Fu Song

Chapter 457
Yang Quan's respect and fear for Xiao Cheng are directly proportional to the times.

When Xiao Cheng first arrived in Qianzhou, Yang Quan just regarded him as a friendly friend.

Yang Quan, who was thrown to Qianzhou by his family as a proton because of his reckless temperament, did not expect at that time that his fate would change dramatically because he met Xiao Cheng.

Xiao Cheng slapped Ma Liang, the magistrate of Qianzhou, and gained real power in Qianzhou. Yang Quan admired him.

Xiao Cheng carefully planned and conquered Dushan, Sanshui and other places, making Qianzhou extend his hand into these prefectures for the first time, which made Yang Quan's eyes shine.

Then, with the help of Dushan and Sanshui's tentacles, Xiao Cheng slowly revealed his minions. This time, even Yang Quan was taken aback.

In just two years, all of the more than forty Jimi states under Qianzhou fell into the hands of Xiao Cheng.Some were defeated, some were overwhelmed by the situation, some cooperated through negotiation, and some joined voluntarily because of a connection of interests.

The methods are different, but one thing is the same, these people have all become Xiao Cheng's subordinates.

And because Yang Quan has been following Xiao Cheng for the past two years, he has risen in the family along with the growth of Xiao Cheng's power.

Xiao Cheng at this time has already won the absolute respect of Yang Quan.

And then, they destroyed the Luo Palace Kingdom, swallowed the Luo Kingdom, and planned to take down the three-way barbarians in Syria. Song's youngest pacifier.

Yang Quan was already afraid of Xiao Cheng.

If he didn't think in the past that Xiao Cheng could do it, if it was him, he might be able to do it if he worked hard.

But at this point, Yang Quan has already deeply realized the gap between the two of them like a natural moat.

He was completely overwhelmed.

He also completely became Xiao Cheng's follower.

And in the process of Xiao Cheng's growing power, Yang Quan also completed his transformation.

Yang Qing put his treasure on the son he was not optimistic about before, so he did not hesitate to abandon the eldest son he had carefully cultivated for many years.

Yang Quan, who just passed his thirties, is now the prefect of one of the six prefectures on Guizhou Road. With the addition of the Patriarch of the Yang family in Bozhou, he is now one of the core leaders and joint directors of Guizhou Road. One of the core figures of the meeting.

But Sizhou Tian Yi, who seemed to be more valued than Yang Quan at the beginning, gradually fell behind to Yang Quan in the process.

It's not that Tian Yi is not strong, but that the Tian family has never made up their minds to follow Xiao Cheng in this process. Compared with Yang Qing, Tian Chou, the leader of Sizhou, has lost the chain in this regard.

So up to now, Tian Yi can only serve in the yamen of the appeasement envoy, while Yang Quan has already controlled one side by himself.

And this gap, I am afraid that as time goes by, it will become bigger and bigger.

Cautiously trailing Xiao Cheng by half a shoulder distance, Yang Quan accompanied Xiao Cheng, walking slowly on the embankment, the guards and staff were far behind by more than ten steps, so as not to disturb the conversation of these two.

It has been Xiao Cheng's seventh year in this land.

He was only eighteen years old when he arrived.

It is now twenty-five.

For Xiao Cheng, he has experienced too much, but for others, the twenty-five-year-old comforter is still unprecedented, and, I am afraid that he will never come again.

"Dali is playing very lively now." Yang Quan said with a smile: "It's just that I didn't expect that Gao Yingxiang could really hold on. He has been fighting for eight months. Although he is extremely embarrassed, he still hasn't collapsed!"

Since Gao Yingxiang led the frontier army to launch a counterattack to today, the two sides have been fighting fiercely for eight months.In Xiao Cheng's plan, Gao Yingxiang should soon be unable to hold on.Because Dong Xian won the support of key state capitals after controlling the central government, and more importantly, he controlled a considerable number of family members of the frontier army, especially the families of officers.

Like the Song Dynasty, most of Dali's officers were from general families.

After the plan to defeat Dong Xian in a quick battle failed, Gao Yingxiang fell into a predicament.

There are more and more people who betray him, and the territory he can control is getting smaller and smaller.

The reason why he can still survive to this day is because the generals under Dong Xian's command are too stretched, and their combat experience is far inferior to Gao Yingxiang. Second, the Gao family has been in charge of the Dali regime for many years, and Yu Ze has not been exhausted.

But as time passed, the common people gradually hated the war to the extreme, and the people were determined, and they didn't want to fight anymore, and the support Gao Yingxiang received was decreasing little by little.

Dong Xian also began to boldly use those frontier generals who had betrayed Gao Yingxiang to fight back against Gao Yingxiang.

These guys who regained the military power have rich combat experience, and they are more ferocious to Gao Yingxiang than the original generals who commanded the army.

Today, Gao Yingxiang is already struggling.

"Hurry up, this winter, he should ask us for help." Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "Otherwise, he won't be able to survive this winter."

"So, Dali will soon become Yunnan!" As the core figure of the joint council, Yang Quan naturally knew Xiao Cheng's plan for Dali.

Xiao Cheng laughed loudly: "I hope to finish these things next year, and then I can focus on other things. Time is not waiting for me, I always feel that there is not enough time."

"Futai is still so young, how could he not have enough time!" Yang Quan laughed.

"I really don't think it's enough. The Liao Kingdom is so aggressive!" Xiao Cheng stopped, stretched out his hand to brush away the weeping willows in front of him, looked at the slowly flowing river under his feet, and said, "The construction of Zhongjing is about to be completed. Let the emperor of the Liao Kingdom complete the integration of the five capitals, and the next step must be to march south."

"So, we need to strengthen our strength as soon as possible, and then we can go north to fight against the Liao Dynasty?" Yang Quan took a deep breath: "Futai, given our current situation, even if we have the king of Xinqin, Bianliang, he will not let us go!"

"You think too much!" Xiao Cheng sneered: "Based on the way that Bianliang is doing now, once the Liao people go south in a big way, if Hebei can't defend, the Liao army will probably go straight in and come directly to Tokyo!"

Yang Quan opened his mouth wide: "This, is this unlikely?"

"Isn't it possible?" Xiao Cheng chuckled: "Do you know? Wang Jun, the deputy governor of Hebei Road, was escorted to Beijing."

"Wang Jun? He was Director Xiao's former deputy, right? I heard that he is also a good military officer. Didn't Ma Xing, the pacifier, rely on him for all matters such as military training and deployment in Hebei? Why did he suddenly fall from power? ?”

"Wang Jun is my elder brother's deputy, and he is not clean by nature." Xiao Cheng said: "The imperial court was suspicious of him. If it weren't for Ma Xing's support, he would have collapsed long ago. In the past two years, the Liao army has Big and pervasive, in order to consolidate the border defense, Wang Jun's methods became more and more intense, and finally touched the vital interests of the rich gentry and many officials on Hebei Road. These people joined forces to take him down. This time, Ma Xing couldn't protect him either. The best result is also the end of being dismissed from office."

"Man, in this life, I really have to follow the right person." Yang Quan sighed: "If Wang Jun hadn't left Director Xiao, he would be under one person and above ten thousand in the northwest now. In prison, the future is uncertain."

"I'm too lazy to care about Wang Jun's personal situation." Xiao Cheng said, "But now that he's gone, Hebei's frontier defense is probably going to be a sieve. Ma Xing and Zheng Xiong don't have Wang Jun's deep knowledge of Hebei's defense. Even if the two of them want to do something, under the cooperation of those local snakes in Hebei, the two of them will probably be stuck in a quagmire, and it will be difficult for them to move forward."

"If that's the case, what should we do if the Liao people call?"

"What should we do? Naturally, we will be defeated for thousands of miles, lost in Hebei, and the countless cavalry of the Liao army will be able to approach Kaifeng in an instant. Then we will regret that we will have nowhere to go." Xiao Cheng said: "The reason why I am in a hurry is that I It's because I'm worried that I don't have enough time, and the Liao people are calling, but I'm not ready yet. The Liao people are putting all their efforts into the whole country, but I still only have this road right now."

"There will be three roads soon!" Yang Quan said: "Dali is about to start, and the situation of Cen Futai on Guangnan West Road is still not fully opened. It is only a matter of time before surrendering to Futai. At that time, the council will completely control these three places. Afterwards, with the ability to caress the platform, it will be possible to turn the tide."

"When the building is about to fall, it cannot be easily restored. What we have to do is to survive first, and then to fight back." Xiao Cheng pointed to the boats passing by on the river: "This is my year. Over the years, why have you put more thought into the Inland River Navy.”

Xiao Cheng's worries were considered unfounded by many people in the United Council.

Because Xiao Cheng told them that once the Liao Kingdom launched a war against the Song Dynasty, the Song court might not be able to sustain it at all, and the north would collapse in an instant.

In a place with an open area like the north, it is difficult for the Song army to fight against the Liao army.

Once it really came to this point, what Xiao Cheng wanted was to stick to the south first, and use the unique geographical conditions in the south to repel the Liao Kingdom.The water system in the south is well developed, and the Liao people are weak in this area.

Therefore, like before, Xiao Cheng presided over the large-scale road construction, and advocated the development of the land force first. The focus of the next few years is to build a powerful inland navy capable of controlling the southern waters.

Since the beginning of this year, there have been as many as dozens of shipbuilders transferred from the Leizhou Naval Base alone.

The Leizhou Navy base and shipyard build sea-going ships and train ocean-going sailors.

On the other hand, the Wujiang navy and shipyard in Zunyi build inland river boats and train inland river sailors.

One is for the future,

One is for the present.

The two stood on the embankment, looking at the large area of ​​water under their feet and the rows of densely packed houses in the distance.

Over there is the shipyard and naval camp.

"What do you think of Jiang Xiong?" Xiao Cheng asked Yang Quan with a smile, "We made great efforts to lure this man from Jinghu."

"Very cautious." Yang Quan said: "The key is that he can convince those seasoned shipbuilders, which means that he is an expert. As for the future, we will have to wait and see. Yang Quan dare not speak nonsense."

Just as he was talking, he saw a boat on the surface of the water heading straight for here from the pier.A group of guards following the two of them got off the embankment immediately, and the remaining ones also approached the two of them, watching the boats coming up the river vigilantly.

Yang Quan said: "I sent someone to inform Jiang Xiong to come to visit Futai. What does this guy want to do?"

"Maybe he wants to see me. He has been in Guizhou Road for half a year, and I haven't seen him yet! I know his weight, and he probably wants to find out about me too!"

"It's very courageous."

"If you're timid, how can you be the leader of the army?" Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "The guy who shrinks his head and tail can't do anything big. The Jiang family where Jiang Xiong lives is also famous in Jinghu. People who drink water, there is not only such a family who plays with water, there are people who walk in the white way to mix in officialdom, and there are also people who follow the underworld to mix in the rivers and lakes, this guy is in the underworld to mix in the rivers and lakes."

Yang Quan was stunned: "Futai, why did you find a thief to build our Inland River Navy? Since there are still people in the Jiang family in the Jinghu Navy, we can definitely poach those people!"

Xiao Cheng said indifferently: "The key is that this Jiang Xiong is more powerful. This person was born in a concubine branch of the Jiang family and can only follow the underworld, but this person is also interesting, probably because he is not angry that his future is doomed early, so he got out In the future, he will let those direct descendants of the family suffer from him one by one on the surface of the water."

"Is there such a thing? Wouldn't this make the Jiang family angry? Don't deal with him?"

"Of course we have to deal with him!" Xiao Cheng said: "The subordinates who bribed this guy only caught this guy. He was going to beheaded in the ancestor's ancestral hall. Our people talked about it and sold a lot of favors to Jiang Home, we will bring people here."

"The Jiang family let him go?"

"The head of the Jiang family is also knowledgeable. In fact, deep down in his heart, he wanted to kill this guy. After all, this guy is really capable. But it is not okay to break the rules of the family, so once our people go, other people have After reaching the steps, he went down the trend. Not only did he use Jiang Xiong to earn some benefits for the family, but he also let this guy out of his life. In the future, if Jiang Xiong had a future, he would be considered at odds with the family, but it might not be Jiang Xiong. Are you a child?" Xiao Cheng said.

When it comes to these big families, Yang Quan is very familiar with them.

After his eldest brother failed to compete with him for the position of patriarch, he angrily led his family and some confidants to leave Bozhou and Guizhou Road. How about going out and creating another situation?

What if Yang Quan loses following Xiao Cheng?
In the past, members of the Yang family were not allowed to leave Bozhou, but now they have no such scruples. The court wants all the members of the Yang family to leave!

"The head of the Jiang family is also a character. After we walk out of Guizhou Road, we really want to get to know each other!" Yang Quan said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)