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With means, money, of course, and extremely solid backstage, Yixingtang opened successfully in Luoyang. The two thick legs that Yixingtang now rely on are also the thickest thighs in the Tang Dynasty. Li Ze, the general of Qianniu Guard, actually governed several towns and ruled millions of people. The other thigh is Li Xin, the King of Fu, who is the actual controller of Luoyang.

Chengde opened the business road to Luoyang through Zhaoyijie Town. The goods from Chengde, Henghai, Zhenwu and other places arrived in Luoyang continuously along this business road. How to open up sales in a new place and then dominate the market? Yixingtang is familiar with it and can be easily picked up. On the day of its opening, a craze formed in Luoyang's market.

In this era of festivals and towns, the business roads were severely blocked. When one place wanted to arrive at another place, it was either taken away by others halfway, or it was subject to heavy taxes. When it arrived at the place, it would be good not to make money, so it would be good if it could not lose money. But now the opening of this business road has made Chengde's goods arrive in Luoyang smoothly. When passing Zhaoyi, Xue Kun only symbolically collected a little tax. This allowed Yixingtang's goods to be strongly competitive in Luo**.

When this craze was about to fade, Yixingtang's various promotional methods followed, extending the craze continuously.

When the craze completely subsided, Yixingtang had already gained a place in Luoyang, and Tu Hu became Luo's real-influential business tycoon, and various business invitations also came. All the merchants who could occupy a place in Luoyang were elites. Even if they didn't know the background of Yixingtang, they could only see that Yixingtang could open up such a business path and understand what was represented behind it.

Although the North is now in war, from another perspective, war means that local production has basically been destroyed. If your goods can be transported there and sold them smoothly, then the profit will obviously be more profitable than being distributed in Luoyang, and can even be described as huge profits.

War represents destruction, but for others, it also represents the ability to easily obtain more wealth.

But to obtain these, we need to have a strong partner in that area where wars are frequent, and now Yixingtang is obviously such a partner.

However, there are too many monks, and there are too many people who want to cooperate with Yixingtang. Obviously, Yixingtang does not need so many partners. If you want to successfully get on this line, it depends on your own ability. Of course, there is also a competition between the big guys behind your back.

For Yixing Shenzhen, the stronghold has been successfully established, and the rest is to deepen its cultivation. Tuhu must of course carefully choose his partners, because entering the south is also one of the tasks assigned by Li Ze to him.

While Tuhu was busy with all this, Li Ze and his group had already passed Tongguan and officially set foot on the land of Guanzhong.

The south of Guanzhong is leaning against the Qinling Mountains. The Wei River passes through it, and the world is rich and treasured, and the people are outstanding. There are natural terrain barriers on all sides, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Since the Warring States Period, there has been a saying of "the country of four barriers". Therefore, Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty used the "golden city thousands of miles" to summarize the advantages of Guanzhong to persuade Liu Bang to establish his capital. During the Warring States Period, Zhang Yi told King Hui of Qin that the "Lianheng" plan was to praise Guanzhong for "beautiful fields, rich people, tens of thousands of chariots, struggling to fight for hundreds of trades, fertile fields, and accumulating a lot of fertile land." He also said, "This is the so-called Tianfu, a powerful country in the world." This is more than half a century earlier than the Chengdu Plain obtained the title of "the country of Tianfu". This is because after the Zheng State canal was built in the Warring States Period, Guanzhong became a Fengshui treasure land with rich resources and built a capital of emperors.

But after hundreds of years of prosperity, Chang'an has lost the title of the Kingdom of Heavenly Prefecture and has been used as the imperial capital for a long time. The biggest side effect of the population is the large concentration. At this time, Chang'an gathered about two million people, and within the city wall alone, there were millions of people. The entire capital city covers an area of ​​84 square kilometers, which is quite terrifying data.

The daily necessities that need to be consumed in one day are unimaginable numbers for ordinary people. Even in Li Ze's original era, there were not many cities with a population of more than two million. This also led to the Guanzhong area not being able to feed so many people, so the huge amount of materials needed had to be transported from outside.

Once the passage of foreign materials is strangled to death, Chang'an will immediately fall into trouble.

More importantly, too many people and too large cities also bring too many difficulties to defense during wartime. Too much population does not mean that more soldiers can be recruited during wartime, because soldiers have to eat. Without food, too many people are a huge unstable factor.

In fact, during the Tang Dynasty, the defense forces of the entire Chang'an were scattered in the four passes, Dongtongguan, Xisanguan, Beixiaoguan, Nanwuguan, and Chang'an's defense systems were built based on these four passes. Once one of the four passes is broken, Chang'an will basically be unable to defend it.

The 200,000 Shen Ce Army, except for 50,000 stationed in Luoyang, the remaining 150,000 are basically distributed in Chang'an City and the surrounding four Guanzhongs. It sounds like a lot, but after it is scattered, there are actually not many in each place.

When Li Ze arrived in Luoyang, there were only more than 70 guards left by his side, but when he arrived in Tongguan, he was escorted by the three thousand Shence troops sent by the King of Fu Li Xin. When he arrived in Tongguan, the three thousand Shence troops affiliated with King of Fu handed out Li Ze and others, and the one who escorted Li Ze to Chang'an City instead of them became the Shence troops in Tongguan.

What surprised Li Ze was that what he was waiting to greet him in Tongguan was an old acquaintance he had known for a long time but had never met before, Chen Bangzhao.

At the beginning of the conflict between Chengde and Lu Long, the court planned to enter the northern Fan Town, Chen Bangzhao. Unfortunately, because of Li Ze's sudden emergence, Chengde quickly stabilized the political situation after his great defeat. In the subsequent counterattack, not only did it destroy Henghai and Zhenwu, but also suppressed Lu Long's Yingzhou, which made this strategy still die. It forced the court to change its course and win over Li Ze.

Putting aside these things, the ability of this person can be seen from the fact that the imperial court was preparing to send Chen Bang to the chaotic northern land at that time.

Now Chen Bangzhao is the general who is the official champion, and he is in charge of the 80,000 Shen Ce army in Tongguan and Wuguan. The main force is mainly stationed in the Tongguan area.

Tongguan is nominally a gate, but in fact it controls a considerable area and forms a defensive system with the Yellow River Ferry. Tongguan is located between Longmenjin, Pujin, Fenglingdu and Maojin in the north, and is the center of the entire defense system. It controls Tongguan and its surrounding gates. For the Guanzhong regime, it can effectively control Hedong and Heluo. If Tongguan is lost, Chang'an will inevitably be in danger.

The imperial court summoned Chen Bang to Tongguan, which was a considerable trust in him.

"General Chen, I have long admired Daqiu." Looking at the general who was not tall but had a strong face in front of him, Li Ze clasped his fists and smiled. The champion general, like his Qianniu Guard, was both a third-rank military position. Of course, when it comes to the court's trust in Chen Bangzhao, it is naturally not comparable to Li Ze, and the importance of Tongguan is more important than Chengde. But from another aspect, the one who can influence the overall situation of the world now is Li Ze, the general of Qianniu Guard. What Li Ze does can be said to be related to the survival of the Tang Dynasty court now. Although Chen Bangzhao commands the army, he can only defend and cannot attack.

Chen Bangzhao was also watching Li Ze. Sometimes it was really hard to explain his life experience. When he became the champion general, Li Ze was still unknown. At that time, few people knew the true identity of this person, but in just two years, Li Ze was not loud enough and made a big splash. He went from a white dick to the sky and became the governor of Henghai and the general of Qianniu Guard, and was on par with him.

Of course, Chen Bangzhao knew very well that in addition to having a good father, Li Ze was more of his own efforts. Gao Xiangsheng reported to the court in every detail about Li Ze's affairs.

Although he was so young, he was a truly powerful person.

Now this character has arrived in Chang'an obediently and sent his mother and wife as hostages, which makes Chen Bangzhao very pleased, because it means that Li Ze is still very loyal to the court.

In fact, when Li Ze set out to Chang'an, the merger of the three towns had become an unquestionable fact. Even if the court was not at ease with this position, it would have to give it to him, otherwise the situation in the north would inevitably change.

A powerful town is about to be born, and the owner of this town is a boy who is less than twenty years old.

This year, Li Ze is still only seventeen years old.

"Ship Li traveled across the north, destroyed the sea, swallowed Zhenwu, seized Yingzhou, galloped across the country, and was invincible. Chen was the real name he admired for a long time!" Chen Bangzhao said with emotion: "Since ancient times, heroes were young, and the ancients did not deceive me."

"It's time and momentum. Mr. Li just happened to meet him. General Chen praised him." Li Ze looked at the Shen Ce Army lined up on both armies with a smile. He looked strict and disciplined. He should be an army with strong combat effectiveness. But it is hard to say what happened. Because the Shen Ce Army in Chang'an seems to have not fought a war for more than ten years, the group that was once again resigned now, unlike the town below, you fight me today, and I fight you tomorrow, and the small-scale fight has never stopped.

"Li Shuai is going to Chang'an, and Chen will escort him all the way." Chen Bangzhao said with a smile: "Walking with Li Shuai, I happened to ask Li Shuai for advice."

"The General is going to destroy me. When it comes to military management, war, it is me, a young man, who is experienced in battle, that is right. To be honest, the general is about to face Zhang Zhongwu, and I feel very nervous!" Li Ze said with a smile.
Chapter completed!