Chapter 123: Negotiation
"Hey, Governor Chen, you came quickly enough."
The leader exchanged casual greetings, and then sat swaggeringly on the stool opposite Chen Wen. The remaining two people took pictures of each other, and both looked like uncles. Seeing the other party being so arrogant, Chen Wen had previously suppressed
His anger was instantly detonated, and he pointed at the nose of the person opposite and asked him loudly
"Yan Baihu! What do you mean? Our agreement is not like this!"
Seeing Chen Wen's furious expression, Yan Baihu and the others not only showed no apology, they even laughed out loud.
"Hahaha ~ Promise? What promise?"
Yan Baihu asked pretending to be confused, and Chen Wen quickly took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and placed it in front of them.
"It's clearly written on it. You help me get Wu County back. I'll give you Wucheng, Yuhang, Qiantang, and Fuchun counties. You still want to deny this white paper with black characters and red handprints?!"
Yan Baihu picked up the paper and read it carefully, nodded and replied, "Yes, this is indeed what the agreement was."
"Then why do you want to occupy the remaining nine counties of Wu County and not give it back to me?"
"Because there are too few..." Yan Baihu stopped being careless and answered the other party very seriously, causing Chen Wen to show a puzzled expression.
"What's too little?"
"Young Master Du, at first you went to me for help. I know you have Danyang soldiers under your command, and I don't want to give you a head-on fight. But now the situation is different. I have received the news. Now your Danyang soldiers are restrained in Danyang by Sun Ce.
, unable to move, and without them, how could the group of soldiers under your hands be our opponents? Don’t forget, we struggled to survive in the dangerous mountains, let alone force us
The ones who have reached this point are just that bullshit emperor and you officials!"
Yan Baihu hammered the table in anger, which made Chen Wen tremble all over. He hurriedly held up his hat that was tilted on the side and took a deep breath to adjust his anxious heart.
Seeing Chen Wen's cowardly appearance, Yan Baihu didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, and directly smashed the letter in his hand into pieces and threw it on the table.
"In short, we will accept this Wu County, and we will consider it as compensation for us by you dog officials." After saying these words, Yan Baihu and the others stood up, raised their legs and were about to leave, but they were kept silent.
Pang Tong, who had said nothing, stopped.
"You three, walk slowly, please stay."
Hearing the voice, he turned around and saw a young man with an unattractive appearance.
"What else do you want?"
"Of course there is, and it is a major event, a major event that can affect whether all the kings can live a comfortable life in the future."
Facing Pang Tong's smiling persuasion to stay, Yan Baihu and the other three glanced at each other for a moment and decided to listen, since they wouldn't suffer any loss anyway.
"What do you want to say?"
"I would like to ask, how many soldiers do you have under your Majesty's command? How many household registrations do you have?"
"Why are you asking this?" A person next to Yan Baihu asked Pang Tong. Pang Tong did not answer, but asked again, "What is the name of this great king?"
"Zu Lang, also, call me Marshal,"
"Alright, Marshal, I would like to ask how many men the three Marshals have in total?"
Seeing that Pang Tong kept asking about this matter, Zu Lang did not want to reveal his true identity, but Yan Baihu was not worried and answered him: "The total of our three infantry is 70,000.
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, even if there are only three people in each household, it is still as much as 210,000."
"Hey, I didn't expect it to be quite a lot." Pang Tong was a little surprised, while the third person opposite looked a little proud.
"That's right, these are just our three brothers. There are at least twenty of the remaining sect commanders, big and small, with names and surnames, and there are countless less famous ones!"
"What is the relationship between the three commanders and the others?"
"It's very bad. There are often land grabs and food grabs."
"If this is the case, then I sincerely suggest that the three commanders should not occupy all of Wu County."
Pang Tong pretended to be considerate of the other party, but Zu Lang didn't think so, and immediately jumped out and accused him, saying, "You bastard! After all, don't you still want to go back to Wu County? Shut up, there's no point in doing this."
discuss!"
Seeing that the other party wanted to run over and punch him, Pang Tong waved his hand to appease the other party, and then said, "Commander, please don't be angry. Please listen to me. Wu County has thirteen counties, and you only have two."
One hundred thousand people, please tell me, how do you allocate these few people?"
"One county will be released with one thousand people... three thousand people, no, four thousand people..." After Pang Tong raised the question, Zu Lang was really counting on his fingers, but in the end he was confused.
Seeing that the other party acted like an idiot, a faint sneer crawled onto Pang Tong's face, and then he hurriedly hid it and called out Zu Lang who kept mumbling.
"Commander, let me help you do the math. Evenly distributed, each county has about 15,000 people, of which there are about 5,000 soldiers who can fight. You just said that the other Shanyue tribes will not deal with you.
, if they know that each county in Wu County can only fight 5,000 people, how could they let such a fat man appear in front of them? "
Pang Tong looked at the three people opposite him with a look of worry, then stretched out his second finger and continued, "Secondly, it is not only Shanyue who poses a threat to you, but also Sun Jian and his son. I am the governor.
They rely on the elites of Danyang, but now Danyang is restrained and unable to move. If they are smarter and put Danyang last and choose to attack Jiujiang or Kuaiji from the side, then Wu County will definitely be threatened again."
Pang Tong stared closely at the expressions of the three people and found that there was a sense of panic on their faces, and then began to describe the third point: "Finally, let's not talk about the soldiers for now, let's talk about the generals, Sun Jian, who dare to fight and kill.
He is so heroic that the four veterans who follow him are not cheap. His son, Sun Ce, is a young hero who has already begun to look like a tiger at a young age. I don't know much about the rest, but they can be admired by Sun Jian.
I fancy him, he has some skills, do the three marshals think they can compete with someone like Sun Jian?"
"This... I'm afraid it won't work."
After listening to Pang Tong's analysis, Yan Baihu realized the gap between himself and Sun Jian. Pang Tong looked at the slightly frustrated expressions of the other three, and his confidence increased by a few points.
"If you can't, why not cooperate with us?"
"How to cooperate?"
"I hope that the three generals can suffer some losses, and the thirteen counties will choose seven of them, and the rest will be returned to my lord. With my lord's reputation, we can recruit soldiers in Wu County and Kuaiji. Then we can
What do you think about setting up a line of defense to jointly resist foreign invasion?"
Pang Tong invited them, but Yan Baihu and the others did not answer immediately. Instead, they ran to a corner and communicated secretly.
"Do you want to agree?"
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What he said makes sense, but I can’t accept that he suddenly lost half of his territory.”
"But this is the fact. How can we take advantage of the land without anyone? You don't know the attitude of the other leaders towards us. If this matter gets spread, they will definitely come to snatch it. Then we will
It’s become a target of public criticism.”
"Pan Lin is right. There will eventually be land, but people will not survive after death. We must first preserve our strength and develop our power, and then slowly occupy the land."
Being "attacked from both sides" by Yan Baihu and Pan Lin, Zu Lang, who had always been opposed to it, finally compromised and said, "Hey, okay, then we will suffer some losses."
After finalizing their decision, the three of them slowly sat back down. Yan Baihu, as the representative, expressed his own opinions.
"After discussion, we decided to agree to your request."
"The three marshals understand the righteousness well. Thank you very much."
Pang Tong said his thanks and bowed to the three of them, but was stopped by Yan Baihu.
"Don't forget to thank me, I have other requests."
"Speaking"
"Since it's a union, there must be someone who can make decisions, right? I want this position!" Yan Baihu pointed at himself and directly snatched the eldest brother's position, but Chen Wen would not just watch.
Let the bandits climb on your head to poop and pee.
"Fart! Sharing an equal share with a robber like you is enough to give you face, why don't you slap your face on your nose like this!" Chen Wen angrily scolded the other party for being shameless, but Yan Baihu didn't mean to be angry at all, but showed off his face.
He looked at Chen Wen with an "understanding" smile.
"Okay, it's easy to talk about it. Since you don't want to, then let this agreement go away. You don't want to take Wu County back. I will still take the seven counties as I said just now, and I will give away the rest.
Fei Zhan, You Tu, Peng Qi, those guys, whatever they want to do to ruin it is their business, I don't care, if they rob you of Kuaiji or Danyang counties, I don't care either, it has nothing to do with me anyway."
When Yan Baihu was preaching here, he specially increased his voice and continued to say, "Let me remind you, other people are not as easy to talk to as our three brothers."
After leaving such advice, the three of them stood up and were about to leave. Before Chen Wen could react, Pang Tong behind him hurriedly said, "Wait a minute, three marshals, let's cooperate. It's not us who put you in danger."
, there is no deep hatred between us, right? You don’t want other enemies to reap the benefits in vain, right?"
"Well, we really don't want to. Now that we have decided to cooperate, it will be up to me to decide what to do in the future."
"That's natural"
"Okay, wait until we get back to discuss which seven places we want, and we will give you an answer in a few days." After Yan Baihu finished speaking, he walked away with a happy face.
After they left, Chen Wen suddenly began to ask Pang Tong, "Why do you agree to their request? I am the governor of a state and work as a bully for a group of bandits? Do you want to piss me off?!"
Pang Tong, who was criticized, also put down his usual smile, stared at Chen Wen with a stern look and said, "Are you so angry? What did I tell you at the beginning? You must not cooperate with villains. Did you listen? Now
This situation is entirely your own fault!"
"I……"
Pressed by the facts, Chen Wen couldn't find a word to refute, so that the angry look in his eyes just now became weak. Pang Tong looked at his useless look, flicked his sleeves, and walked out of the door quickly.
, looking up at the sun in the sky, sighing "I'm not the Lord after all" and then walked straight towards the end of the corridor.
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Chapter completed!