Chapter 468 Li Yun competes!

Now, although Li Yun actually controls several states, the war is not over yet, and these states can only passively defend themselves.

If the Pinglu Army gritted their teeth and held on, they could even block Li Yun’s food supply route and engage in a stalemate war with Li Yun.

In other words, these states cannot actually be considered to belong to Li Yun.

In other words, he now spent a little money and bought six states in Huainan Road!
Although being a buyer requires a certain level of strength, it does not prevent this from being an extremely cost-effective deal. There is no better deal in the world than this.

If the emperor in the capital heard this price, he would probably sell everything he had to buy back all the territories lost by the court.

It’s a pity that the imperial court, or the Wu family, has now lost the qualifications to be a buyer.

As for calling each other uncle and nephew, Li Yun was not very willing to do so.

In this era, people recognize each other as father and son or brothers, and rarely recognize each other as uncle and nephew. Moreover, although there is indeed an age gap of two generations between Li Yun and General Zhou, their political status is basically the same now.

Even in terms of hard power, Li Yun is not much behind.

Moreover, Li Yun started from scratch, while Zhou Xu was just a second-generation man. It was natural for Li to be unhappy about being suddenly lower in generation.

More importantly, after the battle in Jiangbei, Li Yun can be said to be the true lord of Jiangnan, and even the lord of Southeast!
Now, anyone can see that Wu Zhou has lost power, and all the heroes in the world are eyeing it covetously, and everyone wants to replace it.

Previously, Li Yun could only be regarded as a small overlord of Jiangdong and was not qualified to compete for the world. But now, as long as he can occupy these six states, his small Jiangdong court will be halfway established.

Already qualified to compete for the world.

Moreover, Li Yun has an advantage that few others have, that is, he can attack or defend.

As long as he can hold the Huai River defense line and control the Luzhou area, even if Li Yun cannot unify the world himself, he can make it impossible for others to unify it.

Now that he has the qualifications to compete for the world, Li Yun has to think about his future. He has just achieved success in his career, and now he has someone recognized as his elder for no reason. In the future, won’t everyone in the world who is of the same generation as Zhou Xu become his elders?
Without fighting, the dwarf will be three points for no reason!

Although this kind of status-related thing is insignificant, in this era, sometimes we have to pay attention to it, because at this time, many people really fall for it.

With Li Yun’s request, Master Zhou Chang left Chuzhou City and returned to the Pinglu Army tent.

Whether this matter can be accomplished depends on what General Zhou thinks and whether he agrees. Zhou Chang has no decision-making power.

Of course, Li Yun dared to bargain, and he was also certain that this matter would be successful in all likelihood.

Because General Zhou made these demands in order to take advantage of the situation. If Li Yun was willing to give him a way out and let him step down, then no matter how difficult the step was, he had to take it.

It was already afternoon when Zhou Chang left. After Li Yun sent him off, he found Su Sheng on the city wall, who was still inspecting the defense of Chuzhou. He smiled and said, “Brother Su, why are you still on the city wall? The Zhou family father and son are no longer prepared to fight us.”

“I got it.”

Su Sheng looked at Li Yun and said with a smile: “However, maybe they are pretending to negotiate, but they will turn around and attack Chuzhou. We still need to be on guard. Besides, I have nothing to do, so I will go to the tower to take a look.”

Li Yun was in a good mood. He walked up to him and pulled his sleeve, smiling and said, “I don’t think so. Besides, I’m not afraid even if they come. Brother Su, don’t stand here and watch. Let’s go and have a drink.”

Seeing Li Yun so happy, Su Sheng knew that the negotiation had gone smoothly. He did not spoil the fun and followed Li Yun down the city wall.

But before leaving, he still called his subordinates and ordered them to strengthen the city’s defenses and did not slack off.

After the two of them returned to their residence, Li Yun asked Zhou Bi to set up another table of food and wine. However, it was only more than an hour since noon, and neither of them was very hungry. They just raised their glasses and drank.

Li Yun told Su Sheng about the conditions of the Pinglu Army with a smile, and then said with a smile: “General Zhou probably has no other options, and now wants to find a reason to cease fire.”

At this point, Li Yun paused and continued, “But it is also possible that the Fanyang Army has made some moves, which has made him alert, so he dare not continue to tangle with me in Jiangbei.”

“But no matter what, this time the battle of Jiangbei can be said to be.”

Li Yun raised his glass with a smile, clinked glasses with Su Sheng, and said with a chuckle, “A great victory.” Su Sheng clinked glasses with him, raised his head and drank it all, then looked at Li Yun and sighed softly, “From now on, Erlang will not only be famous throughout the world, but will also gradually become powerful.”

Li Yun smiled and did not respond. He just said to himself: “I agreed to the truce because I have recently felt that someone in the court seems to be keeping an eye on Jiangbei, so I don’t want to stay in Jiangbei for too long.”

Su Sheng nodded gently and said, “Now, the struggle in the capital should have come to an end. The three Jiedushi are still in Guanzhong, which means that the court is basically in their hands.”

“Although Guanzhong is not small, it is not big either. At least it cannot feed the three Jiedushi who came all the way here, and it cannot feed Wei Quanzhong. They will definitely use the name of the court to expand outward. Jiangnan, Central Plains, Hexi and other places will all become the targets of this new court.”

“Right now, there must be people from the imperial court keeping an eye on Jiangbei. I’m afraid that not only Jiangbei, but also all the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River will begin to have people from the imperial court.”

Li Yun laughed: “They can’t make any waves in Jiangnan.”

At this point, he suddenly remembered something and frowned slightly, saying, “Wait a minute, I’ll send a letter to Brother Shouyi, asking him to be more careful. There might be some local officials in Jiangnan who might have some ulterior motives.”

Su Sheng smiled dumbly: “Erlang, what you said, for those people, in their hearts, following you, Erlang, I’m afraid that they will have different intentions.”

When the two of them talked about this, they raised their glasses and clinked them, both laughing.

After a few more drinks, Su Sheng and Li Yun talked about the defense of Huainan Road. Su Sheng took a sip of wine and said to Li Yun: “If the Pinglu Army really retreats, then Zhao Cheng in Yangzhou can no longer stay in Yangzhou. He must at least go north to Chuzhou to guard the Huai River.”

“Haozhou is a large area, and Fengyang, the capital of Haozhou, is right on the bank of the Huai River. It is very suitable to station an army here.”

During this period, Li Yun studied the map of Jiangbei almost every day, and he knew the whole map by heart. In response to Su Sheng’s words, he nodded first, and then said: “Then let General Zhao go north to Chuzhou, as for Haozhou and Fengyang…”

He looked at Su Sheng and said with a smile: “Brother, you still want to station troops in Qiantang. I will not let you go there. You can let Deng Yang take two or three thousand people and station them here to ensure that no one from Huaibei will come.”

At the dinner table, the two of them chatted with each other and soon made clear arrangements for the garrison in Jiangbei.

On the other hand, Zhou Chang returned to the Pinglu Army camp. Before he even reached the gate of the general’s tent, he was stopped by two guards. Zhou Chang had suffered a lot in Chuzhou and was furious. Seeing this, he stepped forward and slapped the guard twice, cursing: “You blind man, you don’t even recognize me!”

The guard felt very aggrieved, and covered his face and said, “Major General, how could I not recognize you? The general has ordered us to guard the door and not let anyone in because he has something important to do.”

“go away.”

Zhou Chang didn’t care about all this and just rushed in. The two guards stretched out their hands and pretended not to try to stop him.

They are father and son, so it’s enough for me to just show my respect. If I really annoy the young general, will the general be on my side?

As Zhou Chang approached the general’s tent, he smelled the scent of powder. He frowned and was about to walk in when he heard the voice of General Zhou coming from inside.

“Wait outside for a moment.”

Zhou Chang frowned and waited outside for quite a while before he saw two young ladies coming out of the general’s tent. After seeing him, they both bowed and saluted: “Greetings, Major General.”

Zhou Chang was unwilling to pay any attention to them and rushed into the big tent. Seeing his old father in the tent wearing only his underwear, he was a little annoyed: “People said you were busy outside, but it turns out you are busy like this!”

“In this situation, how else can we be busy?”

General Zhou shook his head and sighed, then asked, “What does Li Yun say?”

The young general suppressed his anger and relayed Li Yun’s words. After hearing this, General Zhou was silent for a long time, and finally sighed helplessly: “Let’s do it this way.”

Zhou Chang didn’t speak for a long time after hearing this. After a long while, he said quietly, “Father can’t bear to part with those women.”

“Shit.”

General Zhou said angrily: “It’s not for you, but for the descendants of the Zhou family.”

“How dare you put up with their bullshit?”

(End of this chapter)