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The first two imperial capitals all responded, but on the one of marrying the eldest princess, the imperial capital objected. Even Han Feng was surprised by that objection.

The imperial capital sent a message saying: The eldest princess prayed for the blessing of the country, cultivated in **, and vowed not to marry for life. For this reason, the imperial capital is willing to give ten clan women as a price, sent to the Northern Dynasty, after which the Northern Dynasty became a vassal of the Zhan Dynasty, although the internal affairs are self-managed, but can not claim to be the country, Liu Quan can not claim to be the emperor, need to be subject to the Zhan Dynasty's seal and title.

Not surprisingly, the envoy sent by the imperial capital to the Northern Dynasty was beaten back in disgrace, and at the same time brought back a war letter.

Of course, whether it is the imperial capital or Pingsha City, their attitude towards this war letter is not serious.

After Bai Tong's cultivation for so long, coupled with the fact that he was the "emperor", he discussed national affairs with several ministers every day, Han Feng only laughed at this war letter, and instead discussed with Zhan Zhongqi, planning to wait for the weather to be better, so he took his own soldiers to take a good look around Fengguan Mangcheng.

Zhan Zhongqi was not surprised by his proposal, he thought about it for a while, and asked, "What do you want to see?"

Han Feng was ready to reply in his heart, so he said, "I want to see the food and population first. In front of Zhan Zhongqi, he never called himself "I", and still looked like a junior.

Zhan Zhongqi immediately laughed when he heard this: "It's time to take a look." When we arrive at Lixia, we will discuss the future. ”

The reason why we have to look at the grain is, of course, to prepare for the big war that follows. The so-called war between the two armies, grain and grass go first. The reason why Xinghou's vigorous "rebellion" last year finally resulted in defeat and return to Pingsha City was that the grain route was cut off. Pingsha City was about the same size as Fengguan Mangcheng, and after these days of understanding, Han Feng knew that in such a city, the grain hoarding in the city was enough for about 50,000 people to eat for a year, and the grain collected from the surrounding fields every year was just enough to hoard twice as much grain.

Replacing old grain with new grain, eating half and hiding half is the rule that every city in the country abides by. However, when the Pingsha City Incident broke out last year, there were suddenly more than 30,000 prodigal soldiers, and together with the support of some grain and grass for the Rongqi people in the north, the peasants were gathered together to form a temporary militia, resulting in barren fields.

Even if the few remaining grain stocks were transferred from Lidu, it would still be difficult to make up for the shortfall. According to this calculation, even if Xinghou used the treasury to buy grain, by the early spring of this year, he should be overstretched and temporarily unable to launch a second expedition.

And the situation in the imperial capital is not much better than that of Pingsha City. At the time of last year's war, the imperial capital was once locked down. The troops directly under the Emperor Dai who were usually stationed within a hundred miles of the surrounding area were all concentrated in the imperial capital city at once, and without the support of the army's reclamation of fields, the official warehouses in the imperial capital city were eaten upside down.

In desperation, the first emperor ordered the forcible expropriation of grain from the homes of the people in the imperial capital, which led to boiling resentment. The families of the officials are good to say, but the people living on the edge of the imperial capital are unlucky. It is rumored that when the grain was levied, the army of the emperor was as good as the robbers, and sometimes they were robbed, and they didn't care about the lives of the common people, and even took away the other party's wives and daughters and the only remaining property. For this reason, there were several small disputes in the city, but the people could not fight with the soldiers, and finally the troublemakers "disappeared" silently.

Under the leadership of the newly enthroned emperor, the imperial capital gradually restored its original order, and all kinds of waste were waiting to be rebuilt, but the imperial capital that had not recovered was far from having the confidence to crusade against Pingsha City - not to mention Pingsha City, even Jimo City, which was closer to the imperial capital, was full of anger to the new emperor.

Therefore, Liu Quan gave the imperial capital a war letter, and the other party also replied with a war letter "politely".

At the same time, several envoys also came to Fengguan Mangcheng.

Some of these envoys came from the imperial capital, Liang Gong from Futao City, Xinghou from Pingsha City, Yue Wang from Huadu in Fengcheng City, and of course Zhao Gong from Jimo City.

The envoy of the imperial capital was the most straightforward, and the letter he brought did not even mention "Han Feng" and "Zhan Zhongqi", but only scolded the word "national thief" to Manghou, and then the envoy held his head behind his back and looked at life and death. Manghou was not angry, and after having the messenger's ear cut off according to the rules, he ordered him to be sent out of the city.

Compared with the straightforwardness of the envoy of the imperial capital, the envoy of Xinghou is much more obscure. He wasn't sent by Liu Quan—naturally, even if he was sent by Liu Quan, he wouldn't be unkind to Han Feng. After greeting the newly enthroned emperor of the "Western Dynasty", the envoy was invited to a sumptuous banquet by Manghou.

Han Feng and Zhan Zhongqi naturally "accompanied the whole process", but sitting on the main seat, Han Feng watched coldly, but saw that the messenger didn't say half a useful word. Throughout the whole process, the envoy and Manghou had an ambiguous "you know, I understand", so that outsiders couldn't figure it out. There was no need to take Xing Hou's letter, Han Feng also knew that there would never be anything important written on it.

Liang Gong's envoy was a fat man with a big belly, and he seemed to be more interested in beautiful women and good food than in missionary tasks. This is a good gentleman-like character, he can't say anything, others can't ask anything, he looks a little stupid, he will only smirk at Lijiao who is sitting under him, but Han Feng can be sure that this person is by no means a simple person - after all, according to Lijiao's temperament, if this man is really stupid as a pig, she would have already moved her hands and feet in his food, but after eating the whole meal, Lijiao rarely endured her disgust and smiled at the man, and ignored the eyes staring at her undeveloped breasts as if they were nothing.

The envoy of Zhao Gong in Jimo City, like Zhao Gong himself, was full of contradictions and mysteries. said that he was an envoy, but it wasn't until he left that Han Feng and the others woke up - this person didn't even say a word. He only nods, smiles, shakes his head, or makes simple sounds such as "ah", "oh", "um" to express his attitude. It is really incomprehensible that a person who is not good at words to such an extent can become a messenger. And the letter brought by Zhao Gong was also very vague, he had reservations about the so-called "Western Dynasty" self-reliance, and only asked Manghou not to affect his jurisdiction. Jimo City is far away in the easternmost part of the country, and it is impossible for the current Fengguan Mangcheng to influence it even if it wants to, and agreeing to this matter is nothing more than doing a favor, so why not do it.

The only thing that surprised Han Feng was King Yue's envoy. He had already guessed that King Yue would send people from the Jiang Xing Gang, and he had guessed that the person who came would be Jiang Qi, who was most familiar with him besides Zhan Kang, and even he guessed that King Yue would take risks to recruit Xin Liulai, who was used to doing fine work in the gang, but he didn't expect that the person sent by King Yue was Wu Wu, who was kind and wealthy. (End of volume)

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