Late Tang

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Danya Mountain in the north of Penglai City has been known as "Danya Fairyland" and "Penglai Fairy Mountain" since ancient times.At this time of late autumn, the red leaves on Danya Mountain are long, like a fantasy.Facing north and facing south, surrounded by sea of ​​clouds and surrounded by waves, Qingtuo Mountain, with endless sea and mountain scenery, there are dozens of villas and manors built for officials and rich people.

Among these magnificent manors with carved beams and paintings, the Yingzhou Manor of King Zhao Li Rui is the most luxurious.Yingzhou Manor faces south and faces the sea. Standing on the [-]-foot-high terrace facing the sea, leaning on the railing, overlooking the sea, you will feel the freedom of the sea and the sky, allowing birds to fly and fish to leap.The waves curb the rocks, and the cool sea breeze floats in the air with splashed mist, full of the breath of the sea.

Li Rui likes long robes with big sleeves. He sits cross-legged on a bed and cooks a pot of fragrant tea.But the weather is getting colder, and most of the guests can't stand the sea breeze, so they rarely come here to watch the sea and drink tea.Only Li Rui liked this kind of coldness very much. Looking at the sea from the railing, the sea breeze brought mist on his face, which always made him more awake.

Today, there was another group of people sitting on the manor's viewing platform where no guests had visited for a long time.Like thousands of times before, Li Rui put his hands on the railing and watched the sea from the railing.

He stood quietly by the window, with his toga and sleeves fluttering in the wind, elegant and refined, stroking the white jade railing, facing the dark sky alone, the cold wind howling around him.

Li Jing knelt on the mat, put his hands on his knees, and silently looked at the relegated Eighth Emperor Uncle.Li Rui looks idle and unrestrained, as if full of the demeanor of a scholar-bureaucrat in Jin Dynasty, but the calmness of him watching the sea from the fence makes Li Jing feel that there is a tiger lurking in Li Rui's heart.

In addition to the howling wind in the air, there is the splashing sound of rumbling waves beating on Danya rocks.The atmosphere was a bit dignified, he looked around him out of the corner of his eye, Li Huier and Yu Youniang were sitting there just like him, with their heads bowed and solemn expressions on their faces.On the other side, Yu Yu and Cui Yunqing were patiently frying a pot of tea by themselves as if no one else was around.

"You are simply lawless and messing around!" Li Rui turned around and looked at the three of Li Jing, his eyes were dark and his tone was full of seriousness.

Li Huier raised her head, and said in a coquettish tone: "Aye, it's that Feng Liang who is aggressive. My daughter just couldn't see it, so she took the initiative to teach him a lesson."

"Lesson? Even if Feng Wulang is miserable, it's not up to you guys to teach me a lesson. You guys are really brave enough to make such a big fuss. That Feng Wulang was beaten by you in public, but luckily he didn't hurt him. Viscera, if not, let's see how you guys end up."

Li Rui really felt a little headache about what his daughter and Li Jing had done.He was originally banished from the capital, and he had a job of his own, what he needed most was to keep a low profile.But this daughter is good, usually doting on her too much, so it's okay to show up in public disguised as a man on weekdays, but now she is openly gambling, severely injured Feng Yanqing's nephew, and made Feng Liang He owed a huge gambling debt of [-] bolts of silk.

Li Jing raised his head and said, "Your Majesty, I'm actually to blame for this matter. If I don't accept Feng Liang's provocation, nothing else will happen. But although I injured Feng Liang, it was because he was fighting At that time, the dark crossbow hurts people first."

"You guys..." Li Rui stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Jing and the three of them, but finally he snorted and didn't say any more.

Yu Yu smiled and said: "King Zhao doesn't have to blame the three of them too much. Although the three of them messed around a bit, it was also Feng Wulang who asked for it. Although we want to keep Feng Yanqing in good terms, if They insist on making trouble, so we can't just be afraid of them. Young people's affairs, let the young people make trouble, as long as the trouble is not too much, let them go. If you make trouble, it just stirs up the water Stir it up." After Yu Guan got the order, his whole body became a lot more relaxed.There was also a bit of sharpness in the tone of his speech.

"I'll settle the score with you guys later." Seeing that Li Huier was still winking with Li Jing and Yu Youniang, Li Rui couldn't help saying angrily.

Cui Yunqing distributed the fried soup flowers to everyone, took a sip of tea and said, "I will immediately send someone to send Feng Liang's identity jade back to the Feng mansion, and write a note for Feng Changshi. In addition, the [-] horses Don't mention the matter of silk. You asked Feng Liang for [-] bolts of silk, and others would think that some of us old men were trying to figure out Feng Liang's property."

Li Jing couldn't help feeling a little heartbroken when he heard the teacher say that he would forgive the gambling debt of the [-] pieces of silk.There are still [-] pieces of his silk in it, which is a total of [-] guan.Although he had spent hundreds of dollars before and after, but since he was determined to train soldiers, how could he have too much money.

Cui Yunqing seemed to see what Li Jing was thinking, and said with a light smile, "Don't look like a countryman, it's only [-] pieces of silk. How could we lack such a thing? For this extraneous thing, I got it with Feng Yanqing. It's too big and not worth it. If you're short of money, just tell me straight up."

In Li Jing's eyes, [-] pieces of silk is an astronomical figure, but whether it is for Cui Yunqing, who was born in the largest family in Shandong, or for Li Rui, who is the Tang clan and uncle of the current emperor, or for a family According to Yu Yu, a member of the five Jiedu envoys, this amount of money is really not much.

Take Cui Yunqing as an example, except for the huge family wealth of the Cui family for hundreds of years.Cui Yunqing, as an honorary officer of the second rank, is a de facto governor of the third rank.He has 25 hectares of Yongye farmland, 25 hectares of Xun farmland, and another 150 hectares of career farmland.These three things add up to [-] hectares, a full [-] mu of land.Generally, the yield per mu ranges from two shi to seven or eight dou. Even if an acre of land only produces one shi, it is still [-] shi's annual grain income.If half of it is removed and counted as tenant farmers, seeds, land taxes, etc., there will still be as much as seven or eight thousand shi of grain a year.In addition, Cui Yunqing also has an annual salary of one thousand guan, plus five hundred stones of Lumi.These are not counting Cui Yunqing's other gray income from being an official.As a top official of the Tang Dynasty, Cui Yunqing's net worth is unusually rich.

Eight thousand guan is a lot of money, but to people like Cui Yunqing, it is just a few warehouses of silk or grain, it is purely a number.

What Cui Yunqing and the others are fighting for is power control, as for money, it is not too important to them.Yu Guan was about to be promoted to Fengzhou, and Cui Yunqing and the others' power would inevitably be weakened. At this time, Cui Yunqing did not want to have a fierce conflict with Feng Yanqing because of Feng Liang's matter.

Li Jing is not used to Cui Yunqing and the others' way of fighting. Cui Yunqing and the others like fighting like boiling frogs in warm water. No matter how fierce the fighting is in their hearts or privately, they always maintain a gentle appearance on the surface.Once the fighting becomes fierce, the two sides will immediately take a step back to ease the situation.A bottom line is always maintained, and no one will break through this bottom line, lest the other party be forced to die.

"Teacher, although the students don't have much contact with Feng Changshi, they also feel that this person doesn't seem to have a big heart, and he is quite similar to Feng Liang. The teacher shows Feng Yanqing a concession, I'm afraid this person won't appreciate it. .”

"I know this very well." Cui Yunqing sighed: "But Feng Yanqing is not alone, they are also a very strong force. We and Feng Dou are like two tigers meeting a mountain forest. First, they will roar and threaten each other, and then do their own things. It is a preparatory action for an attack, however. As a result, there is often no real fighting. Often after showing each other's strength, the weaker side will take the initiative to retreat and leave, and the stronger side will never chase. You Do you know why this is?"

"Because the weak side has a chance to narrowly win, but the possibility of losing is greater, so he chose to retreat completely. While the strong side, although the chance of winning the final victory is very high, even if they win, they will definitely be injured by counterattacks. It's impossible not to hurt yourself. Both tigers are jealous, so that's why." Li Jing replied.

Yu Yu smiled: "You're right, but it's a pity that you haven't read too deeply. After the two tigers show their strength, they can't fight. Not only because the two tigers fight, one must be injured. The main reason is that both tigers know , they don’t fight each other because there are more prey that are weaker than each other in the jungle. Since they can easily get other prey, why do they have to fight to the death with each other? It will also be injured. And the injured tiger will have to face the challenges of wolves, leopards, etc., which are originally lower levels. Fighting is to strengthen strength, not to fight, but to preserve strength. Sometimes, not to fight is more important than fighting."

After hearing this, Li Jing seemed to understand but half understood.Cui Yunqing, Li Rui and Feng Yanqing are obviously two fierce tigers. When the two tigers meet, they both want to occupy the mountain forest in Dengzhou.But one mountain cannot contain two tigers, and both tigers want to occupy each other, but they are afraid of each other and dare not fight directly.They yelled at each other and waved their paws, just to show their strength, so as to force the weaker party to leave directly.They were afraid of each other, although they were very close, none of them dared to be the first to really attack each other.

Cui Yunqing and Li Rui are both calm and experienced, but Li Jing always feels that Uncle Feng Liang is not that kind of rational person.The uncle and nephew of the Feng family are always aggressive in dealing with things. Faced with this confrontation, Li Jing always felt that things might not be as Cui Yunqing and the others expected.

"I think it's better for Saburo, the princess and the little girl to go there in person. Let them come to Feng Liang and return the jade bi to Feng Liang, and bring some gifts to accompany Feng Yanqing."

Li Jing didn't know what to say after receiving the jade bi stick.I just secretly look forward to it, hoping that the Feng family's uncle and nephew will really be like Cui Yunqing and the others said, before seeing the strength of Cui and Li's alliance, they will admit defeat and give in.

If not, if the gods fight, I'm afraid he, a mortal, will be the first to suffer.