162 Yangzhou
Knowing that Zhou Qing in Xuzhou suddenly rose and contained a large number of enemy troops on Jingdong Road, Yangzhou's Huaidong Road pacification envoy, Taiwei, Gaoyou Army and Lianshui Army all controlled Pu Jinzhong's heart finally moved.
Three years ago, the Lianshui army was defeated by Menghu and completely retreated from Huaishui, Pu Jinzhong lost an important salt-producing place of Haizhou, the salt and silk textile industry is the economic pillar of Huaidong, although there are other salt-producing areas, but still make Pu Jinzhong feel painful.
Pu Jinzhong is only in his early forties, his ambition is still there, and he has been able to dominate Huaidong for so many years, and his natural ability is also very outstanding.
Compared with Jingxi Road after many years of war, Huaidong Road is much stronger in terms of economy, population and trade, and Yangzhou is also a famous place for fireworks in the world, and its prosperity can be imagined.
Pu Jinzhong also has a long-term vision, knowing that the Jianning court across the river is afraid and precautionary against him, he did not count on the support of the imperial court, but no matter how much he prevents, he can't stop the Jiangnan people who want to do business and want to make a fortune, so he vigorously develops commercial trade, and has the support of salt and silk textiles, and develops Yangzhou into a world-famous north-south trading center.
Pu Jinzhong even established a naval army, it is difficult for the naval army above the Huaishui to fight, it is inconvenient to go on the Yangtze River, and there are sailors of the imperial court eyeing the tiger, but Huaidong is close to the sea, Pu Jinzhong is the real overlord on the sea, the maritime trade has reached Silla, the Wa Kingdom, and also occupies a lot of islands in the open sea, 10,000 steps back is that Menghu occupied the entire Han land, Pu Jinzhong is still a hegemon, so Pu Jinzhong's self-confidence is very sufficient.
Lin Jianyue's rise Pu Jinzhong saw it in his eyes, especially after Lin Jianyue was canonized as the queen of Yan by the imperial court, he was really jealous, he felt that he was no worse than Lin Jianyue... Well, maybe the war will be worse, otherwise it will not be possible for so many years, with the economic and military strength of Huaidong Road, there is still no advance in Huaidong.
Xuzhou suddenly became chaotic, Pu Jinzhong saw the opportunity, the 100,000 troops on the Jingdong and West Roads were pinned down, and they did not dare to go south easily, the Jingdong East Road was only 60,000 cavalry, and there were tens of thousands of Han people, and he held nearly 300,000 troops of the Gaoyou Lianshui Army, including 80,000 cavalry, Pu Jinzhong was confident in defeating the enemy army on the Jingdong East Road, not to mention occupying all the Jingdong Road, Pu Jinzhong did not have the courage to do so, but the recovery of Haizhou to occupy the southern part of the Jingdong Road Shandong Peninsula Yi, Mi, Lai, Deng and other states is still somewhat certain, The threat to Monhu is not so great, but it is crucial to its maritime development strategy.
The most important thing is that now there is Lin Jianyue in Jingxi in front, with Lin Jianyue's strength, it must be Li Chongshan's number one henchman, before Lin Jianyue is defeated, he is absolutely safe, and there are not many opportunities like this now.
Pu Jinzhong also has an unspeakable thought, that is, in the Confucian family in Qufu, Yizhou, Shandong Peninsula, with the current urine nature of the Confucian family, as long as they are controlled, they will have some righteous names, and then use money and beauties to open the way in Jianning, and there is a military victory as a foreshadowing, what is there not to follow Lin Jianyue to seal the king of Huai?
Pu Jinzhong hummed a little song and came to Ren Shuang's room, occupying Ren Shuang was the most proud thing in Pu Jinzhong's life.
Ren Shuang is the two beauties of the Central Plains who are as famous as Sun Manqing, but because of the emperor and Sun Zhengyi, he is not so famous, and Ren Shuang's father used to be just a big businessman who was very good at maritime business.
Pu Jinzhong did not use the clumsy method of Emperor Jianning, but used huge interests to win over Ren Shuang's father Ren Yixiang, now Ren Yixiang is no longer a simple businessman, but the deputy governor of the Huaidong Army, Ren Shuang's brother Ren Xiong is the commander of the cavalry, naturally occupying Ren Shuang is a matter of course, and he can also strengthen the control of his army, killing two birds with one stone, but unfortunately Ren Shuang has no children, it can be seen that there is no perfect thing in the world.
There is also a big unexpected gain for Pu Jinzhong, Ren Shuang is not only a stunning beauty, but also has the skill of inner charm, Pu Jinzhong has not shared a bed with his original yellow-faced woman for many years, and other Mrs. Ru is even more disdainful.
It's just that after just a few sips of tea, Pu Jinzhong entered the time of the sage, and he didn't notice the resentment in Ren Shuang's eyes at all.
The sage naturally has to consider the sage's affairs in time, and for Pu Jinzhong, there is one of the biggest obstacles to attacking Jingdong East Road, that is, he occupies the two states of Huaidong Road and Suzhou, and has the two states of Huaixi North Road, Huaixi and Huaixi, and holds more than 100,000 troops.
Pu Jinzhong still understands Son Zhengyi, after all, he has been fighting Hu side by side for so many years, and there is still some friendship, Pu Jinzhong has never believed that Sun Zhengyi will really take refuge in the Hu people, as long as he gives huge benefits, Pu Jinzhong believes that when he attacks north, Sun Zhengyi will not come to pull his hind legs.
Sun Zhengyi's wife is a famous beauty, otherwise she would not have been able to give birth to a daughter like Sun Manqing, and the beauty plan will naturally not work, and when it comes to a person of Pu Jinzhong's status as Sun Zhengyi, gold, silver and jewelry will not be on the table.
Pu Jinzhong didn't care about the Huaidong Road and Suzhou Prefectures occupied by Sun Zhengyi, that is, the salient of Huaidong Road, and also faced Xuzhou and Kaifeng Mansion, the risk was too great, Pu Jinzhong was ready to send a messenger to see Sun Zhengyi, demarcate these two states from Huaidong Road, and report to the imperial court, making it clear that they belonged to Sun Zhengyi, but this had no practical significance, and was occupied by Sun Zhengyi.
Pu Jinzhong prepared 10,000 war horses, 100,000 stone grain, and divided the Huaidong Road Chuzhou facing Jianning to Sun Zhengyi, with only one condition, requiring Sun Zhengyi to make an alliance with him, protons each other, and not to do anything on Huaidong Road before he conquered the southern states of Jingdong East Road, after the war, if Sun Zhengyi was willing to advance and retreat with him, Pu Jinzhong would write to the court, and named Sun Zhengyi as the king of Huainan and himself as the king of Chu.
This condition is very favorable to Sun Zhengyi, Pu Jinzhong thought about it for a while, and felt that if it was himself, he would definitely agree, and the only thing to do was to fool Hachi who lived in Kaifeng Mansion.
To be rich is to be arrogant, Pu Jinzhong laughed smugly. Draw Chuzhou to Sun Zhengyi, Pu Jinzhong also thought about it, although it is a pity, but there is one biggest advantage that the Jianning Imperial Court's jealousy of Sun Zhengyi must be more than his own, and he will naturally go all out to target Sun Zhengyi, and his life on the side is much better, and this is only temporarily in the hands of Sun Zhengyi, when he is further stronger, the whole world is his own, Pu Jinzhong has this ambition.
As soon as Pu Jinzhong left, Ren Shuang began to wash up non-stop, eager to rub the skin off, how could she like Pu Jinzhong, who was loose and fat, not to mention, after all, he was rich, powerful and powerful, and he was of great help to the family, but your mother's three or two clicks were clean and slippery, what is the matter? Women with inner charm are in high demand in this regard, and they are at an age like flowers, which is not much different from widowhood.
Ren Shuang felt uncomfortable, so she went to Liu Qing, the personal maid sent by the family to serve her, to talk and relieve her boredom, and naturally said Pu Jinzhong between the words, although she would not say how Pu Jinzhong couldn't do it, but the dissatisfaction was still expressed.
As the commander of the Dieyi Division, how could Sun Manqing not care about Huaidong, who was close to his father, and the first layout was Huaidong.
Liu Qing is the child of a broken family in Huaixi, Sun Manqing's favorite thing is to find this kind of person, which is not only convenient to control, but also has family education, not a village girl in the countryside, she can't recognize a few big characters, and it's not convenient to do anything.
After more than a year, Liu Qing blended into Pu Jinzhong's house, and also approached the side of the favorite concubine Ren Shuang.