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Liaodong City.

On the Golden Hall of the original Goguryeo Palace, Li Jing, who was dressed in a long list of names such as the King of Andong County, the Marshal of Soldiers and Horses of Hebei and Northeast Province, the Envoy of the Twelve Towns of Ziqing, the Observation Ambassador, and the Comfort Ambassador, wore a small lapel wallet, a pair of tight-mouthed straight-leg leather pants, and a white rhinoceros belt around his waist. A long hair was tied up and tied in a bun on the top of his head, and he did not wear a crown, but directly inserted a mutton fat jade hairpin.

There is a fire channel in the wall of the hall, and the fire is burning, even if it is the season of Liaodong in November at this time, the hall is still warm as spring.

Li Jing glanced at the fold respectfully presented by the Goguryeo eunuch Park Zhengen, who had been retained, and first glanced at the Hebei envoy standing in the hall. This envoy who came to envoy on behalf of the four towns of Hebei is an old acquaintance of Li Jing, and the current commander of the Hebei Lu Long Army Mozhou Assassin Shi and Lu Long Army Dingba Commander Liu Rengong Liu Cave Head. At first, he was Li Maoxun's subordinate, and later became Li Keju's subordinate, then Li Quanzhong's subordinate, and now he is Liu Yue's subordinate in the blink of an eye.

Because Liu Rengong and Li Jing were able to make it many times, the four towns of Hebei sent him again this time.

After retracting his gaze and scanning Liu Gutou's book, Li Jing smiled lightly.

As he expected, Liu Rengong came here because he had finally made a statement, and the north and south dispatched troops and horses at the same time to express their support for the imperial court.

Li Jing sent 10,000 troops to the border in the north of Youzhou, and at the same time, he mobilized and deployed 20,000 soldiers and horses on the Qingzi Qi line south of the Yellow River. This transfer arrangement really made the four towns of Hebei feel extremely pressured.

In addition to the fact that the three towns of Hebei destroyed the Yiwu Army with lightning speed at the beginning, the three towns expanded to four towns. After that, there was a moment of silence. did not attack the towns of the imperial court as expected. Instead, it's recruitment. Each guarded its own territory, and deployed heavy troops on the first line of Taihang Mountain, as well as the first line of the Yellow River, and the first line of Youzhou. The four sides are guarded, and the middle is empty.

The arrangement of the four towns was obviously underprepared, and they did not dare to rush to attack the land east of the river. At the same time, it is not difficult to see. They are very afraid of the Zhenguo Army, which has never expressed its position. The territory of the Zhenguo Army is huge, not only has a huge territory in Liaodong, but also occupies the four states of the original Lu Longjun in the Jitanping Camp in the north of Youzhou, and is approaching Youzhou. At the same time, in the south, the town of Ziqing of the Zhenguo Army, although it did not meet the border with Weibo Town, but was separated from the Yichang army, but this also made the Hebei rebels not dare to directly attack the Yichang army, for fear of triggering the counterattack of the Zhenguo army.

Other than that. The Zhenguo Army has a powerful naval army and can attack Youzhou or Chengde from the eastern coast at any time. Arguably. In terms of strategic geography, the three towns of Hebei are now completely inferior to Li Jing. They had to guard against Li Jing, in case Li Jing suddenly sent troops from behind, it would be quite troublesome.

Now Li Jing has expressed his stance and stood on the side of the court. This is a great blow to the four towns of Hebei, and the sending of Liu Rengong this time is actually to hope to change this result.

The gifts sent by the four towns were not light, twenty each of the kabuki and dancers, plus ten beauties. In addition, there were ten thousand taels of gold. However, these are not the most surprising to Li Jing, because when Li Jing turned to the second page of the gift list, when he saw the gifts on it, he couldn't help but be shocked, and his brows were furrowed.

The gift of the four towns indicated on the second page is the six crowns of the Son of Heaven.

The six crowns are the emperor's clothes of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and there are six kinds of crowns, such as the big crown of fur, the crown of the gon, the crown of the eagle, the crown of the slug and the crown of the Xuan, which are the imperial robes worn by the emperor on six different occasions.

Six tiaras are all available, and each of them is quite complete. Even, the four towns of Hebei also carved six jade seals of the Son of Heaven for Li Jing.

Seeing this, Li Jing really wanted to scream a ridiculous idea.

No wonder people say that during the Five Dynasties, the generals' favorite thing to do was to support others as emperors, and it was in an era like the Five Dynasties that it was possible for Song Taizu to add a yellow robe. It turned out that Li Jing always thought that Song Taizu's yellow robe must have been done by the people below him.

But after arriving in the Tang Dynasty for so long, Li Jing finally had seven points of belief that Song Taizu's yellow robe was definitely not done by his subordinates. It was those subordinate generals who took the initiative to do it. Just like right now, Li Jing is the king of Andong County of the Tang Dynasty, but just because he had reservations about the emperor's orders before, as a result, now these four towns in Hebei, who are afraid of him, immediately took the initiative to send the six crowns of the Son of Heaven, and even the jade seal was carved for him.

If it weren't for Li Jingyuan in Liaodong City, the four towns of Hebei would not be his subordinates. Li Jing believed that if these people were his subordinates, if they were in Liaodong City at this time, they would directly give Li Jing a yellow robe.

However, just thinking about it, Li Jing completely understood the thoughts of the four towns in Hebei, they had always been a semi-divided feudal town, but because of a few misunderstandings, they were forced to rebel later. But the current situation makes them feel unconfident, after all, the rebellion of the four towns back then was much more powerful than the current one. But after the most trouble, it was still pacified by the imperial court, and now the mobilization of the imperial court is not smaller than the original momentum.

What worries them even more is that now behind them, there is also Li Jing, the king of Andong County, who has 200,000 soldiers. If he was dedicated to serving the court and led his troops to attack their backs, it would be difficult for them to withstand the court's attacks from several sides.

So after thinking about it, I finally came up with a solution that was not a solution.

In that year, the imperial court of Dezong sent Li Xilie, the king of Huainan Nanping County, to crusade against Ziqing Town, but Ziqing Town sent lobbyists to say that Li Xilie was moved, and Li Xilie made an alliance with the four towns and defected. Not long after Li Xilie rebelled, he built Chu and became emperor.

With Li Jing's current soldiers and horses, his momentum is no smaller than that of the four towns. And looking at his previous attitude towards the emperor's will, as well as Li Jing's behavior in the past few years, it shows that Li Jing is not a simple character.

After some discussion, the four towns sent Liu Rengong to bring the imperial robe, the meaning was very simple, the four towns were willing to serve Li Jing as the son of heaven, and they were ministers.

For the four towns, if this thing is successful, as long as Li Jing has a rebellion and takes it, then Li Jing will be the emperor, and it will be impossible to return to the imperial court from now on. In this way, the biggest enemy becomes an ally, and the opposition army not only has its strength increased greatly, but also the power of the imperial court has greatly decreased. And what they paid was just a huge name. Anyway, the four towns didn't think about replacing Li Tang, their bigger idea was actually just to turn the four towns of Hebei into an eternal separatist force, which would be passed down from generation to generation.

I have to say that this trick of the four towns in Hebei is very unexpected and very tempting.

If you are an ordinary person, I am afraid that it is difficult to resist this temptation. You must know that Li Jing is now under his command, plus the newly established Liaozhong Fushun Army in the area of Liaodong City, there are a total of six towns, 200,000 troops in 21 prefectures, and more than 5 million people.

And if the four towns of Hebei are willing to serve Li Jing as the emperor, then as long as they nod, they can get at least 300,000 troops from the six towns and sixteen states.

In this way, it is not impossible for a rebel army with 37 states and 500,000 troops to replace the Li family. How many people in the world can refuse this temptation?

However, Li Jing's mind is very clear, and Li Jing doesn't remember anything when his mind is hot.

For Li Jing, agreeing to the request of the four towns, he could not get anything substantive except for the empty name of an emperor. Now that he is presumptuous to be the emperor, there will be many disadvantages. First of all, the internal turmoil of the military and the people in Liaodong will inevitably greatly hurt the vitality of Liaodong. In fact, he became the emperor, and the four towns of Hebei nominally submitted to him, but in fact, he could never command these four towns. On the contrary, because the Four Towns belong to him, it is impossible for him to fight the idea of the Four Towns again, which is self-tied. There is another one, once Li Jing is proclaimed emperor, he will really be the number one enemy of the Tang Dynasty.

The four towns of Hebei are kings, and if the court feels unsettled, they can also pull down the subordinates to pardon their sins and maintain the current territory of both of them. But once Li Jing became emperor, the Tang Dynasty would never let him go, and the two sides could only die and die. Since then, Li Jing has become the number one enemy of the imperial court, and he will definitely bear all the firepower, which is too stupid, and it is completely a full-map cannon that attracts firepower.

And Li Jing is now, supporting Liaodong and watching the tiger fight, neither the imperial court nor the Hebei rebels dare to take the initiative to provoke him, but have to be careful with him everywhere. Maintaining the status quo, Li Jing can accelerate the construction of Liaodong on the one hand, and continue to deal with Khitan and other backyard neighbors on the other, and can continue to do business and trade, and accumulate stronger strength.

As long as the pros and cons of this pros and cons are compared, how can Li Jing be lured by the name of the emperor and don't know the east, west, north and south.

The gold and beauty Li Jing accepted it, and as for the hot yellow robe, Li Jing returned it as it was.

Although Liu Rengong was a little disappointed after returning to the inn, he had already understood how a character like Li Jing could be easily moved by a yellow robe. I was packing my luggage and preparing to return tomorrow, but there was a knock on the door of the inn.

When I opened it, I saw that there were several characters I didn't know, all of them were dressed in silk and satin, and they were extremely rich.

didn't wait for him to ask, but these people had already reported to their families, and they were all big shopkeepers of major commercial houses.

"We want to do business with General Liu and others!" One of them, a middle-aged man who claimed to be the shopkeeper of Wufeng Commercial Bank, said directly. Under the name of Wufeng Commercial Bank, there is mainly a large fishing fleet, and has more than a dozen canneries, their main business is canned food, and mainly canned fish, and some such as lamp oil and other transactions.

The business that the shopkeeper of Wufeng Commercial Bank wants to do is actually very simple, to exchange canned food for people. Regardless of adults, villains, men or women, as long as they are under the age of 50 and there are no infectious diseases or major diseases, he wants it. All the population can be exchanged for canned food.

Liu Rengong's heart jumped when he heard this, and his eyes turned to several other businessmen, although they operated different products, their requirements were similar, and they all planned to exchange their products for population. (To be continued......)