After three rounds of drinking, Liu Shaoye put down the chopsticks in his hand and looked at Qian Biao with a smile.

"Qian Zhizhou, don't you have anything to ask me?"

Qian Biao glanced at Liu Shaoye, unhurriedly took a chopstick pig ear in his mouth and chewed it slowly, turned his head and hooked his fingers, and pointed to the wine glass in front of Liu Shaoye.

"What is there to ask!" Qian Biao picked up the cup, gestured at Liu Shaoye, and said: "After breaking from Ezhou City, my Qian family suffered a disaster, you Liu Shaoye will give me advice, today my Qian Biao can still sit in Yueyang City, and I can gather tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, at least half of the credit is yours." Now that I have found strong reinforcements, every step is for my good, all for my planning, so why should I bother to do this, I have to ask you why? ”

Liu Shaoye laughed, picked up the wine glass and drank it with Qian Biao, "Qian Zhizhou has a stomach." ”

"When you want to tell me, you will tell me." After drinking the wine in the cup, Qian Biao said leisurely: "From the time you appeared in front of me, donated 100,000 yuan to me in one go, and at the same time asked me to gather all the surrounding gentry into Yueyang City, I knew that you were not an ordinary person. ”

Liu Shaoye smiled and said: "Qian Zhizhou, now Yueyang is temporarily stable, with Zheng Wenchang on Dongting Lake, water and land support each other, it is safe in a short period of time, but have you thought about how to go in the future?" ”

"Later?" Qian Biao smiled bitterly and said, "How can you think about anything now, let's get through this first." ”

"People have no foresight, but they must have near-term worries!" Liu Shaoye shook his head and said: "Plan ahead and plan in advance, this is the truth!" ”

Qian Biao looked at Liu Shaoye and said, "Mr. Liu, do you think I can pass this time?" ”

"Naturally!"

Qian Biao was silent for a moment before he said: "Yueyang is a good place, Dongting Lake is a good place, even if I can carry this pass, but it is not a long-term solution after all, Zhu Youzhen will not give up easily, and the strength I have finally gathered is a little less, and it will eventually collapse." There is no food and grass inside, no reinforcements outside, and I am now it. ”

Liu Shaoye said: "Qian Zhizhou, I am a businessman, this time I have invested a lot of money in you, do you think I will do that kind of loss-making business with my eyes open?" ”

"You're not an ordinary businessman." Qian Biao said.

Liu Shaoye nodded: "Do you know how I persuaded Zheng Wenchang this time?" ”

"Just about to ask for advice."

"Actually, I'm not the only one who went." Liu Shaoye smiled and said: "Another person is the point, if this person didn't go with me, I wouldn't dare to go to see Zheng Wenchang alone." ”

"Oh, I wonder who this person is? How can you have such a big face? ”

"You must know this man." Liu Shaoye smiled: "His name is Ding Jian." ”

"Ding Jian of the Jingnan Ding family?" Qian Biao stood up suddenly: "Isn't he an official in the north?" is also a high-ranking power, and can be in charge of a place in the river, that is an important minister who is very trusted by Li Ze, how did he run back? Still to my Yueyang? ”

"Now in the situation in the south, how can Ding Xianggong not come back? If you don't come back, won't this south let the pseudo-Liang do whatever he wants? Liu Shaoye said.

"You're from the North, too!" Qian Biao said word by word: "I know that there are internal guards in the north, and you are the people of the internal guards." ”

"I'm from Datang." Liu Shaoye said with a smile.

Qian Biao sat down slowly. "It doesn't matter who you are."

"How can it not matter?" Liu Shaoye said: "Ding Xianggong is back, which means that the imperial court will never sit idly by and watch the south be poisoned by the pseudo-Liang, this is Qian Zhizhou's opportunity!" ”

After thinking for a moment, Qian Biao nodded: "The Ding family is a famous family in Jingnan, and his strength is second to none in Jingnan, and now Jingnan Jiedu is his father-in-law, and he came back from the north just to persuade Jingnan to become a banner against the pseudo-Liang?" ”

"It's not just Jingnan, now you have to add Qian Zhizhou and your Yueyang. Dongting Lake is the flat pole between you, Jingnan and Yueyang are the two ends of this flat pole, Qian Zhizhou, now you don't feel that you are alone anymore, right? Liu Shaoye said.

Qian Bin, who was standing on the side, was already full of joy at this time, and nodded again and again. "Mr. Liu is right, with Jingnan as a backup, we are no longer alone."

"Even so, our strength is still weak." Qian Biao didn't have much joy: "Now Jingnan is about to face an attack from Shannan Dongdao Daichao, I'm afraid that the mud bodhisattva will cross the river, and it will be difficult to protect itself, how much power can help us?" ”

"Qian Zhizhou, don't forget, behind us, there is a powerful imperial court." Liu Shaoye said lightly: "Li Xiang has no last resort, and is now preparing to build a powerful inland river fleet in Yangzhou, with General Li Hao Li as the commander of the inland river water division, at least half a year, at most one year, this inland river fleet can control the entire Yangtze River, when the time comes, Qian Zhizhou, you want soldiers and soldiers, and you want ordnance and ordnance." ”

"In other words, am I going to stay in Yueyang for a year?"

"Qian Zhizhou, don't you have confidence?" Liu Shaoye asked rhetorically.

"If Zheng Wenchang can really be of the same mind with me, it is not impossible." Qian Biao took a deep breath: "But the other party is a water bandit after all, can he be consistent with this strategy?" What if he forgets his righteousness when he sees profit, and if Zhu Youzhen offers a better price, he turns around and votes for another one? ”

"Of course we thought about it!" Liu Shaoye said: "Of course, there are ways to check and balance him, one of which is that Zheng Wenchang will send the families of his subordinates to live in Yueyang City. Qian Zhizhou took these people, and was he afraid that Zheng Wenchang would be able to go to the sky? ”

Qian Biao looked at Liu Shaoye dumbfounded: "Then Zheng Wenchang is not a fool, how could he agree to such conditions?" ”

"Naturally, he has his own requirements." Liu Shaoye said: "No one is a fool, is he?" ”

"What are his conditions?" Qian Biao asked. This is the right reason that the other party has conditions, and it is obvious that the other party's conditions are not so easy to achieve.

"The first one, he asked Qian Zhizhou to completely allocate Junshan Island to him, where he wants to build a solid water village, and your Yueyang City will watch each other and be each other's inside. Of course, all your manpower on Junshan Island must be withdrawn. Liu Shaoye said.

"There's nothing wrong with that." Qian Biao nodded and said: "The small water village I set up on Junshan Island used to only collect fishermen's taxes, and it didn't play a role at all, he wanted it, so he naturally gave it to him, and he was able to set up the main village on Junshan Island, which was greatly beneficial to the defense of my Yueyang City, and I couldn't ask for it!" That's just the requirement? ”

"Of course, the second one is what makes us a little embarrassed!" Liu Shaoye paused and said, "Although this Zheng Wenchang is a water bandit, he is bent on clearing himself and getting on the right path. It is precisely because of this that as soon as Ding Xianggong went to see him, with Ding Xianggong's reputation and family background as a guarantee, he immediately agreed to take refuge in us. ”

"Getting to the point!" Qian Biao said.

"This man wants to really fit in with this famous family in the south. The Qian family is also the lintel of the south gate! Liu Shaoye said with a sigh of relief.

Qian Biao was a little dumbfounded, and said after a while: "He, what does he want?" ”

"Zheng Wenchang's parents are gone, and there is only one sister who depends on each other." Liu Shaoye said: "Zheng Wenchang knows that the eldest prince's wife died in Ezhou City not long ago. So he wanted to marry his sister to the eldest prince. ”

"Wife?"

"Naturally, otherwise Zheng Wenchang would be willing to agree?" Liu Shaoye said.

Qian Biao couldn't help but hesitate. Even though the Qian family has declined, its reputation is still there, so let his eldest son marry the sister of a water bandit? He couldn't help but turn his head to look at his son Qian Bin on the side.

"My son is willing!" Qian Bin did not hesitate at all: "Father, now the Qian family is already a tiger down the mountain, a hairy phoenix, and what are you talking about, what are you talking about, my son now just wants to avenge his blood hatred, for his uncle, for his mother, for my poor wife and a pair of children." Even if Zheng Wenchang's sister is a dominatrix, I admit it. ”

"The eldest prince is too worried!" Liu Shaoye was overjoyed, and said: "I have also seen Zheng Wenchang's sister, and she is still very upright, of course, the family of water bandits, although he knows a few words, but he doesn't know anything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but he has a good hand in water and a good kung fu." Leading troops to fight is also a good hand, and this time with Zheng Wenchang defeating Pang Wen, she is the leader of the way. ”

"My wife, even though the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all excellent, but in the face of the rebellion, but there is no resistance at all, since this woman is a woman, in my Qian family, it is very beneficial, father, this wife, I married."

"Qian Zhizhou, since this is the case, then this matter is done." Liu Shaoye said with a smile: "Then Zheng Wenchang said, as long as the eldest prince is willing to marry and be good to her sister, then he will also give a dowry, you also know, this person has swept the West Dongting for a period of time, and he has really made a fortune, since he wants his sister to marry high, then you might as well open this condition higher, and keep that Zheng Wenchang is not allowed." In this way, the two families have become one, and I am afraid that Zheng Wenchang will not do his best to go to the fire for Zhizhou? ”

When he walked out of Qian Biao's mansion, Liu Shaoye was very happy. Zheng Wenchang naturally has no sister, but in Xinyue Fox, there are many such women. Now Yan Sixteen is under Zheng Wenchang, and the left and right are just changing their names. This is an important step for the internal guards to infiltrate the Qian family, and when Yan Sixteen marries, he will also bring some elite soldiers and strong generals, and these people will naturally integrate into Qian Biao's army.

Along the line of the Yangtze River, creating a corridor is something that Neiwei has been planning for all these years, and now it finally has an eyebrow.

Yangzhou is the starting point, Yueyang is the support, Jingnan is the end point, and when Li Hao's inland river division is formed, these three points can be effectively connected into one.