As soon as he heard that he could preach in the Black Flag Khanate, the high priest's attitude changed greatly: "You and I have two departments, they are the same root and the same species, and the eagle god will definitely bless you, the national teacher and the white wolf king are really people with great wisdom, I think you and I can be as close as a family."

Hu Gao raised the wine bowl: "The high priest and the Tubili Khan are the real great wisdom, and it is not in vain for us to come and go this way, come, toast to our fire dragon clan in the future galloping to the Central Plains."

Tubili, Zadar, and the high priest also raised their bowls one after another, and this meal was drunk until the sky was full of stars, and this meal was also eaten finely. A few days later, Hu Gao, on behalf of the Black Flag Khanate, made the following covenant with Tubilia: "1. The two countries are about brotherly countries, and when sending troops, they may borrow each other's channels and inform each other of the information they have spied; 2. A year later, when the autumn is high and the horse is fat, it will march to the Central Plains at the same time; Third, with the Taihang Mountains as the boundary, the west side belongs to the Green Flag Khanate, and the east side belongs to the Black Flag Khanate; 4. The Black Flag Khanate allowed the High Priest to send people to spread the Cult of the Eagle God"

At this time, the Central Plains staged an alternative alliance.

After Chen Hongyi read the proclamation posted by Zhong Zhiming, he laughed a few times, and the generals thought that he was confused, but Chen Hongyi said to everyone: "This Zhong Zhiming is indeed a talent, no wonder Xiaoshan values him so much!" ”

Shen De asked: "Dashuai, this person wants to humiliate you, but you still exalt him like this, is Dashuai also afraid that they will not succeed?" ”

Chen Hongyi took a sip of water: "If this Zhong Zhiming really wants to humiliate me, why bother making such a big fuss, for fear that I am not prepared, he is communicating with me"

Chen Kuan also asked: "Since he wants to communicate with the big marshal, why doesn't he send a secret letter?" Instead, you want to make it known to the world? ”

Chen Hongyi put down the cup: "This is his cleverness, I am afraid that there are many people around him who are watching him, and his every move Jinling will know, and now he is posting proclamations everywhere, but no one is suspicious, isn't this very clever?" ”

Shen Dehaha laughed: "That is why a smart person like Da Shuai can understand the mystery, if it were me, I would have to call a battle with him."

Chen Hongyi pointed at Shen De: "You kid reminded me, Chen Kuan, you also go and post a proclamation, just say that I, Chen Hongyi, welcome the imperial envoy to come and reprimand"

Chen Kuan also smiled: "Follow the instructions of the marshal, I will do it immediately"

Zhong Zhiming carried the edict of reprimanding Chen Hongyi, and took half of the officials from various states and counties to Xiangguo, Zhong Zhiming talked and laughed with the Taishou Sima along the way, and he actually had no bottom in his heart, after all, whether Chen Hongyi could understand his intentions, he was not sure.

When he entered the gate of Xiangguo, Zhong Zhiming breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the newly posted proclamation. The officials praised Zhong Zhiming: "General Zhong is so powerful, even if he is a hussar general, he has to give General Zhong a few points."

"General Zhong is in the prime of life, and his future is immeasurable, which is not comparable to the hussar general"

"General Zhong is a model for us as a person and an official."

Zhong Zhiming neither denied nor said much, but just hugged his fists and thanked the officials. These officials actually came to see what happened to Zhong Zhiming and Chen Hongyi, in their hearts, it was best for both of them to be ruined, after all, they were good emperors, but the imperial court sent people to lead them.

Zhong Zhiming and Chen Hongyi finally met, Chen Hongyi waited in the school field early, and set up a high platform of more than ten feet to welcome Zhong Zhiming. Chen Hongyi knelt on the high platform, without a helmet, Zhong Zhiming walked to the high platform step by step with the edict, and the group that came with him was also ready to go up, but was blocked by Chen Kuan: "This high platform is to welcome the imperial envoy and the emperor's edict, are you all imperial envoys, do you all have the edict in your hands?" ”

Chen Kuan said as he spoke, next to him, Shen De pressed his hand on the scabbard with angry eyes, and the officials were so frightened that they retreated again and again, so they had to wait under the stage.

The officials and soldiers in the audience watched Zhong Zhiming slowly go up to the top of the stage step by step, only to see Chen Hongyi kowtowing again and again, Zhong Zhiming took out the edict and spoke while fingering, but there were too many flags on the high platform, and the wind was blowing, and everyone could only hear Chen Hongyi's three words from time to time, but the others couldn't hear a word clearly. After a while, Zhong Zhiming slowly came down from the high platform, and everyone looked up and saw Chen Hongyi still kneeling in place.

Zhong Zhiming looked at Shen De and Chen Kuan again, and the two of them with hundreds of soldiers immediately knelt on the ground and shouted in unison: "Long live the emperor, the emperor is wise, swear allegiance to the emperor", and the Liang army in the city also shouted together, startling all the officials.

The officials were very disappointed, but Zhong Zhiming reprimanded Chen Hongyi, and Chen Hongyi's subordinates all knelt down and shouted allegiance to the emperor, and it was not easy to find faults, so they had to follow Zhong Zhiming to the Xiangguo Taishou Mansion for a banquet.

Chen Kuan said that Chen Hongyi felt deep remorse, cried and fainted on the high platform, and has now returned to the camp to recuperate, and Chen Kuan will entertain all the officials on his behalf. All the officials thanked him one after another, sang praises to Zhong Zhiming together, and persuaded Zhong Zhiming to drink. Zhong Zhiming was too drunk to get drunk, and the officials closest to him carried him to the post house.

When they arrived at the post house, several officials touched Zhong Zhiming, and they had long suspected that Chen Hongyi and Zhong Zhiming had reached some kind of deal on the high platform. Sure enough, a letter was quickly found from Zhong Zhiming's personal place, with Chen Hongyi's handwriting written on it, and everyone was very proud and hurriedly opened it to read. At first glance, they were disappointed, this letter was full of Chen Hongyi's words of self-reproach and repentance and swearing allegiance to the emperor, and everyone had to stuff the letter back.

When Zhong Zhiming led the officials back to Fuyang, Chen Hongyi recovered from his illness and returned to the Xiangguo Mansion, Chen Kuan, Shen De and others met Chen Hongyi and asked about what happened on the high platform that day, but Chen Hongyi didn't say a word, only told them that the generals were generals after all, and the warriors should cooperate with each other.

There were dozens of secret letters sent to Xiaoshan and them in Jinling, and they looked at Xiaoshan for a long time, but they were suspicious that this matter was not like what everyone saw on the surface, but they couldn't verify it, so they had to sigh: "This military general is playing with his heart, we can't guess it, it's me who has seen it."

Yuan Kang immediately answered: "Then this Zhong Zhiming can't be used, or find some officials to impeach him and remove him."

Xiao Shan glanced at him: "How about you go to Hebei to lead the troops without him?" ”

Xiao Ding smiled: "There is no doubt about employing people, this Zhong Zhiming has done a good job, although he and Chen Hongyi may have a secret deal, but he still won't betray us at present, after all, he is surrounded by our people, and the food, grass and military needs all depend on our people to raise for him." I'm sure he also knows what's important."

Xie Rui frowned: "We, the big families, don't even have our own children to lead the troops, and in the long run, I'm afraid there will be changes." After all, it's hard to find a loyal person like Zhong Zhiming."

Xiao Shan shook his head: "It's too hard to march and fight, who of us is willing to send our children to the battlefield for training?" Besides, the sword has no eyes, and we can't afford to miss it. Let's take a step at a time, if there is a wishful among the descendants of my Xiao family, I have to send it to the army first, and I can't stuff people into the official office anymore."

Having said that, most of the officials in the counties and counties of the state today are from the Xiao Wang, Xie Chen, and Yuan families, and the rest are also divided into the Cui family, the Yang family, the Li family, and the Lu family. If a pariah wants to become an official, he has to climb out of the pile of dead.

Li Xiaofei and Zhu Yaoshi also did their best in the monolith, and spent half a year to build the monolithic fort, on the ground is a layered high and low wall and arrow tower, the wall is intricate, if you don't often walk in it, you will get lost. Underground, there are tunnels and ditches connected to store rainwater and hide in between, with dead ends and traps in between. If the ground falls, you can retreat to an underground fortress and hold on. After this monolithic fort was completed, Li Xiaofei looked at the north and said with a smile: "If the army of the Black Flag Khanate wants to enter the fortress from here again, it must throw down tens of thousands of corpses."

Pharmacist Zhu looked at the Guannei, turned around and patted Li Xiaofei on the shoulder: "Ah Fei, in the past few hundred years, there have been countless dangerous passes on the Great Wall, and in the end, isn't it also unguarded?" I think the key is still in the people, no matter how good the fortress pass, no one guards it, or the people who guard it are not effective, it is just an ornament."

Li Xiaofei nodded: "That's true, it is said that our grain and grass are only enough for four months, and it is about to enter winter, this winter, it will be very difficult to transport grain from Xiangguo, we have to plan early."

Pharmacist Zhu thought for a while: "If you want to eat, I have a way, but this is a forbidden thing, I'm afraid you won't dare."

Li Xiaofei smiled: "As long as you don't want me to turn the horse's head and kill Jinling, you just have to say, I'll come and see if it's okay or not."

Zhu Yaoshi patted the knife in his hand: "Isn't there a blacksmith in our army who repairs weapons?" Let's cast the broken sword into an iron pot, and exchange the iron pot and the fire dragon people for horses, cattle and sheep, where do we have to worry about running out of food and grass? What's more, after the winter, the fire dragon people don't have much forage, and every year they will starve to death and freeze some horses, cattle and sheep to death. It's just that salt and iron are monopolized by the imperial court, and trade with foreign clans must also have the approval of the imperial court. If we do it, we'll be in trouble again."

Li Xiaofei thought for a while: "Dry, the emperor is far away, let's not sell things to the Central Plains, not to mention that we sell pots, not iron and weapons, by the way, we can also fire some clay pots and pots to sell to them, if we want to do business, let's do it seriously."

These two people just do what they say, one is young and vigorous, the other is remote, the imperial court supervisors hide in Fanyang and only send people to send letters, the two are unrestrained, and they actually open a market outside the monolithic fort. At first, some Fire Dragon herdsmen were afraid of being killed by Liang Jun, so they didn't dare to come, but later Liang Jun himself carried an iron pot on his back to exchange with the Fire Dragon Clan, and the market became lively.

Fortunately, it will soon be winter, and there is no news from Fan Yang's side about the mutual market of the monolithic castle, and Li Xiaofei and Zhu Yaoshi are full of cattle and sheep, 3,000 horses, and all the soldiers have also got some money, and they can eat meat every day, and they are happy.

In the ninth year of the Xianchu month, Li Xiaofei and Zhu Yaoshi held a banquet to drink with the commanders of each battalion, a group of men got drunk and talked about women, Zheng Ada, the commander of the long knife battalion, shook his body and said: "The two generals treat the brothers very well, they have meat to eat every day, and they also bought fire wine from the grassland to drive away the cold, but this meat and wine are too much to eat and drink, and the night is hot and hot, plus, our brothers are not small, if the balance is today, it would be good if we could settle down here, we can help each other build this house, How good it is to grow your own food and graze."

As soon as he drank too much wine, everyone didn't think about it, Li Xiaofei waved his hand: "It's excellent, it's excellent, I'll tell the big guy to go when the spring starts."

Pharmacist Zhu hugged the wine jar and smiled: "Speaking of matchmakers, who is willing to come to the border land in the Central Plains, I think, it is better for us to marry the girls from Mobei, they are tall and strong, and they have lived here since they were children, which is just right, just right."

Li Xiaofei waved his hand: "Isn't this a peace with Mobei?" When the time comes, once the two families go to war, won't this family be dispersed? No, no."

Pharmacist Zhu handed Li Xiaofei a jar of wine: "They have all become relatives, what kind of war are they fighting, aren't they all a family, we also save every day to guard this monolithic fort like a thief."

Li Xiaofei took the wine and poured it into his mouth, and most of the wine spilled out: "This, this, yes, yes, a family, no war, no war." Drink, drink, and drink your delightful wine when the time comes."