Chapter 65: When the South Returns to the Heavens
A little boy, eager to learn. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
This is Li Qin's label for Liu Renliang right now, and it is also the image he sees with his own eyes right now.
In Li Qin's memory, under the name Liu Renliang, there is such a file:
Liu Renliang, the word is regular, Han nationality, civilian background, cautious and studious, first joined the army for Xizhou, and then transferred to Chencang County Lieutenant and Xianyang County Cheng - this is originally a plain resume, and the county lieutenant and county Cheng are all small officials with a big sesame seed, and they are not amazed by the world.
But then......
When the stars of Zhenguan gradually dissipated their brilliance, Liu Renliang bloomed quite brightly.
At that time, Goryeo and the Tang Dynasty were at war, and Liu Renliang joined the army under Su Dingfang. Baekje in the south of the Korean Peninsula helped Goryeo and became an enemy of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Gao sect sent Su Dingfang to pacify Baekje, and ordered Liu Renliang to take Fangzhou to assassinate the history of the school and lead the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion.
In the second year, the old generals of Baekje, such as Daochen and Fuxin, established the late prince Fuyufeng as the king, raised troops against the Tang Dynasty, and besieged Liu Renyuan in Fucheng. Yoo In-rail led his army to the rescue and repelled the besieging Baekje army.
At this time, Su Dingfang conquered Goryeo and besieged Pyongyang but did not conquer it. Due to the unfavorable situation of the war and the heavy snowfall, the Tang army withdrew from Pyongyang, and Liu Renliang asked himself to stay behind and wait for the fighters, and finally broke through Jinhyeon City with Qice and opened up the grain route with Silla.
Its famous demeanor is a little more expressive.
After that, the war situation in Liaodong Korea continued. In the third year, the king of Baekje, Fuyufeng, suspected Fuishin's struggle for power, killed Fushin, and asked for help from the Wa Kingdom.
Wa Koshiki and others led more than 20,000 people to attack Silla.
Liu Renliang led the fleet to meet the attack, and met the Japanese army at the mouth of the Baijiang River, and the Tang army won all four battles, burning 400 Japanese warships, and even the sea was red.
Fuyufeng escaped, and his sword was seized.
As a result, Liu Renliang left a heavy mark in history.
"The first war between China and Japan, the first general to resist Japan!" This is the original impression of Liu Renliang in Li Qin's impression.
When memory and reality meet, the two merge together, and Liu Renliang finally becomes: a studious person, a famous general who can be cultivated.
However, here is his future.
And now, he still needs to learn and experience.
He has a lot of potential, but whether such potential can be transformed into strength depends on himself.
Thinking of this, Li Qin's joy at winning another good general faded a little, and he turned back to his place and started working again.
Everything is back on track.
After docking at Dongping for half a day, the fleet set off and slowly headed south along the calm and calm canal.
Two days later, when the boat arrived in Liuxian, Li Qin's two uneasy apprentices, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, came to Li Qin to ask for his resignation: "Master! We've decided to travel the world. ”
"Travelling? Is that any good? I think you should sink down and do something down-to-earth instead of wandering around the world. I'd love to nurture you. Li Qin looked at the two wild boys standing in front of him, who were very eager to try, and suddenly sank his face.
Li Qin is not a person who thinks out of his mind, what he is more accustomed to doing is to develop step by step.
For Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong, who are so unstable, he really doesn't like it.
He knew that the two of them had made some progress in their current kung fu, but ......
"It's still too immature." Li Qin sighed in his heart.
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling didn't know how to read minds, and although they saw Li Qin's slightly furrowed brows, they didn't think too much about it. The pride and ambition of the rivers and lakes and the urge to do something big on their own made their observations a little rougher.
In response to Li Qin's advice, they only refuted it with a resolute face: "Master. I feel like we want to grow and we need dangerous circumstances to stress us. Under the blessing of the Master, we are not under enough pressure and have not grown fast enough. We hope to be able to become stronger faster and better help Master. ”
"Really?" Li Qin was a little puzzled.
He saw the resoluteness on the faces of Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong, and understood that they had already made up their minds.
"In that case, go and travel." Li Qin thought about it for a while, and finally decided to let it go.
The twisted melon is not sweet, which is one of them; Li Qin also happens to have some things that they need to deal with, and second.
Li Qin knew that they were the children of the world in this plane, and he also understood that the so-called sons of the world were actually the biggest-stirring sticks in this world.
Since they are going to do this, it is better to let them try their luck.
Li Qin thought about it, and took out two stainless steel tokens carved with colorful glaze from his arms and handed them to Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong: "This is the token of the Ice Jade Pavilion, you can take it to the Ice Jade Pavilion in various cities to ask for help - if there is an Ice Jade Pavilion in Chengli." In addition, this token can be used as proof of your identity. I hope you will go to the Pegasus Ranch for me if you have time, and say that I am going to buy 5,000 war horses. ”
"Five thousand? Master, are you going to make a big move? Kou Zhong suddenly became excited when he heard this.
"Big moves, but not necessarily. It's just a matter of planning ahead. Things are basically done in the east, and the Sea Dragons have already bowed to me. Yun Yuzhen still has some skills, and she has contributed a lot to this matter. Now I can deal with the threat from the west and north with all my might. Li Qin chuckled and shook his head, he looked at Kou Zhong, who was very interested in this: "Xiao Zhong, you don't want to stay and help me, do you?" Hehe, forget it. Be a qualitative person, since you plan to travel the world, then ignore my side for the time being. If there's anything urgent, I'll let someone from the Ice Jade Pavilion inform you. ”
"Okay!" Hearing Li Qin say this, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling both nodded and agreed.
They left, disembarked from Liuxian and headed southwest.
Li Qin continued on his way, and finally returned to Dangtu six days later with the harvest of this trip north.
This trip to Dongping, back and forth only for more than half a month, when Tu everything in Li Qin's opinion has not changed much, but these new cities, which are very different from any place in the Great Sui world, are quite shocking to Wang Tong and his clansmen who accompanied Li Qin to the south.
After they settled down, they enjoyed a "package" reception like Yun Yuzhen and the others at the beginning. Especially after knowing that the output of Li Qin's steel mill and the improved salt farm was so amazing, Wang Tong and his entourage had a lot more confidence in Li Qin.
They stayed in peace. Wang Tong went to Xiangshan the day after the clan settled down and began the investigation.
And with the addition of Wang Tong, a world-famous Wenzong, literati from the Jianghuai generation gradually began to join Li Qin's command.
At the beginning, it was still a relatively pure reader, the kind of guy who didn't know politics when he read literature. They came here, and after Li Qin also gave them a set meal, he put them under Wang Tong's hands. These are people who can be gentlemen, but not officials.
But later, as some confidential information about Li Qin spread in Jiang Zuo's generation, some "political" figures with speculative ideas also began to defect to Li Qin. These people are not well-known, and their abilities are average. Li Qin took them in one by one and sent them to the training hall for special training of officials. After educating and assessing them, they were sent to Danyang, Yuhang, Biling, Wujun, Huiji, Xuancheng, Xin'an, Sui'an and other places under their control, so that they could start from the most basic village officials.
Time flies, and half a year has passed in a blink of an eye.
The development of Li Qin's side is proceeding in an orderly manner.
Although his power further expanded and he completed the goal of the first phase of expansion that he had planned, because he did not touch the prefectures and counties, he only made trouble outside the city, and he used another name, and he himself fought with it from time to time, so his various movements did not arouse the suspicion of Jiangdu.
In Jiangdu's opinion, Li Qin, the general of Danyang Town, is still nesting in his territory, doing his own thing.
Yang Guang, who was in the deep palace of Jiangdu, didn't even know the news that Li Qin had advanced to the rank of grandmaster.
Under this step-by-step preparation, the thirteen years of the great cause gradually passed.
At this time, the major events in the world, in addition to Li Yuan's opposition to Sui and the capture of Chang'an, was that Li Mi killed Zhai Rang and completely mastered the shocking change of the Wagang Army.
After killing Zhai Rang, Li Mi undoubtedly became the most powerful person in the world, and was also considered to be the most likely person to replace the Sui Dynasty to win the world.
However, only a few wise men understood that Li Mi had already planted the seeds of defeat for the Wagang army.
After all, the Wagang Army was established by Zhai Rang, and although his methods were not as good as Li Mi's, he did not make any big mistakes.
Li Mi killed him, which undoubtedly made Zhai make the people in this department feel uneasy and even resentful. Even if this resentment does not break out now, if there is a chance in the future, such resentment will definitely make Li Mi suffer.
Of course, these are all changes in the Central Plains and the Northwest.
And such a change has no impact on Li Qin.
At the moment, Li Qin is concerned about two things:
Du Fuwei captured Gaoyou, approached Jiangdu, and cut off Yang Guang's return to the north.
Yang Guang of Jiangdu has completely lost his ambition, he feasts and drinks in the Jiangdu Palace every day, and lives a drunken life and dreams of death. The Dugu Valve and the Yuwen Valve have already controlled the inside and outside of the Jiangdu Palace. And the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who guarded Jiangdu couldn't bear to miss their hometown and began to flee.
For both, Li Qin maintained a close eye on them.
To this end, he began a new round of army expansion, expanding the army to 65,000 people, and forming four military towns: Shenji Town, Nanling Town, Xin'an Town, and Sui'an Town.
Nanling Town is an infantry town with 4,000 troops. Xin'an Town and Sui'an Town are both mountain towns, with 3,000 troops each.
The Shenji Town is a military town with pure firearms, and its organization is the same as the Shenji Battalion of the Ming Dynasty, with a number of 5,000 people, equipped with flintlock pistols that use paper shells to set ammunition, platoon robbers, and improved Furlong machine guns.
And just when Li Qin was further consolidating his foundation, a not very good news came, and the Iron Cavalry would march eastward and enter Xuancheng County.
"What's going on?" Li Qin was a little surprised.
He knew the news of the Iron Riders, but he didn't expect the Iron Riders to be so bold.
In fact, as Li Qin's power expanded westward and southward, entering Xuancheng County, bordering Jiujiang County and Poyang County, he inevitably encountered challenges from the Iron Cavalry Society and the Poyang Society, which also wanted to expand their power.
The two sides attacked frequently in Xuancheng County, and fought several times in succession, and both sides suffered casualties on both sides.
The people of the Poyang Society had some good to say, but they just occupied the place, and they only expelled Li Qin's subordinates;
And the Iron Riders are much more fierce. They organized a caravan of horses to attack the villages controlled by Li Qin, and killed and plundered everyone in the villages as soon as they got their money.
Li Qin suffered heavy losses as a result.
"Hmph, will the Iron Knight think I'm weak and deceitful?" Li Qin was annoyed by this.
In order to deal with the Iron Cavalry, he even had plans to send his military town to Xuancheng County.
He began to mobilize his troops.
However, just as Li Qin began to prepare to send troops, the news came that Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong had assassinated Ren Shaoming.
The-stirring stick that Li Qin put in Jiangnan began to work.
"Whew...... These two boys are doing a good job. That way, I can finally have a good year. Li Qin thought.
Ren Shaoming of the Iron Riding Club died, and although the Iron Riding Club would not disappear, it was also chaotic for a while. Li Qin happened to transfer the masters of Nanling Town and the Giant Kun Gang to Xuancheng, which strengthened the strength there.
In this way, in March of the fourteenth year of the great cause, a major event happened.
Yu Wenhua and launched a mutiny in Jiangdu, killed Yang Guang, plundered Jiangdu, and prepared to return north.
"Jiangdu mutinied, Yang Guang died, Jiangdu was in chaos...... I want to send troops north! Li Qin knew the news of the Jiangdu mutiny on the same day, and he quickly gathered his men and prepared to send troops.
"But under what name?" Su Dingfang first raised his own question.
"Don't you understand the name? Avenge the first emperor! Li Qin said as a matter of course.
Yang Guang died, and the title of the first emperor could naturally be used on him. This is very clear.
"General Su didn't mean this! It's about our future banner...... Yang Guang is dead, and we should also make our name openly. Shen Luoyan explained on the side.
"You can ask the old man about this!" Li Qin waved his hand indifferently: "Call the establishment or something, we can all let it go first, the key now is ...... We must quickly cross the river and go north, dry Yu culture and a shuttle. ”
"Why do you want to go to Jiangdu...... It was too close to Duvoy's territory. I'm afraid that we are fighting here, and Du Fuwei is running to be a yellow finch over there. With our current strength, even if we defeat Yu Wenhua, we will not be able to stand firm in Jiangdu. Su Dingfang did not agree with this. He felt that it was not cost-effective to send troops to Jiangbei.
"First, we need a righteous name that will attack Yu Culture and allow us to obtain this title and gain legitimacy for our rule over the Eight Counties;
Second, we must give Du Fuwei a deterrent and let the world know that we have entered;
Third, our current development requires a large number of people and labor...... We need to get these from Jiangdu, where even if the population is not a million, but hundreds of thousands are at least;
Fourth, we need to take down the craftsmen and ministers from Yu Wenhua and his hands. These are talents. ”
Li Qin said his reasons without thinking.
"In other words, this battle is for Liwei, population and talent?" Su Dingfang held his chin and thought for a while, feeling that what Li Qin said was not wrong.
"And how many people are you going to take with you?" Su Dingfang asked again.
"I'm going to bring the four towns of Dangtu, Saddle, Shenji, and Cavalry. There are 20,000 people here, plus the water army in Huyang Town, I think it's completely enough. Surprise is the primary key to this troop dispatch. Li Qin said thoughtfully.
"Who will accompany the army?" Su Dingfang asked again: "Let me go too?" After so many years here, I feel a little rusty. ”
"You...... Shen Luoyan and Mao Zao, let Li Jing stay behind and co-ordinate. Li Qin thought for a moment and made a decision.
"What? Let Li Jing stay? Is this appropriate? Su Dingfang was a little surprised: "Li Jing has joined us for less than a year, right?" ”
"No problem, he has the strength." Li Qin made a decision.