Talking about the cooperation between officials and businessmen to implement cross-regional business, Li Ke suddenly asked Deng Yu with great interest: "Since you want to do business, you must have to sell goods, I don't know what King Wu wants to sell?" ”

Li Ke asked, but Deng Yu was stopped. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Deng Yu also read a lot of time-traveling novels before his rebirth, and most of those time-traveling protagonists quickly amassed a lot of wealth by inventing products such as soap, perfume, or brewing distilled spirits.

At this moment, when it was Deng Yue's turn to quickly obtain wealth through business, Deng Yu didn't know what goods to pirate in future generations.

For a while, Deng Yu felt a headache, thinking about it, and the life deeds of Zhang Shicheng in history suddenly flashed in his mind: he was born as a salt dealer, and after the founding of the king, he became the richest prince in the late Han Dynasty by controlling the salt industry on the southeast coast!

Thinking of this, Deng Yu told Li Ke his idea of focusing on the development of the salt industry, and Li Ke pondered for a while and felt that this idea was feasible.

Subsequently, Deng Yu proposed to open a low-tax trading market in the counties of Wu State, and Deng Yu's henchmen set up a maritime caravan to develop maritime trade with Goryeo, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

At the same time, Deng Yu planned to promote the recruitment halls in Xuyi and Sizhou to all counties of Wu State, and he also planned to build a academy that had no class to absorb and cultivate practical talents for Wu State.

"It's a good thing to create academies and educate the people regardless of whether they are high or low!" Knowing what Deng Yu meant, Li Ke bowed slightly.

After that, when it came to the question of how to stabilize the locality, Deng Yu proposed that the wounded soldiers and veterans be appointed as pavilion chiefs in various places.

In previous battles, the Broken Army accumulated a lot of wounded soldiers, and after some of them recovered, they were not suitable to go to the battlefield again, Deng Yue was unwilling to abandon them, and just appointed them as grassroots officials by rectifying the place.

These pavilion chiefs are loyal enough, and they have been born and died on the battlefield, their eyes are bright, and although their bodies are not suitable for fierce battles, they have no problem dealing with two or three thieves and scoundrels.

"This method is good, it can not only stabilize the place, but also help solve the worries of the soldiers, if it can be combined with the military cantonment system, maybe it can be done to hide the soldiers to the people."

Deng Yu and Li Ke continued to discuss the issue of how to prosper the Wu State, and only then did they disperse at night after the third watch.

Looking at Li Ke's figure gradually disappearing, Deng Yu laughed loudly, feeling that he was too lucky, with Li Ke's assistance, he could be freed from cumbersome government affairs.

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In September 1355, Zhu Yuanzhang led his army to capture Wujiang Town, and worshiped Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, on the bank of the Wujiang River.

In October 1355, Zhu Yuanzhang led his army to occupy Hezhou.

In December 1356, the Chaohu naval army of the two Red Turban Army was attached to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed, and after glancing at Xu Da, he laughed loudly: "The east wind is coming!" ”

In January 1356, Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to cross the Yangtze River from Hezhou to the east, first quarrying, and then broke the Taiping, after the army rested for ten days, he attacked Jiqing in one go, and renamed it 'Yingtianfu'.

At this point, Zhu Yuanzhang's foundation was first formed!!

In the same month, Deng Yu took Hu Dahai and Chang Yuchun as the main generals, divided his troops into two routes, all the way to attack Yangzhou, Taizhou, Taixing, all the way to Rugao and Tongzhou, the two armies were like bamboos, and soon captured the county seat of five counties.

Just when the army swept the territory of the five counties and was about to wrap up, Chang Yuchun was in big trouble.

"Boren will actually ask for help?"

Receiving Chang Yuchun's urgent document, Deng Yue felt a little incredible.

Although Deng Yu and Chang Yuchun have not been together for too long, he knows Chang Yuchun quite well, this fierce general who likes to ride alone and fight will rush forward, where is the master who will take the initiative to ask for help and invite friendly troops to share the battle achievements?

In this case, where is such a powerful enemy within the boundaries of Tongzhou, so strong that Chang Yuchun asks for help?

"It's a bit of a hassle......"

After reading the entire letter, Deng Yue knew why even Chang Yuchun asked for help, and the opponent he met was more special, it was the pirates led by Zhang Dahu (bandit number slanted eyes Biao), plus the princes (Fang Guozhen) all the way!

As the saying goes: relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft the water, it is not surprising that pirates appeared in the southeast coastal zone, although the Yuan Dynasty did not have any special achievements in navigation, but there was no such thing as a ban on the sea.

According to what Chang Yuchun said in the letter: The thousands of pirates with squinted eyes alone can't pose much of a threat, at most it will take a little time, but with Fang Guozhen, it will be very troublesome.

Fang Guozhen, whose name is Zhan, is tall and burly, with a dark complexion, and has the strength to race over a galloping horse, and has four brothers, who have been selling salt by boats and seas for generations, because they were falsely accused of gangsters by the enemy, they were forced to flee to the sea, gathered thousands of people, and plundered back and forth.

The chaotic times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty came, Fang Guozhen was the first to rebel against the Yuan, seven battles and seven victories, he had a mature navy, and the sea combat power was stronger than the righteous armies from all walks of life, and even the entire Yuan Dynasty, which could be called the first at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

The thousands of pirates with squinted eyes belong to Fang Guozhen's peripheral forces, controlling the coastal area of Tongzhou, and their nest is on Chongming Island.

With the strength of Chang Yuchun's command of the Wan Wu army, it was not too difficult to seize the coastal area of Tongzhou from the hands of Slanted Eye Biao, but as soon as the war was over, troubles continued one after another.

The slanted eye Biao is very cunning, and after suffering the loss of Chang Yuchun on land, he adopted the method of repeated attacks and harassment, and no longer confronted Chang Yuchun head-on.

Wu currently does not have a navy, and it is difficult to eliminate the squint Biao who retreats with one blow, and even worse, if the squint Biao is supported by Fang Guozhen, the problem will increase exponentially.

The only way to solve the problem once and for all is to build a strong navy, however, of all arms, the navy is undoubtedly the most drainable, both in terms of financial resources and time.

At present, the resources of Wu are limited, and if it wants to build a navy, it can only reduce the expenditure of other troops, and the established navy does not have a particularly obvious help for the attack on the Central Plains, and the gains really outweigh the losses.

Moreover, the construction cycle of the navy is very long, how to deal with the relationship with Fang Guozhen before the navy forms combat strength? Is it to allow Fang Guozhen's peripheral forces to continue to harass his own territory? Or do you want to fight first?

A series of questions emerged, and Deng Yu only felt that one head had two big!

Three days later, in the Gaoyou Mansion, Deng Yu asked Chang Yuchun, who was hurrying back: "Boren, is there any hope for the inclusion of Squint Biao?" ”

Chang Yuchun shook his head and said: "King Wu, Slan-eyed Biao's subordinates are all long-standing bandits, and they can only rob with knives, they will definitely not go ashore to accept incorporation, moreover, Slan-eyed Biao is Fang Guozhen's peripheral force, before our army's sea power is stronger than Fang Guozhen, Slan-eyed Biao will never dare to betray Fang Guozhen easily." ”

Deng Yu pondered for a moment and continued to ask: "From the coast of Tongzhou, is it possible to sneak to Chongming Island in a small boat?" ”

"King Wu is planning to exterminate the pirates on Chongming Island?"

Chang Yuchun's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then it dimmed again: "The problem of small boats crossing the sea is not big, but there are no ships along the coast of Tongzhou. ”

Slanted Eyes Biao is indeed very cunning, and before he made a move with Chang Yuchun, he collected all the ships and firmly grasped the sea advantage in his hands!

"No boat?" Deng Yu muttered in his mouth, and after pondering for a long time, a mysterious smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth: "Since this is the case, then we will build a ship!" ”

Five days later, the news that Wu had begun to build sea ships was secretly spread along the coast of Tongzhou, but what was unbelievable was that the address of this shipbuilding turned out to be Shao Bo Lake within the boundaries of Gaoyou Prefecture.