A few years ago, in order to cooperate with Guo Peng's war horse trade, the Mi caravan abandoned the dangerous land road according to Guo Peng's request.

They opted for a safer sea route and began to develop their shipbuilding business vigorously.

After several years of development, Mi has a professional shipbuilding team of more than 500 people and more than 100 experienced shipbuilders.

This time, when he learned that Guo Peng was going to establish a water division, Mi Zhu was very happy.

"The Mi family finally has another chance to repay Ming Gong's kindness."

With such excitement, Mi Zhu handed over 70% of his shipbuilding team to Guo Peng's craftsman management organization, the Shenji Division, free of charge.

Guo Peng attaches great importance to the cultivation and inheritance of technical talents.

Therefore, in order to have the world's skilled craftsmen to provide services for themselves and contribute to the development of Huaxia technology, the Shenji Division was established, which specializes in managing all kinds of craftsmen.

The existence of the Divine Machine Division is to facilitate the management of all kinds of craftsmen.

All craftsmen with a skill will register with the Shenji Division, paint their physiognomy, issue name tags, arrange for their families to stay, and distribute them to them on a monthly basis according to their ranks.

Improving the treatment of craftsmen in this way, rewarding meaningful inventions and creations, and attracting all kinds of skilled craftsmen to serve Guo Peng were important reasons why Guo Peng was able to establish a complete ordnance production line in his territory.

No one cares more about the development and application of technology than Guo Peng.

The trebuchet is the product of technological development, as are a large number of crossbows and waist crossbows, as well as sharper weapons, all of which are indispensable for technological progress.

I have what you don't, what you have I am stronger than you, every time technology progresses, the hard power becomes stronger, and when it reaches a certain point, it can achieve dimensionality reduction.

At that point, there's no point in competing for power or anything.

Now Guo Peng needs to prepare a sailor, but there is a lack of shipbuilders, Mi Zhu did not say a word and donated 70% of his team, which directly made up for the defects of the Shenji Division, Guo Peng was overjoyed when he heard it, and wrote a letter to thank Mi Zhu.

So Mi Zhu immediately commanded his own shipbuilding team, mobilized enough manpower and material resources with the support of Xun Yu, and recruited people in the slack season to help build ships, and soon brought the establishment of the sailor on the agenda and began to develop.

The sailors over there are planning to establish, and Guo Peng here is also re-establishing an orderly Peiguo according to the usual practice in the past, and preparing to cross the river to attack Shouchun.

Yuan Shu's army has been destroyed, and Yuan Shu no longer has the strength to fight against him, only one Shouchun remains, as long as he chases over, he can encircle the Chen Empire established by Yuan Shu in one go.

Isn't it the funniest thing that the Runan Yuan clan, a hundred-year-old wang clan and the head of the world's scholars, actually embarked on the road of self-destruction?

The grain road was opened in early December and ran smoothly, so Guo Peng led his army to Longkang County, and after meeting Xiahou Yuan and Yu Banle Jin, he led the generals to the banks of the Huai River to watch the specific situation and consider when to attack.

"Although it is cold, the Huai River is not frozen, if it freezes in winter like the Central Plains River, our army will not have to worry about boats or anything, and can directly cross the river."

Guo Jia was very unhappy looking at the still flowing Huai River waterway, and his face was full of disgust for the Huai River.

Guo Peng couldn't laugh or cry about this.

The rivers south of the Huai River are not freezing, but they are rare, and it is clear that they did not hit such a time.

"Even so, no one can stop our army from crossing the river!"

Xiahou Yuan said to Guo Peng: "According to the general's order, his subordinates have arranged for his subordinates to cut down wood and make boats, explore waterways, and soon build pontoon bridges to help the army cross the river!" At that time, all it takes is an order from the general, and the army will be able to cross the river immediately! ”

Guo Peng nodded, held Xiahou Yuan's hand, and said with a smile: "Miaocai, thank you for your hard work." ”

"Doing things for the general, unfortunate and bitter."

Xiahou Yuan's face was full of death.

"Hahaha."

Guo Peng said with a smile: "We are a family, so we won't talk about two families, Arlene is very deferential, I like it very much, and the child I gave birth to is also very cute, everything Xiahou has done for me is no less than that of the Cao family, although you have been guarding the rear for me, but your credit is as great." ”

"Thank you, General!"

A smile appeared on Xiahou Yuan's face.

"In this river crossing operation, I will take you as the vanguard and open up the road from the Huai River to Shouchun for me, can you be confident?"

Guo Peng stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of Shouchun City.

"If the general has an order, his subordinates don't want this life, and they must do it for the general!"

When Xiahou Yuan heard Guo Peng say that he wanted to take him as a pioneer, he was immediately very excited.

"Who told you to fight hard? For the generals not to talk about life and death at every turn, you are an officer, your safety is as important as victory or defeat, unless you have to, you must not charge in person, and you must not take risks lightly until the critical moment, understand? ”

"Yes!"

Xiahou Yuan immediately agreed.

"In this way, I will transfer a team of fifty Tiger Guards to be your own soldiers to protect your safety, the Tiger Guards are all warriors from one in a hundred, and all of them are ten on the battlefield, so I can rest assured."

Guo Peng clenched Xiahou Yuan's hand, Xiahou Yuan only felt a warm current flowing through his heart, and he saluted with excitement to express his gratitude.

When the pioneer plan to cross the river was confirmed, Guo Peng led people to wander around the north bank of the Huai River, observing the ecology and hydrology of the Huai River area, which are very different from those of the Central Plains, and observing a large number of primitive jungle landscapes and a large number of undeveloped areas of rare human settlements.

"Everyone says that Huainan is vast and sparsely populated, with a lot of land and few people, and the population of the Han Dynasty is mostly in the Central Plains and Guanzhong, not in Huainan, but if such a fertile soil is not developed, isn't it a tyrannical thing?"

Guo Peng said slowly to Guo Jia and Xi Zhong who were following him.

"What the general said naturally makes sense."

Xi Zhong spoke; "However, the land of Huainan has not been a populated place since ancient times, and the water network is dense, the transportation is inconvenient, and the control of the south by the Han is far less important than the control of the Central Plains and Guanzhong, and the further south, the smaller the population, the more Nanban, it is said that it is development, but in fact, it is still necessary to fight."

Guo Jia agrees.

"That's right, the more south, the fewer Han people, the more barbarians, the south of the river is mostly inhabited by barbarians, the south of Jingzhou Yizhou and Yangzhou are inhabited by barbarians, the mountains and forests are dense, there is little arable land, and the transportation is inconvenient.

Guo Peng does not disagree with their views, because this is very realistic.

In order to develop, it is always necessary to get the transportation and the population right, and in recent years, there are very many foreigners south of the Yangtze River, except for the areas along the Yangtze River, and the gains and losses in development outweigh the losses.

That is, Qin Shi Huang Xiongcai roughly carried out a million population immigration plan, mobilized 500,000 Qin troops to develop the south, and shed an unknown amount of blood before these lands were symbolically placed under the jurisdiction of the Central Plains.

However, there are still only a few Han people living in those places, basically near the county seat, out of the county seat is equivalent to not the territory of the Han Dynasty, those counties in the south of Yangzhou and the south of Jingzhou are particularly large, and the administrative division of a Huiji County is comparable to a state in the north of the Kanto River, so you can imagine how sparse the population is.

Development costs more money than war, and the emperors of previous dynasties naturally did not want to develop it.

Not everyone is as able and willing as Qin Shi Huang is to mobilize the whole country to develop the wilderness, and the benefits of a large-scale migration strategy that mobilizes the power of the state are often not visible in ten or twenty years.

Despite this, the development of Jiangnan is still a plan of Guo Peng, a plan for the future.