Chapter 141: Lobbying

At noon, Chen Ruolan's maidservant came to Zhou Yu's room to deliver a message, saying that Her Royal Highness the princess had summoned him.

Although Zhou Yu is the ambassador of Wenguo, he is serving Chen Ruolan after all, Chen Ruolan has a purpose, and he has to obey.

"Minister Zhou Yu see Her Royal Highness the Princess!" Zhou Yu, who entered the room, saluted.

"Okay, there's no need to salute, anyway, you and I didn't know each other for the first time. At the beginning, you swore that you would never promote the peace between the two countries, so I agreed to let my father go to the Qianguo, and now that we are all at the border of Dawen, what are your plans, you should always reveal a little to me, right?" Chen Ruolan asked.

"I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, wait a little longer, and you will see it at dusk." Zhou Yu replied.

"What does that mean?" Chen Ruolan wondered.

"Can't say it, can't say it......" Zhou Yu began to pretend to be mysterious again.

……

As the sun set, the birds returned to their nests, and the detachments returned to the camp one after another, and with them came a man tied in a bag.

When the sergeants took the guy out of the bag, Zhou Yu removed the black cloth covering his head and asked Yu Jingfa, who was standing aside, "What is this person's name and what position does he have?"

"If you go back to your lordship, this person is a local county magistrate, named Qian Yongfu, and it has been found out that it is this thief who colluded with the squire to cause trouble, causing the people to complain, and dare not speak out!" Yu Jing replied.

"Didn't leave any tricks, did you?" Zhou Yu turned his head and asked Song Qidao.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured that you have done a clean job and will not leave a trace." Song Qi responded confidently.

"His family doesn't know either?" Zhou Yu asked.

"I sent someone to his house with his name, saying that he would stay in the yamen for a few days, and by the time they reacted, we would have already reached the boundary of the Qianguo, who would think of us?" Song Qi said with a smile.

After Song Qi finished talking about his own operation method, Zhou Yu suddenly thought of something, if this method is feasible, it means that the original Jingzhao Yin Shen Mo and his family are likely to be taken out of the capital like this!

However, now that Zhou Yu is no longer in Beijing, and besides, after so much time, the difficulty of the investigation must not be small, so I have to put it aside for a while and wait until the end of the trip to Qianguo.

At this moment, the official in charge of external liaison in the mission came in and reported: "My lord, the people from Qianguo asked when we would leave, and how should the official reply?"

"Tell them that the mission will leave early tomorrow morning, and get them ready." Zhou Yu said.

"Yes!"

After explaining this, Zhou Yu said to Yu Jing and Song Qi: "Cheer up, tomorrow we will enter the territory of Qianguo, that is people's territory, everyone must be highly vigilant when performing tasks!"

"Command!" Yu Jing and Song Qi saluted and left the room separately.

"As for you...... Zhou Yu looked at Qian Yongfu, the county minister who was kneeling on the ground, and pulled out his sword from his waist, and a blood mark instantly appeared on Qian Yongfu's neck, and the person immediately fell to the ground.

"Come on, throw the carcass into the mountains and feed the wild dogs!" Zhou Yu ordered.

……

The next day, the mission set out and entered the territory of Qianguo. Zhou Yu communicated some details with the officials in charge of receiving Qianguo, including some complicated etiquette, which will not be repeated here.

In the afternoon, when the sun was setting, Zhou Yu once again summoned Song Qi and Yu Jing together.

"Well, what did I ask you to inquire about?" Zhou Yu asked.

"I've inquired clearly, as my lord expected, there are indeed two officials here who were demoted for offending the powerful of the Qianguo court." Song Qi said.

"What is the virtue of these two? What about the capabilities? Since he took office, what has been the reputation of the people?" Zhou Yu asked a series of questions.

"If you go back to your lordship, these two people are upright people, so they are not liked in the court, and after they took office, they have always been conscientious and conscientious, and they have a clear distinction between right and wrong, and the common people have a good evaluation of them. But it is precisely because they are not tactful enough that they are not very popular with officialdom, and this is the case in the capital of Qianguo, and it is still the same here

。 From the point of view of humiliation, I am afraid that there is no hope for these two people to be promoted." Yu Jing told Zhou Yu what he had gathered.

"Besides, do you know the details of the two of them?"

"Don't worry, my lord, everything is what you expected."

……

"Lord Zhou, the mission can set off tomorrow and rush to Qianzhou, and the Qianzhou Assassin has prepared a place for Her Royal Highness the Princess and the mission to recuperate." Officials from Qianguo came to visit.

"It's just that the princess has just arrived in the treasure land, and she is still a little uncomfortable, and the official plans to rest here for two days, so as not to overwork Her Royal Highness the princess all the way." Zhou Yu declined the other party's proposal.

"Since Lord Zhou has thought it through, then the officials will obey their orders!"

After taking the officials away, Zhou Yu said to Song Qi and Yu Jing, "After tomorrow, you will send people to invite these two, and I will talk to them personally!"

"Obedience!"

Another day passed, and Chen Ruolan still didn't understand what Zhou Yu's arrangement was.

In the evening of the next day, Song Qi and Yu Jing took the two officials to the mission according to Zhou Yu's instructions.

"The two adults have worked hard, I take the liberty to invite you to come today, I hope you will forgive me!" Corporal Zhou Yu saluted the two.

The two glanced at each other, their expressions were a little dazed, obviously not quite understanding why Zhou Yu wanted to invite these two petty officials to meet. One of them stood up and asked, "I wonder why the lord invited the lower officials to come?"

"If what I expected is right, this lord is Lord Qiu Yunqiu, a former member of the military department, right?" Zhou Yu looked at the person who asked the question and said, and did not answer the other party's question, and then turned his head to look at the other person: "This is Lord Nakachai Songchun, the former director of the Ministry of Works, right?"

"My lord came all the way from the northern country, and he even knew the name of the lower official, which flattered the lower official!" Chai Songchun said very unexpectedly.

"The two lords are both wise men, and it is only because they have been excluded from the court that they have no choice but to be a low-class petty official. Now, this official has come to make peace with the country in accordance with the will of the Son of Heaven of Wenguo, which is the intention of reconciliation between the two countries. Zhou Yu felt very sorry when he saw that the two adults had not met each other, so he wanted to show the two of them a clear way." Zhou Yu said with a smile.

"I don't know what you mean by Minglu, my lord?" Qiu Yun asked vigilantly.

"I, the Son of Heaven and Great Wen, have always been eager to seek talents, so it is not impossible to repair a book for the two adults, go to Chen Tianzi, explain the situation of the two, and ensure that the two adults are reinstated, and even promote to the next level." Zhou Yu said.

"If you want us to seek glory as a traitor, then let it be said here, we are not greedy for glory and wealth, and we will never do anything unfaithful and unrighteous!" Qiu Yun turned sideways, his hands behind his back.

"What Lord Qiu said is exactly what Chai thinks!" Chai Songchun also agreed.

"Two adults, don't talk so ugly! I know that both of them are loyal martyrs, and I do not want to be trapped in the land of disloyalty and injustice. But as the saying goes, those who know the times are the best men, and if what I know is good, the two of you will be excluded from the court, and it will not be easy to go to this land, right?" Zhou Yu said unhurriedly, he had expected that these two people would not change their banners casually, so they were ready to become lobbyists for a long time.

Seeing the two of them moving slightly, Zhou Yu knew that he was right, and the two of them really encountered setbacks in their careers.

"Two adults, please think, aren't people living in the world just for a 'love, word? The career is bleak, and he is still accompanied by the affection of his family, if his career is not smooth and his family suffers together, then he will be a man in vain!" Zhou Yu had already learned in advance that he had offended many higher-level officials because of their style of doing things, and under the secret instruction of these people, other colleagues were all excluded from the two, and even harassed and threatened their families.

"Besides, whether it is a Qianguo or a Wenguo, the people are always innocent. Since they are working for the well-being of the people, why should they care about the difference in land? Take 10,000 steps back, even if there is a difference in nationality between the north and the south, but you and I are all yellow-skinned and blue-haired, and we are all descendants of Yan and Huang, and we were one family five hundred years ago, and we are related by the same blood, so why do we have such sabre-rattling?" Zhou Yu will be two step by step

The barriers in people's hearts are removed.

After Zhou Yu finished speaking, the two thought for a long time, and then quietly discussed for a while, Qiu Yun asked, "If we agree to be an official in Wenguo, what about our family?"

"Of course, I went with the two of you, and the family just had to be neat! Rest assured, I will send someone to contact you about this matter, and you will definitely make proper arrangements for your family, and the servants and maids can also go with you!" Zhou Yu said.

Qiu Yun and Chai Songchun looked at each other again, and then finally made up their minds and said, "Okay, we agree, but we have two requests!"

"Speak, two adults!" Zhou Yu said happily that the sense of accomplishment of successfully "rebelling" against two enemies was really extraordinary.

"One, although we have entered the Wen State as officials, but after all, we have served the Qianguo, if the two countries of the Wen and Qianguo are opened, we are unwilling to help Emperor Wen attack the Qianguo, please forgive me." Qiu Yun said.

"Well, that's not a problem." Zhou Yu agreed.

"Second, if the two of us die in a foreign country, the corpses will be transported back to our hometown for burial." Qiu Yun continued.

"Falling leaves return to the roots, this is human nature, and the request of the two adults is also reasonable, and the official agrees to the two!" Zhou Yu said boldly.

"Thank you!" Qiu Yun and Chai Songchun saluted.

"It's not too early, the two of you please go back, you can submit your resignation early tomorrow morning, if I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid there are many female officials who are looking forward to the two of you doing this, right?"

The two sighed, didn't say anything more, and slowly exited the room.

Yu Jing and Song Qi entered the room, and Zhou Yu handed them the letter that had been prepared and said, "Tomorrow we will set off for Qianzhou, and we will cross the Yangtze River as soon as we go. In addition, this is a letter of recommendation from Qiu Yun and Chai Songchun, you should quickly send someone to send it back to the capital and present it to His Majesty for reading!"

"Yes!" The two took the letter and left.

This is something that Zhou Yu has long discussed with Emperor Wen, and this time he came to Qianguo, ostensibly to make peace, but in fact to touch the details of Qianguo. In addition, it is to persuade these capable courtiers who have been excluded from the core institutions of the Qianguo to return to Wenguo and work for Emperor Wen, which not only ensures the quality of talents, but also avoids Wang Cheng's interference.

Therefore, when Zhou Yu first proposed this idea to Emperor Wen, Emperor Wen immediately agreed, anyway, everyone is better than Wang Cheng's people, not to mention that Zhou Yu said that he would make the details of each person who came to the lobby clear, so that Emperor Wen could prescribe the right medicine. In this way, Emperor Wen is confident that he can make reasonable use of this group of foreign talents.