Tong Guan raised his head and sighed, a little regretful, isn't it fragrant to be a traitor honestly? How good it is to have fine clothes and jade food in the city of Tokyo, why do you personally bring troops to Zhujiazhuang for trouble!

"Thousands of miles! The old man is a hero, but he is going to die here, and his ambition is unpaid, he is really unwilling! "Maybe it's because people are dying and their words are good, and the thick coldness on Tong Guan's body is a little less.

"Eun-sang, things haven't come to this point yet! The students are willing to run for Enxiang, persuade Na Zhu Long Zhao'an, and send Enxiang back! Cheng Wanli kowtowed.

Tong Guan shook his head and said, "I can see that this Zhulong doesn't have the heart to recruit peace!" If he wanted to recruit peace, he would have visited me a long time ago, and he would never dare to snub me like this! ”

"For the sake of grace, the student is willing to give it a try, if it doesn't work, the student will die in front of Zhu Long, splashing his loyal blood!" Cheng Wanli said impassionedly.

Tong Guan was really moved now. If it is usual, there are not many people who show loyalty in front of him, but now when he is in prison and his life is difficult to protect, Cheng Wanli is still so loyal, it is really rare, and it is not in vain that he promoted him!

"Okay, then you try to try, as long as he agrees to accept Zhao'an, you can agree to him on any conditions!" Tong Guan saw a glimmer of hope and gave birth to a strong desire to survive.

"The student has taken his leave first, please wait for the good news!"

Cheng Wanli bowed down and retreated, and when he walked to the door, he stopped and looked at Tong Guan in embarrassment.

"What else is going on with you?" Tong Guan asked puzzled.

Cheng Wanli Ai Ai said: "I will go out later, how can I answer the guards outside?" ”

Tong Guan's face turned red, he flicked his sleeves and turned around, turned his back to Cheng Wanli, and said angrily: "No! ”

Cheng Wanli came out of the house, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and regretted his mouthfulness just now.

Six soldiers surrounded him, looking obscene, and couldn't wait to ask, "Does Tong Da traitor have that thing?" ”

"Nope!" Cheng Wanli shook his head and walked to his room.

There was a noise of soldiers behind him, the winners cheered, the losers scolded for being unlucky, and finally scolded the eunuchs, not even a little chicken J, what kind of eunuchs, what kind of traitors!

Closing the door, he sat on the chair, but soon found that he couldn't sit still, his heart was too excited, he got up and walked around the room, couldn't hold back, decided to persuade Zhu Long by himself, even thought about the rhetoric, full of confidence!

He walked out of the house and walked towards the council hall, the closer he got to the council hall, the less confidence he had, and the more fear he had for Zhu Long.

When he walked to the door of the council hall, his confidence was completely gone, and he thought that he would act according to the plan and leave it to Master He to deal with, so as not to be self-defeating and disrupt his deployment.

He turned around and was about to go back, when suddenly someone behind him shouted, "What are you doing, sneaky!" ”

Cheng Wanli's body trembled, and when he turned around, it turned out to be Zhu Hu!

"I wish the second official ......"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Zhu Hu, "You officials are not good things, especially you!" In two days, I will pull and cut off my head with Tong Guan! Lest you turn around in front of your eyes every day and look upset! ”

After speaking, Zhu Hu snorted coldly and strode away, leaving only Cheng Wanli, who was cold.

Not only is Tong Guan going to die now, but his own life is also not guaranteed!

He returned to his room in a daze, and his heart was very afraid, it was the fear of death.

After dark, Master He came, Cheng Wanli was like seeing a life-saving straw, and grabbed him tightly, "Master He, you must save me, no, save Master Tong!" I met with Mr. Tong today, and he said that as long as he can recruit An, he can agree to any conditions! ”

Master He slapped Cheng Wanli's hand away without a trace, nodded and said, "In this way, I am sure in my heart!" ”

"Master He, how are you going to persuade Zhu Long? He's not an easy person to be persuaded! Cheng Wanli said uneasily.

"These days, I have been revisiting the hundred schools of pre-Qin princes, and I have gained a little in my heart. The so-called persuasion is nothing more than moving it to benefit, forcing it to threaten, and fearing it! Master He spoke at length and eloquently, and Cheng Wanli listened to it and admired it so much.

"In this way, the student will go and ask to see Zhu Long!" Master He got up and said goodbye.

"It's so late, why don't you change it to tomorrow!"

Master He shook his head: "People are always more likely to make decisions at night, and they generally don't change their minds easily during the day. I'm going to go and see Zhulong at night! ”

"Then please Brother He!" Cheng Wanli shook to the ground.

Master He left Cheng Wanli's residence and did not go to the council hall, but came to a hut, in which the young man with a gentle smile was Fan Xiu of the dark guard camp.

Master He bowed deeply and said, "Mr. Fan! ”

"Master He doesn't have to be polite, please take a seat!" Fan Xiu invited Master He to sit down and asked, "Is it drinking wine, or drinking tea?" ”

"It's too cold, let's have a drink!"

Fan Xiu nodded, filled the red clay wine jug with wine, and put it on the small stove to boil.

After a while, the wine was hot, Fan Xiu lifted the wine jug, why did Master pour a full glass, Master He quickly stood up, and said that he didn't dare.

Fan Xiu didn't pour himself a cup, but made a cup of hot tea and drank it in small sips.

Master He couldn't help it, and said first: "I just went to see Cheng Wanli, and he said that Tong Guan was eager to recruit An, and he agreed to any conditions!" ”

Fan Xiu nodded calmly, as if he was expecting it, and said: "Don't be in a hurry, just say that the lord is still hesitating, many generals oppose Zhao'an, and some people even want to kill Tong Guan in advance, breaking the idea of the lord's Zhao'an!" ”

"Yes!" Of course, Master He understood that Fan Xiu was trying to capture him.

"You go to see Cheng Wanli tomorrow and tell him that you can go to see Tong Guan at any time, which means that the lord is indeed tempted by Zhao'an, but he has not made up his mind yet."

Fan Xiu took a sip of tea and asked with a smile, "Do you know what conditions you have tonight?" ”

Master He also smiled, "What conditions have the students, please make it clear to Mr. Fan!" ”

"You agree to remove all the people of Zhujiazhuang from the charges, and Zhu Daguan will serve as the governor of Dongping Mansion."

"It's just a capital eunuch, this bid is not high, no wonder the officials don't agree, I'm so ignorant!" Master He said with a smile.

"Hmmm! I wish the officials are indeed very dissatisfied! Fan Xiu nodded solemnly.

"Then what do you want?"

Fan Xiu corrected: "I wish the officials are still hesitant to recruit An!" ”

"I understand it below! I wonder what else Mr. Fan has to say? "Master He plans to leave.

"It's nothing, Master He, please rest early!" Fan Xiu raised his glass to see off the guests.

Master He walked to the door, Fan Xiu seemed to remember something, and suddenly said: "I forgot to tell Master He that we bought a big house with three entrances in Tokyo, and also bought a 500-acre grange outside the city and gave it to Ling Lang, this is a little heart from the great officials!" ”

Master He's figure froze, nodded and said, "Thank you!" ”

After saying that, he pushed the door and entered, and walked into the boundless darkness outside.

Fan Xiu looked at his departing back, took a sip of hot tea, and a hint of an unfathomable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

……

In the past few days, Zhujiazhuang has been very busy, but only Zhu Long is idle, because he has arranged everything for his subordinates to do.

Chen Shou was in charge of the prisoner camp, with the Guards assisting, while the Qianji Battalion monitored every move in Dongping Mansion. The other armies all returned to their garrisons, and Luan Tingyu also returned to Nanda Camp with the Vermilion Bird Army.

The cavalry of the Blue Dragon Army and the White Tiger Army were sent out to clear the deserters of the official army, and these guerrillas were scattered bravely, posing a serious threat to local security.

However, he was not idle, and often held meetings with Wu Yong, Zhu Hu, Zhu Biao, Guan Sheng, Lin Chong, Luan Tingyu, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Qin Ming and others to discuss future development strategies.

Of course, he controlled the affairs of Zhao'an behind the scenes, although he also wanted to recruit An, but he knew that he couldn't treat Tong Guan like Song Jiang's groveling to Gao Yu.

Zhu Long felt that Zhao'an was very similar to buying clothes and bargaining, he couldn't show that he wanted to recruit an very much, he had to pretend to be indifferent, or even reluctant, and wait for the other party to keep bidding.

Because he is a buyer, he is not in a hurry to recruit An, and it doesn't matter if he is two years late, but Tong Guan can't afford to wait for a day.

His main battlefield is above the imperial court, and now that he is absent and absent, he doesn't know how his political enemies will attack him in front of the emperor. If others don't say it, at least Cai Jing won't let him go.

He and Cai Jing are mortal enemies, if it weren't for Cai Jing's stab in the back, his "Kaifu Yi and the Three Divisions" would have arrived. And the reason why Cai Jing hated him was because he didn't listen to Cai Jing.

Zhu Long is now hanging Tong Guan and Cheng Wanli, his ultimate goal is the head of the Qingzhou Soldiers and Horses, which is the official position that Qin Ming once held.

This official position is not high, but it is not low, but it has real power and is in charge of the forbidden army of the state capitals on Jingdong East Road. If Zhu Long wins this official position, he can control Jingdong East Road militarily and achieve the goal of separating Dengzhou, Laizhou, Weizhou, Mizhou, Qingzhou and other places.

Then Zhu Long can concentrate on farming and vigorously develop his own power.

Dongping Mansion is also a good place, backed by Mount Tai, and Liangshan, Jishui, flat terrain, close to Tokyo, Jianghuai and other economically developed areas, is an important state capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

But it is precisely because of this that Zhu Long's every move in Dongping Mansion is highly valued by the imperial court, and the existence of the Zhu family army can be said to be on the "side of the couch" of the Zhao official family, according to the glorious tradition of the old Zhao family, it must be to get rid of Zhujiazhuang as soon as possible.

Therefore, if Zhu Longlai did not leave Dongping Mansion, he would not have the opportunity to secretly accumulate strength and face the successive blows of the imperial court.

But moving to Qingzhou is different!

It's far away from Tokyo, it's relatively remote, and it's not so easy to attract the attention of the imperial court, and some small actions don't hurt, and local officials will turn a blind eye.

Therefore, Zhu Long was determined to relocate the Zhu family army to Qingzhou as a whole.

Whether you can move over justifiably depends on the results of this Zhao'an negotiation!

In this regard, Zhu Long is full of confidence, because one side of the negotiation is holding a knife, changing the method of intimidation and threatening, and the other party is facing the fear of death at any time, this kind of negotiation is really a bit shameless, and Zhu Long is a little embarrassed.

The only thing he worries about is the implementation of the negotiation agreement, if Tong Guan agrees to everything, turns around and slaps his buttocks, and doesn't recognize anything, it will be a big loss!

It seems that Song Jiang was played by Gao Yu like this.

For the overall relocation to Qingzhou, the high-level of Zhu Jiajun is not unified, and the main opponents are his two younger brothers - Zhu Hu and Zhu Biao.

Zhu Hu is the homeland is difficult to leave, and I believe that Zhujiazhuang is the land of the Zhu family's dragon and cannot be left lightly.

The reasons for Zhu Biao's opposition are much more complicated.

He is the commander of the water division, and the main area of activity is in Liangshanbo, if he goes to Qingzhou, there are too many unknown changes.

Others did not object, but raised some practical difficulties, such as the fact that most of the soldiers of the Zhujia army were natives of Dongping Prefecture, especially the Zhuang guests of Zhujia Village, who were the backbone of the Zhujia army, and if they were asked to leave their homeland and go to Qingzhou, which was hundreds of miles away, I am afraid that there would be resistance.

The difficulties did not deter Zhu Long, he discussed with everyone over and over again, studied solutions, and eliminated everyone's doubts.

Cheng Wanli's side has not stopped, since he can go to see Tong Guan freely, he has to come to see him several times a day to report the progress of the "negotiations"!

However, out of some selfishness, he did not tell Tong Guan about the existence of Master He, and it seemed that all the negotiations and lobbying were carried out by him personally.

But on the one hand, he urged Master He to agree to any conditions of Zhu Long, as long as he let them out as soon as possible.

But Master He said that the negotiation should not show his hole cards early, otherwise the opponent will ask for a sky-high price, which will make Tong Daren embarrassed at that time. And agreeing to everything will make the opponent doubt the sincerity of his side to fulfill its promises.

Cheng Wanli was helpless, so he could only wait patiently for Master He to "confront" Zhu Long

Four or five days later, Tong Guan was finally anxious, and if he could not return to Beijing, the news of his defeat and capture would reach the ears of the emperor, and the political enemies did not know how to frame him!

"I want to see Zhu Long and talk to him face to face!" Tong Guan said to Cheng Wanli.

"This ......" Cheng Wanli hesitated, he couldn't be the master, and he didn't even see Zhu Long, Master He was responsible for contacting Zhu Long. The student went to Zhu Long to make this request! ”

Soon, he came back, "Zhu Long said that he wants the position of the prefect of Dongping Mansion, and he will guard it for life, and the court will not be transferred!" If you accept this condition, he will be willing to negotiate with you in person. ”

"Hehe, does he want to make Dongping Mansion his fiefdom? I still want to be 'hereditary'! Tong Guan sneered, "I agreed!" ”

Soon, Tong Guan was taken to a living room, in the middle of which was a long desk.

There were three people sitting on the left side of the table, and in the middle was a tall and heroic young man, he sat there, his momentum was very powerful, as if the whole hall was filled with his breath, and anyone who came in, his eyes couldn't help but be attracted by him.

"Zhulong!" Tong Guan's gaze also fell on him, and he immediately guessed his identity.

"Tong Shuxiang, please take a seat!" Zhu Long got up, looked at Tong Guan calmly, and stretched out his hand to point to the empty seat across the table.