On the day when the army ran out of food, when the soldiers were hungry for most of the day, Di Yong finally rushed back with dozens of truckloads of grain.

Di Qing, who was overjoyed, opened Gan Qi's handwritten letter, and the joy on his face slowly sank.

"Good intentions, Dao Jian's wisdom, I'm afraid that no one in the world can match it, such a means can be thought of, and Dao Jian's courage is also unmatched." Di Qing's tone actually carried some helplessness.

There are really no more people in this world who dare to act like Ganqi. Di Qing was worried that his corporal would rob after he was hungry, but Ganqi's solution was a fraud.

But what about not scamming? This is Di Qing's helplessness, but if the grain arrives a day or two late, even if the soldiers in the camp don't know how to rob it, I'm afraid that they will start stealing chickens and dogs nearby.

There are also some things that Di Qing has to do, and Gan Qi arranges. If Di Qing was asked to do these things at another time, Di Qing would never have done it, but today is different, Gan Qi is a sage and a sage, and he has even done fraud, what else is Di Qing unwilling to do? What's more, what you have to do is also for yourself and these soldiers under your command.

Di Qing shook his head and sighed, the firehead camp buried the pot to cook, and the soldiers who had been hungry for most of the day were waiting with drool.

A few bowls and plates arrived in front of Di Qing, but Di Qing had no appetite at all, Di Qing on the side ate very deliciously, and kept opening his mouth to persuade Di Qing to eat a little.

Di Qing still didn't move his chopsticks, just looked at the food in front of him in a daze.

In the city of Tokyo.

Han Qi was in a good mood, and he was extremely satisfied with his plans, and he felt that his plans were unsolvable and murderous.

Having said that, Han Qi's plan is really a nirvana. In conventional terms, there is no solution.

Even if Di Qing had great means, he couldn't control thousands of soldiers, and those thousands of soldiers couldn't really starve to death.

Han Qi even went to the Privy Council several times and ordered the Privy Council to send people to inspect several Gyeonggi Forbidden Army camps during this time and review people. It seems that it is just a routine assessment, but in fact, he is secretly preparing for war, preparing to exterminate Di Qing, who looted the state capital and rebelled.

Even Han Qi had prepared several words in front of the emperor.

Today, Han Qi is in the Privy Council again, this is his territory, before he was promoted to the same Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, Han Qi was the Privy Councillor, and now the Privy Council is Tian Qian.

Tian Guo is also a ruthless person, why do you say that Tian Guo is ruthless? Just because in the past, there was an army in Baozhou that launched a rebellion and killed the imperial court officials to capture the city. Tian Guo was ordered to quell the rebellion, and with various promises, he recruited more than 2,000 rebellious soldiers. But when he turned around, he buried the main 429 of them alive.

Note that it is buried alive. Tian Guo is an orthodox scholar from Jinshi, and because of this live burial, Tian Guo was added to the rank of knight, promoted to the residence of the house, and became a Beijing official.

Han Qi sat opposite Tian Jing and asked, "Where has Di Qing's army arrived?" ”

Tian Guo replied, "The latest state capital documents have not yet arrived, but according to speculation, it should be in Chenzhou at this time." ”

Han Qi was thinking in his heart, and he was also saying in his mouth, "Chenzhou, Hengzhou, Tanzhou, it should be about the same, right?" ”

Tian Guo nodded and replied, "Well, it stands to reason that it should be about the same, and when the state capital clerk returns to Tokyo, there should be a military general to report the loot." ”

Han Qi nodded, "If the report of the military general's looting arrives, send it to me as soon as possible." ”

"Don't worry."

If you want to say that Han Qi is a father-in-law, it is really not comparable to Wen Yanbo. is also in the position of the prime minister, Wen Yanbo is 108,000 miles away from Han Qi. Not to mention the difference in the means of the two, let's talk about the power, the two cannot speak the same day.

Official position, sometimes not indicative of power. Power is managed. Although the process of Han Qi's promotion is not so glorious, compared to the process of Wen Yanbo's promotion by sending Shu brocade to the harem concubine, Han Qi doesn't know where it is. At least Han Qi has really skipped many places, treated major disasters, and really led troops into battle.

In terms of the army, Han Qi is an undoubted boss, and Di Qing was just a lackey under his door in the past, and his words were not rough. Wen Yanbo followed the trend to attack Di Qing, but he said again and again in front of the emperor that Di Qing was Zhao Kuangyin of the Later Zhou, and then pretended to be in front of Di Qing with a public shelf, looking at Di Qing's cautious and respectful appearance, it was probably also a kind of enjoyment. And Han Qi wants to handle Di Qing, it is full of means, and he can handle it as he wants.

In the final analysis, Han Qi is much more capable than Wen Yanbo.

Han Qi explained some things about Tian Qian, and left the Privy Council. Everything is ready, only one state capital is missing, as long as the report arrives, it will be the end of Di Qing.

Han Qi, who left the Privy Council, was in a very good mood at the moment, how could Di Qing, an old horseman, be his opponent of Han Daxiang? has taken Di Qing for a lifetime, and this time is not bad.

It's a pity, but it's a pity that it's only this time, the last time.

At this time, Ganqi, the ship had entered the canal to the north, and the reason why the speed was so fast was because it was flowing down the Yangtze River, and the speed was extremely fast. As Li Bai said in his poem, thousands of miles of Jiangling will be returned in one day.

The canal is a canal that has been dug out by hand for boats. The earliest record in China is more than 500 years B.C., the canal is called Xu River, that is, Wu Wang Lu sent Wu Zixu to dig in order to attack the Chu State, so it is called Xu River.

More than 200 years BC, Qin Shi Huang dug the Ling Canal in order to unify Lingnan and attack Baiyue. As soon as the canal was opened, 500,000 troops went on a rampage, and Lingnan was the eastern part of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the junction with Hunan and Jiangxi, all of which entered the Qin soil. It was a great unification.

Now the canal that Ganqi sailed by boat is the main river channel called the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in later generations, but there are still some differences between the Grand Canal at this time and the later Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in later generations basically maintains a straight line from north to south. The Grand Canal completed by Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty borrowed the course of many rivers, not straight lines, there are many zigzag rivers, and even borrowed a long section of the Yellow River, and also borrowed some small canals dug by successive dynasties before the Sui Dynasty.

In later generations, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which was basically straight, was also excavated and repaired by successive dynasties.

The history books all scolded Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty for working hard and hurting money, and the historians of all dynasties also regarded Yang Guang as a negative example. However, successive dynasties have benefited from the Grand Canal dug by Yang Guang. It is also because of this Grand Canal that the materials produced in the rich Jiangnan can be easily transported to the north. Without this canal, it would be impossible to support the prosperity of the million-dollar Bianliang City in the Song Dynasty. It was impossible for Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty to set the capital in Beijing.

With this canal of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, China has a high-speed passage that truly connects the north and the south, and the exchange of people and materials is almost unimpeded between the north and the south. Even Song Huizong was able to use this canal to transport countless large stones several zhang high from the south two thousand miles away to Bianliang, and in order for these large stones to enter Bianliang City, he did not hesitate to tear down the city gates.

The original purpose of Yang Guang's excavation of this canal was also to fight against Goguryeo three times.

The Chinese, it seems, have been good at big projects since ancient times, and more than 500 BC, they can mobilize tens of millions of people to dig canals and build the Great Wall. In the Sui Dynasty, in order to build the Grand Canal, two million people were even recruited to dig every month.

This shows that the Chinese are good at fighting and can do anything for the sake of war. In the era when iron was scarce and bronze was scarce, huge canals could be dug for war. And this kind of engineering in Europe will not appear until a long time after the Industrial Revolution has begun.

Gan Qi stood on the bow of the boat, looking at this Grand Canal, and had a lot of thoughts, and the reason why China was able to maintain its unity for a long time was also due to this canal. In order to ensure the unity of the country, the Chinese have exhausted all means.

There are also some methods that many people can't think of, such as the division of provinces in later generations, and many of them are considered in order to ensure that the country is not divided. For example, the people of a province do not speak the same language in the north and south at all, and there is a big difference in customs, but it is rigidly divided into a province. Nowhere is this artificially grouped two different groups of people into the same province is more evident than in central China.

Such as Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei. The people in southern Anhui are very close to Shanghai in terms of accent and customs, and belong to the ancient Jiangnan people, but the accent and customs of northern Anhui are like Henan people. The same is true of Jiangsu, southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu, not like a province at all, the accent and customs of northern Jiangsu and Shandong people are relatively similar, and southern Jiangsu is naturally the soft language of Wu Nong in the south of the Yangtze River. There is a similar situation in Hubei, where Xiangyang is almost the accent and customs of Henan, but it is in Hubei Province.

These provinces, all in the middle of China, are also the difference between the north and the south. The division of provinces in this way is artificial, and the people who decide to divide it in this way have many considerations that ordinary people cannot think of, in order not to divide the north and the south and maintain unity. In order to unify this, the Chinese can be said to have racked their brains to find a way.

It's obsession! The Chinese have been obsessed for thousands of years.

Ganqi, who was speeding north on the canal, was already about to enter the boundary of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Di Qing in the south is also about to arrive in Tanzhou at this time.

Outside the city of Tanzhou, there are people waiting with contracts every day, waiting for Di Qing's army to bring the two thousand big buffaloes.

Di Qing looked at the city of Tanzhou from afar, frowned, took a deep breath, and ordered the left and right to speed up.

More than 1,000 people happily rushed out of the city with the contract, and waited for the victorious army to return with pot pulp. Waiting for the army to set up camp, waiting for Di Qing to send someone to welcome them all into the barracks.

It was only a little disappointing that the two thousand cows did not seem to be seen in the army. However, everyone was not in a hurry, they were convinced of the loot that Di Qing brought back.

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