"The king is really interested, it is said that the young sturgeon in the Yang Zijiang River is tender and juicy, this time I can get the king's reward, a taste of the taste, fortunately! Luckily! As he spoke, another old man with frosty hair walked out of the cabin, came to stand behind the middle-aged man, his eyes swept with the middle-aged man on the river, although his words were full of expectation, but his eyebrows were quite flat.

The king in the old man's mouth is the middle-aged man standing in front of him, named Gou Yuecuo, the current King of Jingyue.

King Jingyue's face seemed to be colorful, and he pointed to the fisherman who was preparing to put down the net on the boat, and said: "Lord Gu doesn't know, these days are just the time when the young sturgeon grows up, one more day is too tender, and one day later is too old. ”

As for this old man, if there is an official from Yanjing, he will definitely be able to recognize him at a glance, this person is the one who handed over the fold and was beaten back by Yan Changfeng with a cold face.

Just like now, the basic strategy of transferring Gu Liangchen to Dingzhou to the west has not changed, but now that Gu Liangchen is short of troops, this problem needs to be solved, and the entire reinforcement plan can be implemented, and Gu Liangchen has already received the news, and it is estimated that preparations are already underway.

As for the matter of inviting soldiers, it naturally fell on the head of the secretary of his military department, so everyone discussed it for a night, and it was decided that Gu Yanchuan would come out in person.

However, he is only responsible for finding the king of Jingyue and calling the third legion in his hand, as for the fifth legion, he has his own house, after all, although the fifth legion is nominally under the control of King Jingyue, but now everyone in the court knows that Fang Zhongzhi, the commander of the fifth legion, is to Jingyue, in fact, it is the same as King Jingyue is to the court, that is, nominally I am still your subordinate, in fact, I have long been a family of my own, give you face, just listen to your orders, and when you are in a bad mood, I don't care who you are.

And it just so happened that Fang Xuan was the eldest son of Fang Zhong, so if he went to ask for troops, naturally there would not be much of a problem, mainly to see if Gu Yanchuan could say that King Jingyue would send troops, if King Jingyue was willing to send troops, then Fang Zhong would naturally be easy to say, but if King Jingyue was unwilling to send troops, even if House Xuan was the eldest son, it would be very difficult for the Fifth Army to send troops.

Now on the half of the south of the Yangtze River, the open and secret battles between the Jing Yue family and the Fang family have become more and more intense, before the rebellion of Yan Youchu, the two sides only dared to hand each other knives in secret, and the previous Emperor Hui also turned a blind eye to this, because in the emperor's heart, what he expected most was that the two sides of the power fought back and forth, and restrained each other, so that both parties would be attached to the Great Yan Court, and all the decrees of the Great Yan Court would be easier to implement on their side.

After all, the military power of the Yan court is mainly concentrated in the north of the Yangzi River, and the control over the southern half of the Yangtze River is extremely weak, if you want to control it steadily, one is to completely destroy the power of King Jingyue in the south, but this will have a great impact, and even continuous wars and civil strife, which is not the result that the ruler wants to see.

So at this time, another method is obviously more concise and effective, and that is to cultivate a force that can threaten the king of Jingyue, and then let them fight each other, so as to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Although there are many smart people in the Fang family, it is impossible not to see the purpose of the imperial court, but they are very happy to act as the pawns of the imperial court in the land of Jiangnan to suppress King Jingyue.

At that time, the king of Jingyue saw that the Fang family was gradually growing, and he also used various means to suppress it, so he sent troops to encircle and suppress it, but these means were all resolved by the power of the court in the end, and they also understood the reason why the Fang family had grown.

So later, King Jingyue could only reluctantly acquiesce in the status of the Fang family, and the results also proved their conjecture, when the Fang family's power grew enough to compete with King Jingyue, the Dayan court reversed the wind direction and began to play balance.

It's a pity that there are unforeseen circumstances, a Yan Youchu rebellion, not only weakened the power of the Great Yan Imperial Court, but also began to separate from the court in half of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, at this time, the half of the south of the Yangtze River, on the surface, seems to be an ancient well without waves, a peaceful and peaceful place, but secretly there is an undercurrent surging, Jing Yue family and Fang family both want to annex each other, and then completely include the two states in the south of the Yangtze River into their own pockets.

As long as the half of the south of the Yangtze River is unified, with the wealth of this place and Yang Zijiang as a natural risk, it can become a country independently, and then recruit troops, recuperate, and even detain Yanjing, it is not impossible to win the world.

Therefore, Gu Yanchuan came to invite soldiers at this time, and the things involved in it are not many, not small, and they are all very sensitive.

"Poof!" The sound of the fishing net entering the water attracted the attention of the two, and King Jingyue looked at the water with great interest, then turned around and said to Gu Yanchuan: "Where the still water is undercurrent, the fish are the most, and this net goes down, there must be a thousand catties, and Lord Gu is willing to gamble with this king?" ”

Gu Yanchuan smiled, "The king is bullying the lower officials, the lower officials have grown up in the north since they were children, and the number of times they have gone south can be counted on one hand, that is a real landlubber, how can it be compared with an experienced southerner like the king." ”

King Jingyue waved his hand, "It's okay, Master Gu can guess, if you guess wrong, then it's all a game between you and me, just go over, but if you guess correctly, ......", paused slightly, and then smiled mysteriously: "This king can agree to a request from Lord Gu!" ”

Gu Yanchuan's eyes lit up, the purpose of his visit had already been explained as early as the first visit, but King Jingyue had always avoided talking about this matter, and just pulled him around Gusu City every day to look around, so that Gu Yanchuan knew a lot about the surrounding scenery and humanities.

At this time, he suddenly said "You can promise a request", and with that mysterious smile, Gu Yanchuan couldn't help but think about it, so he was sure in his heart, and said secretly: "If you lose, you won't lose anything, if you win, things will be much easier to do." ”

So he said loudly, "I also bet on a thousand pounds." ”

"It seems that Lord Gu and this king are heroes, and they see the same thing." King Jingyue smiled, as if he had met a confidant, "But the net will have to wait until the afternoon, and I can't watch it yet, why don't Lord Gu go in and rest with this king, and drink tea and listen to music together?" My Jingyue's Longjing, but even King Molan covets the best. ”

Although there was a question in the words, but did not give the other party a chance to answer, as soon as the words fell, King Jingyue took the lead and stepped up to the second floor of the ship, where there was a balcony, and the beautiful maids on the left and right had prepared everything in advance, and after the two of them were seated, they knelt on the side like that, bowing slightly, which was considered a courtesy.

After taking a sip of the new tea, King Jingyue seemed to have suddenly changed a person, from the heroic and free and easy that he began on the deck, he suddenly became worried, "Lord Gu doesn't know everything, although my land south of the Yangtze River looks calm, but it is also quite dangerous, the ambition of the wolf son of the Fang family, although he does not dare to openly turn his face with me in front of the imperial court, but he is already a warlord force that is completely out of the control of the imperial court, and this king is also worried about it day and night." ”

Gu Yanchuan picked up a cup of tea and put it to his mouth and tasted it carefully, not that he thought the tea was delicious, but he didn't know how to answer the other party's words, that King Jingyue was also a good person, he tied the Dayan court to himself, out of his control, that is, out of the control of the court, this sound much more reasonable.

Gu Yanchuan couldn't help but scold: "The relationship between the Fang family and the court is much closer than the relationship between your King Jingyue and the court, not to mention anything else, the eldest son of the Fang family is an official in the court, can one of your Jingyue kings enter the court as an official?" All of them are cowering on their own turf. ”

But then again, it was not someone else who caused the current situation, it was precisely the Dayan Imperial Court itself, and now when the order does not move others and comes to ask others, others will use this matter to prevaricate, and they really don't know how to deal with it for a while.

But a cup of tea, even if it is drunk in small sips, there is always a time to finish drinking, and secretly glanced at King Jingyue who was looking at him, Gu Yanchuan could only put the teacup down, "The matter of Fang Zhong, the court has its own public opinion, the king can rest assured, and this time he also sent someone to pass the decree, presumably it has been received now." ”

"Oh? I wonder how many soldiers the Imperial Court wants the Fifth Legion to send? King Jingyue asked after him, and then added, "Of course, this king is a little presumptuous, if it is inconvenient for Lord Gu to talk about it, forget it." ”

"It doesn't matter, it's the same as the king's third legion, it's twenty-five thousand armored men." Gu Yanchuan chuckled and said that being able to expose that embarrassing topic made him feel a lot more relaxed.

"But it's all handed over to Gu Gu Liangchen and Marshal Gu?" King Jing Yue then asked again, as if he had already made up his mind to send troops, asking for details.

"Exactly!" Gu Yanchuan was also unabashed, looking forward to the other party being able to give him a positive answer next.

"Hmm" King Jingyue nodded, "Gu Liangchen has also met with this king a few times, that was during the rebellion of Yan Youchu, this king was ordered to lead the army north to attack Zhongzhou, the base camp of Yan Youchu, where he met Gu Liangchen, who was in a stalemate with the enemy, and he was a calm and calm person. ”

Gu Yanchuan didn't get the answer he wanted, but the other party's tone changed, and he talked about Gu Liangchen, and then used his acquaintance with Gu Liangchen as an introduction, and talked endlessly about the commanders of the troops in the Yan Youchu Rebellion.

The afternoon passed in the exchange between the two of them without any substantial progress, until a powerful horn sounded outside the ship, and King Jingyue hurriedly pulled up Gu Yanchuan and walked out, saying that he had begun to collect the net.

When the two came to the deck, the fishermen had already pulled the fishing nets out of the water and were struggling to drag them into the fish compartment of the boat, and at this time they could clearly see the harvest in the fishing nets, and the live fish were making their final struggles, among which there was a young sturgeon more than three feet long that instantly attracted the attention of King Jingyue.

Hurriedly instructed the left and right: "Bring that sturgeon in a moment." ”

He turned his head to Gu Yanchuan and said, "Lord Gu is really lucky today, such a fat young sturgeon is very rare, and I have a good mouth today." ”

Gu Yanchuan kept smiling beside him, of course he wouldn't take this kind of compliment without any nutrition seriously, "It's just that I don't know how the king wants to cook this fish?" ”

King Jingyue was slightly stunned, and then smiled mysteriously again: "It doesn't have to be eaten, if it is obedient, I will raise it to watch it, and it is not a beautiful thing." ”