Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 54 Balance and Thick Black

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Seeing Li Yan from a distance, Shan Shiqi's heart trembled, his anger was extinguished by seven points, and then he stopped his horse, and then got off the horse obediently, Zhu Jing and Bian Xiang did the same!
After hesitating for a while, Shan Shiqi bit the bullet and walked towards Li Yan. Zhu Jing and Bian Xiang glanced at each other, then followed Shan Shiqi and walked towards Li Yan.

As soon as the three came to Li Yan, Li Yan said to Deng Fei with a cold face: "Go and invite Brother Pei Xuan."

Deng Fei wanted to intercede for Shan Shiqi, Zhu Jing, and Bian Xiang, but Deng Fei also knew that in Shuibo Liangshan, other things are easy to talk about, but this military law is the most ruthless.

So, after hesitating for a while, Deng Fei clasped his fists at Shan Shiqi, Zhu Jing, and Bian Xiang, and then went to find Pei Xuan.

Shan Shiqi clasped his fists at Li Yan and said: "Brother, there is no need for such trouble. After a while, I will go to Brother Pei Xuan to lead the army stick, and it will definitely not damage my brother's army of 'No need to ride a horse in the camp without a war'." regulation."

Zhu Jing and Bian Xiang then said in unison: "Little brother/I will go to Brother Pei Xuan to lead the army together later."

Li Yandao: "If you know the law and break the law, ten sticks will be added."

Shan Shiqi, Zhu Jing, and Bian Xiang clasped their hands together and said, "Yes!"

Seeing Li Yan beating the sticks of the three leaders in a row but none of them dared not to take it, Lin Chong thought to himself: "This Li Yan has a good prestige here at the end of Liangshan, I should be careful when dealing with him!"

Li Yan said: "Tell me, what's the matter?"

Shan Shiqi glanced at Lin Chong, and said: "I don't dare to have an opinion on who the elder brother wants to lead the horse. I just want to play with Brother Lin Chong, so that I can know that I am not as good as Brother Lin Chong, so that I can have a better life." The direction of the effort!"

Shan Shiqi also felt that what he said was a bit false, he quickly lowered his head as soon as he finished speaking, not daring to look at Li Yan again!

Li Yan looked at Zhu Jing and Bian Xiang, and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Just as Zhu Jing was about to answer, Shan Shiqi raised his head again and said, "The two of them are here to chase me."

Li Yan thought: "Fortunately, not all of them are hot-headed brats."

However, Li Yan did not cancel the punishment of Zhu Jing and Bian Xiang because of this. After all, they also rode horses in the camp. Instead, he asked, "Who told you that I appointed Brother Lin Chong as the head of the horse capital?"

Bian Xiang said: "The leader Wang Lun told us to listen."

Li Yan has a headache!

Li Yan, who had listened to Wang Lun's remonstrance in the morning, how could he not know what Wang Lun was worried about?
In fact, from the perspective of Wang Lun's cognition, what Wang Lun was worried about was not wrong.

However, in fact, Wang Lun was indeed wrong, um... To be more precise, it should be that Wang Lun had a high opinion of Lin Chong's status in Gao Qiu's eyes.

If Li Yan hadn't appeared, until Liang Shanbo conquered Gaotang Prefecture and beheaded Gao Lian, Gao Qiu would never have faced up to Lin Chong, a small coach, nor had he faced up to Shuibo Liangshan's gang of small water bandits, especially Lin Chong. After the lady hanged herself to kill Gao Yanei's thoughts.

Furthermore, Li Yan was sincerely not afraid of Gao Qiu's encirclement and suppression.

Don't think Li Yan is crazy.

In fact, as long as Shuibo Liangshan does not show the ability to attack the state capital, even if the imperial court comes to encircle Shuibo Liangshan, the scale will not be too large. The existing troops in Li Yan's hands are enough to deal with it, especially in the case of defense.

This has been fully confirmed - Chao Gai and others robbed Cai Jing of his birthday present, Cai Jing was furious and wrote a letter to the Governor of Jeju himself, and the court only sent 500 people to arrest Chao Gai and others In the end, the three brothers of the Ruan family took all the fishermen with them.Since then, for three full years, the imperial court has not made any major moves against the water park in Liangshan.If Song Jiang hadn't led people to break through Gaotang Prefecture and kill Gao Lian, it is estimated that Shuibo Liangshan would still have a few years to rest.

Moreover, without a war, Shuibo Liangshan would not be able to develop.

Therefore, even if the imperial court does not bother Li Yan, Li Yan will have to find a way to get the imperial court to send some equipment and personnel when Shuibo Liangshan develops to a certain extent.

These, with Wang Lun's knowledge, are impossible to think of.

Li Yan asked, "Where's Wang Lun?"

Zhu Jing replied: "The leader Wang Lun is behind, and he came here on foot."

"Humph!"

Li Yan hummed: "He knows that military law is ruthless!"

Hearing what Li Yan said, Shan Shiqi, Lan Jing, and Bian Xiang also came to their senses, "I dare say that our brothers were beaten by military sticks, but that sour scholar has nothing to do with it!"

At this moment, Wang Lun's figure appeared from a distance!
Shan Shiqi, Lan Jing, and Bian Xiang all glared at Wang Lun!

Wang Lun didn't care about this at all!

First of all, he had no selfish intentions, and he was completely thinking about Li Yan and Shuibo Liangshan. He believed that with Li Yan's intelligence, he would be able to see it, so he would never punish him for this matter.

Secondly, he knew in his heart that Li Yan liked him to fight with generals, and what he was most afraid of was colluding with generals, so he would not take his anger out on him because he plotted against these generals.

Again, he knew better than anyone that in Shuibo Liangshan, as long as Li Yan didn't want to touch him, others would not dare to touch him.

It can be said that the smart Wang Lun has completely mastered the way of getting along with Li Yan.

When he came to Li Yan and the others, Wang Lun did not look at the angry Shan Shiqi, Zhu Jing, and Bian Xiang, but directly saluted Li Yan and said, "Brother."

Li Yan said in a bad tone: "You have time to hang out in the barracks, have you finished all your official duties?"

Wang Lun didn't care and said: "It's still close, Xiao Ke will go back and deal with it."

Wang Lun's guess was right, Li Yan would not punish Wang Lun because of Wang Lun's fairness, and Li Yan would really like to see civil and military discord.

Nowadays, if Li Yan still puts loyalty first, then it means that Li Yan is too immature and not suitable to be the village leader, or it can also be said that Li Yan can only be a village leader at most, and there is absolutely no possibility of going further.

Human beings have summed up a truth through thousands of years of blood and tears: if you want to maintain the stability of a regime, balance is king, whether you like it or not.

Moreover, to be a true "hero", one must have a thick skin but no form, and a dark heart without color.

Loyalty is just a fig leaf, just a means to control those heroes who value loyalty.

You may not be able to accept this, but it is the brutal truth.

Chao Gai valued loyalty, but he died for no apparent reason.

And Song Jiang, who knows balance and is thick enough, can suppress a group of fierce men and be the master of Liangshan.

Therefore, if you have embarked on the road of chasing the deer, don't do childish and idiot things, because it will not only harm yourself, but also your whole family.

Of course, as a person with complete emotions, Li Yan also inevitably has his own preferences. For example, Li Yan likes Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Deng Fei, Ruan Xiaoqi, Shi Xiu, Yan Qing and other heroes who value loyalty. There is nothing wrong with being loyal, after all, Li Yan also needs emotional sustenance.

Li Yan waved his hand and said, "Go."

After Wang Lun heard the words, he saluted Li Yan again, then turned around and left without saying hello to Shan Shiqi and the others.

As soon as Wang Lun took two steps, Li Yan's voice came from behind Wang Lun: "Brother Lin Chong, we have secured Liangshanbo, even if it will attract the imperial court's army."

Wang Lun secretly sighed, and thought: "I can't interfere in this matter anymore." Then he turned around and bowed to Li Yanyi, saying: "Xiao Ke knows." Then he turned around and left camp...

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(End of this chapter)