A few days later, Fang Yuan found Princess Kunxing and invited her to join her, and gave the capital a twist in the name of husband and wife.

The content of the fold is simple and clear, that is, to ask the imperial court to canonize the palace maid Xiao Worm as the county lord.

In the Ming Dynasty, the etiquette system was customary, the emperor's daughter was the princess, the prince's daughter was the county lord, and the daughter of the prince of other clans was the county lord. If you want the court to be canonized as the county lord, you must either be born as the daughter of the prince of the clan, or it is a reward from the emperor to the family members of the important ministers. As a little bug, if you want to be canonized as the county lord, you can only see whether the capital is willing to give Fang Yuan, the governor of the ten prefectures, and Princess Kunxing's face.

Fang Yuan's twist and turn, in addition to wanting to give the little insect a county lord title, the bigger reason is that it is a political temptation of the Beijing court.

Even if the two armies were about to go to war, political probing was necessary to paralyze the enemy and buy time to prepare for battle.

If Queen Zhou and the crown prince are canonized, it proves that the imperial court is not willing to turn against Fang Yuan immediately, at least the two sides must maintain the harmony on the surface. If Empress Zhou and the crown prince directly rejected Fang Yuan's performance and slapped him in the face, it proved that the two sides were already tense and could go to war at any time.

Another reason is that Fang Yuan really wants to give it a try, what is the state of Chongzhen in the Forbidden City now, being completely under house arrest, or half-empty. Regardless of whether the result of this political temptation was canonized or rejected, as soon as the edict arrived in Suzhou Mansion, Fang Yuan could see it at a glance by comparing the emperor's seal on the edict.

Less than three days after the memora was issued, Fang Yuan received another news from the south, that Fujian had sent several envoys to Suzhou Prefecture to deliver a letter, and that Zheng Zhilong wanted to send another delegation to the north to negotiate with Fang Yuan, and the main contents of the negotiations included the division of territory in Zhejiang, the distribution of ocean-going trade profits, and the construction of a naval base in the Zhoushan Islands.

Zheng Zhilong had sent envoys to negotiate no less than three times before, but Fang Yuan didn't see it, so he was directly turned away. Because of the selection of the envoy of the mission, Fang Yuan was not satisfied, the Zheng family did not give in first, and let the detained Liu Ru go back to Suzhou Mansion to talk about wool.

Zheng Zhilong, the largest smuggling and pirate group in the South China Sea, is not only concerned with the security of the Ming Maritime Frontier, but also about the taxation of ocean trade, and even the maritime expansion strategy that Fang Yuan may implement.

Therefore, the Zheng Group, which is holding on to the self-respect of the sea, will never be left behind, and there is no room for negotiation. There are only two solutions to the problem, either Zheng Zhilong lands and surrenders all the warships, or completely annihilates the Zheng group.

Of course, at the moment, the north and the south are under the enemy, and it does take a long time to train troops and build a sailor, if Zheng Zhilong wants to talk like this, Fang Yuan doesn't mind chatting with the envoy sent by the Zheng family to relieve boredom and pass the time of boredom.

The premise is that the Zheng family wants to release the detained Liu Rushi, otherwise, Fang Yuan will not even have the mind to chat with the Zheng family to relieve his boredom.

Fang Yuan asked the Zheng family envoy who came to deliver the message about the candidates for the Zheng family envoy this time. The envoy truthfully reported that the head of the mission this time was Zheng Zhilong's fifth brother, Zheng Zhibao.

Whether it was Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhifeng, or Zheng Zhibao, Fang Yuan was not interested in the Zheng family brothers at all, his face was flat and noncommittal, and he was about to drive the messenger out of the door.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the envoy said in a panic, "Fang Junmen, this time the mission is accompanied by Qian Qianyi's wife, Liu Rushi. ”

Fang Yuan secretly sneered at this time, Zheng Zhilong, an old man, finally figured it out this time, and was willing to put back the detained Liu Rus. Zheng Zhilong has always been tough and unwilling to let go, it seems that the construction of the naval base in the Zhoushan Islands has indeed put tremendous pressure on the Zheng family, so that the Zheng family cannot but compromise.

Haili Shi Lang is really a great general in naval warfare, and this time he used the method of marriage matching, which is really right.

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "Since the Zheng family is so sincere, this military gate is waiting for the arrival of the mission." ”

He was also relieved, and agreed to start formal peace talks with the Zheng family.

In the next two months, Fang Yuan received two more important pieces of information, one was the canonization edict from the capital, and the imperial court actually agreed to canonize Xiao Worm as the lord of Kunshan County, and officially changed his name to Xu Ru. But the canonization of this county lord is only on the title, and the fief is not given one acre.

Princess Kunxing gave Xu Ru 2,000 acres of land from her 20,000 acres of imperial land fief as her fief.

Fang Yuan saw the edict, and the jade seal on it did not match the impression brought by Wang Chengen before. In other words, this paper canonization edict has nothing to do with Chongzhen. It seems that Chongzhen has indeed lost his real power, and only has the name of an emperor.

Another piece of information was a military report sent by Shi Lang from the Zhoushan Islands. A naval base was being built in the Zhoushan Islands, and Shi Lang found a small fleet sent by the Zheng family to reconnoiter around the Zhoushan Islands, and immediately attacked, sinking one, capturing one, and escaping three.

Fang Yuan secretly sneered when he saw the military newspaper, and talked while fighting, that was an old trick to fight for bargaining chips. To resist US aggression and aid Korea, the two sides talked for a year, and the battlefield over there was a year of fighting. Syria has been fighting for six or seven years, and it has been talking for six or seven years.

Zheng Zhilong sent an envoy delegation to negotiate on the one hand, and on the other hand, he made preparations to attack the naval base on the Zhoushan Islands, and it seems that if this negotiation is not successful, a sea battle between the two sides is about to break out.

Fang Yuan ordered Shi Lang to prepare for the big battle, and dispatched another hundred artillery pieces, as well as countless lead bullets and gunpowder to the island to prepare for the needs of the war.

After preparing for battle, five days later, Zheng Zhibao's envoy group arrived in Suzhou Mansion.

Out of the need for etiquette, Fang Yuan ordered the officials of the Suzhou Mansion, including the prefect Chen Hongmi, to hold a banquet in the Suzhou Mansion to entertain Zheng Zhibao and his party, which was regarded as a tribute to the people who went north.

Fang Yuan was far away in the crowd of the embassy and saw Liu Rushi, who had not seen him for at least a year.

Liu Ru really returned to Suzhou Mansion with the envoy group, Fang Yuan saw that she had a haggard face, and he didn't know if she was not used to living in Fujian, or if she was too tired from the journey.

Fang Yuan felt pity for her very much, and just wanted to hold her hand, find a place where no one was, and talk to her.

But in front of everyone's eyes, Fang Yuan, a governor of the Ten Prefectures, the most famous commander in the world, could not lose his temper in public, so that the officials of the Suzhou Mansion and Zheng Zhibao laughed shamefully, so they could only endure their pity, and only bowed their hands to her politely.

Liu Ru was silent, and bowed to him politely.

After three rounds of drinking, Zheng Zhibao and his party were also drunk and talking, and Fang Yuan was about to arrange for the officials of the government to send Zheng Zhibao to the pavilion in Suzhou City to rest.

Zheng Zhibao suddenly grabbed Fang Yuan's arm, laughed and said, "Fang Junmen, on the orders of my eldest brother, I did my best to escort Mrs. Qian to Suzhou Mansion all the way, neither hot nor hungry. Now that Mrs. Qian has been handed over to Fang Junmen, it will be arranged with Junmen. ”

Although his words were drunk, he was also currying favor with Fang Yuan, but to Fang Yuan's ears, it was how harsh it sounded. A mouthful of Mrs. Qian is more like ridiculing Fang Yuan's bad behavior of fornicating with other people's wives.

Liu Ruye's pink face also sank, her delicate body trembled slightly, she sat in the corner without saying a word, her nose was slightly sore, and her eyes were oozing tears.

Chen Hongmi, who was present, and other officials from the Suzhou government were also stunned, and then they either toasted each other or went to change clothes under the pretext of making excuses, showing Fang Yuan that in fact, everyone didn't hear or see anything.

Fang Yuan's face was gloomy, and he sat silently on one side.

Hu Qi stepped forward and scolded coldly, "Your envoy, you drank too much!" Why don't you take you back to the museum to rest?! ”

Zheng Zhibao was scolded by Hu Qi, and even sent a brocade guard to escort him, and he was also scared to wake up by three points, and suddenly remembered his previous gaffe in public, which made Fang Yuan very embarrassed, and shook his hand again and again in embarrassment, "This, Fang Junmen, I, am a big old man, drunk gaffe, drunk gaffe!" ”

Fang Yuan reluctantly squeezed out a smile, patted his hand, and said lightly, "Since your envoy has drunk too much, let's go down and rest first!" ”

Zheng Zhibao knew that he had made a big disaster, so he hurriedly rushed to Fang Yuan and left the banquet in a hurry.

The prefect Chen Hongmian and a number of officials also left one after another.

At the end of the banquet, only Fang Yuan and Liu Ru were left in the entire palace hall, Hu Qi, and the Jinyi guards who guarded the hall were on guard at the entrance of the hall.