Wang Qiang followed Liu Jing to Huang's shipyard today and was greatly shocked. He never expected that Liu Jing, a layman, would order fifteen ships at once, three of which were huge ships. , and judging from what he said, the number of ships will continue to increase in the future.
He absolutely does not believe in such nonsense as running Jiaozhou and selling goods from north to south. But it is not wrong to say that Liu Jing has different intentions. Now Zhang Xian is sitting in Jingnan, commanding ships and sterns, with more than a hundred fighting ships and tens of thousands of armored men. With a solid foundation, Liu Jing would only have crazy thoughts if he was crazy.
Wang Qiang was thinking wildly when he suddenly heard the conversation between Liu Jing and Liu Zhu. Will all fifteen boats be handed over to Liu Zhu?
Wang Qiang has been in contact with Liu Zhu for a long time, and he knows that he is a very thoughtful and scheming person, but he knows nothing about things on the water.
Wang Qiang thought his chance had come.
Sure enough, Liu Jing pointed at him and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, just learn slowly. Besides, didn't I find a helper for you?"
Wang Qiang said without hesitation: "Liu Jun has saved the villain's life. The villain only hates that he is incompetent and has no chance to repay Liu Jun's kindness. Now that Liu Jun will not regard the villain as despicable and entrust him with a heavy responsibility, the villain will do his best." Try your best to assist Liu Wenxiu and not let Liu Jun down."
Liu Jing smiled and said: "Zijian has said so, Wenxiu, please don't hesitate any more."
Liu Zhu glanced at Wang Qiang and clasped his fists in agreement.
Liu Jing nodded with satisfaction and looked at Ma Zhou again. Before he could speak, Ma Zhou said with an embarrassed look on his face: "Mr. Liu, I'm not used to water, so I will never get on the boat."
Liu Jing smiled bitterly and shook his head. He only found out about this recently. As a true Jingnan native, Ma Zhou was actually a landlubber. This was as ridiculous as the Huns not knowing how to ride a horse.
However, Liu Jing had no intention of letting Ma Zhou board the ship. He already had a case in mind. Ma Zhou might not want to be Cai Sheng's subordinate because of his face, but he could not control the matter.
Liu Jing sought the position of Sima of another department for Cai Sheng, with the clear purpose of raising private soldiers.
In addition to Ma Zhou, Liu Jing is also planning to send several members of the Liu clan in.
This has nothing to do with trust or not. Liu Jing knows Cai Sheng very well. He is definitely the kind of person who "repays a drop of kindness with a spring of water". The problem is, if he receives a drop of kindness from Zhang Xian in the future, what will happen to him? If one of them lives and dies with Changsha, then Liu Jing will draw water with a bamboo basket but in vain.
So he must ensure that this team is under his control from the beginning.
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Liu Zhu and Wang Qiang will be very busy in the next few months. Liu Jingtong and Liu Jingtong parted ways and returned home together with their younger brother Liu Liang. Under Liu Liang was a brown Nanzhong pony.
This horse was naturally given by Liu Jing. He paid great attention to the younger brother from the neighboring family. Not only did he give him swords and horses, but he also taught him how to read in his house every night. He did not ask him to become a doctor of Confucian classics, as long as he could read "Three Classics" "History", "Zuo Zhuan" and "Sun Tzu's Art of War" can be understood clearly.
Liu Jing originally wanted to add "Poetry" and "Li", but Confucius said: "If you don't learn poetry, you can't speak; if you don't study etiquette, you can't stand." However, Liu Liang didn't like reading at all, so he added more to "Poetry" and "Li". He had no interest, and Liu Jing did not want to force him to study, so he had to give up.
It's a coincidence that as soon as Liu Jing arrived home, Deng's slaves came all the way to the house, as if they had discussed it.
Liu Jing sat in the hall, opened the letter from Deng You, the "cheap father-in-law", and looked at it for a long time.
This time, we really want to remove the word "cheap" from Deng You.
At the end of last year, Deng You mentioned in his letter that he hoped that the two could get married this year. Liu Jing felt that Deng Yuan was only sixteen years old, which was a bit young. On the other hand, he was only a hundred-stone official and married a daughter of the Deng family in Nanyang.
There is inevitably some lack of confidence.
But these issues were obviously not problems in Deng You's eyes, and Liu Jing had no reason to object.
After Deng You obtained his consent, he decided to set the wedding day in September this year, leaving him half a year to prepare.
Lai Ci was still wearing plain clothes and a bun. She looked at Liu Jing with her beautiful eyes and said with emotion: "In a blink of an eye, Zhongda will also get married."
Liu Qun leaned sideways in his mother's arms, raised his little face and asked Liu Jingdao: "Sir, do you want to marry me an aunt?"
"Yes." Liu Jing smiled and nodded. After two lifetimes, he was finally getting married. "Hutou, are you happy?"
Liu Qun looked at Liu Jing in confusion, nodded subconsciously and said, "I'm happy."
Liu Rao asked out of curiosity: "Brother, is my sister-in-law cruel?"
Liu Jing couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this: "Ali, why are you worried about this?"
Liu Rao said: "I heard that the Deng girls in Nanyang have bad tempers."
Liu Jing suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, and asked: "Who did you listen to?"
Liu Rao pushed Liu He beside him and sold his brother without hesitation.
Seeing Liu Jing's eyes turning to him, Liu He hesitated and said: "The Deng family in Nanyang gave birth to two queens. The emperor and empress abolished the eldest and established the younger, and had monopolized power for many years. The emperor and empress Huan died of arrogance, jealousy, and melancholy. Both of them had bad personalities.
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Liu Jing was startled when he heard this. Liu He was not talking nonsense.
"Deng Yuan's character..." Liu Jing recalled and thought: "She seems to be a bit strong. But based on my understanding of her, she is a good girl who is both smart and kind. When she gets married, she will definitely treat her family well.
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Thinking of this, Liu Jing smiled and said, "Aruo, Ali, don't worry, your sister-in-law will love you more than me."
"Really?" Liu Rao's big eyes were full of expectation.
Liu He curled his lips secretly, he didn't believe that anyone in this world would treat him better than his brother.
Stepmother Zhang said: "Zhongda, the Deng family is one of the most powerful families in the world. There will be many people to marry you. I think your west room should be renovated."
Liu Jing nodded and said, "Mother, what you said makes sense. The house has indeed not been repaired for many years. Since it needs to be repaired, we should simply renovate the inside and outside of the house."
Repairing the house was just a trivial matter, but now all his thoughts were focused on finding another commander for Cai Sheng.
In order to enhance his persuasion, Liu Jing gave Cai Sheng a large sum of money before and asked him to gather more than a hundred Linxiang Rangers and evil boys to buy swords and clothes for them. Cai Sheng led them in groups all day long.
, swaggering through the market, attracted great attention from the senior officials of Changsha County Government.
Cai Sheng was already well-known in Changsha. Last year, in a battle in the market, he captured the District Victory and District Heroes, which made the whole county of Changsha pay attention to him. Even Zhang Xian was very familiar with him. The reason why he was not recruited was because he was concerned about the District family's face.
Secondly, compared to Liu Zong, Ou Xiong and other heroes, his power is weak. A mere swordsman, no matter how powerful he is, cannot have much effect.
Things are different now. Cai Sheng has gathered around him more than a hundred knights and evil boys. They are simply helping the tigers. Zhang Xian does not dare to let him go any longer, and recruitment follows.