Wang Shichong's eyes narrowed slightly: "Xuan Cheng, what you said is not bad, I have been sending people to Jiangnan to inquire about the whereabouts of this Liu Yuanjin all these years, but I have not found this person, presumably he has been incognito, and then I sent someone to stare at Xu Gai to see who he will contact in Jiangnan, but Xu Gai is really calm, he has never returned to Jiangnan, and he has not even cleaned the ancestral tomb." ”

"But with my understanding of Xu Gai, he can not clean the ancestral tomb, but he will definitely not break the connection with the Jiangnan rebel party, but after the Sui destroyed Nan Chen, they couldn't make a rebellion, the first emperor demolished Jiankang City, there is no big city in the Jiangnan region that can be divided, and there are no government soldiers, in this case, it is too difficult to make a rebellion. Therefore, Xu Gai will not cause trouble in Jiangnan unless he has to, which is why he asked me for Chen Xuan'er several times, that is, he wanted to use it as a banner to summon the old and young relics of Nanchen and listen to his orders. ”

Wei Zheng's heart moved, and he said: "So, this Xu Gai may still not be able to command Liu Yuanjin in Jiangnan?" Do you have to rely on Mrs. Xuanhua to accumulate popularity? ”

Wang Shichong said with a smile: "It is very likely that this is the case, when Liu Yuanjin and Xu Gai were defeated and fled, both of them lost their power, Liu Yuanjin was born as an officer, and there may be some subordinates, the old department, Xu Gai has always been just a pure literati, and the Xu family is not a big family in the south of the Yangtze River. He didn't have a good time in Jiangnan either. This. I have wanted to get words out of Xu Gai's mouth a few times. But his mouth is very strict, and he refuses to reveal half of it, but many details can reveal the truth I want to know, and he can't hide it. ”

Wei Zheng nodded: "So Xu Gai can only come up with a price code that is enough to make Liu Yuanjin feel excited, so that he can make trouble in Jiangnan on his behalf, which is the same as the lord wants to give Xu Gai enough support before he will make trouble in Shandong, right?" ”

Wang Shichong smiled: "That's right. I have given Xu Gai a lot of money over the years, I don't believe that he is really poor and has no money to continue to toss, and wants to go to Goguryeo to beg for a living, just because Wang Bo and Ge Qian chased Zhang Xutuo with nowhere to escape, he can't throw these two subordinates who know too many secrets of him in Shandong and wait to be caught, so he simply hides the money and takes these two guys to join the army in Goguryeo to avoid Zhang Xutuo's pursuit, this time I give him 80 million money, and he will definitely give it to Liu Yuanjin. Let Liu Yuanjin make trouble in Jiangnan, while he waits for the current situation. When the world is full of smoke and dust, it is not too late to raise troops out of the mountains again. ”

Wei Zheng nodded convincingly: "So what the lord wants is Liu Yuanjin, not Xu Gai to raise troops, and the location is also hoped to be in Jiangnan, not Shandong, right?" ”

Wang Shichong's eyes flashed with a hint of smug green: "Exactly, because the source of the soldiers I like is not in the land of Qilu in Shandong, although there are many heroes here, but the love of the land is serious, look at the Qi soldiers under our subordinates, this has only been out for a month, and they have begun to feel homesick and warsick. ”

Wei Zheng's eyebrows raised slightly: "Then the lord has taken a fancy to Wu Bing in Jiangnan?" Wei doesn't think that Wu soldiers are the best choice, although the Wu people have always been fierce and light, but since the Southern Liang, Buddhism has flourished, and the fierce blood in the bones of the Wu people has been much less, which can be seen from the confrontation between Nanchen and the Sui Dynasty, they are no longer those fierce Wu infantry during the Warring States Period. Even Liu Yu's Northern Expedition relied on the Beifu soldiers, who were mainly from the north, rather than the Wu soldiers from the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Wang Shichong laughed: "Xuancheng's idea coincides with me, Wu Bing really can't be used, I fancy Jianghuai Bing, or Huainan Bing." ”

Wei Zheng was stunned for a moment, then clapped his hands and smiled: "It turned out to be a Huainan soldier, the lord is clever." Wei admires! ”

Since the middle of the Warring States period, the Yingdu of Chu was conquered by Qin, the king of Chu moved the capital to Shouchun in Huainan, and the nobles of Chu and a large number of Chu people also moved to Huainan area, so the people here inherited the fierceness and good fighting of the old Chu people, especially the Chu people believe in ghosts and gods, and these traditions of witchcraft have been inherited.

After entering the period of Wuhu Chaohua, the land of the two Huai has become the front line of the tug of war between the north and the south, there are countless battles here, and a large number of northern refugees in order to avoid the war, but also all the way south, these Han people who can survive the Yellow River are the healthy people who escaped the pursuit of the Hu cavalry, and after the integration of the Huainan aborigines who are already strong in folk customs, it is the elite soldier production area of the Southern Dynasties in the past dynasties.

At that time, Chen Qingzhi's 8,000 white robes fought all the way from Huainan to Luoyang, and hundreds of thousands of fierce northern cavalry were frightened, which shows the elite of Huainan soldiers.

Wang Shichong's caravan spread all over the country, and he also traveled all over the north and south of the river, and knew the folk customs and folk customs of various places well.

Wei Zheng smiled, and said with a straight face: "Lord, if you want to quell the rebellion in Jiangnan, even if you have the right to recruit troops, you must recruit troops in Jiangnan, how can you let you recruit Huainan soldiers?" Besides, there are large armies left behind in the eastern capital or the Jiangdu, so why let you go to the temporary recruitment again? ”

Wang Shichong said with a smile: "It stands to reason that it really won't, but Yang Guang is a person who values the Eastern Capital and Jiangdu very much, even if he loses Jiangnan, he will not be willing to give up these two places, one is the capital, and the other is his favorite accompanying capital, so I bet that he will not give me any of the defenders in these two places." After the Jiangnan Rebellion, it was no longer possible to conscript troops on the spot, so Huainan, which was close to Jiangnan and between Luoyang and Jiangdu, became my only choice for recruiting soldiers, and Yang Guang would not raise any objections. ”

Wei Zheng nodded: "The lord is clever." Now that you've planned everything, when are we going back to the Central Plains? ”

Wang Shichong's eyes looked in the direction of Pyongyang City in the distance: "It's still just now, after Pyongyang is captured, I will return to the Central Plains, after the war, I will never accept the defense and arrangement of Goguryeo, but before that, I need to take Pyongyang, first, to prevent Goguryeo from having the possibility of revival, and second, hehe, if you can trap Laihu'er here, so that he can't go back to the Central Plains to quell the rebellion, it would be the best." (To be continued......)