Recovering all the men, the navy quickly turned around and headed south. Bai Liyan returned to the cabin, Jiang Jie had just jumped back to the ship from other ships, and his face was happy:

"Your Excellency, look?"

Jiang Jie took out a sheepskin bag, Bailiyan glanced at it, I don't know what it is, but I think it will definitely not be gold and silver:

"What's in the bag?"

"It's a diamond, just grabbed from the village by the raiders. Packed in a wooden box full of coins, it was found by the old pawn. ”

Bai Liyan glanced at his pocket again, and the protruding edges and corners surprised him. There are many protrusions at the bottom of the sac, which are the size of grapes, and such a large diamond is definitely rare.

At this time, he remembered the Divine Vein Sword that he had captured that year, and the head of the sword was inlaid with a diamond the size of a ping-pong ball. Now that I think about it, there is such a high probability that the coalition forces can find a bag of diamonds, which shows that the "large" number of diamonds produced in the Jinxuedi people are very likely to be in Posong Province.

Otherwise, it is not so coincidental that a bag of diamonds was stolen from the home of a wealthy family in a village, and it was discovered by the coalition forces after the transfer of property, which is too probable. Most of the people who hold diamonds are relatives or special relations of some officials.

took the sheepskin pouch and opened it, and immediately surprised Bai Liyan, there were seven or eight grape-sized pink, yellow, and white rough diamonds in the pocket, as well as more than 20 hairy diamonds of different sizes and colors on the nails.

"Oh my God, so many!"

When Bailiyan was amazed, Jiang Jie said triumphantly:

"My lord, these are worth a lot of gold and silver in Xianguo."

"It's not just worth money, it's enough to buy a doctor. However, these are rough diamonds that have not been carved and polished. In addition to these, have you also swept other diamonds before? ”

"Yes, but not as many as this one."

"How much is that?" Bai Liyan hurriedly asked.

"I think there must be more than forty of them."

"So many, where is it now?"

"It's all in the ship, and it's all in the boat, and it's put together with the gold and silver."

The precious metals and treasures seized by the navy were all loaded into Bailiyan's boat, and Jiang Jie was responsible for cleaning up, and he undoubtedly knew the account situation best.

The navy plundered all the way to ordinary villages, did not attack rich small cities and big cities, and the seizure of gold and silver coins is still reasonable, and the seizure of gems is also said to be in the past, but it is obviously not normal to seize a large number of jewels in the village.

When Jiang Jie came to the rear cabin, there were mountains of gold and silver coins and valuables.

"Look, my lord, it's all gems."

Bailiyan took the wooden box and opened the lid of the box, and carefully identified it by light, they were all colorful gemstones, and it was certain that they were not all diamonds.

Some are simply rubies or sapphires, which have a very different hardness and color from diamonds. Although he didn't know much about gemstones, most colored diamonds were not as bright as colored gemstones, and the hardness of diamonds was much harder than other gemstones.

"Jiang Jie."

"What do you command?"

"From today onwards, prepare to build a gold plundering team, with you as the commander, with the Xianjun veteran as the general, select the coalition army to fill in, and specialize in plundering and confiscation, and only one general is responsible for the wealth obtained."

"Subordinates obey!"

It can be seen from the leopard in the tube that the Jinxuedi people have benefited from the lack of strong enemies in the surrounding area for hundreds of years, their internal affairs are stable and the economy is prosperous, and the wealth accumulated by the people and the treasury is amazing, and from the information currently available, it can be concluded that the Jinxuedi people are rich in precious metals and gemstones, which can be profitable and have huge economic benefits, as long as they are willing to take risks, how high the risk is, how big the benefits will be.

The Central Plains is in short supply of gold and silver, and most of the scarce resources are in the hands of the powerful and eunuchs, and the purchasing power of the depreciated copper coins cannot be effectively exchanged for the materials and land in the hands of the powerful and eunuchs, so that the resources can flow back into the market and participate in economic operations.

Gold and silver, as metals, are only metals used to measure price benchmarks before they produce scientific and technological value, and they have no value in themselves, and "resources in a broad sense" are indispensable as necessities to ensure human society, and the current economic structure determines that precious metals must be put into the market to re-stimulate economic enthusiasm and improve economic vitality.

The fleet quickly left the village and swam down to Lake Boglath, sailing smoothly for more than 200 miles a day, and arrived at the entrance four days later.

With a radius of nearly 100 miles, equivalent to half of the area of a prefecture-level city, Boglaat Lake is the largest natural lake in Posong Province, which is similar to the flood season of Poyang Lake to balance the water volume of the Yangtze River and channel the river water to resist flooding.

At the mouth of the river with a finger several miles wide, Bailiyan said:

"Brother Sikong, look, since our army marched westward, have you found any differences between the Jinxuedi River and the Central Plains River?"

Sikong Nan shook his head:

"The last general is stupid, please make it clear to the general."

"Hehe, brother, haven't you seen that Jin Xuedi people never build rivers to control water?"

"Oh, when the general said this, the last general really didn't see any signs of repairing the embankment and controlling the water all the way, I don't know what the general meant?"

"And do you know why?"

"I don't know."

"You don't realize that the water in Po Song Province ends up first in the north, then in the east, and in the end most of them pass through Delangi and Khubigon. When our army went south, the Jin Xuedi people drove the people of the Central Plains to build a city five hundred miles east of Posong Province. ”

"Could it be that General Fei means that the terrain of Posong Province is high, and the terrain is low-lying five hundred miles east of Posong Province or even beyond, and floods are more frequent within these five hundred miles?"

"Isn't it?"

Thousands of miles westward, Bailiyan found that the Jinxuedi people never built embankments along the coast, and the rivers were all naturally formed, relying on the erosion of the water flow to wash the silt at the bottom of the river downstream.

The topography of Posong Province generally presents a landform of high in the south and low in the north, high in the west and low in the east, and the naturally formed inland river channels are deep and wide, which is conducive to the erosion of turbulent water.

In addition, the current natural conditions are superior, and the natural damage caused by man-made production and life is not serious, and the width of the current big rivers is four or five miles, or even seven or eight miles or more than ten miles wide, and the narrowest point is also two or three miles, and the water flow is quite large, and the erosion of the riverbed is very serious.

However, the local rivers are deeper, with many large rivers and few small rivers, so it is indeed not easy to flood on a large scale.

The Khubigon and Delangi areas, including tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years ago, east of Posong Province, were still a land of lakes and mountains, and were formed by the alluvial accumulation of river water for many years.

The Bugerat Lake is located in the buffer zone between the upstream and downstream, regulating the amount of water flowing downstream, and the downstream area naturally forms a natural flood area, and the upstream province of Po Song is located thanks to the vertical and horizontal water network and the deep riverbed, which is difficult to form a flood hazard.

The fleet continued to sail through the wide lake of Bograt, which was roughly wide from east to west and narrower from north to south, where the two rivers of Tarun and Bertila met from south to north, flowing east into a large unnamed river, and then into the Yasai Falls River, and the fleet crossed the Bogratt into the nameless river in only half a day.

At dusk, the clippers in charge of the aftermath reconnaissance quickly returned to the fleet, and as Baili Yan expected, Jin Xuedi's naval army followed in a big way.

"General Qi Baili, Jin Xuedi's naval army has about 300 ships, and it is slow to keep a distance of 150 miles with our army, and there is no intention of pursuing our army."

Yuke explained the information obtained in detail, and Bai Liyan asked:

"What kind of ships are they?"

"All of them are large ships that can plant more than 200 people, and there are even more than a dozen large ships of 3,000 or 4,000 stones."

"But it's all full?"

"I don't know, but its vanguard navy is about fifty ships, and a large number of soldiers can be seen on the deck."

At this time, Sikong Nan said:

"General, could it be that the army in front of it is a troop-carrying warship, and the rest is empty? Trying to stop our army from seizing the ship? ”

"Not really. If the other two hundred and fifty or sixty ships were empty, what would he do with it? Even if there are fifty full ships, they are no match for our army. ”

"But how could the Jin Xuedi people train sixty or seventy thousand sailors in less than two months?"

"It is not impossible to say that its infantry and sailors still exist, and it is not impossible to recruit fishermen from the people. Behind the flotilla of 250 or 60 warships, I pondered that most of them were newly recruited fishermen who had not learned the tactics of warfare, so they took every step of the way, and when they entered Lake Boglath, they made a plan, and ordered the boats to stop in formation. ”

"No!"

Sailors were a technical branch of the army during the farming period, and in the absence of a perfect military system, the experience of sailors determined the strength of the navy's combat effectiveness.

As the main source of the navy, fishermen have been an important part of the navy since ancient times. The fishermen's familiarity with the water and weather is far more professional than that of the infantry army.

In the Battle of Cao Cao's Chibi in that year, the Northern Army was used to train the naval army, and the professional adaptability of its soldiers was extremely poor, which was undoubtedly a taboo for soldiers.

It's like if you want to reorganize the Army into the Marine Corps, you won't be able to get decent results without ten or eight years.

In several water battles, Jin Xuedi ended in a crushing defeat, because he realized the weakness of his navy, and at the same time had to face the threat of the coalition navy, and it was inevitable to recruit fishermen into the army.

The flotilla quickly dispatched and trained into an array before dark, and arranged in the nameless river, and the fleet of the Jinxuedi people entered the entrance of Lake Boglatt in the first half of the night, and its reconnaissance ship suddenly stopped after discovering the formation of the coalition forces, and did not dare to enter the lake for a single step, but the infantry troops on both sides of the strait were still detouring to the north and south banks of the coalition warships to counter their naval forces.

At dusk on the second day, Bai Liyan changed to a fast boat and went out into the middle of the lake, the water surface was steaming, and if it was not guided by a compass, the huge water surface was very easy to lose direction.

Sikong Nan shook his robe, and his face suddenly turned a little blue:

"General, it's June now, and it's really rare for this southern land to be so cold."

"Our army has been stationed in the valley before, and the valley is warm, and you don't feel cold. This southern latitude is higher, and even in summer, it is not too hot, just like the late autumn in the North Sea. At the moment, the sun is farther away from the south, and the temperature will rise in July and August, when it will be a little hotter. ”

(End of chapter)