Chapter 455： Sharpen the knife!

It was sunny after the snow, and at the beginning of spring, the northwestern Yumu Bend was still icy and snowy, but Gu Zhilun's mood was warm, just like a big stove burning in this room.

The business road in the north was opened. From Yumu Bend to the Kaner River, it was in the depths of the Hulun Grassland. Gu Zhilun found several waves of Turkic merchants. Gu Zhilun was responsible for sending the goods across the Kaner River. Turkic merchants were there. Kanerhe got the goods and paid the money immediately, and both sides cleared the money. Gu Zhilun only needs to give the other a little profit, and the business will go smoothly.

The goods transported from Jiangnan were worth one hundred thousand taels of silver. After passing the Kaner River, Gu Zhilun got 300 thousand taels of silver in return. Not only that, the northern cattle and sheep, animal skins, wild ginseng and other medicinal materials, these medicinal materials They were all scarce goods from Dakang, especially Jiangnan. Gu Zhilun replaced most of his silver with goods, and the goods were transported back to the capital, and the silver was turned into six hundred thousand taels.

For a deal, Gu Zhilun easily earned five hundred thousand taels of silver. Excluding the huge foreshadowing of his early days in the northwest, he still earned hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Moreover, once the business route is established, this kind of business will continue to flow. Almost every month, one can deliver a batch of goods to the north. In this way, Gu Zhilun's annual profit will be as large as several million taels.

A millionaire, it takes no effort to get it. Gu Zhilun never thought that he could go so smoothly on the road of doing business. Such wealth will not take long. Gu Zhilun can even be the first-in-one rich man in the south of the Yangtze River. It's on par!

Of course, from the perspective of Gu Zhilun now, money is just a number. He can use all the money he earned as long as Lu Zheng needs it.

Therefore, Yumu Song Wensong's military salary of tens of thousands of elite soldiers, the silver used by Lu Zheng to build the construction of Yumu and the construction of the city wall, and the silver required by Lu Zheng to recruit troops and buy horses, Gu Zhilun continuously provided.

As long as Lu Zheng can go higher and higher, he is afraid that he will not have the chance to make money in the future? Lu Zheng is just a small county magistrate now, and he has this kind of energy in the northwest. If Lu Zheng can join the pavilion to worship the prime minister in the future, will Gu Zhilun just be an ordinary businessman?

The four great people in the south of the Yangtze River are going downhill. The Gu family where Gu Zhilun is located wants to re-emerge, and Gu Zhilun will have to look after him in the future!

Gu Zhilun's business was done, and Lu Zheng felt relaxed. He had silver in his hand, and he didn't panic. According to the terrain of Yumu County, Lu Zheng formulated two strategies.

One strategy is to rebuild the city defense, and the second strategy is to build a city defense camp. At present, there is only one centurion team in Yumu County. After Feng Xuelin was killed by Lu Zheng, the centurion team lost its leader.

It just so happened that Liu Song came back from Shandong. He followed Cheng Hu to join the army. With some experience, Lu Zheng asked him to lead a team of one hundred people. In addition, he was in charge of training Lu Zheng’s new signs of the city defense camp. For a time, the city of Yumu County was in full swing. , The new county magistrate Lu Zheng quickly won a good reputation in Yumu County.

However, Tang Guanping and Bo Liu Ran, the county prime minister who had violated Lu Zhengyang's yin before, have long since dared not to be presumptuous. After seeing the fierceness of Lu Zheng's murder in Song Wensong's tent, where would they dare to despise Lu Zheng?

Besides, Lu Zheng and Song Wensong have now become worship brothers. Looking at the entire Yumu, Song Wensong is the first, and Lu Zheng is the second, well-deserved. The arrogant and powerful generals in the army are now behaved in Yumu. Don't dare to make trouble a little bit, let alone those literati who have no power to restrain the chicken?

No matter how powerful the conspiracy encountered absolute power and violence, the result was often the result of rapid disintegration. The close relationship between Lu Zheng and Song Wensong turned the area of ​​Elm into an independent kingdom.

For Song Wensong, he got rid of his family's control by this, so that he no longer had to worry that his military power would be taken away by his two brothers.

However, on the other hand, it also made Yu Muwan absolutely isolated. The Song family was also more vigilant about Song Wensong's existence. His tens of thousands of elite soldiers would almost be separated from the direct line of the Northwest Army.

A suggestion from Lu Zheng to Song Wensong allowed Song Wensong to embark on a path of no return. For more than a year, Lu Zheng can be protected from the pressure from the capital under the protection of Song Wensong.

What's more important is that Lu Zheng can freely show his talents and make up for his shortcomings in this small independent kingdom. Lu Zheng was better at knowledge, better at resourcefulness, and shorter than the military, so Lu Zheng studied military books in Elmwood, built fortresses, trained soldiers, and learned how to ride and shoot.

Throughout the winter, Lu Zheng could be seen galloping horizontally and horizontally in his riding uniform and spurring his horse. After learning to ride a horse and practice martial arts, Lu Zheng's delicate skin and tender flesh disappeared. In the freezing cold wind, Lu Zheng gradually formed a strong and capable image of Lu Zheng.

"My son, the way to use soldiers is primarily with scouts. If you know what you see and see, you can be sure of your mind. Today we will study the arrangements and dispatch of scouts!" The boy said seriously.

The boy learns from Yan Lao and knows a lot about the art of war. In these days, Lu Zheng's daily learning and training should be arranged by the boy, and Lu Zheng recruited soldiers and trained, and the boy also came up with a lot of ideas.

However, the main idea of ​​training soldiers is still controlled by Lu Zheng! Although Lu Zheng was only a firefighter in his previous life, he was still very concerned about the training of the army. He was unfamiliar with the battlefield of the army, but how to increase the cohesion of the army, how to be strict and tight, he has rich experience.

Anyway, a city defense battalion of more than a thousand people, Lu Zheng took it purely as a practice hand, he pondered for a winter, this army seems to have begun to take shape.

Of course, the real elite soldiers need to be tempered by the flames of war. At the moment, Lu Zheng's city defense battalion and Song Wensong's thousand-man team are still incomparable. The reason is that the city defense battalion lacks actual combat training after all, and it takes time.

Lu Zheng is training soldiers, Song Wensong is also training soldiers day by day, he and his two brothers are now completely torn apart, the family has regarded him as a thorn in the eye, staring at him in the flesh, under tremendous pressure, Song Wensong's opponents of tens of thousands of elite soldiers have changed. It is a training to value, and therefore desperate.

After the Battle of Qiaotan, he also understood that strength is the truth. Now in the area of ​​Yumu, the opening of the north and south commercial roads has been torn open. With the silver earned by the commercial roads, he can provide for him to raise soldiers. Under such conditions, he must as soon as possible. Become strong and slowly expand his territory, so that he can consolidate his strength and lay the foundation for his future dominance in the Northwest.

"Second brother, there is a saying that you said well. If I am not a concubine, but the son of the mistress, I definitely don't have the strength I am now, and I may not be able to lead tens of thousands of troops across the northwest.

Everything is forced out! People have the most potential and motivation when they are desperate. Hey, for me, there is no choice but one way to the dark! "Song Wensong raised his glass and toasted with Lu Zheng for a drink.

The two of them will meet every other day. For Song Wensong, Lu Zheng has given him a great help, and for Lu Zheng, he also needs Song Wensong's opinions and suggestions in many aspects.

Song Wensong is known as the No. 1 strong general in the northwest. He has his own unique skills in training and using troops. Lu Zheng is good at government affairs. He manages the county of Yumu in an orderly manner and clears the north-south commercial roads smoothly. A winter's scenery is small. The city of Yumu County has become a famous town on the border.

The north-south trade road is open in Elmwood, and it is bound to attract businessmen from all over the place. There are more people, teahouses, restaurants, brothels and other businesses are also booming. All this is Lu Zheng's ability.

Therefore, the cooperation between Song Wensong and Lu Zheng can be said to be a combination of pearls and curtains, complementing each other. Song Wensong drank half-heartedly with a more casual tone. He squinted at Lu Zheng and said:

"I didn't see it, your second brother, you are a weak scholar, you really have a strong momentum. You have practiced well in riding and shooting for a few months. Riding skills are roughly like this. It's just archery skills. Your bow is too soft, I'm afraid it will be difficult to defend against the enemy! "

Lu Zheng laughed and said, "Big brother, the ice and snow will melt right away. I think once the spring is warm, there will be war in Elm. I'm afraid it will be time for you and me to have fun and drink!"

"I'm afraid of being an egg, if there is no war, I would still feel idle. Fuck, I haven't had much activity this whole winter. The birds are really fading out. I want to fight a big fight!" Song Wensong stood up. , Shook his fat arms, and a pair of eyes showed enthusiasm.

Lu Zheng sighed secretly, admiring Song Wensong a bit. People like Song Wensong are truly troubled times. Judging from the current situation, it is very dangerous for Yumu to be isolated by his own people in Longyou!

The Turkic soldiers from the north went south. As long as they attacked Yumu Bend, it is very likely that Song Wensong could not wait to rescue the soldiers. He would rely on these tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry to fight hard? That is undoubtedly very dangerous.

Song Wensong knew these things well, but he still didn't have any fear. Lu Zheng was ashamed of this belligerent power.

Song Wensong stared at Luzheng and said: "Second brother, instead of just sitting and waiting for death, it is better to take the initiative and wait for the Kaner River to thaw. You are responsible for defending the city, and I am responsible for attacking the Kaner River. Now I am fighting a few battles on the Hulan Grassland to frustrate the opponent. The spirit!"

Lu Zheng frowned slightly, nodded secretly, and smiled with his palm: "Unexpectedly, my eldest brother is also pondering this matter recently. It seems that you have a plan in mind!"

Song Wensong laughed loudly and said, "I can't hide anything from you! Come, we have withdrawn this banquet. My second brother and I are going to discuss business affairs and military affairs!"

After withdrawing the banquet, there was a sand table in the room. Song Wensong pointed his finger at the undulating sand table and said, "Who said that nothing is useful is a scholar? We used to go to wars, and it was only by scouts to find the way, wherever we went, and where we went. .

My second brother created this. My Northwest, Turks, and even Hulan Grassland are presented in front of my eyes like real mountains and waters, hehe, it’s really wonderful..."

Song Wensong pointed to the sand table and continued: "This winter I sent five hundred scouts. I can say that I can understand all the areas we saw. Now let's talk about how we should send troops after the ice melts. This is this. At that time, I am afraid that many people are waiting for this spring. Hey, whoever will die depends on their own good fortune!"