Although the families of Wang Yan, Wang Zhe, Wang Zhang, Huo Li, Huo Xiao and others have moved to Luoyang one after another, but after the failure of the Lu Qingxia Palace last year and the forced withdrawal of the letter king Yang Yuanyan due to the situation, more Wang clansmen have changed their businesses and moved out of Yangzhou one after another, rushing to settle in Liyang.

Wang Wenqian and Yin Peng rushed to Liyang with their families and servants, and they didn't feel unfamiliar with life.

And Wang Jun also wrote a letter to the officials of Liyang in advance, asking his father Wang Wenqian to live directly in Lianyuan, which was vacant at this time, after they arrived in Liyang, and asked the officials of Liyang to forward a letter to his father.

The letter also said that Lianyuan covers a wide area, the courtyard is complete, and the courtyard is tidy, and it can be disposed of at will, but she also mentioned that Han Qian will more vigorously promote new learning in the future, if Lianyuan wants to run an old-style academy museum, she will no longer be able to provide funding in the future, and also mentioned that she wants Xu's half-brother, who was born to Xu, to study in Liyang first.

In addition to the letters, Wang Jun also entrusted the officials of Liyang to send more than 100 books compiled by Xuzhou and Huaixi since the new school to Lianyuan.

For the time being, these new books do not involve the most confidential engineering technology of Daliang, but at present, only a small part of them are openly sold to the outside world - Wang Wenqian has tried all his best before, and he can only get access to some basic parts - only the teachers and students of Liyang and Luoyang schools can gradually access all of them.

With this batch of new books, Wang Wenqian temporarily lost his mind about opening a college, and pulled Yin Peng to ponder the new school every day.

Although Wang Wenqian and Yin Peng did not have official identities after crossing the river, Zhao Wuji still sent a copy every few days that only middle and high-ranking officials were qualified to browse, so that they could keep abreast of the latest developments in the Jinling peace talks.

Although there are too many differences and conflicts between Liang and Chu, as long as they can clearly recognize the reality and are willing to sit down and talk about the same goal, the differences will be easily resolved.

The principal and interest and penalty interest of the loans of the soldiers and horses of Chuzhou and the Youlongwu army to the Xuzhou Guanqian Bureau totaled more than 2 million, and the debts were fully borne by the Chuting center, but the interest on the money was lowered from 20 percent per year to 10 percent, and the principal and interest were repaid in installments within 10 years.

The Tangyi naval army withdrew from the waters south of Aoshan Island, starting from the eastern boundary of Lujiang County to the western boundary of Tangyi County, Liang Chu crossed the river and ruled, and the official and civilian ships did not cross the center line; Liang compensated 200 large and small warships that were sunk and burned in the water battle on Aoshan Island.

The Chu army stationed in Jingxiang could only be based on the two forbidden armies of the Right Guards and the Right Wu Xiang Army, which were stationed on both sides of the Han River, but the total number of soldiers in Jing, Fu, Huang, Sui, Xiang, and Shu Prefectures as auxiliaries did not exceed 15,000.

The soldiers from all over the prefectures, totaling nearly 50,000 who had been requisitioned from Hunan, Jiangxi, and other places, had to be retained to their hometowns.

In addition to Chuzhou, the strength of the Chu Ting Naval Army must be controlled by the Chu Ting Center, and the forbidden armies and state soldiers are no longer allowed to set up private water camps, and the total capacity of the warships under the jurisdiction of the Chu Naval Division shall not exceed 100,000 stones.

Correspondingly, the total capacity of the naval warships of the Liang State stationed along the Yangtze River (including Chaohu Lake) such as East Lake and Liyang shall not exceed 50,000 stones.

The total capacity of the merchant ships of the Chishan Society under the Liang State must be greatly reduced to less than 50,000 stone by the end of the year; The excess capacity needs to be split into more than 12 private shipping companies that are not affiliated with each other within half a year, so as to undertake specific waterway commercial cargo transportation between Chu and Liang.

The total number of garrisons of the Liang state in Deng, Jun, Jin, and Gwangju, that is, in the area adjacent to Xiangfan Suiyang, shall not exceed 20,000; In the territory of the Southern Inner History Mansion (Chaozhou, Chuzhou), the total size of the garrison of the water army shall not exceed 30,000 people; No more than 5,000 troops should be stationed in Syria.

The Huaixi and Deng Junliang and Jin Prefectures established new land boundaries based on the areas currently controlled by both sides, and the Chu court recognized the current rule of the Great Liang over Xuzhou, and agreed that the peripheral states of Xuzhou, which nominally belonged to the Chu court, such as Chensi, would maintain the old commercial and trade relations with Xuzhou, and would not be restricted by the Chu court.

At the same time, the Chu court allowed the regular passage of waterways between East Lake and Xuzhou and Xichuan every two months, and arranged for the exchange of goods and personnel with a total transportation capacity of no more than 20,000 stone in principle, but it was necessary to accept the supervision of the warships of the central naval division throughout the territory of the Chu State.

Commerce between Liang and Chu was not destined to be completely unrestricted, but Chu Ting agreed to trade between the two countries and to set up trading points in the Yangtze River, Han River, Gan River, Xiang River, Han River, and the economic states along the Taihu Lake.

Correspondingly, Liang also agreed to open up the border trade in Donghu, Tangyi, Chaozhou, Chuzhou, Shouzhou, Huozhou and other places, and allowed the commercial goods of Chu to enter.

The two sides are exempt from customs tax and city parking tax respectively.

Chu Ting agreed that the merchant ships of Shu from Yuzhou and other places would conduct border trade with the Southern Inner History of Liang through the Yangtze River waterway.

Liang declared himself a vassal to the Chu court, and paid a tribute of 1 million yuan, and disclosed to the general supervisor and the imperial medical bureau more than 60 latest manufacturing technologies involving shipbuilding, pharmaceuticals, wine making, crossbow making, etc., and agreed that the Chu State Zijian would select forty people to enter the Luoyang Academy every year to study new studies, and allow the Chu court to send envoys to Luoyang and the Southern Inner History Mansion; The two sides jointly declared war on the Mongol army and the Eastern Liang army......

Han Daoming, the secretary of the Honglu Mansion appointed by the Liang State Fire Line, officially signed the Zong Vassal Covenant with Zheng Yu, the secretary of the household department of the Chu State and the governor of the government of Chu, on the eve of the Diguan Festival on July 15.

In addition to officially recognizing the annexation of Huaixi and Deng Junliang and other states into the Liang Empire, this suzerain-vassal alliance can also be regarded as giving the imperial court enough face; Also on the same day that Liang Chu concluded the alliance, the new emperor issued an edict to conclude the Jinling reversal case and the palace rebellion case.

Empress Xu of Anning Palace was punished for Jinling's rebellion and killing of loyal and good criminals, and he was given Aya to hang himself; Sixteen people, including Yang Fen, Zhang Xinchun, and Chen De, were all punished as accomplices, or given poisoned wine, or dragged into the execution ground and beheaded; The Empress Dowager Wang Chan'er and the King of Xiang Yang Lin were punished for being bewitched by evil words, and the Yunlin Guanxi Dao who was imprisoned on the side of the imperial tomb atonemented their sins......

Yang Zhitang not only failed to stop the peace talks, but could only watch the new emperor issue an edict to remove Zhou Dun and others from their generals, and inquire about the crime of losing the army.

Since the Chongwen Palace's court discussion, many servants and supervisors of the Imperial History Observatory have taken turns to impeach Yang Zhitang, the king of Shou, for ignoring the hatred of the monarch's father and secretly conspiring against Hulu, and Yang Zhitang was also forced to write a letter to ask for guilt, saying that he was sick and begged to go.

It was also the same day that the alliance of Liang Chuzong was concluded, and the new emperor agreed that Yang Zhitang would resign from the Privy Council to recuperate at home, and at the same time transfer the military department Shangshu and Jingxiang to recruit Zhou Bingwu to serve as the privy envoy to return to the dynasty.

Han Daoming, Feng Yi, and Wen Ruilin have been delayed until the beginning of August, waiting for the official one

After the book of the alliance of the clan and the lord of the Great Liang State was sent to Jinling, he crossed the river to the East Lake with the book of the alliance of the clan and was collected by the Liang State and stamped with the seal of the Emperor of the Great Chu.

The day before them, Tian Cheng and Wei Xu led the generals who had been dismissed from Xuzhou and a group of middle and senior engineers, totaling more than 4,000 people, to arrive at Donghu.

At this time, the importance of Xuzhou is still undoubted, but it is not so important.

In order to further alleviate Chu Ting's vigilance, in addition to reducing the garrison and gradually transferring the production of precision casting and heavy weapons and warships in Xuzhou to Donghu and even Luoyang, Han Qian finally appointed Qiao Weiyan as the assassin of Xuzhou, and other generals were mainly Han Laoshan's stepson Han Dong, Tan Yulin's eldest son Tan Qiu, and Zhao Zhixian's medical apprentice Pei Xiu in Xuzhou in his early years.

The arrangement of generals like Xuzhou is definitely better than Tiancheng or a number of generals of the same level, which naturally makes the surrounding prefectures and Chuzhou feel much more at ease.

Tian Cheng will remain in Donghu and succeed Zhao Wuji as governor of the Nannai Shifu.

According to the Covenant of the Sect and Domain, in addition to Lin Zongjing, Wei Xu, Zhao Qi, Chen Mu and other generals who will lead two naval brigades and two infantry battalions to garrison the Nannei Shifu, three reserve brigades will also be organized, and the three reserve brigades will only retain the organizational framework of military attaches ranging from 300 to 500 in peacetime, and almost 20,000 horses will be transferred from active duty to the reserves, so as to control the garrison of Nannei Shifu at about 20,000, which seems to not maintain a military threat to the Jinling and Yangchu regions.

Zhao Wuji led Feng Zhang and He Liufeng to the north, and joined up with the three cavalry brigades of Li Xiu, Cao Ba, and Zhao Ci, who were going north at the same time, and stationed in Xuzhou.

In mid-August, Chu Ting also formally abolished the Recruiting Army, and the soldiers of Zhuzhou Prefecture crossed the river and embarked on the journey back to Zhuzhou, and Zhou Bingwu, the secretary of the military department and the envoy of Zhao, returned to Jinling to serve as a privy envoy, which meant that the Liang-Chu peace talks had been formally reached in essence.

At this time, hundreds of merchant ships returned to and from the Yangtze River, and the backlog of cotton cloth, ironware, lamps and candles, paper, coal, and other commercial goods that had been accumulated for more than half a year poured from the place of origin to the border cities of the main prefectures and counties along the Yangtze River like a great river opening the floodgates.

Han Daoming, Feng Yi and Yin Peng, who was appointed as the Lang Officer of the Military Intelligence Staff, took his family with him, and only then did he embark on the journey to Luoyang.

June and July are also the rainy seasons in the Songnan area, but the continuous road construction has never stopped.

Han Daoming went to the current imperial capital of Chang'an City to study fifty years ago, when he was young and vigorous, he wanted to see the scenery of mountains and rivers with great interest, and walked the mountain path with the waterway, that is, he took Hu to follow Songshan to go over the mountains and mountains to Luoyang, and had a deep impression of the rugged road between Songyang and Ruyang, and thought that this time he went north, even if he was riding a horse, he would have to suffer a lot if he wanted to rush to Luoyang as soon as possible at his age.

After crossing the Huai River, the Yinghe River flooded, and there was no other waterway that could directly lead to the territory of Ruzhou, so it was necessary to take the overland post road.

A few wide-body carriages were prepared in the place for everyone and women and children to ride, and Yin Peng, Lu Ze and others were strong and strong, and they were still used to carrying horses with them.

Han Daoming thought that after arriving in Ruzhou City, women and children would need to ride horses, but he didn't want to enter the territory of Ruyang County, so he saw that the post road with a width of more than three zhang crossed the mountains, which was enough for two heavy-duty carriages to gallop in a staggered manner.

The wide-body carriage built by Donghu is quite a pair of traditional two-wheeled carriage frames, connected by movable vertical axles, but the body is placed on the vertical axle, which solves the steering difficulties of traditional four-wheeled carriages to the greatest extent.

This principle is in the new books sent to Lianyuan by Wang Juntuo, which is no longer a top secret in Daliang, but when he actually tried to sit in this new carriage, Yin Peng felt that even when the carriage was moving fast, the vibration was much smaller than that of the traditional carriage - Yin Peng began to choose to ride a horse, and the reason was that he did not like the violent vibration and bumps of the traditional carriage when it traveled quickly.

After listening to Lu Ze's explanation, I learned that the newly built carriage in East Lake has a spring plate between the carriage and the vertical axle, a shock-absorbing structure that is buckled up with a multi-functional thin steel plate, which minimizes the vibration, not only the personnel ride comfortably, but also the body of the car greatly reduces the wear.

"Don't look at the amount of more than sixty new technologies we have disclosed to Chu Ting this time, but the carriage that Lord Yin is riding in has integrated more than sixty new technologies," Although Lu Ze has been in charge of the guard work in the Han Mansion in recent years, this is on the surface, and secretly he is also responsible for part of the affairs of the secretary in Jinling, and many details Han Daoming and Feng Yi are not very clear, but he is clear about it, and explained to Yin Peng with a smile, "The king has always wanted to use fine iron to cast long-range war crossbows, and there has been no progress for several years. The Institute of Engineers deliberated on the new technology of making cars, thought of twenty or thirty ways to reduce the vibration of the car body, but limited by the level of practice casting, are not ideal, and finally one person thought of the multi-layer bent thin steel sheet tightly linked together to make a reed plate shock absorption, the effect is satisfactory - when the Institute of Engineers applied for the award for this engineer, the gentleman saw the reed structure, and said that this method can be used to make crossbows, and the Institute of Engineers pondered for more than a year, until last year, it was possible to build a batch of 400 steps of the giant crossbow. However, it is a pity that the number of divine machine giant crossbows built so far is still too small, and the main equipment was not used in the Heluo battle at the beginning of the year, otherwise the casualties would never have been so heavy......"

In the battle of Aoshan Island, many people with good eyesight could vaguely see the whole process when they stood on the shore, and Yin Peng and Wang Wenqian were also watching the battle on the bank of the river at that time.

In the final analysis, in addition to the huge structural defects in the Aoshan Island Water Camp, another point is that the main general Zhou Dun included all the warships in the water village before the war, but he did not expect that the range of the Tangyi Water Army's weapons far exceeded their imagination.

Of course, Yin Peng was too far away at that time, and he could only roughly confirm that the weapons equipped by the Tangyi Navy had a long range, but there was no accurate concept of how far away.

At this time, hearing Lu Ze mention it, Yin Peng was taken aback.

After the middle of the previous dynasty, there were many feudal towns, and the wars in the local areas were endless, and in the past 50 years, the wars in Hehuai, Jianghuai, Yongshu Heluo, Hedong and Heshuo were even more fierce and frequent.

At the same time as the martial arts were in power, the various forces became extremely important to the casting of armor and weapons.

Yang En can be said to be a master in this area, and has been demoted to the right school office by Emperor Tianyou for many years, but the effective range of the elite bed crossbow made by the Chu army is only 200 steps, at most 250 steps is weak and difficult to wear thin plates, and the range of the giant crossbow made by Huaixi can reach 400 steps, and the city head can almost accurately shoot the enemy

The city's whirlwind cannon position is up.

Of course, Yin Peng did not doubt what Lu Ze said.

The first is that the water battle on Aoshan Island has confirmed that the beam has mastered a higher level of charging material casting technology, and secondly, he and Wang Wenqian have also found craftsmen in Chuzhou over the years to try to produce a steel tire longbow, which is really through the traditional tempering and quenching treatment, it is too difficult to master the overall toughness of the steel crossbow arm to just right, resulting in a usable iron tire bow, the performance can not surpass the traditional Tuomu strong bow, not to mention, the cost is far higher than the Tuomu bow.

He also knew that Han Qian had tried to manufacture iron-tired bow arms and crossbow arms for a long time, and there were also some finished equipment in the army, but the range and penetration were not necessarily superior to the traditional bows and crossbows, but he didn't expect that the girder would nearly double the range of the traditional heavy-duty bed crossbow by using the reed plate structure to fasten the elastic long steel sheet buckle with multiple layers that were relatively easy to quench.

Yin Peng has been recruited as an officer of the Military Intelligence Staff Office, not to mention that he is still a long-successful general, so there is naturally no need to hide these things at the general secret level in the army.

Besides, Lu Ze only explained the principle, and from knowing the principle to casting the real thing in batches, he could not have done it without the continuous accumulation of new craftsmanship for more than ten years.

However, the cost of this new spring-arm giant crossbow is still too high, and it is not suitable for the casting of ordinary single bows and crossbows, but like the whirlwind cannon, in the era of cold weapons, the spring-arm giant crossbow with a range of 400 steps can be said to be a heavy weapon.

Even if it is costly and wasteful in the casting process, it is worth manufacturing in batches.

Han Qian is currently ordering the two armor and armor workshops in Donghu and Huaiyang to make every effort to manufacture new crossbows, but they can't produce dozens of them a year.

At present, the biggest good news, last year, when this kind of spring-arm giant crossbow could be mass-produced, Han Qian decided to give priority to equipping the navy, and now Liang Chu has successfully negotiated peace, not only the follow-up production of the spring-arm giant crossbow will give priority to equipping the main infantry brigade of the northern front, Zhao Wuji led He Liufeng and Feng Zhang's two troops and horses to the north, and directly removed the thirty spring-arm scorpion crossbows and spring-arm bed crossbows from the existing fifty of the Tangyi naval army, and dragged them away directly from the warship.

Although the whirlwind cannon of the counterweight trebuchet was officially named in the new school, although it could throw stone projectiles and oil canisters to a distance of four or five hundred paces, the structure of the whirlwind cannon was huge and bulky, and it could not be used in field contact warfare and rapid siege warfare.

In the past, although Tangyi tried its best to make the manufacture of cyclone cannons componentized, more convenient for transportation, installation and disassembly, so that it can be more widely used on the battlefield, which is also the focus of emulation by the Zhujia in recent years, but there is still no way to completely overcome its bulky, inconvenient to move when put into the battlefield, and easy to destroy by enemy assault soldiers and horses.

Yin Peng couldn't imagine that when the Eastern Liang Army encountered the main combat brigade of the Great Liang in the array equipped with spring-arm scorpion crossbows and spring-arm bed crossbows that could move quickly with light chariots in the ice and snow on the east bank of Yingshui this winter, how bitter it would be in his heart.

Entering the mountainous area where the southern foot of Songshan Mountain and the northern foot of Funiu Mountain intersected, seeing the newly erected iron beam bridges along the way, and listening to Han Daoming's suspicion of the difficulty of taking this road when he went north to study in his youth, Yin Peng can more deeply understand the profound meaning of Wang Wenqian's statement that the capture of Guanzhong and the unification of the world in Daliang.

It is not that the Liang at this time does not have the foundation to dominate the world, but it is that the situation in Heluo is too clumsy, so that the few soldiers and horses need to be dispersed in too many directions, and almost every direction is in a passive defensive situation.

Only by capturing Guanzhong can we have a broader hinterland in depth and can we concentrate a limited number of elite soldiers and horses in a limited two or three directions to attack the city.

At the beginning of the year, Han Qian stubbornly defended the mouth of the Yiluo River regardless of casualties, mainly because Heluo did not leave much deep hinterland, and Hujiao Pass and Gongxian did not defend it, and retreated to Yanshi and Luoyang.

Not to mention the 780,000 people in the Heluo area at present, only the Heluo garrison, generals, and hundreds of thousands of people with their families need as much as one million stone of rations every year.

At present, although the military expenditure is seriously overdrawn, Han Daoming and Yin Peng entered Yichuan County and saw that the crops in the fields on both sides of the Yihe River were slightly yellowed, and the harvest season would enter in ten days and half a month, and their hearts were much more relaxed.

At this time, it can better reflect the significance of guarding the mouth of the Yiluo River at the beginning of the year.

Not only has the agricultural production of more than 89 million mu in the areas south of Mengjin and Yanshi not been interrupted, but after the autumn grain harvest, it can provide a total of more than 10 million stone of grain for the Heluo estate in the following year (Heluo farming and planting is mainly a one-season harvest, and the per capita land occupation is high, but the per capita grain output is lower than that in the south), and after the implementation of the new system, it has greatly reduced the local forces such as the clan lords and large and medium-sized landlords to occupy a large amount of resources in the center, and the center can directly raise more than 2 million stone of grain from the Heluo area through taxation and unified purchasing. Basically, it can satisfy the food supply of the garrison in the Heluo area and the residents of Luoyang City.

In addition, the rejection of the enemy outside the mouth of the Yiluo River made nearly one million acres of land for the families of the generals and soldiers to be completed before May, and with the victory of the two defensive battles, the Heluo army's mental calculation stabilized.

What is even more rare is that a number of new mining workshops have been built on both sides of the Yiluo River, Luoyang's industrial and mining production has been roughly restored to the level before the Heshuo shock, and the follow-up needs more refined development, Luoyang's industrial and mining production will be comprehensively upgraded to the same level as East Lake and Xuzhou, which will take two or three years.

The First Savings Bureau of Daliang has been tied to the fate of Han Qian and Daliang, even if the current overdraft is more serious, but this only means that everyone is tied deeper together.

And even if he doesn't expect to dominate the world, only Han Qian can stabilize the current situation, and the overdraft of the Daliang First Savings Bureau can be quickly made up to ensure that the interests of each family are not damaged.

At present, the most important thing is that the internal production of grain, grass, coal and iron and other materials cannot be interrupted.

As long as the internal production and supply of materials are sufficient, even if the way of borrowing money from the Daliang No. 1 Savings Bureau to expand the purchase of military supplies is invalid because of the serious overdraft, which depletes the storage and capital of the Daliang No. 1 Savings Bureau, Han Qian's edict is not too difficult to ensure that the resources of Daliang are fully tilted towards the military.