Chapter 23: The Turbulent Liangshan
Zhao Di was still a little confident in Song Jiang's endurance, so he definitely didn't believe that this blow would be able to defeat Song Jiang, otherwise he would not have forgotten Li Gang's letter, and he wouldn't have thought that Li Gang's secret letter to himself was used to deliver the news.
Zhao Di knows Song Jiang's personality very well, and he knew from the first time they met that this guy was the character in the famous book he had read, so he could withstand no matter how big the blow was, and as long as he was given the opportunity, he would definitely be able to shine.
Zhao Di nodded slightly and said, "It's good to understand, then it's up to the commander to make you." ”
Song Jiang said yes, and then directly took out the fire fold from his arms in front of Zhao Di and directly burned the secret letter point, which was strictly required by Li Gang at the end of the letter, and the letter must be destroyed in front of Zhao Di.
Zhao Di obviously didn't expect Li Gang to be so cautious, but he didn't show any waves on his face, but secretly despised it in his heart, feeling that Li Gang was a little too much.
Doing so is not to tell Liangshan and the gang that he will definitely not take responsibility for the things explained in the letter, so how can he subdue the loyalty of the bandits in Liangshan.
However, when I think about Li Gang's personality, I also know in my heart that I am afraid that Li Gang still looks down on the bandits in Liangshan in his heart, and these people on Liangshan are just some dispensable chess pieces in his mind, and he will not feel a pity to throw them away after using them.
Zhao Di secretly said in his heart: That's fine, although these guys in Liangshan are still useless, but if these people carry out a transformation in their own hands, they may not be able to achieve something in the future, and now under such circumstances, they may be able to subdue some more available people. But it's too early to think about this now, and with Song Jiang and his gang here, I don't have to worry, let's make plans after we get a firm foothold in the future!
After Song Jiang burned the letter, he said to Zhao Di: "Lord Wang, this matter is really difficult for Song to speak, I don't know if the prince can give Song a little time to explain it clearly with the brothers, so that the brothers can have a process of acceptance, after all, even Song never thought of this before." After Song has persuaded all the brothers, let's divide the army again, how about it?"
Song Jiang is really a smart person, after reading Li Gang's letter, he immediately changed his name, before claiming that most of them were lower officials, but now he seems to have been hit, and he immediately changed his tone and changed his name to Song, it can be seen that Song Jiang also feels that his current identity is a little awkward at this time, and he doesn't know how to position himself, he is not a big Song official.
Zhao Di naturally had no opinion on Song Jiang's request, and nodded slightly: "It's okay." This king is indeed a little tired from running all the way, so he will go and rest for the night first, and the division of the army will be carried out tomorrow!"
Song Jiang thanked him and asked the minions below to come over and take Zhao Di to the guest room to rest.
After Zhao Di left, only Liang Shan and other high-level people were left in the White Tiger Hall, but Song Jiang did not speak for a long time, and the atmosphere in the hall seemed to have become a little weird, and everyone looked at Song Jiang who was sitting above, and saw that he was frowning, as if there was something difficult to decide.
In the end, Wu Yong saw that there seemed to be something difficult in Li Gang's letter to Song Jiang, so that Song Jiang didn't know how to speak, as a supporter of Song Jiang, he had to speak: "Brother, what happened, is there any repetition in the imperial court? Is there anything that brother has to say to the brothers? Everyone is brothers who share life and death, and everyone will definitely support you no matter what!"
With Wu Yong's head, of course, the others immediately expressed their positions one by one, patting their chests and guaranteeing that no matter what happened, everyone would definitely stand on Song Jiang's side.
Song Jiang got up with a moved face at this time, came to the table and bowed to the brothers standing up below, and then got up and said with a sad face: "I can't hide it, the letter Li Tingshi gave me just now made it clear that in the future, our Liangshan Army will continue to be incognito as bandits, and we must provide Li Tingshi with no less than 300 million taels of looted silver every year, otherwise the Assassin's Mansion will definitely investigate our responsibility for dereliction of duty." ”
"What?"
As soon as Song Jiang said this, all the people in Liangshan below were shocked, this result was unexpected by all of them, after all, they had just returned to the imperial court, and they had just been canonized by the imperial court, and they all thought that they would be officials from now on.
Not to mention others, even Wu Yong was completely dumbfounded at this time.
Who would have thought that Li Gang would give them such an order, handing over 300 million taels of silver goods every year, which was not possible even when Liang Shan was a real bandit before, you must know that when he was a bandit in the past, he basically only made a profit once every six months, and if he could plunder a million taels of silver goods at a time, even if he was the top of the sky, it would be only a few million taels a year, which was almost enough to feed his own people.
Now that Lion Gang opened his mouth, he asked for 300 million taels of silver, which was even more bandit than them, how could they accept it.
"Wow, this corrupt official who is a thief and a bird is trying to force people to death? If we can rob so much silver, do we still need to look at the face of this bird official? This is completely not giving us a way to live, is this forcing us to rebel again!" Li Kui couldn't stand it for the first time, and was about to rebel against the Great Song Dynasty again, and said bluntly: " Big brother, otherwise we would have reversed directly, I would have seen that the surname Zhao was not pleasing to the eye, and this matter may have been instigated by him, first chopped him off the sacrificial flag, and then took his brothers to attack Qiongzhou Mansion and slaughtered the bird thorn surnamed Li. ”
Hearing Li Kui say this, the group of people below also responded with angry or gloomy faces one by one, gritting their teeth and gritting their teeth, obviously they couldn't stand this kind of grievance.
This time, it was really expected by Li Kui, and this matter was really instigated by Zhao Di.
However, Song Jiang was a steady man after all, glared at Li Kui, and shouted angrily: "Tie Niu Hugh is talking nonsense, we have made a blood oath with the Great Song Dynasty, we can't afford the backlash of the Great Song Dynasty at all, and this matter is not just about us, Li Tingshi has already stated in the letter that the prince of Di will also lead the Liangshan army and half of the army to complete this task, so now we are sitting in the same boat with the prince of Di, which is also the test question for Li Tingshi to give me and the prince of Di to compete fairly." ”
Hearing Song Jiang say this, Wu Yong's eyes flashed slightly, looked at Song Jiang and said, "Brother means that Zhao Di will also lead the Liangshan Army to complete the task of 100 million and a half?"
Song Jiang nodded slightly and said, "Yes, and this matter is really as Tie Niu said, this proposal was made by the prince of Di himself to Lord Thorn Shi." ”
Wu Yong frowned slightly when he heard this, but Li Kui gritted his teeth more and more when he heard this, and shouted: "Lao Tzu knows that little white face is not a good thing, and as expected by my Tie Niu, he is taking revenge on us." No, I must go and hack him. After saying that, he picked up the two big axes at his waist and rushed out angrily.
How could Song Jiang let Li Kui come at this time, this matter is not a joke, and Li Kui may not be Zhao Di's opponent, he was severely repaired by Zhao Di before, so Song Jiang shouted angrily: "Stop him, he can't make a fool of himself in this matter, and if he dares to mess around, he will be tied up directly." ”
Luda, who was closest to Li Kui, immediately made a move, and stopped in front of Li Kui with a dodge, and said, "Brother Tie Niu still listens to the orders of the eldest brother, this is really not the time to mess around." ”
Li Kui raised his big axe and pointed at Luda and shouted: "The surname Lu, you are a fucking traitor, you have already taken refuge in the side surnamed Zhao, Lao Tzu will kill you as a traitor first." A pair of big axes were rounded, and they slashed at Ruda's head.
Luda has been good at martial arts at this time, not one or two, following Li Kui's double axe with the wind, very easily avoided Li Kui's axe, and at the same time looked for a gap and moved, bang two punches easily hit Li Kui's hands and wrists, Li Kui's hands were loosened, Luda casually stroked, and easily snatched the double axe in his hand, and said calmly: "Brother Tie Niu, don't be impatient." He casually threw the double axe on the table next to him, and then retreated to the side, not wanting to entangle with Li Kui.