Chapter 596: Time is not waiting

Suzhou Mansion, the northeast of Yangzhou, known as the reputation of weaving the world, the silk produced in Suzhou, not only to pay tribute to the royal family, but also from the sea, from the Tianhe to the world, an ordinary Suzhou silk, can be sold to three hardware, and as the top of Suzhou silk Su Jin, there is no relationship with the road, it is difficult to buy a satin.

Eighty miles east of Suzhou city, there is a mountain name sitting on Tiger Mountain, sitting on Tiger Mountain is the most beautiful Jingyue Lake in Suzhou Prefecture, this lake is like a mirror, calm without waves, sit on the boat and look at the lake, look down, you can see the sand and stone at the bottom of Jingyue Lake, the lake water is extremely clear, and the mirror shrimp is as big as a palm, but it is like a transparent prawn in the lake.

On the half-moon-shaped peninsula of a hill jutting out of Jingyue Lake in the southeast of Hushan Mountain, there is a large water camp, on the lake outside the water camp, dozens of warships are changing formations in the sound of drums, and on some rafts, soldiers are standing on the raft boats, swaying from side to side, practicing fighting.

The gust of lake wind blew, sweeping every soldier with a hint of cool pleasure, blowing into the water camp, rolling a bamboo forest in the camp, making a rustling sound of bamboo leaves.

The sound of fighting in the distance is faintly in the ears, but it makes this small bamboo forest more quiet, and in a bamboo building in the bamboo forest, a jade-faced handsome young man put down the book in his hand, picked up the tea on the table, took a sip, and said: "I am not in the camp for a few days, the affairs of the camp are temporarily in charge of Qiao Ning, if the prefect is summoned there, it will be said that I will take someone to suppress the bandits, and it will take a few days to come back, if the matter is urgent, you will send someone to Yangzhou Tianbaolou to pass on a message."

"My lord, do you have some brothers with you, although it is peaceful now, but there are many people who want to assassinate adults, why don't you let Chang Ba and Wu Laosan follow, and then bring a small team of personal guards?"

"The guards are exempt, Chang Ba and Wu Long follow me, Suzhou Mansion is not very far from Yangzhou Mansion, there shouldn't be too much trouble."

Zhou Yu chose the time, took the two King Kongs under his command, dispatched a fast boat, and headed west along Jingyue Lake.

Suzhou Mansion is placed in the ten miles of splendid Suzhou City, Suzhou City is mainly divided into two parts: the ancient town and the outer city, the ancient town is naturally the inner city range, tracing the history, even before the Tang Dynasty, it was preserved in many wars, and the outer city was built in the past few hundred years.

The Suzhou Prefecture Office is located in the outer city of the T-shaped Hutong, only two streets away from the widest Jinxiu Street in Suzhou, which is also a quite prosperous area.

The prefect of Suzhou, was appointed a year ago, in the Tianlong Empire, the position of the prefect is not embarrassing, although it is one level higher than the county, but it is not as good as the county guard, the place in charge is about a city and one or two counties directly under the central government, and in the Tianlong Dynasty, but all important cities, there are another city lord, the city lord himself is not an official title, but he grasps the military and political power of a city, which is equivalent to digging the most beautiful piece of cake from the prefect's authority.

Even in many cases, there is usually some friction between the prefect and the city lord for some rights, and the result is usually that the stronger side stays, and the weaker side is squeezed out.

From the small Nanhu County less than half a year to become the prefect of Suzhou, in addition to his strong background, proper operation is also the key, after all, this is the splendid Suzhou City, a big fat shortage, after taking office, he listened to the advice of the staff, specializing in the rights that can be held in the hands, and not rashly meddled in Suzhou City, first accumulate prestige, in the calculation.

Wu Chang was convinced of Zhou Yu's ability, convincing, naturally obeyed, everything listened to Zhou Yu's plan, and gradually grasped the political power of Su County around Suzhou City, and then transferred Zhou Yu to the Suzhou Water Camp in the rotten bones, because the water camp was erosive and not taken seriously, and was soon mastered by Zhou Yu, and then used this move to make frequent moves, successively exterminated a number of old bandits, won a praise in Suzhou City, had prestige, and did not point fingers in Suzhou City, gradually Wu Chang won the support of many local households in Suzhou, and life was much better。

And Wu Chang also believed in Zhou Yu more and more, but the first thing he did when there was something was not to think about himself, but to find Zhou Yu first.

Bang, Wu Chang slapped a letter on the table hard, and suddenly looked at the messenger with a gloomy face, and said, "This official asked you, is what this letter says true?"

"Back to the adult, the small one will send a letter, where do you know a lot, but this letter is written by my family adult, when the villain left the city, there are indeed many Dongyi people in Haizhou County"

"Even if there are Dongyi people, it doesn't mean that Dongyi is going to wage war against our empire, just a barbarian country, how can you have that guts" Wu Chang took this letter, like a hot potato, I don't know whether to believe it or not.

"I don't know what the adults say, but in recent days, although the ships docked from Haizhou Wharf are all merchant ships, there are no local merchants on them, almost all of them are Dongyi people, and in the past, although Dongyi merchants are not rare, but the number is very rare."

"Hey, even if you say that, what can the prefect do, the governor of Suzhou Prefecture and the county guard of Su County don't believe it, even if I believe it, what can I do?"

"This, my county order just wants me to send the news, no matter which yamen will report it, as for the rest, the villain doesn't know"

Wu Chang smiled bitterly, this messenger is also a stunned young man, otherwise how could he come to his prefect's yamen, it seems that the prefect's yamen is one level higher than the prefect's yamen, but it is not a subordinate relationship, so he can't do anything: "Come here, take him down to rest, and entertain him"

Wu Chang waved his hand to take it away, and looked at the letter in his hand again, although he also felt that something was wrong, but would the Dongyi people really attack the empire? Wu Chang shook his head: "Forget it, why bother with this problem, come here, send someone to send the letterhead to Commander Zhou's side."

"Then do you want to let the Lord Commander come to the Yamen?" The master obviously understood Zhou Yu's position in the prefect's heart, and said.

"Forget it, just let him know, I'm a small prefect and yamen, so I can't manage so much."

"Yes, my lord"

A letter was quickly delivered to Suzhou Shuiying at the foot of Tiger Mountain, but this letter did not attract the attention of Qiao Ning, who was temporarily acting as a military officer, and was just thrown aside.

A manor on the outskirts of Haizhou County, this manor is an industry of the Xiong family, but at this moment this manor has become the base camp of the Sakura family, in the large mansion, a group of samurai kneeling in the open air, ninja leaders, and the top position is Ying Mingzhi.

"Report to the master, the imperial people have not yet discovered our intentions, and now 30,000 of my Sakura family's 50,000 troops have landed on the shore one after another, and are heading to many counties under the jurisdiction of Suzhou Prefecture as a business traveler, and our army has 5,000 soldiers and horses stationed around Haizhou County, and can take Haizhou County at any time."

"In addition, the Sakura Spring Thousand Bird Department has moved to the northwest of Wanghai County Linhe County, Sakurai Shoichi Department has moved to the vicinity of Su County, and the Sakura Wei Department has moved to Changzhou County, just waiting for the head of the family to say below zero, my army will be able to swallow half of Suzhou Mansion in one fell swoop, and then the soldiers will be fast, seize Suzhou, Taicang, Hangzhou, as long as they can take these three places, they can also enter Yangzhou, attack the southern Ningbo Mansion, at that time, Yangzhou several provinces countless gold and silver, exquisite silk, porcelain will become our bag, become the basis of the family master to unify the island"

"Good" Ying Mingzhi deliberately sailed on the Fusang armor today, his whole body was shining with gold, and he was carrying the treasure knife of the Sakura family on his waist, and he heard the report of the generals below, and suddenly there was a kind of pleasure in riding the world and letting me gallop, the empire, which made Fusang change color for five hundred years, will one day be trampled under his feet.

"Ministers, the time has come for us to make meritorious contributions, and I Sakura Mingzhi hereby promises that within the empire, individuals can keep one percent for themselves, and each family can keep two percent, and the rest will be handed over to the master's family, and if I can sit on the throne of the emperor, you will all be daimyo."

Ying Mingzhi said a word, and immediately said the blood of everyone below, maybe after going back this time, everyone will become rich, and by the way, grab some delicate girls to go back, wouldn't it be happy to die.

"Come on, pass the order, attack the county seat of Haizhou first, and then pass on Sakuraquan, Sakurai, and Sakurawei to act, Sakuragi, you lead the water army to prepare for it, and all the proceeds must be transported back to me."

"Obedience"

On August 15, 557 of the empire, tens of thousands of troops of the Sakura family who pretended to be merchants and landed in Yangzhou raised their butcher knives on this day and launched an invasion that shook Kyushu.

In Yangzhou City, not far from the courtyard where the silkworm girl lives, in a newly bought house, Leng Zhuo finally saw Zhou Yu, who had not seen him for more than a year and a half.

"Young Master"

"Gong Jin, please hurry up, I haven't seen you for more than a year, Gong Jin is still suave, I heard that your threshold is about to be flattened by the people who have young ladies in Suzhou."

Zhou Yu's face turned red and said, "The young master said that he was laughing, but in fact, it was not so exaggerated."

"Hehe, okay, don't laugh, this time I want to see you mainly because I haven't seen you for more than a year, it's strange that I miss it, and then I want to hear your development for more than a year, and I plan to borrow some people from you."

Zhou Yu smiled and said: "I have heard a lot about the young master in Chuzhou, and the surprise attack on Xiangyang is really beautiful, but the young master is sharp this time, but it makes many people uneasy."

"Hehe, there's no way, if you miss this village, you won't have that store, this time I won a lot of positions, but when I got it, I realized that there were too few people available in my hands, so I said that this Poyang Sea Army, in addition to a few main generals, I can't find a few talents, and I don't know when this water army can be built."

"Pick up the manpower, my side can draw out a batch, this year or so, secretly I have also prepared an additional force, originally planned to become bigger in the future, in the recruitment of water camp expansion purposes, if the young master is in urgent need, I will transfer these people over first, and I will select three people from the generals under my command to help the young master form the water camp, in short, the structure will be set up first"

"Well, this couldn't be better, but on your side, it is difficult to make a big difference, unless you go to the Qingzhou battlefield, it is difficult to accumulate this merit, and it is not easy to be promoted."

"I've also thought about this question, but I estimate that this civil strife won't end within the year, so forget it this year, after all, my water battalion has not been formed for a long time, and there are still a lot of exercises to practice, and it is estimated that even if I don't invite troops to send troops next year, I will be transferred to the battlefield."

"Time is running out" Leng Zhuo said and gave Zhou Yu the silk from the imperial capital, and Zhou Yu glanced at it, then looked at Leng Zhuo in shock, and quickly continued to look.