It was clear after the snow, and at the beginning of spring, the northwest elm bend was still ice and snowy, but Gu Zhilun was in a warm mood, just like a big stove burning in this room.

The trade route in the north was opened. From the elm bend across the Kaner River, it was all the deep in the Hulun Grassland. Gu Zhilun found several waves of Turkic merchants. Gu Zhilun was responsible for delivering the goods across the Kaner River. Turkic merchants got the goods in the Kaner River and paid the silver immediately. Both sides cleared the silver goods. Gu Zhilun only needed to give the other party a little profit, and the business went very smoothly.

The goods transported from Jiangnan are worth 100,000 taels of silver. After crossing the Kaner River, Gu Zhilun received a return of 300,000 taels of silver. Not only that, the cattle and sheep, animal fur, ginseng and other medicinal materials in the north, these medicinal materials are all scarce goods in Dakang, especially in Jiangnan. Gu Zhilun exchanged most of the silver for goods, and the goods were transported back to the capital, and the silver was converted into as much as 600,000 taels.

With a business, Gu Zhilun easily obtained 500,000 taels of silver. After deducting the huge amount of money he made in the early stage after he arrived in the Northwest, he still made as much as hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Moreover, once the trade route is opened, such business will continue to flow, and almost every month, you can deliver a batch of goods to the north. In this way, Gu Zhilun's annual profit will be as huge as millions of taels.

A million-dollar rich man can be obtained without any effort. Gu Zhilun never thought that he could go so smoothly on the road of business. Such wealth will not take long, and Gu Zhilun can even be compared with the richest man in Jiangnan!

Of course, from Gu Zhilun's perspective now, money is just a number. He can take out all the money he earns as long as Lu Zheng needs it.

Therefore, the military pay for Song Wensong of Yumu, the money spent on building the city walls of Yumu, and the money needed for Lu Zheng to recruit soldiers and buy horses, Gu Zhilun continued to provide them.

As long as Lu Zheng can go higher and higher, he will still be afraid that there will be no chance to make money in the future? Lu Zheng is just a small county magistrate now, and he has such energy in the northwest. If Lu Zheng can join the cabinet and become the prime minister in the future, will Gu Zhilun be just an ordinary businessman?

The four great masters of Jiangnan are now declining. If Gu Zhilun’s family wants to rise again, they will still have to pay attention to Gu Zhilun’s future!

After Gu Zhilun's business was done, Lu Zheng felt relieved. With the money in his hand, he was not panicked. Based on the terrain of Yumu County, Lu Zheng formulated two strategies.

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

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 100-man team and was also responsible for training Lu Zheng's new city defense camp. For a while, Yumu County was in full swing, and the civilians built the city and trained soldiers throughout the city. The new county magistrate Lu Zheng quickly won a good reputation in Yumu County.

The county magistrate Tang Guanping and Liu Ran who had dismissed Lu Zheng before, have long dared to be arrogant now. Seeing Lu Zheng's fierceness in killing people in Song Wensong's tent, how could they dare to underestimate Lu Zheng?

Besides, Lu Zheng and Song Wensong are now sworn brothers. Looking at the entire Yumu, Song Wensong is the first, Lu Zheng is the well-deserved second. Even the arrogant soldiers and generals in the army are now in Yumu and dare not make any mistakes, let alone those literati who are powerless?

No matter how powerful a conspiracy is, when encountering absolute power and violence, it often results in rapid disintegration. The close relationship between Lu Zheng and Song Wensong has led to the operation of Yumu as an independent kingdom.

For Song Wensong, he used this to get rid of the family's control over him, so that he no longer had to worry about his military power being taken away by his two brothers.

However, on the other hand, it also made Yumuwan absolutely isolated, and the Song family was more vigilant about Song Wensong's existence. His tens of thousands of elite soldiers were almost stripped from the direct line of the Northwest Army.

A suggestion from Lu Zheng to Song Wensong made Song Wensong embark on a road of no return. In the next year, Lu Zheng could be protected by Song Wensong without being under the pressure from the capital.

More importantly, Lu Zheng can show his talents freely in this small independent kingdom to make up for his shortcomings. Lu Zheng is good at knowledge, wisdom, and military affairs, so Lu Zheng reads military books, builds cities, trains elite soldiers, and learns riding and shooting in Yumu.

Throughout the winter, you can see Lu Zheng wearing a riding uniform and whipping the horse, galloping around. Learning to ride a horse and practicing martial arts, Lu Zheng's fine skin and tender flesh are gone, and in the bitter cold wind, Lu Zheng's powerful image is gradually created.

"Young Master, the first way to use troops is to scouts. If you have a clear ear and eyes, you will be calm in your heart. Today we will study the arrangements and arrangements of scouts!" The boy said seriously.

The boy learned from Mr. Yan and knew a lot about military tactics. These days, Lu Zheng’s daily learning and training should be arranged by the boy. Lu Zheng recruited soldiers and trained soldiers, and the boy also came up with a lot of ideas.

However, Lu Zheng still controls the main idea of ​​training! Although Lu Zheng was just a firefighter in his previous life, he was still quite concerned about the training of the army. He was unfamiliar with the army's battle formation, but how the army increased its cohesion and how to be strict and tightened, he was rich in experience.

Anyway, Lu Zheng took a city defense camp with more than a thousand people and was just practicing. He thought about it for a winter and the army had begun to take shape.

Of course, the real elite soldiers need to be tempered by war. At present, Lu Zheng’s city defense camp is still incomparable with the Thousand-man team under Song Wensong. The reason is that the city defense camp lacks practical training after all, and it will take some time.

Lu Zheng was training troops, and Song Wensong was training troops every day. He and the two brothers in his family have now completely broken up. The family has regarded him as a thorn in his eyes and stared at him. Under the huge pressure, Song Wensong attaches great importance to the tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands, so he tried his best to train.

After the battle at Qiaotan, he also understood that strength is the truth. Now, Yumu has torn the gap between the north and south business roads, and the money earned by the business roads can be used to support him. Under such conditions, he must become stronger as soon as possible and slowly expand his territory so that he can consolidate his strength and lay the foundation for his future battle for the northwest.

"Second brother, there is a saying that you said well. If I were not a concubine's son, but the legitimate son of the mistress, I would definitely not be as strong as I am now, and I might 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. Hehe, for me, there is no choice now, so I can only go all the way to the dark!" Song Wensong picked up the wine glass and raised the glass with Lu Zheng to drink.

The two of them now meet each other every now and then. For Song Wensong, Lu Zheng has greatly helped him, and for Lu Zheng, he also needs Song Wensong's opinions and suggestions in many aspects.

Song Wensong was known as the most powerful general in the northwest. He had his own unique skills in training and using troops. Lu Zheng was good at government affairs and managed the Yumu County in an orderly manner and smoothly unblocked the north-south trade routes. In a winter, the small Yumu County became a famous town on the border.

The trade routes between the north and the south are open in Yumu, which will inevitably attract businessmen from all over the place to gather here. With more people, businesses such as teahouses, restaurants, brothels, etc. are also rising. All of this is Lu Zheng's ability.

Therefore, the cooperation between Song Wensong and Lu Zheng can be said to be a combination of pearl curtains and complement each other. Song Wensong drank half-heartedly, and his tone was even more casual. He squinted his eyes and stared at Lu Zheng and said:

"I didn't see it. Second brother, you are a weak scholar, really have a strong aura. After a few months of experience, you have been riding and archery well. This is roughly the case. It's just that you have the ability to shoot archery. Your bow is too soft, and you're afraid it's difficult to defend against the enemy!"

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "Brother, the ice and snow will melt soon. I thought that once spring warms up, there will be war in the elm. At that time, I am afraid that it will be time for you and me to drink like this!"

"I'm afraid of it. If there's no war, I'm still feeling idle. Damn, I haven't been active all winter. I'm really fading out. I'm so eager to fight!" Song Wensong stood up and shook his fat arm, with a look of fanaticism in his eyes.

Lu Zheng sighed inwardly and admired Song Wensong a little. People like Song Wensong are real heroes in troubled times. Judging from the situation in front of him, it is very dangerous that Yumu is isolated by his own people in Longyou!

The Turkic soldiers from the north went south. As long as they attacked Yumuwan, it is very likely that Song Wensong could not wait for the rescue, so he would rely on these tens of thousands of people to resist the Turkic cavalry? That would undoubtedly be very dangerous.

Song Wensong knew all this well, but he was still not afraid. Lu Zheng felt ashamed of this warlike spirit.

Song Wensong stared at Lu Zheng and said, "Second brother, instead of waiting for death, it is better to take the initiative to attack and wait for the Kaner River to thaw. You are responsible for defending the city, I am responsible for attacking the Kaner River. Now I have a few battles on the Hulan Grassland to slash the opponent's spirit!"

Lu Zheng frowned slightly, nodded secretly, and he smiled: "I didn't expect that my brother has been thinking about this recently. It seems that you have a certain plan in your mind!"

Song Wensong laughed and said, "You can't hide anything from you! Come on, I'll withdraw the banquet. My second brother and I want to discuss the main business and military affairs!"

After evacuating the banquet, there was a sand table in the room. Song Wensong pointed at the rolling sand table with his finger and said, "Who said that there is no use for scholars? In the past, when we fought, we relied on scouts to explore the way, and fought wherever we went.

The second brother created this. My northwest, the Turks and even the Hulan grassland were all presented in front of me like real mountains and waters. Hehe, it’s really wonderful…”
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