Zhao Ning left Songlin Town by boat and entered the Yellow River from Yongji Canal the next day.

After a distance down the river to the east, it didn't take too long to be able to see the city of Yunzhou.

Songlin Town is only located in the gateway area into the land of Qilu (Taishan region), and Yunzhou City is a real gateway town. The soldiers and horses north of the Yellow River (Hebei) must first capture Qilu in order to enter the Central Plains south of the Yellow River (Henan), otherwise the flank threat will always exist, and the Qilu soldiers and horses can even cross the Yellow River north and go straight to the hinterland and rear of Hebei.

And if Hebei soldiers and horses want to set foot in the land of Qilu on a large scale, they must pass the threshold of Yunzhou City.

Therefore, since ancient times, Yunzhou City has been an important military town. At the same time, Yunzhou City is close to the confluence of the Yongji Canal section of the canal and the Yellow River, and its influence on Cao Yun is extraordinary.

"The terrain of the dynasty, the belly of the silver horn grass in Phnom Penh. If you control the four sides and corners, you will also control the world. Militarily speaking, the land of Qilu controls the land of Yanzhao in the north and thousands of miles of the Central Plains in the south, which is a rare core area in the world. In my opinion, we should stay for a long time when we return to Yunzhou City. ”

Like yesterday, today Zhao Ning and Yang Jiani are still talking, after an exhausting fight, the two left their seats and came to the side of the boat to look at the scenery, while relaxing, Yang Jiani looked at the direction of Yunzhou City and suddenly said.

Zhao Ning smiled, "I don't have the idea of controlling the world, I came to Yunzhou City to solve the troubles encountered in Cao Yun for Chen Yi's ship." If you really have other ideas, it is also because Qilu is one of the backs of Hebei, once the war in Hebei is stalemate, Qilu is the rear, which can provide the strength to support the battlefield, such as the source of troops. ”

Yang Jiani glanced at Zhao Ning meaningfully, but said nothing.

The emperor of the previous dynasty took over the family's power, which was too obvious, causing resentment among the family, and because of the failure of digging canals and several expeditions to Goguryeo, the people were worse than dead. If there was no family to get in the way, with the combat strength of the imperial army at that time, it would not be so difficult to just exterminate the common people against the army.

But it was precisely because of the secret support of the family that the rebels destroyed one and two shares, and two and four of them, and they couldn't kill them all, which eventually led to the collapse of the dynasty. And then in the end, it was not the people who rebelled against the army, but the Song family, which was also a family.

The emperor really forced the family hard, the family will never sit still, and the Zhao family has no reason to be different. This is what Yang Jiani did not say explicitly.

Zhao Ning knew what Yang Jiani meant, but he didn't plan to talk about this topic now.

Unlike the previous dynasty, the Great Qi has reached today, and the power of the Hanmen is no longer to be underestimated, and the emperor who holds this power is in an essentially different situation from the emperor of the previous dynasty. After learning the lessons of the fall of the previous dynasty, the Song Dynasty also became more clever in its strategy of recovering the authority of the family. And for now, the family has not yet reached the point where it has to fight with the imperial power or the imperial family.

The boat is moored at the pier outside Yunzhou City.

Chen Yi, who was waiting here early, hurriedly came up to see Zhao Ning and reported to Zhao Ning about the Changhe boat trip under his name, the difficulties encountered in Yunzhou and the specific situation at the moment.

The Zhao family used Chen Yi and his boat as minions to meddle in the matter of Cao Yun, but it was not put on the surface, and the world did not know that the Changhe boat line was the wings of the Zhao family.

Since the Zhao family came out of the Three Kings Extreme Realm, it has already been a big move, and now the expansion of the clan property can only be carried out in secret. The reason why Tsing Yi Swordsman is a Tsing Yi person is that he did not declare himself to be a first-class building, and it is also to avoid the reputation of Yipinlou being too loud and attracting unnecessary attention, jealousy and blows.

All in all, Zhao Ning's current layout is all in secret, although he is destined not to hide it for too long, he only needs a few years not to expose the true strength of the Zhao family. Just like this time, Zhao Ning left Yanping City, and there was no fanfare, except for Wei Wuxian, who had already gone to Longyou, and Chen Anzhi, who had entered the Magistrate's Academy, no one else knew.

When someone notices Zhao Ning leaving Yanping City and asks about his movements, the Zhao family will tell others that Zhao Ning is visiting the Yang family and traveling all over the world by the way, he has no official position now, and he can't go out of office within five years, and the goal is not too conspicuous. All the way south, Zhao Ning and Yang Jiani did not make a big fanfare, and they all did things by Yipinlou.

"The subordinates have interviewed them several times, but the Fang family and other families have a tough attitude and do not allow the Changhe Boat Company to establish a rudder, fleet, and transit warehouse here.

"What they mean is that the goods of the Long River Boat Line have arrived here

We must use their fleets to enter the land of Qilu, and we are not allowed to undertake the transportation of goods from Qilu to the Central Plains here; even if our own commercial goods need to be stored in transit, the warehouses must use theirs to pay rent to them.

"If our fleet is here to hand over cargo to their fleet, they can give us a certain amount of commission that they have to pay for the freight on the subsequent journey. If we want to undertake the goods from Qilu to the Central Plains, they can give us the follow-up freight, but we also have to give them a commission.

In a word, the two sides can cooperate, but the Changhe Boat Company cannot enter the Yunzhou territory and set up another hill to grab their share of the business. ”

When Chen Yi said these situations, his face was very ugly.

Zhao Ning bowed slightly, not surprised by this situation.

Yunzhou City is located at the node of the canal communicating Hebei and Henan, and it is the gateway of Qilu, and many goods entering Qilu have to pass through here, and the market is very prosperous. If a place has money, it will naturally have big households, and the local powerful forces on the boundary of Yunzhou should not be underestimated, and they are intertwined with each other.

Zhao Ning plans to set up a rudder of the Changhe Ship Line here, establish a cargo transit warehouse, and add a new freight fleet to undertake the business of merchant goods between the land of Qilu and the Central Plains, and on this basis, let the Changhe Ship Company penetrate the land of Qilu.

In this way, Changhe Boat can also cooperate with the action of Yipinlou when necessary, and the two sides can take care of each other and help each other, so as to achieve the effect that one plus one is greater than two.

This will inevitably have to deal with the local heroes in Yunzhou.

On the territory of Yunzhou, there is no family power, but this does not mean that there are no local tyrants - the so-called local tyrants, generally speaking, are the big landlords of the Hanmen Shu clan, with rich family wealth and huge influence in the local area, but no clan has great power in the officialdom - this is also the difference between them and the local tyrants.

To be called a strong man, there must be a clansman with a prominent position in the officialdom. The Zhao family was a local tyrant before the current dynasty, and before it became a local tyrant, it was a local tyrant. In short, the local tyrants, local tyrants, and wealthy families are the head snakes of the land, and if the officials of the family leave the place where their foundation is located, they should also be polite when facing them.

The Changhe boat company is a newly established mountain, and if you want to share the soup of the local boat company in Yunzhou, of course the other party will not agree.

If the Changhe Boat Company is just an ordinary Boat Company, then it is okay to accept the conditions proposed by the other party and cooperate with the two sides, but what Zhao Ning wants is that the Changhe Boat Company must earn more profits, and at the same time extend its power tentacles as much as possible, echoing with the cultivators of Yipinlou who punish rape and eliminate evil in Qilu all over Qilu.

In order to make room for the Changhe Boat Company to survive in the matter of Cao Yun, when Zhao Ning was in Yanping City before, by dealing with the Pang family, the Lu family, the Zheng family and other families, he pulled out their share of interests in Cao Yun and squeezed out the blank.

However, when it came to the local area, after the Pang family, the Lu family, the Zheng family and other families were overturned or declined, the share of interests left behind was obviously quickly seized by the powerful and powerful families.

Thousands of efforts were made, but they made wedding clothes for others, how could Zhao Ning tolerate this kind of thing?

"You just said the Fang family, but their head of the family is called Fang Dawei?" Zhao Ning suddenly remembered something and asked Chen Yi.

Chen Yi said: "It's Fang Dawei!"

Under Yang Jiani's strange gaze, Zhao Ning's expression became very playful.

During the previous national war, after the Beihu army broke through the Yellow River moat, the private armed forces of many local big landlords became the Green Camp Army, and in the subsequent war, Zhao Ning inevitably had a battle with them, and the Green Camp Army led by Fang Dawei, the head of the Fang family, was one of Zhao Ning's opponents.

In that battle, the two sides fought to the death, both to the point of running out of ammunition and food, Zhao Ning's army was almost defeated, and it was because Su Yeqing came to support in time with a group of Yipinlou elites, so he escaped from death and repelled Fang Dawei's troops, saving his own life and many Zhao clansmen.

It was also after that bloody battle, guarding the ruined city, that Zhao Ning and Su Yeqing drank soju at the head of the city under the moon for the first time, and became a friend of life and death.

It's a pity that Zhao Ning only repelled Fang Dawei's troops in that battle, and failed to kill the other party.

Later, when the Jianghuai defense line was broken, Zhao Ning saw Fang Dawei again, and at that time, the other party's realm had surpassed him and became the vanguard general of the city.

Unexpectedly, time passed, and in this life, the two of them turned out

I ran into it early.

Zhao Ning took the core strength of Yipinlou to the south this time, and the tasks of the Tsing Yi people were arranged in layers. In the first round of Tsing Yi people's dispatch, the area of chivalry and righteousness was mainly concentrated in small places, such as Songlin Town, this is because the government and local tyrants in these small places are not strong, and the Tsing Yi people can easily complete the task, and they will not make the feudal officials particularly jealous, and immediately dispatch a huge number of officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress.

After making a name for itself in these small places, Yipinlou will concentrate on activities in the county seat and state town.

Eradicating the wicked people in these small places, although it is very necessary, it is conducive to the beginning of the national war, the young people in these places enthusiastically joined the army to defend the country, but the target that Zhao Ning needs to focus on in person is not them.

In the past ten years of national war, Zhao Ning fought with many green camp troops, and he also heard about many green camp army forces with outstanding achievements, and knew who their generals (big landlords and family heads) were, these people were all sinners who brought disaster to the country and the people, harmed the community, and defected to the enemy.

Otherwise, once the situation of the national war is unfavorable in a few years, these people will be the biggest destabilizing factor.

Before in Yanping City, Zhao Ning overthrew the Liu family and the Pang family, and let the Lu family and the Zheng family decline, and the family forces that the family forces that were unbearable in the war were considered to have dealt with seventy-seven, eighty-eight, and the main thing left was the Xu family.

But during the national war, there were 17 generals and 14 gates, but in fact, almost no people surrendered to the enemy.

Although they also value interests, the excellent and systematic family education they have received since childhood has made the pride of being Han people engraved in their bones, so that they will never bow their heads in the face of foreign barbarians.

The culpability of the Liu, Pang, Zheng, and Lu clans was that in order to prevent Jiangmen from growing in power during the war, they did everything possible to hinder the Jiangmen campaign and objectively hindered the process of the national war, and it was not subjectively the intention to support the enemy.

Although Xu Minglang had a very big responsibility for the defeat of the national war, in the end, he also led a group of Xu masters to die in Jingzhou City.

However, the way to rise is to intrigue with other landlords, fight to the death, and then annex civilian land, so that the common people are ruined, full of bloody violence, and at the same time collude with government officials, and do everything for the sake of profit growth.

Different from the families that became the powerful of the dynasty by meritorious service, fundamentally speaking, they stepped on the corpses of others and blood and tears to strengthen themselves, and the cruel struggle between blood and fire and the road to rise made them abandon their conscience a long time ago, and fundamentally have no moral concepts, and most of them only have interests in their eyes, so naturally they do not have such a deep national concept.

For their own interests, they do everything, so if they have milk, they are mothers.

This can be seen from the unconditional obedience of the poor officials to the emperor for the sake of their own careers, and they would rather kneel in front of the emperor as a slave. It is absolutely unacceptable for the children of the family to kneel in front of the emperor during court discussions.

The knee is a thing, if you bend it once, you will bend it countless times, and the dignity of this thing, once you put it down, you will always put it down, when people have no moral bottom line, what can't you do?

Originally, the struggle for power within the Great Qi Dynasty did not have such a strong smell of blood as it does now, and the civil and military were divided into civil and military checks and balances, and everyone was a powerful family, as long as the family status could be guaranteed, who would want to have nothing to do? Stability and order were the basic prerequisites for ensuring power.

The civil and military camps are different in the court, that is, they will not frame each other by any means in private, let alone support the gangsters in the market for the sake of family growth, when the war comes, everyone will meet the enemy as much as they want, and the door will not take the risk of losing the war to hinder the door.

But now, the emperor single-handedly set off the civil and military disputes, so that the civil and military sides embarked on the road of killing each other, in the situation of either you die or I die, each family in order to protect themselves in order to strengthen themselves, can only do everything. Even if the national war breaks out, Mendi must suppress Jiangmen, because after Jiangmen rises, they will definitely fall into blood.

At present, Zhao Ning is unscrupulous to strengthen the Zhao family, which is also based on this situation.

If there was no invasion by Beihu, the emperor's seizure of power would most likely be successful, and the centralization and centralization of imperial power would change the power structure and bureaucracy of the dynasty, but Daqi ran into Tianyuan Khan.

In the previous life, Daqi was destroyed by Beihu, and when it comes to the responsibility for the failure of the national war, and the degree of the crime, how can the family not catch up with the emperor, and these big landlords of the Shu clan who defected to the enemy!

In order to preserve the Jiangshan Sheji of Great Qi, Zhao Ning had to deal with the existence of the Fang family in advance.

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