Late Tang

Right now, Li Jing is indeed deliberately embarrassing Lu Yongzhi.

This time Gao Pian's provocative behavior made Li Jing very angry.His strong counterattack was to show Gao Pian his attitude.Although he is young, he is definitely not something that Gao Pian can handle at will.

In the counterattack of Zhen [***], Li Jing also took a lot of risks and plundered the coast, which made Li Jing's reputation in the coast much bad.But he had to do this, and even because of this, Li Jing received a lot of negative comments in the court, saying that he was domineering and so on.

After paying such a high price, of course Li Jing had to clean up Gao Pian once and for all.Otherwise, Li Jing couldn't bear Gao Pian's frequent visits.

In fact, Li Jing wants to end this confrontation earlier than Gao Pian.

Although Gao Pian and the generals said that being harassed and looted by Li Jing was miserable, Li Jing and the merchant fleet in Dengzhou Town did not dare to go south now. Even going by sea is not safe.The commercial roads were disconnected, and the markets in the southeast of the Jianghuai River were lost. Every day that passed, Li Jing's losses were extremely huge.

The goods produced by each workshop are piled up like mountains in the warehouse. If the goods cannot be sent out, the payment will be collected.The salaries of the workers have to be paid in advance. If it continues, the workshop will have to reduce the working hours, the workers' income will decrease, and the tax Li Jing receives will also be greatly reduced.

But the current situation is like two swordsmen fighting each other. If anyone shows a little timidity at this time, he will be completely at a disadvantage and be eaten to death by the opponent.

Gao Pian withholds goods, and Li Jing robs people.

Fortunately, Gao Pian finally showed weakness, but Li Jing could not express his true thoughts immediately.He had to pretend that he didn't care, and he was determined to get it to the end with Gao Pian, so that the other party would be really scared.

Gao Pian must be the first to show weakness and seek peace!

This is Li Jing's strategy.

Only by scaring Gao Pian can we prevent similar situations from happening again in the future.

As for the possible feud with Gao Pian because of this, Li Jing didn't care, nor would he be afraid.

Gao Pian is indeed very strong, and Zhou Bao, the great general of the strategy, is leaning against him, and the surrounding towns are extremely powerful.But Li Jing predicted that in the current world situation, although there are frequent mutinies in the towns, in general, no town dares to send troops to other towns.Generally, the imperial court does not go into the internal affairs of the feudal town too deeply, and whoever wins the battle will recognize his status.However, none of the feudal towns dared to attack other feudal towns. If they dared to do so, they would be rebelling and would be strangled by all the feudal towns.

When Li Jing dealt with Youzhou Town, it was because Youzhou Town had long been a separatist and self-reliant feudal town, and the imperial court could not really control him.Li Jing also participated in Youzhou affairs in the name of supporting Li Keju and his son.

Before Wang Jingwu was wiped out, Li Jing also had the title of Jiedushi of Ziqing Town. He sent troops, which could barely be regarded as handling the internal affairs of the feudal town.

But if Gao Pian wanted to send troops to deal with Li Jing, it would be completely different.Li Jing can pretend to be a pirate to harass Gao Pian now, without attacking the city and occupying land.But it is impossible for Gao Pian to send small troops to harass Li Jing.

As for later.

Li Jing doesn't have to worry about Gao Pian, his strategic direction is Liaodong, Liaoxi and Youzhou, in the north.But Gao Pian is far away in Huainan.

Lu Yongzhi was ridiculed by Li Jing, but he had no choice but to laugh along with him.Before leaving, Gao Pian had already made it very clear to him that that lunatic Li Jing could continue doing this, but they couldn't afford it anymore.

Gao Pian was new to Huainan, so he didn't have a strong control over the local area. He used to have an official position as the commander of all roads and camps. It was so majestic before.Especially during this period of time, Gao Pian deducted Li Jing's goods, causing many aristocratic and wealthy merchants in Huainan to suffer a lot of losses.Right now, because Gao Pian detains Li Jing's goods, Li Jing retaliates, looting the coast, and even further looting along the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. The whole Huainan is not safe.

These rich families in Huainan suffered heavy losses, and they couldn't trouble Li Jing, so they put the responsibility on Gao Pian's head.

Gao Pian's support in Huainan declined rapidly, and his popularity dropped to freezing point.

Even Gao Pian's ally Zhou Bao and other generals began to be unable to bear the loss and shifted the responsibility to Gao Pian.

Gao Pian is now in crisis, so he must ease the relationship with Li Jing first, so as to stabilize his position in Huainan.Therefore, when Lu Yongzhi came this time, Gao Pian directly stated that he was to be his grandson.No matter how cold Li Jing treats him, he has to bear it.

If Li Jing spat on Lu Yongzhi's left cheek, not only could he not wipe it off, but he had to move his right cheek to let Li Jing spit again.

"Gao Shizhong has figured it out. It was all a misunderstanding made by the people below. Now Gao Shizhong has punished the people below, and ordered to return all the seized goods, the detained merchants, and the seized shops, ships, etc. Wait, return them too." Lu Yongzhi tried to accompany him with a smile.

"Is it really a misunderstanding?"

"It's definitely a misunderstanding, it's a complete misunderstanding!"

Li Jing said coldly: "What about the goods and people seized by towns such as Dizhenhai, and the shops that were seized?"

"Gao Shizhong personally sent people to contact the towns. This matter is also a misunderstanding, and the goods have been released."

Li Jing picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.Li Rang over there immediately said loudly knowingly: "See off the guests!"

Several guards came in, walked up to Lu Yongzhi, stretched out their hands, and beckoned him to leave.

Lu Yongzhi's face changed again and again, and he said to Li Jing in a low voice: "Junwang, Gao Shizhong has expressed his sincerity for reconciliation, and I hope the Junwang will also show sincerity and recall your subordinates."

Li Jing ignored him, and Li Rang sneered beside him and said, "Tell us your sincerity now? Well, let me count my sincerity with you. Because of your misunderstanding, we have suffered heavy losses. In two months, we will go south." The commercial roads have been interrupted, and the goods on the Jianghuai line have not been sold, do you know how much we have lost?"

"How much?" Lu Yong asked subconsciously, and immediately regretted it.

Sure enough, Li Rang sneered twice, picked up the abacus and pulled it out, "The loss can't be less than tens of millions!"

Lu Yongzhi's chest was full of breath and he almost fell down, almost yelling.What the hell, I returned the goods to you, and lost tens of millions of pennies, you should lie to ghosts.But right now, he could only accompany and whisper: "It's all a misunderstanding. In fact, we have suffered heavy losses. Not only property, but also people have been damaged. In the past two months, we have lost almost 10 people."

"Why, you are blaming us when you lose someone. Could it be that we robbed you?" Zhou Dewei yelled loudly, almost scaring Lu Yongzhi to the ground.

"This..." Lu Yongzhi was sweating profusely, "What Gao Shizhong means is that everything that happened before will be wiped out. The seized goods and people will be returned to you, and the shops will also be returned. I hope the county king can do this too. It’s convenient, put everyone back, as for the money we lost, forget it.”

This is already Gao Pian's biggest concession, and the money and food stolen by Li Jing will definitely not come back.But Gao Pian wants to go back to the nearly 10 people who were snatched by Li Jing.

Li Jing tasted the tea leisurely, and said lightly: "I don't know what you are talking about about the robbed money, food and population. Return our goods, shops and people, let’s just let it go, and we won’t delve into it any further. If not, a certain recently got news that there are tens of thousands of pirates going to Yangzhou City to see the prosperity of the south of the Yangtze River! "

"No!" As soon as Li Jing put the teacup on the table, Zhou Dewei led the guards to drag him out forcefully.

After Lu Yongzhi left, Li Zhen said worriedly: "If you are so tough, will Gao Pian become angry from embarrassment?"

Li Jing said indifferently: "Gao Pian, even if we make concessions, do you think he will recognize us? He is not sincere in making concessions now, but it is just forced by the situation. He must be dissatisfied in his heart. In this case , then why should we try to reconcile with him? Besides, we have indeed lost a lot this time, so I will never put back the money, food and people we robbed."

"What if Gao Pian continues to fight against us?"

"Then let's continue with him. I want to see who will be the first to be unable to hold on." Li Jing snorted coldly.

Li Jing wouldn't believe that Gao Pian really wanted to reconcile, since he didn't really want to reconcile, then why bother with him.A person like Gao Pian is tough but not soft, the more powerful he is, the more he will eat your way.If you give in, he'll take an inch right away.

Historically, when Gao Pian moved from the Tianping Army to Xichuan, he took part of the Tianping Army, Zhaoyi Army, and Yicheng Army to Xichuan to resist the Nanzhao invasion.

At that time, there was a death squad-like force in Chengdu, a 3000-strong commando battalion.This elite army, which has made great contributions to the defense of Chengdu, enjoys a very high military salary.After Gao Pian took office, he was immediately dismissed from the military post previously promoted by the Tujiangying.Then, the payment of military salaries to the generals' battalion was terminated.If someone refuses to accept it, he will be served with severe punishment.As a result, a mutiny in the general's battalion was triggered. At that time, the situation was unprepared, and the soldiers brought by Gao Pian could not resist the general's camp, and the generals rushed into the commander's mansion.Gao Pian finally escaped by jumping into the cesspit.

Seeing that it was not good, Gao Pian sent people to smile and say a lot of good things to the rioting soldiers of the commando battalion: promise to restore their original titles, return the deducted salaries, clothing and food subsidies.These soldiers were tricked into returning to their camps.

After the soldiers of the sudden general camp left, Gao Pian immediately dispatched Tianping soldiers and other soldiers to kill them, but instead of rushing to the sudden general camp, he rushed to a construction site in the north of the city and beheaded hundreds of innocent craftsmen.While Gao Pian declared that the rebel army had been wiped out, he apologized to the general camp, saying that he would correct all mistakes and completely restore the original treatment of the general camp.

With this, Gao Pian paralyzed the general's battalion.

Secretly, he let his confidants secretly investigate the situation of every soldier in the assault general battalion in private, preparing for a bloody counterattack.

Two months later, in the middle of the night, Gao Pian suddenly mobilized a large number of troops to surround the homes of the soldiers of the sudden general battalion, and then broke into the houses and wiped out all the people in the houses, regardless of men, women, old or young.

From this incident alone, it can be seen that Gao Pian is by no means a kind person, but a guy who must take revenge.

Right now, the high-pitched pursuit of peace is just a temporary situation. Once the opportunity arises, this guy will definitely retaliate.

In this case, Li Jing has only one attitude towards Gao Pian, that is to be tough to the end, so that he does not have such a chance! (To be continued.)