There was still a bitter chill in the wind, blowing everyone's robes, and on such a sunny day, pedestrians still felt cold. (

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Outside Gangneung City, a team is setting off.

In front of this procession, there are chief and deputy envoys, all wearing five-grade official uniforms, and there are only hundreds of people in the back, all wearing brocade clothes, holding Chinese buildings, purple flags, dragon rods, yellow cards, and big poison.

As long as these people are ten-person team leaders, they all wear official uniforms and have team titles.

These people walked slowly southward along the official road, their flags were unfurled, and the destination of the procession was Changsha, where Zheng Pingyuan was now located, and they were going to escort the envoy representing the king of Chu.

At the head of the city, a group of people were standing there, their eyes following the procession and looking south.

One of them, although he was wearing civilian clothes, was Wang Hongyi.

Standing behind him, there were several martial artists, and the closest were Zhang Youzhi and Yu Liangbo.

With his eyes following the team, Zhang Youzhi sighed with some emotion: "Your Majesty, I haven't seen it before, but this Zheng Pingyuan is a person who can bend and bend and understand current affairs. ”

Wang Hongyi looked into the distance and did not speak, as all the Haoran Qi was absorbed, the power of restraint disappeared, and Wang Hongyi could already see it.

A pillar of heaven, the rolling dragon qi rushed to the sky, and it had almost reached the clouds.

And in the distance, a column of qi that is white and red, but declining, still exists, and it is much lower.

Yu Liangbo nodded approvingly: "What Lord Zhang said is true, it is really unthinkable, Zheng Pingyuan will deliver the surrender table, but thinking that Zheng Pingyuan did not call the king and the prince, but only called the prince, or the previous dynasty, there are not many taboos, and he is also the patriarch of the Zheng clan in Jingzhou - this is not too unexpected." ”

"Zheng's ......" "I feel that Yu Liangbo is pointing out the Zheng family's second to myself, Wang Hongyi smiled slightly, but he didn't mention it, how could he ignore the family and influence behind Zheng Pingyuan?

The shallow water can't raise big fish, and the low eaves can't accommodate tall people.

The so-called quantity is fundamentally determined by strength and power, if it is in Shu, Wang Hongyi will not be able to tolerate Zheng Pingyuan and his family friends, but at this time, it is inclusive of the four seas and can be at ease.

Now it is different from the past, the tripod has been decided, the name has been completed, Shu is stable, the dragon is strong, and among the southern princes, no one can shake its foundation.

And there are black dragons on the grassland who are ready to pounce on the Central Plains at any time, Zheng Pingyuan can really surrender, and appoint this person, this is like a tiger with wings, and suddenly grasp the number of qi and destiny behind Zheng Pingyuan.

Those who can really succeed, how can they not tolerate people when their strength allows?

As long as Zheng Pingyuan is really obedient, why should he be wiped out?

Moreover, this is the first person with dragon energy and dragon life to take refuge, which is of great significance.

However, there are still differences in specific treatment and treatment, which depends on the choice of the other party.

Thinking about the content of the letter he wrote, Wang Hongyi looked thoughtfully to the south.

The silence of the Changsha Mansion!

At this time, Zheng Pingyuan, dressed in a wide-sleeved robe, with dark eyes, has a heroic spirit, sweeping away the decadence of the previous days.

After all, he was a man of foundation, and after a few days of depression, he began to regain his strengths, check his defenses, reassure people, and at least regain some of his majesty.

Although he was born in a family, when it came to temperament and talent, he was indeed the choice of the moment.

At this time, it is a garden, there is a fine house, and there is an octagonal pavilion, even in the pavilion, open the window can overlook, see the garden rockery rock neat, see the mirror of the lake in the distance, and now it's okay, if the summer is here, there is a breeze blowing slowly, and there will be no heat at all.

It can be seen from this that Zheng Pingyuan learned from his heart.

Just at this time, Zheng Pingyuan was sitting and talking to the representatives of the clansmen.

Zheng Pingyuan faced the beautiful scenery, his face was expressionless, and said: "The general trend has gone, the old land of Jiangling may be able to go back, but it may not be able to restore all the original fields, Changsha and Jiangling, you can only choose one of them." ”

"Can't we have it all? It's all our field. Uncle Youzu said unwillingly.

"Or Changsha is not taken, or Jiangling is not taken, and only one of the two can be chosen. Zheng Pingyuan said with a wry smile: "Do you have such preferential treatment when you accept the subordinates? Besides, you all know the way to this field." ”

When the soldiers came to the city, they could naturally kill and seize a large amount of land, but now they had to spit it out.

Speaking of this, Zheng Pingyuan lost a smile on his face: "At this time, whether I surrender or not, the King of Chu has unified Jingzhou, and the entire south, including Wei Yue, I am afraid that no one can compete with it." ”

"You are no longer allowed to secretly contact other princes, this matter has been decided, and the table has been delivered to Jiangling, several people in the clan, all of them are old men, with face and knowledge, you must not push the Zheng family to the forefront for the sake of small profits in front of you, and cause unforeseen disasters. ”

Looking at the map in his hand, Zheng Pingyuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said slowly: "The plundered fields and properties with bloody cases are all handed over, the land bought can be kept, and the descendants have five houses and more than a dozen side branches, all of which must be properly arranged." ”

Hearing Zheng Pingyuan's words, the heads of several clans of the Zheng clan frowned.

Although Wang Hongyi's thunderous army is overwhelming, in the eyes of some people in the Zheng clan, the Zheng clan may not be able to delay it for a while, and they are in a corner.

Even if you can't, it's still the same.

When Dayan Taizu seized the world, didn't he still take some families and have nothing to do?

Even if it falls, Mingyu will obey the enemy and leave, why be so cautious?

Where does this place the interests of the Zheng family?

And there is a key to this, that is, Zheng Pingyuan himself handed over the encroached land, but after a few years as the governor and the Marquis of Chu, there were a large number of gifts and gold and silver in the warehouse alone.

Hearing that these people didn't speak, Zheng Pingyuan glanced at them, couldn't help but smile coldly, and was about to scold a few words, when someone suddenly knocked lightly on the door outside the door, and someone called softly outside: "Lord, there is an urgent report." ”

Listening to the voice, he is one of his confidants.

Zheng Pingyuan's brows were slightly furrowed, but he didn't attack immediately.

"A few of you, go back first, the affairs of the clan need to be bothered a few more, but don't mess up yourself, no matter when it comes, it is the most important thing to keep the bloodline of the Zheng family. Go back and think about what is most important. ”

"Then we'll quit first. As soon as he surrendered his hand to Zheng Pingyuan, several Zheng clan members retreated one after another.

When they were all gone, an attendant walked in from outside.

"What's the matter? You want to report it at this time?" Zheng Pingyuan walked up to him and scolded in a low voice.

"Lord, it's an urgent report from Gangneung!" the attendant also whispered.

As he spoke, the attendant handed a secret report to Zheng Pingyuan's hand.

Gangneung's urgent report?

Jiangling is Zheng Pingyuan's lair, even if he withdraws, he can still receive a secret report, quickly open this secret report, and after seeing the content of this secret report, Zheng Pingyuan couldn't help but be stunned for a while.

"Alright, you can step back first. Waving his hand to let the attendant step back, holding the secret report in his hand, Zheng Pingyuan turned around a few times, sat down, looked at it carefully, and suddenly chuckled.

"Ancestors, Zheng Pingyuan is not filial, and it won't be long before the land of Jingzhou will be returned to outsiders. With a few wry smiles, he threw the secret report aside, and he began to sort out some of Jingnan's affairs.

Since there has been a secret report, Wang Hongyi has accepted the surrender, and the team that sent the will is also on the way, I am afraid that it will not take a few days to get here.

He wants to take advantage of this time to plan for the future, and let the Zheng family lie dormant in Jingzhou without being suspicious of Wang Hongyi, in which the distribution of land and property and taking root in a place with connections are the top priorities.

He didn't care about Wang Hongyi's will, since the other party had already received his surrender, most of the wills sent by the messenger were some words of appeasement, so what could be strange?

Thinking of this, he smiled self-deprecatingly and ignored the matter no longer.

Time flies, and within a few days, the messenger sent by Wang Hongyi has already rushed to the city.

As a minister who invited surrender, although he was not much higher than the envoy, Zheng Pingyuan still had to take the military officials to personally welcome him out of the city gate.

The envoy was not arrogant, but spoke to Zheng Pingyuan very politely, and entered the city together.

After entering the city, he refused Zheng Pingyuan's offer of feast hospitality, and the envoy proposed that there was a letter from the king of Chu to be handed over to Zheng Pingyuan.

Didn't it be a direct decree, and a letter was sent?

This was somewhat unexpected by Zheng Pingyuan, and he invited the envoy to see the living room in the mansion, along with Zheng Pingyuan's henchmen Zhang Yu and Ji Gui.

"This is the king's handwritten letter, please see it from Duke Zheng. The messenger took out the letter in front of him and said to Zheng Pingyuan.

Ji Gui walked over, took the letter in his hand, checked it briefly, and handed it to Zheng Pingyuan's hand.

Receiving the letter in hand, Zheng Pingyuan hesitated a little and opened the letter in person.

Wang Hongyi's calligraphy is very good, but this is not the point, the important thing is what Wang Hongyi wrote in the letter, which surprised Zheng Pingyuan.

Different from Zheng Pingyuan's previous speculation, Wang Hongyi first expressed his happiness and appeased Zheng Pingyuan's surrender in the letter, and then changed the topic and proposed two paths for Zheng Pingyuan.

The words are very simple, the first way is to choose to be a marquis, and then to retire and no longer pay attention to military and political affairs, but Wang Hongyi promised that he would not liquidate afterwards.

The second way is that Zheng Pingyuan asked to remove the title of Marquis of Chu, remove other official positions, and hand over the three counties and the army, but Wang Hongyi appointed Zheng Pingyuan as the governor of the Second Fleet, led 20,000 sailors, served Wang Hongyi, and was promoted according to rank and merit in the future, and was knighted.

This is actually Wang Hongyi knew that in his previous life, Zheng Pingyuan himself was the governor of the navy, and he relied on the navy division to lay down a piece of the country, and he had a unique way in the command of the navy.

After reading the letter, Zheng Pingyuan was a little undecided.

He said to the envoy: "The envoy must be tired, so please go to the guest room to rest first, wait for Zheng to write a reply, and then ask the envoy to bring it back to Jiangling." ”

The envoy naturally knew that Zheng Pingyuan needed time to think about it, so he nodded in response.

Accompanied by the butler, I went to the guest room to rest with the people who came with me.

"Zhang Xianniu, Mr. Ji, the two of you should step back first, and after I understand it, I will call the two of you to come over to discuss. "There is something in his heart, Zheng Pingyuan didn't ask the two for advice this time, and directly issued an eviction order.

Zhang Yu and Ji Gui got up and retreated.

In the empty living room, Zheng Pingyuan looked at the letter in his hand and meditated.