Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Needless to say, "General Shi" Shi Yong, Ximenqing handed over the territory of Daning Town to him for development.

Now that Shi Yong is in charge of the affairs of Daning Town, who doesn't respectfully address him as "Master Shi Yong" wherever he goes?

Everyone's respect made Shi Yong, who is quite narcissistic and arrogant, feel happy.

When huge pieces of jade were mined out, Shi Yong's eyes lit up, and his mouth was filled with joy.

The "prodigal son" Yan Qing is different from the rough man Shi Yong, he doesn't care about the respect and love of the rough men in the town.

There are so many people in Beijing Daming Mansion Brothel and Jinti Club who love Yan Qing, what scene has Yan Qing not seen?

The admiration of several village girls and women is really not worth mentioning to Yan Qing.

Chapter 838 The Song People Are Calculating

The "prodigal son" Yan Qing now holds a position in Daning Town, which is equivalent to the art director of later generations, responsible for jade carving and processing.

Under the meticulous training of Lu Junyi, a wealthy businessman in Beijing's famous mansion, Yan Qing is worthy of the name "prodigal son".What is he best at?It's not sumo, it's not hand crossbow, and it's not Kung Fu with guns and sticks. It's eating, drinking, playing, singing, writing and painting.

In other words, Lu Junyi trained Yan Qing to be an excellent cultural hooligan, and Yan Xiaoyi knew the rich people's preferences and appreciation level best.

Although Ximenqing also brought a lot of jade carving craftsmen, they all have superb craftsmanship, but these craftsmen can't grasp the minds of wealthy businessmen and big households!

Therefore, they all had to ask Yanqing to tell them what kind of objects the jade embryos in their hands should be carved into, so that they could be transported to Beijing Daming Mansion and Tokyo Bianliang City to sell for a lot of money.

Judging from the operation of the past few months, Yan Qing's skills are indeed extraordinary. After his guidance, the jade jewelry carved out has become a sought-after item in major cities for ladies, jaspers, and even courtesans in brothels.

As for those large jade ornaments, they are also loved by officials, merchants and wealthy households everywhere, and they are actually very popular.

Xu Wen even deployed a special fleet for this purpose, going back and forth between Posu Road and Dengzhou, and continuously transporting the produced jade products back to Song Dynasty for sale to various places.

Of course, sea merchants from countries such as Korea and Japan also purchased some jade products from Posu Road to return to China.However, there are not many rich people in these two countries, and the demand for jade is far less than that of the rich and powerful merchants in Song Dynasty.

Jiang Jing, the "magic fortune teller" who was in charge of managing the port and market transactions on Posu Road, often spat on the ground, calling the businessmen of Korea and Japan contemptuously poor ghosts, and he had to haggle for a few pieces of jade, dragging his heels for half a day.

After meeting with Shi Yong and Yan Qing, Ximen Qing knew that everything was normal in jade mining, processing and sales, and a stone in his heart fell to the ground.

The pieces of jade in this mountain are not stones, but the army, guns, fleet, and food of the officials of Ximen Qing!

Seeing that everything was on the right track, Ximen Qing asked Shi Yong and Yan Qing to continue to increase manpower and expand jade mining, production and sales.

Ximenqing knew in his heart that in a few years, the Song and Jin countries would break out in a war.

At that time, under the chaos of war, jade articles as luxury goods will not be so easy to sell.Moreover, once he had a bad relationship with the Kingdom of Jin, the jade mining here would also be forced to stop.

Therefore, now you can dig as much as you can, and Ximen Qing wants Shi Yong to spare no effort to mine all the high-quality ore veins that are easy to mine.

After arranging the jade production, Ximenqing left Daning Town and led the team back to the territory of Posu Road.

As soon as he returned to Ximen Fort by the Yalu River, Ximenqing received information from Lu Xiaoyi and the others, and learned that Chao Gai, Wu Yong, and Dong Ping walked together to Hei, and followed Xiao Qian, the king of the Fourth Army of the Liao Kingdom, to Luzhou. The state of Xi was established on Longling.

The intelligence also shows that "Ruyunlong" Gongsun Sheng was too deeply involved in Li Chuwen's rebellion, and was suppressed by Xiao Qian, the king of the Fourth Army of the Liao Kingdom.

Wu Yong and Chao Gai betrayed Gongsun Sheng, and led a surprise attack on Erxian Mountain in Jiugong County, Jizhou, and took away Zhenren Luo and his Taoist temple who supported Li Chuwen.Gongsun Sheng, who was in Erxian Mountain, was not spared either.

After Ximenqing read the information, he sighed in his heart, Wu Yong is indeed the insidious villain who likes to assassinate his brothers the most, and he actually betrayed Gongsun Sheng.

Those remaining scumbags in Liangshanpo can no longer stay in this world.Gotta figure out a way to get rid of them.

Now that they know they are with Xiao Qian, there is always a way to count those bird people.

Ximenqing thought about it carefully. In history, it seems that after the Jin army withdrew from Yanjing City and the Song Dynasty took back Yandi, then Xiao Qian led the troops to attack the Yanjing area and started a big battle with the Song army.

If history has not changed, Chao Gai, Wu Yong, and Dong Ping will definitely become the vanguard of Xiao Qian's attack on Yandi!

How about helping Du Chong, the prefect of Cangzhou, make new contributions this time?

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After Ximenqing made up his mind, he decided to return to Shandong and Hebei to handle the matter secretly, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Song Xi war to get rid of Chao Gai and others, so that the Liangshanbo bandits would completely withdraw from the stage of history.

Of course, Ximen Qing and Wanyan Wulu are newlyweds, so it is impossible for them to leave for the south immediately.

Ximenqing and Wanyan Wulu had been lingering for half a month, and after inspecting the territory of Posulu back and forth several times, he brought Jiao Ting and Yue Fei across the Bohai Sea by boat and returned to the territory of Song Dynasty.

When Ximen Qing went all the way south from the prairie, Jin and Song were also negotiating like a tug-of-war.

When the Song envoy Zhao Liangsi arrived in Yanjing City with the expectations of Song Huizong and Taiwei Tongguan, Wanyan Aguda sent someone to meet Zhao Liangsi.

The visitor told Zhao Liangsi what Wanyan Aguda had said, that the previous agreement was that the two countries would attack the Liao Kingdom, but after he captured Yanjing City, he did not see a single soldier from the Song army.

Moreover, in the previous negotiations, it was never agreed to hand over the three prefectures of Ping, Ying, and Luan to the Song State.

Now Song Guo insists on Pingzhou, which shows that Song Guo has no sincerity to negotiate, so Jin Guo will not even hand over the city of Yanjing to Song Guo.

Moreover, because Yanjing was brought down by the Jin army, it should belong to the Jin country.It's just that the emperor Wanyan Aguda wished to make friends with the Song State for generations, and was willing to cede Yanjing to the Song State.

However, the condition for Jin Guo to hand over Yandi was that the land of Yandi belonged to Song State, but the taxes and taxes belonged to Jin State, which was used as compensation and reward for the Jin army to enter the customs and attack Yan.

Zhao Liangsi saw that the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Aguda, had a firm attitude, so he had to ask to see Wanyan Zonghan, who had discussed "The Alliance at Sea" with him.

Zhao Liangsi remembered that Wanyan Zonghan was very friendly to Song Guo back then, so he placed his hope of negotiation on Wanyan Zonghan.

However, after Wan Yan Zonghan learned of Liu Yanqing's defeat, he had already contemptuous of the Song Dynasty and the Song Army.In fact, he was one of the main generals who opposed handing over the Yanyun area to Song.

When Zhao Liangsi asked Wanyan Zonghan whether it was really impossible for Ping, Ying, and Luan to be returned to the Song Dynasty, Wanyan Zonghan replied firmly to Zhao Liangsi that the three states of Ping, Ying, and Luan would never be handed over to the Song Dynasty.

Wanyan Zonghan and others pointed out to Zhao Liangsi that Song Guo wanted to return to Pingzhou with all his heart, but he wanted to use Pingzhou as a gateway in the future to isolate Jin Guo to the north of Yanshan Mountain and no longer communicate with Jin Guo.

Therefore, in order to prevent such unpleasant things from happening in the future, Jin Guo will definitely not hand over the three prefectures of Ping, Ying, and Luan.

After seeing Yan Zonghan become so tough, Zhao Liangsi and other envoys of the Song Dynasty knew that there was no hope for Ping, Ying, and Luan prefectures.

In fact, Song Huizong's monarchs and officials insisted on taking back Pingzhou, with the idea of ​​keeping the Jin army out of the pass.

However, the golden army lieutenant generals are numerous, and Wanyan Aguda is also a generation of heroes, how can he fail to see through this calculation of the king and ministers of the Song Dynasty?

Wanyan Zonghan and others pointed out to Zhao Liangsi face to face that they hoped that the state of Song would treat each other with sincerity and stop playing tricks in the exchanges between the two countries.

However, would Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty have such awareness?

Chapter 839 Don't hesitate to pay the price

Seeing that there was no hope of taking back the three states, Zhao Liangsi found Wanyan Zonghan again the next day, and said to him: "Mr. Lang, let's not discuss the ownership of the three states. But after Yanjing was taken back by my Song Dynasty, the local taxes will be collected by your country. Isn't that reasonable?"

Wanyan Zonghan replied: "Originally, our country did not want Yanjing to pay taxes, but the Yan land was obtained by our soldiers and horses from the Kingdom of Jin, so there is such a request.

Our country does not force your country here. If your country agrees with our plan, it will give you the land in Yanjing, but the local taxes will belong to our country.