Outlaws of the Marsh

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"Reporting to the official family, in my humble opinion, Song Jiang and his gang should be recruited."

Who is so closed-eyed?
Li Gang.

Thanks to Li Yan's blessing, Li Gang had returned to the court a few days ago and served as Taichang Shaoqing.

Knowing the whole story of his being recruited back, Li Gang was very grateful to Zhao Ji, and took it as his duty to reform the internal affairs.

Therefore, seeing that the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were silent about such good things, Li Gang was obliged to stand up.

Zhao Ji frowned slightly, and said, "Why does Li Aiqing think that Song Jiang and his gang of thieves should be recruited?"

Li Gang said in a loud voice: "Now Tian Hu's bandits have almost reached the Yellow River, and the next step must be to cross the Yellow River and approach our Tokyo Bianliang. And Wang Qing's bandits have captured Tangzhou again, only [-] meters away from our Tokyo Bianliang." A few days' journey. Not to mention that Jiangnan has been turned upside down by Fang La's gang of thieves. It is hard to guarantee that Fang La's gang of thieves will not boldly attack our Tokyo Bianliang from south to north. These three giants have now formed a siege around our Tokyo Bianliang , In this case, it is good to have more strength. Besides, Song Jiang's gang has [-] members and more than [-] soldiers. They have also conquered Gaotang Prefecture, Qingzhou, and Daming Mansion. If we win them, it will be easier to put down Tian Hu, Wang Qing, Fang La and other thieves, and we will be more assured."

This truth is actually not difficult to understand, but Zhao Ji and others are unwilling to face it.

Now being challenged by Li Gang, Zhao Ji can only say a little far-fetched: "I'm afraid that their thieves will not change."

Li Gang smiled slightly and said: "The reason why this gang of thieves are difficult to deal with is because they have the natural danger of Erlong Mountain to defend. If they are recruited by the imperial court, they must abandon the natural danger of Erlong Mountain. In this way, they are the chopping block. If you don't try your best to suppress the thieves, there are ten thousand ways for Tong Shumi to deal with them."

Tong Guan smiled coldly and said: "When they are under the subordinates, they dare not sell their lives!"

Su Taiwei couldn't help but said: "Is this... is it a little wrong? Will it chill their hearts and spread the news, and will anyone dare to accept the imperial court's offer in the future?"

Tong Guandao: "This place is the best. What Gao Taiwei said is not unreasonable. The imperial court is not a place where filth is hidden. These criminals can be with us and suppress Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang Lazhi." At the same time, I will take advantage of the trend to clean up all the bandits in the territory, and restore the peace of our Song Dynasty!"

Even Zheng Juzhong said: "If they sacrifice their lives to kill the enemy, it's fine. If they don't work hard, they must not be left to harm the people. There must be no second Li Yan in this world!"

Zheng Juzhong's words are exactly in Zhao Ji's mind.

Zhao Ji said: "Zheng Aiqing's words are right, you must not feed tigers into trouble." Then he said to Gao Qiu: "Gao Aiqing, you are fully responsible for recruiting Song Jiang and his gang of thieves."

Gao Qiu took the order and said, "Here."

Seeing this, Su Taiwei could only sigh secretly, "I have tried my best, so you can do it yourself."

Li Gang said again: "I would like to report to the officials that it is urgent to wipe out the three gangs of Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La. Please also ask the officials to activate the pile storage. Otherwise, when these three gangs are united, it may become difficult to eradicate Stubborn disease."

The situation has developed to such a critical point that Zhao Ji actually has the idea of ​​using the money and silver in the sealed pile storehouse - if it is not for Li Yan's hope, Zhao Ji may have used the money and silver in the sealed pile storehouse.

Now, Zhao Ji is in a dilemma!

Let's use the money and silver in the sealed pile treasury, not to mention that it violates the ancestral precepts, their previous efforts will be considered in vain, and more than 100 outstanding generals and [-] students will be caught!
Don't use the money in the sealed pile vault, the situation is so critical!
How is it good?

At this moment, someone reported: "Report to the officials, Lord Wang Fu, Lord Cai You, and Lord Li Bangyan are back!"

Hearing the words, Zhao Ji hurriedly said, "Quickly tell them to come in!"

Not long after, Cai You, Wang Fu, and Li Bangyan, who were besieged by travel and dust, entered the hall.

Seeing Cai You, Wang Fu, and Li Bangyan so haggard, Zhao Ji couldn't help feeling distressed, and said, "Why are the three lovers in such a mess?"

Wang Fu said: "I have been waiting to go to Seoul for nearly five months. I know that the officials must be very anxious, so as soon as I got the money, I came back as soon as possible. I didn't dare to delay on the way. When I entered the city, I didn't even return home. Come back to life."

Hearing Wang Fu say that he got the money, Zhao Ji was overjoyed and said, "Did you bring the money back?"

Cai You said: "Weichen waited for him at the door of Li Yan's house for four days and four nights, and finally was blocked by Weichen. Li Yan and Weichen have a good personal relationship, and I can't get rid of Weichen's affection, so I paid 500 million yuan for glass and soap .”

Zhao Ji frowned and said, "It's not money?"

Li Bangyan said: "Although it's not money, it's okay. Li Yan gave us [-]% of the market price of colored glaze and soap according to the agreement. Let's sell them at a fair price. We should be able to sell these colored glaze and scented soap soon. In addition, Li Yan has promised Master Cai that as long as we send over the remaining Tai students, craftsmen, boatmen, keel and supplies, he will send over the antiques and coins."

Zhao Ji hesitated and said, "Is it necessary to continue this transaction?"

Li Bangyan said: "If the 500 million yuan is enough to suppress the bandits, or if we have other ways to get money, we can stop this transaction. Li Yan also said that he didn't force it. Whether to continue the transaction is up to everyone." We decide."

This 500 million yuan is not enough to make up for the ring silver owed to the Western Army. How can it be used to suppress bandits?
So, after Zhao Ji listened, he remained silent.

Seeing that Zhao Ji was silent, Wang Fu said: "In my humble opinion, this transaction can continue. Li Yan is a person of integrity. The reason why it took so long this time is mainly because he blamed us for not giving him a deal. Those ministers who want to want to have anger in their hearts, otherwise it wouldn’t be so long. Mr. Cai has already negotiated with Li Yan. Li Yan agreed not to want the ministers we didn’t give him, but just changed the price to 500 million guan, that is, He said that he only gave us 1000 and 1000 million guan coins, but Li Yan also promised that he would give us all of the [-] and [-] million guan coins in fine copper and iron coins."

turn out to be--

With the smooth issuance of banknotes, copper coins and iron coins depreciated greatly in Li Yan's territory.

Seeing the rapid depreciation of copper and iron coins, the people threw out copper and iron coins desperately. As a result, the more they were thrown, the faster the copper and iron coins depreciated.

After Zhao Kai took office, seeing that the opportunity was rare, he secretly sent someone to collect enough copper and iron coins at a low price-on the one hand, this could prevent the people who had copper and iron coins from panicking.On the other hand, taking these copper coins and iron coins to Da Song or Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La's territory to exchange for gold and silver can make a lot of money.

But Li Yan simply sent these copper coins and iron coins to Zhao Ji.

After hearing this, Zhao Ji said, "This time, Li Yan can't delay for another four or five months, right?"

Cai You said: "Li Yan promised my minister that as long as the remaining Tai students, craftsmen, boatmen, keels and supplies arrive at his Incheon Port, they will be delivered on the spot, and there will be no default."

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If you know what will happen next, please listen to the next chapter.

Mr. Shan Tianfang is gone, and it may not be many years before Pingshu can only become the memory of our generation.

I can't describe my mood at this time, but I can only say: Good morning, old man.

(End of this chapter)