After being secluded for more than ten days, Lu Zhaoting finally saw Tianyue again, and his two guards, Lu Hao and Lu Zheng, were taken out of the Statistical Survey Division, and outside the gate, a carriage marked with the logo of the Statistical Investigation Department was waiting there.

"Lu Gongzi, please get in the car!" Wang Qi, who single-handedly abducted him from Luzhou to Dingzhou, stood beside the carriage with a smile and asked Lu Zhaoting to get into the carriage.

"Where are we going?" Lu Zhaoting looked at Wang Qi with a cold face, and said.

Wang Qi smiled: "Where can I go, send my son home?" Oh, does Childe think that our Dingzhou customs are very different from the north, and how many times can you say that you can't do it? ”

Lu Zhaoting snorted fiercely in his heart, but he didn't believe Wang Qi's words, "Send me home?" ”

Wang Qi nodded, "Of course, Childe's father, Master Lu Fengchun, has arrived in Luofeng, and we are sending Childe there to meet Boss Fengchun!" ”

"How did my father get to Luofeng?" Lu Zhaoting was surprised.

"So that the son knows that now Luo Feng and Changqi in Luzhou have fallen into the hands of my Dingzhou, and the old man Lu Fengchun is looking for the son all over Luzhou, so he asked us to help in Dingzhou, didn't we send the son back at the invitation of the old man?"

Lu Zhaoting's face was bitter, he was careless and fell behind, but he was really embarrassed, and he didn't know what price his father and family paid to make Dingzhou agree to release him, he stopped saying a word with a black line, and stepped into the carriage silently.

Wang Qi smiled and waved his hand, and the carriage started slowly.

In Luo Feng, the negotiation between Shang Haibo and Lu Fengchun can be said to have gone quite smoothly, and they who knew each other's hole cards before each other did not entangle too much in the details, and went directly to the most core place.

Dingzhou occupies Luo Feng and Changqi, and the fat in the mouth will definitely not be spit out, and as compensation, the Lu family can also occupy the two county capitals near the north of Luzhou, and the garrisons of both sides on the territory of Luzhou shall not exceed 10,000 people, and the rest of Luzhou will maintain the status quo, and neither the Lu family nor Dingzhou shall intervene. The two sides only reconciled with the status quo, and both sides knew about the future, and neither of them raised the issue, in fact, everyone knew very well that no matter who eased up first, the war between the two sides would begin.

If the Lü clan is going well in the east, they can swallow the Zeng clan without effort, and when they turn around, they will deal with Dingzhou, and Dingzhou's calculation is that the Lü clan is better off getting stuck in the quagmire in the east and cannot extricate themselves, and when Dingzhou recovers from the Pingban War, he will never mind sticking a knife from the back of the Lu clan. Time is of the essence for both sides at this time.

As for Luzhou, at this time, who will care about Luzhou's interests, which can make him live for a few years, and both sides feel that Luzhou has made a lot of money. Whoever frees up his hand, Luzhou is meat to his mouth, so there is no reason not to eat it? At present, the two sides have reached a delicate balance in Luzhou, so that Xu Hongwei can still be a stable commander of Luzhou for a few years, and once this time period passes, Luzhou will immediately become the first battlefield of the contest between the two sides.

First the north and then the south, and the distant and close attacks were the great strategies formulated by Li Qing to set foot on the Central Plains.

Just when Shang Haibo signed a treaty between Luo Feng and Lu Fengchun without smiling, Li Qing, who had just returned to Dingzhou, ushered in an envoy from Emperor Zhaoqing of Luoyang.

For Li Qingping's great victory, successfully incorporated the grassland and the white mountains and black waters outside the Guanwai into the territory of Great Chu, Emperor Zhaoqing did not hesitate to praise, praised Li Qing as rare in the sky, and there is no one on the earth, calling him the first general in the history of Great Chu since the Yingwu Emperor, all kinds of rewards are countless, and a large number of loose official titles are piled up on Li Qing's head, although there is no real surname, but in name, it is indeed Enpang's extreme.

For these things, Li Qing smiled, compared to the envoy from the palace, he valued the Xiao clan who came with the envoy more, for Li Qing, the things he brought were more useful to him. After receiving the holy decree, when the envoy whispered to Li Qing that he still had a private message from His Majesty the Emperor to hand over to Princess Allure, although Li Qing was a little surprised, he still signaled to take him to the backyard and let the eunuch go to see Princess Allure, while he stayed to meet the real important person in this envoy, one of the core figures of the Xiao family, Xiao Haoran's brother Xiao Haotian.

"I've seen Li Dashuai!" Although Xiao Haotian is already a lot old and his beard is white, because of his status, he still has to give Li Qing a big gift.

Li Qing waved his hand and said, "Lord Xiao, let's not use these false courtesies, let's go straight to the point, what did Xiao Guogong bring me?" ”

Xiao Haotian was a little embarrassed, he was very unaccustomed to Li Qing's straightforward conversation technique, and completely abandoned the set of false etiquette in the officialdom, although it seemed to be very pleasant, but in fact it made people extremely uncomfortable.

But Xiao Haotian must be a figure with a furrow in his chest, and after adjusting his mentality slightly, he has returned to nature, "Li Dashuai, I have come to do two things, one of which is to resolve the old grudges of the two families!" ”

Li Qing sneered: "Old grudges? Lord Xiao, back then, I was humble and light-hearted, but a small battalion officer, General Xiao Yuanshan tried his best to put me to death, and in the end, if it wasn't for General Lu Dalin's deep understanding of righteousness, Li Qing at this moment is only afraid that there is only a pile of white bones left, this old grudge is really not light, I can repay the grievance back then, and return General Xiao Yuanshan to you intact. ”

Xiao Haotian smiled bitterly and said: "Li Dashuai, it's too unkind to say this, back then, you and Yuanshan were just calculating each other, Yuanshan chess was almost a move, and we were convinced to lose, and our Xiao family also admitted to gambling and losing, and now Li Dashuai said, didn't you get cheap and sell well, slapped us in the face?" ”

Li Qing couldn't help laughing when he heard him say something funny, and he couldn't see that this old man was quite humorous, "Okay, okay, I won't mention the old things back then, but you can talk about the second thing!" ”

Xiao Haoran lifted his spirits and said, "This second thing is that my Xiao clan is seeking an alliance with Li Shuai!" ”

"Alliance?" Li Qing blinked his eyes, "Why should I form an alliance with you, even if I don't mention the old grudges back then, there is no need to form an alliance with you!" ”

Xiao Haoran smiled: "Why, of course it's for the sake of profit." ”

"Interests?" Li Qing said with a smile, "I can sit firmly in Dingzhou and Fuzhou, and sit back and watch you fight for life and death in the Central Plains, no matter who is the final winner, will Li Qing be missing a high position at that time, why should I go to your troubled waters?" ”

Xiao Haoran sneered, "Li Dashuai, this is insincere, now everyone knows that Da Chu has actually collapsed, a powerful wealthy family, which one is not eyeing that high position, Li Dashuai, don't tell me, you don't have the ambition to compete in the world." Before leaving, Guogong once cooked wine with me to talk about heroes, Guogong said, Dachu world, can be called heroes, only two or three people can compete with him, one is King Ning, the other is you Li Dashuai. ”

"Thank you Guogong for looking at me, in that case, why do I have to form an alliance with your family, if it is said that for the sake of interests, I will form an alliance with King Ning, wouldn't it be better? First, I have never had an old grudge against him, and second, I think he has a better chance of winning! ”

Xiao Haoran shook his head, "Li Dashuai will never form an alliance with King Ning, if there is no old grudge, this is a person who can't be hidden, but skipping this section and not mentioning it, Li Dashuai is also bound to conflict with King Ning, Dingzhou and the Lu family have a conflict of interest, and the Lu family wants to attack the Eastern Zeng family, Dingzhou is bound to support the Zeng family, and drag Lu to the quagmire of war, but Dingzhou and the Zeng family are far apart, the land route is not passable, and if you want to support the Zeng family, the only way is by sea, after the Fuzhou sailors fell into the hands of the marshal, the development was rapid, Presumably, the marshal will use them to support the Zeng clan by sea, but taking the sea route will inevitably pass through the sea area controlled by King Ning, and the sailors of the two sides will not be able to conflict, not to mention, King Ning is also counting on the Lu clan to quickly clean up the Zeng clan and turn back to deal with Dingzhou, so as to reduce the pressure on Dingzhou on him! ”

Li Qing's expression became solemn, it seems that the Xiao family has indeed made great efforts to study the situation in Dingzhou, and has touched Dingzhou's strategic intentions.

"Even so, so what, even if I form an alliance with your family, one day, you and I will not meet each other and fight each other?"

Xiao Haotian laughed: "Who can say what the future will be?" It's better to take care of the present first, Li Dashuai, when that day comes, you and I naturally don't have to talk nonsense, but now, we are a combination of two benefits, and a division is two harms. ”

"You can also confess, that's right, when the time comes, you and I still have to rely on our fists to speak, whoever has a harder fist will have the last laugh."

"Yes, but before we do, we're going to work together to sweep those clowns into the garbage." Xiao Haoran smiled.

Li Qing played with the jade Ruyi on the case, "What can Xiao Guogong give me?" ”

Xiao Haoran asked rhetorically: "What does Li Dashuai want?" ”

Li Qing threw Yu Ruyi on the case, and let out a crisp crashing sound, "I want to merge with the state!" ”

Xiao Haoran's face changed, "Li Dashuai, your appetite is too big, you take away Qixia Pass, we are ready to pinch our noses and swallow this bitter fruit, but if you want the entire annexation of the state, it's too much!" ”

"It's not too much at all, you and I have an alliance, you are strong and I am weak, you don't have enough strength, how to share enough benefits, I need to merge the state to this grain producing area, you will merge the state to me, I will not only give King Ning's sailors a blow from the sea, I can even send the army to contain part of King Ning's troops, Lord Xiao, you know, after our army was pacified, the strength was seriously insufficient, and being able to do this is enough to show our sincerity!"

Xiao Haoran was silent for a while, "This is a big matter, I need to ask the Guogong for instructions before I can make the decision!" ”

Li Qing nodded, "I'm not in a hurry to do this, but you also have to hurry, I estimate that King Ning's envoy will arrive in the next few days." ”

(To be continued)