Chapter 142: The Covenant
Qizhou to Yucheng is only hundreds of miles, the road is also flat, and Liu Jingwu rushed to Yucheng together with Liancheng and, because Liancheng and arrow wounds have not healed, so along the way, to also walk slowly.
But since Liu Jingwu and others stepped into the territory of Fanyang Mansion, everything has broken their original concepts, and Liu Feng's various methods have made them subdued from the heart.
The straight and smooth road of the ditch, water conservancy, windmill, mill, pastoral farm, and castle is completely a prosperous era in their eyes, or even a legendary era.
The closer he got to Yucheng, the more clearly he could perceive how different Fanyang Mansion was from other military towns, this huge difference made him unbelievable, of course, there was also a shadow that Deng Junliang could arrange.
Several built roads, mills, waterwheels, etc., deliberately let Liu Jingwu personally and intentionally let him understand that Liu Jingwu is not an excellent general, but he is definitely an outstanding man of latitude and horizons, and his vision is not inferior to Deng Junliang and Guo Chongtao in Fanyang Mansion.
However, some of Liu Feng's actions and measures are far beyond the scope of his cognition, and no matter which doctrine he borrows, he cannot attribute the governance measures of Fanyang Mansion to the doctrine of which one for a while.
At this moment, he even believed that the rumors of those villagers in the north, Liu Feng's knowledge was given by God, which was also the usual idea of the villagers, whenever there was an unexplainable situation, but they benefited from it, it was attributed to God.
Liu Jingwu knows a lot more than those ignorant villagers, but he can't understand the current situation in Yangfu.
I thought about it all the way, but I couldn't understand it, so I had to bury my doubts in my heart, but at this time, he was also very calm, although he was not devoted to Fan Yang Mansion, but he was also moved.
Liu Feng didn't know how much shock Deng Junliang's arrangement would bring to Liu Jingwu, but he also paid attention to it at all times, and when Liu Jingwu arrived in Yucheng, he also went out of the house to greet him in person, giving Liu Jingwu enough face.
Although Liu Jingwu was captured, Liu Feng will cooperate with Liu Jingwu in the future, not to mention that Liu Jingwu is on one side, which is equivalent to Liu Feng's identity, if he does not go out of the city to greet him, it will bring a lot of trouble, and Liu Feng is very likely to go out of the city to greet him.
Along the way, Liu Jingwu was very tormented, the surprise in the first half, the thinking in the middle, until he made up his mind that he would be at peace when he came, and at the moment in the city, he couldn't control his mind anymore.
When Liu Jingwu and others waited outside Fanyang Mansion, Liu Feng and other people in power in Fanyang Mansion were waiting, Liu Jingwu didn't dare to handle it, knocked the horse's belly, walked a few steps forward, and was dozens of meters away, then turned over and dismounted.
But without waiting for Liu Jingwu to come forward to salute, Liu Feng grabbed his fists first and said, "Liu Jun is tired of the trip!" β
Liu Jingwu also returned the salute with a fist, and said with a smile: "There is Lao Jun to greet him!" I dare not be ashamed! I have heard the name of the king for a long time, and I can see it today, and it is really the posture of heaven and man! β
"Liu Jun has made a reputation! The king has been tired for a few days, please go to the fatigue first! Liu Feng stretched out his hand and asked Liu Jingwu to go first.
has reached such a point, Liu Jingwu is not polite, "Ashamed, the general of the defeated army, how to be the courtesy of the monarch, after the washing is completed, I will come to talk to the envoy in detail!" β
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In less than an hour, Liu Jingwu went to the council hall to talk with Liu Feng in detail, and as soon as he walked into the council hall, the council hall of Benyang Mansion was full of officials and military attachΓ©s, and there were many talents.
I can't help but envy Liu Fenglai, who can recruit so many talents, especially Deng Junliang, a wise man in Cizhou, who is a master of both fathers and sons, but they both work for Liu Feng.
Sitting in front of the desk in the hall, his expression was calm, Deng Junliang and Liu Jingwu were full of bitterness, with this person listening, his vertical and horizontal arguments may no longer be effective.
Knowing this, after a few words of greeting, he said directly in a deep voice: "I don't know what the envoy wants?" β
"Qizhou! It must belong to Fanyang Mansion! Deng Junliang answered,
This is the proper meaning of the question, regarding the matter of Qizhou, Liu Jingwu has long been mentally prepared, this is the price he has to pay, but other things, I am afraid that the key is the point.
"Hmm! Is that all? Liu Jingwu asked with a smile,
"The five thousand Pinglu sergeants detained in Qizhou can be returned, but the land north of the river will belong to Fan Yang!" Deng Junliang said that when he found out Liu Feng's intentions, he prepared a rough plan for this discussion.
Liu Jingwu was a little surprised in his heart, these two conditions were a little too fair, and even very biased in his favor, but he didn't know if the conditions would be too excessive, so he had to keep a calm face and say: "What else do you want, let's say it together!" β
"Fanyang Mansion caravans are unimpeded within your Pinglu Mansion territory, and their customs duties are exempted." Deng Junliang said with a smile,
Liu Jingwu thought about it for a while, but he didn't think it was inappropriate, and he agreed.
But after hesitating for a while, he said, "Is that all?" β
"If you want to form an alliance with Pinglu Mansion, as long as you and I are still the kings of the two mansions, we will not attack each other!" Liu Feng was in the first place, and said loudly,
Although the tone was light, the meaning of the words made Liu Jingwu think about it.
"As a testimony of our covenant, I, Fanyang Mansion, will provide some weapons to Pinglu Mansion!" Liu Feng smiled and said: "Presumably, Envoy Liu also knows that my Fanyang Mansion is also advantageous!" β
Liu Jingwu's expression was stunned, and the conditions offered by Liu Feng were not allowed to be rejected at all.
However, he also understands that this is the return of interests, maybe Liu Feng has a bigger chess to play, so he doesn't want to continue to entangle with him, or Liu Feng, in short, this battle for Qizhou may not be harmful to him.
Especially when he heard that Liu Feng was going to sell weapons to him, at this moment, in his mind, he was even sketching out the use of those ordnance to expand the territory to the south.
Liu Feng didn't know that Liu Jingwu was already in reverie at the moment, but he was pondering and didn't interrupt.
The conditions he offered were not only generous, but Deng Junliang, Pan Qingyun and others had a lot of subtleties about such conditions, but Liu Feng knew very well that the Khitan Hedong Army was what he would face.
If you can secretly unite the Pinglu army and refuse to defend the southeast by the river, you can greatly focus on the north, and there are many families in Qingzhou, and there are many bandits, and Liu Jingwu's development is some, which cannot constitute a threat to the southeast of Fanyang Mansion.
The Hedong Army will also face the difficulties of the imperial court, and it can only befriend him, but the confrontation between the military town and the imperial court in the past few years will not stop here, only the political and military game is needed.
So, in the next few years, it was the moment when Fanyang Mansion and the Khitan clashed.
Liu Feng pondered, "Liu Jingwu, this is also a flexible person, he expected that Liu Jingwu could guess his intentions, and also realized the military might of Fanyang Mansion! That's the best alliance partner.