Chapter 561 Li Jing is not the most ruthless, only more ruthless!
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A letter that could make Wang Jingwu, who had been undermined by several military governors and even finally rebelled, react so furiously, was definitely not just a polite greeting and polite speech written to him by Li Jing.
However, the content of this letter is not long. Given that there is no friendship between the two, the letter is written very concisely, just telling or saying that Li Jing informed Wang Jingwu about several things.
The letter is written by Li Jing. Li Jing's thin gold style is a very unique font, and it is unique and beautiful. However, Wang Jingwu had no intention of appreciating Li Jing's words. The words are beautiful, but the content is very hurtful.
At the beginning of the letter, Li Jing congratulated him on escaping and becoming an official. Then he told him directly that in view of the previous friction between the town and the Qingqi army, Li Jing planned to divide Ziqingzhou and govern. Li Jing sent troops to 15 counties along the Jishui coast, plus Ye County on the coast of Laizhou. The four prefectures of Ziqing and 26 counties in Ziqing, Li Jing obtained 16 counties, and the remaining ten counties, including the Yidu City of Qingzhou, Zizhou City of Zizhou, were handed over to Wang Jingwu, Xue Chong, and the Li people.
After the division, the troops, civil affairs, taxes, money and grain on their respective territories were all responsible for each other. The wells and waters did not violate the rivers and waters, and did not violate each other. Li Jing specifically stated that he had wiped out all the bandits and bandits in his territory. Therefore, now 25,000 towns were stationed in the 16 counties, three mountains and two rivers. If thieves attacked his territory, it must be that the thieves in Wang Jingwu's ten counties had crossed the border and attacked each other. At that time, he would transfer a large army into the ten counties to suppress the bandits.
If Li Jing's letter only says these contents, then Wang Jingwu wouldn't have been so crazy and irritable.
Although this division of land is equivalent to dividing Ziqing Town into two towns, he also knows his strength. Although there are more than 20,000 people, he still can't beat Li Jing. If Ziqing Town is divided into two, even if Li Jing separates the richest Jishui line. But he still has the territory of ten counties. For him, this is actually a good thing. After all, with a real territory and the support of Tian Lingzi, if there is no Li Jing's invasion, he can develop with peace of mind and not long. He believes that he will have the strength to challenge Li Jing.
But things are not that simple, and Li Jing would not have such kindness.
Later, Li Jing said that Ziqing Town had recently famine, and many people had no food to eat. Therefore, he moved many people who had no food to eat to Dengzhou and Liaodong to eat. In addition, by the way, many wealthy families from large families were willing to go. As for the number of people, Li Jing said that only 100,000 people had moved to Liao.
As soon as he saw this, Wang Jingwu immediately turned black and almost fainted. Although there were millions of people in Ziqing Town, there were only 26 counties, one county only had a population of 40,000 to 50,000, and ten counties at most 500,000 people. Li Jing has moved away 100,000 at once. This is not counted. In the past, many people fled, and the young and strong auxiliary soldiers he and Huang Chao pulled up. By this calculation, the population of the ten counties was more than half. Moreover, the people who moved away, plus the people he forced to conquer, were all young and strong. Li Jing not only took away the young and strong, but also took away the rich families of the big family.
Then what is left for him? What does it look like if there is no population, just a territory? Could it be that he will recruit those refugees who have nothing? It will only lead to losses!
It can be imagined that Li Jing's move was a fatal blow, and Wang Jingwu now had no joy. Without youth and strong, there would be no food, and there would not be even the soldiers.
Li Jing moved away half of the young and strong, and even the rich household registration was moved away. Naturally, the craftsmen would not let go. Of course, the treasuries of each prefecture would never leave him. All the treasuries in the ten counties were empty. Li Jing took all these as war preparation materials on the grounds of conquering Liao.
If it weren't for the lack of time, Li Jing would probably move away the bricks and tiles.
At the end of the letter, Li Jing told Wang Jingwu that he had returned all of his 25,000 soldiers.
"We must immediately appeal to the Duke of Jin and let the court punish Li Jing." Wang Jingwu said in a hatred.
"How to appeal this matter? What's the use of appealing? Li Jing also has many backers. Even if this matter is reported, it will only be a verbal battle in the end. It will never end. There will definitely be the result we want." Xue Chong drank a lot of wine, but his mind was still very clear. Li Jing's current momentum, as long as he does not rebel, will such a thing move him? Even if he moves him, he will really force Li Jing to become angry and rebel directly. At that time, maybe they will be the first one to suffer.
"Stop!" Wang Jingwu sighed.
The key thing is still the soldiers in his hands, and he also knows that Xue Chong and Li Shi have a bad relationship with him.
After Wang Jingwu took a quick shower and tidyed up, he went to the military camp with Xue and Li. His 25,000 men were kept in this camp.
As soon as he entered the camp, Wang Jingwu saw many of his confidant generals.
Zhang Chan, Lu Hong, Wang Yanwen and other generals were there, but these generals squatted at the camp gate without any majesty, sighing nonetheless. Even the generals were all wearing only a torn dress, as if they had just been taken off from a beggar.
Seeing Wang Jingwu coming, the generals quickly stood up and shouted to the general in unison. The words were filled with a look of decay, just like a defeated rooster.
"General!" Zhang Chan shouted, and tears couldn't stop flowing down.
Wang Jingwu looked at the generals under him in surprise. When he followed him and was killed by Li Jing in Zibo River, he had never seen Zhang Chan look so depressed. Although he was scrambled by Li Jing, the young and strong population was greatly reduced, and the treasury was empty, at least they survived and got half of the territory of Zibo Town, because they were happy.
"What happened?" Wang Jingwu asked worriedly, "The brothers in the camp are still there, are there few people?"
He couldn't help but remember the words at the end of Li Jing's letter, and he would give them back to you by 25,000 people. He thought there was something wrong with this sentence. How could Li Jing be so kind? Even if he was afraid of Tian Lingzi, he would definitely not return all his troops to himself, and he would definitely take some away.
But even half of it was left, Wang Jingwu accepted it.
Like his father who just died, Lu Hong replied with a mournful face: "General, 25,000 yuan per person."
Wang Jingwu breathed a sigh of relief, it would be great if there were too many soldiers. But judging from their appearance, the armor and equipment might have fallen into Li Jing's hands.
"Is the weapons gone?"
Lu Hong nodded indeed, "Nothing is gone, and even a knife to cut flesh is left behind. The people in the town are too cruel. Not only are they not left any weapons, but before leaving, they also stripped off all the officers' clothes, leaving only a pair of shorts."
His mother was too much, Wang Jingwu clenched his fists tightly. Li Jing, you wait, I remember everything today.
Xue Chong, who was standing beside him, asked curiously: "Why did Li Jing only strip the officers of the clothes, but didn't the soldiers take off?"
Zhang Chan's muscles twitched a few times, and gritted his teeth and said, "No, no soldier's clothes were taken off."
"Oh, it seems that Li Jing is not too much, he finally saves some face." Xue Chong took a sip of wine and smacked his lips and said to himself.
But as soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Chan said hatefully: "Li Jing did not strip the soldiers' clothes, but he did even more ruthlessly. He took away all the 25,000 brothers, except for the officers above the battalion level! There are only less than 200 officers above the battalion level."
"What! Li Jing took all the 25,000 brothers away. Didn't he just say that there were only 25,000 people in the camp?" Wang Jingwu screamed loudly, like a cat whose hair was blown up by being stepped on his tail.
The officers all lowered their heads, and after a long time, Wang Yanwen spoke, "Li Jing did take away more than 20,000 troops, and there are indeed 25,000 people in the camp now. However, those people are no longer the original people. They are all a group of disabled and old men who are dying."
"What the hell is going on?" Wang Jingwu roared loudly. He rushed into the camp and saw only a bunch of people lying on the ground, almost waiting for death. Among these people, those with disabilities, either blind or deaf, or even missing arms and legs. The rest were mostly those gray-haired old men, who almost only breathed a sigh of relief, and almost lying here to die. There were many other hungry people who became hungry like bamboo poles. Wang Jingwu had seen many such people. He was almost helpless, and even if he had food, he could not be cared for.
Moreover, there are actually many old women in this camp.
"Li Jing took away all our soldiers, and then left us this group of hungry people, and also picked out the hungry people of young men and women, and even the children and young men were all taken away. All that was left was a group of hopeless guys who could only wait for death." Xue Chong was shocked, holding the wine gourd in his hand, but his heart was extremely cold.
Li Jing was too cruel, so cruel that it exceeded everyone's imagination.
On the surface, ten counties were left for them, but the young and strong counties were taken away, the wealthy families of the big families were taken away, the craftsmen were taken away, the treasury money and grain were taken away, and even the livestock were taken away.
Now, Li Jing has taken away all their biggest supporters, including 25,000 Qingqi soldiers, leaving more than 200 middle and senior officers, and more than 20,000 hungry people who are already waiting to die.
There is no money, food, horses, weapons, armor, and there is no more soldiers.
How do they maintain the empty ten counties?
All their troops were only more than 200 Qingqi officers of Wang Jingwu and 500 clans of Xue Chong and Li, and together, there were only 1,200 people. Not to mention Li Jing’s town, just the five thousand military guards of Zhang Wanrong in Qingzhou City were enough to destroy them at any time.
Chapter completed!