As Bu Qi took over the negotiation work, and from time to time he said that "this is all my personal opinion", which really made Xin Bi very uncomfortable.

Many terms that betrayed Yuan Tan's interests had to be agreed to one after another.

And as soon as this opening is opened, the follow-up will continue to stop the car.

Xin Bi also thought about refusing, but after refusing, he would find that Zhuge Jin had all kinds of other very fair reasons to delay the negotiations and delay reinforcements - on the surface, it seemed that it had nothing to do with Xin Bi's refusal to step forward, but because of other reasons.

But as long as Simbi changed his mind and agreed to Buqi's request, those "other reasons" would soon cease to be a problem due to various mysterious forces.

After being tried twice like this, where could Xin Bi not know the energy of Bu Qi, so he could only obey obediently.

During this period, Xin Bi had only one request: he still hoped that Zhuge Jin would let him go to Wuchang, Jiangxia as soon as possible, and meet Liu Bei in person, and it was best to invite Buqi to accompany him. In this way, you can negotiate and rush at the same time, and maybe you can end up faster.

Xin Bi knew very well that if he continued to exploit it layer by layer like this, things would be in trouble.

Fortunately, Zhuge Jin's appearance is not ugly, and he agreed to this very easily, and he also said that the matter is big, and he should also go to Wuchang to find the lord to report his work, and he happened to accompany Xin Bi to Wuchang on the way.

Xin Bi smiled bitterly in his heart: Zhuge Jin, a high-powered, pampered person, also followed, this team will definitely not be able to get up fast, at most it will walk more than 100 miles a day.

He can't force Zhuge Jin to ride a horse with a disgraced face, right? Then you must have to take a boat on the Yangtze River all the way.

It's like he is traveling alone, and it is no problem to travel 200 miles a day. But people are under the low eaves, and they have to bow their heads, and that's the only way.

……

The group returned to Moling from Qiantang and walked for three days, and then changed to a big boat in the Yangtze River and went upstream, estimating that it would take ten days to reach Wuchang.

And along the way, Buqi also roughly negotiated most of the conditions of assistance with Xinbi.

On the one hand, Simbi promised to persuade Yuan Tan to cede de de facto control of a multi-county land.

At least the two counties of Langya County were delivered first, as well as Buqi County (Qingdao) and Dongmu (Yantai and Weihai) of Donglai County, to ensure that all the good ports on the Shandong Peninsula were under Liu Beijun's jurisdiction.

As for the other hinterlands of Donglai County, Xin Bi couldn't make the decision directly after all, he said that he would try his best to persuade Yuan Tan after he went back, and then he also hoped that after seeing Liu Beijun's sincerity in reinforcements, he would deliver them in batches one by one-

He also told Bu Qi the truth, at the moment, Yuan Tan is not in danger to that extent, and it is too difficult for him to directly cede the land of the whole county. The follow-up must depend on the progress of the battle, the more urgent Cao Cao pushed Yuan Tan, the more Yuan Shao was unwilling to directly pass the throne to Yuan Tan, the more Yuan Tan had to rely on Liu Bei.

Xin Bidu said this, he was open and honest enough, and Bu Qi would not be too persecutive.

And what Liu Beijun should provide to Yuan Tan was basically negotiated along the way.

Zhuge Jin's thinking is still very clear, that is, he will only give military assistance, but he will not promise that Liu Beijun will directly start a war with Cao Cao immediately.

At present, in the first batch, Bu Qi promised to give Yuan Tan 1,000 sets of finished steel-filled armor, 3,000 steel-filled horse swords, and a batch of steel-filled halberds to increase Yuan Tan's armament - the production method and process of the steel-filled method, Zhuge Jin will definitely not provide.

If only the finished product is given, there will be no technical leakage, anyway, with one less piece, it is impossible for the other party to see how it was produced from the finished product.

Zhuge Jin's understanding of the principle of technology diffusion is still very thorough. He knows very well that mechanical structure is the easiest to spread, as long as he sees the finished product, the other party can reverse imitate it.

What is more difficult to diffuse than the mechanical structure class is the formula type, and the other party sees the final product and does not know how to produce it, but at least it will remind the other party that it knows that this thing is feasible and someone has already made it. With a lot of experimentation and some speculation, it is possible that recipes can be reverse-deciphered, but it may take several years.

The most difficult to spread and the best to keep confidential is the "process" technology, that is, the final product that is made, which has been seen by the previous people, and there is nothing new, but the manufacturing process has mysteries, which can improve quality, reduce costs, and shorten manufacturing time. And these may not be able to be seen in ten or eight years just by looking at the finished product.

In the fierce battlefield competition environment at the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhuge Jin felt that the "mechanical structure" class would be kept secret for two years after showing its face, the formula could be kept secret for more than five years, and the process could be kept secret for ten years, which belonged to the normal technology diffusion speed.

Of course, now that Yuan Tan is already an ally, after Yuan Shao's death in the future, the situation will deteriorate further, and he may even become Liu Bei's vassal, so the secrecy of Yuan Tan's technology can be slightly relaxed, and some technologies that have a tendency to spread or can reduce the cost of Yuan Tan's armaments can be gradually released to the other party.

For example, Zhuge Jin already knew that Zhou Yu figured out how to imitate the Ge bus that looked like the original, and also learned the main tactics of restraining Ge bus, and handed it over to Cao Cao before the battle of Guandu, and Cao Cao also used it.

83 Chinese network latest address

Now only Yuan Shao's camp has not fully understood these techniques, since the enemy will know and the friendly army will not, there is no need to keep it secret.

This time, Zhuge Jin directly handed over the construction method of Ge's chariot, as well as the initial improvement of the trebuchet, as well as the equipment for breaking the Ge bus to defend the city with a tether bed crossbow and a pulley group, to the Xinbi mission, and strengthened Yuan Tan's ability in this area to at least the same as Cao Cao. In this way, the follow-up defense of the city will not suffer.

This approach is also somewhat similar to the "technical co-ordination" of the later generations of the United States. As early as the 1950s, the people of the United States engaged in "Batumi", that is, the Paris Coordinating Committee, which coordinated "which technological products can be exported to the hostile camp and which cannot".

Under the overall planning of technology, in order to prevent the spread of technology, it is not necessary to prohibit the sale of all high technologies, but to consider the progress of scientific research in detecting the enemy.

When the enemy is about to make a breakthrough in tackling key problems on his own, he suddenly loosens the control and sells the originally very scarce and expensive things, which can sometimes break the enemy's confidence in self-research, so that the enemy's self-research cannot return to the original.

Just like the era when the Chinese could not build a shield machine in later generations, the German Herrenknecht could sell you a set of hundreds of millions of dollars, and when the Chinese were about to build it, it directly reduced its price to tens of millions, an order of magnitude lower at once, just to break down self-development.

Yuan Tan is also in this situation now, since even Cao Cao has a technology, Zhuge Jin directly gave Yuan Tan ready-made to cultivate Yuan Tan's dependence.

In the future, Yuan Tan will have no motivation for self-research, and once he can't bear it, he will only think of reaching out directly to Uncle Liu, then he will not be far from becoming a puppet completely.

Just like the 20th century, the Wa Kingdom and the Southern Stick gave up independent military scientific research, and in the end they could only be dogs for the US imperialist father/grandfather.

And Zhuge Jin's technical coordination of Yuan Tan does not only include the idea of "giving ready-made goods if the self-research is successful". In addition, although Yuan Tan could not think of self-research, but giving it would not improve Yuan Tan's combat effectiveness, but would only reduce the cost of Yuan Tan's armament, Zhuge Jin could also give it.

For example, this time, Zhuge Jin brought a "gift package" by the way, wanting to give Yuan Tan the original hand-cranked wooden lathe of the car stick/bamboo pole that his camp has just developed, to help Yuan Tan mass-produce gun barrels and arrow shafts at low cost.

In this way, the follow-up military aid to Yuan Tan in the future, the transportation capacity can also be saved, and when the steel halberd is mass-produced, as long as the steel blade part is transported to Shandong, let Yuan Tan adapt the gun shaft by himself.

But after thinking about it again and again, Zhuge Jin felt that the lathe and technical improvement of the wooden stick directly to the car were still a bit big, so he finally gave a deleted monkey version, that is, a kind of thing similar to the pencil sharpener used by primary school students in later generations to sharpen pencils.

It's just that the size is many times larger than that of a pencil sharpener, and the inclination of the blade is also adjustable, which can be sharpened both with a tapered bamboo and wood tip and a parallel rod.

Xin Bi was also surprised when he finally saw the physical demonstration that Bu Qi gave him, but he didn't expect that sharpening the gun shaft and arrow shaft could be simplified to such an extent, and he directly twisted the wood and turned it a few times to sharpen it.

With such a large number of ready-made military aid weapons filled with steel, plus the original Ge bus manufacturing technology and city defense restraint technology, as well as the technology of the car's gun shaft and arrow shaft, Xin Bi felt that he could finally explain it to Yuan Tan.

The first batch of so many things, in exchange for Yuan Tan to give up some of the management rights of the territory, and for Yuan Tan to promise to expand the scale of trade in the south to sell war horses in the future, it can be regarded as worthy of Yuan Tan. Otherwise, if he couldn't withstand the offensive of the Cao army, Yuan Tan would only lose more.

Liu Bei was unwilling to directly attack Cao Cao this year, so it didn't seem so unacceptable.

Moreover, Bu Qi also hinted that these aids would be accompanied by a few craftsmen, including teaching and providing follow-up technical support. For example, if Yuan Tan wants to learn how to restrain Ge Bus from attacking the city, then when he builds the corresponding equipment, he will learn the various applications of "pulley block/labor-saving pulley".

If Yuan Tan's people are a little careful, draw inferences from one another, and thoroughly understand the "pulley principle", then they can also carry out various fine-tuning and improvements in other handicraft fields, so that the efficiency of the handicraft industry under Yuan Tan's rule can be improved somewhat.

The improvement of these basic physical cognitions will help the society in all aspects and moisturize things silently.

……

Along the way, for more than ten days, all the details of military aid, ceded power, and expanding the trade of war horses were negotiated, and Xin Bi and others also successfully arrived in Jiangxia County and landed in Wuchang Port.

Zhuge Jin had already let the sentinel ship report in advance, and Liu Bei heard that Ziyu personally brought Yuan Tan's envoy to come, and he also attached great importance to it, so he naturally wanted to go to the dock to greet him - Liu Bei is giving Zhuge Jin face, not Xin Bi's face, Xin Bi's current status is not worthy.

Liu Bei also knew in advance from Zhuge Jin's notice that he didn't need to play the villain this time, and he didn't need to personally threaten and pressure Yuan Tan's envoy to open conditions, so Liu Bei naturally seemed very relaxed and could continue to play his role of benevolence and righteousness.

The whole process is that the gentleman is not righteous, and the content of those villains has been replaced.

As soon as the two sides met, Liu Bei came up and grabbed Zhuge Jin's hand and patted it a few times: "Ziyu! It's rare to go back to Wuchang, remember that when Huang Zu was just destroyed, you went back to the east. This time I happened to reunite with Brother Ling and stay a few more days.

This is Mr. George, Bei has also heard Yuan Shinephew mention it. ”

Xin Bi had been tossed and obedient along the way, and hurriedly came up and made a simple salute: "Meet the general of the chariot cavalry!" ”

83 Chinese network latest address