For the three dowries of Soochow that Lu Su proposed "kindly". Zhao Xing was not interested in his heart, and even wished that Sun Jian would be an iron rooster once, and it was best not to give this kind of "sugar-coated cannonball" dowry at all.

But Zhao Xing's final reply still chose some concessions and compromises, and he had to show his gratitude very much, he was really embarrassed to ask for so many expressions of marriage.

This is the art of negotiation, where aggressiveness can force potential allies into hostile camps, and miscarriage can embolden the other side's exorbitant demands, which ultimately outweigh the losses. Grasping the heat and scale is the highest level of negotiation.

Although on the surface, everyone pretends to be amiable, hello and me, but when it touches the bottom line of the fundamental interests of both sides, it is not an inch, and even does not hesitate to tear the skin.

The reason why Zhao Xing only asked Dongwu symbolically asked the two of them to come over, and gave Dongwu the formula of the killer weapon black powder of the Jin army, in fact, he didn't want Sun Jian of Dongwu to get too close to Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and others secretly. Anyway, the secret of gunpowder is no longer exclusive to the Jin State, as long as it can always maintain an absolute lead in technology, even if the formula is told to Dongwu, it will not be much of a threat to the Jin State.

On the contrary, the seemingly purely civilian papermaking printing and typesetting techniques were held in Zhao Xing's hands, and this time he did not even loosen his tone. Just because the weapon that can control public opinion in the world is really more important than gunpowder. Gunpowder can scare people for a while only if you win the hearts of the people, and controlling the publication and printing of the "Jin Bao" and the books in the world can firmly grasp public opinion, so that the common people can follow the path you guide with all their hearts.

Zhao Xing also clearly told Lu Su that as long as the Sun clan of Eastern Wu did not cross the border, they could do whatever they wanted south of the Yangtze River, and the Jin State would not have the idea of annexing Wuzhou for a while. As for Lu Su's proposal that Wuzhou was willing to assist the 10,000 sailors of the Jin Kingdom, Zhao Xing did not directly refuse, but said that there was no plan to send troops to Sanhan at present, but if the sailors expanded in the future, he would definitely think of recruiting some soldiers from Wuzhou.

Zhao Xing's answer was somewhat ambiguous, but it was also completely in line with the rules of the game for negotiations, that is, he did not explicitly refuse, but he also did not explicitly agree, leaving a room for maneuver for possible joint actions between the two armies in the future.

Regarding the third "dowry", that is, the proposal to allow Jin merchants to open mines and factories in Wuzhou, although Zhao Xing knew that it was inappropriate, he still agreed very happily. Zhao Xing had complete control over the merchants who went to the Jin Kingdom to dig gold and copper mines, as well as projects that did not involve iron and steel smelting. Wu Zhou wanted to learn the method of blast furnace ironmaking and forging steel from the Jin Kingdom, but he was afraid that he had made a mistake.

In the end, Zhao Xing and Lu Su used a drunken scene as a cover, neither tearing their faces nor blushing, but basically getting the rewards they wanted from each other.

For Wuzhou, since Zhao Xing agreed to hand over the formula of black powder to himself, it proves that Zhao Xing has not yet had the idea of using Wuzhou as the main hostile force. Of course, that's all, it doesn't prove whether Zhao Xing will be hostile to Wuzhou in the future, there are no eternal friends or enemies in this world, only eternal interests.

Although it is necessary to pay two potential talents in exchange for the price, judging from Zhao Xing's character who has never been willing to suffer, Sun Jian will eventually agree. Lu Su had actually agreed to use Bu Qi and Dong Xi, two already famous civil and military warriors, in exchange, but he didn't expect that he was a little too much, and Zhao Xing finally let the two go. Compared with Bu Qi and Dong Xi, Lu Xun is now just a clerk in Sun Quan's mansion, and Lu Meng is not even a third-rate general.

Lu Su thought to himself, fortunately, he didn't say Lu Ji and Ding Fenglai on impulse, otherwise it would be a little cost-effective. This time, Lu Xun and Lu Meng were able to fool Zhao Xing, and it was really a fluke.

As for Zhao Xing's rejection of Wuzhou's papermaking and printing techniques under the guise of rejecting Wuzhou, it was also expected by Lu Su. If Zhao Xing could not even see the great political significance behind the papermaking and printing technology, it would be impossible to achieve his current achievements. Although it did not directly obtain the technology of papermaking and printing, at least in the future, Wuzhou's cultural education will save a lot of expenses because of the strong support of the Jin State, and it can also obtain many useful books from the Jin State, which is also an important gain.

Zhao Xing also happily accepted all the three "dowries" prepared by Wuzhou, although he did not immediately say that he would accept the assistance of 10,000 Wuzhou sailors, but it also left a back door for the joint operations of the two armies in the future. Whether Zhao Xing saw Sun Jian's small calculations or not, the two kinds of joint operations are always better than the battles between the two armies, and the symbolic significance of such a joint political is far greater than the actual military significance.

So Zhao Xing really doesn't have any idea about Soochow? The answer is naturally no. Because of the geographical environment, it is destined that Zhao Xing will be the last stop to unify the whole country before he can reach the Jiangdong region, and the process of looking across the river from Dongwu will last at least eight to ten years.

If the strategy is appropriate, the speed of the expansion of Eastern Wu is properly controlled, and it is limited to the land of Wuyue, and when Zhao Xing pacifies Yizhou and Jingzhou, and forces Liu Bianchan to concede, the million-strong army under Zhao Xing will be in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the north bank, and it is very likely that a big war or even no war can be used to subdue the land of Jiangdong.

Since he could avoid dying or die less, why did Zhao Xing have to force Sun Jian to unite with other forces to oppose him? Give Sun Jian a reassuring pill and let him concentrate on dealing with the Baiyue clan in Wuzhou and devote his main energy to the operation and development of the southern part of Wuzhou and the northern part of Jiaozhou, so that he can give full play to the talents of the many civil officials and scholars in Eastern Wu, and at that time he can also obtain a densely populated and prosperous territory.

As the saying goes: leave a line in everything, and see each other in the future. Zhao Xing's practice of liking to leave a line in both life and work is not a reflection of indecision and procrastination, but real political wisdom.

After the end of the defense of the Jin State that year, Zhao Xing was fully capable of taking advantage of the retreat of the forces in various states to send a large army to Luoyang, doing what Dong Zhuo had done in history, and even burned the Luoyang area to white ground in order to vent his dissatisfaction, and directly destroyed the royal family surnamed Liu.

But Zhao Xing did not do this, but reached an understanding with the imperial court, and then willingly defended the northern frontier for the Han Dynasty, and devoted his main energy to preventing and fighting the plague and exterminating Xianbei, and later helped the imperial court to eliminate Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju and clean up Dong Zhuo under the banner of the imperial court.

Because the Han royal family always existed, and Zhao Xing did not take the initiative to rebel, so for so many years, careerists such as Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, Liu Yan, and Sima Shi have never dared to blatantly break away from the rule of the Han Dynasty. Even if the imperial court would launch attacks on the Jin State from time to time, the intensity could no longer be compared with the Great War of the Annexation State, and the Jin State and the imperial court were also fighting and stopping, and they did not get to the point of breaking the net.

The Han royal family has not planned to move the capital from Luoyang to Xiangyang until now, which fully proves that Zhao Xing's strategy of boiling frogs in warm water is very effective. Just imagine, if Zhao Xing directly destroyed the Han family, not only would he fall into a crime like Dong Zhuo's burning of Luoyang in history, and lose a lot of popular support, but also immediately create a large number of warlord forces.

The most important thing is that up to now, Zhao Xing has fought with many opponents, and several forces have even been wiped out, but the life of the common people has become more and more prosperous! That is to say, the war launched by Zhao Xing has always controlled the destructive and lethal power, and has not harmed the foundation and vitality of the Han Empire.

Even Yuan Shu, a guy who could only rebel and didn't know how to govern internal affairs, because he was always intimidated by Zhao Xing, he had to reuse good strategies like Zhuge Xuan and Zhuge Jin to govern internal affairs, otherwise the people of Yangzhou were tossed to death by his harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, poverty and heavy burdens, and ran away in fright, where is there still a source of soldiers and wealth to ensure his safety?