Han Qian assigned Han Donghu to personally take charge of the sneak attack.

Wang Zhe did not accompany him, but Shen Peng, Zhao Ci and other seven Liang army secrets, as well as more than a dozen scout military attaches from the Military Intelligence Staff Department, and two battalions of elite cavalry guards, under the leadership of Han Donghu, set off from Donghu in the early morning of the next day.

After arriving in Linhuai, they will find an opportunity to change clothes in batches to sneak across the Huai River, enter the western territory of Sizhou, and touch the northern part of Xuzhou; In addition to Lin Haizheng's side in Haozhou, a small force of troops and horses will be sent to cooperate with the Huai to attack Tongkou and other places, and will arrange people and horses to do the later response, and the Chishan Society will also directly arrange for several sea ships to rush to the sea near Haizhou in two locations to lurk.

In any case, watching hundreds of elite key soldiers leave the station in this cooler season, and when many situations are uncertain, they take the risk of sneaking into the enemy territory to make such a big move, which is still worrying.

Watching the distant generals disappear into the vast mist, Han Qiancai, accompanied by Xi Fa'er, Xi Yi, Huo Li and others, made a detour from the path on the northern slope of Qingcang Mountain to Liyang.

No matter how well the secrecy work is done, the sudden departure of five or six hundred elite guards and cavalry from the north of the East Lake will inevitably attract the attention of all parties to install eyeliner - in order to confuse these eyeliners, Han Qian left the East Lake with the infiltrators in the early morning, making it all look like an ordinary trip for him.

Seeing off the sneakers, Han Qian did not go back to East Lake for the time being, but under the escort of the team, he made a detour to Liyang, and in the past few days, he planned to get out of the field of vision of ordinary people and stay in Lianyuan to take care of official business.

Gao Shao, Feng Yi, Guo Rong, Guo Ke, Wang Zhe and others rushed to Lianyuan early in the morning to wait.

Han Donghu led his men and horses to the north, even if he successfully hijacked the Wen clan and returned, even if he didn't consider other variables, he could successfully make Lu Qingxia and others throw a mouse, and he didn't dare to easily make Chai Jian send troops from Junzhou to attack Wuguan, but the problem was not fundamentally solved.

At this time, it was the monarchs and ministers of Shu who really wanted to attack Guanzhong and wanted to incorporate Guanzhong into the territory.

Among the four kingdoms of Chu, Liang, Jin and Shu, Shu was the weakest at the beginning of the founding of the country, and even so weak that Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, did not dare to directly claim the emperor, but presented himself to Liang as a minister, accepted the canonization of Liang and called the king of Shu.

Although there have been constant internal troubles in Shu over the years, it is much better than Liang Chu's endless internal strife and frequent invasion by foreign enemies.

Guo moved a sack of files into the study.

In the past few years, the military intelligence staff has collected so much information from Shudi, and so much has been accumulated by category.

Wei Qun's envoy to Jinling, at present, Changxiang Hou Wang Yong has not sent people from Yuzhou to inform, and there is no new news from the hidden piles they sent to potential Shu for the time being, and Wei Qun does not send people to Donghu to contact, so the exact information they have obtained is limited, what they can do is to go through the information collected in the past first.

"Could it be that the Changxiang Marquis knew our position, and they supported sending troops to annex Guanzhong, so they didn't send someone over to talk to them?" Feng Yi guessed.

After the civil unrest in Sizhou was successfully resolved, the focus of their attention shifted to Jianghuai.

At the same time, the internal personnel transfer is also large, and He Liufeng, who was previously in charge of intelligence spying in Shudi, has been promoted to Du Yuhou and commanded the soldiers and horses, so it is naturally impossible to continue to stare at this matter.

At present, there are only three scout military attachés on the side of the Military Intelligence Staff Department who are in charge of their affairs, and Tan Yuliang and the people who have maintained close contact with Yuzhou are more aware of the situation in Shudi, but only four days have passed since they learned that Wei Qun had sent him to Jinling, and some people who are more familiar with the situation have not been able to be transferred to Donghu for inquiry.

And more than three years have passed, Feng Yi, Gao Shao, Guo Rong and others, like Han Qian, need to reorganize the intricate relationships within Shu.

Within the Shu Kingdom, the conflict between Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, and Wang Hongyi, the prince of the world, was the focus of contradictions.

In the past few years, Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, governed Yuzhou, controlled Bananjing Yan, and carried out large-scale border trade with Xuzhou, accumulating a large amount of resources, and was able to form a military and political force headed by him, with Qi Lun, the deputy privy envoy, Jing Qiongwen, and Sima Cao Gan of Yuzhou as the core, and the Zuo Qingjiang Army as the support.

Although Wang Hongyi, the prince of the world, was suspicious of Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, and had been extraordinarily low-key in the past two years, he had Zhao Weisheng in the service, and General Zhenqiang, Wang Xiaoxian, Marquis of Wei, and Wei Qun, the Qing of Honglu Temple, and other generals and ministers to help, and the momentum still had to be steadily suppressed by the Marquis of Changxiang.

The most important thing is that although Wang Jian, the king of Shu, is quite suspicious of the prince Wang Xianyi, he has never revealed the idea of changing his heir.

Now even if it can be speculated that Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, is very likely to support the Shu army's attack on Guanzhong, but it is difficult to speculate on the basis of what kind of intention Wang Yong of Changxiang has in mind to support.

Did he see that the monarchs and ministers of Shu strongly advocated this, and he personally could not go against it, or did he see a better opportunity to expand his power or compete for succession?

Wei Qun, as a minister of Shu who was closer to Wang Hongyi, the prince of Shu, rushed to Jinling again, and there is no doubt that Wang Hongyi, the prince of Shu, also advocated taking advantage of the fire to rob and attack Guanzhong.

It was speculated that Guanjianglou may be secretly fueling the troubles, but if you want to say that the relationship with Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, and the Shenling Division is deeper, what kind of conditions does Guanjianglou allow to make Wang Yong and Wang Hongyi at least superficially form a consensus on the matter of the Shu army's alliance with Chu and Liang?

And before Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, was suspicious of the prince Wang Hongyi, and was worried that Wang Hongyi would usurp the throne after he sat on the throne further, and even when Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang usurped the throne and Liang State was in civil strife for the first time, he gave up the opportunity to attack Guanzhong.

After analyzing and analyzing, before getting further intelligence information, too many suspicious points are intricately entangled, and it will be difficult to see through for a while and a half, and it is impossible to guess what kind of deployment the Shu army will use to attack Guanzhong, Han Qian can only make Feng Yi and Guo Qi rush to Yuzhou to meet Changxiang Hou Wang Yong first.

Even if it can't affect more Shu monarchs and ministers, Han Qian also hopes that Wang Yong can understand in his heart that the Mugwu people are completely different from those nomads who have entered the Central Plains for two or three hundred years and are satisfied with a handful of plunder, and do not have enough strength to take root.

Han Qian hoped that Wang Yong would understand in his heart that once the Shu army attacked Guanzhong on a large scale this time, even if it had the opportunity to defeat the main force of the Liang army, it would be impossible to annex Guanzhong, and it was more likely that the Mengwu people would benefit from the fishermen again.

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After Feng Yi and Guo Ke set foot on the way west to see Wang Yong, the land of Jianghuai quickly cooled down.

Han Qian also did not predict which direction the situation would develop.

Han Donghu led his troops to infiltrate the Xusi area, although it was not too far from Zhongli and Linhuai, within a range of about three or four hundred miles, but pretending to be the Liang army, he had to sneak further north and then pretend to be Han Yuanqi or Chen Kun's soldiers and horses to the south.

In order to reduce the probability of being discovered by Xu Si and the Shouzhou army, unless there are very special circumstances, or if they successfully abduct the Wen clan and then withdraw, Han Dong will not take the initiative to contact Tangyi when he sees them.

What Han Qian could do at this time was only to consolidate the foundation of Huaixi as much as possible, even if the world fell apart, he must look at it calmly.

Liang is in turmoil, and the drought in Liangjing since the summer is still very serious.

And the locust plague seems to have a direct connection with the drought, scouts search

The conventional information obtained from the collection shows that the locust swarms in Yingqiao, Xusi, and other places cover the sky as if dark clouds cover the sky, and the floods in Dachu since the spring and summer of this year have had a great impact on crop production in Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, and other places, and it seems to show the people of the world what natural disasters and man-made disasters are and that the world is difficult.

When Han Qian inspected the shallow coal mine resources in Wujianshan, the heavy rain that lasted for several days was actually a once-in-a-decade typhoon that landed in Xiuzhou, swept through the prefectures and counties along the Taihu Lake, and then swept from Gyeonggi and Chizhou to Chaochuhaoshou and other places in the north.

According to preliminary statistics, more than 100,000 houses have collapsed, tens of thousands of people have been injured or injured, and countless people have been displaced.

Chichao, Chuhao, Shushou and other places, the wind disaster is not serious, but a large area of heavy rain, mountains and hills between the continuous floods, flash floods, life is not easy.

At the end of August, the water level almost overflowed the newly built embankment on the east bank of the lake - the two new embankments on the west side of the east lake were built according to the elevation of the largest residual flood traces that can be surveyed so far, and they have almost reached the level of once in 50 years, but at the end of August, it was already the turn of mid-autumn and late autumn, and there was such a big flood that came over, which also caught everyone off guard.

At one time, 4,000 soldiers and horses were mobilized to guard the embankment, for fear that the embankment would be washed away by the raging waves, which would ruin the achievements of construction on the east bank in the past three or four years.

Fortunately, the dredging and widening of the Yuxi River has not stopped for two years, and as soon as the heavy rain stopped, the water level of Chaohu Lake quickly dropped, and the danger was completely crossed by the beginning of September.

Now it is considered that the wind and rain have stopped, but the disaster situation in various places is like a snowflake that will quickly converge.

It is also due to the fact that Huaixi is vast and sparsely populated, and most of the houses are built on quite high ground, and once the heavy rain stops, there is no worry about waterlogging.

At present, the townships and counties are mainly strengthening the drainage of the paddy fields that are about to set head, and the losses are within the tolerable range.

More than a dozen newly built coal and iron mines and workshops in Zhuxian County were washed away by flash floods and mudslides, but fortunately, there were very few casualties, and the production in the entire Huaixi area was not greatly affected.

At present, it is using the manpower deployed by the Chishan Society along the shore of Taihu Lake to more actively channel and divert the victims who were affected by the wind and their homes were destroyed to Huaixi.

As a matter of fact, since the beginning of the summer, floods have been frequent along the Yangtze River and along the shores of Taihu Lake, and tens of thousands of victims have fled to the countryside, and it is difficult for the localities to control them, and they are unable to provide timely relief, so they have become displaced people.

The number of victims who arrived in September was even higher.

In more than two years, the defense line of the Tangyi army advanced twice to the north.

The defense line built at the front of Chuhe, Shiquan River, and Fucha Mountain, as well as the defense line built along the northwest foot of Wujin Mountain, Zipeng Mountain, and Wujian Mountain in the later period, with the advance of a large number of garrisons to the north, there are currently a large number of semi-permanent barracks and cantonments, all of which have been vacated.

The vacated barracks and the newly reclaimed fields near the tunzhai can be used to resettle the newly moved households without additional investment; And even if it is sold to the victims at a low price, it can more or less recover some of the military expenses.

Long before Han Qian and Wang Jun got married, Han Qian came forward with the official money bureau to purchase a large number of livestock from Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places, and from various workshops developed in Xuzhou, purchased a large number of iron farm tools and necessary daily necessities, and then distributed them to the newly relocated households in the form of loans.

When Han Qian first left Xuzhou, the total capital of the official money bureau was only 200,000 yuan, but after allowing the weavers in Xuzhou to directly convert cotton yarn and weave cloth into money and deposit it into the official money bureau, and sell it to Jiangdong, Jiangxi and other places through the Chishan Society, the total capital of the official money bureau soon expanded to 1.2 million yuan.

In the next two or three years, the total capital of the official money bureau steadily expanded to 4 million, which of course also included millions of dollars and grain imported by Qiao Chen and others; It also includes the money and grain that sells farmland and houses to households that have moved in from all over the country and spends them out.

Among the 4 million yuan, a total of 1.2 million yuan was lent to Shouwangfu and Huaidong, and the Tangyi army borrowed a total of 1.1 million yuan before and after to make up for the lack of military funds, and each family set up various workshops, weaving institutes and coal and iron mines in Donghu, with a total of more than 500,000 yuan; In addition, in addition to the 600,000 yuan left by the official money bureau, there are almost 500,000 yuan of money that are mainly lent out in this way.

In addition to ensuring the steady multiplication of the capital of the official money bureau and making full use of the capital of the official money bureau, instead of being idle in the money warehouse, more importantly, it can no longer be limited to the limited financial level of counties and townships, but can help the newly relocated peasant households quickly take root in Huaixi and rapidly improve the level of local agricultural production.

Large-scale centralized procurement has also contributed to the steady expansion of the production scale of various workshops in Xuzhou and East Lake.

In the early years, the Chuzhou Pavilion also had a similar official money shop, but its function was too simple, and it obviously lacked sufficient and deep understanding of the prototype of this kind of financial institution in the early days, and there was no way to integrate it so closely with local governance.

Only by continuously filling in the new population and making it quickly take root can the land in Chuzhou, the northern part of Chaozhou, and the southern part of Shouzhou and Huozhou be redeveloped due to frequent wars.

However, even if the total number of military and civilians under the jurisdiction of the Tangyi Prefecture has officially exceeded 1 million at the end of June, and the population has exceeded 10,000 every month, it is still too vast and sparsely populated compared to the vast area.

You must know that in the middle of the previous dynasty, Huainan Province, including today's Huaidong and Huaixi, had a population of 1.2 million households and more than 7 million people.

At that time, Chaozhou, which occupied the richest place in Huaixi, had a population of as many as one million.

However, after more than 100 years of frequent wars, the combined population of Huaidong and Huaixi was less than 2 million.

Han Qian originally planned to reduce the number of troops left and right in Tangyi by about 45,600 this autumn and winter, so as to free up more financial resources to support local construction, but now it seems that this plan will be postponed indefinitely.

On September 20, Chen Ruyi entered Donghu with a decree to inquire about Tangyi's opinion on the matter of Lianshu and Liang on behalf of Emperor Yanyou and the Political Affairs Hall.

Wei Qun sent an envoy to Great Chu, and the matter of joining Chu and attacking Liang was only officially made public in the Great Chu court at this time, and the government and the opposition discussed it for a while.

Of course, Han Qian was the first to write and declare his resolute opposition, but in addition to his department officials, Shen Yang, Yang En, and Zheng were still opposed at the beginning.

Shen Yang and Yang En did not say that they were worried that the Mugwu people would make a profit, but considering the current reality of Dachu, they did not advocate sending troops.

In the three towns of the northern line, Han Qian was the first to make it clear that the Tangyi army would not send troops to the north, and it would not advance to the hinterland of Liangjing from the narrow gap in Tongkou, and it would not rush to the hinterland of Liangjing from the narrow gap in Tongkou; Even in the autumn and winter of this year, there are no conditions to storm Shouchun, Fengtai and other cities.

Li Zhihe first ensured that he could eat the defenders of Luoshan.

In the eyes of Shen Yang and Yang En, if they want to support Huaidong to send troops to attack the Xusi area, they must allocate more money and grain resources to Huaidong.

Huaidong naturally hopes to take advantage of this rare opportunity to take Xu

Si region, but what Shu really longed for was that the Chu army could send troops to attack Wuguan.

However, having said that, the Shu army sent troops from Liangzhou to attack Guanzhong, and to control and rule Guanzhong in the future, which has more geographical advantages.

Even if Guanzhong can be successfully defeated in the end, it will be difficult for the small-scale Chu army to gain a foothold in Guanzhong, and it is very likely that it will not get any benefits at that time, not to mention, it will also give the Shu army a wedding dress.

Over the years, the fundamental purpose of the Great Chu and Shu has been to jointly resist the more powerful and aggressive Liang army, but it does not mean to support the Shu army to become stronger.

The Shu army seems to be very honest and harmless on the western flank of Great Chu now, but after the Shu army annexes the Guanzhong region, the ambition will definitely not swell?

At this point, Shen Yang, Yang En and others are somewhat soberly aware.

For the Zheng family, at this time, it is more hoped that the imperial court can concentrate resources to ensure that after the Right Dragon Bird Army completes the suppression of the remnants of the Yongzhou rebels this winter, it can continue to use troops in Guizhou, Liuzhou and other places.

Of course, in addition to Huaidong and Chai Jian's active preparations for war in Junzhou, the voices of the government and the opposition in support of sending troops are also very strong; Officials such as Huang Hua, Zhang Chao, Zhang Han, and Shouwang Yang Zhitang advocated uniting the Shu army and sending troops to attack Liang.

Since the rise of Emperor Tianyou in Huainan, Liang and Chu have been fighting for more than 30 years, and the Liang army has always been the most important threat to Great Chu, only in the past ten years, two large-scale wars launched against Great Chu, the first time almost completely destroyed the Jingxiang region, and the second time blocked the process of the imperial court soldiers and horses to exterminate the rebels of Anning Palace, so that the elite of the Chu army suffered heavy casualties.

The vast majority of people don't think that the Muguls are a threat, even if many people can think of Da Chu sending troops, it is possible to make a wedding dress for the Shu army, and it will make the territory of Shu expand to the Guanzhong region, but at this time, dismembering the Liang army is still more beneficial than disadvantageous to Da Chu in the eyes of many people.

In the eyes of many people, after the dismemberment of the Liang State, the Sima clan in the Xu Si region, as well as the Shouzhou rebels who retreated to occupy Yingqiao Cai Ru and other places, will fall into a lonely situation, and the Chu army will cross the Huai River to the north, annihilate these two soldiers and horses, and merge Xu Si and the southern region of Liang into the territory of Great Chu, which will be just around the corner, or this can be carried out at the same time as sending troops to Guanzhong.

In any case, compared with the time when the main force of the naval division was destroyed more than three years ago, although Da Chu did not rest and recuperate, the three towns on the northern front had 1670,000 troops, and they were also strong and strong, but they were still capable of crossing the Huai River to fight.

After eliminating the threat from the north, Gu Zhilong attacked and eliminated the Min army in southern Zhejiang, and Zheng Hui suppressed the Yongzhou rebels in southern Hunan, and then attacked the Qingyuan army in the south, and there would be no worries.

It is also because of these reasons that Shen Yang, Yang En, and even Zheng's opposition are not so firm.

In the end, the key still fell on Han Qian.

No matter how deep the suspicion of Han Qian is from the government and the opposition, but over the years, Han Qian's prestige among the middle and lower level generals is unparalleled.

Han Qian's resolute opposition will not only be idle and unusable, but will also directly affect the choices of a considerable number of generals in the court.

A more direct reason is that the Shouzhou Army has no intention or action to receive the Luoshan defenders for the time being, mainly because it was suppressed by the Tangyi Army.

At this time, Han Qian insisted on opposing the Lianshu Expedition to Liang, and with ill intentions, perhaps some people may not be worried that the Tangyi Army may relax its suppression of the Shouzhou Army in their hearts, right?

And once the Tangyi army relaxed its suppression of the Shouzhou army, allowing Xu Mingzhen to gather 20,000 to 30,000 elites on the Western Front to relieve the siege of Luoshan, how would Li Zhihe respond?

Therefore, before Han Qian's attitude changed, although Chai Jian was actively preparing for war in Jingzikou, Xichuan and other places, he had not lightly provoked the direction of Wuguan for the time being.

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In early October, the Yangtze River was full of smoke and rain, and both sides of the river entered the autumn grain harvest season one after another.

An official ship marked with the words "Hunan Xuanwei Embassy" sailed on the river, turned into the Qiupu River from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and headed for the direction of Donghuamen Shuiguan, dragging a thin white wave from the stern.

When the official boat passed by Yandangji, he saw more than a dozen people standing on the embankment from a distance.

Zhou Qinian stood at the bow of the boat, he knew that Yandangji was the grange where Han Qian was rewarded for his merits after the Jingxiang War, and then merged into the Changchun Palace, and both sides of the strait were under the name of the Queen Mother or the imperial village under the Changchun Palace.

Seeing that someone on the embankment waved his hand, Zhou Qinian lowered the sails and made the official boat slowly move towards the embankment.

After getting closer, Zhou Qinian saw clearly that Zhou Yuan, Xu Jing, Yao Xishui and others were standing on the embankment surrounded by a graceful and luxurious woman.

Although Zhou Qinian is an important figure in the Huanghua family, he has always been a guest of the Huangfu Mansion and has not had a chance to meet Lu Qingxia, but he can also think of who Zhou Yuan, Xu Jing and others are surrounded by.

Zhou Qinian pretended not to know, and said according to Zhou Yuan's salute: "How can Lord Zhou have leisure today, wandering under the autumn shade and willows." ”

"Mr. Zhou, are you from East Lake?" Zhou Yuanyi asked.

In April, in order to solve the crisis in Chenzhou, Zhou Qinian rushed back to Jinling with Cao Xiushi, and then rushed to Donghu with Shen Yang and Zheng Chang to see Han Qian, and then he returned to Huanghua; This time, he was ordered by Huanghua to return to Jinling from Yueyang, and on the way, he also confirmed that he met Han Qian at Donghu.

Although Huang Hua advocated joining Shu to attack Liang, he also hoped to persuade Han Qian to change his mind, so he asked Zhou Qinian to make a special trip to East Lake to meet Han Qian.

It's just that after Zhou Qinian arrived at East Lake, Han Qian was treated with good wine and meat, but he should not do anything about Lianshu and Liang.

Zhou Qinian saw that Zhou Yuan knew everything about his itinerary, so they must have been able to guess what the result of going to see Han Qian was, but they were very curious about what Lu Qingxia, who rarely showed up, was doing here to intercept him?

Zhou Qinian arched his hand and said with a smile: "Lord Zhou is really deaf and clear-sighted, and he has a clear grasp of the whereabouts of the old decay, I don't know what to teach?" ”

"I know that Mr. Zhou went to East Lake, and Lord Guozhang still wanted to persuade the Marquis of Qianyang to change his mind, but if the Marquis of Qianyang has already made up his mind to collude with the enemy country, what decision will the Lord Guozhang make?" Lu Qingxia asked directly.

"The desire of the Marquis of Qianyang may be a little heavier, but if he is determined to collude with Liang Guo, I don't know where to start with Madame?" Zhou Qinian asked.

At the beginning, Huang Hua also led the Huzhou soldiers to wait and see the situation, Zhou Qinian did not feel that in this world of soldiers, selfishness and ambition were not a big problem, and at this time, there was no fierce and irreparable contradiction and conflict between the Huang family and the dynasty.

The crisis in Chenzhou, in the final analysis, is that the people of the late Red Mansion are too stupid, thinking so, but Zhou Qinian somewhat looks down on these people in front of him.

"Before, the Marquis of Qianyang sent a message to Chen Kun and Han Yuanqi, and it can also be said that he has a strong desire for power, and he is bent on expanding the territory of the Tangyi army without much effort, which may not show that he is determined to collude with the enemy," Lu Qingxia seemed to be able to see what Zhou Qinian was thinking, and said indifferently, "But Mr. Zhou may not know that just a few days ago, a team of light soldiers from the Tangyi army interspersed with the north of Xuzhou and robbed Wen Duqiao and more than 400 Wen clansmen from under the nose of the Sima family-Mr. Zhou felt that without the full assistance of the Liang army, Can the Tangyi Army do this? ”

(End of chapter)