Chapter 11: Return to Dingzhou (3)
After doing all this, Fang Ling took two stone figures to the Thorn Shi Mansion, as soon as Yuan Dekang heard that Fang Ling was coming, he hurriedly came out to greet him, compared to the lukewarm first meeting, now Yuan Dekang is face smiled, bowed and said: "Your Highness, you are also a ward, let the lower officials go to the city gate to greet you." ”
Fang Ling smiled lightly: "Lord Yuan is too polite, you are busy with official business, and now it is a lot of inconvenience for me to come over and disturb." ”
Yuan Dekang snorted and said: "Your Highness, this is a joke, your battle in the Valley of Thorns has made the enemy frightened, and the lower officials have also stained your light." ”
Fang Ling smiled, and changed his words: "Then the purpose of the king coming here, Lord Yuan, you should know, right?"
Yuan Dekang hurriedly straightened his expression and sighed: "Xia Guan knows a little bit about it, in fact, two days ago, I convened the four major wang clans, and I know the general trend, but these four families are really too contradictory, and they are all stubborn and self-serving, although Xia Guan is trying to persuade him, he can't do anything." As the parent official of Dingzhou, he is unable to discipline these old men, and he asks His Royal Highness for forgiveness. ”
Fang Ling was not surprised at all, if he wanted to gain a firm foothold in the northern land of Dingzhou, it was impossible without the support of local forces, Yuan Dekang was not strong enough, and it was natural for him to be eaten to death by these four major families, he smiled slightly and said: "Lord Yuan, don't panic, this king is here to relieve the siege of your lordship this time." As he spoke, he gestured to the horse's back.
Yuan Dekang was confused, and for a while he didn't know what Fang Ling meant, what were these two stone men doing? What's even more strange was that the stone man was still wearing clothes and a jade pendant, and suddenly, he remembered something, and exclaimed: "Your Highness, could this be a ......?"
Fang Ling knew what he had guessed, and interrupted: "It's good that Lord Yuan knows, you can invite the four family heads to the hall in the name of this king now." ”
Although Yuan Dekang didn't know how Fang Ling was going to subdue the four people, but when he saw that he had even found the missing Zheng Wu and his two sons, he was secretly impressed, and immediately turned around to do something.
Not long after, in the hall of the Assassin's Mansion, Fang Ling met the four masters of Zheng Wu and Bai Wei.
Zheng Tiansheng, the head of the Zheng family, is now in his fifties, and is the third uncle of the missing son Zheng Ming, and it is said that he used to love this nephew quite much, compared to his father, so since the incident came out twenty years ago, he has been taking a very tough attitude towards the Bai Wei family, and has launched many commercial competition offensives.
Wu Wenhao, the head of the Wu family, is in his sixties, the second uncle of the missing Wu Gongzi, this person is sophisticated, proficient in both official and business, although he looks kinder than Zheng Tiansheng on the outside, but he is more ruthless than Zheng Tiansheng in doing things.
Bai Haitao, the head of the Bai family, and Wei Xiang, the head of the Wei family, both of them were also the elders of the son back then, and they had deep feelings, and they were also hardliners who were elected to fight against the Zheng Wu family.
The four of them came to the hall, and the two factions sat on each side, with a cold expression, and the atmosphere in the hall was reduced to zero at once, of course the four of them knew the purpose of the King of Shicheng, so they seemed lukewarm to him, and as for Yuan Dekang, it was useless to look at it.