Su Qi was full of confidence in the training of soldiers, and felt that he would be able to achieve results in less than three months. At the same time, when Mei Feng negotiated with the Wako group of the Tao Lian faction, the other party proposed a "military exercise".

"Military exercises?!"

"Yes, military exercises." Mei Feng nodded and said in a deep voice, "They said that they would have a small-scale exercise in the middle of the negotiations, so that the two sides could have a friendly exchange, which should be to adjust the mood and take a break, and specifically mentioned that they wanted to see our anti-Japanese formation." ”

Gu Yunji sneered: "What kind of mood, I'm afraid that I learned that the anti-Japanese formation that had not been formed a few months ago was defeated, and he wanted to take the opportunity to humiliate us, and by the way, test our strength, right?" If we lose the upper hand in the military exercise, they will be able to gain the upper hand at the negotiating table, and it remains to be seen whether the recruitment will be successful. ”

The political envoy Ning Yuan brushed the tea foam in the cup on the side, his posture was leisurely, and his tone was contemptuous: "It's just a wolf, a group of rabble, what is a 'army'?" In my opinion, it is more accurate to suppress bandits. ”

Mei Feng said: "The most important orthodox reputation of the imperial court, whether it is a bandit suppression or a military exercise, the difference between the words is thousands of miles, and we will definitely negotiate with them again to clarify the status of the name." But the matter of the exercise, I am afraid that it cannot be avoided, they said, if there is no exercise, then there is no need to talk about Zhao'an. ”

Shen Baiyi stood up suddenly, and his voice was angry: "Since you can't avoid it, then promise to come down, if you push back, it seems that we are afraid of them!" In the end, they are bandits and thieves, and we are the orthodox of the imperial court, how can we let the thieves look down on them? ”

"That's the case, but ......" Mei Feng hesitated and turned to Su Qi, "Su Qi, are you sure to defeat them with an anti-Japanese formation?" ”

Su Qi didn't answer immediately, but thought for a while and said, "May I ask Governor Mei, when is the specific time of the exercise?" And how many people are needed? ”

Mei Feng said: "The exercise time and negotiation time are the same, and it is preliminarily determined to be on the fourth day of the lunar month, as for the number of people needed...... After all, it is a small exercise for the purpose of negotiations, and the scale will not be too large, it should be about 100 people, and at most no more than 150 people. ”

Su Qi showed a confident smile: "Then it's no problem, it's mid-September, and there are nearly three months left before the beginning of the lunar month, which is enough for us to train the newly recruited special army." Governor May, please keep your heart in your belly, and then we will surely win. ”

Mei Feng's brows stretched when he heard this: "With the words of Dingguo Gong, I am relieved." ”

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Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is the beginning of the month, and it is the day of the Zhao'an negotiation with the Wako Group to which Tao Lian belongs.

The venue for the negotiations was a restaurant on the shore of the northern bay of Shaoxing Prefecture. I have to say that the geographical location of Shaoxing Mansion is very good, the left is next to Hangzhou Mansion, the political and economic center of Zhejiang, the right is adjacent to Shaoxing Mansion by the sea, and there is a bay directly to the open sea in the north, which has both safe shelter and convenient transportation.

For the imperial court, this is its own territory, surrounded by shelter, and the power is in its own hands; For Tao Lian and the others, close to the bay, if there is an accident, they can get on the boat and escape at any time to save the lives of their families, and the two sides decided on this location after several pulls.

On the day of the negotiation, the restaurant was cleared, and there were heavy guards on all sides, and at the same time, there were armed Japanese robbers watching from the side, competing with the officers and soldiers with their eyes.

There are a total of seven people in the negotiation team on the side of the imperial court, namely Gu Yunji, Mei Feng, Shen Baiyi, Su Qi, Qiu Wugang, and Ning Yuan and Fu Zida, the political envoys of Zhejiang who had been Gu Zhengde's protégé and Gu Yunji at first sight.

Among the seven people, there are civil and military, local officials in Shaoxing Prefecture, and provincial-level governors, and they are all familiar with each other and have a certain degree of tacit understanding.

On Tao Lian's side, there were also seven people, wearing the same costume with an exclusive emblem, with different postures, all of them were very faceless to Gu Yunji, and they didn't know any of them.

Perhaps it is because the imperial court's defense against the Japanese has been weak in recent years, and Tao Lian, as the largest group of Japanese invaders, is used to being arrogant on weekdays, and he is still arrogant in the face of Gu Yunji's side of the big officials.

In particular, one of them, a fat Scarface, with his chin raised to the sky, strode in front of his companions, like a pioneer in the lead. Before he got closer, he looked at Gu Yunji and the seven people unscrupulously, and his voice was full of anger: "Yo-several of the people who came here today are familiar faces." ”

As he spoke, he narrowed his eyes and identified them one by one: "Governor Mei, Political Envoy Ning, General Qiu of Shaoxingwei, General Fu of Shaoxing Mansion, and ...... This should be the famous Shen Baiyi, Commander Shen? ”

As a widow, he knows the officials in Zhejiang well, and he has aggravated the bite of Shen Baiyi, and his tone is yin and yang, and the negotiations have not officially started, they have already provoked openly and secretly, and the hearts of the officials present sank together.

However, before the person could finish recognizing it, when it was the turn of Gu Yunji and Su Qi, who were born, the widow raised his eyebrows: "...... I have never seen these two before, especially the adult on the right, who is so dignified and upright. ”

Although the other party is a widow, but after all, today is here to negotiate, Gu Yunji held a slight shelf, and said politely: "This official is Gu Yunji, the prefect of Shaoxing, who took office at the beginning of this year, and Your Excellency has never seen it." I don't know what you call you? ”

The widow looked at Gu Yunji from head to toe, and smiled meaninglessly: "My surname is Shui, and my name has long been forgotten, just call me the third son of Shui." ”

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Gu Yunji to speak, Shui Sanzi raised his hand and gave a slap to the subordinate next to him, and pretended to reprimand: "You lazy!" How did you find out the news? I don't even know that the prefect of Shaoxing has changed. ”

The subordinate protected his head aggrievedly: "It's the water hall master, you said, most of the officials in Zhejiang are straw bales, and the generals can pay a little attention to it, and the civil officials don't have to pay attention to it at all, and they have to pee their pants in fear when they see us, so I didn't report it to you." ”

Shui Sanzi was about to fight again, although he said it to his subordinates, but his eyes kept glancing at Gu Yunji and the others: "You still dare to talk back, right?" Take a look for yourself, can you compare with that group of straw bag civil officials? ”

As soon as the two sang and harmonized, before the stage was set, they sang a scene first. Gu Yunji expected that today's negotiations would not go very smoothly, but he didn't expect it to be so tricky.

Still, he underestimated how difficult this man was.

After training his subordinates, Shui Sanzi turned around and instantly changed to a smiling expression, and his looking eyes made Gu Yunji feel uncomfortable: "Lord Gu is really good-looking, but coincidentally, when our leader's daughter reaches the age of marriage, she can't look down on the big old men who go to the sea and play with knives in the gang, and she wants to find a handsome man with good manners." ”

"After recruiting peace left and right, we will immediately become a family, just turn enemies into friends, relatives and relatives. After our head is crowned the prince, why don't you join the family and be my young lady's concubine? ”

(End of chapter)