Chapter 108: The Meeting of Lanzhou

Lanzhou City has been cleaned.

After Mei Yin came back, he almost didn't waste much effort and took Lanzhou City.

Immediately, Mei Yin cleaned up, and Yan Wang and He Xi also arrived in Lanzhou.

I don't need to talk about a welcome.

On the scene, on the scene, the real negotiations are in private.

He Xi said, "Your Highness, if there is anything you have to see me, you also know that I can't leave Beijing."

King Yan said, "It's very simple, the Western Regions Railway."

He Xi was stunned for a moment, and the words of rejection were brewing in his heart.

Without him, building railways would be too consuming of national strength. Now the railway from Beijing to Dongshengwei has cost too much money. If the finances are abundant in the future, He Xi will definitely build the railway. Even if King Yan doesn't want to build it, He Xi also wants to build the railway to the Western Regions.

And not now.

The most important thing now is to go south. It is to dominate the world. Everything else has to be put on hold.

Even He Xi will regret starting the Battle of the Northwest a little.

Without him, before the railway to the Hetao was not repaired, many people were secretly slandering He Xi for doing useless work. He Xi was under a lot of pressure inside and out, and this pressure was relieved after the Battle of Yulin.

At this time, Beijing's manpower and material resources were transferred to build the railway.

No matter how you look at it, it's not a cooperative approach.

King Yan didn't wait for He Xi to speak, smiled slightly, and said, "Look, I don't talk to you personally, can this matter be discussed?"

He Xi said: "Your Highness, this thing is really not good, when the world is decided in the future, will the first railway be built on the Western Regions Railway?"

King Yan said, "You can call me Fourth Brother. Now I'm not King Yan, you're not Shoufu, I'm just your brother-in-law, you're just my sister-in-law, I'm talking about some heart-wrenching words. Listen to whether it makes sense."

He Xi said, "Fourth brother, please speak."

King Yan said, "I am actually very sad that the old man's belongings have become what they are now. But there are a lot of things that I don't want to worry about, and I don't want to know what's right or wrong. But I gave up half of my belongings, and I don't want to give them away, you know?"

He Xi said, "Yes, I never thought about cutting the domain."

King Yan said, "You haven't thought about it? Someday someone will think about it. When the time comes, those people will say this time and that time."

This sentence made He Xi speechless, because King Yan was right.

Even if there is no vassal king, the contradiction between the central and local governments will always exist, and the contradiction between the central government and the feudal king will have an extra layer on top of this, which is very complicated inside, and there will be problems in the future, which is inevitable.

Even He Xi didn't know if King Yan had any distrust of Zhu Xiongying in these words.

And He Xi also felt that Yan Guo was too big.

If the Yan Kingdom was divided into two or three vassal states, He Xi would have no idea at all. But now, Yan State has put a certain amount of pressure on the defense of the north.

Now it's just that the timing is not right, if the timing is right, He Xi himself will take action and prune Yan Guo to a certain extent.

King Yan is telling the truth. Only the big truth can make people speechless.

King Yan said: "There are some things that can be done now, but may not be able to be done in the future, and if you do them now, many things will have different conditions, just like this railway, if the railway is built in the future, whose right to operate this railway is?"

He Xi sighed and said, "Admire."

King Yan has calculated everything thoroughly.

He just wants to take advantage of this time to get benefits. There are some benefits here, and I will let you in the future. But there are some benefits, and King Yan will not want to give up an inch in the future. That's why I came to talk to He Xi.

King Yan has already explained.

He wanted to build a railroad for many reasons.

For example, he faced the pressure of Timur and needed more support. But think about it. Although it is said that Beijing's production capacity is sufficient. But now there is the Civil War, the front

are urging arms, even if King Yan buys it with money, there will be a fairly high premium, if King Yan can wait a few years, after the war between the north and the south is over, maybe there will be a large amount of surplus arms, and the price will be very low.

can save King Yan a lot of money, King Yan won't know this truth.

But King Yan still had to do this because he saw the military role of the railway. Beijing is pressing Nanjing in the northwest, although there is a problem of military strength, but in essence, it is the strategic significance of the railway that has been brought into play by He Xi.

It seems that Beijing's logistics line is far away, but in fact, it is much closer than Nanjing.

This advantage was translated into a strategic one, making it difficult for Nanjing to parry.

Yan needed railways, and without railways, it would be difficult for King Yan to succeed in his conquest of the West. Even if it succeeds, it is difficult to maintain, and this is the reason why the great empires that have arisen in Central Asia since ancient times are easily divided.

But King Yan is also afraid of railways.

Because the railway greatly extended the control line of the empire, King Yan got close to He Xi and understood many of He Xi's ideas and theories. Among them, for the national policy of separating overseas, I understand the principle behind it.

It was in some places that He Xi proposed that the central government could not control, so that the clan was divided, ruled indirectly, and defended the royal family.

This policy is that the original Han land is not divided.

But in essence, it is not that the Han land is not divided, but the place where the imperial court can actually control it is not divided.

There is a difference between the two. And it's very different, because the place that the imperial court can actually control now is the traditional Han land, but it will be different in the future.

Especially with the bonus of the railway.

The railway can travel hundreds of miles a day, from Beijing to the Western Regions, but many places are not so far, even if it is ten thousand miles, it is only a little more than a month.

And the communication time to Beijing from many places was this time, not to mention that the railway could transport troops.

This is what makes King Yan feel uneasy.

If the railways in the territory of Yan State cannot be controlled by Yan State, then Yan State has no sense of security at all, once the imperial court is interested, tens of thousands of troops can rush to the territory of Yan State in more than a month.

What a horrible thing to do.

This is one thing that he must correct.

King Yan also understood that it was impossible for the imperial court to give up the right to operate the railway easily, and it was precisely because King Yan understood the role of the railway, how could He Xi not understand?

And King Yan felt that he was in the center, and he would not give up this grip. Even if there is no intention of cutting the feudal domain, the imperial court will never be willing, and it has no control and influence over the feudal kings below.

If the world is unified in the future, it is impossible to negotiate, even if it can be negotiated, but King Yan will pay a lot of costs.

Now that Beijing is bound to compromise with him, it is easier to talk about this matter. Or the cost will be a little less.

King Yan said, "I've said everything that digs into my heart, so you can do something practical. Is this going to happen?"

He Xi said, "Fourth brother, I'll be honest, I really don't have any money, even if I have money, I won't use it here."

King Yan said: "I believe half of what you say, the imperial court really has no money, but you have a way to get money, who doesn't know that you are a gold saint."

He Xi only felt that the fame was tiring, and he said helplessly: "There is a way to get money. But it is indispensable, and it is very likely to bury hidden dangers for future generations, just like Nanjing Ding Xian. What he did, the fourth brother should have heard of it, and he will get away with it sooner or later."

King Yan nodded and said, "You're right." King Yan just dealt with it casually, and then became serious and said, "Say, what conditions do you want, you are willing to agree."

He Xi was stunned for a moment, with a little wry smile, King Yan is clearly a friend of the dead Dao and not a poor Dao, what hidden dangers does he care about, if something really happens, it is also an accident in the imperial court, what does it matter to him Yan Kingdom?

It was He Xi who needed to wipe his buttocks, and it wasn't him Zhu Si.

It doesn't matter what you do, just do what is in front of you.

He Xi secretly said in his heart: "It seems that this matter today is inextricable. must

I have to give King Yan an answer."

Although he deliberately shirked and fooled. But King Yan is not a person who is easy to fool. Today, King Yan made such a big noise, that is, he didn't see rabbits and didn't scatter eagles.

He Xi pondered for a moment and said, "I will also tell you the truth, this one thing can be discussed, but it is only something that can be discussed. Whether it will succeed or not is not in me, but in you, the fourth brother."