Chapter 618: Selling Youzhou

"The minister Duchen paid a visit to the king. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info The king has no expiration date for tens of thousands of years. ”

On the top of the main hall, Du Xing followed the attendant and walked in cautiously, seeing that Li Jing was writing something behind the desk, he quickly fell to the ground and shouted loudly. I don't know why, when I saw Li Jing before, Du Xing didn't feel like this, but now when I meet Li Jing, I feel a deep pressure, which makes him honestly afraid.

"Get up! It's all their own people, where there are so many etiquette. Li Jing lowered his head absently and said, "Du Xing, now you are in Youzhou, and when you return to Taiyuan, your reward will come down." ”

"Wechen thanked the king." Du Xing was very moved in his heart, following Li Jing all these years, isn't it just to seal his wife and son? As for the postponement of the reward, he didn't have any opinion, not only him, but even Zhao Ding, Li Fu, Luan Tingyu and others were not canonized, and they had to wait until they returned to Taiyuan to worship the temple before rewarding them.

"By the way, come to me for something?" Li Jing thought of something, and beckoned the waiter to show Du Xing a seat before asking.

"The inside line came to report, Cai Jing went to see Pharmacist Guo, and was ready to ask Pharmacist Guo to find a way to lead the resentful army out of Youzhou, and then colluded with Tong Guan to prepare to attack Youzhou." Du Xing suddenly showed excitement and said: "Our people have already told Cai Jing about the strength of the battalion, and Cai Jing is also convinced. I think he has the courage to do this. ”

"Of course, I am convinced, there are only 30,000 troops in the camp, and there are only 35,000 Khitan troops, and if Tong Guan adds the resentful army, there will be at least 80,000 or 90,000 people, if the command is obtained, it is still very simple to eliminate more than 30,000 of my people." Li Jing said with a smile.

After Du Xing heard this, there was a trace of hesitation on his face, he didn't know why Li Jing wanted to reveal the truth in the camp, but he was in charge of the secret guard, but he couldn't ask about military affairs.

"You mean, we did a good job of secrecy, why did you tell Cai Jing about the actual situation in the general?" Li Jing seemed to see Du Xing's hesitation, and said with a smile: "I have already called the king, but I am the king in front of Cai Jing, and at this time, the envoy of the imperial court is already on the way here, and it will not take more than five days before and after, in this case, if Cai Jing does not make any moves, I am afraid that the day he returns to Bianjing will be when he goes to prison, so he needs to say, at least to show his attitude, whether the result is victory or defeat, he has to make a choice, and the crusade is the simplest attitude, In that case, why don't I give him a chance? Look at the opportunity to come, he is about to act. ”

"But?" Du Xing was still a little hesitant, not understanding why Li Jing asked Cai Jing to do this, and why the two sides still had to fight.

"We must believe in our fists at all times, only by fighting can we make the court realize our strength, fear us, and protect our rear wings, and when we are at war with Western Xia, there is no problem in the back road." Li Jing Zhengrong said: "These people in the imperial court are the most hateful, they have no ability of their own, but they are thinking of colluding with others, and the Khitans were destroyed like this, if we can't teach them a hard lesson, we will become the second Khitan." Therefore, when we were leaving, we gave a hard lesson to the people of the court, so that when the troops of the court saw our banner, they would be afraid and frightened. ”

"The king is wise." Duchenne hurriedly said. He didn't know the big truth in this, but he believed that everything Li Jing did would not be wrong, and he only needed to implement Li Jing's decision.

"At this time, Yelu Dashi is already negotiating with Cai Jing, hehe, is it negotiating? Talk while fighting. Actually, I'm worried about the golden people. Li Jing hesitated for a while and said: "We have hurt the imperial court, when they face the Jin people, I don't know how much strength they still have, whether they can support us until we defeat Western Xia." He has seen that the Song family has decayed to a certain point, whether it is officialdom or the army, he can see it, and the Jin people can also see it, especially after Wu Qimai ascended the throne, his eyes are either to the west and deal with himself, or to the south, to conquer the Central Plains, according to normal reasoning, the possibility of going south is very high, the Song family is cowardly, but it has rich land and countless people, just like a baby walking in the downtown with gold, there is no sense of security at all.

"The imperial court won't be cowardly to that extent, right?" Duchenne said worriedly.

"Anything can happen." Li Jing shook his head, and disappeared without a trace at all in his heart, the Song family will reward the gold people with New Year's coins every year, it is better to reward these New Year's coins to themselves, and let them use them to buy Youzhou. Thinking of this, Li Jing's mood has also changed a lot.

It's just that his mood is a lot better, in a palace not far from the main hall, Cai Jing is in a difficult negotiation with Yelu Dashi, and the two sides are arguing over everything in Youzhou City, not giving up an inch of land, not giving up an inch of gold. The two talked very hard, to be precise, Cai Jing talked very hard.

Since Li Jing established himself as the king, Cai Jing knew how difficult it was to recover Youzhou, but it was even more difficult to sell Youzhou, and there were two objects of sale, one Song family, and one Jinren, isn't Li Jing afraid of being scolded by the world? Soon, he understood that there were actually many ways to sell to the Jin people, and it was natural for the Jin people to attack, and Li Jing pretended to be lost. Because of this, Cai Jing had to grind with Yelu Dashi.

"Forty-five million is too much." Cai Jing refused without thinking about it, now the annual income of the Song family is only 90 million, and more than half of it was buried for a Youzhou at once, after buying Youzhou, I am afraid that the civil and military officials of the imperial court will not have to eat. Cai Jing is in charge of finance, and such a thing must not be done.

"Hehe, Lord Cai, His Royal Highness the King of Tang spent 50,000 soldiers and horses in order to seize Youzhou, needless to say how many soldiers, horses, materials, etc. were lost, and the pension of these 50,000 soldiers will also be an astronomical amount, according to the king's regulations, the families of those soldiers who died in the war will be compensated with 400 yuan per household, and there will be other compensation for those who are old and weak, such as the old man in the family, the king will also send someone to support him all year round, and the family will have a young person, and the king will also raise him to the age of eighteen. It didn't go into the king's own pocket at all, but to the soldiers who died in battle. Losses aside, shouldn't the imperial court spend some money on the bereavement of the families of the victims? Yelu Dashi said with some dissatisfaction.

Cai Jing's old face trembled, the soldiers who died in the imperial court naturally had a pension, but in fact it was only fifty times, and some deductions were made in each link, and the families of the dead actually got only ten times or a little more, where was it like Li Jing who gave as much as four hundred times in one breath? Of course, he knew that there was moisture in it, but he didn't know how to refute it, in the final analysis, the imperial court knew too little about this piece, and even didn't want to understand it, so he suffered a secret loss.