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What a coincidence, the person Li Cun is going to borrow grain tomorrow is none other than Yu Yancheng, the biggest landlord here in Bangyuandong.

There are four main reasons why Li Cun chose Yu Yancheng.

The first reason is that Yu Yancheng, who is also engaged in maritime trade, is the richest person in Bangyuandong and even in the entire Qingxi County.

In this regard, Li Cun, who is particularly familiar with the maritime group, is absolutely convinced.

As far as Li Cun knows, many maritime merchants in Quanzhou are worth millions.

And Li Cun's original owner, the Wang Chao family, has been doing maritime trade in Nanyang for more than ten years, and he has earned 200 million yuan.

What is the concept of 200 million?

At the peak of the Northern Song Dynasty, the annual financial income was only 160 million.

In other words, the assets held by the Wang Chao family are almost the financial income of the Northern Song Dynasty for two years.

The real rich rival country!

Yu Yancheng, Li Cun had heard of him before, and knew that his net worth was at least one million, which was far from being comparable to the Fang Youchang family.

If Li Cun can knock down Yu Yancheng's Zhuangzi, then Li Cun will basically have the money and grain for the Eastern Expedition.

The key is that Fang La's election is not good for the timing of the uprising.

A few years ago, when Tong Guan went to Liao as an envoy, he met a man named Ma Zhi, who offered Tong Guan the strategy of "Lianjin to destroy Liao".

After Ma Zhi returned to the Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji renamed Ma Zhi Zhao Liangsi, and officially launched the strategy of "Lianjin to destroy Liao".

After Zhao Liangsi, Hu Yanqing, Ma Kuo and many other people sent envoys to the Jin State many times, the Song and Jin sides agreed to form a "maritime alliance" and agreed to jointly destroy Liao.

The Jin State had already captured Shangjing, the capital of the Liao State, not long ago, plus the Tokyo and the five capitals of the Liao State that had been captured before, and the Jin State had already accounted for two.

Now, the Jin State is preparing to attack Zhongjing in the Liao State.

According to the agreement of the "Sea Alliance", Zhao Song should send troops to attack the sixteen states of Yanyun and cooperate with the Jin State to destroy the Liao State in one fell swoop.

In order to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun that their old Zhao family dreamed of recovering in order to recover, Zhao Ji gathered the most elite 150,000 western troops of the Zhao and Song dynasties to the Daimyo's Mansion in Beijing, and prepared to send them north to Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun after the New Year.

These 150,000 western troops are not only the elite of the Zhao and Song dynasties, but they are also equipped with complete armor, war horses, and grain and grass.

The waterways of Beijing Damingfu extend in all directions.

If these 150,000 western troops take the waterway, it will take less than ten days to kill them here in the southeast.

At this stage, the reason why these 150,000 western troops have not yet moved south is not because they do not have the conditions to go south, but because no one has taken the uprising of Li Cun and Fang La seriously.

Once Li Cun or Fang La makes a big move, the 150,000 western troops will soon be able to come down south to quell the chaos.

So there really isn't much time left for Li Cun.

In this case, Li Cun went to make money one by one, and the result was that before Li Cun went out, he would be dumpled by the Western Army and the southeastern landlords who had been ready to move.

Therefore, Li Cun could only pick the largest, lay down a few, and after saving enough capital for the Eastern Expedition, he immediately set out on the Eastern Expedition.

And Yu Yancheng fully meets this condition.

The second reason is that Yu Yancheng has the ship that Li Cun particularly wants.

Li Cun made a lot of rooster carts.

However, in order to ensure that the Tiger Army had sufficient supplies and that it was easier for the Tiger Army to go east, Li Cun would definitely need a large number of ships to transport people and materials.

And looking at Qingxi County, I am afraid that the only one who can provide Li Cun with so many ships is Yu Yancheng, a maritime businessman.

Therefore, even if it is not for anything else, just for a large number of ships in Yu Yancheng's hands, Li Cun must beat Yu Yancheng.

The third reason is that Yu Yancheng should be killed.

Yu Yancheng was born as a bandit, and when he was doing maritime trade, he especially liked to rob his peers, and he robbed the merchant ships of the dynasty family several times, and even Li Cun personally experienced it.

It can be said that Li Cun and Yu Yancheng have old enmities.

Moreover, Yu Yancheng is an unusually bad person, bullying men and women and doing all kinds of evil, so he has a very bad reputation here in Qingxi, even worse than Youchang.

If Li Cun defeated Yu Yancheng's Yujiazhuang, it would not only be regarded as revenge, but also for the people, and it would also make Li Cun have a good reputation.

The fourth reason is that in the recent period, Yu Yancheng gathered Li Hao to defend the bad country and defeated Fang La's people many times, and he became a stumbling block for the Eastern Expedition of the Righteous Army.

Here's how it went.

Not long after the success of the uprising, Yu Yancheng gathered a lot of landlords and created a team of people, which was called not only to avenge their ally Fang Youchang, but also to jointly protect themselves.

After the people were assembled, Yu Yancheng said to the landlords that it was better to take advantage of Fang Shisan's unstable foothold and frustrate his sharpness first.

More than a dozen other landlords knew that Yu Yancheng, who was born as a water bandit, was very good at fighting, so they all agreed to Yu Yancheng's proposal.

So, Yu Yancheng took the landlord and took the initiative to attack the rebels.

Because the landlords led by Yu Yancheng have complete armed armor and war horses, there are still many brave villagers, and on the side of the righteous army, there is no armor, and it is only a group of peasants who have just put down their hoes.

As a result, Yu Yancheng won several games in a row - Fang Wu, Fang Qi, Lu Mai and others who had just debuted were all defeated by Yu Yancheng.

That is, Yu Yancheng had too few people before, and there were many people on the side of the righteous army, Yu Yancheng did not dare to go too deep, otherwise, he might not have to wait for the western army to go south, and Yu Yancheng would have already wiped out the righteous army.

In this case, if Li Cun defeats Yu Yancheng, then Li Cun's status in the righteous army will definitely rise in a straight line.

As for the last reason, that is, Li Cun was ready to go to Fang Lati after defeating Yu Yancheng.

Be.

Li Cun is a jerk.

But Li Cun is a bastard with a bit of conscience and a bit of a bottom line.

Fang Baihua brought Li Cun a large "dowry" when Li Cun was the most difficult, and helped Li Cun last for a few more days, and she also gave Li Cun her ice clear and jade body, so Li Cun didn't marry her, it was too much to say.

Therefore, Li Cun was ready to marry Fang Baihua Mingmei after defeating Yu Yancheng's Yujiazhuang and demonstrating his strength, and by the way, he rightfully annexed Fang Baihua's army.

In short, Li Cun was ready to attack Yujiazhuang.

No, Li Cun hasn't beaten Yu Yancheng yet, but Yu Yancheng is going to fight first.

Actually-

It is inaccurate to say that Yu Yancheng is coming to beat Li Cun.

To be precise, Yu Yancheng was actually preparing to exterminate all the rebels.

In other words, Li Cun is just one of Yu Yancheng's goals.

It is said that in this case, Li Cun can actually choose to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, let Fang La and Yu Yancheng continue to fight, and Li Cun will wait to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

But Li Cun's money and food have really bottomed out, and the key is that Li Cunzhen has no time to play these tricks, and then lose a lot because of a small one.

So Li Cun still decided to send troops to fight Yujiazhuang.

As soon as Li Cun, Fang Baihua and Zhang Shigang returned to the Tiger Army, Fang Jing came over.

As soon as the two sides met, Fang Jing glanced at Fang Baihua with hatred.

Because Fang La has been busy expanding the army and studying the reform of the Yuan system these days, and Yu Yancheng always comes to make trouble, so Fang La has not paid much attention to the remote Li Cun and Fang Baihua.

As a result, it was not until the last two days that Fang La heard about the scandal between Li Cun and Fang Baihua.

At first, Fang La was adamantly unconvinced.

My own sister knows it herself.

Fang La was 100% sure that Fang Baihua was not that kind of lewd woman, how could she have an affair with Li Cun after only a few days of hard work?

But later, rumors about Li Cun and Fang Baihua spread more and more, and some people even rumored that Fang Baihua had been secretly married.

Only then did Fang La attach importance to this matter, and then sent someone to investigate, only to learn that Fang Baihua had lent all his money and food to Li Cun, and the army had also been handed over to Li Cun for training.

Fang La realized that the scandal between Li Cun and Fang Baihua might be true, and then became furious, and then wanted people to call Fang Baihua back to punish and remove Fang Baihua's military power.

But at this time, someone came to report that Yu Yancheng was going to attack them tomorrow.

One troublesome thing after another, Fang La couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

Fang Fei thought for a while and proposed to Fang La: "It's better to let Li Cun go to fight Yu Yancheng, and I'll wait until I plan and act according to the situation, how about it?" ”

Fang La felt that Fang Fei's trick to drive wolves and tigers was very good, so he asked Fang Jing to order Li Cun to fight.

After Fang Jing took his eyes off Fang Baihua, he said to Li Cun arrogantly: "My brother ordered you to fight against Yu Yancheng, Xu Sheng is not allowed to lose, if he is defeated, my brother will do military justice to you!" ”

This is a bit of a bully, Fang Wu, Fang Qi, and Lu Balang have all been defeated, and they haven't seen Fang La use military law on any of them, how can it be Li Cun's turn here, if he is defeated, he will have to clean up Li Cun?

When Niu Meng and the others heard this, they all glared at Fang Jing angrily, and they had the meaning of "as long as Li Cun gave an order, they would kill Fang Jing on the spot".

Li Cun glanced at Fang Baihua, who also had a displeased face, and said with a smile: "You go back and talk to the thirteenth brother, I will find a day to send troops as appropriate." ”

"Discretionary? Looking for a day? Li Cunbi was afraid of Yu Yancheng and didn't dare to fight! ”

Fang Jing, who was convinced of his guesses, not only despised Li Cun's cowardice, but also angry that Li Cun dared to disobey his orders!

But Fang Jing had already seen that if he talked nonsense again, Niu Meng and the others might kill him.

"A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses."

Thinking of this, Fang Jing flicked his sleeves fiercely and said, "I will report your words to my brother truthfully!" ”

After finishing speaking, Fang Jing turned around and left.

Waiting for Fang Jing to leave, Li Cun put away his smile and immediately ordered: "Cook now and prepare to go on the expedition!" ”

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