Jiangnan is chaotic, Lu Zheng has received the news in Shandong, and it is undoubtedly very important for Lu Zheng to open up the trade in Jiangnan!

Shandong has always been a remote place in the history of the Dakang Dynasty, that is because Dakang has no maritime trade since the founding of the country, closed off the country, and these small countries around it are not like the eyes of the Dakang Dynasty.

However, in fact, private maritime trade has always existed, but because of the rampant piracy at sea in recent years, many merchants have been deterred from shipping.

But now Lu Zheng has no choice, he must rely on the grain of Jiangnan and the Central Plains, although the two sides have negotiated on Cao Weiming's side of the Central Plains, but Cao Weiming's own control of the Central Plains is not enough, in addition, the more important reason is that Cao Weiming himself also has to raise troops, although the products of the land of the two rivers are rich, but it is not enough to feed Lu Zheng's Liaodong and his 100,000 iron cavalry with the grain and grass of the land of the two rivers.

Liaodong is too barren, since the founding of the country, the Liaodong army has always needed to rely on the governor of the two rivers to survive, the imperial court often considers the candidates of the Liaodong army and the governor of the two rivers very carefully, because these two people are in a relationship of mutual containment, Liaodong does not have the grain of the two rivers, it is not a place to use at all.

When Lu Zheng first occupied Liaodong, at that time his family was still very rich, Gu Zhilun controlled the north-south trade under his hands, and Lu Zheng also transported a large amount of grain from the Central Plains into Liaodong, and the living environment in Liaodong at that time was far less bad than today.

Jeju, Lu Zheng summoned all the strategists, he looked around, and said: "The current situation is quite grim, Shandong is the key to whether we can achieve great things, Haizhou has been taken, and now we have to arrange a person to assassinate Haizhou, who can do it?" ”

All the strategists looked at each other, and after a long time, Zhang Pinghua stood up and said: "Prince, Zhang Pinghua is not talented, he is willing to go to Haizhou for the prince and unify the soldiers of a county in Haizhou!" ”

Lu Zheng was slightly stunned, and the other strategists also looked at each other, Haizhou Thorn Shi wants to lead the army to fight, Zhang Pinghua's identity as a strategist, can lead the army to fight?

There was a smile on the corner of Lu Zheng's mouth, he knew in his heart that Zhang Pinghua understood his intentions, Zhang Pinghua was born on the edge of the river in his early years, and he also worked in the navy, but later the Dakang navy was abolished, and Zhang Pinghua lost his errand so he became angry and studied, and finally went to the capital to become a scholar.

The key is that the current strategic position of Haizhou is very important, and Lu Zheng must send his most confidants to go, from this point of view, Zhang Pinghua is undoubtedly very suitable to go to Haizhou.

However, although Lu Zheng thought so in his heart, he said on his face: "Mr. Zhang, you are my confidant and strategist, how can you go to Haizhou on an errand?" If you go to Haizhou and I lose an arm, wouldn't it be very bad? ”

Zhang Pinghua said: "Lord Wang, the land of Haizhou is very important, not only about my Shandong, but also about the safety and stability of my Liaodong, and such an important place must be guarded by a large army. In addition, there is another very important point, that is, Dakang has been negligent in coastal defense for so many years, and coastal defense is lax, so that Dongyi, Goryeo's clowns who jump off the beam have an opportunity, and now if you go to Haizhou, the first thing is to clean up coastal defense.

It just so happens that there are a large number of ships in the business income of the Park family over the years, if these ships are not managed and used by experienced people, it will inevitably cause heavy losses, Zhang went to Haizhou, and will be able to build a sailor army that can gallop across the sea, at that time, whether it is Jiangnan or Huaiyang, even Lingnan's goods and money can enter my Shandong and Liaodong, Lord Wang, this is the foundation of my Dakang country, and it is definitely not a trivial matter! ”

Lu Zheng laughed heartily and said: "Okay, Mr. Zhang, I feel at ease that you are in Haizhou, so let's do it, if you go to Haizhou, I will allocate 10,000 troops and horses for you, and you will recruit 20,000 horses yourself, and we will build 20,000 water troops, can we resist the Dongyi people?" ”

Zhang Pinghua hugged his fists and said: "Lord Wang, there are 20,000 horses and horses, the country of Dongyi, the land of projectiles, the people over there lack food and clothing, and they can't feed a few people at all!" The population of Dongyi is only a million, and there are only 10,000 people who can be used as a naval army, and these people don't dare to approach my Dakang border at all!

Those so-called pirates are generally a hundred and ten people, and the total number is only a few thousand. We have tens of thousands of sailors, and we can make my Dakang coastal defense impregnable within half a year! “

Zhang Pinghua talked eloquently, and it could be clearly heard that he had been planning for a long time, and it was definitely not improvised, and Lu Zheng was quite pleased with this. Lu Zheng knew that since he was crowned king, he had a lot of errands under his hands, and there were six divisions in Liaodong, such as soldiers, officials, rites, workers, households, and punishments, and the entire Liaodong had a total of 36 state capitals, and the officials at all levels of these state capitals were also Lu Zheng's subordinates!

Now in Shandong, Lu Zheng launched the Shandong Purge, and there is no doubt that the situation in Shandong is also under Lu Zheng's control, so if you want to stabilize the political power, you must recruit talents from all over the world, and only in this way can you achieve something.

Lu Zheng's appointment and selection of talents, on the one hand, is to use the background of the Lu family, the Gu family and the Chen family to widely use the children and protégés of wealthy families in Jiangnan.

On the other hand, Lu Zheng himself recruited talents through the introduction of others, and then Liaodong is bound to hold scientific examinations and examinations to further recruit useful talents from a wider range of aspects.

Lu Zheng has experienced too much over the years, you must know that when he entered Beijing from Jiangnan, he was just a scholar who studied in a mere way, and he has been constantly transforming over the years, from a weak scholar to a prince who holds a heavy army and guards a side of the world, and has become a famous king in today's troubled times, he has unintentionally experienced a lot of things today.

But the more he experienced, the more he understood a truth in his heart, that is, for those who command the army, the core focus is not how to expand their own territory and how to defeat enemies and opponents, but to use the power in their hands to protect the world and the peace of the party.

From ancient times to the present, history has always recorded legends that will succeed in the future, but in fact, there are not so many legends in the world, especially in troubled times.

Why can Song Naifeng send troops to the world, because he occupies Longyou and has the foundation of Longyou, he has the confidence to send troops to the world. Why can Tan Lei become a hero, because Tan Lei occupies Liaodong and has Liaodong as the foundation, so that he can gallop vertically.

Song Naifeng's rise to fall began with the loss of Longyou, and Tan Lei's collapse was because of the change of ownership in Liaodong. There are also people like Cao Weiming and the like, but success or failure depends on whether the foundation is stable.

So for Lu Zheng, the most important thing at the moment is to stabilize Liaodong and Shandong, Liaodong to the heart, Shandong to the heart, so that Lu Zheng can map the Central Plains again, otherwise, the foundation is unstable, and everything is empty in the end!