Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 274 Gambler (please subscribe!)
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There is neither hate nor love for no reason in the world.

It is impossible for Li Yan to protect Yuzao just because she gave her two giraffes before. After all, she offended the entire Japanese high-level, including her ex-husband Emperor Toba.

Yu Zaoqian also knew that she had nothing for Li Yan, except herself, Li Yan couldn't be expected to take a fancy to the more than 300 samurai and a dozen broken sampans of their Sakabe family, right?

Therefore, many things happened naturally, such as Yu Zaoqian became Li Yan's concubine.

Of course, with Li Yan's current status, taking a concubine cannot ignore the political influence.

Ordinarily, if considering the political influence, Li Yan should not accept Yuzaoqian as a concubine. After all, the opposite of Yuzaoqian is a country, and it is too worthless for a woman.

The only complaint is that the Japanese authorities have done too much.

It's just that they have a closer relationship with Korea, after all, they have been friendly for many years.

But they absolutely shouldn't have issued a series of related bans on Li Yan's Anton Protectorate, such as:
Crossing the sea system - Japanese officials and nationals are strictly prohibited from going to sea, and they must not have any intersection with the Andong Protectorate.

Prohibition of purchase order - It is strictly forbidden for ministers and ministers to snap up goods from the Anton Governor's Mansion without government pricing.

Set the age-strictly limit the number of times the businessmen of the Anton Protectorate can go to Japan (only once a year).

These bans seriously affected the Anton Protectorate's trade with Japan, and also made the Andong Protectorate lose a great source of income.

Of course, these bans are not only for Li Yan himself, but also for Song, Liao, Jin and other countries-in fact, since the Anshi Rebellion, Japan has already begun to implement these bans on the Central Plains regime.

If Japan really treats all people as equals and shuts down the country, Li Yan may bear it. The key is that Japan, Korea and other countries still maintain active official exchanges.

That's kind of bullying.

You know, now Li Yan's Andong Protectorate is Japan's neighbor, and Koryo is no longer Japan's neighbor.

But Japan just doesn't like Li Yan, and still interacts frequently with Korea.

Can this prevent Li Yan from worrying that Goryeo will unite with Japan to attack him left and right?

You know, in the Tang Dynasty, Japan did similar things.

Since Japan doesn’t care about him, and may become his enemy, Li Yan simply accepted Yu Zaoqian. If he does something with Japan one day in the future, there is an excuse, and at the worst, he can get a peerless beauty.

Of course, Li Yan also knew in his heart that it is impossible to fight Japan at the moment, and Koryo has not done it yet. If he goes to fight Japan again, he will have to fight on both sides. Goryeo and Japan joined hands to destroy it.

Therefore, before Li Yan accepted Yuzao, he was actually enjoying himself.

but--

What Li Yan didn't expect was that it was this act of loyalty that allowed him to pick up a treasure.

What treasure?

Naturally, it was Tamamo-mae.

Needless to say, this woman is beautiful, otherwise she would not be called the most beautiful woman in the world, the key is that she is also smart and close to a demon.

She knows a lot, and many things even Li Yan, a time traveler, doesn't understand. The most peculiar thing is that she can learn everything in no time, especially languages, like Pengjialuo language, which took her just over a month learned, and without translation.

Her IQ is even comparable to that of Liu Huiniang, but the difference is that she does not have the research and development ability of Liu Huiniang, and Liu Huiniang does not have her language talent.

Since she was so smart, Li Yan simply let her and Li Shishi be his secretary to help him handle government affairs.

This time, we have a mutual benefit and win-win situation with Zhao Ji, and finally completely solved the biggest hidden danger in the Anton Governor's Mansion.

Li Yan and a group of civil officials gave the [-] Tai students a comprehensive test (mainly in terms of morality and talent), and then assigned them to the Shuipo Liangshan, including Liangshan Dazhai, according to their test results. in various sites.

So far, Li Yan and his gang have finally been completely promoted from a gang of bandits to an emerging force with unlimited potential.

After personally interviewing the [-] Tai students one by one, and sending them to work, Li Yan began to care about the resettlement of those craftsmen and boatmen.

After all the craftsmen and boatmen were settled properly, Li Yancai returned to Shuibo Liangshan again.

As soon as he arrived at Shuibo Liangshan, Li Yan heard about a major event from Zhu Guina——Chai Jin fell to Gaotang Prefecture, and Erlongshan was attacking Gaotang Prefecture to rescue Chai Jin.

turn out to be--

Not long after Li Kui stayed in Chai Jinzhuang, Chai Jin received news: Yin Tianxi, the wife-in-law of Gao Lian, the prefect of Gaotang Prefecture, relied on his power to seize the garden of his uncle Chai Huangcheng and beat Chai Huangcheng.

Upon hearing the news, Chai Jin immediately rushed to Gaotang Prefecture together with Li Kui.

Chai Huangcheng died of anger, Chai Jin asked people to go back to Cangzhou to get the iron coupon of the Danshu, and planned to go to Tokyo to file an imperial lawsuit.

But during this period, Yin Tianxi came to make trouble again and beat and scolded Chai Jin.

As a result, he was beaten to death by Li Kui.

Chai Jin hurriedly let Li Kui leave, but he himself was arrested by Gao Lian, and then he was tortured and sent to death row.

Song Jiang heard that Chai Jin was in prison, and sent troops to attack Gaotang Prefecture.

Without Li Yan, Song Jiang's gang at this time would already have 2 horses, and there are dozens of heroes, and it is almost the same to attack Gaotang Prefecture.

Now Song Jiang's gang has only a dozen or so heroes and five or six thousand soldiers. It is too reluctant to attack Gaotang Prefecture, so that they have not been able to capture Gaotang Prefecture after three or four months of attacking.

Not only that, but nearly half of them were killed or injured.

Some people may ask, it's all like this, Song Jiang is still playing Gaotangzhou, let's go home quickly, and save yourself from being embarrassing in Gaotangzhou.

Those who said this did not understand Song Jiang's current situation.

If it weren't for Chai Jin's excellent excuse, Song Jiang, who lost his army in Zhujiazhuang last time, would not have had the opportunity to lead the army alone, so he naturally couldn't give up this opportunity easily, because once he gave up, he might come back again. There is no chance to lead the army alone.

In addition, Song Jiang also had the idea of ​​turning over at once—not to mention, if they captured Gaotang Prefecture, they would have the wealth of a state in Erlongshan, but if they saved Chai Jin, Chai Jin would only be left in Erlongshan There is one way to go, and as long as Chai Jin goes to Erlong Mountain, then Chai Jin's huge family property will also belong to Erlong Mountain. With the wealth and family property of Gaotang Prefecture and Chai Jin, Song Jiang can turn himself over in one fell swoop and become the Great Song Dynasty. There are countless forces in the green world, and then they can seek to recruit, and then Guangzong Yaozu bestows his wife and son...

It can be said that Song Jiang is completely a gambler now.

What Song Jiang is is not important to Li Yan.

The important thing is, what should Li Yan do?
You must know that Chai Jin is also the benefactor of Shuibo Liangshan, and the start-up capital of Shuibo Liangshan was provided by Chai Jin. It would be ungrateful not to save Chai Jin.

However, if they were to save Chai Jin, they would have to attack Gaotang Prefecture.

Fighting, Li Yan is not afraid, and it is impossible not to fight.

But the problem is that Li Yancai has just stabilized the Song court and is ready to immerse himself in development for a period of time. He doesn't want to start a war with the Song court yet.

What should I do?

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(End of this chapter)