Chapter 812: Ambiguous

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By the end of the banquet, Li Jing had already been a little stiff and half-drunk because he had stayed with the Wuhu tribe for too long.

After accepting the farewell of the tribal leaders who had not yet woken up from the beautiful scene in the future, Li Jing had just left the gate of the Crystal Palace when he heard the sound of brass bells on a four-wheeled carriage. Li Keyong's wife, Liu Yunniang, the princess of Jin, was standing by the side door and preparing to get into the car. She also attended tonight's banquet, and there were not too many guards and maidservants around her, only herself and six female secret service guards with a tired face, and the black uniforms of the guards were embroidered with three-legged golden crows.

"Madame, we deeply regret what happened to you."

When she found Li Jing and came to him to salute, Li Jing spoke.

An urgent message has just arrived from Ulju that the search team has found more than a dozen skeletons in a river valley near Zhigu Pass. The armor remaining on most of the bones showed that they were the black crow soldiers next to Li Keyong, and one of the corpses was found to be one-eyed, and the original shape of the owner of the bones matched Li Keyong's figure, so they judged that perhaps Li Keyong, the flying tiger who had been missing, had already died here.

"Yanjing City will always be your home, and you can stay here forever."

"I'm glad to hear you say that." Liu Yunniang had long since lost the freedom and happiness at the banquet just now, her face was pale, her expression was scattered, and every line on her face was engraved with sadness. "King Qin, I'm tired, if you allow me to retire. I would be grateful. ”

Although there is still no news after Li Keyong disappeared for half a month. Liu Yunniang once thought of the possibility that her husband might have died. But in the bottom of my heart. In fact, she still has a glimmer of hope, maybe one morning she will wake up and hear the news of her husband's return.

Time passed slowly, and just as she gradually hid this expectation in her heart, when she was about to try to start a new life, she suddenly received such a message. She found that she couldn't just let him go.

She couldn't even believe it, it was a little ugly. Some arrogant, some domineering men, died in a nameless valley.

"Of course." Li Jing nodded and said, "You really need to mourn alone now, but people can't be resurrected after death, so please mourn." ”

The next morning, Li Jing spent most of his time discussing with everyone the official ranks and titles given to the Wuhu leaders. Basically, the Wuhu tribe had agreed to give up their control over their original tribesmen and chose to settle in several metropolises of the Qin Domain. Become a nobleman of the Tang Dynasty. But with so many heads, what title should everyone be given? What rank still needs to be discussed. Mi Haiwan and the other four big chiefs put forward a request, hoping that they could obtain the title of county king, and the deputy leaders below them could become the princes of the country, and the clan leaders below would be the princes of the county, and the heads below would be the princes and uncles of the country.

However, this request was vetoed by Qin Fang. The Qin Domain had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, a population of tens of millions, and three parts of the world. There is only one king, Li Jing, the only county king, or Li Jing's eldest son who was crowned the king of Lanling County. In fact, there are many civil and military officials, and now the highest is Cui Yunqing and other four princes, as well as the following nine county princes, and thirty-six princes.

Li Jing's thirteen disciples, except for the two special disciples at the end, Qian Jun and Yang Xingmi, who were named Yue Guogong and Wu Guogong, the remaining eleven disciples, from Liu Xun to Li Rang, are just princes.

It can be said that the princes of the four kingdoms, the nine counties, and the thirty-six princes have almost included the most important group of civil and military forces in the Qin army at present.

Now that Wuhu has returned, he has asked the four chiefs to be crowned the king of the county in one breath, and the prince of the county and the prince of the county below is simply a lion's mouth. In addition to the current four chiefs, the chieftain of the Anqing tribe who was killed in Yunzhou, Shi Jingcun, will inherit the position of chief and inherit the title of founding marquis. From the five founding candidates below, the Qin side gave each of the five nobles two founding uncles, five founding sons, ten founding men, and sixteen knights. In addition, the two sides also bargained one by one on matters such as official ranks, Yongyetian, etc., and finally reached a preliminary agreement.

Li Jing did not attend the banquet after the meeting under the pretext of being unwell, but after going out, he directly asked the guards to send him to Liu Yunniang's other courtyard.

Liu's situation seemed to be better than Li Jing expected, she did not hide in the house and cry, but taught her daughter to write hand in hand.

"No matter how powerful a woman is, if there is no man, she is like duckweed without roots. Women are like vines, and they can only climb higher by relying on towering trees. The gram is gone, and my sky is falling. The tiger girl is only so young, I hope she will be a big show who can write poetry and work as a female worker in the future, not a savage woman like me. Seeing Li Jing coming, she didn't express surprise, but just looked at her daughter calmly and said.

"This is the child who betrothed to the son of Wang Jingchong, the envoy of Chengde Town?" Li Jing asked.

She nodded.

Wang Jingchong's son, Wang Qi, was only eight years old at this time. I have heard that this is a very smart child, but after all, he is too young to be a good match. Li Jing looked at the very handsome daughter of Li Keyong and sighed lightly. is such a beautiful girl, but she is called a tiger girl. And he is only three years old, and he has already been engaged to an in-law, and the other party is still an eight-year-old child. Li Jing can imagine the unhappiness of this marriage, because the other party is the son of Chengdezhen Jieshuai. Chengde Town, maybe it won't be able to wait for Wang Qian to be destroyed.

"You should quit this family business, anyway, it was set by Li Keyong at the beginning, and the purpose is just to marry and form an alliance. Now that Li Keyong has passed away, this family business is meaningless. Madame, are you right? ”

Liu was silent, she knew very well what Li Jing meant. Although Chengde Town used to be very strong, now as the only feudal town in front of Li Jing's southward movement, the future of Chengde Town will definitely not be good.

"Keyong's righteous sons, Heiyuan and Heizhao, are now each leading a Shatuo, if they hear the news that Keyong is dead, I'm afraid that there will be a war between the two." Liu Yunniang suddenly looked up at Li Jingdao. "I know. You are waiting for this day. Civil strife in Shato. Fight with each other, and you will get the benefit of the fisherman in the end. When you let them go back to Hedong, you didn't have any good intentions, so you were waiting for such a day. Akira and Tsurumen were two very good young men, and if they had been trained in the army for a few more years, perhaps this fight would not have happened. But now, they are too young and lack prestige qualifications. You can't really control the situation. In this coming rapid, they can only be two waves that are pushed in front of them, and they can't help but rush towards each other. ”

"Why are you telling me this?" Li Jing said with some doubts, even if Li Keyong really died, the Liu family wouldn't really want Sha Tuo to be destroyed, right?

"Because I know that whether it is Si Yuan or Si Zhao, they are still too tender for you, even if you are not too different in age. If it is used, maybe Shatuo can still maintain its independence. But Keyong is dead, and almost all the generals of the older generation of Shatuo are dead. The remaining heirs are the younger generation. Now that Shatuo has been defeated one after another, with their qualifications and prestige, they will definitely not be able to resist you. What's more, I know that as soon as the news of Keyong's death passes, Sha Tuo will definitely have to go through an internal strife. ”

"Why are you so sure?"

"Do not forget that I was Kohedun of Shado, and was their queen. I know that the Shatuo people of the Dao Dao, the weak eat the strong, and respect the strong. Previously, Keyong was only missing, so both Si Yuan and Si Zhao could temporarily take over one part. After the news of Ke Yong's death came out, even if Si Zhao might be willing to support Si Yuan as the new Shatuo King, the generals below Ke Zhao would not be reconciled. At that time, neither Showa nor Heirengen could prevent this from happening. But in the end, their infighting will only end up cheapening you. ”

Liu Yunniang had a wry smile on her face, and a touch of helplessness. Her husband once was determined to lead the Shatuo tribe to establish his own kingdom, and fought for it, but he was defeated again and again, and he rose up tenaciously again and again. Now that he is dead, the Shatuo people will fall into the dust again.

"I'm telling you this in the hope that after you defeat the Shatuo tribe, you can give them the same treatment as the five tribes, and you can co-opt and assimilate them, but please don't destroy them." For the Liu family, the continuation of the Shatuo clan may be the proof of her husband Li Keyong's existence in this world.

"If you come forward to write to Li Siyuan and Li Sizhao and mediate the knot, won't you be able to avoid the infighting you said?" Li Jing was still a little surprised in her heart, she could talk to him about such an important and serious matter so plainly.

"Have you ever seen a pack of wolves on the prairie?" She replied, "In the grasslands, every pack of wolves must have a wolf. If the head wolf dies, the strongest wolf in the pack competes for the vacant head wolf position. And in order to obtain this position, it is necessary to go through a fierce gladiatorial fight, and only the strongest can come out of the crackdown and become the new head wolf. The Shatuo clan is actually a large group of wolves, and the strong are respected. ”

Li Jing understood Liu's words, the Shatuo people were indeed a pack of wolves, and they were more complex than the steppe wolves. Li Keyong was the original head wolf, and now dead. Among the remaining wolf packs, Li Sizhao and Li Siyuan are the strongest and have the most hope of inheriting this position as the head wolf. However, Li Sizhao may be willing to recognize and support Li Siyuan to directly inherit the position of the head wolf, but the tens of thousands of horses under his command are not willing to accept this result. Because when Li Siyuan was appointed as the commander, none of them supported Li Siyuan, so they were no longer Li Siyuan's people from then on. And when Li Sizhao served as the envoy of the Datong Army, Li Siyuan's group also distrusted the Yizhou Army group even more.

Although Li Sizhao is the head of Yizhou Shatuobing, his qualifications are too shallow to make a decision about his group. If Li Sizhao is unwilling to come forward and compete with Li Siyuan for the position of the head wolf, and strive for greater interests for everyone, then Li Sizhao will definitely be abandoned, and then they will launch a new head wolf to compete with Li Siyuan for the position of the head wolf of the entire Shatuo wolf clan.

Everything is a matter of interest. Obviously, Liu Yunniang, a female streamer, clearly sees the essence of affairs.

Even because of this, he saw that Shatuo would inevitably have infighting, and the result of the infighting would be that the Shatuo clan, which was already greatly injured, would be even worse, and Li Jing, the tiger, was already eyeing Shatuo, and he would never let go of such an opportunity.

Now that Liu said all this, what he asked for was a hope to continue Sha Tuo's last bit of vitality.

Li Jing didn't agree to her right away.

"Madam, you also know that Sha Tuo is quite dangerous, no matter how weak they are, once they fight the snake and don't die, they will soon be able to make a comeback. If I promise you to keep them right now, you won't trust me. All I can say now is that if the Shatuo people are the last to surrender to me, then I may be able to save them. If they really want to fight me, then I can't raise a tiger. ”

Liu Yunniang lowered her head and sighed. There are many things that she is powerless to change.

"Madam, you better think more about the rest of your life. You're still young, and after a while, when your grief has subsided, you may be able to think about your future plans. ”

"I'm just a widow who lost her husband, and I'm just a widow." She smiled tiredly and replied: "I am neither from a famous family, nor a lady who can play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but I like to dance and play with swords, and now I still have one or two children by my side." But there are many men who still flock to it, and I know what this is for. ”

"Isn't Madame going to find another person?" Li Jing was a little embarrassed to be exposed to her lies, and he knew the meaning of her words. Those who take a fancy to Liu's are not interested in her character, nor her appearance, or even her life experience. What they fancy to her is nothing more than her identity: the widow of Li Keyong, the patriarch of Shatuo and the king of Jin, a strange woman who once commanded a thousand armies.

"I also hope to find a considerate and reliable man to rely on." Liu Yunniang replied, "Then, on my terms, how many men will really want to marry me?" Besides, after experiencing the years with Keyong, I don't look down on ordinary men. ”

"Can't I like it either?" Li Jing blurted out suddenly, and he himself was a little surprised when the words came out, but the words had already been spoken, and it was difficult to collect them. He had to pretend to smile and pretend to be calm.

"If Your Highness really likes me, I don't want to. To tell the truth, His Royal Highness is the dream lover in the hearts of countless girls. After Liu Shi was stunned for a moment, his face changed slightly, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, his hands were tightly clenched in his sleeves, and then he replied with a chuckle. It's just that she didn't notice that her seemingly joking answer, but the tone was a few points faster than usual, a few degrees higher, and although this sentence seemed like a joke, it was not appropriate in terms of the identities of the two, and it was a bit like flirting when she said it.

Li Jing didn't expect Liu Yunniang to reply with such a sentence, and looked at her in a daze.

Two pairs of eyes, four eyes facing each other, an embarrassing but ambiguous atmosphere filled the air! (To be continued......)