Li Jing once said at the Tianlang Festival that some people play heroes because they are cowardly, some people play benevolent people because they are vicious, and some people play murderers because they are strongly harming people. And the reason why people deceive is because they are born to lie.

"A little bit!" Yang Laowu said.

Under the swaying light, the faces of several people calmed down.

An oil lamp, like a bean flame, leaping into the room. Apart from Kong Ergou, for others, the danger has been gone.

The dice stopped moving in the broken bowl on the missing side, with a red spot on it. The snow-white dice and the broken bowl formed a sharp contrast with the dirty tabletop.

"A little!" Yang Laowu, who had a front teeth, smiled in a leaky tone, "Who is it?"

"It's me." Kong Ergou, who was covered in oil stains and was as hard as a black robe as cowhisper, whispered. "I threw it away."

"Then pay!" Yang Laowu laughed, "Remember, with the ones you lost just now, you already owe 10,000 yuan."

Kong Ergou felt chill all over.

The Arrow Tower is three feet tall, with only a short wooden wall less than the chest. Standing on it, there is no fold or blocking above the chest, and wind is coming from all sides. If it is summer, it is still very cool to stand on it, but now it will only make people feel cold. There are almost no corners on the Arrow Tower that can avoid the cold wind. In the second half of the night, even your hands and feet will be frozen without any sense.

However, Kong Ergou grew up in the mountains outside the North Frontier of Dai, and he had long been accustomed to the bitter north wind. Now, what made him creepy was fear.

"Are you still playing? If I don't play, I'll go back to sleep." Zhao Dayou said. He is a tall guy with a loud voice, with a greasy hair on his bulging head, but his face is very small, and his eyes are deep due to lack of sleep. He opened his mouth and a trace of jerky meat hanging on his protruding lower lip. On the battlefield, this is a terrifying guy, always carrying two big axes, just like a human-shaped meat grinder. His favorite thing is to split the enemy directly into two halves. Now he is a leader of Li Sizhao's newly established Black Crow Army.

Yang Laowu, who was missing a tooth, was Li Cunzhang's personal military captain, and was also a cruel character. He was best at bows and arrows, especially when firing cold arrows. Moreover, because he had a sister who was Li Cunzhang's fifth wife, he was also Li Cunzhang's confidant. His eyes were as gloomy as a poisonous snake. He turned around and looked at Zhao Dayou, who was one head taller than him.

"I'll stand guard at the second update." Zhao Dayou was a little uneasy when Yang Laowu saw it and explained in a low voice, "I plan to sleep for a while."

"Then let's go here today." Yang Laowu said, "Everyone settles the account."

Zhao Dayou and Liu Xiaodao stood up, but Kong Ergou sat there with a pale face.

"Ergou. You don't have money to give it to him, right?" Yang Laowu's face turned gloomy. He said to Kong Ergou in a low voice. "You are the commander of the prince's side. You are in charge of a hundred people and a generous salary. If you tell me that you have no money to give it to him, your brothers will not believe it."

"I've been having a bad luck recently and I've lost for a few days. Brother Fifth, can I see if I can be pleaded for two or three days? I will definitely raise the money." Kong Ergou asked.

Ten thousand yuan is not a small amount for an officer who is top-ranking. However, if it is only ten thousand yuan, Kong Ergou would not be so embarrassed. The key is that he bet with Yang Laowu and the others these days. At first, he was very lucky and won money in succession, but later he lost. Tonight, he already owed Yang Laowu to a total of more than 100,000 yuan. For Kong Ergou, who had just evacuated from Yizhou in a mess, he could not afford such money at all.

"Egou, you said this last time, and you said this last time. At the beginning, when you were lucky, you should have stopped when you saw it. Now you have to be lucky, but you still have to bet. Now you owe more and more money, and it is always bad to not pay back the money. Besides, the money I borrowed from you is actually not all mine, but mainly the money from Deputy Envoy Li. His money hasn't been owed for a long time."

"Fifth brother, please help me, three days, no, two days. Give me two more days, and I will definitely raise money to pay it back." Kong Ergou said anxiously. He knew who Deputy Envoy Li was talking about, that was Yang Laowu's brother-in-law, General Li Cunzhang, the deputy governor of Datong Army. That was the second only to Li Siyuan in the army, and he was not easy to owe money.

Yang Laowu gave Zhao Dayou and some others a wink and asked them to leave.

Zhao Dayou and Liu Xiaodao stood up and left. When they went out, someone was tripped and a low curse came.

After the footsteps outside left, Yang Laowu got up and walked to Kong Ergou to sit down, patted his shoulder and said, "Brother, you said that too last time. In fact, even if I give you another ten days, you can't get a hundred guan to pay me back. You said, right?"

"Fifth Brother, give me two more days, I will definitely get the money."

"I have given you the opportunity, but you have wasted it." Yang Laowu sneered.

Kong Ergou's face was filled with sweat. He knew that if he was not good today, he might not be able to get out of this door.

"Fifth Brother, as long as you give me another chance, I can do whatever I want for you."

"Take it seriously?"

"Absolutely take it seriously, be a cow or a horse, kill and set fire, it's all right, there's no other way." Kong Ergou was desperate and sweared.

Yang Laowu returned to his seat, took out a dagger, and slowly trimmed his nails.

Until Kong Ergou and others were about to collapse, Yang Laowu finally finished his slender fingernails. He raised his head and said, "If this is the case, I would be willing to give you another chance. If you are willing to do this for me, after the matter is completed, not only will you owe me a hundred coins, but I can also give you a lot of wealth, money, beauty, and official titles. How about it?"

Kong Ergou didn't believe in the fact that pie fell from the sky. Such good things often mean greater danger. However, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and said, "Fifth brother, I have sent a mission, and he will never refuse."

"Hey, it's not a fatal matter. Although it's a bit risky, the benefits will only be greater. Will Brother Fifth still harm you?" Yang Laowu said with a smile, "Come here. I'll tell you carefully."

After a long time, Kong Ergou came out of the house in a mess, and walked back with a loss of energy.

"Has he agreed?" Zhao Dayou and Liu Xiaodao, who had already left just now, got into the house from behind, and there were several other people together. They were all the troops-level officers in the Datong Army, and they all had them in each battalion.

Yang Laowu nodded and smiled, "He has no choice, not to mention that I have indeed pointed out a clear way for him and wanted to give him a wealth."

"Is he reliable? He is an old man from the capital. He has always followed Li Sizhao. He used to be Li Sizhao's personal guard." Liu Xiaodao asked.

"He didn't know much. But Xiaodao was right. Just in case, you should stare at him more. If he acts rashly, kill him directly." Yang Laowu made a slashing move.

Yanjing.

The newly built Qin Wang Mansion next to the north of Yanjing City is very large in area, a little larger than the inner city of Yanjing, equivalent to half a smaller city in Yanjing. This Qin Wang Mansion is said to be a royal mansion, but it is actually a palace group. The planning is completely based on the layout and scale of the Chang'an Palace City. The entire palace group has five parts. It is the office area of ​​the provincial palace courtyard and the courtyard courtyard office and the office halls of the court halls connected to the north city of Yanjing. There are also the left and right acropolis on the east and west sides. There are two guards and personal camps, stationed by the guards and personal guards and the three guards of Yixun. Then to the north is the inner courtyard. The front half of the inner courtyard is Li Jing's study, conference room, conference hall and other office areas. The second half is the dormitory area, where many wives and children live here.

This time, Zhang Cheng'an came, obviously because Li Yan wanted to appease Li Jing, to ease his relationship with Li Jing, and hoped to use Li Jing's prestige to fight the next battle to wipe out Huang Chao. For this reason, before Zhang Cheng'an came, he was specially received by the emperor. And the emperor said many good things about Li Jing and asked him to tell Li Jing.

Of course, in addition to verbal commendations, Li Jing also received many rewards without surprise.

However, as early as when Huang Chao came to Guanzhong last time, the emperor had already granted a large number of official titles in order to obtain Li Jing's continued loyalty. After that award, Li Jing was already the highest king title of the King of Qin, and Wusan rank was promoted to the position of first-rank general of the cavalry. In addition, the title of honor had also reached the top-level Shangzhu Kingdom, and there were also the General of the Left Guard, who was in the Pingzhangshi, Shangshu Ling, Zhongshu Ling, Shizhong, Taishi, Taifu, Taibao and other series of special titles, and they were also faked to Huang Yue, and were appointed as the Grand Commander of the World Military and Horse Mars, and the General Leader to Control the Army and Horse Marshal of the World. He was also appointed as the Minister of the State of the Northeast Road, and also led the Secretary of the State of Andong Province, Liaodong Province, western Liaoning Province, Beiping Province, Rehe Province, Hebei Province, and Shandong Province.

It can be said that Li Jing has already reached the point where he cannot be sealed.

Official positions, titles, medals, ranks, and even honors were all awarded to the top. There was even a special honorary title of the emperor.

If you want to seal it again, the only thing left is to add nine tins, Xu Jianlu goes to the hall, and you will not be able to attend. However, if it is time to give such glory, the emperor will not be far from abdicating.

Therefore, the emperor is both loving and afraid of Li Jing. He not only needs Li Jing to maintain the current dangerous and weak situation of the Li Tang court, but also has to be concerned about whether the powerful Qin Fan will directly leave the court and start a new business.

But since it is comfort, you can't just say a few verbal rewards.

The imperial court cannot afford to pay money now, so in the last edict sent by the emperor, there was no intention to promote Li Jing. However, Li Jing had 100,000 households, and the real households were granted 3,000 households, and the actual households were granted 15,000 households. In addition, 10,000 hectares of Yongye land were given in Liaodong.

In addition, since Li Jing has no title, he will be granted his wife and son. He will be given the title of Wang Guiniang to Princess Qin and the title of Princess Lingnan to Yu Youniang, who has not yet passed away. In addition, after he last named Li Jing's eldest son as Prince of Lanling, he once again named Li Jing's remaining twenty-one son as Prince of County. Even the 22nd son, who was just born and still in his infancy, received the title of a Prince of Pyongyang County. Li Jing's eighteen daughters were also named Princess. Li Jing's other wives were all named Lady of the State. Li Jing's ancestors were all given the title of King and the rank of general.

These things are indeed powerful, without any slight slap in the court, but they let everyone in the world see the emperor's favor for Li Jing.

Li Jing did not give Li Jing another title, but he gave him a lot of titles of wife and son. In addition, he also gave him a lot of titles to the Qin vassal soldiers.

Last time, Li Jing asked the court for the Qin vassal soldiers, and granted a bunch of titles such as Dukes of Four Kingdoms, Dukes of Nine Cities, and Marquis of Thirty-six Kingdoms. This time, Li Yan took the initiative to issue an order to reward the Qin vassal soldiers. Basically, all officers at the barracks and above of the Qin army were rewarded. Everyone first arrived at the scattered ranks and medals one to two levels higher than normal. In addition, the official positions of civil and military officials were originally appointed by Li Jing. Now, Li Yan issued an order to formally grant these official positions.

Even Li Yan scattered the title that had always been precious as if he had no money.

Under the king Li Jing, he newly appointed Cui Yunqing and nine other people as county princes, and also granted eighteen Dukes, thirty-six Dukes, seventy-two Dukes, one hundred and eighteen Dukes, and three hundred and sixty Dukes of County Magistrates. The rest of the uncles, sons, and countless males.

This time, the title of title completely broke the previous system. The titles ranged from kings, princes, princes, county dukes, county dukes, county dukes, county dukes, county dukes, county dukes to founding kings, founding kings, founding kings, founding men, and founding men. They also recognized the titles of the great lords and jazzly titles established by the Qin vassal, and added knights and samurai titles, and a total of fifteenth lords were established. The eighth lords were noble lords, bons, sons, and men were the third lords, the senior lords, the great lords, jazz, knights, and samurai were the four lords.

With the 15th grade new title system, the emperor suddenly created more than 3,000 titles for the Qin Fan.

Moreover, in this new title system, Li Yan not only had no fief or fief, but also had no salary at all. They were all short titles, and the fief, fief, salary, etc. needed must be solved by Li Jing himself.

In general, Li Yan gave Li Jing a wife and son, and gave him a son to his ancestors, which was a great honor and favor, and it was also a win-win situation. However, he was awarded a large number of official positions at once and granted countless titles among the Qin vassal soldiers. This was completely a test of Li Yan, or a trouble for Li Jing. Moreover, this was not only a trouble for Li Jing, but also a hidden temptation for the emperor to the Qin vassal and the encirclement of the Qin vassal civil and military officials!

The emperor wanted to enhance the influence of the court and increase the influence of the emperor in the Qin vassal state. This kind of indiscriminate gifts and rewards did cause great trouble for Li Jing, and he disrupted the original normal reward order of the Qin vassal state. For this reason, Li Jing could not refuse, otherwise, it would make these newly promoted subordinates unhappy.

Li Yan wrote a casual message, but in the end, the countless additional salary expenses after promotion and title were paid by Li Jing alone. Moreover, the excessive official title system will bring more troubles.

Li Jing looked at the bright yellow python robe, jade belt and golden crown given by the emperor, and a hint of anger appeared on his face.
Chapter completed!