Red Mansion: Seizing Jiangdong, starting with pirates

Chapter 155, Collusion

Wang Lun, who was traveling with him, came to this holy land of scholars and could not help but go to the Confucius Temple to pay homage to the great sage teacher.

Kong Jifan was very happy to see this, and personally took Wang Lun to pay homage.

After all, Wang Lun is nominally Fang Yong's sworn brother. Now that Wang Lun recognizes the Kong family culture so much, doesn't this also represent Fang Yong's recognition of the Kong family?
Soon, Wang Lun began to kowtow devoutly.

Yin Li looked at Wang Lun's devout kneeling and felt a little indifferent.

Yin Li once lived in seclusion in Huaizhou. Before he entered officialdom, he made countless ancestral paintings of Confucius's apricot forest from the Spring and Autumn Period. Now when he looks at the statue of Confucius, he can't muster any respect in his heart.

This statue is not as good as the one I drew?
Yin Li thought so in his heart.

After the worship, Yin Li and Kong Jifan began formal negotiations and cooperation.

The Kong family originally thought that this negotiation would be somewhat troublesome.

Because before, the Kong family had done some dirty things behind the scenes. Although they did not directly offend Fang Yong, they had more or less caused some impact on Fang Yong.

However, what the Kong family did not expect was that Fang Yong was so forgiving and did not mention anything about the dirty things that happened before. He looked like he had let bygones be bygones and was ready to cooperate with them in good faith.

Gentleman!
The Kong family sighed in their hearts.

However, in fact, the task Fang Yong gave to Yin Li was not to negotiate cooperation, but to use negotiation to stabilize the Kong family.

Therefore the content of the negotiations is not important.

As long as the Kong family does not cause trouble when Fang Yong interferes in Shandong, it will be fine.

In the end, the negotiations went very smoothly.

The two talked about the Shandong issue.

Now Shandong has suffered a great disaster, bandits are rampant, and the people are gradually beginning to break away from the control of the Kong family.

Although the Kong family is a thousand-year-old family, the family's power is mainly distributed in the court of Daxi. Since the previous recruitment plan failed, the strength that the Kong family can exert now is very limited and is not enough to influence the entire Shandong.

Therefore, for the Kong family, cooperating with the Huaiyin bandits who are now in their heyday has become a very good choice for the Kong family.

As for the Kong family, Fang Yong's appeasement conditions were to recognize the Kong family's status as Yansheng Duke, not to touch the Kong family's assets in Shandong, and to give Jeju to the Kong family.

The Kong family was quite satisfied with this condition, but the greedy Kong Jifan wanted more.

He requested that in addition to Jezhou, Yizhou should also be given to the Kong family.

This involves the regional division made by Emperor Taizu of Daxi in Shandong.

At that time, the Kong family of Qufu was in Yanzhou Prefecture.

In order to weaken the power of the Kong family, Emperor Taizu of Daxi divided Yanzhou Prefecture into two parts. Half of it was renamed Jizhou Prefecture, which is where the Kong family is now, and the other half was assigned to Yizhou Prefecture.

And this is why Kong Jifan wanted Yizhou after he got Jeju.

In response, Yin Li pretended to argue with him. After several days of consultation, they finally reached a consensus and took out two more counties from Yizhou near Qufu and gave them to the Kong family.

At this point, the negotiations were successfully completed.

Both parties are very satisfied.

Beginning of winter.

The imperial envoy came to Huaizhou and told Fang Yong the conditions of Emperor Longqing.

Fang Yong naturally had no objection to this.

There is no doubt that Li Ni’s 30,000 taels of gold were worth it!
However, this kind of thing cannot be agreed to too quickly, lest the other party become suspicious, so Fang Yong pretended to be hesitant and asked to wait for two more days to consider it.

That night, Fang Yong returned home.

But in the night, I saw a thin figure standing beside the corridor, as if waiting for someone.

Fang Yong winked at Qiao Yan beside him, and Qiao Yan hid behind a pavilion pillar, while Fang Yong quietly went over.

On the other side, the secretary was accompanying Tanchun, looking into the distance from time to time.

At this time, she saw a faint light beside the pavilion pillar in the distance under the moonlight.

That is Qiaoyan’s green jade phoenix hairpin.

That was given by Fang Yong to Qiaoyan on her birthday. Qiaoyan usually treated it like a treasure and was so stingy that she didn't even let them see it, so Shishu was deeply impressed.

"Girl, the master is coming!"

The secretary reminded Tanchun in a low voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Yong landed beside Shishu and gently grabbed Shishu's soft ear with his hand.

"You have such good eyesight, come and learn archery from me in the future!"

Shishu covered his ears and begged for mercy:

"Master, I was wrong, please let me go!"

Fang Yong pinched Shishu's ear and said:

"It's not that easy. I'll just remember this for now and punish you later!"

After saying this, Fang Yong let go of the secretary, then smiled and extended his hand to Tanchun.

Tanchun pursed her lips and gently placed her hand on him. Fang Yong held her hand and felt a little cold, thinking that he had been waiting for a long time.

Then he pulled Tanchun into his arms.

The Book of Songs says: "Her hands are like tender catkins, her skin is like solidified fat, her neck is like a cicada, her teeth are like gourds, she has a beautiful forehead and eyebrows, she has a charming smile and eyes that look bright."

"What's wrong? You look worried?"

Fang Yong asked, taking Tanchun to sit on the wooden platform on the corridor beside him.

Tanchun hesitated for a moment, but finally told the truth.

"A letter has arrived from the Jia Mansion in the capital."

Tanchun took out a letter from her bosom.

Fang Yong did not take the letter, but hugged Tanchun with both hands and said:
"I know. The letter mentioned the Shandong incident. Did you come to persuade me?"

Tanchun nodded.

Fang Yong asked: "Then you won't persuade me?"

Tanchun said softly:
"I know this matter will be bad for my husband, and I am afraid that the old incident of Yi Guang will happen again. How dare I persuade him? That is why I came to see my husband with a letter in my hand."

Fang Yong smiled upon hearing this and shook his head:
"The person in the letter just wanted you to whisper in his ear, but he never thought you would do this. Tanchun, do you know that I hate unfilial people?"

Tanchun's face turned pale.

Fang Yong continued:

"And aren't you being too bold to compare yourself to Xi Shi?"

Tanchun trembled and was about to kneel down to apologize.

But Fang Yong held her tightly and refused to let go, so Tanchun could only plead guilty in Fang Yong's arms.

"It was my fault..."

She had just said half of her words when Fang Yong kissed her lips.

"Woo~"

After a long time, Tanchun gasped with a red face.

Princess Fang Yong carried her back to the room.

"In my opinion, if you are asked to persuade someone, then just do it!"

Fang Yong said.

If you want to persuade someone, you must first go to their pillow.

When he reached the pillow, Fang Yong laid Tanchun on the bed and undressed himself.

While undressing, he said:
"Comparing yourself to Xi Shi, you are so bold! I have to investigate the truth!"

a long time.

Tanchun blushed.

Fang Yong kissed the beauty in his arms and asked:
"I was really scared just now!"

Tanchun rubbed against Fang Yong's chest like a kitten.

"Well, my husband just scared me~"

Fang Yongdao:
"Actually, I just want to say that if you encounter any problems in the future, just tell me directly. If I'm not around, you can also tell your sister Lin directly. Don't wait outside like a fool. Your hands are frozen."

Tanchun nodded gently, her heart filled with sweetness.

Fang Yong gently stroked the beauty's back.

Tanchun leaned against Fang Yong and suddenly said:

"Why don't you let Shishu in?"

Fang Yong was stunned: "Why do you say that suddenly?"

Tanchun said a little embarrassedly: "Because I didn't serve my husband well!"

Outside the inner room, Shishu listened to the conversation inside, his heart beating nervously.

Fang Yong in the room knew that Shishu was waiting outside, so he deliberately said:
"She, she can't!"

Tanchun asked, "What's wrong?"

Fang Yong said: "She is so careless all day long, not feminine at all. I plan to teach her martial arts and archery, and let her be a bodyguard in the future!"

The secretary outside heard it and took it seriously, tears immediately falling from his eyes.

How could I say that to her!
She just likes me, so she wants to show herself more in front of me, but now...

Shishu knew he had no chance and turned away in despair.

As a result, just after taking two steps, a voice came from inside:
"You dare to run? Come in and be punished!"

(End of this chapter)