In the Tongtufang, Luoyang City, the one with Luoshui on its back is the Shen family's house.

Strictly speaking, this is a "big" house. After Zuoluo was called the rule, the barbarians did not understand etiquette and took "big" as their surname. As his son, Damenyi naturally had a surname "big". It was only after the generation of Chenxi that they changed their surname, and they had their own meanings to take "chen" as their surname.

Chen Xi smiled on his face, broke free from the surroundings of the bells and swallows, and came alone to a small temple in the courtyard.

He did not enter the temple, and Heshi prayed for a moment. After that, his face became darker. Perhaps only when he was alone would his scent of the erratic child, and instead he would have a deeper feeling.

At this moment, he heard footsteps outside. The moment Chen Xi turned around, a smile appeared on his face.

"Mr. Langjun, I have been back to our house and asked for a visit." The butler who came down and said with his head down.

"Ye Langjun...Ye Chang?"

“That’s right.”

"Hehe, he is an interesting person. He was in Chang'an City, but it caused a bloody storm. He ran to Luoyang again in a blink of an eye. Could it be that he wanted to make a big case in Luoyang again?"

Chen Xi muttered to himself, but a deep fear flashed in his eyes.

Originally, he thought Ye Chang was a hero and a talented man of his generation, so Chen Xi was quite interested in making friends. However, with his understanding of Ye Chang, especially the news from Chang'an City a few days ago, Chen Xi gradually realized that Ye Chang was definitely not a person he could subdue.

Even getting close to him may be in danger.

However, the other party suddenly came to visit, and at this time, just after the Spring Festival, it was not so much to turn it off.

Thinking of this, Chen Xidao: "Please invite him in, I'll meet him in the garden."

Not long after, Ye Chang appeared in front of Shen Xi. Compared to when the two met, Ye Chang was taller and darker in skin. It was sung on the Longyou Plateau. When they met, Ye Chang bowed and said, "Mr. Chen is still in style. Today, he was an uninvited guest. I hope Mr. Chen will not blame him."

Chen Xi smiled and said, "You are not here for nothing, and there is no good thing to come to you. Ye Langjun, have you saved my life? What instructions do you have? Just say it."

Ye Chang looked around and Chen Xi knew what he wanted and sent everyone with him away, but he was even more suspicious: What do Ye Chang have to say?

"I heard that there are many giant trees on Baishan Mountain in the Bohai Kingdom. I wonder if it is true?" Ye Chang asked.

This question stunned Chen Xi. After a while, he nodded and said, "The elders in the family really said that.

"I have something to ask Mr. Shen to help me." Ye Chang pondered for a moment, and then continued: "I am determined to visit the true immortals overseas, so I tried to build a sea ship in Wuzhi. Now the ship has been made, but I heard that the East China Sea is extremely windy and waves, there are whale chess monsters in the sea, and the sea is vast, so it is not easy to supply. The ship I built now is not enough, and I need to build a larger ship."

Chen Xi suddenly realized.

Although Ye Chang did not publicize the fact that Ye Chang built a ship and tried to go to sea, Chen Xi was not unaware of this. He even knew that the reason why Ye Chang told Princess Yu Zhen was to go overseas to visit Xianshan.

"I grew up in the Tang Dynasty and did not......"

"Why did Mr. Chen recruit heroes?" Ye Chang interrupted Chen Xi's words with some rudeness.

Chen Xi's face changed slightly, but there was no interface. Ye Chang stared at him and smiled slightly: "Mr. Chen Langjun, no secret words are spoken. I want to use the giant trees in the Bohai Kingdom to build a ship, so I intend to build a shipyard in Liaodong. Chen Langjun is willing to return to his hometown. I can work together honestly."

"cooperate?"

"I need to borrow Shen Langjun's hands to use it temporarily. Shen Langjun can protect me from the boat."

Ye Chang also put some effort into Chen Xi. Now the king of Bohai Kingdom is Daqinmao, the son of Dawuyi. He is actually a cousin with Chen Xi. However, this person is different from his father Dawuyi and is quite obedient to the Tang Dynasty on the surface. Therefore, he sent assassins to Luoyang City to assassinate Chen Xi. He dared to do such things that would anger the Tang Dynasty.

The most likely reason is that some of Chen Xi's actions annoyed Da Qinmao and might even make Da Qinmao feel threatened.

From these signs, Ye Chang judged that Chen Xi was definitely not a person who was willing to be lonely.

"For the cover of the boat yard? I'm afraid that the boat yard will be built, and there will be a group of tigers and wolves coming around. Ye Langjun, don't look at the situation in Liaodong too simply."

"My enemies are four, one is the Silla people, the second is the Bohai county, the third is the remnants of Goguryeo, and the fourth is the Liaodong tribes - I know what kind of place it is, but there is the Tang Dynasty behind me."

When Ye Chang said "there is the Tang Dynasty behind it", he naturally had a kind of arrogance and confidence. Chen Xi was silent for a moment, but had to admit that Ye Chang's statement made a lot of sense.

This was the most powerful season of the Tang Dynasty. Almost all the surrounding four barbarians were defeated by the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty also suffered defeats, and some of them were still very miserable. However, the powerful national strength allowed the Tang Dynasty to recover quickly, while the surrounding four barbarians were defeated once and there would be no more time to turn around.

"Can you really get the support of Anton Protector, Fan Yang, and Pinglu Jiedu?" Chen Xi asked: "You are sure of it."

"You just have to worry about the will of the court." Seeing that he was a little moved, Ye Chang said again: "You know the situation in Liaodong, and you know the attitude of the court toward Bohai. A Bohai king who rebelled in the time of time, how is the Bohai king who was born and raised in the Tang Dynasty and was born close to the Tang Dynasty?"

As soon as these words came out, Chen Xi was moved.

He is a smart person, so he will not hide his ambitions by indulging in women. But it is precisely because of this that he hopes to have a chance to return to Bohai Kingdom and sit on that throne.

"The court is uneasy in all four areas. I am afraid that I will not be willing to cause trouble on the frontier, nor will I send troops to help me?" Chen Xi said hesitantly.

"The court will naturally not help you, it is me who will help you," Ye Chang said, pointing to his nose.

"You...I..."

Chen Xi suddenly realized that helping Ye Chang is different from helping him.

Liaodong, at least now, still belongs to the Tang Dynasty in name. Although the Tang Dynasty's government orders are almost impossible to implement here, Silla, Bohai Kingdom, and Bohai Kingdom admit that this place is the territory of the Tang Dynasty. If the court supports him, it will threaten the Bohai Kingdom head-on, and the Bohai Kingdom will definitely tear the face. On the contrary, the court only supports Ye Chang there to build a ship and go to sea. The Bohai Kingdom cannot raise troops for this small matter.

Even though he knew that Ye Chang had taken over many supporters from Chen Xi, the Bohai Kingdom could only make small fuss. Even if he sent troops, he would only attack in small numbers and dare not advance on a large scale.

And Chen Xi also thought of deeper questions.

In Shen Xi's view, the prosperity of the Central Plains was, unless he was a Bohai man like him, thinking about the throne of the Bohai Kingdom, how could a person like Ye Chang be willing to go to the cold and remote Liaodong, so Chen Xi still believed half of the reason Ye Chang said about "building ships and going to sea to seek immortals and visiting the road". Since this is the case, the power of the boat yard will not last long, and he can even occupy the magpie's nest if he uses more people.

"Does Ye Langjun really want to go?"

"That's natural, otherwise why did you come to Mr. Chen for help at this time?"

After confirming Ye Chang's determination, Chen Xi made a quick decision: "Okay, please follow me."

He led Ye Chang into the small temple in his backyard. Ye Chang was a little surprised. If he wanted to have a close conversation with him, he should have gone to the study room, but why did he come to this temple?

It is not a strange thing to build a temple in the back garden of a wealthy family. It is usually hosted by widows and childrenless women in the family, but this family temple in the Shen family is a bit strange and no one takes care of it.

After entering, he felt that the place was narrow. Ye Chang frowned and was puzzled. However, he saw Chen Xi walking to the Buddhist temple. He prayed silently for a moment, and then turned around and said, "Silla, the Goguryeo people believe in Confucianism, but we Bohai people believe in Buddhism. Some important things are hidden in the Buddhist niche."

After saying that, he climbed onto the offering table, reached out to grop behind the Buddha statue in the Buddha niche, and after a while, he took out a scroll.

Seeing that he was so cautious, Ye Chang was a little curious and didn't know what this scroll was.

Then, Chen Xi cleaned up the offering table Yu Jing, spread the scroll in front of him and spread it on it. Ye Chang leaned over and looked at it, and then couldn't help but feel silent.

A map

"Ye Langjun, you wrote in "Embroidered Images of the Three Kingdoms" that Zhang Song presented the map of Xichuan to Liu Xuande, and today I will present the "Bohai Sea Map" to you."

When Chen Xi showed this map in front of Ye Chang, his tone was full of pride. Without waiting for Ye Chang to react, he said to himself: "My father fled from his homeland, and did not take gold and silver, nor did he take pearls and jade. Only he carries two things. One is the Buddha statue in this Buddha niche, and the other is this "Bohai Sea, Ten Thousand Miles Map". Bohai, Goryeo, Silla, Anton, Hei Water, and the territory of thousands of miles are all here."

If someone else saw this picture, he would definitely feel shocked. In this era, maps are all treasures.

But Ye Chang, who had seen another World satellite map, looked at the black cross-red circles painted on it, and felt really cold.

"Well, why, Ye Langjun... think this picture is not good?"

Chen Xi bragged for a while, but could not get Ye Chang to respond. He was surprised and tilted his head to look. Seeing that Ye Chang's face was calm, he was not excited at all, and he felt unhappy.

"No, it's very good, but a certain family doesn't understand it very well." Ye Chang said with a smile: "Where is a river, where is a river, and where is a mountain?"

He didn't really understand it, but in front of Shen Xi, he decided to hide some clumsiness.

"Oh, let me tell you."

Chen Xi often watches this map, so he pointed at it casually, where is Baishan, which is Black Water, where is Silla King, and where is the territory of Bohai County and the territory of Bohai County. Ye Chang was secretly surprised when he saw it: The person who painted this picture was not thinking about just Bohai County and the whole northeast.

"Who did this painting?" he asked with a look at the loophole.

"It took two generations of ancestors to complete..." Chen Xi said this and glanced at Ye Chang.

The two of them smiled at the same time, and Chen Xi said proudly: "The ancestors and ancestors have great ambitions. I, an unworthy descendant, just want to get back what I belong to."

This is a confrontation between the two. Ye Chang asked, which actually refers to Chen Xi's ancestor Dae Jo-young's ambition to draw this picture, while Chen Xi said that he was satisfied with the king of Bohai Kingdom. In fact, both of them knew exactly what was going on.

Chenxi grew up in the heart of the Tang Dynasty and was most familiar with the Tang Dynasty culture and skills. If he could go back to be king, how could he not introduce the Tang Dynasty system and skills, strengthen the country's power, and finally compete with the Tang Dynasty.

but……

Ye Chang sneered in his heart, the Northeast is a treasure land. If he had established a firm foothold in Liaodong, how could he tolerate others snoring beside the bed?

"How many people are there in Brother Chen?" Although the two of them had their own ulterior motives, they reached a tacit understanding in the short term, so Ye Chang asked directly.

"Just be sure of the people. It is more than enough to help you build a boat yard. Ye Langjun, which one do you think is the best place to build a boat yard?"

"Duli Town." Ye Chang pointed to the sharp road at the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula.

This is the Lushun in later generations. It is also closest to Shandong. It occupies this place and makes it more convenient for supply from Shandong. Moreover, this place is easy to defend but difficult to attack. As long as you strangle the important roads in the north, you can give the rear a sense of security.

In terms of product, this place can dry salt and fish, and the minerals contain rich reserves such as limestone, clay, quartz stone, dolomite, etc., and are easy to mine. As for coal and iron, although there are not many, they are close to the places where coal and iron are produced.

Moreover, because it is close to Shandong, there are many Han people, it is suitable as the basis for the creation.

Chen Xi saw Ye Chang pointing here, and he had no doubts in his heart. In his opinion, the terrain here was small and there was only a good harbor. Ye Chang wanted to build a ship, so it was just right to use it.

"I have people in Liaodong." Chen Xi pondered for a while: "But, Ye Langjun, brothers still have to settle the score clearly. We have to say something clearly. What are the benefits of me? Don't say such things as protecting me. Without you, my subordinates who are loyal to me will still be safe in Liaodong."

"I'm afraid the number of people is getting smaller and smaller." Ye Chang stabbed him, and then smiled, "But it was like this before that the sea was long and the journey was not easy. If I had enough in Duli Town, I would have to drive a regular flight from Duli to Denglai - that is, every ten years, as long as the climate permits, there must be a ship traveling between Duli and Dengzhou. If you want to convey the message, you can use my flight."

As Ye Chang said, although Liaodong is still validly loyal to the Bohai people in Chenxi, the number of people is getting smaller and smaller. In fact, the impact of Chenxi and his team on the Bohai Sea has become smaller and smaller. After all, twenty years have passed. The key reason for this situation is that the news is not smooth. The condition proposed by Ye Chang made Chenxi nod.

But it is not enough, it is still far from Chenxi's appetite.

"Second, if you are interested in training troops, I can provide you with food and equipment." Ye Chang gave up the second condition, which immediately made Chen Xi feel full. Raising soldiers and training troops is not a trivial matter, and it requires a large amount of money to be spent. Although Chen Xi has some industries now, it is not enough to support him in raising soldiers. If there is no soldiers, let alone regaining his home business.

"How many soldiers?"

"It depends on how many people you have, which is limited to two thousand." Ye Chang stretched out two fingers: "You know my ability to make money, so don't worry."

"Okay, okay, okay...is there any more?"

Ye Chang laughed: "Isn't this enough? If there is anything else, it's not difficult... But in Liaodong, your subordinates must find mines for me and transport precious goods, especially giant trees. As Brother Chen said, brothers can't settle accounts clearly. You can't do nothing for your subordinates, just let me raise them, right?"

Chen Xi didn't hesitate anymore, and he had nothing to lose anyway, so he stretched out his palm: "No
Chapter completed!