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Chapter 739: Chapter 326: Wind Eagle Battle Begins

One day later, the negotiation results between the courtiers and the Snow Plains Nomads came out quickly.

In the northern Yong State and the snowy wilderness, winter has already arrived, and snow is beginning to fall.

Meanwhile, the war between the nomads and the Zhou People had reached its most intense stage.

If these nomads want to have fewer people die during this winter, they must seize every opportunity before the onset of winter to snatch more supplies and grain from the Zhou People.

Consequently, spring and autumn are often the seasons when the war between the nomads and the Zhou People is at its fiercest.

At present, in Hegu and Longxi counties, hundreds of thousands of nomadic troops are fighting against the Zhou People and are at a disadvantage, which is precisely the time when they need external assistance.

If Lu Yuan sends troops now, when the Chu soldiers arrive in Hanzhong County, even if they do nothing else, it would be enough to cause alarm among the Zhou People.

With such a formidable enemy lurking nearby, the Zhou People, whether they like it or not, would have to deploy heavy forces to defend the outskirts of Hanzhong County in anticipation of the Chu State’s northern expedition.

In this case.

The pressure on the nomads’ autumn raiding army in Hegu and Longxi counties would naturally ease considerably.

Perhaps this fall, they could get more supplies and grain. Even tens of thousands fewer people may die in their tribes.

With such a major premise, the negotiations on both sides naturally progressed rapidly.

Some of the terms fiercely demanded by Lu Yuan, such as the nomads paying one hundred million silver tales for Chu State to send troops, were agreed upon by several nomadic messengers after negotiation, and they agreed to send the silver tales back to the snowy plains, so they could be sent over immediately.

These nomadic messengers brought along wind hawks that were bred in the snowy plains. These exotic beasts were bred using the secret techniques of the Great Mohism religion, said to be a degenerated Divine Blood Variant with a trace of Different Species bloodline in it.

This hawk can fly 3,000 miles in a single day, faster than the best horses of the present world.

With such an exotic beast on hand, even if the snowy plains are tens of thousands of miles away, news can be sent back within three days.

Once the other side receives the message and ships the silver tales, it could be as soon as October 3rd when Zhou and Chu states conduct their trade, just before the time when Lu Yuan is set to dispatch his troops. Maybe the first batch of silver tales could be delivered to Hegu County.

After all, to win over Chu State, the Snow Plains Nomads have already prepared the silver tales. These funds are readily available.

They also want Chu State to send troops as soon as possible, shipping the silver tales early and hiding them in an area close to Hegu County in advance.

Now that they’re given the order, they can start shipping immediately.

Regarding this assurance from the messenger, Lu Yuan was naturally quite satisfied.

However, compared to the silver tales that were almost in the bag, Lu Yuan was more interested in the wind hawks tamed by the nomads.

Now that the territory of Chu State is getting larger and larger, the distances from north to south and east to west are all 3,000 to 4,000 miles apart.

From the capital of Baling to Hegu County, it’s a distance of 3,700 miles. Even if riding a fast boat and an excellent horse, it would take at least five days to arrive.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

If Chu State unifies Yangzhou in the future, the distance between the easternmost Linhai County and the westernmost Hegu County will be 7,000 to 8,000 miles.

Such a long distance would require the messenger to travel more than ten days at a pace of 800 miles per day and night.

Moreover, if Chu State continues to expand northward after unifying Yangzhou, the size of the territory will become even larger, and the distances between the borders will be even greater.

By then, it might take a month or even two or three months to send a message from the northernmost to the southernmost and from the easternmost to the westernmost.

It is well known.

Communication, roads, timely communication between the upper and lower levels of government are the key factors in testing an empire’s control over its territories.

Although Lu Yuan’s Chu State does not have such needs at the moment.

However, once he unifies Yangzhou, the vast area of nearly 10,000 miles from east to west will inevitably affect Chu State’s control over its territories to some extent.

Although he and each of his avatars have a spiritual connection with each other and can sense each other even over thousands of miles, they can bypass the communication between the central and local authorities to a certain extent.

But even so, he only has two avatars at the moment, barely enough to cover two counties at most.

Only two counties are of no avail.

Keep in mind that Chu State has five counties, and it will soon become six.

Even if the cooperation with the nomads goes smoothly in the future, the territory of Chu State could quickly expand to seven, eight, or even nine counties.

By then, with the expanded territory, Lu Yuan will naturally need more efficient means to achieve rapid communication between the central and local governments.

The current post station system, although not bad, can only deliver messages at a rate of 800 miles per day and night.

However, in this contentious world, where Inborn Grandmasters and Immortal Method experts are present, there are too many dangers and unexpected situations at hand.

Chu State needs better communication methods and better communication technology to maintain its local rule.

So when he learned of the existence of this exotic beast, the wind hawk, Lu Yuan took the initiative to summon the messenger of Great Mohism to inquire whether they could sell some wind hawks to Chu State.

The messenger, who was soon to marry the spiritual woman and become the son-in-law of the divine religion, of course, would not be stingy in his response to the King of Chu.

However, since wind hawks have Different Species bloodlines and are difficult to breed, they even need to be fed Divine Blood Elixirs to deepen their bloodlines and grow.

To raise a mature wind hawk from birth, it takes at least ten Divine Blood Elixirs.

Given the current trend of declining spiritual energy in the world and the gradual death and degeneration of Divine Blood Variants, Great Mohism does not have many Divine Blood Elixirs left to feed these wind hawks.