Chapter 1427: An Outrageous Request

"Sending food over? Isn't that the same as us? Don't we also need our tribesmen to send food over for it to work? What's so special about that?"

Before the Second Battalion Commander of Huaxia could even speak, Jiang Cheng said quite proudly: "That's different. When Huaxia sends food, they send it in those extra-large cloth bags, and the bags are always full, filled with grass seeds."

Do you know what that implies? Grass seeds! It isn't even the time for grass seeds to ripen yet, and even if they were ripe, have you thought about how many people and how many places you would need to go to collect that many?"

It shows that it must be food they stored away previously. You can imagine what kind of tribe it must be to be able to store that many grass seeds. Plus, once this year's grass seeds ripen, won't they have food again? They are eating what they had before, and they'll have this year's too, so how could they be short on food?"

Tell me, with things like this, which tribe in our Shennong Clan could do that? Which tribe has that much food stored? On this point alone, we are far behind. If it were us—no, you—if you couldn't find food in time, with so many people here, how long could you hold out?"

Jiang Ke found Jiang Cheng's sudden drawing of a line quite unbelievable. What, it's "you" now? Your Jiang Cheng Tribe is suddenly no longer part of the Shennong Clan, but has become Huaxia's? This change is a bit too fast.

The Second Battalion Commander hadn't expected Jiang Cheng's angle of conversation to be so tricky, but it was certainly sound, and it felt very effective. Just like that, it stunned the two of them; it felt much more effective than if he had gone up to speak himself.

Jiang Yuwang spoke slowly: "But you can't just say we can't win because of a food issue. Look at our Soldiers here; they are all holding Gold Swords, Gold Ge, and Gold Axes. Do they have such good conditions?"

Jiang Ke said with disdain: "Gold? What does gold count for! And the Gold Swords and Gold Axes you mentioned, how many people are actually holding them? Among the main Soldiers, can even a thousand people use them? Do the two tribes have two thousand people? I estimate that's about the number, right?"

But they all have Ironware! Iron is even harder than gold, and each person has more than one piece; they even wear iron clothes. If you hack with a knife or chop with an axe, you can't even cut through it. How can you fight them? You simply can't win, right?"

"If it weren't to avoid scaring you, I would definitely have brought some to show you."

Jiang Ke and Jiang Yuwang felt they had learned enough information by now, and it was time to start the serious business. Jiang Yuwang gave a small cough: "What is this, Jiang Cheng? Did you come all the way from there just to help them scare us? We are brothers!"

Jiang Cheng felt deeply aggrieved: "How could I be here to scare you? If it weren't because you are my brothers, I wouldn't care if you lived or died. I just don't want you to die, which is why I came to persuade you."

"Persuade us? How are you going to persuade us? Do you want us to surrender just like you?" Jiang Ke started to stir up trouble.

Jiang Ke was a bit agitated: "What do you mean by 'surrender'?! My tribesmen were almost all dead! I didn't run! Besides, for the sake of that kind of Shennong, is it necessary for me to sacrifice all my tribesmen? Are you willing to die for this generation of Shennong?"

This time it was Jiang Ke who held down Jiang Cheng's hand: "Don't be anxious, don't be anxious. Then tell us, what do you want us to do?"

"We truly don't want to sacrifice our own tribesmen, but you also have to think: if we surrender like you, I still have so many tribesmen at Changyang Mountain, what should I do about them? Should I just ignore them? We still have a chance now. As long as we defeat the Xuanyuan Tribe and Huaxia, we won't have this worry, and Shennong will also give us rewards to make up for our losses."

Jiang Cheng was a bit angry: "Oh, I can't even talk to you!"

"Your two tribes cannot possibly win. The three of us tribes couldn't win, so what makes you think you can? That's why I came here, to discuss with you and think of a way—think of another way—so that you won't die and won't be punished."

Jiang Yuwang suddenly said: "It's simple. Don't fight; just let them retreat. Shennong wants us to drive them back, but he didn't say we had to kill them all. This way, neither side has to take action. You don't have to lose men, and we don't either. We can just go back and collect the Tribal Chief's reward. Isn't that good?"

Jiang Cheng's face began to darken: "Brother, you need to know now that it is you who cannot win, not them. They only have one goal in coming here, and that is to take down the Shennong Clan. Do you think they would be willing to do that?"

Unexpectedly, the Second Battalion Commander suddenly interjected: "Maybe we would be willing?"

These words startled everyone present, including Jiang Cheng. Jiang Cheng felt that his Second Battalion Commander was acting more like he should be.

He hurriedly asked the Second Battalion Commander: "Second Battalion Commander, don't talk nonsense. You can't just say things like that."

Jiang Yuwang ignored Jiang Ke and asked the Second Battalion Commander directly: "Are you serious? Do your words carry weight?"

The Second Battalion Commander was not timid at all: "Of course. I came here representing our Huaxia. My words represent our Huaxia."

Jiang Yuwang looked at the representative of the Xuanyuan Tribe, because the conversation during this time had almost nothing to do with the Xuanyuan Tribe, so he had been very silent and hadn't said a word. Now that it was time for him to state his position, he only said: "We are in an alliance with Huaxia. Huaxia's meaning is our meaning."

Although saying this made the Xuanyuan Tribe seem a bit like a vassal of Huaxia, Xuanyuan knew very well that when it came to negotiations, the three of them combined couldn't out-talk one person from Huaxia.

Therefore, the Leader he chose wasn't particularly important, and he had specifically instructed him that if the Huaxia people didn't say anything detrimental to the Xuanyuan Tribe or anything too outrageous, he should just go along with what the Huaxia people said. After all, they were both on the same front; Huaxia wouldn't sabotage itself, would it?

So now, this Xuanyuan Tribe Leader was very natural and very decisive in his statement. His words also left Jiang Yuwang and Jiang Ke a bit dazed. An agreement had been reached just like that?

Could their such outrageous request really be agreed to? Could they drive these people away without spending any effort? This was too unreasonable. Did these Huaxia people have some greater conspiracy?