"Back to the prince, the personnel have mastered it. In addition, we also have evidence of their correspondence with their own family in Shangjing. As for whether local officials are involved, some people are still uncertain. But the wealthy families involved in this matter from all over the country can't escape. ”

"Hmm." Gongsun Jian nodded slightly, thought about it again and said: "Contact Gou Xiaowu in the capital and my father-in-law about this matter, and ask them to find out what these nobles think, if they really have ulterior motives, then they can only be dealt with all at once." ”

"Yes, my subordinates understand. Let's do it. ”

Busy things, endless hearts. This sentence is the most appropriate to describe the current Gongsun Jian. Fortunately, Feng Huaidao and Shi Fangheng under his subordinates, as well as several people in the cabinet, have good abilities. Most of the things can be handled quite well.

However, what has bothered Gongsun Jian recently is the progress of negotiations with Wu State. Compared with Sun Sheng, the king of Kui, who Gongsun Jian was more familiar with, he didn't know much about Emperor Wu. But the emperor of Wu is a scoundrel. As long as there is a advantage, I want to take advantage of it, but if I suffer a loss, I will say nothing.

Therefore, Li Wenfang's envoy encountered great resistance. Basically, if you talk about anything with the other party, it's okay if it's good, and don't say it if it's not good. Li Wenfang, who has always wanted to show his face and make some achievements, was very annoyed. There is really no way but to report the situation here to Gongsun Jian and the Government Affairs Yuan.

Gongsun Jian, who got the news, sneered a few times after reading Li Wenfang's letter, and then asked people to call a few people from the Government Council and several senior generals of the military to a meeting. The topic is very simple, that is, to hurt Wu Guo.

Since you don't want to give face, then we have nothing to talk about, and we will beat you until you are soft. But this idea was stopped by Feng Huaidao and Shi Fangheng, which made several people in the military very unhappy.

Feng Shi's reason is very simple, seeing that the New Year will be over in a few days. At this time, the morale of the troops will not be too high, and the cold weather will not be effective for combat, and the most important thing is to fight a war and destroy economic development. At present, the primary goal of the Zhou palace is to develop the economy.

"Mr. Feng, I, Ma Teng, have always respected you. But you can tell me about it, he Wu invaded us, causing us to die so many soldiers, these are not counted. The point is that they lost. Is it wrong to say that we want some compensation? There is also Zhenyuan Pass, and everyone is aware of its strategic importance. So tell me, why can't we fight? Ma Teng questioned with a look of disgruntle.

But Feng Huaidao smiled, stroked his beard, and replied in a calm tone: "General Ma, I'm not saying that you can't fight, but if you can't fight, you won't fight." There is a better way to solve the problem, why do we have to fight and die? ”

"Oh?" Xu Huaizhi on the side looked at Feng Huaidao and asked, "Then please teach us a way to take Zhenyuan Pass without fighting." ”

"Hahaha......" Without waiting for Feng Huaidao to answer the question, Shi Fangheng on the side laughed. Then he said with a confident look: "Generals, I have already discussed this matter with Feng Shoufu. The army still has to move, at least we can't coax it, and we have to put on a posture of fighting to the death. And secretly, we can contact those Wu families who do business with us. They definitely don't want our two sides to fight, so they can put pressure on Emperor Wu through them. If it doesn't work, then you'll have to work hard for the generals. ”

When everyone heard this, they thought this was the truth. If you can take back Zhenyuan Pass without fighting, that will naturally be the best result. Therefore, after hearing this, the people in the military did not object to this opinion. And Gongsun Jian, who had never spoken, spoke at this moment: "Feng Shoufu and Chief Shi's words are not wrong. We must be ready to fight, but try to negotiate to make Wu give up Zhenyuan Pass. Below I command. ”

With a 'bang', everyone present stood up except for Gongsun Jian, waiting for Gongsun Jian's order.

"Send the 1st, 3rd, and 4th divisions to the outskirts of Zhenyuan Pass and make all preparations for battle. Maten, your rapid responder, is always ready for reinforcements. In addition, Hu Tianyi's subordinate internal affairs troops began to arrest all the merchants of Wu in our territory, seize all goods, and cut off all silver exchanges. Just remember not to hurt anyone. ”

"Yes." Several people who received the order said loudly.

"At the same time, Zhao Changle's Intelligence Department will speed up the collection of intelligence within Wu State, especially in Zhenyuan Pass, we must be ready to attack Zhenyuan Pass at any time."

"Subordinates obey!"

Now that the tone has been set, the next step is to implement it. Soon, Gongsun Jian's side severed all economic and trade exchanges with Wu, and began to arrest Wu merchants and seize goods in the territory. At the same time, the newly selected and formed special combat brigade was led by Gongsun Jian himself, divided into dozens of small detachments, and arrived in the territory of Wu through the reckless mountains and forests in the far northwest of the Zhou State, and began to carry out indiscriminate attacks on the territory of Wu State, mainly focusing on the official yamen and those big families.

At this time, Wu Guo was completely messed up, and he had the intention to turn his face with Gongsun Jian, but he didn't have that confidence. After all, his 80,000 army was wiped out by the other party just now, and 50,000 people. can not agree to Gongsun Jian's request, those wealthy families in China find trouble with Emperor Wu through their relationships all day long. It's a small matter to lose some money, but you may not be able to do business in the future. Besides, who doesn't have any relatives or anything, Gongsun Jian's special combat team is getting more and more noisy now.

You want to exterminate it, but people hide in the mountains and can't find it. If you don't care, one will die today and one tomorrow. Maybe one day it will be a relative or friend who dies. And Gongsun Jian didn't admit it here, because those people were all under the banner of mountain bandits. But let me ask you, which mountain bandit is so powerful?

At this moment, Li Wenfang, who was negotiating on behalf of Gongsun Jian in the capital of Wu State, was proud. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I still have official business in the palace, and I can't stay in Wu for long, so I have to go back. Bye!

What? Emperor Wu wants to talk to me again? What are you talking about? Anyway, Emperor Wu won't agree to my request. What? Emperor Wu agreed. Excuse me. But my requirements have changed. To be exact, it's not my personal request, but our prince has changed his mind.

Okay, okay, then let's meet Emperor Wu. But that's it. If we can't talk about it this time, then I'll really go back tomorrow.

It has to be said that Li Wenfang has performed very well after gaining support, not only is he neither humble nor arrogant, polite and courteous in the negotiation process, but also has a very good grasp of the timing and the mentality of the other party. In the end, Emperor Sun Hao of Wu signed an agreement with the Zhou State and the Zhou Royal Mansion under both internal and external pressure. At the same time, the Wu side was willing to hand over the Zhenyuan Pass, which had occupied nearly two years, to Da Zhou, and the two sides agreed that in the future, the border between Wu and Vietnam would be used as the demarcation. Both sides must strictly abide by the principle that they must not go over at will, otherwise they will be regarded as taking the initiative to provoke a war. In addition, although the Wu side handed over the Zhenyuan Pass to the King of Zhou, it did not mean that it was given to the Zhou State, and if the King of Zhou was unable to protect the safety of the Zhenyuan Pass, the Wu State had the right to take it back again at any time.

To put it bluntly, this is a little trick that Emperor Wu played in the end, which is nothing more than trying to create some differences and contradictions between Emperor Yue and Gongsun Jian, and to find an excuse for himself to send troops in the future. But Gongsun Jian didn't care at all. If you have the ability, you can just take it. I don't believe you'll still have the ability to do that. Once Zhenyuan Pass returns to his own hands, with the cement in his hands now, hehe, I'm afraid you will be scared half to death when you come to see it again in the future.

The negotiations finally achieved their intended objectives. The soldiers bloodlessly recaptured Zhenyuan Pass, a strategic place on the border between Wu and Yue, so that Gongsun Jian had no worries behind him. Therefore, in order to show friendship, the Zhou Wangfu also released the arrested Wu merchants and goods, and at the same time continued to open trade with Wu. In addition, timely dispatched manpower to recover the Yuanguan in Tunzhen.

After recovering Zhenyuan Pass, Gongsun Jian can also be regarded as a matter of heart. You can free up more energy to do other things.

Since the reform of internal affairs has basically achieved results, and the five members of the cabinet and other ministries and departments are also very efficient, they are developing towards a virtuous circle for the time being, so there is no need for Gongsun Jian to worry too much. New military reform and reorganization are also in full swing. And Gongsun Jian's focus is all on this.

It is not that Gongsun Jian is heavy on military force and light on literature, but in today's external environment, it is impossible to provide a guarantee for stable development without the support of a strong military reserve. Besides, Gongsun Jian will also send troops to the Southern Han Dynasty to help Qian Tuan, the king of Chu, defend his position. Otherwise, once you wait for Yue Huang Qian Hong to slow down, you will have to deal with yourself. At the moment, he is not ready to annex the entire Zhou State. In particular, the foundations of the Zhou state were all concentrated in the central and eastern regions, which were the bases of the old family nobles. It may not be a big problem to fight down, but how to deal with it in the future is a problem. After all, the new policy he implemented was mainly aimed at these people. And then the pressure of opposition will be the greatest.

Today's army under the jurisdiction of the Zhou Wangfu does not have too strong combat effectiveness due to the large number of recruits, but fortunately, many veterans in the Zhou army have seen blood on the battlefield, so they were broken up and reorganized, and the army training process was accelerated by the old with the new or achieved good results.

At present, the seven newly expanded field divisions are now stepping up their drills in their respective areas under the leadership of their own generals. The newly formed mobile division is also led by Ma Teng to strive to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, in fact, it is no problem for this team to fight on foot, the key is mobility, that is, horseback riding. The state of Zhou itself is located in the south, with many mountains and few horses. Therefore, even some veterans who have been in the army for many years do not necessarily ride horses. So it takes a lot of practice.

After inspecting all the troops, Gongsun Jian left all his thoughts on Xie Wu's special operations brigade. Speaking of which, this is his old business in his previous life. So there's nothing to say, so roll up your sleeves and start working.

First of all, the whole brigade has no official position, including Gongsun Jian, all are equal. This is not to say that Gongsun Jian wants to create any new fame, but these people are all selected and transferred from the original field division. But everyone's abilities and abilities are different, in a new environment and training mode, how to adapt and improve it will take a long time, and how this army will be used in the future, Gongsun Jian and Xie Wu have already studied and discussed. As for the personnel structure, official positions, military ranks, etc., it depends on the training performance of all of you in the next period of time.

No matter what kind of official position you have held in other teams, when it comes to the special operations brigade, all of them start from the top soldiers, and if you have the ability, you will go up, and if you don't have the ability, you will watch others go up. Everything here speaks according to your true skills.

The three-month special training is like hell on earth, many people can't bear the sin and quit voluntarily in the middle of the process, and some fall in the middle of the training because of their own improper operation, but there are also many people who stubbornly stay. In particular, a recruit named Ye Yongming left a deep impression on Gongsun Jian.