On the stage, the servants in gorgeous costumes were performing burlesque, but there was also a squeaky singing, of course, it was mainly to amuse the audience, more like a two-person turn, which made Lu Ning a little speechless.

And for modern people with a high level of laughter, the performance of burlesque on stage, if moved to later generations, will definitely be directly cold.

But Li Yu on the side was amused and leaned back and forth.

Lu Ning only had thoughts in his heart, Bucktooth Boy, Bucktooth Boy, you have a really big heart, but Uncle I, I will not give up on you.

And when he glanced at Li Congxun who was cowering aside, Lu Ning remembered Wang Jin's death, although he said that Li Jingsui could not be blamed for Wang Jin's death, but when he saw Li Jingsui's second son, he felt a little disgusted.

This is a temporary stage built on the shore of Ziyang Lake, surrounded by ropes, and guarded by soldiers, but from afar, there are many people watching.

Lu Ning sat in the center, Li Yu, Li Jingyu and Li Congxun on the right, and Su Xiaoxiao and Jiao Cailian on the left.

"Alas, Emperor E is here, and she will definitely be very happy to see it, but unfortunately, Uncle Wang won't allow me to bring her!" Li Yu suddenly sighed regretfully.

Li Jingyi, the Baoning Gong on his right, frowned when he heard this.

Lu Ning was also a little speechless, thought about it, and said: "Brother Congjia, I hit it off with you at first sight, and the Son of Heaven also specially mentioned in the edict that he and you are close friends, and I want the official to take more care of you, not to involve requirements outside of state affairs, and try to agree to you, since you miss your wife, you can take your wife to Wuhan Mansion, I will repair the book to King Tang, and ask King Tang to send Brother Jia's wife to Wuhan Mansion!" ”

Li Yu was stunned, "This, this ......" didn't know how to answer for a while.

Li Jingqi frowned and said, "Professor, this is Wu Guogong's family matter, or don't bother Professor Labor!" ”

Lu Ning smiled: "The Son of Heaven is as close as Brother Congjia, doesn't Duke Baoning know?" From the sister and father of Brother and Mrs. Jia, take it with you! ”

happened to take advantage of Li Jingsui's second son Li Congxun to take Xiao Zhouhou out of Jinling, although he and Xiao Zhouhou have this relationship, others will not take it too seriously, let alone feel that they can use Xiao Zhouhou to threaten themselves, but what is it, just in case.

Li Jingxiao was stunned for a moment, and then nodded, "That's fine." ”

Lu Ning looked at him, his heart was a little warm, obviously he still remembered the friendship that day, and he also liked the little girl he saw when he was fighting cocks, he knew that the little girl was kind to him, and he didn't want the little girl to be hurt in the future.

"Alas, when talking about state affairs, it would be nice for you to be so pleasant!" Li Yu sighed suddenly.

Li Jingyu rolled his eyes, obviously speechless.

Li Congxi didn't seem to know what he was afraid of, and he didn't talk much.

Lu Ning looked at the three princes, and said in his heart, Li Jingsui, are you serious about sending these three?

……

More than ten days later, Emperor Qi edict to Jiangling, Feng Gao Baorong as the Marquis of Jinan County, led the Gao family to move to Qizhou, the Gao family was relieved, from the king of Nanping to the county marquis, the title was reduced by a number of others, but obviously saved the life of the whole family, Emperor Qi will no longer be difficult for the Gao family, if the real seal of the country and the like, I am afraid, there will be a saying later, after all, Nanping is only three states, if the title is too high after the surrender, but not happy.

There was also an edict appointing Xu Wendi, the commander of the horses, as the governor of Jiangling Prefecture.

Eldest Sister Lu and Second Sister Lu were naturally named the eldest princess when Lu Ning was proclaimed emperor.

Although Lu Ning didn't want his brother-in-law to be officials, but this Xu Shilang Xu Wendi, although he had repeatedly failed in the previous dynasty, he had some understanding of Xinxue, and he was a jinshi in the new department, and he performed very well in the central department, and the cabinet recommended him to be an official many times, such as Wuhan Mansion Yin Vacancy Cabinet once recommended him, this time Jiangling Mansion Yin recommended him again, Lu Ning finally agreed.

But thinking about it, the situation of the eldest brother-in-law and the second brother-in-law can now be said to be heaven and earth, and it is also due to their personalities.

The eldest brother-in-law, Li Feng, was confiscated because he concealed his income and real estate, and the amount of money he concealed was extremely huge, and he was sentenced to be banned from doing business for the rest of his life.

This is still because of the emperor's relatives and relatives, otherwise they would have to sit in prison.

Now he lives on the salary of the captain of the horse.

When the eldest brother-in-law just committed the crime, he was still very arrogant, until the officials from the Beijing Commercial Tax Institute really seized his property in Haizhou's hometown, and then he panicked, and the eldest sister ran to her mother to cry, but her mother didn't know where she was, and went to tell Yongning that Yongning was a bad person, and disobeyed her mother for the first time.

It wasn't until later that the eldest brother-in-law and eldest sister knew that the case was decided by their own Zhu Pen, so they could only give up.

I can't help it, even if there are hundreds of lines in the East China Sea, they also pay taxes to the treasury, even if there are no officials from the Commercial Tax Institute to check, but they take the initiative to pay taxes every month, the amount is clear, and they never hide it, which actually makes the cabinet officials extremely shocked, they can't imagine that the East China Sea Baixing is so huge, and the taxes every month seem to be leaping.

However, basically these taxes will be allocated by the national treasury to the inner treasury for royal expenses, but the process is inevitable.

Moreover, although he made it clear that he did not use the annual endowment silk, the lottery of the city, and the annual coins of the vassal that should have gone directly to the inner treasury, the cabinet insisted that the newly minted money would still go directly to the inner treasury, as well as various taxes in the East China Sea and various kinds of recruiting Yuanwei, all of which belonged to the royal industry.

Of course, in fact, according to the law, any revenue of the state treasury can be transferred to the inner treasury, or new taxes can be added to the inner treasury, but they will not do this, and this kind of power should not be available from their own generation.

……

When the edict arrived at Gangneung Mansion and Xu Shilang was hurrying to Gangneung.

In Wuhan Mansion, Li Yu and several others also waited for Li Jingsui's reply.

Li Jingsui was furious in the letter, of course he did not agree to cede the six state capitals to the Northern Dynasties, but at the end of the letter, he also reluctantly said that if there was really no way, he would agree to the Quanzhou case, and the officials sent by the Qi State would assist in the trial, but the local officials would preside over the trial.

Li Yu and the others didn't want to, but Professor Nawen heard the reply from the Tang King, and immediately expelled himself and the Tang State Mission.

Li Yu and the others had no choice but to return to Jiangzhou, and sent a light boat to Jinling to report as soon as possible.

More than ten days later, there was news that Nawen was appeased, led the latent soldiers to join forces, and broke through Hongzhou.

The naval army of the Northern Dynasties also appeared under the city of Jiangzhou.

Even Li Hongyi, the king of Zhenjiang, was recruiting civilian ships, as if he was preparing to meet the landing of the Jiangdong Army of Qi from Zhenjiang.

Li Yu and others finally waited for Li Jingsui's letter, which said that Quanzhou could be promised to be ceded to Qi, but the premise was that the Qi army needed to withdraw from Hongzhou, and the meaning of the letter was that this was the final bottom line, and it was naturally impossible to agree easily at first.

Compared with Quanzhou, which was originally too southern, and was not close to the Tang State when it was pacified by Emperor Qi, of course, Hongzhou, the central barrier place, is more important to the current Tang State.

Moreover, Quanzhou, the outlet to the sea, is of little significance to the current Tang Kingdom.

The cession of Quanzhou is equivalent to agreeing that the case of the murder of the royal businessmen of the Qi State will be tried by the Qi State.

The next negotiation was carried out in Hongzhou, and Li Yu and others went south from Jiangzhou and started a second round of verbal exchanges with Professor Wen in the Hongzhou Mansion.

Of course, most of the time, it's just a quarrel between Professor Moon and Boryeong Gong.

Baoning Gong reported to the Tang Lord many times, and even returned to Jinling once.

In the end, after more than two months and nearly three months of tug-of-war, the two sides finally agreed.

The Shangbang army withdrew from Hongzhou and the siege of Jiangzhou, and the Tang king offered Quanzhou and Zhangzhou to Shangbang, and in the four prefectures of Jiangzhou, Hongzhou, Fuzhou, and Tingzhou, Shangbang set up an embassy.

In addition, there is a small additional clause, which is not in the official document, that is, Li Yu's wife and concubines, children and Zhou Zong's family, moved to Jiangzhou and lived in the Jiangzhou Upper Embassy.

Therefore, the Jiangzhou Upper Embassy is also much larger than the other three Upper Embassy.

Moving to Jiangzhou instead of going to Qi should be the last reserved after the Great Zhou Dynasty, as if it also moved the father, yes, they came to Jiangzhou, both under the protection of Qi and in the land of Jiangnan.

Of course, the four upper embassies that Lu Ning drummed up did not want to enjoy any consular jurisdiction on the land of China, let alone make Qi Shang run rampant in these states.

Instead, through these four upper embassies, they can slowly influence the officials, soldiers, and civilians of these four states.

If he can solve it peacefully without swords, Lu Ning doesn't want to use force, after all, from Lu Ning's psychology, they are all compatriots.

Otherwise, with the current decline of Li Jingsui, it should not take a lot of effort to break through his territory, and even only the three armies of the Jiangdong Army, the Jiangxi Army and the Shenwu Army, plus the help of the King of Zhenjiang and the King of Wuyue, should be able to destroy the Tang Dynasty.

It's just that I'm afraid it will take some time, maybe a few months, maybe even the rest of the year, after all, in the face of the war of annihilation, Li Jingsui will do everything.

And the war, the most pitiful thing is the people of Jiangnan, no matter how to restrain military discipline, in fact, the current war, the cruelty to civilians is inevitable, not to mention that the Zhenjiang army and Wu Yuejun themselves can't be restrained at all.

As for the destruction of the economy of Jiangnan, not to mention.

The best choice is to let the soldiers and civilians gradually drift away from morality and gradually lose their fighting spirit.

Therefore, Lu Ning is very satisfied with the results of this negotiation.

……

In October of the second year of Fengtian, Emperor Qi came to Quanzhang, stationed in Erzhou for a few days, summoned the old department, and issued an edict to exempt Quanzhang from money and grain for a year, Quanzhang officials and soldiers and civilians, excited inexplicably, every day to go to Emperor Qi's garrison to kneel down and worship thousands of soldiers and civilians, heard that Emperor Qi returned to the north, it was an empty alley, although I don't know where the Son of Heaven is, I can't see the Son of Heaven's Cheluan, maybe the Son of Heaven has already left, and maybe I can't say anything to Jiangbei, but the soldiers and civilians have been sent out dozens of miles far away, and then they have turned back.

Although he heard that Emperor Qi's chariot or boat drove through the territory, Tang Jun had no other thoughts.

In November, Emperor Qi arrived in Jiangling Mansion, and for a while, Jingxiang and Chu were shaken.

Li Chongjin surrendered.

The various ministries of Ma Chu have come to the table to claim their ministers.

Even because Jiangling Mansion is upstream, it is Shudi, all the checkpoints in Shudi, for a while, the grass and trees are soldiers, the price of grain in Chengdu has skyrocketed, and many grain merchants have made a lot of money by hoarding Juqi.

Emperor Qi led a hundred servants to Chu and killed Zhang Wenbiao, the unruly governor of Langzhou.

Entrenched in Changsha, Wuping Jiedu made Zhou Xingfeng seriously ill and died in fright, and the eldest son Zhou Baoquan, who was eighteen years old, succeeded to the throne and immediately asked Emperor Qi to resign.

The place where Emperor Qi passed through was indescribably powerful.

In December, Emperor Qi returned to Bianjing.

In March of the following year, Jing Xiangchu, who had been accompanying Wang, recruited Professor Wen A Dawen, and heard that he was also the examiner of this year's entrance examination.

In April, Professor Wen returned to Wuhan Prefecture with this year's new champion.

Of course, the four tigers are what he follows wherever he goes.

Wang Hanshi, who had been appointed as deputy envoy since Professor Wen left last year, finally became a regular envoy, but the Yamen of the Fufu Department moved to Changsha.

Although Chu is submissive, it is actually a small independent kingdom that operates independently.

felt that there was nothing dangerous, but it was a more troublesome thing, so Lu Ning handed it over to Wang Hanshi, this guy has been with him for four years, and even now it is the fifth year, if this matter in Chu Di is still uneven, then there is nothing to do, after all, the two most powerful warlords have been cut off by themselves, and there is an absolute advantage in the rear as a backing of the military and horse pressure realm, can't you straighten out the relationship between Chu and Di and incorporate these small princes?

Lu Ning, or Professor Wen's new errand is the chief envoy of the Jiangnan Fourth Upper Yuan, leading the Nanyang Trade, and the new champion is the envoy of the Jiangzhou Upper Academy.

Because of these four upper courts, although the Ministry of Rites has repeatedly issued official documents to put an end to the situation of bullying and oppression, Qi Shang has been rampant and domineering in these four states, but the East China Sea Baixing is the most beneficial.

This kind of new thing that he has made up by himself, Lu Ning can only do it himself, to see how to find a balance.

To lead the Nanyang trade affairs, the headquarters of the general office was located in Quanzhou, so that there was time to meet with the traders who went to Nanyang from the East China Sea to see the problems they encountered.