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Chapter 843 News from the Northwest!

The situation in Liangzhou was not one-sided because Song Wenjie had the upper hand. At the critical moment, Ouyang Xiashui, the number one strategist under Song Wenhua, made a contribution, allowing Song Wenhua to reverse the situation. Originally, Song Wenjie had a good hand, which was enough to allow him to get everything in one hand and solve all the problems.

However, the result was contrary to his wishes. Song Wenhua took the lead in returning to Liangzhou, and through this incident, he exposed Song Wenjie's intentions very thoroughly, completely exposing Song Wenjie's fox tail. Such exposure was an unbearable weight for Song Wenjie.

First of all, it is clear how powerful Song Wenjie is in the northwest. Compared with Song Wenhua, Song Wenjie can almost mobilize all the troops in the northwest. He has endured himself secretly for so many years. In fact, there are so many civil and military officials and generals secretly being caught by him. This is just a little uneasy. This kind of uneasiness is not only Song Wenhua, but even Song Naifeng.

Song Wenhua returned to Liangzhou from Shatian County, and this retaliation was a survivor. He fully realized that compared to Song Wensong, who was weak and ambitious, his elder brother Song Wenjie was much more terrible. Song Wenjie had enough power to take the Northwest for himself. If Song Wenjie could be decisive and decisive, he could even directly take all the power of the Northwest in his hands this time, and Song Naifeng could be forced to abdicate because of this. This was terrible.

Therefore, for Song Wenhua, his ideology was like a hamster moving, and overnight moved to the side of how to deal with his elder brother Song Wenjie. Song Wenjie could not lose any rice. The key is that Song Naifeng pulled a slut after parting, which made his situation instantly subtle.

In the Shatian County, he had to order all actions to stop completely, and in the Liangzhou side, he had to start dealing with all kinds of open and secret arrows from Song Wenhua. Overnight, the two brothers broke their faces and started a life-and-death battle.

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After a whole day of busy life in Shengjing and Lu Zheng, he almost collapsed on the chair. There are too many things happening in Liaodong recently.

In a deserted land in Liaodong, Lu Zheng raised more than 100,000 cavalry, and Liaodong, which had just passed the war, was devastated. If we follow the military strategy, Lu Zheng could only send troops to the Central Plains quickly and then occupy the two rivers of the Central Plains. This is the way to survive.

But Lu Zheng has been baptized by modern civilization and knows that water can carry boats and can also overturn the boats. In this case, using Liaodong's resources to launch a war that is not sure of victory is completely a war, so stabilizing Liaodong is Lu Zheng's first priority at the moment.

The government affairs in Liaodong need to be re-purposed, and the administration in Liaodong needs to be re-established. More importantly, Lu Zheng needs to embody and balance the various interest groups behind him.

Therefore, Lu Zheng wanted to install all the disciples and descendants of Jiangnan into the entire Liaodong. In feudal society, this was almost something that rulers must master. Lu Zheng had ignored this before, so although he could repeatedly turn danger into safety, he always encountered traps.

Lu Zheng is a time traveler, but now he understands that all attempts that transcend the times and transcend the productivity at that time will definitely cost a huge price. Therefore, Lu Zheng chose to gradually integrate into this society and into the culture of the feudal rulers. This is the only way for Lu Zheng to win!

For Lu Zheng, the biggest difficulty now is that the economy and output of Liaodong are incapable of supporting the cavalry and army under Lu Zheng.

In this chaotic era, Lu Zheng could not disarmament. In order to make the grain, grass, money and money in Liaodong run normally, Lu Zheng has tried all his best. In this operation, Lu Zheng has continuously strengthened the reconstruction and expansion of the Xuanjingsi. On the other hand, it has given Gu Zhilun greater power, allowing Gu Zhilun to recruit more merchants at the lower level and use merchants to open up the trade channels between the north and the south.

Lu Zheng needs food from the south, and the northern Yan also contains huge wealth. If he stands at the national level or at the level of the lords and heroes of Lu Zheng's side, it will be difficult for him to communicate with Jiangnan and get what he needs from Jiangnan.

For Beiyan, it was very difficult for Lu Zheng to reach a consensus with the Beiyan court, so that the good things from Beiyan would flow continuously to Liaodong. Therefore, if you want to communicate between the north and the south, the best way is to use the omnipresent group of merchants.

In the civilized era, there is a saying, "If a merchant has 50% profit, it will take risks; if a merchant has 100% profit, it will dare to trample on all human laws; if a merchant has 300% profit, it will dare to commit any crime or even risk his head being thrown." Among them, trade between the north and the south is enough to make the merchant group take the risk of beheading, because this is a matter of huge profits.

Many years ago, Beiyan and Dakang were actually in a feud. The trade between the two sides had long been cut off. However, even though there were large armies stationed on the border, the private trade had never been cut off for so many years. In the face of huge interests, there would always be people who dare to take the risk of beheading and engage in the most dangerous things. If these people are unable to kill, they are like bamboo shoots after the rain, and they will immediately grow a batch, and will never end.

What Lu Zheng is doing now is to use his power to completely integrate these profit-oriented businessmen, support them to take risks behind their backs, and Lu Zheng leans all his resources and power towards them. They even have a powerful team of spies in the north and south trading roads to serve them.

There are thousands of merchants like this, and these merchants are divided into groups of three or five. Some are in Kyoto of Northern Yan, and some are in Jinling of Jiangnan. The Eight Immortals show their magical powers across the sea, and they are good at dancing in these places, making friends with powerful people, and using all the means they can be used to loot specialties from all over the place from these two places. Then secretly transport these things to Liaodong through a huge transportation team supported by the Xuanjing Simi spy, or transporting the output from Liaodong to these two destinations.

Such operations may seem insignificant at first glance, but a small amount of accumulation becomes a lot, and a mountain of soil becomes a mountain. It is precisely because such trade supports the slow recovery of Liaodong society and restores vitality step by step. In addition, it also ensures that more than 100,000 people, more than 100,000 people, money and food are continuous, giving Lu Zheng the opportunity to accumulate energy and rest.

In history, Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty's earliest strategy to seize the world was to build high walls, accumulate grain, and slowly become king. At that time, these three sentences were worshipped by countless historians in later generations, believing that these three sentences were the key to Zhu Yuanzhang being able to stand out among the numerous separatist armed forces and finally achieve the hegemony of the emperor.

Lu Zheng once thought so. After knowing that he had experienced all these things himself, he realized that the so-called Nine-word Mantra was actually overrated.

Just like the current situation of Dakang, who is a fool? Who doesn’t know how to build high walls and accumulate grain? But look at how many of these princes and heroes can fulfill their wishes?

Let’s talk about Cao Weiming, who is currently weak, who has just become king. If Cao Weiming can stand firm in the entire Central Plains and have the stable strength of the Central Plains, will he also become king? The answer is probably not necessarily.

Cao Weiming was the king of the king, so he wanted to make a short promise to unite the civil and military officials and generals under his command. If he didn't do this, the two rivers would soon be divided.

Let’s talk about the accumulation of grain. In terms of Lu Zheng’s current situation, even if he uses all his strength, he cannot guarantee that he and his tens of thousands of troops can fill his stomach. Not to mention that he can accumulate food, he will burn high incense if he can barely make a living. How could he still have surplus food?

There is also the matter of becoming the king. Lu Zheng is now also a prince. Although he was granted by the emperor and is very orthodox. In fact, it was not until now that Lu Zheng realized that this prince's identity was of great effect.

If Lu Zheng has the status of a prince, he can build a royal palace in Liaodong. Although the royal palace is small, it can also be as complete as an imperial palace. If Lu Zheng wants to purge Liaodong, he cannot have households, officials, rituals, labour, punishment, military affairs, etc., and cannot have the Dali Temple, Honglu Temple and other yamen.

Lu Zheng has so many supporters and so many powerful families. Without these positions, he can't even place all of these people! Therefore, it's easy to be a king, but the actual situation is often much more complicated.

As for building high walls, it is even more impossible. Lu Zheng's situation of leaking wind from all sides of Liaodong cannot be changed. He has no way to choose his opponent because he may face challenges from his opponent at any time.

In the Central Plains, he needs to deal with Tan Lei and Cao Weiming. In the northwest, he has to guard against the Song family. Shandong is weak, and Huaiyang and Jiangnan may send troops north at any time.

What made Lu Zheng even more wary of the north is that the regime of Northern Yan has become increasingly stable recently, and the balance of victory and defeat between their emperor and empress has shown a huge tilt, and the empress dowager's lineage has taken the initiative to fully control it.

Now, due to the clarity of internal troubles, their attitude towards Dakang has also changed subtly. Liaodong is the front line of facing Beiyan. Once Beiyan wants to cause trouble, Lu Zheng will be the first to avoid it. In this case, how can Lu Zheng build a wall? Could it be that he still has the strength to build a magnificent Great Wall on the border like the Qin Empire back then?

Throughout history, all written in the Spring and Autumn Period brushwork are written. The real history is much more complicated and profound than the history recorded in the history books. Lu Zheng has done his best to clean up Liaodong to this point. He lives in great pain every day!

"Boy, can't you let me take a break? Look at how tired I am in the day, how many things I need to deal with! You are still causing trouble for me here!" Lu Zheng opened his eyes and saw the boy, and couldn't help but complain.
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