Shen Yang walked out of the main hall and saw Jiang Shu, Chen Ruyi and Zhang Qian all guarding under the eaves of the main hall, and he bowed his hands with Jiang Shu and Chen Ruyi, and then returned to Shangshu Province with Zhang Qian.

At the beginning of the twilight, there were still many people in the Shangshu Provincial Government Hall.

Seeing Zheng Yu and Han Daoming sitting in the public hall talking and laughing, seeing them walking in, he only bowed his head slightly, and then saw that Han Daoming's expression was not affected by the palace discussion just now, Shen Yang's face sank slightly, but he also understood that the Zheng family had a request for Tangyi at this time.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Central Plains soldiers and horses have conquered the Lingnan region, and the casualties on the battlefield are still secondary, and the more tragic is the attrition caused by the epidemic.

For thousands of years, almost three or four out of ten of the southern conquests were fought because of the uncontrollable spread of miasma and plague, and they had to retreat, and were even defeated and defeated by the southern barbarians.

At this time, Zheng Hui had successfully led his troops to attack Yongzhou, and it can be affirmed that Xuzhou's sufficient supply of miasma wine has contributed to it.

At present, Zheng Hui's generals can confirm the infection rate of miasma, which is even lower than that of the local soldiers and horses in Guizhou and Yongzhou, and even if some generals are infected with miasma and dysentery, they can be treated in time.

This is something that was previously unimaginable.

It can also be confirmed that Han Daoxun, Han Qian, father and son have been able to control every corner of Xuzhou so quickly over the years, and the miasma has been distributed.

After the Imperial Medical Bureau obtained the miasma wine, it was also confirmed that it contained medicinal materials such as Artemisia annua, but the traditional method of preparation was used to imitate it, and the medicinal wine made had a certain preventive effect on the miasma, but it was still too far behind the miasma wine produced in Xuzhou.

At present, the Zheng clan is fully leading the conquest of the area occupied by Liu Yin, the commander of the Qingyuan army in Lingnan, and after the Chenzhou crisis, Han Qian not only handed over the Chenzhou camp, which was very good at fighting in the hot and humid bush, but also allowed the Zheng clan to sell wine to Xuzhou and Huaixi, which was destined for the Zheng family to be unable to get rid of its dependence on Tangyi in a short time.

The revenue from the salt and iron tax went to the central salt envoys, and the sale of wine and tea was usually an important source of revenue for the feudal towns and prefectures.

Although everyone can know that Han Qian wants to save food consumption in Tangyi, he will restrict local winemaking, and at this time, he needs to meet the wine consumption in Tangyi, so he can only allow Zheng or other wine merchants to enter the country for profit.

Even Tangyi will levy a part of the city parking tax and taxes, but the Zheng family must accept Han Qian's affection.

In the Gyeonggi area, for example, although the Jeongs also have the right to sell in Gyeonggi, there are 19 other companies that are also eligible to sell sake brewers in Jinling and Gyeonggi counties.

Although the per capita consumption of alcohol in Huaixi and Xuzhou is lower than that of Gyeonggi, but it is much higher than that of ordinary prefectures and counties, the key point is that even if Tangyi does not control private brewing extremely strictly, the government and the government of the prefecture and county do not directly brew and drink alcohol for sale, and this market in Huaixi is basically the exclusive use of the Zheng family.

Although the scribes of Shangshu Province estimated that Zheng's profits in Xuzhou and Huaixi should be tens of thousands to 200,000 yuan in the past year, this is almost enough to cover more than one-third of Zheng's military expenses for the additional subsidies for the Youlongque Army and Shaohengzhou's southern expedition.

Even if it was already a past friendship to give it to Chenzhou Fanying, Shen Yang knew that only the two wines and miasma wine had decided that the relationship between the Zheng family and Tangyi would not change fundamentally until Zheng Hui led his troops to pacify Lingnan.

Shen Yang couldn't help but think, if he proposed at this time, headed by Du Chongtao or Zhou Bingwu, to select a group of young generals from the guards and pro-army, organize a group of soldiers and horses to Ganzhou, join the soldiers and horses of the upper reaches of the Ganjiang River to march south, and open up a second battlefield from the east flank to the Qingyuan Army's Jiedu Prefecture, what would the Zheng family think?

Even if this would greatly alleviate the military pressure on Zheng Hui's troops to attack from the western flank, Zheng would have thought that this move was aimed at them, right?

Shen Yang sighed lightly in his heart, seeing that the sky had darkened, he decided to go to Yang En, who had not been to the political hall for the past two days, to see what he thought about many things, and then to find Yang Zhitang, the king of life, and Zhang Chao and others to test their attitude.

Shen Yang got up and left the government office of Shangshu Province, and Zhang Qian and Qin Wen, who was on duty in the political hall today, also got up and left.

Han Daoming, who was talking to Zheng Yu under the eaves, saw them passing by, opened his mouth and asked Zhang Qian and Qin: "Today is Daochang's sixty years old and setting up a birthday banquet, Shen Xiangri has a lot of opportunities, I'm afraid I don't have time to get out, Lord Zhang, Lord Qin, can you have time to drink a glass of water and wine in the house?" ”

Zhang Qian was slightly stunned, and said in a panic: "It's really unfortunate, I made an appointment tonight, and I will ask my family to send He Yi to the house later......"

Qin Wen glanced back, didn't say anything, and followed Shen Yang to the government office.

Zhang Qian stood awkwardly in front of the threshold and stopped for a while, and finally chased after him, and saw that Xue Ruogu, who had been transferred from Lishui County to the Imperial Historical Observatory, did not know where to come out, and was talking to Qin Wen and Shen Yang while walking in front.

He heard Xue Ruogu asking Shen Yang in front of him:

"What does Your Majesty say about the transfer of the Left Wuxiang Army back to Gyeonggi and the use of Lord Du or the newly formed Right Wuxiang Army of the Zhou Army to attack the Qingyuan Army along the south of the Gan River?"

Hearing Xue Ruogu ask about this, Zhang Qian saved what Shen Yang was secretly discussing with His Majesty in the Chongwen Hall just now, secretly thinking that these were all Xue Ruogu's ideas for helping Xiangye, right?

"Your Majesty has not made up his mind, but it is imperative to transfer the Left Wuxiang Army back to Jinggi," Shen Yang saw Zhang Qian coming over, and did not avoid him when he spoke, answering Xue Ruogu's question, and said, "But the matter of the new Right Wuxiang Army is still quite tricky, Zheng's reaction is one thing, and whether Du Shu's envoy or Zhou's military department is willing to come forward is another matter......

Zhang Qian thought that the situation in Dachu had undergone extremely profound changes, even if the imperial court could withstand many resistances, snatch food from the mouth of the forbidden army, and raise money and food for the newly formed right martial army, but Du Chongtao and Zhou Bingwu might not be willing to do this at this time, right?

"This is also easy, Du Chongtao and Zhou Bingwu have so many subordinates, sons and nephews, first arrange for them to serve in the Privy Council, the Ministry of War and the Guards Military Mansion." Qin Wen said.

Zhang Qian thought to himself, Qin asked, this plan was also ruthless.

The military department and the Privy Council need to fill in a large number of officials, not to mention, the forbidden army and the guard pro-army system is divided into, corresponding to the commanders of the capitals and the marquis of Yu, and the cantonment military government also has the posts of generals and captains who are responsible for the cultivation of the military government's tuntian, the management of military households, and the organization and training.

Maybe Du Chongtao and Zhou Bingwu want to retreat bravely from the torrent and don't want to wade into this troubled water at this time, but their subordinates, sons and nephews are in the prime of their lives, they are keen on fame and fortune, eager to establish meritorious deeds, and be crowned princes and marquises.

Just like last year, when the new Zuo Wuxiang Army was compiled, Huang Hua may not have wanted his son Huang to take the lead, but he failed to prevent it.

Many times, people are always pushed forward by a large or small tide.

Shen Yang did not directly agree with or deny Qin Wen's plan, and continued to walk out; Qin Wen was silent for a while, then looked back at Zhang Qian, and asked with a smile: "The Han Mansion should be quite lively today, Lord Zhang really doesn't want to drink a glass of water and wine?" ”

"I can't make up for this excitement." Zhang Qian laughed twice and replied.

Regarding Zhang Qian's unwillingness to deal with the Han Mansion, Xue Ruogu turned a blind eye and continued to say to Shen Yang:

"I sent people to Shouchun and Fengtai to see, the Shouzhou army withdrew from these two cities, and failed to move the people in the city, presumably the same is the situation in Huoqiu. Whether it is the instruction of Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang, or the two prefectures occupied by Xu Mingzhen, they can no longer accommodate 100,000 people in the three cities, but one thing is certain, Liang Chu will most of them trade with Tangyi in exchange for grain in exchange for people......

At the end of last year, during the recruitment of the Luoshan garrison, Zhang Qian had a trip to Huaixi on the spot, and saw the speed and efficiency of Huaixi's resettlement of disaster victims and displaced people, and Huaixi is vast and sparsely populated, and the land in the territory is flat and fertile, and the three counties of Shouchun, Fengtai, and Huoqiu have a new population of 100,000 people, and there are only more than 1.3 million Dingkou, and as long as the speed of house construction and reclamation can keep up with the speed of housing and reclamation of tuntian, there will be no problem at all if it can accommodate twice the population.

At this time, Tangyi actually governed more than 1.5 million Dingkou (including Xuzhou), and already had such a terrifying military mobilization potential, if it continued to receive disaster victims and people fleeing the war from Hehuai on a large scale, how much strength would continue to swell?

"How does Shen Xiang think Cishou Palace will deal with this?"

"Although the palace is fighting for red faces today, considering that Xiangbei is eager to digest the land of Liangzhou, I am afraid it will be difficult to refuse the matter of peace negotiation," Shen Yang said, "The one who will really oppose it may be Huaidong, right?" ”

Hearing Shen Yang's words, Zhang Qian, who saw the quarrel in the hall with his own eyes, was even more deeply touched.

On their side, they wanted to push for the transfer of Zuo Wuxiang's army back to Gyeonggi, and it was even more unlikely that Li Zhihe would refuse peace negotiations in Liangzhou in order to relieve the military pressure on the eastern flank of Liangzhou.

If Li Zhihe and Cishou Gong refused to negotiate peace, the Liang army would definitely not mind helping Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian to counterattack Liangzhou.

The situation in Guanzhong is too complicated, and from the perspective of practical interests, Li Zhihe and Cishou Palace will not see the good of Tangyi and the Han family again, and they will choose to forbear in this matter.

Or maybe Han Daoming had expected this a long time ago, so he wantonly opened his mouth in the palace today, right?

As for why Huaidong would vigorously oppose it, it is not difficult to understand.

In the past two years, the situation has changed drastically, don't take Tangyi, the strength of the Zheng family, Xiangbei, Huang family and even the Shouwang Mansion has been greatly enhanced, only Huaidong has not received the slightest benefit, and is forced to return Shiliang County to Chuzhou.

Once the peace agreement is formally concluded, Huaidong will lose the excuse to cross the Huai River and expand to the Xusi region, how could Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, be willing in his heart?

However, Huaidong is the most estranged from the center, and Huaidong is strongly opposed, how can it influence the choice of the imperial court?

Not only will the imperial court ignore Huaidong's objections, but will also reduce the relief money and grain given to Huaidong in order to organize the right martial army, right?

Thinking about the past seven or eight years, the experience of Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, has been ups and downs enough.

Originally, it was very expected to take Jinling from the Anning Palace to succeed him, and once he was strong and strong, with more than 100,000 people, controlling the prefectures on the north shore of Taihu Lake and the eastern part of Gyeonggi, but he didn't want to be distracted by Han Qian's stubborn leadership of a Chishan army composed of mud legs and slaves.

Huaidong is only a million Dingkou, and it is too difficult to raise more than 100,000 soldiers and horses who have returned to the north shore.

However, by the end of the second year of Yanyou, Huaidong finally reduced the soldiers and horses to only 60,000 or 70,000 elites, but unexpectedly, the water division defeated Hongzepu, which led to the erosion of the good situation in Jianghuai, and Huaidong was inevitably dragged in.

Although the core area of Huaidong was not lost, tens of thousands of enemy cavalry penetrated into the hinterland and repeatedly attacked and harassed for several months, including Sizhou and Haizhou to the north of the Huai River, and Huaidong to the end of the spring of the third year of Yanyou, losing nearly 300,000 people, and destroying the water conservancy system near Chuzhou.

Huaidong once could not even maintain 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers and horses, but had to maintain such a large number of troops to cope with the military pressure of the enemy army in the Xusi area in the north, and was forced to choose to send disaster victims to Tangyi in exchange for a loan from the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau to support the most basic military expenses, and Dingkou once fell to about 800,000.

With Han Qian's siege of the city and the successive victories in Huaixi, the military pressure on the northeast of Huaibei was greatly reduced, and due to the rapid rise of Tangyi, the imperial court relaxed its suppression of Huaidong, and Huaidong compressed the active soldiers and horses to about 40,000 in the past three or four years, and all aspects finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, compared with the rise of Tangyi and Li Zhihe's development momentum in Xiangbei, Huaidong is really a little lost.

"Since the Han Mansion has made a birthday for Han Daochang, it has also sent you a post, and there is nothing to eat and drink in the past." Shen Yang said to Zhang Qian and Qin Wen at this time.

"I'm not going to join in the fun, even if I want to find out the news, I'll bother Lord Zhang to work hard." Qin Wen refused neatly.

Zhang Qian is a small official, and his life is much more sleek than Qin Wen, who was born as a scholar, but if Qin Wen says this, it should or should not be that strong, and sneered: "The Han Mansion has been quite high-profile in the past few months, and the house is full of friends at every turn, if the Han Mansion is still like this tonight, most of the voices in the DPRK and China will support peace in the past two days......

After leaving the imperial city, Zhang Qian went straight back to his home, he originally wanted to send his family to the Han Mansion to send a congratulatory ceremony.

As ministers in the same hall, not only Zhang Qian, but even Shen Yang and Xue Ruogu, if there is anything in the house to congratulate Ding on his birthday, Han Daoming and Han Daochang will send junior figures to send He Yi over, and there is no evil on the surface.

But he didn't want him to take the car and just turned the alley, he saw the eldest sons Zhang Ze and Han Duan coming out of his house, standing at the gate of the mansion waiting for the carriage to come over, and saluted: "I just heard the sound of horses' hooves, and I guessed that Uncle Zhang had returned to the mansion - my father specially wanted to come over and invite Uncle Zhang and Zhang Ze to the mansion to drink......

Although Han Duan is only the head of the ministry, in the past two years, in addition to Han Daoming and Han Daochang, the Han family has shown up outside, and the other children of the Han family and the in-laws of Chen Qiao and other clans have all chosen to work in Tangyi or Xuzhou, and there are not many people in the court, which also highlights the importance of Han Duan.

Not to talk about the taste, Han Duan waited in his house before the banquet, Zhang Qian had no reason to shirk, hurriedly returned to the house to change into civilian clothes, and took his son Zhang Ze to the brightly lit and full of guests and friends of the Han Mansion with Han Duan.

When entering the Han Mansion, Zhang Qian happened to meet the car driver who came hand in hand with Han Daoming and Zheng Yu, and stepped into the mansion together, and saw that the Liang envoy Guo Duanduo also rushed to the Han Mansion for a banquet accompanied (under guardianship) by the officials of Honglu Temple.

Han Daochang's status in the Han Mansion is second only to Han Daoming, and in the past two years, he has been in the salt and iron transfer envoy Si Renlang Zhongguan is like a glutton, and he has not thought about transferring, and it seems that his rank is not among the ministers, but he is sent by real power in Dachu.

The salt affairs of Dachu are divided into four links: boiling, collecting, transporting and selling, the salt and iron transfer envoy does not have a waiter, Zhang Qian leads the salt and iron transfer envoy with the governor of politics and the household department, and then there are four Lang lieutenants who each do a thing, and the three things of cooking and sales are all controlled by Zhang Chao's descendants, and Han Daochang is in charge of the transportation between the salt field and the salt and iron court supervisor of the state and county.

In the past two years, Han Daochang served in the salt and iron transshipment envoy department, withstood the pressure, promoted the advantages and eliminated the disadvantages, abolished the previous salt transportation fleet, entrusted the salt transportation to the Chishan Society, and only arranged for the salt officials to supervise.

This alone saves the imperial court forty or fifty thousand yuan every year, and no one dares to say that the Han family will enrich their own pockets by handing over the matter of transporting salt to Chishan.

The large warehouse boat owned by the Chishan Club takes the Yangtze River and the tributaries of Hunan Ruan, Han and Jiangxi, with large capacity, fast speed and great advantages, and there are many states and counties along the shores of Taihu Lake, Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake, all of which have delivered the matter of escorting the grain to the Chishan Club.

Although the center has always wanted to avoid this situation, the shipbuilding industry in Jinling and Jiangdong was completely destroyed before and after the Jinling Incident, and it has never recovered.

Although there are two government-run shipyards in Yueyang and Tanzhou, they lack sufficient funds, and the ships built are always rejected because they are too expensive and too slow.

Other local shipbuilding industries, under the pressure of Xuzhou and the recently emerging East Lake ships with high quality and low prices, have no competitiveness in medium and large ships, and they are completely unsuccessful, and can only build some small fishing boats and canopy boats, and the development is not as good as that of the middle and late dynasties.

In addition to long-distance transportation, the boat gangs and merchant gangs that run short- and medium-distance water transportation are mostly friendly with Xuzhou and Tangyi.

On the one hand, they had to buy ships from Tangyi.

On the other hand, with the support of Han Qian, the Chishan Society rose between the rivers, lakes and seas, and had a semi-official identity, and at this time it would no longer succumb to the difficulties of local forces; And the boat gang forces, which were previously squeezed at the bottom and had no status in front of the officials and clansmen, would now ask the Chishan Society to mediate if they encountered local disputes.

Zhang Qian followed Shen Yang's side, and also studied Tangyi and the Han Mansion deeply, and knew that the affairs of the Chishan Society were currently divided into two parts, one was to secretly spy and collect intelligence on the prefectures and counties of Chu, and these things and armed guards were in charge of Guo Xiao and Lin Jiang.

There is another thing, that is, the relatively pure shipping and the economic livelihood of the congregation, and the current principals are Guo Quan and Zhou Zhu, the former military attachés of the Chishan Army, who are also Han Qian's descendants.

However, in the past year, Guo Quan and Zhou Zhu have frequently haunted the Han Mansion in Jinling, and Zhang Qian suspected that Han Qian had secretly handed over the affairs of the Chishan Society to Han Daochang.

In addition to Xuzhou and Huaixi coal, iron, and cotton cloth, Jinling and Zhuzhou counties have the largest scale of grain and salt transportation, and even larger than the bulk cargo exports from Xuzhou and Huaixi, with the annual transportation scale of six or seven million stones.

Although there is no accurate statistics on the total amount of money invested by the state and county and subway transit envoys in the transportation of grain and salt, the recruitment of transport personnel, shipwrights and sailors, ships, and the dispatch of escort officers, etc., it will definitely not be less than two million dollars.

This is not because the Yangtze River waterway can be passed, and the former dynasty went to Heluo and Chang'an to transport grain, which cost even more.

These are also destined to Han Daochang is already a pivotal figure in Jinling, not to mention that the 60th birthday is an extremely important moment in life, and a little decent people will handle it.

Zhang Chao saw that not only the salt and iron transport envoy, Zhang Chao, the household servant, and Han Daochang's colleagues in the academy, as well as Han Daoming's invitation to Zheng Yu, Liang envoy Guo Duanxue and others to come over for the banquet, but also sent people to send He Yi over.

Passing through the weeping flower hall, and then looking at the mansion, how can there be as many as four or five hundred in-laws and friends gathered in the Han Mansion today, Zhang Qian thought to himself that the Han Mansion Garden, which had been reduced by nearly half in the most difficult two years, was still large enough, so he didn't call so many people to the banquet How crowded he felt.

Although Zhang Qian has not yet become one of the ministers, he is also important enough in the DPRK.

Han Duan wants to be busy today, so he still arranges for a special nephew of the Han family to accompany him. Even if Zhang Qian wanted to act a little forced and wanted to show indifference, among the guests and friends he invited to the banquet, he had a limited number of people at this level after all, and finally came to Han Daoming, Zhang Chao, Zheng Yu and Liang envoy Guo Duanduo to speak, and finally sat together.

Liang Chu's peace discussion is naturally the focus of attention of the government and the opposition recently, and those who go to the Han Mansion for a banquet tonight will not shy away from talking about this issue.

Guo Duanduo came on behalf of Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang, and he also knew that by winning the support of the ministers of Chu, Liang and Chu could reach a formal peace agreement more quickly.

Although Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang won a great victory in Xinzheng, according to Xinzheng City, he gathered men and horses in the south of Liang State, and planned to capture the entire territory of Xingzhou in the next stage, and then attack Heluo and Hangu Pass with the Liang army in Guanzhong on both sides, and completely open up the communication between Guanzhong and Hehuai, but the reaction of the Mengwu people was extremely fast, and after the battle of Xinzheng, its soldiers and horses stationed in Huaizhou and Weizhou quickly crossed the Yellow River and entered the area near the Yellow River in the north-central part of Xingzhou, so as to contain the front of the Liang army.

Unlike the Weizhou rebels with low morale and wavering morale, the Mengwu soldiers and horses had a strong fighting ability and will to fight, and between Xinzheng and Xingyang, Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang led his troops to intersperse the Yellow River several times tentatively, but they were intercepted and returned in vain.

Although he didn't suffer any losses, he didn't take advantage either.

Once it can't be resolved quickly, the biggest shortcoming of the Liang army will be exposed, that is, the logistics supplies such as grain, soldiers, armor, and weapons will seriously not be able to keep up.