Chapter 59
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Danya Mountain, north of Penglai City, has been known as "Danya Fairyland" and "Penglai Fairy Mountain" since ancient times. In late autumn, the red leaves on Danya Mountain are long, as if they are illusion. On this Danya Mountain, which faces north and south, with a sea of clouds clustered across the Langshan Mountain and beautiful scenery, there are dozens of different residences of officials and wealthy people, all kinds of people are built on the top of Danya Mountain, which is facing north and south, and is surrounded by sea and mountains.
Among these magnificent manors with carved beams and painted roofs, Yingzhou Manor by King Zhao Li Yi is the most luxurious and noble. Yingzhou Manor faces north and south, facing the sea, stands on a terrace twenty feet high near the sea, leaning against the railings, looking at the sea, suddenly there is a sense of freedom of the sea and letting birds fly and fish leaping. The waves are blocked by the stones, and the cold sea breeze floats in the air with the splashing mist, full of the smell of the sea.
Li Feng likes to sit cross-sleeved robe on the Hu bed, fry a stove of incense tea, attracting friends to make friends with each other, and talk nonstop without restraint. However, the sky is getting colder, and most of the guests cannot stand the blowing of the sea breeze, and rarely come here to watch the sea to enjoy tea. Only Li Feng likes the coldness that comes to watch the sea on the railing, and the sea breeze blows on his face with water mist, which always makes him more awake.
Today, there was another circle of people sitting on the sea viewing platform of the manor, which had not been visited for a long time. Just like thousands of times before, Li Feng stroked the railings and watched the sea by the railings.
He stood quietly by the window, his wide robe and sleeves drifting with the wind, flowing with elegance and detachment. He stroked the white jade railings with his hands, and looked alone towards the dark sky in the sky, and the cold wind roared around him.
Li Jing knelt on the mat, put his hands on his knees, and silently looked at the exiled Eight Emperor uncle. Li Feng looked idle and unrestrained, as if full of the style of a scholar and a doctor from Jin, but his calmness on the railing made Li Jing feel that there was a tiger lurking in Li Feng's heart.
In the air, the sound of roaring wind was the sound of rumbling waves slamming on the rocks of Danya Mountain. The atmosphere was a bit solemn. He looked at Yu Guang, and Li Huier and Yu Youniang were also sitting there like him, lowering their heads and looking serious and solemn. Yu Wen and Cui Yunqing on the other side were frying a stove of tea as if no one was around.
"You are simply lawless and nonsense!" Li Xian turned around and looked at Li Jing and the other two, his eyes gloomy and his tone was full of seriousness.
Li Huier raised her head and said in a coquettish tone: "Aye, it's the Feng Liang who is aggressive. Her daughter just couldn't see her, so she just taught him a lesson."
"Let's teach you a lesson? Even if Feng Wulang is not able to bear it, it's not your turn to teach you a lesson. You are so brave that you have made such a big deal. Feng Wulang was beaten in public by you, but fortunately he didn't hurt his internal organs. Otherwise, let's see how you guys ended up."
Li Feng was indeed a little troubled by the incident caused by his daughter and Li Jing. He was demoted from Beijing and had a job without a free job. What he needed most was to be low-key. But this daughter was good. She was too fond of her, but she often showed up in public on weekdays. Now she openly opened a gambling house, seriously injured Feng Yanqing's nephew, and even owed Feng Liang a huge gambling debt of 20,000 pieces of silk.
Li Jing raised his head and said, "Master, this is actually all my fault. If I didn't accept Feng Liang's provocation, there would be no future happenings. However, although I injured Feng Liang, it was because he was injured by the dark crossbow during the battle."
"You guys..." Li Xian reached out and pointed at Li Jing and the other two, and finally snorted and didn't say anything more.
Yu Feng smiled and said, "Your Majesty Zhao doesn't blame them too much. Although they were a little erratic, Feng Wulang asked for it. Although we wanted to avoid the waters of Feng Yanqing, if they had to make trouble, we could not be afraid of them. The young people would make trouble for the young people. As long as the trouble was not too much, let them go. After making trouble, it would just stir up the waters." After Yu Feng's order of self-satisfaction, the whole person was much distracted. There was also a little sharpness in his tone of speaking.
"Let's settle accounts with you again." When Li Feng saw that Li Huier was actually with Li Jing, Yu Youniang was winking and said angrily.
Cui Yunqing distributed the fried soup to everyone and tasted a tea ceremony: "I will send someone to send Feng Liang's identity jade bi back to Feng Mansion, and write a hand sticker for Feng Changshi. In addition, don't mention the 20,000 pieces of silk. If you ask Feng Liang for 20,000 pieces of silk, others will think that this matter is our old people calculating Feng Liang's property."
When Li Jing heard the teacher say he wanted to waive the gambling debt of 20,000 pieces of silk, he couldn't help but feel a little heartbroken. There was still 10,000 pieces of silk in it, which was a total of 8,000 guan. Although he had already made up almost several hundred guan, since he had made up his mind to train troops, how could he feel that it was too much?
Cui Yunqing seemed to see Li Jing’s thoughts and chuckled: “Don’t look like a village man, it’s just 20,000 pieces of silk. How could we lack this thing? For this little thing outside of it, it’s too worthwhile to Feng Yanqing. If you are short of money, just say it to me.”
In Li Jing's view, 20,000 pieces of silk were astronomical, but for Cui Yunqing, who was born in Shandong's largest clan, Li Yan, who is a royal family of the Tang Dynasty, or Yu Guan, who is a five-level military governor-level official, this amount of money is really not much.
Take Cui Yunqing as an example. In addition to the Pang Daquan, the Cui family's hundreds of years old clan, Cui Yunqing, as a second-rank official and third-rank official, has 100 hectares of Yongye land, 25 hectares of honor land, and 25 hectares of honor land. These three together are 150 hectares, a full 15,000 acres of land. Generally, the yield per mu ranges from two stones to seven or eight dou, and even if one acre of land is only one stone, it is still 15,000 grain annual input. If half is counted as tenant farmers, seeds, land taxes, etc., there are still 7,000 stones of grain a year. In addition, Cui Yunqing also has an annual salary of 1,000 cents, plus 500 stones of rice. These are not considered to be some of Cui Yunqing's other gray income. As a top official of the Tang Dynasty, Cui Yunqing's wealth is not very rich.
Eight thousand guan is a lot of money, but for Cui Yunqing and others, it is just a few warehouses of silk or grain, it is just a number.
Cui Yunqing and the others fought for power control, and money was no longer very important to them. Yu Quan was about to be promoted to Fengzhou, and Cui Yunqing and the others' power was inevitably weakened. At this time, Cui Yunqing did not want to have a fierce conflict with Feng Yanqing because of Feng Liang's incident.
Li Jing is always a little uncomfortable with Cui Yunqing and the others' fighting style. Cui Yunqing and the others like to fight like a frog. No matter how fierce the fight is in their hearts or in private, they always have to maintain a gentle appearance on the surface. Once the fight is fierce, both sides will take a step back immediately to ease the situation. They are always maintaining a bottom limit, and no one will break through this bottom level, so as not to force the other party to fight to the death.
"Mr., although the student has not had much contact with Feng Changshi, he also thinks that this person doesn't seem to have a big stomach, which is quite similar to Feng Liang. The teacher shows favors Feng Yanqing, but I'm afraid that this person won't appreciate it."
"I know all this very well." Cui Yunqing sighed: "But Feng Yanqing is not only one, they are also a very strong force. We fight with Feng, just like two tigers meeting in the mountains and forests, first roaring and intimidating each other, and then making various attacks to prepare. However, there is often no real fight. Often, after showing each other's strength, the weaker side will take the initiative to retreat, and the stronger side will never chase and kill. Do you know why this is?"
"Because the weak side has a chance to win, but the possibility of losing is greater, he chose to retreat unstoppably. Although the strong side has a great chance of winning the final victory, even if he wins, he will definitely be injured by a counterattack and cannot do so without hurting himself. Both tigers are afraid, so this is how it is." Li Jing replied.
Yu Yan smiled and said, "You said it well, but unfortunately you didn't see it too deeply. After the two tigers showed their strength, they would not fight. Not only because the two tigers fought each other, they would be injured. The more important reason is that both tigers knew that they did not fight because there were more preys in the jungle that were weaker than each other. Since they could easily obtain other prey, why did they fight to the death with each other? No matter how fierce the big worms are, after fighting each other, they would be injured even if they win. The injured big worms have to face the original lower-level challenges such as wolves and leopards. Fighting is to strengthen their strength, not fight, but to preserve their strength. Sometimes, not fighting is more important than fighting."
After hearing this, Li Jing seemed to understand. Cui Yunqing, Li Fan and Feng Yanqing were obviously two fierce tigers. When the two tigers met, they wanted to occupy the forest in Dengzhou. But one mountain could not accommodate two tigers. Both tigers wanted to occupy each other, but they were afraid of each other and dared not fight directly. They roared and waved their claws to show their strength and force the weak to leave directly. They were afraid of each other. Although they were very close, none of them dared to attack the other party first.
Cui Yunqing and Li Feng are both calm and sophisticated, but Li Jing always feels that Uncle and Nephew Feng Liang are not the kind of rational people. Uncle and Nephew Feng are always aggressive in dealing with things. Faced with this confrontation, Li Jing always feels that things may not be as Cui Yunqing and the others expect.
"I think it's better for Sanlang, the princess and the little girl to go there personally. Let them go back to Feng Liang in person, and bring some gifts to accompany Feng Yanqing."
After taking the jade bi hand sticker, Li Jing didn't know what to say. He just secretly looked forward to it, hoping that the Feng uncle and nephew would really be as Cui Yunqing and the others said, and before seeing the strength of the Cui and Li alliance, he would admit defeat and give in.
Chapter completed!