Chapter 66: Returning Home
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Dong Zhen was stunned.
Li Meili pouted: "It's not bad, all the output of the imperial capital, plus all the output of Xinhuo Town, to create a new territory, Qu Dongnan is qualified to be my sister-in-law." ”
Li Wen glared at her, and Li Meili suddenly glared back.
"Big brother, Wang Xiu is good, break with the whole family for you, but what about Qu Dongnan, I think people can't have no conscience, she has been staying in Xinhuo Town for you, and she has also retired from two family affairs in a row, and now she is twenty-five years old, big brother, you inquire, which young lady of the empire has not married after the age of twenty-five, and she will not be able to marry for the rest of her life. ”
Li Wen's face turned white, sighed, and waved his army into the city.
According to Li Wen's original concept, he must not cause a break with the empire, and now he must try his best to maintain himself under the personal contradiction with the Yun clan, otherwise, once the empire's war machine is in operation, it will definitely not be something that he can cope with at the moment, his own strength is too weak, compared with the empire's claim to be a million heroes, his own strength will be crushed at any time.
However, after repeated wars, Li Wen felt more and more that his original idea was to deceive himself.
It is almost impossible to naively think that the Empire will not kill you, and to establish your own security under the carelessness and tolerance of the Empire.
Raided the county capital, locked up a group of imperial generals, Li Wen generals Wang Yishan, Soft Gengyue, Tianscar, Dong Zhen father and son, and the general manager of the Eastern District appointed by Qu Dongnan, Johnson, now went to the county capital to discuss the next move.
A map of the empire was spread out on the large desk in the hall, and Li Wen looked at the map of the thirteen provinces of the empire on the map, his brows furrowed slightly.
He handed Johnson a pen and asked him to circle his territory, Johnson drew an area according to his knowledge, crossed Ping'an County, stepped out of the territory of the Tang Empire, and extended into the territory of the Glorious Empire.
Li Wen scratched his head.
"Are you sure?"
"Well, when I left the camp in New Fire Town, it was like this, and now, it should have expanded a little more, after all, it's been half a year. ”
"How...... How could it be so big......"
Wang Yishan was a little dumbfounded.
"Boy, it looks like you're having a rebellion. ”
Li Wen stared at this area, thinking about it repeatedly in his heart, and then looked at the people around him, his eyes became clearer and clearer, and a thought suddenly formed in his heart.
Everyone had been watching him silently, waiting for him to draw conclusions from his thoughts.
Li Wen finally raised his head and said: "I can't afford to be charged with rebellion, everyone, I think it is better for us to jointly ask the empire for war." ”
Dong Zhen's eyes lit up.
"Not bad idea, we need time, we need to strengthen ourselves, we should make the empire feel that we are under his control, we can be used by the empire. ”
Li Wen nodded: "In the name of several people, first jointly impeached the Yun clan, and then offered a million catties of military rations, asking the empire to allow us to enter Great Chu and support Wang Xiu's battle, so as to test the empire's reaction, what do you think?"
Dong Zhen nodded, "I support this idea." ”
Dong Xinghai's eyes narrowed slightly, and suddenly looked directly at Li Wen like a knife.
"Li Wen, I want to hear your true physiognomy. ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone turned their attention to Li Wen.
Li Wen said solemnly: "To be honest, I personally don't have much ambition, my personality is lazy, I don't like to work, if I can calm this disaster, it is the best choice." Rebellion means war, and war means that countless people have been displaced, and countless families have lost their loved ones. ”
Dong Xinghai nodded: "This idea is in line with the interests of the empire, and the emperor will most likely compromise, so let it be according to your wishes." ”
No one objected, so Dong Zhen drafted a note, denouncing the Yun family's various evil deeds, and then pleaded guilty for himself, and then wrote a pledge to sacrifice a million troops, lead a thousand men and horses into Chu, and help Wang Xiu win the victory of Great Chu. From Changcang Station, 800 miles expedited, sent to the imperial capital.
After a day's rest, everyone got up again and went straight to Xinhuo Town.
As soon as you enter Ping'an County, you will be thriving all the way, passing by villages and towns, one is richer than the other, people are full of smiles on their faces, children are wearing new clothes, running on the street, and you can hear the sound of reading in the school.
The farther they went west, the more shocked the Silver Knights became, almost thinking that they had arrived in another country.
Early the next morning, there were still two hundred miles away from Xinhuo Town, and little John, who was thirty miles ahead, suddenly waved his hand.
With a sudden pull, the ten cavalrymen behind him drew their heavy swords together and entered the battle state in an instant.
A whistling.
On the mountain road, a pure black handsome horse rushed out, and immediately a light-armored knight waited there majestically, and the momentum of the sky rushed straight from the big knight.
With a wave of his hand, the four fields shook, and countless warriors immediately appeared on both sides of the mountain road.
"Surrounded ......"
Little John snapped, crushed a rune paper in his hand, and warned Li Wen.
"Who is it?" asked the strong man on the other side in a deep voice.
Little John's whole body was shocked, stunned on the ground, and carefully looked at the strong man opposite, with gray hair and a helmetless face, full of wind and frost. He was speechless for a while, and a stream of heat suddenly surged up from the bottom of his heart.
The horse's hooves shook, and the man slowly approached, a green heavy sword in his hand, and the deep words sounded again.
"This is Li Wen's territory, report the name on the other side, otherwise please turn around!"
Little John threw down the giant sword in his hand, took off the veil on his face, kicked off his horse, and with a pop, knelt straight in the middle of the road, two lines of tears flowing.
"Father, I'm John, and we're ...... Came back......"
The giant man on the opposite side shuddered for a moment, suddenly jumped off his horse, and arrived in front of him in one step, dragged him up, and watched carefully in front of him.
"My son, you are my son, little John, who has grown so big...... It's been six years, my son!"
"Father, I'm Little John!"
Old John hugged his son, and the father and son hugged each other tightly, tears rolling down.
The apes have always been emotional, and their expressions are straightforward.
Before he had time to say goodbye, Old John exclaimed, "Is it really the gentleman who has returned?"
Little John nodded, "Sir is behind." ”
"That's great!"
Old John and Little John beat their horses together and returned the way they came.
The team received Little John's warning and had already set up a formation, Li Happy took a team and was about to go to help, but he saw Little John running back from a distance, and Old John followed behind him with emotion.
"Where's the gentleman?"
Li Wen laughed and ran to the middle of the road to greet him.
Old John stepped forward and bowed deeply, his eyes red.
"Sir, we are all looking forward to your return......"
Old John led a thousand ape hunters to meet him.
After converging, they marched towards the county seat of Pyongan County.
Ding Jin, the lord of Ping'an County, personally greeted him.
Li Wen's forces have unified Ping'an County, he, the county lord, is a vacant position, as long as Li Wen is willing, he will be driven away at any time, how dare Ding Jin have a trace of disrespect, the kid who participated in his daughter's wedding, Ding Jin didn't even have a trace of impression, but he was deeply impressed at this time.
When he saw Wang Yishan beside Li Wen, Soft Cultivator, and Dong's father and son, even his heart and liver trembled.
Li Wen was also very polite to Ding Jin, promised a lot of money, and asked Ding Jin to send a letter to the imperial capital in his own name to guarantee Li Wen's loyalty to the empire. Ding Jin complied one by one.
Ping'an County is full of Li Wen's industry, and the entire street is full of grain stores, which has become the largest grain market in the northwest of the empire, and grain dealers, large and small, have to buy goods from here and then pull them to all parts of the country. It's a lot of noise every day.
Among them, all of them are bulk flour products, dried noodle products, polished rice, and edible oil, all of which are bought and sold in tons.
The most on the street is the Li Grain and Oil Branch, the Xinhuo Town Main Branch, Li Wen was afraid of disturbing the business, so he wore civilian clothes, accompanied by Old John, went over to shop, Li Meili Li Happy of course to follow.
Old John was obviously in a detached position, and his arrival still attracted the attention of some people, and some people came to salute him and wanted to invite him to a drink, but Old John refused one by one.
After walking half the street, suddenly an old man ran out of a shop, knelt down to stop old John, and cried loudly, old John hurriedly helped him up, his face was ugly, and he winked at the visitor.
But the skinny little ape couldn't stop crying.
"Elder, you have to be the master for us, the fourth young master wants too much filial piety money, we can't get it together for a while, he will drive us away, we have been working hard for three years in this shop, this is the life of our whole family!"
Li Meili was surprised, "Filial piety money, what kind of money?"
The man turned his head and said, "He said that he wanted to marry a daughter-in-law, and each family would pay him a hundred imperial silver coins, but he had already been married once last month, and we had already given him once. ”
"What's once or twice, Li Facai, that villain, we have to get married several times a year, and we are all ...... Hey, who are you?"
Behind the ape clan, a large number of people poured in, and among them were sharp-eyed, looking at Li Meili stupidly.
"What, Li Facai has been married several times, where is he?" Li Meili was immediately furious.
"On the Tianxiang Tower, he married the girl in the cellar...... I'm not dazzled, miss, why do you look familiar?"
Li Meili said angrily: "Do you dare not know this princess, aren't you a cheap breed of the old Hu family!"
The young man on the other side suddenly screamed, rubbed his hands, and ran over with tears in his eyes.
"My God, it turned out to be the princess, you are back, my God, you are Li Meimei...... Oh my God......"
"Shut up, lead the way, and find out Li Facai!"
Li Meili took the second child of the Hu family and went to find Li Facai.
Li Wenwei frowned, sighed in his heart, and was about to turn around to find a clean place, when an old man in the crowd ran over and stopped in front of him, snorting, and asked with tears in his eyes: "This ...... The...... Is that sir...... I'm not mistaken, are you back, sir...... I'm the old ...... of Xinhuo Town."
As soon as he said this, the street suddenly became extremely quiet, and countless eyes fell on Li Wen.
After Li Wen went through the cycle of life, he was a few years younger, and his appearance naturally did not change much, plus the stars around him held the moon, closely followed by Little John and Li Huanhuan, two mountain-like ape warriors, people immediately paid attention to him.
More people recognized him, and the street was surprisingly quiet for a while.
Then some people ran home to call someone, some cried, some screamed.
"Oh my God, my God, the gentleman is back......"
Su Lao Xiao burst into tears, knelt on the long street, and hugged Li Wen's legs tightly.
"Miss us, our husband, our savior! you're back......"
Suddenly, there was a large kneeling in the street.
Far away, countless people rushed out of their homes and from the store, and people flocked here with great reverence.
Six years ago, a man named Li Wen suddenly appeared in the dilapidated and filthy town of Xinhuo, and six years ago, the young man with a green face stood at the front of a group of numb and lowly people and said loudly to those forces: This is not fair......
As a result, their lives were turned upside down, and for the first time, they had the feeling of being human beings and stood up straight for the first time!
This gratitude is for a lifetime, and for the next life......