Chapter 400: King Heng Borrowing Soldiers
Chapter 400 King Heng borrows troops
"No, it's Prince Fu's Mansion!"
Liu Peng said clearly: "We have to be careful of the Fu Palace!"
Yang Guangwen was so surprised: "There is actually the Fu Palace? Although Longkou is the remains of King Jing, they have never spoken about this land until now!"
Liu Peng immediately replied: "It's strange because they have never spoken to Longkou. With the greedy spirit of the Fu Palace, how could they let go of such a piece of fat as Longkou? Even if they let go, they would have to say a word. Moreover, it was May 20 that the envoy of the Fu Palace entered Qingzhou. Until now, the Heng Palace and the Fu Palace are in peace in Qingzhou Prefecture!"
The Fu Palace is a dragon crossing the river, the Heng Palace is a land tiger, and it is also the largest landlord in Qingzhou Prefecture. When the Fu Palace is sent to Qingzhou, there must be a battle between dragons and tigers. However, after so long, the two sides are in peace, so there must be a reason.
However, in the past, the right-sponsor of Shandong, Jiang Zhili, was divided into Denglai Road. He was as fierce as fire, so Prince Heng's mansion had to be controlled in Denglai. Liu Peng and Longkou could naturally enjoy the cool under the big trees. As for the matter of sending rice beans this year, Jiang Zhili not only confiscated Liu Peng's penny, but also after hearing Tao Lang's first talk about the benefits and interests, he took a huge risk to urge Laizhou Prefecture to follow Dengzhou Prefecture to delay the growth of rice and wheat.
Now that Jiang Zhili has lifted the lid, he will definitely not be able to stay on the Denglai Road. Without Jiang Zhili, he will not have to worry too much whether it is the Heng Palace or the Fu Palace to do rebellion.
Yang Guangwen suddenly woke up: "It seems that we need to clean up these castrated goods!"
This was the first time Zhuang Diaozhi was qualified to attend such a meeting. He shouldn't have spoken, but now he finally couldn't help but say: "Mr. Liu, if Prince Fu's Mansion is coming, besides Longkou, you must be careful that they are in trouble on Tsuum Island!"
"The sentence of adjustment makes sense!" Liu Peng immediately said, "I didn't expect that they would attack Jinmu Island and let the county work overtime to help us get this matter done first."
At this time, Zhuang Dianzhi said again: "I suggest that I open a porridge stall in Zhaoyuan and Laiyang to buy people's hearts. The Heng Palace will definitely make a fuss about the issue of the ownership of Longkou."
"Not bad!" Yang Guangwen was very satisfied with Zhuang Zhi's suggestion: "Well, give the porridge for two days to buy people's hearts. This can be done and some affordable food can be paid, but I think the key is to let everyone spread all their resentment to Qingzhou!"
Although serving porridge in the year of a major disaster can win people's hearts, it is actually a drop in the bucket. Yang Guangwen felt that the key was to bring everyone's resentment to the Heng Palace and Fu Palace, and Liu Peng laughed: "Just leave this matter to Ding Zihang!"
At this time, Qingzhou Prefecture was also preparing for a conspiracy against Liu Peng.
The person who is in charge of the matter of the Fuwang Mansion in Qingzhou Prefecture is Xu Jin, the Dianshen Office of the Fuwang Mansion. Dianshen is an eighth-rank royal official with the size of Sesame. Xu Jin used to be a sesame in the inner palace. However, he followed King Fu since he was a child and served him well. Therefore, King Fu favored him and brought Xu Jin with him when he was in Henan.
For Xu Jin, this is a different step in life. There are many eunuchs in the inner palace, and a little eunuch like him is really worse than a dog. Now, with King Fu, he is a dog in King Fu's mansion, and he is also a dog in King Fu's mansion. He is going to bite a few people hard in Shandong to show his loyalty to King Fu.
Now someone has provided him with a goal of biting randomly, but Xu Jin is not satisfied with this goal. He asked: "Zhou Nei Envoy, what you mean is to ask me to trouble Longkou!"
"Yes! Now, Old Man Jiang is a clay Buddha who crosses the river and cannot protect himself. It is the best opportunity for Fu Mansion to take action. Do you know that his Longkou area was the remains of King Jing in the past. This time it was all assigned to Fu Mansion, but now it is owned by this little thief Liu. As an envoy of Fu Mansion, if you don't pay back the family business for Fu Mansion, I'm afraid there are many people in Fu Mansion who are not convinced!"
The person who said this was not someone else, but the old acquaintance between Liu Peng and Gu Mengyu. Although Zhou Duda is still an incomparable envoy with no status in the Heng Palace, the incident of rushing to Shili Bridge last time gave him the opportunity to show his face and even make meritorious contributions in King Heng. Now he is sending people to negotiate with Prince Fu Palace.
But Xu Jin was as stable as Mount Tai: "I know about Longkou and also the name of that young master Liu. When I left Beijing, someone mentioned this name to me!"
Not only did he mention this name, someone reminded Xu Jin and Xu Dianshen through several channels, and told Xu Dianshen that after he arrived in Shandong, he should try to consult Mr. Liu Peng and Liu's opinions on many things, otherwise many things would be difficult to deal with.
This is inexplicably said. Xu Jin is an eighth-rank royal official after all, so why should he consult the opinion of this young master Liu? Why didn’t he contact Liu Peng and Liu? Many things are difficult to deal with.
However, the people who passed the message were all well-known figures, and although they didn't know who the mastermind behind the message was, Xu Jin felt that he could not afford to provoke him, so he could only hide his worries in his heart. When he arrived in Shandong, he realized that if Prince Fu's Mansion wanted to be in Zhangtian in Dengzhou Prefecture, he might not have done so.
This Liu Peng is basically the local emperor of Dengzhou. He even occupied more than 10,000 acres of Jingwang's remains. As for 11,000 acres or 15,000 acres, the specific number is hard to say. Anyway, this young master Liu is bold and dares to divide all the fields that Prince Fu's mansion deserves into his own bowl.
Therefore, after Xu Jin arrived in Qingzhou Prefecture, he had never had formal contact with Liu Peng. Zhou Duda obviously saw Xu Jin's thoughts: "Xu Dianshen, can you be willing to indulge Liu Xiaozhe to occupy the farmland of your King Heng Mansion?"
Of course this won’t work. Only the Fu Mansion has always occupied other people’s fields, and there is no reason why others occupy the land of Fu Mansion. However, at this time, Xu Jin said: “I heard that this inspector Liu is relatively easy to talk to. I am going to come and talk to him. Everyone can talk about the price and get angry and rich!”
"The price is easy to negotiate, but how much silver is Xu Dianshen preparing to charge? One acre of land is three cents, five cents, or seven cents, and at most it is 800 taels of silver. But you have to know that the Longkou place can charge tens of thousands of taels of silver a year. If you only take 800 taels of silver back, you may not be able to save the location of this dianshen."
Xu Jin couldn't help but be surprised: "It's tens of thousands of taels of silver a year? I thought that Longkou Port could only collect a few thousand taels of silver a year, but there are really tens of thousands of taels of silver?"
Zhou Duda immediately added a lot of exaggerations, saying: "It's not just tens of thousands of taels of silver, maybe there may be more than tens of thousands of taels of silver. The entire public and private ports of Dengzhou Prefecture ranked first. Well, it should be said that Longkou is also the first in the ports in Shandong Province! If you get Longkou, you will get at least tens of thousands of taels of silver a year."
If you have tens of thousands of taels of silver a year, you can naturally do whatever you want, and you can also buy the best position in front of the prince. No, if you have tens of thousands of taels of silver a year, then consider the location in the palace!
Therefore, Xu Jin suddenly became excited, but he still had to grasp it: "Although there are mountains of gold and silver in Longkou, I only have a hundred people in my hands. It is said that inspector Liu was in charge of more than 30 archers and had a patrol team of hundreds of people in his hands, which was difficult to deal with!"
Seeing Xu Jin's heart was moved, Zhou Duda quickly said, "What's wrong with it? No matter how powerful that young master Liu Peng and Liu can be more powerful than Master Longsheng. Who doesn't know that Master Longsheng and Empress Zheng feel most despised the most precious Prince Fu. You came to Shandong this time, but you came here with an imperial edict. No matter how powerful Liu Xiaozhei is, he can still be more powerful than His Majesty's imperial edict!"
Speaking of this, Zhou Duda said again: "Besides, Hengfu Yiwei Department has 1,300 soldiers and hundreds of healthy horses. Now they can be handed over to the Dianshen Commander to lead the eastward!"
Xu Jin was surprised. According to the information he obtained during this period, Hengfu Yiwei Mansion was a powerful force that the entire East Three Prefectures had. In addition to the two camps of Dengzhou Camp and Jimo Camp, the general garrison stations had heavy tasks in Beijing, and their actual combat effectiveness was not as good as Hengfu Yiwei Mansion.
If he could borrow the force of the Hengfu Yiwei Department, there would be no problem that he could not solve in the East Three Prefectures, and he might be able to take more than 100,000 acres of land from the East Three Prefectures.
"Okay, okay!" Xu Jin was very happy: "Xiao Zhou, how could Prince Heng lend me the Hengfu Yiwei Department to use? This is contrary to the ancestral system!"
Zhou Duda immediately said: "Prince Heng has long wanted to deal with Liu Xiaozi, but the time for this year is not right!"
This century-old drought disrupted many plans of the Heng Palace. Originally, the Heng Palace and the Zheng family in Linqing were preparing to provoke a war of raw silk and deal with Liu Peng and Wang Zhidao's coalition forces, but this year the production of raw silk in the entire East Three Prefectures was greatly affected by the drought.
Since everyone tried every means to ensure the normal supply of cocoons and raw silk, the raw silk war could only come to an end without the beginning. Prince Heng prepared countless earth-shaking tricks, but they all failed. He was so angry that he gritted his teeth and placed all his hopes on Xu Jin.
After all, the Hengwang Mansion is now a Wuming army. They can move freely in Qingzhou Prefecture, but they dare not enter the Denglai Prefecture. The King of Laizhou Prefecture even spoke publicly. The Hengwang Yiwei Department does not allow any soldiers to enter Laizhou Prefecture. Once they enter Laizhou Prefecture without authorization, they will be responsible for their safety. The risk of operating in Dengzhou Prefecture is even more of a life-threatening death.
Now that the Fu Palace comes to the East Three Mansions to occupy the village land, it is naturally a famous division. The elite soldiers and generals of King Heng Yi and the Weishi can be handed over to Xu Jin to lead. If there is any problem, Emperor Wanli will help the aftermath. Naturally, it will be foolproof and will definitely give Liu Peng a fatal blow.
Chapter completed!