Lord: Start with a book of Water Margin

Chapter 705: Marriage (make up for last month's 800 monthly tickets)

After hearing this, everyone, especially Chen Zhifang, the governor of Tingzhou, Song Ye, the governor of Zhangzhou, Lin Hua, the governor of Nanjianzhou, and Wang Yang, the commander of Shaowu Army, who came from Fujian Road, thought the same. Zhao Zhen nodded and agreed to continue attacking the world of [Southern Song Zhao Gou].

The court of Zhao Zhen also checked the soldiers who were sent to the world of [Southern Song Zhao Gou] and issued rewards. The soldiers who went to the war were not in a hurry to be transferred back. In order to coordinate the war, Zhao Zhen also rewarded [Jade Unicorn] Lu Junyi as the general manager of Fujian Road and Zhu Wu as the military advisor to coordinate the war in Fujian Road.

Chen Zhifang and others were not in a hurry to make adjustments and returned to Fujian Province to take charge of state affairs. Officials in various states and counties were also only slightly adjusted.

Except for the four prefects who returned with Wu Yong, Zhao Zhen also summoned the rest of the officials and gentry. After encouraging them, he sent them back to Fujian.

Fujian Road was relatively stable at the moment, and Zhao Zhen did not want to act hastily and ruin the current situation. Most of the officials in the prefectures and counties were retained, and those that were lacking in the prefectures and counties were transferred from Jingji Road. There was no rush to set up military commanders and supervisors in each state.

According to Wu Yong, in the future, if we stationed some troops in Fujian, although it would not be enough for the offensive, it would be more than enough for the defense. Rather than attacking Fujian, most of the time was spent on marching. There was not much fighting and siege.

In the future, perhaps we can use this geographical advantage to stop the invading world.

After all, if too many worlds invade at the same time, no country can say it can stop them. According to Wu Yong's idea, the Fujian Road Imperial Army will be kept at a maximum of 10,000 in the future, and the prefectures and counties will use more local soldiers. As long as there are 3,000 or 2,000 local soldiers in each county, plus the scattered She and Minyue people, they can drag down the invading army in the mountains and forests. What's more, each time is now a month.

Just as Wu Yong said, the reason why Liang State was able to obtain Fujian Road this time was all thanks to the help of good timing and good people.

Fujian Road is located by the sea and the mountains. The salt fields, silver fields, copper fields and gold mines alone are worth a huge fortune.

After the fog channel was upgraded, Ji Xuan had already conducted a large trade with Gao, Cao and Lu, and the goods were sea salt.

Of course, the price of sea salt was not high. As a state-owned product, the object of sea salt trade was naturally the government of the Three Kingdoms. In exchange, in addition to gold and silver, there were also a lot of food and cloth, especially fire spirit wheat and fire cotton cloth, which were the most popular items to keep warm.

There were no commercial taxes or tolls in trade between countries, and private trade was even more numerous. However, all countries were very concerned about the flow of people. To be sent to another country, one person had to pay a deposit of one tael of gold and one tael of silver, and also had to state the destination and time. If they came back within the specified time, they would only be charged one tael of silver. If they were late or did not come back, the gold and silver would be confiscated by the national treasury.

Of course, caravans are different. They must first register before they can travel through the foggy channel. Commercial taxes are collected from here.

Large animals such as cattle and horses, as well as iron, tin, and copper coins, were all under control and could not be easily taken out of the country. Zhao Zhen had just seized a large number of short-legged horses, and the three kingdoms had come to buy them. Zhao Zhen could not resist the favor and sold 5,000 geldings to each of the three kingdoms.

On the other hand, in Dali, although the prime minister Gao Liangcheng who was in charge of state affairs did not approve of making friends with the Liang State, Duan Zhengyan, as a puppet emperor who had only been on the throne for a year, inevitably had his own ideas in his mind.

After a family dinner, cousin Zhong Ling and one of the four great guards Zhu Danchen disappeared from the palace. The two of them, along with a group of palace guards, went to Liang State with a lot of gold, silver, silk, treasures, rhinoceros and elephants.

After Duan Zhengyan succeeded to the throne, he also married a woman from the Gao family as per custom.

The empress was Gao Mei, the daughter of Gao Shengtai, the Prime Minister and the Emperor Baoding Duan Zhengming, Duan Zhengyan's uncle. Duan Zhengyan did not dare to take his three close female friends, Zhong Ling, Mu Wanqing and Wang Yuyan, whom he met in the martial arts world, into the harem because of Gao's family.

Now she only lives in the palace as Duan Zhengyan's cousin.

Because the 37 barbarian tribes repeatedly rebelled, Sikong Ba Tianshi, under the instruction of Duan Zhengyan, proposed a marriage alliance, taking the daughters of the 37 barbarian chieftains into the harem to pacify the area. Duan Zhengyan also took the opportunity to take Zhong Ling, Mu Wanqing, and Wang Yuyan into the harem. Unfortunately, Gao Liangcheng was unwilling to compromise because of the rebellion of the 37 tribes and the killing of his uncle Gao Mingqing. As a result, the matter was delayed.

In addition to the four great monks Ben Yin, Ben Guan, Ben Xiang and Ben Can who ignored worldly affairs in Tianlong Temple, and the four great guards Chu Wanli, Fu Sigui, Zhu Danchen and Gu Ducheng, Duan Zhengyan trusted these three the most. Even his biological father Duan Yanqing had to stand aside.

Duan Zhengyan's idea of ​​secretly contacting Liang State was to get rid of Gao family's control. As long as he could cooperate with Liang State to wipe out Gao family's soldiers, the Dali royal power would naturally return to Duan family.

For this, Duan Zhengyan was already prepared for some sacrifices.

As for why Zhong Ling was chosen, firstly, Zhong Ling is lively and optimistic by nature, a little clever, and has good martial arts skills. Moreover, she has a poisonous lightning marten, and her adoptive father [Kills Anyone on Seen] Zhong Wanchou and her mother [Pretty Night Demon] Gan Baobao are both highly skilled in martial arts.

Zhong Ling carried the letter of credence and, accompanied by these three people, pretended to be a merchant caravan and came out of the foggy passage. After that, after quietly inquiring, Zhong Ling and Zhu Danchen and others moved into the Huaiyuan Posthouse, while Zhong Wanchou and Gan Baobao hid in the dark as people in the underworld.

After hearing Chai Jin's report that the envoy of Dali Kingdom wanted to see him, Zhao Zhen was shocked.

Zhao Zhen was naturally very curious about what Dali was up to, so he issued an order to summon the chief and deputy envoys, Zhong Ling and Zhu Danchen.

The two men handed over the letter of credence. After reading it, Zhao Zhen twitched the corner of his mouth.

Looking at the girl at the head of the group, she had a small round face, her face was like the morning glow, her eyes were like autumn water, her skin was white and tender, with a rosy complexion, a small dimple at the corner of her mouth, and a smile as beautiful as a flower. When she spoke, her voice was both delicate and charming, and her tone was soft. She was very charming.

Zhao Zhen held up the letter in his hand and asked, "Have you two read the letter?"

Zhong Ling said, "I've never seen it."

Zhao Zhen handed the letter to the maid beside him, pointed at Zhong Ling, and said, "You can take a look too."

After seeing this, Zhong Ling was horrified.

It turned out that Duan Zhengyan had also heard of Zhao Zhen's reputation for lust. He asked Zhong Ling to be the envoy, and he was indeed planning a marriage alliance. The condition was that Zhao Zhen would send troops to Xiushan County and Shanchan Prefecture to eliminate the thirty-seven tribes of barbarians, and then advance to the Gao clan's territory of Weichu Prefecture.

Zhong Ling was the one who was to be married, and her dowry was Xiushan County, Shanchan Prefecture, and Weichu Prefecture.

Zhong Ling paused for a moment and asked Zhu Danchen, "Brother Zhu, has Duan Lang ever told you about this?"

Zhu Danchen was ashamed when he heard this, and said, "Miss Zhong, your majesty has no choice but to do this for the sake of the Dali Kingdom."

(End of this chapter)