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When Li Jing heard Lu Yongzhi say the number of lent one million stones lightly, he couldn't help but snorted coldly. One million stones is not a decimal. Calculated by one stone per mu, one million mu of land must be produced. Just to transport these grains, one thousand ships will be obtained based on an ordinary sea ship of one thousand stone. Even a super grain ship of ten thousand stones will have to be loaded with one hundred.

Even though the food is not as precious as the previous two years, one million stone of grain is still a large amount of valuable material. Li Jing is still buying grain himself, so how could he lend the grain to Gao Pian even if he knows that lent the grain to Gao Pian as a meat bag and a dog, but he still has to lend it to them.

"hiss!"

Li Rang, Cui Zhiyuan and others all took a breath when they heard this. Gao Pian was really a lion.

Do you really think that Zhenzhao owes him the Navy? Even if Gao Pian is known as a famous general and has high qualifications and prestige, he can't speak like this. He really doesn't treat himself as an outsider.

The harvests were good in the two seasons last year and this summer, and there were also grains that I insisted on purchasing for several years. In addition to the consumption of the people under the control, there are more than 13 million stones of grains such as rice, millet, wheat, and beans in the warehouse, plus more than 10 million stones of coarse grains such as potato, medicinal and taro. In addition, there are many canned meat, dried meat fish, cattle, sheep, pig, rabbit, chicken, duck, and geese in the farm.

Then no matter how many of these are, they are all the hard work of the people in the town, and are the basis for maintaining the stable development of millions of people.

Li Jing contributed one million ounces of money, food and supplies to the emperor every month, which was worth the money.

But Gao Pian is not Li Jing's boss. He is just a Zhenjieshen with the same status as Li Jing. Even Cui Yunqing, Cui Anqian, Yang Fuguang and others borrowed grain from Li Jing, but it was only 100,000 or 200,000 yuan. And a bunch of conditions were added.

Why did Gao Pian dare to ask for one million as soon as he opened his mouth and look like he had to borrow it?

Li Jing was angry and laughed. Looking at Lu Yongzhi, he said, "I heard that Gao Situ had the technique of sprinkling beans into soldiers. Doesn't he have the technique of turning stones into gold?"

Gao Pian was a man of good arts. Even when he was fighting in Xichuan, he had to hold an altar and set up sacrifices before every battle, and he had to tie paper people, paper horses, etc.

It was because Gao Pian was good at art that he was able to use fraud to enter Gao Pian's tent. When he heard Li Jing's sarcasm, he was not angry at all, and he looked arrogant. He replied proudly: "Just a few days ago, His Majesty the Emperor had already appointed Gao Situ's military commander, Jianghuai Salt and Iron Transportation Envoy, and was promoted to the position of Shizhong. Gao Shizhong was mobilizing troops and preparing to enter Fujian to wipe out the rebel party in one fell swoop. Therefore, he sent someone to borrow food to provide military service."

There was another burst of amazement in the hall. Li Jing and others had long expected that Gao Pian would be the governor in the end. Unexpectedly, they also served as the Jianghuai Salt and Iron Transportation Commissioner, which was a catch of military power and financial power.

Li Jing heard another message from Lu Yongzhi's words. Lu Yongzhi came from Runzhou, south of the Yangtze River, and spent more than half a month on the way. With the time waiting for him, he left Zhenhai for nearly a month. But now he has not received the news that Gao Pian was appointed as the governor. Lu Yongzhi also said that it was only a few days ago that the emperor had given him a position. This means that the news was delivered by Gao Pian quickly, which means that the borrowing of grain was decided before Gao Pian was promoted to the governor.

Li Jing is also a little confused now. Is the number of borrowing one million stone of grain meant by Gao Pian or Lu Yongzhi added it by himself after learning that Gao Pian was promoted.

With a shake of his sleeves, Li Jing stood up and hung Lu Yongzhi in the hall, and took everyone away.

Gao Pian's promotion to governor means that Tian Lingzi, Lu Xie and others have already fought against Zheng in the court, and Ximen Sigong's faction has won another round of victory. There will definitely be a series of changes, and Li Jing needs to figure out the entire situation now.

That night, Gongsun Lan received the latest information from Chang'an.

After being removed from the position of recruiting envoy, Cui Anqian, the governor of Zhongwu, was removed from the position of commander of Zhongwu, and transferred to Chang'an to serve as Minister of Personnel. This was obviously an act of promotion and surrendering in secret. At the same time, Cui Yunqing, the governor of the East Lingnan Road, did not stay in Guangzhou for long, and was transferred again, and was transferred from the East Lingnan Road to the West Jiangnan Road. The court changed the Observation Envoy of Jiangnan Road to the Jiedushi of Jiangxi, and established the title of Zhennan Army, and Cui Yunqing was appointed as the Jiedushi of Zhennan Army.

At the same time, the court transferred Li Tiao as the governor of the Dongdao of Lingnan, Xue Neng as the governor of Zhongwu, and the court transferred the younger brother of the former Datong defense envoy Zhimo, and the general of the Si Nongqing Zhixiong as the governor of the Jieshi Army.

The series of transfers of Jiedushi made Li Jing dazzled. This was not the end. The two most powerful transfers were that after the court raised Pian to become the commander of the military commander of various camps, he transferred Pian as deputy ambassador of Huainan, replacing the incompetent Liu Ye. The former position of Zhenhai Jiedushi was transferred to Zhou Bao, a general from Shence Right Army, and took over as the position of Zhenhai Jiedushi.

However, it is somewhat surprising that Liu Ye served as the governor of Huainan in Huainan, and after Gao Pian took over, he was the deputy ambassador of Huainan.

After this major adjustment, Gao Pian, deputy ambassador of Huainan, Zhou Bao, the governor of Zhenhai, Cui Yunqing, the governor of Zhennan, Li Tiao, the governor of Lingnan East Road, Xue Neng, the governor of Zhongwu, and Zhi Xiang, the governor of the army. The court changed the commander of the six towns at one time and transferred the original commander of the recruitment. Cui An, the commander of Zhongwu, secretly transferred to Chang'an as the Minister of Personnel.

Among the six towns, Gao Pian, Zhou Bao, Li Tiao, Xue Neng, and Zhi Xiang were all considered to be the people of Tian Lingzi and Lu Xie, but Cui Yunqing was not.

Gao Pian took the position of Huainan Jie Zheng and the commander of the military and horses a year earlier than in history. It seems that Gao Pian was about to enter his peak.

The new Zhenhai Jiedushi Zhou Bao was about ten years older than Gao Pian. Zhou Bao's grandfather was the tooth general of the Pinglu Army. His father served as the defensive commander of Tiande Xicheng. He was appointed as the general of Qianniu. Later, he followed the Tianping Jiedushi Yin You to Tianping as a general. During the reign of Emperor Wuzong, he joined the guard. He was a military officer of the Shence Right Army. The two had a good relationship with Gao Pian. Gao Pian called Zhou Gao a brother. Zhou Bao had good ball skills and was unable to be promoted for a long time in the army, so he asked Wuzong to be a player. In a game, Zhou Bao hit the ball in front of Emperor Wuzong, and his eyes were blinded, and he had no end. He insisted on finishing the game and winning the victory. Emperor Wuzong of Tang admired it very much and promoted him to General Jinwu. Later, he was promoted to the Jiedushi of Jingyuan. During his tenure, he trained the army by practicing the ball in the army, and cultivated a team of spirits, and accumulated 200,000 stones of grain in the local area, and was called a good general.

This time, he was transferred to the position of Zhenhai Jiedushi, and his brothers Gao Pian, one in Jiangbei and the other in Jiangnan, occupying the richest Jianghuai land in the entire Tang Dynasty.

If these two second-generation officials join forces, it is not a good thing for Li Jing. Although Li Jing doesn't have to worry about their big moves now, at least Li Jing's current business cannot avoid the Jianghuai River, whether it is the Yangtze River, Huai River, or even the southeast coast. If Gao Pian wants to find Li Jing's trouble, intercept the caravan, etc., then Li Jing's losses will be great.

The next day, Li Jing met Lu Yongzhi again.

"Since Gao Shizhong was to suppress the thieves for the court, I should draw a batch of grain to borrow it to Gao Shizhong. However, I have one condition that grain can be borrowed, but Gao Shizhong must hand over the captured prisoners. Each old, young and young women and children exchanged one stone of grain, each young and young women exchanged two stones of grain, and each young and strong men exchanged three stones of grain. If it is exchanged for the whole family, we can also add two stones of grain. How much we exchanged? Gao Shizhong got the food we needed, and there was no need to place those refugees, and we also got the population we needed, the best of both worlds."

After a night of thought, Li Jing decided to make some concessions to Gao Pian. This is not to say that Li Jing was afraid of Gao Pian, but that Li Jing and Gao Pian had no benefits. As the saying goes, harmony is the most important thing. If you just give Gao Pian some face and maintain the current situation, Li Jing is still willing. After all, the town is supported by trade, and half of this trade is for the Tang Dynasty and half for the outside. Among them, both internally and externally, Huainan and Zhenhai towns in Jianghuai cannot be avoided.

However, Li Jing underestimated Gao Pian's mood at this time. Gao Pian was as Li Jing expected, and was not short of food. Even if he was really short of food, he would never come to Li Jing to borrow food. The so-called borrowing of food is just an excuse, and the real purpose is to find trouble. Although Gao Pian was promoted to the commander-in-chief, he is still worried about Li Jing's title of prince.

Now that he has been promoted to the governor, Zhou Bao has come to Zhenhai. With the influence, Taining, Tianping, Lingnan, Zhongwu, Xuanwu and other towns have been mobilized, and they have already belonged to Tian Lingzi and Lu, who are on this front. With Tian Lingzi and others fanning the flames from behind, Gao Pian will naturally come to cause trouble for Li Jing immediately.

When Lu Yongzhi saw Li Jing give in, he smiled proudly and said, "No, Gao Shizhong borrowed one million stone of grain, and there are no other additional conditions. However, if the prince needs a population, he can buy it from Gao Shizhong. Everyone knows that the prince is rich and generous. Each old and young women and children exchanges ten stones of grain, each young and young women exchanges twenty stones of grain, and each young and strong men can exchange thirty stones of grain. If it is exchanged by the whole family, an additional twenty stones of grain can be added. This price is very fair, right?"

Li Jing took the initiative to make concessions, but he did not want to be regarded as a bully. Lu Yongzhi's meaning was very obvious. The one million stone of grain seemed to be a protection fee. The subsequent population trading price increased ten times directly. This was not the intention of doing business at all, it was caused by a crash.

"Mr. Lu, there are 200,000 soldiers in the town and thousands of warships. Do you think you can anger us at will?" Li Jing said in a sinister way, with anger in his tone.

Lu Yongzhi was a little numb when Li Jing's eyes stared, but he still insisted on his neck: "It's true that the town is 200,000, but the prince should not forget that the chief of the county is now the commander of all the Taos, and the towns in the southeast and even the Central Plains are all under his command. Although the town is brave, can he dare to take the initiative to provoke the battle?"

Li Jing gritted his teeth, but refuted it again for a moment.

Faced with a scoundrel like Gao Pian, could Li Jing really send troops to attack him? But Gao Pian is not easy to deal with. Let’s not talk about his series of brilliant achievements, as well as the troops of Zhou Bao and other towns.

What Li Jing feared was that Li Jing had been trying to develop in a low-key manner. The war in Liaodong is not over yet. If he fights with Gao Pian and others at this time, if he doesn't do it well, Li Jing will become a rebel and will be attacked from all sides. Such a result is not what Li Jing wants.

Li Jing really feels like a scholar encountering a soldier when he is thrown into a rat!
Chapter completed!