Chapter Ninety-Three: Doing Business with Bandits?
Just when the report of the Battle of Changshu came, Li Yongji was meeting with a person, and this person was one of his current intelligence leaders - Sun Wang, who had not shown up for a long time!
"Hey, my uncle, he can just toss." Li Yongji threw away the report, turned to Sun Wang, and said, "You see, I originally asked him to lead the troops to see Changshu and help me stabilize that territory, and the war was secondary, but he was good, and he fought with people as soon as he went, and he wiped out all Lu Shunde's soldiers and horses in three strikes and five divided by two, and even Lu Shunde was caught." ”
"This is all the young master's strategy, and the third master is like a god with soldiers, so he can build this miraculous feat!" Sun Wang put his hands on the seams of his trousers, bowed his head and said, "My elite army is invincible in the world, and I can make contributions sooner or later." ”
"You!" Li Yongji pointed at Sun Wang, who looked like a traitor, and shook his head with a wry smile.
To be precise, this Sun Wang was only twenty-four years old, and he was just an apprentice of Sun Gui, a tooth man, but later because Li Yongji wanted to buy a house, he found him with Li Jinbao.
Later, after a series of things, such as buying a house and buying people, Sun Wang found out that Li Yongji was actually a high-quality potential stock, and he began to hug his thighs actively, not wanting to follow his original master anymore.
At that time, Li Yongji had just recruited a group of people in Qingpu, one was to cope, and the other was to test, so he sent Sun Wang back to Zhujiajiao and asked him to help find out the news, but he was actually lucky, and he was found by Wang Yunyi's people as soon as he went back.
Wang Yunyi wanted to inquire about Li Yongji's affairs at that time, and Sun Wang's inspiration moved, so he reported the false situation to the other party in turn, and informed Li Yongji of the news in time, and then continued to inquire about the affairs of the Wang family, and these information established miraculous achievements in Li Yongji's later battle to destroy the Wang family.
Since then, in view of his merits and talents, Li Yongji appointed him as his director of intelligence, and threw him several pamphlets on how to do intelligence work in later generations, so that he could do intelligence things first, which can be regarded as an attempt.
In fact, when he followed Li Yongji to Qingpu to buy slaves and maids, Sun Wang didn't think so much about it at that time, he just felt that Li Yongji was young and golden, had a generous personality, and was a good talent, and his original master Sun Gui had always been very picky, so he wanted to change the court, as for deceiving Wang Yunyi, and then inquiring about the information of the Wang family, it was also a mistake.
The period that really made Sun Wang decide to follow Li Yongji to do a big job, or really mobilized his ambitions, was the time when Li Yongji led the elite army to quickly exterminate the Wang family.
In the process of exterminating the Wang family, Sun Wang was greatly touched, and he found out that Li Yongji was so powerful, and he had pulled up such a powerful army of soldiers and horses in such a short period of time, even the Wang family, which was originally high above and domineering nearby, could not withstand it for half a day under his men.
It was at that time that Sun Wang, who was touched, made up his mind to really follow Li Yongji, dreaming of getting ahead and establishing a great career!
What the? It's only twenty-four years old, should you be so inspirational?
Please, first of all, most of the people in the Qing Dynasty were precocious, and twenty-four years old is not strictly speaking, and secondly, the more young people in their twenties, the more ambitious they are, and the more they want to do great things.
Li Yongji once thought that when he was twenty-three or four years old in his previous life, he had just left school, and he was also ambitious, thinking about creating a world all day long, trying his best to get ahead, and felt that there was nothing terrible in this world.
What about Sun Wang? He actually mixed with society earlier than Li Yongji, because he began to be Sun Gui's apprentice at the age of thirteen, and began to usher in the apprentices sent to him, and the industry of tooth people is the most exercised person, especially the exercise of observing words and feelings, and receiving people and things, so at the age of twenty-four, he is already an experienced young man in society.
It is precisely because he is an experienced young man in society that once he makes up his mind to do something big, he will really do it, even if he is actually immature in many places, but youth is the capital, which makes him dare to do anything, dare to think about anything, but does not have the concerns of middle-aged people.
After Sun Wang became the director of intelligence, he threw himself on this, thinking about relying on this to become prosperous, so he quickly gathered his friends who usually play together, which is the so-called fox friends and dog friends, and then ate wine and meat, bragging, and by the way, gave silver and assigned tasks, not to mention, it really made him make a lot of achievements.
For example, the information about the destruction of the Jiangnan camp was first transmitted by his people through the radio. At that time, he sent his good friend, a person named Zheng Youcai, to the Jiangnan camp, pretending to be a grain merchant to go to the Jiangnan camp to sell grain, the original intention was to monitor the Qing army and establish an intelligence network, but the intelligence network was not much built, and the Jiangnan camp was quickly captured by the Taiping army, and Zheng Youcai himself was also captured by the Taiping army.
Originally, that guy was also very scared at the time, if the Taiping army was really tortured, he probably wouldn't be able to keep the secret, but later found out that the Taiping army was not bad to them, and he didn't feel much embarrassed at all, just watched them for a while and let them go back, but when he turned around, he radioed the news, so that Li Yongji learned the information about the destruction of the Jiangnan camp in time.
"Alright, let's get down to business." Li Yongji put away his thoughts, "Do you say that this Zheng Youcai is reliable?" His so-called Li Xiucheng was recuperating in Changzhou, and there was information about the lack of food in Nanjing, but it was all true? ”
"It should be true." Sun Wang nodded cautiously, and then said, "Back to the young master's words, Zheng Youcai I grew up with him since I was a child, I am too familiar with him, he is not a person who talks casually. This time, he was in Changzhou, and he had just met Li Xiucheng in person, so it should be true that the information should be true. ”
"Oh, that's right." Li Yongji nodded, "So, Li Xiucheng is still recuperating in Changzhou, and he led his troops to attack Jiangyin, isn't he himself?" ”
"Yes." Sun Wang said, "Due to the strict blockade, although Zheng Youcai does not have more accurate information, but according to his own speculation, it should be Li Xiucheng's adopted son Li Rongfa who led the troops to Jiangyin under the banner of Li Xiucheng." ”
"Well, I see." Li Yongji nodded again.
"Young master, this is a godsend!" Sun Wangjin said, "Now that Changzhou is empty, and the thief chief Li Xiucheng is raising troops there, we can rush forward lightly and fight in one go. At that time, whether it is captured alive or killed, it will be a great achievement. ”
"There's no rush to this." Li Yongji waved his hand, "Actually, I'm more interested in the shortage of food in Nanjing than this." In this way, let him continue to find a way to find out the information of Nanjing, and try to pass on the news of Nanjing's food shortage, and it is best to know what this food shortage is. ”
"This, yes." Sun Wang lowered his head and answered.
"In addition, you send a reliable person to Changzhou." Li Yongji smiled, "The role of this person is to be a messenger, just say when you go, I know he is recuperating in Changzhou, but I don't want to do anything to him, he can stay in Changzhou if he wants to." In addition, I still have a large amount of grain in my hand, because I can't eat too much, and I am afraid of mold in my hand, so I want to do a business with Li Xiucheng, and ask him if he is willing to do this business with me, if he is willing, send a reliable person to Wuxi to talk to me, and if he refuses, forget it. ”
"Huh?" Sun Wang was stunned, "Young Master, you, what are you...... Want to do business with bandits? You don't really want to sell him food, do you? ”
"Why not?" Li Yongji smiled, "I have food, he doesn't, he has money in his hands, I lack money, just do business, complement each other." He has no food in the province, and he has to rob it everywhere, so I will have a headache. ”
"But isn't that an enemy?"
"So what, they can't beat me anyway, if you can stutter, you won't dare to trouble me, you're afraid that there will be no food to eat, that's really terrible, I'm a win-win cooperation, it's humanitarian relief, understand?"
"Win-win cooperation? With the bandits? Ah, I see! You want to raise ......" As soon as he said this, Sun Wang reacted, quickly swallowed the next words, and quickly bowed his head to Li Yongji, "Yes, young master, I'll go find someone to arrange it and make sure that it is done properly." ”