"Then, it's up to you to resolve this matter on your own. I am purely a spectator."
On April 26, in the hall of the Anling County government office, Zhao Hongrun sat in the main seat and spoke to everyone in the hall with a smile.
In front of him, there was a long table, the seat closest to Zhao Hongrun. Opposite him sat the magistrate of Anling County, Yan Yong, and the magistrate of Yanling County, Peng Yi. The two magistrates were holding teacups and seemed to be smiling.
Their faces were full, but the glances that flashed in their eyes from time to time were enough to prove that the two were not as harmonious as they appeared.
As for the ten people sitting across from each other at the table outside, their expressions were even more tense and there was no smile at all.
On Anling's side, of course, there are Zhao Chengzhi, Zhao Chengjiong, Zhao Chengtang, Zhao Chengcan, and Zhao Chengxiu, the children of the Zhao family in Anling, the "Five Sons of the Zhao Family" that have gradually become popular in Anling in the past two days. Under Zhao Hongrun's arrangement, these five people will
As a representative of more than 100,000 people in Anling, I talked with Yanling County.
On the other side of Yanling County, there are also five people, two of whom are familiar faces, it is the brothers Gong Ying and Gong Fu who are now famous in Yanling, and the other three are Gan Fei, Che Jiang and Cai Hong.
, all are descendants of nobles in Yanling County.
Some people may wonder, isn't it said to represent public opinion, why are both the nobles' children involved?
There is no way, because in this era, a pure civilian cannot convince the public, and secondly, their knowledge and talents cannot take on such an important matter and achieve results in talks at the county level.
As for the third one, although it doesn’t sound good to say it, it is undeniable that most civilians in this era are hot-blooded, blind, and obedient. It’s okay to let them carry weapons on the battlefield, but let them argue with others at the negotiation table.
Perhaps apart from being forced into a panic and swearing a series of obscene words about the other party's ancestors and mother, I'm afraid I can't come up with any complete and constructive basis...
In contrast, although most of the five sons of the Zhao family are dandy children, their literary talent and knowledge are still much higher than those of the common people.
Of course, the same goes for Yanling.
The five sons of the Zhao family and the five people from Yanling sat facing each other and looked directly at each other.
Today's negotiation is very simple and very general. It is about how to end the boring confrontation between Anling and Yanling, because even if the "murder of Gong's youngest son" did not happen, the citizens of the two counties have had fierce conflicts in the past.
contradiction.
The reason is very simple. The people living in Anling are almost all Wei people, while the people living in Yanling are almost all Chu people who defected to Wei. Since the Chu-Wei battle led by Xiong Tuo, the king of Chu Yangcheng two years ago
After the war started, the relationship between the Wei people and the Chu people naturally became tense.
It's just a national sentiment.
But if we want to end the antagonism between the two counties, it will inevitably involve a core issue: Who bows? Who gives in?
It is this core issue that makes none of the ten nobles present dare to relax.
Just kidding, today's Anling and Yanling are both super large counties with hundreds of thousands of people. The five sons of the Zhao family and the five of Yanling have hundreds of thousands of people standing behind each other who are eagerly looking forward to their victory. If this is messed up
, the saliva of hundreds of thousands of people would be enough to drown five of them.
After a long silence, a man named Gan Fei among the five people in Yanling said with a smile: "How dare we disobey His Highness King Su's order? Furthermore, I, Yanling, also have the intention of turning the war with Anling into friendship.
It's just...the things An Ling did some time ago made me, Yan Ling, filled with righteous indignation."
Hearing this, the Fifth Young Master Zhao Chengjiong frowned and said, "Didn't the Wang family already pay you compensation for that matter?"
Before he finished speaking, the third young master, Zhao Chengzhi, glared at his clan brothers and scolded in a low voice: "Xiaowu, don't talk nonsense!" After saying that, he turned to look at Gan Fei and said with a smile: "That matter
The main culprit is the Wang family, and the Wang family has been expelled from Anling and can no longer be regarded as a native of Anling. You may wish to resolve the grievances between Yanling and the Wang family on your own. Today's discussion is only between Anling and Yanling.
I hope this brother will not involve outsiders."
"Zhao San is okay..."
Zhao Hongrun nodded secretly while listening.
In his opinion, that Gan Fei clearly wanted to take advantage of what happened last time and occupy a moral high ground: You, Anling, did such an excessive thing to us, Yanling, last time, and you don't want to give us any benefits. Isn't this unreasonable?
However, the third son, Zhao Chengzhi, was not fooled and classified the main culprit Wang family as an outsider in just a few words: Sorry, the Wang family has nothing to do with us in Anling. If you want compensation, you can go to the Wang family yourself.
It can be seen from this that the aristocratic dandies are not all idiots, but these people have lived too comfortably in the past. In Zhao Hongrun's words, these boys deserve to be beaten!
It has to be said that Zhao Chengzhi's words left Gan Fei speechless.
"Let the Wang family handle it on your own? God knows where those bastards have moved to? Do we dare to pursue them?"
Gan Fei snorted bitterly.
Yes, he didn't dare. Although Zhao Hongrun strongly emphasized that the Chu people who defected to the Wei State had equal status with the Wei people, but as the saying goes, the most important thing in a person is self-awareness. After all, he defected to another country. Gan Fei naturally knew that he had to make three concessions in everything.
The truth is divided, so as not to arouse the resentment of the Wei people.
As for Gan Fei's glare, Third Young Master Zhao Chengzhi didn't take it to heart at all, because he was sure that these Chu people did not dare to pursue them to Zhengcheng.
This is the difference: if it were an ordinary civilian, he might have accepted the compensation Anling paid to Yanling under Gan Fei's accusation.
Compensation is a small matter. Losing face, being spat on by hundreds of thousands of people because your side lost the negotiation, and losing face is a big deal.
This is related to whether the Zhao family can truly replace the Wang family in Anling and become the largest wealthy family in Anling.
In the following time, the two sides exchanged words and exchanges, going back and forth as fiercely as a battlefield. The two county magistrates, Yan Yong and Peng Yi, wished they could go on the stage in person and use their words to argue against each other.
But unfortunately, like Zhao Hongrun, they are just spectators.
Zhao Hongrun, on the other hand, sat very calmly, holding a cup of tea in his hand and sipping it slowly, his eyes showing a look of absence from time to time.
Wei Jiao, the chief guard of the clan who was guarding him, would bet that even though His Highness was sitting peacefully, he must have been distracted and thinking about other things.
Glancing at the negotiation table, Wei Jiao bent down and whispered: "Your Highness, if you don't stop me, these ten people may roll up their sleeves and fight..."
"Huh?" Zhao Hongrun, who was distracted, finally came to his senses after hearing this and glanced at the negotiation table.
Isn't that right? I saw that the two parties who were sitting upright just now were fighting each other with red faces and thick necks. They couldn't care less about their aristocratic aura. They seemed to be just like common people, stepping on stools and shouting and provoking each other.
"You come if you have the ability?! I'm not afraid of you!"
"I don't even want to ask. My Zhao brothers never give in!"
"Hey! For the sake of His Highness Prince Su, we don't care about you guys... What about Zhao Shisan, do you dare to fight alone with me, Gong Ying?"
"Let's wait until you recover from your injuries, you damn cripple!"
"You bastard..."
Just as one of the five sons of the Zhao family and the five of the Yanling family were about to roll up their sleeves, and the other was about to dismantle the stool, and they might get into a fight with each other at any time, they suddenly heard a sneer from the side: "Haha."
For a moment, the expressions of both parties suddenly changed, and they realized that they were in front of His Highness Prince Su.
So, they sat down again in the next moment, not daring to make any mistakes.
However, Zhao Hongrun did not scold him, because he had already guessed that this negotiation would be extremely explosive, because it would directly affect the status of Yanling and Anling in the future, and neither of them would give in.
Fortunately, he already had an idea.
"Sure enough, you can't argue with words alone... Well, since both of you are unwilling to give in, are you willing to compete?"
"How do you compare?" Gong Ying respected Zhao Hongrun quite a lot and asked in a gentle tone after hearing this.
I saw Zhao Hongrun tapping his forehead lightly with his fingers, looking at the ten people and saying with a half-smile: "Don't be so nervous, it's just for fun... But if you want to play, let's play something big."
For a moment, there was silence in the room, everyone was attracted by Zhao Hongrun's words.
I saw Zhao Hongrun put down the tea cup, crossed his hands on the table, and said slowly: "Let's set up a game. If Anling wins, the hilly area between the two counties will be called Anqiu in the future. Otherwise, it will be called Yan
Qiu... I remember that there is a river between the two counties. On weekdays, the citizens of the two counties often go there to fetch water. So in the future, the upper reaches of this river will belong to the winner, and the lower reaches will belong to the defeated.
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"..."
After hearing this, the five sons of the Zhao family and the five Anling people were all stunned, and even their breathing became a little short.
To be honest, the lottery bonuses proposed by Zhao Hongrun actually have no actual benefits. The only thing is that they can make the winning party earn a lot of face.
"In addition, I allow the winner to ridicule the loser as much as he wants...the winner is king!"
Hearing this, Yan Yong, the magistrate of Anling County, looked shocked and said hurriedly: "Your Highness, Prince Su, is this... inappropriate for you?"
Thinking about it, he couldn't help but scream in his heart at this moment: Do you want to resolve the grievances between the two counties, or do you want to pour a bucket of oil on the grievances between the two counties?
However, Zhao Hongrun waved his hand to stop Yan Yong, and said with a smile: "We are fair and just, and our skills are not as good as others, who can blame us?... By the way, I just thought of a more fun one, and I plan to ask someone to go to Yanling
A stone monument should be erected on the border between the two counties of Anling and it will be called a "boundary stone". The winner can move one mile to the other county every year in the presence of the other county..."
After hearing this, Yan Yong and Peng Yi's expressions changed dramatically.
Although one mile of land is not much, the significance contained in it is too great.
Now, the people of Anling and Yanling counties must be blown up!
"How?" Zhao Hongrun looked at everyone with interest.
After looking at each other, the five people on Yanling's side all showed "ferocious" smiles, looking at the fifth son of the Zhao family as if provocatively: "Do you dare to take it?"
The five sons of the Zhao family suddenly changed from the playboys in the past to the envoys responsible for the reputation of the county. Although they were uneasy, they could not bow their heads at such a time, so they all sneered.
"Why don't you dare?"
"In the coming year, I will add an extra mile of land to Anling. Tsk, tsk, I can't ask for it!"
Seeing the two sides quarreling again, Zhao Hongrun said with a smile: "Why are you arguing? I'll tell you the truth! You all go back and call on the people with lofty ideals in the county not to lose when the time comes. You also made many excuses. I, the King,
They won’t pay any attention to it.”
"Just what His Royal Highness King Yisu said!"
The five sons of the Zhao family and the five people from Yanling said in unison.