Wei Potian hesitated for a long time before he finally explained the matter clearly.
It turned out that when Wei Potian was bedridden, Zhao Yuying suddenly appeared in the ward one night. For some reason that night, none of the noble ladies came. This independent beauty walked around the ward, lifted Wei Potian's quilt, looked at his injuries, and then Face disdain to leave.
The process of inspecting the injury must have been too intense, so much so that Wei Da Shizi flickered when he said it. But after that day, Wei Potian never saw her again. Until Dong Qifeng attacked the city, she suddenly appeared again.
Even Wei Potian didn't know what he was looking forward to, so he came to ask Qianye for news early in the morning. But as soon as he heard that the other party was the granddaughter of Duke You, Wei Potian knew that she was definitely not one of the noble daughters who came to seek a marriage contract.
Marriage is the friendship between the two surnames, and the connection is the family covenant. But the head of the Wei family in the Far East has been adhering to neutrality for a hundred years, and has never married with the head of the family. If the Zhao Clan has this intention, it is definitely not a trivial matter, and Wei Potian will certainly not be ignorant of it.
"Potian? Do you want me to help you?" Qianye's question woke Wei Potian out of his contemplation.
He thought about it seriously, then suddenly smiled bitterly, and said, "No, you don't need to do anything. I know who she is, that's enough."
Qianye pondered for a while, patted Wei Potian on the shoulder, and said sympathetically, "I have to say, your choice is... brave! But I won't get involved in this matter, it's up to you."
Wei Potian opened his mouth, but he didn't know where to start, and left in a daze.
Qianye looked at Wei Potian's back and shook his head. With Zhao Yuying's personality, it was really not suitable to recommend her brother as a wife. Wei Potian himself wanted to jump into the fire pit, that was his business, but it was not easy for Qianye to kick his ass again. Besides, judging by Wei Potian's expression, there may be other obstacles in it.
After seeing off Wei Potian, Qianye finally had time to sit down and do some serious business. In just half a day, there were another half-foot-high pile of documents on the desk, and Qianye went through them one by one.
The reorganization of Dark Fire and the Seventh Division has been on the right track, intensive training has begun, and the preparations for the westward march are also proceeding in an orderly manner. The battlefield outside the city has been cleaned up, and all kinds of machinery and equipment and ammunition have been sorted out and delivered to storage. However, the most troublesome thing is the ten thousand captives and the batch of airships.
Most of this kind of family private army are servants of generations of retainers, and there are also a large number of descendants of distant branches. They are often very loyal to the family, and they are randomly incorporated into their own army, so they plant a mine.
In the civil war of the empire, the tragic situation of killing Ying Ye would also occur, and there were similar reasons behind it. But since the opponent had already surrendered and the war was over, Qianye felt that he could not execute a single order to kill all these ten thousand people.
But the airship is completely a luxury in the Eternal Night Continent, and the maintenance cost is extremely high. Not only is there a lack of professional technicians, but if you want to replace parts, many of them have to go to the upper continent to buy them. The airships of the Dong family are mainly used for freight transportation, and most of them are old and useless. It is a pity to discard them, which is very tasteless.
Qianye thought of several ways, but they all felt that they were either unfeasible or too wasteful. All in all, they were not satisfactory.
While Qianye was busy, Song Zining swayed out again. It seemed that the injury that troubled him had finally healed. After a few words with Qianye, Song Zining understood the predicament he was facing, and immediately ran to Miss Hou San's residence in Chongyang, begging to see Sun Kaiyan.
The Marquis of Chongyang and the Song Clan were family friends. Song Zining reported his identity, and the guards immediately invited him in. After hearing the sound, the maid came to greet him and led him all the way into the flower hall of the inner courtyard.
When Sun Kaiyan saw Song Zining, she first smiled and asked, "Zining, long time no see. Is Mulan okay?"
Song Zining smiled and said, "Everything is fine. But Kaiyan, you have become more and more beautiful since I haven't seen you for a while."
Sun Kaiyan chuckled, "Glib!"
The maid beside him complained for Song Zining: "Miss, what Seventh Young Master said is not an exaggeration! You don't know, the young masters of the Zhou family and the Tian family saw you recently, and their eyes almost fell out!"
Sun Kaiyan snorted, and said: "It's not big or small, look back and I won't tear your mouth!"
The maid just giggled, although she saluted and pleaded guilty, there was no trace of fear on her face.
Sun Kaiyan said to Song Zining: "I can't help it, this girl has been used to it since she was a child. Zining, you didn't come to see me just to chat, did you?"
Song Zining smiled slightly, and said straight to the point: "Kaiyan, what do you think you need to win the position of Mrs. Bowanghou in the future?"
The two had known each other for several years and had a good friendship. Sun Kaiyan didn't feel offended when Song Zining directly mentioned this kind of private matter, but was stumped by the question.
She immediately sighed and said, "How do I know? Potian and I were able to get along at first, but now he is surrounded by a group of Yingyingyanyanyans, how can I intervene? I just want to have a few words with him alone. It's not easy to say! Actually, I don't think too much about it anymore, I just think of it as a trip. Do you have any good ideas?"
Song Zining said confidently: "Actually, the key to this matter is not with you and Wei Potian, but with Marquis Chongyang."
Sun Kaiyan was startled, and asked, "How do you say that?"
Song Zining smiled and said: "This matter is now at an impasse. Even if you have a way to break the situation, others will definitely not sit idly by. But the root cause is that it all started with Bo Wanghou's words of mutual affection, so the situation was broken. The law is still in Weihou's body."
Sun Kaiyan frowned slightly, and then she suddenly felt a sense of comprehension.
"You and I both know the real meaning of family marriage. Therefore, only the Marquis of Chongyang can come forward to talk with the Marquis of Bowang in order to finalize the marriage. Among them, your status and reputation in the clan are very important. You The heavier the weight, the more chips Sunhou is willing to take out, and the greater the hope of impressing Bowanghou."
Sun Kaiyan frowned and said, "That's the case, but what should I do?"
Song Zining lightly shook his folding fan, and said, "Actually, there is an opportunity in front of us. The battle just now was won heartily. Although Uncle Sishui is only in the middle and bottom of the aristocratic family, he is not so easy to deal with when he comes out. Calling it a complete victory is not a small contribution, and it is very glamorous. Didn’t you also go to the city to participate in the battle? If you send some prisoners back to the family, it also means to promote martial arts. Everyone knows how many guards you brought over, and then compare the prisoners. I will know your achievements."
Sun Kaiyan's heart skipped a beat when she heard that, the Qin Empire's most important military exploits, and the aristocratic family was no exception. These aristocratic daughters are all going to marry outsiders and do not participate in the family inheritance, but their achievements on the battlefield are still a bonus item to increase the status of the clan and obtain resources.
But she hesitated, and said: "But the captives are in the hands of Dark Fire..."
Song Zining said with a smile: "Those captives are all the private army of Uncle Sishui, and this is the realm of eternal night. What use is Dark Fire to have them? They dare not use them in their own army. Wouldn't it be a waste to sell them as ordinary slaves? So as long as you propose to buy some captives, Captain Qianye of Dark Flame naturally has no reason to disagree."
"That's right! I'm going to find him now!"
Sun Kaiyan has a straightforward temperament, and she does what she thinks. After Song Zining left, she immediately took her maid and guard and went straight to the dark fire base.
In order to surround Wei Shizi, these noble ladies have already made the dark fire regiment go crazy, and the guards already know them. Sun Kaiyan met Qianye without any hassle, and she said: "Commander Qian, I want to buy a batch of prisoners, and it's best to add two more airships, which are the batch of the Dong family."
Qianye was worried that the problem could not be solved, so Sun Kaiyan sent it to her door by herself, how could she refuse. He immediately recruited Song Hu, spread out the list of spoils, and the two sides sat down to discuss in detail.
Sun Kaiyan didn't look carefully at the thick stack of documents. What she wanted was quantity, and a certain proportion of ordinary soldiers and officers had to be maintained, but she didn't care who was buying it.
When Qianye asked her how many prisoners she wanted, Sun Kaiyan said, "Five hundred, no, one thousand!"
This number surprised Qianye. The proportion of soldiers in the Dong family's private army was quite high. If so many fighters wanted to be completely recruited, they needed a large enough army to absorb them. But this is Sun Kaiyan's private matter and has nothing to do with him.
Qianye didn't know it. When confirming the purchase quantity, Sun Kaiyan suddenly thought that if she bought more prisoners, the other noble girls would be able to buy less. From the very beginning, she didn't expect to be able to hide it from those eldest ladies. The best way is to draw the bottom line.
After the agreement, Sun Kaiyan directly asked her followers to pay. She carried high-purity energy-level black crystals with her, which is a currency that is popular everywhere. After the important matter was agreed upon, Qianye handed over the follow-up matters to Song Hu, and asked him to arrange his personal guards to lead the Sun family members to select the captives.
Heiliu City is not too big, and the young ladies stared at Wei Potian with one eye, and stared at each other with the other. So it didn't take long for Sun Kaiyan's change to reach the ears of the noble girls, and then within a few hours, the reason for her doing so also spread. I don't know if someone leaked the news, or was guessed by some clever staff .
The noble ladies who were in trouble suddenly had a sense of the future, and found that the key to becoming Mrs. Bowanghou actually lies in the family behind them, and if they want to get enough help from the family, of course they have to rely on their own performance, so they acted one after another.
Not long after Sun Kaiyan left, Qianye replaced Wei Potian and was surrounded by a group of noble girls. The captives and old airships that had caused him such a headache were all looted. In order to get more shares, the noble ladies almost hurt their peace.
The problem finally fell back to Qianye, the leader of the dark fire.
Whoever gets more and who gets less is a matter of principle related to face, and it cannot be sloppy at all. All of these noble girls have extraordinary identities. Even if the fathers of three of them are Fang Bo, who seem to have lower titles, they are either officials of a side sealed in the frontier with heavy soldiers in their hands, or they are relatives and friends who are powerful, otherwise they would not have such confidence. Sent his daughter to Pan Weihou's relatives.
As long as this matter is slightly mishandled, it is almost impossible not to offend others. Qianye just hesitated, not knowing which noble lady started the bidding, but actually started bidding.
This is going to be bad. A group of women get together and try to avoid each other. Who would fall behind? In the blink of an eye, a bayonet was shot, and the price soared to the sky in an instant.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Qianye immediately shouted: "Shut up!!"