Bing Cao Peng and Li Li walked into the county temple excitedly, and shouted at Du Feng, the commander of Pingtao County:

"Zishuang, Yu has a good idea!"

Zishuang is the word of the county order Du Feng. As a native of Changshan, Jizhou, although he has been traveling abroad all the year round and has not returned to his hometown for many years, in the letters of his family, Du Feng has long understood that the arrogance of Taihang is not an ordinary bandit. However, in the past two years, the Tai Marching Army would develop so fast, which was also unimaginable to Du Feng.

Since the Taimarching army invaded Taiyuan County, Du Feng had not had a good night's sleep. After half a month, his middle-aged appearance, which was originally white-faced and green-bearded, and extremely rich, has become haggard and a lot older.

"What's the good news to be so happy about?"

From Du Feng's tone, it was obvious that he was receiving Li Feng with equal etiquette.

It stands to reason that Du Feng is the county commander of a large county, with a rank of 800 stones, and his status is much higher than that of Li Peng, a 200-stone soldier used by Taishou. In the context of Taishou's abandonment of the city and fleeing, Cao Peng, as a private soldier of Taishou, is even less worth mentioning. However, for the sake of the face of the 1,300 county soldiers brought over by Li Tang, Du Feng generously fought against Li Tang, thinking that he was entrapded.

Li Yan was born in a family of thousand stones, and there were officials in his father and grandparents who served in thousands of stones. Now in his early thirties, he has the experience of holding a key position in the county. If it was placed in the past, Li Yan would be mixed to the level of a thousand stones in the future, and there would be no problem. It's just that he is now in troubled times, and his life experience or something has significantly reduced his role. With the evolution of the current situation in the Han Dynasty, Li Yan's future career may not be able to continue.

Fortunately, Li Jian has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and a 35-pound steel spear is full of power. He was only after Taishou fled. He was still able to subdue the generals of the county soldiers, and with the support of the big families in the county, he became the temporary commander of the county soldiers.

Hearing Du Feng's question, Li Wei proudly asked Du Feng:

"Zishuang, have you ever been boating in 'Zhaoyu Qi'?"

"'Zhaoyu Qi' is hundreds of miles above water, although it is shallow due to the water. The big boat can't go, but the small boat is unimpeded. I have served in the county for two years, how can I not be there? ”

Hearing Du Feng's answer, Li Wei smiled and said:

"Since 'Zhao Yuqi' can go boating, naturally it can also transport goods?"

"Although 'Zhaoyu Qi' is vast, the water level is not deep. If the water rises in July and August, the thousand-stone ship can also pass. But now it is the beginning of summer, and the rain has not yet arrived. But only the hundred-stone boat can come and go freely. There are many reeds here, there are many forks in the waterways, and there are several gangs of water thieves entrenched in the middle, which is not an easy road to take. ”

After saying this, Du Feng looked at Li Wei and asked suspiciously:

"Lotte is from this county, how can you not know these common sense?"

Lotte is the word of Li Wei. Li has lived in Taiyuan since he was a child. Naturally, I will not be unaware of the water transportation situation of "Zhaoyu Qi". He changed his words and asked:

"It is not safe to transport goods in 'Zhao Yuqi'. That's due to rampant water thieves. But if it is to transport troops, will the water thieves still dare to rob them? ”

"Transporting troops?"

Du Feng reacted and asked with some surprise:

"Rakuten, what do you mean...... Attacking the rear of the thieves by water? ”

"Not bad! There are few rivers in Bingzhou, and water transportation is not smooth. Moreover, the border barbarians are all good at riding and shooting, and the imperial court has never planned to form a naval army. Guy so. Naturally, the thief army would not have thought that the official army could actually attack their rear from the waterway! ”

Li Wei confidently explained to Du Feng. While Du Feng was thinking about his words, Li Feng then opened his mouth and added:

"It has always been said that southerners are good at boats, and northerners are good at horses. The thief army originated from Jizhou and Taihang, and they will not be proficient in water. Although our army is also a northerner, it is backed by 'Zhaoyu Qi'. There are also thousands of fishermen in the vicinity. As long as these fishermen who know the nature of the water and know the geography well are recruited into an army, not to mention anything else, it should be feasible to transport the military supplies of the soldiers! ”

After listening to Li Wei's explanation, Du Feng added:

"Those water thieves in 'Zhao Yuqi', you must be guarded against?"

"Don't worry! With the face of my Jinyang Li family, there are hundreds of water thieves, and they don't dare to be presumptuous. If they don't know right from wrong, they really dare to provoke us, they are enemies of the whole Taiyuan family! At that time, even if these thieves hide in the deepest part of the water, they will not be able to escape the revenge of our family! ”

Watching Li Feng spitting and explaining the various matters of forming a water army, Du Feng was extremely focused on his face, and secretly sneered in his heart.

Li Yan's idea is actually not a clever trick. Du Feng has been in Pingtao County for more than a year, and he can see "Zhaoyu Qi" when he goes out of the city, but he has long thought of attacking the enemy with a naval army. Li Wei was able to propose this plan, or Du Feng specially sent a confidant to remind Li Tang of the result in his ear.

Therefore, Li Feng's actions were secretly calculated by Du Feng. Thinking of this, Du Feng made an appearance of listening carefully, and at the same time was secretly proud in his heart.

So, why did Du Feng, who had thought of this a long time ago, not take a step forward to do this, but intentionally leaked this matter to Li Wei?

The reason is simple. Du Feng has no one in his hands, he wants money but no money, and he does not have the conditions to temporarily form a water army.

There is a way that is "the county order that breaks the family, and the order that destroys the door". Du Feng, the Pingtao County Order, is of course a big man who can't afford to offend ordinary people. However, for those who have been rooted in the local area for hundreds of years, and have hundreds or even thousands of subordinates in their families, the county order from other places is not a big man who can't be provoked.

Bingzhou is located in the frontier, and the people have always been strong. It is not uncommon for Haoqiang to send people disguised as Hu people or horse thieves to kill local officials. Of course, the powerful will not use this kind of thing easily, after all, it is a sharp sword hanging from the neck of the local officials, so that the local officials do not dare to move at will.

If there were no means, Du Feng, the dignified 800-stone county order, might not be able to win the family in the county. Even if Du Feng is from a big family in Jizhou, his family is not famous enough, he is only quite prestigious in the county, and the heroes in the county are only polite to him on the surface, and he will never give in easily when it comes to substance.

That is, when the Taixing army came to the door this time, so that the powerful people in the county hated the enemy, they took the initiative to be willing to obey Du Feng's dispatch to resist the invasion of the Taixing army. Even so, Du Feng also spent a lot of thought to get the county Haoqiang to provide thousands of stones of grain and grass to the county government after dispatching private soldiers. Otherwise, with the emptiness of the county government treasury, this city would not have to be guarded.

Forming a water army is a big thing that costs money. Even if the government didn't have to build special warships, it would have to cost at least millions of dollars to requisition the boats of the people and recruit fishermen as sailors.

If you don't want to pay for it, you will blindly forcibly requisition the boats and fishermen, which will inevitably provoke the fishermen to resist. Most of these people who are begging for a living on the water are related to the water thieves in the lake. When the time comes, those Diao people will take the boat and hide in the "Zhao Yu Qi", but where will Du Feng go to find their trouble?

Therefore, if Du Feng wants to complete the formation of a temporary naval army, he will inevitably have to grind with the local heroes for ten days and half a month. At that time, I'm afraid that the daylilies will be cold. It's better to push this merit to Li Yan, a local, and let him come forward to do it. In this way, Du Feng's credit may be less, but being able to keep Pingtao County is his greatest achievement.

However, this matter is not a big or difficult matter for Du Feng, and it is nothing if it falls into the hands of Li Wei, who is from a strong local background. With the influence of local heroes in the local area, even if it is a water thief hiding in the depths of the waters of "Zhaoyu Qi", it depends on their faces.

After all, the water thieves in "Zhao Yuqi" are not strong, and the most is only a group of seventy or eighty people. If they dare not take a long look, the local wealthy clan will mobilize and mobilize thousands of people, but it will not be difficult to eliminate them.

Du Feng even secretly speculated that the backers behind those water thieves might be a few big and powerful people in the county. Otherwise, the water thieves rarely go ashore to loot, and where do the food, cloth and other daily necessities they need come from?

After staying in Pingtao County for two years, Du Feng naturally has a considerable understanding of the local heroes. The water thieves in "Zhao Yuqi" are called thieves, but they are actually some traffickers of illicit goods. Raiding homes and houses has never been their forte. On the contrary, their main means of livelihood was to use fast boats to transport some smuggled goods, especially salt, iron, and other restricted materials that were monopolized by the government, and sell them to various places along the coast in order to make huge profits. Without Haoqiang behind him, how could the water thieves live so nourishingly.

Speaking of the formation of a naval army, it is not that Du Feng can't get the millions of money in his hands, but this money is used to maintain the military expenses of the soldiers in Shoucheng County, which is not enough, how can it be diverted for other purposes?

Moreover, the imperial court has its own laws of the imperial court. If the county magistrate does not have a reasonable reason, it is a taboo to recruit soldiers at will. If it weren't for the current competition between Dong Zhuo and the Yuan family, Du Feng would not even have the idea of recruiting county soldiers. After all, he is not a local, and he has no intention of serving as an official for a long time in a bitter cold place like Bingzhou.

If it weren't for Du Feng's reluctance to accumulate the county magistrate official position worth 1.4 million yuan in two years, he could have learned the style of Taishou and abandoned the official position.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons of the naval army, which has a huge cost, Du Feng still decisively discarded it to the local heroes.

Anyway, those trolls are temporary formations, and they will be revoked when they run out. Moreover, if Li Jian wants to successfully form a naval army, he cannot do without Du Feng's support. If the water army is effective, Du Feng's contribution is indispensable.

In this way, Du Feng doesn't have to spend a penny of effort, he can sit back and enjoy the results, how fast? (To be continued......)