The defeat of the Song army in Runzhou, and the defeat of Wu Yue's army in Changzhou quickly came to fruition. The main reason for the long delay in the previous determination of responsibility for the Changzhou war was the question of who should bear the main responsibility.

The biggest back-stabber is, of course, Ding Deyu, after all, dead people can't speak. But this has to take into account Song Guo's attitude, Qian Yu doesn't want to arouse Zhao Kuangyin's anger for no reason on this issue.

Wu Yuejun's internal back-the-back man should have been Du Pu, the chief general of the Shangzhi Army, but Qian Weizhi was angry about Liang Zhengrui's right-hand army taking himself as bait and escaping alone, and after returning to Hangzhou, he organized people to pick Liang Zhengrui's thorn in every possible way, wanting Liang Zhengrui to also bear the secondary responsibility for the defeat of Changzhou.

Not to mention that Liang Zhengrui can sit in this position, of course, it is not without background. Even Xiong Yuanjia of the Left Direct Army must also speak for Liang Zhengrui, otherwise the three armies will be defeated, and the generals of the two armies are responsible, so why is the commander of the other army not responsible?

Another thing is that although Qian Yu reacted very quickly, Qian Weizhi stayed in Changzhou for five days before he was ransomed. But such things are like paper that can't hold fire. Qian Yu has always cultivated Qian Weizhi's nephew as a successor, which in itself is unreasonable, but Qian Yu has never given any explicit instructions, and the guards of Taoism have no way to make irresponsible remarks. However, when Qian Weizhi was captured and returned to Hangzhou, there was immediately a murmur, and there was a suggestion from the imperial history that the prince Qian Weijun should be sent seriously, and Qian Yu also had a headache for this obvious signal.

When the Song army was defeated in Runzhou, and the 30,000 Yangzhou army was annihilated, the Wuyue court quickly reached a consensus. The main responsibility for the defeat of Changzhou was that Ding Deyu had no command, trapped the army in danger and did not know it, and Du Pu of the Shangzhi Army was greedy and reckless, burying the main force of Wu Yue's army. Xiong Yuanjia and Liang Zhengrui were still the commanders of both the left and right direct armies, so they continued to stay in Suzhou to train soldiers.

In March, the grass grows and the warbler flies in the south of the Yangtze River. Wen Shaoqi is resting in his yard, taking a delicate small coal stove of Xuan porcelain to boil water, and then using the whole set of tea sets produced by Xuan porcelain to make tea, enjoying himself.

Wu Yuejun was defeated in Changzhou, and Wen Shaoqi, the governor of Huzhou, also fell to the ground like a stone. When the Song army was defeated in Runzhou, Wen Shaoqi was even more happy. Without him, the Wen family is now more and more entangled with the interests of the Southern Tangjiang Guogong.

Today, the coal produced by Huzhou Changxing Coal Mine is marketed in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yueming Prefectures. These places are the most prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River, and honeycomb briquettes have become a must-have in the kitchens of middle and upper class families with their high quality and low price. Some families even burn coal mainly in coal stoves, but firewood is only occasionally used to cook special meals. Because the natural financial resources of Changxing Coal Mine are rolling. However, the Changxing Coal Mine is a Wen family on the surface, but it is actually Xuan Coal in charge. Although the security brigade of Changxing Coal Mine has only 100 people, there are currently more than 3,000 miners, and the security brigade conducts regular military training for the miners.

Under Wen Shaoqi's nose, such a freak appeared, Wen Shaoqi also regretted it at the beginning, but later he thought about it, Jiang Guogong has this ability, everyone may be more at ease. After all, counting the cooperation between Xiuzhou Shi and Jiang Guogong to refine salt, the Wen family has already tied up enough on Jiang Guogong's chariot.

Wen Fangfei came over, and personally made tea for her father, while talking about her plans.

"You're going to Xuanzhou?" Wen Fangfei heard that the Tang army had won a great victory in Runzhou, so she returned to Huzhou from Hangzhou, and this time she had to go to Xuanzhou again. Wen Shaoqi repeated it, and really wanted to ask what this baby daughter was doing in Xuanzhou.

"Fangfei Garment Company plans to open another factory in Changzhou. Now that Jiang Guogong has expanded the army on a large scale, the demand for military uniforms is very large. Moreover, in Xuanzhou City, the clothes produced by Fangfei clothing are also very popular, but now the production capacity is insufficient, and these needs are cheap for those small workshops that copy our clothing styles. Wen Fangfei said bluntly.

Wen Shaoqi was surprised: "Xuanzhou is a state, how many soldiers can be raised?" ”

Wen Fangfei smiled slightly: "Why is Daddy so naïve?" Could it be that the two battles between Changzhou and Runzhou were fought in vain? ”

Wen Shaoqi opened his mouth and stammered. The matter of five dynasties and ten kingdoms is not far away. Those domineering generals went out to fight, and after the battle, they set themselves up as kings before they even started. I don't mean that this Jiang Guogong is also in such a heroic state. After a while, Wen Shaoqi said: "That's also the land of Xuan, Run, and Chang Sanzhou." Even if Runzhou and Changzhou are rich land, there are only 200,000 or 300,000 households and a population of more than 1 million. ”

Wen Fangfei suddenly smiled slyly: "Dad, is Huzhou counted as one?" ”

Wen Shaoqi shuddered, spilled the hot tea in his hand, and quickly dropped the tea Gu.

Wen Fangfei smiled and said: "Daddy, Jiang Guogong's idea is to strengthen the army with industry, enrich the country with commerce, and make great profits from industry and commerce, how can it be limited to just one place in Xuanzhou?" ”

"Tell your father, how many people does Jiang Guogong have now?" Wen Shaoqi froze. Wen Fangfei travels, and now she is also a strong guard, accompanied by a secret whistle, and the security is several times stronger than Wen Shaoqi. To say that there is no private communication channel between Wen Fangfei and Jiang Guogong, Wen Shaoqi also does not believe it.

"There are only 20,000 elites that can be used, but in another half a year, there should be 80,000 elites available." Wen Fangfei said. At present, Li Congyi takes the Xuanzhou soldiers as the main backbone and sets up the first and third divisions; With the Changzhou Army as the backbone, the second division was set up; With the Runzhou Army as the backbone, the Fourth Division and the Fifth Division were set up. In addition, Xuan, Changzhou, and Runzhou each have a garrison division, and as long as the supply of combat weapons can be supplied, these three garrison divisions can also be converted into field divisions.

Wen Shaoqi gasped when he heard this, and Orr smiled: "I'm a governor of Huzhou, so I don't have to worry about these idleness." "Wen Shaoqi still wanted to operate to the center of Hangzhou in the second half of last year, but now depending on the situation, it is better to hoard quietly in Huzhou first.

In the first battle of Changzhou, Wu Yue's army was beaten too badly, so it turned to the defensive in an all-round way, and the first division of the Suzhou Navy Division also withdrew from Taihu Lake. In this way, along the shores of Taihu Lake, the non-governmental economic and trade exchanges between the Southern Tang Dynasty and Wuyue can be regarded as resuming again.

This is of course a great benefit for Li Congyi. In particular, the Song and Tang dynasties were at war. Naturally, it was impossible for the Song State to sell salt to the Southern Tang Dynasty officials, and Li Congyi became the largest salt merchant in the Southern Tang Dynasty at the moment.

Han Shi bought salt from Huaishang, transported it to Hangzhou, and then went to Changzhou through Huzhou, this private salt route, all the way is water transportation, and the road guide is very strong, not afraid of having an eye to find trouble. Kou Zishi originally gave Han Shi a trick to use pickled fish to carry private salt, but now Han Shi continues to engage in pickled fish, purely because Li Congyi, the king of Wei, needs meat to supplement the physical strength and nutrition of the soldiers.

Of course, Li Congyi would not send silver to the salt merchants in Huaishang. These salt merchants, all rich and rival the country, can only cast silver balls and bury them in silver cellars. Li Congyi exchanged two luxuries, one is sake, and the other is refined salt. It happened that Jinling was besieged, and it was inconvenient to go to Nanchang by land, so these extra production capacity were sold to Huaishang.

At the same time, with the help of Xiuzhou Shi, Qiantang Haimao finally set out a waterway to Liuqiu and Japan. However, Xiuzhou Shi's own is not in the sea trade, and there is no fixed strong partner in Japan, so the business is not big for the time being.

However, under the banner of the Wuyue royal family, Qiantang Haimao got on the line with the Qingyuan army.

The Qing Yuan Army was a vassal to both the Southern Tang and Northern Song dynasties, and the Song Dynasty called it the Ping Navy, which was actually an independent regime. The origin of the Qingyuan army was that the Southern Tang Dynasty destroyed Fujian, and as a result, the Fujian State was divided into three parts, the Southern Tang Dynasty occupied Tingzhou and Jianzhou, and the Wuyue State occupied Fuzhou. When the Song Dynasty invaded the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Southern Tang Dynasty lost all the Jiangbei, and the Qingyuan Army declared itself a vassal to Zhao Kuangyin of the Song State. When the Song Dynasty destroyed the Southern Han Dynasty, the Qingyuan Army bordered the Song State, and there was some superficial effort left for the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Song wants to dominate the world, and the current festival of the Qingyuan Army makes Chen Hongjin not know. Through the line of Qiantang Sea Trade and the Wuyue royal family, it is also a temptation.

On the one hand, the terrain of Fujian is broken, there are many mountain ranges, easy to defend and difficult to attack, on the other hand, the sea trade is developed, the sea ships go directly to the countries of the South China Sea, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou are prosperous because of the sea trade, so they can support the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Qingyuan army and Chen Hongjin and other festivals to pay frequent tribute to the Northern Song Dynasty.

It's just that the Qingyuan army paid tribute to Song Zhao Kuangyin every year with the land of two states, and it was undoubtedly very hard under the involution of Wu Yue and Southern Tang. In recent years, piracy has been rampant in the waters of Fujian, and too many fishermen have been forced to go to the sea to lick their blood. These pirates are similar to some scattered pirates on the Zhoushan Islands, occupying a small island, usually fishing for a living, and when encountering a lone merchant ship, they will grab an order, and if they succeed, they will disappear.

Zhang Mingming, the third master, was in the sea off Zhangzhou at this time, and the ship of a thousand stones was on the open sea outside Kinmen Island.

At this time, on the inland sea north and west of Jinshan Island, three 600-stone sea ships common in Zhangzhou were playing a cat-and-mouse game at the same time. The little pirates did not have large ships, but one of them was one or two hundred stones, and when they saw a single sea ship, and it seemed that the draft was deep, they could not hold back and come up and rob it.

Seeing that a pirate took the bait, the sea ship first pretended to escape, and took a group of small boats to show the speed of life and death, and the oarsmen on the small boat were tired and half dead, and then let the armor appear, and then moved out of the bed crossbow, and the pirate ships scattered and fled, and then they followed the leading ship, and caught up with the oarsmen on the small boat for half an hour to completely lose their strength, and then went ashore with a marine battalion and smashed the pirate's den. The next step is to send pirates to recruit pirates around An.

In one day, Zhang Zhizhi caught seven or eight pirate dens on many islands outside the port of Zhangzhou, recruited nearly 1,000 people, and took them to Yangshan Island.

Qiantang Haimao can do this, of course, it is also the acquiescence of the Qingyuan Army, and this is also a win-win situation, the Qingyuan Army has fewer headache pirates, and Yangshan Island is too short of people. When Jinling was besieged, Li Congyi still deceived and snatched out some shipbuilders, and sent them to Yangshan Island in the spare time, so that Yangshan Island initially had the ability to repair ships. However, shipbuilding can't be done, mainly because of the lack of giant trees, and can only wait for Qiantang trade to open up a trade route to Chaoxian or Liaodong.