Yuan Lang was originally a cool person, and he saw the power of those unknown weapons under Zhao Chongyang, and he was afraid. Afraid that his brother and brother Lu Fu would suffer a loss, he immediately sent someone to inform Yuan Kai to withdraw his troops. It happened that Yuan Kai sent someone to inform Yuan Lang that the Gu family brothers were dead, and most of his subordinates had become prisoners of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce. After listening to the report of Yuan Kai's subordinates, Yuan Lang's determination not to be an enemy of Zhao Chongyang was strengthened.

So, a small leader was sent to Zhao Chongyang's side and invited them to come over to discuss the move-in. Zhao Chongyang asked Wu Song to take 100 horses and 150 soldiers to Xinghua Mountain Cottage to transport the cottage materials and accept the left-behind people......

After Zhao Chongyang and the Yuan brothers negotiated the entry into the house, Yuan Kai took three hundred Jingzhuang to Nanyang with Shi Bao and others, and Zhao Chongyang and Pang Wanchun followed Yuan Lang to Qinggangling with fifty carriages to receive the materials of the cottage.

They rested in the cottage overnight, and after the people and horses of the cottage were reorganized, they asked Pang Wanchun to return to Tangzhou with the old and weak and the materials, and handed them over to Tang Long to return to Anpeng with the convoy transporting the mine. Zhao Chongyang and Yuan Lang arrived in Nanyang at noon on this day with the reduced 400 men.

The two Tanghu families have four or five inns in Nanyang, the scale is not small, because they sent people to make arrangements in advance, these inns specially reserved people to receive them. In order to avoid attracting the attention of the government, they quietly entered the city and entered the various inns in several groups.

The matter of Wantong Commercial Bank winning several mountains in a row, after the rendering of well-intentioned people, spread all over the provinces, prefectures and counties of Huaixi in half a month. In particular, Qinggangling is among the many cottages in Huaixi, it is a larger cottage with nearly 1,000 people, and there is also the iron-armed bear Yuan Lang, who has a thousand catties of divine power, has the courage of ten thousand invincibles, and is proficient in martial arts, and ranks among the top six among the heroes in Huaixi. In an instant, he was easily subdued by the master of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce.

If you want to say that you are most depressed about this matter, it is natural to be Wang Qing, who is ambitious and has a heart of disobedience. Now there are more than 10,000 people under his direct management, and more than two others are ostensibly Wang Qing as the head of the village, and he also sent henchmen to station in the major villages to help them make suggestions and expand their territory.

Last year, Wanyan Zongbi, the fourth prince of the Great Jin Kingdom, and Wanyan Xiyin, the prime minister, sent a person who claimed to be Li Zhu, the master of Jin Jian, to find him, saying that in view of his prestige in Huaixi, the Jin Kingdom was willing to contribute money and some horses to help him, so that he could recruit troops and horses, accumulate strength, and when the time was ripe, he would rise up. At that time, the Jin State must have taken the Great Liao, which is a foreign powerhouse and a middle cadre. At that time, they also raised troops to the south, and everyone attacked the Song Dynasty in multiple ways, and the corrupt and incompetent Song Dynasty was bound to take care of one and lose the other, so everyone worked together to rob the Song Dynasty's beautiful rivers and mountains, and each claimed the king. Someone sent money to the horse to help him, and Wang Qing naturally caught it with both hands.

This Wang Qing usually pays attention to making friends with heroes and heroes, and he is righteous and wealthy, in addition to being greedy and lustful, he can indeed be regarded as a hero. In the years he spent in Huaixi, he successively got acquainted with Du Bai, Feng Tai, Liu Yuan, Pan Zhong, Zhu Sheng and others. These people are all strong in martial arts, especially Du Yan and Ji Sheng, who have the courage to be unstoppable, and are famous warriors in the Western Army. Because he was dissatisfied with Tong Guan, Zhi Keqiu, Liu Yanqing and others colluded up and down, did not reward their merits, and deducted their silver, they left the Western Army in anger and went to the rivers and lakes. Wang Qing first let these people occupy the mountain as the king, and then continue to absorb people, five or six years, Wang Qing under Wang Qing rolled bigger and bigger like a snowball, Huaixi Wang Qing, Hebei Tianhu, Jiangnan La became the object of heroes and heroes in recent years.

In the spring of this year, after Jin Wushu and Wanyan Xiyin were wronged in Jiangnan, they went north to find Wang Qing and Li Zhu, supported Wang Qing with 1,000 taels of gold, and allowed him to quickly expand his territory. After they left, Wang Qing adopted Li Zhu's advice, and sent Li Zhu, Du Bai, Feng Tai, Ji Sheng, and Liu Yuan to each lead a thousand men and horses to attack everywhere, and even beat and frightened, subdued seventy or eighty cottages on Huaibei Road, and destroyed more than 30 cottages that did not obey orders.

What Zhao Chongyang and the Wantong Chamber of Commerce did, Wang Qing and Li Zhu had already sent detailed works to various places to transmit information to the general village. And in Yuan Lang's cottage, Wang Qing sent someone to contact. It's just that several liaison officers sent by Wang Qing didn't follow him to Xinghua Mountain, and they don't know the details of how Yuan Lang took refuge in the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, but it's certain that he lost the bet.

Wang Qing brought two henchmen, Li Zhu and Du Bai, to discuss countermeasures, how to deal with the Wantong Chamber of Commerce and Zhao Chongyang's digging of his corner, and find the field. Wang Qing's opinion is: by himself with Du Yan, Fengtai, Zhu Sheng, Liu Yuan, Fanzhong and other generals, with 3,000 elites, set up a formation near Nanyang, send people to the Wantong Chamber of Commerce and Zhao Chongyang to write a letter of war, make an appointment, the two sides will fight to determine the victory, the winning side occupies the Lianghuai region, and the defeated side withdraws from the Lianghuai.

Du Yan said: "The head of the village should not underestimate the strength of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, haven't you heard that even Jiangnan Ladu has given up his ambition to be the king and hegemon, and will marry his little daughter to him as his fiancée and serve him as the little master?" Our strength is at most comparable to Fang La, and Fang La, who is a generation of heroes, is willing to be in the lower position, and the strength of the Zhao family is probably even stronger than what we see. Therefore, in my opinion, instead of fighting both defeats, it is better for everyone to turn the war into a jade silk, anyway, the two Huai regions are large enough, it is better to take Nanyang as the boundary, we develop in the west, they develop in the east, we communicate with each other, and the trade here is represented by a group of merchants designated by us, each guarding the business community. In this way, the trade routes will be opened, and we will not lack supplies. What's more, we can also resell the goods we wholesale from them to Western Xia, Tufan, and Liao. ”

Li Zhu also believes that it is really unnecessary to compete with Zhao Chongyang and Wantong Commercial Bank now, and basically agrees with Du Yan's opinion.

Since everyone thinks this is appropriate, Wang Qing is not absolutely sure of defeating the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, and he also agrees to this suggestion. In the end, it was decided that Wang Qing and Du Yi would negotiate with the Wantong Chamber of Commerce. Therefore, Wang Qingxiu wrote a letter and sent a fast horse to Nanyang, and agreed to hold negotiations with the Wantong Chamber of Commerce in Nanyang Zhuangyuan Building on the second day of September, and everyone demarcated the business that is, the sphere of influence, and neither side was allowed to cross the border to do business in the future.

Three days later, the letter was delivered to Zhao Chongyang. At this time, Pang Wanchun, Wu Song, and Shi Xiu also returned to Nanyang, and only Yan Da returned to Anpeng to assist Bao Daoyi with Nangong Yongjie. Zhao Chongyang brought Shi Bao, Pang Wanchun, Wu Song, Shi Xiu, Yuan Shuangxiong and others to discuss this matter.

Zhao Chongyang asked Shi Bao to go through his beliefs and let everyone express their opinions. Everyone is an assertive person, not a brave man who only knows how to rush and fight. All the participants unanimously agreed that this was a good opportunity for the two sides to shake hands and make peace and stop fighting. Shi Bao even believed: "Our Wantong Chamber of Commerce entered Huaixi for the first time, and the foundation is unstable, which is also an opportunity for us to consolidate our vested territory and make steady progress." The merchants in the area occupied by Wang Qing avoided them, and in the final analysis, they were still selling goods for our Wantong Chamber of Commerce, and we just had to seize the time, expand the workshop, and immerse ourselves in producing things. At that time, even if they do business in Western Xia, Western Army, Tufan, Daliao, Hanzhong and even Shuzhong, it will be their ability. The more they sell, the more money we make. ”

Zhao Chongyang also believes that the primary purpose of our coming here is to set up underground minerals in the shed, with this mineral, our business can be vigorously developed, and we can make a lot of money. So negotiating with them is the right thing to do.

Since everyone agreed to the verdict, the next step was to formulate a negotiation plan and draw specific business boundaries before the meeting was dismissed.

After another three days, that is, on the first day of the ninth month, Wang Qing and Du Bai arrived in Nanyang and stopped at the Zhuangyuan Building. At noon that day, after Zhao Chongyang found out, he decided to entertain Wang Qing and Du Bai at the Taibai Restaurant run by Tang Hu and the two families in the afternoon. At five o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Chongyang took Shi Bao and others to welcome the arrival of the two in the restaurant, among the main leaders of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, only the Yuan family jumped from Wang Qing's side, and he always felt that he had no face to see the old master, and he did not come this afternoon.

As soon as the two sides met, Zhao Chongyang, Shi Bao and others surrendered their hands to accompany the crime, claiming: Because of the delivery of goods for the Tang and Hu families, they inadvertently moved the subordinates of the owner of the Wang Zhai, which is really undeserved.

Now, the liquor fairy drunk of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce has become a household name in the upper echelons of Huaixi, and the eyeliner in various places has a small amount of Huizongzhai, so although Wang Qing and Du Bai have not let go of the amount of alcohol to drink, they have still tasted a few glasses, and they also know that they can't drink in a big bowl like ordinary inferior wine. When Shi Bao and the others toasted, they also drank one by one.