"I'm just saying, you have a bad temper." Zhang Xing said disapprovingly. "How timid you are in Dongdu, how violent you are here in Wu'an... They say that a man can bend and stretch, but you have gone too far in shrinking, and you have gone too far in stretching."
"Maybe so." Li Ding looked at Nangong Lake and sighed, unable to hide his frustration. "Anyway, it seems like I've had a chance in the past few years, but I've been trying again and again without much results. I'm really irritable."
"It's just that I keep running into walls." Zhang Xing said thoughtfully upon seeing this. "I feel that I have a unique skill that is invincible in the military. With this skill, I can change the clouds and rain, and it is easy to slaughter a city and destroy a country. As a result, it has really become a troubled time. Politics, economy, organization, fortune, cultivation, diplomacy, and even culture and regional relations, everything is at stake. To manage, at the very least, we need to analyze and make judgments. Although military is the most important thing, it is only one thing... just like knowing that the world will be in chaos and not caring about anything, it is just that it has been worn out early. A knife, but even if it’s really messy, you can’t just draw a knife when you think of it.”
Li Ding did not refute, but just turned to look at the other person. Just like when he first met in the inn, this man had an ordinary appearance. He could only be regarded as having regular facial features. His face was slightly whiter and he was tall, but he was also typical of the North. He looks like he was born in the vanguard.
After looking at it for a long time, he asked in response: "If that's the case, what about you? How on earth do you, a vanguard of the North, know so much? Is it really like the rumors? Did the Black Emperor choose you?"
"First of all, I don't know much, I just have a strong balance in my heart. When making judgments, I know what is more important, but I am still walking on thin ice. Secondly, I guess there are some choices, but it has nothing to do with what I know. It is mainly about Qi cultivation. .........But you have seen it too." Zhang Xing was rarely honest. "Moreover, cultivation is my biggest weakness."
"Your cultivation is not weak."
"That's not what I mean. It means that my understanding of cultivation and how the Qi of heaven and earth affects the entire world, especially the operation of society... So I am very afraid of the Grand Master, but also inexplicably confident. The same goes for those supreme beings, true dragons, and gods." Zhang Xing sighed. "I always feel that I am afraid that I will suffer a big loss in this kind of thing. Including the British father, my fear of him is not that he took the northern roof of Jindi first and can take it easy later, nor that he is good at attacking Chess, but I always worry that he is actually a great master and will just come to the top of the red mountain without being reasonable.
Li Ding was silent for a while and then answered seriously: "The Grand Master is like a red mountain pressing down on the top. It's not that he is unreasonable, but that's the way it is. The Red Mountain is nothing more than the corpse of a real dragon... After the Grand Master established the pagoda, Before I was enthroned, it was just normal to open mountains and slay dragons. Aren't the last three of the Four Imperial Guards all like this? Moreover, you said that I shrink too much and stretch too much. Is it possible that you are used to doing things yourself? Too unscrupulous?"
"It's possible, but this is the most scary part." Zhang Xing nodded immediately. "Because I am really afraid that I will lose my ability to judge on this matter."
Li Ding hesitated for a moment, then suddenly dropped the topic and continued to ask: "What about the "Six Tao"? Where is that wild temple?"
"Everything has its own explanation." Zhang Xing remained magnanimous. "But you said I got a lot of convenience from it, but I don't admit it. Among them, "Six Tao" is a clear proof. If I don't rewrite it myself, ask you to annotate it, and experiment it in the army, how can it be effective? ?You should also understand.
Li Ding nodded, looking a little sad for no reason.
"On the other hand, I'm actually more looking forward to the Yi Jin Jing." Zhang Xingyi said. "After this autumn, I plan to gather all the Qijings in my territory for training and give them a use as an assistant. I hope that it will be like what you said, so that the practice of Qijing no longer depends so much on luck and qualifications. Of course. , I also want to take the opportunity to do some statistics and training. Xu Shiying has been helping me with one thing, which is the ratio of Qijing masters to military chiefs, as well as the ratio of practitioners and reserve officers in my direct camp to other troops. Arrange it. I will give it to you when the time comes, make adjustments, and finally write it into the "Six Tips" of the Deposed Dragon Gang."
"This is a must for a real true energy formation. Going forward, if we really hope to fight the weak against the strong when we fall behind in the level of cultivation, we cannot expect a group of practitioners to form an formation. We still have to disperse the practitioners into the army, and follow the instructions Attributes
, cultivation, combine the strength of the entire army to form a real army formation, and the true energy is integrated with manpower, equipment, military morale and morale. Li Ding could blurt out the answer, but immediately, he paused for a moment, and then sighed slightly. "Do you just trust me so much? Or do you think deep down that I'm just a knife and nothing to worry about?"
"Not to mention that I have never only treated you as a sword, but I have taken ten thousand steps back. According to what you said, you only made one sword. It is also an indestructible sword that can split mountains and slay dragons. People like me, Even the cloth and cow dung encountered on the roadside have to be saved, so how can you say that a precious sword is not a big concern?" Zhang Xing said with a joking smile. "The yellow gelding is still riding, and the scabbard sword given by King Qi is still there, as well as a compass bought for more than ten cents. Although I don't use it, I still hang it on my waist when I go out.
As he spoke, Zhang Xing took out a compass. Although he had bought it five or six years ago, it was still 80% new. He didn’t know whether it should be attributed to Taishang Laojun’s consecration or to the progress of China’s manufacturing industry.
"Do you want to try it?" Zhang Xing placed the compass on the stone table in the pavilion. "But be careful. Once you use it, if you don't persist and fight to the end, you will suffer harm.
Li Ding glanced at the compass and shook his head: "Like you, I also believe in myself more. It's not that foreign objects can't be used. It's just as good as when used well. But when I think about what the Supreme True Dragon is doing behind it, , I always feel guilty."
"All of you capable people are like this. I am convinced. Unlike me, I have been forced into desperate situations several times and still have to use it." Zhang Xing nodded and put it away.
Immediately, the two continued to look at the lake. After waiting for a while, seeing that there was no new topic, Zhang Xing decided to take the initiative to speak: "Li Si, stop fussing, give up your ambition and join the Deposed Dragon Gang! That's the end of the matter. , even if Guan Long still has the advantage in strength, it won’t be you... And I am going to use your ability to defeat the strong with the weak!"
Li Ding's spirit perked up slightly, and then he immediately shook his head: "I will not surrender for three reasons.
Zhang Xing sneered: "Then I have four to surrender."
Li Ding answered seriously: "I'm not interrupting you, but I had already thought about how to deal with your persuasion to surrender before I came here. First of all, the time to really determine the direction of the world will be in the next year and a half, that is, Jiangdu, Dong After the collapse of the capital, the whereabouts of the main force of the Jiangdu Forbidden Army and the consequences of Emperor Cao of the Eastern Capital. I think even
O The forbidden army is afraid of several masters in Jiangdu, and is afraid of the big masters in Dongdu.
Master, I didn't dare to resist for a while, but as the situation got worse and worse, these two places were destined to be unable to hold on. It would only be one or two years, and that was bound to be the case. In other words, the general trend of the world will not be clear until then. How do you know that Uncle Cao will not desperately take away the British Duke before his death? Then my chance has come? "
"That's my chance!" Zhang Xing was speechless. "Maybe Sisi's opportunity has come!"
Li Ding was slightly startled and immediately shook his head: "In short, the situation will be clear after that. It is too early to say the situation now, at least it is too early to force me to surrender based on the situation."
Zhang Xing smiled and said nothing, but did not refute.
"Secondly." Li Ding continued. "It's a matter of my identity, or maybe it's a matter of my personal ambition... You have scolded me so much today, and I don't hold back anymore. I want to be the emperor! If I live in troubled times, I will naturally want to be the emperor!"
Zhang Xing looked at the other party calmly and said nothing, but seemed to urge the other party to continue.
"Aren't you surprised?" Li Silang was uneasy.
"You are a descendant of Guanlong. You have been trained as a military leader since you were a child, and you are in troubled times. Now you still have two counties in your hands. Isn't it natural to want to be emperor?" Zhang Sanlang seemed even more surprised that the other party was not surprised at his uneasiness. "Are you surprised that I want to be the fifth supreme?"
Li Silang was equally calm: "There is nothing to say about this. As for the things you have done...I have never seen anyone who wants to fight for the world to verify the law and adjust the military personnel relations from scratch, and also starts from scratch." Their name is the Deposed Dragon Gang, and they want to suppress Guanlong, and they also want to clean up the aristocratic families in Jiangdong and the powerful people in Hebei... One day, you really want to kill a few dragons just to return the earth's energy. , I wouldn’t be surprised.”
"Then don't you want to unify the world, become a true dragon god, and be famous for eternity?" Zhang Sanlang said with a smile.
"No delay
. "Li Silang responded seriously. "If you want to be emperor after the troubled times, there will be no delay in unifying the world and becoming a god."
"That's true." Zhang Xing continued to smile. "What else is there that won't surrender?"
"Also, can you and the Deposed Dragon Gang really tolerate me?" Li Ding said seriously. "Again and again?"
"I can tolerate you." Zhang Xing also suppressed his smile. "I have nothing to say about the first one, I can only say we'll see. As for the second one, not to mention that I don't care, the key is to recognize the situation clearly and with your intelligence, you will actually extinguish it yourself. After all, your ambition is to dominate the world. This has been your ambition since childhood. We have no conflict on this point. The third point is that even if you are two years late, I can tolerate you, and the Deposed Dragon Gang can tolerate you. ………”
"Are you so tolerant?" Li Ding took a long breath. "Have you ever thought about it, it's okay right now, we haven't fought a war yet, I don't have the lives of the Deposed Dragon Gang, and I don't occupy your territory... But once the storm rises, in order to fight for the most important chance, I will Or are you directly wrapped up in the situation and fighting with you, how can you still be so tolerant?"
Zhang Xing was quiet for a while and gave the answer: "I myself will be angry, even angry, but as the chief, I can still tolerate you Li Silang, and the Deposed Dragon Gang must also tolerate you... because the Deposed Dragon Gang is not a private person. This thing is to overthrow the entire Wei Dynasty and restore peace to the world. It shouldn't have these emotions... I just want to ask you one thing, if Xue Changxiong surrenders now, do you think I should suffer it?"
Li Ding was silent, but obviously stunned.
"I must accept that if Xue Changxiong is willing to surrender, we will have the best place in Hebei, we will have the weapons of the Hejian camp, and we can barely make up three grandmasters, and we will have nothing to fear. At most He said he was just reforming the Hejian Army after surrendering." Zhang Xing's words were rapid and steady. "Are we going to settle accounts with him at this time, saying how many of us he killed and a leader? Including how many Hebei rebels he killed before? Or care about his identity as the leader of the Guanlong clan? If we care about these, it will only More people will die, which may even directly affect success or failure." At this point, Zhang Sanlang's words slowed down a bit. "Compared with him, what do you, Mr. Li, mean to you? Who do you look down on? Besides, no matter how much I mock you today, have I ever shown the slightest sign of not recognizing your ability? I mean, you know what I mean. Li Ding is still what I consider to be the most powerful blade in the world. You are the only one who can split mountains and slay dragons. You are the best in the world in destroying armies and countries. It’s just that you don’t have the time."
Li Ding's heart moved slightly and he wanted to speak.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Xingfu added: "But on the other hand, if you know this, but just use our Deposed Dragon Gang's ambition to calm down the world, then don't blame us when you use up your sword. When the time comes, just put it away and hang it up.”
Li Dingfu simply remained silent again.
"So, are you coming or not?" Zhang Xing answered seriously. "I believe your words. All I need from you is a word. I naturally believe you. I was afraid of attracting the British Duke and Uncle Cao due to the situation, and I was afraid of provoking a war in Hebei. I didn't say anything for a while, but I always understood it in my heart... We have to wait until the situation changes drastically. It will be different after all. There will be a layer of estrangement. How can you eliminate it?"
"We are just separated. Let's wait until Dongdu or Jiangdu changes drastically. Since you are so confident, why are you afraid that this year and a half will make me give up." Li Ding thought quietly for a while and suddenly stood up. , looking cool and unrestrained, actually wanted to leave first.
Zhang Xing watched the other party leave the pavilion, then stood up and called to the other party: "Li Si!"
"What else?" Li Ding turned back, curious.
"The thing I regret most now is that I was too generous to Qin Er. I could have pushed him, put pressure on him, and asked him to come and surrender early, but I always thought that time would prove something and let him go to the same destination through different routes... ···
"Isn't this bad?" Li Ding couldn't help laughing as he watched the afternoon sunlight shining on the pavilion, hiding Zhang Xing's face in the shadow. "Don't you still have confidence? You can tolerate Xue Changxiong, tolerate Chen Bin and Feng Duan, tolerate those tycoons Xu Shiying and Zhai Qian who dominate in private, tolerate Shan Tonghai who was a gangster in the past, and tolerate those who are greedy for money. Bandits, tolerate the rude Xie Minghe, tolerate the Cui family's children who speculate, and tolerate ambitious people like me. What did Qin Bao do that you can't tolerate anymore?"
"No
It's unbearable, but it should have been better. "Zhang Xing walked out of the pavilion with his hands behind his back and came into the sunshine. He was dressed in half-worn plain brocade clothes, with a plain expression and a mouth that kept chattering. He seemed to be the same as when he was on business in Jing'an Terrace that day. It also made Li Ding lose his mind for a moment. "People's hearts are fickle! It's time that can change people! I always think, what if one day an honest kid like Qin Bao is taken by the army and massacres the city? How should I face him? Moreover, in the past three years, I was in the Deposed Dragon Gang, and I watched helplessly as some people slipped past, unable to recover. I also watched many people repeatedly lose their temper, but I also saw many people, the kind of domineering local tyrants you mentioned, acting unscrupulously. The bandits were gradually restrained and became generals, becoming law-abiding and discipline-abiding, understanding people and respecting the system... So I thought, what if someone like Qin Bao followed me in the first place?"
Having said this, Zhang Xing sighed deeply, looked at the glittering Nangong Lake, and then turned back and continued: "Besides, sometimes I am really hard and even a little scared... I don't What should I do if I know Xu Shiying is really rebelling? What should I do if I don’t know if I’m really defeated when I fight Xuzhou? So I always think about it, if you and Qin Bao were here, and if Zhang Shizhao was willing to defect to me sincerely from the beginning, how great would it be? ?More importantly, what if I am also consumed by power and change?"
Li Ding's mouth suddenly went dry.
"Li Si, I say this, one is to ask you to have a chance to talk to Qin Bao, and the other is to tell you, don't do the hero's meeting. I sincerely hope that you can come early. , when something unexpected happens, when you change your mind, don’t have any burden, just come over here and do big things together, do good deeds, and do things with a clear conscience!" Zhang San continued.
Li Ding looked at the other party blankly and nodded hard: "I will tell Qin Er."
After saying that, he slowly turned around with his hands behind his back.
Zhang Xing didn't say anything more, just stood outside the pavilion with his hands behind his hands, squinting his eyes and watching the other party leave. After a while, he also walked out.
Regardless of the small incident after the meeting, it was just that the meeting ended successfully. After all, the political crisis that might trigger a war in Hebei was resolved. Xue Changxiong left directly. Li Ding and Li Li also left immediately. Luo Shu did not leave, but Zhang Xing relaxed and continued to wander around Feng's manor with Xiong Bonan and Feng Duan who came from outside, and even walked around in the evening banquet. Feng Wuyi was publicly criticized.
"Mr. Feng, your Feng family's actions are completely out of line with the system. I'm afraid it's natural that you are not as good as the Cui family in terms of reputation. If you ask me, even the Fang family is not as good." When Zhang Xing said this, he was sitting at the head of the banquet in a grand manner. , as soon as the words came out, the Feng family members who were already dissatisfied with this rebel who did not respect the old and care for the young became even more angry, but they did not dare to interrupt and only looked at Xiong Bonan and Feng Duan.
Needless to say, Feng Duan, Xiong Bonan spent a lot of time in Changle when he was young. It is said that he was taken care of by the Feng family, and he was also familiar with several of the Feng family's children.
But Xiong Bonan and Feng Duan just pretended not to see these people's gazes.
Luo Shu even twisted his beard to laugh, as if he meant to laugh.
Of course Feng Wuyi knew that he couldn't let this embarrassment continue, so he could only seriously raise his hand and ask: "Chief Zhang, how is Feng's behavior inconsistent with the system?"
"Land." Zhang Xing blurted out. "I just asked, the entire area around Nangong Lake is your family's land. This was obviously taken advantage of by the Feng family in the past two years, right? Otherwise, according to the land grant system, your family's land is all here, so what? Circled the entire Nangong Lake? Although the Cui family and the Fang family also have manors in Qinghe, they still more or less follow the rules, that is, rent first and then hire, and provide fair protection from taxation and corvee in the name of the Cui family in exchange for profits. ·····Isn’t this a judgment of superiority?”
Hearing this, Feng Wuyi was relieved on the spot, and the Feng family disciples below also laughed a lot, and even looked complacent.
"Chief Zhang has misunderstood." Feng Wuyi, who had just illegally served as the prefect of Zhao County, needed to respond. "My family does have a lot of land. Not only here, but also in Changle, there are acres of manors, and the house is also very large. However, these are not illegal. They are the rewards given by the saint through the slave system after I have worked in the imperial court for almost twenty years. Land, and the Cui family and Fang family in Qinghe had no chance to serve as officials in the Wei Dynasty, so naturally they did not have these excess lands."
"I see, I was wrong to blame your Excellency." Zhang Xing understood, and immediately helped the case to remind him sincerely. "But if this is the case, Feng Gong must be even more careful, because the Deposed Dragon Gang does not follow the rules of the Wei Dynasty, and especially hates private slaves and official slaves. In the future, if the Deposed Dragon Gang receives a letter, they will definitely demand unconditional redemption. Private slaves, freed official slaves, and high-interest debts will be burned. If Feng Gong wants to continue the family, please make preparations in advance."
Not to mention the admission of mistake in the front, but the threat that seemed to be made out of anger made everyone in the room change their colors in horror. As for some young Feng family disciples, they simply clenched their fists.
Feng Wuyi fell silent. He wanted to refute it instinctively, but he found it boring. Especially for General Qing of the Wei Dynasty. The extra land he obtained by relying on the saint's personal favor was really ridiculous... Don't talk about the Deposed Dragon Gang. If anyone from any family replaces Da Wei, as long as the system of equalizing land and granting land is still maintained, it will be asking for trouble.
So, unexpectedly, instead of refuting it, old man Feng answered sincerely after a moment of silence: "What Chief Zhang said is that even if we don't talk about the situation, we just say that the saints have reached this point and the Wei Dynasty has reached this point. This kind of thing is shameful and not honorable to me, and I should ask the local magistrate to vacate it as soon as possible."
Zhang Xing was stunned for a moment, but he really had nothing to say.
In fact, seeing the other party being so arrogant, Zhang Xing just reminded him sincerely, just one sentence: "Feng Gong is so magnanimous, it seems that I am troublesome, but it is not just to follow the Deposed Dragon Gang at home. Laws and regulations should also be followed in Zhao County. We, the Deposed Dragon Gang, have recently been re-editing the laws. When the time comes, we will send you a copy, including many systems and laws. I hope that Governor Feng can implement the rule of law in Zhao County, and also send a copy to you. The people of Zhao County are at peace."
In this regard, Feng Wuyi could only smile bitterly.
After that, the banquet continued. After three rounds of drinking, the Feng disciples gradually dispersed. As expected, Luo Shu couldn't wait to speak: "Chief Zhang, we are old friends. Although Qin Bao's child is not with you now, but not Delaying our relationship... Li Cheng's health gradually declined last year, and as a native of Youzhou, I gradually gained recognition from many local brothers, but there are also many people who are not convinced... So, I I stay here just to ask you for a word."
"I know." Zhang Xing immediately handed over his hand. "We, the Deposed Dragon Gang, support you in succeeding General Manager Li at the helm in Youzhou. If you are in urgent need of help from some masters, just come and call. Those of you who have met me, whether it is Mr. Luo or Zhang Gongshen, Why don't you send someone to stay here permanently? We can also send a few people to stay in Youzhou so that everyone can share their needs."
Luo Shu was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately raised his glass to the complicated gazes of Feng Wuyi, Xiong Bonan and others: "Chief Zhang's meaning today, I, Luo Shu, will definitely remember it in my heart... This time I When you get back, let Lao Zhang go look for you in the general's mausoleum."
Zhang Xing also raised his glass in response and drank it all in one gulp.
The most important autumn harvest work in mid-autumn has just been completed. Zhang Xing and others who were extremely busy also returned to Jiangling, and then received the message:
Li Ding withdrew from Zhao County as agreed, and Feng Wuyi successfully took office:
At the same time, or maybe even earlier, Wang Chenkuo, the giant bandit who once ran rampant in Hengshan County, came out of Wuma Mountain to attack the city again, and showed his skill as a Chengdan master. For a time, he was almost invincible in Hengshan Mountain;
Not to mention, in Dai County further north, Zhang Xing, an old friend of Luo Shu and Xiong Bonan, a former Black Emperor Taoist priest, defected to the Youzhou Army and became a member of the Youzhou Army system early on. I don't know if it was coercion or instigation from a relative of his who sold smuggled salt, became a rebel, and then surrendered as an officer and soldier, so he raised the flag again.
how to say?
None of this matters. Chief Zhang became the chief. During the First World War in Xuzhou, the Forbidden Army did business directly with the Deposed Dragon Gang, the world's number one rebel. This exposed the bad influence of the Saint's nest in Jiangdu. The princes invaded, rebels spread everywhere, and smoke and dust filled the land. , belongs to let nature take its course, no less than these two.
But there are really two problems.
First of all, Hebei was hit by a disaster, and the harvest was really bad. Chief Zhang worked hard to get three families to intervene and return Zhao, and maintained the situation. However, when the gourd was pressed, the war could not be stopped, and he was helpless.
Secondly, the latter two are all under the banner of the Deposed Dragon Gang.
And here in Jiangling, because of the following incident,
A violent argument ensued.
PS: Thank you Mr. Circle Bear for your third alliance.
