfectly normal, she whispered: "Master has been running around non-stop since he came to the Western Regions, and he is very tired. Today, I really have to wash away the tiredness. Nu and Papa Ya are the masters. Wash away the dirt and get rid of fatigue?"

In fact, as far as the two are concerned, Mrs. Sanjin has never been a human being and has always been a saint who serves the gods, but it is natural.

Lu Ming smiled and said: "You don't need to take a bath, you can also go to the bubbles together, it's hard work with me, not to mention saving time, and saving the hard-working people outside from having to keep burning fires to carry water." While speaking, he picked up the stone platform The snow-white bath towel covered the lower body in the water.

The current mentality seems to be indifferent to these things. The two of them are women who can’t be driven away by themselves. In fact, it’s not that there is nothing wrong with men and women, but they are like their own property, a kind of object, and there is no need too much How taboo.

A gleam of joy flashed across Mrs. Sanjin's beautiful eyes, but Papa Ya was nervous and at a loss. She followed Mrs. Sanjin's example and pleaded guilty first, then entered the water carefully, and then went to Lu Ming's side from left to right, saying that she didn't need to help the master clean the dirt , but still sat very close to the owner.

Lu Mingzao leaned on the soft water pillow and closed his eyes comfortably. After a while, he asked, "Sanjin, what do you think of Baoriluo?"

"He is very shrewd. If the master intends to support him to replace King Baoyue, I think it is inappropriate." Mrs. Sanjin said softly beside her.

Lu Ming nodded and asked, "There is no custom of marrying a niece to an uncle in Bate City."

Mrs. Sanjin said: "Yes, this is the land of the Southern Barbarians, and there are many old customs."

Concubine Baoyue turned out to be Baoriluo's daughter. Baoriluo and King Baoyue were brothers, that is, they had the same father and mother.

Therefore, Concubine Baoyue is the niece of King Baoyue, but she has become King Baoyue's favorite concubine, a local princess.

Southern barbarians?Lu Ming couldn't help laughing. There was a chain of contempt among the city-states.

(End of this chapter)