Delong

Chapter 374: The Four Fields (8)

"I just said, your temper is rising." Zhang Xing said disapprovingly. "How timid you are in Dongdu, how irritable you are here in Wu'an... It is said that a man can bend and stretch, but you are too shrinking and stretching too far."

"Maybe so." Li Ding looked at Nangong Lake and sighed, his frustration hard to hide. "Anyway, it seems that I have got a chance in the past few years, but there is not much result after repeated repetitions. It is really irritable."

"It's just hitting the wall repeatedly." Zhang Xing said thoughtfully when he saw this. "I feel that I have a unique knowledge, and I am invincible in the military. With this ability, I can turn clouds and rain, and it is easy to slaughter cities and countries. As a result, in troubled times, politics, economy, organization, fortune, cultivation, diplomacy, and even culture and regional relations are all important. Although, at the very least, it is necessary to analyze and judge, and although the military is the most important one, it is only one... It is like knowing that the world will be chaotic, regardless of everything, and just sharpening a knife early. But even if it’s really messed up, it’s not like you can use a knife as soon as you think about it.”

Li Ding didn't refute, but turned his head to look at the other party. Just like when we first met in the inn, this man looks ordinary, and he can only be regarded as having good features, except for his slightly pale complexion and tall stature, but he is also a typical northern man. He was born in the vanguard.

After watching it for a while, the man took advantage of the situation and asked, "If that's the case, what about you? How on earth do you know so much as a vanguard in the Northland? It's just like the rumors. Did Heidi give you a choice?"

"First of all, I don't know much, but I have a steelyard in my heart. When making judgments, it is more important to know what, but I am also trembling like walking on thin ice. Secondly, there are probably some choices, but it has nothing to do with what I know. It is mainly about the cultivation of true energy. ...but you have seen it too." Zhang Xing was rarely honest. "Besides, practice is my biggest shortcoming."

"Your cultivation is not weak."

"It doesn't mean that, it means that I still have too little understanding of cultivation and how true qi of heaven and earth affects the whole world, especially the operation of society... So I am very afraid of the great master, but also inexplicably confident. The same is true for supreme beings, true dragons, and immortals." Zhang Xing sighed. "I always feel that I am afraid that I will suffer a big loss in such things. Including the British Duke, my fear of him is not because he took the northern roof of Jindi first, so he can take it easy, nor does it mean that he is good at playing Chess, but always worried that he is actually a grand master, and he will come to the top of the red mountain without reason."

Li Ding was silent for a while, and answered seriously: "The great master is like the top of a red mountain. It's just normal to open mountains and slay dragons. Isn't it the same for the last three of the four royals? Besides, you said that I shrink too far and stretch too far. Is it possible that you are used to doing things yourself too unscrupulously? "

"It's possible, but this is the most frightening thing." Zhang Xing nodded immediately. "Because I am really afraid that I will lose my ability to judge in this matter."

Li Ding hesitated for a moment, then suddenly dropped the topic, and continued to ask: "Then what about "Six Secret Teachings"? What about the wild temple?"

"There are opinions." Zhang Xing was still frank. "But you said how much convenience I would get from it, and I don't recognize it. Among them, "Six Secret Teachings" is a clear proof. If you don't rewrite it yourself, ask you to explain it, and experiment it in the army, how can it be effective? ? You should understand too."

Li Ding nodded, with an inexplicably sad expression.

"It's the "Yi Jin Jing", I'm actually looking forward to it more." Zhang Xing said. "After the fall of this year, I plan to convene all the strange scriptures in the territory for a training camp, and give them a use as a support. I hope I can do what I told you, so that the practice of the strange scriptures will no longer depend on luck and aptitude. Of course , I also want to take the opportunity to make statistics and training. Xu Shiying has been helping me with one thing, that is, the ratio of the configuration of the masters of the strange scriptures to the military chief officer, and the ratio of the practitioners and reserve officers to other troops in my direct camp. Arrangement. I will show you when the time comes, make adjustments, and finally write it into the "Six Secret Teachings" of the Dragon Gang."

"This is a must for a real zhenqi formation. In the future, if you really expect to use the weak to fight the strong when you fall behind in the cultivation level, you can't expect a group of practitioners to form an formation. It is better to disperse the practitioners into the army. Attributes, cultivation bases, and the strength of the whole army, form a real army formation, where true energy, manpower, equipment, and morale of the army are integrated." Li Ding instinctively blurted out, but immediately, he paused again, and then came slightly sigh. "Are you just so relieved of me? Or, in your bones, you think I'm just a knife and nothing to worry about?"

"Not to mention that I never used you as a knife, but I took ten thousand steps back. According to what you said, you only make a knife, and that is also a treasured knife that is invincible and can cut mountains and dragons. People like me, Even the cloth heads and cow dung encountered on the roadside have to be collected, so how can you say that a precious sword is not enough?" Zhang Xing laughed jokingly. "The yellow puma is still riding, the sheathless sword given by the king of Qi is also in storage, and there is a compass bought for more than ten yuan. Although I don't use it, I still hang it on my waist when I go out."

As he said that, Zhang Xing took out a compass. Although he had bought it for five or six years, it was still about [-]% new. He didn't know whether it should be attributed to the consecration of the Taishang Laojun or the progress of China's manufacturing industry.

"Do you want to try?" Zhang Xing put the compass on the stone table in the pavilion. "But be careful, once you use it, if you don't persevere to the end, you will be harmed instead."

Li Ding glanced at the compass and shook his head: "Like you, I believe in myself more. It's not that things like foreign objects can't be used, and they are as good as they are used. , always guilty."

"All of you who are capable are like this. I am convinced. Unlike me, who was cornered several times, I still have to use it." Zhang Xing nodded and put it away.

Immediately, the two continued to look at the lake, and after waiting for a while, seeing that there was no new topic, Zhang Xing decided to take the initiative to speak: "Li Si, don't bother, put away your ambition and join the Dragon Gang! It's now , even if Guan Long still has the advantage in strength, it won't be you...and I am going to use your ability to defeat the strong with the weak!"

Li Ding's spirit lifted slightly, then he immediately shook his head: "I have three non-surrenders."

Zhang Xing sneered: "Then I have four things to surrender."

Li Ding answered seriously: "I'm not trying to interrupt you, but I have already thought about how to deal with your persuasion before I came here. First of all, the time to really determine the general trend of the world is in the next year and a half, that is, Jiangdu, Dongfang After the collapse of the capital, the whereabouts of the main force of the Jiangdu Forbidden Army and the results of Uncle Cao in the Eastern Capital. I think that even if the Forbidden Army is afraid of the few masters in Jiangdu and the great masters in the Eastern Capital, they dare not rebel for a while, but as the situation gets worse and worse, this The two places are destined to be unable to hold on. It is only one or two years. In other words, the general situation of the world will not be clear until then. How do you know that Uncle Cao will not desperately take Britain away before he dies? Lord? Then my chance has come, isn't it?"

"That's my chance!" Zhang Xing was speechless. "Maybe Sisi's opportunity has come!"

Li Ding was slightly stunned, and immediately shook his head: "In short, the situation is clear after that, it is too early to say the situation, at least it is too early to force me to surrender with the situation."

Zhang Xing smiled and said nothing, but he didn't refute it either.

"Secondly." Li Ding continued. "It's about my identity, or my personal ambition... You have scolded me so much today, and I don't hold back any more. I want to be the emperor! Born in troubled times, I will naturally be the emperor!"

Zhang Xing glanced at the other party calmly, did not say anything, but seemed to be urging the other party to continue.

"Aren't you surprised?" Li Silang was rather uneasy.

"You are a son of Guanlong. You were raised by the head of the army since you were a child, and you are in troubled times. Now you still have two counties in your hands. Isn't it natural that you want to be emperor?" Zhang Sanlang seemed to be more surprised by the other party's uneasiness that he was not surprised by him. "I want to be the Fifth Supreme, are you surprised?"

Li Silang was also calm: "There is nothing to say, just what you did... I have never seen anyone who wants to fight the world, verify the law from the beginning, and adjust the personnel relations of the army from the beginning, and he even named it "Deputy!" The Dragon Gang still wants to suppress Guan Long, and they want to clean up the aristocratic families in Jiangdong and the tyrants in Hebei... I won’t be surprised if you really want to kill a few dragons one day just to return the earth energy.”

"Then don't you want to unify the world, become a real dragon and immortal, and live forever?" Zhang Sanlang laughed.

"No delay." Li Silang answered seriously. "After the troubled times, if you want to be an emperor, you will not delay each other with unifying the world, becoming a dragon and becoming a god."

"That's the truth." Zhang Xing continued to laugh. "There is one more thing not to drop?"

"What's more, can you and the Dragon Gang really tolerate me?" Li Ding said seriously. "Over and over again?"

"I can tolerate you." Zhang Xing also restrained his smile. "I have nothing to say about the first point, I can only say wait and see; the second point, not to mention I don't care, the key is that after recognizing the situation, with your intelligence, you will actually go out by yourself. After all, your ambition is to dominate the world. This is your childhood ambition. We do not conflict on this point. The third point is that if you are two years later, I can tolerate you, and the Dragon Gang can tolerate you ..."

"Is it so tolerant?" Li Dingchang exhaled. "Have you ever thought about it, it's okay now, we haven't fought yet, I don't have the lives of the Dragon Clan in my hands, and I haven't occupied your territory... But once the wind is surging, in order to fight for the most terrible first-line opportunity, or directly Wrapped in the situation and fighting with you, how can you be so tolerant?"

Zhang Xing was quiet for a while, and gave the answer: "I will be angry, even angry, but as the chief, I can still tolerate you, Li Silang, and the Chulong Gang will also tolerate it... because the Chulong Gang is not a private person. It's a thing that wants to overthrow the entire Great Wei and restore peace to the world, it shouldn't have these emotions... I just want to ask you one thing, if Xue Changxiong surrenders at this time, do you think I should suffer?"

Li Ding was silent, but obviously stunned.

"I must accept that if Xue Changxiong is willing to surrender, we will have the essence of Hebei, we will have the weapons of the Hejian camp, and we can barely gather three masters, so we will not be afraid of anything. He said that he was only reforming the Hejian Army after he surrendered." Zhang Xing spoke quickly and steadily. "Do you want to settle accounts with him at this time, saying how many of us he killed, and also killed a leader? Including how many Hebei rebels he killed before? Or care about his status as the leader of the Guanlong clan? If you care about these, just More people will die, and it will even directly affect success or failure." At this point, Zhang Sanlang spoke slowly. "Compared to him, what are you, Old Four Li? Li Ding is still what I believe to be the most powerful blade in the world, you are the best in cutting mountains and slashing dragons, and you are the number one in breaking the army and destroying the country, but there is no time."

Li Ding's heart moved slightly, and he wanted to speak.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xingfu added another sentence: "But on the other hand, if you clearly know this, but just use our dethrone dragon gang's demeanor of wanting to secure the world to test repeatedly, then don't blame us when you run out of your knife. It’s time to put it away and hang it up.”

Li Dingfu remained silent again.

"So, are you coming or not?" Zhang Xing asked seriously. "I believe in your words. I only need one word from you. I naturally believe in you. I am afraid of the situation that will invite the Duke of England and Uncle Cao. I am afraid that I will not speak for a while because of the war in Hebei. I always understand... I have to wait until the situation is serious. After all, it’s different after all, there will be a barrier, how do you get rid of it?”

"The gap is the gap, wait for Dongdu or Jiangdu to change drastically, since you are so confident, why not be afraid that this year and a half will make me give up." Li Dingjing thought for a while, then suddenly stood up , the appearance is so chic, it turns out that he wants to leave first.

Zhang Xing watched the other party out of the pavilion, Fu got up and called the other party: "Li Si!"

"What else?" Li Ding turned around, curious.

"The thing I regret most now is that I was too generous to Qin Er. I could push him, put pressure on him, and let him come down early, but I always think that time will prove what, so that he will return by different routes..."

"Isn't this bad?" Li Ding couldn't help laughing as he watched the afternoon sun shining on the pavilion, hiding Zhang Xing's face in the shadow. "Don't you still have confidence? You can tolerate Xue Changxiong, Chen Bin, Feng Duan, those local tyrants Xu Shiying and Zhai Qian who do their best in private, Shan Tonghai who used to be a gangster, and those who are greedy for money and profit. Bandits, Xie Minghe who tolerates rudeness, children of the Cui family who speculate, can also tolerate ambitious people like me, what did Qin Bao do, you can't bear it?"

"It's not that I can't bear it, but it should have been better." Zhang Xing walked out of the pavilion with his hands behind his back, and came into the sunlight. He was dressed in a half-worn plain brocade jacket, with a plain expression on his face and that kind of chattering mouth. When he was doing business in Jing'an Terrace that day, he seemed to be the same, which made Li Ding momentarily distracted. "It's people's hearts that change! It's time that can change people! I always think, what if one day, an honest boy like Qin Bao is kidnapped by the army and slaughtered in the city? How should I face him? Moreover, in the past three years, I was dethroning the Dragon Gang, and I watched someone slip past, unable to get up after a setback, and I watched many people go over and over again, but I can also see many people, the kind of domineering local tyrants you mentioned, who are unscrupulous The bandits in the past were gradually restrained and became generals, became law-abiding, and became understanding and respectful of the system... So I thought, what if someone like Qin Bao followed me in the first place?"

Having said that, Zhang Xing sighed deeply, looked at the glittering Nangong Lake, and then turned around and continued: "Besides, sometimes I work really hard, even a little scared... I don't know Xu Shiying is really What if it’s the other way around? When I was fighting Xuzhou, I didn’t know what to do if I lost? So I always thought, if you and Qin Bao were here, if Zhang Shizhao was willing to join me sincerely from the very beginning, how good it would be? More importantly Yes, what if I was also consumed by power and changed?"

Li Ding's mouth suddenly became dry.

"Li Si, I said this, one is to ask you to have a chance to talk to Qin Bao, and the other is to tell you, don't make such a thing about meeting heroes, I sincerely hope that you can come as soon as possible. , When accidents happen, when you change your mind, don’t have any burdens, just come here, do great things together, do good things, and do things with a clear conscience!” Zhang San continued.

Li Ding looked at the other party in a daze, and nodded hard: "I will tell Qin Er."

After finishing speaking, he slowly turned around with his hands behind his back.

Zhang Xing didn't talk any more, just stood outside the pavilion with his hands behind his back, squinted his eyes and watched the other party leave, and after a while, he also walked out.

Regardless of the small episodes after the meeting, let’s just talk about it so far. The meeting ended successfully. After all, it solved the political crisis that may trigger the war between the four Hebei families. Xue Changxiong left directly, and Li Ding and Li Li also left immediately. Shu did not leave, but Zhang Xing relaxed, and continued to wander around in Feng's manor with Xiong Bonan and Feng Duan who came from outside, and even walked around at the evening banquet. He publicly criticized Feng Wuyi.

"Mr. Feng, your actions of the Feng family seem to be inconsistent with the system. It is only natural that you are not as good as the Cui family in terms of reputation. If you ask me, even the Fang family is not as good." When Zhang Xing said this, he was sitting on the head of the banquet. , As soon as the words came out, the children of the Feng family who were already dissatisfied with this rebel who didn't know how to respect the old and love the young became even more angry, but they didn't dare to intervene, and only went to see Xiong Bonan and Feng Duan.

Needless to say, Feng Duan, Xiong Bonan spent a long time in Changle when he was young, it is said that he was very well taken care of by the Feng family, and he was also familiar with several Feng's children.

But Xiong Bonan and Feng Duan just pretended not to see the eyes of these people.

Luo Shu even twisted his beard to laugh, as if he meant to read a joke.

Of course Feng Wuyi knew that this embarrassment could not go on, so he could only ask earnestly, "Chairman Zhang, what does Feng's behavior do not conform to the system."

"Land." Zhang Xing blurted out. "I just asked, the entire area around Nangong Lake is your family's land. It is obvious that the Feng family took advantage of the troubled times to enclose it in the past two years, right? Otherwise, according to the land grant system, your family's land is all here, so what? Enclosed the entire Nangong Lake? Although the Cui family and the Fang family also have manors in Qinghe, they more or less follow the rules, that is, rent first and then hire, and provide fair protection of taxation and corvee in the name of Cui family in exchange for income ...isn't this a judgment of superiors and inferiors?"

Hearing this, Feng Wuyi felt relieved on the spot, and the disciples of the Feng family below also laughed a lot, and even looked triumphant.

"Chairman Zhang misunderstood." Feng Wuyi, who had just violated the rules and served as the prefect of Zhao County, must be right. "The old man's house does have a lot of land, not only here, but also in Changle. There are also stretches of manors, and the house is also very large, but these are not illegal, but the old man has worked in the imperial court for nearly 20 years. , and the Qinghe Cui family and the Fang family had no chance of becoming an official in the Wei Dynasty, and naturally they did not have these extra land."

"So that's the case, but I misunderstood your Excellency." Zhang Xing understood, and immediately reminded the case earnestly. "But if this is the case, Feng Gong has to be more careful, because the Shulong Gang does not follow the rules of the Great Wei, especially the private slaves and official slaves. In the future, when the Dragon Gang hits Xindu, it must be unconditionally forced If you want to buy private slaves, release official slaves, and burn usury debts, if Duke Feng wants to continue the family, please make preparations early."

Not to mention admitting mistakes in the front, but the threat from the back that seemed to turn embarrassing into anger made the whole audience change their colors in horror. As for some young Feng's children, they simply clenched their fists.

Feng Wuyi fell silent. He instinctively wanted to refute it, but he also found it boring, especially the great Wei Jiangqing. The excess land he obtained by relying on the saint's personal favor is really ridiculous...Don't talk about the Dragon Gang, just replace it with any family Whoever replaces Wei, as long as the system of equal land granting is still in place, it is asking for trouble.

So, unexpectedly, instead of refusing, old man Feng replied sincerely after a moment of silence: "What Chief Zhang said is that even if you don't talk about the situation, you only say that the saints have reached this point, and the great Wei has reached this point. This kind of thing is also shameful and disgraceful to me, and I should find a local official to vacate as soon as possible."

Zhang Xing was slightly taken aback, but really had nothing to say.

In fact, seeing the other party being so upright, Zhang Xing just reminded one more earnestly, just one sentence: "Feng Gong is so open, it seems that I am troubled, but it is not only about following the rules of the Dragon Gang at home. Laws, when you arrive in Zhaojun, you should also follow the relevant systems. Our Dragon Gang is rewriting the laws recently, and will send a copy to you, including many systems and laws. I hope that Feng Taishou can implement the rule of law in Zhaojun. The people of Zhao County are at peace."

Regarding this, Feng Wuyi could only smile wryly.

That's it, the banquet continued, after drinking for three rounds, those Feng's children gradually dispersed, Luo Shu really couldn't wait to speak: "Chief Zhang, we are old friends, even though Qin Bao's child is not with you now, it is not Delaying our relationship... Li Cheng's health gradually failed last year, and as a native of Youzhou, I have gradually gained the approval of many local brothers, but many people are not convinced... So, I stay here to please you In a word."

"Understood." Zhang Xing immediately cupped his hands. "Our Dragon Clan is supporting your Excellency to succeed Director Li at the helm in Youzhou. If you urgently need a few experts to help you, just come and call. Some of you who have met me, whether it is Young Master Luo or Zhang Gongshen, Why not send someone like him to stay with us? We can also send a few people to Youzhou to stay here, so we can exchange information."

Luo Shu was overjoyed when he heard the words, and immediately toasted Feng Wuyi, Xiong Bonan and the others under the complicated gazes: "Chairman Zhang's righteousness today, I, Luo Shu, will definitely remember it in my heart... I will let the old man know when I go back this time." Zhang went to look for the general's mausoleum to find you."

Zhang Xing also raised his glass in response and drank it down.

In the mid-autumn season, the most important autumn harvest work had just been completed, and the busy Zhang Xing and others also returned to Jiangling, and then got the message:

Li Ding withdrew from Zhao County as agreed, and Feng Wuyi took office successfully;

At the same time, maybe even earlier, the giant bandit Wang Chenkuo, who once ran rampant in Hengshan County, once again came out of Wumashan to attack the city, and showed the level of a master of Chengdan, and was almost invincible in Hengshan for a while;

That’s not to mention, in Dai County farther north, Zhang Xing, an old friend of Luo Shu and Xiong Bonan, a former Taoist priest of the Black Emperor, defected to the Youzhou Army, and became a member of the Youzhou Army system. One of his relatives who smuggled salt, became a rebel army and then surrendered as an officer and soldier did not know whether it was coercion or persuasion, so he raised the flag again.

how to say?

These are all nothing, chief Zhang became the chief, Xuzhou First World War Forbidden Army directly did business with the world's number one rebel, the Dragon Gang, which ignited the bad influence of the saint's nest in Jiangdu, the princes invaded, the rebels rose everywhere, and the smoke and dust were all over the place , belongs to let nature take its course, not bad for these two.

But there are really two problems.

First of all, there was a disaster in Hebei, and the harvest was really bad. Chief Zhang worked so hard to get a three-family intervention to return Zhao and maintain the situation.

Secondly, the latter two are playing under the banner of the Dragon Gang.

As for Jiang Ling, a fierce dispute immediately occurred because of the latter incident.

PS: Thanks to Mr. Xiongquan for his third alliance.

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