Chapter 32: A Great Survival Challenge

According to the course of history, they will face great challenges to their survival. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Su Zedong and Liu Zhenming both know this very well, in order to defend a Gaoyou city, the soldiers in the city had better fight to only more than 4,000 people, and when they ran out of ammunition and food, they would wait for Natokh to be dispatched, I have to say that this is the mandate of heaven, so what Su Zedong has to do now is to comply with the will of heaven first, accumulate enough strength, and wait until the right time to come, before he can continue to consider whether people can win the sky.

But it all needs to be done step by step.

In fact, before coming to Gaoyou City, Su Zedong had done a good job of foreshadowing this.

Song Jiwen came to Gaoyou more than a month later than everyone else, because he was entrusted by Su Zedong to stay in Gaoyou City to deal with two things:

One of them is the issue of Su Xingdong's burial, whether it is morally or emotionally speaking, it is impossible for the son to let his father be buried in a place similar to a mass grave, so since he is separated from the organization of Dadu, he does not have to act according to the local rules.

Therefore, Su Zedong asked Song to take people to the mountains to find his father's burial place, and then take care of it and transport it to the south by water, which can be regarded as returning to the roots.

Second, what Song wanted to do was to settle the internal affairs in Dadu, so that the trade between the north and the south could be carried out, and when necessary, he should also take into account the spread of various rumors of defection and corruption, and at the same time, he also had to find suitable candidates to go to Huguang Province to discuss with the great warlord He Zhen, and it was best to reach a business cooperative relationship, otherwise it would be okay to know each other.

This first thing, Song Jiwen handled it very properly, and in the second week after he came to Gaoyou City, the coffin containing Su Xingdong's body was transported here.

Song also asked people to go to Liuzhou in Huguang Province to buy a good coffin, in exchange for a flashy wooden coffin that was used to hide people's eyes and ears when it was shipped to Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province.

However, due to the lack of sufficient funds for this second incident, and when Dongzhen Company did not use the technology of blast furnace ironmaking to produce so many high-quality and inexpensive ironware, the people sent to Huguang Province did not even see He Zhen's face.

And now Dongzhen company has iron as a large economic project development, but the production cost is low, but the price of raw materials is high, in the initial experimental stage, Liu Zhenming in order to collect a large number of raw materials spent a lot of silver taels, so that the merchants and farmers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces all over the province, the materials are continuously transported, there is a great taste of steel smelting in later generations.

Dongzhen Company has indeed developed, but there is still a big gap between it and the extent of its wealth, so it is urgent to make friends with He Zhen in terms of trade exchanges, mineral development and army construction.

Now that someone has been sent to have contact with He Zhen, this is a good foundation.

According to the current situation, Su Zedong believes that there are still less than three months before the June siege of Tokto, and as long as he makes good use of this relationship with He Zhen, goes to Huguang Province to mine copper ore and establishes a relationship with He Zhen, even if it is not enough, he can be effectively supplemented in Jiangxi Province, which is still under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.

According to the drawn up plan, Su Zedong and Liu Zhenming rushed to Huguang Province in early April in the name of jointly developing copper, iron ore, coal, and other resources, and met in Dongguan with He Zhen, who had made great achievements in Dongguan in the next ten years and was later praised by the world as "the first person of Lingnan sages."

It's just that at this time, the 'Dongguan Bo' is still in the early stage of entrepreneurship (to the 14th year of the army), and the poor businessmen from the north did not look down on them before, because they thought they were swindlers at the end of the road, and there was no real material;

Su Zedong and others met He Zhen for the first time, he was thirty-two years old, he was in the prime of life, his heart was full of ambition, and he had intelligence, courage and experience, and there were enough fierce generals and sages around him.

After being introduced by a businessman who had dealt with him before, He Zhen also met the big boss behind the businessman and called him Dongzhenguan first.

After the two talked for half an hour, He Zhen was able to gain knowledge, but he didn't expect that the eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy in front of him had such a majestic strategy and unique vision, which made him forget all his hesitations when meeting the other party, and the pride and sense of accomplishment in his heart were also humble in front of the other party's sharp teeth and wisdom teeth, and they were slowly worn out.

Su Zedong first introduced to He Zhen the purpose of his visit and the current situation, and then analyzed the ultimate purpose of the cooperation between the two, and then talked about the specific form.

In the end, He Zhen was no match for Su Zedong's "sugar-coated cannonball", and while agreeing to the other party's cooperation plan, he also praised: "Brother Su is really a young hero!" In just half an hour, he was able to analyze the situation in the world so thoroughly, and put forward such a striking disgust! Okay, I really believe Brother Su, and everything will be done according to your wishes. ”

At the end of the negotiation, Su Zedong proposed: "Brother He, the kid has also admired you for a long time!" I want to take this opportunity to cooperate, can you and I become brothers with different surnames and conspire in this world, how! ”

He Zhen readily agreed, but he was not very interested in Su Zedong's proposal that the two brothers conspire with the world, and what he thought about was still advocating the monarch.

It's just that the current situation in the Central Plains is chaotic, the people are not happy, and thieves are rampant, and he wants to ensure the safety of one party, so he organized a militia to carry out conquest and rehabilitation, but he also said that everyone has their own ambitions, and if Su Zedong has the heart to seize the world, he will not object, but everything must be people-oriented, and the number of conquests should be minimized.

Su Zedong understood that this person had this idea, it was really because he had read too many books of ancient sages, otherwise he would not have formed such a strong idea of loyalty to the monarch and protecting the people.

In other words, not everyone who is an emperor is qualified, and not every person is a good citizen and loyal to the people.

But as long as you think about it from another perspective, maybe he was born in the wrong era, he has a better interpersonal foundation than himself, but he didn't make good use of the resources of rebellion and hegemony such as human identity, so he naturally can't achieve the hegemony of the world;

Or maybe he is self-aware, knowing that the enemy can't be beaten, and finding an excuse not to fight or grab, thinking about it this way, He Zhen in history is still like a person who has crossed over from the afterlife!