The reports of Zheng Zhiwei and Liang Ziyue provided a sufficient basis for the committee's decision-making. Based on the report, the committee agreed to work more closely with Liu Yunyan to help her extend the tentacles of the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" to the entire Youdu Prefecture and even the entire Nanjing Province. However, such cooperation is conditional. In addition to the fact that the "Qingyuan" brothers have a large share of economic interests, Liu Yunyan and the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyantang" under her control have to share intelligence with the "Qingyuan" brothers, and they are obliged to provide the "Qingyuan" brothers with the relevant content of the information they have obtained.

Of course, it is impossible for the crossing team to fully trust Liu Yunyan, let alone trust the "Feiyan Hall", while obtaining various news from the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou Branch, the spies of the "Dark Feather" will also join the various trading shops, restaurants and green buildings that provide cover for the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou Branch in various capacities to obtain first-hand information and information. In this way, we can not only avoid being controlled by others, but also verify the authenticity of the information provided by Liu Yunyan -- this is also the way the two sides are currently cooperating.

In addition to taking the opportunity of cooperating with the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyantang" to put into practice the "Dark Feather" tentacles that the Ministry of Intelligence had been preparing to implement before, from the entire Nanjing Dao Nai to the entire Liao Kingdom, the committee also accepted Zheng Zhiwei and Liang Ziyue's proposal in the report to adopt a strategy similar to that of the "Feiyantang" Youzhou Branch, and at the same time to investigate intelligence information in various places, and at the same time send capable men to contact the Han officials in the local government offices where the "Dark Feather" Shili arrived. Win over those officials who are dissatisfied with the Liao court and intend to restore Han rule in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, so that when the battle of Chai Rong's Northern Expedition that may occur in the near future begins, they can give the local Liao army a draw, make them a lone army without foundation, and create favorable conditions for defeating the Liao army as soon as possible.

At the enlarged meeting of the committee that followed, the motion submitted in the name of Zhang Xiaofei aroused heated discussions among the participants. Similar to the first time I cooperated with Liu Yunyan, this discussion on deepening cooperation with Liu Yunyan was also full of different opinions, both for and against, and some participants did not express their opinions, belonging to the wall-riding faction of cooperation and non-cooperation.

However, unlike last time, there was a huge disparity in the ratio of agreeing to and opposing in this discussion, with a large margin of approval. Among the participants who agreed to cooperate, the most determined and enthusiastic were the members of the Intelligence Department. This includes not only Liang Ziyue, who influenced many of the brothers who participated in the discussion of the brothers' ideas during the last discussion of cooperation, but also Zheng Zhiwei, who has not experienced the discussion of the last cooperation and now wants to develop and expand the "dark feather", and the top boss of the two of them, and now has a faint "big sister" demeanor in the team, and Zhang Xiaofei, who speaks very weightily.

In addition to the members of the Intelligence Department who wanted to take this opportunity to extend the tentacles of the "Dark Feather" to all directions, Fan Wucheng, as the intermediary messenger, focused on the future battle of Youzhou, hoping to be able to know themselves and the other The brothers of the Military Department, as well as Wang Kunjun and Zhang Weixin, the two members who had high hopes for the "Dark Feather", all agreed with this cooperation.

The opponents were somewhat surprising, most of them from Fan Wucheng's own Ministry of Commerce and Trade. Now the crossing team is not only doing business in Youdu Mansion and even the entire Nanjing Road, but also has a strong momentum in Zhou State. In Zhouguo, through the good cooperation with the Cui family in Shandong, the business has become bigger and bigger, and the scope of involvement has become wider and wider, and its income has exceeded the trend of the team's business income in Liaoguo. Moreover, with the status of Zhou officials owned by Xu Shao'an, Lin Xiaoyu and other traversers, the current traversal team no longer needs the shili behind "Feiyantang" to protect their interests in the Zhou State as originally envisaged.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, the brothers of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade naturally did not want to attract the attention and suppression of the Liao government because of their cooperation with Liu Yunyan, so that their business in the Liao State would be unnecessarily affected - after all, the commercial profits of the crossing team in the territory of the Liao State still have an indispensable position in the entire income of the team, especially when they came from behind, and there was already a faint salt trade that surpassed the glass business, because of its huge profits, it occupied an increasing proportion of the financial income of the crossing team. ,

However, this kind of business is in a gray area, and the local government has taken a "turn a blind eye, close one eye" attitude towards this kind of thing because it has profited from it, and ignore it. But once it is implicated because of the "Feiyantang" incident, then whether it is the Nanjing Left-behind Mansion or other state and county governments, they will definitely no longer smile at the crossing team, and the salt business will definitely be used by the other party to attack the crossing team. Then the interview can be used as an opportunity to challenge the entire business network of the crossing team in Liao. At that time, even if the team members will not be in danger of their lives under the protection of the "Flying Dragon Army", unless they are determined to officially start a war with the Liao State government, the business network that has cost the team members, especially the members of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, will definitely suffer heavy losses or even collapse completely.

Such a result is obviously unacceptable to the crossing team, and the crossing team will have to completely tear their faces with the Liao government and protect their interests by force. At that time, no matter whether the external conditions for the incident are ripe or not, whether the situation is favorable to oneself or not, a major battle between the crossing team and the Liao State government will be inevitable. Such a forced battle, regardless of its outcome, is undesirable for the crossing team

Fan Wucheng did not show any dissatisfaction with the opposition of his colleagues, but talked eloquently there, explaining the benefits of cooperation between the two sides to the brothers of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, and trying to downplay the possible drawbacks and pass them over, hoping to change the minds of the brothers in the Ministry of Commerce and Trade through his own tirade.

As a matter of fact, after the two major departments of the Ministry of Intelligence and the Ministry of Military Affairs actively fought for it, after Wang Kunjun and Zhang Weixin expressed their support, and the brothers of the Ministry of Science and Technology did not express their opinions -- this is tantamount to acquiescence -- the discussion on whether or not to deepen cooperation with Liu Yunyan and the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyantang" behind him has already reached a conclusion, and even if several brothers from the Ministry of Commerce and Trade have some different opinions, it will not change the result of the passage of this bill. However, in the face of such a discussion with almost no suspense, Fan Wucheng, who appeared as the "messenger" of both sides, behaved a little abnormally. Not only did he change his previous style of coordinating with his brothers in the department, and he spoke out against his colleagues at meetings, but he also behaved very actively, and his enthusiasm for cooperation between the two sides even exceeded that of several members of the intelligence department, and he basically reached a state of fanatical support.

Fan Wucheng's performance naturally attracted the attention of the other brothers, and many people looked at the fourteenth brother (elder brother) who was foaming at the mouth and talking endlessly with a puzzled face, and they couldn't figure out that as the head of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, Weishenme was so concerned about the proposal of the Ministry of Intelligence, and even did not hesitate to stand on the opposite side of his colleagues.

Taking advantage of Fan Wucheng's "eloquence" to come to an end temporarily, he was a little thirsty and picked up a teacup to drink water, compared with Zhao Dawei, who had worked together in Youzhou City for a long time and knew him better, and at the same time he was the most puzzled by his performance today, said in a half-day joking tone: "I said the old fourteen, I really don't see that you are so good at reasoning. In the past, you have always been resolutely opposed to such a plan, which may cause inconvenience to the work of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. What's wrong with this today, not only do you not oppose it, but you still support it so strongly, and you go to such great lengths to convince your colleagues to agree with you. You shouldn't have gotten some benefit from Liu Yunyan to be a lobbyist for her, right? ”

"That's it, that's it," Song Feiyang joked on the side, "Brother Fourteen, shouldn't you have taken a fancy to that Miss Liu, and in order to please her, you are here to blindly say good things for her?" ”

When Xie Tian heard this, he nodded again and again, pretending to be a serious analyst: "Well, what Lao Twenty-two said is also a little reasonable. Although Lao Fourteen has raised a house in Youzhou and Liangxiang, he has never officially married a wife. I think that although Miss Liu is in her early twenties this year, she is an old girl in this era. But firstly, her figure and appearance are quite good, and secondly, she is more than ten years younger than the old fourteen, even if she is an old girl, there is nothing wrong with it. ”

Although Xie Tian said it very seriously, with his more obscene and obscene expression, it immediately caused a coaxing of all the brothers in the meeting, and several people laughed and covered their stomachs.

However, in the face of these few jokes that anyone could hear was ridiculing and amusing, Fan Wucheng's reaction was once again unexpected by everyone. This guy was first red and white by Zhao Dawei's words, and then he was a little flustered by Song Feiyang's words, zuihou waited for Xie Tian's joke to come out, but he looked very excited, stood up suddenly, some fiercely, and even a little angry pointed at Song Feiyang and said: "Old twenty-two, don't talk nonsense there." When did you hear me say that you fell in love with Miss Liu, which eye of yours saw me flattering her. ”

Speaking of this, Fan Wucheng paused slightly, hugged his fists at Zhao Dawei and Xie Tian, and continued: "Tenth brother and thirteenth brother, although you two are Wucheng's brothers, you can't speak so indiscriminately, and it's not such a way to joke. According to what you two say, who have I become Fan Wucheng? Could it be that in the eyes of the two elder brothers, I Fan Wucheng is so unproductive, in order to make a little profit, in order to covet the beauty of women, I will do such stupid things such as 'forgetting righteousness' for profit', 'valuing sex and ignoring friends', and betraying the interests of the team? ”

Because Fan Wucheng's fierce reaction was greatly unexpected by everyone, after he finished speaking, everyone could not come back to their senses, and the venue seemed very quiet for a while.

After a while, it was Wang Kunjun who was the first to wake up, and he hurriedly appeased Fan Wucheng, who was very excited, and symbolically reprimanded Zhao Dawei and others a few words, which should be to save some face for Fan Wucheng.

Just when Wang Kunjun persuaded Fan Wucheng, Zhang Weixin, Zhang Xiaofei, Liang Ziyue, Zheng Zhiwei and several others had a little unpleasant premonition, and the four of them glanced at each other, with intriguing expressions on their faces.