Chapter 186: Zhai Rang Visits

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Zhai Rang, Shan Xiongxin, and Xu Shiyun came to visit together, and Li Fengyun greeted him outside the gate and saw each other very happily.

At this moment, it has been less than a year since the four of them were released from the White Horse Prison, but they are no longer human. Bai Li Fengyun rose in Mangdang, crisscrossed Qilu, and today is the Central Plains, invincible, famous all over the world, while Zhai Rang and Shan Xiongxin have been reduced to underworld thieves, although they gather in Wagang, they are weak and famous. Xu Shiyi is still the young master of the Lihu Xu family, wandering between black and white as a Henan giant, but compared with before the robbery, today he is deeply caught in many conflicts of interest, although this has accelerated his growth, but he is exhausted and exhausted.

This time, Zhai Rang took the initiative to visit Li Fengyun, and Shan Xiongxin also wanted to get together with Li Fengyun once, but Xu Shiyan did not agree, in his opinion, the differences between the two sides were too great, and there was no possibility of backing down on each other, since this was the case, why bother to meet? Don't meet, don't communicate, don't conflict, you can still maintain the old friendship with each other, and this friendship can still play a role at the critical moment, on the contrary, tearing your face, cutting your robe, and breaking off your righteousness, it is not good for both parties.

Zhai Rang and Shan Xiongxin insisted on their own opinions, both of them had a thought about Li Fengyun, Xu Shiyun had no choice but to accompany him, in fact, he had made up his mind, no matter whether Zhai Rang and the Wagang brothers finally accepted his strategy to retreat to the front line of the river, he would return to Lihu as soon as possible, and take advantage of Li Fengyun's attack on the violent turmoil in the south of the Gyeonggi River, and spare no effort to expand the power of the Xu family, so as to protect the interests of the Xu family to the greatest extent.

Li Fengyun hosted a banquet and entertained them, and ceremoniously introduced them to Han Jinluo and other heroes, as well as Yuan An, Xiao Yi and other staff. In the middle, Meng Haigong and Zhai Rang, Shan Xiongxin, and Xu Shiyun all knew each other, especially with Shan Xiongxin, who was in the same county and had a similar temperament and a good relationship.

Xu Shiyun was cautious in his words and deeds, and spent most of his time listening intently, very low-key.

Shan Xiongxin was bold and magnificent, drinking wine and eating meat in a big bowl, and he was very happy to change cups with Meng Haigong, Huo Xiaohan and others, and the atmosphere in the tent was very hot by them.

Zhai Rang was calm, his words and deeds were decent, and he talked happily with Han Jinluo, Shuai Rentai, Xu Shiren and others, but behind the bright smile, there was unspeakable bitterness.

Li Fengyun obviously did not welcome their arrival, although he did an impeccable job in etiquette, but such a grand reception just clearly showed the strangeness between the two sides. If the two sides are very close, Li Fengyun will definitely have a private banquet, and then everyone will talk to each other together, but now Li Fengyun does not give them the opportunity to talk in private at all, which is actually equivalent to directly cutting off the thoughts of Zhai Rang and others, I will not compromise with you, either you raise the flag and rebel, live and die with me, share honor and disgrace, or you hide aside and do not involve each other, of course, you can also choose to be my enemy, but you have to think about the consequences.

On the contrary, Han Jinluo and other heroes were very happy, Li Fengyun's move showed that he would not hide from the heroes and have private contact with the Henan people, and he always put the interests of the alliance first, which was obviously conducive to the unity within the alliance.

The wine is hot, the blood is surging, Shan Xiongxin's courage is bigger, and his ideas are simple. Since you, Li Fengyun, deliberately alienated us and didn't give us a chance to speak, then we said it at the wine banquet and publicly in front of all of you.

Shan Xiongxin used the strength of the wine, first lamented the suffering caused by natural disasters to the people of Henan, and then praised the heroes for opening warehouses and releasing grain to save the common people, and then the conversation changed and began to question, you are not capable of saving countless Henan victims, the fact in front of you is that you are holding the innocent victims hostage to threaten the Eastern Capital, and the guide zhì Dongdu will not only not reach out to rescue the victims of Henan, but will kill in the name of rebellion, so I have to ask, what is the real purpose of you taking advantage of the unbearable disasters in Henan to suddenly enter the Central Plains? What do you want from Henan?

"Who said that the Eastern Metropolis will provide disaster relief?" Huo Xiaohan was unceremonious, and immediately asked rhetorically, "Last year, the big river flooded, and there were countless victims in Henan and Hebei, Qilu, have you ever seen the government provide disaster relief?" Have you ever seen disaster relief in the Eastern Capital? This year's drought has caused the summer grain harvest in many places to be out of harvest, and two consecutive disasters have dealt a heavy blow to the north and south of the river, but can you see that there is a government disaster relief? So far, can there be any signs of disaster relief in the Eastern Capital? ”

"Shan Erlang, I don't know why you have illusions about Dongdu." Zhen Baoche scoffed, "If the people of Henan are like you, why not starve all over the wilderness?" It is estimated that in winter, this place is thousands of miles of red land, and it is deserted. ”

Shan Xiongxin's eyes widened, and he was about to refute, but Zhen Baoche raised his hand to stop it, and continued, "The emperor is in Liaodong, the Eastern Expedition is underway, and the expeditionary force is advancing towards Pyongyang, you can imagine, how much food is needed on the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition at this moment?" The banks of the great river have always been wealthy, and they are also the main suppliers of military supplies for the Eastern Expedition, but last year's flood, this year's drought, and the harvest for two consecutive years, the national treasury was suddenly tight, in this case, the Eastern Expedition was to ensure the Eastern Crusade, to ensure the lives of millions of soldiers on the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition, to ensure that the emperor built the world's martial arts, or to take the limited food for disaster relief, ignoring the great cause of the Eastern Expedition and the millions of soldiers of the expeditionary army? Let me ask you again, is it the emperor's martial arts that are important, the lives of millions of expeditionary soldiers are important, or the ordinary people on both sides of the river are important

"The treasury is short of food?" Zhai Rang couldn't help but speak, "In Gyeonggi, there are Luokoucang, Huiluocang, Heyangcang, Guangtongcang, and Changping, and outside Gyeonggi, there are Liyang Cang and Jiangdu Cang, all of which have more than one million stone of grain storage. Although the north and south of the river have been affected by disasters for two consecutive years, how can they shake the foundation of the country? Besides, the Eastern Crusade was nominally exerting national strength, but in fact it was the power of our Shandong Province and the power of the north and south of the river. Today's righteous flag holders are all from the north and south of the river, which is enough to prove this. ”

"Fa Si Zhai said it well." Han Jinluo immediately applauded, "It stands to reason that the Eastern Crusade should be devoted to the national strength, but why is it my Shandong strength that is exhausted?" This stems from the hatred of the Guanlong people for the Shandong people. Since the unification of China and Earth, the Guanlong people have done everything possible to contain and attack our Shandong people. This time, the Guanlong people even used the name of the Eastern Crusade to kill our Shandong people. Imagine that in this situation, the Eastern Metropolis will help the people of Henan and will help the disaster? ”

"As Zhai Fasi said, within Gyeonggi, there are all kinds of national warehouses, and outside of Gyeonggi, there are also Liyang Okura." Shuai Rentai looked at Zhai Rang and sneered, "Liyang Cang is on the bank of the big river, just within the disaster area, with the reserve of one million stones in Liyang Cang, if you want to provide disaster relief, it is easy, but may I ask Fa Si Zhai, when the victims of the disaster in Henan are hungry and starving all over the wilderness, has the Eastern Capital ever opened Liyang Cang?" Did the emperor ever order the opening of the warehouse to release grain? ”

Zhai Rang argued with reason, "I admit that the Guanlong people hate our Shandong people, and the reason why the Eastern Capital has not provided disaster relief for a long time is directly related to this hatred, but it is not directly related to the Eastern Crusade." In fact, there is no contradiction between the Eastern Crusade and disaster relief, only the Eastern Crusade can stabilize the shape of the north and south of the Great River, and the north and south of the Great River can stabilize the stability of the domestic situation and ensure the smooth progress of the Eastern Crusade, so, as Chief Manager Zhen said, it is precisely because the emperor's martial arts are important and the lives of millions of soldiers of the expeditionary force are important that the Eastern Capital will definitely provide disaster relief. However, the shape of the Eastern Capital is far more complicated than we imagined, and the fact that the Eastern Capital did not provide disaster relief last year and this spring does not mean that the Eastern Capital will not provide disaster relief this summer. However, your arrival, your burning, killing and plundering in Henan quickly pushed the situation in Henan to the abyss of collapse, and the chaos of the situation in Henan not only threatened the security of Gyeonggi and the Eastern Capital, but also severely affected the great cause of the Eastern Expedition, and cut off the possibility of the Eastern Capital to provide disaster relief to Henan. ”

Zhai Rang's words actually represent the true thoughts of the local forces in Henan, and represent the bitter hatred of the Henan people for the cross-border plundering of the Qi people, while the Qi people extremely despise the conservative cowardice of the Henan people.

Today, in addition to the Hebei people who raised the banner to rebel in the north and south of the river, they were Qilu people, and Qilu was the most handsome, and the rebels went one after another, emerging in endlessly, and openly put on a posture of changing the world and the earth. The reason why Han Jinluo and other heroes chose to support Li Fengyun's strategy of going west to the Central Plains was due to the innate contradiction between Shandong and Guanlong people on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was due to the psychology of "competing for hegemony".

Zhai Rang told the truth, which also aroused the anger of Qi people. Han Jinluo and others were furious, everyone hated the same enemy, and made it difficult for the Henan people together, while Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiyan wanted to be peacemakers, and the other wanted to be low-key, and they didn't want the contradictions to be public, but the result was inevitably involved in this controversy, so the atmosphere at the banquet took a sharp turn, and the two sides were tense, and there was a tendency to draw swords against each other without saying a word.

Li Fengyun sat on the side and watched the excitement, the clouds were light and the wind was light, but his heart was happy.

He was very disappointed in Zhai Rang, and he also lost his reverence for the Wagang people, and he also saw the reason why the Wagang people suddenly failed when they once had an absolute advantage in the Central Plains.

Today, when I arrive in the Central Plains, I will be the overlord of the Central Plains, and I will occupy the position that originally belonged to Zhai Rang.

"Are Henan people all cowards? What's so scary about a dropped head? Zhen Baoche got up and roared angrily, "The terrible thing is not death, but the loss of the heroic integrity of Shandong people and the rolling blood of Shandong people." ”

Zhai Rang sneered, "Whether the people of Henan are cowards or not, you don't say it, Xingyang Zheng has the final say." ”

Xingyang Zheng's. These four words seemed to have infinite power, and in an instant, everyone was shocked, and the chaotic wine feast suddenly fell silent.

Xingyang Zheng family, one of the five wealthy families in Shandong, the leader of the Henan aristocratic group, and the boss of Henan's local forces, its interests are closely related to the local interests of Henan. How can you watch your own interests suffer a fatal blow?

What does Zhai Rang mean by this? Is he here today because he was entrusted by the Zheng family in Xingyang? Or, on behalf of the Xingyang Zheng clan, make a threat to the Rebel Alliance?

The Jishui River connected Henan and Qilu together, and also connected the Qilu nobles such as the Zheng clan of Xingyang and the Duan clan of Beihai, but whenever it was related to the interests of the aristocratic group in the south of the entire Great Henan in Shandong, the two aristocratic groups of Henan and Qilu would inevitably join forces. Han Jinluo and the other Qilu heroes couldn't help but think about it. Could it be that outside of the Gyeonggi Customs, it is another deadly trap?