Rebirth of the best emperor

Chapter 350
When Wang Mang looked at Meng Huo, Meng Huo also looked at Wang Mang. The two looked at each other, and finally Meng Huo bowed to Wang Mang solemnly and said, "Meng Huo has seen His Majesty the Great Qin Emperor, please forgive Meng Huo." I have rattan armor on my body, so I can't meet His Majesty with prostrations."

See you on a big day?

Wang Mang smiled in his heart, this Meng Huo could speak, but he didn't believe that Meng Huo would really meet with him. In Meng Huo's eyes, Wang Mang didn't see the slightest respect.

Not interested in saying these nonsense words, Wang Mang said directly: "What do you want to do, or what do you want?"

Unlike Guo Yi, who was only appointed by Guo Changfu as the leader of the Guo army present, Meng Huo was the real leader of these rattan armored soldiers, which can be seen from the way the rattan armored soldiers looked at Meng Huo.

"Meng Huo, like these rattan armored soldiers, is just fish on His Majesty's chopping board. How dare he negotiate with His Majesty." Meng Huo smiled wryly, and said, "Meng Huo wants to know what Your Majesty wants?"

"Then what do you think I want?" Wang Mang looked at Meng Huo meaningfully.

Meng Huo cleared his throat and said loudly: "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven is rich all over the world. There is nothing His Majesty values ​​in this world. If you have to say what Your Majesty wants now, it must be to expand the territory." The merit is that the Great Qin has been established for hundreds of years. Since the founding of the emperor, the territory of the Great Qin has never changed. If His Majesty wins the Guo State this time and successfully expands the territory of the Great Qin, then His Majesty's prestige will be comparable to It is His Majesty's intention that Da Qin has created the Holy Ancestor, and this is the ambition of a good king, and now His Majesty is only one step away from this ambition."

"Then why is it one step?" Wang Mang said: "According to the agreement between the Continental Alliance and me, Guo State is now our Great Qin territory. It is not only one step away from my annexation of Guo State, but it has already been annexed."

"Really?" Meng Huo smiled and said, "Your Majesty, do you know who the rattan armor soldiers are made of?"

"I would like to hear more about it." Wang Mang said, his understanding of the powerful branch of rattan armored soldiers was limited to its powerful strength, but he didn't understand the deep meaning of it.

"Guo State has 8 rattan armored soldiers. This is a fixed number. It was an agreement made by the Guo State monarch and the major families of Guo State at the time of Guo State's founding. This number can never be changed, and it will always remain at 5000. Therefore, It’s not that Guo State doesn’t have more rattan armored soldiers, it’s just that the number of rattan armored soldiers has been maintained at 5000 because of the agreement of our ancestors.” Meng Huo said: “Today, on the battlefield, our Guo State dispatched a total of 1 rattan armored soldiers. Today, about [-] people have died on the battlefield, but I can tell your Majesty that [-] people have put on rattan armor in the territory of Guo State and re-formed the Rattan Armor Corps. I am waiting for the remaining [-] people, and the same number of Rattan Armored Corps will be formed in Guo State accordingly."

Meng Huo's words fell into the ears of the Qin Dynasty monarchs and officials. At that time, Wang Mang looked at Meng Huo in shock. Wang Jian grabbed Guo Yi and said, "Then what Meng Huo said is true."

Guo Yi laughed dryly and said, "It should be true."

"What do you mean should be true?" Wang Jian said.

"Actually, I don't know much about the rattan armored soldiers." Guo Yi made Wang Jian anxious, and said directly: "As I said to Meng Huo before, the rattan armored soldiers do not belong to the Guo family, but to the Guo state. According to the agreement of the ancestors, the Guo State is governed by the Guo family, but the highest power of the Guo State is in charge of the Guo State Family Alliance, and the Meng family is the elder of the family alliance, and the commander of the rattan armor has always been a member of the Meng family. Now the commander of the Tengjia soldiers is Meng Huo's father, Meng Shan."

After Guo Yi's explanation, all the courtiers of the Great Qin Dynasty understood the ownership of the rattan armor soldiers. Wang Mang looked at Meng Huo, raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you want to say?"

"Your Majesty, the Rattan Armored Army is an army jointly established by the Guo State Family Alliance. There are 72 families in the Guo State. These 72 families control 80.00% of the land and population of the Guo State, and all the Rattan Armored Soldiers are selected from the 72 families. Elite disciples, if Your Majesty insists on killing all the rattan armored soldiers here, then the 72 aristocratic families of the Guo State will surely live forever with Your Majesty." Meng Huo said flatly: "Your Majesty has seen the strength of the Rattan Armored Soldiers before. Fighting in the midst of battle, the strength of the rattan armored soldiers will be even higher, but your majesty's heavy armored infantry or heavy cavalry has no advantage in our Guo State land, your majesty is the Son of Heaven, so naturally he knows how to choose."

Wang Mang looked at Meng Huo deeply. He understood what Meng Huo meant. Meng Huo's meaning was very clear. The rattan armor soldiers they were here were only elite fighters selected by the 72 families of the Guo State. Elite fighters like them, the 72 families There are many more, and there is no harmony between the family alliance and the Guo family, and they will not give Guo's face very much. If Wang Mang insists on killing all the rattan soldiers, it must be a death feud with the 72 family. In this way, if Daqin wanted to annex Guo State into its own land, it would be very difficult.

"The Continental Alliance should know these secrets about your Guo State, right?" Wang Mang asked suddenly.

Meng Huo looked stunned, and said directly: "Of course they know, after all, our Guo State is also a member of the Continental Alliance. As early as hundreds of years ago, the Continental Alliance recruited rattan armored soldiers to fight. Guo State is actually a state of joint rule by the king and the aristocratic family alliance."

Hearing this, Wang Mang frowned. It turned out that he thought the Continental Alliance really kindly gave him the Guo State. He never thought that the Continental Alliance would put him here.

Due to the existence of the family alliance, even if Wang Mang defeated the royal family of the Guo State, he could only occupy the land occupied by the Guo family. In other words, to take it down, Daqin will pay a very high price, and these are the pits dug for Wang Mang by the Continental Alliance. Poor Wang Mang didn't know anything, and jumped down the pit with a face of gratitude.

After thinking for a while, Wang Mang looked at Meng Huo again and said, "Very well, you have successfully convinced me that you are so smart, you must know that I will never let you go easily, I can tell you very clearly , Guoguo, I’m going to make a decision, since you have persuaded me not to kill these rattan soldiers behind you, then you have to give me an explanation, an explanation to let you go.”

"I can't give His Majesty an explanation, but I can find someone who can." Meng Huo had already prepared and said, "I can order the rattan armored soldiers here to put down their weapons, and Your Majesty can watch them, but Your Majesty They must not be killed, and I will return to the Guo State and report the matter here to the elders of the alliance, and they will decide the matter here."

Wang Mang looked at Meng Huo and said, "In my opinion, most of what you say is empty words. Show your sincerity and let me believe you."

Meng Huo looked at Wang Mang, and after a long time, carefully took out a piece of animal skin from his arms.

(End of this chapter)