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Li Jing happily took people to Chishanpu, but he came back with his people with a depressed look on the same day.

Zhang Yingying was indeed good. He gave Li Jing a voyage ship twenty feet long and loaded 1,500 stones. Even the ship was the most outstanding Mingzhou sea ship with a sharp bottom keel structure. All this surprised Li Jing, but when he encountered something later, he was speechless. Zhang Yingying gave him a floating sea ship worth over ten thousand yuan. However, no crew member left him.

What was left for Li Jing was an empty ship, a completely empty ship. After Li Jing got on the boat with the bamboo plaque, he searched the huge ship up and down several times, but no figure was found, and he couldn't find a mouse. The ship was also an empty ship without any cargo. He returned to the dock for a long time and found the sloppy old man. He asked for a long time before he learned that Zhang Yingying took all the crew away and then gave the sloppy old man who had originally belonged to the Silla caravan but had now retreated to open a tavern at the dock for a sum of money, and asked him to take care of him. After Li Jing came, he handed the ship to Li Jing.

It's a trick, Li Jing didn't expect that this would be the result. If this seaship called Ninghai wants to start, the crew members up and down will be at least 200. Not only will it require two hundred people, but it also needs crew members with experience in long-distance voyages. Li Jing has no shortage of people, he can even take out 4500, but he has no one of the two hundred crew members with experience in sea navigation. No, there is one, the half-tone Onmyoji recruited from refugees a few days ago, who has experience in going to sea. Apart from that, there is no one else.

Interest came and returned with disappointment!

If Li Jing wants to take over this ship, he has to find a way to recruit two hundred crew members first, otherwise he will not be able to drive the ship at all.

Depressed and helpless, Li Jing had to give the sloppy old man some money and asked him to come forward to help recruit experienced crew members in the port. The helmsman, sailor, anchor, captain, sailor, pulp hand, chef, carpenter, blacksmith, doctor, onmyoji, account room, document...

The sloppy old man's surname is Cui, and he is also an old subordinate of Zhang Yingying's father. He has been drifting on the sea for most of his life and has rich experience. He is very clear about which crew members a sea boat needs. Li Jing has only a little understanding of these, so he simply entrusts all the recruitment of crew members to him, and has drawn a few servants to him, asking them to recruit ports such as Rushan Port and Chengshan Port with recruitment documents. He took Lin Wu and his gang back to Wangli Village.

On the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month, the Li family held a wedding banquet. Li Jing's fourth sister Wanjing and Lin Wei's wedding. On that day, officials, gentry and wealthy people from far and near Wendeng County came to congratulate each other again. This time, even many officials and wealthy people far away in Dengzhou sent people to congratulate each other. Dengzhou's new governor Song Wen, Dengzhou's new governor Li Wen, Dengzhou's new chief Wang Jingwen, generals from several military camps in Dengzhou, and generals from the four counties of Tuanjie Camp all sent people to bring gifts.

Chishan Town general Cui Decheng acted as the old man Yue Lao, and the host invited Xiao Han, who was a guest at the Li family. In addition, Song Xi, Huangfu Zheng and others came to see the ceremony and witness the marriage.

Li Jing was very solemn about the marriage between his sister and his right-hand man, and the grand ceremony was held with grand occasions. He had already started preparing many days ago. On the day of the wedding, there were nearly a thousand foreign guests alone. In addition, all the villagers in Wangli Village were invited to the banquet, and even the hundreds of refugees recruited and more than 1,000 newly recruited soldiers who were conducting simple training in Wangli Village participated in the wedding banquet.

Slaughtering pigs and sheep, chickens, ducks and fish, buckets of fine wine, and fragrant rice, everyone ate them openly. This lively wedding banquet in the Li family became a grand banquet circulating around Wendeng County. Until the end of the wedding, many people who attended the wedding banquet were always obsessed with it.

On the wedding day, Han Zhi also came from Qingzhou. Han Zhi not only came to attend Li Jing's sister's wedding, but also brought the latest progress on the Han family and Feng family.

Previously, Han Zhi took Li Jing's letter to visit King Zhao and Song Wen through Dengzhou, and then returned to Qingzhou to meet Cui Yunqing, and finally met Song Wei. The battle between the two families was originally a big wealthy family in Qingzhou. Originally, the Han family kept watching the tiger fight. Although the Han family visited everywhere, no one was willing to interfere in this matter at will. However, this time it was different. The doors that each family had originally closed to the Han family were opened by Li Jing.

The Li family cannot do something that the Han family cannot do. Li Jing only played a role in this. Li Jing also thought about the Han family for a long time. According to the formal circumstances, he should not interfere in this matter. But after thinking about it, Li Jing finally decided to intervene. The reason is not that the Han family offered a large price, but the bigger reason is that he wanted to increase his influence through this matter and take the initiative to get in touch with the Han family and even the governor Song Wei.

Li Jing did not fully expect to use Cui Yunqing's power to solve this matter. Although he wrote a letter to Cui Yunqing, the most important thing was the letter to Song Wen. In the letter, Li Jing simply made Song Wen's arrogance to help the Han family to suppress the Feng family, which showed that this would benefit him from going to Shamen Town. The most important thing was that Li Jing directly suggested to Song Wen in the letter that if the commander of Jie Shuai Song Wei was willing to come forward to help the Han family, then he would be able to reach an alliance with the Han family, and even join forces with the Cui family and King Zhao.

If the leader of Jie, Song Wei, can get help from the Cui family, the first big family of Ziqing, and the Han family and the Zhao Wang, even if the Feng family and the Pinglu army of Qingzhou fight against Song Wei together, they can still compete in the court, and even have the power to defeat the Ya army. If they can reach a joint force to help Li Jing fight Feng Zhang, then this is also a wedge to open the barriers of Pinglu army's garrison. At the end, Li Jing did not forget to directly show Song Wen that as long as Jie, the Han family is willing to pay 50,000 jin of military funds and also give Song Wen 5,000 jin of rewards.

Since Song Wei arrived in Ziqing Town, he was bothering him about raising military expenses. He couldn't afford to pay, so the soldiers below refused to listen to him. Now Li Jing suddenly got him 50,000 guan, which is not a decimal. What's more, Song Wen, as an intermediary, has the private benefits of 5,000 guan. After receiving Li Jing's letter, Song Wen was moved after thinking for a while. Of course, he understood how helpful it would be to Song Wei if things were to develop in the direction Li Jing said, and he did not forget the 5,000 guan that belonged to him.

According to Han Zhi, Song Wen accompanied Han Zhi back to Qingzhou the next day, and reported the pros and cons of the matter to Jishuai Song Wei in person. However, the Han family was also generous. After learning about the plan proposed by Li Jing, they not only agreed to the 50,000 guan mentioned by Li Jing, but even doubled the amount. They immediately sent Song Wei 100,000 guan of money, grain and cloth. Now, even if the money spent in the end exceeded the cargo money of the fleet detained by Feng's family, the Han family would not hesitate to do so. Sai Weng lost his horse and was lucky. Even if the matter was not done in the end, it would be absolutely worth spending Song Wei's 100,000 guan, and it would be worthwhile to have a share with Jishuai from now on.

As Li Jing expected, Song Wei, the first person in Ziqing Town, had already actively intervened in the matter, and Cui Yunqing, who received letters from Li Jing and Li Feng, had to take the initiative to keep an agreement with Song Wei. There was a handsome man who came forward, and King Zhao was shaking the flag behind, and the Cui family was supporting him, and the situation changed overnight. The Feng family was also shocked by the situation. If the Cui family came forward alone, maybe he could hold on. But if several top forces in Ziqing Town supported the Han family at the same time, the wind direction changed so quickly, they had to consider the consequences of continuing to be tough.

Han Zhi was worried when he came, and was anxious when he returned. When he came back this time, he was already full of energy. After the wedding banquet, Han Zhi smiled and took out a stack of text from his arms and handed it to Li Jing: "Third Brother, I really thank you for your help this time. Here are the military expenses that I promised to fund my third brother, namely, 10,000 pieces of silk, 10,000 pieces of cloth that I could withdraw at any time, and two rice that were found in the Dengzhou warehouse.

Thousand stones, millet, and wheat, totaling 4,000 s. The third brother ordered three warships, one bucket ship, one ship, and one boat ship at the Han family shipyard. The cost of the fight ship is 8,000 stake, the cost of the warship is 7,000 stake, and the cost of the boat ship is 5,000 stake, totaling 20,000 stake. My father said that I have to thank the third brother for this matter, so the three battleships are only 15,000 stake. In this way, plus silk, grain and rice, it is exactly 60,000 stake."

The Han family was very good at calculating and directly deducted the three warships ordered by Li Jing, which exempted Li Jing from the idea of ​​owing credit.

"San brother, you also know that money is short of now, and bulk transactions are mostly bartered. The Han family can't get tens of thousands of yuan of coins. My father heard that the general was recruiting migrant craftsmen and soldiers to move to the island. It is estimated that the third brother must have a great demand for grain. It happened that my Han family also operated and sold grain, so he discounted the rice, millet and wheat in the Dengzhou warehouse to the third brother at the purchase price. If the third brother is not satisfied with this, he can just give my Han family a few days and immediately change it to copper coins."

Li Jing's heart moved, and a light shone in his eyes couldn't help but reveal a sense of vigor. The head of the Han family is so powerful that when the northern famine is now, he can even give Li Jing 10,000 stones of grain at once. On the surface, it is said that it is a shortage of money, but in fact, no matter how much money is, he cannot compare to the famine in the north. During the famine, grain is a priceless treasure. Not to mention giving it to Li Jing at the purchase price, it is normal to increase it several times. Even if you don't take action for a while and put it in the warehouse to hoard it, it is definitely a good business.

The Han family thanked Li Jing. Li Jing helped him one foot, but he is still ten feet tall now.

"I, Li Jing, remember the gift from the Han family." Although this was a transaction, after paying 100,000 yuan to Song Wei, the Han family actually didn't need Li Jing anymore. Even if they only gave Li Jing 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan to Li Jing, it would be fine. But he still gave 60,000 yuan as agreed, and exchanged Li Jing with 10,000 stones of food very considerately. This reflects the extraordinaryness of the Han family. It is indeed a great gentry for hundreds of years. Even if he declines, he still has the arrogance.

"When will the warship be delivered?" The money was finally received. Li Jing is concerned about the three warships that have been paid.
Chapter completed!