Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 166 Playing hard to get (please subscribe!)
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All the heroes met at the banquet in the Juyi Hall. While drinking, Li Yan said at the banquet: "Although today's officials are superstitious about the art of immortality and are busy revitalizing Taoism, the courtiers are busy trying to curry favor with our leader." Emperor Jun, I have no intention of besieging us for the time being, but the imperial court will never let me wait forever. The imperial court’s hundreds of thousands of elite troops sincerely encircle and suppress any of our families, and that family will be absolutely irresistible. Therefore, I invite you three families to come over. With the cooperation of the four families, we can all survive the encirclement and suppression by the imperial court."

Tian Hu laughed and said: "Cooperation? How to cooperate? Merge into one family? Then you make Tian Hu king? If so, then I agree to cooperate."

Wang Qing looked at Tian Hu and said, "You, Fatty Tian, ​​don't have the slightest air of an emperor. Even if you are asked to wear a crown, you are crowned with a monkey."

Tian Hu turned his head and asked Qiao Daoqing next to him: "What does the monkey with the crown mean?"

Qiao Daoqing explained to Tian Hu in a low voice.

Before Qiao Daoqing finished explaining, Tian Hu became furious, and then pointed at Wang Qing's nose and said, "I don't look like an emperor, do you look like a pretty boy?"

Wang Qing, who suffered from Li Yan's loss before, was so angry that he had nowhere to vent his anger. When he saw Tian Hu dare to point to his nose, Wang Qing immediately stood up and said, "How are you doing?" , did our family borrow Li Yan's place to have a fight?"

As soon as Wang Qing finished speaking, Ji Shan and the Five Tigers stood up!
Tian Hu said: "I'm afraid you won't succeed!"

As soon as Tian Hu finished speaking, more than ten people stood up behind Tian Hu!

"cough!"

Li Yan coughed lightly, and then said: "Can the two of you give me some face and sit down for a while?"

Both Wang Qing and Tian Hu turned a deaf ear to Li Yan's words, and still stared at each other aggressively!

Seeing this, Li Yan looked at Wang Qing, and said with a smile, "Brother Wang, are you selling my face?"

A flash came to Wang Qing's mind. Just now, Tian Hu didn't show Li Yan's face, and Li Yan went directly to Fang La and wanted to join hands with Fang La to destroy Tian Hu, and divide Tian Hu's territory and troops!
Thinking of that scene, Wang Qing immediately smiled and said, "How can I not sell Brother Li's face, anyway, for Brother Li's face, I will let Fatty Tian go first."

After speaking, Wang Qing sat down.

Seeing that Wang Qing sat down, Ji Shan and the Five Tigers also sat down.

Tian Hu provocatively said: "Why, Wang Sao, are you afraid?"

Before Wang Qing could speak, Li Yan looked at Tian Hu and said, "Brother Tian, ​​are you planning to lose face to me again?"

The word "again" reminded Tian Hu of his predicament just now, Tian Hu immediately smiled heartily, and said: "My Tian Hu is eating Brother Li's wine and meat, how can I not give Brother Li face?", Then he yelled at the person who stood up beside him: "What are you doing standing up, this is their territory!"

Li Yan didn't want to be quick-spoken, so he pretended not to understand what Tian Hu said, but turned to Fang La and asked, "Brother Fang, what do you think of my proposal?"

Fang La smiled and said: "Brother's proposal is good, but it has nothing to do with my teaching. My teaching does not intend to be an enemy of the imperial court. My teaching only teaches people to cultivate goodness and morality. People outside Fang La will not participate in the matter of fighting and killing." gone."

If one were to be found among the four of them who hated the Song court the most, then this person would definitely be Fang La!

Zhao Ji likes flowers, carnations, and wood, so the imperial court specially set up the "Suhang Yingfeng Bureau" in the south of the Yangtze River, and sent officials and minions to Suzhou and Hangzhou to search for folk flowers, carnations, and rare treasures, and then transported them to Bianjing by large ships. The boats form a gang, called "Huashi Gang", and the person in charge of this is Zhu Xi, one of the six thieves.

Qingxi County is rich in bamboo and wood lacquerware, and it is a place that should be exploited by the Feng Bureau. The local people are miserable and complain.

Fang La, also known as Fang Shisan, is a big family in Qingxi County and runs a lacquer garden.

The local official manufacturing bureau saw that Fang La had a small amount of assets, so they set their eyes on Fang La, and found excuses to punish Fang La many times in order to fraudulently obtain money.

Therefore, Fang La had a deep hatred for the officials of the Northern Song Dynasty.

To what extent has this hatred reached?
In the end, it reached the point where all the officials in the Northern Song Dynasty were terrified—the Fang La uprising was suppressed by the Northern Song army after half a year. Although it was only half a year, Fang La broke through 52 counties in six states. Officials in the Northern Song Dynasty must cut off their flesh and body, take their intestines and lungs, or boil them into ointment, shoot random arrows through their bodies, and use various methods to torture them.

Such Fang La told Li Yan, "I will not rebel, but if I want to rebel against you, I will just watch from the sidelines." Could Li Yan believe it?

Li Yan looked at Wang Qing, then at Tian Hu, then at Fang La, then sat back and said, "Since everyone has no intention of cooperating, let's end this party here. Stay in Liangshanbo for a few days, taste my big fish and good wine in Liangshanbo, and I will send you down the mountain, and we will meet again in the mountains and rivers, and see you in the rivers and lakes."

Seeing Li Yan announcing the end of the meeting directly, Wang Qing and Tian Hu's expressions changed, and even Fang Lan's always smiling face froze for a moment, and the counselors of the three also gave them winks at the same time.

Among the three, Tian Hu couldn't keep his voice down the most.

Tian Hu was originally a hunter in Qinyuan County, Weisheng Prefecture. Like Song Jiang, he liked to make friends with people from the rivers and lakes.

Qinyuan is surrounded by thousands of mountains, and there are strong people who occupy the mountains and become kings everywhere.

This year, Qinyuan experienced another severe drought, and the people were destitute and their minds were in turmoil.

Tian Hu saw the right time, gathered the familiar Jianghu people together, and then incited the poor people to start gathering.

In the initial stage, Tian Hu just took a group of people under his command to plunder some property, and later he began to invade states and seize counties, and slowly, his momentum became bigger and bigger.

Now, Tian Hu has occupied the whole territory of Weisheng and part of Fenyang.

Officials in the Hebei area, civilian officials want money, and military commanders are afraid of death. Although the states and counties have officers and soldiers for defense, they are all old, weak and pretentious.

Tian Hu, who has been successful, has become more and more ambitious, and wants to cut off several states in one fell swoop, and then build a country.

Don't look at Tian Hu's rude appearance, in fact, Tian Hu is smart, Tian Hu is actually very clear, with him now, it is impossible to withstand the encirclement and suppression of the Song court, and cooperation with Li Yan and others is the best good way out.

The reason why Tian Hu shows non-cooperation everywhere is not because he really doesn't want to cooperate, but because he wants to gain a dominant position in the cooperation and wants to gain more benefits from the cooperation.

Seeing that Li Yan was about to adjourn the meeting, Tian Hu put away his little thoughts, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Li, we are not the young ones who messed around on the first day, if you don't want to get involved in this cooperation, why bother to send us away?" Find them all? So you want to get caught or something so low-minded... so bad, why don't you just say how you want to cooperate with the three of us, if we agree, we will get together, if we don't agree, we will break up, how about it?"

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(End of this chapter)