Chang Yu is not a god, he is just a common man who wants to eat, drink and have sex. At this time, he was pouting in a farmland not far from the shore market, and soon he was bitten by several big ones on his buttocks.
Bao, when he was cursing these ubiquitous mosquitoes, he heard a broken gong yelling: "Why don't you run away to my vegetable patch, that scoundrel?"
Chang Yu looked up in surprise and saw a woman not far away pointing at him and yelling at him.
Although he was shameless, but like this... he suddenly turned red but still said vehemently: "Wouldn't it be nice to give you some fertilizer on your vegetable plot?"
"Let's take a look at your mother. Don't run away, you idiot..." The woman picked up the branch and rushed over. Chang Yu had never seen such a scene before. He picked up his pants and ran away. From a distance
When the guards saw this, they rushed over and shouted at the woman...
Mom sells batches... The dignified governor of the East Factory was actually being chased and ran away with his pants! Chang Yu was washing his hands by the canal and cursing non-stop. He turned around and saw Wu Zhong winking and laughing in a low voice.
Suddenly he became angry again: "If word of today's incident spreads, I will kill people and silence them."
Li Muxian and others quickly held back their laughter and looked around: "What's going on? What happened today?"
"It's okay. Is it going to rain again?" Chen Wangting and others also started performing...
Xuzhou is one of the nine states in ancient China. It is also called Pengzu because Pengzu was granted a state here. It is a famous hometown of emperors. It is said that the emperors of the nine dynasties were born in Xuzhou. It is also known as the hometown of Pengzu, the hometown of Liu Bang and the former capital of Xiang Yu.
In addition, it is a must-win place for all dynasties, and its strategic location is extremely important. At this time, it belonged to Southern Zhili, and it was one of the four Zhili prefectures under its jurisdiction with 14 prefectures.
As an important town in the north of the Yangtze River, Xuzhou has always been relied upon by the imperial court. At that time, the great warlord Gao Jie was stationed here. A few months ago, he was ordered to go north to King Qin, and now he is on his way to triumph.
But Chang Yu arrived in Xuzhou before him.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal turns around more than ten miles north of Xuzhou and goes eastward, heading straight east to Pizhou and continuing southward via Suqian. But if Chang Yu wanted to go to Xuzhou City, he would have to disembark.
As an important town that the Grand Canal passes through, Xuzhou Pier is also surprisingly large. Even at dusk, you can see that the waterfront is full of people and boats.
Looking at the endless rows of cargo ships on the shore, Chang Yu said proudly: "There must be our food here."
As early as ten days ago, Octopus's grain ship had been notified and was passing through Xuzhou on standby, and had people prepare to build a grain and grass base near the dock. Now it should be in progress step by step.
After landing on the shore, Chang Yu calmly went to a tea shed to rest, while Kuang Ren went to find out if any soldiers and horses had passed by recently.
"Yes, yes, yes. The day before yesterday, hundreds of cavalrymen came from the north. They fought fiercely with the Jiaolong Gang, and then fought with the heroes from Shahushan... Tsk, tsk, tsk, the so-called strong dragon cannot suppress the local snake.
, I have been running along the canal for so many years, and I have never seen any officers and soldiers who are so superior to human eggs. In just a few days, they have offended all the forces on the ground."
Um... Kuang Ren was speechless. Lao Jiu and his brothers from the Black Wolf Camp all grew muscles by eating gunpowder. Even if the local snake doesn't offend them, he will look down upon others. If he offends them... ugh.
"What does winning a human egg mean?" Kuang Ren was a little confused.
"It means he is very arrogant and domineering, which means he can lift him up." Wuzhong came over at some point.
Kuang Ren smiled, no, no one of the four battalions of Dongchang is a loser: "I dare to ask my fellow villagers, where are those losers?"
"We are stationed in Luotai Village in the west. I heard that we will be negotiating with Shahushan and the Jiaolong Gang in the next two days. Hey, what are you doing?"
"Oh, we are with that gang of victorious people." After Kuang Ren said this, he laughed, and the people in the tea shed were stunned and speechless.
Kuang Renze continued to ask: "Let me ask, what are the Jiaolong Gang and Shahushan Gang doing? Why do the Shengrendan Gang want to fight with him?"
The person who spoke looked around and said, "The Jiaolong Gang lives in Xuzhou, and the Shahushan Gang lives in the mountains. As long as you pass through this area, you should respect them both whether on land or by water."
"Home, otherwise you won't be able to move forward. You understand, they are local snakes. It's not just about defeating the human egg to get a platform. It's also okay if the officers and soldiers are just passing by. But if you want to cause trouble, then you must obey the rules at the dock."
Kuang Ren frowned after hearing this: "Fellow, let me listen to what you say. Those victorious gangs had a conflict with these local snakes because of some trouble?"
"No way." The fellow's eyes widened: "I heard that he stood up for a merchant on the water..."
Kuang Ren understood in his heart, and looked back at Chang Yu, only to see a smile on his face, and asked Li Muxian next to him: "Does the saying that a strong dragon does not overwhelm a local snake hold true in the world of martial arts?"
"It depends on whether it's one dragon or a group of dragons." Li Muxian chuckled, and the side's Su Jing eyes widened: "It won't work here."
Chang Yu ignored her and then said with a smile: "Who is the biggest local snake in Xuzhou?"
Everyone laughed.
Of course it’s Gao Jie!
Luotai Village is a small village close to the west bank of the canal. Chang Yu and his party went there on horseback after asking for directions. Naturally, there was a lot of discussion about them in the tea shed.
The summer night was extremely hot. Chang Yu was still sweating with his arms open. Lian Xin in the car couldn't bear the sweltering heat and got out: "Master, I want to ride a horse." Su Jing rode to the side of the car and reached out to lift her up to an empty horse.
Up, everyone watching cheered.
"This Xuzhou is mostly plains. Why has it become a battleground for military strategists when there is no danger to defend?" Li Muchian muttered in boredom. Chang Yu glanced at him: "And it is also a famous Yellow River flood area. It is flooded at every turn. It's impossible to do anything.
Do you understand why its strategic location is so important?”
"Isn't it?" Li Muchian scratched his head, and Chen Wangting next to him joked: "Isn't the Taoist master omniscient?"
"Master Chen, why did you learn so badly from that guy?" Li Muchian rolled his eyes, and everyone laughed.
"Has Taoist Master Yifang ever heard of a saying that a general must guard the Huai River, and a general guarding the Huai River must guard Xu?" Chang Yu thought for a moment and said.
Li Muchian shook his head.
"Have the Taoist Master ever heard of the sentence in Bai Juyi's "Song of Love": Bian water flow, Si water flow, flowing to the ancient ferry of Guazhou. Wushan nodded."
Li Muxian's face turned red: "I am a poor Taoist with little talent and little knowledge. I have heard it before, but I don't understand it. What does this have to do with it?"
Now that the relationship is over, Chang Yu smiled slightly. Putting the two sentences together, to put it simply, the important thing about Xuzhou is not its topography but its geographical location. Its waterway runs from north to south and is an important water supply hub for the Grand Canal. It is also a land transportation hub. Pengcheng and Xiapi
Control the land and land transportation lines, and you can go up to the Yellow River in the north, go down to the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers in the south, and go into the Central Plains in the west.
The north and south of the Huaihe River are collectively called the Lianghuai. The Lianghuai area in the southeast of Shandong is often a battlefield between the Central Plains and the Jiangnan.
There have been confrontations between the north and the south many times in history. Whenever this happened, the Jianghuai area was usually occupied by the Jiangnan regime, while Huaibei was often captured by the Central Plains regime. Both sides of the Huaihe River were the main battlefields for the tug-of-war between the North and South regimes, while Xuzhou was
Bearing the brunt of the attack, it became an important town that both sides must capture.
Once the south breaks through the Huaihe River, it must go north to take Xuzhou and stabilize the two Huaihe Rivers first. Xuzhou can take the Central Plains to the west and Shandong to the north. This is what Xiang Yu did.
Lu Meng once said that Xuzhou is "the main point of Xu and Luo Jin". Wang Xuanmo, a famous general in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, also said that "Pengcheng is the main point of both water and land". Whoever controls Xuzhou will control the hub that goes north to the Yellow River, south to the Huaihe River, and west to the Central Plains...
Chang Yu talked eloquently, and everyone who listened was amazed. Li Muxian claimed to know everything, but when he saw this little eunuch could quote scriptures with just his mouth, he was surprised and convinced, secretly claiming to be surprised. What is his origin?
"Who is it, stop!"
Just then, there was a shouting sound from ahead, and it turned out that he had arrived at the village unknowingly.
"One of our own" Kuang Ren shouted: "The little governor is here, tell Lao Jiu to get out!"