Regarding his marriage to Qian Xinyao, Han Jiang wanted to say that all this was just a coincidence, but he didn't think about it so much at that time.

But it is obviously not appropriate to say this at this time.

Han Jiang touched his head: "This matter is a little embarrassing. However, I also admit that marrying the eldest girl of the Qian family has saved me from working hard for at least fifteen years. ”

"No, I seized the best opportunity, fifteen years may allow you to get the absolute right to speak in the court, but we have been buried in the soil, and the next generation is afraid that they will lose their existing military power. I'm afraid that if I miss it, everything will change, and it can't be said in fifteen or twenty-five years. ”

Han Jiang didn't answer.

Li Er's words returned to the topic: "Since you are in charge, Liu Rui wants to see what you think about this Jiaozhi City, sometimes war is not just about soldiers and swords, iron and blood." ”

"I see."

"Do you understand?"

"I really understand." Han Jiang nodded seriously.

Li Er nodded: "Siege is my job, the Song army is good at defending the city, and it is also good at attacking the city." We can't fight positional warfare and attack from a long distance, because the power of our Song military aircraft is extremely poor. Unless there are 100,000 war horses and 300,000 horses for transportation, you can only watch from the grassland. ”

"I understand." Han Jiang really understands.

also understands why Liu Rui has to let himself go south, in addition to determining his identity and status, he also needs to set a tone for attacking Jiaozhi City.

Li Er continued to pay attention to military affairs, Han Jiang was not a professional general, and the affairs of the war were naturally handled by professional people.

Han Jiang went to the prisoner camp.

At this time, the army withdrew.

The soldiers had not yet eaten, and the prisoner camp naturally did not even have a saliva to drink.

After Han Jiang arrived at the prisoner camp, he did not enter the camp, but took people to observe at the side of the camp.

Following Han Jiang was Chen Liang's eldest son, Chen Xin, who went north to join the army and is now temporarily serving as Han Jiang's scribe.

Han Jiang asked about the relevant government affairs while observing the prisoner camp.

Han Jiang asked: "Chen Xin, you came here with the army, but you will be here for a county magistrate in the future, can you inquire about the land from the sea to here?" ”

Chen Xin replied: "Lord, Sima who accompanied the army along the way has made arrangements for the soldiers to pay attention to when they are marching. Based on Tanma's report, we speculate that the alluvial plain of the river may be two million hectares. ”

The Red River Plain is about 20,000 square kilometers, and the Delta Plain is about 7,000 square kilometers, which is known to Han Jiang's later generations.

Chen Xin's data does not conflict with his own, and it can only be said that the calculation method is different.

Chen Xin continued: "This place is worse than expected, many rivers flow too fast, and the terrain is too low, and the waterlogging should not be taken lightly. In places near the sea, there may also be a backflow of seawater, and the task of building water conservancy is very heavy. However, it is still a very good rice-growing area. ”

"It's just that, according to the news in the Tanma newspaper, more than seventy percent of the uncultivated land here is here, and the most incomprehensible thing is that there are countless barren fields here."

Han Jiang turned his head: "Aratian? ”

Chen Xin nodded very seriously: "Someone has gone to see it, it's the barren field of Ueda, it's a pity, but I don't know why." In addition, the people of the Leizhou Army reported a speculation that they believed that the river here would extend the coast into the sea at least three zhang, or as many as five zhang, every month, which had a great impact on the construction of the port. ”

Three feet a month.

Then every year it is nearly 100 meters of speed to stretch overseas.

Han Jiang didn't ask again, someone would definitely worry about this kind of professional matter, and the choice of port location would definitely be cautious.

Han Jiang continued to observe the prisoner camp.

The people here are all dressed similarly, and they don't have the national characteristics that Han Jiang thinks in their senses, but they just have clothes to cover their bodies.

Han Jiang instructed: "Come here, send some clean water inside, not too much, send thirty buckets first." ”

"Order!"

Someone did it right away.

Soon, thirty wooden barrels filled with clean water were sent to the prisoner camp in front of Han Jiang.

There were five such prisoner camps in front of them, and there were thousands of them in the entire Song army's attack area, according to Li Er's orders, no matter who controlled it first, whether it was a farmer or a nobleman, and then centralized management.

The number of people is small, maybe only a few dozen.

That is, people from a village are temporarily gathered in a certain courtyard and sent people to take care of them.

There are many people, like the one in front of Han Jiang, there are thousands of people.

This was originally a town, a town very close to Cochin City, and the town plus the surrounding villages, so there were thousands of people.

These are all people from outside the city of Cochin, and these people are controlled to prevent accidental injuries in the war.

It also prevents someone from taking advantage of the chaos to cause damage to the Song army.

Compared with the sadness of the previous war, Han Jiang believes that temporarily gathering these people together to manage them can at least ensure the lives of these people.

When the water was brought in, there was immediately a scramble.

What Han Jiang didn't expect was that more than a dozen people actually repelled hundreds of people and controlled the thirty buckets.

Han Jiang opened his mouth and asked, "Qian Kuan, are these dozen or so very powerful?" ”

Qian Kuan replied: "No, there are really powerful people on the other side, I think these dozen people have different identities." ”

Han Jiang nodded at Qian Kuan, Qian Kuan stretched out his hand and beckoned a person, who went in with a short stick, and knocked down the dozen or so people by himself.

Qian Kuan said to Han Jiang: "Lord, I think there are five kinds of people here. ”

"Five."

"Yes, the group in the eastern corner is very united, they have come together, I think they are waiting for their opportunity. The people in the middle position should be the nobles here. I think the dozen or so people are family members, and the rest are either criminals or miscellaneous soldiers. And the group of people in the northeast, who feel like our people. ”

Han Jiang still believes in the vision of an old **.

But Han Jiang was still curious: "Why are they miscellaneous soldiers?" ”

"Because their actions are not organized, this group of people has a leader, but the rest of the people do not know how to cooperate."

Han Jiang pointed to the people gathered in the east: "Let's go, go talk to them." ”

Han Jiang entered the camp, 200 armor soldiers were fully armed to open the way, and 200 crossbowmen lined up at the gate of the camp, and everyone here either knelt, squat, or sat on the ground.

Han Qi walked to the group of people gathered in the east and stood about ten steps, and after a scribe stepped forward and shouted three times in Song, Lingnan, and Yue Chinese, someone got up and walked over, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it was Song dialect.

"Ebony Kai, tea degree Ebony Kai. We dare not resist the army, we are slaves. ”

Tea degree.

Han Jiang asked, "Cham people?" ”

"Yes, every year, the Yue people will come to our Cham to rob people, and then sell them to the nobles of the Yue Kingdom as slaves."

Han Jiang asked, "How many people are slaves here?" ”

Chadu Wumukai stretched out his hand and pointed around: "Except for the dozen or so people in the middle, they are all slaves. ”

Han Jiang asked again: "What's the difference?" ”

"We are the Cham people, the Song people over there, and the cow roaring people over there. The hundreds of people who fought just now were slaves of the Yue people, and the few were also slaves, but they were of higher status. ”