Late Tang

(Thanks to Sanjiu Sanjiu and Princess Jian for their support. Muzi had a cold and fever last night, and he was so confused that he had a headache and sore feet. He went to see him during the day and took medicine, and he still hasn’t recovered. This chapter was updated first, Muzi went to Wuhan, please recommend tickets!)

Li Jing happily took people to Chishanpu, but brought them back with a depressed face that day.

Zhang Yingying was really good. As soon as he made a move, he gave Li Jing a huge long-distance ship, [-] feet long, with a load of [-] shi. Even the shape of the ship was the most outstanding Mingzhou sea ship with a pointed bottom keel structure.All this surprised Li Jing inexplicably, but what happened later made him speechless for a while. Zhang Yingying gave him a large floating sea boat worth tens of thousands of dollars.However, only one crew member was not left for him.

What was left to Li Jing was an empty ship, completely empty.After Li Jing boarded the boat with the bamboo card, he searched up and down the huge boat several times, but he couldn't find a single person, not even a mouse.The ship was also empty, without any cargo.He went back to the pier and searched for a long time, found the sloppy old man, and asked for a long time, only to learn that Zhang Yingying took all the crew away, and then gave it to the ship that originally belonged to the Xinluo caravan, and has now retired to drive at the pier. I bought a sum of money from a sloppy old man in a tavern, and asked him to look after it for him, and handed over the boat to Li Jing when Li Jing came.

Damn, Li Jing didn't expect such a result.If this sea-going ship called Ning Hai was to start, there would have to be at least two hundred crew members on and off.And not only 200 people are required, but also crew members with long-distance sailing experience.Li Jing has no shortage of people, even if he can afford four hundred and five hundred, but he has no one of the two hundred crew members with sea navigation experience.No, there is one, the half-toned onmyoji recruited from the refugees a few days ago is considered to have experience in going to sea.There is no one else.

Come here in high spirits, and return in disappointment!

If Li Jing wanted to take over the ship, he had to find a way to recruit two hundred crew members first, otherwise, he would not be able to leave the ship at all.

Depressed and helpless, Li Jing finally had to give the sloppy old man a sum of money and asked him to come forward to help recruit experienced crew members at the port.Helmsman, sailor, anchorman, captain, sailor, oarsman, cook, carpenter, blacksmith, doctor, onmyoji, accountant, clerk.....

The slovenly old man, surnamed Cui, was also Zhang Yingying's father's old department. He had spent most of his life at sea and had indeed rich experience.Li Jing knows exactly what kind of crew a sea ship needs. Li Jing probably has only a half-knowledge of these, so he simply entrusted him with all the work of recruiting crew members, appointed a few servants to him, and asked them to go to Rushan with the recruitment documents. Hong Kong and Chengshan Port and other ports recruited, and he returned to Wangli Village with Lin Wu and his group.

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Li family held another big wedding banquet, and Li Jing's fourth sister Wan Jing married Lin Wei.On the same day, officials, gentry and rich people from far and near Wendeng County came to congratulate again.This time, even many officials and rich men from as far away as Dengzhou sent people to congratulate them with gifts.Song Wen, the new Governor of Dengzhou, Li Rui, King Biejia of Dengzhou, Wang Jingwen, the new governor, and the generals of several military camps in Dengzhou, and the generals of the four counties of the Tuanjie Camp all sent people to bring gifts.

Cui Decheng of Chishan Town served as the old celebrity, and the officiant invited Xiao Hanshi who was a guest at Li's house.In addition, Song Xi, Huangfuzheng and others all came to witness the ceremony and witness the marriage in person.

Li Jing was very solemn about the marriage between her sister and her right-hand man, and made a big deal of it with a grand pomp.Preparations had already started many days ago. On the day of the wedding, there were nearly a thousand guests from outside.In addition, all the villagers of Wangli Village were also invited to a banquet. Even the recruited hundreds of refugees and the newly recruited more than a thousand soldiers who were undergoing simple training in Wangli Village also participated in the wedding banquet.

Butchering pigs and sheep, chickens, ducks and fish, barrels of fine wine, and fragrant rice, all of them ate with their stomachs open. This time, the lively wedding banquet of the Li family became a grand banquet that was spread all over Wendeng County until the wedding ceremony. After it was over, many people who attended the wedding banquet and went back could not forget it.

On the day of the wedding, Han Zhi also came from Qingzhou.Han Zhi not only came to attend Li Jing's sister's wedding, but also brought the latest developments about the matter between the Han family and the Feng family.

Before, Han Zhi took Li Jing's letter to visit King Zhao and Song Wen through Dengzhou, then returned to Qingzhou to meet Cui Yunqing, and finally met Song Wei.In the battle between the Feng and Han families, the big families in Qingzhou originally wanted to sit back and watch the tigers fight.Although the Han family visited everywhere before, no one was willing to intervene in this matter at will.But this time is different. The doors of each family that were closed to the Han family were opened by Li Jing.

What the Han family can't do, the Li family can't just do.Li Jing just played the role of a matchmaker, and Li Jing also thought about the matter of the Han family for a long time.According to the normal situation, he should not interfere in this matter.But after much deliberation, Li Jing finally decided to intervene.The reason was not that the Han family offered a high price, but the bigger reason was that he wanted to increase his influence through this matter, and took the initiative to get in touch with the Han family and even Jiedu envoy Song Wei.

Li Jing didn't fully expect to use Cui Yunqing's strength to resolve this matter. Although he wrote a letter to Cui Yunqing, the most important thing was the letter to Song Wen.In the letter, Li Jing straightforwardly explained to Song Wen that helping the Han family would help suppress the Feng family's arrogance, and explained that doing so would benefit him when he was about to go to Shamen Town.The most important thing is that Li Jing directly proposed to Song Wen in the letter that if the commander-in-chief Song Wei is willing to help the Han family, then he can reach an alliance with the Han family, and even join forces with the Cui family and King Zhao.

If Jieshuai Song Wei can get the help of the Cui family, the largest family in Ziqing, and the Han family and King Zhao, the third largest family, then even if the Feng family and the Ping Lu army and Qingzhou Ya army fight against Song Wei, they can still fight in separate courts, or even The forces overwhelm the tooth army.If they can reach a joint force and help Li Jing fight against Feng Zhang, then this will also be a wedge to open the barrier of the Pinglu Army.In the end, Li Jing didn't forget to tell Song Wen straightforwardly that as long as Jieshuai made a move, the Han family was willing to contribute [-] guan to subsidize military expenses, and give Song Wen another [-] guan as a reward.

Since Song Wei arrived in Ziqing Town, he was troubled by the matter of raising military expenses. If he could not come up with money, the soldiers below would not listen to him.Now Li Jing helped him get [-] guan at once, which is not a small number.What's more, Song Wen, as a middleman, still has five thousand private benefits.After Song Wen received Li Jing's letter, he thought about it for a short time, and then his heart moved.Of course he understood how helpful it would be to Song Wei if things developed in the direction Li Jing said, and he didn't forget the five thousand guan that still belonged to him.

According to Han Zhi, Song Wen personally accompanied Han Zhi back to Qingzhou the next day, and personally reported the pros and cons of the matter to Song Wei, the commander-in-chief.The Han family was also very generous. After learning about Li Jing's plan, they not only agreed to the [-] guan benefits Li Jing mentioned, but even doubled the amount, and immediately sent Song Wei [-] guan of money and food. Cloth.Now that the fight has come, even if the money spent in the end exceeds the money for the goods of the fleet seized by the Feng family, the Han family will not be stingy.Even if the matter doesn't work out in the end, it will definitely be worth spending Song Wei's [-] pennies, and it will be worthwhile to get married with Jieshuai from now on.

Things really happened as Li Jing expected, since the No.1 Song Wei in Ziqing Town had already actively intervened in this matter, and Cui Yunqing, who received the letter from Li Jing and Li Rui, had to take the initiative to agree with Song Wei.With Jie Shuai coming forward, King Zhao behind him waving the flag, and the Cui family behind him, the situation changed overnight.The Feng family was also stunned by the situation, and if the Cui family alone came forward, maybe he could hold on a little longer.But if several top forces in Ziqing Town support the Han family at the same time, and the wind changes so quickly, they will have to consider the consequences of continuing to be tough.

When Han Zhi came here, he was worried, and when he went back, he was in a hurry, but when he came back this time, he was already in high spirits.After the wedding banquet was over, Han Zhi smiled and took out a stack of texts from his arms and handed them to Li Jing: "Third brother, I really appreciate your help this time. Here is the military expenditure that I promised to subsidize the third brother at the beginning. You can go to the cabinet to withdraw [-] bolts of silk, [-] bolts of cloth, and [-] shi of rice, [-] shi of millet, and [-] shi of wheat stored in the Dengzhou warehouse. The total is [-] guan. The Han family shipyard ordered three warships, a fighting ship, a warship, and a walking boat. The fighting boat cost [-] yuan, the boating boat cost [-] yuan, and the boating boat cost [-] yuan, totaling [-] yuan. My father said Now, I have to thank third brother for this matter, so the three warships only count as [-] yuan, so, with the addition of silk and grain, it is exactly [-] yuan."

The Han family did their calculations very well, and directly deducted the money for the three warships ordered by Li Jing, so as to avoid Li Jing's idea of ​​wanting to pay on credit.

"Third brother, you also know that there is a shortage of money nowadays, and most of the big transactions are usually barter. The Han family can't afford tens of thousands of coins for a while. My father heard that the general is recruiting migrant artisans and soldiers to move to the island. It is estimated that the third brother must have a great demand for food. It happens that my Han family also sells food, so I will discount the rice, millet and wheat stored in the Dengzhou warehouse to the third brother at the purchase price. If the third brother agrees If you are not satisfied, as long as you give the Han family a few days, you can immediately exchange it for copper coins."

Li Jing's heart moved, and a bright light appeared in his eyes.The Patriarch of the Han family is so powerful. During the current famine in the north, he was able to give Li Jing [-] shi of grain at once.On the surface it is said that it is a money shortage, but in fact, no matter how money the shortage is, he can't compare to the current famine in the north.During a famine, food is a priceless treasure. Not to mention giving Li Jing the purchase price, even if it is doubled, that is normal.Even if you don't make a move for a while, just hoarding it in the warehouse is definitely a good business.

This is the Han family's thanks to Li Jing. Li Jing helped him a foot, and he is still a foot now.

"The generous gift from the Han family, I, Li Jing, will keep it in my heart." Although this is a transaction, after the Han family paid [-] yuan to Song Wei, they don't really need Li Jing anymore, even if they only give Li Jing one A reward of [-] Guan is acceptable.But he still gave Qi the [-] shi as agreed, and also thoughtfully exchanged [-] shi for Li Jing's grain. The same kind of arrogance.

"When will the warships be delivered?" The money was finally received, and what Li Jing was concerned about now was the three warships that had already been paid for.

Han Zhi smiled: "Under normal circumstances, it would take three years. However, my Han family shipyard happens to have an old order in hand, and I can deliver your order first, half a year, and the first one can be delivered within three months at the earliest. ship!"