sbdcsierra Chapter 843: Capital Of Zhou Kingdom
Chapter 843: Capital Of Zhou Kingdom
Tang Wenyuan, the governor of Yangzhou Zhoucheng, was waiting at the gate of the city to welcome the mission.
It is no problem for ordinary missions to be received by Biejia, but this time the mission is the chief and deputy envoys of Anding County Marquis and Xian Wangshizi, and it is no different from the prince as deputy envoy.
Tang Wenyuan kicked Yangzhou Biejia behind him, and came out to greet him.
The mission marched all the way to the gate of Yangzhou city, Xu Qing and Xiao Ye dismounted from their horses, and the governor of Yangzhou greeted him immediately, cupped hands said: "Tang Wenyuan, the governor of Yangzhou, has seen His Royal Highness and Lord Hou .”
Xiao Ye looked at Tang Wenyuan and asked, "The governor of Tang put aside his government affairs and came out to greet him in person."
Tang Wenyuan laughed and said: "Yes, yes, Yangzhou has prepared a hundred shi of food and other supplies for the mission. Please, Your Highness and Lord Hou, go to the post house to rest first."
When the mission set off, the states and counties along the way began to receive news one after another, and Yangzhou, as an important supply point for the mission, naturally did not dare to neglect it. After receiving the news from above, it began to prepare. Now everything is fully prepared, absolutely Can't go wrong.
Xu Qing shook his head and said, "Inspector Tang, we are not here to replenish supplies."
Tang Wenyuan laughed and said, "Don't be joking, Lord Hou. After the mission leaves Yangzhou, there is still a long way to go to the next state capital to get sufficient supplies. How can we not bring more at this time?"
Xu Qing asked: "Are there bandits and bandits behind?"
Tang Wenyuan said awkwardly when he heard Xu Qing's words; "Master Hou also knows that after the catastrophe in the past few years, many people went up to the mountains to become bandits, and the officials have been constantly arranging government soldiers to wipe them out..."
Xu Qing said; "Does that mean there are more?"
Some cold sweat broke out on Tang Wenyuan's forehead: "Give me a little more time, and I will definitely return Yangzhou to the sea and rivers!"
Xu Qing laughed and said, "Since there are bandits, we won't be hungry."
"It's... eh?!" Tang Wenyuan didn't react. What did the Marquis of Anding County say?
Xiao Ye said: "Inspector Tang should contact the grain merchant as soon as possible. We have a lot of grain waiting to be sold. These grains have seriously slowed down the progress of the mission and must be disposed of."
Tang Wenyuan wondered: "These grains..."
Xu Qing said, "Don't make a fuss about the governor Tang. He brought a few thief dens along the way, but he didn't expect that except for the last one, each of these thief dens could be better than the other, and there was too much food."
Tang Wenyuan: "..."
In fact, he also knew that when the missions came all the way, they did not destroy the copycats. This was the first time he had seen such a hard-core mission during his years as an official, but he did not expect that the cottages could hoard so much food.
The government soldiers didn't destroy it, let the envoy's mission wipe it out, and the food was brought back in truckloads, where would he put the face of the governor?
But it's normal when you think about it. There are three people from Chu State who sealed the wolf and lived in Xuxu, and two of them are in the mission. This is not going to Zhou State to negotiate, it is clearly to put pressure on Zhou State, and use those bandits along the way What happened to relieve boredom?
He, the governor, was trembling and naturally he didn't dare to provoke him, so he had to send someone to contact the grain merchants in Yangzhou City.
Fortunately, there are still many grain merchants in Yangzhou City, especially in winter, when the price of grain has risen, it is estimated that many grain merchants are willing to buy this batch of relatively cheap grain.
Snatched, there is no cost to buy and sell, just send the money to these shadow guards after selling the money.
Xu Qing and Xiao Ye were not short of this money, they just wanted to enjoy the fun of robbing bandits.
The governor came forward and the grain merchants were still very enthusiastic, but within three days they negotiated a price and sold all the grain.
Then Xu Qing and Xiao Ye did not delay too much in Yangzhou and continued to Zhou Guo.
Due to the severe cold, there was a lot of snow on the way, and the road was slippery in the snowy weather, and it took another month for the mission to reach the capital of Zhou.
After Xu Qing and Xiao Ye dismounted from their horses, they led the horses and walked along the bustling streets. It seemed that there was no cold weather in the capital city in winter to affect his bustle.
The states of Zhou State were all more grand than the state capital of Chu State, but Xiao Ye looked down on this, and picked the thorns of Zhou State Capital all the way.
Xiao Ye is a general, and it is easy to think about everything from a practical point of view, such as whether the city wall is strong after being besieged, the location of the granary in the city, and so on.
Because Chu State saved Zhou State on the grassland last time, the people of Zhou State did not have too much resistance to Chu State, but welcomed it very much.
The three kingdoms of the Central Plains have their own residences in their respective capitals, which are equivalent to the embassies of later generations. Naturally, they do not need to live in post houses like the envoys of small affiliated countries.
After the mission entered the residence, Xu Qing ordered the accompanying missions to prepare.
A thousand shadow guards can only bring one hundred people into the capital of Zhou Kingdom, and the remaining nine hundred people can only camp outside the city.
When everyone was packing their luggage, snowflakes fell in the sky again. Xiao Ye walked into a pavilion, looked at Xu Qing who was watching the scenery, and said, "Brother Xu, do you think this negotiation will go smoothly?"
Xu Qing said: "The State of Zhou itself owes our State of Chu a favor. Under his own injustice, he should not have too much entanglement with our country on the grassland territory. Moreover, our State of Chu occupies most of the grassland. We, the Chu State, can only fight against the Western Regions, if there are no accidents, this negotiation should go smoothly."
Xiao Ye nodded and said, "It's also the first time I've come to the capital of the state of Zhou. Except that it's a little more prosperous, stylish, and tidy, it's not much better than my state of Chu."
Xu Qing immediately waved his hands and said, "Brother Xiao, stop talking, I feel more and more sad..."
Zhou Kingdom Imperial City, in the Royal Study Room
The national teacher walked in, looked at Emperor Zhou who was still dealing with government affairs, and said, "Your Majesty, the Chu State Mission has already entered Beijing."
Zhou Huang nodded and said: "Order the Ministry of Rites to arrange a dust-cleaning banquet. Speaking of which, Zhou Guo still owes Chu Guo a favor, so it's not good to neglect them."
The national teacher said: "My state of Zhou is a state of etiquette, so naturally I will not treat you harshly."
Emperor Zhou laughed and said, "There are three people in the state of Chu who enshrine wolves and live in Xuxu, and two of them came here at once. They are demonstrating against our state of Zhou, especially since Xiao Ye is the son of the virtuous king. He doesn't have much literary talent, but he has learned ten times ten in terms of martial arts, if the prince has the talent of Xiao Ye, I will feel at ease."
The national teacher said: "Compared with the son of the virtuous king, I still have more optimism about this envoy. He has grown from a mere innocence to the current Anding County Marquis. Although the virtuous king intends to support him, he has indeed come up with a brilliant plan. It's a pity that he is lazy. I heard that it was because he was too lazy, so he was not used to it by the Xian Wang, so he was directly sent here as an envoy."
Zhou Huang said: "What kind of crime is laziness? The wise king is harsh on his subjects. If he was born in my country of Zhou and advised my country of Zhou, I can marry the princess to him."