162 Yangzhou
When he learned that Zhou Qing from Xuzhou suddenly rose and restrained a large number of enemy troops on Jingdong Road. Pu Jinzhong, the appeaser of Huaidong Road in Yangzhou, was finally moved.
Three years ago, the Lianshui army was defeated by Menghu and completely retreated to the Huai River. Pu Jinzhong lost an important salt-producing area, Haizhou. The salt industry, silk textile industry, is the economic pillar of Huaidong. Although there are other salt-producing areas, Pu Jinzhong still feels heart-wrenching.
Pu Jinzhong is only in his early forties and still has ambitions. He can dominate Huaidong for so many years, so he naturally has outstanding abilities.
Compared with Jingxi Road, which has been war-torn for many years, Huaidong Road has much stronger economy, population and trade. Yangzhou is also a world-famous fireworks place, and its prosperity can be imagined.
Pu Jinzhong had a long-term vision. He knew that the Jianning court, who was across the river, had never expected the court to support him. However, no matter how he prevented it, he could not stop the Jiangnan people who wanted to do business and make a fortune. So he vigorously developed commercial trade and supported by the salt industry, silk textiles, and developed Yangzhou into a world-famous north-south trading center.
Pu Jinzhong even established a naval army. It was difficult for the naval army to fight on the Huai River, and it was inconvenient to go to the Yangtze River. There were also naval archers from the court eyeing it. However, Huaidong was near the sea, and Pu Jinzhong was the real overlord on the sea. Maritime trade had reached Silla and Japan, and occupied many islands outside the sea. If you take a step back, it was Menghu who occupied the entire Han area. Pu Jinzhong was still the overlord on the side, so Pu Jinzhong was very confident.
Pu Jinzhong saw Lin Jianyue's rise, especially Lin Jianyue was named Queen Yan by the imperial court. He was really jealous and crazy. He felt that he was no worse than Lin Jianyue... Well, it might be worse than Lin Jianyue's war, otherwise it would be impossible for so many years, with the economic and military strength of Huaidong Road, he still lived in Huaidong without any progress.
Xuzhou suddenly became in chaos. Pu Jinzhong saw the opportunity. The 100,000 troops on the east and west Jingdong Road were restrained and did not dare to go south easily. Jingdong East Road only had 60,000 cavalry, and there were tens of thousands of Han people and infantrymen. He held nearly 300,000 troops of the two armies of Gaoyou Lianshui, and there were 80,000 cavalry. Pu Jinzhong was confident that he would defeat the enemy troops on Jingdong East Road. Not to mention occupying all Jingdong Road, Pu Jinzhong was not so brave either. However, he was still confident in regaining Haizhou to occupy the Shandong Peninsula in the south of Jingdong East Road. It was not that threat to Menghu, but it was crucial to his maritime development strategy.
The most important thing is that Lin Jianyue from the west of Beijing is now ahead. With Lin Jianyue's strength, he must be Li Chongshan's number one confidant. Before Lin Jianyue was defeated, he was absolutely safe. There are not many opportunities like this now.
Pu Jinzhong also had an indescribable thought, which was in the Kong family in Qufu, Yizhou, Shandong Peninsula. With the current nature of the Kong family, as long as they control them, they would have some great reputations, and then use money to open the way in Jianning, and have military victory as a prelude to it. What's wrong with imitating Lin Jianyue to be the king of Huai?
Pu Jinzhong hummed a small song and came to Ren Shuang's room. Taking over Ren Shuang was the most proud thing Pu Jinzhong did in his life.
Ren Shuang is the two beauties in the Central Plains who are as famous as Sun Manqing. It is just because of the emperor and Masayoshi Sun, and his fame is not that great. Ren Shuang's father used to be just a big businessman who is very good at sea 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 Navy. Ren Shuang's brother Ren Xiong is the commander of the cavalry. Naturally, it will be natural to occupy Ren Shuang. The control of the army under his command can be strengthened, killing two birds with one stone. It is a pity that Ren Shuang has never had children, which shows that there is no perfect thing in the world.
There was another unexpected gain for Pu Jinzhong. Ren Shuang was not only a stunning beauty, but also had the art of charming inner beauty. Pu Jinzhong had not had a bed with his original yellow-faced woman for many years, and other ladies were even more disdainful.
But after just a few sips of tea, Pu Jinzhong entered the sage time and did not notice the resentment in Ren Shuang's eyes at all.
The wise man naturally has to consider the affairs of the wise man. For Pu Jinzhong, there is another biggest obstacle to attacking Jingdong East Road, which is that he occupied the two Huaidong Road, the two states, the northwest Jingxi Road, and the two states, Huaixi Provinces, and holds more than 100,000 troops.
Pu Jinzhong still knows Son Masayoshi. After all, he has been fighting against Hu side by side for so many years, and there is still some friendship. Pu Jinzhong has always not believed that Son Masayoshi would really surrender to Hu people. As long as he gives huge benefits, Pu Jinzhong believes that when he attacks north, Masayoshi will not pull his back.
Son Masayoshi's wife is a famous beauty, otherwise she would not have given birth to a daughter like Sun Manqing. The beauty plan would naturally not work. When it comes to people with status like Pu Jinzhong, gold, silver and jewelry, etc., they will not be able to make it to the forefront.
Pu Jinzhong didn't care about the two prefectures of Huaidong Road occupied by Son Masayoshi, that was the prominent part of Huaidong Road, and faced Xuzhou and Kaifeng Prefecture directly. The risk was too great. Pu Jinzhong was preparing to send envoys to see Son Masayoshi, divide the two prefectures from Huaidong Road, and report to the court to make sure that they belong to Son Masayoshi, but this has no practical significance and was already occupied by Son Masayoshi.
Pu Jinzhong prepared 10,000 war horses and 100,000 stones of grain. He divided the Huaidong Road and Chuzhou, which faced Jianning, and gave Sun Masayoshi. There was only one condition. He asked Sun Masayoshi to make an alliance with him and pronounce each other. He did not attack Huaidong Road before he captured the southern prefectures of Jingdong Road. After the war, if Sun Masayoshi was willing to advance and retreat with him, Pu Jinzhong wrote a letter to the court, conferring Sun Masayoshi the King of Huainan and the King of Chu himself. Pu Jinzhong thought about it himself, so he would not have to do anything to Sun Masayoshi.
This condition was very generous to Masayoshi Son. Pu Jinzhong thought about it from the perspective of others and felt that if it were him, he would definitely agree. The only thing he had to do was to fool Haci, who lived in Kaifeng Prefecture.
Being rich means being arrogant, Pu Jinzhong smiled complacently. Pu Jinzhong also thought about it. Although it was a pity, the biggest advantage was that the Jianning court's guardianship and hatred towards Son Masayoshi must be more than him, so he will naturally do his best to target Son Masayoshi. It would be much better for him to live next to him. Besides, this is just for the time being in the hands of Son Masayoshi for the time being. When he becomes stronger, the whole world is his own. Pu Jinzhong has this ambition.
As soon as Pu Jinzhong left, Ren Shuang began to wash and wash her skin around, wishing she could rub it off. How could she like Pu Jinzhong, who was loose and fat? Not to mention this, after all, she is rich, powerful and has a great help to the family, but your mother is clean and clean in just a few seconds. What's the point? Women with charming people have a strong demand in this regard and are at the age of a flower, which is not much different from being a widow.
Ren Shuang felt uncomfortable, so she went to find Liu Qing, the personal maid who came to her family to serve her, to relieve her boredom. She naturally said to Pu Jinzhong during her words. Although she couldn't say why Pu Jinzhong couldn't do it, she still expressed her dissatisfaction.
As the leader of the Butterfly Elementary Department, how could Sun Manqing not care about Huaidong, which is close to his father? The first one to plan was Huaidong.
Liu Qing is a child of a destitute family in Huaixi. Sun Manqing’s favorite thing is to find such people, which are both convenient for control and family education. She is not a village girl and foolish woman. She can’t even recognize a few big words, so it’s not convenient for anything to do.
Chapter completed!