Zhao Er showed a big face this time, nearly 400 ships, enough to transport tens of thousands of people to Jiangnan at a time, Chai Rong was reluctant to fight in Jiangnan, because water warfare was the weakness of the Great Zhou, and the shortage of ships was even greater. Moreover, ships are easy to build, but experienced sailors are not easy to recruit.

Chai Rong calculated that even if it would take five years at the earliest, it would be able to pull the sailor up.

In the past five years, he has swept away Jingchu, destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, and even the Later Shu and Southern Han may have been settled...... It's just that even he didn't expect that good things happened one after another, subdued Ren Tianxing, and abducted so many boats, crossing the river to fight, and then worry-free!

Chai Rongxing rushed to announce the celebration of the wine, one is to break through Rugao, and the other is that the sailor has landed, which is called double happiness. When Suzhou is saved, it will be three joys, and then we will celebrate!

His Majesty the Emperor has always been like this, grasping the big and letting go of the small, just make decisions, he doesn't care how difficult the things below are, someone will help deal with them anyway.

"Master, these sailors have Wu Yue's soldiers, some merchants' hired workers, messy, some people still miss Wu Yue, some people want to escape back to Hangzhou, maybe some people want to go to the Southern Tang Dynasty, it's completely scattered, it's useless!"

Ye Hua's head was big, "It's really hard for you to get them back!" ”

Zhao Er shrunk his neck and said luckily: "Thanks to Ren Tianxing, otherwise I would have to run for miles." ”

Ye Hua nodded, "Okay, the top priority now is to let these people be loyal to the Great Zhou as soon as possible, and not ask them to serve the country wholeheartedly, but to obey the order." ”

Zhao Er immediately said: "Master, is it a high-ranking official, or is it a strict punishment?" Or both? ”

Ye Hua smiled and shook his head, "It's neither, it's leading by example!" You go and prepare some Shaoxing old wine, by the way, and plum vegetables, this is the favorite of the people of Liangzhejiang, invite all the sailors and soldiers to eat tonight! ”

……

After Wei Renpu arrived in Suzhou, he did not take the initiative to do anything other than promise to maintain the stability of the currency value, usually it was the people from the Chamber of Commerce who found him, and Lao Wei came forward to help.

When encountering a situation, Wei Renpu only made suggestions and never commanded.

Wei Xianggong's low profile made the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce very useful.

After stabilizing the currency, the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce borrowed a sum of money from the Bank of Suzhou, recruited young people, stepped up training, and obtained a total of 30,000 foot soldiers.

In addition, the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce gathered more than 100 merchant ships to form a sailor.

With the arrival of the weapons of the Great Zhou, these foot soldiers were armed.

The only problem is the lack of war horses, Jiangnan already lacks tall war horses, and even if there are, they are all in the official army, and Su Shang can't get it if he has money.

They could only collect some horses, mules, and donkeys for military use.

"General Yang, what do you think of the people in Suzhou, can they have the strength to fight?"

Lao Wei was laissez-faire on the surface, but secretly he didn't dare to be careless. He took the time to call Yang Chongxun over and ask about the situation. In the past few years, Yang Chongxun has also matured a lot, he has a black beard, short and shiny, like a young Zhuang general, very majestic.

He bowed down and said, "Wei Xianggong, I originally thought that Jiangnan was weak and thin, and could only study and do business, and could not fight on the battlefield...... However, after this period of training, the last general found that there was no shortage of heroes and warriors in Jiangnan, but the time was too hasty, how could he become an army in a month or two? The last general only trained them to guard the city and protect their homeland. Fortunately, five days ago, a batch of bed crossbows were transported, there were 300 of them, and the final general was arranged at the head of the city. ”

Wei Renpu stared at the map in front of him, as the mastermind who accompanied Guo Wei to fight, Wei Renpu was also among the best in military attainments in the Great Zhou, and the common people said well, without diamond diamonds, don't do porcelain work. If Lao Wei wasn't sure enough, he wouldn't have taken the initiative to go to Jiangnan.

"General Yang, you might as well follow the old man to sort out the process of this period of time, figure out the ins and outs, and you will be able to roughly know it."

Lao Wei frowned and said seriously...... When he first came, Wu Yue was taken by the Great Zhou Zhiwei and did not dare to send troops, and the Southern Tang Dynasty at that time did not attack with all his strength, but just fought on the river and retreated in a hurry.

Li Hongji wants to fight with Da Zhou, will he not dare to attack Suzhou because he is afraid of Da Zhou?

The experienced Wei Renpu quickly saw through Li Hongji's thoughts, first of all, Suzhou was still Wu Yue's territory, and Li Hongji did not coordinate well with Wu Yue, so it was inconvenient to rashly attack Suzhou, so as not to arouse suspicion between the two countries and ruin the overall situation of cooperation against the Great Zhou.

Besides, Suzhou is lonely in the south of the Yangtze River, easy to attack and difficult to defend.

The prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty came to Suzhou, and he did a good job, he inserted a knife in the south of the Yangtze River, and if he didn't do it well, he would give hostages to others!

Li Hongji's abacus is more shrewd than anyone else.

Ask yourself, can he beat Da Zhou?

It's hard, it's very hard!

According to Li Hongji's idea, it is already very good to be able to delay the time, or to draw. If the two sides really draw, or there is a small loss, Suzhou is a bargaining chip, so he did not rashly move.

But the problem is that as the situation becomes more and more severe, Jiangbei is full of beacons, Chai Rong is driving the expedition in person, Li Hongji does not dare to be lucky, he can only go all out.

At this time, Wu Yue's pro-Southern Tang faction also had the upper hand, so there were only 100,000 Wu Yue troops attacking Suzhou, and Li Hongji went all out to reinforce Yangzhou.

But the problem is that Wu Yueguo is very chaotic, the army has no fighting spirit, starting from Hangzhou, half a month, just past Xiuzhou, and there is still half a distance from Suzhou!

The soldiers are fast, and like this, the daylilies are cold.

Moreover, Wu Yue's people are stagnant, it is likely that the country is still hesitating, in case they fall to the Great Zhou, it will not be good.

With pig teammates, no one can do anything, Li Hongji can only urgently transfer 50,000 people and 200 warships, take the initiative to attack, solve Suzhou first, and take Wu Yue in his pocket first.

……

The situation in the entire south of the Yangtze River can be said to change three times a day, which is becoming more and more unfavorable for Suzhou.

There are 100,000 horses of Wu Yue in the southeast, 50,000 troops of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the west, and the Yangtze River in the north is facing a blockade.

Lao Wei hugged his head in pain, "There are not many soldiers, but they are fine, not to mention that there are not many people in Suzhou at all!" I am afraid that this battle will be more than auspicious. ”

As a soldier, Yang Chongxun was reluctant to admit defeat, but he still had the safety of Wei Xianggong on his shoulders, so he had to be cautious.

"Xiang Gong is in danger, and it is already a great kindness to be able to come to Suzhou, and the situation is already very critical at this moment, so please turn back to Da Zhou immediately."

Lao Wei raised his head and asked softly, "The old man is gone, what should happen to Suzhou?" ”

"The last general will go all out, even if there are more people in Nantang, I will bite a piece of meat!" The surname Yang has no soft bones, Yang Chongxun is determined to fight to the death!

Lao Wei hesitated for a while, shook his head and said: "No, if the old man leaves, Suzhou will definitely be in chaos, if nothing else, the coins issued by the Bank of Suzhou will become worthless, the currency will collapse, and Suzhou will be finished!" ”

During this period of time, Wei Renpu's financial level has also improved.

Suzhou businessmen dare to confront the two countries, the greatest courage comes from the Great Zhou, now Wei Renpu is the representative of the Great Zhou, he is gone, it is equivalent to the backer is gone, confidence collapses, the whole Suzhou surrendered without a fight.

"No, absolutely not, Suzhou can't afford to lose it!"

Wei Renpu thought for a long time, then suddenly stood up, "General Yang, you go to the city with the old man to have a look." ”

"Ahh

Yang Chongxun looked outside, it was already late, "Wei Xianggong, why don't you wait until tomorrow?" ”

"It's now!" Lao Wei was particularly firm, he said to go, Yang Chongxun followed, they went straight to the city wall, due to the strict curfew, by the time it was dark, there were no idlers in the market.

There was almost no obstacle to the city wall, and suddenly, Yang Chongxun found that a group of people were concentrating on the city gate cave - gambling money!

"Ridiculous!"

Yang Chongxun was furious and wanted to enforce military law.

Wei Renpu waved his hand and said in a low voice: "Pay attention to your identity!" ”

Of course, Yang Chongxun knew that he was just here to help with training, not the main general, but seeing that the soldiers were so uncompetitive, anger was always inevitable, and he was so angry that he kept grabbing his saber, but Lao Wei walked up quickly, picked up a gun from the corner of the wall, and suddenly put it on the back of a soldier.

"Don't move!"

The soldiers who were gambling tensed their muscles in fright, and the others all turned around to find an old man with a gun and a slight smile at them.

"Brothers, how did you play?"

"You, who are you, why are you scaring me?" The soldier who was pushed stretched his neck and asked in disobedience. The companion next to him rubbed his eyes and suddenly exclaimed, "Yes, it's Wei Xianggong!" ”

"Meet Wei Xianggong!"

With an uproar, many people fell to one knee together and bowed their heads in shame.

Lao Wei didn't say anything, but went to the gambling table, waved hard, and retreated the dice and other things on it to the ground, and then waved his hand, someone sent pen and ink, Lao Wei pondered for a moment, and on this table, in front of everyone, he wrote a sincere note.

After writing, Wei Renpu sighed: "The old man heard that the gentry and merchants of Suzhou were angry about the Great Zhou, so the old man did not avoid the sword, came to Jiangnan, and was willing to live and die with all the brothers and the people of the city, even if he threw an old life in Gusu City, he would not give up!" ”

"This is a note written by the old man to the emperor of the Great Zhou, if the old man unfortunately dies in battle, please ask Your Majesty for permission, it is the old man's wish to bury the old man outside Suzhou."

After Wei Renpu finished speaking, he took out the fire paint, sealed the music, let people hold it, and immediately sent it to Da Zhou - at this moment, there are still five days before Zhao Er returns to Jinghai!

From beginning to end, Lao Wei didn't have a word of blame, but the soldiers present hurt more than dozens of mouths, it hurt so much that it was pumped to the bones!

It hurts to the heart!

A prime minister of Shangguo, willing to take a risk, came to Suzhou, did not hesitate to die in the city, and was buried in Gusu!

What kind of spirit is this?

"Wei Xianggong, we were wrong!"

The soldiers stood up suddenly, wiped their tears, and burned all the gambling equipment with a fire......