Li Yanyu followed Xiangshui all the way and arrived in Xing'an County.

"Ahead is the Spirit Canal." A subordinate reported.

The mouth of the Lingqu canal, which communicates Jing and Guang, is now being widened, and it is very lively.

The imperial court transferred more than 20 small steamers from the Jiangxia and Jingzhou sailors as tugboats, which solved the problem of transporting grain and baggage to a large extent. The Lingnan road is rugged, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and the consumption of the physical strength of the soldiers is quite huge.

Ma Xigao, the envoy of Jingjiang Jiedu, is supervising the renovation project of the Ling Canal in Xing'an.

He is the only remaining Jiedu envoy of the Ma family of Chu State, but the number of troops in his hands has been reduced to 5,000 people. He didn't dare to object to this, but the court was willing to transfer to other places, and he just wanted to hand over all the military power in his hand as soon as possible, so as to save himself from being killed.

Ma Jigao saw the power of the machine with his own eyes, and he was actually very curious to board the steamer, and asked the captain to lead him to the power compartment below to inspect the operation of the steam engine.

The water of this spiritual canal flows from Hunan water to Li water, but the drop is not large, and the water flow is gentle.

The fleet docked at the dock in Xing'an, and because of the noise on the steamer, Li Yanyu, Cao Yun and others sat on an official ship in the center of the fleet. When the transport arrived in Hung Yen, it began to go down the river without the towing of the steamer. The waterway transportation on the Xunjiang, Qianjiang and Yongjiang rivers was under the responsibility of the Wuzhou and Yongzhou sailors under the Lingnan Jiedu, and the grain, grass, baggage and personnel were transported to Xing'an, and Li Yanyu was considered to have completed the task.

Li Yanyu and Cao Yun went ashore in Xing'an, met with Ma Xigao, and his men began to hand over and count the goods.

This spiritual canal was dug in the Qin Dynasty in 218 BC, which shows that the technology of China in the pre-Qin era has reached a very high level. It's a pity that after the Confucianism became dominant in the Han Dynasty, due to the lack of attention to science and technology and production, the scientific and technological level of China stagnated and developed slowly.

The current Jiaozhi people are not as bold as the Song Dynasty and dare to challenge the Central Plains Empire.

After expelling Cheng Bao, the envoy of the Southern Han Dynasty, Yang Tingyi, the general of the Qu Chengmei Department, called himself the envoy of the Jinghai Festival. In the eleventh year of the Tang Dynasty (937), Yang Tingyi was killed by the general Jiao Gongxian, and his son-in-law Wu Quan raised troops from Aizhou, captured Jiaozhou City, killed Jiao Gongxian, and became the envoy of Jiedu.

The problem is that there has always been a Southern Han army stationed in Wu'an Prefecture, and after the imperial court forced the Southern Han to cede Yongzhou, this army simply surrendered to the imperial court under the command of Wu Xun. After receiving Wu Xun's surrender letter, Li Jizhong, the envoy of Lingnan Town, ordered him to lead his troops to still garrison Wu'an Prefecture in the area of the Taiping River in Jiaozhou.

After Wu Quan broke through Jiaozhou and killed Jiao Gongxian, he had the ambition to unify Jiaozhi, so he led the army to attack Wu'anzhou.

Wu Xun couldn't resist, so he led his troops to retreat to Langzhou, and sent people to Li Jizhong for help.

Li Jizhong was furious when he heard the news, and while sending troops to Langzhou to support Wu Xun, he reported to the imperial court and asked for troops to be sent to Jiaozhi.

This is the beginning and end of the court's crusade against Jiaozhi.

When the imperial court received Li Jizhong's report, it did not ask Li Jizhong to send troops immediately, but began to dispatch troops and prepare heavy grain and grass first.

Accompanied by Ma Xigao, Li Yanyu entered Xing'an County and chatted with Ma Xigao about the situation of Jiaozhi. When he learned that there were only 20,000 soldiers and horses in Jiaozhi, he was relieved.

This time, the imperial court mobilized more than 40,000 soldiers and horses to Yongzhou, plus Li Jizhong originally had 20,000 Yongzhou troops in his hands, so there should not be much problem in stabilizing this battle. Later, he asked the Xing'an County about the situation of the spiritual canal.

Naxing'an Zhixian couldn't help but talk about the difficulties after talking about the water transportation of the Ling Canal.

It turns out that during the dry season in winter, the water level in this spiritual canal drops, making it difficult for boats to navigate, and sometimes even navigable.

After hearing this, Cao Yun said: "If you want to keep the waterway open in winter, you have to build dams and embankments on both sides and build reservoirs." ”

Li Yanyu frowned and said, "Is it cost-effective to build two dams here?" ”

Cao Yun said: "I think there is a lot of cultivated land on both sides of this river, and if the water level rises, the canal irrigation can make a lot of fertile land come out." ”

Li Yanyu thought for a while and said, "Okay, go back and get a charter, and I'll report to the imperial court." The above means to advance step by step, once and for all, to implement military cantonment in various places, take root, and completely solve the problem of long-term peace and stability in various places. In this way, this is a big deal to solve the traffic problem, and I think it will be approved. ”

Ma Xigao said: "To solve a Jiaozhi, is it necessary to mobilize the people so much?" ”

Li Yanyu said with a straight face: "It's not about surrendering on the surface, but about fundamentally solving the problem, even including the Nanzhao side in the west!" ”

When Ma Xigao heard what he said, he realized that the imperial court was not just for Jiaozhi, but had an overall strategy.

This war is about logistics, and in many places south of Hengzhou, the power of the imperial court cannot be taken into account for the time being, and of course it does not dare to count on local supplies.

This army went south not only to conquer Jiaozhi, but also to take over the local defense by the way, and prepared to adopt a solid strategy to gradually stabilize Lingnan.

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When the imperial court was dispatching troops and preparing to pacify Jiaozhi in one fell swoop, unexpectedly the Fujian rebellion broke out again.

Wang Jipeng, the lord of Fujian, killed his father and stood on his own, but he also maintained his family style, drinking and feasting every night, and he was happy endlessly. He also went out of the harsh government and plundered the people's wealth, so he aroused the anger of the heavens and the resentment of the people, and the people betrayed their relatives and left.

During the reign of Wang Yanjun, he followed the system of Wang Zhenzhi, and set up two guards and forbidden armies.

Wang Chang succeeded him, and recruited another 2,000 strong men to build the Chenwei capital, thinking that the heart and treatment and rewards were better than the other two guards and forbidden troops, which caused the resentment of the two guards of Guanchen and Guanhe.

Wang Chang was also afraid of causing trouble when he found out, so he prepared to send these two guards to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou.

After receiving the news, the two guards and forbidden troops were in an uproar, and Zhu Wenjin, the envoy of the Chenchen army, and Lian Lian, the envoy of the Crane army, were often reprimanded and insulted by Wang Chang, and they were resentful.

At this time, it was just in time for the palace to encounter a fire, and the arsonist was not caught.

Wang Chang ordered Lian Chongyu to lead the crane army to extinguish the fire and clean up the ruins, and suspected that Lian Chongyu was conspiring to set fire, and wanted to kill Lian Chongyu.

It just so happened that Chen Tan, a bachelor, had a private friendship with Lian Chongyu, so he secretly told Lian Chongyu.

When Lian Chongyu got the news, he simply conspired with Zhu Wenjin and the others, and actually led two guards to the forbidden army, and instead besieged Changchun Palace and set fire to the palace. He also sent people to Wang Yanxi's mansion and supported him as the lord of Fujian.

That Wang Chang fled in a hurry, took the queen Li Chunyan, and the concubines and kings, and ran to the camp of Chenwei.

The two guards of the control of Chen and the control of the crane chased and killed, and under a chaotic battle, the remaining remnants of more than 1,000 people kept Wang Chang and others from the north pass of Changle City. When he arrived at Wutong Ridge, he was surrounded again, and Wang Chang was captured with all his might. Walking to Lotus Mountain, his cousin Wang Jiye led people to strangle Wang Chang to death, Queen Li Chunyan, and Chang Zhuzi, and Chang's brother Jigong, killed together, and buried on the side of Lotus Mountain.

After a civil strife, Wang Chang, the lord of Fujian, was killed, and Wang Yanxi was enshrined as the new lord, but the military power fell into the hands of Zhu Wenjin and Lian Chongyu.

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