Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 300
Yu Wenhua stood on the west gate tower of Tongding City with a jug of spirits called Dragon City Flying General, blowing a strong cold wind, and the more he drank, the hotter he became.

Luo Cheng left with his three thousand soldiers, and now Tongding City finally belongs to him, Yu Wenhuaji.

Three thousand town soldiers took over the defense of Tongding City, but he always felt weak.

Prefect Li Jing also left, so now Tongding City is almost an empty city, except for his [-] town soldiers, there is no one else.

On the contrary, Xiangping New City, which is 1 miles away, is in full swing. Not to mention that Luo Cheng led [-] county soldiers to garrison there, and he also brought more than [-] civilian husbands there. In addition, Li Jing recruited many businessmen, and there A bazaar was set up to trade various materials.Even many Hu merchants who originally wanted to go to Huaiyuan to do business now went there directly to do business.

The pot of Dragon City Flying Generals worth a thousand dollars in his hand was bought from there by his subordinates.

Li Jiancheng sat behind him with his arms hanging, while his good hand was grilling the meat.

"This dragon city flying general is really not cheap. A pot of wine is only half a bucket, but it sells for thousands of dollars." Li Jiancheng said while roasting the mutton. Because his hands were not healed, Li Jiancheng did not move to Xiangping New City. Tongding county government took office.

"I heard that the brewer only sells this wine for five hundred, but those profiteers dare to sell it for thousands after changing hands."

Yu Wenhuaji cursed those profiteers with a bit of drunkenness.But in my heart, the most uncomfortable thing is that I didn't control the wine.In the past, the largest share of the border market transactions on the west side of Liaoning was controlled by him, Yu Wenhua and his brothers.Whether it is tea or silk, horses or slaves, ironware, wine, medicine, etc., he has a monopoly.

The transaction in Huaiyuan Town alone every year does not know how much profit it will bring him.

But Xiangping City has not been built yet, but Li Jing's market has greatly affected the border market in Huaiyuan Town, which is still three hundred miles away. It is no longer considered a border market, and Xiangping has become a new border market.

A new market appeared, which affected his interests in Huaiyuan City, but he couldn't control the new city market.Because of that damned Xiangping Border City, it is now controlled by several major army leaders.

Among them, Li Jing, the prefect of Liaodong, was the most powerful and accounted for the most, followed by Luo Yi, the head of the first army, and Song Laosheng, the head of the second army.

And because he had a bad relationship with Li Jing and Luo before, the two gave him Tongding City and built a new city. He got an empty city, but they built a cornucopia.

Although most of the merchants from the Central Plains who supplied goods to Xiangping New City still had to be transshipped from Huaiyuan, he could also get a lot of profit from it, but he could only drink soup when he saw people eating large pieces of meat.

"Junior Lieutenant, although you bought this wine from a profiteer, I heard that the person who made it was Na Luocheng."

"you sure?"

"What's uncertain? Although Luo Cheng's work is relatively secretive, and he has turned his hand several times in the middle, it is not that difficult to find out. This wine is brewed by Luo Cheng. Liaobianbao and Xiangpingying are brewed. In his two military camps, Fang directly used the wine made from sorghum transported from Huaiyuan. Although he didn't know why he could make such good wine from sorghum, it was true. Luo Cheng used soldiers in the barracks The auxiliary soldiers brewed wine, and then sold it in batches to Luo Yi, Song Laosheng, and Li Jing's subordinates at a price of three to five hundred yuan per bucket. This change of hands, everyone earns a fortune, everyone is happy."

Precisely because there is money to be made, no matter whether it is Li Jing, the prefect, Luo Yi, or Song Laosheng, they are all covering up for Luo Yi's wine making.

If not, even though Luo Cheng is a newly promoted Marquis of Xiangyang, he has no roots, so why can he guard such a cornucopia of cash cows?
"That old man Li Jing." Yu Wenhuaji scolded.

If it weren't for Li Jing's intentional protection of Luo Cheng several times, how could he endure it until today.The old guy sent someone to deliver a few times, making it clear that he wanted to cover Luo Cheng, saying that he had already accepted Luo Cheng as a disciple.

Li Jing's name is there. Although the Li family's family background is not as good as the three rich Li families, Li Mu, Li Hu, and Li Bi, they are still quite powerful.

After all, those who can become the generals of the Twelve Guards are not idle people. Although his father is favored by the emperor, that is his father.In Liaodong, he didn't dare to confront Li Jing on his own, let alone Luo Yi who was also protecting Luo Cheng.

Yu Wenhuaji turned his head and glanced at Li Jiancheng's hanging arm.

"Da Lang, have you never thought about taking revenge for the broken arm?"

Li Jiancheng turned over the roasted mutton dripping with oil, "It is not a gentleman not to take revenge."

Having his arm broken, of course Li Jiancheng would not let it go. In fact, he had written several letters to his father Li Yuan.He didn't have the ability to bring Luo Cheng down, so he could only ask Li Yuan for help.In addition to complaining, he also tried to trick his father to find a way to cut off Luo Cheng's ordnance supplies.

His father is now Wei Weiqing, who accompanied the emperor in Zhuo County, and was in charge of the ordnance supplies for the millions of troops on the Eastern Expedition.

"It's not enough to just cut off his ordnance supplies. That idiot doesn't go to the front line to fight now. He is now Liaodong Juncheng. When the army comes over, this idiot may continue to be his county magistrate in the rear. At that time So what if there is no military supplies?" Yu Wenhuaji gritted his teeth, with Li Jing and Luo Yi taking care of Luo Cheng, he alone in Liaodong has no good way to deal with Luo Cheng.Especially Luo Cheng still has 6000 troops under his command. If he really wants to work hard, his [-] town soldiers can't beat them.

"We have to find a way to let Na Luocheng cross the river."

"Crossing the river?" Li Jiancheng asked.

"Well, but He has no chance. There are Li Jing and Luo Yi, two immortals. Just the two of us can't kill this bastard Luo Cheng. Think of a way, let your father and my father speak to the emperor, and send Luo Cheng to do it." Pioneer. Didn’t the army set off on the first day of the first lunar month? It will take at least a month or two before the army arrives from Zhuojun, so Luo Cheng will cross the river first.”

Although Yu Wenhuaji is only a lieutenant of Liaodong County, his father is Yu Wenshu.

It is useless for him to speak to the emperor directly, but if his father speaks to the emperor, the emperor will listen to it in all likelihood.

Here, he can't beat Luo Cheng, there's nothing he can do about it, but as long as his father says something, Luo Cheng can cross the river. There are 15 Goguryeo troops on the other side of the Liao River. 15 people?

After Yu Wenhuaji went back, he wrote a letter to his father, asking his father to take this anger out on him.

He rushed back to Zhuojun in a few days, but Yu Wenshu just smiled after reading the letter.

It was just a nonsense among young people, but Yu Wenshu dotes on this son the most, how can he be allowed to suffer such a big grievance outside, isn't he Luo Yi's step-heir, Li Jing is optimistic about the young man, what is it? .

When he was accompanying the emperor in the palace that day, Yu Wenshu took the time to mention Luo Cheng, a young man, to the emperor, saying that the army would officially go out in a few days, so why not let Luo Cheng, a brave young general who performed well in the battle of Tongding City, lead his headquarters as a forward , Before crossing the Liaohe River, go out to scout the enemy's situation.

"Crossing the river? Is it too early?"

"It's not too early, and a million-strong army is about to go out. It's time to send a forward to cross the river. Although this Luo Cheng is young, he is brave and good at fighting, and he has the style of Luo Yi."

Emperor Yang Guang always had great faith in Yu Wenshu. After listening to his suggestion, he just thought about it and said, "Okay, then make Luo a general of Huya Lang, grant the seal of General Liao Pioneer, and make him command the troops and horses of the headquarters. On the first day of the first month of the eighth year of Daye, cross the river and enter Liao!"

(End of this chapter)