Dongting Tianxia is water, Yueyang Tianxia is upstairs.

However, for Ding Jian, who has traveled a long distance and served in the dust, this world-famous building is not very attractive to him now, standing on the embankment, he just glanced back at this majestic and magnificent building, and then went straight to a boat and went all the way.

More than ten years ago, he came to Yueyang Tower, at that time, he was a famous romantic person, not only has a good family background, but also has outstanding talents, handsome appearance, lupine scarf, I don't know how many beauties have been dumped, no matter where he appears, he is always the center of everyone. It can be said that he is a young man, and he feels that he is a talented man in the world, and there are few people who can compare with himself.

Now that time has passed, the high-spirited young man of the year has long disappeared, replaced by a middle-aged and calm man with a dark face and a neat beard.

After six years as an official in the north, Ding Jian's changes are too great.

The officials under Li Ze's command are completely different from the officials in other places. Doing things in person is their most basic quality as an official, and the behavior of chief officials like the south who basically do not do serious things, and entrust all major and small matters to the officials, under the rule of Li Ze in the north, they cannot see it at all.

If you really dare to do this, you will be dismissed from office immediately after a few days.

Compared with the change in appearance, Ding Jian's inner change is greater.

At the beginning, he was extremely unapproving of Li Ze's series of thunderbolt-like methods. Li Ze sent him to Yizhou, so that he could witness with his own eyes how Yizhou was reborn under the new policy, and the old appearance was renewed. In Yizhou, Ding Jian witnessed the astonishing power of the people there.

Then, he was transferred by Li Ze to the river, a place still ruled by the old forces. Ding Jian wanted to carry out his ideal political reform, so that Li Ze's new policy could be perfectly integrated with the old hao clan forces, but after several years of hard work, he failed completely, and in the end, he had to raise the butcher's knife.

In both places, Ding Jian served as a landlord, which also made him completely understand what Li Ze said. If an old world is not shattered, then a new world will not come.

If the old world is shattered, it will inevitably lose the interests of those who have vested interests now, and cut off people's financial routes, not to kill their parents, how can those people be willing to be tied up, so the knife will inevitably be raised.

The Ding clan is the biggest vested interest in the Jinghu area.

This time he came back, just to let the big ship of the Ding clan change course, otherwise one day, it will inevitably be drowned by the tide of the times.

He didn't think that Pseudo Liang would be able to stop Li Ze's footsteps.

I don't think that the southern direction training can cause much trouble to Li Ze.

If Li Ze is willing, the northern soldiers and horses can now defeat all the enemies in front of them. It's just that Li Ze is unwilling to pay too much price for this. He preferred to win the war in a more modest way, one with fewer dead people, one that had less impact on the people under his rule.

In Ding Jian's view, this is benevolence and benevolence.

Ding Jian, who has always served as a high-ranking official in the north, knows more deeply than ordinary northern officials how great the war potential of the north is.

As far as the people of Yizhou are concerned, the storage of food, which is crucial in the war, is extremely amazing. In the past, the grain of Yizhou became three major pieces, one is the public grain, which must be paid, calculated according to the capitation, the price is lower, it is a kind of tax, and these grains are the grain of the imperial court. The second is self-sold grain, which is higher than the price of public grain, and after the people sell it, they use the proceeds to buy what they need. But because of the grain price control that has been implemented in the north, the common people actually can't make much money, but in order to live, they have to sell. In fact, it is more of this kind of food that circulates in the market. The third major piece is the storage grain of the common people.

The common people have the habit of storing grain, which is the oldest wisdom of Chinese farmers, in the harvest year, as long as the life can go on, we must reserve some grain to meet the needs of the emergency.

As a result, the grain in the north far exceeded the figures shown on the imperial court report. For this point, Ding Jian, who once served as a assassin in Yizhou and a thorn in the river, is very clear.

As Li Ze changed the grain policy, this part of the grain is pouring into the market in large quantities. At a time when grain prices in Guanzhong were soaring and grain prices in the south were also high, grain in the north bucked the trend and fell.

The north even sells grain to the pseudo-Liang through some hidden channels to make huge profits. Of course, it was not the ordinary grain merchants who controlled this sale, but the Tang Dynasty itself. They exchanged the grain that was urgently needed by the pseudo-Liang for countless strategic materials, tea, sugar, iron ingots, salt, tung oil, and precious metals such as gold and silver.

The amount of grain that can flow out of the north has been carefully calculated, and if the average ordinary grain merchant touches this minefield, the end will not be wonderful.

Now the Tang Dynasty regime in the north, just like the same greedy gluttony, is desperately absorbing the flesh and blood of the pseudo-Liang, don't look at the current pseudo-Liang regime seems to be strong, but in Ding Jian's view, at the moment they are cooking oil, just blooming the last brilliance, once the last bit of energy is burned, they should die.

The Pseudo-Liang's brutal sweep of Shannan East Road, Shannan West Road, and most of the Eyuejie Town they had recently occupied had already caused fear in the southern Zhujie Town, and the Southern Zhujie Town, who had only wanted to sweep the door and snow before, suddenly found that their past path was no longer feasible. The pseudo-Liang is now not satisfied with trading with them, but directly wants to rob them of their property.

This is naturally intolerable.

Qian Feng has collapsed, but in the entire Eyue region, the resistance has not died down because of Qian Feng's death. After Zhu Youzhen took Ezhou, he carried out a bloody bath in Ezhou City, and the result of not collecting swords and soldiers for three days was that Ezhou City was almost empty, and six or seven out of ten of the dead and wounded escaped, and Ezhou City almost became an empty city.

Now, Zhu Youzhen's army is heading towards the Dongting Lake area, and this is his biggest goal. The 800-mile Dongting and its surrounding river basins are the real anointing land in the south.

He Ding Jian came from the north to organize a resistance force in the south to delay the Zhu clan's control of this area.

Li Ze wanted to make trouble for the Zhu clan and let them get rid of it, but he still wanted to make chaos in this area. As for Ding Jian, when he caused trouble for the Zhu family, he also wanted to do his best to preserve his hometown and let the people of his hometown suffer less from all the hardships.

The painting boat gradually sank into the misty and rainy cave. The owner of this ship is owned by a merchant in Yueyang, of course, this merchant is also a serving officer of the Tang Dynasty Internal Guard. The whole ship, both sailors and servants, was made up of guards.

"Ding Xianggong, they're here." A man in silk in his early forties walked up to Ding Jian at the bow of the boat, pointed to a small boat in front of him, and said. This person is the owner of this ship and the person in charge of the internal guard in Yueyang, Liu Shaoye.

Ding Jian nodded, this time he was ordered to return to Jinghu, it can be said that he was shouldering a heavy burden, Jingnan, Dongting area, all the forces that the imperial court had laid out for several years were handed over to him to unify the command. In Dongting Lake, a team that has been operating for several years is the core force of his control of Dongting Lake this time.

"Is it Zheng Wenchang?" Ding Jian asked.

"It's him." Liu Shaoye nodded.

Zheng Wenchang, a native of Cangzhou, was sent to Yueyang three years ago, and then through a series of operations, he became a water bandit in South Dongting Lake.

The boat slowly approached the boat, Zheng Wenchang jumped up from the boat, grabbed the boat with both hands, and flipped into the boat lightly, but the boat carrying him drove away leisurely, not far from the boat, following slowly.

"Zheng Wenchang, a guerrilla general of the Tang Dynasty's internal guards, has met Ding Xianggong." Standing in front of Ding Jian, Zheng Wenchang clenched his fists and bowed.

"General Zheng, you have worked hard all these years." Ding Jian clenched his fists and bowed solemnly. Ding Jian has always had great respect for these people who are lurking outside for the great cause of reunification regardless of life or death.

These people really work with their heads pinned to their belts.

"As a member of Yixing Society, it is our ultimate goal to open peace for all generations, and the end will not feel bitter!" Zheng Wenchang said with a smile.

Ding Jian smiled and nodded, but he took out a sign from his waist and said, "I am also a member of Yixing Club." ”

Zheng Wenchang looked at the sign of the high-ranking members of the Yixing Society, but the smile on his face was even bigger, it turned out to be a fellow believer. Ding Jian is an important minister of the imperial court and a famous name, but not all important ministers of the imperial court are all members of Yixing. In the imperial court, there are even many people who do not deal with Li Xiang, as an internal guard like Zheng Wenchang, these situations are naturally clear.

Ding Jian has actually become a member of Yixing, and the relationship between those two people can be further improved.

"Talk in the cabin!" Ding Jian turned around and said.

The two walked into the cabin, but Liu Shaoye personally stood at the hatch of the ship to guard the two.

"Ding Xianggong, are you going to do it?" Zheng Wenchang rubbed his hands excitedly: "It's been more than a year, but I've been suffocated." Now that Zhu Youzhen's soldiers and horses have been pointed at the Dongting Lake area, if we don't make a move, the other two bandits may turn to them, and we have to strike first. ”

"Of course we have to do it." Ding Jian nodded: "I'm here for this matter." ”