Weeping Blood Castle, the largest Sitong Inn, the top tea room Accord, Xiao Yuhe put down the tea bowl in his hand, and looked at the man opposite with a pair of beautiful eyes looking forward to Hengbo, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"I said early this morning, there are magpies calling, it turns out that the Hou Ye is coming, you have left people here these days, and people think that you have forgotten them!"

Leng Zhuo listened to the mournful tone of this beautiful girl, but said with a smile: "Hehe, I'm a little surprised by the patience of the owner of Xiao Zhai, he actually stayed for so long, he didn't leave or make trouble, he was so quiet, and the silence was so close that I forgot about it!"

Xiao Yuhe sighed, and said with a smile: "Hou Ye is a strange family who didn't take the initiative to go to the door?" It's not that people don't want to, but the door of Hou Ye's house is too difficult to enter, and it's really impossible to get in!"

"Okay, let's not talk nonsense, let's talk about some deals!" Leng Zhuo didn't continue to talk to this beautiful girl, it is estimated that Leng Zhuo continued, and this day will be spent on that boring conversation.

Xiao Yuhe smiled and said, "Okay, let's talk about trading!" What is the plan of Master Hou for our proposal last time!" "Three times the market price?" Leng Zhuo shook his head and said, "I'm afraid I can't get this price now!"

"Oh, what's the solution?" Xiao Yuhe blinked her beautiful eyes and looked at Leng Zhuo in question.

Leng Zhuo picked up the tea unhurriedly and said, "Because Chuzhou is also in chaos, and the river transportation and trade routes are not passable, I think you should also know!"

Xiao Yuhe sighed, and said lightly: "I want to hear it!"

Leng Zhuo smiled and said: "In detail, you can hear about it on the way back yourself, so there is not much nonsense about this Hou Ye, in a word, if you want to buy weapons, you can, five times the market price, and also, we will only send the goods to the Chu River wharf, and the rest has nothing to do with us, and what goods do you want to say hello in advance!"

"This is the condition of the Hou Ye?"

"That's right, of course you get what you pay for, I won't fool around!"

Xiao Yuhe just groaned for a while, then nodded and said, "I'm going to go back and discuss it, but before that, there is still something to tell Hou Ye!"

"Oh?"

"These days, I haven't been idle, I walked around, and found a more profitable deal than the previous business, so I plan to buy a business on your side, but I don't know if Master Hou will accept it?"

"As long as you follow the rules, I don't care who comes to me to do business! Okay, there's still something to do!" Leng Zhuo said and stood up and wanted to leave.

Xiao Yuhe also stood up and owed, and said, "Then thank you Master Hou!"

"Young master, it seems that there is no need for us to sell them weapons, and the weapons made of our hematite, the armor is too bright, so that people can know at a glance whether it is ,... ，！”

Leng Zhuo agreed to this matter, naturally he couldn't hide it, and he didn't intend to hide it, in the face of Li Ya'er's questioning, Leng Zhuo smiled and said: "Although I said that I wanted to sell them weapons and armor, I didn't say that I would sell them red iron to make them, and I naturally have my idea of doing this, so don't ask more, just wait and count the money!"

Leng Zhuo said as he grabbed Li Ya'er's waist, and climbed the full breast peak with his big hand, but the corners of his mouth showed a hint of evil smile.

If the sky is going to be chaotic, then let's make it a little more chaotic!

And there is no chaos, how can the army formed by Leng Zhuo be useful.

"Zhuo'er, you said you were going to Poyang Sea?" Leng Wushu put down the tea bowl in his hand, looked at his grandson, and asked.

Leng Zhuo nodded and said: "Yes, grandpa, although the detailed situation in Xiangwan County is not known, but as the throat of Poyang Sea, the key place in the middle and lower reaches of the Tianhe waterway, as soon as the dung is lost, the situation in Chuzhou suddenly becomes turbulent, our territory is located in the southeast, and the transmission of news is slow, which is very unfavorable to us, so I plan to go over there first to take a look at the situation, and then make a judgment!"

"How many soldiers and horses are you going to bring with you?"

"It's enough to bring one or two guard battalions, and now the rebel army has just been fully organized, and there is no run-in between the generals yet, so why can they be pulled out to fight after two or three months of training!" Leng Zhuo said.

Leng Wushu frowned, but after a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Since you already have your own ideas, grandpa won't say much, but in short, in a word, everything comes first with your own life, you haven't left the Leng family in the future, if you have three longs and two shorts, no matter how big the Leng family is, how prosperous it is now, it is all false!"

"What's more, we are in power now, but we have also offended a lot of people, and we must be careful when we go out!" "Grandpa, I know, it's not so easy to want my life!"

Leading the army to Poyang Mansion first, it is Leng Zhuo's idea after listening to the discussion of the think tank under his command, but now he needs to be familiar with the new formation of the rebel army, and if he wants to form combat effectiveness, three months is the shortest time, and it is only February now, the weather is cold, and it is about to enter spring, spring rain and spring flood, and it is not suitable to send troops.

And there is one of the most difficult problems to solve, that is, information, the location of the Weeping Blood Fort is very remote, which... Even if the south and the north are fast, all the way non-stop, it will take about ten days to send back the news, and Leng Zhuo is just a marquis of peace, although his status is high, he has no right to get the official newspaper.

The aristocracy of the Tianlong Dynasty can be said to be the most tragic in all dynasties, the ancestors guarded the border with nobles, and the nobles who were divided were in the border general area, which was done in order to strengthen the centralization of power, and also learned the lessons of the Tang Dynasty in the previous dynasty, so as to avoid the fertile land of Kyushu due to being divided by the nobles, resulting in a large loss of finance and taxes, and at the same time fattening the nobles, so that the nobles have money and soldiers, and the world is disturbed. Qinggui, the aristocratic status of the Tianling Empire is very high, Taizu founded the country, although he has many harsh criticisms of the nobles, but he has made up for it from other places, such as giving the nobles many privileges, such as trade preferences, which can be regarded as an indirect economic compensation for the nobles, but not every nobleman is good at management, and not every nobleman's descendants will become elites.

So the aristocracy is generally very poor, even if they are rich, they are not too rich, after all, they still have to raise soldiers, and relying on the fiefdom of the frontier, they have to face attacks from time to time, one is not good, and they will end up dead, and losing land is a very heavy crime, not good, even the title of the nobleman has been stripped away.

And this policy of the empire has also created another class, that is, the wealthy merchants, because the nobles are all filled, the fertile land within the empire, all kinds of resources can not be obtained by the nobles, and naturally cultivate some wealthy families, although these wealthy families do not have the status of nobles, but they have money, so the empire has two classes: nobles and wealthy families.

These two classes, the aristocracy has a high status but is poor, and the wealthy have money but no status, which seems to be very balanced, but in fact, it is easy to make people's hearts unbalanced, a person with status is wrapped in a poor life, looking at those whose status is not as good as their own life is better than themselves, you can imagine what the consequences of this emotion will continue to accumulate.

I'm afraid that no one will be grateful to the empire, at least those nobles who are not very good have not been good to the empire, but are full of resentment, which is a fuse.

The fall of Xiangfan County seems to be surprising, but in fact it is inevitable, the empire does not attach importance to the navy, and the generals of the navy face the generals of the land soldiers, plus long-term grievances, once provoked, it is not impossible to promise benefits and take risks to win wealth.

Before the change of Xiangfan, Chuzhou was generally peaceful, but according to the judgment of Leng Zhuo and his staff, this time Xiangfan changed greatly, there must be Li Tang's shadow behind it, and now Li Tang has to face the pressure of the imperial Quartet.

What is easier to provoke than a group of nobles who have no good impression of the empire and have military power in their hands, but are very poor, and at the moment, the situation of the empire is really not good, plus Shenjing is 108,000 miles away from Chuzhou, which can be said to be far away from the emperor of Tiangao, if it is left in the first two years, Leng Zhuo may have to fight for wealth and nobility.

And as long as there is a nobleman who rebels, it is estimated that it will be like dominoes, causing a linkage reaction

However, these are all speculations, and Leng Zhuo is not sure what the situation is in the north, so Leng Zhuo plans to go to Poyang Sea to see what the situation is.

After Leng Zhuo decided, he immediately counted the manpower, let Xuanchen take over the logistics of the rebel army, and took Kong Mingchen with him, while the others brought Sun Zhen, Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Ma Chao, Xu Qi, Li Yuanba, and the soldiers and horses were transferred all the way south to the guard battalion, plus the private soldiers trained by the Leng family battalion for more than a year, a total of two battalions of 1,000 people.

In addition, Liang Hongyu and Qin Liangyu, and the three daughters of You Ji also accompanied them with a hundred female guards.

After the team was determined, in mid-February, Leng Zhuo left the fiefdom again, and more than 1,100 people rode Chuzhou bantam horses all the way north, first to Jinxing City.

Jin Xing City, it seems that because of the rise of the Jin River waterway, the location has become important, as a government in the southeast of Chuzhou, the geographical location of Jin Xing City can be said to be very bad, more than 500 miles to the south is a wild jungle, and the east is a mountain forest, blocking the connection with Yangzhou, the remote location, determines that this place is destined to be very backward.

Among the thirteen prefectures in Chuzhou, Jinxing Mansion is the last three, and the officials of Jinxing Mansion do not have much oil and water, and the yamen is poor, but now, with the opening of the Jinhe River, this remote place has suddenly become a business travel artery, and there are many business travelers, and this remote government office naturally glows with a new spring.

And the officials of Nanxing Mansion heard that Leng Zhuo was coming towards this side half a day in advance, and immediately the entire Jinxing City officialdom moved, not to mention how much benefit this one brought to them, just by virtue of the other party's identity and status, as well as the Guogong Mansion behind the lady, they did not wait for time at this time.

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