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In this banquet, not only the wealthy families and officials and landlords in Dengzhou who received the post, but also many people who did not receive the invitation, also came uninvited because they had heard about it. Among them, many small landlords and merchants from the four counties of Dengzhou came with generous gifts, but they did not have invitations so they could not go to the banquet, and brought gifts just to leave their names on the account books for receiving gifts.

Although it can't be compared with those distinguished guests who give thousands of gifts, although these people's gifts may only be hundreds or dozens of times, they can't stop the number of people who give gifts. Due to the repeated postponement of this banquet, Dengzhou has long known about it. Not only did people with a little face in Dengzhou come, but even many caravans in Dengzhou Port also sent people to give gifts.

Moreover, in addition to Dengzhou, there are also those caravans that are in Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou, and even Mizhou, Yizhou, Haizhou, Sizhou, Xuzhou and other farther places There are also some big clans and officials who have sent people to give gifts. The gifts given by these people are not light, this gift is not only to congratulate Li Jing on taking over Dengzhou, but also to want to get closer to Li Jing, and even have the intention of getting some cooperation from Li Jing's side. Some want to buy Li Jing's specialty and rare goods, some want to buy liquor, perfume, rock sugar, and even buy ordnance, war horses, cattle and sheep, etc., and some want to buy salt.

For these people, Li Jing naturally did not refuse.

However, the most surprising thing today is the generous gifts given by the Cui family, the Xiao family, the Han family and other major families. Several families not only sent 100,000 yuan of money, but also sent 100,000 stone of grain. Not only send money. Food was also delivered. This is at a time of such a food shortage. It's more precious than hundreds of thousands of dollars. From this, it can be seen that Cui, Han, and Xiao do fully support Li Jing.

Then the most striking thing was the nearly 30 powerful forces in Liaodong, as well as the gifts sent by Cheonghae Town in Silla. The gifts of each family are almost converted into 100,000 yuan, but the most important thing is food, Duli Town sent 500,000 stones, and most of the other sizes of the power are cattle and sheep. These forces have sent food one after another, making everyone feel an unusual taste.

"This is the power established by the Tang people in the southeast of Liao. It seems that this time he has bowed his head to Li Jing. "The banquet hasn't started yet, but the guests have already entered the Assassin's Club. Today's banquet is divided into more than a dozen halls, large and small, arranged according to different identities. A few friendly guests sat together, drinking tea and whispering.

Since Li Jing received the appointment of the protector of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, he has officially raised the banner, and has now moved the official office and banner of the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate to Beisha City. And immediately sent a notice to those Han forces in Liaodong, asking them to accept the jurisdiction of the Andong Protectorate. The so-called jurisdiction is to recruit these grass kings, but Li Jing will not have too many requirements at the beginning. It was only required that they nominally belong to the imperial court, and Li Jing would grant them the official position of the protectorate.

But concrete. Their own soldiers and horses and territory are still in their hands, and this will not change for a while. If you want to change, it means that they will be Li Jing's subordinates in the future, and they will have to pay some taxes to the Metropolitan Protectorate, and if Li Jing needs it, they will have to cooperate with the army.

After this announcement was issued, all parties in Liaodong were silent and watching. For them, they are unwilling to be free in Liaodong for a hundred years, and now they suddenly want to put a shackle on their heads. But he didn't dare to refuse directly, Beisha City was destroyed in front of him, and Duli Town was beaten to sign an alliance under the city, which is a lesson from the past. And Li Jing is no more than a small soldier who was just a big Xie Yan before.

Now Li Jing has become a person who is appreciated by the Son of Heaven, and he has become a marquis and a general, and his relationship with Song Wei has increased, and he has become the son of Song Wei, and he has suddenly become the young marshal of Ziqing Town. If Li Jing wanted to conquer them by force, no one wanted to be the first.

The silence of the various departments in southern Liaoning, and Li Jing's side has not responded. But the more this is the case, the more uneasy the various ministries in southern Liaoning become.

And among these people, the most disturbing is the town of Duli. Duli Town is located at the junction of Liaodong and Dengzhou, and it is also the forefront of Dengzhou's entry into Liaodong, and because Qingnicheng and Beisha City are already under the control of Li Jing, plus Da Xie Yan, Duli Town is almost surrounded on three sides. If Li Jing really wants to use force against Liaodong, Duli Town will bear the brunt.

In the previous two times, Duli Town used money to buy Li Jing's truce, but this time, Li Jing now has the title of Anton Duhu, which was drunk by the emperor, and he did it to Duli Town, which is justified. Especially after Li Jing got Qingni City and Beisha City, the soldiers and horses were reorganized, and now there are more than 20,000 people in the entire Zhendong Army, and although Duli Town recruits troops and horses, it is difficult to recover its strength in a short period of time.

"50,000 sheep, 500,000 stone grain." A guest sighed: "Duli Town gave Li Yuanjun millions before and after, but this time he didn't give money, but gave more precious grain." It seems that the town of Duli has indeed relented. ”

"That is, Li Yuanjun is now strong and strong, the emperor and the prime minister praise in the court, Qingzhou also has the support of Song Dashuai and Cui Sima, holding the Zhendong Army, and the new territory of Dengzhou, at this time, who dares to blow up with Li Yuanjun, that is looking for death. Besides, if Duli Town is soft, Li Yuanjun will not do anything to them for a while. ”

Several people nodded, as if they had become the princes in the court, pointing to the country.

"Now what Li Yuanjun wants is only the statement of all parties, at this time, whoever dares to refuse to join may be the next target to be attacked by Li Yuanjun. As for the others, whether they are superficially attached or not, this is secondary. ”

"Yes, it is a smart move for Duli Town to take out so much food this time, at least the current level has passed."

The people who gave gifts outside were still queuing, and since the heavy gifts of Cui, Xiao, and Han were delivered, and the big gifts of various departments in southern Liaoning were delivered, the gifts of the guests behind were obviously much richer. Some big clans in Dengzhou, such as the Xie family, gave 10,000 yuan and 8,000 stone of grain, and some other families also saw that they seemed to give food as gifts today. They also added food to the gift list. Although there is a famine at the moment. But for those of the world's great powers. They are not short of food.

These wealthy families themselves are big landowners, with tens of millions of acres of fertile land at home, and even thousands of acres of land in their homes. They sold very little grain, and each family had its own granary to store grain, especially after the drought last year, when these people did not sell a single grain of grain, and hoarded it all.

The businessmen are similar, the current situation. Almost half of the merchants were buying grain and hoarding it. It is said that it is because Zhang Da, the chief military officer of the military department, once said unintentionally, saying that Li Jing is only interested in money and food, and the rest of the things, especially luxury things, do not like it.

In the gift list that follows, basically every family has one gift, that is, food. For example, Xie Xuan sent 8,000 stone of grain, and ordinary landlords sent 1,000 stones. There were also some merchants who did not have food of their own, and temporarily came from friends who were good friends at that time. I borrowed three or five hundred stone temporarily, and at least one hundred stone of grain.

Zhang Hong looked at the account book from time to time, and looked at the grain numbers on the account book, and his face never stopped smiling.

"Marquis, the grain we received today is at least one million stones!" Zhang Hongda said to Li Jing with a smile.

Li Jing was opening a few letters brought by the gift envoys of various ministries in Liaodong, and the more he looked at it, the happier he became. According to statistics, there are now 47 Han people with more than 1,000 people in Liaodong, and today, there are 36 people who have come to give gifts, and there are 19 who have given gifts and sent letters, expressing their willingness to belong to the imperial court, and accepting the jurisdiction of the Andong Protectorate.

Although there are only 19 powerful forces willing to express their attachment, there are three great forces of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, such as Duli Town, Shirenzhu, and Shicheng, and the strength of these people who are attached at the same time has accounted for more than half of the forty-nine powerful forces.

Li Jing was naturally happy to receive a gift of one million stone of grain, but what was even happier was the reaction of the halves of southern Liaoning. Li Jing is not in a hurry to enter Liaodong at the moment, but the preliminary preparations must be done first, first of all, he has to find out the details of the various departments, and pull over those who can be co-opted first, at least, he will first bring these forces in southern Liaoning into the Andong Protectorate, and then slowly integrate them.

"Marquis, it's time for a feast!" Zhao Jiang came in to report.

Li Jing put away the letter, came to the hall, and gave a congratulatory speech, which officially started this feast for thousands of people.

There are many people attending the banquet, the wine banquet is lively, and the wine and food are quite rich. Moreover, at today's banquet, the most famous dance troupe in Dengzhou, Jian Wuge, was invited to help the fun, and the officials of Dengzhou were also called over, and even invited a few opera troupes to sing and play the piano to help the fun.

Li Jing took the officers of the Zhendong Army to toast a glass of wine from hall to hall, and then returned to the main hall. He sat there, blocking the toast of a few people, and the others did not dare to come to toast, everyone talked and laughed, but it was also very lively, this scene, it is hard to imagine that just outside the city of Dengzhou, there are countless displaced people are displaced, in the shack of cold and starvation.

Halfway through the banquet, Li Jing suddenly sighed.

Everyone looked at Li Jing, and Zhang Hong stepped forward with a smile and said, "The wine and food for today's banquet are all invited to the most famous chef in Dengzhou, but it is not in line with the taste of the county marquis?" ”

Li Jing sighed again, and after everyone put down their wine glasses and the singers stopped playing and singing, he said slowly, "Today is a day of great joy for me, but just now Ben Hou suddenly remembered a poem from Du Gongbu. Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road. Isn't this the poem about our present situation, where we are in this wine pond and meat forest, singing and dancing, but I think of the thousands of homeless people I saw today in the south of the city, who are now hungry and cold, drinking dew in the night wind. ”

As soon as such words that ruined the atmosphere came out, everyone didn't know what to do. Although these people also pay attention to their reputation, they will also help their neighbors in a disaster year or something, but relief is relief, such as in the south of the city now, take out some rice every day to put porridge, it is already a rare good deed. It can't be that just because those bitter people don't have anything to eat, they can't be happy.

"Today's banquet celebrates the victory of suppressing bandits and quelling chaos, I heard Zhang Lu's words, and won everyone's love, and actually harvested millions of stone of grain. A certain person now decided that half of the one million stone of grain received today would be kept as the military rations of the Zhendong Army, and the other half would be used as the food for the relief of the disaster. Zhang Lushi, do the math, is it enough to have these grains to revive the disaster? ”

Zhang Hong pretended to take out the counting chips in his pocket, and began to calculate them directly on the table.

"Now that the summer harvest season has passed, there is no harvest, and now that the summer planting has begun, the drought in the field has not eased at all, and it is difficult to harvest this autumn. In this way, we will have to wait until next spring to plough, and if the weather is good next year, we will have to wait until the summer harvest to have grain. In this way, from now on, it will take at least a whole year, and the people will have no food to harvest, and if there is a disaster, they will have to be revitalized for a year. ”

"There are more than 300,000 people in Dengzhou, and at least 900,000 of them have run out of food and need to be relieved. In addition, the situation in Da Xie Yan and Qingni City and Beisha City is not much better, counting at least 500,000 people waiting to release grain to relieve the disaster. An adult man has two liters of food a day, and if the average is half a liter a day per person according to the lowest standard, the annual ration needs about one stone, which is already the lowest standard. 500,000 people, that's 500,000 stone a year. That's enough. ”

Half a liter a day, one stone a year, calculated, only ten catties of grain a month, only three taels a day.

Li Jing shook his head and said: "You didn't count one thing just now, that is, these grains are not hulled, and if they are husked, they can only get about seventy percent." The average person has half a liter of food, how much is it? It's okay for a short time, a year's time, so that even if you survive until next year, your body will be over by then. According to one liter a day, it is only seven after shelling. That's a million stones a year. ”

"Junhou, we only have 500,000 stone grain, so we are at least 500,000 stone short!"

Although one million stone grains were collected today, Li Jing had just explained that half of them were to be used as military rations. All of you here are representatives of the major families in Dengzhou, at this time Li Jing said this, how could they not understand what Li Jing meant, it seems that the difference of 500,000 stones, the last will fall on them.

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