Li Siwen said that he would do it, and directly threw the stall here to Zhang Minggu, and he went all the way south to Yangzhou.

When Zhang Minggu posted the notice of the Longmen Dart Bureau recruiting the water guard, as he thought, there were very few applicants.

Only a few dozen people came to apply, and in the end there were only a dozen people who could really stay, and he had no choice but to start teaching the dart masters of the Dragon Gate Dart Bureau to start practicing water warfare.

If you really can't find someone, you can only let these dart masters deal with it.

Li Siwen went all the way south and arrived in Yangzhou, looking at the developed economy here, he was really fascinated.

After giving up the little house, he also came directly to a small mansion.

"Who?"

I heard a knock on the door outside, and there was a reply in the courtyard.

"It's me, Li Siwen!"

"Li Siwen? How did you get to Yangzhou? ”

The door opened, and a young man rushed out and hugged him.

"Liu Tao, you can live, when Chang'an said goodbye, don't come to be harmed?"

Li Siwen smiled at Liu Tao and asked directly about the other party's current situation.

"Me? That's it, you also know that I don't want to join the officialdom, so it's okay here. ”

Liu Tao also smiled back, and pulled Li Siwen into the courtyard.

"Tell me, what's the matter with me?"

The two sat down, and Liu Tao also glanced at Li Siwen in front of him.

Chang'an has been saying goodbye for several years, but I didn't expect the other party to find him.

"I'm here to ask you to come out of the mountain."

Li Siwen smiled slightly and said his intention.

"Didn't I say it before, I don't want to enter that officialdom, you came to me to go out of the mountain, doesn't it make me embarrassed?"

Liu Tao frowned, and refused on the spot in the face of this friend.

"I'm not asking you to be an official."

"Then you invite me out of the mountain? Out of what mountain? ”

Liu Tao was stunned, he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Li Siwen's gourd.

"Recently, I was working under Her Royal Highness Princess Lishan, and I came to you to ask you to be in charge of my water escort team, which is responsible for guarding merchant ships and fighting those bandits who crisscross the water!"

Li Siwen immediately told all the predicaments he was encountering and the water bandits of the Luohe River water transport.

"Is that so?"

After listening to what Li Siwen said, Liu Tao instantly became angry.

He doesn't like to be in officialdom, that's because he doesn't want to do those deceitful things.

Moreover, his father has made a lot of enemies in the officialdom, and he may not only endanger himself if he is a little careless, but even his father will be implicated.

But this doesn't mean that he doesn't want to do something practical for the people of the Tang Dynasty, and his wish since he was a child is to be a water master and command the Tang Dynasty water division to exterminate foreign thieves.

This is also the main reason why Li Siwen came to him.

Compared with them, this Liu Tao can be regarded as a person who specializes in art.

"What, do you want to eradicate these water bandits who are the scourge for the people, return justice to the people, and return peace to the Luohe River."

Li Siwen glanced at Liu Tao and asked him directly what he thought.

"But do you know that rashly organizing an armed group is a royal taboo, and you are not causing trouble for Princess Lishan by doing this."

Liu Tao glanced at Li Siwen again and directly expressed his worries.

"You don't know this, the Dragon Gate Dart Bureau is the property of Her Royal Highness the princess on the surface, but in fact, His Majesty also has a stake in it.

Moreover, I am only going to set up a water guard unit to fight water bandits and protect merchant ships.

You can rest assured about this, the most important thing is that if you can do this well, I will report it to Her Royal Highness the princess at that time.

Let him say a few kind words to your father in front of His Majesty, so that your father can be an official more easily! ”

Hearing this, Li Siwen also smiled.

As long as the other party does not refuse on the spot, then everything is easy to do.

Although he didn't dare to kidnap people without saying a word like Li Yanran, he could still do it with reason and emotion.

"If you say that, it's not impossible.

But these water bandits are no better than mountain villages, and their water villages are all built in secret places.

It's not that easy to wipe them out. ”

Liu Tao was really moved by what the other party said, he was not an official because he was afraid of causing trouble for his father.

If you can not be an official, and you can help your father find a strong reinforcement, and you can also satisfy your desire to serve the country and the people and be the governor of the navy, then it is naturally the best thing.

"It's okay, we can take our time, the key now is to keep the merchant ships along the way first, as for the extermination of the water bandits, just take it slowly!"

Li Siwen smiled, as long as you are willing to get on our thief ship, then everything will be easy to do.

"Okay, I can go to Luoyang with you, but you have to promise that everyone must obey my command, even you can't resist the order!"

Liu Tao nodded, it was nothing to go to Luoyang, but his command must be guaranteed.

Otherwise, he'd rather not go and stay here.

"Don't worry, I'm not one of those people who don't know what to do, and there will definitely be no unclear command!"

Li Siwen was also depressed, did he really think he was some kind of fool?

You are the most suitable person, and he will definitely not meddle in the situation of the sailor.

"Okay, then you come in with me!"

Liu Tao slowly stood up and walked towards the house.

Li Siwen glanced at Liu Tao's back and followed closely.

"What is this?"

Looking at the map on the wall, Li Siwen was stunned.

"What is this? This is a map of the waterways of Datang, which I drew by myself during my field trips in the past two years.

If it's really like you said, the most likely place for those bandits to hide is this water.

As long as we first divert the opponent's main force with merchant ships, and then attack their lair with elites, the other party will inevitably rush back to help.

When the time comes, they can ambush in the water with the main force, and then suddenly send troops while they are panicking, and they can annihilate the opponent in one fell swoop. ”

Liu Tao pointed his hand on a piece of water and said his thoughts.

"You also said that you didn't prepare before, so you already had an idea!"

Hearing Liu Tao's words, Li Siwen was stunned.

After reacting, he also patted the other party's shoulder directly.

"It's all my own foolishness, and I'm also putting myself into the identity of those water bandits, where will I put my lair.

Not only the Luo River, but also other waterways are also prepared.

Now how many men and horses you have under your hands, I can arrange countermeasures. ”

Liu Tao also scratched his head and directly asked the other party about the personnel ratio.

"If you say this person, it seems that it depends on you, there are not many people who are good at water in Luoyang, and most of them are boatmen.

This time, I came to Yangzhou to find you, the big boss, and secondly, I also want to recruit some water warriors from Yangzhou to enrich the water guard! ”

Li Siwen scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed.

After all, there are no soldiers and no generals on his side now, and it all depends on Liu Tao himself.

"You really have a problem for me, no matter how many I still have some friends in Yangzhou, it should be no problem to pull a water escort team of two or three hundred people.

But this is a thing that makes people lick the blood from the knife, and money is indispensable! ”

Liu Tao was also depressed, he really regretted agreeing to the other party.

Special Meow's co-authorship made me want to be the commander of the light pole in the past.,You're really my good friend.。

"Don't worry, don't worry about money, if you don't have anything else, you have money!"

Hearing this, Li Siwen was not afraid at all, and the last thing he lacked now was money.

"Okay, I'll go get in touch with my friends, but there's one more thing you need to arrange in advance.

We need two big ships, both as flagships and as fortresses of war, so that we can have a crushing effect on those bandits. ”

Liu Tao nodded, the problem of people can be solved by himself, but he can't solve the boat.

"Don't worry, my big ships are, and they are not ordinary cargo ships, all of them are big ships with a load of 1,000 stones, these are enough!"

Money is not an issue, and boats are not an issue.

In addition to having no soldiers and no generals, he has everything he should have.

"Well, then let's do it, I can take someone to Luoyang in half a month, and then you don't make a noise, otherwise I'm afraid of startling the snake."

Liu Tao smiled, in this way, everything would be almost solved.

"Okay, I'm waiting for good news in Luoyang."

After Li Siwen finished speaking, he turned around and left, and Liu Tao also began to call friends and recruit people.

Time passed little by little, and in a blink of an eye, the agreed time came, and Liu Tao's people also rushed north along the Luohe River directly to Luoyang City.

"Good boy, I came on time!"

Li Siwen hammered Liu Tao, and looked at the sturdy and dark-skinned men behind him, and he was also happy.

These people are not good at first glance, and I really don't know where they got each other.

"Don't you ask where all these people come from? Is it reliable? ”

Liu Tao smiled and asked Li Siwen.

"Don't be suspicious of employing people, don't use suspicious people, since I handed these over to you, I will trust you 100%.

As for where these came from, even if you were recruited from the bandits, I don't care! ”

Li Siwen gave Liu Tao a blank look, using these to test the cadres?

What kind of person am I?

Since the choice is yours, there will be no doubt about you.

"Don't worry, I recruited these people from a fishing village by the sea.

The people over there make a living by fishing all year round, and they often go in and out of the offshore sea, so they are all sunburned like this.

But don't underestimate these people, each of them is a smooth role at sea, and they have developed a strong body by going to sea all year round.

With a little training, it's still no problem to deal with some water bandits. ”

Liu Tao patted Li Siwen on the shoulder and told all the origins of these people.

"I said, since I've handed it over to you, you can do whatever you want."

Li Siwen once again emphasized what he was thinking.

The military may be the place where the entire Tang Dynasty pays the least attention to its origin, otherwise people like Cheng Biting Jin and Qin Shubao were born in Wagang Mountain bandits, how could they become the current national princes.

"Let's go, let's go to your sailor's station."

Liu Tao nodded, this should be his last test of Li Siwen.

If Li Siwen has a trace of contempt for these people, he will inevitably take them away.

After all, trusting this thing is the basis of cooperation between the two sides, if Li Siwen doesn't trust him, it will be difficult for him not to be suspicious of what he promised himself before.

"Sailor station?"

Li Siwen was stunned for a moment, you just asked yourself to prepare the ship and money before, and you didn't let me prepare the station.

“？？？”

Liu Tao's face was full of question marks, you didn't prepare for this, so how can you train these people.

You can't let these fishermen just fight those mountain bandits, this is not to suppress the bandits, but to send them to death.

"Xiao Langjun, it is very suitable for the river to be remodeled a little as a station."

Seeing that the two froze, Zhang Minggu also leaned into each other's ears.

"Yes, let's go, I'll take you there!"

(End of chapter)