The man was silent for a while, then took out a token from his body.
"My family moved here two hundred years ago and has lived here for generations. It has long had nothing to do with the Central Plains. However, we have established a medium-sized country here, which carries our endless history.
It’s my hard work, I hope Your Highness will not destroy it.”
Zhao Rui raised his eyes slightly, looked up and down at the man in front of him, and then took out a map from his body.
"I have been wandering around in this jungle for a long time, but I still haven't found this gold mine. Do you know the specific location?"
The man just glanced at the map and pointed to a high mountain not far away.
"It's right there. If Your Highness is trustworthy, I can take you there."
Zhao Rui didn't say much, just nodded and followed the man to the high mountain.
The topography of this place is extremely peculiar. A large mountain is surrounded by a number of small mountains. There is a faint golden light emanating from the natural valley formed. It seems that the gold mine is between these valleys.
"It turns out it's so secretive. No wonder I haven't found it after searching for so long!"
After sighing a little, Zhao Rui took out a Zhao Wang Token from his body and stuffed it into the man's hand.
"Since you have been here for more than two hundred years, I will not bother you! Now this vast territory is the territory of my great merchant. You should be able to protect your country with this token.
Nothing."
The man suddenly became excited, but there was still some surprise on his face, probably because he didn't expect Zhao Rui to let go of his country.
As far as today's great merchants are concerned, they are the remnants of the Yongxu Kingdom!
"Xu Shengfeng would like to thank His Highness King Zhao!"
Zhao Rui helped him up, and then left with Qinglan and Ziyun.
After walking far away, Qinglan approached him with some doubts.
"Your Highness, as the old saying goes, don't allow others to snore and sleep next to the bed. Isn't it a bit..."
Zhao Rui chuckled: "I don't know this truth. However, in this primitive jungle, there are many tribes and small countries. I believe they will have a hard time establishing a country here! One day they will come and beg me to incorporate them.
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Qinglan suddenly realized: "Then should we send a few spies to keep an eye on them?"
"Of course we need it!" Zhao Rui's face showed a hint of cunning: "Only by lending a helping hand at their most critical moment, will they surrender wholeheartedly to Dashang."
The three of them chatted and laughed all the way and quickly headed towards the water village.
In the Mauryan Dynasty's camp, King Ashoka was sitting on a high platform, looking at the troops gathering from all directions, and he suddenly felt like he was dominating the world.
"I thought the merchant army would come and attack when we were gathering our army, but I didn't expect that they hadn't made any movement for so many days, just waiting for us to gather our army!"
The civil servants and generals next to him immediately seized the opportunity to flatter him, and one after another stepped forward and knelt down in front of Ashoka.
"Your Majesty, the merchant army here only has over 600,000 troops. It was put together temporarily by the local savages. They don't dare to launch a large-scale war at all."
"That's right, now that our army is gathering, we will be able to destroy the other side in no time!"