After the banquet, Li Lingfu did not immediately ask Xuan Cheng to ask Li Jing what he meant to find Qingnicheng. In the study where he lived, several horsemen of the Crane Army who first followed him to Liaodong, as well as his three sons who had just reached adulthood, as well as several retainers of his father's old city lord, and his wife, Mrs. Gao, also attended this core meeting.

"Where did this Li Jing come from?" The chief of staff of Qingni City, who is nearly seventy years old, and Li Mengfa, the old manager of the three generations of city lords of the Li family, asked. Although the boss is old, he is in good spirits, with a childish face and a red face. He has gone through three generations of city lords of the Li family in Qingnipu, and has always served as the head of staff, and Li Lingfu also relies on him a lot.

Li Lingfu rubbed the purple sand teapot on his fingers, and turned his head to look at his second son Li Juyi, who was only twenty years old, "Erlang, I asked you to collect information that is good at Li Jing, how did you collect it?" ”

Li Juyi and Li Lingfu were simply printed in the same mold, he was born when Li Lingfu was still a horse thief in the Yingzhou area of western Liaoning, and did not follow back to Qingnipu until he was ten years old. When he returned to Qingnipu, he was already following his eldest brother and three brothers to shoot bows and arrows on horseback at the age of ten, and followed his father to participate in the battle to rescue Qingnipu. To this day, half of his left ear was missing from his face, which had been slashed off by a soldier in the town of Tori during the battle. If it hadn't been for the Boss who shot the soldier with an arrow in time, he might have died ten years ago.

The tiger father has no dogs, and Li Juyi, who is only twenty years old, is already a captain in the Crane Control Army, compared to Li Juren, the eldest man who has stayed in the city all these years to follow his father to learn how to govern the city. He has the temperament of a father. He habitually touched the half of his ear that was left on the other side. Said slowly: "Li Jing." The word Ji Yu. His ancestral home was Yingzhou, Liaoxi, and his ancestors were the primary colonels of the Pinglu Army for generations, and later crossed the sea to Qingzhou with the army. His grandfather was the head of the army of Li Shidao and the envoy of Ziqing Pinglu Jiedu, and later attacked Ziqing Town and died on the battlefield. His grandmother took his father to move to Wang Lizhuang, Qingning Township, Muping County, Dengzhou. When Li Jing was seven years old, he died in the Qiu Fu Rebellion. Li Jing was raised by his widowed mother since he was a child, and studied literature with his mother when he was a child, and obtained the qualification of township tribute, but he was unable to participate in the imperial examination because his eldest brother sent grain to Xuzhou and died in the Pang Xun rebellion. ”

"Just last year, my second brother died at the hands of Yanding, and he also escaped death. Later, he was framed and imprisoned, and was almost exiled to Ili, but he was released from prison by the Son of Heaven. Then he took the initiative to participate in the Dengzhou Unity Army for the same village, and was appreciated by the former Dengzhou Assassin Cui Yunqing and Sima Yuxuan and Bie Jia, Zhao Wang Li Wei for assassinating bandits on the road, and made steady progress. Leap to the head of the united soldiers"

"A few years ago, he was appointed as the town general of Da Xie Shamen Town. Last month, the One-Eyed Jiao led nearly 2,000 pirates to attack Salmon Island, but was defeated and annihilated by him with a group of newly recruited soldiers and a group of farmers. ”

The old manager Li Meng half-closed his eyes, "That's all?" ”

Li Juyi flipped through the handscroll in his hand, "There is still some information, but it has not been confirmed." ”

"Let's hear it first." Li Meng said directly.

"Also, we have heard some unconfirmed information, Li Jing's entry into Shamen Town is actually the meaning of Song Wen, the new assassin of Dengzhou, with the intention of letting Li Jing enter the garrison of Dengzhou like a wedge, which is also said to be the meaning of Song Wei and Cui Yunqing, the marshals of the Ziqing Festival. There is also a rumor that Shi Feng Yanqing, the former governor of Dengzhou, was actually ambushed and assassinated by Li Jing in the name of pirates. ”

"In addition, the recent attack on Cat Island was attacked, and our people suspect that this matter was done by Zhen Donghai, who left the word, and Li Jing was also involved, and even the mastermind."

It was quiet in the study, and the excuse for the attack on Qingnipu by Duli Town and Beisha City this time was that they had attacked Cat Island. If this matter was Li Jing's mastermind, wouldn't they still be involved by Li Jing.

"Anything else?" Li Lingfu, who had never spoken, spoke up, and there was no expression on his face.

"I just received a message that the one-eyed Jiao's lair in Iron Mountain was attacked yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon, a fierce naval battle broke out in Tieshan Harbor, and Feng Zhang's detachment of 37 ships and more than a dozen ships of One-Eyed Jiao joined forces and encountered an ambush at Tieshan Harbor that was suspected of being the East China Sea of Zhen. In this battle, it is suspected that the power of Zhendonghai used an extremely powerful fire, and the fleet of the Feng family was defeated, and only more than ten ships fled back to Wuhu Island. However, Wuhu Island was attacked and captured by Li Jing, and the dozen or so boats escaped from Li Jing's pocket and were all captured. ”

Even Li Lingfu was shocked by this news, "How credible is the intelligence?" Also, what kind of ships are the ships of the detachment of Feng Zhang, and how many people are there? ”

"The news has just arrived, and it has not been confirmed, but it is highly likely. Such important news, even if it has not been confirmed, the spies will not dare to send it back indiscriminately. Feng Zhang's detachment consisted of thirty-seven warships, led by Wu Qian, the captain of Fort Montenegro, as well as several captains and officers of Da Xie Qi, and his nephew Feng Ming as the supervisor of the Marquis of Duyu. The thirty-seven warships consisted of one building ship, two fighting ships, ten sea falcons, four walkers, eight shippers, and twelve yachts. Four of these ships are the latest modified ironclad sea falcons. ”

There was a gasp in the room, such thirty-seven warships were equivalent to the full strength of the poor fleet of three thousand people in Qingnipu. It is unbelievable that such a force can be said to be wiped out.

The third brother, Li Juli, pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "How can the second brother take everything, how is this possible?" Zhendonghai is just a barely lined number one pirate on the Liao Sea, and even the one-eyed Jiao is not weaker than them. Even if they joined forces with Li Jing, it would be impossible to wipe out such a fleet. What's more, this battle was basically fought by a group of pirates in Zhendonghai, but Li Jing took Wuhu Fort, how could this be true? When did the pirates become so powerful, not only were they able to quietly capture a well-defended fortress island like Cat Island, but now they have even destroyed a powerful fleet. Li Juli was only nineteen years old at this time, he was not like his eldest brother's literature, nor was he like his second brother's martial arts, but had a kind of arrogance and arrogance.

Li Lingfu stretched out his hand to stop Li Juli's intention to continue, he sighed, and said heavily: "I think this thing is very likely to be true." ”

Mrs. Gao spoke up: "Li Jing's envoy is on the island, why don't you send someone to ask him, don't you know everything?" Mrs. Gao and others do not participate in the affairs of the city, but Li Lingfu often asks her about some affairs in the city. Her words carried a lot of weight in Li Lingfu's heart.

The old manager Li Meng also opened his eyes and said with a solemn face: "The old man also thinks that these news are true, from the fact that Li Jing actually sent someone to attend Zhongmou's birthday, and also sent such a heavy gift, and just gave us a big deal to make money at the banquet, it can be seen that this Li Jing is not an ordinary person." You have just heard Li Jing's information, last year he was just a farmer with a township tribute qualification, and he almost died in prison. But now, in less than a year, he is already a town general, with his own territory soldiers and horses, and even annihilated more than a thousand pirates who will attack with only one own strength. No matter how much he does, the old man doesn't think it's strange. ”

"If these are true, then Li Jing is too bold, not only assassinated Shangguan Shangyanqing, but also secretly colluded with the pirate town Donghai, and even attacked Cat Island. Now that he has destroyed the detachment of Feng Zhang, and has also attacked and occupied Wuhu Island, isn't he going to rebel? What does it mean that he is coming to us now? The boss Li Juren was secretly frightened, this Li Jing was too violent, and he was completely a fearless person.

"The old man thinks this is good news." Li Meng has experienced too much, has seen the ups and downs of Qingni City, and looks at things much more thoroughly than the three Li Juren brothers. "Looking at this situation, this Li Jing is completely a tiger, and it can even be said that this is a tiger deliberately released by Song Wei, Cui Yunqing and others, in order to disturb the muddy water in Dengzhou. Originally, the affairs of Dengzhou had nothing to do with us, but in fact, Da Xie Yan and our Qingnipu were only more than 100 miles away. Since this Li Jing dared to attack Cat Island, enter the Tieshan Mountain in Duli Town to suppress the one-eyed Jiao's lair, lure and annihilate the Fengzhang detachment, and even seize Wuhu Island, it can be seen that this is not a person who shoots according to routines. ”

"I have seen a lot of such people, and they are generally divided into two categories, one is the madman, and this kind of person is either killed by the enemy or killed by his own men. There is another kind like Li Jing, who seems to be reckless, but in fact, every step is carefully calculated. Taking one step, he had already counted three steps and saw ten steps away. It would be terrible if such a person was an enemy, but Li Jing would not become our enemy, which is a blessing. ”

"How so?"

"Interests, everything is because of interests. We and Li Jing do not have a conflict of interest now, and we can even say that we have a common enemy. Our main enemy is Duli Town, and Li Jing's biggest enemy now is Feng Zhang, don't forget, among the thirty-six representatives in charge of Duli Town, one is the Feng family, and there are several families connected to the Feng family. Li Jing came to us, naturally because he was afraid that Duli Town would deal with him. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We are all enemies of the town of Tori, so we can be friends. ”

The old manager looked wise, "Zhongmou, go and find that monk messenger, now it's time to talk to him about some serious things." Friends are friends, what should be asked is still to be asked, and the conditions that should be discussed are still to be discussed. What is the matter, the conditions are negotiated first, and the relationship will be stable. He got up with his cane, "Okay, you can do the rest, my old bone will be drowsy as soon as it gets dark, I'll go back first." I was greedy for a cup at night, and I couldn't help but be tempted to drink a small glass of that Wuliangye, and now I feel energetic. By the way, Zhongmou, this wine turned around and asked people to send two jars to the old man. (To be continued.) )