Lin Yaozu smiled, "This person's name is Zhou Li, a native of Bozhou, Hebei, with excellent martial arts, he was Li Wujun's personal guard, and he has no family, after Li Wujun's death, he became his home all over the world."

Three years ago, I went to Hebei to buy medicine, and found that he was sick in an inn, penniless, and dying, so I paid for him to treat him and rescued him from the ghost gate. ”

Cai Yong's face showed envy, there are more scholars in Quanzhou, and the martial arts are not flourishing, it is difficult to meet people with strong martial arts, and the dozen or so soldiers who escorted him to Luoyang this time are not very good, which makes him worried along the way.

But this is Lin Yaozu's right-hand man, and he can't speak, so he has to suppress this thought.

Early the next morning, Cai Yong and Lin Yaozu accompanied by officials of Honglu Temple came to the Imperial City Governor's Hall, and Liu Feng on the right and Yao Lingyan on the left personally went to the gate to welcome the arrival of the envoy from Quanzhou.

After a few words of greeting, everyone entered the inner hall of the governor, the seats had been placed, the two sides were seated, Liu Feng took out the report brought by Cai Yong, and went directly to the topic, "I have truthfully reported your thoughts to the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven appreciates your wise choice, in principle, we agree that the two sides will form an alliance to jointly deal with the pressure of the Jin army." ”

Cai Yong was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "Not only the alliance, but the lord of my family hopes to be canonized by the Son of Heaven." ”

Liu Feng was not interested in canonizing such a vain thing, he waved his hand impatiently, "Of course there is no problem with this, but our Son of Heaven is more pragmatic, and he hopes that the two sides can do something practical in terms of cooperation." ”

Cai Yong and Lin Yaozu glanced at each other, and knew that they were about to enter substantive talks, and Cai Yong's mission to Luoyang this time was of course also in the hope that the two sides could have substantial mutual assistance, so he asked cautiously: "I don't know what Liu Xiangguo is talking about, what kind of facts?" ”

Liu Feng coughed heavily and said: "After the beginning of spring next year, we will use troops against Li Na, hoping that the Quanzhou Navy can also participate in the war, of course, you can also get rich war benefits, land, food, wealth, population, you can all choose!" ”

.........

Coming out of the imperial city, Cai Yong and Lin Yaozu took a carriage back to the Honglu Temple Post House in the northeast of the city, Cai Yong seemed a little worried, and the other party actually asked them to send troops to participate in the attack on Laizhou and Dengzhou, or asked them to use ships to transport troops to Leiden and Dengzhou, which they did not expect in advance.

Lin Yaozu secretly admired the ability of the Jin Wei Mansion in his heart, and it really affected the major decisions of the Zhu Dynasty, and he explained with a smile: "Didn't Sima Cai say that the lord is not enough to seek the population? If the population of Laizhou and Dengzhou can be transported to Liuqiu, wouldn't it be in line with the intention of the lord? ”

Cai Yong sighed, "That being said, I'm afraid that after the spring next year, the Jin army will attack Quanzhou, and the fleet can't leave!" ”

"Didn't the lord tell Cai Sima?"

Cai Yong was stunned, "What did you say?" ”

"I sent an urgent letter to Quanzhou not long ago, I got clear news, the Jin army in Jiangnan and the Yangtze River naval army will participate in the battle against Huaixi in the first half of next year, the Chang'an court has made it clear that the Jiangnan army does not care about Quanzhou, Quanzhou is captured by the Jin army in Guangzhou, but the warships in Guangzhou cannot be repaired in two years, so Quanzhou will be relatively safe next year, and the danger will be mainly in the year after tomorrow."

Cai Yong said for a while: "If this is the case, it is not impossible to send troops to Dengzhou and Laizhou, but this matter has to be decided by the lord, and I can't be the master!" ”

The two were discussing in the carriage, when the carriage passed through a busy city, and several dark shadows appeared on one of the eaves not far away, and they raised their crossbows to the carriage, and several crossbow arrows whizzed towards the carriage.

Zhou Fei had already seen the black shadow, and the moment the crossbow arrow was fired, he also jumped up, holding a big shield to block the car window, and his back hit the car window hard, 'Bang! Syllable! Two bolts hit the shield at the same time, and the other shot hit the coachman.

The coachman screamed, the carriage shook violently, and Cai Yong and Lin Yaozu fell to the ground, "What's wrong?" Lin Yaozu asked loudly.

"There are assassins!"

There was a big chaos outside, so frightened that the two of them lay in the carriage, not daring to move, and after a while, Zhou Feisheng hurriedly said: "The coachman was killed, get out of the car quickly, and follow the transfer of the lowly position." ”

Cai Yong's face turned pale with fright, and he stepped out of the carriage tremblingly, only to see several crossbow arrows nailed to the carriage, and the horseman's face was black and he had fallen to death.

"What's going on?"

Zhou Fei pointed to the opposite roof, and the assassin shot crossbow arrows on the opposite side, but he blocked the two poisoned arrows shot at the window, but the coachman did not dodge.

Cai Yong saw that there were two blue and poisonous crossbow arrows stuck in the shield, which were obviously shot at the car window just now, but were blocked by Zhou Li.

He was grateful in his heart, and hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Thank you Brother Zhou Xian for saving your life!" ”

"It's too early to say thank you, the danger has not been lifted, please come with me!"

Zhou Fei held a giant shield in his hand, and took four of his subordinates to escort Cai Yong and Lin Yaozu to quickly move and find a safe room to hide.

At this time, a large group of soldiers appeared on the street and quickly blocked the scene, they did not find Cai Yong and Lin Yaozu, but took more than a dozen of Cai Yong's subordinates away to investigate.

Cai Yong returned to the post house under the escort of Zhou Fei and others, he was really shocked in his heart, instead of searching for the murderer, the other party took his own men away, what does this mean?

Lin Yaozu sighed and said, "I guess the assassins have something to do with the infighting in the Luoyang Imperial Court!" ”

Cai Yong's face changed drastically, "You mean to say that it was their military advisor Liu Sigu who did it?" ”

"Not necessarily, maybe it was the scouts of the Jin army in Luoyang, they didn't want to see us join forces with Zhu Zhu, or it could be a high-level infighting in Luoyang."

"So what should I do?" Cai Yong was very worried.

Lin Yaozu pondered for a moment and said: "Luoyang is too dangerous, I suggest that Cai Sima go back to Quanzhou to report first, see if the lord accepts Zhu Jun's suggestion, and continue to stay in Luoyang as a deputy envoy to negotiate with the other party." ”

This is the key to Guo Song's entire layout, let Lin Yaozu stay in Luoyang to continue to negotiate with Zhu Jun on the details, let Cai Yong return to Quanzhou, and take Zhou Fei to Quanzhou by the way, in order to force Cai Yong to go back, Jin Weifu did not hesitate to set up a bureau to assassinate Cai Yong.

When Cai Yong was hesitating, his subordinates were released, along with Liu Feng's chief staff Yang Mi, who came to appease Cai Yong on behalf of Liu Feng.

"Liu Xiangguo was shocked and angry, and ordered Meihuawei to search and assassinate, please rest assured that there will never be a second time!"

Cai Yong nodded and said, "Thank you Liu Xiangguo for your concern, I don't know where the assassin is?" ”

Yang Mi looked embarrassed, and said for a while: "It's hard to say, it may be that Guo Song's subordinates don't want the two sides to form an alliance, or it may be Li Na's subordinates, and it may even be Liu Xiangguo's opponent, but anyway, the more people want to hinder our cooperation, it means that our cooperation is correct, Liu Xiangguo hopes that our first cooperation can go smoothly and lay the foundation for our next step of deeper cooperation." ”

Speaking of this, Yang Mi took out a letter and handed it to Cai Yong, "This is Liu Xiangguo's handwritten letter to Yao Gong, please hand it over to Yao Gong as soon as possible, we hope that in February next year, your army's warships will be able to arrive in Dengzhou or Laizhou!" ”

Cai Yong and Lin Yaozu went to Xiangguo's Mansion again to thank Liu Feng for his love, Cai Yong decided to immediately leave for Quanzhou to report to Yao Shun on the negotiations, and he introduced his deputy Lin Yaozu to Liu Feng, and Lin Yaozu would stay in Luoyang as a liaison representative for follow-up matters.

Inside the carriage, Cai Yong sighed and said: "The other party did not succeed in assassinating Luoyang, I am worried that on the way back, will they attack again?" ”

Lin Yaozu immediately understood what Cai Yong meant, so he followed his words and said, "Cai Sima's worries are also reasonable, so be it!" I asked Zhou Li and four of his men to escort Cai Sima back to Quanzhou. ”

Cai Yong was overjoyed, he saw Zhou Li's strength with his own eyes this morning, with him and four subordinates guarding him, the road was safe, although he was willing in his heart, but he said politely in his mouth: "They are Brother Lin's henchmen, and Brother Lin also depends on them to protect him, how can I take away the talents of my subordinates?" ”

Lin Yaozu shook his head, "I have a lot of capable people under me, and there is no shortage of them, I will transfer a few more capable men from Chang'an to Luoyang, to be honest, this Zhou Li is very capable, and I will bury him a little bit with me, Cai Sima will take him away, and if he can give him a future in the future, it can be regarded as me giving him an explanation." ”

Cai Yong originally just wanted Zhou Li to protect himself and return to Quanzhou, but he didn't expect Lin Yaozu to hand him over to himself, which was really a bit unexpected by Cai Yong, of course he couldn't ask for it.

Cai Yong immediately patted his chest and promised: "His future is on me, I will go back and recommend it to the lord, let him be a Lang General or even a Zhong Lang General, I don't think there is a problem." ”