MTL - Wei and Jin Cooks-Chapter 734 covenant

  Chapter 734 Covenant

I haven't seen him for a year. Fu Zhi's hair has become whiter, and there are more wrinkles on his face. There is a sorrow in his eyes. When he sees his grandson and his future grandson-in-law, he can't help but smile, but the sorrow on his eyebrows has not diminished much. The worry in his eyes intensified.

  Zhao Hanzhang dismounted when he was about ten steps away from him, and then quickly stepped forward with Fu Tinghan to salute, "Grandfather Fu!"

Fu Zhi's beard was flying in the cold wind. He grabbed the flying beard with one hand and waved to them with the other: "Get up, get up, the envoy from Xiliang is already waiting in the tent, let's go and see you .”

   Zhao Hanzhang responded with a smile, and handed over all the accompanying people to Fan Ying to manage.

  She followed closely behind Fu Yi, "Who is coming from Xiliang?"

   "It's Yang Dan in Zhizhong."

  Yang Dan is a tall scholar with a small beard on his mouth. He has a fair, middle-length face and looks upright.

  Zhao Hanzhang glanced at his left ear, which was empty and had been cut off by everyone.

   That should be cut by him, in order to see the King of Nanyang pleading for Zhang Gui, Zhao Hanzhang admires this kind of person who can do anything to him.

  Yang Dan is also looking at Zhao Hanzhang. He has heard of Zhao Hanzhang's name for a long time, but today is the first time he sees him.

   Xiliang and Zhao Hanzhang did not have much cooperation this year. The highland barley, medicinal materials, cattle and sheep, and furs produced in Xiliang were sold to Luoyang, Yuzhou and other places through Chang'an.

   Zhao Hanzhang herself was short of food, so she also introduced several grain merchants to Xiliang, facilitated their transactions with grain merchants, and even allowed them to sell salt to Xiliang.

  There is even a branch of their Xiliang army serving under her command. Hearing that she uses Beigong Chunru as an arm, she doesn't mind.

  Because of this trust, both Zhang Gui himself and his subordinates have a good impression of Zhao Hanzhang.

  Yang Dan couldn't help raising his smiling face, and when Zhao Hanzhang approached, he gave a deep bow, "Your official Yang Dan pays homage to Governor Zhao."

  Zhao Hanzhang waved his hand and said with a smile: "Yang Zhizhong doesn't need to be polite, please sit down quickly."

   After speaking, she realized that she was also a guest, so she couldn't help but turned to look at Fu Zhi.

  Seeing her flattering smile, Fu Zhi waved his hands angrily and said, "Please sit down, and Governor Zhao will also sit down."

  The communication between Xiliang and Luoyang must pass through Chang'an, so Yang Dan invited Fu Zhi to talk with him.

  Now there are two people who are in charge of Chang'an, one is Fu Zhi, and the other is Nanyang King.

  Nanyang King has a relatively high status, and it seems that the name change is justified, but he has no talent. Fu Yi has only been here for a year. Not only the people inside and outside Chang'an, but also many generals and subordinates under the Nanyang King have taken refuge in Fu Yi.

  So now Chang'an can be regarded as Fu Yi's decision.

   In terms of official fighting, Zhao Hanzhang is not his opponent.

  So she never invites famous high-ranking officials to be her subordinates, because she knows that she can't beat them for the time being, and she prefers to promote people from low positions.

Xiliang's request is very simple. They hope to attract more merchants from the Central Plains, not limited to grain merchants. Xiliang likes silk, cotton, linen, porcelain, colored glaze, etc., and they hope that these merchants can go to Xiliang for a while. go and have a look...

  At the same time, they can transport the spices, gems, medicinal materials, furs, and even the cattle, sheep and horses that Zhao Hanzhang urgently needs from Xiliang to the Central Plains.

   This is economic cooperation, political and military. Yang Dan hopes that they will have deeper cooperation with the Qiang people and the Xianbei in the west and north.

  The location of Xiliang destined them to have four enemies. The first and second are the Western Xianbei and Qiang who live together, the third is the Han Huns who crossed the Qiang to Xiliang at any time, and the fourth is the northern Xianbei.

   These enemies, except for the northern Xianbei who cannot touch Zhao Hanzhang for the time being, the other three may also go south to attack Zhao Hanzhang at any time.

  So Xiliang hopes to strengthen cooperation with Zhao Hanzhang, just like this time, when Zhao Hanzhang sent troops to Liu Yuan, Xiliang sent troops to raid for her. Xiliang hoped that if they fought with foreign enemies one day, Zhao Hanzhang would also send troops to respond.

   Zhao Hanzhang agreed without much hesitation.

   Zhang Gui’s conditions are very straightforward, and the requirements are all reasonable. She likes such an ally who knows herself and will give first if she wants to get something.

   This negotiation seems to be between Zhao Hanzhang and Xiliang, but in fact, Chang'an cannot be avoided.

  Because whether it is business or soldiers entering and leaving, they all need to pass through the Chang'an checkpoint, so Fu Zhi is very important.

Fu Zhi has been listening to them in silence, he has no objection to their cooperation, he only has one request, "If your majesty is in trouble one day, I want you to promise me that you will protect your majesty and Da Jin no matter the cost. "

  Zhao Hanzhang and Yang Dan looked at each other, and they both bowed their heads in response.

  Fu Zhi exhaled slowly, and said, "Then draw up a covenant."

  Both sides had a friendly heart, so they talked very quickly, and the covenant was finalized in just half a day.

  Fan Ying drafted the letter of alliance, copied a copy with a document under Fu Zhi's account, and handed over three copies of the letter of alliance.

  Three people read it, signed and stamped it after confirming that it was correct.

  Yang Dan glanced at Fan Ying, and said with a smile to Zhao Hanzhang: "I heard that there are many capable female officials under Zhao Inspector's tent, and seeing her today really deserves her reputation."

  Zhao Hanzhang also looked at Fan Ying with a smile, nodded and said: "This is my work in governance."

   That is to say, Fan Ying and Yang Dan have the same official rank.

Hearing this, Yang Dan became more respectful, got up and saluted Fan Ying, and then said to Zhao Hanzhang: "The girls in our Governor's house heard that Governor Zhao has a female official here, and they clamored to come together, and they also said that they wanted to beg under Zhao Governor's command. As an official, our governor scolded the girl for nonsense, but we couldn’t stop the girl, so we asked her to come along and learn more.”

   "The girl will come to pay a visit to Governor Zhao in a while, please take care of Governor Zhao, we will stay for a few more days and then go back to Xiliang."

  Zhao Hanzhang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "It turns out that the daughter of the governor Zhang is also here, so I want to see her. They say that the father of a tiger has no dog girl, and that the governor Zhang is a hero, and Miss Zhang must also be a heroine."

  Zhang Gui's daughter is called Zhang Ru. She is Zhang Gui's fourth child and the youngest one.

  She was the same age as Zhao Hanzhang, dressed in red, but she looked very gentle, with a heroic look on her brows. When she heard that Zhao Hanzhang wanted to see her, she immediately came to see her with a long sword.

  She gave a hasty salute to Fu Zhi who was sitting at the top, then looked up to find Zhao Hanzhang. She saw the young girl sitting on Fu Zhi's left side at a glance, and she was stunned.

  Zhao Hanzhang looked at her with a smile. Seeing her staring at her in a daze, he couldn't help laughing out loud, and asked, "Why is Miss Zhang so dumb? Could it be that I'm too ugly to scare you?"

  Zhang Ru blushed, shook her head again and again, looked at her with sparkling eyes and said, "No, Shijun is the most handsome governor I have ever seen, and I was stunned for a moment."

   Zhao Hanzhang laughed loudly when he heard the words, patted the seat beside him and said, "Miss Zhang, come forward and sit down, let's drink together."

  Fu Zhi silently turned his head to look at his grandson, only to see that Fu Tinghan just looked up at Zhang Ru and Zhao Hanzhang before lowering his head to drink the soup.

  Fu Zhi felt very complicated for a while, and didn't know what expression to make.

  (end of this chapter)