Qian Song

Chapter 178 How is my governor compared to your emperor? (Ask for a monthly pass!)

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August 29.

Li Cun finally led the Pingnan army to return in triumph.

When 62 small mountain-like treasure ships led more than a thousand large ships appeared in the sight of people who had been waiting for a long time in Hangzhou Port, people immediately became excited!
No wonder the people on Hangzhou Port are so excited.

With such a mighty and huge fleet, who dares to disturb their peaceful life by waterway.

More importantly, this fleet also carried their sage and mighty monarch and swept away the armies of all the small countries in the Indochina Peninsula.

Although the people may not be very smart, they are by no means stupid. How could they not understand that a wise and powerful monarch and a powerful army are the guarantee for them to live and work in peace and contentment?
Otherwise, just like the next door, the emperor is incompetent, the army is scumbag, and a dynasty with unlimited prospects is played by them as if it is about to destroy the country.

The welcome ceremony was very grand, with drums and sheng blowing, tens of thousands of ministers and people lined the road to welcome.

Li Bangyan and Wu Min, who had just arrived in Hangzhou, were also "invited" by General Lu to welcome Li Cun and the soldiers of the Huben Army to their triumphant return.

Soon after, the two horse boats following the largest treasure ship were the first to dock.

Then, from the two huge horse boats, two thousand tall and burly soldiers of the Huben army, all in fine mail armor, came down.

Some of them were holding seven-foot-long sabers, some were fighting axes that looked like millstones, and some had two hammers that weighed ten catties hanging around their necks.

In addition, they all had hatchets or hand knives hanging from their left waists, all of them had god-arm bows hanging from their right waists, and they carried a pot of arrows on their backs.

They stepped off the boat in unison, and then blocked the people behind in an orderly and polite manner.

Li Bangyan and Wu Min are both scholars who don't understand soldiers. Seeing how mighty and majestic the soldiers of the heavy armored infantry, they all thought in unison: "No wonder Li Bandit can have such a strong force. Naturally, he is invincible and invincible." .”

Both Li Bangyan and Wu Min thought so, and those ignorant people thought so even more.

As everyone knows, when Li Cun went south this time, the rest of the army more or less made some military exploits, but the heavy armored infantry did not make any merit.

Hmm... that's actually not fair.

After all, wherever Li Cun went, it was heavy armored infantry who cleared the way and maintained order, and they did an excellent job as a guard of honor.

Therefore, the heavy armored infantry has no credit but hard work.

Wait for the heavy armored infantry to maintain order.

Li Cun's boat just landed, and then lowered the gangway.

Then there were four taller and more powerful heavy armored infantry escorting an old man in a crimson yellow robe to disembark.

The old man was dressed gorgeously, but his face was slumped, and his whole body was lifeless, as if he was about to die.

When Li Bangyan and Wu Min were sent to the Huben army this time, General Lu arranged for an accompanying envoy and a accompanying deputy envoy to entertain Li Bangyan and Wu Min as usual.

And this accompanying envoy is Liu Jie who replaced Tian Maang as the deputy envoy to Huben Army.

Like Tian Maang, after comparing Huben Army and Song Army, Liu Jie also felt that his cousin Liu Lin was Li Cun's concubine, and that he and Li Cun were real relatives, so there was no need to give Tong Guan a favor on the side of Zhao Song Dynasty. They work as errand boys.

So Liu Jie also found a chance to escape the Yangtze River.

Soon after, Liu Jie became an official in the Huben Army under the recommendation of the Liu family who had already defected to Li Cun.

Later, Liu Jie moved to Li Cun's side as a writer, helping Li Cun write and draw.

This time when Li Cun went south, Liu Jie followed suit.

Not long ago, Liu Jie was one step ahead of the army because he was escorting a batch of important treasures.

Considering Liu Jie's experience in the Zhao and Song Dynasty and his familiarity with the personnel affairs in the Indochina Peninsula, General Lu appointed Liu Jie as the accompanying envoy, and asked Liu Jie to find an opportunity to frighten the Song envoy.

Liu Jie had long seen how the governor frightened the envoys of various countries in the Indochina Peninsula, so he naturally understood how to complete this task.

At this time, I saw that the governor sent someone to escort Li Gande off the boat first.

Liu Jie said to Li Bangyan and Wu Min: "This person is Li Gande, the deposed emperor of the Li Dynasty. In Qin, Lian, and Yong prefectures, tens of thousands of people were massacred, and tens of thousands of people were captured and returned. Later, your family joined forces with Li Dynasty's neighboring Champa, Chenla and other countries to attack. I failed to capture this person, and let him escape for more than forty years."

What Liu Jie said was basically equivalent to pointing at the monk and scolding the bald man.

You Zhao Song Dynasty failed to avenge for more than 40 years. Our Huben Army captured the culprit just after taking over Guangnan West Road.

High judgment.

Neither Li Bangyan nor Wu Min is the kind of person with integrity.

Therefore, even though both of them are very good at eloquence, they can even argue three points unreasonably, but this is in the territory of the Huben army, and the Huben army is so powerful, how dare they find it difficult at this time?
——What if Li Zei, who kills without blinking an eye, kills them with a twist of his mouth?
Therefore, facing Liu Jie's humiliation, Li Bangyan and Wu Min unanimously chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb, pretending not to understand the meaning of Liu Jie's words.

Then four tall heavy armored infantry officers and soldiers escorted a middle-aged man with a bun on the back of his head, draped Jibei clothes, and his shin and thighs exposed, off the ship.

Liu Jie continued to introduce to Li Bangyan and Wu Min: "This person is Yang Bumadie, the deposed king of Champa. He was originally an ally of your family. Unexpectedly, he sent people to rob me just after my family took over Qiongzhou, and now he has set himself on fire. It deserves it."

Next, every time a person got off the boat, Liu Jie would introduce them to Li Bangyan and Wu Min.

At the same time, someone will introduce the identities and origins of these people to the public.

Not just noble prisoners of war.

Gold and silver jewellery, ivory, rhinoceros horn, real pearls, beautiful jade, coral, agate, glass, flower rhinoceros, and tortoiseshell were also moved from several other treasure ships in an endless stream, and piled up on the shore like several hills.

Finally, Li Cun appeared with the support of hundreds of civil servants and guards.

Liu Jie said: "That is my family's chief governor, how is it better than your emperor's?"

Li Bangyan and Wu Min have already seen that Liu Jie has ulterior motives, how can he answer such a sensitive question?

Then, two or three hundred young and beautiful women appeared from behind Li Cun.

Liu Jie took the initiative to speak again: "My family's great governor is followed by the extinct Li Dynasty and Champa royal family, daughters of clans and high-ranking goddesses of Champa, and now they are all accepted by my family's great governor."

The envy in Li Bangyan's eyes flashed away, but he and Wu Min still didn't speak.

Seeing this, Liu Jie specifically pointed at Shi Honggu, and said, "That is Honggu, the leader of the Dan family thief who beat you so hard that your family dared not sail in the southeast waters. Now she is also the concubine of our great governor, and she is two months pregnant now. .”

Hearing what Liu Jie said, Li Bangyan and Wu Min couldn't hold back their faces anymore.

The person who beat up the navy army of the Song Dynasty was only worthy of giving birth to Li Thief? !

Never before have Li Bangyan and Wu Min hoped that their army of the Great Song Dynasty could gain some momentum so that they would not be so embarrassing.

At the same time, Li Bangyan and Wu Min, two talented people, saw this scene and invariably remembered a few lines from "A Fang Gong Fu":
"The six kings are finished, and the four seas are one. The concubine Qiang, the prince and the emperor's grandson, resigned from the downstairs hall. The chariot came to Qin, and the court song night strings. He is a member of the Qin palace. The collection of Yan and Zhao, the management of Han and Wei, and the management of Qi and Wei. The elites of Chu have plundered their people for several generations, leaning on them like mountains. If they can’t have them, they will be lost in the meantime..."

The people don't have literary talents like Li Bangyan and Wu Min, they can only stretch their necks extremely long one by one, looking at these exotic treasures and beauties intently.

When some people saw that among the beautiful women behind Li Cun, there was a woman with blond hair, a woman with brown hair, and even a woman with red hair, they couldn't help shouting.

Many people took a closer look. Among these beauties, there were some delicate and beautiful women with thick black eyebrows, deep black eyes, and high nose bridges.

Seeing that people can grow up like this, some people with little knowledge are amazed, and then they admire their monarch even more. They can conquer these people who look like ghosts, and dare to sleep with ghosts. It's really amazing .

No way, many people in this era really can't accept Europeans and Arabs, and they can't even accept Indians.

But this is normal, not everyone has a wide range of hobbies like Li Cun.

The moment Li Cun stepped down from the gangway, the people spontaneously shouted long live, and after Li Cun stepped off the treasure ship, they all spontaneously worshiped.

As a result, Li Bangyan and Wu Min were embarrassed, because everyone in the entire port was worshiping Li Cun, but they were the only ones who were different.

Seeing Liu Jie, he reminded sharply: "You two don't want to facilitate the matter that your emperor asked you to do?"

Hearing what Liu Jie said, Li Bangyan was really embarrassed.

If it is based on the title given to Li Cun by their Great Song Dynasty, Li Cun is indeed higher than Li Bangyan, but this will not make Li Bangyan worship Li Cun.

In terms of position, Li Cun is only Jiedushi, and Li Bangyan is the deputy prime minister, even higher than Li Cun.

In this case, Li Bangyan should not have worshiped Li Cun anyway.

But the problem is, although Li Cun now bears the false name of Wu Guogong, it is their wishful thinking of the Song Dynasty. Look at the members of the Huben Army, who has called Li Cun the Wu Guogong?

I'm afraid, all the members of the Huben Army have already regarded Li Cun and Zhao Ji, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, as equals.

The point is, Li Bangyan came here this time with a mission related to the life and death of the Song Dynasty.

Do you want to lose the big because of the small?

Gritting his teeth secretly, Li Bangyan, who was meditating "A great event doesn't care about small details", finally bowed to Li Cun.

Li Bangyan, the deputy prime minister, has paid homage to him, so why is there any hesitation for Wu Min?
Furthermore, the plan of the Zhao and Song Dynasty to use the Qinling-Huaihe south five roads to exchange the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Pingluanying with Li Thief was proposed by Wu Min.

If this matter is accomplished, Wu Min must be the hero who helped the collapsed building and turned the tide of the Song Dynasty. If it is not successful, then Wu Min may be the sinner of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, it is impossible for Wu Min to ignore the overall situation because of this trivial matter.

Under the worship of his subjects, Li Cun returned to Hangzhou City on his tall Zhaoye Jade Lion.

After returning to his office in Hangzhou City, that is, the original Hangzhou government office, Li Cun, who was used to living in the palace, was really not used to working in such a small place, especially when Li Cun After seeing that the inside was crowded with people, and there were also people standing outside the door.

Li Cun even regretted that he didn't listen to the suggestions of the ministers, and first repaired the abandoned palace of Wuyue Kingdom, and moved in for a temporary stay.

Li Cun laughed at himself in his heart: "It's true, it's easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal!"

Shaking his head, suppressing this discomfort, Li Cun began to reward the officials.

For the first time, Li Cun gave it to General Lu.

This is inevitable.

Although General Lu's contribution is not obvious.

But just because General Lu was able to help Li Cun stabilize his family, nothing would happen, and all the national policies that Li Cun and the others formulated before were able to be implemented smoothly. This is the greatest credit, and no one else can compare.

Not to mention, Li Cun rewarded General Lu with two beauties, a jade belt that he had tied for a few days, a pair of ivory, a pair of rhino horns, ten real pearls, a pair of beautiful jade, a pair of coral, a pair of agate, and a pair of colored glaze. A pair, a pair of rhinoceros, and a pair of tortoiseshell, Feng Lu will be the young master.

Although Li Cun awarded General Lu the first place in the meritorious service, Li Cun was very restrained in terms of rewards and awards.

Seeing this, General Lu was not only not angry, but extremely happy.

Because, smart people understand that there is no reward, no seal, only death.

The most typical example is Han Xin.

The credit is too high, so high that even the emperor is afraid, what should I do?The only option is to kill.

And Li Cun suppressed General Lu's promotion, which means that Li Cun still wants to use General Lu, otherwise he could just give General Lu a grand master.

If this is the case, what should we do after Li Cun ascends the throne and proclaims himself emperor, and give General Lu the title of king?
Don't you see, how many people who were named kings with different surnames when they were alive will end well in the end?

General Lu bowed to the ground, and thanked him with full courtesy: "Thank you, Lord Long."

Li Cun was very relieved to see that Lu Jiang understood his intentions.

The second time, Li Cun was given to Zhang Shi.

The reason for rewarding General Lu is the same, stability is more important than anything else, and Zhang Shi and General Lu can help themselves to stabilize everything in the family, which is better than anything else.

The reward Zhang Shi received was basically the same as that of General Lu, except that in the end Li Cun granted Zhang Shi a Shaobao, which was slightly lower than that of General Lu.

With General Lu and Zhang Shi competing there, the tone of the subsequent rewards was almost set.

This time, Li Cun's promotions are mainly based on fertile land, badges of honor, beauties, exotic treasures, etc. He should be more cautious in terms of promotion.

And the people who really get Li Cun's promotion often have only one substitute, and there are no fertile land, badges of honor, beauties, and exotic treasures for the rest.

The most typical example is that Wu Jie, who made the greatest contribution in Nanping this time, and Han Shizhong, who made the greatest contribution to suppressing bandits this time, Li Cun only appointed Wu Jie as the acting capital of the Yulin Army, and Han Shizhong as the acting capital of the Jinwu Army. nothing left.

Most of the people who were really promoted, such as Han Shizhong and Wu Jie, were very smart—they took office without making too much noise.

Generally speaking, Li Cun rewarded all those who made meritorious deeds, which made the vast majority of people happy.

By the time Li Cunsheng finished rewarding the officials and dealt with particularly important matters, it was almost dark.

At this time, General Lu came to report to Li Cun: "The envoy of Song Dynasty has been waiting outside the hall for a whole day. I wonder if the governor has time to summon him today?"

Without even thinking about it, Li Cun said, "Tell them to come back tomorrow."

After speaking, Li Cun stood up.

When General Lu saw him, he didn't say a word for Li Bangyan and Wu Min, but he said, "No." Then he withdrew.

Leaving the government office, Li Cun went back to the backyard, and then saw his wives and concubines and his many children all anxiously waiting for him to go home.

Li Cun smiled and said, "I'm back."

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