(20,000 words burst to compensate for the reduced update when you were sick two days ago!) ）

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Dragon Boat Festival.

The envoy of the Son of Heaven from Chang'an led the team to the domestic city, and Li Jing originally planned to go to Dengzhou to meet the envoy, but the envoy of this envoy was Li Jing's old acquaintance, Xuanwei Beiyuan envoy and general of the right prison guard, Zhang Tai. He directly sent someone to Dengzhou to spread the word, saying that he would come to Liaodong in person by the edict of the Son of Heaven to watch the exploits of the soldiers of the Zhenguo Army.

However, although Li Jing did not go to Dengzhou to greet him, he still let his disciple Li Rang and the prison envoy Zhang Chengye go to greet him, and escorted him all the way to the domestic city.

Zhang Tai was very satisfied with the trip to Liaodong, from landing and crossing the sea to Duli Town, he traveled 650 miles by sea to the mouth of the Yalu River, and then changed to a small boat and traveled more than 600 miles before arriving at the domestic city. From Chang'an to China, all the way to more than 5,000 miles, he took a car, horse, boat and boat for two months. However, seeing that such a large place in Liaodong was recovered by Li Jing, he was also proud in his heart.

In the domestic city, the generals of the Zhenguo Army gathered, and Li Jing led the generals to welcome Zhang Tai into the city, and then listened to the holy decree together on the campus of Beicheng University.

Zhang Tai read out the holy decree, and the emperor gave the hussar general, the general Zuo Wuwei, the Shangzhu State, the Dadu Protector of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, the Zhenguo Army Festival Envoy, the Datong Army Festival Envoy, the Lu Long Army Festival Envoy, the Pinglu Army Festival Envoy, Situ, the Tongzhongshu Menxia Ping Zhangshi, the Zhongshu Commander Li Jing Andong County King, the real food seal of 5,000 households, into the Taiwei, and the Anton Salt and Iron Transfer Iron and Money Envoy, and the Silla Bohai Khitan Three Fan Envoys.

At the same time, Zhang Tai also read out another holy decree from the emperor, exempting the states under the Protectorate of Anton from two taxes for three years and from errand service. The main civil and military officials under the Zhenguo Army were also rewarded by the Holy Decree. Promotions reward money.

After reading the decree. Zhang Tai smiled and said to Li Jing: "Congratulations to the general on his promotion to the king of the county." Since the three dynasties of Xuanzong, Yizong and today's son, the first king with a different surname has been crowned. ”

Li Jing likes the reward of this prince very much, although it is only from the county king of the first grade, and there are heirs and princes on it, but it can be regarded as a very human minister, under normal circumstances, there is no chance to be promoted to the king of the next word. Although it is said that the tree is very popular, but at the moment he is in Liaodong. If there is a title of county king, plus the official position of the envoy of the three envoys of the Silla Bohai Khitan, as well as the protector of the capital of Andong, Li Jing now has the right to dispose of the affairs of the northeastern frontier.

And this three-year tax exemption made Li Jing even more happy. Although even if it is unavoidable, a yamen such as Andong Dadu Hufu is equivalent to a feudal town, and taxes can be withheld for military expenses. However, there was a special declaration of tax exemption and errand labor in the holy decree, which was still very helpful to Li Jing's plan to recruit the population.

"Tian Lingzi didn't object to His Majesty's proposal this time?" Li Jing welcomed Zhang Tai into the house.

"How did there be no objection. However, His Majesty was resolute this time, and Tian Lingzi, Lu Xi and others only mentioned it and did not say anything after being rejected by His Majesty. Things do go a little out of the ordinary. Zhang Tai took a sip of fragrant tea lightly and continued: "Actually, His Majesty is also a son of heaven with great ambitions, but he hated being lured by Tian Lingzi, an old dog, since he was a child. However, His Majesty was still very satisfied with the county king's efforts to recover Liaodong. In addition, Cui Anqian, Wang Duo and others were seconded to the county king when the thief pretended to attack Luoyang last time, and prepared to use Luoyang as bait to besiege and annihilate the thief. As a result, Tian Lingzi and Lu took all their strength to oppose in front of His Majesty, so they opened the siege to defend Luoyang, let the grass thief go and ran to Jiangnan. ”

After that, Cui An sneaked into the black cauldron and was removed from the post of envoy, which was also Tian Lingzi's meaning. But now the grass thieves are making trouble in the southeast, and all the taxes paid in the southeast half of the country this year are gone. The imperial court has been using troops for many years, and the treasury is empty, and His Majesty is very dissatisfied with Tian Lingzi, who is in charge. Tian Lingzi was in charge of the government on behalf of His Majesty, and he could not calm the thieves and chaos outside, and he could not solve the empty treasury inside, which disappointed His Majesty. However, it is the king of the county, who opens up his territory to expand his territory externally, and also the rebellion of the thieves at home, and not only does the soldiers and horses of the department not use a penny of the imperial court, but also can send a large amount of money to His Majesty every year to relieve His Majesty's worries. ”

Listen to the strings and know the elegant meaning.

Li Jing raised his eyebrows, "Is the inner library under His Majesty very empty?" ”

Zhang Tai smiled bitterly and said: "The Son of Heaven fought geese with King Shou and other kings a few days ago, but he couldn't get the money when he supplemented it, and he lost face." ”

"Tian Lingzi doesn't have any money?"

"Tian Lingzi will only accept bribes, how can he really manage money. His Majesty had no money, so he only knew that Lu Dao led the Shence army to rob merchants in the east and west markets of Chang'an. ”

Li Jing nodded, "In the future, I will donate one million yuan of silk to His Majesty every month, is it enough?" ”

Zhang Tai was stunned for a moment, then smiled slightly, and looked at Li Jing full of appreciation. "Okay, very good, as long as the king of the county can really give one million yuan a month, I believe that Tian Lingzi will say bad things about the king of the county in front of His Majesty, but I am afraid that His Majesty will always be towards the king of the county. It's just that a million a month is not a decimal number. ”

"It is the duty of our courtiers to make the Son of Heaven happy." Li Jing said slowly. One million is indeed a lot, but compared to being able to get the support and trust of the Son of Heaven, it is very cheap. What Li Jing needs most now is the trust and support of the Son of Heaven.

After staying in Liaodong for half a month, Zhang Tai took the heavy gifts from Li Jing, as well as the gift list to the princes of Chang'an, plus the one million Guan Jin offerings sent by Li Jing to the Son of Heaven, and returned to Beijing with great satisfaction under the escort of a battalion of cavalry sent by Li Jing.

After sending Zhang Tai away, Li Jing immediately summoned the generals to a meeting.

At the meeting, Li Jing gave a new task to the generals to grab people.

Li Jing drew 30,000 horses from the Liaodong armies, divided them into several groups of men and horses, and attacked the grasslands of Goguryeo, the Khitan of western Liaoning, and the Murwei of Mobei. At the same time, a naval fleet was dispatched to bypass the Samhan Peninsula and march toward Dongying.

There is only one requirement for soldiers and horses from all walks of life, Li Jing does not ask them to attack cities and seize land, but only asks for money, food and people. Especially robbing people, Li Jing did not hesitate to explain this loudly.

At the end of May and the beginning of June, it is the summer harvest season, and the people everywhere have to be busy with the fields to harvest.

Li Jing sent an army at this time to grab food and people. Grab all the people you can grab and send them back to Denglai. Then he returned to the Han to enrich the Liaodong occupation area.

"Encounter small towns and empty cities in defense. Eat what you can. But for large cities, fortified cities and heavily defended cities. Then it is absolutely not allowed to attack. Remember, your mission is to rob. Li Jing shouted loudly to the generals.

The Khitan people's favorite thing is to beat the grass valley, and when the harvest season comes, they begin to rob other tribes in groups, especially the Han people. In the face of these robbers, the usual place can only flee to the mountains, or flee into the city. Smaller cities will be breached by them, and larger cities, although these bandits will not attack hard. But if the people in the city dare to fight, they will often be hit hard.

Now, Li Jing wants to let his people rob the Khitans and Goguryeo, and even let the navy rob the Dongying people. Anyway, Khitan and Goguryeo are their enemies, robbing them, Li Jing doesn't have to worry about their revenge, while strengthening himself, he can also weaken the enemy, killing two birds with one stone, why not.

"Don't be discouraged if you don't get troops this time. Each time we send out soldiers and horses, they rotate once every half a month, and half a month later. Just change to another batch. Each time, 10,000 regular soldiers led 20,000 auxiliary troops to attack. This is not just robbery, this is also actual combat training. Therefore, every sortie must have a detailed operational plan. In addition, our actions are all military planning, battles, not stragglers and robbers, so military discipline is still the most important. Adultery and murder are forbidden, and seized property must also be handed over to the public. ”

Although robbery is a good way to solve the population, and robbery can also be used to train soldiers in actual combat, and it can also obtain money and food. But Li Jing didn't want to corrupt the strict military discipline of the Zhenguo Army because of such an action. Therefore, special emphasis was placed on this, and emphasis was placed on it again, and moreover, a military police battalion was dispatched to supervise military discipline.

By the Khitan Huangshui River, the Yaoyuan tribe, the camp of the Khitan Khan.

"Li Jing is crowned king?"

The Khan of Hind has been defeated in his recent battles with Diera, and has been at a disadvantage. When the shopkeeper Li, a merchant from the Central Plains who had been very popular on the grassland, came to him and stated that he was the envoy of Li Jing of the Zhenguo Army, and when he contacted him on behalf of Li Jingwei and claimed that Li Jing was willing to help him deal with the Diera, he would be suspicious. Although it was later confirmed that this person was indeed Li Jing's envoy, in his heart, Jinde Khan did not want others to intervene in the internal struggle of the Khitan.

However, the Diera Department has controlled the Khitan soldiers and horses for many years, and after all, the new Khan has not been a long time since he became the new Khan, although the six divisions under Haruka and Dahe all support him, but after several conflicts, they have the upper hand.

Just a few days ago, he led the six divisions and the Diera tribe to fight another battle in the Yellow Water, the two sides sent a total of more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and the fierce battle was fought for a day, and the most rearly hinder Khan was defeated again. Just yesterday, he received news that after Li Jing defeated the Balhae and Goguryeo, the Tang family officially canonized Li Jing as the king of Andong County and the envoy of the Silla Bohai Khitan Sanfan.

"Chimbba, is this news true?"

Yao's general Qin Ba hurriedly said: "It has been confirmed, it is not unusual for Li Jing to be crowned king, he only relied on the strength of one person to enter Liaodong, and in more than a year, he captured the Liaodong Peninsula." It only took ten months to annihilate 100,000 soldiers and horses of Goguryeo and Bohai, and forced Bohai to withdraw from the alliance and cede land and money. ”

Sitting on a chair with a golden sword in his hand, he pondered for a long time, then raised his head and asked Chinba, "You say, what if we accept Li Jing's proposal?" ”

"The Diera tribe is aggressive, but after all, it is an internal struggle among the Khitan people. If we accept Li Jing's proposal and cooperate with them, we are afraid that this matter will cause dissatisfaction among other ministries. After all, our Khitan and Datang have fought for many years, and there is a deep hatred in the sea of blood! ”

"I know it, but the battle between us and Diera is endless. If I back down this time, then my Yaolin clan will be completely replaced by the Dierabu, and we will lose the hereditary position of Khitan Khan. I can't let the position of Khitan Khan be taken away by the Diira Department in my hands. The Khitan Yaoran Khan has been held for nine generations, and it cannot be taken away in my hands. Haruka Traced gritted his teeth.

"I'm afraid that Li Jing doesn't have a good heart, and he cooperates with Li Jing, but I'm afraid that he will seek skin with the tiger and lure the wolf into the room." The gray-haired Chimpa sighed.

"I know it." Hinde Khan said, "I know this, but now that all the tribes are watching the fire from the other side, if we don't cooperate with Li Jing, will there be any other way out?" ”

Seeing that the Khan of Hinde insisted, Chin Ba lowered his head and pondered, and said after a long time: "This matter is not easy to eat, but there may be a glimmer of opportunity." We can promise to cooperate with Li Jing and let Li Jing send troops to deal with Diera, as long as Diera suffers one or two losses under Li Jing and loses some soldiers and horses. At that time, we again came forward to force the Diera tribe to submit, and then in the name of resisting the Tang army, we called on all the troops under the banner of the Khan to unite with the outside world. ”

"In this way, cooperation with Li Jing must be carried out in secret, and must not be known to other ministries." Chin Ba said in a low voice, like a fierce wolf on the prairie roaring.

Hearing this, Khan's eyes lit up, and his eyes flashed brightly. clenched his fist, "Good plan, borrow Li Jing's hand to deal with Diera, and then use the name of Li Jing to unite all departments under the banner of the silver wolf, so that my Yaolin clan can truly master the Khitan!" ”

"Chinba, you go and discuss this matter with Levi immediately, remember, act in secret!"

"Understood!" Chin Ba nodded solemnly and turned out of the account.

In the middle of the night, Levi was woken up by a guard disguised as a caravan man, and when he came out of the tent, he saw that Hind Khan's general, Chinba, was waiting for him outside the tent wearing a sheepskin robe. If he hadn't met Chimba many times, Levi would never have believed that the general of a distant tribe would have dressed as an ordinary herdsman.

Inviting him into the account, Champa directly told Li Wei the news that the Khan of Hind was willing to cooperate with Li Jing and deal with the Dira tribe together.

"However, the Khan has one request, and that is that he wants our alliance to be secret. The first reason is to be able to better deal with the Dierabu, after all, if it is hidden, the Diela Ministry will not know about our alliance and will be negligent in taking precautions. Second, the relationship between the Khitan and the Tang Dynasty is not good, and the Khan is still trying to win the support of other tribes, if everyone knows that we are connecting with the Tang Dynasty in order to deal with the Diera tribe, then we will lose the support of other tribes, and we will push the tribes to the side of the Diera tribe. ”

Li Wei lowered his head and thought at first, the Khitans were willing to be fully united, and he was still very happy. Although this cooperation is to be carried out in secret, it is not in line with the plan of the marshal. However, when he proposed to cooperate with the Khitan Khan, it was just to allow the Khitan to continue the civil strife, so as not to be defeated by the Dieran Khan, and let the Diedan lead the entire Khitan and the Tang Dynasty as enemies. Now that the Khan was willing to continue to fight with Diera, whether it was a secret alliance or they wanted to fight alone, Levi certainly had no reason to object.

"The king of Anton is willing to fully support the Khan to defeat the Diera tribe and maintain the majesty of the Khitan Khan!" Levi smiled and reached out and held it tightly with Chinba! (To be continued......)