Li Jing is indeed deliberately embarrassed Lu Yongzhi now.

This time Gao Pian's provocative behavior made Li Jing very angry. His strong counterattack was to show Gao Pian his attitude. Although he was young, he was definitely not something Gao Pian could control at will.

Li Jing also took many risks in the counterattack of the town, plundering the coastal areas, which made Li Jing's reputation on the coast much worse. But he had to do so. Even because of this, Li Jing received many negative comments in the court, saying that he was domineering, etc.

After paying such a great price, Li Jing certainly had to rectify Gao Pian at one time. Otherwise, Li Jing would not be able to stand it when Gao Pian came like this every now and then.

In fact, Li Jing wants to end the current confrontation earlier than Gao Pian.

Although Gao Pian and the generals were harassed and looted by Li Jing, Li Jing and the merchant fleet in Dengzhou Town did not dare to go south now. Not only were the Huaihe River, Yangtze River, Sishui and other routes unsafe, but they were also unsafe even when they were on the sea. The trade routes were broken and the markets in the southeast of the Jianghuai River were lost. Every day, Li Jing's losses were extremely huge.

The goods produced by each workshop are piled up in the warehouse. If the goods cannot be distributed, the money will be collected. The workers' salaries have to be paid in advance. If they continue, the workshop will have to reduce the start time, the workers' income will be reduced, and the taxes received by Li Jing will also be greatly reduced.

But the current situation is like two swordsmen attacking each other. If anyone shows a little timid at this time, he will be completely at a disadvantage and be killed by the other party.

Gao Pian deducted goods, and Li Jing robbed people.

Fortunately, Gao Pian finally showed weakness. But Li Jing could not express his true thoughts immediately. He had to pretend that he didn't care and had to work with Gao Pian to the end. Only then would the other party be truly afraid.

Gao Pian must first show his weakness and seek peace!

This is Li Jing's strategy.

Only by fearing Gao Pian can we prevent similar situations from happening in the future.

As for the reason why he might have a vengeance with Gao Pian, Li Jing didn't care or be afraid.

Gao Pian was indeed very strong, and the general of Shence Zhou Bao was leaning against him. In addition to the surrounding towns, he was extremely powerful. But Li Jing expected that the situation is today, although there are often mutinies within the towns, in general, no vassal state dared to send troops to other vassal states. The court generally does not study the internal affairs of the vassal states too deeply, and whoever wins will recognize his status. However, no vassal state dares to attack other vassal states. If he dares to do this, he will rebel and be strangled by the vassal states.

Li Jing first dealt with Youzhou Town because Youzhou Town had long been a separatist vassal state, and the court could not really control him. Li Jing also participated in Youzhou affairs in the name of supporting Li Keju and his son.

Previously, Wang Jingwu was wiped out and Li Jing was also known as the governor of Ziqing Town. He sent troops to deal with the internal affairs of the vassal states.

But if Gao Pian wants to send troops to deal with Li Jing, it will be completely different. Li Jing can now deal with Gao Pian, and can pretend to be a pirate to attack and not attack the city or occupy land. However, Gao Pian cannot send small troops to harass Li Jing.

As for the future.

Li Jing didn't have to worry about Gao Pian. His strategic direction was Liaodong, Liaoxi and Youzhou. It was in the north. Gao Pian was far away in Huainan.

Lu Yongzhi was ridiculed by Li Jing, but he had to smile and respond. Before leaving, Gao Pian had already told him clearly that the lunatic Li Jing could continue to do this, but they couldn't afford it.

Gao Pian was originally a new arrival in Huainan and did not have strong control over the local area. He had previously had an official position as the chief general of various camps. Now that he lost this position, and with the abolition of Lu Cheng in the court, Gao Pian was not as powerful in Huainan as before. Especially during this period, Gao Pian's deducted Li Jing's goods, which caused many large-scale merchants in Huainan to suffer a lot of losses. Now, because Gao Pian's deducted Li Jing's goods attracted Li Jing's revenge, plundered the coast, and even further along the Yangtze River and Huai River, the entire Huainan was not safe.

These great tribes in Huainan suffered heavy losses and they could not cause trouble for Li Jing, so they all put the blame on Gao Pian.

Gao Pian's support in Huainan dropped rapidly, and the people's expectations reached a freezing point.

Even Gao Pian's allies Zhou Bao and other generals began to unable to bear the losses and put the blame on Gao Pian.

Gao Pian is now in danger, so he must first ease his relationship with Li Jing to stabilize his position in Huainan. Therefore, when Lu Yongzhi came this time, Gao Pian directly stated that he was letting him be his grandson. No matter how cold Li Jing treats him, he has to bear it.

If Li Jing spitted on Lu Yongzhi's left face, not only would he not be able to dry it, but he would also have to lean over and let Li Jing spit on his right face.

"Shi Zhong Gao has figured it out. It was previously misunderstandings made by the people below. Now, Shi Zhong Gao has punished the people below and ordered that all the seized goods be returned, the seized merchants are also returned, and the shops, ships, etc. that have been seized are also returned." Lu Yongzhi tried his best to laugh with him.

"Is it really a misunderstanding?"

"It's definitely a misunderstanding, it's a completely misunderstanding!"

Li Jing said coldly: "Where are the goods and people seized by Dizhenhai and other towns, and the shops seized?"

"Shizhong Gao personally sent someone to contact the towns, and this matter was also a misunderstanding, and he had already released the person and returned the goods."

Li Jing picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. Li Rang immediately whispered loudly, "Send out the guests!"

Several guards came in, walked to Lu Yongzhi, stretched out their hands and signaled him to leave.

Lu Yongzhi's face changed again and again, and he whispered to Li Jing: "Prince Prince, Shizhong Gao has expressed his sincerity in reconciliation, and he also hopes that the prince will show sincerity and recall your subordinates."

Li Jing ignored him, and Li Rang sneered beside him, "Now tell us sincerity? Well, let me calculate sincerity with you. Because of your misunderstanding, we suffered heavy losses. In two months, the southbound business road was interrupted, and the goods on the JAC line were not sold. Do you know how much losses we have?"

"How many?" Lu Yongzhi asked subconsciously, and immediately regretted it.

Sure enough, Li Rang sneered twice, picked up the abacus and slapped it, "The loss is no less than tens of millions of yuan!"

Lu Yongzhi almost fell into his chest in one breath, and he was almost cursing. What a thing? I returned the goods to you and even lost tens of millions of yuan. You can go and lie to him. But now he has to whisper: "It's all misunderstandings. In fact, we have also suffered heavy losses. Not only are our property damaged, but we have lost almost 100,000 people in the past two months."

"Why, you blame us for losing people. Could it be that we stole your people?" Zhou Dewei shouted loudly and almost scared Lu Yongzhi to sit on the ground.

"This..." Lu Yongzhi was sweating profusely, "What Gao Shizhong meant was that what happened before was written off. All the seized goods and people were returned to you, and the shops were returned. I hope the prince can also make it easier and put them back. As for the money we lost, forget it."

This is already Gao Pian's biggest concession. The money and food stolen by Li Jing will definitely not be returned. However, Gao Pian wants to go back to nearly 100,000 people stolen by Li Jing.

Li Jing tasted tea with his leisurely taste and said lightly: "I don't know what you said about the robbed money, grain and population, and I don't understand it or want to understand it. Go back and tell Gao Pian that if the previous thing is really a misunderstanding, then as long as he returns our goods, shops and people, we will stop exploring it. Otherwise, I recently got a news that there is a pirate of tens of thousands of people. I am going to go to Yangzhou City to see the prosperity of Jiangnan!"

"No!" Li Jing put the teacup on the table, and Zhou Dewei took the guards to pull him out half-force.

After Lu Yongzhi left, Li Zhen said worriedly: "Will Gao Pian be so angry because of this toughness?"

Li Jing said indifferently: "Even if we give in, do you think he will recognize our goodness? His concessions are not sincere, but because of the situation. He will definitely not be convinced. Since that is the case, why should we try to reconcile with him? Besides, we have indeed suffered a lot this time, so I will never put back the money, grain and population he stolen."

"What if Gao Pian continues to do the right thing with us?"

"Then let's continue with him. I want to see who will not be able to hold on first." Li Jing snorted coldly.

Li Jing would not believe that Gao Pian really wants to make peace. Since it is not really good, why bother with him? People like Gao Pian are hard but not soft. The stronger they are, the more they will take your advantage. If you give in, he will immediately gain a better position.

Historically, when Gao Pian moved from Tianping Army to Xichuan, he brought a group of troops from the three towns of Tianping Army, Zhaoyi Army, and Yicheng Army to Xichuan to resist the invasion of Nanzhao.

At that time, there was a suicide squad-like army, a 3,000-man Tu Zheng camp. This elite army that had worked hard to defend Chengdu enjoyed extremely high military pay. After Gao Pian took office, he immediately removed the military position promoted by Tu Zheng camp. Then, he terminated the military pay of Tu Zheng camp. Some people refused to accept it and served him with great punishment. As a result, the mutiny of Tu Zheng camp was triggered. At that time, things were not enough to defend, and the soldiers brought by Gao Pian could not resist Tu Zheng camp, allowing Tu Zhengs to rush into the general's mansion. Gao Pian finally jumped into the cessation pit before escaping.

Seeing that something was wrong, Gao Pian sent people to smile and say a lot of good things to the soldiers of the riots: to ensure that they would restore their original titles and pay the deducted salary, clothing, and food subsidies. The soldiers were deceived into returning to their camps one after another.

After the soldiers of the Tujiang camp left, Gao Pian immediately sent Tianping Army and other soldiers to fight out, but did not run to the Tujiang camp. Instead, he rushed to a construction site in the north of the city and cut off the heads of hundreds of innocent craftsmen. While Gao Pian claimed that the rebellion had been wiped out, he apologized to the Tujiang camp, saying that he would correct all mistakes and completely restore the original treatment of the Tujiang camp.

Gao Pian used this to paralyze the sudden camp.

Secretly, he asked his confidant to secretly investigate the situation of every soldier in the sudden camp in private, preparing for a bloody counterattack.

One night two months later, Gao Pian suddenly mobilized a large number of troops and surrounded the homes of the soldiers of the camp, and then broke into the door, destroying everyone in the house, regardless of gender, age and young.

Just from this incident, we can see that Gao Pian is definitely not a good person, but a vengeful guy.

Gao Pian’s pursuit of peace is just a temporary situation. Once he has the opportunity, this guy will inevitably take revenge.
Chapter completed!