Two days later, the second meeting between Huainan and Liaodi envoys was reached. Of course, the specifications this time were much worse than the last time, at least Governor Shen did not attend, but was led by Chang Shi Duhe and Sima Yutiao.

At this second meeting, the conditions of Huainan hardly changed, which was naturally because Huainan occupied the absolute initiative, and they did not have to cooperate with Liaodi.

Under the guidance of Murong Ke, Liaodi made great concessions, and even the most demanding Ma Shijin agreed to allow Huainan to send officials, and almost completely accepted Huainan's request.

Liaodi, as a weak party seeking cooperation, actually does not have much room for bargaining. This is also one of the reasons why they chose to cooperate with Huainan, after all, Huainan is only a town under Jin Zuo, and it is still lacking in the general meaning of legal system, which gives Liaodi the possibility of fighting.

The latest request put forward by the Murong envoy is specific matters such as military cooperation, obtaining titles, and material assistance. Especially in terms of materials, the Murong clan asked for a minimum of 100,000 grains and grass, 2,000 armed men and other huge material aid. And the price is that the Murong clan is willing to be a vassal of Huainan, and even Murong Hao, the Duke of Liaodong, is willing to accept the supervision and dispatch of the Governor's Office.

Such a condition can be said to have put the posture to the minimum, giving up all dignity and decency in order to obtain practical assistance. For the Huainan Governor's Office, these conditions are actually nothing, and tens of thousands of grains and grass are dispatched at every turn, and tens of thousands of people are replenished, and the requirements of Liaodi can even be said to be shabby.

But having a background does not mean that the grievances are wronged, Huainan has not yet completed the digestion of the Central Plains, and even if there is any demand for Liaobian in the far northeast, it can only sigh beyond the reach of the whip. Even if the Murong clan is willing to call itself a slave, there is no spare strength and effective means to carry out substantive business at the moment.

People only pursue bluffs when they are weak, and paying such a big price for a false name is not worth it, at least in the eyes of the current governor's office.

After several rounds of consultations, the two sides finally reached a consensus.

In the next two months, the Governor's Office will launch at least one military operation with a scale of more than 10,000 people to attack Hebei, in order to relieve the pressure on the battlefield of Liaodi. At the same time, he helped Murong Hao become the only leader of the Xianbei Murong clan to be recognized by the Jin court, inherited the title and official position of his father Murong Diao, and was appointed as a single Yu who controlled many Hu Yi in Liaobian.

In return, Murong Hao had to write to Jiangdong to make peace with Shi Yi and sit and watch the Duan clan be destroyed by the Xuhu and ask for guilt, and was willing to worship the Jiangdong legal system. At the same time, several coastal ports such as Mashijin were placed under the control of the Huainan Governor's Office, as a base for mutual trade and settlement of the Jin people in Liaodi.

As for the actual aid, it is also involved, but it is necessary to take the total amount of trade between the two sides as the standard, and give direct aid of up to 500,000 grains and grass per year according to the total amount of trade. In addition to subsidizing commerce and trade, this part of the aid is also used to maintain the construction and operation costs of ports such as Mashijin.

In addition, Huainan also had to send envoys to persuade Murong Ren to recognize the rule of his brother Murong Hao and give up his own false claims of Liaodong Gong and Pingzhou Assassin History.

Of course, in order to obtain these aids, Liaodi must not make peace with Shi Hu privately, and must take the initiative to send troops to attack the counties occupied by Shi Zhao between Youzhou and Pingzhou, so that they can return to the king's order.

After this consensus was reached, Shen Zhezi quickly made an instruction and agreed, and wrote a text in front of the Liaodi envoys, ordering Fangtou and other front-line military towns to start mobilizing soldiers and money and food, and preparing to use troops in Hebei.

As far as Huainan is concerned, the use of troops in Hebei was originally a military plan that had been established a long time ago. Although the digestion and operation of the Central Plains is only the beginning, the current situation of the Governor's Mansion is not suitable for a large-scale development to Hebei. But in the face of an opponent like Shi Hu, if strength allows, only through active offense can an effective defense be achieved.

Moreover, not long ago, Xie Ai also sent a message to the Governor's Mansion that he was preparing to organize a new offensive in the near future.

In the past period of time, Shi Hu mainly used his troops to calm the rear, and there was almost no active strategy along the Yellow River, mainly to defend passively. The most important of these was the reconstruction of Yecheng and the dispatch of small forces to invade areas such as Guanggu City in Qingzhou.

The fangtou guarded by Xie Ai is undoubtedly the front-line battle base. However, because Huainan's most important task at the moment is to digest last year's results, completely take over Xuzhou and deal with Taichung's clamping.

So in the past few months, it has basically been defense-oriented. Whether it is for defense needs or to continue to expand the influence of Wang Shi in Hebei, it is worth sending troops again.

Therefore, Huainan's dispatch of troops to Hebei not only relieves the pressure of Liaodi, but also allows Huainan to control the rhythm of the war more securely, so that a decisive battle will not break out suddenly and in advance.

As for the reconciliation of the internal contradictions of the Murong clan, it was also a means for Huainan to expand its influence in Liaodi. Previously, Huainan mainly funded Murong Ren, but in fact, whether Murong Ren or Murong Hao, it was not in Huainan's interests for either party to dominate.

Now the military confrontation has been temporarily suspended with the help of Huainan's deterrence, but the rift between the two sides remains. In order to maintain a relatively stable state, neither side can ignore Huainan's bias.

Of course, Shen Zhezi could not be idle enough to reconcile the dispute between the Murong brothers, in fact, although he promised to support Murong Hao to inherit his father's throne, he still left a tail. The next step was to contact Murong Ren and ask him for the official position of Dongyi Lieutenant. In essence, it is still a division of the original Murong Diao's title and authority, and they are handed over to the Murong brothers.

This is a clear attempt to sow discord and find the right and left, but precisely because it is on the surface, the Murong brothers have no room to refuse. If they could have reached a consensus privately to squeeze out Huainan, they would not have caused a war and infighting for several years.

This is similar to the former Han Tui's Grace Order, knowing that the so-called favor is poison, the more he eats, the weaker he becomes, but he has to swallow it. Shen Zhezi clearly separated the positions that Murong Diao had obtained by coercing the Jin court by taking advantage of the disaster of Yongjia and the chaos in the Central Plains, and awarded them to the Murong brothers, which could be regarded as a popularization of enlightened democracy.

As for the trade that Huainan has been asking for, in fact, from the perspective of real profits, the expected return is not too high. In the final analysis, the first is that the current navigation technology is not very supportive of large-scale and frequent maritime trade, the cycle is long, the risk is high, and many merchants are not keen on this. This has nothing to do with courage, often people who are not good will gamble, this is an eternal truth.

At the very least, before this trade route is mature, its greatest significance lies in being able to spread the news of the royal affairs in Liaodi, so that those Liaodi Jin people can know the news of the Central Plains. At the same time, the operation of Ma Shijin and other places was also to provide these Jin people with a settlement that was controlled by the Jin court, so that the Jin people who took refuge here would not be enslaved and sold by foreign races.

And for the Liaodi envoy, such a result is also mixed, although it can be gained and exceeded expectations, but it also buries hidden dangers, and it can even be said to lead the wolf into the room. But this is also helpless, if they don't agree to Huainan's request, they may not even be able to survive this year.

As for the merits of this line, it is still up to the lord Murong Hao to make a judgment. As for them, they have already tried their best to achieve such a result in such a weak situation.

After such a consensus was reached, the Liaodi envoys did not stay for a long time, especially Feng Yi and several other important Liaodi officials, who were even more impatient to continue to stay in Huainan and wanted to send the news back to Liaodi as soon as possible.

So soon the first batch of Liao envoys embarked on the return journey, and there were only a few more important figures, and more people either chose to stay in the Central Plains directly, or had to cooperate with Murong Ke, who was a proton, to negotiate the details of cooperation.

When Feng Yi and the others embarked on the return journey, the biggest gain was the five hundred armor weapons promised by Shen Zhezi himself, once they returned to Liaodi, these weapons would immediately come in handy. For the rest of the conventions, it will take a long or short time to get feedback.

These equipment are not collected in Shouchun, but need to be delivered at the smelting and casting base in Luojian. This kind of trivial matter naturally does not need to be accompanied by important subordinate officials of the Governor's Mansion, Feng Yi and others got a handwritten warrant from the Governor of Shen at the farewell banquet, so they no longer lingered, took the boat arranged by Huainan, went straight to Luojian to receive equipment, and then went to sea to return to the north.

"The prosperity of Huainan can be seen in general. If Liaodi Smelting and Casting can have this atmosphere, why bother to ask for it! ”

Murong Ke also had to follow the team to see him off, and after arriving at Luojian again, he couldn't help but sigh again when he looked at the chimneys and water chimneys that stood high and low, and smelled the extremely obvious scorching smell in the air.

After Feng Yi and the others heard this, they were also deeply jealous, but they also knew that Liaodi was shallow, and it could only be a dream to achieve such a climate.

The Luojian Smelting and Casting Base is a relatively independent system, but after receiving the warrant from the Metropolitan Governor, arrangements were quickly made. A full 500 men were armed, including armor, bows, knives, and other equipment, and a boat full of them. Just seeing the hull with a heavy draft already makes people can't help but be excited.

Murong Ke, Feng Yi and the others jumped on the boat, opened the bamboo box stacked on top, and saw the glorious and restrained armor with rigid lines, and couldn't help but show a look of intoxication, pressing his hand on the surface of the cold and hard armor and slowly rubbing it.

However, this good mood did not last long, and when they continued to check in the cargo hold, they found that the quality of those equipment had dropped by a grade sharply, and the armor pieces were mostly missing, and there were extremely obvious chopping marks on the surface, the knives were full of tears, and the so-called strong bow was even more damaged, almost useless.