Wu Xiang stayed in Nanguan Port with peace of mind, waiting for someone to pick him up with confidence. On the second day, no one came, and he could not move around, a white-helmeted Dengzhou town guard followed him at any time, and could only wander near the reception house in the port, many ships came from Lushun and Dengzhou, some of them hung the blue flag of the Dengzhou water camp, but the soldiers on it were sailors of the Dengzhou water camp. The ships unloaded large quantities of food and then carried a number of wounded and prisoners.

Construction is still going on on the wharf, with a lot of pulley sets for loading and unloading, and some people who look like coats are being escorted to repair warehouses nearby. Wu Xiang was a little amazed at the efficiency of Dengzhou Town, the battle had just ended, Chen Xin was able to arrange many things, how did he know that Chen Xingen did not make arrangements, but only put forward some general requirements, each department did its own thing according to its duties, and the staff officer formulated a detailed plan, and Chen Xin handed it over to the Military Affairs Department for implementation after approval.

Wu Xiang waited for three days, and on the third day, a person from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs came to pick him up, and the two of them rode horses to Jinzhou in only half a day. Wu Xiang also did not come to southern Liaoning for many years, when he took refuge in Liaozhen before, Jiannu had not yet occupied Liaodong, and he had also come to Jinzhou, which was prosperous in trade in southern Liaoning at that time, and now it is full of devastation.

Some traces can still be seen along the way in Golden State after the war, some useless frames and the like are crooked on the side of the road, and there are many tattered clothes and flags, which no one pays attention to. Wu Xiang quietly picked up a small pennant, which was used by the white-armored soldiers with the gold inlaid blue flag, if this kind of small flag was picked up in Liaozhen, it would also be a great achievement, and it was almost abandoned here.

To the periphery of Nanguan, there are military camps everywhere, groups of coats work here, it seems that the rammed earth city wall is going to be built, Wu Xiang has some knowledge of Nanguan, Nanguan is thirty-five miles deep in the isthmus. If Jinzhou is the front line, Nanguan is the place where the Dengzhou army gathers heavy troops, and it is the place where the real decisive battle is held.

Along the way, I saw a lot of troop movements, most of them from Lushun, and these soldiers were full of red light, singing loudly all the way, full of the excitement of the victorious division.

Wu Xiang stayed in Dengzhou, and the Dengzhou army he saw was generally like this, and the morale was always high. It's very different from the lifeless Liaozhen side. After arriving in Jinzhou, Wu Xiang entered the city from the south gate, Jinzhou City was much bigger than Ning Yuan, and Wu Xiang thought that he could store more food. It won't be so easy to be besieged to death.

Most of the houses in the city were damaged, and a large number of auxiliaries were rummaging around for usable materials, and then loaded onto carts and towed to the north. There were a lot of ox carts and mule carts on the road, loaded with grain bags from the east gate into the city, Wu Xiang didn't know where Chen Xin got the cattle and mules, if it was captured by the Houjin army, then the blow suffered by Houjin would definitely exceed Wu Xiang's estimate. The director of the foreign affairs department who led the way was a chatterbox, and he didn't stop talking all the way, but everything about the war situation was very exaggerated, and he would say that he would behead 20,000 people. After a while, he said that he would behead 30,000, but Wu Xiang didn't sound very reliable.

When he arrived at the place of the general army's tent, Wu Xiang saw piles of human heads, all of which had been nitrated. There are all kinds of expressions, and the principal sues Wu Xiang. And that's just the killing near the Golden State.

The principal went in to report, Chen Xin personally came out to greet him, Wu Xiang slapped his beard, and the two exchanged several times, much more intimate than before. Chen Xin politely invited him into the big tent, which was simply decorated, with an unfinished simple sand table in the middle, a screen behind it, and then a table and a few chairs.

After the guards came to serve tea, Wu Xiang said with admiration to Chen Xin: "Lord Chen has set a big setback this time, and the admiration in the hearts of the lower officials is beyond words. A few days ago, Xia Guan heard in Ning Yuan that Jiannu had gone to southern Liaoning, and he was angry and wrote to the Ministry of War to ask for war, but the Ministry of War has not heard back, and the general soldier of Zu was anxious to disobey the order to lead the troops to take the Sancha River, and sent the next official to Dengzhou, saying that as long as it is something that adults need, Liaozhen will give as much as he wants. ”

Of course Chen Xin didn't believe that the gang in Liaozhen would be so active, this Wu Xiang was the one who watched the dishes, and when he saw that the Jin soldiers had retreated, he immediately used this set of rhetoric. He smiled at Wu Xiang and said: "The military department has always been slow, it is rare for Lord Zu and General Wu to be concerned, since it is Lord Zu's intention, the official needs a thousand war horses." ”

"Wrap it up on the lower officer." Wu Xiang patted his chest, with a resolute face. In fact, he regretted it in his heart, what he said just now was full of points, but he didn't expect Chen Xin to be so shameless, and he really dared to speak a kind word.

Chen Xin was amused in his heart, and said to Wu Xiang: "It's still the old rule, the official buys the silver, how can you not let Lord Wu break the bank, this time Lord Zu sent troops to the Sancha River, which shows that Liao Town is also an important part of dealing with Jiannu, and Dengzhou Town complements each other, we will have to move around more in the future, and the military department is really slow." ”

Wu Xiang listened to the bottom of his heart, Zu Dashou before leaving specifically told him, first of all, to see the real results of the two sides, if Dengzhou Town can withstand it, it means that the strength of Dengzhou Town is close to Houjin, and the situation in Liaodong has four forces, namely Houjin, Dengzhou, Liaozhen, and Dongjiang.

Among these forces, the Dongjiang River is the weakest, but the Dongjiang River is obviously biased towards Dengzhou Town, which can be regarded as a branch of Dengzhou. Liaozhen belongs to the weakest side of the three, so Zu Dashou has to find out Chen Xin's attitude towards Liaozhen, so that Zu Dashou can decide the strategy of Liaoxi in the future. From Chen Xin's words just now, he regarded Liaozhen as an equal party, rather than suppressing it, and implied that Wu Xiang and Wu Xiang could bypass the military department and privately distribute the interests of Liaodong.

With this understanding, Wu Xiang felt that he already knew Chen Xin's attitude, and immediately said to Chen Xin: "Lord Zu also means this, the military aircraft is changing rapidly, according to the new tripartite strategy of the imperial court, the head and waist and tail are advancing and retreating, Lord Xiong is stationed in Shanhaiguan, this news is spread around, and it is easy to leak the news, Ning Yuan directly transmits the news to Lushun more securely." ”

Chen Xin nodded again and again, and the two quickly put aside the court, what Zu Dashou was most afraid of was that Chen Xin really stood on the side of the court, and it was obvious that the court relied on Denglai to suppress Liaozhen, but as long as Chen Xin did not move his true character, then Liaozhen had nothing to fear, and the two sides could act on the surface and take what they needed in private.

Chen Xin needs to stabilize Liaozhen, and it is Chen Xin's established strategy to fight Houjin with all his might, and when Houjin is destroyed, it is when Liaozhen loses its value, with Zu Dashou's qualifications of openly disobeying orders many times, the imperial court will definitely deal with him, and the most reliable thing for the imperial court is the strong soldiers in Dengzhou. So it's hard to say what Liaozhen will react to in this process, and the current thing is to establish some trust with Liaozhen first and bundle some of the interests.

With Zu Dashou's vision, he would know that Chen Xin was ambitious. But this ambition is so big that it is not something he can judge. Chen Xin hopes that Zu Dashou will regard himself as Li Chengliang of the year, Zu Dashou is very clear about Li Chengliang's system, Li Chengliang has 8,000 family members, except for the Qi family army, there is no opponent, he is the actual emperor of Liaodong, but in the end, there is no rebellion, in the eyes of a warrior like Zu Dashou, the risk of rebellion is very large. There is little chance of success.

"Then when Lord Wu returns, you can inform Zu Shuai that the official will send some capable people to Jinzhou next month, and some things can be decided, and it is also convenient for the two towns to communicate with each other, and the name is still a person from a trading company. In this way, it looks better in the face of the court. ”

After hearing this, Wu Xiang immediately asked: "Then the lower official also plans to send a few capable people, there are some things that do not need to be asked, and the business is more convenient, I don't know if the adults think it is better to arrange it in Lushun or Jinzhou." ”

"Lushun." Chen Xin smiled, "It's in Shuangdao Bay, where a place will be set up as a commercial port, and anyone can do business." After the south of Jinzhou, there are many tunhu, and there are a lot of materials needed, as long as there is a good way to operate, Lord Wu can cooperate with my Dengzhou Town to build slaves. You can also do bigger business along the way. ”

"Thank you for your kindness, and the lower officials also have this plan, and are ready to set up a few private shops to sell some Mongolian leather goods. Listen to adults. Can southern Liaoning also be allowed to do business with others? ”

"Nature." Chen Xin stared at Wu Xiang and said, "No business, no life." The south of Nanguan is Tuntian District, and we are open to do business. General Wu is also a businessman, we all know that it is not easy for businessmen, earn some silver and ask for the camp everywhere, so when businessmen come to Denglai, I will give care to the best of my ability, if they settle down in Denglai, then all legal income is protected by Dengzhou Town, no matter who can copy it, the official can guarantee Lord Wu here. ”

Wu Xiang narrowed his eyes, "The legal income that the adults said is ......"

"Those who don't work as traitors in Dengzhou are all legal income."

Chen Xin looked at Wu Xiang's expression, in this troubled era, even a grass-headed king like Wu Xiang would often feel insecure, a large amount of silver was hidden at home, which could not only be snatched away by Jiannu after the siege of the city, but also become the object of the raiders in the imperial court. Wu Xiang was very interested in interest-bearing savings last time, and he had already saved tens of thousands of taels of silver in Sihai Qianzhuang, and now he is also collecting interest, plus the funds traded between the two sides, he has more than 100,000 taels in Sihai Qianzhuang, and the habit of using it has been cultivated.

The super force is the credit guarantee of Dengzhou Town, and he needs to attract funds to Dengzhou, enter Dengzhou's industry through guò money or shares, expand several of his large-scale industries, obtain the advantage of scale, and then drive other private industries. These industries require a lot of capital, and Dengzhou's own capital alone is far from enough.

The greater interest is in the currency, the stronger the force of Dengzhou, the stronger the credit of the four seas money bank, the current money village base is still according to the amount of silver in the hand to issue a little more bills, in addition to the liquidity in Linqing, Dengzhou issued only 200,000 taels, to expand to the periphery needs a certain value of silver coins or gold coins, the interest of which is a large amount of money.

Wu Xiang couldn't get all his net worth to Denglai for the time being, Chen Xin just told him that his private property was protected by Dengzhou Town in Denglai, even if the imperial court couldn't take it away, which moved Wu Xiang the most. Chen Xin's difficulty lies in the fact that he cannot directly formulate a law or constitution to announce it to the world, and can only rely on Qian Zhuang to accumulate credit little by little and spread the news among the people......

After Wu Xiang left, Liu Minyou turned out from behind the screen behind, Chen Xin shook his head and said, "I still have to give many heads to Wu Xiang, but it's worth it to exchange for silver." ”

"If you want to weaken the impression that Dengzhou Town is dominant, you can't hide from dividing the head to Liao Town and Dongjiang, and in Dengzhou Town, you have to give some to Wang Tingqian and Lu Zhi's people."

Chen Xin smiled, "What is the head, the greatest interest is always outside the battlefield." As long as the Qingzhou general army takes it down, Sihai Qianzhuang will begin to advertise in the military newspaper, so that everyone knows that this money bank is the most reliable in the world. Wherever the money bank went, I could absorb the local gold and silver, and turn it into gold, silver, and copper coins, and everyone in the world was paying taxes to me. ”

"The interest on the money is already considerable."

"Of course, it is not enough to have money and interest, if the world is further chaotic, there will be a lot of money fleeing to the safety of Denglai, and these hard currencies will be transformed into the currency of Dengzhou, and this kind of credit currency will definitely pass the world. At that time, we can directly use force as collateral, and the currency does not even need to be pegged to the gold and silver in our hands, and we only need to over-issue the currency to quietly plunder the wealth of the whole world, and in this era, we don't even need to bother to fabricate the benefits of inflation to deceive the people, and there are not many people who understand what is going on. ”

Liu Minyou sighed and said, "After winning the battle of Lushun, your credit has been established for more than half of it, and you will rely on military newspapers and propaganda later, I always feel that our plan is ...... Covert plundering of the wealth of the people? ”

Chen Xin nodded slightly, "Expediency, plunder is always everywhere, and the quality of the right to print money is like this, as long as the control is within a certain range, at least ...... These riches have not entered my personal pocket, and I always do things for the people, so I don't have to think about anything else. Now it depends on when the Qingzhou General Army will be taken. ”