Yan Zhu didn't come in person, and Su Ren wasn't in the team. When a large group of people were busy at the city gate for etiquette, Su Renzheng knelt crookedly in the living room of the Taishou Mansion.

On the other side is Yan Zhu, who is not very old, at most thirty years old. At that time, Yan Zhu was a petty official under King Wu, and later in the rebellion of the Seven Kings, King Wu rebelled, and only such a small city as Huiji did not join the same stream. The first emperor praised Yan Zhu a lot, which made Yan Zhu a meeting inspector, and Yan Zhu was just twenty years old that year. Counting up, Yan Zhu has been in the position of the Huiji Taishou for a full ten years.

Yan Zhu is a casual person, when he saw Su Ren, he wore his hair loose and his robe open, which was even more unsightly than Su Ren's sitting. Picking up the wine bottle, he said to Su Ren: "I thought that the imperial court would send a respected old general, but I didn't expect to let Su Changshi come, since ancient times, the border county Taishou has been a martial artist, and my Yan Zhu is an exception, and Su Changshi is an exception, which is really exciting." ”

Su Ren smiled at Yan Zhu very cooperatively: "This is not surprising, because Your Majesty has never regarded the Yue people as a border trouble, the real border trouble of my Han is in the north, and these people in the south are just clowns who jump off the beam, they can go down with a drum without a large army, why use a knife to kill chickens?" ”

"Well said, this sentence is well said!" Yan Zhu raised his neck and poured a bottle of wine into his stomach: "It's still young, I think when King Wu rebelled, I was only twenty years old, and at that time, I couldn't wait to lift the three-foot long sword and kill into King Wu's mansion, but unfortunately there was no chance, Su Changshi was younger than me, as long as Su Changshi could calm the rebellion of the Yue people, I Yan Zhu should fully support it." ”

"Thank you Taishou!"

The two had another drink. Since they are all ambitious people, there will naturally be a lot of topics to talk about. From the Yue people to the Han Dynasty, from the Han Dynasty to the border troubles in the north, from the border troubles in the north to the relatives, from the relatives to the Han military equipment, the seven turns and eight turns, turned to the body of the Huiji County soldiers.

In the afternoon, Su Ren had already heard some information about Huiji from his master's father, and since he came to quell the chaos, armament was naturally the top priority. At this time, listening to Yan Zhu talking, Su Ren did not stop it, but showed great interest.

"Huiji is a small border county, although the rule is not large, the population is not large, there are still some county soldiers, and the people have spontaneously organized a private enterprise, in order to have the ability to protect themselves when the Yue people are in turmoil! Wu Yue has been a dead place since ancient times, from King Wu Lu to King Goujian of Yue, the two countries are either you fight me or I beat you, Huiji is the territory of Wu State, and naturally there is not much good impression of the Yue people. ”

"Carefully calculated, although this will not be big, there are 10,000 county soldiers, and the private ones add up to 350,000, although there are many Yue people, but they live in the mountains and forests all the year round, lack of food and clothing, it is not easy to survive, and the population is getting smaller and smaller, as long as the Yue people can be led out of the mountains and forests, it is easy to wipe out the Yue people! Just ......"

Su Ren smiled: "What, what else is too unspeakable for Taishou?" ”

Yan Zhu glanced at Su Ren and drank the wine in the wine bottle: "Su Changshi is personally sealed by His Majesty, and he shouldn't have bothered with these little things, but this time he had to go through him to quell the Yue rebellion, Su Changshi doesn't think there is anything missing in this room today?" ”

Su Ren looked left and right, the room was not very luxurious, and the things that should be there were all available. There were three or five low tables and low couches, calligraphy and paintings and blades hung on the walls, and on the offering table facing the door, a long sword without a scabbard lay quietly on the shelf. Several servants stood behind the two of them with low eyebrows, their waists bent very low, and they could not be seen from their clothes and mannerisms at all, they were Yue people before.

"There's nothing wrong with that, what the hell is Taishou going to say?"

"Hehehe! Su Changshi is still younger in the end! Yan Zhu smiled: "Among a county, Taishou has the greatest authority, and he has a martial art, the literati is Changshi, and the warrior is Duwei, Su Changshi has just arrived today, unfortunately Huang Duwei occasionally suffered from a cold and fell ill, and I am here to apologize to Su Changshi for Huang Duwei." ”

Huiji Commander Huang Qi, like Yan Zhu, is a hero who resists rebellion, and Yan Zhu is a Taishou, and Huang Qi can only be a captain. For many years, Yan Zhu showed no signs of promotion, and Huang Qi could only stay in the position of lieutenant. Huang Qi was older than Yan Zhu, and he entered King Wu's mansion earlier than Yan Zhu, although he was slightly behind Yan Zhu on the way to resist rebellion, but without Huang Qi's help, how could Yan Zhu and a literati resist King Wu's means?

In the past ten years, the gap between Huang Qi and Yan Zhu has become wider and wider, almost to the point of incompatibility. Although Yan Zhu is too guarded, the power of the army is firmly in the hands of Huang Qi, and without Huang Qi's order, Yan Zhu does not want to transfer a single soldier. If it weren't for Huang Qi's reluctance to send troops this time, Yan Zhu would have asked the court for help and let Su Ren travel thousands of miles to make such a trip.

Su Ren waved his hand: "Huang Duwei is busy with military affairs, the Yue people have repeatedly provoked, the county soldiers are not allowed to leave without permission, Huang Duwei has become ill from hard work, and his subordinates are still provincial, so there is no need to apologize." ”

Yan Zhu shook his head: "Huang Duwei is indeed very busy, a few days ago, if the South Vietnamese envoy was not recommended by Huang Duwei, how could he enter my Han territory, Nanyue is located in the south, if you want to enter my Han, you must go through Minyue, the king of Minyue has long had the intention of dominating Yuedi, at such a critical moment, how can you tolerate the South Vietnamese envoy to come to my Han land?" Not to mention the surrender? ”

Su Ren frowned: "What do you mean ......by Taishou?" ”

Yan Zhu hurriedly waved his hand: "I don't mean anything, it's just a guess, since Su Changshi is here specifically to pacify the Yue people, it is better to know a lot of things." ”

Su Ren hurriedly got up and gave Yan Zhu a deep salute: "Thank you Taishou for reminding me, my subordinates have written it down." ”

It's not hard to guess what Yan Zhu wants to say. Since ancient times, the generals of the border counties have either supported their own troops or raised their own troops to protect themselves. The states of the Tang Dynasty made the troops self-respecting, and became the emperor of the soil, so that the emperor in Chang'an City had no way at all. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the general army of Liaodong raised Kou to protect himself and bury the Ming Dynasty, which is not a strange thing.

According to Yan Zhu's words, Huang Qi, the captain of Huiji, is suspected of raising Kou to protect himself, but he is raising Yue people and protecting his status in Huiji. Su Ren didn't fully believe Yan Zhu's words, if Huang Qi raised Kou to protect himself, how could he Yan Zhu have no other tricks, otherwise he would have been ousted from power by Huang Qi, who held military power.

Huiji City is not big and not strong, just such a low and dilapidated small city can stand unscathed in places full of Yue people for more than ten years, neither Yan Zhu nor Huang Qi are easy characters to deal with.

Su Ren took a sip of wine: "This time, the ministers came to meet the meeting, but they were ordered by the emperor to destroy the Yue people, presumably Huang Duwei will not send troops, right?" ”

Yan Zhu laughed: "Then it depends on Su Changshi's ability, I also hope that Huang Duwei will send troops as soon as possible, and he will destroy the Yue people as soon as possible, but Huang Duwei's illness is good and bad, and when it should be good, it is simply when it is sick, and there is no law to follow at all, and Huiji is a small county, if there is not enough food and grass, even if Huang Duwei has the heart to send troops, he is powerless." ”

After Yan Zhu said this, he peeked at Su Ren. Su Ren immediately understood, it turned out that Yan Zhu controlled Huang Qi's lifeblood, grain and grass, which made Huang Qi's ten years of hard work come to naught. Otherwise, Huang Qi, who has prestige and military power, wants to be too guarded, even if Yan Zhu doesn't want to let him, Huang Qi has a way.

Su Ren nodded: "Don't worry about the matter of grain and grass, I have brought a large amount of grain and grass this time, not to mention feeding 10,000 people, even if you come for tens of thousands, you can feed for several years." ”

"Oh?" Yan Zhu sat up straight suddenly, and a pair of eyes immediately looked outside: "Where is the grain and grass?" When will it arrive at Huiji? ”

Su Ren smiled: "It's already in Huiji." ”

"Then you should put it into the warehouse immediately, so as not to have too many dreams at night!"

"Don't worry, tomorrow after I have visited Huang Duwei, I will agree on a strategy and then decide when to distribute grain and grass."

Yan Zhu's brows furrowed into a Sichuan character, and a pair of eyes stared at Su Ren, his brain was calculating rapidly. Su Ren was not in a hurry or impatient, and drank wine without a sip. The wine in the south is lighter than the wine in the north, and when you drink it in your mouth, it is more like the mash grains of later generations, if it weren't for the clear color of the wine syrup, Su Ren could be sure that this thing is mash grains, and it is not related to the wine at all.

"This time not only brought grain and grass, but also brought some armor, although not much, it should be able to play some role when dealing with the Yue people, and at the same time His Majesty also gave the subordinate a cheap holy decree, this will be Jicheng is small and broken, it is not a good place to fight, so the subordinate thinks that from tomorrow, the people should be recruited to repair the city first, what do you think?"

"Uh......" The amount of information thrown out by Su Ren was too large, and Yan Zhu couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he thought about it: "It's okay, before you want to beat someone, take care of yourself first, I have no objection to the matter of repairing the city, it's just ......"

"Taishou rest assured, the ministers will handle this matter, but the ministers implore the ministers to find a way to persuade Huang Duwei that before the construction of Huiji City is completed, never do anything to the Yue people!"

Yan Zhu nodded: "I know this." ”

Su Ren hurriedly saluted: "Thank you Taishou for your support!" The subordinate also has a suggestion, this Huiji city has been dilapidated, so the subordinate is ready to give up this city, rebuild a city, the site selection work will start tomorrow, please Taishou will transfer the master father to the subordinate subordinates, I don't know if Taishou is willing to cut love? ”

"Lord Father?" Yan Zhu immediately recalled the master who took the initiative to invite Ying to greet the angel, but he didn't expect to really hook up with Su Ren. Yan Zhu sneered a few times: "Since Su Changshi has taken a fancy to this person, why am I unwilling to cut my love?" It's just that I don't know the general direction of Su Changshi's new city? ”

"Yes, the basic orientation is northeast of Huiji."

"Northeast? Isn't that going to the sea? ”

"Hehe, Taishou is joking, no matter how powerful Su Ren is, it is impossible to build a city on the sea, the subordinates just think that it is beneficial for this city to be closer to the sea, and the border of my Han cannot be limited to the land, you must know that the sea is broader than the land!"