Chapter 469 Bao Zhen!

General Zhou was lustful and greedy for pleasure, but this time he bowed his head in Jiangbei, it was not really for himself.

If he only cared about his own happiness, he would fight Li Yun to the end. Even if he suffered heavy casualties in Jiangbei, he could still return to Qingzhou and continue to survive.

He is already in his fifties and doesn’t think he can live many more years.

After all, the average life expectancy of this era is here.

However, in order to allow his children and grandchildren to inherit a decent family business, General Zhou had to consider the overall situation and make peace with Li Yun.

After scolding his son for a few words, General Zhou said expressionlessly: “You go to Haozhou.”

Zhou Chang frowned and asked, “Why are you going to Haozhou? Aren’t you planning to give it up?”

“Among the six states mentioned by Li Yun, only Haozhou is under our actual control. You go to Haozhou and try to place as many people as possible in Haozhou.”

General Zhou put his hands behind his back and said calmly, “In the next few days, I will write to Li Yun and ask him to meet me in Fengyang, Haozhou, to formally form an alliance with him and become his brothers.”

Zhou Chang’s face turned even uglier when he heard this. He clenched his fist and said, “This guy is taking advantage of me. He is younger than me, but he is a generation older than me!”

General Zhou snorted, “In this world, people never judge others by their age. If age meant high status, the person sitting on the throne of the emperor in the capital should be an octogenarian.”

“In the final analysis, everything depends on your ability.”

General Zhou said with his hands behind his back: “If you can start from scratch and achieve what Li Yun has achieved in a few years, not to mention being someone’s elder, even if you want to be someone’s grandfather, there will be a lot of people vying to be your grandson.”

Zhou Chang knew that what his father said was reasonable. Hearing this, he slowly exhaled: “This Li Yun, both his ability and luck are excellent.”

After giving this evaluation, he clasped his fists towards his father and said, “Then, son, go to Haozhou now to make some arrangements. When does father plan to meet with Li Yun in Fengyang for the alliance?”

General Zhou said calmly, “Let’s do it on the seventh day of next month.”

At this moment, it is late October of the second year of Zhaoding, and there is still about half a month until the seventh day of next month.

He looked at Zhou Chang and said, “Before the third day of the first lunar month, you must take your men out of Haozhou. The Pinglu Army in Haozhou must also be withdrawn. He and I will each bring 500 soldiers and meet in Fengyang.”

Zhou Chang responded and was about to leave when he was stopped by General Zhou.

General Zhou put his hands behind his back and said slowly: “In the past few days, I have visited and consulted many talented people. Most people’s opinions are…”

“The situation of separatism will last for a very long time. Our Qingzhou Zhou family will most likely become neighbors with Li Yun in the future. You should think carefully about him.”

“It will be you who will deal with him in the future.”

Zhou Chang’s heart moved, he looked up at Zhou Xu and asked, “Father is strong and healthy, how could he say this?”

General Zhou stood with his hands behind his back, expressionless: “Father has been playing tricks since he was young, and he is still the same now. I know how his body is doing.”

“After the matter in Jiangbei is over, I will arrange for you to slowly take over the affairs of the Pinglu Army.”

“The Wu family’s business is going to fail.”

General Zhou said calmly, “We will slowly build up our Zhou family’s business in the next two years.”

The young general first responded, then lowered his head and smiled bitterly, saying, “Father and him are sworn brothers. When I deal with him in the future, I will always be a generation inferior to him.”

“stupid.”

General Zhou glanced at him and frowned, “If you are strong enough to defeat him, why would you be a generation shorter than him?”

“If you are not strong enough, you will be defeated by him in the future.”

General Zhou paused and sighed slightly: “If you speak sweetly, you may be able to survive.”

…………

Perhaps it was because the fighting lasted too long, or perhaps the army’s mood was not right. After making an agreement with Li Yun, the Pinglu Army actually began to retreat from the vicinity of Yangzhou and Chuzhou.

At the same time, General Zhou’s letter of alliance with Li Yun was also sent to Chuzhou. After Li Yun read it, he nodded and agreed happily. He smiled and said to the envoy of the Pinglu Army: “Go back and tell General Zhou that when the time comes, I will go to Fengyang on time to meet him for the alliance.”

After seeing off the messenger, Li Yun took the letter of alliance sent by General Zhou, read it carefully again, and then handed it to Su Sheng beside him. After Su Sheng took it, he read it once, and then smiled dumbly: “This General Zhou is of the same generation as my father. He can really lower his head and become brothers with Erlang.”

At this point, Su Sheng paused and said with a smile: “But speaking of it, with Erlang’s current status, it is not a loss for him to be a brother with him.”

“Plastic brothers, plastic brothers.”

Li Yunlian said a few words, then smiled and said, “It’s just giving each other a face so that they can get off the mountain. The Fanyang Army in the north is eyeing Qingzhou, and there may be people in the court who are eyeing Jiangnan.”

“He is willing to bow his head, which shows that General Zhou is still quite sober.”

Su Sheng scratched his head and asked, “Erlang, what does the word plastic mean?” Li Yun was stunned, then laughed and said, “It’s a relatively cheap thing.”

Su Sheng then said “Oh”, then looked at Li Yun and asked, “Erlang, this time in Jiangbei, we have won a great victory. Should we reward the brothers below?”

“Reward, reward.”

Li Yun said with a smile: “I will have people go buy pigs, cattle and sheep to reward the brothers. Also, brother, please sort out the merit list and the list of the deceased in the next few days. Send them to me as soon as possible. I will start to deal with all these matters.”

Su Sheng responded.

“I’ll do it right away.”

After parting with Su Sheng, Li Yun called Meng Hai again and instructed him, “Send someone to Jiangnan to invite Pei Zhuang’s coach to come to me. I have something to ask him.”

Meng Hai quickly lowered his head and replied yes.

“I will do it right away.”

He turned and left, and quickly passed the news to Jinling in the south of the Yangtze River through the Nine Departments. At this time, since there were not many defenders left near Jinling, Pei Zhuang, the “coach”, had a leisurely life.

It is worth mentioning that he actually found several talented martial artists in Li Yun’s army, and taught them carefully every day, hoping to pass on his skills.

After receiving the news from Li Yun, Pei Zhuang did not dare to delay. He simply packed his luggage and set off from Jinling. He boarded the boat directly in Jinling and went all the way to Liuhe Ferry. Then he found a horse at Liuhe Ferry and rode to Chuzhou City.

At this moment, it was only two or three days since Li Yun sent someone to deliver the letter to him. Under Meng Hai’s guidance, he was quickly brought to Li Yun. After seeing Li Yun, Pei Zhuang was very happy and stepped forward to clasp his fists and said, “Envoy Li!”

Li Yun was flipping through a book. When he heard his voice, he stood up and held his sleeve. He smiled and said, “Brother Pei, you came so quickly. Come on, sit down and talk. Sit down and talk.”

After he pulled Pei Zhuang to sit down, he personally poured him a cup of tea.

Pei Zhuang was a little confused. He looked at Li Yun and said, “Why is the envoy suddenly so polite?”

“It’s not polite.”

Li Yun handed over the tea and said with a smile: “Brother Pei and I have a friendship that was built through fighting. It’s a true friendship.”

Pei Zhuang’s expression became a little strange when he heard this. He even looked at the tea handed to him by Li Yun and became suspicious.

Could it be… poisonous?

But soon, he shook his head and rejected the idea.

If Li Yun wanted to kill him, there would be no need to go through so much trouble. No matter how high his martial arts skills were, if he sent one or two hundred swordsmen and axemen to kill him, he would definitely die without any armor.

After taking the cup and drinking a sip of tea, Pei Zhuang felt completely relieved.

Fragrant and a little sweet.

Li Yun then coughed and got down to business: “I asked Brother Pei to come here mainly because of Brother Pei’s errand.”

“My errand?”

Pei Zhuang was even more confused, and he said, “Don’t worry, sir. I’ve done a good job in Jinling. During this period, I’ve also trained three apprentices. They’ve all trained well.”

The great master smiled and said, “I have trained them for the envoy for three years. I dare not say anything else, but they will definitely be useful as guards for the envoy or his family.”

Li Yun shook his head and said, “I’m not talking about Brother Pei’s job in Jinling, but Brother Pei’s job in the capital.”

Pei Zhuang exclaimed “Ah”, somewhat confused.

Li Yun persuaded him: “Didn’t Master Pei ask you to keep an eye on me?”

Pei Zhuang finally understood. He smiled and said, “Since you didn’t write to ask me, I guess my words are irrelevant. I’ll just stay in Jinling and be my coach. I won’t care about other things.”

“That can’t be done.”

Li Yun said seriously, “Brother Pei trusted me, so he stayed in Jiangdong. I can’t let Brother Pei have a hard time with the master. I have done a lot of things in Jiangbei recently. Your son should be very interested.”

He took out a document from his sleeve, handed it to Pei Zhuang, and said with a smile: “I know Brother Pei doesn’t like to write, so I wrote it for you. Just give it to Master Pei.”

Seeing Pei Zhuang’s hesitation, Li Yun coughed and said seriously.

“Brother Pei, rest assured. The contents written here are all things I have done in Jiangbei.”

“It’s true.”

(End of this chapter)