Chapter 9: Reluctant Surrender
It is said that it is to win over Tao Sheng, but it does not need to be flattering.
Salute before you pawn is also a good option, especially against an old fox. The Twin Snake Village has been explored, and it is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Tao Sheng, the old fox, has run this place like an iron bucket. But because of this, he is a little too confident in his copycat. Also, I underestimated Fang Yun a little!
Seriously, this kind of guy who is overconfident always feels that everything is under his control. Dealing with this kind of person, if you don't completely trample the other party under your feet first, and completely knock off the other party's sharpness, otherwise it will be extremely difficult to talk about it, and even if the negotiation is completed, the cost will be too great.
Therefore, the advice given by Xi Zhicai is: attack the heart first, deter by force, and then give small favors.
Of course, it's not that he didn't give face, if you accept the invitation at the beginning and talk about it, then you may not be able to give a price that is satisfactory to both parties. However, Xi Zhicai is indeed very bad, in fact, he recognized from the beginning that he would not come down to get together.
"What's going to happen next?" Fang Yun also asked casually.
"Doesn't the lord already have a plan?" Xi Zhicai asked rhetorically in a 'shocked' way.
"Okay...... Huanglong: How are they preparing? Fang Yun continued to ask.
"You can go out tonight, and the few secret passages that Tao Sheng thought he had were hidden were actually not worth mentioning in Huang Long's eyes. It only takes tonight to change hands directly at the three levels in front of you! Xi Zhicai smiled.
Since the rest of the time is already garbage time, there is no point in continuing to stay here, and I briefly chatted with Xi Zhicai about a few words that are not nutritious. Fang Yun simply returned to his tent to rest.
The next day. It's just dawn. Tao Sheng is not calm.
So the three heads were placed outside the door of the council chamber, and they were the heads of the brothers he had sent out to ask for help.
The worst thing is that the soldiers patrolling below said that the three checkpoints before arriving at the main hall have all been broken. The three rotating troops sent out were all killed, and the corpses were piled up in front of the main hall, which could be seen to be a deterrent.
"How the hell did the enemy come up. Don't say you don't know! Tao Sheng looked at Tao Ji at the next place, who was a distant relative of his own family and the second master of the cottage.
"Brother, I don't know!" Although Tao Ji is also responsible for the defense of the cottage, but the lights are blind at night, who knows what happened, who doesn't have night blindness in these years?
"Leader, Fang Yun sent another invitation...... "At this time, a minion stumbled in.
Compared to before. The look of the invitation has not changed, but before I notice it. At this moment, it is so heavy in Tao Sheng's eyes. He could have discarded the previous invitation, but this one, he felt was his only chance to live.
Just because, the other party only needs one thought to be able to wave his army and kill himself. Even if there are tens of thousands of people with armor in the cottage, it is meaningless, and it will be simple to be able to easily occupy the three dangerous passes overnight?
"Prepare my outfit...... No, I'll go now! Tao Sheng was a little panicked and had to leave quickly.
Not long after, he appeared at the foot of the mountain, and Fang Yun had already prepared a banquet and was waiting for his arrival. This banquet is very rich, if you don't know the inside story, I'm afraid it really means a gathering between friends.
It's just that Tao Sheng knows that there is no good banquet.
"General Fang, I don't know what I want to do by encircling my Twin Snake Village like this?" Tao Sheng sat down and drank a glass of wine first, which was considered to be the invitation to the banquet, and the rest was naturally straight to the topic.
It was only then that the strength of the wine came up, and he realized that he was drinking a rare good wine, but he drank it too quickly. A little heartache smacked his mouth, looking at the wine jug on the table, but a little bit wanted to drink but didn't dare to speak.
"Actually, it's very simple, just come and be friends with the owner of Taozhai, and I hope we can always be friends in the future." Fang Yun smiled, got up and poured him another glass of wine.
"You and I originally did not interfere with the water of the well, if we want to make friends, why do we need to do this?" Tao Sheng raised his wine glass and replied unhappily, but he still tasted the wine in the glass carefully.
I have to say that there is a faint smell of medicine, but it is not pungent, but it sublimates the taste of wine, and when I drink it, I only feel that the meridians and internal organs of the whole body are comfortable, but it is a good wine!
There's no entertainment these days, it's okay to drink a little wine and make people or something, that's a common entertainment mode. Especially for Tao Sheng's status, if he doesn't say that he can't drink well, he can't say it.
"On the side of the couch, how can you allow others to snore?" Fang Yun said with a smile. This is what Song Taizu said, there is no such thing in this era, but it is not difficult to understand, almost all of them are vernacular.
"Are you going to swallow Montenegro?" Tao Sheng understood.
"It's not a swallow, it can only be said that everyone changes the way and continues to cooperate, isn't it?" Fang Yun smiled.
"You're not going to get it!" Tao Sheng was rarely tough.
"Okay, you go back, let's continue to play tonight!" Fang Yun stretched out his hand and made a gesture of 'please'.
Tao Sheng can't afford to play this kind of game that challenges the limits of the heart, and his originally hard temperament has softened again. Unless he can fly away with his wings, in this mountain of snakes, it will be like a prison of suffering, and every minute that passes will be so painful.
"X, I know you're planning to use me, you should know that Zhang Yan was recommended by me...... Say, how many benefits can I get? Tao Sheng directly poured himself a glass of wine, took a big gulp, and then returned.
"At least one qu leader, if you study well, it is not impossible to be promoted. You are only in your thirties this year, and you still have a lot of time to make good use of! Otherwise, you can also take your silver, and I will draw a place for you, and you will live with your daughter-in-law and children in the future, and you will have no worries about food and clothing, right? Fang Yun also made his own conditions.
It is naturally impossible to be a Qu Chang, he is now in charge of tens of thousands of brothers, let him go back and be a Qu Chang who is in charge of more than 200 people in two tuns, and he will die if he is not aggrieved! As for being a rich man, in this troubled world, I feel uneasy when I don't have soldiers in my hands!
"Give me at least five hundred private soldiers!" Tao Sheng is also a good calculation, if there is a chance at that time, he will take five hundred brothers to divide one side again, and it is not impossible to rely on his family background.
"Giving you twenty guards is already an extra care for you! Do you think that when you see that the families of the Han Dynasty are each raising tens of millions of private troops, do you think I will allow such a situation to happen? Fang Yun returned.
"Then, give me more land!" Tao Sheng calculated again, if there is enough land, more tenants can be recruited, and it may not be impossible to hide troops among the people at that time.
"Land is owned by the state, this is a rule I set, but I welcome it when it comes to business!" Fang Yun said with a smile.
"X's, don't you give people a way to live...... Done! Tao Sheng gritted his teeth, and finally relented. (To be continued......)
PS: Today's three watches, don't say much, continue to code words......
In the end, it is a routine link, which cannot be missing, otherwise it will be disrespectful to the benefactors.
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