In fact, in many ethnic cultures, including human beings, as a king, willing to marry a "inferior" as a queen is a great event worthy of publicity.
The historian will publicize this kind of thing as the king''s kindness and fraternity. The enemy will publicize this kind of thing as the king likes to rob people''s women and play with their wives. Men will envy the king''s great power, and women will envy the lucky girl
On the one hand, it shows the inequality of human rights, on the other hand, it also shows how convenient it is to have power.
On this basis, the king''s "empress Na" will always attract the attention of many people.
Many kingdoms like to use marriage to consolidate their relationship with a country, whether in military, agriculture or commercial trade. Sometimes, marriage with a powerful country is a great event for some small countries to celebrate.
No one cares whether the married girl is willing or not. They only care that if their country has a strong backing, their life will become more peaceful, and even beautify the girl''s sacrifice and selfless dedication in various records - no one knows that the girl is likely to be stuffed into the carriage crying.
At least he was a history student. Donne was very clear about marriage, but he didn''t expect barold to propose marriage.
It''s still Tina.
Tina was obviously frightened.
Don didn''t think barrow would like Tina. Just about to speak, he heard barrow say, "although you human women are ugly, tall, eat less and weak, I''m still willing to marry her as one of my queens, which will make our cooperation more stable."
Hearing this, Donne was relieved and more sure that barrow didn''t like Tina.
His idea of marriage is for political purposes and is to make the two sides have a more stable relationship.
If Donne is a cold-blooded and ruthless politician, he will certainly promise out of the consideration of maximizing interests, but unfortunately, he has never been a qualified politician.
Donne turned and asked, "Tina, will you marry barrow?"
Tina bit her lower lip, tears rolling in her eyes. A moment later, she nodded and said, "if it''s your Lord, I''d like to."
"No, I''m asking what you mean."
Donne said, "in other words, do you like barrow?"
That''s impossible!
Tina shook her head vigorously.
"In other words, you don''t want to marry him?"
Tina nodded with tears in her eyes.
"So," said Donne, shrugging at barold, "I''m afraid I can''t agree to your request for marriage. Of course, even if we can''t get married, we can trade."
"Oh! Surface creatures without eyes!"
Barold certainly doesn''t like Tina, but this is a surface woman. As a king, if he can marry a surface woman as a queen, it will certainly make him more prestigious among his subjects and expand his harem. Why not?
He spat and said with great dissatisfaction, "what''s wrong with me? I don''t think much of me? You know, I''m the most popular here! I have the most beautiful beard! The most powerful power! The purest blood!"
The most beautiful beard is placed in the front, which means the most important scoring item of beard? Blood is the least important?
Donne shrugged and gave barold a step. "Maybe it''s because your beard is so beautiful that Tina can''t appreciate it."
"It''s also true that humans can''t appreciate the beauty of a beard."
Brian and barrow had a rare common opinion and nodded involuntarily.
Elia looked at Brian, then at barold, touched her bare chin, and then looked at Donne. She suddenly wondered what her big brother would look like if he had a big beard.
She thought for a moment, covered her mouth and secretly laughed.
After Donne gave barold a step down, even if the marriage was exposed, Tina finally relieved herself and could eat at ease. For a moment, there was no gunpowder in the room.
"This is the most satisfying meal I have ever had in my life!"
After dinner, barrod made a satisfactory conclusion while tasting the fruit dessert in the can: "I''m looking forward to the food you brought us."
Donne said with a smile, "you won''t be disappointed. Not only that, if we sign a trade contract, we will continue to Trade grain with the red Grottoes in the future. You won''t have to worry about the lack of grain anymore."
"Hum! I''m a good abacus. Do you think I''ll be so stupid?"
Barrow said sarcastically to Donne: "Food trade is good, but if you trust all our food on you, once you deliberately stop the delivery of food, I''m afraid we will soon face serious famine and death. Although it''s a bit inappropriate to put forward this now, I have to say that as the king of underground dwarves, this is something I must consider."
Even if Ellington can provide more food for their underground dwarves, they must have their own place to produce food. This lifeline cannot be handed over to others.
Donne was stunned. He didn''t think so much, but of course he also knew this. What barrow said is also what Donne was most worried about. At any time, grain production capacity is one of the most basic and important indicators of a country. Ellington''s grain production capacity is seriously insufficient. This situation has been improved after the birth of combine harvester and planter, Grantia''s power has greatly reduced the possibility of famine in Ellington this winter.
In fact, recently, due to the emergence of cans and grantia''s continuous overtime, Ellington residents have been able to have the first full winter this year by overdrawing Ellington''s land fertility and harvesting a large amount of food in a short time.
"You think too much, but I understand your idea, because I am also a ruler."
Donne was still smiling, so that barold couldn''t see what was in his mind.
"Better so."
Barrow finished the last piece of fruit in the can, licked his lips, felt the sweet taste, and said to Donne, "now, let''s hand over the food."
Donne then stood up: "of course, please prepare a large enough warehouse for me. You should understand that nearly 100000 tons of food is not a small amount."
Although the specific figure is 71000 tons, barold has no way to weigh it? It was impossible for him to weigh such a large amount of goods one by one, so of course Donne blew it into the big house.
The others stayed. Donne and barrow went to the warehouse. Barrow asked as he led the way, "100000 tons? What''s that? Are the units used by surface humans?"
Donne smiled and said, "yes, it''s our common unit. For the convenience of our trade, I can give you a specific information and tools later."
Due to the information difference between the two sides, if Donne is treacherous enough, he can do something about the unit conversion, and then make an amazing price difference. However, Donne deeply understands a truth.
Honesty is the foundation to ensure everything.
If he had been trading with the idea of exploiting underground dwarves from the beginning, both sides would collapse soon.
Since there is the possibility of mutual benefit, there is no need to be too greedy.
Anyway, his goal is to use the rich mineral resources of underground dwarves to expand Ellington''s production capacity.
Soon, barrow took Donne to a huge underground warehouse: "how? If not enough, there are several."
"These should be enough."
There are many dried mushrooms stored in this warehouse. It seems to be a warehouse for underground dwarfs to store food. It is very huge, but most of the space is not used. It is the same size as a parking garage. If there are more than a few, 70000 tons of cans can be put down.
"Step back."
Donne stepped forward and stretched out his hand. A dark vortex suddenly appeared in the upper space. Then, the cans were sprayed out. They flew out of the magic track set by Donne, landed steadily in the warehouse and soon piled up into a hill.
Watching more and more cans fly out, barold''s frown finally stretches. Recently, no one knows how much pressure he has. The death of those stone ghosts will make the underground dwarves completely lose their qualification for the magic abyss competition. If they can''t compete, they can''t compete for the ownership of caves that can grow food. Once they enter the dry season, Many people will starve to death.
Now that Donne arrived as promised, he finally solved his urgent need.
The next step is to find a way to recapture the Warcraft, domesticate it from the beginning, reach the minimum standard of the competition with the fastest speed, and take the last fight in the competition.
While releasing the cans, Donne said, "we said it was the food for 100000 people for three months. We made precise calculations and inferences according to Brian''s appetite, and came to a figure. We need to prepare food worth 900000 gold coins, a total of 70000 tons, but in order to show our sincerity, we brought a total of 100000 tons of food this time."
Although the extra part is the weight of the iron box and water, don doesn''t think he''s lying at all. He hasn''t said it hard. If it''s rounded, it''s 100 million!
Barrow was ecstatic when he heard this. The impact of the great good news made his hatred for Donne disappear at once. Although he did kill his Warcraft and caused heavy losses to the underground dwarf Kingdom, now he has expressed his apology with practical actions. Moreover, those Warcraft may not enable him to win so much food in the abyss competition.
Can such a powerful mage refuse to sincerely apologize?
Most importantly, if you don''t accept good intentions, you can''t fight
Accepting his apology and establishing bilateral trade relations is his only choice.
Donne has been smiling. What he wants is this effect: Although I beat you to cry, I want to apologize. You are not allowed to refuse. I trade with you to apologize and take care of you.
As for what will happen after accepting trade
Have you ever heard of cultural invasion?