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0The reason why Arthur wanted to join Feng Army was also because of his own thoughts. As a second son, he wasn't as highly regarded by his parents as the eldest son was, nor was he doted upon by his parents like the third son. He was stuck in the middle with his grandma not being close to him and his uncle not loving him. Since he was also a prince, he would be in a very awkward position if he wanted to serve in the Tia Army. It just so happened that this time, when Tang Yin was visiting Tia, he took the opportunity to suggest to join the Feng Army, in his opinion, he would be able to develop even more in the Feng Army than in the Tia Army, and would also be able to display his talents, so there was no need to worry.

Tang Yin didn't think too much about it. He only felt that with Arthur, the hostage in his hands, Tia would be more obedient in the future. The person who was opposed to this matter the most was naturally King Tia, Gerald, but after all, it was Arthur who had brought it up, and since Tang Yin had already accepted it, even if he wanted to object, he had no way of saying it.

After this matter came to an end, Tang Yin and Gerald started to talk about the government affairs between the two countries.

The first thing that Gerald proposed was that the Feng Country would be the same as before, to establish a permanent garrison in Tia. With regards to this, Tang Yin hesitated, it was not because his Feng Country was lacking in strength, but because the battle with his Mo Country was imminent, and he had to guard Tia, afraid that it would affect their fighting strength.

However, as the clan master's country had to protect its subordinate countries, it was also its responsibility, hence it could not be refused. Tang Yin considered for a moment, then nodded in agreement. He thought that since Heavenly Eagle Army were to be stationed at the Ning Country, they could allocate a portion of their forces to be stationed at Tia. After receiving Tang Yin's approval, Gerald was extremely happy, and his eyes finally revealed a smile.

No matter how advanced the technology was, how weak the nation's power and military, even a weak nation like Dookie, would be able to completely defeat Tia. In the past, if it were not for the protection of the Ning Army, Tia would have been killed countless times, and now that Ning Country no longer existed, Tia could only choose Feng Country as her backing. Although it had to be called a Subordinate Country, it would not end up in a state where it would perish.

After Gerald finished raising the request, Tang Yin started to talk about the issue of the military expenditures for the Feng Army assistance to Tia and the compensation for the losses. and Liang Qi had discussed this matter with each other beforehand. The battle between the Sanshui Army and the Dookie Army in the Kingdom of Tia had resulted in the deaths of almost fifty thousand soldiers and injured generals, who believed that a sum of two million silver was acceptable. In addition, the spoils of war that the Feng Army had seized were basically all Tia's possessions, and these items had already been deducted by the Sanshui Army and had not been returned to Tia.

Tang Yin felt that the amount that Liang Qi had proposed was too small, so he added a 0 after 2 million gold.

There were no silver ingots in Tia, only silver coins. According to the calculation of one and half silver coins, twenty million silver coins would need a total of forty million silver coins, even if Tia's treasury was very rich, she would not be able to take out that much money right away.

"Feng King, twenty million silver, is it... "It's too difficult?" said Gerald bravely.

Tang Yin's face turned serious, and said: "King Hardy, do you think that I am asking for a sky-high price? Sanshui Army is the most elite of my army. In order to protect the safety of Tia, This King did not hesitate to send my country's strongest legion to Tia and fight to the death with Dookie Army. After a bloody battle, we suffered heavy casualties and lost more than half of our troops.

Whether it was Chuan, Zhen Zhen, or Mo, An, Zhen, Yu, or any other countries, they all had a very high population and thus, human lives were among the most worthless. On the other hand, Tia was not like this, as there were very few people in the Kingdom of Tia and they had always placed heavy importance on human lives. In this war, the number of casualties in the Sanshui Army neared fifty thousand, so far as Tia was concerned, this was already considered an astronomical figure.

After hearing Tang Yin's words, an awkward look appeared on Gerald's face as he said repeatedly, "No, no, no! Feng King, that's not what I meant, it's just ? "20 million taels is really too much. Tia can't even take out that much money in such a short time ?"

"You can pay in instalments!" Seeing that the other party was not trying to bargain, Tang Yin's expression eased up.

"Huh?" Gerald did not understand what he meant by this division.

Tang Yin said with a smile: "Within five years, I think twenty million silver should always be enough to repay you right?"

Twenty million was five years' repayment, and the average sum was four million silver a year. After thinking about it for a while, Gerald felt that this was acceptable and that Tia could afford it. He nodded. "Alright! This matter... This king can promise Feng King that Tia will pay you four million silver taels every year, within five years. "

Ouch! Gerrard actually accepted it. It seemed like Tia was going to get squeezed out of this! Tang Yin snickered in his heart, but the expression on his face didn't change at all. It looked as if this was a matter that was entirely natural. He said faintly, "You and I will be allies in the future. If Tia is in trouble, my Feng Country will help her, but of course, I hope the Your Country will not be stingy to me."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Feng King is right! " Weak nations have no diplomacy, that's the truth. Compared to Feng Country, Tia's area and population could not even be compared to a county of Feng Country. In front of Feng Country, no matter how advanced Tia's technology and civilization were, there was still a huge gap between their strengths. There was simply no fairness in the negotiations between the two parties.

Following that, Tang Yin and Geraldine started to talk about the cooperation between the two countries.

It was called cooperation, but in reality, they were discussing how Feng Country could bring in Tia's civilization, technology and other related talents on a large scale. Although they were all talking about how Feng Country would absorb the essence of Tia, Feng Country still had a significant impact on her.

Tia was a very interesting country. Her civilization was highly developed, and she was very advanced in every field. In terms of timing, she could time it to a tenth of a second or even a hundredth of a second. But Tia had no chronology. As for whether the poems spread among the people were true or false, there was no way to verify them. This way, it meant that Tia had no history. It was not until Tia became a vassal state of the Windy Nation that they began to use the year of the Windy Nation as the standard. They called it the year of the King, which was often called the year of the Wind Calendar. Afterwards, Tia also began to establish the post of Historian, following the example of the Windy Nation, recording the history of her country. Of course, this was all in the future.

This time, the two sides discussed for an entire afternoon. After everything was done, Tang Yin no longer needed to go to the Sun God Temple to meet the Great Priest, and directly participate in the Imperial Court's banquet.

Tia's banquet was about the same as Bessita's, both very casual and very free. Without a fixed table, one could walk around freely, but in Tia, the ranks were much stricter, the entire banquet hall was divided into several sections, and the lower class aristocrats could not enter the higher class aristocrats' area. It would be considered very disrespectful if they did so, and a banquet hosted by Imperial Court could not be attended by any non-aristocrats, no matter how rich or powerful they were, they were all excluded from Imperial Court's gathering.

On the other hand, Shangguan Yuan was very much engrossed with it. She had been looking for a chance to get close to the Grand Princess, Marika, but the one she liked was not him, but Liang Qi. It was only that Liang Qi had a very cold attitude towards Marika.

During the banquet, Arthur took the initiative to look for Liang Qi, and asked him what kind of position he would be able to get from the Sanshui Army.

From the bottom of his heart, Liang Qi did not like young masters of noble birth like Arthur, and did not know how to arrange them. If there was any accident, even the King would not be able to explain it to Tia, and they could not raise idle people within the Sanshui Army. Once a precedent was set, such things would continuously flow, directly affecting the entire army's fighting strength. When Arthur came to ask, he did not think it through, and did not directly answer, but asked him: "What can you do in the army?"

Arthur was very straightforward. Without even thinking, he said straightforwardly: "Lead the troops to fight!"

Liang Qi laughed, he looked at the translators beside the two of them, shrugged and said: "Your Highness, it's better if you learn Wind Speaker first, then discuss the matter of leading the troops to war with me!" On the battlefield, it would be a joke if a general had to rely on a translator to explain his orders to his soldiers.

Arthur's face flushed from what he had said, but he had no way of refuting it. In the end, he nodded and said as if he was taking an oath, "Don't worry, General Liang, I will definitely learn Wind Language well."

"I look forward to it." Liang Qi did not speak further. He waved the wine cup in his hand and turned to leave.

The atmosphere of the banquet was quite harmonious, and the nobles of Tia did not have any feelings of hostility or rejection towards Tang Yin. After all, Feng Country did not rely on military conquest to turn Tia into one of their own, but on assistance.

When the banquet ended, Gerald arranged for Tang Yin and the others to stay at the palace, and Tang Yin did not decline.

That night, early in the morning, Gerald personally went to find Tang Yin and invited him to the God Temple to pay his respects to the Great Priest of Tia ? ? Angela Dobney.

Watching the sun from afar was already an incomparably spectacular sight. When the God Temple drew closer, it was even more breathtaking, calling it a human miracle. The God Temple of the sun was at least a hundred and fifty meters above the ground. The base was square, and the entire structure was ladder shaped. At the very top was a huge palace hall. Tang Yin reckoned that it would take years or even more to build a building of this size using modern machinery. It was hard to imagine that such a great structure could be built in this era.

In the face of the Sun's God Temple, regardless of whether it was a noble king or an unrivalled general, they would only appear to be extremely insignificant. Worship and solemnity were involuntarily born.

Seeing the surprise on Tang Yin's face, Gerald couldn't help but say: "Rumor has it that the Sun God Temple was created by the Sun God from the place where the world was created, and this is also the only miracle in the world!"

was elated upon hearing this. It was a good thing that there was no history, he could just create whatever he wanted, and say that the Sun God Temple was created by the Sun God.

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