When Liangzhou was in spring, the northern country of Liaodong was still covered with silver.
Xiangping City stands on the white field, square and majestic. The Yanshui in the northeast and the Xiaoliao in the west have not yet melted, like a green glazed belt surrounding the city wall; while the forests on the Shou Mountain in the southwest corner are vast, like a tall guard, protecting the city.
Since the rebellion, the princes of the world have attacked and the Central Plains have turmoil. Over the past few decades, tens of thousands of Han people have brought their families to cross the Liaoze and seek temporary peace in this remote place in Liaodong County.
At the most, nearly 300,000 people gathered around Xiangping City.
During the Chuping period, Gongsun Du, a native of Xiangping, started his career as a county official in Xuantu County, and became a Shangshu Lang and the governor of Jizhou. At this time, Dong Zhuo was in power. His general, Xu Rong, a native of Xuantu, recommended Gongsun Du and made him serve as the prefect of Liaodong.
After Gongsun Du took office, he immediately destroyed more than a hundred powerful families, and the county was Zhenli. He also relied on the manpower and material resources around Xiangping to attack Goguli in the east, Wuhuan in the west, and subjugated Fuyu and other countries, and was powerful overseas and planned to be the king.
During the Jian'an period, Gongsun Du divided Liaodong County into three parts, proclaiming himself the governor of Pingzhou and the Marquis of Liaodong. He once crossed the sea to capture Donglai counties, and appointed his general Liu Yi as the governor of Yingzhou. At that time, the Central Plains were in constant wars, and Gongsun Du threatened to point directly to Yecheng with 30,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry.
This period was the peak period of the Gongsun clan in Liaodong. Later, Gongsun Du died of illness, and the power of Yingzhou was defeated by Zhang Liao. When Cao Gong stabilized Hebei, the Gongsun clan in Liaodong could only be satisfied with Liaodong.
Gongsun Du's son Gongsun Kang ruled Liaodong for more than ten years and died of illness. Previously, Cao Pi ascended the throne and sent an envoy to order Gongsun Kang's younger brother Gongsun Gong to be the General of the Cavalry, and was appointed as the Marquis of Guo.
In terms of political status and strength, the eastern part of Cao Wei is from north to south, and the three families of Gongsun from Liaodong, Xu Zangba from Qing, and Sun Quan from Jiangdong are similar. The three families are all princes who are alone, and they are all along the coast. They can watch over each other and naturally have to contact each other.
However, after contacting several times, some obscure hints and promotions were ultimately unrealized.
All because Liaodong is different from Qingxu and Jiangdong. The leaders of many local tyrants in Qingxu are Zang Ba, a famous general who has been standing for decades; the leaders of Jiangdong are Sun Quan, who defeated Cao's army in Chibi. If you want to take any measures, Zang Ba and Sun Quan can make up their minds to make the decision.
And Liaodong prefect Gongsun Gong...
This person has been weak and sick in recent years, and has become a eunuch party due to overdose. Perhaps physiological defects have affected his psychology. Gongsun Gong has hesitated and weak methods in the past few years, and he is less and less like a powerful ruler from the frontier who strives for power. Many things can be decided by one word, but he is both in the rat and hesitant.
In this way, Qingxu and Jiangdong families, which are far away from the sea, are fine. In the Liaodong regime, some people are inevitably anxious about this.
Just in Xiangping City, there is a house to the east of the mansion of General Cavalry. This house is not as wide as the mansions of many high-ranking officials in the city, with carved beams and painted buildings, but it is a bit cramped.
There is a light in a remote study room in the courtyard.
There were two people in the room, one of whom was a middle-aged man, who was the subordinate of Sun Quan, the general of the chariot and cavalry, Feng Xi. The other strong young man was Gongsun Gong's nephew, and Gongsun Yuan, the son of former Liaodong prefect Gongsun Kang.
Perhaps because of years of busy contact, Feng Xi's appearance is somewhat vicissitudes, no longer as elegant as when he was young; perhaps because the power in Jiangdong is not the same as that in the past, when he spoke to Gongsun Yuan, he had a low posture and a respectful tone.
Feng Xi is reciting the document:
"General Gongsun, these are your investments this year, a total of 50 million yuan. Two million yuan of them have been replaced by Shujin. The ships ships are now docked in Jingzhou and are converted to sea ships to Jianye. After passing through Haixi and Donglai, the sea ice thawed in about two months, and the ships arrived at Liaokou. The other 30 million yuan will be purchased according to the customs. Because of the huge amount of materials, they will arrive more slowly..."
"It's less." Gongsun Yuan said coldly.
"What?"
"Last year, you agreed on behalf of General Sun that if you hand over the bulk output from Liaodong to Jiangdong for resale, you will get more than 100 million yuan a year. Because of this promise, I have taken on a lot of relationships in front of my uncle and reached cooperation between the two parties. You now say, 50 million yuan?"
Gongsun Yuan suddenly slapped the desk hard, and glared at Feng Xi: "Five million yuan! My Gongsun family in Liaodong can't get 50 million yuan! Even if there is no Jiangdong native, I will go directly to find the trap stationed in Changping... He can't do without me!"
He pointed at Feng Xi and said angrily: "There are so many villains around Gongsun Gong, and he has been dissatisfied with me for a long time. If you do this, something will definitely happen! You are not just the face of my Gongsun Yuan! Believe it or not, I will send someone to pass on the message. Within ten months, your Jiangdong fleet will never be able to come to your door again!"
Feng Xi wiped the saliva from his face with his sleeve, and his expression remained unmoved: "That 100 million yuan was indeed my Lord's promise. Since last year, my trade in Jiangdong in Jingzhou and other places has also been very prosperous. But..."
"Just what?"
"But my Lord thinks that the authority of the Lord is not worth 100 million yuan at all. Giving 50 million yuan is enough."
As an envoy, I really don’t want to live anymore. Although Gongsun Yuan and Feng Xi have had many contacts and have some friendship, they were so angry that they immediately drew their swords to their waists: "Feng Zirou, do you think I dare not kill you?"
"Take a moment!" Feng Xi's eyes shining: "General Gongsun, the noble lord has been in Liaodong for many years. Everyone knows that he is weak and unable to govern the country. His authority is really different from my lord, and it is really worth it. However, there is one person in Xiangping City, which is worth it!"
Gongsun Yuan was suddenly shocked.
He pressed the handle of the knife and said word by word: "Feng Zirou, what exactly do you want to say? Don't beat around the bush!"
"General Gongsun, please see." Feng Xi took out another document from his sleeve: "This year's trade income is actually 150 million yuan. In addition to what I just said, the other 100 million yuan was exchanged for military supplies."
He spread the documents on the table, and Gongsun Yuan looked down and looked at them.
I saw that the documents were written in densely, including weapons, armor and varieties and quantities. They included steel swords, steel swords, ordinary head knives, spearheads, spearheads, halberds, long and short bows, crossbows, arrows of various shapes, and even leather armor, iron armor, iron helmets, horse armor, etc.
According to the type and number of documents, an army of 5,000 people can be easily armed, or the one with extremely well-equipped ones. If the requirements are lowered, it will not be a problem to support 20,000 people.
"My head has long heard that General Gongsun's prestige in Liaodong, and he is well aware of his ability to respond to the situation and to overturn the overall situation. However, he has been repeatedly guarded by Gongsun Gong and the slandered ministers around him recently. Even if he has troops and guests, he has no suitable equipment. It is really embarrassing that his ambition is difficult to reach."
Feng Xi smiled and said, "So, my lord came up with an idea for General Gongsun to replace most of the trade gains this year with military equipment. These supplies have been loaded, and the ships are now parked in Donglai. When the ice and snow melt, General Gongsun can transport them all to Xiangping and send them to the military palace's treasury, or arrange other personnel to receive them so that these supplies can be used by all."
Gongsun Yuan laughed dryly: "Absurd, absurd, what's the use of these weapons?"
Chapter completed!