The young wife who returns to her husband's house to suffer
Tai'an Prefecture is adjacent to Shandong Province. It was a backup plan prepared by Taiyue when the country was poor and weak in case Youzhou was defeated in the war!
Although Youzhou had been at war for years, neither the grassland nor Yehe had ever truly broken through the Zhenbei Pass.
Therefore, Tai'an Mansion, the inner gateway of Youzhou with a complete defense system, has never been used. It has gradually evolved into a place to store military rations for Youzhou. The stored military rations are enough for the military and civilians of Youzhou to use for two years!
Be it the Great Wall garrison or the Yanjing Iron Cavalry, they only have one month's worth of food in stock. Even if the food stored by Taiping Prefecture is included, it will not exceed three months!
The General of Tai'an Prefecture was once a die-hard princeling! He was also Yue Beiqiu's biggest chess piece in Youzhou to balance the power of the local powerful generals!
He responded to Guannei Hou's uprising at this time! Yue Wuji's chess move was brilliant! Strategically, Tai'an's defection signified the public's support and was a huge blow to Yue Chengqiu's legitimacy as successor!
Tactically, although Tai'an Prefecture seems to be isolated outside the sphere of influence of Guannei Hou, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it holds the food that is related to the life and death of Youzhou!
As long as they can withstand the attacks from Shandong or Youzhou for a maximum of three months, the good soldiers and generals of Youzhou can only choose to surrender to Yue Wuji if they don't want to starve to death!
By then, the battle-hardened troops from Datong and Youzhou will be able to attack Shandong and Yuzhou, which have almost no defenses, and it will be almost easy to take them!
Once he gains control of these two populous and grain-producing states, within half a year, Yue Wuji will be able to completely control the northern part of the empire and eye the south where the imperial court is located!
The people of Youzhou on the city wall basically deduced Guannei Hou's strategic intentions through their conversations.
But this is a blatant conspiracy! You know what he wants to do, but you are completely powerless to stop him!
"The key is whether we can hold on for three months!" Liu Buqi sighed lightly. He originally thought that after winning the battle on the grassland and suppressing Yehe, he would be able to free up his hands to find a way to solve the problems of the three prefectures in Youzhou!
As a result, the grassland has not yet won, but Youzhou itself has begun to fall into chaos!
Wang Changling asked anxiously, "The food we have in Changcheng and Yanjing isn't enough to last a month! Even if we use it sparingly, it won't last more than three months!"
Liu Buqi, however, thought a little further ahead: "General Wang, don't worry, the capital won't allow us to turn to Guannei Hou so easily. In the next few days, General Tai'an or General Taixiang will definitely get in touch with us. The military rations will definitely last for three months!"
Although Gao Yi agreed with Liu Buqi's analysis, he also reminded him: "What about three months later?"
Yes, we will still run out of food in three months. By that time, I'm afraid life under the command of the commander will be even more difficult than it is now!
"I'm going to buy some food! I'm going to completely solve the problem of Youzhou's grain supply being controlled by others!"
Aside from Yue Lingxi and Zhang Xiruo, the others were somewhat skeptical of Liu Buqi's confident statement about "buying grain"! The world was in turmoil, and people everywhere were hoarding grain, not satisfied with it. How could anyone easily sell grain?
The reason why Liu Buqi dared to say this was because Yue Lingxi's mother's family was the largest grain merchant in Shandong and Yuzhou states!
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Except for Zhu Caicai who was left behind by Liu Buqi to discuss going to Shandong to "buy grain" with Yue Lingxi and Zhang Xiruo, everyone else dispersed with their own thoughts.
Although Zhu Caicai, whom he promoted himself, did not hold a high official position, he was once Wang Changling's confidant.
But now Yue and Liu are in the same boat, and they share the same fate, so there is no need to be too taboo about some secrets.
After Yue Lingxi joined the army, his mother's family basically cut off contact with him, and Zhang Xiruo stopped reporting any information about Yue Lingxi very early on.
After General Tai'an raises his army, the roads will inevitably be blocked! The news of Yue Lingxi's success in Youzhou will not be passed back for a while, and this time difference is an opportunity that Liu Buqi wants to take advantage of!
After the four of them conspired, they began to act separately!
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Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, this is a name that Liu Buqi is very familiar with. It is probably because this era is the same as the era he is familiar with, and Confucian culture is dominant!
Shandong, also the birthplace of Confucianism, is almost the same as the Shandong in my memory, and the most holy teacher of Confucianism is also Confucius.
However, since there was no castration of Confucianism by successive dynasties after the unification, Confucianism remains open-minded, enterprising and inclusive.
Yue Lingxi's mother's family is the famous Shandong scholar and merchant family, the Jinan Lu family!
The reason why books and merchants are separated is that the status of merchants is so low that people of poetry and literature simply disdain to dance with them.
But the ancestor of the Lu family happened to be a businessman. Because of his wealthy family background, he was able to enter the officialdom by sponsoring the Taigu Dynasty!
After hundreds of years of official management, they finally gained the status of a scholarly family, but they did not abandon their original business.
After all, studying is a money-consuming thing. Without business and land to support it, there is no way the Lu family can have the reputation of being a scholarly family!
In order to solve the problem of the insurmountable status of books and merchants, the Lu family has been divided into separate families for hundreds of years, and each generation has governed independently. Internally, they have been a family, with the official Lu serving as the patriarch.
Yue Lingxi's mother was born into the official family of Lu, so she had the opportunity to become the wife of an official. After a series of changes, his mother's branch became the merchant family of Lu, responsible for managing the Lu family's huge industry, but still obeyed the patriarch!
To be honest, most people might find Zhang Xiruo's description confusing, but Liu Buqi could easily understand it!
The Lu family is a family business, and Guan Jia Lu is the chairman. He holds the most shares and has the decision-making power!
Merchant Lu is a subsidiary company. They have no contact with each other and are responsible for their own profits and losses, but they have a seat on the board of directors of the parent company.
Judging from the patriarch’s previous attitude towards Yue Lingxi, if Liu Buqi wants to buy grain from the Lu family, he must either persuade the Lu family’s “chairman”, that is, the patriarch, or make the merchant Lu completely independent!
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Liu Buqi, accompanied by Bai Tuo's daughter who was temporarily serving as a maid and Zhang Xiruo's fiancée Bai Jinjing, and escorted by a flag of soldiers from Xiao Junzi, rode at full speed through Taiping Prefecture and took a detour to enter Jinan Prefecture!
As Liu Buqi expected, when she was planning to go to Jinan, General Taipingfu arrived at the Great Wall garrison first. He was a man of the current crown prince Yue Chengqiu.
It was thanks to General Taiping's help that Liu Buqi and his team were able to enter Jinan Prefecture smoothly! Otherwise, given the current situation in Youzhou, it would be extremely difficult to leave!
Before entering the city, the troops led by Xiao Junzi were the first to enter the city in batches and were temporarily placed in the Desheng Tavern, which had expanded its business to Shandong!
He himself took two soldiers with him, changed into servants' clothes, acted as coachmen and servants, and followed Liu Buqi's carriage into Jinan Prefecture!
Liu Buqi would never believe that Yue Wuji had no plans in this Shandong provincial capital!
The situation in Youzhou is now uncertain, and the Lu family's initiative is unclear. If the Yue Lingxi forces in Youzhou rashly enter the dangerous and dangerous Jinan, it is likely to cause a series of chain reactions!
Even the temporary offensive and defensive ally of Crown Prince Yue Chengqiu, who is far away in the south, will never allow the local forces of Youzhou to enter Shandong!
As Yue Lingxi's concubine, Liu Buqi should be the first to enter Jinan when outsiders are still unclear about her actual weight in Youzhou. This is the only safest way that Liu Buqi can think of at the moment!
Jinan! This city, which Liu Buqi has visited many times before, will bring him many surprises this time!
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