Chapter 178 How does my governor compare to your emperor? (Please vote for me!)

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August 29th.

Li Cun finally led the Pingnan army back in triumph.

When sixty-two hill-like treasure ships and more than a thousand large ships appeared in the sight of people who had been waiting for a long time in Hangzhou Port, people immediately became excited!

No wonder the people at Hangzhou Port were so excited.

With such a mighty and huge fleet, who would dare to disturb their peaceful life and work from the waterway?

More importantly, this fleet also carried their sage and mighty monarch and the armies that swept across and intimidated all the small countries in the Indochina Peninsula.

Although the people may not be very smart, they are by no means stupid. How could they not understand that a wise and powerful monarch and a powerful army are the guarantee for them to live and work in peace and contentment?

Otherwise, it would be like what happened next door, where the emperor was incompetent and the army was incompetent. A dynasty with unlimited prospects would be manipulated by them as if it was about to be destroyed.

The welcome ceremony was very grand, with drums and pipes played, and tens of thousands of ministers and people lined the streets to welcome him.

Li Bangyan and Wu Min, who had just arrived in Hangzhou, were also "invited" by General Lu to welcome Li Cun and the Huben Army officers in their triumphant return.

Soon after, two horse boats following the largest treasure ship were the first to dock.

Then, two thousand tall and burly soldiers of the Huben Army, all in fine mail armor, disembarked from these two huge horse boats.

Some of them were holding seven-foot-long swords, some were holding battle axes that looked like millstones, and some had two hammers hanging around their necks that probably weighed ten kilograms.

In addition, they all have short axes or hand knives hanging on their left waists, all have divine arm bows hanging on their right waists, and they carry a pot of arrows on their backs.

They stepped off the boat neatly, and then blocked the people behind them in an orderly and polite manner.

Li Bangyan and Wu Min were both scholars who did not know how to fight. Seeing the mighty heavy armored infantry soldiers, they all thought in unison: "No wonder Li Thief is as powerful as he is today. With such a powerful force, he will naturally be invincible in every attack."

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Li Bangyan and Wu Min both thought so, and even more ignorant people thought so.

As everyone knows, when Li Cun went south this time, the rest of the armies more or less achieved some military exploits, but the heavy armored infantry did not achieve any merit.

Well...it's actually unfair to say that.

After all, wherever Li Cun went, heavy armored infantry cleared the way and maintained order, and they did an excellent job as an honor guard.

Therefore, the heavy armored infantry has no merit but also hard work.

Wait for the heavy armored infantry to maintain order.

Li Cun's boat docked and then lowered the gangway.

Then four taller and more powerful heavy armored infantrymen escorted an old man in a crimson robe off the boat.

This old man was dressed in gorgeous clothes, but his face was slumped, his whole body was lifeless, and he looked like he was about to die.

Li Bangyan and Wu Min were on an envoy to the Huben Army this time. As usual, General Lu arranged for a accompanying envoy and a deputy accompanying envoy to entertain Li Bangyan and Wu Min.

And this accompanying envoy was Liu Jie, who had replaced Tian Mao as deputy envoy to Huben Army.

Like Tian Mao, after comparing the Tiger Army and the Song Army, Liu Jie also felt that his cousin Liu Lin was Li Cun's concubine. He and Li Cun were real relatives, and there was really no need to give Tong Guan a hand in the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

They act as errand boys.

So Liu Jie also found an opportunity to escape across the Yangtze River.

Soon after, Liu Jie became an official in the Huben Army under the recommendation of the Liu family who had already defected to Li Cun.

Later, Liu Jie came to Li Cun's side and worked as a writer, helping Li Cun write, draw and so on.

This time Li Cun went south, and Liu Jie followed suit.

Not long ago, Liu Jie came back one step ahead of the rest of the army because he was escorting a batch of important treasures.

General Lu considered that Liu Jie had experience in the Zhao and Song dynasties and was familiar with the personnel in Indochina, so he asked Liu Jie to be the accompanying envoy and asked Liu Jie to find an opportunity to intimidate the Song envoy.

Liu Jie had long seen how the Grand Governor intimidated envoys from various countries in Indochina, so he naturally understood how to complete this task.

At this time, the governor sent someone to escort Li Qiande off the ship first.

Liu Jie told Li Bangyan and Wu Min: "This person is Li Qiande, the deposed king of the deceased Li Dynasty. It was this person who launched a war of aggression against your family when your family was governing the Guangnan West Road and conquered Qinzhou, Lianzhou, and Yongzhou. In the three states of Qin, Lian, and Yong, hundreds of thousands of people were massacred, and tens of thousands of people were captured and returned. Later, your family and the Li Dynasty's neighboring countries such as Champa and Chenla jointly attacked, and also We were unable to capture this man, and he remained at large for more than forty years."

Liu Jie's words are basically equivalent to pointing at the monk and scolding the bald man.

You, the Zhao and Song dynasties, failed to avenge you for more than 40 years. Our Tiger Ben Army captured the culprit as soon as we took over Guangnan West Road.

Make a decision.

Neither Li Bangyan nor Wu Min are particularly honest people.

Therefore, although both of them are extremely good at eloquence, and can even defend three points of unreasonableness, this is on the territory of the Huben Army, and the Huben Army is so powerful, how can they dare not find pleasure at this time?

——What if Li Thief, who kills people without blinking an eye, kills them all with a crooked mouth?

Therefore, in the face of Liu Jie's humiliation, Li Bangyan and Wu Min chose to act deaf and dumb, pretending not to understand the meaning of Liu Jie's words.

Then four tall heavy armored infantry officers escorted the middle-aged man, wearing a bun on the back of his head, loosely dressed in Jibei clothes, with his shins and thighs exposed, and wearing leather shoes, off the ship.

Liu Jie continued to introduce to Li Bangyan and Wu Min: "This person is Yang Bo Madie, the deposed king of Champa City. He was originally an ally of your family. Unexpectedly, as soon as my family took over Qiongzhou, he sent people to rob him, and now he is on fire. You deserve this."

Next, Liu Jie would introduce every person who got off the boat to Li Bangyan and Wu Min.

At the same time, someone will introduce the identities and origins of these people to the public.

Not just noble prisoners of war.

There were also gold and silver jewelry, ivory, rhinoceros horns, pearls, jade, coral, agate, colored glaze, rhinoceros and tortoise shells, which were also moved from several other treasure ships in an endless stream, and piled up like several hills on the shore.

Finally, Li Cun appeared with the support of hundreds of civil and military personnel and guards.

Liu Jie said: "That's the governor of my family. How is he better than the emperor of your family?"

Li Bangyan and Wu Min have already seen that Liu Jie has ulterior motives. How can he answer such a sensitive question?

Then, two to three hundred young and beautiful women with different qualities appeared from behind Li Cun.

Liu Jie took the initiative to speak again: "My family's chief governor is mostly followed by daughters of the exterminated Li Dynasty and Champa royal family, as well as clan and Champa high-ranking goddesses. Now they are all accepted by my family's chief governor."

The look of envy in Li Bangyan's eyes flashed away, but he and Wu Min still didn't speak.

When Liu Jie saw this, he pointed at Shi Honggu and said: "That is Honggu, the head of the Dan family's thieves who beat your family so much that they dare not sail in the southeastern sea. She is also the concubine of my family's chief governor. She is now two months pregnant." .”

Hearing what Liu Jie said, Li Bangyan and Wu Min couldn't hold their faces anymore.

The man who defeated the navy of the Song Dynasty was only allowed to give birth to a child by Thief Li?!

Li Bangyan and Wu Min have never hoped that their Song Dynasty army could gain some momentum so that they would not be so embarrassed.

At the same time, Li Bangyan and Wu Min, two very talented people, saw this scene and invariably remembered a few lines from "Afang Palace Fu":

"After the completion of the six kings, the world is one. The concubines, concubines, princes and grandsons resigned from the lower hall and came to the Qin Dynasty. The chariots came to the Qin Dynasty, and the songs were played at night. They were the people of the Qin palace. Yan and Zhao collected them, Han and Wei managed them, Qi,

The elites of Chu, for several generations, have plundered their people, leaning against the mountains. Once they are no longer available, they will be lost to them..."

The people did not have literary talents like Li Bangyan and Wu Min, so they could only stretch their necks extremely long and stare at these exotic treasures and exotic beauties.

When some people saw that among the beautiful women behind Li Cun, there were women with blond hair, women with brown hair, and even a woman with red hair, they couldn't help but shout.

Many people took a closer look and saw that among these beauties, there were also some very delicate and beautiful women with thick black eyebrows, big deep black eyes, and high nose bridges.

Seeing that people can look like this, some people with little knowledge were amazed, and even more admired their monarch. He was able to conquer these people who looked like ghosts, and dared to sleep with ghosts. It was really amazing.

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There is no way, many people of this era really can't accept Europeans and Arabs, and they even can't accept Indians.

But this is normal. Not everyone has a wide range of hobbies like Li Cun.

When Li Cun stepped down from the gangway, the people spontaneously shouted long live the mountains, and after Li Cun stepped off the treasure ship, they all spontaneously worshiped.

As a result, Li Bangyan and Wu Min were embarrassed, because everyone in the entire port was worshiping Li Cun, but they were the only two exceptions.

Liu Jie saw this and reminded him sternly: "You two don't want to facilitate your emperor's confession?"

Hearing what Liu Jie said, Li Bangyan felt really embarrassed.

If one were to follow the title given to Li Cun by the Song Dynasty, Li Cun would indeed be higher than Li Bangyan, but this would not cause Li Bangyan to pay homage to Li Cun.

In terms of position, Li Cun was just the military governor, while Li Bangyan was the deputy prime minister, higher than Li Cun.

Under such circumstances, Li Bangyan should not worship Li Cun under any circumstances.

But the problem is that although Li Cun now bears the false name of Wu Guogong, that is the wishful thinking of the Song Dynasty. Look at the people in the Huben Army, who has ever called Li Cun Wu Guogong?

I'm afraid that everyone in the Huben Army has already regarded Li Cun and their Emperor Zhao Ji as equals.

The key point is that Li Bangyan came this time with a mission related to the life and death of the Song Dynasty.

Do you want to lose big because of small things?

Li Bangyan secretly gritted his teeth and recited silently, "Those who achieve great things do not stick to trivial matters." Li Bangyan finally paid homage to Li Cun.

Li Bangyan, the deputy prime minister, has already been worshiped, so why should Wu Min hesitate?

Furthermore, the plan of the Zhao and Song dynasty to exchange the Qinling Mountains and the five roads south of the Huaihe River with the Li thieves for the sixteen states of Yanyun and the three states of Pingluanying was proposed by Wu Min.
To be continued...