Shi Siming put his hands in his sleeves, looking like a shrewd and sophisticated businessman, stared at Xu Bin's eyes with a smile and asked, "Xu Xianggong, doesn't it represent your father-in-law?" So what are you doing here, but it doesn't matter, I can wait, you can go back and ask him if he can accept the deal? ”

After Xu Bin pondered, he suddenly smiled and said, "Since I came to the emperor on behalf of the lord to share three acres of land, I can naturally represent him, so we need to sign a covenant?" ”

"Okay, Xu Xianggong is worthy of being Li Siye's confidant, he is really happy to speak, whether it is to write a letter of alliance, or to set up a platform to sacrifice the blood of the heavens for the alliance, we can agree that you will send 60,000 troops to attack Taiyuan from Shangdang, and we will send 30,000 troops to attack Yunzhou."

Shi Siming immediately called the scribes, spread out a scroll on the main hall and wrote down the covenant, writing down the joint efforts of the two sides, but did not write the division of interests after the victory, as if they had forgotten the matter of dividing Hedong. Maybe Shi Siming didn't want to divide it at all, he would definitely turn his face in the future and strive to maximize his interests. Xu Bin didn't mean to write it, because he was confident that this thing would only limit Li Siye's ambitions and achievements.

After the two sides signed their names, Shi Siming carried his emperor's big seal and stamped it, and Xu Bin carried his own seal and stamped it with both hands.

Shi Siming said with a satisfied smile: "Since the two sides have reached an agreement, I will set up a banquet for you in Guangda Building, don't let Li Siye say that I didn't entertain his people well." ”

Shi Siming still has a strong atmosphere of rivers and lakes, even if he is ushered in, he comes casually. Xu Bin happily crossed his hands and said, "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate." ”

Anyway, the main bus has done almost everything on his behalf, and he can send someone to send the news back in advance. And Shi Siming values face the most, and refusing his request is probably more serious than going to war with him.

Guangda Building is a banquet and drinking place in Luoyang Ziwei Palace, and its function and importance are equivalent to the calyx building of Xingqing Palace. Shi Siming sat on the platform in the center of the building, and behind him was the palace maid with a gold-inlaid screen and a feather fan.

Because his court is still similar to the grass platform team, and the rules are not as big as in the Tang Palace, once these so-called courtiers get drunk, they also forget that it is the emperor sitting on them. Walking around the hall with wine cups and clinking glasses back and forth.

Xu Bin was already mentally prepared to get drunk, but whenever someone came to him, he raised the wine cup and drank it, Shi Siming looked at it, and his heart became more and more happy, looking down at the fruit pomegranate on the plate in front of him, and chanting loudly with the wine cup: "In the red flower in March and April, in the bottle in May and June." He made a knife to cut through the yellow clothes, and six or seven thousand naked men and women. ”

After reading this poem, many literati and military generals sitting below clapped their hands and praised: "Your Majesty's poems are neat, concise and concise, and they seem vulgar to read, but after reading them, they have a simple beauty that makes people last forever. ”

After this person finished touting, everyone echoed and touted, and naturally no one dared to disagree.

These words disgusted Xu Bin, but he had no choice but to nod his head. But Shi Siming still had to ask this literati with high cultural attainment: "Xu Xianggong, you can also be regarded as a talented person, you can taste it." ”

Letting Xu Bin comment on his poetry in public is equivalent to putting a piece of in front of him, and he has to analyze the color and taste of this, isn't this deliberately disgusting him?

The corners of Xu Bin's mouth squeezed out a smile and said: "The emperor's poems have made an originality, closer to the essence of the poems, which belongs to the poems of this era." It is far closer to poetry than those piled up rhetoric, and it is also more flavorful and spiritual. ”

Shi Siming laughed proudly: "I didn't expect Xu Xianggong's sycophant skills to be quite high, no wonder Li Siye trusts you so much." ”

Xu Bin picked up the wine cup and covered it in front of his face, hiding the expression on his face and said, "Your Majesty Xie praises." ”

"Hahaha." Shi Siming and everyone laughed dryly.

After the banquet ended, Xu Bin hurriedly said goodbye to Shi Siming and returned to the pavilion in Luoyang.

The night breeze was drunk, and the lights were on, Shi Siming and his henchmen Xue Song, Zhang Zhizhong and others stood on the platform, looked at Xu Bin's footsteps and snorted coldly and said: "I thought that Li Siye's command was full of upright talents, and I think this person's ability to flatter is not small." But just a few words of sycophancy can't judge the character of this Xu Bin. ”

On the second day, Xu Bin left for Chang'an, and the letter he wrote to Li Siye had been sent to Beijing a day in advance.

Li Siye did not live in Xingqing Palace for a long time, and ordered people to integrate the residences of An Lushan and Guo Ziyi in Qinrenfang to expand into the residence of King Yong, and he also gave his confidants and meritorious old generals to live nearby, which was more convenient for them to control the imperial court, and for a long time in the future, Qinrenfang became the core of power in the Tang Dynasty.

Xu Bin's letter was sent to Li Siye's desk in Yongwangfu, he tore open the letter and nodded, it was similar to what he expected, although he was not very satisfied, but this was an inevitable result, and it was also within his control.

It's just that I don't know how Yan Zhuang's side is going, he has been gone for some days, even if the talks are not successful, it is time to send the letter back.

……

Yan Zhuang lives in the earthen cave of a small village near Taiyuan, and his entourage is dressed as a merchant who lives in a guest house, living in a simple place every day, although it doesn't look normal, but in this era of war and chaos, the behavior of people in the world has become unpredictable.

Two men dressed in robes slipped out of Taiyuan City early in the morning and came to the cave in the village where Yan Zhuang was located.

"Ah Lang, I got a lot of news in the city, Deng Jingshan is the envoy of Hedong Festival, and he is indeed simple and strict with his family as an official. Like the soldiers, their family only eats moldy rice from the granary. When the family entertains distinguished guests, they only eat pork and fish, and they are reluctant to take out mutton. ”

At the beginning of his tenure, the soldiers in Hedong secretly hid a lot of grain in the granary, and they were afraid that Deng Jingshan's new official would pursue the grain when he took office. Deng Jingshan really lived up to their expectations, recovered food from many soldiers and generals, and punished them with canes and imprisoned laborers depending on the severity of the situation, and the generals were full of resentment. ”

He also distributed all the rotten grain in the warehouse to the soldiers, and the soldiers were secretly dissatisfied with how could they stand it. But these are just offending the low-level soldiers. Deputy General Zhang Guangtao was about to be sentenced to death for committing dereliction of duty, Deng Jingshan enforced the law impartially and refused to be lenient, Zhang Guangtao hurriedly asked someone to ask for favors and was willing to donate money to forgive the crime, but Deng Jingshan refused to relax. In the end, Zhang Guangtao's younger brother offered to exchange the BMW treasured by the family, and Deng Jingshan agreed to forgive the general's sins. When the generals heard of this, they were furious and said, 'Is our life worse than a horse?' ’”

When Yan Zhuang heard about this, he jumped up from the kang regardless of the wounds on his body, and said happily and loudly: "Deng Jingshan is really clear, there are no fish, this is a good opportunity for us to make meritorious contributions, I will first repair a letter to the lord and report to him the feasibility of this matter." Presumably, the main guild is strongly supportive. As long as you pay a sum of money, you can exchange for thousands of miles of land and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Hedong, which is really the most worthwhile deal. ”

His movements touched the wound, and he was sweating in pain, and was quickly stopped by his entourage. He waved his hand and said, "Leave me alone, bring you a pen and an inkstone, I want ......"

Yan Zhuang threw the ink pipe in his hand to the ground, as if he had just carried a mountain, and was so tired that he lay on the kang and said to one of his attendants: "You quickly bring the letter back to Chang'an and send it to King Yong's Mansion." ”

He instructed two of his cronies, "When we came, we brought some gold and pepper and prepared to give them to Deng Jingshan, but this old boy doesn't know how to lift them. You take this golden pepper and give it to the deputy general Zhang Guangtao, but don't explain the meaning, just ask which generals in the Hedong Army have prestige, and who is dissatisfied with Deng Jingshan. After inquiring about all this, the lord will soon send people to send more gold and spices, which can induce these people to mutiniate against the water and take Hedong without blood. ”