Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 273 Mutual benefit and win-win

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Three days to arrive.

Li Yan, who always kept his word, summoned Cai You and Lin Lingsu.

Li Yan cut to the chase and said, "It's not impossible for me to accept the recruitment, the key is what conditions can you give me?"

Lin Lingsu, who received Gongsun Sheng's advice, said first: "Pindao heard that the governor has no craftsmen and boatmen to build mansions, Seoul and ships. Pindao is willing to persuade the officials to give the governor some skilled craftsmen and boatmen."

Li Yan asked bluntly: "How much?"

Lin Lingsu said: "How about a thousand?"

Li's face sank, and he said, "Is this your sincerity?"

Cai You answered, "The lower officials can also win five hundred students for the governor."

Li Yan glanced at Lin Lingsu, then at Cai You, then smiled and said, "Both of you can go back."

Hearing this, Cai You's heart tightened, and he said: "What do you think of the governor, you might as well say it bluntly, if the subordinate officials can do it, the subordinate officials must do it for the governor of the capital, and if the subordinate officials cannot do it, the subordinate officials must do their best." Do your best to fight for the governor."

Lin Lingsu also said: "Heaven has the virtue of loving life. If the governor can submit to the imperial court, many swords and soldiers will be spared. The poor Taoist priest will definitely do his best to facilitate this for the common people in the world."

Li Yan didn't talk nonsense, just opened his mouth like a lion, and said: "Five thousand craftsmen and boatmen, two thousand Tai students, five million shi of grain, plus fifty large ships with a load of 500 shi."

"His!"

Cai You and Lin Lingsu gasped at the same time!
At the same time, Cai You and Lin Lingsu felt a chill in their hearts!
From the price offered by Li Yan, it is not difficult to see that Li Yan has no sincerity in surrendering, otherwise it would be impossible to offer such an outrageous price!

Both Cai You and Lin Lingsu wanted to make this immortal achievement, so they put aside their prejudices for the time being and tried their best to make this happen.

Cai Youxian said: "Major Governor, can you be more flexible, there are only 800 college students studying, and the Governor needs to open their mouths more than half, which is a bit too much."

Lin Lingsu then said: "There are quite a few craftsmen and boatmen in the imperial court, but the skilled ones are limited, and the government has to retain enough craftsmen to build the Longevity Mountain. The governor should reduce some, how about one thousand and five?"

Cai You said again: "If it was put aside in previous years, 500 million shi of grain would not be a big deal to the imperial court, but now it is a disaster year, and it is still difficult for the imperial court to provide disaster relief. How can they give so much grain to the governor?"

Lin Lingsu said again: "The keel of a large ship with a load of [-] shi is hard to find. The materials for the best seagoing ships have to be dried in the shade for several years. It is a bit embarrassing for the court to ask the court to take out fifty ships at once. Ten ships how?"

It wasn't until Cai You and Lin Lingsu finished talking that Li Yan said, "Are you finished?"

Cai You and Lin Lingsu glanced at each other, and then Cai You said first: "Governor, accept the imperial court's recruitment. You have a lot of benefits and no harm to you. What the officials want is a name, Anton Governor's Mansion It’s still your governor.”

Lin Lingsu also said afterwards: "You are called a minister, Metropolitan Governor. If you donate any tribute every year, the officials will definitely pay back ten times or a hundred times. You will never let you, Metropolitan Governor, lose money."

The fact that Cai You and Lin Lingsu can say such things shows that they really want to facilitate this matter.

Now that Cai You and Lin Lingsu are so sincere, Li Yan has to show some sincerity.

Li Yandao: "You only listened to what I want, but you haven't heard what I want to offer to your officials, so you think I want a lot, isn't it too early?"

Cai You and Lin Lingsu glanced at each other, and then Lin Lingsu asked, "I wonder what treasure the governor wants to present to the official family?"

Li Yan said: "There are two divine beasts, unicorns."

"This……"

How can Cai You and Lin Lingsu, who have produced many "miracles" in the past two years, believe in such nonsense as the divine beast unicorn?
Li Yan didn't talk nonsense, and directly led Cai You and Lin Lingsu to see the two giraffes, no, they were the two "unicorns".

Seeing the two "unicorns", Cai Xiu and Lin Lingsu's eyes almost didn't fall off, especially seeing these two "unicorns", with long necks, they looked very elegant, and they looked like visitors from heaven!

In order to dispel their doubts, Li Yan also asked them to take a closer look.

Lin Lingsu was almost pushed up by the male "Kirin" because he was too close.

So far, Cai You and Lin Lingsu have no doubts about these two "unicorns", and they are more and more eager to facilitate this matter, especially Lin Lingsu, the immortal master.

Li Yan generously asked Cai You and Lin Lingsu to bring the female "Kirin" back to Song Dynasty first.

It was agreed that as long as the people, food, and ships Li Yan wanted arrived in Korea, he would go up and down the list, and send the male "Kirin" to Zhao Ji.

When Cai You and Lin Lingsu left, Li Yan gave each of them a "souvenir product", which gave Cai You and Lin Lingsu enough confidence to do their best to facilitate this matter.

Cai You and Lin Lingsu walked fast and came back even faster. After only one and a half months, they came back and brought Li Yan 200 craftsmen, [-] boatmen, [-] Tai students, [-] million Stone food and fifty large ships carrying them with a load of [-] stone (these things are the final figures discussed by Li Yan, Cai You and Lin Lingsu).

Li Yan really didn't expect that the "sacred beast unicorn" would stimulate Zhao Ji so much.

Later, when he returned to Song State, Li Yan found out the reason.

It turns out that in the past two years, the Song Dynasty was either drought or flood, and there were earthquakes, which can be said to be frequent disasters. Therefore, auspiciousness is needed to prove Zhao Ji's virtue.

In addition, if he can successfully recruit Li Yan, then Zhao Ji can be regarded as expanding his territory and making dazzling achievements.

In addition, after seeing the "sacred beast unicorn", the officials congratulated Zhao Ji one after another, saying that Zhao Ji was able to get this sacred beast, and the Great Song Dynasty was destined to prosper forever. Later, Zhao Ji let the people visit this "sacred beast unicorn". Everyone knelt down and proclaimed long live. It can be said that the subjects gathered to watch, and they were overjoyed!

Zhao Ji, Long Yan Dayue, wrote a poem in person, praising the "divine beast unicorn"-five feet tall, with a body like a moose and a horseshoe, with horns and horns. Slowly, move according to the rules, listen to its harmony and sound, the sound is in harmony with Zhonglu, the benevolence is the beast, once met in ancient times, according to its spirit, it ascends to the palace of heaven.

So, it's no wonder that Zhao Ji is so powerful this time.

Of course, the more important thing is that Zhao Ji can't tolerate Li Yan keeping a male "Kirin", he only has one female "Kirin", if this is the case, then he will be under Li Yan.

All in all, Zhao Ji got the "sacred beast unicorn" he wanted, and Li Yan got the talents, food, and sea ships he wanted.

For the first time, Li Yan and Zhao Ji have a win-win situation.

As for the matter of proclaiming the minister in the above table, Li Yan did not renege on his debt, and he simply submitted the table, and sent Jin Fushi to the Song Dynasty, and then Jin Fushi accepted Zhao Ji's canonization instead of Li Yan, and the Andong Governor's Mansion has now become legal. organize.

In this way, Li Yan easily obtained Song Jiang's begging for security.

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(End of this chapter)