Yuzhou, Yujun.

In the palace of the city lord of Yujun County, the leader of the army is Cui Song, and there are about 5,000 subordinates, but most of them are farmers.

When Cui Song learned that a group of officers and soldiers had arrived in Yujun, his first reaction was panic.

Although Cui Song had thousands of troops under his command, he knew very well what level they were.

To put it mildly, it's okay for these peasant troops in his hands to fight with the wind, and if he really wants to fight those murderers in Yangcheng County, I'm afraid that he will run out before he can start fighting.

Moreover, in the entire Yuzhou, only Yujun is the poorest, and if Cui Song really had the strength, he would not be assigned to such a remote place.

After hearing the report of his subordinates, the panicked Cui Song immediately sent his henchmen to Yuzhou overnight to move the rescue troops.

Although I don't know how many people the other party has come, it is undoubtedly a dangerous signal to be able to lead the army to his small fishing county.

In addition, Cui Song also sent a separate team to closely investigate the whereabouts of the officers and soldiers of Yangcheng County.

To put it mildly, if there are a large number of officers and soldiers who come to Yuxian, it is better to run away if they find out the news in advance.

Kuroko, who was far away in the fishing village, didn't know that the arrival of their party had frightened the rebels in the fishing county, and they were still worried about building a port.

After simple consultations with local villagers, the two sides reached a simple agreement for the time being.

The officers and soldiers of Yangcheng County would bring grain from the inland for the local people, and the locals would build a military port in return.

Although these people are born in poor rural areas and do not have much knowledge, if they can get out of the fishing village where they live, many people are still willing to do so.

After reaching a preliminary agreement, Kuroko also formed a proletarian guild in the local area and absorbed some members.

However, unlike in the interior, these fishermen, who have been fishing for generations, are not keen on joining the proletarian guilds.

The reason for this is that they are located in a geographical location where there is not much arable land, and naturally there are no landlords who rely on the land for their livelihood.

Most of the time, important decisions in the village are basically made by some respected clan elders after deliberation.

As outsiders, Kuroko and the soldiers of the Xiao Zi Battalion under him were outsiders, and they didn't dare to fully believe it.

Just when the fishing villages of Wanpingkou were preparing to build deep-water ports with great fanfare, Kuroko and his cavalry squad were not idle.

An army of more than 3,000 people set out from Yangcheng County, and the news naturally could not be hidden, presumably the rebel army entrenched here had already received the news.

Previously, through investigation, Kuroko had learned that there were not too many troops in the entire fishing county, but before the army set off, Heizi was warned by Xiao Jiu, telling him not to conflict with the rebel army of Yujun as much as possible.

It doesn't have much to do with taking such an insignificant small county as Wanpingkou, but once a conflict breaks out with the rebel army in Yujun, it can easily become the fuse of the hot war between Xiao Jiu and the Yuzhou rebel army.

So Kuroko sent a team of ten people to Yujun County, preparing to meet with Cui Song, the leader of the local rebel army.

When Cui Song heard the report of his subordinates that there were envoys of officers and soldiers coming, he naturally did not dare to slack off, and immediately met with these envoys, eager to find out their intentions for coming to Yujun.

"General Cui, our army has no intention of breaking out a conflict with the general.

It is really my Yangcheng Xiao County's ancestral hometown of Wanpingkou Fishing Village, and now that I am famous, how can I not return to my hometown. ”

Listening to the eloquent conversation of the envoy of Xiao Ziying, Cui Song lowered his head and thought suspiciously.

He didn't believe that the reason for the officers and soldiers of Yangcheng County to send thousands of people to Yujun would be so simple, but now that the other party had sent an envoy to him, he would definitely not be able to tear his face.

Now that there is a food shortage in the whole of Yuzhou, it is unrealistic to ask the leaders of the rebel army in the state to send troops to help.

But he didn't have the courage to let himself resist the thousands of officers and soldiers who came, so Cui Song began to look forward and backward.

In the end, Cui Song ordered the proper placement of these envoys from the Yangcheng Army, and began to convene his generals and leaders to discuss.

The result of the discussion was naturally to stand still, because even if they wanted to, they would not have the strength.

As for Wanpingkou in Yujun, no one cared about Cui Song and the small leaders of the rebel army under him, and in their hearts it was just a dispensable wild place.

Heizi sent people to Yujun to lobby Cui Song, whether he believed it or not, at least the two sides would not directly fight each other in a short period of time.

Now that Wanpingkou is about to be built, it is naturally best to have these rebel troops entrenched in the local area to harass them, and if the rebel army of Yujun pours out, it will inevitably take a lot of effort to clean them up.

As the envoy returned to the barracks, Kuroko's worries were relieved, but he still didn't forget to send people to the county seat to keep an eye on.

Naturally, the construction of the harbor was in full swing, and after a truckload of grain was transported from Yangcheng County to the local fishing village, the people who were originally skeptical were slightly relieved of the new arrival.

New people continued to join in the construction of the port, and through their labor in exchange for different shares of grain.

In particular, these local young people couldn't help but feel moved when they heard about the policies in Yangcheng County and Lingshui County.

Xiao Jiu attaches great importance to the people, and the development of business has long been famous, and it cannot be said that he is full of talents, at least the local people are very loyal.

Most of these soldiers in the Xiaozi Battalion were from poor backgrounds, and the people of the local fishing villages could naturally feel the sincerity in their hearts.

If a fishing village is established in this Wanpingkou, the young people of their village can also go out to do business along the sea route by big boat, and they will no longer have to be trapped in this barren place to eat fish every day.

After all, Kuroko had said in public that they would build a huge commercial sea ship here, and they would be able to take this hitchhike to wealth.

Thinking like this, some villagers became more and more motivated, and they also trusted the Xiao Ziying stationed here.

If the port is completed, it is believed that many locals will be willing to join the newly formed navy.

At that time, the giant ship coupled with Xiao Jiu's unique cannon would definitely be the best choice for a sneak attack on the eastern coastal counties of Great Xia.

However, a military port cannot be built quickly in a short period of time overnight, and what is needed now is time.

……

Qingzhou, the city lord's mansion.

Since Lu Yaoliang took Yang County and returned to the state capital, he has been in a state of deep seclusion.

With Wen Jie's death, Lu Yaoliang completely broke with the imperial court, after all, he directly raised troops to kill the senior member who had just been crowned as the governor of a place, which could not be justified in the eyes of the world.

Many people say that Lu Yaoliang has long been opposed, and some people say that Lu Yaoliang is the minister of the humerus of Great Xia.

But now the actual situation in Qingzhou is that although Lu Yaoliang is in charge of one side, the forces of the various parties behind him who are initially unified and mixed together are not so balanced.

The only way to solve the contradiction is to expand externally, and now Lu Yaoliang is idle at home, and he is also planning for the future.

In the empty backyard, Lu Yaoliang looked at the dim sky in the distance with his hands behind his back, and beside him were two men dressed as military generals standing aside.

"Is there any news from Yangcheng County?"

As Lu Yaoliang asked, a man next to him stepped forward to report some of the latest information about Xiao Jiu.

When Lu Yaoliang heard that Yangcheng County had sent a team of thousands of people to be stationed in Wanpingkou, a neighboring fishing county, his face showed deep doubts.

"Wan Pingkou, what kind of place is that?"

When the man next to Lu Yaoliang heard this, he recounted the incident in detail, saying that this place was an area formed by several fishing villages.

When he heard that the soldiers of Yangcheng County were building fortifications in the local area and preparing to build a port, the expression on his face was even more puzzled.

Today, Daxia basically knows nothing about the exploitation of marine resources except for drying salt, and there is no precedent for building ocean-going ships.

Now that I heard that Xiao Jiu was going to build a sea ship, I felt that it was a little ridiculous like a fool's dream.

Ship? What can this kind of thing do?

In his mind, the impression of sea ships is limited to going out to sea to fish, or transporting some goods over short distances.

I didn't think about the navy at all, after all, I had never heard of any navy in Great Xia before.

But after all, Lu Yaoliang had suffered losses from Xiao Jiu three times before, and he couldn't help but be vigilant in his heart, and ordered people to continue to pay close attention to the movements in the back.

After asking about this, Xiao Jiu turned his gaze to the other person and asked about the cannon production.

Now, in addition to Xiao Jiu, Lu Yaoliang can also be regarded as the second largest force that knows the secret of gunpowder.

It's just that the Heavenly Thunder Essence provided by the old Dao of Qingzhou is just similar to gunpowder, and it is somewhat different in proportion.

Now Lu Yaoliang wants to make cannons, not to mention that he can't make qualified barrels with Qingzhou's iron-smelting technology, and it is not easy to even make thunderbolts.

For not being able to master gunpowder and cannons, Lu Yaoliang felt quite helpless.

After all, the power of the cannon was obvious to all before, but the technology was monopolized by Xiao Jiu's family and not known to others.

In fact, not only him, many forces have secretly sent people to Lingshui County to spy on intelligence, but they have found nothing about the core gunpowder formula.

Moreover, the reason why Xiao Jiu was able to develop was closely related to his unique iron-smelting technology.

In the steel mills in Hare Mountain and Wolf Mountain, the secret agents sent by Lu Yaoliang in Qingzhou finally began to obtain the steel frying technology, which also made Lu Yaoliang excited for a long time.

But even if he obtained the technique of frying steel, Lu Yaoliang could not reproduce the red-clothed cannon made by Xiao Jiu according to the drawings.

The lack of drawings and the impure ratio of gunpowder often cause the manufactured barrel to explode.

But with the passage of time, everything will be figured out one day, and at that time, Qingzhou, which has a vast territory, will inevitably have a deeper heritage than Xiao Jiu, who only has one county.

In the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion, after the two men who came to report to Lu Yaoliang left, Lu Yaoliang sent the servants in the mansion alone to invite that Mr. Fang.

It's just that unlike before, Mr. Fang, who went to the City Lord's Mansion this time, was followed by a middle-aged scholar, and judging by his appearance, it was Mr. Ye of Liangzhou who had participated in a series of coups.