Chapter 223 Marriage 1

Li Qi is very depressed.

The words he had prepared were useless, because no one listened to him.

Zhang Shicheng is gone, leaving only one Lv Zhen. This Lv Zhen is not difficult for herself, but he is not the master at all. Every time he talks to him, he always says, "Let's wait for my eldest brother to come back."

"When will your eldest brother come back?"

"I don't know, my eldest brother is busy!"

Li Qi is about to collapse. He doesn't look down on people like this. He is a dignified Gaoyou governor, and he is also a court officer. He comes down to find the leader of the rebels, but he still doesn't see himself!

He wanted to leave, but he couldn't leave, so he had to wait like this. He felt Zhang Shicheng's attitude towards him. Li Qi was a little up and down in his heart. He couldn't do this job at all. One lion opened his mouth, and the other was an iron rooster. It was difficult for him to match from it!

Li Qi really wants to say that he can simply give up the position of Gaoyoufu Yin. This job is really not easy to do.

On the fourth day, Zhang Shicheng finally appeared in Xinghua City.

"I'm really sorry to let Lord Li wait for a long time. I have been busy with family affairs and didn't come to listen to Lord Li's teachings. Please don't be surprised." Zhang Yang said.

Originally, he was full of anger, but Zhang Yang's words made Li Qi not angry again. This was so decent that he meant that he was a subordinate, and Li Qi's anger also subsided.

"I don't know what kind of family affairs Mr. Zhang has?" Li Qi asked curiously, but then he immediately regretted the question. What are you doing with other people's family affairs?

"Oh, I'm getting married soon." Zhang Yang said happily. In order to prepare for the marriage, I was so busy that I didn't have time to write an invitation to Lord Li. It was tentatively scheduled for the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. At that time, Lord Li, remember to come!" He spoke as if he were a family.

Li Qi's pupils are enlarged, wedding? I'm afraid I have to back up the "benefit". Before anything is negotiated, I have to give the other party a generous gift first. If it's a good friend, it's all. The person in front of me can't wait to skin him and turn up the Gaoyou Mansion upside down. Finally, I'm really unwilling to persuade this person.

I thought so in my heart, but there was a smile on my face. Li Qi said happily, "Mr. Zhang's wedding is a big event in our Gaoyou Mansion. At that time, I will definitely bring my friends from all walks of life to congratulate Mr. Zhang. If Mr. Zhang is willing, the old man is also willing to be Mr. Zhang's wedding master."

"Thank you, Lord Li!" Zhang Yang also said with a smile.

Zhang Yang was in a good mood when he could squeeze out Li Qi's oil: "I don't know if Lord Li is here this time, is there anything important?"

"Well, it's not for the last time." Li Qi seemed to talk to his old friend: "Mr. Zhang, you can't agree to your requests!"

"Oh?" Zhang Yang raised his eyebrows and said, "That's my minimum requirement. Otherwise, wouldn't it be too bad for me to do it so vigorously and not give some rewards?"

Bright? The more you are like this, the faster you want to kill you. Now let's be arrogant.

"Sir Zhang, you don't know that the province has been very tolerant of Mr. Zhang's measures. This is a crime of killing the head. The province has agreed to appoint Mr. Zhang as Yin of Xinghua County and Taizhou Yin. This is a great favor of the province. I hope Mr. Zhang will accept the commission of the province. I will work for the court in the future. Li Qi finally decided to go straight in. These are the conditions. Whether he can agree or not has nothing to do with himself.

Zhang Yang's mind turned around, asked for a lot of price, and paid back the money on the ground. In fact, he didn't let go of other places, just let himself have a legal identity. Now the occupied Xinghua and Taizhou are occupied, but other places are no longer let go. Just agree?

Do you want Li Qi to run a few more times and then daw around a little bit, or just agree?

"Since the province insists on doing so, I accept the conditions of the province to manage Xinghua and Taizhou for the province, so that the people can live and work in peace and happiness." Zhang Yang said.

Hearing this, Li Qi couldn't help but be happy that his errands were over so soon?

"However," the word Zhang Yang made Li Qi's heart rise in his throat again.

"But what?"

"Xinghua's salt farm is also mine."

"This is natural." Anyway, I can't get it back. It's yours for the time being.) However, my salt can't be sold.

"This..."

"The province must agree that the salt of my salt farm can be sold directly in the province without the approval of the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Department."

Li Qi was dumbfounded. He put forward this condition last time. This time, he took it out again. He no longer wanted the land and began to ask for the right to sell salt. How could this be possible? The Lianghuai Salt Transportation Department is not under the jurisdiction of the province.

"This seems a little difficult." Li Qi said.

"I have given up Gaoyou, Baoying, Hai'an and Tongzhou. I have made the biggest concessions. Lord Li, please tell the province that if you want to recruit surrender, please show some sincerity!"

"This... I'll try it!" Li Qi said.

It's really time to show some sincerity. The other party made concessions. In the negotiation, both sides made concessions, and both sides were very happy. Although the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Company certainly disagrees, you can find a compromise.

After completing part of the negotiation task, Li Qi immediately went to Yangzhou again.

Zhang Yang looked at Li Qi's distant back with a smile on the corners of his mouth.

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, there is still more than half a month left. Although it is a happy day, Zhang Yang doesn't mind and uses the blood of the Tatar to add a little red color to his happy day.

In the past few days, Tianque is constantly being equipped into the team, and the soldiers are also in intense training. They all know the great power of Tianque. In order to avoid elimination, they have become spear soldiers again. They are training in the team's combat effectiveness is rapidly improving.

The big wedding is the time to take away Gaoyou! The team has been trained into elite soldiers, and the division of fields in the west of Taizhou and Xinghua has also been completed. These places will be firmly in their own hands. The end of the year is approaching, and there is a hypnosis of peace talks. The defense of the defenders in various places must be very relaxed. As the saying goes, soldiers are not tired of cheating, which is a good opportunity! At that time, if people like the governor Li Qi come to celebrate for themselves, it's just the same pot. If they don't come, they will have to be caught in Gaoyou House.

"Your Excellency, the subordinate finally persuaded Zhang Shicheng to live up to his mission this time." Li Qi returned to Yangzhou and immediately went to meet Zhao Lian, a political counselor in the province.

"Well, well done." When Zhao Lian heard that Li Qi's recruitment was successful, he was also happy, "Did Zhang Shicheng agree?"

"Yes, at first, he also wanted more from Gaoyou, Baoying, Tongzhou and other places. Under the lobbying of the subordinates, he finally agreed and accepted the arrangement of the province to serve as the Yin of Xinghua County and the Yin of Taizhou Prefecture, and no longer ask for other land."

"Well, Zhang Shicheng is also very sensable. The person who knows the current affairs is Junjie. I have a little heroish with him." Zhao Lian said.

Do you deserve to be a hero? You always push me to the front. Why don't you negotiate with Zhang Shicheng in person? Li Qi thought dissatisfiedly, but said with a smile, "Yes, my lord, this Zhang Shicheng will hold a big wedding on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. Do you want to go lively?"

Marriage? Zhao Lian's heart moved, "Well, the end of the year is approaching, and there are still a lot of business to do, so I won't go. By the way, I will prepare a generous gift for him. At that time, you can bring it to me. At that time, it is estimated that the official appointment document of the court will come down, and he will also be regarded as double happiness."

"Your Excellency, this Zhang Shicheng has some other small requirements." Li Qi continued, just as Lord Zhao was happy to see how to deal with this matter.

"Say it, what he wants to do, let's try our best to satisfy it."

"The salt farms in Xinghua also belong to him. He thinks that the salt produced in these salt places can be legally sold throughout the province."

"Of course, he belongs to the court, and the salt farm belongs to the court. Of course, it can be sold legally." Zhao Lian said that he had forgotten it in the past few days. In fact, Li Qi had already mentioned this matter to him last time.

"Your Excellency, what he means is to bypass the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Company and sell it directly by yourself." Looking at Zhao Lian's appearance, Li Qi knew that he did not understand. Now the sales of salt are sold by the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Division. After the salt merchants bought the salt introduction, they went to the salt farm to support the salt and trafficked to the destination indicated on the salt introduction. In the whole process, the salt farm had no silver to take, and the fat was the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Division. Zhang Shicheng will definitely not do this kind of thing. The Lianghuai salt transportation department got the silver, and the salt merchant went to his salt farm to support the salt, and he would definitely not be able to support it.

"This is impossible. If we agree, the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Department will not let us go, and the court will not let us go. Isn't this the sale of private salt?" Zhao Lian said.

"Your Excellency, I also know that this matter is difficult to do, but this is Zhang Shicheng's only requirement. If we are not satisfied, I'm afraid he will not agree to Zhao'an. Besides, didn't Zhang Shicheng just like the salt farm? As long as he is allowed to guard the salt farm and make money, it is estimated that he will stay honestly and stop messing with us. Li Qi said.

It makes a lot of sense to say that. Why do so many people rise up? Isn't it because there is no money that you can't live? When they have money, they will guard the money, be honest, and settle down Zhang Shicheng, which is also a problem close at hand. However, how can we solve this problem? The court will not agree!

"Your Excellency, I have thought about it for a long time and think that we don't have to answer this problem. If he wants to sell it, let him sell it well. However, this range is first limited to Xinghe and Taizhou. Slowly, it can be expanded to Gaoyou. Anyway, the output of those salt farms is not very high. At most, let him sell it to Taizhou East. In a few places, in this way, the resistance is much smaller. Li Qi said.

Anyway, Xinghe and Taizhou are also other people's. He can sell whatever he wants. Lianghuai Salt Transportation Company can't control it. At most, plus Gaoyou and the eastern areas of Taizhou, his salt is sold enough, which greatly Simplified the difficulty, and there are also above. Explain.

Zhao Lian pondered for a moment. If he wanted to recruit, he had to agree to the other party's request. "Well, I agreed to the other party's request for the time being."

When the army led by You Cheng came back, everything would be fine.

Li Qi breathed a sigh of relief that his leg was about to break. This matter was finally settled. This year can finally be spent safely.

"Euncle, if you are the only relative of Ruohan, it's up to you to decide this marriage." Liu Ruohan blushed and said to Liu Tongyu.

"Ruohan, if your father were alive, it would be great to see the day you got married, and your husband is still such an indomitable hero." Liu Tongyu said with emotion.

Speaking of his father, Liu Ruohan's eyes were also a little wet. His father had a hard life. Before he could enjoy a day's blessing, he died of injustice. Brother Shicheng avenged his father. Since then, she has regarded herself as a member of the Zhang family.

"Look at me, this happy day is coming soon. Why do you say this?" Liu Tongyu said, "I have discussed with Shicheng's mother that the wedding date is set for the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. It is a good day of dilapidated and a new one. Your descendants are just the same, and the five elements match. The location is set in a large house in Xinghua City. At that time, the team to welcome the relatives will start from Xinghua, beat gongs and drums all the way to the village. Then send you to Xinghua City with an eight-lifted sedan chair. The running banquet has been prepared there, and you can eat it for about two or three days. The dowry is also ready for you, and it's all in the outer room. Liu Tongyu said.

"Euncle, we are not a big family. We don't have to be so grand, do we? It's a little too wasteful." Liu Ruohan said. In fact, every girl is looking forward to getting married in a beautiful way. However, as a child of an ordinary salt household, Liu Ruohan never thought that her wedding would be so grand.

"This is what Shicheng means. Now Shicheng is a big shot. Naturally, he has to do something big to meet his current identity." Liu Tongyu said.

In fact, Zhang Yang doesn't care how big the show is, and Liu Ruohan doesn't care. It's the happiest thing for people who love each other to be together. What Zhang Yang yearns for most is not to have a wedding at all, but to take his fiancee to travel to Sanya, Hainan to get married. However, once a person is in a high position, some things can't be only by their own surname. What's more, I'm afraid that Hainan is still a sparsely populated place. Zhang Yang is now the actual controller of Xinghua County and Taizhou. The wedding is too poor and will be despised by others, and the impact is imperceptible. Moreover, the biggest reason is that only by making the wedding so loud that the people around you can pay attention to it, there is a greater chance to take down Gaoyou.

Liu Ruohan looked out of the window. The cold wind blew the branches, and the withered yellow leaves were already falling one after another.

Brother Shicheng is not in the pool. I have seen it for a long time. Otherwise, how could I fall in love with him? Now, the two have a close marriage and are about to get married. They are born in the Zhang family, and the death is the ghost of the Zhang family.

"Wow." Suddenly, a stream of sour water rippled in her stomach, and she wanted to vomit. She covered her mouth with a silk handkerchief and tried her best to calm the uncomfortable feeling.

"What's wrong? Ruohan?" Liu Tongyu asked.

"It's okay. Maybe it's a little infected with wind and cold. Just take a rest." Liu Ruohan said.

"Brother, the land in Taizhou has begun to be distributed in an orderly manner. Before the end of the year, all of them can be allocated according to five mu per household, and hundreds of mu of military fields can be left." Li Shanchang said.

"The land of Xinghua has been allocated, and all of them can be sown at the beginning of next spring." Shi Nai'an also said.

The government of Xinghua is now full of people. On both sides of Zhang Yang are Li Shanchang and Shi Nai'an, followed by the commanders of several battalions, and then down are the centurion of the base camp and several confidants from the salt field.

This is a high-level military conference, and all the core figures attended the conference.

"Big brother is getting married soon. This is our top priority now." Shi Xin said aside.

"Yes, yes, congratulations, big brother." The rest of the brothers also said.

"This is a private matter, so don't mention it." Zhang Yang said with a smile.

"Now the province has made the eldest brother Xinghua County Yin and Taizhou Yin, which can be said to be a double happiness." Shi Xin then said carelessly.? Tang He's face suddenly changed. For such a long time, although he was not born in the salt farm, Tang He has long been Zhang Yang's confidant, so he asked directly: "Brother, the purpose of our uprising is to fight the tars. How can we join the tars now? Did you also become a little sesame official of the tars?

Hearing Tang He's words, even Shi Xin, who loved to talk nonsense, closed his mouth. This was simply questioning the eldest brother. This is the following crime!

Zhang Yang didn't care at all. Tang He had been guarding Taizhou and didn't know the inside story at all. His question proved that he hated Tartars, which was a manifestation of loyalty.

"Today, we are here to call everyone for this matter. I am appointed as Yin of Xinghua County and Yin of Taizhou Prefecture. It is just a stopgap measure. Our observance is to drive the Tartars out of the Central Plains. This purpose will never change!"

"That big brother still..." Tang asked puzzledly.

"It's very simple. Everything is just to buy time. Since the tars want to play negotiation tricks with me, let's play with them." Zhang Yang explained that these things must be explained clearly, especially to the senior generals of the army. Once they have a misunderstanding of themselves, they will divide their own strength. If not, they will also throw stones at their feet.

"We have occupied Xinghua and Taizhou. What we need most is time to digest these territories. At this time, if the province wants to recruit me, then I will negotiate with them. Whether it is done or not, we can always delay the time. Especially after attacking Taizhou, we have obtained a valuable blacksmith. The problem of insufficient production capacity of Tianque has been alleviated. Yuanheng, how much is your fourth battalion equipped with Tianque?

"Brother, I report that all three hundred-man teams have changed their clothes. Now, even if the Tartars come to attack Taizhou, I'm not afraid." Bian Yuanheng said.

"How is the combat effectiveness? How is the shooting level? Zhang Yang then asked.

"Brother, don't worry, the shooting assessment of the 200-step fixed target was just carried out the day before yesterday, more than 20 people were eliminated, and it was added from the remaining two hundred-man teams. According to the eldest brother's training method, anyone who is not qualified will have to be eliminated, and those who stay will become a sharpshooter." Bian Yuanheng said.

"All I need is a force with combat effectiveness." Zhang Yang said, "Next, there will be a new test waiting for everyone."

(to be continued)