Yueyang's defense system is being rebuilt intensely and rapidly. With the support of Zheng Wenchang's more than 200 large and small warships in Dongting Lake, the pressure on Yueyang immediately dropped significantly, and the area of defense was immediately expanded, no longer limited to Yueyang City.

After the counties around the West Dongting were ravaged by Zheng Changwen, Qian Biao seized the opportunity and immediately sent people to where to reconstruct the rule, and the original officials either ran away or were slaughtered by Zheng Wenchang.

At this time, for many people, being a soldier and eating food was already the only way to live, and it didn't take long for Qian Biao to recruit another 10,000 soldiers in these places.

At the same time, Zheng Wenchang was also carrying out a large-scale reorganization of his sailors. There were more than 2,000 men in his headquarters, Pang Wen's troops were captured, and more than 1,000 surrendered, plus 500 people in Panshan, which expanded Zheng Wenchang's sailors to nearly 4,000 people.

Zheng Wenchang set up his sailor Dazhai in Junshan, facing Yueyang City across the lake as support. At the same time, all the families of the original Pang Wen and Pan Shan were sent to Yueyang City. So that these people no longer have any way to retreat, they can only fight to the death with Zhu Youzhen, otherwise Yueyang City will be broken, and these people's families will inevitably die with the city.

Zheng Wenjun, that is, Yan Sixteen, married into the Qian family vigorously. Zheng Wenchang gave a dowry that made the people of Yueyang jaw-dropping. Five large ships of weapons and armor, ten ships of grain, and a whole ship of copper coins. When these things were continuously moved from the dock to Yueyang's Assassin's Mansion, the entire Yueyang people had more confidence in Yueyang's defense.

And with Zheng Wenjun arriving in Yueyang City together, there are also a full 500 armor soldiers, which is also Zheng Wenchang's dowry to his sister, of course, these 500 people are all internal guards urgently recruited from all over the Tang Dynasty during this period of time. Together with Zheng Wenjun, they will become an important bargaining chip for controlling the Qian family's soldiers and horses.

Zheng Wenjun married into the Qian Mansion, not only as the daughter-in-law of the Qian family, in the agreement between the two parties, Zheng Wenjun is in charge of the army, and among the 10,000 young men who have just been recruited, there are 3,000 people who will become Zheng Wenjun's subordinates.

Qian Biao doesn't care about this, after all, Zheng Wenjun is married to his Qian family by Ming Media, and above the marriage book, the matchmaker is the dignified Ding Xianggong Ding Jian, and now for him, a daughter-in-law who can fight is much better than a daughter-in-law who is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Qian Bin was also very satisfied.

He married this daughter-in-law with the mentality that I don't go to hell and who will go to hell, the two have never met, and I don't know what the bride looks like or what her temperament is. But as long as it can help with revenge, even if the woman is as ugly as a sow, he doesn't care. As a result, on the wedding night, although the bride's color was not as good as his previous wife, she was also beautiful and bold, which made him unexpected.

The day after the wedding, the bride took his guards to devote himself to the reorganization of the recruits, Qian Bin was not worried about following and wanted to help, but he only stayed in the barracks for half a day, and then came back. Zheng Wenjun's methods are much more powerful than he imagined, her five hundred guards are like wolves and tigers, and in just half a day, the three thousand young men have been arranged in an orderly manner and entered the formal training.

Qian Bin led the troops to fight.

The smell of the predator on Zheng Wenjun's body was not revealed at all last night, but when he arrived at the barracks, he couldn't hide it, and the five hundred guards were not water bandits or the like at first glance, and the posture of having received strict and formal military training was undoubtedly revealed from the moment he stepped into the barracks.

They are all people from the north.

Qian Bin already had an understanding in his heart.

But what does it matter? For the Qian family, now is the moment of life and death, and it is already the luck of the Qian family to be favored by the north at such a moment, and to be able to hug such a thick thigh. And if his wife is really a character in the north, his future, the Qian family's future, is not true that there is another layer of security, even if Yueyang fails and flees to the north, there is still a place to stand.

At this level, last night, Qian Biao had already made it very clear to Qian Bin.

Liu Shaoye was appointed by Qian Biao to join the army, and he was mainly responsible for one thing, that is, to coordinate the relationship between Yueyang City and the naval division of Junshan Island and cooperate with the combat matters.

Yue Yang and the surrounding areas were gathered together by Qian Biao at the fastest speed, ready to meet Zhu Youzhen's attack. At this moment, Ding Jian, who is in charge of all matters in the south, has just stepped into his hometown, Jiangling Mansion City.

After seven years, Ding Jian couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion when he stepped into his hometown again.

Gangneung Mansion City is still the same, and there is basically no change from the appearance when he left. The city is full of traffic, and it looks prosperous, but there are more soldiers and horses stationed on the city.

Gangneung Mansion hasn't changed, but he's changed too much. In the past, he was a celebrity in Gangneung Province, and as long as he appeared in the city, there were countless people who recognized him, but when he returned, from the time he stepped into the city gate to the present, no one recognized him.

Also, the former beautiful son has become a middle-aged man with a beard and a dark complexion.

"It hasn't changed!" Looking at the guise of the drunken immortal residence floating above the intersection in front of him, Ding Jian turned back to his guards and sighed. The two guards behind him were the old men of the Ding family, who had left Jiangling with him and went to the north, and now one is a guerrilla general, from the official body of the fifth grade, and the other is also the captain of Zhaowu, the official body of the sixth grade.

"It hasn't changed at all, this signboard of theirs is still written for them by the original son!" Ding Wei said with a smile.

"Finally home." Ding Xiong also sighed, "It's been seven years, and I'm finally back." ”

Ding Jian said with a smile: "When you left with me, you were just a familyman, but when you come back now, you already have an official body, and your rank is not low. ”

Both of them laughed, Ding Wei said: "I don't know if the kid and the girl in the family still recognize me, when I left, the eldest was only five years old, and the youngest was only two years old, and now the eldest is an adult." ”

"When I followed my son, the boy in the family had just turned old, and he was eight years old this year." Ding Xiong also sighed.

The so-called hometown is timid, and I just want to get home early along the way, but when I really get home, I can't take a step.

"It hasn't changed!" Ding Jian sighed again.

In the past seven years, he has witnessed the earth-shaking changes in the north, the rise of cities there, the rise of poverty to wealth, the scarcity of people to prosperity, and the rise of a powerful regime like the rising sun.

That's the taste of hope!

On the other hand, the natural conditions in Jingnan are much better than those in the north, but in seven years, they are still standing still.

"No wonder Li is confident in dominating the world." Ding Jian said in his heart, if you don't move forward, you will inevitably fall behind.

"Let's go, let's go to the Drunken Immortal Residence and taste whether the dishes there have changed compared to seven years ago, and whether they still have the same taste as in the past!" Ding Jian stepped into the Drunken Immortal Residence.

"Childe, why don't you hurry back?" Ding Wei Ding Xiong asked in unison.

"Near-hometown is timid, and near-home is soft!" Ding Jian said with a smile: "I'm going to have a drink first, strengthen my courage, and then go home." ”

Ding Wei Ding Xiong nodded again and again.

The three of them entered the Drunken Immortal Residence, went straight to the second floor, and found a place near the window to sit down. Xiao Er has already greeted him attentively.

"Guest, what do you want?"

Although these three people are fresh faces, they can know that they are not ordinary people when they look at their dress and bearing, and they are the most poisonous eyes in such a high-grade restaurant, and the little two who entertain guests.

"A fish cake, a thousand buckle meat, a pimped tockfish, a winter melon and turtle skirt soup, a pearl glutinous rice ball, a pen holder fish maw, a lotus root, and a Jiangling eight-treasure rice, well, and a pot of yellow bar!" Ding Wei expertly ordered the food.

"Okay!" Xiao Er smiled and nodded repeatedly, "Guest officer, we have here the best wine that we just got from the north, don't you want one?" ”

Ding Jian and the three of them glanced at each other and laughed. This kind of wine is a new variety that has just been made in the north, and the production is not large, so I don't want to sell it in Gangneung.

"How much is a bottle?" Ding Jian asked with a smile.

"Ten dollars!" Xiao Er didn't look like he was bad at the other party.

The three of them were taken aback, although this kind of wine is also a new commodity in the north, it is only a bottle of one or two silver, and when it comes here, it has become ten taels, ten times the windfall profit, which is too outrageous, and Ding Jian knows very well that the cost of this kind of wine is actually not high, and selling a bottle for one or two silver is already considered a huge profit.

Looking at the expressions of the three of them, Xiao Er thought it was too expensive, and said mysteriously at the moment: "Guest officer, although it is a little expensive, but in addition to wine, you also have a glass bottle, just this bottle is worth several dollars!" ”

Ding Jian was even more speechless, glass manufacturing, in the north, has long been not a rare thing, and those who have a little wealth at home can afford to buy a glass lamp. I don't know how many times simpler the manufacturing process of a wine bottle is than a glass lamp. Ding Jian went to visit the glass factory, and those workers were amazing, and the speed of blowing bottles was extremely fast.

"Let's have a bottle!" didn't want to talk to Xiao Er anymore, Ding Jian waved his hand directly and said.