Late Tang

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The letter that made Wang Jingwu, who had been evaded for several times, and even rebelled in the end, react so furiously, was definitely not just a greeting written by Li Jing to him.

But in fact, the content of this letter is not long. Since there is no friendship between the two, the letter is very concise. It just tells or Li Jing informed Wang Jingwu of a few things.

The letter is a personal letter written by Li Jing. Li Jing's thin gold style can be described as a very unique font, which is unique and beautiful.But Wang Jingwu didn't bother to appreciate Li Jing's handwriting at all. The handwriting was beautiful, but the content was very hurtful.

From the very beginning of Li Jing's letter, he congratulated him for escaping the catastrophe and for being promoted to a noble.Then tell him directly, in view of the previous frictions between Zhen[***] and Qing Qibing.Therefore, Li Jing planned to divide and rule Ziqing Prefecture.Li Jing sent troops to garrison fifteen counties along the Jishui River, plus Ye County on the coast of Laizhou.Of the 26 counties in the four prefectures of Ziqing, Li Jing got [-] counties, and the remaining ten counties, including Yiducheng, the prefecture city of Qingzhou, and Zizhou City, the prefecture city of Zizhou, were handed over to Wang Jingwu, Xue Chong, and Li Xi.

After the division, the two sides will be responsible for the deployment of soldiers and horses, civil affairs, taxes, money and food on their respective territories, and they will not interfere with each other.Li Jing specifically stated that he has wiped out all the bandits and bandits in his territory. Therefore, the town of [-][***] is currently stationed in sixteen counties, three mountains and two rivers. If any bandits attack his territory, then It must be that the bandits in Wang Jingwu's ten counties crossed the border and attacked. At that time, he would send a large army into the ten counties to suppress the bandits.

If Li Jing's letter only said these things, then Wang Jingwu wouldn't be so crazy and irritable.

Although it is said that the division of land is equivalent to dividing Ziqing Town into two towns, he also knows his own strength. Although there are more than [-] people, he still can't fight against Li Jing.If Ziqing Town is divided into two, even if Li Jing divides the most affluent Jishui, he still has at least ten counties.For him, this is actually a good thing.After all, with a real territory and Tian Lingzi's support, if there is no invasion by Li Jing, he can develop with peace of mind, and he believes that he will be able to challenge Li Jing in a short time.

But things are not that simple, and Li Jing would not have such kindness.

Later, Li Jing said lightly that there was a famine in Ziqing Town recently, and many people had no food to eat.Therefore, he moved many people who had no food to eat to Dengzhou and Liaodong for food.In addition, by the way, there are quite a few rich families who are also willing to go.As for the number of people, Li Jing said that only 10 people from the ten counties moved into Liaoning.

Seeing this, Wang Jingwu's vision went dark immediately, and he almost passed out.Although Ziqing Town has a million people, there are 26 counties, one county only has a population of 5 to 50, and the ten counties have a maximum of [-] people. Now Li Jing has moved [-] people at once.This is not counted, the previous civil strife in Ziqing, many people fled, and the young and strong auxiliary soldiers he and Huang Chao pulled up, so the population of the ten counties has been reduced by more than half.Moreover, the people Li Jing moved away, plus those he forced to take away at the beginning, were all young and strong.And Li Jing not only took away the young and strong, but also took away the rich and rich.

So what is left for him, no population, what is the land?Is he allowed to recruit those refugees who have nothing?It will only be a loss!

It can be predicted that Li Jing's blow was a fatal blow, Wang Jingwu didn't feel the slightest joy now.Without youth, there would be no food, not even soldiers.

Li Jing moved away half of the young and strong, and even the rich household registration, those craftsmen naturally would not let them go.Of course, the government treasuries of the prefectures and counties would never be left for him. In the ten counties, all the treasuries were empty, and Li Jing took them away as war preparation materials on the grounds of conquering Liao.

If it wasn't for the lack of time, it is estimated that Li Jing would even move the bricks and tiles.

At the end of the letter, Li Jing told Wang Jingwu that all of his [-] soldiers had been returned to him.

"This matter must be appealed to the Duke of Jin immediately, and the court will sanction Li Jing." Wang Jingwu said bitterly.

"How do you appeal this matter? What's the use of appealing? Li Jing also has a lot of backers. Even if this matter is reported, it will only be a verbal battle in the end. It will never end. There will never be what we want. The result." Xue Chong drank a lot, but his mind was still clear.Li Jing's current momentum, as long as he doesn't rebel, will such things move him?Even if he could be moved, Li Jing was really driven into a hurry, and turned back directly, and they might be the first to suffer.

"Come on!" Wang Jingwu let out a long sigh.

Now Guan Jian is still a soldier in his hand, and he also knows that Xue Chong and Li Xi don't have a good relationship with him.

After Wang Jingwu took a shower and freshened up, he went to the barracks together with Xue and Li. His [-] troops were kept in this big camp.

As soon as he entered the camp, Wang Jingwu saw many of his trusted generals.

Zhang Chan, Lu Hong, Wang Yanwen and other generals were all there, but these generals squatted at the gate of the camp without dignity, moaning and sighing.Even, the generals were all wearing only a tattered piece of clothing, as if they had just been ripped off from a beggar.

Seeing Wang Jingwu coming, all the generals stood up quickly and called the general in unison.There is a sense of defeat in the words, just like a defeated rooster.

"General!" Zhang Chan shouted, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably.

Wang Jingwu looked at this general under his command in surprise. When he followed him, when Zihe was killed by Li Jing and his entire army was wiped out, he never saw Zhang Chan look so mournful.Right now, although they have been severely scraped by Li Jing, the young and strong population has decreased countless, and the treasury is empty of money and food, but at least they survived, and they also got half of the land in Ziqing Town, so they should be happy.

"What happened?" Wang Jingwu asked worriedly, "The brothers in the camp are still there, is there a small number?"

He couldn't help thinking of what Li Jingxin said at the end, 5000 people will be returned to you one at a time.He thought there was something wrong with this sentence, how could Li Jing be so kind?Even if he is afraid of Tian Lingzi, he will definitely not return all the soldiers and horses to himself, and will definitely take some away.

But even if he left half of it, Wang Jingwu would admit it.

Like his own father who had just died, Lu Hong replied with a mournful face: "General, twenty-five thousand is a lot."

Wang Jingwu breathed a sigh of relief, as long as there are no fewer soldiers.But judging by their appearance, the armor and equipment may have fallen into Li Jing's hands.

"Is the ordnance gone?"

Lu Hong nodded as expected, "It's all gone, not even a small knife for cutting flesh. The people in the town [***] are too ruthless, not only did they leave no ordnance, they also left All the officers were stripped of their clothes except for their underpants."

His mother was too much, Wang Jingwu clenched his fist tightly in hatred.Li Jing, just wait, I will remember everything today.

Xue Chong on the side asked curiously: "Why does Li Jing only pick off the clothes of the officers, but not the clothes of the soldiers?"

The muscles on Zhang Chan's face twitched a few times, he gritted his teeth and said, "No, not a single soldier's clothes were taken off."

"Oh, it seems that Li Jing is not too much, and he finally saved a little face." Xue Chong took a sip of wine, smacking his lips and mocking himself.

But before his words fell, Zhang Chan said bitterly: "Li Jing didn't pick up the clothes of the soldiers, but he did it even more ruthlessly. He directly put all 200 brothers, except for the officers above the battalion level, into custody." Let's go! Twenty-five thousand brothers, now there are only less than [-] officers above the battalion level."

"What! Li Jing took all 5000 brothers away. Didn't you just say that there are [-] people in the camp?" Wang Jingwu screamed loudly, like a cat whose tail was blown up when it was stepped on.

The officers all lowered their heads, and Wang Yanwen said after a long time, "Li Jing did take away more than 2 soldiers and horses, and there are indeed 5000 people in the battalion now. However, those people are not the same as before. It's all a bunch of disabled and old dying old men."

"What's going on?" Wang Jingwu roared loudly.He rushed into the camp, and all he saw was a pile of people lying on the ground, waiting to die.Some of these people are disabled, either blind or deaf, or even missing arms and legs.The rest are mostly gray-haired old men. These people almost have only one breath left, almost lying here waiting to die.There are quite a few others who are as hungry as bamboo poles. Wang Jingwu has seen many such people.This kind of people is almost hopeless, even if there is food, they can't be nursed.

Moreover, in this camp, there are actually many old women.

"Li Jing took away all our soldiers, and then left us this group of hungry people, and even picked away the hungry people of young men and women, even those children and teenagers, and the rest is just a group of helpless people The only way to save medicine is to wait for death." Xue Chong couldn't help being shocked, holding a wine gourd in his hand, but his heart was extremely cold.

Li Jing was too ruthless, beyond everyone's imagination.

On the surface, ten counties were reserved for them, but the young and strong of the ten counties were taken away, the wealthy families were taken away, and the artisans were taken away.The money and food in the treasury were also taken away, and even the livestock were taken away.

Now, Li Jing has taken away the 200 Qingqi soldiers who relied most on them, leaving more than 2 middle and senior officers and more than [-] hungry people who are waiting to die.

There is no money or food, no horses, weapons and armor, and even soldiers.

Guarding the empty ten counties, how are they going to survive?

All of their soldiers and horses are only more than 200 Qingqi officers from Wang Jingwu, and 200 members from each of Xue Chong and Li's families. Together, there are only [-] soldiers.Not to mention Li Jing's town [***], just the five thousand guards of Zhang Wanrong in Qingzhou City are enough to destroy them at any time.

Wang Jingwu crouched on the ground with his head in his hands, dazed and helpless, like an abandoned orphan! (To be continued.)