Xiaoqi

Judging by the outfit of the Second Young Master Yuan, it seems that he came directly to Zhen's Mansion from the military camp, and he must have set off last night; it is no wonder that he is so angry because he stays awake day and night.To meet is to be destined, listen to my good advice, young master should pay more attention to rest, this is the way to prolong life.I don't know if the young master thinks so? "

"Don't worry, my son is in good health!"

Inexplicably, after Yuan Xi heard the words of the person in front of him, not only did his anger not disappear at all, but he became even more angry, but he couldn't vent it, which made him very uncomfortable.

But he is by no means a stupid person. After seeing the smiling man across from him enter the lobby, everyone in the Zhen family was silent, and these people looked calm, no longer nervous and restrained like before. Even Zhen who was sitting on the main seat Shi is no exception, as if this person is the head of the Zhen family.

Seeing such a situation, Yuan Xi naturally knew that the smiling man in front of him was by no means an ordinary person, at least he held a lot of weight in the minds of the Zhen family and was very popular.

"Is this person Zhen's concubine?"

Looking sideways at the smiling man opposite, tall, burly and handsome, Yuan Xi suddenly had such an idea in his mind.

"Who are you, and what is your last name?" Yuan Xi asked suspiciously with a gloomy expression.

Li Li smiled lightly, and said: "I'm Zheng Feng, whose name is Wenchang, is the cousin of the Patriarch of the Zhen family. This time I came to Jizhou to visit my cousin. I didn't expect to meet the second son of Yuan. It's a pleasure to meet you. However, I have one thing If you don’t know, please tell me bluntly.”

"Tell me, my lord is listening!" I heard that the man was Zhen's cousin.Yuan Xi's anger eased a little, and he replied in a deep voice.

Li Li nodded slightly, and said: "Since that's the case, I'll be blunt. As far as I know, the ancestors of the Yuan family and the Zhen family in Zhongshan have some friendships, and they often communicate with each other. They can be regarded as family friends. If this is the case, the young master Before coming to Zhen's residence, your father should have told you to be polite when you meet Zhen's parents. Don't be rude. I wonder if that's the case?"

"What on earth do you want to say, don't dawdle, just say what you have to say!" Yuan Xi said in a deep voice with a bad tone.

The smile on Li Li's face quickly subsided, and he said in a deep voice: "So, I'm not wrong. The Yuan family and the Zhen family really have some friendship. If that's the case, the second son Yuan should know that Mr. Zhen is of the same generation as your grandfather. Your father, Yuan Shao, had to call him Uncle Zhen when he saw Old Zhen. But you called Old Uncle Zhen just now. It’s ridiculous, don’t tell me you are the same generation as your father, and you are called brothers?”

A few words made Yuan Xi's face blush, but Li Li didn't give him a chance to defend himself, and suddenly scolded: "The Yuan family claims to be a family of officials and eunuchs, with four generations and three generations. Students and old officials are all over the world. Could it be that you are taught to be so ignorant of etiquette?" What kind of dandy! Even if you are young and ignorant and don't know etiquette, that's all. But why can't you control even a servant, and dare to roar wantonly in the hall of Zhen's family!

What kind of master is there, what kind of slave is there, a nest of snakes and rats, working together, it's chilling!I have to say that the performance of Second Young Master Yuan and the servants really opened my eyes and gained insight.It is the misfortune of the people of Jizhou, and the shame of the princes of the world, that Jizhou is such a beautiful river and mountain, but it is occupied by such stupid pigs as you and others! "

The scolding in one breath made Yuan Xi, Feng Ji and the others turn pale, blushed, and had to bow their heads.

Li Li was extremely happy and felt very comfortable.Just now Yuan Xi yelled at him, but he didn't retaliate. Instead, he greeted him with a smile and talked without haste.When the anger of Yuan Xi and the others faded away, he grabbed Yuan Xi's previous braids and sternly reprimanded him, scolding Yuan Xi and his party so hard that they couldn't lift their heads, their faces were livid, they were panting like a cow, and their lungs were about to explode. up.

As Li Li said before, meeting is fate, but when he met the Yuan family, it was both fate and enemy.

It is better not to meet, and it is better not to meet.

There is no distinction between right and wrong, and there is no affection at all in the struggle of princes for hegemony. It is not a personal enmity, but it is better than a personal enmity.The reason is that this is the so-called irreconcilable situation.The world of the Han Dynasty is so big that it cannot tolerate so many ambitious and unwilling princes. Unless the other party is willing to bow his head and become a minister, he will be the enemy of life and death. He will never die and will never stand side by side.

As far as Li Li was concerned, right now he was going to compete with Yuan Shao for the support of the Zhen Family Consortium. In terms of geographical advantage alone, he was inherently at a disadvantage and had almost no chance of winning.However, under the blessing of the heavens, he happened to meet the Zhen family caravan on the way to Jizhou, and rescued the Zhen family's mother and daughter, forming a good relationship with the Zhen family, and thus established the basis for negotiation between the two parties.The most important thing is that the Zhen family is optimistic about him. The daughters of the Zhen family have a good impression of Li Li and his party, and they formed an in-law relationship, prompting the two parties to enter into a substantive negotiation, which is expected to succeed.

However, at a critical moment, the Yuan family suddenly came to borrow food. If there was nothing wrong with it, Li Li would never believe it.From his point of view, Yuan Shao, who was leading the army to exterminate the Black Mountain bandits, must have heard the news of the Zhen family transferring money and food, so he sent Feng Ji to borrow food.It's called Borrowing Grain, but it's actually testing the reality of the Zhen family, to see if the Zhen family really has a different heart and wants to transfer the huge family business to other states and counties outside Jizhou.

As the overlord of the princes and princes occupying Jizhou, Yuan Shao is absolutely capable of ascertaining the sudden events happening in various counties and counties in the territory at the first time, and the slightest disturbance will be transmitted to his ears.If he can't do this, it proves that he still can't completely control the whole territory of Jizhou.

Just like Cao Cao in Yanzhou and Yuan Shu who tried to occupy Yuzhou, they could not completely control the entire prefecture and county, but could only occupy some important cities.Because of this, the states and counties they occupy are constantly plagued by bandits and bandits are rampant, forcing them to spend a lot of energy, financial, material and military resources to quell the bandits as soon as possible and eliminate the bandits roaming around in the territory.

Compared with the predicament of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others, Li Li can be regarded as a foresight. When the whole territory of Xiliang was pacified, he started to form the county army.The soldiers of Xiliang County do not participate in the war, but are only responsible for guarding the city, maintaining law and order, eliminating banditry, and reclaiming land.At the same time, Li Li formed more than a dozen main battalions of Xiliang's hundreds of battles, which were specially responsible for attacking the city and guarding the border.In this way, the county government soldiers and the main battle battalion have their own duties and duties; as long as there is no full-scale war in Xiliang, but only a local war, the counties and counties will hardly be affected, and the people can still live and work in peace and contentment without being attacked by soldiers. Misfortune.

In other words, if the princes from all walks of life in the Central Plains could firmly control the entire territory like Li Li governed Xiliang, then Li Li would never dare to travel to the Central Plains, and he would not even dare to take half a step to the border.Because this kind of travel is no different from sending him to death. As long as he dares to step into the rule of the princes of the Central Plains, he will be discovered within three days.

Therefore, Li Li chose to travel to the Central Plains at this time, precisely because the situation in the Central Plains was chaotic, and the princes from all over the country had not yet eliminated the banditry in the territory, so they could not control the whole territory.And he just wanted to take advantage of this vacancy to sneak into the Central Plains secretly, and then travel around the world, making preparations for the pacification of troubled times in the future.

The trip to Zhongshan was undoubtedly an unexpected gain for Li Li.If the Zhen family can be persuaded to relocate to Chang'an, and more than half of the Zhen family's money and food can be brought under Li Li's rule, it will undoubtedly be a booster development for Xiliang, which is vigorously restoring people's livelihood and revitalizing the economy, and will greatly ease Xiliang. The current situation of the empty treasury is to save money and food to prepare for the war.

Just before Li Li and the Zhen family entered the lobby to meet Yuan Xi, he was already [-]% sure of persuading the Zhen family to support him and transfer the Zhen family consortium to Xiliang.Later, when he found at the entrance of the lobby that the oldest, most senior, and most prestigious member of the Zhen family, Mr. Zhen, was very displeased with Yuan Xi, he knew that the opportunity had come; could he completely tie the Zhen family to his side? On a chariot, success or failure depends on it.

As long as there is a way to make the Zhen family and the Yuan family conflict, it is best to turn their faces completely, then it will be difficult for the Zhen family to stay in Jizhou.Once the Zhen family is forced to evacuate Jizhou, the western capital Chang'an is undoubtedly their best choice; otherwise, they can only move to Jingzhou and Yizhou to gain a foothold.It's a pity that there are local clans in these two prefectures and counties that firmly control the most profitable goods trading. It is difficult for the Zhen family to get in halfway, and it is difficult to gain a foothold, let alone develop. go down.

In contrast, Chang'an is different.All businesses in Xiliang are waiting to flourish, and they are worried that there will be no big merchants with strong strength and many business channels to supplement them. It is undoubtedly the right time for the Zhen family to enter Xiliang at this time.Use the strong financial resources and trading channels of the Zhen family to speed up the circulation of goods, buy the goods squeezed by the people, and let them get benefits.

Only in this way can Xiliang truly develop and enter the track of rapid development, and then get rid of Xiliang's plight of poverty.Of course, the Zhen family consortium alone cannot restore Xiliang’s commercial transactions, but as long as the Zhen family is the leader, more merchant families will increase investment in Xiliang in the future; Under the driving effect, Xiliang can gradually become prosperous.

The wish is beautiful, but it is not easy to actually implement it.

What Li Li has to do now is to intensify the conflict between the Zhen family and the Yuan family, take advantage of Ju Yi's rude words and the signs of Mr. Zhen's dissatisfaction with Yuan Xi, to quickly expand the conflict, anger Yuan Xi, and make him go berserk, and then everything will happen naturally.

Li Li, who had already planned in his heart, scolded Yuan Xi severely, then he stood up, bowed slightly to salute the Zhen family and the Zhen family members, then turned around and was about to leave.

Chapter 447

"stop!"

Seeing that Li Li was about to slip away after yelling at him, Yuan Xi hurriedly got up to block Li Li, and said angrily, "Son Zheng Feng, you have repeatedly humiliated me and insulted my ancestors of the Yuan family, and now you still want to slap your ass!" It’s wishful thinking to leave! To tell you the truth, none of those who insulted the ancestors of my Yuan family is still alive, and you can’t even think about walking out of the gate alive today!”

Li Li, standing face to face with Yuan Xi, was half a head taller than Yuan Xi, so that Yuan Xi stood in front of Li Li at first, and when he spoke, he suddenly realized that he was not as tall and strong as Li Li in terms of height and physique.So when he sternly reprimanded Li Lizhi, he couldn't help but take two steps back, so as to widen the distance between the two sides.

"You want to kill me?"

Li Liwei squinted his eyes, looked down at Yuan Xi coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Master Yuan is so angry that he wants to kill me, or is he trying to kill me to vent his anger? Why are you so sure that you can kill me? Why? Based on the slave of the Yuan family next to him who wanted to choose someone to devour, was it the five hundred soldiers outside the mansion, or the total of more than 1000 soldiers in the city?

If that's the case, I would like to advise you, don't clamor to kill others at every turn, otherwise you will not only be unable to kill others, but will take your own life on the contrary.It's okay to frighten ordinary people with the cowards around you, but it's not worth mentioning in front of me.You know, if I were to kill you, it would be easier than crushing an ant.

That's all for now, believe it or not.Good dog out of the way, get out of the way! "

After finishing speaking coldly, Li Li looked at Yuan Xi with great disdain, and then walked towards Yuan Xi.

Seeing Li Li's cold and sharp eyes, Yuan Xi couldn't help but tremble all over, and involuntarily took a few steps back again.This moment.The arrogance of being the son of the Yuan family kept him from stepping aside, and he still gritted his teeth to stand in front of Li Li.It's just that his trembling legs betrayed his pride, showing his timidity in the face of Li Li's constant approach and his fear of death.

"Don't be alarmed, second son, Ju Yi is here!"

Just when Yuan Xi's legs were shaking, there was a clear sound of a halberd shaking from the lobby, and then a black figure jumped out quickly, and a black iron halberd blocked Li Li's way.

After the man stood still with the halberd, everyone in the hall suddenly saw Ju Yi in armor holding the halberd with both hands, protecting Yuan Xi behind him, but he didn't make a move immediately.

Li Li and Ju Yi stood opposite each other.There was only three steps between the two sides. If the halberd in Ju Yi's hand was pointed directly at Li Li, then the halberd was right in front of Li Li's chest at this moment.Seeing Ju Yi holding the halberd horizontally, Li Li asked calmly: "You are Ju Yi, the commander-in-chief of the [-] first ascended soldiers. You are good at martial arts. You are very fast. But I don't understand why you didn't Shot?"

"Fight alone. Someone never sneaks up on someone from behind. Today is no exception!" Ju Yi looked at Li Li solemnly, and replied in a deep voice.

Li Li nodded slightly, and said approvingly: "Very good, you are indeed a good man who came out of Liangzhou. He is bloody and responsible! I take back all the words that I despised you before. Because you are an opponent worthy of respect!"

After a brief pause, Li Li's expression returned to calm again, and he asked in a deep voice, "Yuan Xi wants to kill me, so do you want to do it for him?"

Ju Yi said without hesitation: "It is a matter of loyalty to the emperor. A certain is a general under the leader of the Yuan League. This time he was ordered to protect the second son. Now that the son wants to kill you, he must obey. But he can see that you must not You are not an idle person, but you are also a person with high martial arts. If so, I will fight with you without other people intervening!"

"It seems that you are very confident in your martial arts, but I heard that in the battle of Jieqiao, you were defeated in [-] rounds by a young general in white robes under Gongsun Zan's command. I wonder if this happened?" Li Li wondered. Ask impatiently.

Ju Yi's expression changed slightly when he heard the words, and he said, "It's true, but it's not the case. On that day, a certain white horse Yicong, who led the way to the camp to besiege and kill Gongsun Zan, met Zhao Yun, a young general in white robes. Just like today It’s the same as you and me. The first camp led by a certain soldier was all infantry. I blocked Zhao Yun on foot and fought with him for 36 rounds. In the end, I was not as fast as the horse under his crotch. He rushed out of the encirclement and escaped. In terms of martial arts alone, Zhao Yun is highly skilled in martial arts, and he is indeed a formidable opponent in his life; but if I had a mount at that time, it would not be so easy for him to get away with his body."

"I see." Li Li nodded lightly and asked, "Do you want to fight with me today, on horseback or on foot?"

"Naturally, it's an infantry battle inside the mansion." Ju Yi responded casually without any hesitation.

"Ju Yi!" At this moment, Yuan Xi suddenly said sharply: "Ju Yi, listen to me, this is not a front-line fighter! This thief has repeatedly humiliated me, and insulted my father and the ancestors of the Yuan family. Young Master ordered you to kill him immediately, don't worry about other things!"

"Boom presumptuous!" Seeing that Yuan Xi wanted to get rid of Li Li quickly, the Zhen family, who had never spoken a word, jumped up and said angrily: "Yuan Xianyi, you are too arrogant! Where do you think my Zhen's house is?" , how can you allow you to do whatever you want and run wild! Zheng Feng is my cousin, you want to kill him in front of me, do you really think my Zhen family is weak and can be bullied?"

"This,,,,,," Yuan Xi's face immediately darkened after hearing the words, and his eyes towards Li Li became more and more vicious, but he was speechless to Zhen.At this moment, he was certain in his heart that this Zheng Feng must be Zhen Shi's concubine, and Zhen Shi kept talking about his cousin, clearly trying to cover up and deceive himself and others.