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Dezhou is the northwest gateway of Shandong, located between Hejian Province and Jinan Province, and its location is important because of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal of the Chu Dynasty started from Hangzhou, Zhejiang in the south and reached the capital of Zhili in the north. Running through the north and south, it passes through the five major water systems of Haihe, Yellow River, Huai River, Yangtze River and Qiantang River, and flows through Zhejiang, Nanzhili, Shandong and Beizhili provinces, with a total length of more than 3,000 miles.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this Grand Canal is the "lifeblood of the Chu Dynasty".

The places that pass through the canal are all important towns of the Chu Dynasty, not to mention Xuzhou, Huai'an, Zhenjiang and Yangzhou in the south, and Tongzhou, Tianjin, Cangzhou and Dezhou in the north......

Dezhou is known as "Jiuda Tianqu", "Shenjing Gateway", "Canal City", one of the four major Caocang of the Chu Dynasty has Dezhou Caocang.

Where the crowd gathers, there must be rivers and lakes, and there are also Cao Gangs that rise with Cao Yun.

There are people from all walks of life on the canal.

Officials who went south from the imperial city to serve and from the north and south of the Yangtze River to Beijing; wealthy merchants who traveled north and south on the canal; scholars who went to Beijing to take the exam and returned to their hometowns; The descendants of the 100,000 Cao army at the time of the founding of the country were lost from military status; Sailors, porters, and helmsmen who are on the road for their livelihoods......

All in all, the Cao Gang itself is mixed, and the people who deal with it are also intertwined. It has become a unique force between temples and rivers and lakes.

The Texas Gang is one of the most powerful gangs in the Cao Gang.

The rise of the Texas Gang can be traced back to more than 200 years, at first it was just a boat gang formed by sailors and boatmen who begged for a living on the canal for their own interests, and now it is a well-known gang.

The Texas Gang is not completely independent, but has a close relationship with the Cao Gangs in various places on the canal, and some of them are like the Cao Gang's Tangkou in Texas. But this hall is even more powerful than ordinary gangs.

Now, with the Chu Emperor fleeing south, Tang Zhongyuan occupies Beijing. The world may be changing hands in front of us, and the Texas Gang also needs to make a choice.

The lobby of the Texas Gang is located next to the canal, adjacent to the "Sword Mound Autumn Wind", one of the ten scenic spots in Texas, which is "the west wind hunts the long river, and the water flow of the slanting sun is alone." ”

The leader of this generation of the Texas Gang is named Qiu Mo, and the people in the rivers and lakes call him "Ghost Loach", because he has small eyes and a protruding mouth, and his body is slender, he looks like a loach.

The old manager of the Texas Gang is known as the flower master, because the tattoo on his body is not a green dragon and white tiger, and he has a large peony.

Hua Ye was originally a poor prisoner, and the so-called "poor prisoner" was a poor and sour talent with little money, although he was poor, he had some insight and way, and he couldn't be an official and mixed up in Caokou.

When he was young, he fell in love with a famous prostitute called Peony, and later Peony was ransomed by a big family as a concubine and was killed. Hua Ye killed someone and went to prison, and was fished out by the ghost loach, and slowly became an old manager in this Texas Gang.

After that, he no longer mentioned who his surname was, for fear of staining his ancestors, so others only called him "Hua Ye......

At this time, the gang is deliberating, and there are several other leaders of the Texas Gang, and the nicknames are nothing more than unraveling the cattle knife, walking snakes, gray dogs, etc., which sound rustic, but they all have real tricks under their hands.

It was Hua Ye who spoke first, stood up and said slowly: "Brothers all know that the emperor Lao'er escaped from the capital. The transportation between the north and the south has also stopped for a while, and then how will we help 20,000 brothers in Texas eat? This should also be discussed. ”

"What are you talking about? Is this what we say? Besides, if he becomes the emperor, can he still be lucky? ”

The answer is the gray dog, he looks thin as a dog, but the hard work under his hands is not weak, in the early years on the dock to pull goods and people to get up, one person put down eight big men, into the eyes of the ghost loach, these years is also for the Texas gang to live and die, gradually mixed into the leader.

As he spoke, the greyhound was chewing on a green onion in his hand.

This green onion is not an ordinary green onion, but a green onion from the girl mountain in Zhangqiu, Jinan Prefecture, and Zhiyun in Zhangqiu County "The green onion is the most popular with the girl mountain".

There is a legend here in Shandong, the road is that the green onion girl in the garden of the queen mother found that there was a plague in the world, and immediately waved her sleeves and blew the onion incense to the earth, driving away the plague woman and saving the people. But because of this, he violated the rules of heaven and was relegated to the world.

Last year, the plague was rampant, and many people in Shandong usually liked to chew green onions to prevent the epidemic.

"You smell of green onions, it's very vicious!"

At this time, as soon as the gray dog spoke, Hua Ye frowned, fanned his nose, and forgot where he said for a while.

It took him a while to remember, so he talked eloquently: "Whoever becomes the emperor has to be lucky, this is true." But if the world is divided into north and south, the north is the Rui Dynasty and the south is the Chu Dynasty. How can there be so many ships going north in the future, and what will the brothers do then? ”

In a word, all the heroes in the lobby looked at each other.

"That is to say, if the court really divides the family, it will be heartless."

"Hey, I didn't expect that I would have to care about who would be the emperor."

"What do you say, brothers? I heard that the emperor Lao'er is not far east of Dezhou City, don't you want us to fight the capital back for him? ”

"Haha, maybe he will also make an official for us, how can he be done if he wants to bow to me?"

", have you beaten hundreds of thousands of other people's anti-thieves?"

"It's not me alone, the Cao gang of millions of people drowned the rebels with a mouthful of foam."

"That's not right, what did the Jin Gang and Luo Zu teach them to say about this? We can't let the Texas Gang take the lead......"

Speaking of this, Hua Ye stood up again and waved his hand, saying, "Quiet, listen to the master!" ”

Only then did the ghost loach slowly stand up and said: "What the third said is right, the Cao Gang in the world is one family, and this matter is related to our entire Cao Gang, not just what our Texas Gang said." But now, trouble is coming, the Tongzhou Gang and the Jin Gang in the north have all taken refuge in the Rui Dynasty, and his mother's Xu and Yang side mean that the world is still from the Chu Dynasty. ”

Greyhound said, "Isn't this a fart?" The Cao Gang of the World is one family. ”

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"Shut up!"

The ghost loach drank a sentence and said: "The big guys know that now the King of Qi of the Chu Dynasty and the King of Wu Yan of the Rui Dynasty are both fucking in the east of Texas, and they are about to be beaten."

Lao Tzu Texas helped 20,000 people, and there were 20,000 or 30,000 people who ate with mixed rice. In addition, Rui Chao also wants the grain in the Texas Caocang. Whether Caocang gives it or not, who the brothers want to help, there must be an explanation today. ”

Hua Ye got up again and added: "A few days ago, someone came from Jiaodong and made a promise, saying that they would take care of the canal in Shandong in the future; But now it seems that King Wu Yan's troops are more vicious, and there are also people from the Rui Dynasty today, saying that if the brothers help the Rui Dynasty, we will be helped by the Texas Gang on the Grand Canal in the future, and the Rui Emperor will still have a feudal official. Whichever side do you want to believe, the brothers will discuss......"

As soon as he spoke, there was another burst of gossip in the lobby.

Originally, these people thought that they should help the emperor of the Chu Dynasty, but in the end, they felt that the background of Emperor Rui was more speculative than his own people.

In other words: "Let the new emperor of the Rui Dynasty take the world earlier, and in the future, on this canal, we will be the leader of the Texas Gang!" ”

"That's right! The third child is right......"

The ghost loach had already made up his mind in his heart, listened to the discussion in the hall, and in the end he didn't speak, waved his hand to drive away the leaders, and walked to the backyard himself.

In the side hall, a young man was sitting there drinking tea, and when he saw the ghost loach coming in, he smiled and said, "Gang Master Qiu is here?" ”

"What do you think of this tea?" Ghost Loach asked.

The person in the guest room is Li Baibo.

"I don't know about tea."

"That's how the officials of the Rui Dynasty are?" The ghost loach said politely, "I don't have any taste at all." ”

Although the ghost loach is strong in the rivers and lakes, it is actually accessible, and the black and white are mixed well. Even King De of Jinan Mansion was one of his patrons before he was taken captive by Jiannu.

The original fief of the Dewang family was in Dezhou, because the first Dewang thought that Dezhou was not good, and asked to change the title to Jinan. I didn't expect to encounter such a catastrophe in the eleventh year of Yanguang. But the ghost loach is not distressed, and this is not the only prince's mansion among his patrons.

As for the officials in Texas City, they have been in office here for a few years or more than ten years, and their power is not as strong as the deep-rooted Texas Gang. It is the strong dragon that does not suppress the head snake, and even the Texas prefect still has to look at the face of the ghost loach.

At this time, the ghost loach sneered, and Li Baibo just smiled when he heard this, and asked, "How did Gang Master Qiu think about it?" ”

"The army of King Wu Yan is outside the city, one of you sings with a red face and the other with a white face, what else can the grass people do?"

"King Wu Yan was ordered to hunt down the remnants of the Chu Dynasty, not for your Texas Gang." Li Baibo said: "This batch of grain in Caocang, Dezhou was originally from the Chu Dynasty. I, Da Rui, carried it by heaven and took over the Jiangshan Sheji of the Chu Dynasty. Then this batch of grain is also from my Darui Dynasty. "The idea is that the mobile phone is the fastest/l/z/w//o/m

"You can't say that, Dezhou City is still under the rule of the Chu Dynasty."

"The Texas prefect has surrendered."

The ghost loach was stunned for a moment, turned his head and glanced out the door, only to see that the wind and waves were calm everywhere.

"The surrender of Texas City has not yet been announced." Li Baibo smiled, looking confident, "I'm waiting to come out and invite you into the urn, and let the remnants of the Chu Dynasty crash in by themselves." ”

The ghost loach knew that at least in this Texas City, the Chu army was gone.

He thought for a while and said, "Three years ago, the Dezhou Mansion owed me the money of the Cao Gang and gave us the Cao Cang. Now you have to make a warehouse, and this silver ......."

"Let's not say that it was the officials of the Chu Dynasty who arrived privately, just say that now, this is the Great Rui Dynasty."

"It doesn't make sense."

"Who made the truth? The words of the imperial court are the truth. ”

The ghost loach's face sank.

"My 20,000 gangs, as well as the boatmen and slender men who rely on my Texas gang, still have to eat."

Li Baibo raised his hand and pressed it twice, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Gang Master Qiu, I'm here to eat for these people." ”

He stood up, took his hand, and sighed slightly: "Three thousand miles of the Grand Canal, millions of workers are tied to food and clothing. His Majesty has sent me to show the importance he attaches to this matter. ”

The reason why Li Baibo came was to see the importance of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

It is not only related to the millions of workers, but the grain of the people in various localities needs to be purchased and escorted by the government, and if the canal is not open, the places that produce a lot of grain cannot be sold, and the places where there is a shortage of grain cannot be helped.

On the other hand, the Chu Dynasty Dingding Yanjing, the needs of the military state depended entirely on the southeast, and at least four or five million stone of food needed to be transported from the south of the Yangtze River to the capital every year. Now that the capital is empty of grain and grass, the Rui Dynasty urgently needs to quickly attack the southeast, but the occupation of the southeast requires a large amount of military salaries. This seems to be stuck in a dead knot.

To untie this dead knot, Li Baibo thought about it, but he still fell on the canal.

For example, if you want to conquer Shandong, as long as you first occupy the cities along the canals such as Dezhou, Linqing, and Jining, it is equivalent to mastering the lifeblood of Shandong; In the same way, if Xuzhou and Yangzhou are occupied, it will be difficult for the Chu Dynasty to survive in the south of the Yangtze River.

Controlling the Cao Gang is the first step for Li Baibo to solve this problem.

Although he is smart, he has just begun to learn to govern a large country, and many things can only be tried step by step.

There was not much time left for him, the money and food that Da Rui had taken back from Jizhen was about to run out, many people were waiting for the new emperor's reward, and hundreds of people needed relief...... Rui Chao is too short of money and food!

Before Li Baibo set out, he heard that many people in the army began to persuade His Majesty to donate again.

If he can't get the money and food back this time, he can only donate in the capital.

Li Baibo knew that this was tantamount to drinking to quench his thirst.

Therefore, he is determined to win Texas Caocang.

To get this warehouse of grain for His Majesty, he not only had to persuade the officials and Cao Gang in Texas, but what was even more difficult was that he had to fight with King Wu Yan.

If King Wu Yan gets this batch of grain, he will never give it to His Majesty obediently.

From this side, King Wu Yan was one of the main opponents of Li Baibo's trip; But on the other hand, Li Baibo had to fully cooperate with King Wu Yan to kill Zhou Yan, the king of Chuqi.

The relationship is complex and difficult to grasp. It makes people feel that "it is easy to fight the country and it is difficult to defend the country......

Thinking of this, Li Baibo persuaded the ghost loach again.

The implication is nothing more than to take officials instead of silver. If the Texas Gang is willing to help the Great Rui Dynasty control the canal and Caocang, there must be a feudal official, and he will try his best to serve in the future, and he may be able to become the founding lord.

Although the meaning is simple, it is extremely moving when it comes out of Li Baibo's mouth.

The ghost loach had already made up his mind, and finally made up his mind when he heard the words.

Then, Li Baibo explained to him again, and then led him out of the city to meet King Wu Yan.

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