Chapter 42. Liangguo cooperation
Feng Xiaotian thought about it, he was here today, he was beating people and declaring war, he really couldn't give people a good impression..And seeing that the prince of Liangguo was cautious, he looked like he was afraid of offending someone., and it was really not good to talk to him like this, so he could only give up the idea of visiting today, and it seemed that he had to talk about it tomorrow. So he went back to his room and continued to think about his own business.
And the messenger who was beaten away by him also staggered back to Liu Heng's side, and began to cry about Feng Xiaotian's barbarism. After listening to the messenger's words, Liu Heng was even more annoyed, although he didn't want to let Feng Xiaotian and Chu Guo go, the reason why he sent someone to invite him was nothing more than to kill him in advance to avenge today's revenge, but what he never expected was that Feng Xiaotian's temper was so hard. This made Liu Heng go crazy with anger, and yelled: "That bastard who doesn't know whether to live or die, I must make him pay," and turned his head to look at the guards beside him, and said angrily: "You go and arrest that kid for me, I want to make him worse than death!"
Because of anger, his face had begun to distort and deform extremely terrifyingly, but his group of guards had a look of embarrassment, seeing that they did not move, Liu Heng became even more angry, and scolded: "What? You guys, do you want to rebel? You dare not listen to my orders!"
At this time, all the guards knelt down on one knee, and the chief of the guards at the head said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is angry! It's not that we don't listen to orders, but now is really not a good opportunity to do it, we are in the territory of the Tang Kingdom, every move is stared at by countless pairs of eyes, not to mention that we go out to arrest people, even if we go out of the door of a hotel, there are countless guards behind us, just ask how can we have the opportunity to arrest people like this? So please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to take a break from the anger of thunder." Let's wait until after the conference. ”
The other guards also nodded in agreement: "Yes, please calm His Royal Highness the Prince's anger." Liu Heng was angry and panting, but he had no choice but to say hatefully: "It's really cheap for him, let him live for a few days, and as soon as the Shenglong Festival is over, I will break him to pieces to vent the hatred in my heart!"
As he spoke, he accidentally touched the wound on his mouth, and said "'ouch" in pain, and then ordered his hands to serve some food, because his mouth of teeth was lost by Feng Xiaotian, and now he can only eat porridge.
This is the end of the matter., there are still three days before the conference officially begins., and the people who came to participate in the competition have almost arrived. In order to better exert their strength, and the rules of the conference have been sent to each participant one after another, Feng Xiaotian also has a preliminary understanding of this event.
In order not to make students all over the world regret, the conference is divided into three parts, the literary examination, the martial arts examination and the civil and military examinations. Because the world's great talents can generally only cultivate their way, and the words of civil and military all-round talents are really not something that ordinary civilians can afford, and the so-called poor and rich military are here. And the combination of civil and military cultivation is basically for the aristocracy, and only the nobles have the qualifications for both civil and military training, but since the conference is for recruiting talents, it cannot be limited to the aristocratic class, you must know that among the children of the poor family, there are also people with amazing talents.
Nowadays, in many countries, there are children from poor families who are in high positions, because they have lived in the lower echelons of society since they were children, so they are more aware of progress, and they also know more about the people's sufferings after becoming officials.
And their rise also helps to stabilize the situation, the way of the emperor lies in checks and balances, the children of the poor family have no roots and no factions, and they are naturally extremely loyal to the emperor, and the children of the nobles have a big family. The old aristocrats are even more powerful and important in the court, and even if the emperor has a heart, they must also consider it first, after all, they are already deeply rooted and affect the whole body. This is not conducive to the stability of the situation, at this time, the newly promoted children of the poor family, in order to express themselves, will definitely work hard and forge ahead, for their children and grandchildren.
And the old aristocrats will do their job well in order not to let their family's status be replaced by outsiders. It can be said that the children of the poor family are like catfish in the catfish effect, constantly stimulating the empire to move forward. Of course, the emperor, as the helmsman, is responsible for balancing the strength of the two sides, because only when the two sides are about the same strength, they will compete, but if one is strong and the other is weak, then they will not be competing, but will be eliminated.
It can be said that most of the reason for the Thang Long Grand Festival is that it was established for the children of the Han Sect, and the conference is divided into the preliminary examination, the second examination, and its Chinese examination can have an official position as long as it can enter the top sixty-four, and the same is true for the martial arts examination, and the top sixteen in the later civil and military affairs can participate in the final palace examination, and the specific ranking of the top sixteen will also be judged on this day. The conference also set up three lists for this purpose, among which the "Dragon List" is the literary examination list, which is a metaphor for the meaning of the fish leaping into the dragon gate.
The "Tiger List" is the list of martial arts tests, and the fierce generals have always used the tiger as a metaphor, and the tiger is also synonymous with killing and war, so this tiger list is also very eye-catching. And the all-round talent of civil and military double cultivation is named after the god list, such geniuses and powers are one in a million, almost all the strong people on the god list, in the end have great careers, of course, there are exceptions to everything, among which there are sixteen places on the god list are water, that is, the representatives sent by various countries, whether he is excellent or not, must leave a name on the god list, otherwise how can these countries have face.
In this regard, a group of civilian students can only sigh with admiration, since they are a hundred years later, but this is the reality, reincarnation is a technical job, who makes their lives bad? Don't look at just a few competitions, but there are many people who can't stand it. Often the initial test will take more than ten days, and the retest can be less than half, but the retest is not a one.
In order to select the top 100, it may take three to five sessions, and then the round-robin test.In short, this conference will take at least more than a month to complete, and after the event, it will be celebrated for three days, after reading this, Feng Xiaotian was a little depressed, he didn't expect this conference to be so troublesome. But once it comes, it will be safe, and everything will be said after the conference.
Because he is a representative sent by the state of Chu, he can be exempted from the preliminary examination and go directly to the second examination. This means that he has more than ten days of rest and can do more.
Thinking about this, let's wait for tomorrow to talk about the rest, because of his military exploits in the past few days, many people in the Chu State have begun to admire him, which has made his divine soul power a little improved, and he is also ready to make a weapon for himself, he can't still play with his bare hands, this is too much of a loss of identity.
After a night, he also had an idea, now it's almost time to practice, the weather is just right, and it's past the morning, it is the time for everyone to get up and practice in the morning, Feng Xiaotian naturally has the habit of morning exercises, because he can't practice the means of long-range attack, so he has been specializing in boxing recently, when he was in the fairy world, he practiced the Taoist boxing method "Changquan" every day. ”
But this is only responsible for refining the body, and he doesn't pay attention to lethality, so he worked hard to rummage in the "magic talisman", and finally he found several good punches, namely "Heavenly Dao Destruction Fist, Dragon God Electric Light Fist and Hongmeng Fortune Posture created by Hongmeng Dao Ancestor." ”
These three fist techniques have the power to destroy the heavens and the earth, by which it is the last one is created by the ancestor himself, is based on the six reincarnation, the truth of heaven and earth and the great wisdom of the universe to create, a total of six potentials, each potential is infinitely powerful, is the treasure of the Taoist lineage, only the highest status of several Taoist powers are qualified to learn.
And the core boxing method of Zhengzhen can only be seen by the three giants of Daomen, but now it has made Feng Xiaotian pick up a big bargain, he sees it but he doesn't understand it, the meaning of the Tao in it, so that he always has a hazy feeling, this first move, from the beginning of the world, the will of heaven is a trend of its own, he doesn't understand it very well, it seems very simple, the note in the charm is a move to press the fist, but it is not a simple fist press.
This should include the confusion when the Heavenly Dao first opened, the firmness of the Heavenly Dao and the belief that the Heavenly Dao is one, how can he understand that this simple punch actually contains so many things? However, for so long, he has already found the way through the reincarnation of Guanshi Pupil, and now when he hits this punch, he also has a trace of the meaning of the Heavenly Dao, which can be regarded as having the ability of one billionth of a billionth of the fortune of this Hongmeng fortune, and the difference between Dacheng and Dacheng is more than 108,000 miles, but fortunately, he finally has a glimmer of hope now, and with this hope, he has the motivation to move forward.
In fact, it is not that there are no middle and lower level fist techniques in this talisman, but it can't stand Feng Xiaotian's lofty heart, because the humble life in the previous life made his heart extremely eager to be strong, and he also has this resource, just like a kid who has just entered the cultivation world, he suddenly entered the treasure house of the supreme heaven and earth. They were all top-level divine weapons as far as he could see, even if he knew that with his own strength, he was far from being able to use them, but if he didn't take any of them, it would be impossible. And if he wants to take it, he must take the best, when he has seen the best, how can he see the knife in the mortal world, even if he knows that the knife is the most suitable for him.
But he didn't want to cultivate it with his heart, but worked hard for the highest level of divine soldiers, in the end, greed is the original sin, but in this world, who can not be greedy.
After practicing a set of boxing techniques, all that remains is to comprehend the heavenly potential with his heart, according to Feng Xiaotian's own calculations, with his qualifications, if he wants to fully understand this potential, it will take at least 100,000 years to achieve a small success, and the Dacheng realm does not know what year and month it will take to reach it, as for the bigwigs of the fairy world, they have lived countless years. For this set of boxing methods, there is naturally time to comprehend, Feng Xiaotian can only sigh with admiration, the road is long, I will go up and down and seek.
As long as you can stick to it, then success will get closer and closer to you. After feeling it for a while, I thought that I still had something to do today, so I got up and went back to the room to wash up, changed into clean clothes, came to the hall and ordered a pot of tea, and tasted it quietly.
At the same time, he was also waiting for the people of Liangguo, after yesterday's incident, Feng Xiaotian already had some fame here, and many people who came and went had already recognized him, but their attitude towards him was mostly curiosity and suspicion. There are few people who dare to come forward to talk, and they are envoys from small countries that are very close to the Han Kingdom. Looking at him as if he had seen a plague god, Feng Xiaotian didn't care about it, he still drank tea by himself, looking at the crowd coming and going outside, he was unconsciously a little stunned, and his mind wandered away.
From this vast number of sentient beings, among all kinds of people found a trace of heavenly truth, want to come to this vast number of sentient beings to run around, in order not to work hard to move forward, so as to earn a glimmer of hope for their future, those with identity want to protect themselves, and the glory and wealth of future generations, and those without identity want to succeed, to catch up with that group of high-ranking and powerful people. Therefore, there is good and evil, yin and yang, right and wrong in this world, and there is no absolute right and wrong in this world, it is not right to kill people, but killing a bad person can save thousands of good people, so is this right?
But if this bad guy can change his mind and start anew, then does he mean that he has a chance to become a good person, then it will not become a wrong thing to kill him? This kind of truth is called in Buddhism, put down the butcher's knife, and become a Buddha on the spot.
However, Taoism believes that the reason why people will do evil is because of the demons in their hearts, and as long as they can break the demons in their hearts, they can become immortals, but the difference is that Buddhism is to wait for you to do evil before persuading you to put down the butcher knife, while Taoism is to let you overcome the demons when you have not become a demon.
The two are both the same and different, and it is impossible to tell who is right and who is wrong. As they always argue, Taoists educate people before they make mistakes, so that they don't make mistakes. But sometimes it backfires, people have a rebellious heart, the more you don't let him do everything, the more he will do it, and there are not a few such people, always want to do something different.
Buddhism is to forgive you after you make a mistake, as long as your heart is sincere and willing to repent, no matter how serious it is, you can be forgiven. But in the eyes of the Daomen, this matter is to shield criminals, and heaven does not tolerate it, so the dispute between the two families has never been broken, from small things to big things, and from big things to the way of heaven.
Sometimes even the way of heaven is very confused about right and wrong, and it is this confusion that happens to be the entry point of this heavenly situation. At this moment, he finally realized the meaning of this incomprehensible Heavenly Dao confusion, and he had a trace of understanding of this heavenly situation.
Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but appear a smile, and his mind came to his senses, and when he looked up, he found that it was noon, and before he knew it, he had been sitting here for almost three hours, and when he turned around, he found that the people of Liangguo were sitting on the table opposite him, and looked at him with an anxious gaze. Obviously, they were looking for themselves because of something, but they fell into the feeling that they didn't find them, and they were really a little ashamed to think about it, so he smiled a little apologetically at the people of Liangguo, and after the people of Liangguo saw it, they were surprised, and directly gave up their table and walked in the direction of Feng Xiaotian.
Feng Xiaotian was a little puzzled about the initiative of the people of Liangguo, but he did have something to discuss with them, and it was better for them to take the initiative than to take the initiative themselves.
This time, three people came to Liangguo, a prince, and two sons of courtiers, all of whom are young talents with good appearances, it seems that Liangguo already knows about choosing a son-in-law, and they should want to try their luck to see if they can get the favor of the princess of the Tang Dynasty.
The costumes of Liangguo are very stylish, mainly in white tones, embroidered with aqua blue ornaments, like ice flowers on snow-capped mountains, giving people a clean and pure feeling. He is the prince of Liangguo headed by this, with good looks and elegant temperament. However, some are too feminine, if you wear women's clothes, it should be a good beauty, no more than six feet tall, some short stature, holding a folding fan, there are landscapes, exquisite and abnormal, you can know at a glance that it is from everyone's hands. The other two people's costumes are similar to those of the prince, but they are not as exquisite as his, but they are not ordinary.
The speed of a few people was not fast, but they walked very elegantly, so they walked in front of Feng Xiaotian, saluted first, and then said: "Your Royal Highness Feng, hello, I am Xiao Xuan, the fifth prince of Liangguo, and I am polite here." ”
Seeing this, Feng Xiaotian got up and saluted back: "It turned out to be His Royal Highness the Prince of Liang Kingdom, it's really a bit rude." After saying that, he returned a salute.
The first meeting between the two sides felt good, and the prince of Liangguo thought that he would be a very unreasonable person, but this was not the case when they met today, which was very helpful for him in the future.
After the two sides sat down, Xiao Xuan first said: "Although we have met His Highness Feng for the first time, I have long heard of His Highness's deeds, your military achievements are far beyond the reach of others, and the vigorous development of the Chu State in recent years has a close relationship with you. “
When he said this, Feng Xiaotian was a little vigilant, because if he continued to talk about his secret, he was afraid that Uncle would be exposed, so he hurriedly interrupted: "Your Highness Xiao, there are many people here, it is really not a good place to talk, it is better to go to my private room, we can go in and discuss anything in detail." ”
Xiao Xuan surprisingly did not object, and said, "Okay, that's what you mean, then we'll bother, please." ”
Feng Xiaotian said politely: "Where." Where, we are destined, and I am also quite interested in your country. It's also a good opportunity to learn more about it. “
The four of them entered the private room of the special room together, and the officials in charge of the reception below saw that they had prepared the wine and food very intimately after seeing them enter, and they had just sat down here, and the wine and food were all ready, and the service of wanting to come to the empire was really satisfying.
The service staff took the initiative to withdraw after serving, leaving only four people, Feng Xiaotian raised his glass first, and said: "The three of them are here today, it is fate, it is not easy to meet three young talents in this foreign country, come and let us drink this cup, and respect our fate today!"
"Please~" The three also responded.
Then it is to talk about some customs, human geography topics, Feng Xiaotian knows that they are looking for themselves for something, and it is about their own products, his past eyes are a cheat, can see the process of their previous conversations, all clearly, and in negotiations, whoever first says his purpose, then who will be in a disadvantageous position first.
It seems that Xiao Xuan has a deep interest in his own products, so it is better to wait for them to speak first, so that he can take the lead, but fortunately, he has the experience of drinking with Qin Shan yesterday, and he has a deep understanding of procrastination.
The two sides chatted for about an hour.Xiao Xuan thought about it, and the time was almost up, so he gave his subordinate a look, and the person immediately understood, so he took out a small bottle from his arms, put it on the table, and said straight to the point: "Your Highness Feng, this is what our Liangguo bought from your country's caravan through special channels, you must know it very well, right?"
Feng Xiaotian saw that it was a medicine produced by himself. Judging from the style of the porcelain vase, it should be a medicine for wind and cold. Because this disease is the most common, almost everyone has experienced it. It would be nice for the rich to take some medicine, but the poor will survive on their own. Every year, more than 100,000 people die of other diseases because they can't resist the wind and cold, or because the wind cold is aggravated.
Therefore, Feng Xiaotian paid special attention to this disease, and specially used two puppet men to produce this medicine, which was to eliminate inflammation and strengthen his own resistance. After each meal, he will not be sick for at least three months, and in order to be close to the people, he sets the price of medicine very low. The cost of raw materials is not high, and ordinary civilians can afford to buy it, but at the moment, because it is a new product, it is not famous.
So the sales are not very impressive, but the aroma of the wine is not afraid of deep alleys, as long as it is given time, then the masses will definitely see its effect, and at that time, there is absolutely no problem with sales. Obviously, Liang Guo is eyeing this piece of fat, and thinks that this is a potential stock, and wants to grasp it in his hands, so he is looking at himself and has a relationship.
Feng Xiaotian smiled: "Yes, not only do I know, but I can also tell you that this thing was made by me, why is His Highness Xiao interested in this?"
After receiving a positive answer, Xiao Xuan was overjoyed, and hurriedly nodded: "Yes, not only do you have, but you also want to buy a large amount, so I specially came to discuss this matter with His Royal Highness Feng, but I don't know if Your Highness Feng is willing? ”
Seeing his anxious appearance, Feng Xiaotian couldn't help but smile and said, "Seeing that you are so anxious, aren't you afraid that I will propose a high price and run you away?"
Xiao Xuan was not worried at all and said: "Of course I am not afraid, our Liang country is based on business, and it has a good reputation in terms of reputation. And your products, we have also seen them, high quality, excellent quality, as long as we package it a little, we will not worry about not being able to buy it. ”
Looking at his confident look, Feng Xiaotian really couldn't find a rebuttal, after all, people have been doing this business for hundreds of years, and it is far from being comparable to his current strength. And if you buy a copper coin yourself, I'm afraid no one will care.
This is the importance of business reputation, and since this is the case, you will no longer beat around the bush, but simply be honest with each other and have a good talk with the other party.
Feng Xiaotian said: "Okay, now that you are clear, then I won't talk nonsense to explain, for our interests to be equal, the best way is to share dividends." Ten percent of the profits., we split the account fifty-fifty. I provide the goods and technology, and you take care of the sales and shipping. How's that fair enough, right?"
When Xiao Xuan and the others heard this, they were surprised. Because Feng Xiaotian's conditions are too reasonable, it can be said that he has suffered a little, sales and transportation are not very difficult, as long as there is enough time, then they will definitely succeed, and through their own road is just a path, but once they take the dividend route, then it is equivalent to tying themselves to them completely.
In the future, if they want to sell alone, they will inevitably become more difficult because of the collision with the previous sales, this is a great thing that falls from the sky, as long as Xiao Xuan is not stupid, he will definitely not let go of this great thing. I wanted to nod my head and agree, but the two behind him obviously didn't think so.
Although they are young, they have been talking with their father about the way of travels and people's hearts since they were young, so that when they become officials in the future, they can avoid detours, which also gives them extraordinary insight at a young age. So they would not be easily fooled, so they hurriedly pulled Xiao Xuan and asked him to pause.
One of them began to introduce himself: "In Xia Li Huabing, my father is the prime minister of Liangguo. We are very excited about His Royal Highness Feng's proposal, but aren't you afraid that the Chu State will suffer a loss if you do this? I'm afraid you still have additional conditions to say, right?"
Feng Xiaotian's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said in his heart: "Liangguo is really talented, do you know why to ask more in front of interests? And seeing that he is not very old, this kind of heart is really rare." ”
Xiao Xuan also reacted at this time, and hurriedly asked: "Does His Royal Highness Feng have any additional conditions?" I don't know what it is, you might as well talk about it, as long as we can do it, we will do our best." “
Obviously, he is bound to get Feng Xiaotian's various products, no matter what kind of price, in his eyes can be discussed., his appearance is no different from an idiot in the eyes of professional negotiators, isn't this stretching his neck for people to slaughter casually?
Feng Xiaotian is not the kind of person who likes to rip off customers, and said directly: "I do have an additional condition, and this condition is very simple for you, that is, I want your Liangguo's intelligence network, more precisely, I want to share it with your intelligence network." ”
As soon as he said this, the three of them were a little shocked, because his appetite was a little big, and the caravans of the Liang Kingdom traveled all over the world, so they naturally knew everything about the world, but most of what they knew was about business, and in order to expand their own intelligence scope, they also secretly bought off the eunuchs in the inner courts of other countries. In this way, they can know all kinds of information about the palace in the palm of their hands, and they can know and use the decisions of the emperors at the first time.
So far, Liangguo's intelligence can be said to be pervasive, but Liangguo is too weak, even if they know a lot of good opportunities, but because of their lack of strength, they let it go. Therefore, they can only put all their minds on business, and keep their intelligence network strictly secret, once they are discovered, then Liangguo will fall into a place of no return.
And now this big secret has been pointed out, which makes the three of them not surprised.
At this time, Li Huabing was the first to react, so he said calmly: "Does His Royal Highness Feng want our caravan to see and hear when we walk around? If so, then we can naturally tell you." ”
"Nope." Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Feng Xiaotian, "What I want is not only peripheral business intelligence, but also internal intelligence of various countries, I know you have this strength." ”
At this time, Xiao Xuan also came to his senses and said: "Your Royal Highness Feng, it's funny, how confidential the internal information is, how can we know? There must be rumors of villains, please don't listen to the rumors of villains!"
The other two also hurriedly agreed: "Yes, yes, it's all Yaoyan." ”
Feng Xiaotian naturally has enough evidence to say this, for their behavior of pretending to be garlic, Feng Xiaotian knows what they are afraid of, so he said: "There are only four of us here, I believe that today's words will not be spread to the outside, and please believe in my sincerity, the reason why I dare to say this is naturally because I have a certain understanding of your country, and I can guarantee that I will do my best to protect your country's intelligence network." I also have an intelligence network myself, but because it is just starting, it is not very sound, and if I can make peace with your country, I will definitely have a great future. “
Although Feng Xiaotian said that he swore an oath, they didn't dare to believe him, after all, this was a matter of life and death, and they only listened to his words.
So they were still hesitating, and at this time, Feng Xiaotian didn't want to push them too much, and continued: "I think you also know that those beauties who can sing and dance recently in various countries are all from the Chu country. ”
The three of them couldn't help but nod their heads when they heard this, obviously they were clear about this matter. And they also knew that these people were all cultivated by Feng Xiaotian. For this reason, they also specially sent people to infiltrate the art academy of Chu State, wanting to find out the situation inside.
Then Feng Xiaotian said: In fact, they are the spies I carefully trained to probe the intelligence of various countries, but we started too late, and the current situation is changing rapidly, far less developed than your country's intelligence. This is my secret, and now I am willing to disclose it with the three of you., how about it? This is enough to show my sincerity, right?" Feng Xiaotian said sincerely.
At this moment, someone outside came to spread a message saying that it was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty who sent a word and asked Feng Xiaotian to go out to greet him, Feng Xiaotian thought about it, it would be better for him to leave now, give them a time to discuss, presumably they are all smart people. When he came back, he should be able to negotiate about it, so he got up and saluted apologetically, and went out to receive the order.