Chapter 234 Swallowing the Thirteen Islands
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Faced with Li Guan's strange distinction that turned black and white and distorted the facts, Feng Zhang's seven orifices were furious. Finally, he was extremely angry and could no longer care about Cheng at this time. He actually pulled out a decorated gold and jade dagger from his belt and rushed towards Li Guan, shouting: "I will die with the thief today!"
But today, Cheng, more than ten generals in the hall were not brave. With such solemnity, how could everyone allow Feng Zhang to shout and kill him? Han Zhong, a prison envoy with Dengzhou, had a good relationship with Li Guan, jumped up and kicked Feng Zhang's dagger. Then, the Longshan military envoy Liu Yao Dongmu, who arrived, immediately locked Feng Zhang's arm, one left and one right, and held him firmly. They had been with Feng Zhang for many years in Dengzhou, but they had long disliked Feng Zhang's eyes, and took the opportunity to breathe a good sigh today.
"Enough!" Cui Yunqing was secretly happy when she saw that Feng Zhang had completely lost her mind. She pretended to be a majestic face and shouted loudly: "Today is the gathering and mediation of the various halls. This official also represents the Qingzhou Song Jieshou and Wang Ya General. Mediation is a serious and solemn matter. Unexpectedly, the envoy of Feng Army and Horses was so arrogant. General Li Guan was in charge of all commands. You had an affair with pirates and colluded with pirates to attack subordinates. After the defeat, he sent troops to attack Li Guan again. After the defeat, he dared to change from secret attack to open attack. Now the Jie Zheng Mansion is kind and unwilling to set up a sword. He sent his official to mediate. Unexpectedly, you would even commit murder and assassinate General Li Guan in the hall. You did not take this official seriously and everyone in the hall seriously. Feng Zhang. What do you mean? Do you really want to rebel and rebel?"
"I don't agree. Cui Sima, you are Teacher Li Guanzhi, so you naturally favor him everywhere. I want to complain to General Wang, but I don't agree!" Feng Zhang shouted.
Cui Yunqing's face darkened, "I was entrusted by Song Jieshuai and Wang Yajiang. Song Jieshuai and Wang Yajiang both trusted me. What are you still shouting? I think you have been in the Great Xie Fort for a long time, and I don't know that there is a Shangguan on your head. Today, your evidence of crime is confirmed, not only did you not teach me in the court, but you also have to commit crimes in the court, so it is not enough. People come to take him up and prepare to take him back to Qingzhou for questioning and extorting."
The four Cui Yunqing's servants came in and were about to take Feng Zhang away. Wang Jingwen jumped out at this time. Although Feng Zhang was confused, he still had to protect him. Not only because of the troops and territory that Feng Zhang had in his hands, what was more important was that the Wang family needed the strong support of the Feng family.
"Sima Cui, please wait." Wang Jingwen jumped out, "I think the envoy of the military envoy today was confused for a moment, and she was filial and crazy. Why not let me take the envoy of the military envoy back to the mansion first and ask a few doctors to treat it well. What about mediation tomorrow?"
Cui Yunqing just said harshly, but in fact he was just to scare Feng Zhang. When he came, he and Song Wei had already set the tone of this trip, no matter who was right or wrong in this matter. Anyway, the final result was mediation, not guilty. Song Wei and Wang Jingwu had no plans to take action yet, so this outpost battle that concerns the two factions must be the end of a small fight, and both sides would definitely protect their own people.
To put it bluntly, at the level of Song Wei, who is right and who is wrong is not really the most important thing. The most important thing is to weigh and master it.
However, although the tone of mediation has been set, there is still a lot of room for specific operations. Of course, the most important thing is interests. Song Wei has long been aiming at the prosperity of Dengzhou Port. Dengzhou Port is the four major seaports of the Tang Dynasty and the only overseas trading port in the north, and its importance is self-evident.
When the Pinglu army crossed the sea from Yingzhou in western Liaoning to Qingzhou to establish the Pinglu Town of Ziqing, it was very poor at the beginning. However, due to the Anshi Rebellion, the land routes between Hebei and Liaodong and other countries were completely blocked, and the sea and northeast were completely backed by the sea routes of Shandong. Dengzhou Port began to flourish extremely, and the sea routes were extremely prosperous. Li Zheng had driven away his former Jieshuai and appointed Jieshuai, and since then he used the Dengzhou Port and Dengzhou sea routes to concentrate on his own.
He started a smuggling trade and saved a lot of money and grain for him. Without the need for the court to provide food and wages and fully self-sufficiency, he expanded an elite army in less than many years, and then separating and establishing himself, with 100,000 troops. He finally expanded Ziqing Town to Zi, Qing, Qi, Deng, Lai, Yan, Hai, Yi, Mi, Yun, Cao, Pu and other twelve prefectures, and once became the largest vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. He also separating Ziqing Town for nearly sixty years.
After the imperial court later pacified the separatist rule of Ziqing Town and divided it into three parts, Ziqing began to be controlled by the court on the surface, and all the previous governors were appointed by the court. But in fact, the fundamentals of Ziqing Town were still in the hands of Pinglu Army, and among the 37,500 soldiers of Pinglu Army, there were many camps, and the heads of each army were controlled by each army. In the end, each army head was headed by the most elite Qingzhou Yajun, and the generals of the Yajun were basically the real masters of Ziqing Town.
The Wang Jingwu family has been the Qingzhou generals for generations, relying on the most elite fang soldiers in their hands. To support such an elite fang army, a large part of the money and grain came from Dengzhou Port. Feng Zhang and Wang Jin were in charge of the Da Xie Fort and the Dengzhou Navy respectively. It can be said that the two had the most profitable territory in Ziqing Town. The two handed over a large part of the money and grain to Wang Jingwu every year, and then Wang Jingwu and the army divided the money and grain to support the army. Although Feng Zhang and Wang Jin only left a small part, they still allowed them to raise a strong army. This is how Feng Zhang's 20,000 troops and more than 100 fleets came.
Song Wei came to Qingzhou and wanted to change the situation where the governor had no power. He used the opportunity of recruiting united troops to control the 5,000 united troops in Qingzhou, and joined forces with Cui Yunqing to recruit a personal military camp of 3,000 people. Although there were soldiers, the court had long ignored the money and grain of the army in the local vassal states. Song Wei had to ask for money when he had soldiers. Although he had the support of the Cui family, he still had a lot of shortcomings in collecting money and grain from Dengzhou with Wang Jingwu. He had long envied the golden mountain of Dengzhou Port, but one of them could not intervene. Now, this opportunity was placed in front of him.
Taking this mediation opportunity, Song Wei and Cui Yunqing's biggest purpose was to intervene in Dengzhou Port and share a generous amount of money and grain to support the army. However, Wang Jingwu would not give up such a place for money and grain supply, and they were prepared for it. However, today's result surprised Cui Yunqing, and everything seemed to be simple again. Feng Zhang made such a big mistake today, and the situation was very beneficial to them.
Wang Jingwen took Feng Zhang away, and news came out that day that Feng Zhang's qi and blood were rushing to the brain, and he was crazy about gaining and losing his heart. This disease is prone to nonsense and cannot remember the facts. In response, Wang Jingwen suggested that Feng Zhang's previous words were all caused by crazy about loss and impulse. Feng Zhang is currently unable to take over the board of directors, and proposed that Feng Xun take over his position temporarily and that he would represent Da Xiezhai to participate in the mediation.
This statement is just a signal of concession, and everyone understands the truth. However, no one pursued it. Feng Zhang withdrew from mediation and Feng Xun participated, indicating that Wang Jingwen was going to compromise and concession.
Next, everyone began to stop talking about the right and wrong between Daxiezhai and Shamen Town. Instead, they began to talk about the armistice and the aftermath.
"The two families have ended in this dispute, and they will not pursue them." Wang Jingwen said, "Our opinion is that the two families should continue to maintain the situation before the war. General Li Guan should immediately withdraw his troops to Shamen Town, and Da Xie Village still has the jurisdiction of the five forts and seven garrisons under his jurisdiction. Moreover, the population taken away by General Li Guan from each island should be repaid. The soldiers of Da Xie Village captured in the dispute should also be released."
Li Yan sneered and said with a rebellious look: "My request is to divide Daxie Village into two. Among the three major islands, Daxie Islands belong to my Shamen Town. Since Feng Zhang is crazy, don't be too tired. He can take his people to Guida Island. The Guida Islands and Wuhu Islands are allocated to him, so that everyone will not violate the river water in the future."
"This is impossible!" Wang Jingwen replied loudly. The most valuable thing in the three major islands is the Daxie Islands, because the entire Dengzhou Gangtang Bay is surrounded by the Daxie Islands. If Daxie Island is lost, they will not be able to guarantee their original interests.
However, Li Guan also asked for a lot of price. He had already made plans in his heart and knew that he could not get the North and South Island. However, he asked for a lot of price, and Wang Jingwen returned the money. At the entire mediation meeting, Li Guan and Wang Jingwen were arguing. Feng Xun, the representative of the Da Xie Village, was just a wooden man who didn't say a word. Others were watching the show and occasionally interjected a few words.
However, no matter how much he fights, Li Yan's bottom line is that it is impossible to spit out the fat meat from his mouth. What's more, this time the start is good, and he completely gained a favorable momentum. With Cui Yunqing and Song Wen and others fully support him, Wang Jingwen finally had to give in and out.
"Daheishan Island and Wushan Island are classified as Shamen Town. In addition, the surrounding Yulin Island and Nantuozi Island two islands must also belong to Shamen Town. And the four islands between Shamen Town and Wushan Fort and the north and south Changdao, Mantis Island, Barang Island and Magushi Island also belong to Shamen Town. In addition, the five islands, small hill reefs, Xiang Reef, Shuanglu Reef, and Shuang Reef, will also belong to Shamen Town from today." Li Guan opened his last bottom line. In the entire Daxie Islands, except for the two large islands in the north and south, all the other large islands and reefs are divided into 17 islands and reefs, all of which belong to Shamen Town.
In addition to these islands, all the population moved by Li Guan from the islands has also been returned to Li Guan and will not be returned.
"In addition, as compensation for the truce, Daxiezhai must pay 200,000 yuan of compensation to Shamen Town to pay for our army's casualties and military expenses. This is my last bottom line, so I refuse to bargain again. Otherwise, I will lead someone to Daxiezhai to pick it up, and I will not be unpredictable at that time." After a long discussion, Li Guan was really impatient and directly threw out his own conditions.
Wang Jingwen hesitated for a long time, looked at Cui Yunqing, Li Jun, Song Wen and others, and saw that they were all silent, obviously they wanted to support Li Guan to the end. Finally, they had to grit their teeth and said, "Okay, the two armies will not cause any more troubles from now on. No matter what happened in the past, whoever caused any more troubles in the future will be unanimously attacked by everyone present today."
"A word is determined." Li Guan said that the emperor didn't seem to care too much and said casually, but he was already ecstatic and successful. The thirteen islands and reefs including Dayuanshan Island suddenly became the territory of Shamen Town.
"Cough cough!" Cui Yunqing coughed gently, attracting everyone's eyes, and chuckled: "It's good that the matter will be mediated successfully. Let's talk about other things now."
Chapter completed!