Two days later, I met the so-called secret envoy from Hebei Road near Yidu.

The other party just landed in a dignified manner, then came to the local troops stationed in, and made requests for negotiation and meeting, as if they didn't know what low-key and confidentiality were.

Naturally, no surprise, Li Xianzhong's troops, who happened to be in the same situation, were seized and supervised on the spot, and then quickly rushed across Jishui and reported to Yidu.

According to the identity shown by the other party, they were under the command of Zhang Bangchang, the ambassador of the Hebei Provinces from the Northern Dynasties, the command of Zhang Bangchang, the ambassador of the two Huai Rivers. As a gift and sincerity, they actually brought a large number of goods with the Yellow River Naval Fleet, including tens of thousands of pieces of silk, one thousand ingots of five taels of gold, fifty thousand silver cakes, etc.

But the most important thing is that according to the other party, there is a great interest in it and it takes only to count if it is negotiated with me personally.

This made people feel confused. You know, this envoy from Da Zhang who traveled to Hebei is also my old opponent when I swept through the Thirteen Prefectures of Hebei.

However, compared to another person who is more difficult and famous Xiao Zhang, Zhang Shuye, this person has always been defeated by me and has never been able to do well. Of course, I think the more you can give heads, equipment and supplies, which will intentionally or unintentionally.

Therefore, I decided to make an exception and say it again. Of course, this kind of thing is to sneak into the village and shoot, and secretly meet important officials of the enemy country to give private benefits. It is always not very good to spread it.

Therefore, in the Qingma Post outside Yidu City, the guards I brought and the water was blocked. In the name of routine inheritance and training, the neighborhood was temporarily cleaned up.

"In the following, the text of the hooking machine is Xue Renfu,"

In the canteen with a little smell of bad smell, a northern official wearing a winged and robe with a blue banana and a silk robe bowed to me.

"I have met Luo Shuaichen, Huaizhen...I wish."

"Stop talking nonsense..."

I urged without hesitation.

“My time is precious…”

“Yes, yes…”

He hurriedly responded. "Xue represented the governor Zhang Da of Hebei this time, and brought the intention of peace talks with your department..."

"It's really ridiculous. We are fighting against each other."

I sneered and glared at him.

"How can you accept peace talks in private..."

"How can we talk about the good news..."

Speaking of this, I looked at him and said

"Does it be that I want to take the opportunity to cheat me..."

"Come here, I've taken it out to deal with it..."

"promise……"

As the sound came from outside, footsteps came.

“Let’s wait…”

The other party finally became a little panicked and anxious, and sweat broke out on his face.

"Xue. The villain is sincere"

"On behalf of a certain general, he will make a good fortune with you... It can be seen from heaven."

He kept touching the sweat on his head and shouted out excitedly.

"But your guarantee is useless..."

I signaled to the guard who walked in.

"Can Luo know about the affairs of the Yellow River Navy..."

He seemed to have his scheming and abacus were disrupted, and he just shouted out in a hurry.

"This is the sincerity of my Grand Governor..."

“Continue…”

I waved my hand expressionlessly, and let the guards who had already come in stop and move.

"But it was tens of thousands of people who had withdrawn from Pinglu Road, preparing to enter the aid country."

He gasped and explained quickly

"And by Hebei, I plan to turn to Huai Shang according to the time of the dynasty..."

"But it happened that there were many old subordinates of the Grand Commander in that road..."

"I took the opportunity to break this incident, so the Lu Long army had just crossed the river and ended in vain."

"All right……"

Only then did I get serious.

"What the hell do you want..."

"Of course it's my Grand Governor and Huaizhen..."

The other party also took a breath and hurriedly responded

"The way to coexist with long-term peace and support..."

I was really surprised to hear this.

Because I have realized that the focus of his words was not the peace talks and negotiations between the two camps, but the Huaidong under my leadership, which was simply to conduct some separate face-to-face negotiations and peace talks with the areas controlled by Hebei Xingtai.

Next, what he said carefully to me was even more surprising. In fact, the other party asked for more and had a lot of preparations for absurd cases.

For example, in the name of peace talks with us, a ferry market was established on the impact sandbank at the mouth of the Yellow River to conduct business transactions that would be exchanged for business transactions; for example: release a group of Hebei prisoners of war, and the other party can use money to redeem, or exchange them with corresponding numbers of young and strong refugees, etc.

The ultimate goal is to reach a de facto tacit understanding and offensive and defensive alliance with us. To ease and resolve some worries, we can do our best to deal with the advance and oppression from Luodu.

As for the Yellow River Navy I was concerned about and the remaining Lu Long Army on the north bank, Xue Renfu did not speak directly but vaguely hint and promised me that he would not have to worry about their problems anymore.

And behind this, there are more interesting things. For example, the Hebei vassal state headed by Zhang Bangchang, the ambassador of Xingtai, was intensified to this extent. Not only did he directly pull his back, but even the crossing forces that were nominally centered were willing to attack behind the scenes.

However, if this is not his false words or confusion, even a temporary delaying strategy. This possible underground alliance will be of great benefit to us.

Needless to say whether the economic benefits and information collection brought by the interoperability of materials and personnel will be brought about by the opportunity and reason for our army to re-intervene in Hebei Road in the future, thereby restraining and consuming Luodu's attention, reducing the pressure of military confrontation on the front line, and so on.

As long as the Hebei Xingtai led by Zhang Bangchang fails to collapse so quickly, our army can also win the precious peaceful intervals of several prefectures along the Yellow River in the north, and recuperate and develop rapidly.

Of course, the conditions for peace talks have always been weighed repeatedly by comparing their respective strengths. Now that the other party is in a position of seeking others, I don’t mind proposing more conditions in negotiations to test the other party’s bottom line and final intention.

Next, this is the affairs and responsibilities of my staff.

After delaying for a while, after initially dealing with this emergency, my daily routine quickly returned to the regular track and headed to the Cangshan Boatyard near Linyi to inspect the vehicles and ships that had just been successfully imitated and put into production.

The technical content of such things is high or low, whether it is high or low.

Because it is mainly necessary to navigate in artificial canals, the requirements for fighting wind and waves and stability are not high, but instead emphasize load load and space utilization efficiency as much as possible.

Coupled with manual drive rather than relatively complex sail drive, there is no need for overly complex deck construction and facilities, so it can be made into a large, wide, multi-layer flat-panel boat style at the limit of water wheel drive.

The relative technical difficulty is mainly concentrated on the corresponding water wheel design and transmission mechanism. The larger the water wheel is, the higher the energy consumption and strength requirements for the corresponding structure and accessories required. This is also a key technical point that the Northern Dynasties have been trying to monopolize and control it.

However, this is not a big problem for me who has mastered the correct development direction of future generations. Although I don’t know the fluid mechanics, I still know the corresponding characteristics of several paddle steamers and water wheel equipment.

Moreover, there were also some use of steamships in the inland rivers and small rivers in the Southern Dynasties, but the design and principle are slightly different from those used in the canals in the north.

Therefore, it is a counterfeit, but the finished product that was finally obtained looks much different from the cars and ships we captured in the past.

Fortunately, a considerable number of the population who took refuge in Xuzhou City were professions related to nearby canal transportation, including craftsmen and labor service who repaired and maintained vehicles and ships on a daily basis.

Therefore, after re-distinguishing according to the profession, it can come in handy. However, due to the differences in the usage habits of the north and south and the shooting concept, it has been stumbling and appearing in this, combining the new product of the north and south style and technology.

The matching project has started last winter. The dredging and adjustment project of the canal system in Huaidong has been basically completed this summer, mainly gunpowder blasting and the use of some new engineering construction methods.

Now with these vehicles and ships, we can more efficiently utilize the North and South Canal hub areas, naturally form river network water transportation advantages, and complete the layout of logistics resource transportation.

It is divided into three specifications: large, medium and small to meet the specific needs of long lines, branch lines and points that cross the entire territory.

The first batch of basic units to build 400 ships was equipped with corresponding logistics and logistics departments and government agencies at all levels. The specific cost was between 4,000 and 1,000 ships. This was because our army had cheap materials and artificial sources.

However, if it is the second batch of manufacturing, because of the gradual skill of manual labor and sufficient experience in the process, the cost will be lowered, so the standard can be appropriately lowered and used for private rental and sale.

It forms a certain complementary and enriching effect with the current social logistics system that uses a large amount of use and relies on animal power.

Moreover, there is another advantage in the technical accumulation of water ships, which is the corresponding necessity of long-term operation of paddle ships, powered by steam engines.

After the volume and power consumption ratio of the steam engine will be further improved in the future, it can be considered for the transformation and trial sailing of ready-made water steamers.

Of course, this period is a bit long.

After initially completing transportation, we need to talk about the corresponding supporting communication means. Since ancient times, transportation and communication means have always represented the expansion and extension of the efficiency of the regime in history.

The current communication system under the rule of the Six Prefectures is still a three-level hybrid system for signal towers - carrier pigeons and kites - fast horses and post stations.

Among them, the most advanced signal towers have the highest cost, but the related response speed is the fastest. They have advantages in terms of long-term maintenance or subsequent utilization. However, the amount of message transmission is limited, and it can only apply some emergency situations and confidential content, but cannot reflect the long and complicated detailed content.

The traditional pigeons and kites inherited from the Southern Dynasties are portable and mobile, with an overall upper limit in communication distance, and the amount of information conveyed is also limited. They can only be used as temporary supplements and emergency means on the battlefield, and cannot be widely popularized and promoted as a daily means.

Therefore, fast horse delivery based on station distribution is the most common mainstream model in daily applications. As for the official post office and passenger and carriages that travel between states, counties and townships, they are the first choice for private postal communication.
Chapter completed!