Lord of the House

People's ambition is something that is hard to tell. The world is in chaos. There is a chance to control tens of thousands of heroes in a town. No matter how big the risk is, there will be people who will not hesitate to take chestnuts from the fire.

In the eyes of everyone in Qingzhou, Huaidong's hard work seems to have ulterior motives, right?

Lin Mengde stood under the long pavilion to take shelter from the rain, looking at the fleet of cars that gradually appeared in the distance, a small smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, thinking to himself: It's fine if you don't listen to the persuasion, let Qingzhou smash his head and bleed, and he won't be in the future. There are so many annoying monsters.

Watching the motorcade arrive in front of the long pavilion, the rain was gradually subsiding, and only some foam was floating. Lin Mengde did not let anyone hold an umbrella for him, and watched Gu Siyuan get out of the car under the horse lantern, stepped forward and bowed: "Young Master This trip is unacceptable, the adults specially asked Meng to come out of the city to welcome him, and I hope you don’t feel that Huaidong is neglected,” and saluted Yang Pu again. Yang Pu did not hold an official position and was a retainer of the Gu family. Lin Fu had always regarded Yang Pu as an elder, and Lin Mengde would not neglect his etiquette in front of him.

Since Gu Siyuan came over in person, in order to prevent the Dongyang system from falling into a split, Huaidong could only give up his previous position and shut up and no longer persuade the people of Qingzhou to withdraw to the south.

Gu Siyuan didn't expect his brother-in-law Lin Fu to come out of the city to meet him. Seeing that Lin Mengde was very respectful, he hurriedly bowed back and said, "Uncle Mengde is going to kill the little nephew..." As a son and nephew, please ask Lin Mengde first. Get in the car and go into town together.

For Gu Siyuan's arrival, Lin Fu and Gu Junxun prepared an empty garden to settle him in the city. The garden is not big, but it is exquisite. The decorations, furniture, and servants, cooks and waitresses in the garden are also Gu Junxun. Zhang Luo personally.

Gu Siyuan's trip was very secret, and leaking rumors would cause unwarranted suspicions in many areas. The chariot team stopped directly in front of the house, and Lin Fu and Gu Junxun waited here first.

Lin Fu was wearing a green shirt and stood in front of the house. Gu Siyuan and others also got off the carriage early and walked over. Lin Bie stood on the steps with his arms in his arms, and said with a smile, "There's a lot of wind and rain. Did Si Yuan and Uncle Yang come over and work hard?"

"Uncle, miss!" Yang Pu has always been the servant of the Gu family, so he naturally greeted Lin Fu as his uncle from a distance.

"I don't think so," Gu Siyuan said, taking two steps behind him, "I'm relieved and excited to see Huaidong's two-year effort to defend the sea wall finally completed. I want to learn from you in Qingzhou. Fan career, this time it was Huaidong's rescue!"

"Of course, if Si Yuan doesn't say it, how can Huaidong stand by?" Lin Fu said, sighing inwardly: He always refuses to let go of his ambition to hold a heavy army!

Gu Junxun hugged his daughter Zhengjun in his arms and said angrily: "Really, I talked about military and political affairs as soon as I saw it. My little sister seems to be an eyesore on the side!"

Gu Siyuan laughed and said: "Xunniang has become a mother, and her mouth is still so unforgiving!" He stretched out his hand and squeezed Zhengjun's pink face, and said, "Zhengjun, shout uncle to listen. …”

"Uncle." Zhengjun, who had just learned to speak, shouted timidly.

Gu Siyuan took out a gift for his niece from his arms. It was a pair of jade bracelets, and Gu Junxun complained that her brother was spending money.

The garden here is only to accommodate Gu Siyuan temporarily, and the dust-cleaning banquet is naturally arranged elsewhere. In addition to Gu Siyuan and Yang Pu, Lin Fu also asked Zhao Qinmin and Zhao Jin to accompany him.

The last time we met, it was during the Huaisi War, and we had been apart for nearly two years. Lin Fu looked at Gu Siyuan's short mustache and looked mature and steady.

Gu Siyuan's performance in Qingzhou in the past two years is also commendable, but his qualifications are still inferior. Even if he inherits Tang Haoxin's political legacy in Qingzhou, he only manages Qingzhou with Du Juefu, Chen/Yuanliang, Zhang Jinxian and others. .

Zhang Jinxian has the least influence in Qingzhou. On the one hand, Ren Tongjue assists Chen/Yuanliang in political affairs. He is regarded as a post-Jin official of the Dongyang family, and is not as deeply rooted in local power as the Du family. Maybe there are also people who are too close to Huaidong. The reason - Du Juefu and Chen/Yuanliang are the two people with the strongest influence on Qingzhou besides Gu Siyuan, and their status is actually not under Gu Siyuan.

Whether it is Du Juefu or Chen/Yuanliang, it cannot be said that they are incapable, but they all have their limitations.

Chen/Yuanliang thought more about promotion and making a fortune. He wished to imitate Qin Chengbo to cast silver into silver **** and hide them in the silver cellar, so he did not compete with Gu Siyuan for his position in Qingzhou. Du Juefu more wanted to increase the Du family's power in Qingzhou, and was very attentive to things such as Jiantutianzhai.

In the past two years, 400,000 taels of silver were distributed to Qingzhou from the lijin collected directly from the Jinhai grain route.

With so much silver, in addition to maintaining nearly 4,000 elite troops, most of the people in Qingzhou fell into their personal pockets and could not be used to manage Qingzhou well. Even the 20,000 transport troops who maintained the smooth flow of the Jiaolai River have only barely made a living in the past two years, living a very hard life and have not been able to participate in the distribution of profits.

At this time, the 20,000 transport troops were hastily organized as pawns, and there were serious shortages of armor, training, and experienced military attachés at the grass-roots level, and the morale of the army was actually unavailable.

At this time, the social contradictions in Qingzhou have not been alleviated in the past two years, and have even become more serious. In addition, the Liang family has been infiltrating Qingzhou and other places unremittingly, and the marriage between Gu Siyuan and the Du family may not even get the full support of the local gentry and tyrants, and the gap is farther from winning the hearts of the people.

Gu Siyuan wanted to rely on Qingzhou to be independent, but he lacked both the foundation and the time. But at this point, arguing and persuasion are meaningless. It is better to hurry up and let Gu Siyuan do more preparations in Qingzhou, so as not to lose too badly in the future.

The longer Gu Siyuan can last in Qingzhou, the more beneficial it will be to Huaidong.

The so-called politics probably exists because of compromise.

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Gu Siyuan and Zhao Qinmin thought they would have to spend more time talking, but they didn't expect that Lin Mengde or Lin Fu would not show an attitude of disapproval since they stepped into Chongzhou City.

Zhao Qinmin was also secretly depressed, don't let Gu Siyuan mistakenly think that he was telling the truth behind his back, and he thought that Lin Buneng changed his attitude, mostly because of Gu Wuchen and Gu Siyuan's tough attitude, and Huaidong had to bow his head.

After the banquet, Gu Junxun took his daughter and left first. Lin Fu invited Gu Siyuan, Yang Pu, Zhao Qinmin and others to talk about things in Dongya.

In terms of terrain, Qingzhou is on the east side, occupying Jinan, the plains, and the Liangjia in the west and south of Shandong. As long as the Liang family does not collapse, Qingzhou is safe, which is also a factor that Gu Wuchen and Gu Siyuan ignore the risks of keeping Qingzhou.

If you want Qingzhou to support it for a longer time, it is too late to implement the new policy. The implementation of the new policy can only make the local gentry forces stand in front of the opposition of Gu Siyuan and others, and exacerbate the unstable factors of Qingzhou. force.

Chongzhou's armor manufacturing capacity has surpassed Jiangning's Ministry of Industry by a large margin, but it is still far from meeting the needs of the Huaidong Army's own expansion. Even if a part can be squeezed out, it is necessary to secretly support the Red Jacket Army - Lin Fu cannot be placed in Huaidong. The fundamental interests of Qingzhou are disregarded, but it is not a problem to support Qingzhou with hundreds of thousands of kilograms of iron materials. Qingzhou needs to organize its own craftsmen to build spears, knives and arrows.

Of course, Gu Siyuan needed Huaidong's support and solidarity even more, to ensure that more Lianghuai salt and silver could be used in Qingzhou.

The Jinhai grain road was cut off, and the Zhecao silver in Jiangdong County was basically withheld by the prefectures. Maybe Zhecaoyin would have another argument after the new emperor was established, but what Jiangning could use to build a defense line against the Donghu people in Hehuai at this time was mainly the salt and silver saved in the two Huaihe Rivers.

Huaidong was on the inner side of the Hehuai line of defense, and after swallowing the folded silver, in principle, he could no longer reach out to the two Huai salt silver. Otherwise, it will appear too greedy and morally passive, and it will also lead to joint suppression by other forces.

Huaidong did not take a penny from the two Huai salt and silver, so he had a position to support Qingzhou for more two Huai salt and silver. Of course, if Qingzhou wanted to share the two Huai salt and silver, he could not hide behind the Liang family.

In the past few days, there have been messengers going between Jiangning and Chongzhou almost every day, repeatedly asking Huaidong for his opinion on the issue of the Hehuai line of defense.

The Liang family also had the intention of guarding the Central Plains, but the Liang family was too greedy earlier. Its power not only included the western and southern regions of Shandong, but also the second son Liang Chengyi also took Hezhongfu as its foundation, refused Tongguan in the west, and advanced eastward along the Yellow River to control Qinyang and Hebi. , Puyang and other areas, if the time is not too short, the Liang family will infiltrate the tentacles deeply into Henan after Chen Zhihu's transfer to the north.

From Hezhong House to Jinan House, Pingyuan House and Linzi further east, the straight-line distance is 13,400 miles wide, including the fronts of the former Zhongzhou County and Shandong County. On the east and west sides of the Taihang Mountains, there are large channels for sending troops: Jinan, Pingyuan, Qinghe and other places must block the enemy troops coming from Yanji and the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, and Qinyang, Hezhong, etc., must block the enemy from southern Jinan. And the enemy army at the western foot of Taihang Mountain.

With only 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers and horses in the hands of the Liang family, there are too many loopholes in trying to hold such a wide line of defense. More importantly, although the area controlled by the Liang family is large, most places have been repeatedly devastated by wars and have extremely poor defensive military potential.

Even if the Donghu people's ability to expand southwards is greatly weakened after controlling Yanji and Jinjun, it will not be too difficult to penetrate the Liang family's defense line.

Jiang Ning and other forces obviously do not want to distribute too much salt and silver from the Lianghuai to the Liang family, so that the Liang family's influence will continue to expand. The Liang family is also aware of the current situation. Let the Changhuai Army, Qingzhou Army or other troops enter the defense.

The threat of the Cao family, and the Hezhong mansion is a relatively complete mansion that the Liang family has not been damaged by the war.

Yuan Guizheng ran and coordinated for the Liang family in Jiangning. Jiangning is currently planning to let Tao Chun lead the main force of the Changhuai Army to retreat to Qinghe and Anyang, occupy the terrain at the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, and block the gap between Jinan and Hezhong for the Liang family.

On the east side, Gu Wuchen hoped that the Liang family would give up to Linzi, and Gu Siyuan would lead the Qingzhou army into Linzi, and then control Yangxin from the north. Together with the Liang family's troops in Jinan and Pingyuanfu, they would jointly bear the pressure from the enemy forces in Yannan.

Of course, whether it is Huaidong or Jiangning, they all want to be able to transfer Chen Hansan to the north. However, when Chen Hansan was sick in Xuzhou, he complained bitterly about the lack of money and food. He occupied Xuzhou and did not leave. No one could help him. At this juncture, no one dared to force Chen Hansan back, and could only let him go.

Over the past ten days of urgent consultations, it was almost formed that Liang Chengyi guarded the Hezhong and Qinyang West lines, Tao Chun guarded Qinghe and Anyang Middle Road, Liang Chengchong guarded Pingyuan and Jinan Middle East Road, Gu Siyuan guarded Yangxin and Linzi East Road, and UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com along the Yellow River A plan for building the first line of defense. On this line of defense, the governor of the state of Lu, Liang Xi, was in charge of military defense affairs.

Hehuai is safe from danger. In addition to the first line of defense, Jiangning also intends to build a second line of defense on the north bank of the Huaihe River.

Chen Hansan guarded Xuzhou, and Zhao'an Red Coat Army guarded Huaiyang, but the area controlled by the former Henan system and envoy was a huge space. Jiangning decided to transfer Dengzhou army to make up for it.

The Dengzhou Army is Jiangning's other way to control the army.

During Li Zhuo's rule of Ji, the Dengzhou Army was the second army that Li Zhuo focused on strengthening in addition to the Jizhen Army.

Hao Zongcheng replaced Li Zhuo as the commander and dispatched the Dengzhou army to land from Jinzhou in the southeastern corner of Liaoning to attack the flank of Liaodong. The Dengzhou army did not play a role, and the main force of the Jizhen army was tragically destroyed in western Liaoning. The Dengzhou army hurriedly wanted to withdraw from Liaodong and pursued it with its tail. The losses were heavy, but more than 10,000 water infantry troops were preserved.

Dengzhou was on the side of Shandong, and at this time Jiangning completely gave up the idea of ​​attacking the Liaodong flank by sea. In addition to the Dengzhou navy still staying in place, it is planned to transfer the 5,000 soldiers from Dengzhou Town to Xuchang and Yanling for reinforcement, and form a second line of defense with Huaiyang and Xuzhou.

The idea of ​​using the two Huai salt and silver to build two defense lines in the Hehuai area is generally the same, but how to distribute the salt and silver, who has more and who has less, is the focus of competition.

Maybe 1.8 million taels of salt and silver every year can recruit 108,000 more soldiers in the Hehuai area, but in Lin Fu's view, these two lines of defense are full of loopholes and have no foundation, and they are intrigued and wary of each other. Even hostile, it is impossible to form a complete defense system.

Once Donghu can concentrate 100,000 troops, attack it all the way, and lose all the way, it may lead to the collapse of the entire Hehuai line of defense. But in the current situation, this four dissimilar things is the only solution that can be compromised and accepted by each company in the short term. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter