After walking for eight days, they finally arrived at the State Guest House in Pingzhou Mansion, and after Li Xiaowu settled them, he went to report to Jiang Hexing first. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After listening to Li Xiaoquan's report, Jiang Hexing was very satisfied, and asked him to stay for a few more days and deal more with the king, and Li Xiaoquan obeyed the order. Jiang Hexing made arrangements to meet with them three days later. In these three days, I will try to find out how they will reward Jiang Hexing here.

The next day, these came out of the mouth of Li Tong, who planned to do business in Xianwu City, the original title of Pingzhou remained unchanged, because it was given by the former Empress Dowager, and it was not easy to change, and the king of Jianghexing was changed to Heshunhou, and the rest of the matter was to replace the seal, from the original "Pingzhou and Wang Zhang of the Great Han Dynasty" to "Xinpingzhou and Shunhou Zhang".

Jiang Hexing convened the civil and military ministers who were still in Pingzhou to discuss, everyone was dissatisfied, and they felt awkward, didn't this Wang Mang have nothing to do?

Jiang Hexing carefully analyzes the pros and cons for everyone, accept it, it's a little awkward, if you don't accept it, I'm afraid there may be a war, or the trade between Pingzhou and Xindi will be cut off. Jiang Hexing has repeatedly explained to everyone that his personal reputation is small, and the well-being of the people of Pingzhou is great. When encountering a stunned person like Wang Mang, he was helpless. But it is not without opportunities, the opportunity lies in not being able to accept it immediately, but it must be accepted conditionally, so that it can win the well-being of Pingzhou, and it will not immediately turn against Wang Mang. Jiang Hexing's analysis of several other places, such as the Western Regions, the Xiongnu, etc., is estimated to be difficult to accept, so that he is different in Wang Mang's eyes.

This is about Wang Mang's political correctness, for the sake of this political correctness, see how much of the bottom line we are willing to release, that is, we Pingzhou will lose face, but we must go to Lizi, this deal is still cost-effective.

As for how to get this and how to talk about it, Jiang Hexing's opinion is that one is to ask for people, and the other is to ask for land. Isn't Wang Mang liberating a lot of slaves and maids now? Strive for more people to come to Pingzhou. Second, it is necessary to ask for a piece of land near the sea and the river in Jizhou, so as to provide convenience for the development of commerce and trade and for various things in the future. There is no need for money, anyway, they are also scraped from the people, and Pingzhou is not short of these.

It's easy to convince everyone.

Early on the morning of the third day, the sky was overcast, the north was whistling, and the branches on both sides of the road were swaying. The streets were sparsely populated, and people wore thick winter clothes, each with their necks hunched and their heads bowed, and marched forward at a rapid pace.

Wang and the others dressed up neatly, came out of the State Guest House, and came along the road towards the Pingzhou Mansion Office. The king held the talisman, only to feel that his hands were not his own, although there were not many people on the road, but there were still many people watching these strangely dressed people. The king scolded in his heart, that old bastard's ghost idea, this shabby place in Pingzhou is too cold. He couldn't wait to find a leather coat to wrap himself, but he had to pretend to be casual in public, although he and his five handsome were all freezing their teeth and chattering, and they had to wear the clothes prescribed by the imperial court to go to the Pingzhou Mansion Office.

There was a total distance of 2 miles, and the king felt that he had walked 20 miles, although the weather was cold, the north wind kept howling, and the rolled leaves kept getting stuck on the feathers behind them, and they couldn't pick the leaves off with their hands. It's not that I can't, but there are more and more people watching the excitement on the road, and I don't have time to do it. Everyone looked at this group of people who were still wearing autumn clothes in winter, and gathered in this strange procession to the gate of the office.

Jiang Hexing led everyone to receive Wang and others, and Li Xiaoquan came over to introduce them one by one. After the introduction, the king first read out the edict, Jiang Hexing and others stood around the Qianwen car, the king took out the edict, his hands trembled with cold, trembling with white silk, and stood on the car to read it.

It's been a long time, and Jiang Hexing didn't understand a word, but fortunately, at this time, it was enough to just show an attitude. After the king finished reading, Jiang Hexing led him, Li Tong, and the five marshals and others to the conference room together.

There was a charcoal fire around the house, and hot teacups were held, and the king and the others felt that spring had really returned. Jiang Hexing first greeted the cold and warmly for a long time, and when the king and others eased up, Jiang Hexing and the others also began to introduce the topic to the topic.

Jiang Hexing said first: "General Wang, is there anything else to do in my Pingzhou this time besides announcing the order?" ”

Wang nodded and said: "He Wang, we are here by the emperor's order, one is to read out the order, and the other is to show the talisman to the world." A total of 12 teams of people came out and went to all parts of the country to showcase. There are also forty-two kinds of talismans, and the talismans are all written or painted on large white silk. It should also be displayed in Pingzhou, in prosperous places such as Pingzhou Mansion, Xianwu City, and Anwu City, so that the people of Pingzhou know that the mandate of heaven is on the emperor of our new dynasty. There is also the replacement of the title of the king and the king, replacing the seal used in Pingzhou in the previous Han Dynasty, and changing to the seal used in the new dynasty. ”

Jiang Hexing then asked, "In that case, can we take a look at these talismans first?" ”

"Absolutely." When Wang Zhi said this, he turned around and sent someone out to get into the Qianwen car, took off a large white silk from the car, entered the conference room, and unfolded it all.

All the people gathered around and looked at the white silk that was opened, there were 42 pieces in total, some of which were articles, and the king's introduction said that it was a good fortune, and some were pictures, painted with rhinoceros, pheasants, stones, etc., which were said to indicate the destiny of heaven. Jiang Hexing wanted to laugh when he looked at it, and the people on the side, the people brought by the king, and the people from Pingzhou, all looked at it solemnly, and they didn't dare to come out.

Looking at it, Jiang Hexing saw a picture scroll, obviously drawing two lighters. One big and one small, exactly the same as what I gave back then. The big one has a yang written underneath it, and a yin written underneath. The lighters on the scroll are all on fire.

Jiang Hexing pointed to the picture, turned his head and asked the king, "General Wang, this is a self-fire." ”

Wang Shi looked at Jiang Hexing in some surprise and said, "He Wang, you also know this?" Have you ever been to Chang'an and seen it? ”

Before Jiang Hexing could speak, Zhang Kai next to him laughed and said, "General Wang, I'm afraid you don't know, this tap fire is what He Wang sacrificed when he was in Daijun." ”

When everyone heard this, they all gathered around and looked at this tap fire carefully.

Jiang Hexing told the king about the experience of the year, of course, he didn't tell the truth, he also told Su Wen again, the details are more perfect, the phoenix's vivid appearance was said by him as true, Zhang Kai thought it was true, asked again and again, and finally sighed: "I have been on Phoenix Island for so long, why haven't I seen the phoenix, it seems that people don't have the same fate." ”

Everyone laughed, and after Jiang Hexing and the others saw it, they agreed to exhibit it in the city of Pingzhou Mansion now, so that the people in the city would know that the Mandate of Heaven had descended on the emperor of the new dynasty.

The king was very happy, and sent Li Tong out, with the talisman, and went back to the guest house to call out his guards, and began to exhibit the talisman in the city.