Fu Song

Chapter 471 Invitation

Pacify has an old pine tree in the backyard.

It really deserves the four words of crown and cover like clouds.

And the thick and twisted roots of the big tree protruding from the ground were polished and repaired by skilled craftsmen, and then turned into wooden benches and tables for leisure and rest.

The pine cones that fell from the tree were collected in a basket formed by tree roots. It should be a long time since no one came here to make tea for fun, so the collected pine cones could no longer fit in the root basket, so that There is also a small pile next to it.

Xiao Cheng specially invited a guest here for tea today.

The one who specializes in making tea is Jiang Yingxue, who is dressed in Tsing Yi and looks slightly pink.

Although Jiang Yingxue is now the wife of the appeasement envoy, she is not a noble lady who does not go out of the door, and she is still in control of the huge business under the Tianzi brand.

With the improvement of Xiao Cheng's status, today's companies including Tianxiang, Tiangong, etc. have increased even more. Compared with those in the past, their strength has improved several levels.

As for Xiao Cheng, he didn't seem to care at all about his wife's publicity.

On the contrary, I am quite proud of this.

This also made the wives and wives of the high-ranking officials on Guiyang Road ready to move.

What is good at the top will be effective at the bottom!

With such a shrewd and capable conciliator lady, those noble ladies who used to just go out of their way, make some household chores, and quietly run some small businesses to subsidize their families, were also stimulated to become more alert.

It's not that no one came to complain to Xiao Cheng, but such complaints are destined to be fruitless, and they might even be reprimanded by the appeasement envoy.

Those who are particularly unlucky, and those who have a relatively close relationship with the appeasement envoy, most of them will have to accept a meal of mixed doubles.

Because for these people, Mrs. Comforter will also jump out.

It's funny to say, because these things made the grape racks in the backyards of countless officials on Guiyang Road wobble.

Although the comforter's wife is also a person on the scene, but there are only a few people on Guiyang Road who can let her personally make tea.

"Liu Gong, please!"

Luo Xin's voice came from outside, Xiao Cheng stood up and turned to look at the end of the path.

Liu Fengkui, the deputy envoy of the Imperial City Department, and Guiyang Road, has been sent here since the establishment of Guiyang Road. In a blink of an eye, it has been nearly four years.

Liu Fengkui, whose temples were already gray, was obviously taken aback when he saw the scene in the garden. When Xiao Cheng stretched out his hand to greet him, he bent deeply and said, "Futai, this is really going to hurt Liu. People's life is over, how can it be worth it?"

Xiao Cheng received him, and to him, doing nothing was justified.

In a sense, he is Xiao Cheng's supervisor.

To take it on horseback is to make a small report to the emperor.

The Imperial City Division is essentially a secret service organization.

What he couldn't afford was that Jiang Yingxue came forward in person.

When such things got out, he really couldn't tell.

If you hadn't reached a certain level of friendship, how could your wife come out to entertain you?

Xiao Cheng smiled and said: "You don't have to be like this, Mr. Liu. You know that Yingxue is different from ordinary people, and I don't have so many taboos. Mr. Liu is going back to Bianliang soon. I want to have a good talk with Mr. Liu. Yes. Mr. Liu likes to cook tea, but I am not very proficient in this way, Yingxue is a good one, so I worked hard for her to cook tea for us!"

Liu Fengkui crossed his hands again to salute Jiang Yingxue, Jiang Yingxue smiled and nodded.

The two sat opposite each other.

Xiao Cheng doesn't like this kind of brewing tea, what he prefers is to brew stir-fried tea leaves with boiling water.

Even at this position, Xiao Cheng's habit is still laughed at by many elegant people, saying that he came from a family of generals after all, even if he passed the Jinshi examination, it's nothing more than that.

Xiao Cheng never cared about such gossip.

On the contrary, it is because he likes to drink tea this way, and now officials and gentry on Guiyang Road are slowly beginning to drink it this way.

Ordinary people have always paid so much attention.

Just boil a big pot with tea foam.

When there is no tea, even the leaves of the Ningqing tree are the same. On a hot day, drinking a bowl of herbal tea like this is better than anything else.

"It won't take long to go to Beijing this time. It is estimated that I will definitely come back a few years ago!" Liu Fengkui said: "I have stayed in Guiyang for these years, but I am used to it. I don't want to go elsewhere."

Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "Mr. Liu is very self-restraining. You are not used to living here, but you have to come! Speaking of it, it is also my fault."

Liu Fengkui was a little embarrassed.

As the open eyes and ears of the emperor, the reason why he was able to live in peace and prosperity in Guiyang, and to do a good job in the Imperial City Division's business, all depended on his past relationship with the Xiao family.

When Xiao Ding was managing the Northwest, Liu Fengkui was on the Shanxi Road to take care of it. At that time, he got to know Xiao Cheng and had a lot of information cooperation with the two brothers.

In the end, after Xiao Ding sent troops to attack Li Xu without authorization and triggered the battle between Shaanxi Road and the Dingnan Army, Liu Fengkui took a great risk and Huai Ma Xing and the two jointly played and endorsed for Xiao Ding.

Later, when Xiao Cheng arrived in Qianzhou, his power developed step by step and became bigger and bigger. The spies sent by the imperial court disappeared without a trace one by one. It is unknown whether they died or fled, but they just disappeared.

When the establishment of Guiyang Road was officially announced, I didn’t know who was so blessed, but I thought of Liu Fengkui. At that time, this father-in-law was guarding the spirit of the late emperor!

Then, Liu Fengkui went to Guiyang Road, and sure enough, the Secretary of Huangcheng took root in Guiyang Road.

Like Hu Yi, he was sent by the emperor to make trouble, but the treatment he received was different.

Hu Yi is still holding the official title of Guiyang Road Transit Envoy, but he has no power and status on Guiyang Road, and now he can only teach with Old Master Cen.

"In the past few years, I have to thank Mr. Liu for speaking out for me." Xiao Cheng raised his teacup and said to Liu Fengkui with a smile.

Liu Fengkui shook his head: "I can't talk about it. I just reported what I saw and heard to the imperial court. Futai can allow me to live until now, and I am really grateful."

Xiao Cheng laughed: "Mr. Liu is joking. We have cooperated happily these years. I believe that what Mr. Liu saw and heard over the years is enough to make you think about it deeply. Right, Liu Gong? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have helped me so much when we were running Dali!”

"This is to expand the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, so I am naturally duty-bound!" Liu Fengkui said, and he sighed at this point: "Futai, until today, I really don't know who my subordinates are. A few of them are really my subordinates, I'm afraid most of them have become members of Zhiqiuyuan, right?"

Xiao Cheng spread his hands: "This, I really don't know, you have to ask Wu Ke."

Liu Fengkui shook his head thinking of the sinister young deputy director of the Statistics Department.

"I have never understood you, Futai." Liu Fengkui sighed: "But after these years, I have at least figured out one thing, that is, you, Futai, have absolutely no intention of rebelling. In this case, the relationship between you and Bianliang Those misunderstandings and contradictions, why don't they speak up and resolve them?"

Xiao Cheng smiled and said, "I am willing, do they believe it?"

Liu Fengkui was dumbfounded, yes, would Bianliang believe it?

Today's Guiyang Road appeasement envoy, in fact, Xiao Cheng used a method similar to coercion to force the court to admit it, because those gentlemen in the hall could see very clearly that if Xiao Cheng's wish was not fulfilled, then maybe Guiyang will become the second Hengshan.

Although in fact Guiyang Road is completely out of the control of the imperial court, it is still unquestionably the territory of the Song Dynasty in terms of face, and Xiao Cheng is willing to give them this face, and even handed over to Bianliang symbolically every year. A tax of [-] to [-].

More money and less money is not a problem, attitude is the key.

But no matter how Xiao Cheng behaved, the imperial court would not completely believe it, just like the Bianliang officials said to Xiao Cheng at this time: Qing family, I absolutely believe in your loyalty, come back, I will let you be the chief assistant.

Will Xiao Cheng believe it?

Will Xiao Cheng go back?

Of course it is impossible.

The two sides have walked into a dead end of mutual suspicion in the games again and again, and they can't get out of it.

Therefore, even if one party really changes his mind, the other party will not believe it.

Can't solve it, it's still messed up.

A real mess.

Liu Fengkui sighed in distress.

"Futai, can't Guiyang Road really become the territory of the imperial court? Can't you really accept those officials from Bianliang? If Futai can take this step, Liu will be willing to die in front of the hall even if he bumps his head to death. Futai argued."

"It's still the same sentence, we have completely lost trust with each other." Xiao Cheng raised the corner of his mouth and said with a sneer: "Besides, I still look down on them. Liu Gong, don't you think that I really hand over everything to you?" Give it to them, within a few years, they will toss a good game of chess into disrepair, believe it or not?"

Liu Fengkui believed it.

In the past few years, he has seen how the large area of ​​Guiyang Road has changed from a Jimizhou, which was a headache for the imperial court, to the thriving place it is today. How to be educated and become a warrior who opened up the territory for the Song Dynasty.

The place that Xiao Cheng called as the south of the colorful clouds has now officially become the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

And this is something that Taizu couldn't do with all the power of the whole country.

Xiao Cheng did it with all his strength.

He is indeed qualified to look down on the current official in Bianliang, as well as those ministers in the capital hall and those privy secretaries in the West Mansion.

Because these people were either beaten into embarrassment by Xiao Ding in the northwest, or bullied by the Liao people on Hebei Road so that they dare not speak.

"Futai, what is it for?" Liu Fengkui asked.

"I said I was for the Song Dynasty, Liu Gongxin?" Xiao Cheng asked.

Liu Fengkui drank his tea without saying a word.

This attitude is obviously unbelief.

Xiao Cheng raised his head and raised his chin towards Luo Xin.

Luo Xin nodded, turned around and left the yard, and after a while, brought a child over.

Zhao An.

In the past, he was always called Xiao An in front of outsiders.

Everyone has seen him before, and they all know that he is Futai's adopted son and student.

The kind of great disciple of Kaishan.

"Young Master Xiao?" Liu Fengkui was a little puzzled, and didn't understand why Xiao Cheng specially brought this child in front of him.

Xiao Cheng didn't say a word, but took out a few things from his arms and put them in front of Liu Fengkui.

The last pen of the jade plate and Princess Jing.

Seeing the jade plate, Liu Fengkui's expression changed.
After hastily reading Princess Jing's letter, Liu Fengkui felt a little bad.

He got up, bowed deeply to Xiao An, then straightened up, looked at Xiao Cheng with a pale face, trembling all over, obviously, he guessed what Xiao Cheng wanted to do.

Xiao Cheng put away these things, waved his hand, and Luo Xin took Zhao An out again.

"The unbelievers in the imperial court, we can cultivate one who can do it ourselves." Xiao Cheng's face was calm, and his voice was the same as before, without the slightest ups and downs, as if he was talking about an insignificant thing.

"Isn't this a rebellion? This, this is the opposite of your original idea!" Liu Fengkui said with difficulty.

"It's not what you think." Xiao Cheng said lightly: "If those people in Bianliang can maintain the situation, then they are up to them, and Zhao An will always be Xiao An, but if they can't maintain Come down, Xiao An will become Zhao An."

"What do you mean by sustaining?"

"Don't be wiped out by the Liao people!" Xiao Cheng picked up his teacup, took a sip, and said.

"how can that be?"

"Why is it impossible?" Xiao Cheng said coldly: "The Liao people have completed the operation and construction of Zhongjing, and with Zhongjing as the link, the Liao people have firmly bonded the five capitals together. Yelu Hongde is bedridden with a long-term illness, and some loose tribes and vassal states are all subdued by him, and the Liao Kingdom is now stronger than ever. What do you think they will do next?"

Looking up to the north, Xiao Cheng's expression was not very good-looking.

Because the one who helped Yelujun accomplish all this was one of his favorite people.

At that time, she liked to read history books, listened to her talk about how to govern a country, and debated with herself, and she also controlled all her thoughts to satisfy her and train her, because she hoped that there would be someone who could be with her in a certain period of time. People who share a common language never imagined that there is a lot of knowledge that ordinary people have no access to, but this sister of theirs has become so powerful, so powerful that they may become their most difficult enemy to deal with.

Creation tricks people!

Xiao Cheng looked up at the sky!

God fuck you!
He yelled angrily, startled Liu Fengkui on the opposite side, and also made Jiang Yingxue's hands tremble, the spout of the pot tilted, and golden tea immediately flowed all over the table.

Liu Fengkui looked at Xiao Cheng.

Xiao Cheng took a deep breath, looked at Liu Fengkui, and said, "Grand Liu, you are different, so I hope you will join us sincerely, instead of being indifferent like before."

"Because of the Imperial City Division?"

"Yes!" Xiao Cheng said: "If you join us, we may control the Imperial City Division. We can lay down some useful chess pieces for some bad changes in the future."

Liu Fengkui bowed his head and remained silent.

"Liu Gong, you have time to think, take your time, we are not in a hurry."

(End of this chapter)