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At this banquet, not only were the local wealthy families and official landlords and merchants from Dengzhou who received the posts, but also many people who had not received the invitations, but also came uninvited because they had heard it. Among them, many of the small landlords and merchants from the four counties of Dengzhou came with generous gifts. They did not have invitations, so they could not attend the banquet. They brought gifts just to leave their names on the book of receiving the gifts.

Although it cannot be compared with those distinguished guests who gave tens of thousands of coins of gifts, although these people may have only a hundred coins or dozens of coins, they cannot stop many people giving gifts. Since the banquet was repeatedly postponed, the whole country of Dengzhou had known about this. Not only did people with a little face in Dengzhou come, but many caravans in Dengzhou Port also sent people to give gifts.

In addition to Dengzhou, there are also caravans in Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou, and even Mizhou, Yizhou, Haizhou, Sizhou, Xuzhou and other places farther away, some major tribes and officials sent people to give gifts. The gifts given by these people are not light. This gift is not only a congratulations to Li Jing in taking over Dengzhou, but also a desire to bring closer relationships with Li Jing, and even a meaning of cooperation from Li Jing. Some want to buy rare specialty products from Li Jing, some want to buy liquor, perfume, rock candy, even arms, war horses, cattle and sheep, etc., and some want to buy salt.

Li Jing naturally refused these people.

However, the most surprising thing today is the generous gifts given by several major families such as the Cui family, Xiao family, Han family, etc. The several families not only gave 100,000 jin of money, but also gave 100,000 jin of grain. Not only did they give money and grain, but they also gave 100,000 jin of grain. This is more precious than hundreds of thousands of coins in the current food shortage. From this, it can be seen that the Cui, Han and Xiao families are indeed fully supported by Li Jing.

The most eye-catching thing was the nearly thirty forces in Liaodong, as well as the gifts sent by Qinghai Town in Silla. Each family had almost 100,000 guan, but the most important thing was the grain. Duli Town gave 500,000 shi, while other forces of all sizes were cattle and sheep. These forces sent food one after another, which made everyone feel an unusual smell.

"This is the power established by the Tang people in southeastern Liaoning. It seems that this time I have bowed my head to Li Jing." The banquet has not yet begun, but the guests have already entered the governor's meeting. Today's banquet is divided into more than a dozen halls, arranged according to different identities. Several guests with good looks sit together, drinking tea while whispering.

Since Li Jing received the appointment of the Protectorate of the Andong Protectorate, he has officially launched a banner. He has moved the official offices and flags of the Andong Protectorate to Beisha City. He also issued a notice to the Han forces in Liaodong at the first time to accept the jurisdiction of the Andong Protectorate. The so-called jurisdiction means to recruit these grass-roots kings, but Li Jing did not have too many requests at the beginning. He only asked them to nominally submit to the court, and Li Jing would grant them official positions under the Protectorate.

But in detail, their own troops and territory are still in their hands, and this will not change for a while. To be honest, they will be Li Jing's subordinates in the future, and they will have to pay some taxes to the Protectorate's Mansion. If Li Jing needs it, they will have to send troops to cooperate.

After the announcement was issued, all forces in Liaodong were silent and watching. For them, they were not willing to have a shackle on their heads after being free for a hundred years in Liaodong, but now they suddenly had to put a shackle on their heads. However, they did not dare to refuse directly. The destruction of Beisha City was in front, and Duli Town was beaten to sign the underworld alliance. This is a lesson from the past. Moreover, Li Jing was no longer just a small soldier envoy from Daxie Village before.

Now Li Jing has become a person praised by the emperor, and has been granted a title of marquis and generals. He has also improved his relationship with Song Wei, becoming Song Wei's adopted son, and has become the young marshal of Ziqing Town. If Li Jing wants to conquer them by force, no one wants to be the first.

Li Jing has never responded to the silence of the tribes in southern Liaoning. But the more this happens, the more uneasy the tribes in southern Liaoning become.

Among these people, the most uneasy one is Duli Town. Duli Town is at the junction of Liaodong and Dengzhou, and is also the forefront of Dengzhou entering Liaodong. Moreover, since Qingnicheng and Beishacheng are already under the control of Li Jing, and with Daxiezhai, Duli Town is almost surrounded by three sides. If Li Jing really wants to use martial arts against Liaodong, Duli Town will be the first to be affected.

The two times before Duli Town bought Li Jing's cession with money, but this time, Li Jing now has the title of Anton Protector, which was conferred by the emperor. It was justified that he took action against Duli Town. Especially after Li Jing obtained Qingni City and Beisha City, the troops were reorganized. Now the entire town east army has more than 20,000 troops. Although Duli Town recruits soldiers, it is difficult to restore its strength in a short period of time.

"Fifty thousand sheep, 500,000 stones of grain." A guest said, "Duli Town gave Li Envoy millions, but this time he did not give money, but gave more precious grain. It seems that Duli Town has indeed surrendered."

"That's right, Li Envoy is now strong and has great military power. The emperor and the ministers in the court praised him. Qingzhou also has the support of Song and Cui Sima. He holds Zhendong Army and has a new land in Dengzhou. At this time, who dares to blow up the stings with Li Envoy, that's a death. Besides, if Duli Town surrenders, Li Envoy will not do anything to them for the time being."

Several people nodded, as if they had become the officials in the court, guiding the country.

"What Li Envoy wants now is the statement of all parties. At this time, whoever dares to refuse to surrender may be the next target to be attacked by Li Envoy. As for those other people, whether they surrender on the surface is the second."

"Yes, it's a clever move for Duli Town to take out so much food this time, at least I've passed this level in front of me."

The people who gave gifts outside were still lined up. Since the gifts from Cui, Xiao and Han families were delivered and the gifts from various departments in southern Liaoning, the gifts from the guests were obviously much richer. Some of the great families in Dengzhou, such as the Xie family, gave 10,000 jin of money and 8,000 shi of grain, and some other families also saw that today's gifts seemed to be giving food. They also added food to the gift list. Although there is a famine, for those powerful people of the aristocratic race, they are not short of food.

These wealthy families are big landlords themselves, with tens of millions of acres of fertile land in their families, and some even have thousands of hectares of land in their families. They rarely sell their grain, and each family has its own granary to store grain. Especially after the severe drought last year, these people even did not take out a grain of grain and stocked up all of them.

The merchants are similar. The current situation is almost half of the merchants are buying grain and hoarding them. Today's banquet is a bit strange. They are either money or grain. There are few luxury and rare things. It is said that it was because the Director Zhang, the Military Director, once said it accidentally that Li Jing was only interested in money and grain, and did not like the rest, especially luxury things.

In the gift list that comes with the gift, basically every family has the same gift, that is, food. For example, Xie Xuan gave eight thousand stones of grain, and ordinary landlords gave thousands of stones. Some merchants also had no food themselves, so they temporarily borrowed three or five hundred stones from their friends at that time, and at least one hundred stones of grain.

Zhang Hong looked at the account book from time to time when he was receiving gifts. Looking at the food numbers on the account book, his face never stopped smiling.

"Monk, the food we received today is at least one million stones!" Zhang Hong said to Li Jing with a loud smile.

Li Jing was dismantling several letters from gift-giving envoys from various Liaodong ministries. The more he looked, the happier Li Jing felt. The more he saw, the more he had a reply. According to statistics, there are now 47 Han forces in Liaodong with more than a thousand people. Today, there are 36 people who come to give gifts. They send gifts and letters, expressing their willingness to submit to the court, and nineteen people who are under the jurisdiction of the Andong Protectorate.

Although only nineteen forces were willing to express their support, there were three major forces with more than 10,000 troops, including Duli Town, Shirenzhu, and Shicheng. As for the fact, the strength of these people who surrendered at the same time accounted for more than half of the forty-nine forces.

Li Jing was naturally happy to receive gifts and receive one million stones of grain, but what was even happier was the reaction of half of the southern Liaoning tribes. Li Jing is not in a hurry to enter Liaodong at the moment, but the preliminary preparations must be done first. The first thing is to find out the details of the forces of each division and win over those who can be won over. At least, he will first incorporate these forces in southern Liaoning into the Andong Protectorate, and then slowly integrate them.

"Monkey King, the banquet is on!" Zhao Jiang came in to report.

Li Jing put away the letter, came to the hall, delivered a banquet and greeting, and officially began this feast of thousands of people.

There were many people attending the banquet, the banquet was lively and the food was quite rich. Moreover, at today's banquet, the most famous dance troupe of Dengzhou, Jianwu Pavilion, was invited to come to entertain the fun. In addition, the officials from Dengzhou were also called, and several opera troupes were even invited to sing music and play the piano to entertain the fun.

Li Jing took the officers of the East Army of the Town to toast a glass of wine in each hall, and then went back to the main hall. He sat there and blocked the toasts of several people, the others did not dare to come to toast. Everyone talked and laughed, and it was very lively. This scene was unimaginable that there were countless refugees outside the city of Dengzhou, who were displaced and frost in the shacks.

Halfway through the banquet, Li Jing suddenly sighed.

Everyone looked at Li Jing, and Zhang Hong smiled and stepped forward and said, "The wine and food at today's banquet were invited to Dengzhou's most famous chefs. Isn't it not the taste of the county marquis?"

Li Jing sighed again, and after everyone put down the wine glasses and the singers stopped singing, he said slowly, "I am a happy day today, but I suddenly remembered a poem by Du Gongmen. The wine and meat of the rich are smelly, and the road is frozen to death. Isn't this poem telling us the current situation? We are in the wine pool and meat forest, singing and dancing feast, but I remembered the thousands of refugees I saw in the south of the city today. They are now hungry and cold, drinking dew in the night wind."

As soon as such words of destruction were released, no one knew what to do. Although these people also valued their reputation and would help their neighbors in the disaster year, they would also help them. However, relief is relief. For example, taking out some rice to put porridge every day at the south of the city is already a rare act of kindness. It is impossible to have no food to eat because of those suffering.

"Today I celebrate the victory of suppressing bandits and quelling the rebellion. I heard Zhang Lushi's statement that I received everyone's love and received millions of stones of food. I have decided to keep half of the one million stones of food I received today as military rations in the East Army, and take out half as food for disaster relief. Zhang Lushi, do you calculate, is this food enough to boost disaster relief?"

Zhang Hong pretended to take out the calculation sheets from his own calculation sheet bag and started to set them up on the table to calculate.

"The summer harvest season has passed, but the particles have not been harvested. The summer seeds have begun, but the drought in the ground has not been relieved at all, and it is difficult to harvest this autumn. In this way, we have to wait until the spring plowing next spring. If the weather is good next year, we have to wait until the summer harvest before there is food. In this way, from now on, we will have to at least one whole year. People have no food to harvest. If the disaster is resilient, it will be resilient for one year."

"There are more than 300,000 people in Dengzhou, and at least 9300,000 people have cut off food and need to revive disasters. In addition, the situation in Da Xie Fort, Qingni City and Beisha City is not much better. In short, at least 500,000 people are waiting to release food and revive disasters. An adult man has two liters of daily diet. If the minimum standard is the average daily diet of each person is one and a half liters per person, and the annual diet costs about one stone. This is already the lowest standard. If you get some wild vegetables or something, you may be able to survive. 500,000 people will be 500,000 stones a year. It's enough."

A day and a half liter, a stone a year, and counting it, only ten kilograms of grain a month, only three taels a day.

Li Jing shook his head and said, "You just didn't forget it, that is, these foods are not shelled. If they are shelled, they can only get about 70%. On average, half a liter of grain per person can count how much? It's okay for a short time, a year, even if you survive until next year, your body will also cross it. Just count as one liter a day, it will only take seven rounds after shelling. This will be one million stones a year."

"Monk Marquis, we only have 500,000 stones of grain, so we will be at least 500,000 stones away!"

Although Li Jing collected one million stones of grain today, Li Jing had just explained that half of them were to be used as military rations. Everyone here was representative of the major families in Dengzhou. When Li Jing said this, they did not understand what Li Jing meant. It seemed that the 500,000 stones were missing, and it would eventually fall on them.
Chapter completed!