Chapter 1047: Arguing with each other!

In Su Yi's office, Song Weikai and Su Yi were drinking and chatting about the differences in customs and practices between Sichuan and the north.
The two of them seemed to be very patient and were not in a hurry to discuss formal matters. After chatting for half an incense stick, seeing that Su Yi did not ask why he came here, Song Weikai could no longer bear it and asked, "What's the matter with you?"

"Director Su, I came here this time just to ask, regarding the communication between us a few days ago, does Marshal Ye have any instructions?"

Seeing Song Weikai's true intentions, Su Yi sneered in her heart, but still pretended to be apologetic and lied:

"I'm really sorry, Mr. Song. Originally, these ideas proposed by you, Sichuan Shu, could have been submitted to the Marshal a few days ago!"

"But our Foreign Affairs Bureau is too busy and we don't have enough staff. One person has to do the work of two people. Some people are so busy that they make some mistakes in the format and content of the memorial presented to the Marshal. So before the Marshal even read it, it was returned by the Attendant's Office!"

"You said it was just a mistake in the format and content, and the Attendant Department can help to correct it and that's it!"

“But these people in the Attendant Department are unwilling to send the memorial back and ask us to correct the errors and submit it again. Mr. Song, please give us your judgment. Do you think these people in the Attendant Department are just eating our food and doing nothing? They are just playing with us here…”

"I even went to the Attendant Department to talk to Ye Cheng about this matter, but he relied on his status as a close aide to the Marshal and refused to listen to me. No matter how much I tried to persuade him, he just refused to give me the slightest bit of face and insisted on handling the matter impartially!"

"You told me that there is no order without rules. If everything needs to be handled specially, then what is the point of having rules?"

"Mr. Song, I'm sorry. I'm just a deputy director. I have little influence in our Fengwu Army. Ye Cheng doesn't take me seriously at all. I don't have any tricks at all!"

Looking at Su Yi who was filled with righteous indignation and self-pity, Song Weikai frowned slightly, not knowing whether what this guy said was true or not. After hesitating for a moment, he asked again:
"Director Su, do you mean that Marshal Ye hasn't seen our conditions yet?"

Su Yi nodded and said:

"I haven't read it yet! After your memorial was returned by the Attendant's Office, I immediately had someone correct the errors on it, reviewed it again, and then sent it back to the Attendant's Office immediately!"

"I guarantee there won't be any mistakes this time, but we just have to line up again!"

Hearing Su Yi say this, Song Weikai frowned even deeper, and said after thinking for a while:

"If that's the case, Director Su, I wonder when Marshal Ye from your department will see our conditions?"

Su Yi shook her head and said helplessly:
"Mr. Song, I don't know the exact time. Our Fengwu Army now commands most of the world. We are very busy and our daily schedule is packed..."
"And the Marshal has just returned from Luoan. All the central departments want to report to him. Moreover, the Marshal's schedule is arranged by the Guardian Department. If the Guardian Department thinks your matter has a high priority, they can present your matter to the Marshal first!"

As soon as these words came out, Song Weikai's face suddenly turned a little ugly. Seeing this, Su Yi continued:
"But don't worry, Mr. Song. I have already met with Ye Cheng from the Attendant Department and stressed to him the importance of your memorial!"

Song Weikai was obviously not satisfied with Su Yi's words. He adjusted his mood, stood up and spoke earnestly to Su Yi:

"Director Su, Sichuan and Shu have been through wars for years, and the people are living in poverty. In addition, natural disasters continue, and some places have already lost all their crops!
"Although my eldest brother is compassionate and has opened our Song family's granary to do his best to provide relief to the victims, it is still difficult for our family to sustain the disaster on their own. Many of the elders and villagers in Sichuan and Shu have run out of food and are waiting for Marshal Ye to approve food and wages!"

As the saying goes, you have to do your best to put on a show. In the end, Song Weikai still bowed deeply to Su Yi, and his performance really looked like the real thing!

Although Song Weikai acted very realistically, describing his elder brother Song Weijie as a kind-hearted man who sacrificed his own family for the sake of everyone else, this rhetoric might be able to fool those ignorant men and women in the countryside...
However, as the head of the Fengwu Army's foreign affairs department, Su Yi was also a shrewd character. If he didn't know that Song Weijie was taking this opportunity to carry out large-scale land annexation in Sichuan and Shu, he would turn a large number of self-cultivating farmers into his tenants.

Moreover, in the last three months, he married a third concubine. None of the three concubines were older than eighteen, and the youngest was only fifteen. He really believed Song Weikai's lies!

Although everyone knows that you are lying, it is not the time to break up after all, so Su Yi endured the disgust in her heart and continued to speak:
"Governor Song's good deeds are visible to everyone in the world. Our commander-in-chief also admires Governor Song's character and is also very concerned about the lives of the people in Sichuan and Shu!"

"But we have many departments in the Fengwu Army, and everything must be done according to the rules and procedures!"

"How about this? I will apply to the Attendant Department tomorrow to meet with the Marshal and try to personally report to him about your affairs, Mr. Song. Mr. Song, do you think this is a good idea?"

Seeing Su Yi's words, Song Weikai didn't know what to say. He bowed to Su Yi and said, "Then I'll leave everything to Director Su! The thirty million people in Sichuan and Shu are all waiting for good news from you, Director Su!"

Su Yi's eyelids twitched when she heard this, and then she said with a fake smile:

"Okay, okay. I will do my best to make this happen..."

After Song Weikai said goodbye and left, Su Yi showed a trace of disgust. This Song Weikai was really disgusting. He didn't even think about what kind of people the Song family were. They made Sichuan and Shu so angry that people hated them, but they were still complaining here, pretending to be pitiful!

You don't want to hand over Sichuan and Shu, but you still have the audacity to ask the Fengwu Army for money and food. Don't say that the Fengwu Army won't give you any. Even if we take a step back, the Marshal will be kind enough to give you some money and food and transfer some money and food to you!
How much money and food can you bastards spend on the common people?
In the end, don't you still use the money to live your extravagant and corrupt life, and sell the grain at a high price to make a fortune?
Su Yi has seen too many powerful people over the years in charge of Fengwu Army's foreign affairs. He knows very well what kind of people they are, and he has long given up on having any expectations of them!
Don't believe their high-sounding lies, big words and empty talk anymore. These people say one thing in front of you and another behind your back. This is the most basic thing they do!

Song Weikai, who didn't realize at this moment that he had disgusted Su Yi, was sitting in the carriage returning to the inn. He opened the curtains of the carriage and looked at the lively scene outside!
Although he had been in Yijing for some time and it was not the first time he felt the prosperity of Yijing, but when he saw such a scene again, Song Weikai was still amazed at the Fengwu Army's governance of Yijing···························
About fifteen years ago, when Song Weikai was young, he went north to study. He studied in Yijing with the great scholar Fang Hui and lived in Yijing for more than a year. This allowed him to understand the customs and people of Yijing. It was because of this experience that he was sent by Song Weijie to negotiate with the Fengwu Army!

At that time, because Yijing was on the front line against the alien races on the grassland, Song Weikai felt that it was cold and murderous. Everything had to give way to the military. Yijing was more like a large military fortress than a city, guarding against the alien races on the grassland from moving south to plunder at any time!

However, the stereotype of Yijing was completely broken when Song Weikai came back fifteen years later. Song Weikai could not believe that the cold and solemn Yijing back then had become so prosperous and full of vitality today!
The whole city is thriving, and the faces of the people in the city are filled with happiness and anticipation for a better life in the future. It is hard to tell from here that the Great Zhou is still in chaos!
Today, Yijing is like Luoan City in the heyday of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It may even have replaced Luoan and become the most prosperous city in the Great Zhou Dynasty!
Song Weikai was extremely shocked by such an earth-shaking change. He was very curious about what the legendary Marshal Ye had done to make all this become a reality.
Looking at the prosperous scene of Yijing outside the car window, Song Weikai couldn't help but think of his own affairs. Although he didn't want to admit it, Song Weikai knew very well that even with the natural barrier of Sichuan and Shu as a support, if his family really became an enemy of the Fengwu Army and Marshal Ye, they would probably be courting death!
Thinking of this, Song Weikai couldn't help but lower the curtains, sighed to himself, and his eyes were full of worry.

His elder brother Song Weijie has always been very shrewd, but this time, after he designed a plan to wipe out the internal opposition forces in Sichuan and unify Sichuan, he began to be a little overwhelmed by the victory!
Although Song Weijie did not think that Sichuan alone could compete with the Fengwu Army that occupied half of the world!
However, Song Weijie believed that after unifying Sichuan and Shu, he was qualified to negotiate with Ye Mingsheng and seek the greatest benefits for himself, instead of kowtow and beg for mercy from Ye Mingsheng!
It was for this reason that Song Weijie proposed a series of conditions including conferring the title of King of Shu on him, but in fact Song Weijie had already made up his mind that he would be the King of Shu regardless of whether Ye Mingsheng agreed or not!

If Ye Mingsheng agrees, it will be fine. If Ye Mingsheng disagrees, Song Weijie will cede land to become a king and live as a prince behind closed doors...

He has 100,000 elite soldiers and the natural defenses of Sichuan. No matter how powerful the Fengwu Army is or how powerful Ye Mingsheng is, can he still fly into Sichuan?

At first, Song Weikai agreed with his brother's idea and felt that after unifying Sichuan and Shu, their Song family was qualified to negotiate terms with Ye Mingsheng!

But as he went along, Song Weikai had a new understanding of the strength of the Fengwu Army, and his concepts began to change quietly. He began to become more and more worried about his elder brother and the future of his family!

Song Weikai now has only one idea in his mind, which is to do his best to facilitate negotiations between the two sides and avoid the outbreak of war!

Thinking of this, Song Wei Kai suddenly felt an urge in his heart. He wanted to go directly to Ye Mansion to meet Ye Mingsheng. He wanted to have a good talk with Ye Mingsheng!
He knew that Ye Mingsheng was the leader of the Fengwu Army. As long as he could deal with Ye Mingsheng, everything else would be fine!
The more Song Weikai thought about it, the stronger the urge to meet Ye Mingsheng became. However, soon another voice sounded in his heart!
Isn't it too sudden and hasty to go directly to Ye Mansion to meet Ye Mingsheng without an appointment or introduction?

Would the high and mighty Marshal Ye be willing to see me?
Once he did this, he would be bypassing Su Yi, the person in charge of the Fengwu Army's external affairs, and such an act of exceeding his authority would undoubtedly offend Su Yi...

If he really met Marshal Ye and made positive progress in the negotiations with him, then offending Su Yi might not be a bad idea!

However, it would be unwise to offend Su Yi, a powerful figure in the Fengwu Army, without even being able to meet Marshal Ye!

Realizing this, the impulse in Song Wei Kai's heart cooled down. After thinking calmly for a while, Song Wei Kai shook his head!
He felt that meeting Ye Mingsheng directly was the last resort and should never be used unless it was absolutely necessary!

Although we have encountered some difficulties and resistance in the negotiations with the Fengwu Army, we are still far from meeting Ye Mingsheng directly!
Thinking of this, Song Weikai had a new idea in his mind and instructed the coachman:

"Old Liu didn't go back to our inn directly. He took me to Jushengyuan Inn in the city!"

"Yes!"

Although there is an inn in Yijing City, the environment of the inn is very ordinary. This time, both Sichuan and Jiangnan are important tasks. One is Zhu Chen, the Censor of Jiangnan, and the other is Song Weijie’s younger brother Song Weike!

So Su Yi took the lead and arranged these two people in two luxurious inns in Yijing City, and decided not to meet Ye Mingsheng directly!

Song Weikai was also unwilling to waste time in the inn, so he wanted to find Zhu Chen, who was also an envoy, to find out what Zhu Chen had to say about Jiangnan's attitude towards surrendering to the Fengwu Army!

Song Weikai felt that Jiangnan and Sichuan were in the same situation now. If the two sides could take care of each other, it might be beneficial to both sides.····························
(End of this chapter)