The mayor's office in Tianzhou City is not big, only a small suite of 30 square meters.

Zhao Gao and the young man walked in and saw a middle-aged man lowering his head and writing words on the clayboard with a carving knife. There were two documents next to him to organize the clayboard.

The middle-aged man had short, flat gray hair, and he didn't raise his head and said, "If you have something to say, please come back if you have nothing to do."

"We are envoys of Xia State and bring gifts from Lord Xia." Zhao Gao did not go around the corner and took out the paper and ink he prepared and handed it to the mayor.

After seeing the slightly yellowed bamboo paper and the black ink next to it, the mayor finally put down the carving knife.

He looked at the two with a sharp look: "Xia Guo's gift? I know the ink, as for this paper..."

"Things for writing." Zhao Gao took out a brush from his sleeve and wrote a few official scripts on bamboo paper with ink.

Seeing this scene, the young man's eyes moved slightly: This guy is learning fast enough. Perhaps it is the fastest among them who learn the Heaven and Seals of Heaven and Earth.

Seeing the words appearing on bamboo paper, the mayor widened his eyes and immediately fell into deep thought.

"Is this paper?" The secretary behind the mayor showed a surprise look when he saw the paper.

Paper has epoch-making significance for small countries like Tianzhou City.

The secretary said anxiously: "Mayor, we--"

The mayor stopped his assistant and stared at the paper in front of him and was stunned.

Tianzhou City comes from gods, and its language and characters are guided by gods, and belong to the same system as the Tumu Dynasty. In fact, if Zhao Gao and the young man were not blessed by the witches of the Ling Palace before leaving and translated with magical techniques, they would not understand the language of Tianzhou City at all.

However, language barriers can be compensated by magical techniques. But the text is different.

Carrying words is a common problem that plagues the land and the countries. After all, the gods are not so kind and diligent, and they act as workers themselves and constantly produce paper for the land and the countries.

Therefore, paper technology is a top secret among the countries in the earth. Only top powers have papermaking technology. The easiest way for small city-states like Tianzhou City is clay boards. For those with higher level, use animal skins or wooden boards.

"It's not papyrus, nor fish scrub." Touching the slightly yellowed bamboo paper in front of him, the mayor took out the ink, grabbed the brush in his hand, and clumsily wrote down a few graphic fonts.

Soon, the ink spread out on the bamboo paper and the font became blurred.

"No?"

"The mayor is not familiar with the usage of brushes. After his future habits, he can write clear words on bamboo paper."

Seeing Zhao Gao’s several official scripts with beautiful fonts, the mayor’s expression improved: “Is it your purpose? Do you plan to trade this kind of paper with us? Or use technology as an exchange?”

"You think we'll come up with this technology?"

"So, trade with bamboo paper? The only thing worth exchanging in our city is the ship industry. Do you want flying boats? floating boats? kayaks? wooden boats or other?"

Tianzhou City's shipbuilding industry is too developed. With the support of gods, they can even make special customizations according to the requirements of various countries.

"Xia Kingdom is also a foreign civilization, and it must have its own opinions on the ship industry. Take out your drawings and I will make the ships you need within a month."

Zhao Gao's eyes lit up: "Boat?" He really has drawings in this regard! Qin Shihuang sent someone overseas to seek elixirs, and he had also seen the drawings of those big ships.

"Cough cough..." The young man coughed twice, and Zhao Gao returned to the main business: "Our purpose is to trade with the Eastern countries and maintain peace between the two sides."

"Peace?" The mayor reacted: "Are you for the 'God of War oracle'?"

As a city where the ship gods are relatives, they will also worship some gods to protect themselves, and the God of War is one of them. This morning, the mayor received a notice from the priests saying that the oracle of the arrival of the God of War: asking Tianzhou City to provide floating boats for the eastern countries to march into the Xia Kingdom.

It's indeed the God of War!

Until now, the young man finally confirmed who was the god who secretly trapped Xia Kingdom.

Zhao Gao looked calm: "We don't know the so-called oracle, but we just follow the order of Lord Xia to carry out peaceful trade."

"No need to go around the corner, I want your Xia Kingdom's papermaking technology. Give me the papermaking technology, and Tianzhou City can remain neutral in this matter." After knowing the purpose of Xia Kingdom, the mayor immediately calmed down, with a glimmer of light in his eyes: This time, maybe he could take a bite from Xia Kingdom!

Zhao Gao smiled: "Mayor, what would you do if someone forces Tianzhou City to hand over the shipbuilding technology?"

How to do it? Of course, it was killed directly.

"But, does your Xia Kingdom have the energy at present? According to the oracle, you seem to be facing a plague? If our Eastern countries send troops, you can still get your papermaking technology."

"Then you can try!" The young man took two steps forward, and the momentum of the martial soul exploded: "Do you believe it, can I kill you the entire Tianzhou City alone?"

The mayor's expression was cold and he stood up, and a fluctuation of power appeared on him.

Seeing this, Zhao Gao quickly smoothed out: "We are discussing trade with the mayor with sincerity, a harmonious point, a harmonious point."

After the young man finished singing the white face, he immediately sang red face and said to the mayor: "Since the mayor knows that we are extraterritorial civilizations, then I am willing to tell you a story."

"This story is called 'Fake Dao Destroy Guo'."

The false way to destroy Guo refers to the pre-Qin period, when Jin State used the way to destroy Guo State, and then destroyed Yu State on the way back.

Although the mayor could not understand the names of "Yu State" and "Jin State", he could understand what Zhao Gao meant: "What do you mean? The Eastern countries asked us to borrow boats and will they destroy us on the way back?"

"Your country's shipbuilding industry is the best in the world."

"At that time, we will take the initiative to destroy the technology of the shipbuilding industry so that they can't get anything--" Suddenly, the mayor reacted and looked at Zhao Gao with a smile on his face, and suddenly realized.

Yes, you will destroy hundreds of years of shipbuilding technology when you are breaking the city. So, why can't the other party's papermaking technology be destroyed?

"Of course, the mayor can not borrow a boat, but send soldiers to participate in the war and complete the oracle. But in this way, what about the safety of Tianzhou City itself?"

"You can't beat us." Zhao Gao said seriously: "You are worried about the safety of Tianzhou City, so you cannot use all your strength. As far as I know, Tianzhou City has 50,000 citizens, and only 3,000 guards can be used. Indeed, if you use all your strength to pull all the young and strong men in the city, you can indeed gather a large number of troops. However, in that case, Tianzhou City is only the elderly, weak, women and children. Can't other countries take over your Tianzhou City in the name of "helping to guard"?"

"They dare not! They will never do this in front of the oracle!"

"Maybe. But on the way here, I have sent me to give this strategy to several other Eastern countries. Of course, those city lords and kings may not take it seriously. But if there is a lord who takes it seriously..."

The mayor had a dark face: "You want to disrupt the order of our Eastern countries?"

"You? Mayor, do the Eastern countries really regard your Tianzhou City as part of it? On the way, I saw that the children in your city were all pale and thin. Moreover, the slums were frequently dead, and you could not even raise your own slaves. I heard that the land in the East was fertile, so don't the Eastern countries provide you with food?"

Of course, it's available, but it can't be afforded!

Tianzhou City's shipbuilding industry is very profitable, but the ship technology they manufacture is so good. The Eastern countries have long reached saturation and do not need to buy too many ships every year, but only need to deliver a certain amount of maintenance costs.

Under this situation, Tianzhou City's economic situation is very poor. Therefore, the mayor agreed with the launch of a war in Xia Kingdom. Because the wealth of the war is enough to make Tianzhou City not need to worry about food in the next few years.

The Xia Kingdom was a huge figure with a population of 500,000. Moreover, they could support slaves without suffering from famine.

"Tianzhou City can make warships or even flying boats. Moreover, Tianzhou City has an excellent geographical location and the citizens are united. If Tianzhou City is given the opportunity to develop, it will become the leader of the Eastern countries." Zhao Gao was not stingy in praise, as if Tianzhou Country has unlimited potential and can become the seventh largest country on the earth.

"Of course, all this cannot be separated from the mayor's efforts. It is precisely because of the wise mayor like you who leads on stage that Tianzhou City has achieved such achievements."

Under his praise of spiritual power, the mayor's vanity was greatly satisfied.

"but--"

"But what?" The vanity that was raised high was thrown to the ground, causing the mayor to subconsciously ask.

"Precisely because the potential of Tianzhou City is too high, the Eastern countries must limit the development of Tianzhou City. Cut off the supply of food, so that Tianzhou City can rely on the countries and cannot reproduce the population on a large scale. This is the sinister intention of the Eastern countries!"

"Nonsense!" a secretary defended: "The reason why vegetables and food cannot be delivered is because the tsunamis were frequent some time ago, and it is not convenient for trade among the Eastern countries."

Zhao Gao shook his head slowly: "Then, they just need to prepare supplies in advance and send more each time."

"That's because their ship is too small and they can't deliver too many at once..."

"Can't send it? The ship is too small? Isn't Tianzhou City just a shipbuilder? Why don't they build big ships?"

Because big ships are too expensive! Why are big ships expensive? Because Tianzhou City is too poor, big ships need to be made to supplement the economy. The reason for supplementing the economy is to find other countries to exchange food.

This is a vicious cycle. Unless someone gives in, the embarrassing situation in Tianzhou City cannot be solved.

The mayor originally planned to sign an agreement with several chambers of commerce, asking the other party to transport more supplies on the grounds of making large ships for free.

However, in Zhao Gao's mouth, the taste changed directly: "To put it bluntly! They deliberately deducted the food from Tianzhou City to starve you to death and limit the population of Tianzhou City! Therefore, they regard Tianzhou City as a maintenance port and as a "maintenance worker" of the Eastern countries!"

"Look at the oracle of the God of War, and only let Tianzhou City come out of the floating boat, not the soldiers. Because from the beginning, they disdained your army. In the eyes of the gods, they did not place your Tianzhou City on the same position as the eastern countries."

The conscience of heaven and earth! The God of War knew that there were not many soldiers in Tianzhou City, so he deliberately took care of these craftsmen and made them concentrate on building ships. How could it be discrimination?

"The reason why you have a low status is because you are being controlled by the Eastern countries. You do not have a brand new place of food production and can only rely on one way, so you will be eaten by the other party!"

The mayor fell into deep thought.

As Zhao Gao said, their most developed industry was shipbuilding. Behind this is the driving force of gods, the ships they made have transformed from different merchant ships to warships, and they are warships that exert divine power. They can fly in the air and engage in long-distance battles.

This is the confidence of Tianzhou City to send troops to Xia Kingdom.

But why does it sound like that is wrong?

"If Tianzhou City does not provide help to the eastern countries, our Xia Kingdom can conduct large-scale grain transactions at a price of 10% lower than those of the eastern countries."

Nearly 50,000 people, judging from the results of Zhao Gao's inspection in Jiugongcheng, the Xia Kingdom's grain reserves are more than enough.

"The food price is even lower than the Eastern countries?" According to the mayor's idea, the other party can sell it at most at a fair price, but he didn't expect it to lower the price?

"That's right, reduce it by 10%!" Zhao Gao quietly tore up the initial proposal in his heart. According to his original idea, he was to lower 30% and use 70% of the price to conduct large-scale trade.

But after seeing the current situation in Tianzhou City, Zhao Gao decisively raised the price. This group of fat sheep in Tianzhou City will be useless if they are not slaughtered!
Chapter completed!