Feng Yi, Han Daoming, and Han Daochang guessed that there must be a behind-the-scenes deal between the late Red House and the Zheng family, and the Zheng family could agree to let the northeastern hinterland of Jingxiang on the north side of Hubei and Huang Prefectures fall into the hands of the Huaixi Forbidden Army.

Tangyi is currently fighting with Huaidong and Shouwangfu, and has no intention of ruining the good things of the Late Red Mansion and the Zheng family, but Feng Yi and Han Daoming feel that this is an excellent opportunity to fish in troubled waters, and they can take the opportunity to achieve the purpose of incorporating cotton cloth and cotton wool into the autumn endowment.

Feng Yi also sent someone to cross the river with a copy of Shuzhou's letter overnight to Donghu and hand it over to Han Qian, and Han Qian's reply was also sent back to Jinling City before nightfall the next day.

"My grandfather and the adults are above, and they see the words like they meet. I have already learned about the matter of Shuzhou's letter, and after thinking about it, I think that we should not take advantage of this matter to seek our own interests, so I plan to send this letter to all of you. Even if you don't think about the Great Chu Sheji, the Shouzhou Army is also the only enemy of the Tangyi generals at present, and they should do everything possible to contact all forces to weaken and attack it. The Left Guards or the Left Dragon Bird Army can move to Suizhou in parts, and peep at the Shouzhou Army from the passes of Huaiyang Mountain and Tongbai Mountain, and they will definitely be able to exert great pressure on the Shouzhou Army. Although the Marquis of Xinjin proposed this, or there is a party to fight against differences, the foundation of the business, and above the court, the princes and ministers must also have disputes, but the lords in the court, should speak out, the court will be the standard of the matter, should examine whether it is beneficial to the great Chu community, not all kinds of speculation in the hearts of the people. If necessary, this letter can be sent to His Royal Highness King Shou, and I will also write to him in Tangyi......"

Han Daoming and Han Daochang are both elders, and Han Qian called each other as adults in the letter.

Seeing the letter sent back by Han Qian urgently, Han Daoming, Feng Yi, and Han Daochang were all quite surprised.

They didn't expect that Han Qian not only disapproved of them fishing in troubled waters, but even asked them to persuade Shouwang Yang Zhitang and others to spare no effort to support the Huaixi Forbidden Army to move to Suizhou, without caring about Lu Qingxia, Li Zhihe and others secretly trading with the Zheng family.

Of course, in a short period of time, it is beneficial for Tangyi to divide the troops of the Zuowu Guard Army or the Zuo Longque Army to move to Suizhou.

The first is that the Huaixi Forbidden Army has relatively sufficient troops, and it should play a greater role in containing a part of the Shouzhou Army from the western flank, which can effectively alleviate the military pressure on Tangyi.

Second, even from the perspective of running Tangyi, they should also hope that the left and right wings can reduce the garrison as much as possible, which will highlight the importance of Tangyi more and more.

However, in the long run, the closer reconciliation between the Late Red Mansion and the Zheng family and the deeper roots are not good for them.

From this point of view, even if they do not stand up strongly to obstruct it, they should fish in troubled waters and take the opportunity to seek some additional benefits; can even take advantage of Emperor Yanyou's further chilling of Li Zhihe and the Zheng family to somewhat redeem some of Emperor Yanyou's trust.

They didn't expect that Han Qian's urgent reply would be such a righteous and awe-inspiring one.

However, Han Qian's attitude was so clear, Han Daoming, Feng Yi, and Han Daochang also acted in accordance with their wishes, and went to see Shouwang Yang Zhitang that night, hoping that Yang Zhitang would promote the Huaixi Forbidden Army to move to Suizhou as soon as possible, so as to contain a part of the Shouzhou Army and save the Shouzhou Army from creating a war on the day of Han Qian's wedding.

At this time, the Shouwang Mansion was sparing no effort to form a naval army to expand the defense of the rivers and coasts east of Runzhou.

Even in the next recital of Chai Jianjian, the commander of the Left Shenwu Army, Zheng Xingxuan, the son of Zheng Yu and the deputy commander of the Right Dragon Bird Army, was recommended to replace him as the assassin of Shaozhou, and the intention of exchanging defense areas with the Zheng family was obvious, but the interests of the Shouwang Mansion were also very small.

The traditional sphere of influence of Shouwangfu is in Yuanzhou and Hongzhou, and it has nothing to do with Hunan and Jingxiang, and the Shenling Division used to belong to the same lineage, and reached a deal with the Zheng family to exchange each other's defense, so that the two sides can operate more pragmatically, Yang Zhitang is also willing to pinch his nose at this time and recognize it first.

In late November, in addition to the official transfer of Zheng Xingxuan to take charge of Shaozhou, the Privy Council also soon formally signed a decree, and led the Zuowu Guard Army to move to the northern part of Suizhou in order to be able to leave Huaiyang Mountain and actively look for fighters in Gwangju and Huozhou.

Such a quick decision was mainly due to the internal turmoil in the Jin State that caused the Liang army to assemble on a large scale to the northern front, so this winter was also the best opportunity for the Chu army to adjust the defensive deployment of the northern front; Shen Yang and Yang Si did not dwell too much on this matter.

Han Daoming's words in the political hall are very deafening and direct to the hearts of the people, if he does not adjust the deployment of troops at the most favorable time, is it possible to be so entangled in the hind feet, delay the attention of the main force of the Liang army to re-shift to the southern front, and Da Chu will not be able to transfer troops again?

Zheng Hui's department and Chai Jian's department had to take half a year to complete all the changes of defense, but the Zuowu Guards under the command of Zhou Shu had withdrawn to the Shuzhou inner line for repairs during this time, and they did not undertake any defensive tasks in the Lujiang defense line.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, first by boat along the Yangtze River westward in batches, to the south wharf of Huangzhou City landing, and then along the post road on the east side of Huangzhou City, all the way north, until entering the east wing of Suizhou Yingshan, Lishan two counties.

Tongbai Mountain is on the topography and belongs to the remaining veins of the western foot of Huaiyang Mountain.

On the east side of Tongbai Mountain, that is, between Tongbai Mountain and Huaiyang Mountain, the topography is very affected by the large fault zone, and the boundary line of the mountain is particularly neat, and due to the erosion of flowing water, some wide river valleys and transverse mountains are formed in this area.

It is also another major channel connecting Jingxiang and Henan outside the Nanyang Basin.

Jingbei Sanguan, Wusheng Pass, Pingjing Pass and Jiuli Pass, are located in the northern mountains of Yingshan County and Lishan County, and are the only way to invade the northeast hinterland of Jingxiang through Gwangju and Huozhou.

For a long time, because Xu Mingzhen led his troops to guard the middle and upper reaches of the Huai River, the three passes in Jingbei and Yingshan County and Lishan County in the south were all the hinterland of Great Chu, and the center did not particularly care about the construction and defense of the city here.

During the Jinling Incident, Suizhou was more influenced by Yueyang, and it was convenient to organize the township soldiers and the people to be brave, stationed in Wusheng, Pingjing, and Jiuli Sanguan, blocking the Shouzhou army from invading Jingxiang through this.

Of course, at that time, Xu Mingzhen's vision was completely attracted to the eastern front, and he had not yet had the heart to invade Jingxiang from the three passes in Jingbei and clash with Du Chongtao stationed in Xiangzhou and Zhang Ben stationed in Jingzhou.

The rebels of the Palace of Tranquility were expelled

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After the area south of the Yangtze River, the Shouzhou army fell into the dilemma of food shortage for a long time, and was unable to compete for the three passes in Jingbei to expand into the territory of Jingxiang.

Therefore, this gap between Huaiyang Mountain and Tongbai Mountain is mainly defended by local soldiers and horses in Suizhou, and it has not yet fallen under the control of the Shouzhou Army for the time being.

Zhou Shu took over the defense of Yingshan County, Lishan County and Jingbei Sanguan, and was able to peek into Gwangju and Huozhou according to the north of Tongbai Mountain, which is of great significance.

As soon as there was a movement in Shuzhou, the Shouzhou army was also adjusted accordingly, and a large number of troops and horses gathered at the fastest speed at the cities and fortifications north of Wusheng Pass, Jiuli Pass, and Pingjing Pass at the fastest speed, so as to prevent the Zuowu Guards from taking the opportunity to attack Gwangju and Huozhou this winter.

At present, Gwangju and Hoju are the areas where the agricultural production of the Shouju Army is well maintained, and they are also the lifeblood of the Shouju Army......

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Time flies, and in an instant, it has entered the wax moon, which is also the last month of the three years of Yanyou.

On the fourth day of the lunar month, less than four days before the wedding of Han Qian and Wang Jun, the snow flew from the lead-colored sky, and a sailboat sailed north along the Yuxi River.

After nearly a year of repeated dredging and dredging, even if it is a cold winter and the water level of Chaohu Lake is at the lowest time of the year, the Qianshi pointed bottom boat can quickly enter and exit Chaohu Lake through the main channel of Weixukou without hindrance.

In addition to the dredging of the river, the river embankment post road on both sides of the mouth has also been built, located in some newly built courtyard-style tun - on the river beach, there are thousands of young men and women are taking advantage of the low water of the river to carry the shoulders and backs, digging out a load of river mud to stop the embankment.

"This river is already capable of big boats in the cold winter and Layue, why do you have to continue to excavate the river beach on this side?" Accompanied by Han Daoming, Han Daochang and many children of the Han family, Han Wenhuan, who personally crossed the river to East Lake to preside over the marriage this time, was full of sideburns and white hair.

"There is only one mouth of the Yuxi River in the lower reaches of Chaohu Lake, and the openness of this mouth directly determines the scale of flood discharge in Chaohu Lake in summer and autumn, and the subsequent reclamation of Chaohu Lake around the lake is also closely related to this." Feng Yi explained.

"Reclamation around the lake?" Han Daochang and his eldest brother Han Daoming glanced at each other, secretly pondering the words in Feng Yi's words.

In addition to accompanying his father to East Lake to preside over the marriage this time, he has also traveled back and forth to the north and south of the river many times in the past year, but he has come and gone in a hurry, and many things are a glimpse of a general understanding, thinking that since the people around Han Qian have already had the idea of reclamation around the lake, it means that Han Qian's next goal is not only limited to Chuzhou City, but also means that Chaozhou City has fallen into his eyes, right?

Only by pocketing Chaozhou City in the north of Chaohu Lake can it be called a general around the lake to reclaim Chaohu Lake.

Or perhaps because of this, the change of guard between the Left Shenwu Army and the Right Dragon Bird Army and the Zhou Shu led the Left Wuwei Army to enter Yingshan, Lishan and other places are currently the most in line with the interests of Tangyi.

After all, only Zhou Shu led the Zuowu Guards to go north from Tongbai Mountain and Huaiyang Mountain, open a new battlefield in the south of Gwangju and Huozhou, and contain more Shouzhou soldiers and horses to the west of Huozhou, so that they could recover Chaozhou and Chuzhou City.

Han Qian should have had this reason to ask them to support this behind-the-scenes deal between the Late Red Mansion and the Zheng family without hesitation?

Han Daochang speculated wildly in his heart, and soon noticed that there were several river beach wharves on the side of the river in the river, and some small cargo ships could be seen transporting bales of freshly harvested red cane ashore.

Han Daochang guessed that this kind of red cane should be transported ashore to plant sugarcane fields, and asked Feng Yi with great interest: "Xuzhou originally did not plant this red cane, I heard that Han Qian has promoted it in Xuzhou in the past two years, and now he is probably going to increase the planting scale in Tangyi - but I don't know what the truth is behind it?" ”

"Hou Ye said that the common people in the world are yellow and thin, and malnutrition is extremely common, but it is very unrealistic to think that everyone in the world can have meat to eat. However, eating more sucrose can also supplement calories and strengthen the body, so Hou Ye proposed that Xuzhou and Tangyi should reach the standard of five catties of sucrose and sugar per capita per capita within two years, so the cultivation of red cane in Xuzhou has expanded in the past two years. Red cane likes humidity but can not tolerate waterlogging, the climate here in Tangyi is still not as warm as Xuzhou, the riverside lakeside is prone to waterlogging and should be reclaimed paddy fields, at present, the main consideration is to plant some in the slopes and valleys of the west and south of the mountain, and it will be further promoted in the coming year to see if the situation is ...... "Feng Yi asked.

Han Daochang only knew that wealthy families often used caramel to flush water as a soup to drink, and also knew that there were large households in southern Zhejiang and Lingnan that planted cane and squeezed sugar to make profits.

However, hearing Feng Yi say that Han Qian clearly proposed to increase the per capita sugar consumption of Xuzhou and Tangyi to such a high level, Han Daochang was still secretly surprised.

You must know that the old father likes to eat caramel soup every three or five times, but he may not be able to eat five or six catties of caramel a year, he doesn't know how Han Qian can be called Tangyi, Xuzhou ordinary households, can eat five or six catties of caramel a year?

Ordinary households are extremely poor, not to mention the slaves and maids who are attached to the noble families of the wealthy clans.

Sugar is still a luxury in the world, and at the same time, the management requirements of sugarcane fields are much stricter than ordinary farmland, and only in southern Zhejiang, Lingnan and other places there are large households to grow, and the scale is also quite limited.

However, what Han Daochang didn't know was that the sugarcane fields cultivated in Xuzhou in recent years have proved that as long as the fertility of the land is sufficient, one acre of sugarcane fields in these warm and moist areas of Xuzhou, and even further north to the banks of the Yangtze River, can almost squeeze hundreds of catties of good sugar.

From this point of view alone, cane sugar, like cotton cloth, is far less luxurious than the world imagines, but the world's sugarcane planting capacity has not yet been refined to this point for the time being.

However, like soap made from tung oil, cane sugar was not an indispensable necessity in the lives of poor households in the world, and it was more difficult to promote than cotton cloth.

Therefore, among the bulk commodities exported by Xuzhou, cane sugar, like soap and other things, is not the focus for the time being, and Han Qian is currently mainly trying to increase the sugar consumption in Xuzhou and Tangyi as much as possible.

In the world, a sufficient supply of meat was still too luxurious, but at present, Han Qian in the army guaranteed that each general could have a supply of more than two catties of sucrose per month, which provided sufficient guarantee for the soldiers to maintain good physical strength in combat and training.

In addition, laborers who are engaged in heavy manual labor, such as going to the river beach embankment or building a fortified city wall, will also provide more than a pound of cane sugar every month.

These two items alone are almost there

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More than 5,000 acres of sugarcane fields and sugar mills directly under the jurisdiction of the Industrial Construction Bureau in Xuzhou have consumed about 450,000 catties of cane sugar every year.

In the next step, Han Qian plans to increase the sugarcane fields in Tangyi and Xuzhou to about 50,000 mu in two years, and increase the output of cane sugar to 50,000 quintals.

This output seems to be extremely high, but when it is distributed among the five or six hundred thousand soldiers and civilians in the two places in the next two years, it will be less than 10 catties of sugar per person per year.

Considering that the sugar consumption of military generals and heavy manual laborers is much higher than that of ordinary people, this also means that the sugar consumption of ordinary people is only maintained above a certain level of calorie supplementation.

This is the same as Tangyi using the river beach and river beach to expand the breeding of ducks and birds as much as possible, and the current scale of duck and poultry breeding in Xuzhou is as high as one million, in fact, it is far from meeting the internal consumption, and it has not yet reached the stage of large-scale export to the outside world.

At present, Han Daochang and many children of the Han family are no longer outsiders, as long as there is an opportunity, Feng Yi will also explain the internal operation of Xuzhou and Tangyi in as much detail as possible, so as to help them integrate as soon as possible; What's more, the old man also likes to listen to these along the way.

Many models in the Tangyi army are very different from other battalions in the world.

In terms of soap alone, the generals of the Tangyi army distribute a piece of soap every month, and wash strictly with soap, which is unimaginable to the world.

Not to mention the destitute households and slaves, even if they are well-to-do households, how many people can insist on using soap horns to clean their bodies in their daily lives?

Of course, Han Qian insisted on using a large amount of tung oil and other oils to make oil soap, and then distributed it to force the soldiers to use it in their daily lives, so that the epidemic and injury infections in the camp were at a very low level.

Then batches of veterans withdrew from the camp and returned to the village, and good habits took root and sprouted in all corners of Xuzhou.

At the foundation of Xuzhou, Tangyi replicates all this, and the speed will only be faster, and the effect can only be better.

Entering Chaohu Lake after passing through the mouth of the Xuxukou, everyone saw that thousands of people were building a second set of embankments on the outside of the embankment that was built last year.

The distance between the two embankments ranges from 1,000 to 2,000 steps, and Feng explained that this will not only add about 100,000 mu of land to Donghu County, but also improve the county's resistance to Chaohu Lake's summer and autumn floods.

Otherwise, they will focus on the development of the core area on the inner side of the first causeway, and in the event of flooding, the losses will be unimaginable.

The construction of the double embankment and the set of embankments here, and the continuous excavation of the mouth of the wet beard are complementary, and the dock port of the naval camp is located between the two embankments.

"This time, I will live in Tangyi, and if I don't go back, I may be able to see a majestic city rise on the north shore in my lifetime!" Han Wenhuan's thin old hand grabbed the side of the boat tremblingly and said.

Han Wenhuan is at this age, and it stands to reason that it is a matter of course to retire wherever he goes, but if he really wants to be Tangyi, in the eyes of many people, the meaning is still very different.

Of course, the integration of the Han family and Xuzhou has reached this point, and the Tan clan has invested so much in Tangyi, and Han Daoming and Han Daochang will not object to the old man's decision.

Their ship stopped directly at the dock port, and at this time, Han Qian led a large number of generals such as Guo Rong and Gao Shao to the dock to greet the old man.

Han Daochang has traveled to and from East Lake a lot, and when he boarded the wharf, he could see the houses on the inner side of the old embankment, which were densely packed every month; Several criss-crossing streets and alleys are also planned to be built on the south side of the East Lake Daying, and a brand-new town port has begun to take shape, as long as a ring of city walls is built on the periphery, it is a medium-sized city.

However, Han Qian had no plans to build a city wall on the periphery of East Lake.

If the two defense lines of Fucha Mountain and Qingcang Mountain cannot stop the enemy's attack, and if they cannot maintain an overwhelming advantage in Chaohu Lake, there is no point in building a city wall.

After all, the future development of many workshops and workshops in East Lake City will mainly use the drop of flowing water as a driving force, and can only be built in the shallow mountains and low ridges of Qingcang Mountain and Weixu Mountain on both sides, and these are the essence of East Lake in the future, can they all be protected by city walls?

At present, Tangyi recruits displaced people in Huaidong and Jiangdong, and the three families still agree that Tangyi will send people to sell the fields and houses in Yangrun and other places at a price not lower than 20% of the current price, and the money obtained will be borrowed from Huaidong or Shouwangfu in the name of the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau.

Since the end of July, Tangyi has maintained an inflow of 800 to 1,000 households every month, and has been mainly resettled in Donghu County on the east side of Chaohu Lake in the early stage, so as to provide the necessary labor force for the development of Donghu County in the next two to three years.

At present, in addition to the additional laborers hired from Xuzhou, Jiangzhou and other places, Donghu County officially has more than 5,000 households and more than 35,000 people in Dingkou, which can barely reach the standard of a medium-sized county.

However, the total number of Donghu and Liyang counties is only more than 50,000, and there is still a long way to go before Han Qian's initial vision of the two counties reaching 200,000.

Dingkou, the key to everything is still Dingkou.

The wedding was held in Liyang City, and everyone took a car on the pier and went directly to Liyang City in the east through Chi Road.

Han Daochang has been concerned about welcoming relatives along the way, after all, there are still more than 200 miles from here to Yangzhou, and the team will leave for Yangzhou early tomorrow morning.

The reason why they didn't notice it was that Han Qian sent Han Donghu to lead more than 1,000 cavalry to Yangzhou by land to welcome his relatives, and planned to welcome Wang Jun into Tangyi City under the escort of Yangzhou soldiers and horses, and then escorted by Tian Cheng, Zhou Chu, Feng Xuan and others, and rushed to Liyang by land to complete the marriage......

"Why is it so troublesome, just send a naval warship to pick it up, can't you just land on the East Lake?" Han Daoming and the others entered Liyang, and lived directly in Lianyuan, where Han Qian was going to marry Wang Jun, and heard Guo Rong explain many details of the wedding on behalf of him in the hall, and asked suspiciously, "Are you worried about the unsafe waterway?" ”

Han Qian motioned for the guards and unrelated people to retreat, and said, "In addition to claiming that the waterway is not safe enough, another reason is to use the marriage to show Tangyi's troops. Of course, only in this way can I quietly gather the most elite combat forces stationed in Tangyi, Puyang, Wushou, and Tingshan counties to East Lake! ”

"Ah......" Han Daoming suddenly knew that Han Qian wanted to take advantage of his marriage to Wang Wenqian's daughter, and take advantage of the defenselessness of the generals of the Shouzhou army to complete a surprise attack on the Shouzhou army.

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