Just when Liu Zongyuan was feeling, Gao Yue did not stop his steps.

After the beginning of spring, Meng Zhongyang of Shoulu Patrol Hospital, Zen monk Yan Ran of Tianzhu Mountain in Shuzhou, and the new monk Guang Yi and Jie Yi who were newly built in Caizhou Runan Huguo Temple (Branch Temple), after inspecting the topography of Jiminggang, gathered in Shouchun Xiangguo City, to meet with Gao Yue, who took a boat from Huaishui to this place.

At the same time, those who came to Xiangguo City together were Cai Zhou Thorn Shi Wu Yuanheng, Gwangzhou Thorn Shi Yang Yuanqing, Shouzhou Thorn Shi Xu Ziyu, and Luzhou Thorn Shi Dou Yu.

"The chief monk is still building a city with the Tiande army?" After Gao Yue sat down in the main hall of the state party in Xiangguo City, he asked the two disciples of Ming Xuan.

Guang Yi and Jie Yi replied with their palms together, and said that the family teacher had built the city for more than two years, and he had told us in the letter that the new city of the Tiande Army this time was "built in order to no longer build the city."

Gao Yue bowed his head, he understood the meaning of Master Mingxuan's words.

Ming Xuan built the city this time, using burning bricks, which was completely different from the original plywood rammed earth to build the city;

And in terms of city design, Ming Xuan wants to create a "city of cannons", which is no longer the traditional way of garrisoning with female walls, bows and crossbows, and moats, but the design of platforms and buildings, which should accommodate light artillery and divine thunderbolts.

Use firearms and city defense to resist the alien races in the north, and then use the cavalry gathered in the city to skillfully counterattack, and the long-term maintenance cost of the masonry city is greatly reduced than the rammed earth, and it can also withstand the invasion of the Yellow River, which is the true meaning of Ming Xuan's "building a city is to no longer build a city".

"Is the body of the chief monk still healthy?" Gao Yue couldn't help but be a little worried while admiring.

He thought of the deceased Master Yan.

Ming Xuan is also getting older.

The two disciples replied that the family teacher had said that he could still build a new Runan City and a new Yangzhou City for Wei Gong, and it would not be too late to die at that time.

After hearing this, Gao Yue's throat rolled a little, and his eyes moistened.

At the beginning, he was kind to Ming Xuan, Ming Xuan really exhausted the second half of his life and his life to learn to repay, although this old monk is a person in Buddhism, but he is more moral than many Confucian scholars.

At this time, the two disciples presented the drawings and said to Gao Yue:

Why did Cao Cao fail to dig Jiminggang at the beginning? It is that even if the canal is opened, but the water cannot flow in, the reason is very simple, the chicken song gang is higher than the water on both sides and the terrain of water.

Gao Yue stared at the drawings, and then said to the two, if you look at the map, the meaning of the two is to build a weir at the water level, store spring and summer rainwater, raise the water potential, and then set up a weir gate to release water through the Cao Canal of Jiming Gang?

"Yes, as long as the water flows in, then the water under it will also flow naturally."

At this moment, the Zen monk added that after breaking the chicken song gang, along the way Cao Canal, set up nine weirs up and down, lift the water step by step, and then pour down step by step, so that the water potential can be controlled, neither dry up, nor too radical, "If so, the Ji Ming Gang Cao Canal can be feasible to get 200 to 500 Hu boats, even if it is a big ship, it can be crossed by manpower." On both sides of the canal, you can dig branch and leaf canals, go down the hillside, and irrigate the fields - this is the art of opening the canal. ”

Then he said that Jiminggang is mostly lime (extinct volcano), which can be chiseled and stuffed with divine thunder medicine to blast and speed up the artificial process.

At this time, Gao Yue asked Meng Zhongyang, how much function is needed for the whole project, how many rights and interests soldiers are needed, and how much rice and grain are needed?

Meng Zhongyang, as a person of the Salt and Iron Division, how dare he slack off (anyway, Gao Yue either used him to suppress Wang Haichao, or Wang Haichao to suppress him), and immediately presented the compiled accounting book.

Gao Yue was very satisfied with this, and announced the resolution on the spot:

10,000 rights and interests soldiers were recruited in Caizhou and Guangzhou, and they were run from poor households, and the money for service was levied from wealthy households, and rice grain and cloth were issued, which was under the management of Wu Yuanheng and Yang Yuanqing;

Yu Shouzhou and Luzhou also recruited 3,000 rights and interests soldiers each, and the matter belonged to Xu Ziyu and Dou Yu (Dou Yu was silent, he didn't expect that in the last examination of serving as the assassin, Gao Yue still started the water conservancy and transportation project of Jiminggang, and he couldn't escape at all);

In addition, 2,000 town soldiers and soldiers from various states, plus 1,500 Wu Yi soldiers, participated in the Jiminggang Cao Canal Project!

Meng Zhongyang was appointed as the "Kaicao Envoy", several monks and staff officers, and all the rights and interests soldiers and soldiers recruited to work were all managed according to the establishment of battalions and buildings, and battalion generals, guns, soldiers and horses were set up, and everything was done in accordance with military law.

From the Bride River, 100,000 stone grain was allocated from Yangzhou, and the water was sent to Juchao Lake to build a large warehouse to supply the needs of digging Jiminggang.

"This Dao can't bear to be so old as Master Mingxuan, and in the future, he will have to worry about the affairs of Runan City and Yangzhou Luocheng, and the mantle of Master Mingxuan will be handed over to you to inherit." After the arrangement was completed, Gao Yue got up and said to the light and clean eyes of the level, boundary ruler and other instruments under it.

"Yes, Maitreya ......" The light eyes and the clean eyes clasped their palms again, and although they did not say it verbally, they silently replied in their hearts.

The project of digging the Jiming Post began in full swing.

In Xiangguo City, Gao Yue's planning was not completely over, and his henchmen Cai Fengyuan, Guo Zaizhen, Ming Huaiyi, Mi Yuan, etc., who came with him, stood in front of the map of Lingnan and began to plan the strategy of marching into Dongman.

Previously, Du You had written again, imploring Gao Yue and the Zhen Navy to send troops at the same time, Huainan had infantry and firearms, and Xuanrun had a large number of boat divisions to come to Guangzhou from the sea to assist me in suppressing Huang Shaoqing's rebellion.

Now the momentum of the cave is very strong, and at the beginning of the year, they also entered the Daozhou area, mutilated many residents, and burned the local area full of scorched earth and rubble, and it is indeed to the point where it is time to be heavy-handed.

Gao Yue's idea was to negotiate with Li Qi, let him go out first, and then in the spring and summer, he would train Wu Yijun well, enrich the officer level, send the left and right armies over first, and stay until this winter, and personally lead the Chinese army to cross the sea to Lingnan.

Once Wu Yijun makes a move, he will have to completely annihilate the cave man.

At that time, those who should be killed will be killed, and those who should be captured should be captured, and these outsiders should also understand the military might of the kingdom!

"Let Zheng Qi prepare for the reception in Quanzhou, Wu Yijun may need to transfer supplies on his side."

After that, Gao Yue began to list the matter, claiming that the situation in Caizhou had been calmed down, and the river thieves and the mountain shed had also been gone, and asked His Majesty to issue an edict to conquer the cave barbarians, and send rice and grain from all over the country to my Yangzhou, ready to accumulate 500,000 pieces of rice, 100,000 pieces of cotton cloth, and 30,000 sections of silk silk.

As the saying goes, "the sea waves of thousands of miles are expanded, and the country is mighty in Siyi!" ”

After the seal was drafted, Gao Yue went boating along the Huai River and returned to Yangzhou.

At this time, it happened to be the late spring of April, in the official residence of the envoy of Shugangzi City, Wu Cailuan was sitting in the shade of a tree, with beads of sweat oozing on his forehead, his cheeks were red, and on the set of paper, the tip of the pen was trembling, and he could no longer write.

Xue Tao, who was sitting next to him holding a manuscript, was also very embarrassed to see the appearance of the refiner.

"Sister Hongdu, here, here, is there something wrong with it." After a long time, the simple Wu Cailuan turned his head, asked softly, and then said in embarrassment, "Shouldn't these two young and handsome Taoist priests be brothers, hand in hand with Guangdaoguan, why are they drinking wine, looking at the starry sky and talking about their ambitions, and suddenly they start to ...... How can that kind of thing be ...... except men and women?"