Allowing Jia Junshi to successfully escape at the last moment was really not something to be happy for Huang Zhi, who had worked hard for several days. It wasn't until after the war that Li Shimin announced in public at the celebration banquet that all the members of the South China Sea team had defected and would be punished by never being hired, that he felt a little better.

However, there was another thing that made the dreamer feel quite strange, that is, none of the soldiers present saw the scene where the Nanhai team turned into white light and disappeared. As if he had been brainwashed collectively, after the war, a random soldier was arrested and asked, and the answer was all of a unified voice - the Nanhai team had defected. As for asking them again if they saw the details at that time, no one could answer.

Although they failed to get rid of any of the Nanhai team in the end, it is certain that they will not be able to get along with the main line of the Sui and Tang dynasties at all, unless Jia Junshi is willing to casually find a camp that is destined to be wiped out by Li Tang. But even if they went to vote for the Jianghuai Army Auxiliary Gongqi, who insisted on being suppressed by Li Tang in the end, it would only be another five years. In addition, in the later period of the Jianghuai Army, except for the battle that was destroyed by Li Tang in 623, the rest of the time was basically idle in Xuanzhou, Anhui Province.

Therefore, instead of relying on the main line of the Sui and Tang dynasties so unruly, it is better to learn from the East China Sea team to give up this main line two weeks ago. The only difference is that the abandonment of the East China Sea team is an adjustment of the strategic surname, and it is waiting for a better time to make a comeback. And the Nanhai team's abandonment is a complete farewell to this main line, and there is no possibility of returning. Their early efforts and layout have all come to naught, not to mention competing for the chief dreamer, and even the final reward at the end of the main line of the Sui and Tang Dynasties has no chance with them.

The final reward for each main story has always been the most anticipated by people in dreams, and each team will more or less explore this topic in depth, even if they are not as keen as Huang Zhi and Sima Fuqiang to explore the secrets of the dream world.

Judging from the stage surname rewards that have appeared, the chief dream person's grand prize will definitely not be less, and it will inevitably be more abundant than the stage surname reward. If the chief dream man is the grand prize, then there should be a consolation prize, just like at the end of each battle, even if the team performs poorly, it will give an E evaluation, and reward 100 points at will. And as a main line that has ended, it is inevitable that everyone who persevers to the end and stands on the side of the winner deserves a winner's reward.

The main line of Sui and Tang is definitely the one with the shortest period and the earliest end time among the three main lines currently opened. Only the team that persists to the end can enjoy the mysterious reward, and use this as a reference to fine-tune the business strategy of the main line of the Three Kingdoms and the main line of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

In general, there is no doubt that the important surnames of the main line of the Sui and Tang dynasties are undoubted, if they are not forced to a desperate situation like the Nanhai team, even if they can only mix with ordinary soldiers and take the lower route, the teams will stick to it. Therefore, the loss of the Nanhai team can be said to be unimaginable, thinking of this, Huang Zhi is finally happy.

Succeeded in expelling the South Sea team, albeit with a reduced rival and even a sworn enemy. However, the East China Sea team has also become the object of attention of the Central Plains team, and Wang Hu, who has been running the main line of Li Tang for far longer than them, immediately used the connections he had cultivated to investigate the East China Sea team, and soon found all kinds of signs that Huang Zhi and Jia Junshi had grievances.

It's hard to say how many teams have joined Li Tang's camp at present, after all, there are three war dreams every week, and even the Nanhai team, which was the first to join this camp, has only just fought the third battle. And the Central Plains team is actually the Li Tang camp that only joined last week, and today is only the second battle, and being able to meet the South China Sea and the East China Sea at the same time is already a small probability event, so they don't need to think about other teams for the time being, as long as they pay attention to the only remaining East China Sea team in front of them.

In the second battle of joining Li Tang's camp, he was able to mix with a military Sima, and Wang Hu naturally had his own means. But as long as he thinks that the latest member of the Donghai team already has a man named Ma Qiang who is on an equal footing with him, and another person named Shixin has also been able to enter the high-level military council, then the strength and main line management policy of the Donghai team are really worthy of his attention.

In his opinion, this is definitely a team that can compete with the Central Plains team. As expected, the final candidates for the chief dream man of the Sui and Tang main lines must be Ma Qiang and Shixin, and the odds are much higher than that of the Central Plains team, which has only one person.

And according to the information he collected, that Shixin has a special set of interpersonal relationships, and he has just joined this camp, and he can influence the decision-making of Pang Yu, the general of the Right Wuhou, and it is said that he also had a hot fight with Shi Liu Wenjing, the head of the Marshal Mansion, and in the face of such an active opponent, it really made him feel terrified.

Huang Zhi and Sima Fuqiang didn't expect that their various arrangements for the Jia Junshi of the South China Sea team would arouse the vigilance of Wang Hu of the Central Plains team, and they originally planned to push out Zhan Musi, an ally, as a bird to attract firepower, but they didn't expect that the Tianshan team was still waiting for time with Qin Qiong under Wang Shichong at this moment, but he had already come out of the forest.

Therefore, none of the people in the dream who can unify the towns of Dongzhou are fuel-efficient lamps, and it is far more dangerous to work with these people as a master and a colleague than to be an opponent in a hostile camp, and no one knows how much their secrets will be unearthed by their "colleagues", and when the "colleagues" will stab themselves in the back, just like the East China Sea team is to the South China Sea team.

But no matter what, after the Battle of Shallow Waterplain, the Donghai team really integrated into the Li Tang camp. Li Shimin directly used the power of the marshal to the west to "detain" the Donghai team, and did not let them return to Li Shiji's side. It's just that because they wasted too much time on the road before, and when they came to Shallow Waterplain, they were already close to the end of the battle, and the Tokai team was able to get a D evaluation, which was already a good performance.

======================== the dividing line between dreams and reality======================= and happily returned to the power dream, and the Donghai team reappeared in Weidongguan. Walking out of the "night tent", a herald of the Eastern Sea was already waiting there, reporting to Sima Fuqiang that Zhu Gui of the East China Sea Trading Company had arrived at Dongwei Pass with a team of carriages.

"Zhu Gui is here at Dongwei Pass?" Sima Fuqiang was a little puzzled.

It stands to reason that Weidongguan has just finished a battle, and the soldiers are in chaos, and the businessmen should be able to avoid it, but why did this Zhu Gui follow the army from the state capital in the dust, could he start the arms business?

However, Huang Zhi guessed Zhu Gui's intention and patted Sima Fuqiang's shoulder, "Let's go, he is very business-minded!" Brought the salt. ”

Although Zhu Gui is nominally the shopkeeper of Donghai Commercial Bank, he is actually a senior worker equivalent to the CEO of the real world, and the working capital of the commercial bank is funded by Donghai Town, so this time he took the initiative to sell illegal salt through Dongguan, and he still had to say hello to the big bosses in the background. Moreover, in this special period, without Sima Fuqiang's consent, the Dongweiguan garrison would not let anyone go.

The two hurried back to Dongweiguan, Zhu Gui had been waiting for a while, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet the two adults. He arrived at Dongwei Pass last night, and rested in the pass all night before preparing to pass the pass, but was stopped by the dutiful guards guarding the pass.

After all, selling salt is not a thing that can be hyped up, so the three of them went into the Dongweiguan command post to talk.

"First of all, congratulations to the two adults, with only 500 troops, you can take down Weidongguan, which is powerless for Li Wei, who has 2,000 soldiers and horses!" is worthy of being a businessman, and opening his mouth is a compliment. Taking this as a starting point, when it comes to business, it is naturally invincible.

However, at this time, the two people he was facing were not customers, and he was not interested in listening to his compliments, Sima Fuqiang waved his hand to stop Zhu Gui's nonsense, "We are very busy, let's talk about the key points directly." ”

Zhu Gui was bored, but he didn't care, he could see that people did have a lot of things to do in their dreams. In fact, last night, he used his social skills to ask from several familiar soldiers on the side of Dongwei Pass that the Eastern Navy would have a series of big moves in the near future. Although neither he nor these grassroots soldiers knew what these so-called "big moves" were, they certainly wouldn't be a bad thing out of a high level of trust in the abilities of the dreamer.

Speaking of "socializing" is not Huang Zhi's patent alone, in fact, it is a talent shared by all successful businessmen, but his ability is recognized by the dream world and strengthened as an exclusive skill. If Zhu Gui is not a native of the Dongzhou forces, but comes from the real world like Huang Zhi, I am afraid that he will most likely be endowed with the exclusive skill of "socialization".

"Two adults, this matter has to start with the victory of Weidongguan. A few days ago, our firm happened to come back from Xin County, but we saw General Li Wei, the capital of Lizhou, leading a large army to pass through Donghai Town and come in the direction of Wei County. The contemptible people inquired about the elders, and learned that the lords led the town guards to win the battle at Weidongguan, and were rewarded by the imperial court. ”

Seeing that Zhu Gui was not talking nonsense in Lala, Sima Fuqiang nodded and stopped interrupting him.

"Later, the contemptible people learned that Li Wei's army was going to Weixian to suppress bandits, and Weidongguan was also under the control of our Donghai Navy, so they had a plan to sell salt to Weixian by land." Without being interrupted again, Zhu Gui made clear the reason for the trip in a few words.

At this time, Huang Zhicai, who had been listening quietly, asked, "It's not impossible to sell salt to Wei County, the cycle is relatively fast, and the carrying capacity of the carriage is also stronger than that of a boat against the current." However, I am more concerned about whether you have a sales channel in Wei County? Now that there are wars everywhere, how to ensure the personal safety of the guys? Selling illicit salt is already risky, so I don't want you to take more unnecessary risks. ”

Zhu Gui was stunned when he heard this, he thought that Huang Zhi would give priority to the profits of selling salt directly to Wei County, but he didn't expect that he was concerned about the personal safety of the guys in the trading bank, and he couldn't help but feel convinced.

"Thank you for your concern, in fact, the illicit salt we trafficked to Xin County eventually ended up in the rebel territory of Wei County. Because in order to combat the rebel forces, the Dongzhou Imperial Court asked the state capital to impose a salt embargo on Wei County, and the adjacent counties were rationed with the minimum guaranteed salt according to the population, so the salt used by the rebels in Wei County has always been very tight, and they have to buy it at a high price in the neighboring counties. ”

The problem that Zhu Gui said did exist, not only for the Dongzhou forces, but also for the salt embargo in ancient Chinese wars. As one of the seven things to open the door as the saying goes, the significance of salt to people's livelihood has risen to a strategic level. The human body's metabolism consumes a lot of salt every day, and if the salt intake is insufficient, it will directly lead to weakness of the body, weakness of the limbs, and may even lead to physiological disorders and death.

Wei County is located in an inland area that does not produce salt, and before the rebels occupied the area, its salt supply was largely dependent on the East China Sea. Through the simple but effective method of the salt embargo, the Dongzhou Imperial Court was able to contain the growth of the rebels. It's just that the rebels in Weixian County will not be able to wait for death, they buy salt from neighboring counties at high prices through various channels, and in the end only the civilians of Weixian County really suffer.

And Zhu Gui's plan to sell salt directly to Weixian County can be said to be well-thought-out, not only will there be no danger, but it will be protected by both the rebels and the Eastern Navy, as long as the state capital is not known. Needless to say, a large part of Zhu Gui's income from selling salt will be used for the expenses of the Eastern Navy. Unless the rebels want to dry up and fish, they must protect the stability of this channel.

According to Zhu Gui's calculations, the Donghai Commercial Bank is currently able to sell 20,000 catties of salt to Wei County every month, and the profit is a full 50% more than that of Xiangxin County, and the salt tax paid to Donghai Town is enough to support the expenses of the East China Navy to maintain 3,000 men. And 20,000 catties of salt are not enough for 50,000 people a month, and it cannot change the current situation of salt shortage in Wei County. It can be said that it has earned military spending for the East China Sea territory, and at the same time, it will not let the rebels in Weixian say goodbye to salt panic from now on.

After listening to Zhu Gui's calculation, Sima Fuqiang immediately expressed his attitude, that is, absolute support. After the capture of Weidongguan, a large number of refugees from Weixian County poured in, and the soldiers of the East China Navy were no longer a problem, but a new problem in terms of middle and senior officers and funds. Last weekend, a strategy was set to nurture the war with war, and middle and high-ranking officers could train them on their own, but the funding was still not available.

At this moment, Zhu Gui took the initiative to adjust the operation strategy of the Donghai Commercial Bank, which was undoubtedly the icing on the cake for the Donghai Navy, and with the financial revenue of Donghai Town, it was believed that an army of 5,000 people would soon be formed. However, according to what Dong'er said at the beginning, if you want to ensure the comprehensive defense of the East China Sea territory, it is absolutely not enough to have more than 10,000 troops.

However, it is believed that this problem will soon be properly resolved, and although the influx of a large number of refugees from Obi County at this time has caused a lot of pressure on the East China Sea in the short term, in the long run, the addition of these people can add a lot of financial revenue to the East China Sea to support a larger scale of the East China Navy.

Judging from what I saw after coming out of the "night tent" this morning, the flow of refugees in Wei County is in the ascendant. According to preliminary estimates, in the two months corresponding to the seventh week of the real world, Dongzhou time, there will probably be more than 10,000 refugees pouring into the East China Sea territory, and the foreign population will directly reach more than twice the population of the aborigines of the East China Sea.

Zhao Meng's side had already returned to Donghai Town with a hundred East Navy, which had been reorganized from the original town guards, and Sima Fuqiang authorized him to expand the garrison to five hundred, and it was necessary to mainly include the aborigines of the East China Sea, and a small number of Wei County refugees and soldiers were scattered and incorporated. These 500 people will be responsible for maintaining law and order within the East China Sea Territory, and they will have a heavy responsibility.

And Wu Qiang, who stayed in front of the two passes, was also busy expanding the army, and Sima Fuqiang gave him the target of 1,000 people, although this was beyond his existing capacity, but if the Eastern Navy wanted to garrison the two passes on the one hand, and on the other hand, to carry out the strategy of fighting to feed the war, it would be absolutely not enough to have 1,000 people.

In the plan of the three stooges, the two levels must have a full 500 defenders, otherwise the daily influx of refugees alone will be enough to upend the two levels. The other 500 men went out with the East China Sea Brigade to fight guerrillas and feed the war.

Coupled with the troops stationed in Donghai Town, the Eastern Navy has three teams of 500 people at this time, but there are only two commanders, Wu Qiang and Zhao Meng. Originally, this position could have been reserved for the lieutenant who surrendered to Cheng, but after all, he had not passed the test and could not be entrusted with such a heavy responsibility.

Therefore, the East China Sea team had to promote a new adjutant in the line of fire to assist Wu Qiang in management. Sima Fuqiang handed over this task to Zhang Wei to be in charge, and with his professional vision, he selected a more suitable person from the initial few squad leaders of the town guard.

These initial squad leaders have been following the Donghai team for a long time, and several major battles can be said to have participated in one by one, although they have not grown to the extent that they can take charge on their own like Wu Qiang and Zhao Meng, but they basically have the ability to lead a team of 100 people. At this time, he couldn't care so much, Zhang Wei could only choose the tallest one from the short ones, and pick the most suitable candidate to catch the ducks on the shelves.

In this way, when Wu Qiang led the team to go out with the East China Sea team, this person could stay at Weidongguan on his behalf. On the contrary, Wu Qiang stayed behind, and the adjutant went out to train with him. The two 500-strong teams took turns to improve the quality of their soldiers and officers, and to train more middle and senior officers as soon as possible.

All in all, this seventh week is a busy and thriving Golden Week in the East China Sea.

After arranging all the work of the Tail Dongguan and the East Tail Pass, more than half of the second night has passed, and it is time for the strategic plan to feed the war with war to enter the implementation stage. This time, Sima Fuqiang asked Wu Qiang to stay at the two levels first, and this time he gave priority to training the new adjutant Chen Chuang, so that he could familiarize himself with his new post as soon as possible.

As for the rebel lieutenant who surrendered, he also brought it with him, on the one hand, to cooperate with Chen Chuang's work, and on the other hand, to test his loyalty and ability. If the inspection is passed, the fourth 500-strong team of the Eastern Navy will be handed over to this person to be responsible.

"Tail County rebels, we're coming!" Sima Fuqiang sat on horseback in high spirits and pointed in the direction of Weixian County.

(To be continued)