"Too much deception!"

Yang Yuanyan did not care about the presence of Li Changfeng, the Marquis of Linjin, and kicked the long case in front of him out with his feet, hitting the stone pillar of the main hall.

The high-grade sandalwood case broke at the waist, which showed that the strength of his foot was amazing, and the paperweight, pen and ink on it and the large stacks of letters were scattered all over the place, a mess.

Ruan Yan, Yin Peng, Zhao Zhen and others even expected that King Xin would be furious, but they did not expect that he would have a seizure in front of Li Changfeng, the Marquis of Linjin.

Li Changfeng's face was also gloomy, he sat on his knees, and looked at Yang Yuanyan femininly.

Of course, he knew that giving up the stone beam was an extremely difficult condition for Huaidong to accept calmly.

It's not simply a matter of gaining or losing a single county.

Shiliang County is located in the south of Hongzepu, west of Fanliang Lake, since the middle and late period of the previous dynasty, Huainan Jiedu Embassy (Huaixi), only Shiliang County into the bag, in order to share the geographical advantages of Hongzepu and Fanliang Lake with Guangling Jiedu Envoy (Huaidong).

In the middle and late period of the former dynasty, every time there was a dispute between the two towns of Huainan and Guangling, almost half of them occurred in Shiliang County, and Tangyi in the south of Shiliang County was under the jurisdiction of the Shengzhou Jiedu Embassy for a long time.

Han Qian recovered Haozhou, Shouzhou, and the southern part of Huozhou, and pocketed the eastern part of Gwangju, in fact, he had formed a feudal town power comparable to Huaidong, and the gains and losses of Shiliang County became more and more important.

Li Changfeng can understand Yang Yuanyan's mood, but Yang Yuanyan has no scruples to play arrogantly in front of him, and he will not be too weak, so that people can peep a little, press the long case with his hand, and say in a deep voice: "Your Highness sealed Huaidong, Shouwang's army did not retreat, His Royal Highness sent troops to Shiliang, from the east wing to peep at the Liang army of Haozhou, it is for the Great Chu to share worries, Your Majesty and Shen Xiang also thought of His Royal Highness's military exploits, but the Liang realm was in chaos, the Liang army was defeated and retreated, Shiliang County was surrounded by my Great Chu soldiers and horses, His Royal Highness should lead the Huaidong soldiers and horses, cross the Huai River to attack the Liang army, instead of occupying Shiliang without authorization, Claim it for yourself......"

", Han Qian conspired with the Liang army, and the Liang army was able to breathe for a long time because of the invasion, but the princes and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were as timid as rats, and they didn't dare to punish them for collaborating with the enemy, but Huaidong was a soft persimmon that couldn't be pinched?" Yang Yuanyan's eyes were split, and he stared at Li Changfeng angrily, eager to eat him alive.

"Li came over today, and he also passed on the word on behalf of His Majesty and Shen Xiang, His Royal Highness King Xin really thought that the court was unfair, and Li Mou also made a statement to His Majesty, please make a holy judgment for Your Majesty." didn't start talking, just like that, Li Changfeng naturally wouldn't stay and be angry, got up and arched his hands, and walked towards the outside of the main hall.

"Master Li, please stay." Ruan Yan hurriedly caught up, grabbed Li Changfeng's robe, and said.

"Lord Ruan, what do you mean by this, could it be that Huaidong still wants to leave Li Mou today?" Li Changfeng stared at Ruan Yan's hand pulling the sleeve of his robe and asked sharply.

He still thought that he could sell an old face in Huaidong, but he didn't want to be scolded by King Xin as a pig and dog, how could he bear it?

“…… Li Houye said seriously. Ruan Yan hurriedly let go of his hand and said with a wry smile.

If before the chaos of the Liang State, Huaidong's attitude in the open and secretly could be tougher, and at present, after nearly two years of recuperation, Huaidong's internal situation is much better than when the reclamation system in Chuzhou and northern Yangtai was destroyed by the Liang army, but the problem is that the Liang army is too busy to take care of itself at this time, and Xu Mingzhen is unable to contain the Tangyi army in the middle reaches of the Huai River, who knows if Han Qian has joined forces with the Shouwang Mansion to instigate the court's plot to withdraw from Huaidong again?

Perhaps the ownership dispute of Shiliang County is just a reason thrown out by Han Qian at the instigation of the court.

At this time, King Xin was angry, Ruan Yan didn't want to touch his head at this time, but he didn't want Li Changfeng to leave like this, so he could only make his eyes look at others to appease King Xin's anger, he chased Li Changfeng out of the palace, and asked him to live in the post house first, and he temporarily replaced King Xin to do his best to wash the dust for Li Changfeng.

Seeing King Xin surrounded by Zhao Zhen and his generals, he rushed to the palace in anger, Yin Peng stood in the main hall and hesitated for a while, not wanting to get in the way of King Xin at this time, so he walked out of the palace and rushed to Wang Wenqian's house in Chuzhou Mansion with two servants.

Wang Wenqian has been suffering from a cold and difficult to get out of bed in the past few days, and he just happened to avoid today's embarrassing situation.

After the report, Yin Peng walked to the inner house and saw Wang Wenqian sitting under the gazebo, playing chess with Xu.

Although there is still a plaster on his forehead, and there is still a bowl of medicinal soup with strong medicinal gas on the stone table of the pavilion, looking at Wang Wenqian's shining expression staring at the chessboard, where is the appearance of being seriously ill and unable to get out of bed?

After Yin Peng saved Wang Wenqian three days ago and heard the news that Xuzhou sent troops into Chenzhou to chase down the thieves, he expected that Han Qian would take the opportunity to plot against Shiliang when the situation evolved, so he simply stayed in bed and pretended to be sick.

Xu stood up and asked Yin Peng to sit down at Wang Wenqian's.

"Li Changfeng is indeed here for Tangyi to seek Shiliang County, but as soon as he said this, His Royal Highness was furious, and everyone broke up unhappily - at present, the Prime Minister chased Li Changfeng to the post house, and His Royal Highness was also angry, and he had no intention of backing down at all." Yin Peng sat down and saw that Wang Wenqian's sideburns had been completely frosted in the past two years, and told him what happened in the palace hall this afternoon.

Wang Wenqian fiddled with the chess pieces on the chessboard by himself, as if he hadn't listened to Yin Peng's words.

Yin Peng continued: "At present, I have heard the rumors that in addition to forcing the Chenzhou Fan Battalion to be included in the formation of the Right Dragon Bird Army and not to be stationed on the side of Xuzhou, the main requirement is to get Shiliang County - when Shen Yang left from East Lake, Zheng Chang stayed in East Lake for an extra day and night, but he didn't know what conditions the Marquis of Qianyang and the Zheng clan had secretly negotiated. My lord, do you think it is possible that the Marquis of Qianyang conspired with the Shouwang Mansion and the Zheng clan to instigate the imperial court to mention the matter of cutting the feudal domain again? ”

"This possibility is not very likely, this time Liang is in turmoil, Tangyi has gotten the biggest benefit, it is already a strong soldier, so that the soldiers and horses of Xuzhou enter Chenzhou to suppress Kou, Shen Yang can only stubbornly pull Zheng Chang over to dissuade him, that is, he will not let Han Qian have the opportunity to annex the four states of Ruanjiang, where will he sit and watch Tangyi carve up and continue to sit big?" Wang Wenqian shook his head and said, "Of course, Han Qian's killing of Shiliang is not among the Huaidong feudal domains, and it should be returned to Chuzhou, and the robbery of Xuzhou did happen, and the robbery of Xuzhou did happen, and the court was weak, and there was no majesty to deter Tangyi, but he had to untie these two dead knots - I see, things are ossified, and the final outcome may be that Han Ting will simply cut off Huaidong's aid grain, and then give Tangyi a name ......to recover Shiliang on his own."

Yin Peng thought for a while, thinking that it was a stalemate, and the situation would really develop in this direction, and when the time came, Tangyi and Huaidong would kill each other, perhaps the princes of the imperial court were most happy to see it, frowning worriedly, and asked, "I'll go and talk to the Prime Minister?" ”

In order to avoid the end of the war, Yin Peng thought about asking King Xin to understand what the outcome of the situation would be out of control in advance, but he didn't dare to see King Xin who was grumpy and angry at this time, thinking about going to see Ruan Yan first.

Wang Wenqian shook his head in frustration, stopped Yin Peng and said: "If they can think of it, they can't think of waiting for the Tangyi soldiers and horses to enter Shiliang County, and it is not that there is no room for discussion, what are you going to do at this time?" ”

Yin Peng knew that this matter should not be brought up directly by them to Ruan Yan or King Xin, otherwise, I don't know if others would suspect them of secretly helping Tangyi behind their backs, but thinking of the situation when the Tangyi army suddenly entered Shiliang County, Yin Peng also felt afraid, afraid that at that time, there would be less room for the two sides to turn around.

"Do you have to stay bedridden all the time?" Yin Peng asked again.

"What else can I do? Is it a nuisance for others? Wang Wenqian asked.

Yin Peng was speechless, but who would have thought that Tangyi would be able to expand to this point in just two years, and the expansion would be aggressive to Huaidong, and it could make Huaidong feel threatened?

Otherwise, no matter who mentions it, Wang Jun will not be married to Tangyi!

"Is Jun'er okay at East Lake?" Wang Wenqian stared at the pond next to the gazebo for a while and asked.

"It should be fine." Yin Peng said uncertainly.

He and Ruan Yan rushed to Linhuai to meet Han Qian last month, but they did not see Wang Jun, and in order to avoid suspicion, Wang Jun did not send a letter back, and he did not have correspondence with Wang Ji, Wang Yan, Wang Zhe and others.

However, Yin Peng knew that Wang Yan was appointed as the commander of Huangchuan County, and Wang Ji and Huo Xiao could enter and exit the core of Tangyi, while Huo Li and Wang Zhe didn't know where they were sent on business some time ago, since they didn't sit on a cold bench in Tangyi, this shows that Wang Jun's situation will not be too bad.

Now that the timing has become more sensitive, Yin Peng did not mention the matter of sending people to contact Wang Yan and Wang Zhe, but he also said with some concern: "I'm afraid that over there in Yangzhou, there will be people who can't help but contact Miss......"

Yin Peng was originally a general of the Wang family, and he made military exploits to get rid of the Wang family and set up his own door, but his family is a small family, and there are more than a dozen brothers and nephews in total.

Two years ago, Wang Huo's family may have regarded Wang Yan, Wang Zhang, Wang Zhe, Huo Li, Huo Xiao and others who followed Wang Jun into Tangyi as abandoned sons, but in just two years, Tangyi (including Xuzhou) has more than 30 counties and 1.23 million soldiers and civilians, and has actually become the first feudal town of Great Chu above Huaidong and Xiangbei.

If someone from Wang Huo's family couldn't hold back and frequently ran from Yangzhou to Tangyi, Yin Peng couldn't imagine what kind of association this matter would cause when it reached the ears of King Xin.

"I will write to Wen Yong and tell him again," Wang Wenqian nodded, knowing that some things could not be too cautious, and said to the concubine Xu, "I have a new ancient inkstone, Concubine Gu should be happy, you find an opportunity to send this ancient inkstone and the dozen or so newly obtained jasper into the inner mansion ......."

"If you hadn't worked together to save you, Gu Mei'er would have been able to serve His Highness at His Royal Highness's side, are you afraid that she would have a chance not to help you say good things?" Xu said with some reluctance.

"Kindness is the past, remember it or not, or look at the friendship, don't be reluctant to make small profits." Wang Wenqian said.

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I don't know how King Xin endured this breath, Han Qian only got the news that after Li Changfeng arrived in Chuzhou, he sent people back and forth to Chuzhou and Jinling for four or five trips, and finally put it in the political hall to discuss it separately, that is, Huaidong asked for an increase of 100,000 stone relief grain this year and next year.

The letter from the Privy Council, the Ministry of Households, and other departments was sent to Donghu at the end of April, officially placing Shiliang County under the jurisdiction of the Tangyi Xingying Prefecture, and clarifying that the feudal land of Huaidong and the Tangyi Xingying Prefecture would equally divide the geographical advantages of Hongzepu and Fanliang Lake.

Shiliang County has long been destroyed by the frequent wars before, the city is crippled, and the number of households is only four or five hundred.

However, the Huaidong soldiers and horses withdrew to the territory of Dongyang County, and drove more than 400 households and 3,000 households to the territory of Dongyang as cattle, and the houses and villages in Shiliang County that could be burned down were also burned to ashes, as if they had been plowed through by the military disaster again.

"A small family is a small family! Back then, I expected that Yang Yuan would not be able to make the climate, and I really didn't disappoint me! Han Qian reined in his horse, looked at the wilderness where the grass grew and the warbler flew, and listened to Feng Xuan, who had led his troops to enter in advance, report on the situation of taking over Shiliang County, and said with emotion.

Feng Yi, Han Donghu, Han Chengmeng, Huo Li and other generals also stopped on the grassy slope, looking at Shiliang City, which had only been officially taken over by the Tangyi army for two months, and it looked particularly dilapidated under the setting sun.

Whether it was the Hejin Army before or the Huaidong Army after that, they were trapped in grain and straw and it was not easy to recruit people, and they did not completely repair the remnants of Shiliang.

At this time, they looked at the ruined city from afar, and could see the huge gap in the broken wall, which was only blocked by a fence wall.

The galloping road through the city has long been deserted, although the old appearance can still be barely seen in the barren grass that is far away from the temperature, but the continuous drizzle makes it muddy and difficult for people and horses to walk.

At this time, in the middle of summer, since the beginning of the rainy season, the Jianghuai region has been raining heavily, and many construction works have been forced to be suspended, so naturally there is no need to talk about any military action.

Han Qian inspected the disaster all the way and walked to Shiliang County, where he could see the water everywhere, which showed that most of the rivers and canals in Shiliang County had long been blocked and the embankments were deserted, and they could not bear the role of channeling rain and waterlogging at all.

Fortunately, there are no people in Shiliang County, so there is no important task of flood prevention and disaster relief.

However, the fields in Shiliang County have been abandoned for a long time, and in addition to serious waterlogging, most areas are also overgrown with intertwined shrubs, which can only be used as raw land for reclamation, which is much more difficult than the fields that have been abandoned for two or three years.

"If you want to reclaim this field, you need to transfer more cattle and horses and large livestock over," the rainy season will soon pass, and after autumn, there is an opportunity to expand production vigorously, Han Qian turned around and asked Feng Yi, "How many large livestock can the General Administration Department transfer to Chuzhou?" ”

"At present, 500 mules and oxen and 500 military horses can be transferred to Chuzhou." Feng Yi said.

"It's too little, but I have made a package ticket with the people below, saying that the Establishment Mansion will definitely be able to allocate 2,000 military horses and 2,000 mules and oxen to us this time - Chuzhou is now poor and broken, and there are less than 20,000 Dingkou, but there are too many things to do, and there is no animal power, so you can transfer 3,000 more strong laborers to me......" Feng Xuan bargained with Feng Xuan in front of Han Qian.

Tangyi has been continuously replenishing animal power over the years, and the Wujinling victory is to directly capture more than 5,000 mules and horses from the Shouzhou army, but after the merger of more than 500,000 Dingkou in the 12 northern counties, the per capita animal power level in Tangyi is still much lower than that in Jiangdong.

At present, a bull in the Jiangdong area is worth more than a dozen dollars, and there are too many places where the government is spending money, and this year it can only squeeze out a small budget to buy four or five thousand mules and horses, but there are even more places to ask for livestock.

Feng Xuan opened his mouth to ask for 4,000 large animals, if he didn't care about his face, Feng Xuan would be able to spray his face with spittle at this time.

However, without large livestock as an important supplement, it is much slower to cut down shrubs, cultivate new fields, dig ditches, and repair cities and post roads by pure human labor.

Measured by the level of intensive cultivation in Donghu, Tangyi, Wanshou, Liyang and other counties that are currently well developed, a young and strong man does not rely on animal power and cultivates 12 acres of dry land every year, which is almost the limit.

Therefore, although the flat area of Huaixi is quite vast and can theoretically reclaim tens of millions of mu of grain land, the limit of the 1 million Dingkou under the jurisdiction of the Tangyi Prefecture and the calculation that women and children can cover half of the young and strong labor force is already the limit of being able to cultivate 5 or 6 million mu of water and dry land at a high level.

In this case, the vast majority of laborers will be bound to the fields, and only during the slack season, they can be transferred to the construction of roads, cities, and ditches.

This is also the main factor in the traditional governance model, where conscription and military service are for a period of three to four months; However, if the war or tense confrontation lasts for a long time, a large number of young and able-bodied laborers are forced to serve beyond the limit, and the impact on agriculture is particularly great.

This is also a huge dilemma that is difficult to get rid of in the agricultural era.

Farming allowed people to live and multiply in fixed dwellings, and the population grew rapidly, but even in times of peace and prosperity, people needed to work hard day and night to meet their basic survival needs.

At present, Tangyi cannot be separated from the foundation of agricultural production, but in order to ensure that the development of workshops has sufficient labor, Han Qian mainly limits the scale of land granting.

Even if Huaixi is vast and sparsely populated, it is more than enough to grant 100 acres of land to each small family of the generals, but the average initial grant to each household is only 15 acres, and the maximum amount of land awarded for military merits is 30 acres - at this time, if you want to exchange military merits for more arable land, you must divide the households, but in principle, it is not supported that the meritorious generals do this.

On the basis of controlling the scale of land granting, it is necessary to continuously raise the level of intensive cultivation and expand the planting area of high-yield paddy fields as much as possible, so that the actual grain output will not be reduced by much, and to ensure that the internal military and civilian needs can be satisfied.

In addition, it is necessary to do everything possible to supplement animal power, and to develop hydraulic equipment for this reason, and to undertake some heavy agricultural tasks such as rice scooping, drainage and irrigation, so as to further save labor so that it can be transferred to the nearest industrial and mining industries.

This model can make more full use of the surplus population or idle labor, but it also determines that once some industrial technologies are popularized, they cannot be kept strictly secret to expand the scale of production.

After all, it is impossible to gather the craftsmen and the family together to form a closed group that is not easy to be infiltrated by the outside.

Although there was no formal permission from the imperial court, Han Qian had already made new regional adjustments to the Huaixi prefectures in June.

At present, the six counties of Chuzhou City (Nanqiao County), Yongyang, Puyang, Tingshan, and Shiliang have been assigned to the jurisdiction of Chuzhou, and Shiliang County, which has a heavier military defense task, has been changed to the seat of state governance, so that Feng Xuan commanded a brigade of elite troops to garrison Chuzhou, and also led the Chuzhou Assassin History, and made Han Chengmeng serve as the governor of the history and the commander of Shiliang County.

Although Puyang and Tingshan were the first to be placed in counties together with Donghu and Wushou, before the victory of Wujinling, the role of Puyang and Tingshan was mainly as the support core of Chuzhou's defense line, and it was not the focus of the initial operation to prevent the Wenbo Department stationed in Chuzhou.

At present, the two counties of Puyang and Tingshan are included, and the five counties of Chuzhou have only 3,000 households and 20,000 Dingkou.

Han Qian plans to move another 100,000 people to Chuzhou from the outside in three to five years.

Of course, at present, the migration of the population, mainly due to the adjustment of the inner part of the Huaixi jurisdiction, is not as urgent as in the past, and at the same time, the money and grain that the government can allocate to Chuzhou at one time is limited, after all, there are too many places to use money, so even if it is planned to move in 100,000 people, it will be carried out step by step.

At present, it is only more planned to transfer the population of Huangchuan and Le'an counties, as well as Huozhou and Shouzhou, which are particularly seriously affected by the floods, and whose houses and fields have been damaged by the floods, to Chuzhou and the two new counties in the north of Chaohu.

This is the least resistance, and at the same time ensures that the non-flood-affected farmland in these areas can continue to produce food, so as not to cause too much additional cost to the government – as for the households whose houses have been damaged and their fields are starving, and the government has come forward to provide disaster relief and relocate them to other places?

At present, the population base of Chuzhou is still too small, even if it is hired, it cannot use too much labor, but Feng Xuanzhi Chuzhou, in addition to controlling the follow-up sailors entering Hongzepu and Fanliang Lake, and jointly responsible for the defense of the north and west, also has to do a good job of resettlement work for the subsequent population migration, and carry out gallops, ditches, and walled repairs within the state.

Feng Xuan knew that he couldn't talk to Feng Yi in private, so he could only fight for more in front of Han Qian.

Without waiting for Han Qian to speak, Feng Yu first shouted to Feng Xuan: "The Yongyang Canal between the Puyang River and the Shiliang River and the horizontal canal between the Shiliang River and the Shitang River are excavated, if Chuzhou can bear it with all its might, I can transfer two thousand more mules and horses over." However, these two things require huge manpower and material resources, and they are extremely urgent, and at present, the Department of General Administration is employing thousands of young and strong laborers from the counties to govern them, and it is really impossible to squeeze out more resources for Chuzhou......

Feng Xuan tugged at Han Chengmeng's sleeve and stared at Han Qian together, Han Qian hurriedly said: "You are going to discuss this matter with Feng Xuan, I will talk nonsense, Feng Xuan is staring at me like a resentful woman, who am I going to reason?" ”

“…… It is difficult for a good woman to have no rice cooking, so she resents. Feng Yi said resentfully.

"Before it gets dark, it's still too late for us to rush to Mopan Valley." Han Donghu urged.

The defense of the walled city in Shiliang County had just been taken over, and only a small number of outpost camps had been established in Shitangbu and Baijiegang to keep an eye on the every move of the Huaidong soldiers and horses.

Han Qian's second visit, or the previous time he did not hesitate to tear his face to fight Shiliang County, it was actually the northern section of the Wujian Mountain Range, between the peaks and ridges near the side of Shiliang County, it was found that there was very likely to be a large shallow coal mine.

In the past, the topographic survey of Wujian Mountain was mainly focused on military attack and defense, but in March this year, heavy rains fell in the Haochu area, and intermittent black water gushed out from between Wujian Mountain.

When the scouts discovered this phenomenon, Chen Jitang and others speculated that there were very likely large-scale shallow coal and stone veins in the northern section of Wujian Mountain.

In fact, there is no shortage of coal in the entire Huaixi region, but considering the drainage problem, the cost of mining even shallow coal in the plain area is extremely high; And if you want to transport coal from the depths of Huaiyang Mountain, the transportation cost is too high.

If a large-scale shallow coal mine that is convenient to mine can be surveyed between the peaks and ridges in the northern section of Wujian Mountain, it will be of great significance, and it will also make the excavation channel through the Puyang River, Shitang River and Shiliang River more economically valuable.

Since Han Qian ran Qiuhu Mountain, over the years, the use of coal or charcoal instead of firewood and grass for cooking, gas to make limestone, bricks and tiles, and smelting copper and iron has become extremely common in the Gyeonggi area.

At present, the Gyeonggi region alone consumes 780,000 quintals of coal every year.

This is mainly limited to the limited shallow coal resources in the Gyeonggi area; The cost of deeply buried coal seams is still too high due to problems such as drainage, pit maintenance, and the invisible, flammable and explosive pit charcoal that kills people – which makes the price of coal in the Gyeonggi area drop by about half compared to ordinary charcoal.

If the price of coal can be reduced by half, Han Qian estimates that the amount of coal used in the Gyeonggi region alone can increase by at least two or three times. Not to mention that it can also be exported to the rich Runzhou and other Taihu lakes along the riverside through waterways.

At present, it is true that shallow coal has been found in Wujian Mountain, but how rich the coal seam resources are, is it worth large-scale development, and people are being sent into the mountains to do further surveys.

After all, real large-scale development, including the construction of post roads and weirs, the connection of water and land passages with the Mopangu Post Road and the Puyang and Shiliang River waterways, and even the construction of hardwood rails between the mines and the wharves, were very expensive projects in the world.

Only a shallow mine that is easy to mine and can produce hundreds of thousands of quintals of coal per year is worth such a risky investment.

At present, the coal mines developed in the areas near the river water network of Qingcangshan, Huisu Mountain and Huaiyang Mountain, with a total annual output of more than 200,000 quintals, can no longer meet the expanding demand for coal in Tangyi, let alone supply Gyeonggi.