Chapter 580
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In February of the third year of Qianfu, the town was settled in Pingzhou.
The eight thousand Yanyun Army received the order to return to Dengzhou from Youzhou for training. Pingzhou was sent by Li Jing to serve as the governor of Pingzhou, Lin Wei served as the defense envoy of Pingzhou, and the selection army was also transferred, the Tianlang Army and the Crane Control Army, and the three armies of the Tianlang Army and the Crane Control Army entered Pingzhou.
Liu Xun led the front army to garrison the important areas of Lulongsai in the north of Pingzhou, and Fu Wenda led the Tianlang army to garrison the east of Pingzhou and Yuguan. However, Shicheng County, which was on the west of Pingzhou and Jizhou, was stationed by Li Juyi, the cavalry commander of the He was stationed.
At the same time, Lu Long, Shicheng and Macheng of Pingzhou also selected three experienced county magistrates from the county below the town to be promoted to county magistrates, and all officials from the entire yamen, including county magistrates, county magistrates, and county magistrates to record officials.
Li Jing also ordered a water city to be built on the Yuguan Sea and through Pingzhou, flowing from the Xi tribe to the Luan River from Pingzhou to the sea, each of which was built and two water barracks were stationed.
After the army and officials were in place, Li Jing immediately transported a group of newly recruited refugees to Pingzhou to cultivate land and reclaim land. He immediately recruited people on the border with Jizhou and Yingzhou, from east to west.
The actions of Zhen** did not wait for Liu Yue or Fan Xinglong to agree.
Li Jing just released the wind and mobilized the war, and brought Li Keju to Dengzhou. Then he brought Liu Rengong's three thousand Uighur cavalry to the Youzhou camp. Then Li Jing began to march towards Pingzhou. When Fan Xinglong heard that Li Jing advanced directly to Pingzhou and sent troops to Pingzhou, he angrily chopped down the beloved red sandalwood table table in front of him. He immediately ordered the generals to gather troops, but when the troops gathered, Fan Xinglong sighed and ordered the soldiers and horse officials in Pingzhou to withdraw immediately.
In the end, Fan Xinglong could only lead his troops and horses to follow him all the way, and then sent the troops from the town to step into Pingzhou with gifts, and then directly occupied Pingzhou.
Liu Yue sent an envoy to Dengzhou and told Li Jing that Pingzhou could be temporarily handed over to Li Jing to deal with the Khitans, but Li Jing had to hand over Li Keju, the traitor. However, Li Jing ignored this request at all. Instead, he replied that Lu Longjun promised to give the town ** 10% of the taxes in Youzhou every year, and he has not given them this year, so they were asked to prepare.
The two sides just go back and forth, argue with each other, and do some war mobilization and military exercises from time to time.
After the New Year, Chang'an sent back news that Chen Jingxuan, Yang Shili and Niu Xu, although they escaped from Youzhou, they were no longer willing to come to Youzhou again. Finally, they heard that the three of them played a court game with the emperor to bet on the position of Sanchuan Jiedu. In the end, Chen Jingxuan won the first place. Because Xichuan was the richest, he was immediately appointed as Xichuan Jiedu. Yang Shili was second, as Dongchuan Jiedu; Niu Xu was third, as Shannan West Road Jiedu.
The three of them went to Sanchuan to serve as the governor, but Tian Lingzi and the emperor did not send anyone to Youzhou again. Instead, they issued an order to remove Chen Jingxuan's deputy ambassador and Li Keju's position as the queen. However, Li Jing still held the position of commander of the governor Lu Long. However, for the new deputy governor, the military governor Sima, the military governor, and even the deputy ambassador, the junior, and other important positions, they did not propose to be held.
After the decree was issued, Liu Yue and others understood that the emperor did not intend to send anyone else. At this time, he no longer argued with Li Jing and agreed to the fact that Li Jing occupied Pingzhou. Instead, the three of them began to fight to fight for the position of commander Lu Longjun.
Liu Yue and others began to dispatch troops and guarded each other. Fan Xinglong really wanted to fight with Zhenzhao. After all, Pingzhou was his, but Li Quanzhong and Liu Yue had Li Jing guaranteed to occupy Pingzhou, just to recover Liaodong and Liaoxi, so they could bear it for the time being.
Seeing that the three of them had their own ulterior motives and were unwilling to rush forward, Li Jing couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
The strongest vassal of the past has now set sun. The Lu Long army is no longer strong. The internal fights are constantly fighting, and finally they have almost exhausted their strength.
If Lu Long fights his life, he might be able to win it in one fell swoop. However, Li Jing also figured it out that there is no need to worry about such neighbors. Keeping them for the time being can serve as a barrier between other towns of the court. After taking down the old land of Andong, you can take it at any time when you look back.
After mutual intimidation, threats and bluffs, the town finally occupied Pingzhou without spending one army and one soldier. Although this was just a remote state of three counties, Li Jing was still very happy.
After getting Pingzhou, he already owned the three states. If the sixteen counties in Ziqing Town were included, there would be two states.
There will be another celebration banquet in Dengzhou tonight to celebrate that officials will go to Pingzhou to take office.
However, Li Jing did not go tonight. After taking Pingzhou, the town had a greater advantage in regaining Liaodong. Li Jing and others had discussed it many times and finally decided to launch an attack on Liaodong after the summer harvest.
After summer harvest, there is more grass and enough food. What is important is the swamp area of more than 200 miles long in the western Liaoning Corridor, which can only be successfully passed in autumn and winter. When spring and summer, rain will flood, and the entire swamp area will become a death zone, and people and horses are rare. With this isolation zone, when Zhenzhan attacked Liaodong, the Khitans could not quickly reinforce from Liaoxi. Moreover, with the troops from Pingzhou, Pingzhou can also send troops to copy the Khitans' nests in Yingzhou and kick them hard on the butt.
The war is getting closer and closer, and Li Jing is not very worried about the recovery of Liaodong. What he is worried about is that he will have to face the Khitans head-on afterwards.
During this period, the busiest people were the Xiaoqisi and the Staff Office. Countless information continued to gather from all directions to Dengzhou, and finally analyzed, then summarized and responded.
The Khitan has been in chaos recently. First, Yilijin Yelu Yundeshi died, and then Yelu Yande, who killed Yundeshi, was cut off his head by Yelu Puguzhi on the Chai Ceritual. Not long after Yelu Puguzhi became Yilijin, the conflict between Yaonian tribe and Diela tribe became increasingly greater. Then, on the night after Yelu Puguzhi and Bala Khan competed for the Central Plains commodity share, his head was cut off like his son-in-law Yelu Guode.
The newly appointed Yelu Hende has already determined that Yelu Puguzhi killed his father. He threatened to kill Puguzhi several times in public.
The three Yelu and seven tribes, Hende Khan had reached an agreement with Yilijin, the six tribes of Yaonian and Dahe. Yelu Puguzhi also received support from several of the twenty tribes. The situation on both sides is tense now, like a volcano that is about to erupt at any time. From time to time, some warriors on both sides have been cut off their heads, so that when it gets dark, the Khitans can't sleep. They can only use alcohol to relieve their annoyance.
Li Wei lived a very casual life on the grassland. He has now become the most popular person in the Khitan. The caravan with 3,000 people has now expanded to tens of thousands. As long as the Khitans bring things, whether it is cattle, sheep, horses, ores, ore, herbs, ore, ore, ore, ore, ore, ore, ore, ore, ore, ore, ore, ore, ore, ore, ore, or even slave women, fur and jerky meat, Li Wei will collect whatever he has. From the beginning, there are more and more things he can get, from the original tea, wine, salt, perfume, glass, etc., to now, even excellent armor and sharp steel knives are sold. Although the price is amazing, only tribal leaders can afford it. If an ordinary warrior wants to buy a set of armor, he has to take out all his belongings.
But now the situation has changed a little. After the revenge in various tribes has escalated, a small tribe was finally defeated, and then all the remaining men, women, old and young became slaves. The cattle, sheep, horses and tents became their trophys. The winner found Li Wei and was willing to sell all the trophys, including the captives, to him in exchange for the exquisite weapons and armor in his hand.
Li Wei completed the transaction readily, and even because this was the first customer to make such a large order, he also gave him an extra high-quality steel knife.
The defeated tribe with thousands of tents finally changed to only ten sets of armor and weapons, but the man felt that he had made a fortune. Many tribes who were jealous or blindfolded with hatred began to join this cruel killing.
Seeing that these tribes finally started to fight each other due to hatred and interests, Li Wei stretched and yawned, "It's so deadly. These damn Khitans finally started fighting. I'm here in the province, I'll send people to assassinate everywhere every night."
More and more Khitans exchanged their enemies' cattle, sheep, and even family slaves for goods, and most of them came for weapons and armor. Li Wei immediately raised the price and only sold high-quality armor weapons. The armor and swords worth thousands of stakes would be as much as they would, but there was no iron armor of more than a hundred stakes, dozens of stakes of leather armor, simple spears, bows and arrows, etc.
There is no need to worry about selling treasure armor to those tribe leaders Li Wei. Even if all the leaders of the Khitan tribes have a set of treasure armor, they will not gather together to form an iron armor formation.
The situation in the Khitan is in good condition and is moving towards the direction Li Jing expects.
I don’t know if the situation in the Central Plains is about to be agreed or not.
Wang Jingwu, who was cheated by Li Jing, is almost crazy now. He captured all young and strong men over 15 years old and under 70 years old who could be captured in the ten counties of Ziqing Town as strong men and reorganized into army. Because too many people escaped, Wang Jingwu directly tattooed all the captured recruits on their faces. Once they found the escaped soldiers with tattoos on their faces, they would be killed immediately once they were discovered.
With this ruthlessness, Wang Jingwu searched through the ten counties of Ziqing and arrested a total of 100,000 people, all of whom had three words "Luhedu" on his face. Many scholars with no strong background were also arrested into the army, and the four words "One-mind-door" were stabbed on his arms.
In the ten counties of Ziqing, almost all the men had their faces and hands, and the rest were all white-haired elderly and young children.
After arresting all the people, Wang Jingwu also plundered food and money in various places in Ziqing. Because most of the big families were moved away by Li Jing, Wang Jingwu became even more unscrupulous. He searched for food and grass from house to house, and all the money and cloth were also plundered. Most of the people in Ziqing fled to the counties controlled by the town**. The entire ten counties in Ziqing are now full of ruins, with a hundred miles of uninhabited.
Chapter completed!