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"Report to my brother, a few acquaintances of the younger brother told the younger brother that Deng Long has a large amount of gold jewelry and grain, and those gold jewelry should be in Deng Long's house, and the grain is in a warehouse in the backyard, and there are more than 200 horses here!"

Two days ago, after Li Yan decided to outwit Erlong Mountain, he considered who would outwit Erlong Mountain.

Chao Gai and his gang can't designate it, because they have already met with Deng Long and the minions on Erlong Mountain, and it will definitely not be possible for them to come forward to take Erlong Mountain, and it may also be possible to startle the snake.

How about Li Yan and others taking Erlongshan?

The combat power of Li Yan, Chen Liqing, and Hua Rong together is not weaker than Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi.

Ruan Xiaoqi, Ma Ling, Wang Dingliu, Ling Zhen, and Meng Kang together also designated that they were not weaker than Cao Zheng and his gangs.

In terms of strength alone, Li Yan and the others are not unable to take Erlong Mountain.

However, Li Yan and the others are not as sure as Cao Zheng and them to take Erlong Mountain, because Cao Zheng has an advantage that no one else has - he is a person here, and he is familiar with the minions on the mountain.

Xiao Rang, who was cautious, took the initiative to talk about their grievances with Yang Zhi, so that Li Yan knew that Yang Zhi and Cao Zheng had gone to Liangshanbo.

In addition, Li Yan has always been reluctant to be a hero and put himself in danger.

In addition, this plan can only be used once, if it is not successful, it will be difficult to take down the two dragon mountains.

Therefore, Li Yan immediately asked Ma Ling to return to the mountain to call Lin Chong and others, and by the way, he brought a battalion of soldiers and horses over to ensure that this matter was foolproof.

Cao Zheng not only has a good character without any stains, but he also has many qualities that fierce generals do not have - the flexibility of the mind.

If Li Yan didn't appear, Lu Zhishen, a man with great wisdom, and Yang Zhi, a person with some strategy, would not be able to take Erlong Mountain, and Cao Zheng planned for them but easily took Erlong Mountain.

With such a talent, Song Jiang actually put him in charge of slaughtering livestock, which is too big and useless.

Outwitting Erlong Mountain this time, although Lin Chong, Yang Zhi and others are there, Lin Chong is still Cao Zheng's master, but Li Yan clearly named Cao Zheng to be responsible for this matter, and the reason given by Li Yan is that Cao Zheng is from this place, familiar with this place, and familiar with the people on Erlong Mountain, so he can better grasp the overall situation - this is also one of the reasons, but more Li Yan is giving Cao Zheng the opportunity to show himself, and is ready to reuse Cao Zheng in the future.

The smart Cao Zheng also saw that Li Yan was optimistic about him, so Cao Zheng was also actively expressing himself, and it was precisely because of this that Cao Zheng not only successfully won Erlong Mountain, but also tried his best to help Shuibo Liangshan strive for benefits.

Yes.

Cao deliberately said that there were gold, silver, jewelry, grain, and horses on Erlong Mountain.

Cao Zheng's purpose is to help Shuibo Liangshan earn some benefits to go back, after all, as soon as people move, they will need a lot of money, and Shuibo Liangshan can't do a loss-making business no matter how big the business is, right?

Li Yan directly scolded Cao Zhengdao with a straight face: "Erlong Mountain belongs to Brother Chaogai, and the things on the mountain are naturally Brother Chaogai's, so worry about you blindly, go down!" ”

Although he was reprimanded by Li Yan, Cao Zheng was not unhappy at all, but secretly rejoiced - how could a smart person like Cao Zheng not understand that Li Yan regarded him as his own person, so he would treat him like this?

Chao Gai hurriedly said: "Brother's words are different, I already owe my brother a great favor after receiving my brother's Erlongshan, how dare I ask for my brother's gold jewelry, grain, and horses?" In addition, since the Gongsun Sheng brothers, Xiao Rang brothers, Jin Dajian brothers, and the Xuanqi brothers went to their brothers' Shuibo Liangshan to join the family, I can no longer keep their gold and jewelry for them, so bring them with me. ”

Li Yan said: "What is the old brother talking about, the old brother has just opened here, it is when these things are needed, if I bring them all, won't it hurt the righteousness between our brothers?" ”

Chao Gai insisted: "I, Wu Yong, and Liu Tang still have some gold and jewelry in their hands, which is enough to get through this period, and my brother should not shirk it again." ”

The two of them excused themselves for a while, and seeing that Chao Gai was still insisting, Li Yan said: "That's it, I'll take these things, but you have to accept a batch of salt from me, brother, and I will let Brother Song Wan take a lot of people to stay behind to help you rectify the cottage, and when your cottage is on the right track, just send them back to Liangshanbo." ”

Li Yan left all the soldiers and horses to help Chao Gai sit in charge, and for Chao Gai, who had not yet sat firmly, the help was too great, so that Chao Gai couldn't help but choke and said: "How can Chao Gai be able to get such help from his brother!" ”

Li Yan said: "The elder brother Hugh wants to say such bad and righteous words, the Gongsun Sheng brothers, the Xiao Rang brothers, the Jin Dajian brothers, and the Xuan brothers are all great talents, the old brother can give them to the younger brother, and the younger brother Xie old brother." ”

This is where Li Yan is more clever than others, Li Yan values talent the most, followed by wealth, and Li Yan never hesitates to show this characteristic to others.

It is precisely because of this that more and more talents around Li Yan are gathering.

Of course, the reason why Li Yan values people over property is also related to the fact that Li Yan has always been short of property, if Li Yan also wants nothing like others, it is estimated that he will not be so persistent in chasing talents.

Chao Gai said in his heart: "Brother Gongsun Sheng, Brother Xiao Rang, Brother Jin Dajian, and Brother Ji Ji are all willing to follow their brothers, not Chao Gai sent them to their brothers, if they are replaced by others, where will they give me a foothold as compensation, not to mention that my brother also gave me five hundred soldiers, so my brother's good salt Chao Gai is absolutely unwanted!" ”

Li Yan said: "I can't hide it, this salt is our own production in Liangshanbo, the old brother first take some to sell, the money earned, the old brother first used it for development, if the old brother thinks that it is profitable to sell salt, I will supply the old brother at a price two percent lower than the price on the market, so that the old brother has one more way to make money, so that the old brother will not have no money to raise soldiers when the business is not good, the old brother has not raised soldiers, may not know, this person eats horses, the cost is not small, just by doing the business of road business travel, at most it is enough to barely maintain, can not develop." ”

In fact, this is Li Yan's most real purpose - Li Yan is ready to develop Chao Gai into a distributor and let Chao Gai and his gang help him sell salt, in addition, Li Yan also wants to control the wealth of Chao Gai and his gang, so that Chao Gai and his Erlongshan will never be able to escape Li Yan's control, and sooner or later it will have to be Li Yan's.

Chao Gai immediately got up and said: "If my brother has a place to get Chao Gai in the future, Chao Gai will not hesitate to go to the soup and go to the fire, if he violates this oath, he will let Chao Gai die of rotting stomach!" ”

Li Yangang wanted to be polite to Chao Gai, but Han Bolong suddenly rushed into the Juyi Hall, and then shouted directly regardless of the faux pas: "Brother, it's not good, the imperial court is going to send a large army to attack our Liangshanbo!" ”

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