The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 654 The Confrontation Ends
The power of this kind of military-made longbow is not comparable to that of civilian bows and arrows.

Some pirates intentionally or unintentionally hid their shoddy bows and arrows behind their backs.

"Boss, there is a letter on the arrow."

There were also sharp-eyed people who found a letter tied behind the arrow.

Liu Xikuang looked over, and then saw Liu Hongyi smiling lightly, slightly startled, "Bring it."

There are pirates running around.

"Den!"

It took a lot of effort to pull the arrow out of the tree trunk, and ran back to Liu Xikuang again.

Liu Xikuang took down the letter, threw away the arrow, looked down at the letter, and then suddenly looked at Liu Hongyi who was standing at the bow, "Please comfort the envoy to go to the island!"

There was an unconcealable look of surprise on his face.

The letter is a secret letter written by Zhao Dongting himself.

Liu Xikuang, you have already pledged your allegiance to me on Crescent Island. I have sent General Liu Hongyi, the pacifier of Guangnan West Road, to the island this time. You should fully cooperate in recruiting peace.I intend to incorporate the Dongsha Islands into the territory of the Song Dynasty as the center of trade in Liuqiu and the Holy Dynasty.General Liu will help you build the South and North Islands, and provide you with food, grass, and salary. In the future, you will be the special envoy in charge of these two islands.The pirates under your command will keep [-] soldiers to guard the island, and the rest will be dismissed as civilians.If you don't follow, you will deal with it yourself.

Liu Xikang had already guessed Zhao Dongting's identity extremely high, thinking that he was a child of a super martial arts family, but he never dared to think that Zhao Dongting would be the current emperor.

Now the power of the Great Song Dynasty has been established, but no one can ignore it like before, and it has become a big tree in the sky.

No wonder, no wonder there are so many peerless masters around him.

The more Liu Xikuang thought about it, the more ecstatic she became.

He probably never thought that he would be able to be recruited and change from a pirate to an official.

Although I don't know what rank this so-called special envoy is, but he will be the well-deserved master of the two ring islands in the south and north in the future.

The meaning in the emperor's letter is very clear, comforter Liu will only help him build the island, and will not take away his power.

With the Song court as his backer in the future, wouldn't Liu Xikuang's life be much easier than before?
Liu Xikuang's vision is not comparable to that of ordinary pirates.He could imagine how much money the Dongsha Islands would have as the trade center of Liuqiu and Holy Dynasty in the future.

He no longer has to take his brothers to loot everywhere, and he is always worried that officers and soldiers will come to encircle and suppress them.

He also finally understood why when the emperor had just subdued him, he was able to say so confidently that he and Hong Niangzi's subordinates would live a life without worrying about food and clothing.They alone are absolutely unable to turn the Dongsha Islands into a trade center, but the Song court undoubtedly has this foundation and strength.

Liu Hongyi landed on the island with only a few soldiers.

The big ship is still anchored outside the reefs.

Liu Xikuang was polite, went up to greet Liu Hongyi in person, and bowed his hands to Liu Hongyi, "Liu Xikuang met Liu Anshi."

Liu Hongyi smiled softly, "You don't have to be polite."

Of course, he originally looked down upon pirates like Liu Xikuang, and it could even be said that he hated them extremely. It is not an exaggeration to say that he hates them, but what Zhao Dongting said before made him change his view.

Zhao Dongting said that the reason why pirates are robbers is not because they like burning, killing and looting by nature, but because they have no choice but to do these things because they don't have enough to eat.The Dongsha Islands are collected, so that the people on the island can have enough to eat, and the scourge of pirates can be cut off from the holy pilgrimage to the sea in the future.Suppression of bandits has always been to treat the symptoms rather than the root cause. Letting everyone in the world have food is the root cause.

For this sentence, Liu Hongyi deeply agrees.

Therefore, he let go of his hatred of pirates.

He also understands that many pirates are actually residents of the island.These people are indeed, as the emperor said, forced to make a living.

The pirates all looked at Liu Xikang with doubts in the back, wondering why Liu Xikang would suddenly be so hospitable to this comforter from Guangnan West Road.

Liu Xikuang exchanged a few pleasantries, but looked eagerly at the twenty or so big ships on the sea.

Knowing what he meant, Liu Hongyi turned his head and smiled and said, "The food, gold and silver, cloth and weapons are all on board. King Liu Dao can ask the brothers to carry them down now."

"brothers!"

Liu Xi was overjoyed, "The imperial court sent us gold, silver and food, so that we can live a peaceful life. I'm already on the boat to carry things!"

The pirates were even more confused.

A pirate leader ran to Liu Xikuang, looked at Liu Hongyi, and asked, "Boss, what's going on?"

No wonder they were in a daze, Liu Xikang, the head of the pirates, had a very happy conversation with the dignified Song Guang'an South West Road appeasement envoy, which was quite strange in the first place.

It's just that no one dared to speak harshly to Liu Hongyi at this time, although many brothers among these pirates died under the siege of officers and soldiers.This is because Liu Hongyi has established absolute prestige on the island.

Since Zhao Dongting left the Dongsha Islands, he and Hong Niangzi started their own roads of conquest.

In the entire Dongsha Islands, the pirate forces who are unwilling to submit to both have already tasted bad results.

Therefore, these pirate leaders have now become Liu Xikuang's subordinates.

"Do you still remember that young master in Crescent Island?" Liu Xikuang turned his head, his eyes swept over the confused crowd, and asked.

The pirates all nodded.

When they returned to attack Crescent Island, they were called by Liu Xikuang, and most of them went.The memory of Mr. Pianpian who was protected by several masters is still fresh.

"He is the Great Song Emperor."

Liu Xikuang cupped his hands in the northeast direction.

The words were very soft, but it shocked all the pirates around.

Someone stares.

Someone swallowed quietly.

For these pirates, the emperor is as far away as the sky.

After dozens of seconds of silence, someone said with an expression of disbelief: "The emperor wants to... invite me to wait?"

Liu Xikuang nodded, "Exactly."

Some pirates were ecstatic, and some pirates were at a loss.

Many of them were full of evil, and some were worried, "Boss, what we did before..."

Liu Hongyi smiled and answered the question instead of Liu Xikang, "Let the past be forgotten."

This sentence made all the pirates look relieved, and then they were happy.

This Song Dynasty appeasement envoy will never tell lies.Moreover, Zhao Dongting surrendered Liu Xikang and Hong Niangzi that day, they all witnessed it with their own eyes.

Being able to become an officer and soldier of the imperial court to eat imperial rations and receive a silver salary, no one would want to do the job of licking blood with a knife.

Liu Xikuang waved his hands and said, "What are you still doing in a daze, let me get on the boat and carry things."

Then he looked at Liu Hongyi, "Pacifier, please."

The two walked side by side, towards the pirate's cottage on the mountainside.

Behind him, a pirate leader and his subordinates rowed a small boat, yelling and heading towards the naval battleship.

Soon, the coast of Nanhuan Island was in full swing.

……

Luo Dian, the southernmost part of Kuizhou Road.

So far, Song and Li Shuangfa have been confronting each other here for more than a month.

From the beginning to the end, there was no major battle, and Dali's [-] imperial troops never crossed the border.But the fighting between dozens and hundreds of small groups never stopped.

Over the past few days, thousands of soldiers have been lost on both sides.It seems that the two armies are deliberately tempering their ranks.

It was only tonight, and the territory of Luo Dian surrounded by the primeval forest was already quite quiet.

The Song army camp has already spread out in the deep mountain of Luodian, with dozens of camps in total.After dinner, sentries from all the camps went out to the mountains.

This has even become a habit.

Some people jokingly call it an after-dinner game of hunting.

But for the outposts who really want to participate in the war, it is a real battle on the battlefield.

In the past few days, some people have captured many heads and made their mark in the army, but there are also some people who smashed their halberds into the sand and buried their bodies in the vast mountains.

No one mentioned Liu Shiwu and his team that was completely annihilated.

Dozens of wandering sentries drilled into the vast mountain from all over.

In the past, it always took a short time to meet Dali Youshao, and then start fighting.Only this time, the sentries went deep into the mountains, but none of them encountered Dali Youshao.

A sentry team returned to the camp.

And those who are more daring continue to go west.

In the end, when they arrived at the place where the Dali forbidden army camped, they found that the Dali army had already pulled out their camp.In situ, only the earth pit for cooking was left.

There are countless pits, and a large area of ​​surrounding trees have been felled.

The sentries were dumbfounded, and then someone showed joy and shouted loudly: "Dali has withdrawn! Dali has withdrawn!"

The confrontation, which lasted for more than a month, ended like this.

(End of this chapter)