Datang, Henan Road, Haizhou, Donghai County port, Daming spinnaker paddle boat.

Chen Dexing's ship was docked in a harbor near Lianyungang in the later generations. At this time, "Lianyungang" was still an island, named Yuzhou, which was not connected to the mainland. Although the city of Haizhou on the other side of the sea is where the Mengsong tug-of-war is located, this island in the middle of the sea has been firmly controlled by Li Pu, who does not have an advantage in the navy, for more than 20 years. It is an important stronghold established by Li Pu on the coast of Huaidong.

This time, Chen Dexing took the Daming and came to Yuzhou under the escort of the main force of the Beiyang Fleet, where he met with Li Yanguo, the king of Zhao of the Tang Dynasty. Li Yanguo's battle to Huaidong was actually instigated by Li Cuixian himself. The purpose is naturally for food – and Chen Dexing will not be stupid enough to put all his hopes on a financial gamble.

Although he was 100 per cent sure of the victory. But this year's shipping is to depend on the sky, once the southeast monsoon is over and turns to the northwest wind, no matter how much money Tiandaozhuang has, it will not solve the problem.

Therefore, Chen Dexing can only set his sights on the Yellow River (Huai River) water transportation. At this time, the Yellow River seized the Huai into the sea, the mouth of the Yellow River between Baoying Prefecture of the Great Song Dynasty and Haizhou of the Tang Dynasty, the water surface is very wide, almost the same as the mouth of the Yangtze River, Chen Dexing's sea ships can be completely passed. Moreover, through the Guò Yellow River - Huai River, it can also contact Xia Gui, who occupies Huaixi.

Last year, Huaixi Dafeng, there was a lot of grain in stock, as long as Chen Dexing was willing to take out the horses and Nanfen Steel, Xia Gui had no reason not to change. Xia Yonghe, who was at the forefront of the handover of the Mongol and Song dynasties and was not on good terms with the Southern Song court, is now doing everything possible to strengthen the combat strength of the army!

And the Yidu Li family is coveting Baoying Prefecture in Huaidong for not a day or two. This Baoying Prefecture was formerly known as Chuzhou, which was Li Quan's former stronghold on the Great Song Dynasty. And because it is located at the junction of north and south. It is also adjacent to the Huai River, and not only is the business very prosperous. Moreover, agriculture is well developed, and the food and population are extremely large (compared to the capital of Northland). The number of households alone exceeded 100,000, and the taxes and grain paid exceeded those in the western part of Henan Province, which is currently occupied by the Mongols. If Baoying Prefecture entered the Tang Dynasty, the Eastern Tang Dynasty could not only restore the vitality damaged in the Great War of the last year, but also greatly gain it. Therefore, as soon as Li Yanguo was instigated by his sister, he immediately waved 30,000 troops to cross the Yellow River (Huai River).

This Baoying Prefecture was originally Xia Gui's territory, and after Xia Gui moved to Huaixi, it was directly under the jurisdiction of the Great Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty court sent two Huai envoys (stationed in Tongzhou) and Li Yinggeng to supervise tens of thousands of troops to deploy defenses on the south bank of the Yellow River (Huai River).

And this Li Yinggeng is a civil official from the imperial examination, and he has no experience in commanding operations, and he has no useful generals under his command. Naturally, Li Yanguo couldn't be stopped. The two sides engaged in a fierce battle near the southern city of Lianshui (across the river from the northern city of Lianshui controlled by the Tang Dynasty). The battlefield stretched from the water to the land, and Li Yinggeng's improper deployment put the 3,000 steel armor soldiers led by Li Yanguo (there were 1,200 pairs of steel armor, which Li Cuixian brought to Shandong) on the south bank of the Yellow River (Huai River), wanting to eat them in one bite. As a result, the Tang army that used pear flower guns and bronze cannons (which was imitated by the Tang Dynasty itself) was defeated, and Li Yinggeng saw the courage of the Tang army on the battlefield, and was so frightened that he fled from the battle, and as a result, tens of thousands of troops collapsed on all fronts. It cost millions of dollars and 100,000 people to build Lianshui South City, which was directly abandoned. It all fell into the hands of the Tang Army.

By the time Chen Dexing arrived on Yuzhou Island, Li Yanguo had already captured all of Baoying Prefecture, and the vanguard had already invaded the territory of the Gaoyou Army!

Although Chen Dexing had long known that the Huaidong Song army was weak, he did not expect Li Yanguo to win so easily - 30,000 people were dispatched. Only 3,000 were actually put into battle, and tens of thousands of Song troops were defeated, if it was replaced by Xia Gui stationed in Huaidong. That's absolutely impossible (Xia Gui and Li Pu have been fighting for many years around the Lianshui Army).

However, the defeated army was not a newly built regimental training army, but a part of the weak brigade of the Huaidong armies that had already existed and were still loyal to the Southern Song court. Defeating them doesn't mean much. If Li Yanguo goes on next, he can easily defeat the Southern Song League training in the north. Then the battle of the Northern Ming Army to take Jiangnan from the sea should also be as easy as imagined.

It's not that Jiangnan can't be defeated. It's hard to take them all. It's not the end of the Qing Dynasty, and there are 400 million Han people, so there is no need to worry about no one. According to the information obtained by Chen Dexing, before the Ming army entered Yanyun, there were only 1.5 million Han people, about 10 million people.

In the south, there are about 12 million households and about 80 million people, and more than 80 percent of them live in Jiangnan – a treasure for Chen Dexing, who is bent on building a colonial empire.

Can't the Battle of Jiangnan be turned into another Battle of Hebei-Yanyun, half of the territory will be beaten into white land, and then two or three percent of the population will be lost, and there will be another food shortage by the way. If there is a food shortage in Jiangnan, there is really no place to raise grain.

The hatch knocked softly, and Chen Dexing instantly withdrew from his thoughts, and his eyes became unusually bright. The hatch was pushed open, and outside were Li Cuixian and Yang Po'er. Li Cuixian was wearing a loose silk shirt, her waist and abdomen were already bulging, her face was rounded, and her chest was bulging, which looked very impressive. This woman has Chen Dexing's flesh and blood in her belly.

Although she is pregnant, Li Cuixian, who has practiced martial arts since she was a child and has a good body, is also very flexible in her actions, and she doesn't need Yang Po'er's support, so she arrived opposite Chen Dexing in three or two steps, and sat down with a smile on a chair.

"Chen Lang." Li Cuixian smiled and put a letter from Chen Huaiqing on the table, and said with a smile, "The Nanyang Fleet sent a fast ship over and brought a letter from the uncle. ”

Although outsiders call Chen Huaiqing Chen Taigong, Chen Dexing's wives and concubines all call Chen Huaiqing "uncle", because Chen Dexing has already made a decision to respect Guo Fuer as the queen mother and title Chen Huaiqing as the prince after being called the emperor.

"What does the letter say?" Chen Dexing glanced at the envelope, which had already been opened. Chen Dexing knew that it was dismantled by Yang Po'er - she is still serving as the chief attendant - and Li Cuixian will definitely not look at it or ask.

"Congratulations to the king, Tiandaozhuang has made a lot of profits in the late transaction, and according to preliminary calculations, it has made a profit of 18 million! In addition, due to the late transaction in Jiangnan, the demand for Tiandaozhuang flying money has also increased significantly, and a total of more than 65 million yuan has been issued in recent months. However, more than 32 million of them were burned by Mr. Shuijing. ”

"Incinerate?" Chen Dexing was stunned for a moment, his brows were already furrowed, "Qu Shuijing was arrested?" ”

Yang Po'er chuckled: "It is true that he was arrested, but the basket he stabbed was too big, and only he could clean it up, so Jia Rudao not only did not dare to cause harm, but also agreed to Tiandaozhuang to enter Jiangnan, and let Mr. Shui Jing be the president of the Securities Chamber of Commerce, and be fully responsible for dealing with the aftermath." ”

"And this?"

Chen Dexing took out the letter paper from the envelope, first looked at the ten lines, and then read it carefully word by word, and after reading it, he did not speak, and handed the letter to Li Cuixian.

Li Cuixian curled the corners of her lips after reading it, "Chen Lang, Jia Rudao has another stupid move!" Quanzhou is about to enter my Daming. ”

In addition to telling Chen Dexing about the delay in the appointment, Chen Huaiqing's letter also said that Pu Shougeng was released to make trouble in Quanzhou - Chen Huaiqing's status is special, and his power is naturally far greater than that of ordinary Daming prefects, and he can act cheaply in the affairs of the southeast coast. The two things of using the late appointment turmoil to attack the Southern Song Dynasty and the release of Pu Shougeng are both cut first and then played!

Of course, considering that the communication between Zhoushan and Liaodong and Yanyun now depends on the sea route, not only is the time slow, but there is also the risk of ship destruction and death on the way, Chen Huaiqing should also have the right to act cheaply.

Chen Dexing was silent for a moment, "It's good to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, I'm afraid that the tiger will rush into the sheepfold and start killing!" It's still summer, and it's hard for our army to move south. ”

Although the Beiming Navy has many spinnaker oars that can sail against the wind, they are all warships with weak carrying capacity, and the total number is only a few dozen. With bronze cannons equipped, it is enough to dominate the sea. But it is still a bit difficult to rely on them to transport tens of thousands of troops south.

"Uncle said in the letter that Pu Shousheng had already gone to Quanzhou, and if Pu Shougeng was not released, there would be chaos in Quanzhou. Besides, we don't have no foundation in Quanzhou. If you talk about the number of people alone, there are more Heavenly Daoists in Quanzhou than there are Heavenly Fang Sects. ”

Quanzhou has always been a relatively rampant area of Mingjiao, and after Mingjiao was changed to Tiandaoism, the Mingjiao forces in Quanzhou were also incorporated by Tiandaojiao. In addition, many Han Chinese maritime merchants based in Quanzhou also entered the Heavenly Dao. In today's Quanzhou, the Heavenly Daoist Sect has faintly overpowered the Heavenly Sect and has become the most powerful sect.

Moreover, the contradiction between the Heavenly Dao and the Heavenly Fang Sect in Quanzhou has always been very large. In the past two years, the Tiandao Sect maritime merchants relied on the support of the Beiming Nanyang Fleet to suppress the living space of the Tianfang Sect merchants on the sea. The Tianfang Sect merchants took advantage of their close relationship with the Southern Song Dynasty officials to suppress the activities of the Tiandao Sect maritime merchants in Quanzhou.

After thinking for a long time, Chen Dexing said: "I have to return to Liaodong as much as possible, and I will leave when I see Li Nanshan." ”

He paused and looked at Li Cuixian, "Xian'er, this time you are going to stay in Liaodong and regent with your mother." I went south with Lin'er, Mother-in-law, and Yue'er. ”

"Got it."

Li Cuixian blinked, "Chen Lang, is it just Lin'er, Mother-in-law, and Yue'er?" What about the Shadow Girl? She's been waiting for you. Such a beautiful person, you don't think about it at all? ”

"Ink Shadow Girl? That woman doesn't look like she's close to fireworks all day long......"

Chen Dexing said and glanced at Li Cuixian with strange eyes. Although this demon girl is a little domineering and has the style of a strong woman, the thinking of male superiority and female inferiority is still in the bone marrow. I don't mind sharing my husband with other women, and I don't even encourage Chen Dexing to take a concubine once. To meet such a woman is probably the greatest benefit of traveling to the last days of the Southern Song Dynasty, right?

Thinking of this, Chen Dexing nodded again and said, "Ying Niang really has to go south with me, and she is still needed for Quanzhou's affairs." (To be continued......)