A brand new look for Youzhou
Lu Ren looked at Yue Lingxi and Liu Buqi who pushed the door open and walked out, and bowed slightly to express his gratitude!
Turning back, he said to Lu Xin, "The future of the Lu family depends on you! All of you must go back and make things clear with each family member!"
"From now on, the Lu family will follow Yue Lingxi's lead! Observe the hierarchy! Do not become arrogant because of your achievements!"
Lu Zhi suddenly looked up, tears welling up in his eyes! "Brother, why are you doing this?"
Lu Ren gently pulled Lu Li up and said to Lu Zhi, "Everyone says you're a hard-charging person, but I know you're incredibly careful! If the Lu family wants to embark on a bright path, the blood of Lu family members must be shed before them!"
"Third brother, just stay with me in Jinan Prefecture and wait for someone to come and kill you! Haha, I've lived a worthwhile life since I've been able to provoke a big shot to come and take my head!"
Lu Li nodded in agreement, "The Patriarch commands!"
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It will take some time for the entire Lu family to migrate. Liu Buqi and Yue Lingxi have already returned to Youzhou.
The troops of the Steppe Khanate have retreated, and the Yehe tribe only needs to continue to suffer economic blows, and it will only slowly fall into decline.
Tai'an Prefecture is now in the hands of Yue Lingxi, and Taiping Prefecture belongs to Crown Prince Yue Chengqiu, so we cannot act rashly for the time being!
Although the current situation of the Taixiang Prefecture Arsenal is unclear, it has begun to resume supplying military equipment as Yue Lingxi is exerting pressure on Youzhou.
Once the Lu family arrives, Tai'an Prefecture will serve as a "pilot" for Youzhou's commercial city, attempting to become the bridgehead for Youzhou's pro-business policy!
Using business to stimulate Youzhou's economy is also Liu Buqi's helpless move!
It is a bitter and cold land with constant wars. It is impossible to rely on growing crops to solve the problems of food, drink, military pay and pensions for the soldiers!
If Yue Lingxi can only rely on the imperial court for financial support, then Youzhou will be a castle in the air and will fall apart at any time!
These problems can only be solved by relying on open policies, attracting businesses and increasing taxes!
Although Yue Lingxi was only the commander-in-chief of Youzhou, he did not have the authority to independently establish a government and set up official positions!
But Liu Buqi believed that as the war between Guannei Hou and the prince gradually unfolded, Youzhou, an independent force, would definitely gain more weight!
It’s time to start the Storyteller Project!
He summoned Bai Jinjing and Zhu Caicai to the official residence of the Commercial Envoy and explained his ideas in detail. The earliest "Storyteller" organizational structure was finalized and implemented among the three of them!
Not long after, professional storytellers began to appear in the Desheng Taverns that had gradually spread throughout Taiyue!
In addition to telling "The Legend of Yue Fei", these people will also improvise some passionate and tear-jerking stories such as: a young general's ten battles with the barbarians on the grassland, three generations of Great Wall garrisons fighting against Yehe, and the Yanjing cavalry sweeping across the Han Kingdom on the grassland!
As time went by, bizarre nicknames like "Imperial Barrier" Gao Yi and "Guardian of the Nation" Wang Changling became famous throughout Taiyue Kingdom!
Countless young men roamed the countryside, spreading the heroic military rhetoric of "Whoever fights with me on the battlefield today will be my brother for life and death!"
"Storytellers" quickly became popular among ordinary people in Taiyue who lacked entertainment activities!
The story of the Youzhou army's passionate resistance to the enemy and foreign humiliation formed a sharp contrast with the imperial army that had been fighting in the Hunan and Xiang areas for half a year and the Guannei Hou army that was trying to purge the court!
Yue Lingxi, the commander-in-chief of Youzhou and Marquis of Anguo, wrote a poem titled "Repay the Country".
"A man should carry a Wu Gou and conquer the fifty states of Yehe. Please look at the moon over Guanshan from afar, if you are a scholar, you will be a marquis."
The news spread all over the country! From north to south, the name "King of Youzhou" became a household name!
Needless to say, this was another masterpiece of plagiarism by Liu Buqi! Under such hype, Yue Lingxi's reputation among the people was getting higher and higher.
Almost a year has passed since I returned to Yanjing from the Lu family. Every day I am busy writing jokes for the "Storyteller" and reading the news and information sent back by taverns in various places.
It's okay to talk about love with Yue Lingxi! Galloping on the Yanjing grassland, Liu Buqi felt more relaxed and happy than ever before!
Over the past year, the Lu family of Tai'an Prefecture opened the city gates and attracted merchants from all over the country to settle in. Merchants doing business in the army, grasslands, and Yehe came in droves, and the goods they brought back were sent all over the country!
The escort business organized by retired and disabled soldiers of all sizes is booming. There is no peace outside the Great Wall and in the interior. These escort vehicles flying the Youzhou Canglang flag designed by Liu Buqi himself are the best guarantee for the businesses!
At the beginning, some short-sighted grassland tribes or mountain bandits had touched the goods of these escort agencies.
The three generals of Youzhou, Yue Lingxi, Wang Changling, and Gao Yi, which were also the names changed by Liu Buqi, took turns to attack. It is said that the farthest time they chased the enemy to the battlefield of Hunan and Xiangxi.
In front of the opposing imperial army and the Guannei Hou army, "King of Youzhou" Yue Lingxi commanded the Canglang Iron Cavalry, roaring past and killing the bandits who dared to kill and rob!
He even shouted the slogan to the grassland and Yehe: "Whoever dares to defy the majesty of Mount Tai will be punished, no matter how far away he is!"
These things were passed down through word of mouth by "storytellers" and merchants, allowing the people of Taiyue, who were far away from the frontier in the Central Plains, to truly feel them!
In Youzhou, there's a Canglang Army that avoids civil war and has been independently fighting against the two greatest enemies of the empire's northern border! And they've earned a great reputation!
As the Tai'an garrison, the Great Wall garrison and the Yanjing cavalry disrupted and replaced each other, the three major military systems of Youzhou, which were originally independent systems, gradually began to call themselves the unified Canglang Army!
As for Wang Changling and Gao Yi, they enjoyed the fine wine and delicious food provided by the merchants every day. Occasionally, when they went out on the street, passing merchants would constantly give them all kinds of strange and weird things, but they didn't want a penny!
These two, like all the soldiers of the Youzhou Canglang Army, deeply felt what Liu Buqi called "military honor"!
In the face of this honor, power and money are secondary. Once a war breaks out, no matter whether they are new recruits or veterans, they will charge forward with all their might!
When alive, he was admired by the people. If he was injured or disabled, at worst, he could just go to the escort agency and work as a bodyguard, where he could still enjoy a good life! Even if he died, he could be buried in the newly built Martyrs' Shrine outside Yanjing, leaving his name in history!
Yue Lingxi really couldn't understand where Liu Buqi, who knew nothing about military affairs, got so many "wild ideas"!
What he thought was the most difficult task was to integrate the Youzhou Army and break the original system, but Liu Buqi simply created a Canglang Flag and actually solved it!
The idea of allowing retired veterans and disabled soldiers to earn their own living was unheard of! It was fine for him, but Wang Changling and Gao Yi, two veterans of the battlefield, were being transferred around by Liu Buqi, and he actually enjoyed it!
Especially since Liu Buqi raised money from businessmen in his own name to build the Martyrs' Shrine! He actually didn't even use the large amount of sponsorship from Zhu Changcai and the Lu family!
On the day when the Martyrs' Shrine was completed, countless merchants from outside Youzhou came with wine and offerings to pay tribute to the heroic souls of Youzhou who died in battle, whom they had never met before!
This made Wang Changling and Gao Yi burst into tears, and they kept kowtowed to him to express their gratitude!
Now, he inexplicably received a letter from the prince, wanting to confer the title of king on him?
What the hell is going on!
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