Thief Emperor

Chapter 671: Dividing Jingzhou
After leaving Jinling, Li Yun abandoned the ceremonial guard and ordered the ceremonial guard to make a circle before returning to Jinling City. He only brought 200 personal guards, Du and Zhang Sui, and some related people, and rode fast to Jingxiang.

Starting from Jinling, the journey is more than a thousand miles, which is not really short. Even if they rode at full speed, it took them seven or eight days. It was not until March that they arrived near Jingzhou City.

If it were in the past, Li Yun would probably be annoyed with such a long distance, but during these seven or eight days, Li was not only not annoyed, but very happy.

Because this route, from Jinling in the east to Jingxiang in the west, basically spans the east-west area of ​​the territory under his rule.

One thousand five hundred miles!

More importantly, the north-south span under his rule was longer than the east-west span!

In the past, he had no official position, so this feeling was not strong. Now that he has named himself the King of Wu, although there has been no improvement in overall strength, there have been some subtle changes in his mentality.

This area of ​​more than a thousand miles in radius has the same surname as Li, and it is all the territory of his Wu Kingdom!

And he is the ruler of the Wu State.

This refreshing feeling is hard to experience unless you are in that situation.

On the eighth day, the group arrived in Jingzhou. Not long after they entered Jingzhou, the Jiangdong Army stationed in Jingzhou came to greet them. Li Yun then slowed down and looked back at Du He who had been accompanying him on the road. He smiled and said, "I can't believe that Third Brother Du is such a good rider. He managed to endure the journey without any problem."

After Du He arrived in Jiangdong, Li Yun had quite a lot of contact with him, but their relationship was not particularly deep. Only this time, during the seven or eight days they traveled together, did the two of them become completely familiar with each other.

Du He rode on his horse and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, people like us have to learn to ride horses when we are seven or eight years old. In the horse races in the capital in previous years, the winners were all children of noble families."

Li Yun hummed, and then said, "That's right, I take it for granted."

Horses are definitely a luxury in this era. It is difficult for ordinary people to afford them. Their value is roughly comparable to that of Li Yun’s vehicles in another world.

Apart from the cavalry in the army, those who are proficient in horse riding are the children of noble families who have frequent contact with horses.

Du He looked back at Zhang Sui who was not far away, and smiled at Li Yun, "Fortunately we arrived today, otherwise Eleven's disciple would really have collapsed."

Li Yun followed his gaze and saw Zhang Sui, who was riding on a horse, was already staggering and his face was a little pale. It was obvious that he could not hold on any longer.

This kind of high-intensity horse riding was indeed not something that a scholar of commoner origin like him could endure. The fact that he could keep pace with the team for seven or eight days was already a manifestation of his spiritual will.

Li Yun laughed and said, "This kid is pretty good. He didn't complain about being tired for seven or eight days."

Du He smiled and said, "The day after we left Jinling, his thighs were almost worn out, so he came to me, calling me "Uncle Master" and asking me to teach him how to ride a horse. I taught him for most of the night, otherwise he wouldn't have lasted until now."

Li Yun smiled silently and was about to speak when a group of cavalry came roaring on the official road. When they got closer, there were about a hundred of them. The one in the lead was Su Sheng, followed by Chen Da and other generals.

After these generals approached, they immediately dismounted, bowed their heads and half-knelt in front of Li Yun, and saluted: "Your Majesty, we pay our respects to you!"

Li Yun got off his horse, and the people accompanying him also hurriedly got off their horses. Li walked up to Su Sheng, helped him up, and said with a smile: "This place is at least thirty or forty miles away from Jingzhou City. Brother Su is too polite."

After Su Sheng was helped up by him, he smiled and said, "Brothers in the army, knowing that the superior is coming, they are all very happy. Of course, the subordinates have to go farther to welcome him."

Li Yun raised his hand towards Chen Da and others, signaling everyone to stand up.

At this time, Du He had already stepped forward and bowed to Su Sheng: "General Su."

Su Sheng recognized Du He and immediately clasped his fists in return: "Minister Du."

After the two of them greeted each other, Su Sheng asked, "Why did Minister Du come with us?"

Du He said helplessly: "There are many things going on in Jingxiang. The superiors insisted that I come here to help deal with them. I have no choice but to come. General Su doesn't know that this journey of more than a thousand miles is really tiring."

Su Sheng laughed.

"Minister Du is too modest. He is from the Jingzhao Du family, so it is impossible that he doesn't know how to ride a horse."

Du He sighed, "Even riding a horse again is still exhausting."

While the two were reminiscing about the past, Li Yun had already turned around and said several words to Chen Da.

In a sense, Chen Dacai was the first younger brother to follow Li Yun after he came into this world. He was a veteran among veterans, and Li Yun did not let him down. Among those who came from the anti-theft team, only Deng Yang was doing slightly better than him.

In a sense, Chen Da's current position is higher than his own ability, but sometimes when hiring people, one must consider personal connections. If one hires people and handles things purely from a rational perspective, the team will soon fall apart.

Li Yun came into this world in the third year of Xiande, and Chen Da followed him that year. Now it is the fifth year of Zhaoding, and seven years have passed. During these seven years, Chen Da has married and had children, and can be considered to have established a family and career.

The two of them talked about the past for a while, and then Li patted Chen Da on the shoulder and said with a smile: "When you have time, gather the old brothers from Qingyang County Court and have a drink with me."

Chen Da responded and said with a smile: "I obey your command."

When mentioning this matter, Li Yun asked casually: "How many people are still following us in the county government?"

Chen Dalian said quickly: "At that time, there were eight people who followed the superior to leave the county government and join the anti-theft team. Later, among these eight people, there were five people including me who followed the superior to join the army until now."

"but…"

Chen Da laughed and said, "But later when Shangwei became rich and powerful, when we returned to Qingyang County, there was another group of brothers in the county government who followed us to work. There were more people in this group. At that time, there were more than 20 people who followed Shangwei. Until now, there are still more than 10 to 20 people."

Li Yun smiled and said, "Then bring those five brothers to my place and we'll have a drink together."

As he said this, he patted Chen Da on the shoulder and reminded him, "Take it as a task, don't forget it."

Chen Dalian quickly lowered his head and replied yes.

Li Yun then got on his horse, looked at everyone, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, if you have anything to say, let's go into the city and talk. It will be dark if we continue. Let's get on the horse and hurry on!"

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"Yes!"

Everyone mounted their horses and followed Li Yun into Jingzhou City before sunset. At the gate of Jingzhou City, Xu Kun, dressed as a governor, had been waiting for a long time. After seeing Li Yun, he and the officials of Jingzhou also knelt on the side of the road and kowtowed to Li Yun.

"Greetings to the King."

Li Yun dismounted, looked at the leader of the first batch of candidates admitted to the Jinling Literary Society, and said with a smile: "Get up quickly, get up quickly."

Although Xu Kun's first place was given to him by Yao Zhongrang, he was also the leader chosen by Li Yun after all. As one of the first batch of officials in Jiangdong who passed the exam, he was destined to be different from others.

It is said that a thousand gold buys horse bones.

Even if it was forced, Li Yun would promote him to a fairly high position to show the world how much he and the Jiangdong court valued talents.

What's more, Xu Kun is a capable person with comprehensive talents, who will definitely be valued in the future.

For example, the governor of the five states of Jingxiang is a very important position. If you do this job well, it won't be much worse than working in the central government of Nanjing.

Greeted by Xu Kun, the group quickly arrived at a restaurant in Jingzhou City and sat down. At this time, the entire restaurant had been booked, and Jiusi had also taken over all the corresponding links.

Li sat in the main seat, Su Sheng, Chen Da and a group of generals sat on his left, Du He sat in the first seat on his right, then there was Xu Kun and a group of civil servants, and sitting at the bottom and at the last seat was Du Qian's student Zhang Sui.

After everyone sat down, Su Sheng first said a few words to Li Yun, and then everyone drank a glass of wine together. Li glanced at the people at the table, then looked at Xu Kun and asked, "How is the registration of the people in Jingzhou and the counting of the land going?"

Xu Kun took a deep breath and shook his head, "My Lord, I have only been here for over a month, and the officials in Jingzhou are not complete. I am afraid it will take half a year to complete these things."

Li Yun nodded, looked at Du He, and said with a smile: "Then Third Brother Du, I'm going to trouble you to help me with this matter. I don't ask you to do it quickly, but you have to give me 20% of the land."

"Reward the soldiers who attacked Jingzhou last time."

Du and Xu Kun quickly stood up and bowed their heads in response.

Su Sheng and a group of generals stood up, bowed deeply to Li Yun, and saluted with their fists.

"On behalf of the soldiers in the army, we would like to thank the king!"

Li Yun pressed his hands and motioned for them to sit down.

"We've come all this way, and we're all tired. Let's stop here for business and have some drinks!"

Li Yun raised his wine glass and laughed loudly.

"We'll talk about other things after we finish drinking!"

"Come and drink this cup!"

(End of this chapter)