Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 237 Full of Pots and Bowls (please subscribe!)
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As an out-and-out Song native who had spent half his life in the rivers and lakes, Wang Zezhen knew who Li Yan was all too well.

But it was precisely because he knew who Li Yan was that Wang Zezhen admired Li Yan even more.

Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La, who are the same four bandits as Li Yan, are still tossing like death in the Song Dynasty. Li Yan has already defeated the capital of a country. Needless to say, the next step is to expand the territory and become independent king.

How amazing is it to be king in a different place? How many people have been able to do it throughout the ages?
Compared with Li Yan, Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La are like nothing else.

Therefore, knowing that Li Yan is just a bandit, when he saw Li Yan, Wang Zezhen sincerely bowed to the ground, saying: "The villain Wang Zezhen has met the governor!"

Li Yan looked at Wang Zezhen for a while, and then said: "Iron Lock Hengjiang Wang Zezhen, senior, has admired his name for a long time."

Wang Zezhen hastily said: "The chief governor has broken the villain, how can the villain's poor reputation in the Jianghu be compared with the chief governor."

Li Yan didn't have much time to waste on Wang Zezhen, and soon he was going to search the noble's house and liberate the slaves. This was also a tough battle, and he had to be careful.

Therefore, Li Yan asked straight to the point: "I don't know why the old man is looking for me?"

Wang Zezhen also knew that Li Yan had just captured Luocheng, and there were too many things to deal with, so he said directly: "The villain has something to ask the governor, and the villain has [-] boats in Licheng Port, and they were ordered by the governor. The people in the village were detained as Korean boats, and I beg the governor to return them to the villain for the sake of the green forest people at the same time!"

Regardless of the fact that Li Yan had forty or fifty large ships, three or four hundred large ships, and five or six hundred medium and small boats (in the battle of Jeju Island, Shuibo Liangshan captured many ships. In the battle of Licheng Port, Shuibo Liangshan captured again A lot of boats. In addition, they were built, robbed, bought, or captured before Shuibo Liangshan, which formed the current scale.), but Li Yan still felt that his boats were not enough—you know, the boats were Li Yan’s No matter how many connected things there are in each site, Li Yan will feel that it is not enough.

Therefore, Li Yan actually did not want to return the boat to Wang Zezhen.

Some people may say, isn't this a bit disregarding the morals of the world?

Please!

Although Guan Wang Zezhen called him senior, Li Yan actually didn't know Wang Zezhen, so there was no need to sell Wang Zezhen's face.Besides, these are seventeen ships, and those who can travel back and forth for business in the three countries of Song, Korea, and Japan are designated not to be small ships, but at least large ships with a load of ten thousand stones. The total load capacity of the seventeen ships is estimated to be 40 Shi, how could Li Yan, who needs more, more and more ships, let him go so easily?

Seeing Li Yan's hesitation, how can the old Jiang Hu Wang Zezhen not understand Li Yan's thoughts?
As a veteran of the Jianghu, Wang Zezhen knows the laws of the Jianghu very well.

Therefore, Wang Zezhen said again: "In addition, I also want to make a deal with the governor..."

Li Yan asked: "What business?"

Wang Zezhen said: "The governor's harvest this time will definitely not be small. The villain has been running business in Song, Korea, and Japan all year round, so he can help the governor handle some of the harvest."

Li Yan thought: "Not only do you want a boat, but you also want to make a lot of money from me. How dare you think about it."

Li Yan didn't say a word, because Li Yan knew that Wang Zezhen must rely on something for daring to say these two things, otherwise he would hang himself and die too long.

Wang Zezhen continued: "The villain knows that there is a horse farm not far away, and there are nearly [-] good horses from the Goryeo army in it. The villain can send someone to lead the governor's people to fetch them. In addition, because the villain is often in Song, Korea, Japan’s Three Kingdoms is a businessman, and there are nearly a thousand of them, and dozens of them can understand Korean. I think they should be of some use to the governor. Commander dispatched."

Maritime merchants such as Wang Zezhen and the others, put down their swords and guns to become merchants, and pick up swords and guns to become pirates. Wang Ze's nickname "Tie Suo Heng Jiang" is not because he is good at defending the enemy's door because of his martial arts skills, but because he is extremely clever and witty. As long as anyone offends him, he will definitely try his best to get revenge, making people turn around like a ship in the vortex in the middle of the river, unable to go up or down, this is the usual nickname of pirates.

Moreover, Li Yan had already learned from Qiao Daoqing that Wang Zezhen used to be a pirate, and later got involved with the court of the Song Dynasty, so he was doing business and serving as the envoy of the Song Dynasty to Korea and Japan at the same time.

The nearly ten thousand horses that Wang Zezhen mentioned, Li Yan, who was extremely eager for war horses, had already sent someone to guard them, so the condition Wang Zezhen made was completely useless.

As for Wang Zezhen's thousand gangsters, although Li Yan has never seen their combat power, he is probably just a mob. Using them to fight water battles may be okay. When they land, Li Yan is confident to send a battalion. It is not Li Yan's arrogance, but the gap between the regular army and the mob.

What is really useful are the dozens of Han Chinese who understand Goryeo.

The language barrier has already caused a lot of trouble for Li Yan and the others, and even many Koreans died in vain because of the language barrier.

Moreover, the slaves and slaves were about to be copied from the nobles' homes, and there must be communication problems during the period, so these dozens of Han Chinese who could speak Goryeo came too timely.

Li Yandao: "How about this? Don't speak dark words in front of Ming people. Give me all your dozens of guys who understand Goryeo. I will not only return your boat, but also make you a lot of money. In addition, in the future, whenever I stay in Liangshan You can come to do business in the territory you control, how about it?"

Hearing that Li Yan asked him to have dozens of fellows who could speak Korean, Wang Zezhen felt a pain in the flesh!
But all the buddies who can learn the Korean language are clever people, and Wang Zezhen also has to spend a lot of effort on them. How can Wang Zezhen be willing to give them to Li Yan?

However, being able to get the boat back, earn a lot of money, and go to the area controlled by Li Yan to do business in the future, these are all things Wang Zezhen can't resist, especially getting the boat back. He saved it for 30 to [-] years. He bought these seventeen ships, and there were still goods on board. If he couldn't get them back, he would have worked hard for decades and returned to before liberation.

Wang Zezhen discussed with Li Yan and said, "I'll give the governor ten men, is that okay?"

Li Yan said in a non-negotiable tone: "Thirty, you go and gather your people now... Don't worry, I guarantee you that you will make a lot of money this time."

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With the help of Wang Zezhen's fellow who understands Korean, he translated.

In addition, the servant soldiers and their chiefs have almost gotten along.

In fact, it is mainly because of the example of the more than 3000 slaves who were driven out of the city by Li Yan to die, and the deterrence of Li Yan's defeat of the more than 3 Korean army in Goryeo.

This time the slaves were liberated, and there were no more riots.

Of course, killing is still indispensable. After all, this is copying the family property of the nobles. How could the nobles not resist at all?
Don't gossip.

Say the result directly.

Although Li Yan said that "after dawn, all slaves and maidservants in Luocheng will be free", but because there are more than ten times more nobles in Luocheng than in Licheng, and because Li Yan doesn't want Luocheng to have so many troubles like Licheng Deliberately liberating one by one and not liberating one by one, so that it took seven days to liberate all the slaves in Luocheng.

While liberating the slaves, Li Yan recruited another 100 slaves as reserve soldiers, and selected [-] of his guards to train them.

At the same time, Li Yan recruited [-] slaves and servants to help Shuibo Liangshan transport the seizure in Luocheng this time.

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(End of this chapter)