The holy decree of conferring Han Qian as a governor and recovering the northwest of Huai was delayed until the 15th, which was issued from Jinling.

Han Daochang received the errand of the decree and rushed to East Lake by boat as the minister of the decree.

Han Qian was worried that the situation would change at any time, and after persuading the Youshenwu Army to surrender a few years ago, he stayed in Huangchuan to sit in the town, and at the same time, the Tangyi Army's troops and horses on the western flank did not decrease, so as to maintain a military deterrence against the Xiangbei Army.

Han Daochang received the errand of the messenger, that is, to meet Han Qian, so he and Huo Li, who had led more than 100 guards and cavalry back to Donghu to rest, rushed all the way to Huangchuan to meet Han Qian.

They rushed to Huangchuan, but they didn't expect that Zhou Yi, who had been demoted to the history of Gwangju Thorn, would rush over a day earlier than him, and at this time, Han Qian, Zhou Yi and others were all in Luoshan after the withdrawal of the Zuolongque Army.

Han Daochang, escorted by Huo Li and others, rushed to Luoshan to see Han Qian.

Gwangju has almost been completely disabled, before more than 20,000 households in Luoshan, were relocated to Le'an, Huangchuan and other places by Han Qian, in Li Zhihe led the left dragon bird army from the northern foot of Tongbai Mountain to retreat to Nanyang (Dengzhou), its Lingshan, Yiyang's soldiers and horses also retreated to the south to Jiuli (Huangxian) and other passes, Tangyi to the west to receive Yiyang, Qisi, Luoshan, Tongbai four counties, Xiangbei Army handed over less than 10,000 registered households.

In addition to the 2,000 soldiers and horses who followed Han Qian and Zhou Yi to the west, Luoshan City is a city of seven or eight hundred steps square, and the rows of houses are well preserved, but there is not a single civilian, and it is an empty city completely.

Before, Feng Yu rushed to Jinling to confess, only saying that he would do everything possible to recruit the people to cool down the Bo Qi department, but did not say that there would be things to encourage the usurpation of the township marquis in the follow-up - of course, these are irrelevant, but after seeing Han Qian, Han Daochang accompanied everyone around the empty streets and alleys, and still couldn't help complaining that exchanging Jingzhou and Xiangbei for Guangzhou was a bargaining deal.

"After Li Changfeng folded the secret, Cishou Palace still secretly released the news that we were plotting behind our backs, and many criticisms in the DPRK and China seemed to be surging for a while, but after Cao Yong and Wang Ang entered Beijing with the letter of state, the voice of criticism quickly disappeared, it can be seen that the vast majority of people in the DPRK can still distinguish between right and wrong, of course, there are some people who may have thought in their hearts that after Da Chu occupies Liangzhou, there will be a foundation for plotting Shu, "There is no one else on the left and right, except for Gao Shao, Feng Yi, Kong Xirong and others, Zhou Yi can also be said to be the descendant of Tangyi at this time, Han Daochang had no scruples when he spoke, and said with regret, "If Liangzhou can fall into our hands, the time has come, and we will send troops from Xuzhou and Liangzhou to attack from the north and south, and it will be more convenient to seek Shu......"

"If you are greedy, you will lose, and no one is good at stubble - Guo Rong and Zhou Yi were so decisive in Canglang City at that time," Han Qian said with a smile, "At present, the Zuo Wuxiang Army and the Zuo Shenwu Army have also entered Liangzhou, and it is one thing to greatly share the military pressure that Wen Bo and they are undergoing, how much we want to save on military expenses such as grain and straw, we must also calculate this account well......

Even under the deterrence of the soldiers and horses on the western flank led by Han Qian, Li Zhihe and Chai Jian did not dare to attack Canglang, Jingyun and other cities from behind, but if Tangyi took the waterway from Xuzhou or Donghu and sent a naval army to escort and transport military supplies to Liangzhou, the cost of military funds and freight was extremely large, and it was necessary to take 70,000 or 80,000 yuan of money and grain to invest in it every month, and it would be nearly one million yuan of military expenses in a year.

In addition, don't expect the Xiangbei Army to enter Liangzhou at this time and jointly resist the counterattack of Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian.

And if you really want to control Liangzhou for a long time, the new right Shenwu army will bear great military pressure, not to mention, this additional military expenditure is also a long-term heavy burden for Tangyi - the annual tribute promised by Shu State, even if it is used in Liangzhou, is far from enough.

If Zhu Yu finally chooses to withdraw from Guanzhong, and Guanzhong asks the Mughurs to take it away, how many resources will Tangyi have to invest in Liangzhou to curb the Mengwu people's troops from the south of the Qinling Mountains?

Now that Liangzhou is assigned to Xiangbei, not only will the armies of Xiangbei jointly bear the military pressure of Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian's counterattack at this time, but in the future, Wen Bo will lead the right Shenwu army to withdraw, and Zhu Yu will also give up Guanzhong to the Mughurs at the same time, and the armies of Xiangbei will also bear the front of the Mughurs going south out of the Qinling Mountains.

At this time, all the military expenses incurred in Liangzhou also needed to be borne by the Xiangbei Defense Embassy and the imperial court, and Han Qian only needed to allocate a batch of meat and excellent armor every month to strengthen the Youshenwu army.

In this way, Tangyi only needs to spend more than 10,000 yuan per month on the battlefield in Liangzhou.

The thrifty military funds should continue to be invested in the operation of Huaixi.

More importantly, when the Marquis of Changxiang Wang Yong really stabilized the situation in Shu, wouldn't he and many subjects of Shu worry that Tangyi would one day attack the north and south of Xuzhou and Liangzhou to seek Shu land?

The country has no righteous war, and interests come first.

Han Qian could figure it out with his toes that if Wang Yong really wanted to sit firmly in the position of the lord of the country, he would definitely be the first to turn his face with them, and do everything possible to take back Liangzhou from them.

At that time, Wen Bo led the right Shenwu army to hang Liangzhou alone, with enemies in the north and south, and the east flank was the ill-intentioned Xiangbei Army, so what ability did he have to hold Liangzhou?

On the southern front, Wang Yong is not only likely to cut off trade with Xuzhou, but will even secretly support the two states of Siye and the big surname forces in Guizhou to confront Xuzhou.

After hearing what Han Qian said, Han Daochang asked hesitantly: "You never thought about taking Liangzhou from beginning to end, so why did you have to include Liangzhou in the secret agreement from the beginning, is it a bait for Li Zhihe and Chai Jian?" However, you have long known that Lu Qingxia colluded with Guan Jianglou and the Northern Fugitive Clan, and even worried that Lu Qingxia secretly attached himself to the Mugyu people, and now let them in Liangzhou, once the Mugwu people really won Guanzhong, don't you worry about them cooperating together and completely colluding together? ”

"If they could, who would be willing to be a lackey of an alien? No matter what Lu Qingxia thinks, I think not only Li Zhihe, Li Changfeng, Li Xiu and others will not be reconciled, even Chai Jian, Zhou Shu, Deng Tai, Xu Jing and others will not be reconciled, right? Han Qian said, "Of course, they have won Liangzhou, and after they have a firm foundation, they will actively seek Shu if they have the opportunity, and in terms of geography, they also have this advantage - this is also destined for them to not give up Liangzhou easily." ”

In the original plan, I didn't expect that Li Changfeng would meet at the right time, but I had already considered that Li Zhihe, Chai Jian and others had the ambition to fight for Liangzhou, and at the same time, Xiangbei also had geographical conditions, but even so, Han Qian didn't think of taking Liangzhou for himself.

Han Daochang thought to himself, Liangzhou is a bridge between Xiangbei and Shu, Li Zhihe and others really have the intention to Shu, and they will definitely strengthen the management of Liangzhou, and will never give up Liangzhou because of the secret collusion with the Mughu.

Han Qian continued: "Of course, there is another layer of consideration to give Liangzhou to Li Zhihe, that is, whether you beware of Li Zhihe's ambitions in the future, or think about taking Liangzhou back from Li Zhihe's hands, this will make Wang Yong's relationship with us closer and more harmonious...... Now, that's all I can see

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, the situation is difficult, and we can only take one step at a time. ”

Han Daochang thought to himself that if he could see this step, there were not many people in the world, right?

"Li Zhihe gave up the four counties of Gwangju so neatly, probably in a hurry to personally lead his troops into Liangzhou, right?" Zhou Yan interjected at this time and said.

"You secretly stumbled on them during the waves, so that Li Changfeng and Li Xiu led the troops into Liangzhou in advance, and now Li Changfeng is also leading the Liangzhou assassin history, if he can't lead the troops into Liangzhou as soon as possible, once the situation in Liangzhou stabilizes, he will have no excuse to enter Liangzhou," Han Qian said with a smile, "There are still some differences between the Late Red Mansion and the Wangfu of Zhedong County......

Zhou Yi nodded, when they negotiated with Li Changfeng, Yao Xishui and Fei Wenbo in Canglang City, they could feel that Yao Xishui knew about the fall of Taiyuan Mansion beforehand, but Li Changfeng didn't know about it, which shows that although Li Changfeng is the highest official in Cishou Palace in the foreign court, Lu Qingxia, Yao Xishui and others are still somewhat wary of him.

"It's good that Li Zhihe can lead his troops into Liangzhou, and when he resists Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian's first wave of counterattack, Wen Bo and Tan Yuliang can also lead their troops to withdraw from Liangzhou." Feng Yu said with emotion.

"By the way, what's the situation in Guanzhong now?" Han Daochang remembered something and asked.

There are too many obstacles for the news of Guanzhong to reach Jinling, but Han Daochang believes that even if Tangyi is trekking through mountains and rivers, he will inevitably send some scouts to sneak into Guanzhong over the Qinling Mountains or Funiu Mountain, confirm the changes in the situation in Guanzhong in time, and send the news back.

"Perhaps it was the surrender of the Right Shenwu Army to the west, Zhu Yu guessed what we were going to do, and he secretly gathered all the elite troops to the northern front in mid to early December. After Shi Jizu was named King of Yong, he was anxious to take Yongzhou as his king of Guanzhong, worried that Yongzhou would be captured by the Shu army in advance, so his troops took a short rest, so they went south along the Fenshui River Valley, couldn't wait to enter the Hejin area, stepped into the trap set by Zhu Yu, and was beaten by the main force of the Liang army in Guanzhong, 40,000 soldiers and horses were killed, and Shi Jizu fell off his horse and died in the chaotic battle...... "Han Qian said.

"Ah, Zhu Yu is so powerful?" Han Daochang was shocked and asked, "However, what are the Mengwu people and several other soldiers and horses in Weizhou doing on the northern line, are they all sitting and watching Shi Jizu's troops be destroyed?" ”

"The Mengwu people still intended to encircle and annihilate the main force of the northern line of the Liang army, at that time there were 60,000 soldiers and horses divided into two ways to cooperate with Shi Jizu to fight, after seeing the main force of the Liang army out of the city, they wanted to intercept its retreat from the flank, to achieve the purpose of encircling, but did not expect the elite of the Liang army to be personally led by Zhu Yu under the personal command of Zhu Yu, the battle was extremely fast and ferocious, and did not wait for these two soldiers and horses to surround from the flank, Shi Jizu's department was led by Zhu Yu to lead the elite of the Liang army to defeat the whole line, and then Zhu Yu led the troops out of the encirclement and withdrew to the north of Yongzhou - the whole war from the start to the end, It was over in just three days......" Han Qian said.

"Three days?" Han Daochang smacked his tongue, he didn't know what to say, in the cold winter, the Guanzhong Plain was full of snow, and three days might not be enough for the cavalry to get out of two hundred miles, not to mention that Shi Jizu, the prince of Jin, who surrendered to the Mengwu people and destroyed the Jin Kingdom, was defeated and died in a few days after he was crowned King Yong, and he was defeated and died without even taking the Yongzhou fiefdom, which is also embarrassing.

Han Daochang asked again: "So, Liang Jun has a good chance to hold Guanzhong?" ”

"It's difficult," Han Qian shook his head and said, "The Liang army's great victory this time may be able to boost morale a little, but with such a rapid advance battle, if you break through and retreat, your own casualties will not be less." At this time, Fengzhou, Qizhou and other places west of Yongzhou have fallen under the control of Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian, and Tongzhou, Linzhou, Qingzhou and other places in the north are occupied by Wang Yuankui's Chengde army and Pingxia people, and the Liang army only controls the nineteen counties of Yong, Hua and Shang Prefectures to which Jingzhaofu belonged in the former dynasty. Even if the Liang army had its back to the Qinling Mountains in the south at this time, and Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian in the west had no intention of advancing eastward for the time being, the geographical advantage in the north was lost, and the cavalry of the Mengwu people could invade the depths of Yongzhou from Pingchuan on the north bank of Weishui at any time, and even directly interspersed into the hinterland of Huazhou, so as to cut the connection between the Liang army and Tongguan in the pass......"

Han Daochang knew that the three states of Yonghua Shang were the most elite areas in Guanzhong, especially the two states of Yonghua, which spanned both sides of the Wei River and had fertile land.

The most critical problem is that after the geographical advantage is lost, the Mengwu people in the north and the Weizhou rebels in the east, even after Shi Jizu's department is defeated, can still easily gather hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to slowly press south.

At this time, the Liang army in Guanzhong had no dangerous position to defend on the northern front, even if the Mengwu people slowed down their offensive and only sent a small force of cavalry to invade the south, the agricultural production in Yonghua and the two states could not be maintained, and where did the grain and grass of the 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses of the Liang army in Guanzhong be raised?

Unless the Mengwu people can be expelled from Guanzhong and the Tongqing and Hejin regions can be recovered, and Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian can be expelled from Qizhou and Fengzhou in the west.

However, Zhu Yuneng's defeat of Shi Jizu is already dangerous, even if the main force of the Mengwu people shrinks back to digest and solidify the Jin land, Wang Yuankui and Tian Weiye are all veterans of the Jin State, and seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses and the cavalry of the Pingxia people are stationed in Qingzhou, Tongzhou and Hejin regions, and it is not easy for the Liang army in Guanzhong, which is short of food, armor, and medicine, to be easily defeated.

"Next, Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang may negotiate peace with Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian, but it will not be too easy." Zhou Yan said.

He rushed to Gwangju yesterday to take up his post, and he had to understand the situation in Guanzhong earlier than Han Daochang, and he thought more thoroughly, and he did not feel that this great victory of the Liang army in Guanzhong would bring about a fundamental improvement in the bad situation they were facing.

And time dragged on, and when the Mengwu people felt that their control over the Jin land was enough, their elite cavalry and the Han army were assembled and mobilized again, not only the Liang army in Guanzhong was in danger, but also Han Yuanqi, Chen Kun and other troops who were struggling to support Bianjing would also be unable to support themselves and could not escape defeat.

Han Qian shook his head with a sigh, put aside the bad situation in the switch, and discussed the matter of Zhou Yi taking over Gwangju.

At present, it is necessary to move the people of the cottage system from Junju to the east as soon as possible, and there is a matter of the waves ahead, Li Zhihe and they will not set up any obstacles for the people of the cottage system to move eastward at this time, and even if they do not take the initiative to move people out, Li Zhihe will also take action to expel them, and it is estimated that more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians will move into Gwangju in the near future.

Li Zhihe also made it clear that he would not let so many people reorganize and move eastward.

At present, the plan under discussion is that the officials and dependents of the Shanzhai clan will send merchant ships to Donghu by the Chisan Society, and other people who are willing to move into Gwangju will be paid five taels of money by the government according to the household, and the corresponding settlement fee will be issued after arriving in Gwangju.

In addition, Han Qian planned to reassign the two counties of Huangchuan and Le'an to Gwangju, but even so, Gwangju would have only more than 70,000 households in the future.

Considering the possibility of maintaining a long-term military confrontation along the Huai River in the future, these populations will also mainly be arranged in the upper reaches of the Huang River and the Gushui River near the Huaiyang Mountain and Tongbai Mountain.

In these areas, more dams need to be built to intercept water and divert water through troughs and canals to make farming a good way to get farming in order

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In order to irrigate more fields, the cost of cultivation is higher than that of the plain area near the Huai River.

However, these things must be done in the cloud.

In Huozhou, Shouzhou, and Haozhou, Han Qian also guided the households to resettle to the south as much as possible, did everything possible to increase the population density along the Chaohu Lake, and evacuated the households in Shouzhou, Haozhou, and Huozhou in the north-central part of the Huai River.

All of these were preparations for the long-distance advance of the Mengwu cavalry, the direct occupation of the Hehuai region, or the complete occupation of the Hehuai region by the Weizhou rebels.

Fortunately, Huaixi is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is extremely sufficient, and the land on the two wings of Chaohu Lake and Chuzhou is also more fertile.

Of course, Tangyi's reliance on Huaixi's land tax is quite limited, and it mainly relies on the dumping of primary industrial products such as cotton cloth and ironware on the hinterland of Dachu and the surrounding forces, which also determines that Tangyi cannot simply be a place to divide the power of the feudal town.

This time, Shu ceded Kip and Liang states, and the geographical advantages were quite critical, but the fundamental reason why Tangyi did not take it was here.

What Tangyi is currently doing is to make other forces unable to find an excuse and have no ability to blockade the trade of the Chishan Society.

By the end of the year, the three core states of Chuchao and Syria had planted more than 1 million mu of cotton fields, harvested more than 900,000 quintals of seed cotton a year, and expanded the export scale to 6 million cotton cloth and 100,000 quintals of cotton wool; This alone can directly contribute millions of dollars to the government every year.

In addition to the counties of Xuzhou, nine counties with high-quality coal and iron mineral resources, such as Donghu, Longtan, Huaiyang, Tingshan, Yongyang, and Nanqiao, have also vigorously expanded the double-furnace ironmaking method, and the iron smelted last year also successfully exceeded the threshold of 12 million catties.

However, at present, the iron materials exported by Tangyi, including armor and war equipment, are mainly refined iron products with high added value, totaling less than 2 million catties, which can provide 200,000 yuan of income for the government every year.

At present, the iron material smelted and produced by Tangyi is mainly supplied for internal consumption.

Last year, the production of agricultural tools alone consumed more than 6 million catties of iron, reaching the level of six catties per capita, but it was precisely a large number of sophisticated iron agricultural tools distributed on a large scale in various ways, and the agricultural production in Huaixi prefectures recovered so quickly.

Without such a huge amount of iron tools, the efficiency of the work of reclaiming wasteland, hoeing grass in pear fields, digging canals, etc., would have been much slower.

The subsequent demand for iron tools in Huaixi agricultural production will remain at a relatively stable level, but Han Qian intends to promote the application of iron products in bridging and other industrial matters, and the internal demand for iron will continue to increase rapidly, but at the same time, the follow-up will also promote the strengthening of external dumping, and use the advantages of cost and quality and the business network spread out by Chishan to compete with the local iron smelting industry.

This means that the iron smelting in Tangyi still needs to be developed in great strides.

At the beginning of the previous year, the engineers of the Engineer School found a kind of bile water in the depths of the Quyang Mountains, which can produce copper by the replacement method, and Han Qian speculated that the commonly known bile water should be a copper-containing compound solution.

On this basis, the engineering school summed up the bile water copper smelting method, and formally set up a smelting institute in Quyang in the second half of the year before last, and last year it consumed 2 million catties of iron and smelted 800,000 catties of copper.

Since the previous dynasty, the iron smelting industry has been abandoned for a long time, even so, a pound of Jianghuai refined iron is only sold for fifty or sixty yuan, and the price of crude pig iron is lower, ranging from more than ten to more than 20 yuan, but the price of copper is worth more than 100 yuan a pound, and it can even be directly used as a hard currency trader.

The copper money cast by Da Chu is also worth 1,000 coins, and it is worth six catties and four taels of copper.

Two and a half catties of coarse iron, one catty of copper can be obtained by using the bile water copper smelting method, no matter how it is calculated, it is a very cost-effective deal.

The newly established smelter in Quyang contributed 40,000 yuan of income to the government in one year.

As of the end of last year, there were more than 20,000 households, cultivating more than 160,000 acres of farmland, and the annual land tax equivalent to money and grain was only about 40,000 yuan.

Of course, the consumption of iron is also very large.

Han Qian does not keep the bile water copper smelting method a secret, after all, there is only one bile water found in Xuzhou so far, and if more bile water or other copper-containing compound solution resources similar to bile water can be found in other places, this method will be used to produce more copper materials.

On the one hand, the scale of commerce and trade in the Jianghuai region wants to further expand, produce more copper to cast copper money, and promote the use of precious metals such as gold and silver in commercial transactions, which can expand the money supply of the people.

Although tens of thousands of catties of iron and iron products are supplied internally, and various taxes, municipal parking taxes, and taxes are set at a low level, such a huge scale still contributed tens of thousands of dollars of revenue to the government last year.

In addition to Kaibu iron, the annual output of Wuchuan Jing salt was stable at 120,000 stones, which also provided nearly 300,000 yuan of income to the government.

It is a pity that it is difficult for the production of salt in Wuchuan Jing to continue to expand, otherwise the income will at least increase a lot.

At present, there are millions of people in Huaixi Zhuzhou County, and the annual salt consumption is also more than 100,000 stones, and at present, they can only buy and sell from the salt and iron transfer envoys, and then add a tax to resell the salt merchants in each county with a tax per stone, and they will be eaten by the salt and iron transfer envoys every year.

Han Qian wrote a letter to Chen Jingzhou, hoping that after he arrived in Shu, he could negotiate an agreement with Tang Yi, the representative of Shu, and Wang Yong, that is, the annual tribute promised by Shu would be borne by Tangyi, but Shu needed to cede Yantian Port, which was located in the southernmost part of Yuzhou, which could produce well salt, and annexed it to Wuchuan County.

If this matter can be negotiated, it is possible that the annual production of well salt in Tangyi will be increased to about 300,000 stones, and after deducting the annual tribute, Tangyi will be able to get more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan of salt every year.

At present, Xuzhou and Huaixi counties mine more than 500,000 quintals of coal every year, but they can only supply Xuzhou and Huaixi counties for internal consumption, which is far from enough in Han Qian's view.

The Wujianshan Coal Mine is under vigorous development, and it is expected to be put into operation after the autumn, and the output of the first two years will double the coal output of Tangyi, which can supply Gyeonggi and other places.

Although the profit of coal may not be as good as that of shipbuilding, the large-scale use of coal and iron is the basis for the rapid increase in productivity.

It is precisely from the various taxes and municipal taxes of primary industrial products such as cloth, iron, coal and salt that can reach such a scale, Han Qian decided at the beginning of last year to keep all the land tax revenues for local expenditure in the prefectures and counties.

This is too different from the Shouzhou army ruling Huaixi and desperately squeezing the locality.

At the same time, this also determines that Tangyi, in addition to maintaining strong military strength and deterrence, must also maintain a fragile but unbreakable connection with all forces.

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