Not long after Gao Dehao and others took the order, Zheng Zhiwei and Liang Ziyue received a telegram from "Qingyuan". The telegram was sent by Zhang Weixin in the name of the committee, in which Zhang Weixin reported to the committee that Fan Wu had achieved "Feiyantang" and hoped that the two sides could deepen cooperation.

Zhang Weixin said in the telegram that according to Fan Wucheng's report, the "Feiyan Hall" hopes to deepen the cooperation with the crossing team this time is not from the new hall master Liu Yunyan's own ideas, but the "Feiyan Hall" main hall at the same time as the original hall advocates that it can return to the Zhou Kingdom, and the new task issued to the Youzhou branch hall. As the new hall master, Liu Yunyan naturally hopes to have a new performance in this new position and take credit for her further promotion in the future. Therefore, on the day he was promoted to the head of the hall, he directly found Fan Wucheng and asked him to convey the request of "Feiyan Hall" to the "Qingyuan" brothers.

It is said that if Liu Yunyan wants to deepen the cooperation between the two sides, she should go to Liangxiang to find Zhang Weixin -- Zhang Weixin is in charge of all kinds of communication other than business among the "Qingyuan" brothers, and Liu Yunyan understands this. What's more, the last time the two sides discussed cooperation, the "Qingyuan" brothers were also mainly carried out by Zhang Weixin. I don't know if it was out of the convenience of the proximity, or Liu Yunyan was unwilling to have direct contact with Zhang Weixin, who had been at the top of the negotiation and pressed herself to death, but for such an important matter, she found Fan Wucheng, who was only in charge of the business affairs of the "Qingyuan" brothers, and he conveyed his request to the crossing team. However, considering that Fan Wucheng had also participated in the cooperation negotiations with "Feiyantang" and Liu Yunyan at the beginning, and Fan Wucheng had presided over the "Xiaoyao Building" in Youzhou City for a long time, and he had more contact with various people in the Youzhou Branch of the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou Branch under the cover of "Xiaoyao Building", and the two sides were already more familiar, Liu Yunyan may feel that it is safer to transmit information through such an "old acquaintance" in the middle, so neither the committee, Zheng Zhiwei, nor Liang Ziyue took this matter to heart. What they are most concerned about now is how the "Feiyantang" intends to deepen the cooperation between the two sides, how much the crossing team needs to pay in it, and how much benefit it can get.

According to Fan Wucheng in the telegram, Liu Yunyan not only received the appointment of the head of the Youzhou branch from the main hall of the "Feiyan Hall" this time, but also received the task of further developing the Youzhou branch and extending its tentacles to the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Youdu Prefecture and even the entire Nanjing Province, so as to provide more and more comprehensive information for the "Feiyan Hall". For this task, Liu Yunyan naturally had to comply with it. However, as a new official who had just taken office, although she really wanted to burn three fires and successfully complete the tasks assigned by the upper peak, she lacked the things to start the fire -- the funds for wiring and setting up points in the states and counties of Nanjing Province -- so she could only turn her attention again to the "Qingyuan" brothers who had cooperated with her and were still in a state of cooperation with her -- although the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyantang" was nominally a partnership with the "Qingyuan" brothers to set up a "Xiaoyao Building" and share a considerable part of the profits. But in fact, according to the agreement reached between the two parties at the beginning, after deducting the necessary expenses required to operate the "Xiaoyao Building" that she should bear, Liu Yunyan could not really get much money. Although the money is more than enough to maintain the existing activities of the Youzhou Branch, it is very insufficient to further develop the Youzhou Branch and meet the new requirements of the main hall. Faced with this situation, Liu Yunyan, who had already made a military order in front of the messenger sent by the main hall, had to ask for help from the nominal collaborators of the "Qingyuan" brothers, hoping that by deepening the cooperation between the two sides, she would get financial support from the side of the crossing team, so that she could complete the new task assigned by the main hall.

It can be said that the current situation is very similar to the situation when the crossing team and Liu Yunyan first cooperated and negotiated, the pressure from the main hall, and Liu Yunyan's pursuit of her own status in the "Feiyan Hall", makes it likely that she will always be at a disadvantage in the new cooperation negotiations, and put the negotiation initiative in the hands of the crossing team.

Of course, what the crossing team values and pursues is naturally not to have the upper hand in the new cooperation negotiations with Liu Yunyan, and to be able to suppress the other party everywhere. What the team values and pursues is what kind of benefits they can get from cooperating with Liu Yunyan, and these benefits must be tangible.

In this regard, Liu Yunyan obviously does not have many cards to play. In addition to distributing most of the profits made by various commercial facilities such as shops, restaurants, and green buildings that act as cover as last time - about seventy percent, which is one step back from the last six or four accounts, to the crossing team, the only thing she can use as a bargaining chip is "After the matter is completed in the future, she will definitely report to the peak and fight for a good background for the 'Qingyuan' brothers", and even the "good background" refers to anything without giving the necessary explanation - to cross the team's understanding of "Feiyantang" and Liu Yunyan, This so-called "good background" only refers to the fact that once the Northern Expedition of the Later Zhou Dynasty is successful in the future, as a place that has provided a lot of help to the "Feiyantang", a huge secret spy organization of the Zhou State, the "Qingyuan" brothers may be rewarded by the Zhou Imperial Court accordingly, and obtain an official status that is far stronger than that of the rich merchant giants. ,

As for the attitude of the crossing team towards the second cooperation, according to the telegram, it is still in a state of incomplete certainty. After listening to Fan Wucheng's report, the committee did not immediately reply to Liu Yunyan's request, but on the one hand asked Fan Wucheng to stay in "Qingyuan" for the time being, waiting for the enlarged meeting of the committee to be held soon to make a decision on this matter, and then return to Youzhou City. On the other hand, Zheng Zhiwei and Liang Ziyue, who had already rushed to Youzhou City, urgently asked them to find out the details of the task that Liu Yunyan had obtained from the "Feiyan Hall" main hall as soon as possible, and to try to find out what the bottom line that Liu Yunyan had to adhere to in the negotiations between the two sides, so that the committee and the enlarged meeting of the committee could make a correct decision on this matter.

Based on the above, the telegram sent by the committee can be regarded as an explanation of the contents of Fan Wucheng's report, and can also be regarded as an arrangement and instruction for Zheng Zhiwei and Liang Ziyue to work in the next step -- to find out the details of the tasks obtained by the other side and the bottom line of the other party's negotiations. Therefore, after reading the telegram, Zheng Zhiwei did not dare to delay at all, he immediately called Qiu Yi, the shopkeeper of the inn and the person in charge of the contact point, and ordered him to quickly get in touch with the leaders and backbones of the Youzhou branch of the "Dark Feather" who had just been recruited, and convey to them the two requests in the committee's telegram that they needed to obtain relevant information as soon as possible, so that when they inquired about the news, they could have a targeted purpose and greatly speed up the efficiency of intelligence gathering.

The order was conveyed, and all Zheng Zhiwei and Liang Ziyue could do was to wait patiently, waiting for the good or bad news that the spies of the "Dark Feather" Youzhou Branch brought to them.

To say, the efficiency of the "Dark Feather" Youzhou branch is still quite high. From the task of accepting the investigation and collecting evidence on the 17th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar to submitting the relevant information to Zheng Zhiwei and Liang Ziyue on the 22nd day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the spies of the "Dark Feather" Youzhou Branch Hall only took less than five days to successfully complete the relevant tasks assigned by the committee, reflecting the extremely high efficiency.

The most important point is the content of the new assignment that Liu Yunyan received from the main hall -- this task is not only to send spies from the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" to go undercover in various cities in Nanjing Province, but also to ask these spies to try to contact Han officials at all levels in their prefectures and counties while inquiring about the news. Find out how the other side really felt about the Liao court and what actions they might take in the face of a critical situation. That is to say, the spies of the "Feiyan Hall" distributed throughout Youdu Prefecture and even the entire Nanjing Province not only had to spy on all kinds of useful intelligence and information for themselves, but also took on the task of plotting against the Han officials at all levels in the Yamen of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, and in a sense, the latter may be more important than the former - this also shows the official identity of the "Feiyan Tang" from the side, and the time for Chai Rong's Northern Expedition is not far away.

In addition to figuring out the details of Liu Yunyan's new mission, the spies of the "Dark Feather" Youzhou Branch also found out Liu Yunyan's general bottom line for this cooperation negotiation - at least in the so-called "Eight Prefectures in front of the mountain" of You, Ji, Ying, Mo, Zhuo, Tan, Ping, and Shun, that is, roughly equivalent to the Youdu Prefecture, a relatively smooth secret spy network was established, and they secretly contacted and tested the local Han officials, and provided all kinds of information they needed for the "Feiyan Hall" main hall.

Of course, compared with the previous information about Liu Yunyan's new mission, the later information about her bottom line in this negotiation is much less accurate and authentic. After all, the order given to Liu Yunyan by the head hall of the "Feiyan Hall" was dead, and the undercover agents who "Dark Feather" broke into it could get accurate information as long as they listened a little. But Liu Yunyan's bottom line of negotiation is only clear to herself, and if she doesn't say it, it is impossible for others to know what she thinks in her head. What's more, even if she says it, it's hard to guarantee that what she says is true. Therefore, the undercover agents of "Dark Feather" can only speculate on the possible bottom line by comprehensively analyzing some of Liu Yunyan's public statements in contact with Liu Yunyan -- this is also the part of the report that Weishenme Gao Dehao handed to Zheng Zhiwei that uses words like "approximate bottom line" for the part about Liu Yunyan's negotiation bottom line.

Although the news about the bottom line of Liu Yunyan's negotiations has yet to be further determined, the news about the next development ambition of "Feiyantang" in the Youyun area is extremely important. Therefore, after receiving the spy report submitted by Gao Dehao, Zheng Zhiwei and Liang Ziyue did not delay at all, and immediately sent the full text of the report to the members of the committee who had been waiting for news for several days.

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