"Excuse me, everyone. I have never met you before. I wonder if you can all introduce yourselves and let me get to know you." Li Ke said with a smile.
His Highness King Qin said so. Naturally, all the governors present introduced themselves to Li Ke one after another. Li Ke remembered their faces and then said with a smile: "I am honored to meet you today. The pillars of the Tang Dynasty stationed on the border, I am really happy. Today I am hosting a banquet for you at the largest restaurant in Guangzhou, and I would like to ask you to appreciate it."
"Your Highness, you are so polite. Your Highness has come all the way here, so we should host a banquet to welcome His Highness." Dang Renhong hurriedly saluted.
"You don't have to be polite, Commander-in-Chief of the Party. I'm here specifically to express my condolences to you. There's no reason to let you hold a banquet again." Li Ke said with a smile.
After repeatedly refusing, these people no longer refused, but followed Li Ke to Youjian Restaurant. This restaurant was opened by His Highness the King of Qin. Of course they knew it. After all, the name of His Highness the King of Qin, even in this Lingnan Road. That is also quite famous.
There is no way, the Tang Dynasty Weekly in Guangzhou Prefecture has been running, and it has published many deeds in the court, which made the people of Lingnan Road know Li Ke by name, and the national martyr of the Tang Dynasty The establishment of the cemetery was a heavy blow to all the soldiers in Lingnan Road.
Not to mention that these government soldiers are actually members of the common people. In addition, there are Quyuan plows, new columbines, etc., one by one, each one seems to have little impact, but in fact it has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The policy made His Highness King Qin's name well-known in Lingnan Road.
Many common people have longevity tablets of His Highness King Qin in their homes.
The reason why they got the news in advance was naturally because there was news sent from the mainland. This was official news, delivered as quickly as possible by waterway. Secondly, when these people came, they naturally wanted to see what His Highness King Qin, who was known as the God of Wealth of the Tang Dynasty, looked like, and what the businessman Hu Zhi did after he came back. How could these local wealthy families not know about it?
Many people have their own thoughts, because Lingnan Road is really a place where the sky is high and the emperor is far away. Even the Tang Dynasty's method of ruling Lingnan Road was just to appease the local wealthy families and appoint local wealthy families. So His Highness this time Come here, what do you want to do?
They wanted to see if His Highness King Qin was as powerful as the rumors said?
There is a restaurant. In the largest private room, there are only ten people at this table. They are Li Ke and the governors of the Nine Prefectures of the Tang Dynasty. They can also be said to be the main powerful figures in the entire Lingnan Road.
"Everyone, to be honest, before I came to Lingnan, I was thinking about how I would give you a blow when I arrived at Lingnan Road." After Li Ke sat down, he smiled and spoke.
As soon as Li Ke's words came out, everyone present except Dang Renhong's expressions became a little strange. This... They have never seen His Highness King Qin like this. How can he say it directly with such power?
Is it still called a show of force when you say it is a show of force?
"After all, to be honest, the sky is high in Lingnan Road and the emperor is far away. My father's appointment may not be effective here. Moreover, the people here are barbaric and there are many ethnic groups and tribes in the mountains. The local nobles are the best candidates to lead the local area. Datang If we want to keep Lingnan Road stable for a long time, we can't do anything to you." Li Ke said calmly.
Everyone had different expressions, but no one interrupted casually. The main reason was that the way His Highness spoke made them feel uncomfortable. They were used to speaking in subtle ways and making insinuations. They had never experienced speaking so straightforwardly. .
Moreover, everyone knows what Li Ke said, but you can't say it openly.
Dang Renhong twisted his butt. He felt the most uncomfortable because he was not a local. As the governor of Guangzhou, he was appointed by the court. The problem was that Li Ke's words really made him feel even more uncomfortable.
So Dang Renhong subconsciously wanted to say something.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he was about to speak, Li Ke reached out to stop him, and continued: "However, I knew too much about this place before I came here. Although it is said that ruling the place depends on you, I also know that, You are all the pillars of the Tang Dynasty. You have been stationed on the border for the Tang Dynasty for a long time. You are conscientious and diligent, such as Governor Feng Ang."
"So, there's no need to show off, just think of it as a wake-up call for everyone."
"Have you seen the ship I came on today?" Li Ke looked at them and asked.
"I saw it, it's really majestic. Is this a new type of Tang Dynasty ship?" Feng An hurriedly responded, and everyone else also responded.
"Yes! This is a new type of sea ship of the Tang Dynasty. It adopts a new design. It is smaller than my Qin Wang. It will be the main sea ship of the Tang Dynasty. Its speed has been greatly improved, and it can be used in In 7 days, we rushed day and night from Youzhou to Bohai to Guangzhou. Each ship can carry more than 1,200 soldiers."
"Ten sea-going ships can carry 10,000 elite soldiers. In the past, traveling to Lingnan by land was a long journey, the terrain was dangerous, and there was also miasma and plague (the ancient plague is a collective name, but it actually means an infectious disease). It was really difficult to mobilize a large army. , but with sea ships carrying soldiers, tens of thousands of troops are just dozens of sea ships. About July of this year, Datang can make more than twenty sea ships like this." Li Ke said calmly.
Everyone fell silent. It turned out... was this a show of force? Or the wake-up call His Highness spoke of? Ten sea-going ships have ten thousand people. As long as there are fifty or sixty sea-going ships, the Tang Dynasty court can mobilize fifty or sixty thousand elite troops to Guangzhou by sea at any time.
Lingnan is indeed a long way and the terrain is dangerous. The problem is to reach from the Central Plains area by land, but if you reach Guangzhou from the sea and then attack... It cannot be said that the whole country is flat, but it is much simpler than the inland!
"Of course, I'm not here to threaten you, but to give you a warning. Don't think that the emperor is far away and can do whatever he wants without abiding by the laws of the Tang Dynasty." Li Ke said calmly.
Do you call this a threat? So what is a threat? Everyone was speechless.
"Thank you for your advice, Your Highness. I don't dare." Everyone stood up and saluted.
"Sit down, I said, I am not admonishing you, I am just giving you a warning. The Tang Dynasty will not let any criminal go, but it will not wrongly accuse any loyal minister, and the legal network will not be missed. And I said I actually want to tell you one thing. I'm not here just to offer condolences. I'm here to make money for you." Li Ke said calmly.
"Making money?" Everyone was stunned. Or is it making money for us?
"Well, make money." Li Ke said with a smile, "I like win-win situations the most."
