Dong Ping and Cheng Wanqiu were each helped down, Jiang De walked indoors, Cheng Wanzhan followed behind tremblingly, sat down, and after a while, two people in prison uniforms were helped in, Cheng Wan looked at it, recognized, and hurriedly lowered his head, one was Huang Xin, and the other was Li Ying.

Jiang De stepped forward to help the two of them sit down first, and then sighed to Li Ying and said, "It's all the owner of the village that I am involved in Liangshan, and the owner of the village has suffered." ”

Li Yingqiang propped up his body, looked at Cheng Wan next to him viciously and said, "The owner of the village is very gracious, and he can only saddle the horse before and after the horse to repay this kindness, and I only ask the owner of the village to give this dog official to me for disposal, and I vow to break it into pieces!" ”

Cheng Wan was so frightened that he slid off the chair, Jiang De looked at Cheng Wan and smiled, "I said, Lord Cheng, there are really a lot of people who want to kill you, what do you say I should do?" ”

Cheng Wan's tears and snot were scared out, he kneeled forward, pulled Jiang De's trouser leg and cried, "Village master, king, don't kill me, I still have an eighty-year-old mother, and there is a three-year-old child outside, you kill me, what should they do, king, I never dared to provoke you Liangshan!" You must know that Master Li Zhuang really has a hook with you Liangshan... It's a friendship, where do I dare to touch him! ”

It's okay not to say it, the more Li Ying said it, the more angry he became, he raised his foot and kicked at Cheng Wan, Jiang De let people stop, and said, "Okay, Master Li, this Lord Cheng is also a prefect, you are also tired, go down and rest first, Lord Cheng, if my trouser legs are dirty, I will wash them with your blood, you say it's good?" ”

Cheng Wan withdrew his hand with a sigh, and then looked at Jiang De with tears in his eyes, Jiang De shook his head, he came to attack with a cottage, these civil officials are just this virtue, if Liaojin really comes to attack, I am afraid that he will surrender the city without even daring to face the battle.

Jiang De looked at Huang Xin again and said, "Captain Huang has also worked hard this time, fortunately, nothing happened, so let's go down and rest." ”

Li Ying and Huang Xin went down together, and Jiang De asked Cheng Wan to help him up, and said, "Master Cheng, now you have two paths, one is a way of life and one is a way of death, how do you choose?" ”

"I choose the way to live, I choose the way to live!" Cheng Wan said without hesitation for a second, thinking about it, as a jinshi, he is willing to be Mr. Gate for Tong Guan, you must know that it is better to be Mr. Gate Hall for Cai Jing than for Tong Guan, after all, Tong Guan is a eunuch, you can imagine how many literati and ink writers he suffered at that time.

Jiang De smiled and said, "Okay, the way to life is simple, are you willing to descend to Liangshan?" ”

Surrender Yangsan? Cheng Wan gasped, does this Liangshan still want to pull the flag and rebel?

Cheng Wan immediately hesitated, if he was asked to take money or something, he could do it, but if he wanted to pull the flag and rebel, Cheng Wan really didn't believe that Liangshan could succeed, since Yanhuang counted, the people of the green forest could achieve great things, not to mention that although the Great Song Dynasty is not peaceful now, it is still stable, and there is not much chance of rebellion.

Jiang De looked at Cheng Wan like this, and knew in his heart that Cheng Wan didn't believe that he could succeed at all, and he was not embarrassed, but said, "Master Cheng, don't worry, we understand the concerns of you officials, so we don't need you to change your banner, I just need you to be Song Chen and secretly communicate with Liangshan." ”

When Cheng Wan heard that he didn't want to change his flag and pay taxes, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, stopped crying, wiped his face with his sleeve, and said to Jiang De, "Please make it clear to the owner of the village." ”

Jiang De said, "I Liangshan to develop and grow, it is necessary to have soldiers, horses, grain and grass, these can only come from the people, I Liangshan has its own scribes, and the actual work of Yunzhou in the future will be handed over to our scribes in Liangshan, and it depends on you to deal with the upper and lower officials, so to speak, do you understand?" ”

Cheng Wan immediately understood, Liangshan's strength was too small, and he didn't dare to directly pull the flag to rebel now, so he had to act as a façade himself, so that the court thought that the current Yunzhou Mansion was still the world of the Song Court, in fact, I am afraid that it will not be long before the officials of the Yunzhou Mansion will be secretly set up by Liangshan, and the more Cheng Wan thinks about it, the more shocked he becomes. The more I think about it, the worse it gets.

"What? Are you scared? Even if it happens, your sin is nothing but a mediocre and incompetent, so you are taken advantage of by a traitor, how big can it be? Jiang De smiled and comforted Cheng Wandao.

Cheng Wan thought, yes, if you do this, you will be a dereliction of duty at most, and you will be taken off your official hat, afraid of a fart, and the most important thing is that if you don't agree to come down, the leader of Liangshan in front of you will probably have to take another road by yourself.

Cheng Wan bowed and said, "The villain is willing to listen to the village master." ”

Jiang De nodded, waved his hand, and let a scribe who had not spoken next to him come out, and said to Cheng Wan, "Get to know each other, Pan Lang, I will be your partner in the future." ”

Pan Lianggui didn't expect to experience such a thing in the past few days, this is simply beyond his imagination, the three of them followed Jiang De to Liangshan together, and found that Liangshan was completely different from the bandit den they imagined, Guo Xiaoyou and the two were left in Liangshan, one was responsible for the enlightenment and education of local children, and the other was responsible for criminal affairs, and he followed Jiang De to Yunzhou outside the city, witnessed the whole process of the destruction of Yunzhou City, and also witnessed the dignified court officials, how cowardly and cowardly the prefect of Yunzhou, He listened to the conversation between Jiang De and Cheng Wan on the side, he couldn't wait to help Cheng Wan's waist stand up and scold Jiang De a few words, but he heard a sentence that the villain was willing to listen to the village master's dispatch, how shameless, the people of a state were handed over to this person, and it was also wasted!

Pan Lianggui now has other ideas, he suddenly feels that he may have taken on some destiny now, that is, he wants to save the people of this state from fire and water, with his own presence, even if Liangshan wants to forcibly expropriate and expropriate, he can also serve the people, if he dies for the people in the end, it will be the best ending, it is a thousand times better than this Cheng Lord who seems to never say a word for the people.

Pan Lianggui stepped forward and arched his hand coldly to Cheng Wan, as if he had seen it, Cheng Wan didn't care, and said with a flattering face, "Pan Lang is handsome and elegant, and at first glance he is a well-educated person, and the people of Yunzhou will be blessed in the future." After speaking, Cheng Wan said to Jiang De worriedly, "Don't be afraid of anything else, I'm afraid that this time the city of Yunzhou will be broken, and the court will blame it..."

Jiang De snorted, looked at Cheng Wan coldly and said, "I said Master Cheng, you are an old man, is it so difficult to suppress this matter?" ”

Cheng Wan swallowed his saliva, nodded and said, "It's not difficult, it's not difficult." ”

In fact, there is really nothing difficult, anyway, the official family will not come down to take a look, just stuff more money for the court boss, it will be regarded as a disaster to be broken, as for where the money comes from, Cheng Wan didn't think that Liang Shan would help him out, it's just that he should be less greedy for half a year. Wait, in the future, the affairs of Yunzhou City will be handled by this Pan Lang, so are you still greedy?

As if seeing through what Cheng Wan was thinking, Jiang De patted Cheng Wan and said, "In the future, don't think about any chance to float, but the money will not be missing from you, we will still give you the money that Song Ting gave you, and if you do a good job, I will give you more rewards." ”

Cheng Wan hurriedly said, "Please rest assured, in the future, I will definitely follow the example of the sages, do my best, and die." ”

Jiang De nodded, Cheng Wan looked at Jiang De's mask that couldn't see his expression, and he didn't know whether this mysterious owner of the village really believed in himself or what.

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Liangshan soldiers and horses came quickly, went quickly, after confiscating all the armor and ordnance, the money and grain warehouse did not move, and let the original capital head Fang Xing as the new soldier and horse supervisor, as for the report, Cheng Wan went to find a way, the whole army of Liangshan withdrew from Yunzhou Mansion at dusk the next day, of course, how many people stayed secretly, Cheng Wan who was sent off on the city tower did not know, and Pan Lianggui next to Cheng Wan did not know.

Dong Ping, who looked back from time to time on the road, had all kinds of ups and downs in his heart, he took refuge in Jiang De at that time, half of them thought that he could take the opportunity to grab people and complain, and now Cheng Wan is still the prefect of Yunzhou Mansion, and Cheng Wanqiu doesn't even want to see her face, and her heart is sad and indescribable.

Jiang De looked at Dong Ping, who was sighing not far away, and asked Xu Guanzhong, "What does Mr. Xu think of Dong Ping, is it available?" ”

Xu Guanzhong actually didn't like Dong Ping at all in his heart, he felt that Dong Ping was too reckless, greedy and forgetful, and he might not be qualified to be a guard, so he said, "Lord, I think Dong Ping thinks of someone." ”

"Who?"

"Lu Bu!"

Jiang De took a breath, this evaluation is a bit poisonous, but when he thinks of Dong Ping's courage and romantic character, he is really a little similar to Lu Bu, Jiang De shook his head and said, "Mr. Xu thinks of him too much, Lu Bu doesn't want to kill Wang Yun, since Mr. Xu has doubts about him, he won't let him lead the troops first, just listen to orders in Dazhai." ”

I didn't say anything all the way, and when I came to the foot of Liangshan, I rode and said, "Report!!" The owner of the village, the urgent report of Wu Junshi. ”

Xu Guanzhong hurriedly stepped forward to take it, looked at it for a while, and said to Jiang De, "Lord, I'm so happy, Wu Junshi actually took Jeju Island." ”

"How is that possible?" Jiang De's first reaction was not to believe it, Wu Yong only took away dozens of people, and among the leaders, Bai Sheng and Ruan Xiaoqi took away, and he took a lot of money, but Jiang De couldn't think of how he could make Goryeo surrender Jeju Island.

Xu Guanzhong handed the express to Jiang De, Jiang De read it, gasped and said, "Wu uses good means." ”

It turned out that Wu Yong arrived in Goryeo in November of the fourth year of Zhenghe, and quickly used money to open the way, bought off a minister next to Wang Yu, and wanted to prepare to lease Jeju Island, but he got the news that the Jurchens would raise troops in November, and the news came that Wu Yong immediately had other ideas.

Jurchen and Goryeo have been enemies for hundreds of years, especially in the Wang Dynasty of Wangma, who repaired the nine cities in the northeast, but won first and then lost, and was taken away by Wanyan Wuyashu, that is, Wanyan Aguta's brother, so he has always been a little afraid of the Jurchens, and after learning that the Jurchens raised troops against Liao, he couldn't believe it, and on the other hand, he felt that this was an opportunity, and he felt that he might be able to get something, but he was afraid that the Jurchens and Liao's soldiers and horses were powerful.

Soon, after the defeat of the Liao army in Chuhedian, the Liao State sent Hengxuan envoys Yelu and Li Shuo to Goryeo, asking Goryeo to quickly rectify the soldiers and attack the Jurchens.

But this situation completely changed after the news of the battle of the ancient city of Daru spread in January, oh my God! 270,000 people were defeated by the Jurchen army, and these women really had a high ... Is there a divine beast to help? On the day when the Goryeo government and the opposition heard the news, the mouths of the kings and the hundred officials could not be closed for a day, you know, the entire Goryeo is only one million households, and the army is only two or three hundred thousand, and then think about the combat effectiveness of the Goryeo army and the Liao army... Well, Goryeo is a subject country, it should be a little lower, so in this way, the Jurchen's combat power can already destroy Goryeo, so it is still attacked? Catch a bird attack, don't take advantage of it, but attract the Jurchens, and then the danger of extinction is just around the corner.

But if you don't want to send troops, you have to find a reason, although the Jurchen can fight, but after discussions up and down in Goryeo, I still feel that the Liao Kingdom will win the final victory, after all, the gap between the two is too big, and this reason is the opportunity that Wu Yong found.

Wu spent money to make people talk about the king of Goryeo, Wang Yu, saying that a group of merchants came from the Song Kingdom, hoping to lease Jeju Island as a commercial dock, and now the Liao State is forcing me to send troops to Goryeo, why not say that they use a plan out of nothing to let these merchants pretend to be pirates, saying that Jeju Island was seized by pirates, and I Goryeo is in trouble, so I can't send troops, of course, in order to ensure that the Liao State in Goryeo and the Liao envoys who will come to Goryeo in the future can't find fault, this Jeju Island does need to be forcibly occupied by merchants disguised as pirates for a while, but rest assured, There will certainly be many of our Goryeo soldiers among these pirates, and Jeju Island will not be a penny less in taxes.

When Wang Yu saw this plan, he couldn't help but feel wonderful, and immediately met with Wu Yong, Wu Yong had some talent to learn, and Wang Yu only felt that Wu Yong was indeed a rich child of the Song Kingdom, and he was indeed here to do business. Wu Yong also offered a lot of treasures such as glass mirrors, so that Wang Yu was very happy, and finally agreed to this plan, at this time Jeju Island, is waiting for Jiang De, who does not know whether to call pirates or call merchants to occupy it, and finally Wu Yong also asked for such a position as the so-called big merchant owner Jiang De, who is the envoy of Jeju Island, and Jiang De is crying and laughing.

Jiang De shook his head and said to Xu Guanzhong, "Our Mr. Wu is really amazing, I just wanted him to find out the truth, but I didn't expect him to directly deceive the entire Jeju Island for us." ”

Xu Guanzhong nodded and said, "Now without further ado, we must send someone to control Jeju Island as soon as possible, who does the lord think is suitable?" ”

Jiang De thought for a while and said, "Jeju Island is three points military, seven points political, our strength is not strong enough to the point where we can swallow Goryeo, if we want to take Goryeo, I think we need at least 50,000 soldiers and horses to start, and there must be a naval army that is enough to match them, so the matter of Jeju Island, I think it will still be based on construction and hoarding of materials in two years.... The people sent are still steady, and they must also be sociable, what do you think of Li Ying? ”

Xu Guanzhong said with a smile, "Master Li Zhuang is suitable, and he also has a housekeeper, called Grimace Du Xing, it is said that the Li Jiazhuang in charge is well organized and can go together." ”

Jiang De hummed and said, "Then wait for Li Ying to get better, and we also have to prepare a boat, and now that the weather is getting warmer, we have to let the master and Duan Jingzhu go again." ”