Chapter 643: Traitor Prefect Liu

Amidst the great anticipation of the people.

The results of the negotiations were finally out.

"Quick, quick, quick!"

"They're here, they're here!"

"The people from the Honglu Temple are here!"

"Quickly, make way!"

The seventh day.

Just past noon, the people on the street were gathered in circle after circle.

The people from the Honglu Temple had arrived.

This meant that this highly-watched diplomatic event had produced a concrete result.

With these red characters on black paper, several large notices were posted.

The entire crowd began to discuss it heatedly.

First, the Qiang tribes agreed to withdraw their troops and return the Dragon Flame captives. This news was heartening.

Look!

Prefect Liu is truly capable!

He settled it as soon as he stepped in.

However...

Next.

It was regarding the "Platform for the Joint Administration of the Liaodong Region by the Dragon Flame and the Qiang People Royal Court"!

At this.

The people were first stunned.

The Liaodong region?

Everything was fine, so why bring up the Liaodong region? People crowded in front of the notices, looking closely.

The notice was very long.

Especially the content regarding the Liaodong region, which was quite substantial.

One, in order to promote friendly exchanges between Dragon Flame and the Qiang People Royal Court, Dragon Flame intends to bring out the Liaodong region for joint development. Administrative power, half for each nation. Garrison power, half for each nation. After the contract is signed, the Qiang army shall be the first to enter and station in the Liaodong region, awaiting development. The Liaodong region will also be organized in the form of a "company."

Two, the entire Liaodong region shall be renamed "Beidacang," and the Liangzhou side, through the Liangzhou Chamber of Commerce, will invest and represent Dragon Flame to cooperate with the Qiang People Royal Court, with both sides holding thirty percent of the non-voting shares each, and the Dragon Flame imperial court holding forty percent.

Three, the administrative management method of the Liaodong region will change. There will be no prefectures or counties set up here, no Protectorate, and no Prefect; it will appear with a special administrative management method: the "Beidacang Economic Special Zone"!

Four, the regulations regarding the Economic Special Zone will be specifically announced to Dragon Flame three days later. In general, the characteristics of the Economic Special Zone are tax reductions and exemptions, and the encouragement of investment. The Economic Special Zone will not only have a lot of leniency in administrative aspects. In economic aspects, it will have even more special policies. Flexible economic measures and a special economic management system will be implemented, and it will persist in taking an export-oriented economy as its development goal.

Five...

An uproar.

The entire crowd was in an uproar.

The entire Jinghua was in an uproar!

Economic Special Zone?

What kind of nonsense is this?

Setting up an Economic Special Zone in that desolate Liaodong region where no one lives—can that even be done?

What a joke!

"What is Prefect Liu trying to do?"

"Hahahaha, is he trying to repeat the myth of Liangzhou?"

"Dream on!"

"At the very least, the Liangzhou territory has flat terrain, but that is Liaodong! The Liaodong region!"

No one could figure it out.

And looking at the notice, this time, the Liangzhou Chamber of Commerce side has to invest at least twenty million taels of silver! That is the entire annual fiscal revenue of the Longyan Dynasty! But he only got thirty percent of the non-voting shares!

He's crazy!

This Prefect Liu must be crazy!

Immediately.

Someone realized it and shouted in the crowd: "Wrong! It's wrong, everyone, it's very wrong!"

After attracting everyone's attention, he continued to shout: "Everyone, the Liaodong region has always been Dragon Flame territory! Why should we take it out and co-manage it with others?"

Boom!

This sentence was like a bomb thrown into the crowd, and the waves it stirred up were difficult to calm for a long time.

"That's right, doesn't this mean ceding half of the Liaodong region to these Grassland barbarians?"

"Traitor! Although the Liaodong region is barren, it is still Dragon Flame territory!"

"Not a single inch of land shall be yielded!"

"We will not yield a single inch of land!"

The masses were incensed!

This is outrageous!

The people of Jinghua were the first to refuse, and they all flew into a rage.

Since the founding of Dragon Flame, they have never voluntarily ceded land to others! The notice puts it nicely, calling it an Economic Special Zone and administrative freedom! This is just disguised treason!

Traitor!

Prefect Liu is a traitor!

No wonder he had results so quickly after going to negotiate; it turns out he gave away terms of treason!

Shameless and base!

Very quickly.

This kind of voice became the mainstream, and it began to spread throughout Jinghua and the entire Longyan.

Traitor.

The red ink on white paper has already proven it; the Prefect Liu can no longer escape this label of traitor.

Many royalists and scholars in Jinghua swarmed into the streets, weeping bitterly. They believed that this day would be a day of shame since the founding of the Longyan Dynasty!

Shame!

The shame of Longyan!

Very quickly.

Another campaign of verbal attacks against Prefect Liu began just like that.

"This way, this way, be careful, don't let anyone discover us!"

"I told you to be careful!"

And at this moment.

Liu Zheng and Prince Yong, who had already changed into a Horse Carriage to return to Jinghua, were also shocked by the situation before them.

The crowd began to swarm the streets, and quite a few people even directly blocked Fengming Tower.

Fortunately, the Imperial Guard arrived quickly to maintain order, which kept the scene from spiraling out of control. But even so, the people in Fengming Tower still dared not step half a step outside.

Rotten vegetable leaves and stinking eggs, and some people were even splashing feces; the scene was in chaos.

"Xiliang King, get out here!"

"Prefect Liu! Traitor!"

"Come out and give us an explanation."

Liu Zheng sat in the Horse Carriage, gave a self-deprecating smile, and took a deep breath.

A loyal official...

Is not easy to be.

It was you who had no Method to deal with the Grassland Elite Cavalry, and it was you who had thirty thousand people captured. It was also you who asked me to go negotiate.

How is it that in the end, I am the only one being scolded?

He suddenly understood those keyboard warriors from his past life a little.

Fierce strikes online, timid and submissive in reality.

Online, they can criticize anything, even criticize the government and the decisions of leaders.

But in reality...

Can they understand the foresight of the leaders?

No.

One's position determines one's perspective, and one's perspective determines one's vision.

These guys who seem to be full of flowery articles and pedantic jargon are actually just a group of refined egoists. They cannot see where the decision-making direction of the imperial court and the country is actually pointing.

To put it plainly.

The Liaodong land of Longyan is inherently desolate and barren. There is almost no one living there.

This place is several levels worse than Liangzhou. At the very least, Liangzhou still has a population Dividend.

But Liaodong does not.

There is only Liaodong Commandery here, which barely counts as a city, stationed with some troops; all other places are "savages" in their eyes!

Furthermore, according to the course of history, this situation would last for a long time. It was not until after the founding of the new Zhongguo that the land reclamation work of Beidacang began in full swing, and large numbers of the population began to enter the land of Liaodong.

Such a place that currently looks like a wasteland, what is there to be reluctant about?

Liu Zheng is willing.

Because it can be exchanged for a lot.

Of course.

From the bottom of his heart, Liu Zheng does not acknowledge the cession.

Special zone.

This place is a special zone. According to the plan between him and Xie Tianyao, this special zone will take Liaodong Commandery as its center to open up an economic circle radiating across the entire Asia.

And Liaodong Commandery is the Dalian of his past life.

With fertile land, a port, and the sea, Liu Zheng could almost imagine the future prosperity of this place.

When this radiation is in place...

The entire Nanyang will be almost under the gaze of Longyan.

The entire Asia will become the backyard of Longyan.

By then.

Did Longyan lose?

Or did it win?

As for Tie Mucheng?

Yes, he is a heaven-sent talent of a generation.

But it would not be difficult for Liu Zheng to use the power of the entire nation to destroy him.

It is just that there is no need right now.

Liu Zheng planned to let him go and deal with the Wa pirates.

This was a sharp sword.

The big picture.

Sitting in the Horse Carriage, Liu Zheng thought about the next move in the game.

The people outside the Horse Carriage were already dressed in mourning clothes, crying in a heap.

The scene.

It was truly very discordant.