To this end, Gongsun Jian convened a meeting of all the key personnel who could be summoned that night. There is only one topic, what name will we call the outside world next?

According to the meaning of Ma Tengding Feng and a few generals, you can directly call the king, it may be a little early to be called the emperor, but it is nothing to be called a king. This proposal was opposed by Gongsun Jian and Feng Huaidao on the spot. Only the territory of the three provinces and nineteen counties is called the king, isn't that looking for death? What's more, it still occupies the land of the Zhou State. Believe it or not, Qian Zhuo, that kid can immediately give up the battle against the Northern Qi and Southern Han, turn around, and destroy you with all his might.

Gongsun Jian put forward a slogan that he had stolen on the spot, that is, 'build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become king'. This strategy was endorsed by Feng Huaidao, Liu Dayuan, Xu Huaizhi and others. After deliberating for a long time, the final result was to temporarily issue an internal order to the outside world in the name of the camp of the governor of the three prefectures in the northwest of the Zhou State.

Gongsun Jian was naturally the chief administrator, while Feng Huaidao was appointed as the counselor of the governor's office, and Huang Wenyuan was the deputy counselor. Liu Dayuan was appointed as the prefect of Shengzhou Prefecture, where Linshui County is located, and the capital city was changed to Linshui County. Cao Liang is the prefect of Jiazhou Prefecture. The other prefect of Hezhou Prefecture is a newly recruited person named Zhang Yi. This person was originally a good friend of Feng Huaidao, and was called by Feng Huaidao in a letter to help, and gradually revealed his extraordinary talent. According to Gongsun Jian's idea, he was originally going to give him a prefect directly. But this person is stubborn, and he has to rely on his real skills to participate in the assessment. Needless to say, it was naturally passed without a hitch.

Now that the local civil officials are in place, the next thing is the military attachés. Gongsun Jian originally had five combat regiments plus a logistics reserve regiment, with a strength of more than 10,000 troops, and now there are eight combat regiments and a reserve regiment that Xu Huaizhi originally reorganized. Together, it is close to 30,000 people. The two logistics regiments were merged to form a reserve brigade, with Qi Shi as the commander-in-chief. The other thirteen station corps were divided into four divisions, each division had three regiments, and the extra regiment was under Wei Meng's command and changed to an independent garrison regiment.

Xu Huaizhi, commander of the First Division, Ma Teng, commander of the Second Division, Tian Kuo, commander of the Third Division, and Ding Feng, commander of the Fourth Division. Xie Wu's original reconnaissance company was expanded into a reconnaissance battalion, which was directly under the leadership and command of Gongsun Jian. In addition, Zhao Changle is in charge of the Intelligence Department, which is mainly responsible for external intelligence spying and collection, and Hu Tianyi is in charge of the Security Department, which is responsible for specific operations such as counter-espionage, internal monitoring, screening, and assassination.

At this point, Gongsun Jian's three northwestern prefectures have finally begun to take shape.

Gongsun Jian's small life is getting better and better, but Qian Zhuo, who went to the capital, is getting more and more depressed. looked at the fold handed over by Gongsun Jian in his hand, and asked the imperial court to appoint him as the governor of the three northwestern prefectures of the Zhou State. But Zhou has never held this position since the founding of the country! seems to want the court to canonize him, but in fact, he is warning and blackmailing Qian Zhuo.

'Bang', Qian Zhuo slapped the fold on the imperial book case, and scolded with a hideous face: "This Gongsun Jian is really unsightly, and when I finish cleaning up the Northern Qi and Southern Han, I must break his body into ten thousand pieces." ”

Liu Wenhua, the new prime minister of the left on the side, glanced at the new emperor in front of him, who was also his own nephew, and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, in fact, it is just a small official position, so why not satisfy him temporarily." What is really annoying is the dead and not stiff public and nobles. If it weren't for Gong Mohan's old immortal thing, how could the 20,000 horses under Xu Huaizhi belong to Gongsun Jian, and he would not have taken the opportunity to sit big. ”

"Hmph, Gong Mohan. If it weren't for the princess's face, I would have cut off his dog's head a long time ago. Qian Zhuo said angrily.

"So, Your Majesty. You can endure your anger for a while now, as long as we deal with Gongsun Jian, then the Gongjia is not free to knead as much as he wants. ”

"To put it simply, now that Gongsun Jian has hardened his wings in the three northwestern provinces, it is not so easy to deal with, the key is that the war in the north and south is not good for us now. Where is there time to spare your hands to deal with him. ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen has a plan, maybe it can be useful." Liu Wenhua said cautiously.

"Oh? Uncle. Tell me what you have planned. ”

"Your Majesty, didn't Gongsun Jian ask the court to give him an official, just promise him. But since he is an official of the imperial court, he should contribute to the imperial court. It is better to let him pay money and people to help the king of Chu resist the Southern Han. If he wins, the court will benefit, and if he loses, it will just weaken the strength of his Gongsun Jian. ”

Qian Zhuo pondered for a moment after listening to Liu Wenhua's words, nodded and said, "Yes." It's just that what if Gongsun Jian doesn't listen to the orders of the imperial court? ”

Then he just took the title of chief administrator, and announced that this person in the world is a traitor at both ends of the snake and mouse, named Yue Chen. Hehe, in this case, it depends on how he can block the mouth of the world. The imperial court also justifiably acted against him and the public. ”

"Well, what my uncle said is very true." Qian Zhuo nodded with satisfaction. Then he said to the eunuch beside him: "Pass the decree, Feng Gongsun Jian is the chief of the three prefectures in the northwest, and the order is better than one product." In addition, he was asked to bring 20,000 horses and horses to serve in front of the army of the king of Chu with his own money and food, and he had his own reward after helping the imperial court repel the Southern Han Dynasty. ”

Qian Zhuo thought that he had done the matter of Gongsun Jian with one stone, but another part of the palace was also secretly discussing this matter at the moment.

Yanshou Palace, the current Emperor Taishang is also the place where Qian Hong, the former Yue Emperor, lived. At this moment, he was sitting on the couch playing against Chen Cheng opposite. Although Chen Cheng is still the right prime minister, he has long lost real power in his hands, and it is nothing more than an ornament. However, he still has some energy in the court. Some news came to know no later than others. At this moment, he was talking to Qian Hong about Gongsun Jian's request for sealing.

After Qian Hong played a chess move with a calm face, he turned his head sideways and glanced at the old eunuch waiting next to him, and asked lightly: "That kid really listened to Liu Wenhua's stupid words, and asked Gongsun Jian to take someone to Qian Tuan to help deal with the Southern Han?" ”

"Yes, the news just came from the Imperial Study." The old eunuch replied in a low voice.

"Hmph. A bunch of idiots. Qian Hong scolded unhappily: "It's all self-righteous things." The third son thought he was smart, but when he unloaded the mill and killed the donkey, he didn't clean his hands and feet. Until now, he has left himself with a problem. That Gongsun Jianjing is like a monkey, how could he not see that Liu Wenhua's stupid idea. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the one who did nothing wrong in this matter." Chen Cheng on the other side asked a little puzzled.

"Huh. In my life, I have misjudged two people. One is my good son. One is Gongsun Jian. The third son seems to be loyal but treacherous, but he has no great talent, and he will only secretly play some conspiracy all day long. And Gongsun Jian seems to be reckless, but in fact, he has already calculated in his heart, and he is interlocking every step of the way. At the beginning, he helped the little third son to grab the throne, but in fact, he didn't have any good intentions, but the only thing he didn't expect was that the little third son would immediately turn his face and ruthlessly kill him after succeeding to the throne. The boss is also a fool, he had the opportunity to join forces with Gongsun Jian to occupy the north and west, and even waited for the opportunity to go to Beijing to seize the throne, but he took refuge in the third child and abandoned his martial arts. As he spoke, Qian Hong put the chess pieces in his hand back into the chess box, took a sip of the tea on the side, and continued: "If I guessed correctly, after Gongsun Jian received the order, he promised to delay it and would not immediately send troops to help the imperial court." And as long as there is an accident in the south or north, no matter whether Qian Tuan's army wins or loses, Gongsun Jian guarantees that he will act immediately. But it was not to help the war, but to take the opportunity to go from the northwest to the south to seize control of the four prefectures in Xizhou. Once he takes the four prefectures of Xizhou, so that he has the land of seven mansions in his hands, and when the Li family of the southwest Jeju Mansion echoes with him again, the four prefectures in the southwest are estimated to be unable to keep it, so that nearly a quarter of the territory of the Zhou State will be under the control of Gongsun Jian's kid. ”

"Oh? Your Majesty, Gongsun Jian has so much courage and courage? Chen Cheng couldn't help but ask with some doubts.

"Hahaha, I just said it, I was wrong about him at the beginning. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to save his life. In the eyes of this son, it is not only our Zhou Kingdom, but the whole world. ”

"Hiss......" Chen Cheng couldn't help but gasp when he heard this. It took a long time before he asked faintly: "Your Majesty, do you mean that Gongsun Jian wants to follow the example of the original First Emperor to rule the world?" ”

"Hahaha......" Qian Hong laughed, then looked at his brother-in-law and said, "Chen Cheng! You still haven't figured it out. This son is not to emulate the First Emperor, but to create a new history. ”

"Oh? What do you mean by your majesty's words? ”

"Hehe, didn't you pay attention to the policies he implemented in Linshui County at the beginning and now in the entire Northwest Three Prefectures? Although this son was born into a wealthy family, he also saw the problems in this world for a long time. Wealth and land are all in the hands of the big landlords and those nobles, even the great unified dynasty will sooner or later come to an end because of the problem of land annexation, and it is only a matter of time before the people who have no living space revolt and rebel. This is why I was bent on suppressing those nobles in the first place, but unfortunately I had too many restraints, but he was different. He started from a small place and broke all the dossing and reinventing the wheel, as if he were drawing on a blank sheet of paper. But I can't do that, otherwise Zhou Guo would have been messed up a long time ago. But now it's different, I'm afraid the world has really come to the point of unity. ”

"This ......" Chen Dong was speechless, not knowing what to say. For a while, he looked at the rockery fish pond in the distance and was stunned. And Qian Hong stroked his beard and smiled at the old eunuch standing beside him and instructed: "Go back and ask the queen to pick out a few good jewelry and valuable things to send to Princess Ningguo, just say that it is a little bit of my heart, now that I am no longer in power, there is nothing good for her, so it should be regarded as a dowry for her." In addition, let our people move and marry the princess as soon as possible, didn't the third child promise Gongsun Jian to send Mingyue to Linshui County to complete the marriage? Then don't put it off any longer. ”

"Yes, the slave knows." The old eunuch nodded in agreement. And Chen Cheng, who was on the other side, also came to his senses at this moment, looked at Qian Hong and asked, "Your Majesty, do you mean to win over Gongsun Jian?" ”

Qian Hong shook his head and replied a little dejectedly: "I just want to try it, can I leave some blood for my Qian family in the future." Besides, as long as Mingyue marries the kid Gongsun Jian, even if he wins the world in the future, hehe, the queen is not a member of my Qian family, and maybe the one who will ascend to the throne in the future will still be my grandson. Hahaha! ”

"High! Your Majesty is indeed far-sighted. ”

Not to mention the intrigue and intrigue in the palace, today's Gongsun Jian can be said to affect the interests of many people. In a quiet mansion in the capital city, Shang Shu Luo Dayong of the Criminal Department was drinking tea with people in a pavilion in the backyard. And this person is none other than Gongsun Jian's father, Gong Zhen.

"It's not easy for my brother to go out, right?" Luo Dayong looked at Gong Zhen and asked. Gong Zhen nodded and replied: "Indeed, it was only after putting on makeup that I finally got rid of those spies and came here to see Brother Luo." ”

"Hehe, the old man is the same. Although the old man is still in the court, that Qian Zhuo Xiao'er still doesn't plan to let us go. If it weren't for Gongsun Jian's nephew stirring up the storm in the northwest, I'm afraid that all of us would have gone to Huangquan Road at this moment. ”