Dongting is in the water, Yueyang is in the stairs.

However, for Ding Jian, who had been traveling for a long distance, this famous building in the world is not very attractive to him now. Standing on the embankment, he just looked back at the majestic and magnificent building, and then went straight onto a boat and went all the way.

More than ten years ago, he came to Yueyang Tower. At that time, he was a famous and romantic figure. He not only had a good family background, but also had outstanding talents and handsome appearance. He had many beautiful women. No matter where he appeared, he was always the center of everyone. He was proud of the young man and realized that there were very few talents in the world who could compare with himself.

Now that time has passed, the energetic young man of the past has long disappeared. Instead, he is a middle-aged calm man with a dark face and neat beard.

After six years as an official in the north, Ding Jian's changes were too great.

The officials under Li Ze's command are completely different from those in other places. Their personal experience is their most basic quality of being an official. The behavior of officials like the south, which basically does not do serious things and entrusts all major and minor matters to officials. Under the rule of Li Ze in the north, they cannot be seen at all.

If you really dare to do this, you will be dismissed from office and dismissed within a few days of custody.

Compared with the changes in appearance, Ding Jian's inner changes are even greater.

At the beginning, he was extremely dissatisfied with Li Ze's series of thunderous methods. Li Ze sent him to Yizhou, allowing him to witness with his own eyes how Yizhou was reborn and had a new look under the new policy. In Yizhou, Ding Jian witnessed the amazing power burst out by the people there.

Then, he was transferred to Hezhong by Li Ze, which was still under the rule of the old forces. Ding Jian wanted to carry out his ideal political reforms so that Li Ze's new policies could be perfectly integrated with the old powerful forces. After a few years of hard work, he failed completely. In the end, he had to raise his butcher knife.

In both places, Ding Jian served as a landlord, which also made him fully understand what Li Ze said. If an old world is not broken, a new world will not come.

If you break the old world, you will inevitably lose the interests of those vested interests today, cut off the way for people to make money, and kill your parents. How could those people be willing to tie them up? Therefore, the knife is inevitably raised.

The Tading clan is the biggest vested interests in the Jinghu area.

This time he came back to let the Ding ship change its course, otherwise one day, he would be flooded by the tide of the times.

He did not think that the fake beam could stop Li Ze's steps.

I don’t think that the Nanxingcheng can cause much trouble to Li Ze.

If Li Ze wanted, the soldiers and horses from the north could defeat all the enemies standing in front of them. However, Li Ze was unwilling to pay too much for this. He was more willing to adopt a relatively gentle way, a way of killing fewer people, and a way of having less influence on the people under his rule to win the war.

In Ding Jian's view, this is benevolence and kindness.

Ding Jian, who has always been a high-ranking official in the north, knows more deeply how great the war potential in the north is now than ordinary northern officials.

As for the people of Yizhou, the storage of food that is crucial in the war is extremely amazing. In the past, the grain in Yizhou became three major pieces, one was public grain, which must be paid. Calculated on the cap, the price was lower, and it was considered a tax. These grains were reserved by the court. The second piece was self-selling grain, which was higher than the price of public grain. After the people sold it, they used their income to buy their needs. However, because of the grain price control implemented in the north, the people actually couldn't make much money, but they had to sell it for their lives. In fact, more of this kind of grain circulating on the market. The third piece was the grain stored by the people.

The common people have the habit of storing grain, which is the oldest wisdom of Chinese farmers. In the good times, as long as life can continue, they must reserve some food to meet the needs of time.

This made the food in the north far exceed the numbers displayed on the court's reports. Ding Jian, who once served as the governor of Yizhou and the governor of Hezhong, was very clear about this.

As Li Ze changed his food policy, this part of the food was pouring into the market in large quantities. When grain prices in Guanzhong soared and grain prices in the south also rose, grain in the north fell against the trend.

The north even sold grain to the pseudo-liang through some secret channels to make huge profits. Of course, it was not ordinary grain merchants who controlled this sale, but the Tang Dynasty court itself. They exchanged the food in the pseudo-liang for countless strategic materials, tea, sugar, iron ingots, salt, tung oil, and precious metals such as gold and silver.

How much grain can flow out from the north has been calculated carefully, and if ordinary grain merchants touch this minefield, the outcome will not be wonderful.

Now the Tang regime in the north is like a greedy glutton, desperately sucking the flesh and blood of the pseudo-liang. Although the pseudo-liang regime seems to be strong now, in Ding Jian's view, they are now cooking oil with fire and are just blooming their last light. Once the last little energy is burned out, they should die.

The cruel passing of the Pseudo-liang on the east road of Shannan, west road of Shannan and most of the Eyuejie Town they occupied recently has caused fear of the southern Zhujie Town. The Southern Zhujie Towns, who used to only want to sweep their doors and snow, suddenly found that their past path was no longer possible. Pseudo-liang is no longer satisfied with trading with them, but directly wants to rob their property.

This is naturally unbearable.

Qian Feng had collapsed, but the resistance in the entire Eyue area did not stop because of Qian Feng's death. After taking over Ezhou, Zhu Youzhen carried out a bloody blow to Ezhou City. The result of not taking up swords and weapons for three days was that Ezhou City was almost empty, with six or seven out of ten casualties and Ezhou City almost became an empty city.

Now, Zhu Youzhen's army is coming towards the Dongting Lake area, which is his biggest goal. The 800-mile Dongting and its surrounding river basins are the real fertile land in the south.

Tading Jian came from the north to organize a resistance force in the south to delay Zhu's control over this area.

Li Ze wanted to make trouble for the Zhu family and make them unable to cure them, and in fact he wanted to make this area chaotic. For Ding Jian, when he caused trouble for the Zhu family, he also wanted to do his best to preserve his hometown and prevent the people in his hometown from suffering from all hardships.

The pleasure boat gradually sank into the misty Dongting. The owner of this ship was owned by a merchant in Yueyang. Of course, this merchant is now a military officer in the Tang Dynasty's inner guards. Whether it is sailors or servants on the entire ship, they are all people in the inner guards.

"Good Master Ding, they are here." A man in his early forties in silk clothes walked to Ding Jian at the bow of the boat, pointed to a small boat in front of him, and said. This person was the owner of the ship, and the person in charge of the inner guard in Yueyang, Liu Shaoye.

Ding Jian nodded. This time he was ordered to return to Jinghu, which was shouldering the heavy burden. In Jingnan and Dongting areas, all the forces that the imperial court had deployed for several years were handed over to him to command. In Dongting Lake, a team that had been operating for several years was the core force that he controlled Dongting Lake this time.

"Is it Zheng Wenchang?" Ding Jian asked.

"It's him." Liu Shaoye nodded.

Zheng Wenchang, a native of Cangzhou, was sent to Yueyang three years ago, and then through a series of operations, he became a water bandit in Nandongting Lake. Over the years, with the strong support of the Neiwei, Zheng Wenchang several times and merged the small water bandits in Nandongting Lake, becoming one of the three largest water bandits in the 800-mile Dongting Lake.

The boat slowly approached the boat. Even though Zheng Wenchang jumped up from the boat, he grabbed the boat's gang with both hands and overturned into the boat lightly. The boat carrying him sailed slowly, following the slowly driving not far from the boat.

"Zheng Wenchang, the guerrilla general of the Tang Dynasty's inner guard, met Xianggong Ding." Standing in front of Ding Jian, Zheng Wenchang bowed and bowed.

"General Zheng, thank you for your hard work over the years." Ding Jian clasped his fists and bowed solemnly. Ding Jian has always respected these people who are lurking outside and striving for the great cause of unification without regard for life and death.

These people really put their heads on their belts to work.

"As a member of Yixing, it is our ultimate goal to open peace for all ages. We will not feel bitter!" Zheng Wenchang said with a smile.

Ding Jian nodded with a smile, but took out a sign from his waist and said, "I am also a member of Yixing."

Zheng Wenchang looked at the sign of the high-level members of Yixing Society, but the smile on his face became even more prosperous. It turned out that he was a fellow minister. Ding Jian was a major official in the court and was famous, but not all important officials in the court were all members of Yixing Society. In the court, there were even many people who did not deal with Li Xiang. As an internal guard like Zheng Wenchang, these situations were naturally clear.

Ding Jian has actually become a member of Yixing, and the relationship between the two people can be further improved.

"Talk in the cabin!" Ding Jian turned around and said.

The two walked into the cabin, but Liu Shaoye stood at the hatch personally to guard the two.

"Mr. Ding, is it going to take action?" Zheng Wenchang rubbed his hands excitedly: "For more than a year, I have been suffocated. Now Zhu Youzhen's troops are already aiming at the Dongting Lake area. If we don't take action, the other two water bandits may surrender to them. We have to take action first."
Chapter completed!