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After seeing Gai Yu, Li Jing went directly to Dr. Yinqing Guanglu, Captain Shangqingche, Prince Shaofu, Sima Zhen [***] Marching Army, Andong Dadu Protectorate Marching Sima, Governor of Pingzhou Li Zhen of Fuchu.

Li Zhen has also been in charge of the construction of the Liaoxi Corridor and the construction of the new cities in Yingzhou in western Liaoning recently. He was ordered to return to Dengzhou by boat yesterday.They were also very surprised to see Li Jing arriving, and the two sat in the living room of the mansion.After the servant served the tea, he waved back, and the two slowly sipped the tea. .

Li Jing was very aware of their attitude towards Li Tang regarding his own civil and martial arts.For example, Gai Yu has no feelings for Datang. If Li Jing is against Tang, he will definitely be the first to jump out in favor of it.As for Zhang Chengye, he is naturally the most loyal to Datang under Li Jing's command.In addition, brothers such as Li Zhen and Li Liang are extremely traditional counselors. They wholeheartedly assist Li Jing, but they also have a kind of loyalty to Li Tang.

In the final analysis, Brother Li Zhen is just like the ideas of many scholars and aristocrats. Li Tang's power has long since disappeared. These scholars and aristocrats actually pursue a social state like the Spring and Autumn Period in their hearts. .

They are all willing to respect Li Tang as the co-lord of the world, but they don't want to just be Li Tang's subjects, but hope to rule the world together with the emperor.In this world, Li Tang is the co-lord, but the feudal towns are the vassals, and the clans are the nobles to govern together.

But when it comes to anti-Tang, directly proclaiming the king and emperor, this is something that many aristocratic families and literati and generals do not accept.Their reasoning state is that the Li family should still sit on the dragon chair in the world, and then the various feudal towns are like princes, and the nobles of the family also enjoy great power.

No one would object to Li Jing being a self-respecting feudal town, Li Zhen brothers represented the views of most soldiers, and they would support Li Jing.But if it is said that Li Jing wants to be the emperor and raises the flag to rebel, many of them will not support Li Jing.

Regardless of Li Jing's plan, first of all, he needs to achieve unity within the feudal town.Only with internal unity can it be possible to deal with external enemies.

"A few days ago, Gao Pian sent envoys to send our town [***] officers and men to go south to suppress the bandits. Can you tell what happened?" Li Jing knew Li Zhen's ideas, and he also knew that Li Zhen's ideas represented the town [* **] Under the concept of most people.

"The plan to send troops to Goguryeo is just around the corner. This matter has been prepared for a long time by the civil and military forces of this town. Goguryeo can be destroyed in one fell swoop. It is a major event for the country and the people. Gao Pian sent an order to our army , although there are inappropriate things, no matter where you think about it, it is not appropriate to change the previous plan to attack Goguryeo." Li Zhen said his truth, he was very clear about Gao Pian's deployment of troops, of course he understood this meaning behind.But he didn't talk about that, he just focused on the meaning of regaining Goguryeo.What I thought in my heart was that I still didn't want to see Li Jing go to the fierce opposition with the court at this time.

"What Xing Xu said is common sense. But there are exceptions. I, Li Jing, sit in Dengzhou, and I am doing my best for the court. But now the court is suppressing people in power and blinding the emperor. Again and again. The provocation of Dengzhou, in the final analysis, is that we have been too tolerant in the past, so that people think we are weak and easy to bully. Therefore, I think that in order to avoid this kind of thing from happening again in the future, my town [***] has to show that Position. A certain plan, pay 100 million guan summer tax to the court in August, and pay 100 million guan autumn tax to the court in November. Everything is based on the amount of the two taxes, plus a total of 200 million guan paid in September and October In addition to the tax on salt, iron and tea, the original monthly contribution of 100 guan will be cancelled.”

Li Jing also thought about what to say carefully, and just said it together at this time.Seeing Li Zhen frowned and pondering, he said again: "Originally, I wanted to give some more money to the emperor, but I didn't get a reward when I donated the money. On the contrary, some people thought that my town was really a pile of gold and silver. If there is too much money, there is no place to spend it, so we have to come to the lion to open our mouth. In this case, then we will act in accordance with the legal system of the court. The sixteen prefectures pay two taxes a year, which is converted into 200 million guan, plus 200 million salt, iron and tea taxes. , 400 million and a lot of money will be handed over to the imperial court."

"About Gao Pian's deployment of troops?" Li Zhen asked.

"My town [***] is not under the command of Gao Pian, so I naturally ignore this disorder." Li Jing already planned to warn the court first and stop paying tribute.Give the court some time first, and let the soldiers in Zhen [***] understand better.At the same time, Li Jing also needed time to finish the battle of Goguryeo.At this juncture, they naturally did not plan to send troops south.If you send fewer troops, you may be used as cannon fodder by Gao Pian. If you send more troops, it will affect the Liaodong battlefield.

After Li Zhen heard that Li Jing had no other plans but stopped paying tribute, he put down a big stone in his heart.What he is most worried about is that the young commander-in-chief will become conceited after winning a series of victories in Liaodong and Liaoxi.If Li Jing wants to send troops to teach Gao Pian a lesson, it will inevitably make him worry.

Since ancient times, the early citrons rot first.

Although Li Jing's strength is now the strongest among the towns.But it does not mean that this strength will be invincible in the world.

Back then, Li Xilie, the Jiedu envoy of Huaixi, attacked Liang Chongyi, the Jiedu envoy of Shannan Dongdao who quelled the rebellion, and was made king of Nanping County, with great momentum.But when the imperial court appointed him as Ziqing and Pinglu Jiedu envoys to conquer the anti-Tang Ziqing Jiedu envoy Li Na, he secretly colluded with Li Na and colluded with the rebellious Hebei feudal towns Zhu Tao, Tian Yue, etc., claiming to be the emperor of the world. Marshal Du and King Jianxing, after capturing Bianzhou, even directly called him Emperor Chu.

Huaixi Town where Li Xilie was located was considered a powerful town in the world at that time, especially Ziqing and the three towns in Hebei as allies, but in the end, Li Xilie and the Hebei towns were all defeated by the Tang army.The three towns in Hebei finally surrendered, and Li Xilie, who proclaimed himself emperor, was poisoned by his generals.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the three towns in Hebei became weaker and weaker, and even Huaixi, Ziqing, Shannan Dongdao and other powerful anti-Tang clans were wiped out without exception.

The Shatuo people used to be very strong, but they were not wiped out by the Tang army.

In Li Zhen's view, Li Tang, who has been in the country for 300 years, still has the hearts of the people, and the people of the world still regard him as orthodox.At this time, any feudal town that raises its flag against the Tang Dynasty will not receive support.Even with 20 soldiers from sixteen prefectures, it would be difficult to stop the attack of dozens of towns in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Zhen was only thinking about Zhen [***], and he was really afraid that Li Jing would be arrogant for a while and turn against Tang rashly.

Zhen[***]’s current beautiful scene in Liaodong is actually largely due to the banner of Datang.If they lost the banner of Datang, and even became enemies of Datang, then the tribes of Bohai, Xi, and Tatar would definitely change their attitudes. Even if they were not enemies of Li Jing, they would definitely not support Li Jing again.Similarly, the Khitan and Youzhou armies will definitely attack Zhen [***].

The most critical point is that if Tang is an enemy, where will the products in the workshop in Zhen [***] be sold?Where is the population replenished, and where is food purchased?A town [***] that relies on industry and commerce, as long as it is blocked by Datang, it will soon be in trouble.

Of course, this is only the worst case scenario.Perhaps, Li Jing can lead Zhen[***] to sweep the Central Plains like it swept Liaodong.But in Li Zhen's view, such a situation does not exist at all now.

Seeing that Li Jing's attitude was very clear at this time, Li Zhen finally settled down, and his mood was also very relaxed. He nodded repeatedly and praised: "The commander-in-chief is reasonable, and what he said is reasonable."

After talking with Gai Yu and Li Zhen, two important advisers, Li Jing gradually had an idea in his mind.

After returning to the county prince's mansion, Li Jing, who was in a good mood, notified the mansion at lunch time to invite the whole family to have a meal together.

Although there is only Li Jing in the Li family, when they get together, there are three generations in the same house, but there are dozens of people.

Li's mother Han, together with Li Jing's wives and children, is extremely lively. Up to now, Li Jing's ten wives and concubines have given birth to Li Jing's fifteen children, eight sons and seven daughters, and the eldest is three years old. Many, already able to hug Li Jing's thigh and call daddy, but the young one is just a month old.However, it is a pity that Wang Guiniang, the main wife, has never had another child since she gave birth to her first daughter.Megan and Julie, who have always been in the military camp, have never had a baby.

Although the meal is divided into seats, it is not as lively as the big round table, but this family of 30 people is also very lively.

After dinner, Li Jing had a conversation with his mother.The Han family is considered to be pampered now, and has become more and more graceful.The old lady now concentrates on reciting scriptures and worshiping the Buddha, and never interferes with outside affairs, even the affairs of the mansion are all handled by Wang Guiniang.Although she knew that Wang Guiniang could not suppress those noble concubines in the mansion, she seldom cared about these matters.

"Since those two have entered the sect, we should let them stay in the mansion for a good life, women's house, and marry a man to be a husband and a child. It's not appropriate to stay in the military camp all day and go to sea. It's justified to have a child early!" Mrs. Han pulled Li Jing's sign language and said earnestly.

Li Jing just nodded and never refuted.

The Han family sighed and said again: "Miss Yu's family, how do you plan to arrange it?" It has been three years since Yu Youniang lived in Li's family.It's really easy to ask God to send God away, and the old lady has already understood Yu Youniang's wishes. It's been three years, so there is no other arrangement at this time.However, with Li Jing's current status as the county king, even if she was accepted as a concubine by Yu Youniang, although she felt a little wronged, it was still justified.

"Don't worry about these things, Auntie, I will arrange them later." Although Li Jing said so, in fact, Li Jing didn't know how to arrange them.Because of Yu Youniang's matter, there is now some estrangement between Yu's family and Li Jing, and Yu Yu's side is better, he is his teacher, and he understands the specific situation better.But the other three uncles in the Yu family didn't have much good opinion of Li Jing, they all thought that Li Jing's handling of things was wrong and harmed Yu Youniang.Yu Youniang has been in Li's family for three years, but she doesn't even have a name, and even if she wants to marry, she can't do it.As a result, the Yu family's reputation plummeted.

After chatting with her mother for a while, Li Jing went back to the main room to rest.

As soon as they entered the house, Wang Guiniang brought Wang Wanjun and Xiao Yulou in together.But he came here with the account book in the mansion to show Li Jing's purpose.

After Xiao Yulou entered the school, Li's mother completely ignored the affairs of the mansion and handed over all affairs to Wang Guiniang.But there are two to three hundred people in the mansion, Wang Guiniang can't take care of it, most of the things fall into Wang Wanjun's hands, and gradually Wang Wanjun doesn't respect Wang Guiniang as a big woman.

In the end, it was Li Jing who came up with an idea for Guiniang, dividing the affairs of the mansion into three parts, with Wang Wanjun in charge of the specific affairs of the mansion, and Xiao Yulou responsible for the accounting records of all the money and food expenses in the mansion.All Wang Wanjun's affairs, the money and food needed must be recorded in Xiao Yulou's account.Then Wang Guiniang is only responsible for managing the money and food in the mansion, and all expenses, monthly bills, etc. are paid by her.But for all the money, Wang Wanjun needs to issue a specific note first, and then go to Xiao Yulou to exchange it for a receipt, so that she can get the money from her.

For such a matter, the affairs of the mansion are divided into three parts, Wang Wanjun is in charge of affairs, Xiao Yulou is in charge of accounts, and Wang Guiniang is in charge of money.Regardless of whether it's management or accounting, the money has to be taken from Wang Guiniang anyway. Therefore, Wang Guiniang has few things to worry about now, but no one dares to take it lightly.

"It's enough for you guys to take care of the affairs in the mansion, and I don't have to worry about it." Li Jing said with a smile without looking at the books.

The three wives wanted to spend more time with Li Jing in private, but when they were together, they were embarrassed to stay longer and left together.After a while, Wang Wanjun returned alone again.Li Jing looked at her curiously. Ever since Li Jing reprimanded her for meddling in military and political affairs, she devoted herself to taking care of the affairs of the mansion. The Li Mansion with hundreds of people was well organized by her.

Moreover, in the past three years, two sons have been born successively. Thanks to the improvement of medical care in Dengzhou, all three sons have grown up very healthy.Wang Wanjun's status in the mansion is also increasing, especially when the main wife has never had a child, it is like becoming the mistress of the mansion.

"What's the matter with you?" For Wang Wanjun, Li Jing didn't dislike her, but felt that she was sometimes not content with her duties and was a troublemaker.

Wang Wanjun is very smart, otherwise, he would not have given birth to three sons in the past few years.A woman who is both smart and beautiful is generally always in the upper hand.

She didn't speak, just took out a folder from her sleeve and handed it to Li Jing.

Li Jing took the booklet with some doubts and opened it, but saw that what was written on it was actually a countermeasure against Gao Pian's transfer order.Looking at the silky handwriting, Li Jing recognized at a glance that this book was written by Wang Wanjun.First suppressing the unhappiness in his heart, Li Jing glared at Wang Wanjun and then looked down.

After looking at it at a glance, Li Jing couldn't help being shocked.

Because Wang Wanjun's countermeasure is very simple but very constructive, which is to agree to Gao Pian's transfer order.Then transfer a fleet of 2000 people from the [***] navy, plus 1 people from the two infantry armies of [***], and transfer 2 people from the fourth army that Ji Tan just joined.These more than [-] people were formed into a southward camp.

Of course, Wang Wanjun's real intention was not to follow Gao Pian's order to encircle Huang Chao, but to take this opportunity to go south.According to Wang Wanjun's plan, first go down the coast to Taining Army Haizhou, occupy Yuzhou Island, a large coastal island, as a supply point for going south, and station troops on the island.Then the army continued to go south until Haikou of the Yangtze River, and then occupied Hudouzhou, a large island in Haikou, and stationed troops on it.

Hu Douzhou is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Not far from the north of the river is Yangzhou, the headquarters of the Huainan Army, and not far from the south of the Yangtze River is Runzhou, the headquarters of the Zhenhai Navy.If the town [***] stationed [-] soldiers and a fleet here, it could be said that a chain had been wrapped around Gao Pian's throat.

Wang Wanjun bit her red lips with jaded teeth, and looked at Li Jing nervously.

She is always unwilling to be lonely, unwilling to be content with trivial matters in the mansion, but it's a pity that Li Jing has always refused to give her a chance to get involved in political affairs.This time, she took a great risk and made this countermeasure, but she didn't know whether it was right or wrong! (To be continued.)