Zhou Shaoji patted his chest and assured that the navy of the Great Demon Kingdom was unparalleled in the world, and he was willing to make a military order and go out to kill Wen Shihong.

Li Jing thought for a moment, led the army to defend the camp, and let Zhou Shaoji lead his troops to attack Wen Shihong. The two armies were engaged in a big battle at the mouth of the river, and the scribe Hong relied on the abundance of troops; Zhou Shaoji relied on the elite soldiers. The two armies fought together for a day, but they did not decide the winner.

This is the quality of the soldier is revealed, and the elite of the scribe Hong is already a little confused and inadequate; And the army of the Great Demon Kingdom is still fighting in an orderly manner.

Li Jing saw the opportunity to take advantage of his chaos to attack and attack the army of scribes, capturing more than 400 boats and nearly 10,000 people killed and drowned.

Zhou Shaoji chased after Wen Shihong and chased to Bailizhou east of the Zhijiang River, and surrounded Wen Shihong's troops.

With the help of strong bows and crossbows and thunderbolts, Zhou Shaoji defeated the scribe Hongjun again; In the end, the army of Wen Shihong was completely annihilated, and Wen Shihong was also captured alive.

Zhou Shaoji pressed Wen Shihong to see Li Jing, and Li Jing personally tied him up and persuaded Wen Shihong to surrender. The scribe felt how sincere he was, and he knelt on the ground and said: "The general of the defeated army has the love of the general, and he does not dare not surrender." ”

Li Jing is overjoyed, and the army generals of the Great Demon Country are talented; However, the navy has not been able to keep up with the needs of development; Cheng Zhijie sighed for a long time; So much so that even Liang Menglong couldn't go into battle from time to time. Today's recovery of Scribe Hong will certainly alleviate this situation to a great extent.

Without saying a word, Li Jing arranged Wen Shihong under Zhou Shaoji's account. Zhou Shaoji extended a warm welcome to Wen Shihong's joining. Wen Shihong said to Zhou Shaoji: "General Zhou, this time the water battle was lost by Wen someone, but I really want to learn General Zhou's martial arts, and I hope the general will give him advice." ”

Zhou Shaoji laughed and said: "I have also heard of General Wen's name, but my Zhou Shaoji's skills are all on the water, especially in naval warfare." I also hope to be able to learn from General Moon's bravery at sea. ”

The two laughed together.

Li Jing took advantage of the victory and led the army to the city of Jiangling and surrounded Jiangling. At this time, there were only a few thousand guards in Gangneung City, and the rest had already been sent home. These people couldn't hold the huge Jiangling City at all, so Xiao Mo had to concentrate them in the inner city to guard. completely gave up the outline to Li Jing. The Great Demon Kingdom successfully occupied Shuicheng, captured more than 4,000 armor soldiers, and captured a large number of boats.

Li Jing believes that Xiao Mian occupies a very wide area, and now he is deep into his hinterland, and if the city cannot be attacked, the enemy reinforcements will be in a dilemma. Therefore, he ordered the boats to be scattered in the river and left to drift in order to confuse the reinforcements.

Xiao Mo hid in Jiangling City, with only a few thousand soldiers under his command, and only then did he regret that he should not have hastily disbanded his soldiers, so that there were no available soldiers in his hands. The territory of Daliang is vast, and it is even more vast, than other Great Demon Kingdoms or Li Tang, and it is wishful thinking to transfer all the garrisons from all over the country in a while.

Qiu He, the governor of Jiaozhou, Gao Shilian, and Sima Du Zhisong, who had the same idea as Xiao Miao, went to Li Jing to surrender. After hearing this, Xiao Mo thought that he was bound to lose when the general trend was gone, and said to his subordinates: "God does not bless the Liang Dynasty!" If you wait for the strength to be exhausted, you will bring disaster to the people. Now take advantage of the city before it is taken, and surrender first, so as to avoid the scourge of chaos. Why don't you worry about having a monarch? ”

He didn't hold on any longer, so he sent people out of the city to ask Li Jing for surrender. Then he patrolled the city and gave the order, the whole army laid down its arms, and the city surrendered; The guards wept bitterly.

Xiao Mo used the Tai prison to sacrifice to the Taimiao, led the officials and subordinates to wear filial piety clothes to the military gate, and confessed to Li Jingbai and said: "Xiao Mo is the only one who should die, and the people are not guilty, please don't kill them!" ”

Li Jing said with a smile: "Our demon king Chitose loves the people like a son, and I have always heard that he relieved the people from hanging upside down, but I have never heard of harmful actions to the people." King Liang, please rest assured. I make a pact with you here, the people of Daliang are the people of my Great Demon Kingdom; No one can hurt him.

As long as the officers and soldiers of Daliang lay down their arms and surrender, they are ordinary people, and they are not to blame for the past; No one can infringe on their lives and property. ”

"Thank you for your magnanimity!" The ministers who followed Xiao Mo out of the city were all determined in their hearts, and they prostrated on the ground to thank them.

Li Jing pressed them into the generals, ordered people to seal the treasury, and made a list to calm the people; Then he collected and sorted out the household registration and tax books of Daliang, and then announced the abolition of Daliang's tax system and agreed to implement the system of the Great Demon Kingdom.

After the promulgation of these decrees, the people of Daliang suddenly found that their burdens were much lighter, and they happily ran to tell each other one by one; Willingly returned to the rule of the Great Demon Kingdom.

Within a few days of Li Jing's occupation of Jiangling, the brigade commander Zheng Wenxiu led an army of 100,000 to rescue Jiangling; But when they came to Baling, they saw the empty boat going down the river, and Guohu did not dare to enter; Zheng Wenxiu sent people to investigate, and knew that Jiangling had been broken, and there was no way to surrender the Great Demon Kingdom.

Although Li Jing didn't know why Cheng Zhijie attached so much importance to the barren and barbaric land of Jiaozhi, he still ordered Gao Shilian to stay and garrison Jiangling, and he led all the troops and hundreds of thousands of troops into Lingnan.

When the generals in Lingnan heard that Xiao Mo had surrendered, and Li Jing led more than 100,000 troops to press the border, and Xiao Mo still had the surrender edict in his hand, they all went out of the city to surrender.

Li Jing didn't have much effort to surrender the Ninety-six Cities of Lingnan. Then, with the help of the local general Ning Changzhen and Zheng Wenxiu, who had a high prestige, he successfully established contact with the barbarians in the mountains and forests and created a trade zone.

When these barbarians saw Ning Changzhen and Zheng Wenxiu come forward as guarantors, they also tried to use the special products in the mountains to trade with foreign Han merchants. As a result, they found that the prices offered by these Han Chinese were very fair, not only lower than in the past, but also a wide variety of goods that they had never heard of.

It is that the two parties have clashed in trade; Local officials will also invite their leaders to hear cases together to achieve a satisfactory outcome for both parties.

Then the Han people began to build houses around the trade area, which became larger and more prosperous. Some barbarians gradually got used to the bustle and bustle here, and also moved out of the mountains and forests to settle down; Slowly fused together.

Although some barbarians are reluctant to give up their own land, one sticks to the mountains and forests, but they are used to using all kinds of Han goods, they can no longer do without, and slowly become vassals.

After Li Jing recovered Lingnan, Cheng Zhijie set up the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion here, and his seat of governance was in Panyu; manage all things in Lingnan; Li Jing was the first governor of Guangzhou.

Then Zhang Ding, the naval marshal of the Great Demon Country, led the army to the south and set up a base in Panyu, which constituted the two major naval bases of the Great Demon Country with Donglai in Shandong.

Then entrusted by Cheng Zhijie, Du He, the boss of the Ministry of Commerce, personally met with Li Jing and wanted to open up a sea route from here. The merchants of the Great Demon Kingdom flocked to the shark that saw the blood, and for a time the small Panyu City was full of traffic and overcrowded.

Li Jing's eyes lit up, and he immediately decided to expand Panyu City according to the scale of Jinan and Chang'an, and got in touch with Zhang Ding, so that the navy could help protect the merchant ships at sea.

Zhang Ding also received hints from the process and expressed his willingness to dispatch 2 Dragon-class warships, 10 Tiger-class warships, 100 Xiong-class warships, and 200 Leopard-class warships for a long journey.

Zhang Ding revealed to the merchants that this time they would send 10,000 sailors, and there was still a lot of spare space on the ship, which could be lent to the merchants to load the goods, but they would have to pay a certain fee.

The whole city was in a stir, and merchants who were worried about the ships flocked to the city, almost surrounding the naval garrison.

In a small inn in the middle of nowhere, there was a young woman with a charming face with her eyebrows and a sad face. This person's name is Xie Qing, a native of Wannian County, Yongzhou; Both parents were businessmen, and they made a living by running their ancestral secret Zhengu liquor.

However, when she was just a teenager, her family suffered and both parents died; She took over the family business as a young girl. However, her business is coveted by her peers, who want to get their hands on her wine recipes. They teamed up to fight Xie Qing, making her really unable to operate.

Xie Qing heard that Shandong was a paradise for merchants, so he sold his property and took two old servants to Jinan, Shandong. Because of the high quality and low price, they quickly took root in Jinan, and re-established the real estate foundation and settled down again.

This time, when he heard about the development of Lingnan, Xie Qing keenly discovered that this was a huge business opportunity, so he came to Panyu again with the army of merchants.

Only here did she realize that she had thought everything too simply; I always felt that I had a small amount of money, but when I saw it today, I realized that compared to those big businessmen, my own things were just a drop in the bucket.

If you want to go to sea, you must first have a ship, and now the sea ships have been divided by major merchants, and it is not their turn at all.

Xie Qing was in a hurry, when he heard someone shouting outside the door: "Miss Xie, Miss Xie!" There is good news. ”

Xie Qing was stunned for a moment, and quickly got up and opened the door to ask his old servant, "Uncle Dong, how is it?" Did the Fuyuan agree to let us take their ship? ”

Uncle Dong sighed and said: "Girl, don't mention Fuyuan, that young owner Zhao Bancheng has always coveted the girl's beauty, I wish we could beg them, so that they can make any unreasonable demands, so that they will not be so kind to help us."

I heard that the Navy had agreed to help merchants deliver goods, but for a fee, and now everyone went to the Navy Station. Why don't we give it a try, if we can succeed, wouldn't it be a hundred times stronger than the merchant ship that took the Fuyuan. ”

When Xie Qing heard this, he thought so, and hurriedly urged him to leave. Uncle Dong smiled: "Girl, don't worry, I've already asked Xiaobei to line up, this time I came back to report to the girl, but the navy has regulations prohibiting the transportation of prohibited items, we need to bring a sample to report." ”

Xie Qing breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and hurriedly asked people to bring two bottles of wine and hurriedly ran to the naval station.