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Chapter 405 Weng and son-in-law do business

The imperial envoy Wang Yun arrived at Jinyang City, the capital of Bingzhou on March 20. Not only were the number of nearly 500 Yulin Langs, but also the edicts, seals, seals, king mians, and king robes that the son of his third brother Liu Rong were enthroned as King of Jin.

Liu Yu, the nominal highest commander of Bingzhou, was the host. Since Wang Yun entered the territory of Bingzhou, he accompanied Lord Situ, which gave Wang Yun enough face. Although Wang Yun passed by Wohu City and did not enter the city to meet Zhao Xing, the two of them still had to have a silent battle in front of Jinyang City. Wang Yun made efforts to maintain the face and orthodox court; Zhao Xing's fight was to strive for future living space and political status.

Although Zhao Xing had made sufficient preparations for meeting Wang Yun, when he met, he still couldn't stand the thin and stubborn old man. In Liu Yu's palace, the official Wei You reported to Liu Yu who was playing chess with Wang Yun that General Zhenbei had arrived at the mansion and was waiting in the front hall to meet Lord Situ. After hearing this, Wang Yun snorted, ignored Wei You at all, and continued to lower his head to play chess with Liu Yu.

Seeing that the guest Wang Yun was unwilling to pay attention to Xiaobawang, Liu Yu couldn't help but feel anxious, but it was not easy to get angry, so he had to bite the bullet and continue playing chess with Wang Yun. Liu Yu could understand in his heart that Wang Yun and Zhao Xing had a relationship with his father-in-law and son-in-law, and he, an outsider, was anxious. In the inner hall, Wang Yun and Liu Yu were only concerned about playing chess, so the two of them were naturally chatting and laughing, and they were so happy. In the outer hall, Zhao Xing, who came with his son, was not idle either. The father and son had long expected the result of being turned away, so when they came, they actually played Gozi chess game outside with a thick stack of white paper and charcoal pens.

The game between Wang Yun and Liu Yu was not over for several hours. Zhao Xing and Zhao Zhenbang and his son also drew a thick stack of white papers in circles. Zhao Xing, who could not play, had to let Qi Zhou, the chief adviser of Liu Yu's mansion, go to pass the message. This time Zhao Xing changed his statement. He told Qi Zhou, and said that Zhao Zhenbang came to pay homage to his grandfather.

Qi Zhou then went to report, but when Wang Yun heard that his fucking grandson was asking for a meeting in the outer hall, he quickly threw down the chess piece in his hand and went out to see the person. Liu Yu and Qi Zhou, who were thrown aside, looked at each other, and both showed helpless expressions.

When Wang Yun walked into the outer hall, he saw two big and small people standing respectfully in the hall waiting. The adult naturally had a son-in-law Zhao Xing who had not seen for many years, and the child was Zhao Zhenbang, whom he had never met.

Zhao Zhenbang looks more like Diao Chan, but he looks more like Zhao Xing, and he is also a quirky guy. When he saw a wrinkled old man with great power in the face, he rushed over with a smile on his face without waiting for Zhao Xing to signal, kneeling towards Wang Yun and bowing to him while kowtowing, saying, "Sun Ye Zhenbang pays homage to Grandmaster!"

When Wang Yun saw Zhao Zhenbang so well-behaved, he felt relieved. He quickly helped his grandson up with both hands and kept saying, "Okay, okay! He really looks very much like Hongchang."

With this not-so-cold opening, the meeting between Zhao Xing and Wang Yun was finally able to continue normally. Wang Yun passed the court's request and proposed several conditions he temporarily added, such as: the military garrison of Jiguan originally belonged to the Henei County in the Sili area. Now that Bingzhou is to be changed to the fief of King Jin, Jiguan should be returned to the Sili area. Although Bingzhou will be renamed Jin State in the future, it is still a territory of the Han Dynasty, so Jin State has the obligation to pay tribute to the court, and Wang Yun asked Jin State to pay the 100-forged steel and war horses from Wohu City to the court.

When Zhao Xing heard these conditions proposed by Wang Yun, he wanted to turn against each other. The reason why Bingzhou was able to withstand the siege of the three imperial coalition forces in the east, south and west this time was that the existence of Jiguan played a very important role. If Jiguan, which was strong and high in the city, was returned to the court, it would be like borrowing someone else's fruit knife, but now he returned a Qinglong Yanyue. The amount of money was secondly. The key was to give people a handle, and the safety of Jin State would not be guaranteed in the future. As for Wang Yun's proposal to let Jin State pay tribute to the court for a hundred forged steel and war horses, his intentions were unpredictable. He still had to invest in arming the court himself, which was not much different from the nature of handing over Jiguan.

Since Wang Yun had asked for a huge price, Zhao Xing, a guy who was good at doing business, began to pay back the money quietly. Zhao Xing first spoke tactfully, but his attitude firmly rejected Wang Yun's request to hand over Jiguan. Wang Yun had no great hope for this, so he no longer insisted, but he took the initiative to take a step back and said that it would be okay not to hand over Jiguan, but the number of hundred-forged steel and war horses that Jin State pays tribute to the court every year will increase.

Zhao Xing was about to shout in his heart, "Wang Yun, you old thief, when did I agree to pay tribute to the court forged steel and war horses?" But he said, "Jin State is naturally the territory of the Han Dynasty, and it is also an obligation to pay tribute to the court. However, the obligation of Jin State is not just that. If anyone offended the Han Dynasty Tianyan in the future, Jin State has the obligation to help the court fight!"

Zhao Xing said this beautifully, but in fact he confuses obligations and rights. It is an obligation to pay tribute to the court, but helping fight without nodding the court is not fulfilling his obligations. Zhao Xing said this as a preparation for a military operation next. From the information obtained from the shadow spy, Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju of Yuyang were gathering people to plot against rebellion, which was almost the same as the time and place recorded in history. Zhao Xing felt that this was the best excuse to send troops to Youzhou. Of course, only Zhao Xing saw the clues about this matter, and the court was still kept in the dark.

When Wang Yun heard Zhao Xing say he wanted to help the court fight, he felt panicked. Zhao Xing's virtue has always been easy to ask gods and it is difficult to send gods. If the court asks him to help, he may not be able to get back much benefit. So Wang Yun said again: If the court feels it is necessary to ask Jin to send troops to attack a certain local force, it will naturally speak. Without the court's order, Jin cannot act rashly.

When Zhao Xing heard Wang Yun say this, he agreed casually. Anyway, there are ways to argue at that time and don’t care about this verbal gentleman agreement. Zhao Xing thought that Wang Yun would be restrained when he bargained here, but he didn’t expect that this cheap father-in-law would have a lot of big and small conditions behind him, waiting to negotiate with Zhao Xing.

Wang Yun also proposed that the Jin State teach papermaking and printing techniques to the craftsman's palace of the court. Of course, Zhao Xing refused to do so, so he bargained that he could help the imperial court print books, on the condition that scholars from all over the world would be allowed to go to Jin State to become officials. Wang Yun also said that if Zhao Xing shared the technology of making Sky Thunder, the court could agree to this. Zhao Xing refused, so he bargained that the technology of Sky Thunder was top secret, so he didn't even think about it. But as long as the court allowed Jin State merchants to open warehouses and gold stores across the country, he could transfer the technology of making stirrups, saddles and horseshoes.
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