Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 152 The Conditions of the Eastern Japanese Envoy
Now Su Yuan's prestige and status in the arena is no longer the same.

When he was only in Beifeng Town in the past, he said that he wanted to make an enemy of the Yunshan faction, which also attracted ridicule and curses from all corners of the world.Later, when dealing with the beggar gang, it attracted a lot of doubts, but in the end the beggar gang overturned.

But now, after Su Yuan conquered the capital and Zhou Cheng fled south, everything is completely different.

Now, anyone with a discerning eye in Jianghu can see that it is a foregone conclusion that the Great Zhou and Bei'an will rule the river. Jiangbei belongs to the Qin and Xu states of the Great Zhou, and it only belongs to the Great Zhou temporarily.If Su Yuan wanted to get it, it was as easy as picking something out of a bag.

In this way, half of the Great Zhou Dynasty fell into Su Yuanshu.

Although there are only four states in Jiangbei and eight states in Jiangnan, the surrounding area of ​​Jiangbei is higher in a strategic sense.

In terms of war horse production alone, Qingzhou occupies an absolute position.

Although Jiangnan is a fertile land, the horses that can be produced are inferior to Qingzhou horses in all aspects.In addition, Jiangbei looked down on Jiangnan from a high position, completely occupying the initiative to attack.

Since ancient times, going south is easy and going north is difficult.

Zhou Cheng wanted to attack from the south of the Yangtze River to the north and return to the four prefectures in the north of the Yangtze River, but it would be difficult.

However, if Su Yuan wanted to go down the Qinjiang River and attack Jiangnan, all he needed were some big ships.

Now Su Yuan has no big ships, which makes the states in the south of the Yangtze River feel more at ease.But this peace of mind is undoubtedly only temporary. Who knows when the Bei'an Army will build a big ship?
But if you have wine today and get drunk today, don't worry about worrying about tomorrow... Many wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River are in the mood of muddling along.

Su Yuan holds half of the country in his hand, and there are not many sects in the world who want to tease him, and all of them are Jiangnan sects.

What made the world even more sensational was the collective announcement of the Mobei Sect to join the Bei'an Army.

As soon as this incident happened, the entire world was shocked. It has always been the default rule to separate the world from the imperial court.

In the past, the beggar gang broke the rules and was already shamed by the whole world, but now all the sects in Mozhou have turned to Su Yuan. This is really going to change.

Faced with doubts, the various sects in Mozhou also stated that the Jianghu did not cooperate with the imperial court, and they were talking about the Great Zhou court.But the Bei'an army is different from the Great Zhou court, so it is not considered a violation of the rules.

This kind of sophistry-like discourse naturally won't get much recognition, but no matter whether others admit it or not, it is a foregone conclusion that the Mozhou sect will join the Bei'an army collectively.

In this way, the Qingzhou sect, the capital sect, etc. will inevitably have this trend.

If the entire Jiangbei rivers and lakes had turned to Su Yuan, things would have really changed a lot.

Su Yuan didn't care much about these things, and he didn't have time to care about them, because there were so many people who wanted to see him these two days that they had to queue up.

He just met Gu He yesterday, and today there is an envoy from the Eastern Wa Kingdom asking to see him.

Su Yuan didn't have a good impression of the East Wa Kingdom, which was also related to the fact that the Japanese pirates often harassed Qingzhou and Haizhou in the East Wa Kingdom, and even the ferry in the capital was attacked by them.

In the past, Da Zhou fought against the Eastern Wa Kingdom for this reason, but in the end it was only a [-]-[-] split.

However, when the envoy asked to see him, Su Yuan still wanted to hear what he had to say, instead of meeting him at the teahouse where he met Gu He yesterday.

"The envoy Shimono Ichiro met Prince Bei'an."

The envoy of the Eastern Japanese Kingdom was named Shimono Ichiro. He was short in stature, with thick limbs, and wore a bamboo hat on his head. Da Zhou spoke quite standard.

Su Yuandao: "Messenger of Xiaye, what did you come to tell me from the East Wa Kingdom?"

He wasn't in the mood for small talk, he just wanted to get down to business right away.

Shimono Ichiro said with a smile: "The daimyo asked me to congratulate the prince for successfully defeating Dazhou and occupying the capital."

"anything else?"

"Our daimyo knows that the prince lacks ships, and wants to do business with the prince." Shimono Ichiro said, "The prince also wants to take advantage of the victory and continue to chase after the big Zhou, right? Our Dongwa is willing to send the prince hundreds of small boats to help the prince expand the victory."

Su Yuan raised his eyebrows and said, "Send?"

"Yes."

"Then what do you want?"

There is no such thing as a free lunch in the world, Su Yuan wanted to know what the conditions of the Eastern Wa Kingdom were rather than whether he wanted these small boats.

Shimono Ichiro said: "That's it. If the prince wants to repay, he can give us the Ozu Island in Xuzhou after he conquered Xuzhou."

"Ozu Island?" Su Yuan smiled. He usually looked at the map when he had nothing to do, so he naturally knew the location of the island.

To the east of Xuzhou, [-] miles away from the East China Sea is the Ozu Island. According to book records, this small island has a large area and there are many minerals.The most important thing is that it has a large flat tidal flat, where an overseas ferry can be established.

Such a critical and vital location, if a ferry is built and some warships are stored, it can be attacked from all directions.Go north and go straight to Dongwo, go northwest to Xiali, and go south to Haizhou...

Shimono Ichiro asked, "What do you think, my lord?"

"You still have the nerve to ask." Su Yuandao, "Do you really think that you can exchange such an important small island with some shabby boats? Have your heads been kicked by donkeys?"

Shimono Ichiro immediately changed his face when he heard the words, and said angrily: "You actually insulted our emperor!"

"He deserves to be insulted if he can raise such a condition." Su Yuan said coldly, "Even if I really insulted something, I also insulted the donkey."

"you!"

Shimono Yihe's face turned blue, and he looked like he was about to explode.But he probably also knew that this was Su Yuan's territory, not Dongwa.With his remaining rationality, he only dared to say a harsh word.

"Hmph, the prince of Bei'an is so uncooperative! Then don't blame us Dongwo for not being sympathetic in the future!"

"Go away now."

Shimono Yihe left angrily, and he muttered "Damn bitch" when he reached the door.His voice was low enough, but Su Yuan had internal strength and his five senses were beyond ordinary people, so he heard it immediately.

There was a murderous look in his eyes, and he said, "Kill it."

"Yes."

Mei Jian, who was sitting at another table, suddenly drew his sword and got up, beheading Shimono Ichiro when he turned his head in horror.

"what!!"

The crowd erupted in exclamation, but after some people knew that the dead man was from the Eastern Japanese, they all scolded him for killing him!

At this time, the patrolling Bei'an soldiers arrived, and Su Yuan asked them to throw the corpse to the dogs, while he himself went to find Lu Wuyou.

When he told what happened just now, Lu Wuyou frowned and said, "The small country in the East has always been harassed because of the Great Zhou's reluctance to make a big move. Now seeing the civil strife in the Great Zhou and the rise of the prince, he must think that the opportunity has come and want to To make a fortune out of it.”

"Now the Dongwo people, the people in the south of the Yangtze River, think that I don't have warships, so I can't do anything about them." Su Yuandao, "And this is indeed the truth. Zhou Cheng and his group killed many people who knew how to build ships before they ran. Craftsmen, and destroyed other ships, now we have to build ourselves."

"It's not difficult to build a ship, so you don't need to be too anxious." Lu Wuyou said, "I will recruit skilled craftsmen in this field in the next few days. If you give me a full salary, there will definitely be many people who will apply."

"Well. Don't go to the crossing, we need to make more arrangements during this time."

Su Yuan originally wanted to develop honestly for a period of time, but he didn't expect that the Eastern Wa country wanted to take advantage of the fire to loot.

Now that he has killed the Eastern Japanese envoy, the Eastern Japanese Kingdom will definitely not let it go, and it is estimated that warships will be sent to make trouble soon.

Su Yuan was not afraid that the Eastern Japan would come ashore, but he was worried that the fishermen living in some villages near the ferry would be harassed and killed by Japanese pirates.For this reason, before the warship was built, he planned to deploy more defensive forces at the ferry.

Leaving from Lu Wuyou, Su Yuan thought for a moment, and went to the ferry by himself.

He had come here once before when chasing Zhou Cheng and the others, but last time he came and left in a hurry and didn't observe carefully.

After arriving this time, he checked carefully and found that there were three small villages near the ferry. Most of the villagers were fishermen and they made a living by fishing.

Su Yuan randomly found a dark-faced man dragging a fishing net and asked him about the Japanese pirates.

The man didn't know Su Yuan, and he only thought that the latter was a nobleman. He said with a bitter face: "The group of goddamn Japanese pirates come to harass every now and then. Sometimes they sneak up on the shore at night to burn and kill, and sometimes they don't Come up, but scare away all the fish in the nearby waters, and then laugh at us."

Su Yuan asked: "Did the soldiers of the Great Zhou not care about it?"

The man spat: "Don't worry! Those bastards, I guess many of them are hooked up with the Japanese pirates! Several times when the Japanese pirates came, they happened to be away, and they happened to go to 'change defense'. what!"

"..."

"Fortunately, now that the Bei'an army is here, I guess they won't collude with the Japanese pirates like those Zhou soldiers, right? I heard that the Bei'an soldiers are all targeting our common people."

"Naturally." Su Yuan said, "The Northern An army is here, and the Japanese pirates' matter will definitely be resolved."

Hearing this, the man showed his big white teeth: "That's really good!"

Then Su Yuan chatted with the man for a while before leaving.

On the side of the ferry, Su Yuan had deployed a total of [-] soldiers before. They were here to prevent the Da Zhou soldiers from Haizhou from coming over suddenly, and they could be notified in time if found.

But now, 500 people may not be enough to deal with Japanese pirates.He had heard from men earlier that there were many small Japanese pirate boats, hundreds or even thousands of them, and each boat had six or seven people on it, adding up to a lot.

Su Yuan doesn't like evenly matched contests. He always likes more people to beat fewer people. It's best for one of his own side to wipe out the other side without casualties. This is what he wants to see the most.He thought about it for a while, and decided to build a small barracks here at the ferry, so that enough soldiers could be stationed here, so that if the Japanese pirates dare to come over in the future, they will only have a dead end.

He did what he said, and he immediately returned to the capital to ask people to organize the matter.

The next day, the news that he killed Shimono Ichiro spread, Dongwa was naturally furious at this time, and said that he would definitely retaliate.

Su Yuan didn't care, he let out a word, Dongwo would send people if he had the guts, and send as many people to the sea as he wanted to feed the fish.

Zhou Cheng, who was located in the south of the Yangtze River, was overjoyed when he learned about this, and immediately sent an envoy to contact Dongwo.

Su Yuan was unaware of this.However, these three days passed, and the one-week cooldown ended, and it was time for him to use the Heavenly Soldiers Talisman to summon him again.

(End of this chapter)