The three boats stopped directly on the river beach, and Yang Qin and the others jumped off the river beach and came over to see Han Qian.

This is also the reason why Jianghuai, Sichuan, Hunan and other places almost all build flat-bottomed boats, mainly to facilitate docking on the beach, replaced by a sharp-bottomed boat, the draft is five or six feet deep, like the shallow silt near the waves, almost to build a trestle bridge more than ten meters long, in order to receive the land.

However, the level of cast iron in the world was limited, and it was quite difficult to find a large anchor weighing 1,000 catties, and there were no large trees to moor on the beach, and there was no large anchor heavy enough to hold the riverbed, so it was also a problem for ships to moor in the water.

Therefore, the Xuzhou shipyard under construction has many difficulties to overcome in order to build a fast sailing ship in the real sense.

Even in the eyes of many people, there is no need to build the Xuzhou shipyard.

Han Qian is bent on going his own way in this matter, whenever Ji Xiyao Xi sends a letter, he also gives priority to replying, not only giving financial and food support, but even Ji Xiyao encounters all kinds of technical difficulties when preparing for the shipyard, he will solve them in as much detail as possible, and Ji Xiyao boldly tries the method he thinks.

The cost is extremely huge, and he is also responsible for it, and at the same time, he also sends the young craftsmen in the workshop who are restless and unconstrained by tradition in the eyes of others to Xuzhou and transfer them to Ji Xiyao for use.

"You want to build a village here?"

Yang Qin came over to see Han Qian, and was also surprised to learn that Li Zhihe and Li Chong continued to go up the Danjiang River, but Han Qian stayed here with Tian Cheng and others.

Is this something that the hell can be done by their left division at this time?

Yang Qin has been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for many years, and he dared to assassinate the officials of the imperial court to seek wealth after listening to Ji Li's instigation, and he can also be said to be a bold and arrogant person, but he never thought about building a city here.

Of course, it would be logical if they could requisition 3,500 strong men and have money and food to support them, but where is the money and food, and where are the people?

At this time, the scouts of Zuo Si who were transferred to Deng Xiang, plus the ship escorts and sailors, a total of less than eighty people, how to do this?

Capture the wildlings?

Although it is said that there are a large number of fugitives living in the deep mountains and mountains, most of these fugitives are controlled by the remnants of the defeated side that have been defeated in the previous Dengxiang wars for decades.

When the war subsides, perhaps only an edict from Jinling will be issued and distributed to the fields, and these fugitives will go out of the mountains one after another to become naturalized, but now they have to send people to forcibly recruit the people with a kind spirit, and they will not be shot back by a random arrow, then it will be called hell.

Zuo Sicai is this elite, don't think that you can storm the cottage.

The Dragon Bird Army may have the ability to storm a few mountain villas, but the Dragon Bird Army lost its troops and captured the cottages, and the money and food must be a reward for the brave generals in battle, and the escaped mountain people who were captured back from captivity, they built camps and repaired the village in Jingzikou, and they did not need a large number of strong people?

Yang Qin was worried that Han Qian was squeezing the newly built boat gang too much, and he also bluntly stated all the difficulties he could think of.

"There is a deal in this world, which has caused countless heads to fall to the ground in recent decades, but it has been repeatedly banned, what do you say?" Han Qian smiled faintly and asked Yang Qin.

Yangtan Water Village was originally broken by him, and then destroyed by Zhong Yanhu, although when he broke Yangtan Water Village, they were enemies of each other, and Yang Qin couldn't complain about him afterwards, but then Yang Qin was attached to him, and more was forced by the situation.

At this time, Yangtan Water Village was rebuilt in Xuzhou, Guo Nuer, Lin Zongjing and others were also incorporated into the boat gang, Han Qian was not worried that Yang Qin would have different intentions, but obviously, he could not expect Yang Qin to have no thoughts of his own at all and obey him.

When it is time to persuade, it is still necessary to adapt to persuasion.

"Selling smuggled salt?" Yang Qin was shocked and asked, "Is it really possible for us to do this?" ”

Twenty or thirty years ago, the civil unrest that completely shook the rule of the previous dynasty and swept across the north and south of the river was first set off by a gang of smuggler salt dealers.

Whether it is to sum up the lesson, or perhaps in order to raise military funds, the suppression of illegal salt since the founding of the Great Chu has been more severe than that of the previous dynasty, and the salt criminals who sold more than one stone of salt every year and were beheaded were not 1,000 but 800.

However, as far as the world is concerned, the salt profit is too huge, even if the head is rolling, it is still impossible to completely ban illegal salt.

Han Daoxun's father and son entered Xuzhou, and the state prison was noisy, and the state prison held 900 prisoners at that time, 60% of whom were salt prisoners.

Han Qian's question, Yang Qin could easily think of the answer.

It's just that salt profits are one of the main sources of military financing at present, and the iron and salt transit envoys have great authority, and they have become household departments and degree support envoys, and salt officials are all over the prefectures and counties, and they have a lot of ears and eyes.

Not to mention, they didn't know how many people under Zhao Mingting, the Ministry Division, were staring at them at this time.

If they really want to do this, won't they put the handle in the hands of the Anning Palace and the prince's family?

When the time comes, the matter will be pierced, not only will they be difficult to protect, but the three princes who have touched the anger of the public will not want to fight for succession, right?

"Where do you want to go," Han Qian said with a smile, "Why can't we just sell salt in a dignified manner?" Yangtan Water Village should have done a lot of selling and buying illicit salt in the past, you won't even think of this! ”

"How do you sell salt in a dignified manner?" Although Han Qian said that he should be able to think of it, all of a sudden, Yang Qin was still confused.

"Between Jianghuai and Huai, salt is sold by the government, but Xuzhou salt is sold by commercial transport, so let me ask you, at this time, should the salt be sold by the official transport or sold by the commercial transport?" Han Qian asked.

"There is a salt and iron court supervisor in Xiangzhou City, and the officials in Xiangzhou use salt, and they all have to buy it from the official shop. Yang Qin said uncertainly.

"Wrong!" Han Qian said, "Du Chongtao is the assassin of Xiangzhou, and he is also the defense envoy of Deng Xiang, that is to say, he is in charge of the military and political affairs of Xiangzhou, and the defense of Xiangzhou and Dengzhou, but don't forget, we are standing on the territory of Junzhou at this time." Don't talk about civil affairs, in fact, Du Chongtao can't even interfere in local state soldiers, public security and other matters! Could it be that the little Xiangzhou Salt and Iron Courtyard Supervisor can extend his tentacles to Junzhou and manage the salt affairs of Junzhou? ”

"Huh? Is it really possible to do that? Yang Qin asked a little stupidly, still full of confusion.

"Can you straighten your back, our backer is His Royal Highness the Third Prince, but the deputy commander of the entire Northwest Army, how can you be so unproductive?" Han Qian asked with a smile.

The Da Chu salt system implements the system of official property and official sales, and the private salt is more than one stone and is immediately decided, which is extremely strict, but there are very few exceptions.

Chenxu and other border states are located in a remote area, and there are many water bandits and bandits along the way, and the salt affairs of these border states are carried out by official property and official collection, commercial transportation and sales.

Junju has long been deserted.

In a hurry, the imperial court did not think of resetting Junzhou, but in order to limit the power of the border marshal, the imperial court did not include Junzhou in Xiangzhou, but only temporarily handed over the defense of the Shu army in Liangzhou to the Deng Xiang defense embassy.

However, Han Qian speculated about Du Chongtao's mentality, and he didn't want to remind the imperial court of the reset of Junzhou.

On the one hand, there are no people who can be naturalized here, and the cottages do not accept incorporation.

On the other hand, in the new prefecture and county, the imperial court will inevitably send a new assassin history, why did Du Chongtao usher in a heavyweight official to share his authority?

If someone else wants to take advantage of this loophole, it is undoubtedly a dead end.

Pingtou people, who has the surname of Chang, dare to say that the salt affairs here, the construction of the city and other civil affairs are not under the jurisdiction of the Xiangzhou Salt and Iron Courtyard Supervisor, the Xiangzhou Assassin's Mansion, and the Deng Xiang Defense Embassy?

Others can't, but the third prince Yang Yuanpu can.

Theoretically, as long as the boat gang can get the salt guide, they can buy salt from the salt official at a price of one stone and a thousand dollars, and transport it to Junzhou for sale.

Of course, if there is really no one in the old territory of Junzhou, the salt trafficked over cannot be sold, and it will be in vain; At this time, if they dared to cross the border to sell salt to Xiangzhou or other states and counties, it would be a capital crime to sell more than one stone, but the problem was that Han Qian and the others had just figured out that there were a large number of escapees hidden between the mountains on both sides of the Hanshui and Danjiang rivers.

If Han Qian tried in vain at this time to incorporate these fugitives into the state and levy taxes and forced labor, he would only attract strong resistance, but at a relatively low price, sell salt to them, or exchange materials with them, or even exchange them for sending people out of the mountains to work?

Chen Xu and other salt merchants in border states have been monopolized by wealthy families, Han Qian doesn't want to intensify the contradictions, and there is no way to forcibly meddle in the salt matter, but in the direction of Xiangzhou, how can he not take advantage of such a big loophole?

However, the salt incident was just an excuse used by Han Qian to persuade Yang Qin and others to work hard and support this matter, and his more fundamental purpose was to promote the resetting of Junzhou.

Yang Qin slowly digested and pondered the benefits that the salt matter might bring to Zuo Si, while Han Qian stood on the riverside, looking at the clouds and water in the distance.

At the beginning of September, after Han Qian knew that Liang Guo was actively preparing for the war, he wanted to try to persuade Xinchang Hou Li Pu to fight for the Dragon Bird Army to participate in the war, but what the Dragon Bird Army could do when it participated in the war was also what Han Qian had been thinking about for more than a month.

If the Liang army did not plan to attack the Nanyang Basin this winter, and there was no plan to launch an offensive from Wuguan, would the Longque Army run around Xiangzhou and pat the ass class teacher Jinling like this?

Perhaps most of the generals and even generals may think so in their hearts.

Like Guo Rong, Guo Liang, Gao Chengyuan and others, even if they do not have outstanding military merits, they have no merit and hard work, and their seniority in the army will be increased by a point, and it will be convenient for them to obtain better generals in the future.

The generals who pin their heads to their waists and are ambitious and want to compete for military merit on the bloody battlefield are a minority after all.

Even Shen Yang, deep down, hopes that the countries can calm down the disputes.

Han Qian also hoped to be exiled in the gentle countryside from the bottom of his heart, but the cruel reality forced him to suppress this layer of longing and extravagance in the deepest part of his heart, so as not to let it sprout a little.

Even if the battle that the Liang army is about to launch this time is mainly aimed at the Shouzhou army, and will not send a large force of soldiers and horses into the Nanyang Basin, and its soldiers and horses in the direction of Wuguan will only strictly guard the gate, and there will be no superfluous movements, and Han Qian will definitely not let the Dragon Bird Army not do more in the next three or five months.

That is equivalent to the Dragon Sparrow Army wasting three or five months of precious time in vain!

Thinking that Emperor Tianyou would most likely have less than three years left to live, Han Qian was eager to break his time into several parts to spend.

The best result that Han Qian can see at present is that the Liang army will enter now, and then in the Nanyang Basin, the Dragon Bird Army will also be forced to garrison in Xiangzhou until Emperor Tianyou dies.

Even if the crown prince successfully ascends the throne and the Anning Palace is in power, as long as Han Qian stays in Xiangzhou with an elite of the Dragon Bird Army, he will have more choices, and he will not have to worry about his head falling to the ground and his life being lost at any time.

Of course, in terms of the situation of Liang and Chu, no one has the strength to continue a war that stretches for thousands of miles for two or three years without withdrawing troops.

However, the Dragon Bird Army can still fight for at least one soldier and horse to garrison the western frontier and not withdraw to Jinling.

This is also the reason why Han Qian vigorously encouraged the Longque Army to take over the defense of the three counties of Dengxi, persuaded Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, to operate in Jinling, and to strive for the restoration of the Junzhou establishment.

The prince or minister led the state and county, which was not a special case since the previous dynasty.

The so-called remote collar actually means that the three princes can stay in Jinling, but they can still concurrently lead the state assassin history and even the defense envoy and the festival envoy, and then send their subordinates to stay in the state and county to manage military and political affairs.

When Han Qian was in Jinling, he said the idea of fighting for the new Junzhou, and Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, Li Zhihe and others, also felt that this was a wonderful strategy to expand the strength of the Dragon Bird Army, but it was not implemented at this time, and there was controversy.

After all, the Dragon Bird Army is too short of money and food now.

The potential of the Late Red Mansion and the Marquis of Xinchang had been squeezed dry, otherwise Han Qian would not have connived at raising a large loan in the name of the three princes.

Of course, Han Qian couldn't pat his chest and swear that the old guy of Emperor Tianyou would not live for more than three years, so let's pin your head to your belt.

In the eyes of Xinchang Hou Li Pu, Emperor Tianyou, who is over sixty years old, is still very energetic, and when Emperor Tianyou has obviously cultivated the three princes at this time, he doesn't want to be too urgent, so that any link goes wrong, so that he falls short and loses everything.

At this time, Han Qian needed to find another way, and the first lever to pry open these many things was the salt matter.