Liu Zheng originally didn't have much cash, and now he has become a little poor, although the food is not worried for the time being, but there is no money, it is also not good, his Mingyue Cottage is building a lot of buildings, and it is the time when he needs money to buy materials.

Fortunately, the matter of water thieves has been solved now.

After getting acquainted, although they did not take refuge in Liu Zheng, they also had a friendship in the waters of Poyang Lake, and then Liu Zheng sent a fleet to do business, so it would not be so difficult.

In addition, now that Zu Lang has completely surrendered to Liu Zheng and has become Liu Zheng's subordinate, then Liu Zheng also plans to focus on cultivating Zu Lang, and in the next few days, let his people and Zu Lang's men and horses become one, and continue to cultivate his own power in the waters of Poyang Lake.

This is also the reason why Liu Zheng did not rush to kill him but let him take refuge in himself when he saw Zu Lang escape.

Liu Zheng originally wanted to participate in the power of the four major water thieves in Poyang Lake.

At first, his idea was to eliminate the Jiang Tuesday thief, so as to replace Jiang Tuesday's position among the four major water thieves in Poyang Lake.

But later this incident led to a battle between Jiang Er's thief and Zu Lang, which led to a great loss of Jiang's strength and let Liu Zheng unite Jiang Er's thief against Zulang.

At that time, his idea was to destroy Zu Lang and replace Zu Lang himself.

Because there was already friction between Jiang Er's thief and him, and when he sent Yuan Zhou to lobby Jiang Er's thief, these two did not show their intention to take refuge in him, so let Liu Zheng know that even if he eliminated Zulang in the end, it would be impossible for Jiang Er's thief to directly take refuge in him.

In the end, he still has to rely on himself to re-cultivate the water thief force in Poyang Lake.

So in the end, he decided to change his mind again, and simply supported Zulang directly, and only needed to let Zulang take refuge in him. He was able to merge his forces with Zulang's remaining men and horses to form a new group of water thieves.

Zu Lang and Chiang fought with the thieves, although they suffered heavy losses. But after all, he only lost 2,000 men and horses, and at this time there were still hundreds of people around him, plus more than 1,000 people left in his lair, there were still 2,000 soldiers and horses left, and Liu Zheng also had more than 2,000 soldiers and horses.

Led by Gan Ning, Zu Lang's original men and horses were mixed with the newly trained 2,000 sailors to form a new water thief.

Liu Zheng was able to get a naval army with more than 4,000 soldiers and horses in an instant. At the same time, even the generals of the navy do not need to be re-cultivated, and directly let Gan Ning be the main general and Zu Lang be the deputy general.

With such a configuration arrangement, there are the other two big water thieves in the waters of Poyang Lake, and Liu Zheng doesn't have to be afraid.

In the following days, Liu Zheng first led Zu Lang to Zu Lang's lair, reorganized the more than 1,000 soldiers and horses left by Zu Lang in the old lair, and after converging Yuan Zhou and Zhou Cang, he reorganized all the sailors into a single army and horses.

Then he sent someone to contact Jiang Erren and sent 1,800 gold from Mingyue Cottage, and fulfilled the promise of compensation to them on the spot.

After Jiang Erren got the money, he was quite grateful to Liu Zheng, after all, they had killed and injured a lot of soldiers and horses before, and they finally had an explanation for their families.

The two of them as the eldest can bring some compensation to their dead brothers.

As a result, the battle between the two major water thieves in Poyang Lake officially came to an end.

Liu Zheng also gained a lot in this, although he himself lost 1,800 gold, but money is something outside the body, and what he lost will be earned back sooner or later, the main thing is that he earned a powerful naval general from this.

At the same time, there are 2,000 soldiers and horses under his command, which is not a loss.

The matter of the water army has been completed, and at the same time, the water channel between Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake has been opened, and there are no water thieves to make trouble in it, and then Liu Zheng plans to establish a caravan. Elevate the schedule.

After all, after Yuan Zhou's transportation was robbed of the goods by Jiang Er's thieves, Liu Zheng knew that Yuan Zhou was not particularly proficient in business, and if he was proficient, he would not have been seized by Jiang Zhou's thieves and came back embarrassed.

Originally, he didn't think about what to do, but the merchant ships they encountered when they framed Zu Lang before gave Liu Zheng some ideas.

After ending the battle with Zu Lang, Liu Zheng returned to his Mingyue Cottage with his men and horses, and the first thing he did was to reload the goods that had been looted from the Mijia family in Xuzhou onto the ship, and then led his men and horses to escort the goods towards Xuzhou.

He planned to go to the Mi family in Xuzhou in person to meet Mi Zhu, the head of the Mi family.

The Mi family is a wealthy businessman in Xuzhou, the family is quite rich, and good at business, if Liu Zheng wants to achieve anything in business, dealing with the Mi family is only good for him.

Even if he didn't negotiate cooperation with the Mi family in the end, Liu Zheng could also leave the money that the Mi family had offered here in Zulang, after all, now Liu Zheng has accepted all the previous territory of Zulang, which is more or less a kind of income for these merchant ships passing here, and it is more or less a sum of money.

Liu Zheng still has to inherit them.

However, now Liu Zheng's identity is still a thief, and it is still very dangerous for him to go to Xuzhou, so he must hide his identity, dress up his sailor army as a merchant ship, and then only bring Zulang, Gan Ning, Zhou Cang and others to Mijia to discuss cooperation.

From Yichun County to Xuzhou, the distance is not very close, although Xuzhou and Yangzhou are adjacent to the state and county, but Yichun is in the edge of Yangzhou, and Xuzhou is in the north of Yangzhou.

There are a lot of waters, and if you want to go over, you can only walk through the waters, which is faster.

However, the water is winding and winding, and there is no direct river, so if you really sail by boat, it takes longer than riding a horse.

Liu Zheng was triggered from Yichun, and it took more than ten days to get time before the ship approached the boundary of Xuzhou, which was still his journey from Poyang Lake to the Yangtze River, all the way to Xuzhou.

Xuzhou, Pengcheng.

Since ancient times, it has been a battleground for soldiers, known as the state of abundance and the former capital of Western Chu.

There is even another name for chasing deer, as the saying goes, chasing deer in the Central Plains, which is the place to say.

At this time, Xuzhou was not under the jurisdiction of Shi Taoqian, the assassin of Xuzhou, but a person named Ba Yi.

Because there is no Yellow Turban Army here, it is still peaceful here, and when Liu Zheng brought people here, he did not encounter any obstacles.

It was very easy to inquire and ask where the Mi family's manor was.