After some tug-of-war "discussions", the two parties finally successfully signed the covenant.
The covenant recorded the following scattered points: First, Liu Ji recognized that the north of the Yellow River belonged to the Western Qin Dynasty, and the affiliated forces of Confucianism, including himself, were not allowed to invade the land of Hebei in any name.
Second, Liu Ji provides various supplies worth equivalent to 200,000 gold to Western Qin every year, which must be delivered to Handan before May every year without any delay.
Third, Western Qin will withdraw its troops immediately. Do not use this as an excuse to raise troops to attack Liu Ji.
This covenant serves as a warning to heaven and earth. Anyone who violates it will be punished by both humans and gods.
The signatures at the bottom are the names of Lin Ze and Liu Ji, and the seals affixed also represent the identities of the two people.
Lin Ze originally wanted to bypass Liu Ji and sign an alliance directly with Confucianism, but Yan Hui was adamant and refused to agree. He even refused to sign an alliance in the name of Confucianism even if Confucianism fell out with Taoist palace.
According to Lin Ze's character, he would use both coercion and inducement, and would patiently wear down his temper until Yan Huituan became dizzy and agreed.
However, Zhuang Zhou had an easy-going temper and was not tough at all. After being a peacemaker a few times, Lin Ze gave up his thoughts.
In the end, both sides took a step back. Yan Hui did not have to represent Confucianism in signing the covenant with Lin Ze/Xiqin/Daogong, but represented Confucianism as a witness and attached his name to the covenant.
Similarly, Zhuang Zhou represented the Taoist palace and witnessed this covenant.
If either Lin Ze or Liu Ji repent, as witnesses of both parties, they have the right to seek justice for the person who broke the covenant.
After the covenant was settled, Zhuang Zhou and Lin Ze went to each other's banquet under Yan Hui's repeated warm invitations.
However, Lin Ze resolutely rejected Liu Ji's "good intention" of sending people to reward the Western Qin army.
At a time when the world is about to be in chaos and the man with strong soldiers and horses is king, how could Lin Ze allow someone like Liu Ji to come into contact with his army?
What if Liu Ji suddenly gets angry and kidnaps someone?
Don't think it's impossible. This is a mythical world. What else is impossible?
Anyway, with Lin Ze's cautious temperament, it is impossible to take this risk.
The banquet lasted for two hours. From noon to evening, Lin Ze couldn't remember how many drinks he and Yan Hui had. The dishes were changed every half an hour, and in one banquet, the dishes alone were changed eight times.
It wasn't until Cao Shen ran to the banquet hall to tell Liu Ji that all supplies worth two hundred thousand gold had been prepared, that Lin Ze was able to escape from the banquet smoothly on the pretext of serious business matters.
Lin Ze came to the warehouse filled with various supplies and immediately scanned it with the unique spiritual sense of the Heavenly Realm to prevent Liu Ji from committing fraud.
I wonder if Yan Hui specifically told him that Liu Ji prepared a variety of supplies, but they were still essential for food and clothing.
Either it is related to eating, such as staple foods such as rice and soybeans, as well as dried meat from various unknown monsters, and even several large bags of salt.
Or there are all kinds of cloths, from silk to burlap.
After calculating the types and quantities, Lin Ze specifically communicated with Xiao Jin in his mind and calculated the overall value to see if Liu Ji had "cut corners".
After receiving a positive reply, Lin Ze immediately ordered the army outside the city to send tens of thousands of people into the city to move things.
After a while, supplies worth two hundred thousand gold were moved to the military camp outside the city by the enthusiastic Western Qin soldiers.
In the eyes of the soldiers of the Western Qin Dynasty, it was indeed extraordinary for their own country's leader to subjugate the enemy's army without fighting, and to make the other party obey him and "pay tribute" obediently without fighting.
Early the next morning, Lin Ze and Zhuang Zhou bid farewell to Yan Hui.
Yan Hui pretended to be regretful and said, "I hit it off with you two and talked happily. Now that you two are leaving, you feel a little reluctant to leave. Why don't you two stay a few more days so that I can fulfill my friendship as a landlord?"
Zhuang Zhou replied politely: "We have a long time to come, and we will see you later. See you again someday. We will not go home until we are drunk."
Lin Ze had a mean smile on his face and replied: "There is no need to stay for a few more days. If you stay for a day or two, Yan Shengxian may feel happy. If you stay for a long time, a hundred thousand troops will lie outside the city. I am afraid that some people will have trouble sleeping and eating.
install."
As soon as Lin Ze said such straightforward words, Yan Hui suddenly looked embarrassed and laughed a few times, but he no longer had any intention of pretending to stay.
What if this Taoist sage’s new disciple borrows the donkey from the slope and refuses to leave?
If the covenant is signed but the person is not sent away, wouldn’t it be a loss of life?
So, after a hundred thousand Western Qin troops had a feast, Lin Ze took them on the road back north.
This time, Lin Ze did not plan to take them back to the Western Regions, but planned to stay in the land of Yanzhao and make good use of this newly acquired territory.
Not only that, in the near future, Lin Ze will also transfer most of the officials from the Western Regions here, leaving only a small number to stay in the Western Regions.
Although the Western Region is a treasure land, it is too barren compared to the land of Yan and Zhao.
The land is vast and sparsely populated, transportation is inconvenient, the land is barren, and there are many alien races.
No matter from which aspect, the Western Region, as the place of self-protection originally identified by Lin Ze, is more than enough.
But as a place for hegemony, it is far from qualified.
The focus of development has shifted from the Western Regions to the lands of Yan and Zhao, which is an inevitable trend.
In Lin Ze's mind, he has already formulated several methods to rapidly develop his strength. He only needs to wait for Chen Ping to bring his people over and discuss them intensively before gradually implementing them.
Carrying supplies worth two hundred thousand gold, the army returned at only half the speed of a normal march.
Of course, this is related to the fact that Lin Ze only used Hu soldiers as temporary civilian husbands.
It is normal for 10,000 people to transport large quantities of goods to move slower than a normal marching army of 100,000 people.
It's not that Lin Ze deliberately targeted the bullying of the Hu people, sympathized with the Western Qin army, and only allowed 10,000 Hu people to serve as the transport team.
But because of his cautious character and unwilling to take it lightly, he turned the entire army into a civilian army.
What if the Confucianists really betray their faith?
The army that conquered the Liao Mansion was not just a ragtag group of people. It had some calculations but no intentions, and it had the help of the Confucian realm of heaven and man. The Western Qin army may not be sure of victory.
Lin Ze would rather think too much than be careless.
Facts have proved that Lin Ze did think too much. The army returned to Handan without any accidents.
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The county seat of Peixian County.
Liu Ji watched the Western Qin army leave arrogantly, with a gloomy face, and said to Yan Hui with some reluctance: "Yan Sheng, I have never ordered to provoke the Western Qin. The army attacked Jinyang and clashed with the Western Qin army. It is very likely that it was
Western Qin is causing trouble."
Yan Hui looked at the direction in which the Western Qin army was leaving and said without looking back, "I know."
Liu Ji looked surprised and said: "Since Yan Sheng knew this, why did he still compromise with him? As far as I know, with the strength of Confucianism, there is no need to worry about the Taoist palace."
Yan Hui glanced back at Liu Ji and said indifferently: "The strength of Confucianism is not inferior to that of Dao Palace, but compared with Western Qin, you are far behind by more than a thousand miles?"
"If we really want to fight, the Taoist and Confucian families will not act rashly. They will just leave you to fight with the Western Qin like today."
"Ask yourself, can your army defeat the army of Western Qin? Is your ability comparable to Lin Ze, the leader of Western Qin?"
"What can we do if we know that it is the Western Qin that is causing trouble? Now the common enemy of the Taoist and Confucian families is the Qin State. There is no need to fight to the death over some trivial matters."
Liu Ji was still a little reluctant and argued: "Thousands of miles of fertile land in Hebei is no small matter."
Yan Hui heard this and shouted: "Stupid, the land of Guandong is so big. With your current strength, do you think you can swallow it all by yourself?"