Chapter 803 Busy Spring
The news about Locke was from Zhou Xu who sent a pigeon to Green Forest City, and then asked Green Forest City to notify them in advance.
After all, to carry out this kind of cooperation, the other party will undoubtedly need some time to prepare.
As for their Great Zhou's diplomatic corps, they have just set out from Xianyang City. According to the diplomatic corps' movement efficiency, it will take at least half a month to get there at the fastest speed.
During this period of time, Zhou Xu continued to be busy with his own affairs.
Spring is a busy season. On top of spring ploughing, Zhou Xu also had to worry about the new compulsory education policy this year, as well as the exchanges and cooperation with the wood elves. Add to that the daily government affairs of various departments, and Zhou Xu's days have not been idle recently.
Under this premise, Li Bowen's joining has greatly alleviated the work pressure in their Qinzheng Hall.
Of course, Huo Qubing also made an indelible contribution.
His top-notch panel was there, and since becoming his assistant, Huo Qubing's work ability had been constantly improving.
It is no exaggeration to say that Huo Qubing has now demonstrated work ability that is clearly superior to Li Bowen, and he is still far from reaching his limit.
This also led to new changes in the daily distribution of work documents in the Qinzheng Hall.
At present, the most important and most urgent documents were reviewed by Zhou Xu personally. The next level documents were handed over to Huo Qubing for processing. The documents of the next level, which were originally handled by Huo Qubing, all fell into the hands of Li Bowen.
Li Bowen has been in the limelight recently. He entered the Qinzheng Hall and seemed to have lost his real power, but he became a close minister of their Majesty and was also qualified to review government affairs.
Even though the final decision-maker is still their Majesty, whenever there is a difficult issue, His Majesty still has to discuss it with them, right?
In other words, these two assistants who seem to have no real power can actually influence the policies of the Great Zhou and even all aspects of affairs.
At the same time, compared with other officials, they work with His Majesty in the Qinzheng Hall every day, can give His Majesty direct advice and have a say in His Majesty's affairs, which is another major advantage.
To give a simple example, if he has a grievance against someone now, he will find a suitable opportunity and whisper a few words into Your Majesty's ear, and that guy's career may be over. Who dares to provoke him?
This also allows Li Bowen to have the same transcendent status as Huo Qubing in the past.
Even in the eyes of ordinary officials, his status was probably higher than that of Huo Qubing.
Because Huo Qubing, that kid, only thinks about work, doesn't care about other things, and doesn't interact with other people, but Li Bowen is different! He has a lot of tricks! They can't help but be afraid of him.
Zhou Xu saw the twists and turns in the minds of those guys, but he didn't care.
For Zhou Xu, as long as things can be done well and beautifully for him, he can turn a blind eye to some trivial matters that do not matter. After all, it is very tiring to take care of everything.
At the same time, the exploration team followed the original plan. After dealing with the giant eagle, they successfully climbed over the hill and continued to go deeper into the mountain range to see if they could get around to the other side of the lake from the mountain.
During this period, because the problem of wind weasels in the mountainous area had been preliminarily solved, Zhou Xu also redeployed the exploration troops that had been withdrawn previously.
He had already occupied this forested area a long time ago, so it would be better to complete the subsequent exploration as soon as possible.
According to the latest intelligence, the work over there is still going smoothly, and the wind weasel has indeed not made any attacking moves since that incident.
Under this premise, the other party would go to their village camp in the mountainous area every day to eat and drink.
Although the wind weasel's body size was not as big as that of a thousand-year-old, its appetite was also huge. Being eaten by the other party every day, its food consumption could not be ignored.
But if you think about it from another perspective, the opponent's fighting ability is also quite outstanding.
In that complex mountain forest environment, the combat power that the wind weasel can display is basically equivalent to that of a small army.
Just think of the consumption of these foods as supporting a small-scale mountain troop. When you think about it this way, it seems very cost-effective.
Half a month passed quietly in the busyness, and their carriage, including the diplomatic team including Kong Daqian, arrived at Green Forest City on time.
After a simple confirmation and rest, we quickly contacted the wood elves to prepare for follow-up cooperation discussions.
The location of the conversation was still set on the open space between the Wood Elf Forest and the Canyon.
But what is different from before is that a simple inn camp has now been built on this open space.
This post camp is usually used as a transit station for delivering supplies to the front-line exploration troops. At times like this, it can also be used as a venue for two-way talks, which is definitely more comfortable than having a set of tables and chairs outdoors for conversation.
As the diplomat this time, Kong Daqian naturally arrived early. For the Wood Elves, it took two days from the time they received the message to the time they rushed over and the official start of the talks.
"Hello, Chief Locke. I am the diplomat Kong Daqian who is here to talk to you on behalf of our Great Zhou."
"Hello, hello."
Although the exchange group from Da Zhou had stayed in their village for a month and he had had a lot of contact with them, Locke was still not used to this obviously serious and formal occasion and the related language.
During this time, Kong Daqian's eyes were secretly observing Patriarch Locke.
When their Majesty just handed this diplomatic task to him, he was actually unsure.
The reason why he was able to do the promotion of the new policy in the Propaganda Department so well was because the main target group for the promotion was ordinary people, farmers! He himself was a farmer before, so he knew very well what these people were thinking and what kind of mentality they would have when facing this matter.
This allowed him to control it relatively easily.
But this time was different. He was not familiar with the wood elves, and this was his first time doing the work of a diplomat. He had no idea what he was doing.
Until now, looking at the appearance of Patriarch Locke, Kong Daqian suddenly realized that the opponent seemed to be just as good as himself? No, it seemed that he was even worse than himself! After clearly realizing this, Kong Daqian suddenly relaxed his breath, and the heart that had been hanging in his throat could be put back into his stomach, and his entire state became more relaxed...
"Then Chief Locke, let's get started right away."
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(End of this chapter)
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