In Ye Qing's plan, Yangzhou must be the rear of his future Northern Expedition, so that he can have enough supplies and so on to be continuously transported to the place he wants through Yangzhou's land and Haizhou waterways.

Therefore, for Yangzhou, Ye Qing naturally attaches great importance to it, of course, if there are other factors in this, that is, Yangzhou hundreds of years later, by the ethnic group from the same place, is once again more inhumane, and has been trampled on by ten days without sealing the knife, so this also makes Ye Qing more aware of the important position of Yangzhou in the southward strategy of the Jin people.

The prosperous Yangzhou is the water town in the south of the Yangtze River in the minds of many people, but the tragedy in the historical river also makes people's scalp tingle.

Suhu is familiar and the world is not only a thing that the Jin people clearly understand, but a folk proverb that even the Great Song Dynasty is very clear.

Although Ye Qing didn't know whether he could succeed if he participated in the Northern Expedition, at least what he had to do now was to count any possible situations into account.

But if he can win the victory of one city and one place, then for appeasing the hearts of the people or winning the hearts of the people, in addition to the spiritual food of the Zhao and Song clans, it is the real food that can really fill the stomachs of the people, so that he can get the support of the people in the shortest possible time after he succeeds in conquering the city.

Just like the so-called principle that soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, Ye Qing has always believed that the preparation for a war is even more important than the deployment of troops and the number of troops in a war.

Now it is the thirteenth year of Chunxi, and for Ye Qing, time is really tight for him, because he remembers very well that Zhao Gou died of illness in Deshou Palace in the fourteenth year of Chunxi, and he was disheartened because of Zhao Gou's death.

So for Ye Qing, if Zhao Gou really dies next year, then he can really look forward to the day when the clouds will see the sun, of course, the premise is that he will be able to survive when he returns to Lin'an after the first year, or perhaps, after Zhao Gou's death, he himself can still appease the envoy on Huainan East Road.

After Ye Heng, Bai Bingzhong and the trotting over, after the somewhat panting Zhao Shichun finished greetings, they all gathered on Ye Qing's body with everyone's eyes.

Looking at the dozen or twenty Yangzhou businessmen behind him, these people are all people who have contributed money and effort since the first flood in Yangzhou, and now they are called by Ye Qing today, in addition to thanking them for their righteous deeds, they naturally want to form a huge business empire with Yangzhou as the center.

Relying on the Yan family alone is completely insufficient to cope with the huge expenses in the future, even if he runs behind Yan Qingzhi's ass every day, but after all, relying on one family cannot support a huge business empire that Ye Qing wants.

The Chinese nation has never lacked shrewd and capable businessmen, but what it lacks is a unitary who can organize businessmen from all walks of life to form a larger interest group.

The Chamber of Commerce is completely foreign, but before the arrival of this imported product in China, although the businessman did not develop a real chamber of commerce organization, but with the wisdom of the businessman, he still developed a line organized by the same industry, and the leader or influential businessman will be elected as the leader, or the elder.

Now standing in front of Ye Qing is the head or elder of all walks of life in Yangzhou, in addition to the fact that Ye Qing has to come because of the appeasement of Huainan East Road, they are attracted by the huge interests that Zhao Shichun said.

Lin'an's soap, gouache, new candles, and even new things such as Po Li are already familiar to these leaders standing in front of them, and they naturally know the huge profits.

But no matter what they do in private, they can't make the same thing, so they can only watch these new things being monopolized by others and making a lot of money.

Now, when I heard that the prefect was willing to give them convenience in this matter because of their righteous deeds in Yangzhou, I naturally ran over happily and with anticipation, hoping to get a piece of the pie in front of this huge benefit.

One by one, the leaders introduced themselves in front of Ye Qing, and after everyone was introduced, Ye Qing would politely say a polite sentence such as long-term admiration and long-term admiration, and among the more than ten or twenty leaders, the one he valued the most was the blacksmith who was the head of the blacksmith with a lot of meat, in addition to the slender man, the boatman and the bricklayer.

Originally, he still valued the head of the cloth line, but because it was Yan Qingzhi, this line could be skipped by him.

Ye Qing's gaze swept towards Xin Qiji and Zhao Shichun, so the two of them immediately understood, and immediately got up and said, "Since Lord Ye has something important to discuss with them, I will avoid it first and go around this city wall." ”

With Xin Qiji's words and Zhao Shichun's words, Bai Bingzhong and Ye Heng, who didn't want to leave, still wanted to see what Ye Qing wanted to do, obviously they couldn't look at it justifiably, and seeing Ye Qing looking at the eyes of the two of them, they had no choice but to follow Xin Qiji to get up and leave together.

With the departure of everyone, the pavilion was still overcrowded, in addition to more than a dozen or twenty leaders, there were also Liu Keshi, Yang Huaizhi, and Chen Cishan, who were deliberately left behind by Ye Qing.

Ye Heng and Bai Bingzhong, who turned back three times in one step, watched Liu Keshi being left behind by Ye Qing, and their hearts were somewhat stable, in the eyes of the two of them, if the two of them wanted to know what Ye Qing talked about with those leaders today, it was enough to ask Liu Keshi.

Xin Qiji and Zhao Shichun looked at each other, looking at Ye Heng and Bai Bingzhong's demeanor, how could they not know what their minds were thinking.

However, Xin Qiji is not worried at all, in his opinion, even if Bai Bingzhong has a better relationship with Ye Heng and Liu Keshi, but Liu Keshi has been trained by Ye Qing, and then suddenly appointed today, I am afraid that at this time, in addition to being grateful to Ye Qing, there will only be a dead heart left.

Things that are easy to get will never be cherished, only in despair and see the person who gives you despair, when they reach out to you, presumably this gratitude, it is easy to turn into the word loyalty in a person's heart.

What's more, looking at the outfits of Liu Keshi today and the two of them that day, Ye Qing's words that day obviously hit the key point of Liu Keshi, otherwise he would not suddenly change from a sloppy literati to a refreshed scholar today.

Ye Qing's purpose is very simple, he wants to gather all these people together to form a large business group like the group with various commodity patterns in later generations, but as the so-called businessmen value profit over separation, if you want these people to really obey your orders, obviously only by virtue of his identity as a pacifying envoy and prefect, it is called a bandit to take it by force.

But fortunately, profit and prestige are not difficult for Ye Qing, he has both the officialdom support that these businessmen want, and the interests that these people want, so Ye Qing is completely sure of gathering these people.

What's more, he didn't plan to empty the white wolf, but really, sold the Po Li, soap, new candles, etc., which were monopolized by Li Fengniang, the Qian family, etc., such a huge temptation, so that some of the leaders who were still a little hesitant couldn't help but start to be tempted.

Of course, Ye Qing's sale was not to hand over all the methods to these businessmen from the beginning, in his opinion, this was unrealistic, not to mention, in this way, his own interests could not be guaranteed at all.

And the best way is to provide them with raw materials like suppliers in monopoly industries, or to give them as much convenience as possible in some other industry.

Whether it is maritime trade or land trade, as long as it can provide protection, the Huainan East Road Pacification Envoy will definitely be obliged to help, of course, some small remuneration is also indispensable.

But even so, for some industries, it is much more cost-effective to not only be able to reassure the appeasement envoys of Huainan East Road, but also to allow officials to provide them with protection on the way to trade, which is much more cost-effective than encountering robbers and other robbers on the road.

Here Ye Qing and businessmen from various industries are arguing and negotiating, but in the vast desert grassland thousands of miles away, where human beings are small, in the harsh environment of cold wind mixed with snowflakes, Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm are eager to tear off their sheepskin jackets, revealing their strong and sturdy chests and roaring a few times in the wind, in order to vent their victory in the first battle on the grassland.

"One hundred and seventeen were lightly wounded, thirty-four were seriously wounded, but most of them were leg. Any idea why? Zhong Silkworm wiped the blood on his face and asked.

"I almost fell off the horse, and the stirrups caused trouble." Mo Xiaobao said angrily.

"It seems that you are not stupid, but I admire you very much, the first time you fought against a tribe of nearly a thousand people on the grassland, I didn't expect you to perform no worse than me." Zhong Silkworm said this, although he praised Mo Xiaobao from the bottom of his heart, but in Mo Xiaobao's ears, it was not like that, and he always felt as if he was inferior to him before.

"If I have been on the grassland for a few years, Zhong Silkworm, what do you think is the matter with you? That's what you did for me. Mo Xiaobao touched the horse's neck, and the hot feeling made him know very well in his heart that it was really dangerous to march and fight with only one war horse in his crotch: "You said that if you ask Her Royal Highness the princess for some more war horses, will she give them to us?" ”

"I think...... Let Lord Ye be better, we will always be cheated by her. Zhong Silkworm touched the arms of the sheepskin jacket, and then spread his hands and said: "Anyway, my silver and so on were taken away by her, and she left this thing called bullet given by the adult, and she said that she didn't dare to ask for this." ”

Mo Xiaobao looked at Zhong Silkworm's dejected appearance, and the joy of winning the battle disappeared in an instant, his head drooped, and he said pitifully and pitifully: "The gloves that Jin Se sewn for me have been taken away by Her Royal Highness the Princess, if you want a war horse, I'm afraid you will have to sell Lord Ye to her." ”