Chapter 550: A Brief Introduction to Shang Shui

Shangshui County, originally a small border county in the south of the Wei State, covers an area of less than two miles, and the number of residents in the county in the past was not very large, similar to Yu County, only hundreds of nearly a thousand households, not a big county. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It's no wonder, after all, on the southeast side of Shangshui County, in the downstream of Shangshui for about ten or twenty miles, is Xu County and Xiangcheng in Pingyu County, Chu State.

Therefore, a few years ago, Shangshui County had always been the focus of harassment by Pingyujun Xiong Hu.

Fortunately, in the southeast of Shangshui County, there are many tributaries of Shangshui, these tributaries wash the soil, so that there are many mudflats in the Shangshui area, and the reeds are barren and grassy, and the roads are inconvenient, forming a natural danger, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and is not inferior to Zhaoling with the danger of Luohe.

It's just that compared with Zhaoling County, the pattern of Shangshui County is too small, and after all, it is only a small county with a population of only a few hundred or thousands of residents in the county, so although there is a risk of geographical advantages, when Xiong Tuo, the king of Chu Xiangcheng, and Xiong Hu, the king of Pingyu, led the army to attack Wei, it was still inevitable to become the county seat that was captured in the first wave of the Chu army's offensive.

Nowadays, the appearance of Shangshui County has been very different, because there are now more than 100,000 Chu people who defected to the Wei State, and the number of households has reached tens of thousands, and the population has increased dozens or even nearly 100 times compared with those years.

If it weren't for the fact that the imperial court and the household department transported grain from time to time, Shangshui County really couldn't afford the food consumption of more than 100,000 people.

For this reason, Zhao Hongrun owed a huge amount of money to the household.

On March 9, Zhao Hongrun arrived in Shangshui.

At this time, Yingkang's green crows and horses also moved to Shangshui one after another, which added nearly 10,000 people to Shangshui County.

As a belated reward, Zhao Hongrun ordered the Shang Shui Army to repair for five days, saying that it was repairing, but in fact, it was to give the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army a holiday.

It is mainly the main force of the Shangshui Army led by Wu Ji, after all, this army followed Zhao Hongrun to conquer Sanchuan and stayed away from his family, so now that the war is over, Zhao Hongrun simply gave them a vacation and let them reunite with their relatives.

After giving Shang Shuijun a holiday, Zhao Hongrun sent someone to summon Ying Kang and Youma and summoned them to the mansion of the Yangyu clan in the county.

After all, now in the mansions of these nobles in Shangshui, only the sheep tongue family has a little relationship with Zhao Hongrun, after all, the little girl Yang Yu Xing has always regarded herself as Zhao Hongrun's woman on weekdays, and now even in the royal capital, many people directly call Yang Yu Xing the little lady of Su Wangfu, let alone in Shangshui.

came to the mansion of the Sheep Tongue Yi Clan, and the Sheep Tongue Xing arranged the residence of Miss Su's master and servant, as well as Una, Mi Jiang, and Mi Rui sisters, and then introduced them to her parents.

On Zhao Hongrun's side, he first met with Ying Kang and You Ma in the front yard hall of the Yangyu Yi's mansion, accompanied by Yangyu Tao.

In fact, at this time, Yingkang's green crows and Youma's Youma have almost all moved outside the city, but they didn't dare to enter the city rashly, after all, Shangshui County is Zhao Hongrun's territory, and they, who are also the latter's subordinates and people, can no longer make their own decisions as before, and they have to listen to Zhao Hongrun's opinion on everything.

This is what the crows and crows have lost, autonomy.

"Didn't His Royal Highness King Su build a mansion in Shangshui?"

After saluting Zhao Hongrun, Ying Kang asked curiously.

Because according to what he thought, Shangshui is the territory of Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, so of course there should be a palace of the king of Su in Shangshui County, but Zhao Hongrun stayed in the mansion of the sheep tongue family, which surprised Ying Kang.

"Don't mention it, as soon as I say it, this king will be angry in his heart."

Zhao Hongrun shook his head helplessly.

Ying Kang didn't know, in fact, there was also a Su Wangfu in Shangshui County, but it was still under construction.

It was built by a group of emerging nobles in Shangshui County, led by Yang Yutao, who pooled money for Zhao Hongrun, and it is said that Gu Liangwei of the Shangshui Army and the second general of Wu Ma Jiao were also involved.

But when it came to this Suwang Mansion, Zhao Hongrun was a little angry in his heart.

Because of the group of nobles in Yangyutao, as well as Gu Liangwei, Wu Majiao and others, when he Zhao Hongrun led the army to conquer Sanchuan, he actually made a new plan for Shangshui County, and let the people in the county move outside the city, trying to build the Suwang Mansion on the original basis of the old county seat.

Yes, yes, I heard it right, Yang Yu Tao actually planned to build the old site of the former Shangshui County into a Su Wang's Mansion.

Covering an area of nearly two miles, King Su's Mansion!

Isn't this giving him Zhao Hongrun eye medicine?

Before summoning Ying Kang and Youma, Zhao Hongrun had already scolded Yang Yutao, and was ready to wait for the arrangements for the green crows and Youma, and then call the two generals Gu Liangwei and Wu Ma Jiao in the military camp to scold them again.

No wonder Zhao Hongrun was so angry, after all, how big is the palace of the royal capital?

He Zhao Hongrun's Suwang Mansion actually occupies an area close to the Daliang Palace, which makes the government and the opposition think of him Zhao Hongrun?

Although Zhao Hongrun also understood that the purpose of those people was just to curry favor with him Zhao Hongrun, but in this way, it really made Zhao Hongrun a little scared.

Obviously, he was already riddled with rumors in the royal capital of Daliang, and many people were wondering whether he was intentionally involved in the throne, in order to avoid rumors, Zhao Hongrun came to Shangshui, and as a result, Yang Yutao and his gang were plotting to build him a palace in Shangshui County that covered an area comparable to the Daliang Palace, which was for fear that the rumors around him Zhao Hongrun would not spread violently enough.

What's more, Zhao Hongrun felt that the Su Wangfu in Daliang was too empty, how could he allow Yang Yutao and others to build him a palace dozens of times that of the Su Wangfu in Daliang City?

"A bunch of well-fed guys! …… How good would it be to build a city wall with this kind of work? ”

“……”

Seeing that Zhao Hongrun was angry because of the Suwang Mansion in Shangshui County, which was still in preparation, Ying Kang and Youma looked at each other, they couldn't understand this kind of troubles like a high-ranking nobleman: the nobles in the world thought that their mansions were small and not grand enough, and there were even nobles who thought the mansions were too big.

Well, the king in front of him is one of them.

"Okay, let's not talk about that, you two come and see."

After ending the topic of Suwangfu, Zhao Hongrun called Ying Kang and You Ma to the table, and then, Shen Yu, the head of the sect guard beside him, took out a map from his arms and spread it on the table.

This map is a map of the Shangshui area that Zhao Hongrun asked for just now.

Because the old Shangshui County was not enough to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of Shangshui people, during the period from April last year to the end of last year, Yangyutao, Gu Liangwei, and Wu Majiao built three cities in Shangshui County successively.

Well, to be exact, they are still only three cities under construction, and as for the defense facilities of the city walls and other things, they have barely started construction, so to put it bluntly, they are no different from the three large villages.

And these three cities under construction, Zhao Hongrun waved his pen and named Guliang, Wuma and Wu respectively, which were named after the surnames of the current three generals of the Shang Shui Army.

After all, since the construction of Shangshui County, in addition to Yangyu Tao, the three generals Gu Liangwei, Wu Majiao and Wu Ji have made the greatest contribution, Zhao Hongrun does not mind, while giving these three loyal generals actual material rewards, they also give them the harvest of fame, so that they can gain fame and fortune.

In this way, let the people of the world know that he Wei has never been stingy in rewarding talents who defect to Wei.

Because in Zhao Hongrun's view, if you want to make Wei more powerful, it is far from enough to rely on the Wei people in the country alone, after all, his Wei land only occupies a small part of the Central Plains, and there are still countless talents in those lands that do not belong to the Wei country.

If those talents can be recruited to the Wei State, then the Wei State will become more and more powerful, and even eventually become the overlord of the Central Plains.

“…… Guliang, Wuma, Wu, this is the city that my Shangshui has been preparing to build in recent years, although even the city wall has not yet started. Oh yes, and this solid wall. ”

Zhao Hongrun pointed to the place marked on the map with the word "solid wall".

The solid wall is not so much an old city as it is a garrison, which was once the garrison of Fensai's army when it was stationed in Shangshui County.

Zhao Hongrun has learned a little about this.

It turned out that Xu Yin, the general of Fencheng Fortress at the beginning, saw that Xiong Hu, the king of Pingyu, sent troops from Shangshui County to harass the Wei border from time to time, so he asked his soldiers to build a fortress in the south of Shangshui County, and the name of this fortress was called Solid Wall.

The reason why this fortress is called the Solid Wall is because in General Xu Yin's original plan, this fortress will eventually connect to Fencheng Fortress.

Yes, General Xu Yin planned to build the city wall on the southern border of Wei State, and build a Great Wall from Yangzhai in the west to Shangshui solid wall in the east, so as to completely block Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, from the border of Wei.

But later, very embarrassed, the general Xu Yin repaired, and found that he had no money in his hand, so he went to ask the household department for it.

Don't look at the current household department after having a stable source of income from trade with Sanchuan, it looks like it is rich and rich, and it no longer cares about the losses caused by the main sergeant of Zhao Hongrun's transporter and navy during the pawn, the household department at that time was still very picky, they wanted to reduce the military expenses of the six battalions of the garrison, how could they give General Xu Yin a sum of money to let him repair the Great Wall?

As a result, General Xu Yin's plan to fix the wall was suspended indefinitely, making the solid wall a bare fortress in an awkward position.

And last year, after the Shangshui Army was stationed in Shangshui County, Xu Yin handed over the defense of the solid wall to the Shangshui Army.

Therefore, compared with Guliang, Wuma, and Wu, it is a fortress with a solid wall, with defensive facilities such as city walls, so Zhao Hongrun plans to transform it into a city for the diversion of residents in Shangshui County.

After introducing the geographical environment of Shangshui County to Ying Kang and You Ma in detail, Zhao Hongrun handed over the map to Ying Kang and asked him to decide the location of the hidden thief village of the Green Crows.

After all, he, Zhao Hongrun, is not a hidden thief, and he doesn't understand the doorway, so it's better to leave this kind of matter to Ying Kang himself.

As for Youma, he put forward a request to live near the county seat of Shangshui.

After about another cup of tea, Ying Kang and Youma said goodbye and left.

Just when Zhao Hongrun was about to go to the depths of the mansion to visit Yangyu Xing's family, Zong Wei Gao Kuo hurriedly walked in and reported with his fists in his fists: "Your Highness, Xiong Hu is here." ”

"Pingyujun Xiong Amber?"

Zhao Hongrun was stunned, and said in his heart, what is he doing here? (To be continued.) )