Chapter 604 Cooperation
In Chang'an City, the emperor looked inside and outside for decades, and asked Mr. Chen to set up the island for only a place to settle down in the future.
Northern Xinjiang.
Chen Leng practiced the sword technique taught by Mr. Chu for half an hour. It was a bit troublesome after all. The northeast side was too cold, so even if Mr. Chen’s good medicine was not recovered so quickly. Mr. Chen’s medical skills were first-class, and he chose the bone typing technique, and even the imperial doctors prepared had to admire him.
After practicing the knife, he returned to the house. Soon, Meng Changan returned from patrol by troops. The cold air brought in as soon as he entered the door caused the temperature in the house to drop a lot. Chen Leng threw the hot towel that had been prepared beside him. Meng Changan caught it and wiped his face: "Qingse is coming."
"She will definitely come back."
Chen sneered: "The big girl from Heiwu now has no one to help her except looking for us. She must make herself cruel. If she had cultivated some gangs in Heiwu before, after Kanluo Heiting's uncle and nephew died in Gedi City, those gangs were eager to break off contact with her. Although there are 20,000 to 30,000 border troops in Gedi City, there are probably more than half of the believers of Jianmen, and Wuliangyin, the black warrior general of Sula City, would stay away from her."
Meng Changan nodded: "But she probably won't agree to help us take down Sula City. Once Sula City is defeated by us, her Gedi City will become an isolated city."
"She's just an isolated person."
Chen Leng said: "Now there are only two options in front of her, bad and worse."
Meng Changan smiled: "If she can help us take down Sula City, it will become much easier to launch troops on Bohai after the beginning of next spring. The black warriors will think that we will march north from Sula City, and they should not think that our goal is Bohai."
“It’s not easy.”
Chen Leng said: "I have issued a military order to Your Majesty. We don't need to fight Bohai for one piece of food, so our military supplies are all in Sula City and Gedi City. If Qinse is smart enough, Yuelan is dead now. The most direct way for her to control the Gedi City army is to hold the granary tightly. My plan... If Qinse really does not agree to help take Sula City, then the food and grass we will enter Bohai will be out of Her Gedi City."
Meng Changan squinted his eyes and looked at Chen Leng: "First give the other party the worst choice, and then give the one that is not bad, so it will be easier for her to accept the one that is not the worst? When did you become so cunning?"
Chen Leng laughed loudly.
Meng Changan was right. The choice of giving Qinse is bad or worse. First, give her the worst choice. She can't accept it, so she gives her a slightly better choice. This makes it relatively easier for her to accept it. Even if she can't take Sula City, she still has to take the food and grass in Gedi City. Chen Leng concluded that Qinse would take the granary.
Meng Changan looked at Chen Leng’s injured leg: “How is it?”
“No big problem.”
Chen Leng opened the lid of the stove, and the aroma suddenly appeared. The whole room was filled with the tempting smell of roasted sweet potatoes. He flipped over the sweet potatoes with an iron clip and picked a piece of roasted one for Meng Changan. Meng Changan reached out and took it over. His expressionless look made Chen Leng admire him a little.
“Not hot?”
"hot."
Meng Changan threw the sweet potato on the table aside and sucked his fingers: "But it can't be shown."
Chen Lengxin said that this is General Meng, who is the coolest in the eyes of the soldiers outside, and he is usually pretending to be cool.
The two were chatting, and the personal soldiers came in from outside and reported that Kuoke had arrived. Meng Changan subconsciously stood up to greet him. Chen Leng shook his head. Meng Changan then sat down and continued to chew his roasted sweet potato.
When you open the curtain and enter the door, you are attracted by the rich aroma of the room. The aroma of roasted sweet potatoes is different from the aroma of other foods. You smell it when you stir-fry a plate of stir-frying, but you will not judge the taste of the dish itself from the aroma. A pot of stewed meat smells very fragrant, but the feeling of the meat is not that real. As long as you smell the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes, you will feel sweet in your nose.
"Can you treat me to a piece?"
Qinse sat down next to the stove, and the first thing he said was that he wanted a piece of roasted sweet potatoes to eat.
Chen Leng picked up a piece and handed it to her. Meng Changan felt that it was a bit rude. He got up and took a plate, took the roasted sweet potato, and handed the plate to Qinse. Little stars appeared in Qinse's eyes. He squinted his eyes and looked at Meng Changan with a smile on his face, but he was immediately disappointed. He thought Meng Changan would look at her, but he didn't expect that Meng Changan would return to his seat after handing her the plate, and continued to concentrate on eating his piece. Qinse looked at the piece on his plate, then looked at Meng Changan again, and then frowned: "Why is his piece so big?"
Chen Lengbang glanced at her: "It's good to have you to eat, do you care about whether others are big?"
Qinse became serious: "I want big ones too."
She pointed to her plate: "You are too stingy."
Chen Leng: "Your Highness only knows to say that others are stingy. Don't your Highness feel that he is stingy?"
Qinse could naturally hear the meaning of Chen Leng's words. Although she kept looking at Meng Chang'an, she was not stupid. She had long seen that Chen Leng was the one who was making the decision here, not Meng Chang'an. Even though Meng Chang'an seemed to be more steady, calm and murderous, he didn't know why he seemed willing to be a helper for Chen Leng, and Chen Leng had the final say.
She turned to look at Chen Leng: "General Chen means that I will be too stingy if I promise you to defeat Sula City? Living plainly is a choice, being a stingy person is a choice. If the other choice is death, choose one of three, the best choice is of course living plainly."
She pinched a bite of the roasted sweet potato and put it in her mouth, then frowned slightly: "It's baked."
Chen Leng: "Well, I specially picked a piece of baked batter for you."
Qinse glared at Chen Leng and looked at Meng Chang'an again. Meng Chang'an was still concentrating on eating his piece, as if only a piece of roasted sweet potato was left in the spiritual world, and nothing else was left.
"That's it."
Qinse sat upright: "Sula City is too important for me, Heiwu. Once Sula City falls into your Ningren's hands, Heiwu will be like a wide open door. At that time, your cavalry will drive straight in. I am the eternal sinner of Heiwu. I cannot help you capture Sula City. Don't think about this anymore, but... Since your goal is Bohai Kingdom, I can do my best to provide you with relevant information, and even arrange people to help you do more. You know, the Bohai people never doubt the Black Warriors. If I send someone over, it is equivalent to installing an inner supporter for you."
Chen Leng shrugged and said nothing, Meng Changan's eyes lit up. He seemed to be staring at the sweet potato, but he cared about every word and action of the color. Of course, he didn't care about this person, but her attitude.
“Sounds pretty good.”
Chen Leng picked up a larger piece of sweet potato without baking and put it on a qinse plate: "This is like what His Royal Highness the Princess just said, which is much more tempting than the one just now, but it is not big enough."
He pointed to the largest sweet potato on the stove with an iron clip: "Your Highness wants big, I want big too. Everyone wants big, what should I do?"
Chouse pondered for a moment: "You might as well say it."
"forage."
Chen Leng also sat upright and looked at the smudged eyes and said seriously: "If Your Highness is willing to take out the food and grass that can be used for five months for the 50,000 troops, the matter of Sula City can be avoided."
"joke."
Qinse looked at Chen Leng coldly: "Heiwu sent out food and grass to help you defeat one of the portals of Heiwu. Do you think it is possible?"
"Your Highness."
Chen sneered: "You send someone to provide information to us. Is it different from directly providing food and grass to us? It's like two people made an appointment to steal things together. One of them refused to take it directly, but he was willing to help Wangfeng and sell the stole things, so he felt that his hands were clean... It was a little ridiculous."
The chilly face became even colder: "General Chen, your words like this are forcing us all to a dead end."
"Just face it."
Chen Leng said: "I have always hoped to be open and honest when working together. I will tell you what I need. I will do the same. I will tell me what you need. This is cooperation, not bargaining back and forth, which will seem boring."
Qinse was silent for a moment: "Since General Chen said so clearly, I will also make my request."
"you say."
Chen Leng made a gesture of asking for help.
"I want to stabilize Gedicheng, but... about half of the border troops in Gedicheng are believers of Jianmen. Once the leader of Jianmen arrives in person, these people don't even want to resist and can only kneel down and beg for mercy. I would like to ask the two generals, what can I do to ensure that they will not betray me?"
"kill."
Meng Changan suddenly raised his head and said a word, which was the first and only one after the color was faded.
"I am a black warrior, and it's hard for me to attack the black warrior."
Shaking his head in a smudge.
"I'll kill."
Meng Chang'an's second sentence.
Qinse turned her head and looked at Meng Chang'an, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Meng Chang'an said lightly: "Your Highness can arrange this group of troops to leave the city. The southeast of the Great City is Baishan, which is about 130 miles away from the Great City. As long as you let someone enter the canyon, my people will help you clear all these hidden dangers."
The face of her beauty was constantly changing. It was indeed a difficult choice for her to make a decision. Once she made a decision, she would never be able to leave Ningren again. If the guest did not get rid of these people, the Sect Master of Jianmen would really come in person in the future. Even if the Sect Master of Jianmen sent someone to come, they would have no intention of resisting.
She let out a long sigh: "Sign up the place to me."
Meng Chang'an stood up and walked to the map: "This place is 130 miles away from Gedi City and 110 miles away from Sula City. If your people arrive, I have four hours, which is enough. If the distance is too close to Gedi City, how can you explain to your subordinates if your highness does not lead the troops to support him? If it is too close to Sula City, Wuliangyin's cavalry can come."
Qinse was silent for a long time, and let out a long sigh for the second time: "What's the reason?"
"That's your Highness's business."
Chen Leng said: "I know that your highness must have a way to get the more than 10,000 Black Martial Border Army soldiers out of the city."
Qinse looked at Chen Leng, and then looked at Meng Chang'an: "I never thought that one day, there would be people who would ask for Yu Ning."
Meng Chang'an continued to eat his roasted sweet potatoes.
Chen Leng put the largest piece of sweet potato on a squid plate. There were already three roasted sweet potatoes on the squid plate.
Chen Leng asked: "Can you eat it?"
Qinse looked at the three roasted sweet potatoes and shook his head: "I can't eat them."
Chen Leng: "You can't eat it yourself, so you can only eat it together."
Chapter completed!