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Chapter 158 Who is stronger than whom?

At noon, merchants on Shamen Island came to the island town with a large number of wine and meat to visit Song Wen and other officials, and to express condolences to the labor force. Song Wen was very polite to these people. At the luncheon, he invited more prestigious merchants to the table.

During the meal, Li Jing took advantage of the situation to ask Song Wenhe Feng Zhang that part of the reason why Shaman Island was attacked by pirates this time was that it was not enough to jing. Now Da Xiezhai has promised to hand over the three islands outside Shaman Island to garrison soldiers, but the four docks on Shaman Island have not been reclaimed. For the sake of the island's safety and to better protect the merchants, Li Jing proposed to take back the four docks and take over them. After Shaman Town took over the four docks, it will build a sentry fortress on the docks to serve as Shaman Island.

The four wharfs on Shamen Island are jointly controlled by merchants on the island. For example, Shikou wharf is controlled by merchants mainly from the Wang family, and Fenghuangshan wharf is also controlled by some leaders of Yao Street. Li Jing made this request in public, and Song Wen immediately agreed in public. Although Feng Zhang was willing to set up obstacles for Li Jing, he was at a disadvantage in the current situation. After turning his eyes, he actually nodded and agreed.

Seeing this, the heads of the merchants on the table all changed. Shaman Island has always been a trading place. Although there are many shops and warehouses on the island, they are actually a smuggling distribution center, and countless transactions have been reached here. For a long time, the officers and soldiers on Shaman Island will not care about them at all, nor can they take care of them. But now, Li Jing has proposed to take over the four wharfs, which is touching their fundamental interests.

However, although these merchants are basically representatives of the great families, their identity is just a merchant. Song Wen had already felt a little disgusted with Li Jing because he could not be the master of Li Jing. He was a little disgusted with Li Jing because he could not be the master of Li Jing. He was determined to support Li Jing and gave him some compensation. On the other hand, the unpaid was not because Song Wen had already coveted the smuggling transaction on Shamen Island, and he was willing to intervene but could not enter. Now he was just using Li Jing to muddle the water. Those merchants were usually very arrogant, but under the authority of Song Wen's state chief, he had to grit his teeth and admit it.

After lunch, Song Wen and his party did not delay and took the lead in returning to Dengzhou.

Song Wen left, but Feng Zhang and Wang Jin still did not leave, but stayed.

Feng Zhang's army and Wang Jin's Dengzhou Navy gathered outside the castle city with 500 troops, with 1,000 troops entering the castle city.

"What do they want?" Lin Wei frowned when he got the news. When the pirates attacked last night, they did not appear when they should have appeared. Now Shanshan is late. Now it's time for them to leave, but they are reluctant to leave. Instead, they are stranded on the island. What's the intention?

"One thousand entry." Li Jing recited it again, and was very annoyed. He understood that Feng Zhang and Wang Jin were putting pressure on him, and the purpose must be the matter of Feng Ming and his subordinates he detained. Wang Jin, he estimated that he should have opened the gift he sent at this time, and found that the Wang family's shops and underground workshops on the island had been uprooted by Li Jing. "They are intimidating us."

"Is that true?" Zhang Hong said with some concern: "Governor Song and his team left, but they were reluctant to leave. Is it possible that they want to attack us?" Zhang Hong sat in Li Jing's hand, still holding the account book that he had never been familiar with, and there was a bag of calculating money hanging around his waist.

"They don't, and they dare not." Li Jing shook his head. In the current situation, Song Wei did not dare to attack Wang Jingwu's faction rashly, and then Wang Jinwu was also afraid to attack Wang Jingwu's faction rashly. Last time Wang Jin colluded with pirates to deal with Li Jing, he was already taking risks. But the last incident was already defeated, and even the one-eyed dragon died at the hands of Li Jing. As long as Li Jing and Song Wen did not make the matter of Wang Jin's collusion with pirates publicly, Wang Jin would never dare to openly attack Li Jing in a short time. Collusion with pirates can still deny it. If he dared to publicly attack Li Jing, this matter would be equivalent to Wang Wuwu's faction publicly declaring war on Song Wei.

"General, Wang Jin has attacked us once, so we have to be careful. Feng Zhang and Wang Jin have a thousand official officials. In our current situation, if the two sides start a war, we have no chance of winning." Zhang Hong said in a heavy tone.

Li Jing sighed: "Don't worry, they are just bluffing and threatening us now. And this intimidation also means testing us. If we give in now, then they will think that we are afraid of them and think that we have no trump card. Then something like yesterday will definitely happen next. Therefore, we cannot show any fear now, but instead become more tough. In this way, they will not be able to figure out our background and dare not do anything randomly in a short period of time."

"You should also see Song Wen's attitude today. You should not think about it if you expect him to come out to help us deal with Wang Jin and Feng Zhang. We are in a weak situation and need time to recover and grow. After we have passed this period, we can take the initiative to fight them with teeth and blood and blood as soon as possible. But now, we can only temporarily pretend to be powerful and give them an empty city plan."

"I hope so!" The generals thought so in their hearts. But apart from this, they didn't know what to do. They were originally full of expectations for Song Wen, thinking that if they would hand over the evidence to him, everything would be solved. But in the end, they had to deal with everything themselves. Not to mention that Song Wen did not help them deal with Wang Jin, even the matter of Wang Jin colluding with pirates could not be made public at all, so as not to avoid Wang Jin's in a hurry.

When Shamen Town was on full alert, all soldiers and families were temporarily concentrated in the city. The soldiers were all full of military generals, each taking their place, ready to deal with all possible emergencies at any time.

The silent confrontation between Shamen Town and Wang Jin and Feng Zhang continued until it was almost dusk.

Then Feng Zhang asked Li Jing to meet with the two armies under the city. Li Jing brought Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong and two teams of servants to come. Feng Zhang Yifei came alone and also brought hundreds of guards.

Feng Zhang saw Li Jing straight to the point: "I will immediately withdraw the troops above you from the Three Islands affiliated to Shamen Town, and you can take the defense in Mingyao. But you must immediately hand over Feng Ming and the people you detained to me."

"You can give it to you. When will the 30,000 guan be sent, you will take it in whenever you want. If you don't have money, you won't have any talks." Li Jing refused to give in. He fought with a fox like Feng Zhang. He must not weaken his momentum and let the other party see the truth.

Keep your troops still, watch the changes, don’t understand the dynamics, and never take action. This has always been Feng Zhang’s unchanged style of conduct. Li Jing has already learned about all this, so he did not give in at this time and looked at Feng Zhang.

"You really want to face me like this? Don't forget, you are my subordinate, Shamen Town belongs to Da Xie Village!" Feng Zhang raised his eyebrows and said in a stern tone.

Li Jing smiled faintly and replied in a tit-for-tat way: "Shamen Town is indeed under the jurisdiction of Daxie Village, but Daxie Village is also under the jurisdiction of Ziqing Town. His subordinates and the envoys of the army and horses are both subordinates of Song Jieshuai. Isn't it?"

"Aren't you afraid of the pirates coming again in the middle of the night?"

"Hahaha, the pirates of Yao were attacking yesterday, but look at where those pirates are now?" Li Jing snorted coldly, "The envoy of the military commander, if you stay now, just want to say these words to me, then you can avoid it. If you are brave enough, you might as well bring troops to attack me now. I want to see who will fall first in the end." As he said that, Li Jing turned around and left.

He had just returned to the city tower and Feng Zhang had sent him to see him again. The envoy brought Feng Zhang's handbook and told him that Mingyao was noon and Fenghuangshan Wharf was exchanged. After reading this handbook, Li Jing knew that Feng Zhang had admitted defeat this round. He breathed a sigh of relief and nodded to the envoy. Finally, he did not forget to explain, "By the way, remember to tell Feng's military envoy that in addition to bringing 30,000 guan of money to take back your Feng Liuzi, you will also have the same promise to give me 10,000 guan of pensions from the dead and injured in Shamen Town, and the other 300 sets of weapons he promised me. If Mingyao brought something incomplete, don't blame me for not giving it to me."

After the messenger returned, Feng Zhang quickly took the horse back, but Wang Jin still hadn't left.

At the foot of Phoenix Mountain, Wang Jin's five hundred horses temporarily stopped here. In a temporary military tent, Wang Jin led his troops to retreat without even calling him, and was so angry that he cursed.

When his eyes glanced at the three open wooden boxes in front of him, his eyes became even more angry.

Three things were placed in the three wooden boxes, all of which were ‘gifts’ given to him by Li Jing. The first wooden box was one into the head, the second wooden box was one into the head, and the third wooden box was more than a dozen letters and an account book.

Wang Jin was not unfamiliar with the things in these three wooden boxes. The first one was his general Wang Fu. At this time, his eyes were wide open and his eyes were filled in the box. The other head was also very familiar with it. The one with the eye mask clasped one-eyed dragon with only one eye left was the pirate one-eyed dragon, the one-eyed dragon Zheng Balang, who was supposed to be sold to Song Wen.

He had read the dozen or so letters and the account books, all of which were written by him to Zheng Balang, and the account books that Zheng Balang recorded all the transactions between them. However, these letters and account books were just copybooks, not originals.

A letter from Li Jing was sent with the letter. In the letter, Li Jing arrogantly told him not to interfere in the affairs of Shamen Town from then on. In revenge for his unfriendly action, he had confiscated all the Wang family's industries on the island. In addition, if he wanted to take back the original letters and account books from Li Jing, he would also need to compensate Shamen Town 50,000 jin as a pension for the soldiers who died in the battle in Shamen Town.

Wang Jin has been in a state of mania since he opened these 'gifts'. Li Jing actually blackmailed him. After the Wang family's armour workshop on Shamen Island was raided, Li Jing actually dared to blackmail him 50,000 yuan. "I want to kill Li Jing and flatten Shamen Town!"

"Don't rest as angry! Feng Zhang's old fox has withdrawn. He probably is waiting for us to fight with Li Jing and then watch the show! The current situation is that we already have a handle in Li Jing's hands. If we really fight, Song Wen will take the initiative. Maybe he will have to implicate the head of the family. Everything is put in the overall situation first, calm down for a while, let Li Jing be arrogant for a while, and come and deal with him when he turns back." Deng Governor General Wang Jingwen said with a dark face.

Wang Jingwen is ranked first in the Wang family, the eldest son of the eldest son, but he is a concubine. Now the head of the Wang family is Wang Jingwen, the second eldest son, and Wang Wujing is the general of the Jiedushi of Ziqing. Wang Jin is only a third-party and ranks fifth in the family. Therefore, Wang Jingwen's attitude towards Wang Jin is completely the elder brother's attitude towards his brothers. As soon as he spoke, he had a lesson tone, but Wang Jin did not dare to have any emotions.

"But this Li family is too arrogant. Besides, he has held our handle now and will not kill him. If this matter is spread, it will be very unfavorable to my Wang family." Wang Jin sighed.

Wang Jingwen shook his head and said, "You still know that this matter is very unfavorable to my Wang family. What do you think? He actually ordered the pirates to attack Shazhen. He ordered the commander, but he even found such a useless pirate. He attacked a small island for thousands of people, but he was killed by Qianqian Jingjing. After all, you have led troops for many years, and the face of the Wang family has been thrown away by you this time."

"I have to kill Li Jing!" Wang Jin was furious, "Li Jing may be able to lose a thousand-fold one-eyed dragon, but the one-eyed dragon is just a pirate who is not a climax. It was wiped out by me in the past, and it was just a dog I raised. With the five hundred soldiers and horses I have now, I can slaughter the Shamen Town with just one raid tonight!"

"You are making a fool!" Wang Jingwen was furious, "After a war yesterday, the entire Dengzhou City is now watching Shamen Island. So what if you really kill Li Jing at this time? Song Wen led his troops to surround you and even the head of the family dared not come forward to save you. If you really do this, our entire Wang family will be destroyed in your hands. We have worked hard for several generations and finally have such a powerful position. As long as we endure a few more years, the governor of Ziqing Pinglu in the future will definitely be the most important thing in our Wang family. If you do this now, wouldn't you force our Wang family to raise an army immediately? At that time, can you guarantee that the court will not send troops to attack us?"

Wang Jin looked at Wang Jingwen and looked at the heads in the two wooden boxes placed on the table, trying to find the answer, but in vain. For a moment, although he was wearing armor and sword, he looked extremely depressed. "What should I do?" he asked.
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