Dengzhou, Governor's Palace.

Because it's noon, it's the hottest time of the sun. At this time of day, almost no officials are willing to go out under the scorching sun. But today, almost all qualified Dengzhou officials are dressed up. On the Taiping Army, in addition to the one in charge of the Tiannan War on the Chishang Mansion, the main generals, including Chen Wu, also gathered here.

After a large number of men were mobilized a few days in advance, the current Governor's Palace has been renovated and is extremely solemn. In front of the main entrance, an incense table was set up, ready to welcome the upcoming imperial envoy with the holy decree.

In fact, since the fall of the previous dynasty, the Qianyuan Empire has not been so cumbersome and meticulous in this regard. Ordinary decrees can be read and received directly. It was only today's Zhao'an and canonization of cadres that were heavily involved, and the empire insisted on maintaining decency and authority, that the Taiping army took a step back.

In anticipation, the convoy of the Imperial Envoy slowly drove along the east avenue.

The person in front of him was Fang An, who was holding the holy decree and preparing to read it. Behind him was a group of accompanying foreign affairs personnel, bringing corresponding official robes, swords, ribbons and other necessary items. After burning incense and saluting, the decree was read aloud in the crowd.

Because it had been negotiated in advance, Chen Wu knew the content of the holy decree. There is not much practical feeling about the canonization of the Qianyuan Dynasty, which is doomed to perish. But to the other Dengzhou officials and aristocrats who watched the ceremony, the senses were completely different. After a group of thieves who rushed over turned the entire Songjiang upside down, not only was it not encircled and suppressed, but in the end, it forced the empire to bow its head.

With this nominal presence, there is no longer any power in the entire Songjiang that can counterbalance them.

In a subdued tone, the fourteenth emperor of the empire canonized Chen Wu as the new governor of Songjiang, Tiannan, to recruit envoys, and lead Songjiang's military, political, and economic powers!

Except for the nominal need to report to the Empire, and the symbolic payment of a fixed amount of gold coins and grain, everything else is almost the same as a secession.

Taking over the holy decree from Fang An, Chen Wu accepted the congratulations of the other party and the officials of Dengzhou. At the same time, the bright yellow dragon flag of the empire that fell on the head of Dengzhou City was also raised again. Although the disbandment and comprehensive reorganization of the Taiping army will take some time to eliminate the confusion of some officers and soldiers about Zhao'an, and even after the defeat of the army of the Kingdom of Oman, at least on the surface, the Taiping army has completed the change of banners();.

Subsequently, the envoys of the major powers of the empire who came together participated in the reception held in the governor's palace and conveyed their goodwill to Chen Wu one after another. Including the personal messenger of the Great Prince, representatives of the Eight Great Lords, confidants and staff of the governors of various counties along the way, and some of the large chambers of commerce that have business cooperation with Songjiang......

Except for the long way and the messengers who have not yet arrived, there are enough forty or fifty people from all sides who have arrived. The local merchants and forces of Songjiang also sent a congratulatory gift to a greater or lesser extent. The various gift lists add up to a whopping 2,000,000 gold coins!

These alone basically recovered the capital of the funds scattered by Yuan Xingwei's activities in Zhongzhou.

After the reception, Chen Wu inevitably had a private meeting with the envoys of these parties. Some are just general cooperation, and it is enough for Yuan Xingwei to politely entertain and prepare a return gift. There are also some more important, like the messenger of the great prince, who must be received in person. These alone took Chen Wu nearly two days.

However, this qiē is worth it.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about the cooperation between the Taiping Army and the Great Prince, they went one step further on the initial agreement and negotiated a specific implementation plan and timetable. After the second rice harvest in Songjiang, the Taiping army secretly delivered the first batch of 50,000 stone of grain to Yanyun County between November and December, and Yanyun County would pay in full with gold coins.

Because it was the first transaction, the scale was not large, it was just an attempt. After the establishment of mutual trust and the opening of the secret channel across Yuanshan County, the scale will be expanded accordingly, and Yanyun County will gradually switch to war horses and iron ore discounted payment - this will be after next year.

The Ankang Chamber of Commerce, which was formed by the Taiping Army in order to recruit Gaochang shooters, happened to be used to undertake the main body of the transaction.

After the details were settled, the messenger of the eldest prince left satisfied, and before leaving, he did not forget to show goodwill, and gave Chen Wu a secret piece of information.

Nguyen Shi Minh, the prince of the former Hue Dynasty, is currently hiding incognito in a small town called Yun Minh in Shizhou Province, Tien Nam County. It was located in the southeastern corner of the entire Tien Nam Prefecture, and since the Omani army had completely captured Nam Phong Province, and the small army was spreading deep into the territory of Shizhou Province, Nguyen Shi Minh and the exiled ministers and deserters of the Thuan Hua Dynasty were in a panic and could flee by sea at any time - most likely by going north to hide in Dong Hai County, and then retreat into the hinterland of the empire from the East China Sea.

So, if you want to do it, you have to do your best!

Chen Wu really didn't know this secret information before he crossed over, after all, the current historical trend is very different from that before the crossing. But its importance and significance, Chen Wu can see at a glance.

Some people may not know that the Hue Dynasty, which was a southern vassal state of the empire with an area of about one and a half counties, has now been annexed by the Kingdom of Oman and has become Hue County. To the north, the Kingdom of Nantai, which borders the Imperial County of Tiannan, has also been annexed by the Kingdom of Oman and has been renamed Nantai County, where the Red River Valley and Koi Citadel are located.

Hue is a good place to visit, with most of the Chiang Mai Plain covering most of the area, and is the most fertile terrain in the southern plains. After the Omani kingdom annexed it, it acquired a natural granary and rich copper mines. It was also after digesting this that the Kingdom of Oman had the capital to challenge the empire in Tiannan.

It can only be said that the diplomatic strategy of the empire at that time was too neutral and passive. If he had taken a firm attitude and ordered the Tien Nam Army to decisively intervene to prevent the Omani Kingdom from annexing the Hue Dynasty, there would never have been the current disaster.

Fortunately, there is still a chance to remedy!

Compared with the southern barbarians of the Kingdom of Oman, the race of the Hue Dynasty is more inclined to the empire, since the annexation, although Saladin has repeatedly ordered and wants to use gentle means to slowly digest it, but there is still a phenomenon of bullying and oppression. It's just that after being killed by Iron Blood a few times who dared to resist, the Hue people slowly became honest, so that even the Omanis relaxed their vigilance and dared to send out a large army to attack the empire of Tennan reads();.

However, there are still many people in Hue who are secretly conspiring to rebel against the rule of the Omani Kingdom.

Before the crossing, at least seven or eight years after the game was launched, there was a large-scale uprising on the Hue side - it was said to have the support of the player's super guild. As for now, what if Chen Wu catches up with Ruan Shiming before he leaves?

After all, he was a prince of the previous dynasty, with an orthodox name!

Hue has been annexed until now, only a little more than a decade, coupled with the oppression of the Omanis, the appeal and influence of orthodoxy are still not to be underestimated. If the Taiping Army contributed to support the restoration of the Hue Dynasty behind the scenes......

The Taiping army didn't care whether it was successful or not, but his survival and actions could definitely poke the nerves of the Omanis, causing them a lot of trouble, so that the Omanis could not devote all their energy to the northward advance. In this regard, the Great Prince and the Taiping Army actually have common interests. It's just that the eldest prince couldn't reach it before, and he didn't want to contribute his own money and efforts, so he kept the information and didn't move. Now that the Taiping Army has come forward, the eldest prince naturally doesn't mind being a favor.

Comparing the information of the eldest prince with some things that Chen Wu knew before the crossing, Chen Wu made a decision and immediately recruited Gan Xing from the Military Intelligence Department.

During this time, in order to prepare for the counterattack against the Kingdom of Oman, Ganxing was also very hard. On the one hand, he collected information on the army of Tiannan County and the Kingdom of Oman, and on the other hand, he was busy planting the necessary outposts in the newly formed army. Limited by the shortage of manpower, Gan Xing also has to be distracted and take care of training newcomers, which can be described as a busy group of people. When he was summoned by Chen Wu, there was obviously a tiredness on his face that he couldn't hide.

This made Chen Wu realize that he had to find a way to expand the scale of the Military Intelligence Department. Or find a way to find him a few good helpers, or split the MIA.

While thinking in his heart, he told Gan Xing the secret information given by the messenger of the Great Prince, and signaled Gan Xing to immediately send a capable intelligence officer to Shizhou Mansion in Tien Nam County to get in touch with the prince of the former Hue Dynasty. If you can, it's best to bring them back to Songjiang County for protection.

After explaining this important task, Chen Wu did not stop and accepted Fang An's request for a meeting.

In addition to the negotiations that had already been promulgated on the Holy Decree, this time Fang An also issued a tentative request to Chen Wu on behalf of the emperor and the military department of the empire: in the case that Zhao'an had been completed, the Taiping army would open the Daqing Pass and let the imperial city guards support Tiannan in the south!

For this request of the empire, Chen Wu refused without thinking about it.

Not only that, but he also strongly demanded that Fang An must abide by the garrison requirements in the Zhao'an Agreement, and the emperor was not allowed to approach Daqing Pass at will.

The Omanis are dealt with by him, and let the city guards in?

What a brain-dead decision it must have to be to make this decision to lure the wolf into the house!

Chen Wu dared to guarantee that once the hundreds of thousands of city guards defeated the army of the Kingdom of Oman, Tang Mingzhe, the commander of the city guard corps who unified the army, would destroy Chen Wu's Taiping army with a backhand eight times out of ten. You can find a reason for it. Although this may have an impact on the credibility and decency of the empire, the situation has reached this point of deterioration, Chen Wu does not think that Qian Yuanji will pay attention to this, and he cannot pin his safety on the city guards to be trustworthy.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if the city guards don't move, they don't evacuate, and they are stationed in Songjiang to deter the Taiping army, what can he do?

Chen Wu's tough answer made Fang An a little disappointed, but this answer was actually what he expected. I could only sigh and leave Dengzhou gloomily.