Gai Yu smiled, "Actually, it's not impossible to dig up the Zhao brothers. ”

"Oh, what is the best plan, sir?" Li Jing was overjoyed when he heard this, Li Jing thought about it, this Zhao family brother's ability to defend the city is really powerful, Li Jing's subordinates now have a lot of generals, especially the disciples under him, although they are still young, they are all generals. But when it comes to Zhao Li, it's really hard to find.

The current territory of the Zhenguo Army is mainly concentrated in three major areas, Dengzhou, Jinzhou, and Pingzhou, and faces each other around the Bohai Bay. Although it is said that the three places are in a horn trend, Li Jing occupies a great strategic initiative. But because of this, it is also surrounded by enemies on all sides. There are Ziqing Town in Dengzhou, Youzhou Town in Pingzhou, and Khitan and Goguryeo people in Jinzhou. If the current situation is fine, Li Jing is worried that if he transfers the main force to one place, for example, to Jinzhou to attack Liaodong, once the war is stalemate, the troops will be trapped in it. If Youzhou attacks Pingzhou, or Dengzhou is attacked from Ziqing, Ganhua, Huainan and other directions, the three territories of the Zhenguo Army are even far apart and separated by the sea, and the support may not be enough.

If there is an extremely capable general in charge, Li Jing can avoid these problems, although it is extremely unlikely, but it cannot be worried.

"Zhang Tai and Yang Fuguang came, and to put it bluntly, they came to borrow grain. Zhongwu Town is also short of food, and the Zhao Li brothers are the generals of Chenzhou, which are the generals of the Zhongwu Army. The relationship between Zhongwu Cui An Qianjie Marshal and Da Shuai has always been good, if he opens his mouth to borrow food, we can't help but borrow, but once this opening is opened, there will be endless troubles. Therefore, we might as well make a deal with Cui Shuai and exchange the Zhao brothers for food. By the way, we can also break our business network into the Zhongwu Chen, Xu, Cai Zhuzhou. Let Cui Shuai support our commodity trade. So. It's not just borrowing food. ”

You can't just open a mouth to borrow grain, but if it's a deal with the loyal army, that's another matter.

"Is Cui Shuai willing to exchange the Zhao family brothers for food?" Li Jing hesitated.

"I think it should be." Jing Xiang said with a smile, "Since Cui Anqian took over as the commander of the Zhongwu Army, he single-handedly formed the Eight Capitals of Zhongwu and established the Huangtou Army. The biggest reason why he did this was that although Zhongwu Town was small, the local soldiers and generals were powerful. The arrogant soldiers and fierce generals, coupled with the local wealthy clans controlling the place, made it difficult for the shogunate to control Zhongmu Town. The Zhao Li brothers in Chenzhou, as well as Qin Zongquan and Sun Ru in Caizhou, and Zhou Qi in Xuzhou, were all the leaders of the Loyal Army. Like Wang Jingwu in Ziqing Town, Cui Anqian is also bent on having a real army to balance these military leaders. Now that Zhongwu is short of food, if we borrow food from the Zhongwu Army to help them get through the current difficulties, the request is only for him to transfer Zhao Li to serve in the Zhenguo Army. And to open some convenient doors to our goods, I think it's too late for him to be happy. ”

"Cui Jieshuai really doesn't have to worry too much about it. The real difficulty is that Zhao Li himself is unwilling to come. Li Liang asked a question.

Zhao Li has been a tooth general in Chenzhou for generations, and the land tycoons let them move from Chenzhou to the Zhenguo Army, but I am afraid that they may not be willing.

"How about transferring Zhao Li to Dengzhou?" Li Jing asked.

"Even if Zhao Li is really transferred, he will be appointed to the high position of Dengzhou Assassin Shi as soon as he comes, but I am afraid that it is not suitable. The generals in the army are only afraid that they will be unconvinced, and moreover, Dengzhou Assassin Shi is in charge of the people, and let Zhao Li, a military general, do the assassination history, which is inconsistent with the separation of soldiers and civilians proposed by the marshal before. Li Chun immediately spoke out against it, the position of Dengzhou assassin was concurrently held by Li Jing, and he didn't want Li Jing to give up this position. , Besides, Zhao Li, a new general, suddenly took over the position of Dengzhou Assassin, which is not very fair to other civil and military forces, and it is unfair to reward and punish.

"Then let him serve as the commander of the Flying Bear Army under the Zhenguo Army, Zhao Li's current position is also a soldier and horse envoy, but he is the owner of the Zhongwu Army, and he has been promoted to the head of our Zhenguo Army."

Hearing a few people say this, Li Jing also felt that his previous ideas were a little immature. So he nodded and said: "That's the case, I'll go and contact Yang Fuguang, and then send someone to Xuzhou, Mr. Li will first contact Zhao Li, test his thoughts, and talk to him about our plans." ”

Just then, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door.

Li Jing looked up, but Gao Si walked in a hurry and came in from outside the door.

"Marshal, the Tianping Army, the Taining Army, the Reform Army, the Huainan Army and other congratulatory envoys have arrived!"

Hearing this news, Li Jing is very usual, these days, almost all of the more than 50 feudal towns in the world have sent people to come, and those who are far away will arrive first, and those who are close to each other will arrive the last. Even the messenger of the Son of Heaven has arrived, and it is not uncommon for other towns to come.

However, Li Jing was a little surprised that Liu Ye sent people to Huainan Jiedu, before Huang Chao and Shang Junchang plundered Huainan Prefectures, Liu Ye sent people to Li Jing for help several times, but Li Jing did not send troops to reinforce him. It's just that the last one sent two battalions of the navy south to Huainan, or escorted the merchant ships by the way.

Huainan was the largest feudal town in the world, and it was once the richest feudal town in the Tang Dynasty.

Huainan Jiedu envoy Liu Ye's father once served as a staff member of Li Deyu, the minister of power at the time of Wuzong, for a long time, and later served as a waiter in the criminal department. When Liu Ye was five years old, his father died, and Li Deyu adopted him into his home to study with his children. Tang Xuanzong succeeded to the throne, and Li Deyu lost power and was demoted. Liu Ye lost his backers and wandered around the Yangtze River and Qiantang River areas, writing essays to support himself.

and the elderly, when Gao Shaoyi served as the Shaanxi Observation Envoy, he invited Liu Ye to serve as a regimental training envoy. When Gao Shaoyi was transferred to Zhenguo, Liu Ye also followed him. Later, Liu Ye was recalled to the capital Chang'an as a school secretary and served as the secretary of the province. Later, Prime Minister Liu Zhan recommended Liu Ye to serve as the head of the household, and the Hanlin bachelor accepted the order. In 870, Yizong executed the imperial physicians because of the death of his beloved daughter Princess Tongchang, arrested their families, and the prime minister Liu Zhan interceded for the imperial doctor's family, but Liu Ye ignored the grace of the recommendation, and framed Liu Zhan together with the husband of Princess Tongchang Wei Baoheng and the prime minister Lu Yan, and Liu Zhan was demoted.

The following year, Liu Ye concurrently served as a salt and iron transport envoy. Later, he was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, awarded the same Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, and entered the political hall to replace Liu Zhan's position as the substantive prime minister.

In 873, Tang Yizong died, and Li Yi succeeded him as Tang Xizong. In 874, Liu Zhan was recalled and paid homage to the prime minister again, and Liu Ye was afraid. Same. Liu Ye invited Liu Zhan to come to the Salt and Iron Courtyard for a banquet. Liu Zhan fell ill and died. They all suspected that they were poisoned by Liu Ye. Since then, Xiao Fang and Cui Yanzhao have become the chief prime ministers, neither of them like Liu Ye, Lu Yan and Wei Baoheng and their party were degraded to death, and Liu Ye was deposed as prime minister and demoted to Huainan Jiedu envoy.

Li Jing was very disdainful of Liu Ye's character, not only because he framed and poisoned Liu Zhan, who had the grace of recommendation, but also because Li Jing's teacher Yu Xuan's family was defeated at the beginning. Liu Ye is also a participant.

Moreover, Liu Ye was very greedy, Li Jing's caravan expanded to Huainan, Liu Ye not only levied high taxes, but also privately instructed his subordinates to pretend to be robbers and rob Li Jing's goods several times. For such a guy, Li Jing can't wait to send troops to fight, how can he send troops to save him.

The relationship between Li Jing and Liu Ye can be described as unhappy. Liu Ye already had a grudge against Mr. Li Jing, and robbed Li Jing's goods. And Li Jing also saw death when the grass thieves robbed Huainan before, and he didn't save him.

Now Liu Ye actually sent someone to congratulate the gift, which is a bit strange.

Li Liang saw that Li Jing still had a grudge against Liu Ye. smiled and said: "Liu Ye is greedy, but don't worry." Since he likes to pretend to be a robber, then we will also send a team of men and horses to pretend to be pirates to Huainan Yangzhou. ”

"Don't kill him, just scare him, it's not all bad for such an incompetent person to be in charge of Huainan." Li Jing chuckled.

The guests from all sides continued to arrive, not only the envoys of the Son of Heaven, the envoys of various feudal towns, but also the major famous families, local wealthy families, and even the giant businessmen of the Quartet all sent people or came in person. However, what made Li Jing happy was that this time it actually attracted a large number of literati to come with him.

Through the recommendation, Li Jing was able to get acquainted with many celebrities.

The first compound surname is Sikong, the name map, the word list saint, self-named Zhifeizi, a native of Surabaya, and later moved to the river, and Xiantong ascended to the Jinshi for ten years;

The second surname is Wei, the name Zhuang, the word Duanji, Jingzhao Duling, is the fourth grandson of Wei Yingwu, although this person is young, and several times should not be the first, but only full of learning, famous;

The third is Qiantang people, surnamed Luo, the original name is horizontal, the word Zhaozhi, because of the ten moves, and changed the name of hidden, this person is not only full of splendor, poetry is famous all over the world, and rich in strategy, is really the world's great sage;

The fourth surname is Han, the name is Wu, the word is Zhiyao, the nickname is Donglang, the number is Yushan Qiaoren, and the Jingzhao Wannian person. It is said that his father Han Zhan and Li Shangyin are both the same year and brother-in-law. In the fifth year of junior high school, Han Wu was ten years old, Li Shangyin went to the Zizhou shogunate to take office, Han Wu impromptu poems were sent, Li Shangyin praised his young talent, quick poetry, poetry style, surpassing his father, and was praised by Li Shangyin for the young phoenix in the old phoenix.

Li Jing personally went to the inn to meet the four of them one by one, and after a few conversations, the four of them had a good impression of Dengzhou and Li Jing.

In the end, Li Jing invited four people to serve as the shogunate of the marshal's office, and even set up a special position of advisory adviser for these four people.

After Sikong Tu accepted Li Jing's invitation, he recommended talents to Li Jing and recommended twelve famous talents with the ten philosophers of Fanglin, Xu Tang, Yu Tanzhi, Ren Tao, Wen Xian, Zheng Gu, Li Changfu, Zhang Qiao, Zhou Xuan, Zhang Li, Ju Yan, Wu Han, and Li Qiyuan.

Luo Yin also recommended two talented people of the same clan to Li Jing, Luo Qiu and Luo Ye, and the three of them were known as Sanluo, also known as Jiangdong Sanluo.

Li Jing was also very happy to get the recommended list, these people did not come, Li Jing hurriedly sent people to each person's hometown to invite him to come to Dengzhou.

For this reason, Li Jing specially asked people to start building a new pavilion in Dengzhou City, called Wenhua Pavilion, as the residence of these literati recruited.

In addition, Li Jing also recruited many well-known literati among the literati who came.

Li Jing likes these people very much, although writing a good poem does not mean that he can be a good official. But right now, Li Jing admires them very much, and he doesn't want them to be officials immediately.

In addition to Sikong Tu, Luo Yin, Wei Zhuang, and Han Wu, the rest of the talented Li Jing temporarily arranged for them to be professors in Dengzhou Academy.

He also took care of these professors and consultants, not only providing them with good food and housing, but also offering to help them print and publish poetry collections.

This proposal made these poor celebrities very excited, and although they could not be directly appointed as officials for the time being, they were still extremely happy to be able to publish their own poetry collections while teaching the students of the academy. Especially after discovering that Dengzhou Academy actually has a collection of 100,000 books, I was even more moved.

On the same day, more than 30 people accepted Li Jing's invitation and became professors of the college.

And the newly joined Sikong Tu, Wei Zhuang, Luo Yin, and Han Wu are actually called the four sages of the Zhenguo Army. (To be continued......)