Early in the morning, Cao Cao was sleeping soundly on the couch, and suddenly there was a loud noise, Cao Cao jumped up from the bed suddenly, looked around blankly, and hurriedly began to put on his clothes. No, since Emperor Xiaoxian, there has been no civil uprising for many years, Cao Cao frowned and walked out of the mansion.

As soon as he walked out of the inner room, he saw an official, who was standing at the door, and saw Cao Cao come out, possessing him and bowing, Cao Cao asked him to get up, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on outside??" The official was not in a hurry, and said calmly: "The canal is being built outside." ”

"Oh... Kindness??? What do you say you're doing?? ”

"Repair the canal, early this morning, the assassin has already arrived here, did not disturb Situ, and began to dig with people...", the official said calmly, but Cao Cao's eyes widened, and he hurriedly ran towards the outside of the house, out of the county office, there were dense figures outside, most of these were local people, carrying all kinds of tools, dozens of people were standing together, talking about something, Cao Cao's eyes widened, looked at them, and hurriedly ran out of the city.

Far away, Cao Cao saw Fu Zhu, he was instructing a few officials at the moment, where to start the construction, start digging, and the manpower has been arranged, the tools are also available, the people are divided into several batches, followed by the officials, some have already begun to work, waved the hoe in their hands, looking at their appearance, Cao Cao's lips trembled slightly, and walked to Fu Zhu's side, Fu Zhu glanced at him, and did not pay attention to him.

"Frustrated?? What are you doing here? Cao Cao asked.

"Build a canal, start construction today, just dig towards Jingzhou, of course, several counties in Yangzhou can also be easily dug through..." Even if I have no objection, if the temple does not allow it, I am not afraid that I will be taken to the embroidery prison??? ”

Hearing Cao Cao's words, he was a little puzzled, and he asked: "It is Cao Gong who is in charge of the construction of the canal, even if he makes a mistake, it is Situ who is arrested, what does it have to do with me?" ”

When Cao Cao heard this, he almost rushed up and gave this guy a fat beating, he gritted his teeth and was stunned for a long time, suddenly, Cao Cao raised his head and laughed loudly, "Hahaha, good, that's right, even if you are guilty, the sin is with me, frustrated Gong, you just do it, it's okay, everything is on my shoulder!" In this world, if I don't do it..", Cao Cao didn't finish speaking, nodded in frustration, said yes, and went to work.

Cao Cao was a little embarrassed, looked at the people around him, and hurriedly chased after him again.

"Frustrated, are you mobilizing the people of the membership to do this? The map is ready?? The probe is also done?? It's just one night, isn't it a bit of a rush? ”

"When Cao Gong didn't come, I wanted to build a canal in Yangzhou, all the sketches, including the plan, I have prepared, so, the things here, just leave it to me, the main problem is still in the hands of people, bother Cao Gong to go to Jiaozhou, or Funan Guoxiang, see if they can send some slaves, and prisoners, I also let prisoners from all over Yangzhou come, in order to prevent them from making trouble, I am ready to use Yangzhou sailors..."

"But this will delay Cao Gong's capture of overseas slaves, I will find a way to go to the temple and let the garrison of Jiaozhou come here, and when the time comes, the sailor will be able to go to other places to capture slaves... By the way, the captain of the Yangzhou Navy Division is over there!! Frustrated pointed in one direction, and said no more.

Cao Cao was still a little stunned, turned around, and sure enough, he saw a lot of soldiers, these soldiers were dressed differently from the Northern and Southern Army, Cao Cao walked over, called a soldier, informed his identity, and asked their captain to come to visit, not long after, a hideous-looking, fierce-looking captain rushed to him, Cao Cao looked at him, and said: "I am Situ Cao Cao, you are the captain of the water division?? ”

"Meet Situ Gong, his subordinate is the captain of the water division, You Tu."

"Dirt??"

"Situ Gong, I am a mountain man."

"Oh..."Cao Cao nodded, looked at him, and asked, "How long have you been a captain?" "It's been seven or eight years. ”

"Then do you know anything about overseas??" , Cao Cao asked with some doubts, You Tu felt the disdain in Cao Cao's words, however, You Tu was also used to it, he himself was a general, and he was saddled with the infamy of killing his father, over the years, he was used to such an attitude, he said seriously: "Situ Gong, among his subordinates and sailors, it has been more than 30 years, and I am the first batch of soldiers when the prince set up a navy in the past." ”

"It's also the only one of those soldiers who is still alive."

"I've been to many places, even further south in Funan, where there are a few small islands, and through the islands, I've seen Kushan's ships." You Tu said, but Cao Cao's eyes were a little shocked, he suddenly narrowed his eyes, and asked in a low voice: "To build a canal here, you need manpower, you say, if you invite some people from overseas to come and help build it, how many people can you bring?" ”

You was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Situ Gong, in a year's time, I can bring nearly 300,000 people. ”

"Oh??" Cao Cao was taken aback and asked, "Is there really so many?" You Tu nodded and said in a low voice: "Situ Gong is not the first person to let me do this, there is another person who also asked me to do this, it lasted for three years, arrested nearly 500,000 people, Yangzhou can develop so rapidly... Ahem...", You Tu didn't say much, but Cao Cao already understood, and he asked with some curiosity: "Who is the first one?" ”

"It's the Maharaja."

"That's true!!" Cao Cao, who has always regarded himself as the successor of Wang Fu, couldn't help laughing, he pulled You Tu aside, and said in a low voice: "Then there is Lao Youjun, like this, now the garrison of Jiaozhou has not yet arrived, and you are still needed to be responsible for the security here, as soon as they come, you will set off directly, don't worry about anything, the more people you bring, the better, I need a lot of manpower to build the canal, as long as you bring it, everything is up to me!" ”

You Tu nodded and said, "Respectfully! ”

Cao Cao laughed, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Yes, it is a talent, and it is my fault that I have just looked down on Your Excellency, and I hope you don't mind." ”

"Don't dare!"

........

Inside the temple, Liu Xi frowned again, pondering, Zhou Yu and Fa Zheng sat in front of him, both of them looked a little excited, especially Fa Zheng, Liu Xi sighed and said: "Two of you, Situ has gone to the south, and you have to go too, so isn't this temple empty?" Don't you want me to move the capital to the south as well?? Liu Xi was very helpless.

Just in the morning, these two suddenly came to find him and asked to go to the south.

Fa Zheng said: "Your Majesty, I have already played, I hope to open the sea, more overseas exploration, I heard, Cao Gong to build the canal, this canal, naturally need manpower, the prince, has brought a lot of labor from overseas, overseas wealth is many, can not be underestimated, at this time, if I can go to the south, responsible for building ships, recruiting sailors, vigorously explore overseas, there will be a huge harvest!" ”

As he spoke, he looked at Zhou Yu on the side, and then said: "I told everyone with this strategy that Gong Jin is the most supportive, and he is also quite accomplished in ships and sailors, maybe Your Majesty doesn't know that Gong Jin was in Ningzhou Sailor, General Tai Shici, and he studied ****** with him, this matter is only good, not harmful..."

Zhou Yu also opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, please see...", he took out a map from his arms, put it in front of the Son of Heaven, and said with a smile: "This map is what I got from Guo Jia, Shangshu Ling, this is the map drawn by the prince himself, Your Majesty, please see, this is Yangzhou, this is Jiaozhou..."

"And here, this is below Funan, there are many elephants... Tiny and winding underneath.... There is the ocean on both sides, and I heard that if you go west from this island, you can reach the Kushan area..."Zhou Yu said, thought for a moment, and then said: "This place was named Jianning Long Island by the prince, and in this island tail area, a large amount of gold is produced, and also, across the sea, on the opposite side of Jianning Long Island, there is another island, and the prince did not have time to name it... This island is not small, and in the eastern part of the island, it is said that there are a number of islands..."

"It's all wealth.... Waiting for the big man to get the wealth in his hands..."Zhou Yu said, the Son of Heaven looked at these areas, and also frowned, thoughtfully, he looked at the island below Jianning Long Island, and asked, "There is no name here yet??" Zhou Yu nodded, and the Son of Heaven pondered: "It's not good to have a name, it's not convenient...", Zhou Yu frowned, a little didn't understand.

Fa Zheng on the side suddenly smiled and said, "Your Majesty, of course there is a name, and this place is called Yankang Islands." ”

"Yankang Islands??" Liu Xi laughed, "Good, good, good." ”

Zhou Yu was a little confused, this seems to be an island that was discovered during the Xiping period, why is it called... Ahem, forget it.

"Also, on the east side of the Yankang Islands, there are islands?"

"Exactly."

"Okay, it's called Xiping Island..."

"Respectfully!"

Liu Xi stood up, looked at Yutu, bit his lip, thought for a moment, and suddenly said: "I'm ready, you guys go, bring my order, if you want to do it, you can do it for him!" ”

"Respectfully!" , The two spoke again, Fa Zheng looked at the Son of Heaven, and said again: "Your Majesty, there is one more thing, the people are forbidden to the sea, the ships are banned, the people, the merchants, and the big families cannot own ships, and they can't go to the sea, the ministers think that this move can be revoked, so that the merchants can go to sea freely, these merchants, the desire for wealth, is better than our innumerable, as long as Your Majesty allows, the ministers have a way to let them build a large number of ships, improve the ships, and explore more areas for the Han Dynasty!" ”

Liu Xi squinted, looked at him, and nodded.