Huainan Road, the capital of Huainan Province, Luzhou.

Compared with the three vassal states of Wu, Chu and Shu, the territory of Huainan is relatively small, and Huainan Province, where Huainan is located, is located south of the Huai River and north of the Yangtze River, starting from Zhuoyu in the west

water, east to the sea; And directly facing the imperial army, there is basically not much danger to defend.

Therefore, among the four major feudal kings, Guo Bing, the king of Huainan, is also the one who is most influenced by the imperial court on the surface, although Guo Bing sometimes jumps up and down secretly to contact the other three feudal kings, but if he really moves the real character, Guo Bing will wilt immediately.

When the envoys of the imperial court came to Luzhou, the capital of Huainan Kingdom, Guo Bing, the king of Huainan, personally went out of the city to greet him and took the envoys to his palace; The palace of King Huainan is not large, and it is not the same level as King Wu's palace at all, but the palace of Huainan is very exquisite, and it has a unique artistic conception.

"The minister sees the prince." When the envoy saw Queen Huainan, he hurriedly saluted.

"The envoy has worked hard all the way." Guo Bing, the king of Huainan, took the hand of the envoy and said, "Gu has prepared a banquet in the palace to receive the wind and wash the dust for the envoy. ”

"There's Lord Lao." The envoy said in a special way.

"Special Envoy, please."

"Or the prince will invite ...... first"

In the main hall of the Huainan Palace, the banquet soon entered the ** part, although the envoy and Huainan King Guo Bing had a good conversation, but the two did not drink too much wine, and kept themselves a relatively sober mind.

"Lord Wang, His Majesty sent his ministers here this time because he wanted to ask the prince for help." The envoy said to Guo Bingyan, the king of Huainan.

"Heh, heh, he...... Your Majesty has something to ask Gu for help? King Huainan smiled: "Don't laugh at the envoy. ”

"Lord Wang, the minister didn't laugh." The envoy said with a serious face: "Now the coalition army composed of the imperial court and the king of Zhao is fighting with the Beidi army in the north, although the two sides have won and lost each other, but the Beidi cavalry is erratic, and our coalition army is more than foot soldiers, can not effectively strike at it, our army can only passively defend, so the front line needs a large number of troops;

His Majesty sent his ministers here, hoping that the prince could send his Huainan soldiers to the north to reinforce them, and the imperial court would destroy the Beidi cavalry, and the prince would also make a great contribution! ”

Hearing the envoy's words, the smile on King Huainan's original face disappeared, and King Huainan said to the envoy: "Special envoy, what is the situation in the lonely Huainan Kingdom, Your Majesty and the court are clear;

Although the land of Huainan is densely populated, there are only 100,000 Huainan soldiers under the command of Lone, and half of them are sailors. ”

"Doesn't the prince still have 50,000 foot troops! It is enough to send them. The envoy said unrelentingly.

"Your Excellency." King Huainan said with a bitter face: "It's not that Lone is unwilling to send troops north, it's really Lonely's powerlessness!"

In fact, for the imperial court, it is more beneficial for the imperial court to leave the soldiers and horses alone than to send them to the north, and there are 100,000 Huainan troops guarding Huainan, which can completely block the pace of the Wu army going north and relieve the worries of the imperial court! ”

"I'm afraid this is just the prince is too worried." The envoy continued: "When I came down, His Majesty had already sent an envoy to Wucheng to discuss with King Wu about sending troops. ”

"Oh! Yes! King Huainan said thoughtfully: "The envoy can rest assured, as long as the Wu army sends troops, Gu will definitely send troops together." ”

"It's great that the prince has the heart to serve the country, but in the next opinion, the prince doesn't have to be like this." The envoy continued: "Since the prince has the heart to serve the country, according to the opinion below, the prince does not need to have an infantry army;

The prince also said just now that the land of Huainan is densely populated, and in his opinion, the prince can recruit a new army of 100,000 people! This shouldn't be a difficult thing for the prince! ”

Hearing the envoy's words, King Huainan realized that he had fallen into the pit this time, and King Huainan, whose face was like the bottom of a pot, laughed twice and stopped talking.

"Your Excellency the Special Envoy, although the king of my family has the intention to send troops, this recruitment is not a matter of one or two days, and I Huainan lacks iron ore and leather, and I am afraid that the weapons and armor of this 100,000 army will not be able to get together!" Huainan Minister Liu Andao.

Liu An's words are very clear, let's recruit new troops no problem! But this recruitment of new troops requires weapons and armor, but we don't have this thing in Huainan Kingdom, and the imperial court must always support one or two!

"Weapons and armor are easy to say." The envoy replied directly: "As long as the Minister of State sends these 100,000 Ding Yong to the north bank of the Huai River, I guarantee that they will receive weapons and armor as soon as possible;

Although this weapon and armor can be solved by the imperial court, I am afraid that this grain and grass still needs to be raised by the prince himself, and on the way here, I heard that this year's Huainan Kingdom is a bumper harvest (summer harvest)! Compared with the prince's grain and grass, he is very rich, and he also hopes that the prince can lend the court millions of stone grain and grass. ”

"Millions of stones, grains and grass, envoy, you really dare to speak!" King Huainan was shocked: "Lonely. ”

"Don't get me wrong, I just said that it was borrowed, and the court will return it to the prince in the future."

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After some bargaining, the envoy finally reached a final agreement with the king of Huainan, and the Huainan Congress supported the 100,000 troops in the north, and at the same time lent 500,000 stone grain and grass to the imperial court; However, Huainan also has conditions, that is, the weapons and armor of the 100,000 army need to be provided by the imperial court, and after the war in the north is over, all these armors belong to Huainan.

Although the king of Huainan agreed to send troops, the process of sending troops was slow, and it was not until the end of the war that the 100,000 new troops of the king of Huainan crossed the Huai River.

Besides, the King of Chu and the King of Shu, these two bigwigs are both hard-hearted masters, and the two of them are rich, have territory, and have an army, and their strength is very strong, so they don't bird the envoys sent by the imperial court at all.

The king of Chu, who lived in Jiangling, was quite polite to the envoy, although he did not see the envoy of the imperial court, but at least he arranged for the envoy to live in a post house; And the king of Shu broke a lot of cattle, not to mention seeing it, he didn't even live in the post house, and directly blasted the envoy sent by the imperial court out of Chengdu City.

The reason why Guo Feng, the king of Shu, is so hard-hearted, is because he is full of confidence, first of all, Shu is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if the court wins in the future, it is not so easy to send a large army to conquer the king of Shu, and secondly, the land of Sichuan and Shu has basically not been devastated by the war, so the land of Sichuan and Shu is very rich, and the king of Shu is very rich, it can be said that the king of Shu is now poor and only has money, and there is an army with money.

Now the army in the hands of the King of Shu has at least 300,000, but it is well-equipped, coupled with the difficult and dangerous road of Shu, there are so many large armies guarded, so the King of Shu will be so tough and directly blast the imperial envoy out of Chengdu, the capital of Shu.

For the compromise made by the emperor, except for the king of Huainan to buy it, the other three princes and kings did not buy it at all, this news came back to the ears of the emperor, and the emperor was not light, but there was no way, after all, the emperor did not have the strength to wrestle with these princes and kings now.

Just when the emperor was angry, Yongcheng had an accident again, and this incident directly pushed Yongwang Guo Qi to the forefront.