Yueyang's defense system is being rebuilt tense and quickly. With the support of more than 200 large and small warships in Dongting Lake, the pressure facing Yueyang immediately dropped significantly, and the defense area was immediately expanded, no longer limited to Yueyang City.

After the counties around Xidongting were ravaged by Zheng Changwen, Qian Biao seized the opportunity and immediately sent people to rebuild the rule. The original officials either ran away or were killed by Zheng Wenchang. These places without leaders were successfully controlled by Qian Biao, and recruited soldiers immediately.

At this time, for many people, being a soldier and eating food was the only way to survive. Not long after, Qian Biao recruited another 10,000 troops in these places.

At the same time, Zheng Wenchang was also reorganizing his navy on a large scale. His headquarters was more than 2,000 people, and Pang Wen's troops were captured, and more than 1,000 surrendered. In addition, Pan Shan's 500 people expanded Zheng Wenchang's navy to nearly 4,000.

Zheng Wenchang set up his Navy Village in Junshan, facing each other across the lake from Yueyang City to support it. At the same time, he sent all the families of the former Pang Wen and Pan Shanmen to Yueyang City. This made these people no longer have any way out and could only fight Zhu Youzhen to fight to the death. Otherwise, if Yueyang City is broken, the families of these people will inevitably die with the city.

Zheng Wenjun, Yan Shiliu, married into the Qian family in a grand manner. Zheng Wenchang gave the dowry that shocked Yueyang people. Five large ships of weapons, armor, ten ships of food, and a whole ship of copper coins. When these things were continuously moved from the dock to the Yueyang governor's mansion, the entire Yueyang people were more confident in Yueyang's defense.

As Zheng Wenjun arrived in Yueyang City together, there were 500 soldiers, which was also the dowry that Zheng Wenchang gave to his sister. Of course, these 500 people were all the inner guards who were urgently recruited from all over the place during this period of time. They would join Zheng Wenjun to become an important bargaining chip to control the Qian family's troops.

Zheng Wenjun married into the Qian Mansion, but not just as the daughter-in-law of the Qian family. In the agreement between the two parties, Zheng Wenjun was in charge of military power. Among the 10,000 young and strong people just recruited, there were a total of 3,000 people who would become Zheng Wenjun's subordinates.

Qian Biao didn't care about this. After all, Zheng Wenjun was a matchmaker who married his Qian family. The matchmaker was Ding Jiao-gong Ding Jian. Now, for him, a daughter-in-law who can fight is much better than a daughter-in-law who is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Qian Bin was also very satisfied.

He married this wife with the mentality of not going to hell. The two of them had never met before. The bride looked and had no idea how good she looked and how her character was. But as long as it could help revenge, even if the woman was as ugly as a sow, he didn't care. As a result, on the wedding night, the bride's color was not as good as his former wife, but she was still handsome and generous, which made him feel surprised.

The day after the wedding, the bride took his guards to join the reorganization of the recruits. Qian Bin was worried about going to help, but after staying in the military camp for only a long time, he came back straight back. Zheng Wenjun's methods were much more powerful than he thought. Her five hundred guards were like wolves and tigers. In just half a day, the three thousand young men were arranged in an orderly manner and entered the regular training.

Qian Bin led his troops to fight.

The smell of a iron-blooded warrior on Zheng Wenjun was not revealed at all last night, but when he arrived at the military camp, he could not hide it. The five hundred guards were obviously not like water bandits, and the stance of having received strict and formal military training was undoubtedly revealed from the moment they entered the military camp.

They are all from the north.

Qian Bin already had an understanding in his heart.

But what does this matter? For the Qian family, now is a time of life and death. It is already the luck of the Qian family to be favored by the north at such a moment and to hold such a thick thigh. If his wife is really a person from the north, her future, the Qian family's incomparable will have another layer of guarantee. Even if Yueyang fails and flies to the north, she will still have a foothold.

Last night, Qian Biao had already made it clear to Qian Bin.

Liu Shaoye was appointed by Qian Biao as the director of the army and was mainly responsible for one thing, which was to coordinate the relationship between Yueyang City and the Junshan Island Navy and cooperate in combat.

Yueyang and the surrounding areas were gathered together as quickly as possible by Qian Biao, and prepared to face Zhu Youzhen's attack. At this moment, Ding Jian, who was in charge of all matters in the south, had just stepped into his hometown, Jiangling Prefecture.

After seven years of passing, Ding Jian couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

Jiangling Mansion City is still the same, and there is basically no change from what he looked like when he left. The city is full of traffic and prosperous, but there are more soldiers and horses stationed on the top of the city.

Jiangling Mansion has not changed, but he has changed too much. In the past, he was a celebrity in Jiangling Mansion. As long as he appeared in the city, there were countless people who recognized him, but when he returned, from the time he stepped into the city gate to the present, no one recognized him anymore.

Yet, the handsome young man of the past has now become a middle-aged man with a beard and a dark face.

"It hasn't changed!" Looking at the guise of the floating in the crossroads ahead, Ding Jian turned around and sighed to his guard. The two guards behind him were old men from the Ding family. They followed him away from Jiangling and went to the north. Now one is a guerrilla general, with the fifth-rank official, and the other is a Zhaowu Captain, and the sixth-rank official.

"It has not changed at all. Their signature cover was written for them by the young master himself!" Ding Wei said with a smile.

"I finally got home." Ding Xiong sighed, "It's been seven years, I'm finally back."

Ding Jian smiled and said, "When you were with me, you were just servants. Now when you came back, you already have an official position and your grade is not low. If you want to come back and forth, your wife will not complain too much to you."

Both of them laughed, and Ding Wei said, "I don't know if the boy and girl at home recognize me. When I left, the eldest was only five years old, and the youngest was only two years old. Now the eldest was already an adult."

"When I followed the young master, the boy at home just turned 10 years old and is eight years old this year." Ding Xiong also sighed.

As the saying goes, I feel timid in my hometown. I am so excited along the way that I just want to get home early. When I really get home, I can't take any steps.

"It hasn't changed!" Ding Jian sighed again.

Over the past seven years, he has witnessed the earth-shaking changes in the north, and has seen the rise of cities there, from poverty to wealth, from sparse to prosperity, and a powerful regime is rising like the rising sun.

That's the taste of hope!

In contrast, Jingnan's natural conditions are much better than those in the north, but after seven years, they are still standing still.

"No wonder Li is full of confidence in unifying the world." Ding Jian said in his heart, if you don't move forward, you will inevitably fall behind.

"Let's go, let's go to Zuixianju and taste whether the dishes there have changed compared to seven years ago, and whether they still have the same flavor as before!" Ding Jian stepped into Zuixianju.

"Young Master, why don't you go back quickly?" Ding Wei and Ding Xiong asked in unison.

"I feel timid in my hometown, but my feet are weak when I am close to my home!" Ding Jian smiled and said, "I'm going to have a drink first, to pluck my courage, and then go home."

Ding Wei and Ding Xiong nodded repeatedly.

The three of them entered Zuixianju, went straight to the second floor with a familiar path, and found a seat next to the window to sit down. The waiter was already greeted with sincerity.

"Customer, what do you want?"

Although these three people have nonsense faces, they can tell that they are not ordinary people when they look at their dressing demeanor. They are the waiters who are so elegant in restaurants like this, and the waiter who is hospitalized in guests is the most vicious.

"Give me a fish cake, a thousand-pack pork, a leather fish, a winter melon and turtle skirt soup, a pearl glutinous rice ball, a pen holder fish belly, a lotus root belt, and a Jiangling Eight Treasure Rice Rice. Well, there's a pot of yellow bar!" Ding Wei ordered the dishes skillfully.

"Okay!" The waiter nodded with a smile, "Customer, we have the best wine we just got from the north. Do you want one?"

Ding Jian and the other two looked at each other and laughed. This kind of wine is a new variety just created in the north. The yield is not large. I don’t expect it to be sold in Jiangling.

"How much does a bottle cost?" Ding Jian asked with a smile.

"Ten coins!" The waiter looked at the other party without looking at the money.

The three of them were shocked. Although this wine is also a new product in the north, it is only one tael of silver per bottle. When it comes here, it turns into ten taels. It is too outrageous. Moreover, Ding Jian knew very well that the cost of this wine is actually not high. Selling one tael of silver per bottle is already a huge profit.

Looking at the expressions of the three of them, the waiter thought it was expensive, and immediately said mysteriously: "Customer, although it is a little expensive, in addition to wine, you also have a glass bottle for free. This bottle alone is worth several cents of money!"

Ding Jian was even speechless. Glass manufacturing is no longer a rare thing in the north. Anyone with a little wealth at home can afford a glass lamp. The manufacturing process of a wine bottle is much easier than that of a glass lamp. Ding Jian visited the glass factory. The workers were very skilled and blowing the bottles very fast.
Chapter completed!