"Jiang Jie, if it were you, if it would cost two million inches of silver to move 500,000 people, if you didn't move, you wouldn't need to spend this amount of silver, would you move the people for the livelihood of the people?"

"Absolutely." Jiang Jie said without thinking.

"If you don't have this money, and you are asked to borrow money from your relatives on credit, pay interest, and lose two million silver dollars for it, will you still choose to relocate?"

"This ...... As long as the treasury has money and food, it is natural to relocate the people. ”

"But the money and grain of the state treasury are controlled by the powerful, and if the treasury is moved, it is the money and grain of the powerful are moved, and the people are moved, and the land output and taxes lost in a year are innumerable, and the powerful can not ask for their own pockets, and they will also lose their income, and do such a thankless errand."

"But shouldn't the treasury be the treasury of the king?"

Jiang Jie asked innocently, and Bai Liyan smiled bitterly:

"If this is the case, how can there be a famine in Xianguo back then? It is the powerful who control the treasury to enrich their own pockets, and man-made disasters are rampant under natural disasters, how can it be invincible. ”

"But adults are now noble and have a lot of income, so isn't it also enriching their own pockets."

"Hehe......" Bai Liyan smiled lightly and continued: "Yes, but it's not. Remember today that profit is for the use of the country, for the people, for the great public and the great governance, for one's own selfishness, for one's own desires, and for selfish interests. The interests of public and private interests lie in what they want, what they want, and the use of benefits for the country is for the great good, and for the private desires of oneself, it is for the great harm.

If the world's powerful businessmen and eunuchs collude to form a party for personal gain, it will become a great harm to the country. Keep in mind this sentence today, and you will have a bright future in the future, and this word will be kept in mind, so that you can be safe. ”

"Subordinates remember."

Whether dynastic or constitutional, the essence of any system is how to distribute the resources of social production and for whom it serves. The resources of the feudal monarchy are not only to serve the monarch, but also to serve the magnates, and after the initial allocation of resources, they will serve the common people of the world.

Capitalist capital only serves the capitalists, and the so-called social welfare is nothing more than the basic needs of capital to consolidate the existing political and economic interests and satisfy the desires of the people at the bottom. Human desires should not be deprived of rights, such as medical care, employment, food, clothing, housing and transportation.

However, after the rise of capitalism, the relatively moderate human desire under the feudal system became an expensive and extravagant project driven by capital.

Because as long as there is demand, there must be a capital market driving interests. The so-called welfare system is just to return what belongs to you to you with a gorgeous package and to the minimum.

Only when capital is completely controlled by the state's power, and the state-owned and private ownership are developed simultaneously, and under the regulation and control of national policies, can the resources of various situations serve the people under the system to the greatest extent.

The fleet continued to cruise, and the Jinshedi tried to seal the river in order to narrow the waterway, but were repeatedly thwarted by the allied sailors.

When the river is narrow, it is often possible to narrow the originally narrow river channel by filling the river, but it is not completely sealed, leaving a gap that allows the river to flow through and the larger ships cannot pass.

In fact, soil filling is not a panacea, due to many factors such as river flow rate and flow, the narrower the gap after river filling, the more rapid the water flow, the water level will rise, and the greater the pressure of the dam body, so the dam often fails, and the effect is slow. In addition, the coalition forces patrolled the river, and it was easy not to give it a chance to close the river.

Take 10,000 steps back, even if the river is blocked, there are still other waterways in the upstream and downstream that can be passed.

Of course, the most convenient and immoral method of sealing the river is to sink the ship, fill the large ship with stones, and then sink itself in the narrow waterway.

However, the coalition forces insisted on the east and west sections and the estuary, and Jin Xuedi's big ship could not enter the river, so naturally he could not talk about sinking the ship to close the river, unless he had the ability to drag the boat from the shore and sink into the water.

On the tenth day after the division of troops, the leader of the royal guests who led the small boat westward returned with a full load, and this time a total of 11 cargo ships were intercepted, and there were two large ships of 3,000 stones. Bai Liyan now feels more and more that Yuke is really a waste of good material if he doesn't do the thing of robbing the house.

The royal guest personnel are mixed, and they have everything, saying that they are good men in the rivers and lakes, and they are all bad at doing things such as robbing homes and killing people and setting fires.

At the beginning of the looting the previous time, Bailiyan had little experience, and the other coalition veterans were said to have done a lot of work and were experienced, but they were all fighting on their own and robbing on their own. It's good that the royal guest is good, hundreds of people team up to gather as a gangster, and the sharded package area is concentrated on robbery, and the speed is jaw-dropping.

This time he went to rob the ship, and the royal guest was even more lacking in morality.

Some merchant ships are huge in size and have a large number of shipwrights, and the small boats are tied too low, and forced boarding will inevitably suffer.

So while the ship was parked on the shore, he took advantage of the night to touch the water, and quietly drilled a dozen holes in the bottom of the ship with a very simple primitive carpentry hand drill, and after a night the ship slowly sank, but it would not sink to the bottom, and by dawn the ship had sunk half or a third.

In order to rescue the merchant ship, the shipowner plugged the leakage and drained the water, and at the same time, evacuated the personnel to load and unload the cargo to avoid the hull from sinking.

Then, while there was chaos when his personnel went ashore, the coalition forces suddenly slaughtered from the land and water, and thousands of people surrounded dozens of people. Merchants are all deadly, as long as they don't want his life, they obviously won't resist in this case, so they take the big ship so easily.

The redeployment of sailors, Bailiyan did not continue to send troops to plunder for the time being, and the immobility of Jin Xuedi's naval army made him suspicious. Ten days have passed, and its naval army has not seen it swimming against the current, which is obviously not a normal phenomenon.

The previous time the clippers all went west, Bailiyan did not release the reconnaissance ship downstream, and only relied on the telescope to look, and the field of vision was still limited. After the return of the royal guest, he immediately sent four clippers to swim down the Talen and Bertila rivers to reconnoitre, and only three days later did he learn that Jin Xuedi's naval army had all stopped at a distance of more than 200 miles downstream from the mouth of the Three Forks River and lined up on the shore.

"My lord, the Jin Xuedi people will line up the ships downstream, and they will not fight with our army, and there will definitely be deception in them." Jiang Jie guessed.

"yes, I can't keep it, and I'm holding back some bad tricks. The trouble now is that they are all laymen, and once this layman's evil way is used, we insiders may not be able to see the way. ”

"Why don't we kill it and try it?"

"Not yet. You think, they must be holding back their big move at this time, their naval army is lined up on the shore, it must be strictly guarded by land and water, and the naval army is fighting in shallow waters, which is a taboo for soldiers, and they will run aground if they are not careful.

Our army is now upstream, and the ships are extremely fast downstream, and there are many more warships than our army, and if we do not hesitate to damage the warships and lead our troops to shallow waters, the speed of the ships will be extremely fast, and it will be difficult to maneuver, and it will inevitably run aground and run aground. ”

"But we have fat water, pour it into the water and set fire to them."

Jiang Jie proposed, Bai Liyan twisted her short beard and paced in place for a few steps, and said thoughtfully:

"This method is indeed feasible, the Jinxuedi people know very little about the characteristics of fat water, and using fat water to set fire to the river can severely damage their boats, but it is a pity that there are so many boats. I pondered that they must have made a major move, otherwise they would not have watched our army wantonly plunder, and they must have been delaying the army in a delaying tactic to delay time, secretly preparing for something unknown to our army.

In this way, let people send a message to Sikong Nan first, and agree with him on the method of retreating and receiving the troops, and then our army will wait here for the change, and see what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of Jin Xuedi. ”

Bai Liyan felt that most of the Jin Xuedi people's water battle tactics and tactics would not have any major breakthroughs. The 100 ships of the coalition army, which are fully manned, are equipped with gunpowder and oil, even if they are three times larger than the coalition forces, and in the face of a forced decisive battle, they have little chance of winning. Therefore, most of them are taking a different path and secretly planning unexpected events for the coalition forces.

But the trouble is that this layman's big move, the insider is often really unpredictable for a while, and he is afraid of making some moths.

At the same time, Bailiyan's immobility also made Mooney suspicious.

"Norungar, when will the fangs be in place?"

"It's going to take at least four more days."

"Have there been any other anomalies upstream lately?"

"No, they are still divided into two routes, guarding the east and west ends. Once the waterway between them is cut off, the Western Route Navy will become a turtle in an urn. ”

"Don't be too happy. Our sailors have not yet arrived in the predetermined waters upstream. If they do it too early, they will swim against the current and flee through other waterways. ”

"We can fight them first after blocking the waterway, drag them to the mouth of the river, and we can also buy time for the water army."

"Do you think they're going to fight us head-on, they're going to flee upstream like rabbits. Don't forget, they still have hundreds of small ships, and any dozens of ships of black fire powder are enough to sink hundreds of our warships. ”

Mooney is very aware of the power of black powder, and the coalition forces have blown up the blocking pontoon bridge more than a dozen times, each time without much effort.

"Tell the navy that the requisitioned boat must be in place immediately, and the key to whether this battle can defeat the northerner sailor is the boat!"

"Yes, Your Excellency."

Five days later, the Bailiyan fleet was cruising at the west end of the nameless river, and the ships in front suddenly stopped at dusk:

"Jiang Jie, let people wave the flag and ask what is going on in front of you."

"No!"

Bai Liyan came to the bow of the ship, and the front ship a hundred paces away was waving flags to the warship in front to inquire about the situation. It wasn't until two quarters of an hour later that the head ship three miles away sent back the news one after another:

"My lord, four shipwrecks were found in the river three miles ahead, blocking the way for our army."

Bai Liyan was so shocked when she heard the news that her hairs stood on end.

"How is this possible, how can they have brought four sunken ships just past this place yesterday night. What kind of ships are they? ”

"Look at the mast, it should be a big ship of about 2,000 stones."

There are still more than 60 miles in front of the three miles away from the exit of the nameless small river west, Baili Yan passes through this place every day, and has to pass through this place twice, if the Jin Xuedi people have a warship, they will sink a boat, until it sinks, as short as one or two hours, and as long as half a day, it has no chance and time at all.

"Put a boat down the river and follow me over to see."

"Yes!"

Changing to a small boat and coming to the site of the shipwreck, he was shocked and unbelievable.

Four large ships of 2,000 stones, two of which sank in a group, blocked the way of the navy, and there was a faint mast exposed on the water. The gap between the sunken ships is not to mention that the two thousand stone boats can't pass through, and the smaller clippers can't pass through, so they can only allow small boats to pass.

(End of chapter)