It is definitely impossible not to give it. After all, the Wei State has given it. As an ally, the big man is unwilling to sell it. It cannot be justified both emotionally and rationally.
It's not okay to ask for too high a price. After all, the price given by Wei is there. As an ally, if the price is too high, is the Han still considered an ally?
"The envoy from Wu State is already on the way to Liangzhou. How should we deal with it? It would be better to discuss the countermeasures early."
"Cao!"
Governor Feng couldn't help but curse again.
He finally realized how Liu Bei felt when he faced Sun Quan's lion asking for Jingzhou.
Of course, Zhuge Laoyao may have a deeper experience.
Therefore, he must have had the same thoughts as Liu Bei at that time, and it was not easy to refuse openly, and then let the Wu envoys come to Liangzhou to argue with him.
Thinking of this, Governor Feng's heart moved.
This old demon Zhuge is very evil!
"Who is the envoy of Wu State?"
"Lu Hao, one of the four surnames from Wu County, is the younger brother of Lu Xun."
"Lu Xun?" Feng Yong's expression condensed upon hearing this, "Brother or clan brother?"
"Of course he is a biological brother."
"Do you have any information about Lu Hao?"
As a qualified secretary, Zhang Xiaosi had already prepared everything.
She handed over a document:
"Yes, there are, but I just collected some of the more important relationships and his reputation in Wu. There are no more."
Feng Yong took it, lowered his head and read it carefully.
From the time he used brown sugar to infiltrate Wu State, Feng Yong had already begun to pay attention to letting people collect intelligence about Wu State.
Especially important ministers like Lu Xun were the top priority for intelligence collection.
Thanks to Lu Xun's attention, Lu Hao, as Lu Xun's younger brother, is naturally also a direction for intelligence collection.
Although it wasn't much, it was enough for Feng Yong to analyze some situations.
After reading, Feng Yong knocked on the table and frowned slightly:
"You are a gentleman! This will not be easy to handle."
Although Lu Hao can be regarded as a descendant of a noble family in Wu County, he is a person who abides by friendship.
He is willing to have sincere friendship with anyone who comes from a poor background but has great ambitions.
Because of his reputation, people from the same county, even if they were strangers to Lu Mao, were willing to entrust their orphans and children to him.
Lu Hao also lived up to his trust, not only built the other party's grave, but also adopted the other party's young son.
The protagonist Lu Ji in "Lu Ji Huai Orange" is the head of the Lu family and the uncle of Lu Xun and Lu Mao.
But when Lu Ji died, he would rather entrust the child to Lu Mao to raise than to Lu Xun, who helped him support his family.
From this we can see how much Lu Hao is a person and trusted by others.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a gentleman.
Of course a gentleman can bully someone, but similarly, if a gentleman comes for justice, then no matter how much you bully the other party, he will not back down because of setbacks.
Now the state of Wu is asking for horses from the Han Dynasty to form a cavalry army, precisely for the purpose of Han and Wu sworn to form an alliance to defeat Wei.
This can be said to be righteous.
At least in the eyes of people like Lu Hao, this is where loyalty lies.
As for whether Sun Shiwan can defeat the Wei thieves after he has a cavalry army...that is what General Wu has to consider.
Instead of what Lu Hao had to consider during his trip, he would only consider how to achieve the purpose of his trip.
"There is one more thing that needs attention," Zhang Xingyi reminded, "this time the deputy envoy of Wu State is Zhang Bai."
Zhang Bai is Zhang Wen's younger brother.
The Zhang family, like the Lu family, is also one of the four clans in Wu County.
Zhang Bai personally came to Liangzhou two years ago to interview Feng Yong about selling grain in Jingzhou.
He can be regarded as the representative of the comprador family of Wu State supported by Feng Yong, or Xinghanhui.
"So Sun Quan is determined to get the war horse from the Han?"
After Feng Yong learned that Zhang Bai was the deputy envoy, he couldn't help but muttered.
After all, after Sun Quan deposed Zhang Wen and exiled Zhang Bai, he simply wanted to kill everyone.
If the Zhang family hadn't met Feng Yong, they would also have been agents of the brown sugar business.
No matter how deep-rooted the Zhang family is, it will probably damage their vitality and lurk for a while.
When Zhang Wen was on a mission to Shu, he admired Feng Yong very much. After returning to Wu, he never concealed his appreciation for Feng Langjun's articles.
Although the two have never met, they have always exchanged letters. The so-called making friends through letters is a beautiful thing known to the world.
In addition, the Zhang family later became the largest brown sugar agent in Wudi.
To say that the Zhang family has no friendship with Feng Yong is to tell lies.
In order to seek horses from the powerful Han, Sun Quan actually ignored his previous suppression of the Zhang family and pulled Zhang Bai out as an envoy.
This kind of shamelessness is indeed rare in the world.
This is simply a threat: Either give it to Ma, or Zhang Bai will do something bad.
However, the relationship between the Zhang family and Lu Hao is extremely close.
The daughter Lu Ji entrusted to Lu Mao to take care of was Lu Yusheng, who is now Zhang Bai's wife.
Thinking of this, Governor Feng couldn't help but "tsk":
"It seems like this horse has to be given away."
Zhang Xiaosi still has a long way to go when it comes to intelligence analysis, but she is still very sensitive to intrigues:
"It was originally meant to be given, otherwise it would be better if the Prime Minister refused directly?"
"It's just that regarding Liangzhou matters, I still have to ask for your opinion, so I asked the Wu envoy to come here."
"Now we can only think about how to give less..."
Zhang Xingyi was also a little worried and subconsciously put his fingers in his mouth to chew.
"Give them all."
Governor Feng said unexpectedly.
"Huh? Are you crazy? No!"
Not only Secretary Zhang was present, but also General Guan, Liao Changshi and other key officials of the governor's office.
After all, they must be informed about this kind of thing.
However, Liao Hua always knew the purpose of being sent here by the Prime Minister.
Coupled with his relationship with the Guan family, he is usually willing to be a tool.
After all, with Feng Guiwang Xiao Wenhe's reputation and his achievements over the years, there are only a few people in the world who dare to show off in front of him, whether they are herdsmen or military leaders.
As for General Guan, she had no intention of speaking.
After all, this kind of thing is not her specialty.
But when he heard that Governor Feng was so generous, he immediately objected.
It is true that horses are produced in Liangzhou.
But only the best horses can be selected into the army as war horses.
Otherwise, the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
The horses used by Hu Renyi in the army were basically the second-class horses left over from the Liangzhou governor's office.
Some of them can't even join the battle formation and can only be used as pack horses.
Therefore, 3,000 war horses must be carefully selected from at least 20,000 or even 30,000 horses.
Even if there are horse farms now and stallions specially collected and bred, it would take more than 10,000 horses to select 3,000 war horses.
How much time, manpower, and material resources would it take to raise 10,000 adult horses?
This time, it is not an exaggeration to say that Sun Quan dragged down Liangzhou's armaments, delayed the Guanzhong War, and bought Wei more time to prepare.
"You have to give it anyway. If you give it less, it will make Wu Xin dissatisfied, so it is better not to give it."
Feng Yong shook his head.
Isn't this what Liu Bei and Guan Yu did back then?
They had just finished dividing Jingzhou equally with Sun Quan, and the ink on the agreement between the two countries had not yet dried. Who would have expected that Sun Quan would dare to stab him in the back immediately?
"He said he wanted three thousand, so we gave him three thousand. This... this is too much. Give him less!"
Guan Ji said dissatisfiedly.
Although Liao Hua didn't speak, he nodded secretly.
Yes, now the Wu people are asking for help from the Han people, so how can they let them do whatever they say?
In order to obtain half of Nanjun, how much land did the late emperor promise to Sun Quan?
This time, at least let Wu Guo have a taste of asking for help.
"Three thousand is indeed a bit much, but I didn't say it was a one-time payment."
Feng Yong smiled slyly, "We can give it in batches."
"What's the meaning?"
"Now, in fact, no matter how much we give, we will still lose money by any calculation."
Feng Yong sighed and continued:
"Because the batch of war horses that Cao Rui sold to Sun Quan at a low price has long been destined that when we exchange them with the Wu people, the asking price cannot be too high, or even lower than the price given by Cao Rui."
Otherwise, Sun Quan would still be unhappy.
"So if that's the case, why don't we think of a solution from another angle?"
As he spoke, Governor Feng's eyes narrowed slightly, and a deep smile appeared on his face.
This kind of smile is rare on Feng Jishi's face.
But following Feng Jishi for many years, he naturally knew what this smile meant - it meant Xiao Wenhe's appearance.
The two looked at each other and said in unison:
"What's the plan?"
"Pay in installments!"
A term that no one understood came out of Feng Yong's mouth, "Sun Quan wants three thousand horses, doesn't he? I'll give him four thousand and let him make up a cavalry of five thousand."
Liao Hua was shocked when he heard this.
It's just that he has seen big storms after all, and he is well aware of Xiaowen's tricks, so he suppressed his temper immediately.
Guo heard Feng Yong continue to say:
"However, we cannot pay for these four thousand horses in one lump sum. We must pay them in four installments."
Feng Yong said, while holding out four fingers, "We don't want those treasures, as long as he exchanges them for other things."
"Aren't the Wu people good at boats? Then I will exchange a thousand horses for a batch of his boats. I will also exchange a thousand horses for a group of boatmen who can operate the boats."
"I still have two groups of students under me, one group is sent to Wu** Middle School to operate ships, and the other group is sent to the shipyard of Wu State to learn shipbuilding."
"Those two thousand war horses will be regarded as tuition fees. When the two groups of students return from their studies, I will hand over the horses."
Five thousand cavalry is already a fighting force that cannot be underestimated.
Governor Feng didn't believe that Sun Shiwan would not be tempted.
Besides, Han and Wu are one family. Wu asked for horses in order to defeat thieves. Han Dynasty studied shipbuilding and sailing, wasn't it also to defeat thieves?
Not to mention anything else, how many ships come and go on the Qishan Road from Hanzhong to Longyou every year?
Didn’t Sun Quan say:
"Pearls and treasures are not needed, but they can be exchanged for horses. What's the regret?"
Coincidentally, I, Feng, think so too.
I don't love money!
I'm not interested in jewelry either!
I just want to learn how to build and operate a boat...
After hearing Governor Feng's plan, even Liao Hua was dumbfounded.
It's understandable to exchange a boat for a horse, but it's a bit unexpected to change the boatman.
Not to mention the need to replace Wu's boat-managing skills and ship-building skills.
I don’t know how long it will take for those students to learn it.
I can't say it, the company department, military affairs related to the general under his command.
If it weren't for the political affairs in Liangzhou and the people's return, he would have been unable to restrain himself and wanted to give some advice.
Now it seems that Feng Mingwen can be regarded as a figure like Pang Tong in terms of strategy alone.
Trivial things may not even enter his eyes.
In the past, I only heard about its great reputation, but today I finally saw it with my own eyes!
Liao Hua was sighing when Feng Yong turned to him and said:
"Uncle Liao, I originally wanted to go to Juyan County after spring to supervise the farming, but now it seems that I can't do it. I'm afraid it will tire Uncle Liao a lot."
Liao Hua said quickly:
"Inspecting Juyan County is nothing more than a matter for the state and county; receiving the envoy from Wu is a matter for both countries. There is a difference in severity. Small matters are left to me, while major matters need to be handled personally by the prince."
Seeing with his own eyes that things that even the Prime Minister had shied away from were easily resolved by Governor Feng, Liao Hua strengthened his determination to be a tool.
The only thing that worries Liao Hua is: Will the Wu people agree?
A few days later, Governor Feng personally received the Wu envoys who had traveled thousands of miles away in the official hall of the Governor's Mansion in Liangzhou.
The two sides recalled the long-term friendship between the two countries and were full of confidence in the future cooperation in jointly combating thieves.
During this period, Lu Mao formally proposed to Governor Feng that he would exchange the pearls, tortoise shells and other treasures produced in Wu for Liangzhou horses.
Governor Feng, who was well prepared, also made his request to Lu Hao.
"I don't agree!"
Lu Hao, who is in his forties, is elegant and has an extraordinary bearing.
Although he has entered middle age, it can still be seen that he must have been a handsome man in his youth.
Whether you are walking or sitting, you feel relaxed and relaxed.
But this calmness turned into anger after hearing the conditions proposed by Feng Jishishi.
But I saw him standing up suddenly and staring at Feng Yong closely:
"The benefits of boats are the most important weapons of our great state of Wu. How can we show them to others at will?"
"Mr. Lu, it doesn't make sense for you to say that. Boats are the most important weapon of the Wu State. Aren't war horses the most important weapon of my great man?"
Governor Feng sat there, motionless:
"In the battle of Xiaoguan, I was able to defeat one hundred thousand with twenty thousand. Isn't it because of the Han's cavalry?"
"Then how can it be the same? Everyone knows that the cavalry under Junhou's command is very different from other cavalry. I heard that they were trained by the secret method of Junhou's master."
Lu Hao didn't show any weakness at all, and even took a step closer, "In my opinion, this kind of secret method is the real important weapon. Is it possible that a prince would be willing to give it to me?"
"Nonsense!" When Feng Junhou heard this, his expression changed and he raised his voice, "It's nothing!"
"The rumors outside are just what others say. How can Mr. Lu easily believe such rumors?"
Although his sitting posture did not change, the subconsciously stretched neck and the slightly raised veins on his neck seemed to indicate some kind of nervousness.
Although the change in Feng Yong's expression was quickly concealed, how could he hide it from Lu Hao?
The battle of Xiaoguan in the Han and Wei Dynasties shocked the world. The cavalry under the command of Governor Feng did not want to attract attention.
Unprecedented new cavalry tactics, coupled with previous rumors about Feng Yong, it is not unusual for someone to come to this conclusion.
Besides, the Zhang family has a relationship with Feng Mingwen, who in Wu knows?
Along the way to Liangzhou, Lu Hao had already asked Zhang Bai a lot about Feng Jishi.
As soon as he thought about this, Lu Hao subconsciously glanced at Zhang Bai sitting next to him.
