Whether to cooperate with King Shun or not, Yan Kui thought about it for two days and finally made a decision.

Cooperate!

Although the Thai Gong Huangzhou is not weak, his Yan Kui is not muddy, and more importantly, King Shun has a grudge against the Thai Duke, but theoretically it has nothing to do with him Yan Kui.

If Huang Zhou really holds a grudge or even retaliates against Yan Kui because of his cooperation with Yan Kui and the Shun Palace, he will inevitably be too narrow-minded and cause criticism.

Such a person can't become a climate, and Yan Kui is not afraid.

So, Yan Kui, who had made up his mind, called Gong Zhiyuan and formally proposed to him to cooperate with the Shun Palace.

Gong Zhiyuan was overjoyed after hearing this, Yan Kui's foundation on the border is not weak, with his support, the Shun Wangfu caravan is unimpeded in the three border provinces, and he earns money every day.

For Shun Wangfu, this matter is beneficial and harmless, so naturally there is no reason not to agree.

Gong Zhiyuan quickly sent a message to King Shun's mansion, and within a few days, Prince Shun sent his eldest son to discuss it to show his attention to Yan Kui.

A few days later, Yan Kui and Shun Wangfu negotiated and finally decided on matters related to cooperation.

That is, the two sides each contributed half of the capital, Shun Wang Fang was responsible for purchasing and trading, and Yan Kuifang was responsible for letting the caravan open trade routes in the three border provinces, and ensuring the interests of the caravan in the three provinces, and the income of the caravan was divided.

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After confirming the cooperation matters, the two parties formally signed a contract and became business partners.

Subsequently, Yan Kui held a banquet in the General's Mansion to invite King Shun's eldest son, Leyun Zhiyuan, to celebrate the palace.

Le Yun is from King Shun and Princess Shun, both the eldest son and the heir, there will be no accidents in the future, and Bacheng is the successor of Shun Wangfu.

This future prince is less than thirty years old this year, and he is currently serving in the Zongren Mansion, and because of his father, he has not received any important responsibilities, but he is just a fictitious position.

Le Yun is easy-going, speaks and does things with a lot of grace, at first glance he is a noble son, what is surprising is that he admires Yan Kui very much, saying that he once heard about Yan Kui's deeds in the capital, and he admires it very much.

Regardless of whether Le Yun's words were true or not, Yan Kui listened to it very comfortably anyway, and with the strength of the wine, he actually agreed to take Le Yun to visit the military camp tomorrow.

The next day, after Yan Kui woke up, he regretted it, but when he saw Baba coming to the general's mansion early in the morning to block his Leyun, he had to keep his promise and take him to the barracks for a turn.

At present, the Xiaoguan military camp, because the recruits have not been fully recruited, all the troops in the camp are veterans who have followed Yan Kui in repeated battles, including the three thousand white-robed troops that Yan Kui recently put together.

Leaving aside the white-robed army, even those ordinary soldiers survived several battles with the Zhou army, and the iron-blooded momentum left over from the battlefield shook Le Yun very lightly, and he never returned to his senses for a long time.

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When he returned to the camp with Yan Kui, Le Yun praised Yan Kui's subordinates, and quietly told Yan Kui that he watched the momentum of the Xiaoguan army, and even won a lot over the forbidden army in Beijing.

Yan Kui listened, he didn't dare to say it, but he rolled his eyes in private, although the forbidden army is known as the trump card of the Northern Jin Dynasty, most of them have never seen blood, except for some real elites, many of them are pure tricks, naturally not as scary as these veterans who have experienced the battlefield.

Of course, this does not mean that the forbidden army is a waste, as I have said before, most of these forbidden soldiers have received strict training, and their ordnance and equipment are strong, as long as they have experienced war and received the baptism of blood, they will soon be able to form an elite in a short period of time.

However, despite this, compared to these young chicks, Yan Kui is still confident in the combat power of the soldiers and horses under his command.

Thinking of this, Yan Kui even pondered the Thai Gong Huangzhou, who commanded 100,000 internal forbidden troops, if there was a gap between the two sides, each with his troops and horses would fight a decisive battle, I don't know who wins and who loses.

On the way back, Yan Kui pondered for a long time, and finally came to the conclusion that if the 80,000 soldiers and horses under his command were replenished, he would win steadily, but even if he was 50,000 horses now, he would have a seventy percent chance of winning.

This conclusion made Yan Kui feel very good, even when he returned to the General's Mansion, Le Yun vaguely proposed to him that he wanted to join the army, Yan Kui looked at Le Yun's bloated body of Xiao's father, and did not say anything evil, but just showed a polite smile.

Yan's meaning is very clear: I'm sorry, I don't accept fat people over 200 pounds to enlist in the army............

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Le Yun understood what Yan Kui meant, and then twisted his fat waist and left very sadly.

Before returning to the capital, Le Yun was also reluctant to Yan Kui, saying that Yan Kui would return to Beijing to report on his work in the future, and he would hold a banquet in the best restaurant in the capital.

After a few days of getting along, Yan Kui also had a good impression of this chubby and gentle future son, and nodded to accept the invitation.

Soon after Le Yun left, news came from the Shunwang Mansion that the caravan was preparing in the capital for the first time after the cooperation between the two sides, and it was expected to arrive in Beiling in early August.

Yan Kui asked He Yu to take Gong Zhiyuan to run around Beiling Mansion, mainly to meet with all parties, Yan Kui didn't plan to interfere in the caravan business, but he still came out to show his face at the beginning.

Subsequently, Yan Kui talked about this matter with Hua Wenzheng and Qin Qi of Nanling, and Di Yi Xiu of Hongyang, and there was no accident, and all three parties made a satisfactory response to Yan Kui.

However, the caravan has to slow down the development of the trade road of the two mansions, and the main task of the Shunwangfu caravan this year is to gain a firm foothold in Beiling, and wait for the territory of Beiling to stabilize, in order to open up the rest of the Erfu market one after another.

According to Miyanomoto's estimates, this time will be at least after February next year.

Yan Kui understood, and then didn't pay much attention to this matter, he was not an idler, he had a lot of military affairs to be busy with, if it weren't for the caravan's affairs related to the small treasury in the future, Yan Kui would not have spent so much time and energy on this matter.

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In the fifteenth year of Liyang, in the middle of the month

Xiao Guan's recruitment of recruits has finally been completed, and this progress is much beyond previous expectations, but it is not difficult to understand that more than ninety percent of these recruits are system soldiers.

The recruits are in place, and Yan Kui's 80,000 soldiers and horses are full, which means that Yan Kui, the general of Pingbei, has finally saved enough capital.

For this reason, Emperor Liyang also personally issued an order to greet Yan Kui, and sent a pair of jade ruyi with the decree to express his favor to Yan Kui, the new important minister.

Coincidentally, it was Yan Kui's old acquaintance Bai Eunuch who passed on the holy decree this time, and it may be that Emperor Liyang really regarded the white eunuch as Yan Kui's exclusive eunuch.

However, the white eunuch was very happy about this, unlike last time, now that the border is stable, his edict this time is not to go to the front line, but to belong to the foreign assignment, not to mention his life, and more importantly, Yan Kui is generous and open-minded.

Thinking of this bulging harvest, the white eunuch's smile was very bright when he left.

It is worth mentioning that this time the white eunuch also brought Yan Kui's greetings to King Duan.

Now, Yan Kui is a border general, holding military power, and King Duan is a prince, for no reason, it is not easy to contact him privately, so he can only let the white eunuch bring a message.

That's right, it's a message.

In November of this year, Emperor Liyang fell ill because of a cold, which caused the situation in the court to suddenly become tense.

Listening to the slightly embarrassed sigh of the white eunuch, Yan Kui could faintly feel the depression of the capital even if he was at the border.

This battle for succession is now intensifying, and I am afraid that it is about to enter the moment of decisive battle............