On the morning of 20 May, when Lin Feng, under the leadership of Li Yuanqing, the "head snake", directly found the Sizhou Assassin's Mansion, he was told that Fan Zaiyu, the master of the Assassin's History, would go out of the house in the morning to handle the case, and it was estimated that he would not be able to return to the mansion until noon.

Lin Feng didn't stop waiting, and directly ordered Li Yuanqing to lead the way and turn around to his house to have a look.

Hearing that his son had brought a noble man back, the entire Li Mansion was boiling, and Li Zhensheng, the father of Li, took all the men to the main hall to greet Lin Feng solemnly. Lin Feng didn't like these false sets the most, and after the etiquette, he directly asked everyone to disperse, let Li Yuanqing pack up, and sincerely invited Li Zhensheng to go to Shouzhou on June 5 to participate in the world's merchants' conference, Li Zhensheng agreed, and loudly ordered his subordinates to prepare a luncheon, but Lin Feng strongly refused.

Subsequently, Lin Feng and Feng Jingyun, Lin Renzhao, and Li Yuanqing exchanged views on the future development of the situation in the study for a long time, and when they saw that it was almost noon, they said goodbye to the Li Mansion and went straight to the Assassin's Mansion.

This time, Lin Feng was directly introduced into the Thorn History Mansion and went straight to the study.

Fan Zaiyu is about forty years old, slightly fat, but very enthusiastic, hearing that Lin Feng is coming, Da Lu greeted him with a smile: "Lord Lin, I have admired the name for a long time, Fan has lost his welcome, and he is rude!" ”

Lin Feng saw Suo Chao with a smile on his face behind Fan Zaiyu, the deputy general of the five hundred elite team leaders in Sizhou at the beginning, and one of the people who had asked to stay by Lin Feng's side, immediately became excited, and bowed back from afar.

Fan Zaiyu pulled Suo Chao behind him and said with a smile: "Knowing that Lord Lin is coming, Suo Chao is more excited than me, and took the initiative to ask to see Lord Lin!" ”

Lin Feng smiled and boasted: "Only when Master Fan knows people and is good at his duties, can he show his majesty on the battlefield!" Lin is extremely impressed! ”

After the warm and friendly opening meeting, the atmosphere in the study was even more enthusiastic, Fan Zaiyu waited for the tea cloth to be served, pointed to Suo Chao and said: "Fan received a handwritten letter from Lord Lin earlier, Lord Zhilu Dao wants to invite Suo Chao to join the special forces, Fan is not talented, and he will never dare to delay the future of General Suo, and now in front of Lord Lin, he officially agrees to this matter!" ”

Lin Feng and Suo Chao bowed down at the same time to thank them.

"However, the old man has a request!" Fan Zaiyu's voice changed, and without waiting for Lin Feng to react, he said in a deep voice: "I heard that Lord Lin's Academy of Sciences produces Tang Divine Soldiers, why should I exchange some divine weapons for Lord Suo?" ”

Lin Feng was about to agree, but Fan Zaiyu's next words startled him: "The old man's requirements are not high, the weight of the divine soldier is equal to the weight of my family General Suo!" ”

Lin Feng couldn't laugh or cry a little, a good steel knife is only a few catties, Suo Chao is definitely more than one hundred and eighty catties, and he has to exchange nearly twenty or so, where is he going to get so many steel knives now!

Fan Zaiyu was obviously an interesting person, and when he saw Lin Feng's face full of embarrassment, he immediately changed his words and said: "Five knives, this is the minimum standard!" No matter how low it is, it's time for my general Suo to give his opinion on his worth! ”

As long as you're willing to negotiate! Lin Feng immediately regained his shrewd nature as a businessman, raised his fingers and counted: "Lord Fan, it's not Lin who is blowing nonsense, we just came back from the Khitan, a Tang treasure knife has sold a high price of fifteen high-quality horses on the grassland, and it has just been traded with the Khitan in large quantities, and the number of treasure knives left is scarce, and there are indeed few left!" Up to two, that's already the limit! ”

"At least four!" Fan Zaiyu took a step back and continued to shout.

After some bargaining, Lin Feng took a small step back, two steel knives and a good Khitan military horse, Fan Zaiyu immediately agreed, for fear that Lin Feng would regret it.

Lin Feng immediately hit the snake and went to the stick, turned around and asked Suo Chao if he had any brothers to follow him, Suo Chao glanced at Fan Zaiyu, lowered his head and said that there were five brothers, Lin Feng immediately looked at Fan Zaiyu.

Comrade Lao Fan glared at Suo Chao, blew his beard angrily, and said angrily: "Okay, you are a big Suo man, you haven't left yet, so you turned your elbow out?!" ”

Lin Feng immediately pretended to sell at a loss, and promised to give him another war horse, which immediately coaxed Lao Fan's gloomy face to disappear.

Subsequently, Lin Feng calmed down and told the Tang boss's prediction of the future situation, and suddenly completely extinguished the joy on Lao Fan's face, and immediately regretted it: "Good you Lin Feng, you actually lied to me!" If you had said it earlier, I would never have let go of Suo Chao! No, you have to compensate me Sizhou! ”

Lin Feng also knew that he was not doing this very well, so he immediately agreed.

Fan Zaiyu immediately reappeared in the true character of a philistine, raised his fingers and said: "My Sizhou City is a small person, with less than 4,000 soldiers, and I can only focus on defending in the war. ”

However, Lao Fan is still a relatively good talker after all, and when Lin Feng said that Sizhou will definitely reduce the rent after the war starts, Lao Fan's face became relaxed, and he immediately spoke:

"Lord Lin, in this way, your position as the governor of the Central Capital is set up to lead the overall situation in wartime! As the boss, how can you also guarantee the money and food that I need for Sizhou to hold on to for a long time, right? It's not negotiable!"

Lin Feng had no choice but to organize the rich businessmen of the whole country to gather in Shouzhou, and prepare to use commercial taxes to offset grain, Lao Fan was unceremonious, and raised his two palms at once: "I don't want much, ten warships of grain are enough!" ”

Another round of bargaining began, and the last round of bargaining was six ships of grain, but the ships could not be smaller than the two-wheeled ships.

After discussing the matter, Lin Feng immediately instructed Suo Chao to contact his brother who was going to be with him, and immediately prepared to leave, and even tried his best to shirk Fan Zaiyu's dust-washing banquet.

In the evening, Lin Feng and his entourage of ten people left Sizhou City and rushed to Haozhou (now Fengyang County, Anhui Province, with jurisdiction over Bengbu, Fengyang, Huaiyuan, Dingyuan, Mingguang and other cities and counties in present-day Anhui Province) a hundred miles away.

On the morning of May 21, Lin Feng and his entourage rushed to Zhongli City, where the Haozhou Governance Office was located. Zhongli City is named because it is the country of Zhong Ion in the Spring and Autumn Period, and is surrounded by Tu Mountain, Moye Mountain, and Haotang Mountain, and it is also an important town in Huainan that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Lin Feng did not rush into the city, and first led the team to climb to the highest peak of Haotang Mountain in the south of the city, and carefully observed the surrounding geographical environment. The west of Haozhou is about 150 miles away from Shouzhou, and it is the eastern side of Shouzhou City, which can be said to be dependent on each other. Traveling all the way to several states, it is Haozhou that is the most important in the future war.

Lin Feng and his entourage entered the city from the South City Gate, and directly found the Haozhou Thorn Mansion, identified themselves, and asked to meet the Thorn Shi Guo Tingwei.

To Lin Feng's surprise, the strong man who reported the door went for a long time before turning back and said in a cold voice: "Lord Assassin Shi has important official business, and it is inconvenient to receive him, please come to apply for the meeting in the afternoon (three o'clock)!" ”

Having just come out of Sizhou's enthusiasm, Lin Feng and his party did not expect to encounter an undisguised coldness here, and they couldn't come back to their senses all of a sudden. After Lin Feng heard this, he turned around and left, and ran to a restaurant next to him, it's time for lunch, people don't accept themselves, we can't treat ourselves badly, right?

The group spent more than an hour in the restaurant, estimating that the time had arrived, before turning back to the door of the Assassin's Mansion again. Still a shy-bellied man in the morning, he waited for Lin Feng to report his name again before he slowly turned around and entered.

It was another long time before the strong man turned out, glared at the people behind Lin Feng and said, "Everyone has their weapons disarmed, and they can enter!" ”

Lin Feng turned around to stop Lin Renzhao, who was about to get angry, and took the lead in untying the saber beside him in the wing, Lin Renzhao glared at the strong man angrily, and said angrily: "If anything goes wrong with our portable sword, I will have to skin you!" ”

The strong man leisurely dusted off his body, grimaced and said, "Alas, I'm so afraid! I'm afraid you're a poor soldier! ”

Hearing this provocative sentence, not only Lin Ren was angry, but even Lin Feng had a trace of anger in his heart, this Guo Ting said that he had taken the wrong medicine? How can you put it on the score?