Lü Peng's fleet protected its fleet mightily and rushed into the Yangtze River.

Standing on the bow of the ship, feeling the magnificent and vast water of the mighty Yangtze River, sighing at the infinite beauty of the motherland's great rivers and mountains, and feeling that on the Yangtze River, a tattered merchant ship has added a poignant beauty to this gorgeous beauty, which is so discordant with this beautiful scenery.

A tattered merchant ship? What is the situation?

As a result, Lu Peng was wondering, the merchant ship actually sailed head-on to his fleet, and then directly hit the front of Hengzhai's fleet, blocking the advance of Lu Peng's fleet. ”

Lu Peng looked at his guards left and right, pointed to his nose in confusion, and asked uncertainly: "This person seems to be looking for me, and he seems to know me, this is Jiang Nanye, do I still have acquaintances here?" Could it be that I have really become Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao who seem to be dedicated to Sai Meng? ”

Everyone doesn't know who Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao are, but it has been determined that this person knows his lord, so the new chief of the guard said to Lu Peng with certainty: "It is certain that this person is looking for you." ”

Lu Peng lay on the edge of the boat and looked out, the distance was still far away, and he couldn't see clearly, so Lu Peng instructed the sailors around him, quickly drop the rope, and ask this acquaintance of mine to come up. ”

The long waterways, the outrageous speed, and the lack of any entertainment itinerary are indeed lonely and crazy, but if you meet a fellow, drink a little wine, and talk about the past, it is also a pleasure.

The rope was thrown out, and the tattered merchant ship came over, and the man on the boat grabbed the rope, trembling and trying to climb up, and just climbed two steps, he sighed and fell back to his ship, if it weren't for the helmsman who barely controlled the ship, he lost the rudder and helped him, it is estimated that this guy fell directly into the water.

Lu Peng frowned, he had already seen that this person was injured, and the helmsman seemed to be more seriously injured than this person, just because he looked at the relationship between master and slave, regardless of his own injuries, he stepped out to protect the master. So he hurriedly ordered: "Put down the net, pull up this old gentleman and his helmsman, and there is no need to repair his broken ship, so just abandon it." ”

Both nets were lowered, and under the command of the man above, the man and his helmsman climbed into the nets with great difficulty, and were pulled up by the ship with a noose.

Lu Peng wanted to come forward to help, but the new chief of the guard directly blocked Lu Peng's front, and now he strictly followed Lu Peng's teachings, outside of Youzhou, he would never let anyone get close to Lu Peng, and he would never follow the old path of the old elder brother of the guard and make his mistakes.

Lu Peng pulled him away, this person was very dead-eyed, didn't he see that the other party didn't even have the strength to struggle? But I like this kind of dead eye, I like it very much, and after a while, I must be justified and praised with great fanfare. Verbal praise for this thing, just come with your mouth, it's just a spittle, and the one who is praised will definitely be more grateful to himself, this is the benefit but not the waste.

The one who shouted to see him turned out to be an old man, about 60 years old. Sure enough, on one of his arms, a white cloth was wrapped indiscriminately, and blood oozed out of it, and the blood was already black, and it looked like he had been injured for a long time.

While supporting the old man, Lu Peng instructed his guards: "Hurry up and get some of our gold sore medicine, and apply it to this old man and his servants, be fast, this southern weather can be infected at any time, it will kill people." ”

As a result, the old man opened his faint eyes, looked at Lu Peng carefully, and after confirming it, regardless of the pain on his body, he knelt down for Lu Peng on the boat with a bang, and then cried: "Lord, God opened his eyes, finally let me see you, you have to be my master, you have to save my life." ”

This pleading and crying was not at all out of Lu Peng's expectations, and when he saw this virtue, he was robbed by water thieves, and he saw that this person was a businessman who was connected with his Youzhou, and he met him halfway, hoping that he could help.

Lu Peng comforted him, pulled him up, and then ordered someone to send a stool and ask him to sit down, at this time, Lang Zhong, who was with the army, also brought gold sore medicine, tore open his torn sleeves, opened and threw away the rags wrapped in the wound, and after careful inspection, he said to Lu Peng: "Don't worry, my lord, this wound will not be injured for a long time, and it will not suppurate." ”

In this way, Lu Peng was relieved, so he asked the old man: "I don't know how this old man knew this official, what happened?" If I can help, I will definitely go all out. ”

The old man pushed away the Lang Zhong and knelt down again: "It's understandable that the lord doesn't know the little one, but the little one knows the lord, I am a native of Yuyang County, Youzhou, and a small person under the rule of the lord." ”

Hearing his introduction, a feeling of closeness immediately arose in Lu Peng's heart, this is really a foreign country to meet a neighbor, in this time of population flow and its difficulties, it is of course a happy thing to meet this person from thousands of miles away.

So Lu Peng patted his chest and said: "Since you are the people under my rule, I will call the shots for you in everything." ”

With Lu Peng's assurance, the old man began to tell about his suffering.

Since Lu Peng entered Youzhou, the first thing he did was to let go of the salt and iron monopoly, this old man's surname was Li, and he was also a small family in the Yuyang area, so he was the first to respond to Lu Peng's call and withdraw from the excess land, using this method in exchange for Lu Peng's first batch of iron smelting qualifications approved by Lu Peng.

As a result, he chose the right step, he took a ride on Lu Peng's great development, the family's iron-smelting workshop continued to expand, and the business became more and more prosperous, and the wealth of the entire family increased several times compared with the original farming.

Then, his family followed the pace of Lu Peng, actively responded to Lu Peng's call to develop the western part of Youzhou, opened a branch factory in the western part of Youzhou with his family's industry, and directly followed Lu Peng's call to take away a thousand workers who opened mines and smelted iron.

Due to the smooth wind and water, step by step to follow the footsteps of Lu Peng, so the industry is constantly growing, and the iron smelting industry in Youzhou has also begun to show its name, and has ranked among the top ten.

But the good times didn't last long, and Lü Peng suddenly turned against Cao Cao, promulgated the law of trade war with Cao Cao, and blocked the delivery of iron to Cao Cao's area.

This time, it was a huge blow to the Li family, and there was overcapacity in a blink of an eye.

But the patriarch of the Li family did not sit back and wait for Lu Peng's favor again, but took the initiative to come out and open up the market to the south.

This time, after many negotiations with several families and small warlords in the south, the negotiations turned into a huge business and opened up their market.

So the old patriarch worked tirelessly to personally escort the iron materials of the hundred boats, floated to the south, and prepared to revive the glory of the family.

As a result, disaster fell from the sky, after entering the Yangtze River waterway, he had already opened up the joints with the water bandits along the way, and paid the protection fee, but these water thieves suddenly changed their faces, directly robbed his goods, and killed many of his subordinates.

This old patriarch was actually desperate, and when he was cornered, he suddenly saw Lu Peng's fleet fluttering the banner of Lu Zi, which made him suddenly remember that his lord had already gone south and was ready to rescue Liu Bei, so he stopped Lu Peng's fleet and asked Lu Peng for help.

Lu Peng asked with a dark face: "Who killed people and oversold goods?" ”

The old man replied tremblingly: "Yangtze River water thief, Ganning Ganxingba." ”

Lu Peng clapped his hands and said excitedly: "This is really an excuse to beat you, you actually sent it to my door, Gan Ning Gan Xingba, right, this time you are dead." ”