Qian Song

Chapter 23
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What a coincidence, the person Li Cun is going to borrow grain tomorrow is Yu Yancheng, the biggest landlord here in Bangyuan Cave.

There are four main reasons why Li Cun chose Yu Yancheng.

The first reason is that Yu Yancheng, who is also engaged in maritime trade, is the richest person in Bangyuandong, and even the entire Qingxi County.

In this regard, Li Cun, who has a special understanding of the maritime merchant community, is absolutely convinced.

As far as Li Cun knows, many maritime merchants in Quanzhou are worth several million dollars.

Li Cun's original owner, Wang Chaoyi's family, has been engaged in maritime trade in Nanyang for more than ten years, and has earned [-] million yuan.

What is the concept of [-] million coins?
At the peak of the Northern Song Dynasty, the annual fiscal revenue was only 6000 million yuan.

In other words, the assets held by Wang Chaoyi's family were almost two years' worth of fiscal revenue in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The real wealth is invincible!
Li Cun had heard of Yu Yancheng before, and knew that his net worth was at least a million dollars, which was far from being comparable to that of Fang Youchang's family.

If Li Cun can defeat Yu Yancheng's Zhuangzi, then Li Cun will basically have the money and food for the Eastern Expedition.

The point is that Fang La chose a bad time for the uprising.

A few years ago, when Tong Guan went to Liao as an envoy, he met a man named Ma Zhi. Ma Zhi offered Tong Guan the strategy of "joining Jin to destroy Liao".

After Ma Zhi returned to the Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji changed Ma Zhi's name to Zhao Liangsi, and officially launched the strategy of "joining Jin to destroy Liao".

After Zhao Liangsi, Hu Yanqing, Ma Kuo and many other people went to the Kingdom of Jin many times, Song and Jin formed a "sea alliance" and agreed to jointly destroy Liao.

The Kingdom of Jin had captured Shangjing, the capital of the Liao Kingdom not long ago. In addition to the previous capture of Tokyo and the five capitals of the Liao Kingdom, the Kingdom of Jin had already occupied two of them.

Today, the Kingdom of Jin is preparing to attack Zhongjing in the Liao Kingdom.

According to the agreement of the "Alliance on the Sea", Zhao Song should send troops to attack the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and cooperate with the Kingdom of Jin to destroy the Kingdom of Liao in one fell swoop.

In order to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun that their old Zhao family dreamed of recovering, Zhao Ji gathered the most elite 15 Western troops of the Zhao and Song Dynasties to the Daming Mansion in Beijing, and planned to send them to the north to unite Jin to destroy Liao and recover Yan after the new year. Cloud sixteen states.

These 15 Western troops are not only the elite of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, they are also equipped with a full range of armored horses, food and grass.

The waterways of Damingfu in Beijing extend in all directions.

If the 15 western troops traveled by water, they would be able to reach the southeast in less than ten days.

At this stage, the reason why the 15 Western troops have not gone south is not because they do not have the conditions to go south, but because no one has taken Li Cun and Fang La's uprising seriously.

Once Li Cun or Fang La make a big disturbance, the 15 Western troops will soon be able to sail south to quell the chaos.

So there is really not much time left for Li Cun.

Under such circumstances, Li Cun mowed his family to make money for food, and the result was that before Li Cun could beat him out, he would be made dumplings by the western army and the southeastern landlords who had been eager to move.

Therefore, Li Cun could only pick the biggest ones, lay down a few, and when he had enough capital for the Eastern Expedition, he immediately started the Eastern Expedition.

And Yu Yancheng fully meets this condition.

The second reason is that Yu Yancheng has a ship that Li Cun particularly wants.

Li Cun made a lot of rooster cars.

However, in order to ensure that the Huben army has sufficient supplies and make it easier for the Huben army to march eastward, Li Cun will definitely need a large number of ships to transport people and supplies.

Looking at Qingxi County, the only person who can provide Li Cun with so many ships is Yu Yancheng, a sea merchant.

Therefore, Li Cun had to beat Yu Yancheng even if it was nothing else but for the large number of ships in Yu Yancheng's hands.

The third reason is that Yu Yancheng deserves to be killed.

Yu Yancheng was born as a water bandit, and when he was doing maritime trade, he especially liked to rob his fellow shipmates. He had robbed the merchant ships of Wang Chaoyi's family several times, and Li Cun even experienced it himself once.

It can be said that Li Cun and Yu Yancheng have old enemies.

Moreover, Yu Yancheng is extremely vicious, bully men and women and do all kinds of evil, so his reputation here in Qingxi is extremely bad, even worse than Fang Youchang.

If Li Cun took down Yu Yancheng's Yujiazhuang, it would be regarded as revenge, and it would be regarded as eliminating harm for the people, and it would also give Li Cun a good reputation.

The fourth reason is that during the recent period, Yu Yancheng gathered Li Hao to defend the evil country song and defeated Fang La's people many times. He seemed to be a stumbling block for the rebel army to march eastward.

Things are like this.

Not long after the uprising succeeded, Yu Yancheng called together a lot of landlords and formed a team, which he claimed was not only to avenge their ally Fang Youchang, but also to jointly protect themselves.

After the people had assembled, Yu Yancheng said to the landlords, it's better to take advantage of Fang Shisan's unsteady footing and dampen his spirit first.

The other dozen landlords knew that Yu Yancheng, who was born as a water bandit, was very good at fighting, so they all agreed with Yu Yancheng's proposition.

So, Yu Yancheng took the landlord's armed forces and took the initiative to attack the rebels.

Because the landlords led by Yu Yancheng had a complete set of armed soldiers and horses, and there were many brave peasants under him, while the rebel army had soldiers but no armor, and it was just a group of peasants who had just put down their hoes.

As a result, Yu Yancheng won several games in a row - Fang Wu, Fang Qi, Lu Mai and others who had just debuted had all been defeated by Yu Yancheng.

That is to say, Yu Yancheng had too few troops before, and the rebel army had a large number of people, so Yu Yancheng didn't dare to go too deep, otherwise, Yu Yancheng might have wiped out the rebel army without waiting for the western army to go south.

In this case, if Li Cun defeated Yu Yancheng, Li Cun's position in the rebel army would rise in a straight line.

As for the last reason, that is, Li Cun planned to propose marriage to Fang La after defeating Yu Yancheng.

Yes.

Li Cun is a jerk.

But Li Cun is a bastard with a bit of conscience and a bit of bottom line.

Fang Baihua brought Li Cun a considerable amount of "dowry" when Li Cun was in the most difficult time, and helped Li Cun last for several days. She also gave Li Cun her pristine body. It is too unreasonable not to marry her.

Therefore, Li Cun prepared to marry Fang Baihua's Ming Meizheng back after defeating Yu Yancheng's Yujiazhuang and demonstrating his own strength, and annexed Fang Baihua's army by the way.

In short, Li Cun is ready to attack Yujiazhuang.

No, Li Cun has not gone to fight Yu Yancheng here, but Yu Yancheng is going to fight over there first.

in fact--

It is not accurate to say that Yu Yancheng is coming to beat Li Cun.

To be precise, Yu Yancheng was actually preparing to wipe out all the rebels.

In other words, Li Cun is only one of Yu Yancheng's goals.

Ordinarily, in this case, Li Cun could actually choose to sit back and watch the tigers fight, letting Fang La and Yu Yancheng continue to fight, and Li Cun waited to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

But Li Cun's money and food have really bottomed out. The key point is that Li Cunzhen doesn't have time to play these narrow-minded things, and then loses the big because of small things.

So Li Cun decided to send troops to fight Yujiazhuang.

Li Cun, Fang Baihua and Zhang Shigang returned to Huben Army, Fang Jing came to find them.

As soon as the two sides met, Fang Jing gave Fang Baihua a look of resentment.

Since Fang La has been busy expanding the army and studying the reform of the Yuan system these days, and Yu Yancheng is always making trouble, so Fang La doesn't pay much attention to Li Cun and Fang Baihua who are far away.

As a result, Fang La didn't hear about the scandal between Li Cun and Fang Baihua until the last two days.

At first, Fang La was determined not to believe it.

My own sister knows it by herself.

Fang La is 100% sure that Fang Baihua is not that kind of lascivious woman, how could she have an affair with Li Cun in just a few days?

But later, more and more rumors about Li Cun and Fang Baihua spread, and some people even rumored that Fang Baihua had already secretly married.

Only then did Fang La take this matter seriously, and then sent someone to investigate, only to find out that Fang Baihua had lent all of his money and food to Li Cun, and the army had also been handed over to Li Cun for training.

Only then did Fang La realize that the scandal between Li Cun and Fang Baihua might be true, and she became furious, and then wanted someone to call Fang Baihua back to punish and remove Fang Baihua from military power.

But just at this time, someone came to report that Yu Yancheng would come to attack them tomorrow.

One trouble after another, Fang La couldn't help feeling a little overwhelmed.

Fang Fei thought for a while, and suggested to Fang La: "How about letting Li Cun fight Yu Yancheng, and I'll make plans later depending on the situation?"

Fang La felt that Fang Fei's move was very good at driving away wolves and tigers, so she asked Fang Jing to order Li Cun to fight.

After Fang Jing looked away from Fang Baihua, he said to Li Cun domineeringly: "My brother ordered you to fight Yu Yancheng. If you win, you are not allowed to lose. If you lose, my brother will deal with you!"

This is a bit of a bully, Fang Wu, Fang Qi, and Lu Balang have all been defeated, and Fang La has never used military law against any of them. How come it is Li Cun's turn? If he loses, he has to deal with Li Cun?

When Niu Meng and others heard the words, they all glared at Fang Jing, implying that "as long as Li Cun gives an order, they will kill Fang Jing on the spot".

Li Cun glanced at Fang Baihua, who also had a displeased look on his face, and said with a smile, "Go back and tell Brother Thirteen, I will dispatch troops sometime as appropriate."

"Discretionary? Find another day? Li Cun must be afraid of Yu Yancheng and dare not fight!"

Fang Jing, who firmly believed in his guess, not only despised Li Cun's cowardice, but also angered Li Cun for daring to disobey orders!

But Fang Jing has already noticed that if he talks nonsense again, Niu Meng and others may kill him.

"A good man never suffers from immediate losses."

Thinking of this, Fang Jing flicked his sleeves fiercely, and said: "I will definitely report what you said to my brother truthfully!"

After speaking, Fang Jing turned around and left.

When Fang Jing left, Li Cun put away his smile and immediately ordered: "Cook the meal immediately and prepare to go out!"

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(End of this chapter)