Late Tang

Faced with Li Jing's sophistry of confounding black and white and distorting the facts, Feng Zhangqi's seven orifices were full of smoke, and he was furious.Finally, he was so angry that he could no longer care about the occasion, and pulled out a decorated gold and jade dagger from his belt, rushed towards Li Jing, and shouted: "The old man will die with the thief today!"

It's just that on today's occasion, there are more than ten generals leading troops in the hall, none of them are brave.On such a grand occasion, how could everyone allow Feng Zhang to yell and kill.Dengzhou Prison City Envoy Han Zhong who has a good relationship with Li Jing jumped up and kicked the dagger off Feng Zhang's hand with a flying kick. Afterwards, Longshan Military Envoy Liu Jian and Dong Mou Shouzhu Envoy Xu Chengyi rushed to the left. Immediately, the one on the right locked Fengzhang's arms and pressed him firmly.They had been with Feng Zhang in Dengzhou for many years, and they had long disliked Feng Zhang's over-the-top look, but today they took the opportunity to let out a sigh of relief.

"Enough!" Seeing that Feng Zhang had completely lost his mind, Cui Yunqing was secretly happy.But he put on a majestic face and scolded loudly: "Today is the gathering of all halls to mediate, and I am here on behalf of Qingzhou Song Jieshuai and Wang Yajiang. Mediation is a solemn and solemn matter. The soldiers and horses are so presumptuous. General Li Jing has everything in command. You have cheated on the pirates, and even colluded with the pirates to attack your subordinates. After the defeat, you sent troops to attack Li Jing again. Change it to open attack. Right now, the commander-in-chief's mansion is benevolent and he doesn't want to use swords, so he sent his official to mediate. Unexpectedly, you want to assassinate General Li Jing in front of the hall. You don't put this official and everyone in the hall at all. In the eyes. Feng Zhang, what do you intend to do, do you really want to rebel?"

"I don't accept it, Cui Sima, you are Li Jing's teacher, so naturally you always favor him. I want to appeal to General Wang, but I don't accept it!" Feng Zhang shouted.

Cui Yunqing's face sank, "I was entrusted by Song Jieshuai and Wang Ya to come here, and both Song Jieshuai and Wang Ya trusted me, so what are you clamoring for? I think you are acting as an authority in Daxie Village It's been a long time, and I don't even know that there is a Shangguan on my head. Today you have convincing evidence of crimes. Not only did you not accuse him in court, but you actually committed murder in court. It is really unreasonable. Come here, arrest him, and prepare to be escorted back to Qingzhou by Song Jieshuai He and Wang Ya will interrogate and issue."

Four servants of Cui Yunqing entered in response, and were about to take Feng Zhang away.Wang Jingwen quickly jumped out at this time, although Feng Zhang was confused, he still wanted to protect him.Not only because of the soldiers and territory in Feng Zhang's hands, but also because the Wang family needs the full support of the Feng family.

"Cui Sima, please slow down." Wang Jingwen jumped out, "I think the military envoy was confused for a while and lost his mind. Why don't I let the officer bring the envoy back to the mansion first, and invite a few The doctor treats me well. How about mediating tomorrow?"

What Cui Yunqing said just now was harsh, but in fact it was just to scare Feng Zhang.When he came, he and Song Wei had already set the tone for this trip. No matter who was right or wrong in this matter, anyway, the final result was mediation, not guilt.Song Wei and Wang Jingwu have no plans to do anything yet, so this skirmish between the two factions must be the end of a small fight, and both sides will definitely try their best to protect their own people.

To put it bluntly, at Song Wei's level, who is right and who is wrong is not really the most important thing.The most important thing is balance and mastery.

However, although the tone of mediation has been set early, there is still a lot of room for specific operations.Of course, the most important thing is profit. Song Wei has long set his sights on the prosperity of Dengzhou Port.The importance of Dengzhou Port as one of the four largest ports in Datang and the only one in the north that goes out to sea is self-evident.

When the Pinglu Army crossed the sea from Yingzhou in western Liaoning to Qingzhou to establish Ziqing Pinglu Town, it was very poor at first.However, because of the Anshi Rebellion, the land routes between Hebei and Liaoxi, Liaodong and other countries were completely blocked, and the sea and the northeast were completely dependent on the sea routes of Shandong.Dengzhou Port then began to prosper extremely, and the maritime trade routes were extremely prosperous.Li Zheng had driven away his predecessor, Jieshuai. Since then, he has used Dengzhou Port and the sea route of Dengzhou to focus on smuggling and accumulated a lot of money and food for him.In the case of complete local self-sufficiency without the need for food and salaries from the imperial court, it did not take many years to expand an elite army, and then separatist and self-reliant, with 60 soldiers, and finally expanded Ziqing Town to Zi, Qing, Qi, Deng, The twelve prefectures of Lai, Yan, Hai, Yi, Mi, Yun, Cao, and Pu once became the largest feudal town in the Tang Dynasty.And Ziqing Town was segregated and hereditary to descendants IV for nearly [-] years.

After the imperial court pacified Ziqing Town and divided it into three parts, Ziqing began to be controlled by the imperial court on the surface, and all successive Jiedu envoys were appointed by the imperial court.But in fact, the foundation of Ziqing Town is still in the hands of the Pinglu Army, and among the [-] soldiers and horses of the Pinglu Army, there are many battalion heads, which are controlled by each army head.In the end, the leaders of each army are headed by the most elite Qingzhou Yajun, and the Yajiang generals of the Yabing are basically the real masters of Ziqing Town.

Wang Jingwu's family has been Qingzhou dental generals for several generations, relying on the most elite dental soldiers in his hands.To support such an elite dental army, a large part of the money and food came from Dengzhou Port.Feng Zhang and Wang Jin control the Daxie Village and the Dengzhou Navy respectively. It can be said that they control the most profitable territory in Ziqing Town.The two handed over a large part of the money and food to Wang Jingwu every year, and then Wang Jingwu shared the money and food with the army leaders to support the army.Although Feng Zhang and Wang Jin left only a small part, they still allowed them to raise a strong army.That's how Fengzhang's 2 horsemen and more than 100 fleets came about.

Song Wei came to Qingzhou, wanting to change the situation that the Jiedu envoy had no power. He took advantage of the opportunity of recruiting united soldiers to take Qingzhou's five thousand united soldiers into his hands, and joined forces with Cui Yunqing to recruit a 3000-strong personal battalion.Although there are soldiers, the imperial court has long ignored the money and food of the troops in the local feudal towns.Song Wei has soldiers and needs money.Although there is the support of the Cui family now, it is still not enough to continue to collect money and food from Dengzhou with Wang Jingwu.He had long envied the golden mountain of Dengzhou Port, but one of them couldn't get involved.Now, this opportunity is in front of him.

Taking advantage of this mediation opportunity, Song Wei and Cui Yunqing's biggest goal is to get involved in Dengzhou Port, and get a generous amount of money and food from it to support the army.However, Wang Jingwu will not give up such a place for money and food supply easily, and they have already prepared for it.But today's result surprised Cui Yunqing, and everything seemed to be simpler again.Feng Zhang made such a big mistake today, the situation is very favorable for them.

Wang Jingwen took Feng Zhang away, and the news came out that day, saying that Feng Zhang's energy and blood rushed to his brain, and he was insane. This disease is prone to nonsense, and he can't remember the facts clearly.In this regard, Wang Jingwen pointed out that what Feng Zhang said earlier was caused by losing his mind.Feng Zhang is currently unable to be a member of the board of directors, and it is proposed that Feng Xun take over his position temporarily, and he will participate in the mediation on behalf of Daxie Village.

This statement is just a signal to give in, and everyone understands the truth.But no one pursued it, Feng Zhang withdrew from the mediation, and Feng Xun joined in, which showed that Wang Jingwen was about to compromise.

Then everyone stopped talking about the right and wrong between Daxie Village and Shamen Town, but started talking about the truce and the aftermath.

"The previous disputes between the two families have come to an end, and they will not be pursued anymore." Wang Jingwen said, "Our opinion is that the two families should continue to maintain the situation before the war. General Li Jing should immediately withdraw his troops to Shamen Town. It has five forts and seven garrisons under its jurisdiction. Moreover, the population taken away by General Li Jing from the islands should be released. The soldiers of Daxie Village captured during the dispute should also be released."

Li Jing sneered, and said with a rebellious face: "My request is to divide Daxie Village into two. Among the three major islands, Daxie Islands belong to my Shamen Town. Since Feng Zhang is insane, don't be too tired Now, he can take his people to move to Turtle Island, the Turtle Island Islands and Wuhu Islands will be assigned to him, and everyone will not violate the river water in the future."

"This is impossible!" Wang Jingwen replied loudly. The most valuable of the three archipelagos is the Daxie Islands, because the entire Dengzhou Gangtang Bay is surrounded by the Daxie Islands.Without Daxie Island, they would not be able to guarantee their original interests.

However, Li Jing was also asking for a lot of money, and he had already planned in his heart, knowing that he would not be able to get the North and South Islands.But he asked for a lot of money, and Wang Jingwen paid back the money.During the entire mediation meeting, Li Jing and Wang Jingwen were arguing, and Feng Xun, the representative of Daxie Village, was just a silent wooden man.Others are just watching the show, occasionally interjecting a word or two.

But no matter how much you fight, Li Jing's bottom line is that it is impossible to spit out the fat in his mouth.What's more, the start was good this time, he completely took advantage of the situation, and with the full support of Cui Yunqing, Song Wen and the others, Wang Jingwen had to give in every inch in the end.

"Daheishan Island and Xiaoheishan Island belong to Shamen Town, and the surrounding Yulin Island and Nantuozi Island also belong to Shamen Town. The areas between Shamen Town, Xiaoheishanbao and North and South Long Island The four islands of Plow Rake Island, Mantis Island, Barrier Island, and Carbine Stone Island also belong to Shamen Town. In addition, the five islands and reefs of Xiaoshan Reef, Xiaoshan Reef, Xiangjiao, Shuanglu Reef, and Shuangjiao will also belong to the town from today onwards. Shamen Town." Li Jing drew his final bottom line, the entire Daxie Islands, except for the two big islands in the north and south, all the other large and small islands and reefs, a total of [-] islands and reefs, all belong to Shamen Town.

In addition to these islands, all the other people who were moved from the islands by Li Jing also belonged to Li Jing and will not be returned.

"In addition, as compensation for the truce, Daxie Village has to pay 20 guan indemnity to Shamen Town to pay for our army's casualties and military expenses. This is my final limit and I refuse to bargain. If not, I will lead my people to Daxie Village to fetch it, so don’t worry about my unpredictability.” After discussing for a long time, Li Jing finally got impatient and directly threw out his own conditions.

Wang Jingwen hesitated for a long time, looked at Cui Yunqing, Li Rui, and Song Wen, and saw that they were silent, obviously wanting to support Li Jing to the end.In the end, he could only grit his teeth and said, "Okay, from now on, the two armies will not have any more troubles, and the past will never be ignored. Whoever has any troubles in the future will be punished by everyone present today."

"It's a deal." Li Jing didn't seem to care much about it, and said very casually, but in his heart, he was already ecstatic and successful.The thirteen islands and reefs, including Heishan Island and Heishan Island, all became the territory of Shamen Town at once.

"Ahem!" Cui Yunqing coughed lightly, drawing everyone's attention, and said with a light smile, "It's good that the mediation is successful. Next, let's talk about other things."

Li Jing knew that this was for Tianzao.This sweet date is not only owned by Li Jing, but also by Feng Zhang, it can be said that everyone has a share.He had already heard the teacher reveal something, but he still didn't know what kind of sweet date it would be.Li Jing, who had just won the thirteen islands, couldn't help but look forward to it.

(To be continued)