Chapter 183: The Feast

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As for Wen Boyuan and the Ying Wang Yingshu behind the scenes, it was determined that the effect of the Gu Soul Pill had not yet manifested itself before Chen Hai stepped into the Ming Realm for the time being, but it had been planted into the depths of Chen Hai's soul like a maggot attached to the bone, and he was not afraid that he would be able to fly into the palm of his hand;

In any case, the Jingying Army must be the world of the children of the eight clans in Jingjun, and the guest generals can only be added to embellish one or two.

Due to multiple factors, it became logical that Chen Hai was transferred to the position of Okura Sicheng in Tongbei and Zhao Wutai took over his position as the commander of the battalion.

Ran Hu, Xie Wenzhuo, Li Yulin, Cen Yunfei and Zhou Jun and other Hexi disciples continued to stay in the first battalion as generals and accumulate experience in managing troops.

The original intention of building the Tongbei Okura was to serve the war of the Xiyuan Army at the northern foot of Qintong Mountain.

In this case, the Taiwei Mansion only needs to transport the grain and grass materials to the Tongbei Warehouse, and then transfer the camps and defense areas through the Tongbei Warehouse, and the transportation efficiency of the grain and grass materials can be improved a lot, but the ultimate purpose of this move is to increase the bargaining chips of the Xiyuan Army.

After the completion of the Tongbei Warehouse, which is under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Xiyuan Army, the Xiyuan Army will have the authority and venue to store grain and grass materials on a large scale and build war equipment and armor, and the system will be more perfect;

From this point of view, Wen Boyuan and the Ying Wang Ying Shu behind the scenes, and even the clan clan that supported the Ying Wang Ying Shu behind the scenes, did not want the Qin Tong War to end too soon.

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Tongbei Beicang is located in the west of the center of the Tongbei Basin, separated from the Tonghe River from the Tongbei Fucheng, it is just built on the basis of a remnant village that has not been completely destroyed by the rebels after a year, and is surrounded by a radius of nearly 400 miles, the only basin plain that can develop agriculture in the depths of the northern foot of Qintong Mountain, and there are thirteen counties.

Tongbei Warehouse is also the use of military resources, the efficiency of building the city is extremely high, the Cangcheng of three or four miles of radius, the city wall of bricks and stones is more than ten meters high, and the south bank of the Tong River is three or four miles wide and stands, and the Tongbei Mansion City of the north of the Tong River is dilapidated.

It is the most important river at the northern foot of the Qintong Mountains, irrigating the vast land of the thirteen counties of Tongbei Prefecture, and passing through the deep gorge valley at the western foot of the Qintong Mountains, leaving the Qintong Mountains in the west and flowing into Tianshui County in the northwest of the Qintong Mountains.

However, the terrain of the Tong River at the western foot of Qintong Mountain is extremely vicious, and many sections are dumped downstream like cliffs and waterfalls, and boats are impassable, and there is no big channel connecting Tianshui County at the northern foot of Qintong Mountain.

The northern warehouse of Tongbei has been largely completed, and it can undertake the grain and grass materials transported by the Taiwei Mansion, and then the battalions of the Xiyuan Army will send heavy wagons and horses to transport the grain and grass materials away.

Even if the Taiwei Mansion ordered the distribution of grain from the Tongbei Warehouse to help the victims of Tongbei Mansion, it was also the local officials of Tongbei Prefecture and other local officials who brought official letters into the warehouse to receive grain, and Chen Hai could just pull out the amount and pay it, and he didn't need to worry about anything.

Chen Hai's position as a priest is naturally quite idle, and he doesn't even have to stay in Cangcheng all the time.

There are 2,000 generals guarding the warehouse in the northern warehouse of Tongbei, all of whom are veterans and veterans who have been eliminated from the heavy battalions of the camps, and they all have the heart of retirement, and the combat power is naturally not very strong, but the warehouse city is built high and dangerous, the city gate is closed, and in mid-February, hundreds of thousands of hungry people rioted to seize the grain, and they have not been able to shake the warehouse city.

After Chen Hai took office, although it was said that the part of oil and water involved in the collection, storage, and distribution of grain and straw materials was the largest, he did not do anything, and the former warehouse officials were still in charge; these warehouse officials were also the children of the Tu family, the Zhao family, and the Fan family, or officials from affiliated clans.

Chen Hai disdained to smear oil and water from the military salary and materials and fill his own pockets, nor did he need to compete with the children of the Tu family, the Zhao family, and the Fan family, which made everyone get along unpleasantly, but at the same time, he divided the matter of armor repair, and Zhou Jingyuan transferred craftsmen and craftsmen from Taohuawu to Tongbei Mansion to set up a new foundry to undertake this part of the affairs, and others would not have any opinions.

Tongbei Okura originally planned to organize 400 craftsmen to undertake the repair of war equipment and armor, but Chen Hai divided this part of the matter to the foundry to which the Medicine Master Garden belonged, and the wages of the 400 craftsmen will also be used as labor expenses to the foundry.

In addition, for the repair of armor and combat weapons, the Taiwei Mansion will draw out a certain amount of wear and tear materials according to the established proportion, and Chen Hai will naturally allocate the full amount to the foundry.

There must be oil and water in it that can be intercepted, but Chen Hai, as the chief official of Tongbei Warehouse, always needs some oil and water to fish. Wen Boyuan, Fan Chun and others also recognized this matter, not to mention that the armor and weapons repaired by the Medicine Master Garden Foundry were strong and durable, what opinions could others have?

Of course, only Chen Hai knew in his heart how big the oil and water was.

Not to mention other armor and weapons, only the chariot and horse team used for the transportation of grain and straw materials in the Taiwei Mansion has a total of 800 wooden oxen, and every time they go, the Taiwei Mansion will be pulled out to the spring parts for replacement according to the proportion of 30% loss.

If the Yakushiyuan foundry can reduce the actual loss to 20%, it means that every grain transportation cycle, the spring parts and other materials intercepted by the foundry can assemble sixty or seventy mechanical wooden oxen.

To do this, it is too easy for Chen Hai, and he does not even need to make a big modification of the wooden ox, but only needs to add reeds that can moderate the impact at the joints of the parts, and at the same time, the lubricant made from beef and mutton fat can not only greatly reduce corrosion, but also greatly reduce the friction loss between the spring parts.

With just a few small measures, the foundry can intercept a large amount of repair materials, and the equipment repaired by the Yakushiyuan foundry is extremely durable, and the generals and military attaches of the West Garden Army are also very welcome, and everyone is happy.

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The purpose of Chen Hai's surrender of military power and the transfer of Tongbei Okura to his post was not just to set up a new foundry in Tongbei Mansion.

Under Chen Hai's instructions, Cao Feng and Cao Shan's father and son led the Cao family and more than 1,000 people close to the Cao family to move into Tongbei Mansion.

The Cao clan's move out of Taohuawu means that Chen Hai has completely given up his influence and control over the 70,000 or 80,000 homeless people who had been living in Taohuawu Beipian before, and Chen Hai will also reduce his investment in Taohuawu in the later period.

Taohuawu is close to Yanjing City, where it is the world of the eight clans of Jingjun and the royal family of the Ying clan, Chen Hai knew that his little fish did not have the cultivation of the Dao Dan realm, and was awarded the title of Pavilion Marquis and even the Marquis of the Township, under the root of the wall of Yanjing City, there was no wave at all.

However, the clan power of Tongbei Prefecture has always been not strong, and this time it was plowed by hundreds of thousands of rebels, and almost all the clan forces in the prefecture and county were destroyed, and it seemed to be barren, but for those who are willing to not be subject to the elbow of other clan lords and cultivate the power of the descendants, Tongbei is a fertile field that is so fat that it is greedy.

After the rebels swept away, the vacuum of power left at the northern foot of Qintong Mountain was too great.

More than 200 miles west of Tongbei Mansion, there is a Juquan Ridge, located on the south bank of the Tong River, which was occupied by a group of black turban bandits earlier. The rebels retreated north, and the mountains and fields near Juquanling were taken into official possession.

Cao Feng, Cao Shan, father and son, on the order of Chen Hai, only used 1,000 stone of grain and 100,000 catties of iron to exchange the title deeds of the Juquanling Mountains and the mountains and mountains within a radius of twenty or thirty miles.

Of course, not everyone can exchange the title deed from the local government with such cheap chips.

At this time, the only people who could participate in this feast were the Tu clan, the Fan clan, the Zhao clan and other clans close to King Yingshu behind the Xiyuan Army.

Wen Boyuan, as a close minister of the British king, in addition to serving as the military envoy of the Xiyuan Army's Governor's Office, in order to facilitate the suppression of the rebels in Qintongshan, Wen Boyuan also had the right to control the local area.

At this time, since Wen Boyuan and the British King behind the scenes, since Ying Shu believed that Chen Hai could not escape from the palm of his hand, they were afraid that Chen Hai was not greedy enough, and they were afraid that Chen Hai's ambition was not big enough.

In addition to Chen Hai, Dong Pan's desire to annex fields in Tongbei Mansion on behalf of the Dong clan was also strictly restricted, let alone occupying an entire mountain range, and even if the Yao clan represented by Yao Qitai wanted to extend his hand to Qintong Mountain, he was also restrained, at least he could not occupy a particularly good territory.

Juquanling is in the mountains to the west of Tongbei Mansion, it seems that it is not very eye-catching, there are more than a dozen springs in the mountain all the year round, and the spring water stream flows around the mountain and joins the Tong River, so it is called Juquanling.

Among the more than a dozen springs, there are only three spiritual springs overflowing with spiritual energy, and Juquanling can be said to be a rare place of Lingtian Cave Mansion in Qintong Mountain.

Although there are not many places at the northern foot of Qintong Mountain that can be called Lingtian Cave Mansion, because the rebels have swept away, the power vacuum left in Tongbei is too great, and the few Lingtian Cave Mansion is enough for the clan clan behind the Xiyuan Army to eat.

For example, Zuojin Valley, as an important place to enter Tongbei, has a more important geographical location, and a nearby spiritual mountain was occupied by the Tu clan.

The Leiyang Valley in the north was the main defense area of the Xiyuan Army, and Wen Boyuan and Fan Chun were strengthening to build more military villages there, while the Fan clan quickly stretched out their hands to assist in the construction of the military villages, and at the same time, they did not prevent them from pinching the land deeds of the two nearby Spirit Valleys in their hands.

Lingshan Linggu, located at the middle foot of the Qintong Mountains and near Nanzhang and other prefectures and counties that control the main road connecting Gyeonggi and the western Qinxi counties, was divided by the Zhao clan and other clans that supported the British king's victory.

This is the largest and fattest feast after the Xiyuan Army marched into Qintong Mountain, and the oil and water that Tongbei Oka can wipe off from the transfer of grain and grass materials are not enough to be seen by the real predators.

And what Chen Hai really likes is Juquanling.

The peaks and peaks near Juquanling overlap, limited by the terrain, the Tong River converges into a mountain lake with a radius of forty or fifty miles and a depth of several hundred meters between the mountains in the northeast corner of Juquanling......

Topographically, Juquanling can be said to be the gateway of Tongbei Province to the northwest foothills of Qintong Mountain, which not only controls the estuary of the Tonghe River into the deep mountains and valleys of Qintong Mountain in the west, but also controls Juquan Lake in the northeast.

If it weren't for the situation, even if Chen Hai was a marquis, he might not be able to fight for such a piece of fertile land from the hands of other clans to develop power.

However, all the purposes of Chen Hai's doing this were to break away from the control of King Yingshu, and even find an opportunity to bite Yingshu and Wen Boyuan back. Juquanling can be said to be a shell created by Chen Hai in addition to the "Record of Military Training".

Chen Hai is currently using this shell to develop his power, but the ultimate goal is to use this shell to get out.