Lishan is also known as Xiuling, it is the northern foot branch of Qinling Mountains, the mountain is winding, the trees are green cages, it is the early spring of February at this time, the grass and trees have not yet turned green, and the distance looks like a blue dragon.

There are more than 200 horsemen in the middle foot of Lishan Mountain who stay quietly in front of the mouth of a canyon, occasionally the horses snort, or one or two big birds whistling across the sky, breaking the tranquility in the canyon, the valley is long and deep, up and down twists and turns, a waterfall falls from the high cliff of 100 zhang, the water splashes the mountain stones, and there is a sound of murmuring.

Zhu Yu was wearing a green robe, standing on a stone platform that was picked out, looking at the wonders in the valley.

Several fast horses galloped from outside the mountain, alarming the cavalry guarding the mouth of the canyon, and seeing that the person who came was the deputy general Chen Kun, he relaxed his vigilance, got out of the way, and let him go directly into the canyon to meet His Royal Highness King Yong.

"You don't stay in Da'an City, what are you doing here?" Zhu Yu asked.

Da'an City is the famous capital of Chang'an, the former dynasty, the former dynasty collapsed, destroyed in the war Chang'an City, only four years ago into the territory of the Liang State, renamed Da'an City for reconstruction.

After the end of the Jingxiang War, the Liang Dynasty summed up the lessons and lessons, mainly because the time of operation in the Guanzhong Land was too short.

Guanzhong has experienced a hundred years of war and chaos, and the remaining forces do not have a strong sense of attachment to the Liang State.

During the Jingxiang War, the offensive of the soldiers and horses of Guanzhong out of Wuguan against Jingzikou has always been tepid, so that during the entire Jingxiang War, the soldiers and horses who entered the Nanyang Basin have not received real and effective support from the Guanzhong area.

Whether it is to continue to use troops against Chu from the western front in the future, or to send troops to conquer Shu, operating Guanzhong has become a top priority for Liang State.

In the middle of the previous dynasty, Jingzhao Mansion added Guannei Road, when the population was prosperous, there were nearly four million people, but after a hundred years of war, at this time, the people of the states under the jurisdiction of Guanzhong Xingtai were only a little more than one million, and the population of Jingzhao Chang'an Mansion, which once reached 2 million, was less than 300,000 people in the eighteen counties at this time, but it was still the foundation of the Liang State that could not be ignored.

Zhu Yu led Xuanjia back to Luoyang in Bianzhou, but he couldn't rest for two months, so he was ordered by the Guanzhong Xingtai Shangshu to lead Xuanjia to enter Da'an City and start the operation of Guanzhong, which has been half a year so far.

Zhu Yu was not very satisfied with the outcome of the Jingxiang War, even if he was in Guanzhong, he was still concerned about the movements of the Chu State.

Chen Kun handed over the horses to the accompanying guards, he climbed the stone platform, and said excitedly: "Emperor Chu's final disposal of Han Qian's absconding was determined half a month ago, and the spies have just sent the news over, it seems that we just need to wait for the Han family father and son to make peace with Tanzhou, and that is the time for us to attack Jingxiang again......"

Zhu Yu didn't make a sound, took the news and sat on the moss-stained mountain rock on the side to read it carefully, shook his head and said: "Everyone has been staring at Han Qian's defection these days, but few people can jump out and take a look at the whole chess game. ”

"Your Highness thinks there is something else wrong with this?" Chen Kun asked in surprise.

"I was only a little skeptical at first, but now I am seven or eight points sure." Zhu Yu said.

"What did Your Highness suspect at first?" Chen Kun asked puzzled.

"The battle of Jingxiang, it can be said that Han Qian turned the tide of the battle alone, so that we returned in vain, Yang Mi did not reward Han Qian, maybe it can be said that he didn't like Han Qian and his son to fight miracles, or maybe he was afraid of the Han family father and son at that time, but with Yang Mi's suspicious nature, if he really intends to abolish the heir, since he still wants to use the Han family's father and son to assist Yang Yuanpu, it is impossible not to keep an eye on it, and it should not be made for Han Qian to abscond so easily," Zhu Yu said, "At this time, seeing that he demoted Shen Yang to Ezhou as the governor, the situation is clear, All this is Yang Mi's chess game, and the Han family's father and son are his chess pieces in Moutan Prefecture......"

"Han Qian's absconding this time is quite thorough, in Yang Mi's suspicious nature, when there is not enough means of restraint, will he let the Han family's father and son go to Xuzhou?" Chen Kun asked puzzled.

"If I were Yang Mi, I would give Xuzhou to the Han family father and son," Zhu Yu stood up, said behind his sleeves, "And using Yang Yuanpu Yao to lead Ezhou, so that Shen Yang and Zhou Yi will go to Ezhou to operate first, is really to prepare for the future dispatch of troops to Tanzhou." ”

Chen Kun thought to himself that Xuzhou is located in a corner, the mountains are high and the rivers are far away, Dingkou is only one-twentieth of Tanzhou, it was originally a semi-confined state, and it will not damage the Chu State if it is given to the Han family father and son, if you can really control Tanzhou, which has 27 counties and more than 2 million people, it is really a cost-effective deal.

Thinking of this, Chen Kun asked, "Did we send someone to Tanzhou to deliver the letter?" ”

No matter what they say, since they have peeked into this secret, they can't sit back and watch Emperor Chu succeed.

Zhu Yu sighed for a while: "The news is going to be spread, but Tanzhou may not be very wary, but with Anning Palace and Xu Mingzhen, it may be easier to shake the mind." ”

Chen Kun said: "I'll arrange it!" ”

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February in Xuzhou is much warmer than in Guanzhong.

Xuefeng Mountains, Wuling Mountains evergreen trees and shrubs are larger, but the color is dark green in winter, and it looks a little depressed and bleak, entering February of the fifteenth year of Tianyou, the new leaves of tender blue grow out, the new grass is long in the Tianqi Mountain Pass, and the spring flowers between the cliffs or the huts on the bank of the stream also spit out the tender yellow stamens, and the color and luster levels between heaven and earth are much richer.

Han Qian stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the surrounding mountains and wilderness, but in his heart he hoped that the warm and rainy spring could be postponed.

In order to build a diversion weir and overflow weir in Wuliuxi, the river channel should be intercepted, and the water coming from the upstream of Wuliuxi should be diverted from the narrow canal excavated on the side.

In order to save manpower, this narrow canal is only three zhang wide and six or seven feet deep, and can only be used as an irrigation branch canal under normal times, and can also be used as the main channel of Wuliuxi during the dry season, but not during the wet season.

The Wuliuxi Water Conservancy Project must be built intensively in the rainwater of Longya Mountain, otherwise the upstream water will exceed the bearing capacity of this branch canal, and the construction site and several walled villages and newly cultivated tens of thousands of acres of grain fields built near the estuary at this time may be affected by floods at any time, and will also seriously affect the subsequent reclamation.

This will also mean that further adjustments will be made to the subsequent plans.

Although Han Qian knew that there were a lot of things going wrong in Xuzhou, and it was impossible for everything to go according to plan, but there were too many forks, too big, and he couldn't hold them all.

He is now competing for time to steal, on the one hand, he wants to have the ability to contain Tanzhou in the autumn and winter, and on the other hand, he also has to guard against the end of the war in Tanzhou.

When the time comes, won't his father and son have gained anything?

The three-masted galleys slowly sailed to the Neihu Wharf on the east side of Wufeng Mountain, and there happened to be a small boat driving a large group of gray feather ducks passing by.

These duck boys were all children of the plantation, and when they saw the sailing ship coming, there was no fear in their eyes, and they raised their hands excitedly when they saw an uncle they knew on the deck.

If it weren't for the cold of the spring river, these teenagers would have to jump into the lake and show their swimming style.

"If you can sail in Si, it's also very good." Zhao Ting'er stretched and said in a soft voice.

Han Qian turned his head and looked at her lazy and coquettish face, and his heart fluttered slightly.

Xi Ying squatted on the deck, and she didn't know where she picked up the stones, and threw them at the ducks in the lake, startling many gray feather ducks and screaming.

Han Qian made a big fuss in the restaurants and restaurants in Qianyang the year before last, asking for ducks everywhere for food, and then purchased duck breasts on a large scale and sold them in Jinling and other places.

On the side of the plantation, the herd of ducks has been kept at about 100,000 birds, and 30,000 or 40,000 duck seedlings were hatched by the soup hatching method and sent to Wuliuxi and Longya City, which will provide more cheap and high-quality meat and ducks.

The boat was moored at the Neihu wharf, Han Qian did not rush off the boat, and saw that the newly built river embankment extending from Wufeng Mountain blocked the water of the Yuan River in the river channel that was narrowed by more than half on the west side, and the plantation on the west side was much larger than when he first arrived in Xuzhou a year ago, and in two months, it had expanded a lot, and almost 10,000 acres of grain fields had been newly cultivated, and he was much happier in his heart.

In addition to the people who cultivated the reclamation, more people on the west side of Wufeng Mountain still gathered to dig canals and build river gates.

It is not that after the embankment is built north and south of Wufeng Mountain, the tens of thousands of acres of land between the embankment and Qianyang City will be turned into fertile land that can grow two crops of grain.

The terrain is low, easy to accumulate water, difficult to drain, and the soil is soft and so on, without continuous and long-term improvement and upgrading, it is difficult to have an optimistic harvest if you plant cereals, cotton and linen, etc.; Most of the new fields can only be planted with one crop of winter wheat and harvested before the end of April to avoid the flooding after the summer.

In Linjiang County, even if the Wuliuxi Water Conservancy Project is completed and the higher terrain is developed, it will also take more effort to repair the river embankment and reclaim more than 100,000 mu of grain fields along the river.

"Han Qian, Han Qian!"

Feng Yi and Kong Xirong happened to be at the Neihu Wharf at this time, and when they saw Han Qian returning to Qianyang with the ship today, they strode over to greet him.

For more than two months, Han Qian mainly stayed in Longya Mountain and did not return to Qianyang much, and today is the first time he has seen Feng Yi and Kong Xirong since arriving in Xuzhou.

After half a year of tossing, especially after arriving in Xuzhou, Feng Yi had to take the same pampered and resentful clansmen as them to cultivate the fields and build houses, and he became much darker and thinner, but compared with his previous sloppiness and decadence in Jinling, he was much more energetic.

Kong Xirong has been trained by his son Kong Zhou since he was a child, and he looks taller and stronger than Feng Yi, but he has always been Feng Yi's follower, and his personality is not ostentatious.

Seeing him this time, Han Qian saw that although he was still as silent as before, his pupils were deeper and more focused than before, and this disaster of the Feng family should transform him the most.

There are more than 400 people in the Feng family, and Han Qian asked the Xi family to set aside more than 200 houses and 2,000 acres of new fields from the newly built Xi village to settle them.

In addition to the lack of houses, with the grain output of the waterfront beach, 2,000 mu of new land is not enough to feed more than 400 people, but Han Qian allocated another part of the homestead land and more than 3,000 mu of barren land, and the Feng clan built and cultivated it on their own, so as to change their bad habit of stretching out their hands for clothes and opening their mouths for food.

Resentment is inevitable, but the appearance of Feng Kong and the others should also be dealt with.

Han Qian stopped the guards who were about to stop Feng Kong, walked towards them, and said with a smile: "Look at your thin appearance, I haven't seen you for more than two months, and you have suffered a lot!" However, don't complain, look at me like this, if you go to Longya Mountain with me, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult. ”

"We are not afraid of hardship now, but it is too boring to go to the fields all day long to farm and raise ducks, do you have any other errands to ask the two of us to do it?" Feng Yi asked with a shy face, "By the way, I heard that Zhang Ping, the uncle of the inner temple, came to Qianyang to deliver the decree this time, and Yao Xishui and Chun Thirteen Niang also came over, can we go into the city with you and meet them?" ”

Feng Yi and Kong Xirong couldn't enter Qianyang City at will at this time, even if they wanted to see the old man, they made a special trip to wait for Han Qian to come over in front of the dock.

"Do you really want to see Chun Thirteen Niang?" Han Qian looked at Feng Yi and Kong Xirong with a smile and asked.

Feng Yi's face was slightly red, after all, the identity of Chun Shisanniang and the little crow Guo Qi'er in Zuosi was that he did not withstand the pressure to expose it, to be honest, he was also afraid of seeing Chun Shisanniang, and after hesitating for a while, he said: "It is I who exposed the identity of the little crow and Chun Sanniang, it is I who can't stand you, Xirong, the elm head, but he didn't say a word, and he complained about me for a long time afterwards." This time, he squirmed and wanted to see Chun Thirteen Niang, but he was embarrassed to say, I pulled him to see you. We don't want to see her face to face, just take a sneak look. ”

Han Qian glanced at Kong Xirong, and thought to himself, he wouldn't hang his youthful feelings on Chun Thirteen Niang, who had no bottom limit in doing things, right?

"Alright, you come with me into the city." Han Qian nodded and agreed, and when he saw the horses coming over from the left and right, he asked someone to bring a horse for Feng Yi and Kong Xirong, and galloped towards Qianyang City, a few miles away......

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