This is nothing for ordinary people, but it is a sensitive topic for Mozhuang and Yang Mansion, Xie Nengyu shook his head and said: "The master has not yet decided, the senior brother must not be interested in these, he thinks that my character is not very suitable, in fact, Lu Yan and Xifeng Bulai are not good." This time, the master arranged a job for me, that is, sea shipping, and when I went back, I had to go to the south to see Zhang Zhenzhou. ”

The two were talking, and they had already walked all the way, and Chen Ling was a little envious of the intimate relationship between Zhou Shaoji and Yang Chong's master and apprentice, and he was a little behind. Cui Junsu walked over slowly and said: "The general should go to Zhuojun to visit King Yue, and whether to withdraw to the south for rectification or fight another battle needs to be decided by King Yue." To tell the truth, I did not participate in the naval battles in the first two years, and I was a little puzzled by the arrangement of the king of Yue at first, but now I see that this is the safest plan. ”

Chen Ling said knowingly: "I brought a few students over, just to add the charts. ”

Charts are the guiding light of ships on the sea, in the Great Sui, in the past, Hu'er had considered this matter, but because of technical and other reasons, it has never been done, but since Yang Chong began to meddle in the navy, this matter has become extremely easy, Sinan and the new way of plotting appeared, so that one by one the charts were quickly generated. Chen Ling sometimes thinks that Yang Chong is reluctant to lead the sailors of Du Fuwei, the king of Chu, not because he is afraid that the king of Chu will make any great achievements, but because he is even more afraid of the leakage of the sea charts, after all, in addition to fighting, maritime merchants also need sea charts.

Chen Ling and the others didn't expect to see Wang Jue as soon as they came ashore, Wang Jue smiled with a smile on his face, stepped forward and saluted and said, "King Yue specially ordered the officials to come and treat all the adults, and pass on some words by the way." ”

Chen Ling smiled and said, "Lord Wang, if you have something to say, what does King Yue command?" ”

Wang Jue said solemnly: "It is rare for the general to be so proficient, the king of Yue has an order, and ordered Shen Guang and Wang Junkuo to lead the headquarters to the Liaodong Army to take over the defense, and ordered Liu Renliang to guard the Yagang for this place, and ordered Wei Ting to be the guard of Wendeng County, and Kan Ling and Zhou Shaoji to be the generals of Zuo Wuwei. In addition, General Chen and General Kan were invited to go to Zhuo County to discuss matters. ”

Wei Ting asked tentatively: "Wendeng County is the starting point for crossing the sea, isn't Yuan Hongshan there?" ”

Wang Jue explained: "Yuan Hongshan was only in charge of shipbuilding, regardless of the place, so the imperial court decided to set up a separate county to fully support the sailors. At the same time, a granary wharf was set up in Huating County to transport grain to the Northeast. ”

Wei Ting sighed and said: "The king of Yue is still unwilling to pour the strength of the whole country into this battle, after all, Goguryeo has 300,000 armor soldiers, and it is difficult to defeat the opponent with 100,000 elite soldiers." ”

Wang Qi showed a smile and said, "This is exactly the reason why King Yue summoned the general. ”

Chen Ling has seen Yang Guang's three Eastern Crusades, which one was not a chicken flying and a dog jumping, but the results of the debate are actually not as great as the achievements of Xu Shiji and himself in the past two years. After all, the eyeliner really pushed the battle line to Xuansu County, Chen Ling remembered something and asked, "Where is Marshal Xu now?" ”

Wang Jue shook his head and said: "I don't know, Marshal Xu has not given us detailed news, General Deng sent news that Tudiji has sent back more than 5,000 women and children of the Jin tribe, and the envoys of Heishui Jing and Bo Du have arrived in Yingzhou and are willing to belong to the Great Sui. At present, all the people of the Baishan Department and the Sumo Dynasty have been moved to the Datong River, the Anche Bone Department and the Fune Department have been destroyed, and only the Horn Room Department is left near Xuansu County, and I heard that they are fighting against the Beji coalition army commanded by the Heishui Army. ”

Chen Ling has read the research report of the Northeast, Beji and Yan Ya are the same family, the history of Beji originally dozens of parts, at the beginning of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Beji people got rid of the control of the Yilou people, occupied the former Su Shen people, Yi Lou people's hometown, and then gradually differentiated. The tribes that went south to destroy Buyeo developed into seven major tribes, including Sumo, Baishan, Bolu, Anchegu, Fune, Haofu, and Heishui; However, more than a dozen tribes such as the Great Molu Kingdom still existed, and the reason why the Black Water Tatar had not succumbed to Goguryeo for so many years was because of these allies with the same roots.

Cui Junsu said with a smile: "Then the threat from the north of Xuansu County is eliminated, and Goguryeo can only launch an attack from Changbai Mountain and the Liao River, and Xu Shiji's pressure will be much less." By the way, does Yue Wang have any plans for the next step? ”

Wang Jue took out a sealed bamboo tube from his sleeve and handed it to Chen Ling, Chen Ling opened it and said with a smile: "Master Cui, you have a ten-day rest, if the weather is good, you will move to Cangzhou, and I will go directly from Zhuo County." We will spend the winter there, and after the beginning of spring, we will escort the escort south in batches, and most of the weapons and equipment will be replenished in Cangzhou. ”

All the generals understood, escorted the ships in batches, and did not affect the dispatch of ships to harass Goguryeo, and they went to work separately as soon as they agreed; After Chen Ling finished stationing in the army, he ordered Zhou Shaoji and Cui Junsu, and then went straight to Zhuojun with Wang Qi and Kan Ling with the guards. In fact, the place where the bamboo tube met was not Zhuo County, but Wuzhong County, Chen Ling understood that Yang Chong was not a person who was tricky, and Wuzhong County must have something to solve by himself.

Wuzhong County, now like Da Thorn City, is the economic powerhouse of western Liaoning, and its prosperity is no less than that of the Central Plains County, that is, there are a little more Hu people of all ethnic groups; Outside the city, there are herds of cattle and sheep, all of them are from all over the Hu people to trade, Chen Ling and his party passed through the city, and found that the market is luxuriant, rice, green salt, porcelain, jewelry, leather, medicinal materials, etc., everything, but it can be seen that half of the shops are opened by Hu people.

Yang Chong's battalion is in the west of Wuzhong County, with banners unfurled, and there are 20,000 strong troops. As soon as Chen Ling arrived at the door, Yu Xuan and Shi Daqian greeted him, and received the big tent of King Yue all the way; Yang Chong, Pei Ju, Cui Minshou, Lu Yanqing, Zhang Jinshu and others were all there, Wang Hua was arranged by Yang Chong to stay in Zhuo County, and everyone was drinking and discussing things.

Yang Chong invited Chen Ling and others to take a seat, personally toasted Chen Ling and Kan Ling with a glass of wine and said: "Now the Chang'an treasury is tight, but the war in Goguryeo can't stop, so please come over is to announce one thing, in the past three years, a large number of civilian ships and private soldiers have been requisitioned into the navy, and the bank has been operating on behalf of the bank, and I know the difficulties and losses in my heart, at present, the tax revenue of Wuzhong County has been taken over, I have discussed it with Master Cui, from now on, Wuzhong County will continue to include taxes for two years, The expenses of these two years are all used to repay the loans of the navy and the welfare of the soldiers, so you have one more thing to do in the future, and in a year and a half, you will have to send someone to Wuzhong County to check the accounts. ”

Chen Ling and Kan Ling hurriedly left their seats to thank them, the Jiangnan Shi clan and the Wei family had actually said this many times, but Yang Chong, Du Fuwei, and Li Xiaogong's ships were also inside, and the others were not good at talking; Fortunately, Yang Chong may have been thinking about this matter all the time, so he had the transfer of the tax package in Wuzhong County.

(End of chapter)