The first line of defense in Wuling is 250 li, and the second line of defense may be able to delay the construction, but how many miles do these places add up to ...... Jianghuai defense line, northern Zhejiang defense line, Xiayi, Dengyi, Dongting, Jiujiang, Hangying, Panyu, etc.?

With such a question, Xiong Jing went south along the Xiangshui River until Qingyang, the seat of Dongting County. After the county Yin was replaced by Xiong Jing three years ago, Zhao Huang recommended him to the same clan Zhaoliu, and Xiong Jing immediately appointed him as the county yin.

The state of Chu has been operating Hunan for more than 100 years, and this is the result of Wu Qi's reform: 'Wu Qi mourned the king, and the south was barbaric, so there were Dongting and Cangwu. This was about a hundred and fifty years ago, and from that time on, the state of Chu began to run Hunan. When the first monarch was the king of Xiang, he was white, and in order to get a chance to breathe, the state of Chu offered the west of Qingyang to the state of Qin.

The west of Qingyang is the west of Changsha and one of the three major plains (Jianghan, Dongting and Poyang) in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Two years later, the state of Chu tore up the letter of alliance, and 150,000 soldiers attacked the fifteen provinces on the riverside.

Whether the ancestors were brave or cowardly, they have done their best to expand the territory and preserve the country's glory. The Dongting County and Cangwu County that Xiong Jing sees now are the result of the seven generations of monarchs of the Chu State who pioneered and defended the country.

To the north of Qingyang is Pengcheng (Pengchengjun, now Yueyang), where the Yangtze River roughly forms a V-shape, and above the word is Yunmengze, which belongs to the Qin realm; Below the V is Chu Jing. On its left, it is the Lishui Basin, with Lingyang (now Cili), Shuyangyi (a tributary of Lishui in the north), and Linli (Linlijun);

To the south of the Lishui Basin is the Yuanshui Basin. Yuanshui has Zhongyi (Zhongjun, now Taoyuan Northeast), Linyuan (Linyuan Jun, now Changde), Zhan Yuyang (Zhan Yuyangjun, now Changde Northeast), in addition to Gao Cai, Vao Yang two small yi; Further south of Yuanshui is Zishui, which is beneficial to Yang.

This is the city on the left bank of Xiangshui, and the entire Xiangshui, the uppermost Cangwu County Lishui (now Lingshui) basin has Linwu, Chenxian (now Chenzhou), Yiyi (now Yongxing), Leiyang (Leiyang Jun); On the left side of Xiangshui is Taoyang (now Quanzhou). The water and the Xiangshui converge in Pangyi (now Hengyang), go north to Xiangtan and have Xiangjun, and then go north to Qingyang and have Luo County (now Xiangyin County).

In the whole of Hunan, there are nineteen large and small counties, and the original ten feudal monarchs are exempted. Of course, this is intentional, just like Chengyang and Suixian contracted to Ruo Ao's clan, all in order to make it grow rapidly. But after all, Hunan is not as good as Chengyang and Suixian, Dongting County has more than 20,000 households, and Cangwu County has less than 10,000 households. These Ding households even include Baiyue and Sanmiao in the mountains and forests, and there are actually very few Chu people in the city, and more are Miao and Yue people who have been Chu.

In the county Yin Mansion, the regulations of the banquet are no different from Ying, and even because it is mountainous and close to Dongting, the food is more abundant than that of Yingdu. Xiong Jing was worried all the way, and he didn't have much to eat, and after three meals, looking at the feudal monarchs and honorable scholars in the hall, Xiong Jing asked: "If the Qin people attack, what equipment do you have to wait?" ”

Xiong Jing suddenly asked about the war, and the people with smiles on their faces suddenly became heavy, and Zhao Liu said: "Tell the king, if Qin attacks me, there should be two ways, one is the big river, and the other is the Yuanshui." Coming to the great river, the ministers have built 100 large-wing warships, and there are ...... boats"

"In the future, there will be no more boat divisions, only county guards and private soldiers." Xiong Jing interrupted Zhaoliu's answer, the military system of the Chu State has changed a lot, and now there are only the armies of each county and clan, and there are no national armies such as Wang Shu and Zhou Division.

It is equivalent to saying that each county and each clan must have county people to guard the county land and clan people to guard the clan land, and cannot count on the assistance of the national army. It's just that this is not absolute, if Dongting County is lost, Shaxian, Xiayi, Exian, Xiling, and Yicheng in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River will directly bear the Qin people's troops, and Cangwu County in the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River, and the Yue people in Lingnan's Xiou and Yuyue will also be uneasy. For this reason, the Great Sima Mansion has specially demarcated various defense areas, and each county in the defense area has established a mutual assistance mechanism to put an end to the situation of fighting for each other. But it takes time to rescue, especially in a border county like Dongting County, and the meaning of Xiong Jing's reminder is also here.

"The minister knows also." Zhaoliu showed no signs of panic. "The minister said that the boat master is a pawn of his county, and he came by boat. The Qin people were afraid of my boat master and did not dare to fight with me on the river and Dongting. It can only be down the river in Qianzhong County. In the previous year, the Qin people sank the boat in the chasm to plug the waterway, and the ministers also followed suit, and now they have sunk the boat on the water to plug the road.

Yuanshui has Zhongyi, Linyuan, Zhan Yuyang, three cities, in addition to Gao Cai, vain two small towns. It is difficult to go through the twists and turns on the water, if Qin cuts me, the waterway is impassable and there is no way to cut it. ”

The upper reaches of Yuanshui are Qianzhong County, and Qu Yuan once said: 'The morning is in vain, and the sun is shining'. Depart from Vain in the morning and stay overnight in Chenyang in the evening. Chenyang is Chenxi, Yuanling in the lower reaches of Chenxi, and Qianzhong County Administration (now Huaihua) in the upper reaches of Chenxi, which has been owned by the Qin State. If Shunyuan River goes south, as long as it breaks through Changde, then it will be able to attack Luo County. Luo County is Pengzong in the north and Qingyang in the south, and after it was cut off, Dongting County could not receive assistance from the Yangtze River Valley.

"The minister also asked the government to sell cement and tendons in Dongting County to increase the construction of the three cities of Zhongyi, Linyuan, and Zhan Yuyang, but the cement has not been able to do so for a long time." Zhaoliu changed his words and talked about building a mansion in front of Xiong Jing, but fortunately, Gong Yin Dao stayed in Panyu.

"There is a shortage of cement everywhere." Xiong Jing shook his head helplessly. The production of iron is insufficient, but even less is the cement. The blessing of the Tovat steam engine, the grinding of cement raw clinker can not be next to the river, and the steam engine can directly drive the grinding of the iron to build the factory, and the improved cement kiln can be out of the kiln without stopping the clinker, which greatly improves the production efficiency.

The annual output of cement has now exceeded 30,000 tons, and it is still in a hurry, and the current plan of the government has been 100,000 tons per year - this is very, very conservative, the Republic of China has an annual output of 300,000 tons of only one Qixin cement plant, considering that cities must be built everywhere, bridges are built, and defense lines are built (building houses and paving roads are not taken care of at all), even if the annual output is 150,000 tons, 200,000 tons is not exaggerated.

"Ranchen doesn't ask for much cement," the cement factory is run by Xiong Jing, and Zhaoliu finally saw Xiong Jing, and he will definitely not miss the opportunity. "Only 10,000 tons. The minister heard that Xiayi built a city for 60 miles, four feet high and eight feet high, 45,000 tons of cement, 4,500 tons of iron, Dongting is also the land of Great Chu, and it is also a border county. ”

Xiayi is owned by Xiahou, Xiahou is the favored minister of the first monarch Qingxiang King, not to seal the city with military exploits, because it is a border city, the city has not been recovered. Xiayi built a city of sixty miles, almost larger than Yingdu, and the clans and honorable people in the whole country saw that everyone was blushing.

Not under the royal system, the era of the king's words and unquestionable has passed, and the eyes of the hundred and ten clans and 20,000 honored scholars in the country cannot rub sand in their eyes. If Xiahou doesn't accept his fiefdom, forget it, and build him a city of sixty miles, whoever hears it will feel unhappy, and if he has a bad temper, he will even scold, why did he Xiahou get this city?

"You can ask Zhao Huang about this." Xiong Jing smiled bitterly. Of course, a sycophant like Xiahou is not qualified for a city of sixty miles, but isn't such a heroic city placed under the name of a person who is incapable and can only be afraid of horses? "Dongting needs 10,000 tons of cement, and you want to build a thirteen-mile city?"

The material details of Xiang Yan told him before were wrong, the city was four feet eight feet high, and the city wall needed 750 tons of cement and 75 tons of tendons. Although there is a difference in the value, the cost of cement has been reduced again and again thanks to the steam engine, and the current selling price is still a thousand dollars a ton, plus the huge iron, the cost is still around 90 gold and 95 gold.

Zhaoliu wants 10,000 tons of cement, and 10,000 tons of cement can only build a city for more than ten miles, and such a city is too small.

"Dongting County is not without gold, but there is not enough cement." Zhaoliu told the truth. "The minister also wants to buy 45,000 tons of cement, but what?"

"The Qin people will come from the Yuanshui?" Xiong Jing asked.

"If you attack Dongting County, you will be afraid of my boat division, so you have to come from Yuanshui, and there is no other way." Just as Xiong Jing personally walked through the Lingqu, Zhaoliu also walked through Dongting County and Cangwu County, and asked the Miao elders to determine that Yuanshui was the only way to attack Dongting beyond the Yangtze River, but the passage was a passage, and whether it was necessary to attack Dongting was another matter.

The value of Dongting County is not very big in the eyes of Qin Chu, and if Qin wants to attack Chu, it should start from Shangcai and Daliang; If the state of Chu wants to attack the state of Qin and return to the old Ying, it should be from Suixian and Xiayi. From Pengcheng against the Yangtze River to Jiuying is not only far, but also difficult to walk.

"The matter of the Yuanshui fortification should be reported to the Armaments Department of the Great Sima Mansion. If the Armaments Department approves 45,000 tons of cement, it will sell 45,000 tons. Although Dongting is a border county, Yingdu has always valued it, if it is not valued, why spend thousands of gold to pass through Ganshui and build Liling? ”

Looking at the feudal monarchs in the hall, Xiong Jing asked rhetorically, and everyone nodded for a while. If this road was not opened in the Tang Dynasty, if it were not for Yingdu to send people to open up, Xiangshui and Ganshui would still be isolated.

"Hunan water, Gan water, Zhejiang water, three waters need to be passed. If he has lost Xia Yi in the future, he can help each other. And if the Dongting is lost, the Chu people of the Dongting can retreat to Ganshui and Zheshui. ”

"The Chu army won Jiyi, captured Aocang, and pulled out the beam, Qin was afraid of my boat division, and did not dare to fight with me again to attack Zhao, and the king thought that the Qin people would pull out the Dongting?" Peng Chengjun asked in surprise, Pengcheng is the northernmost part, and he is most worried about the Qin people calling.

"Do you think the Qin army won't attack me?" Xiong Jing asked rhetorically.

"The minister thought that it would take more than ten years for the Qin army to attack Zhao, and it would take more than ten years for Wei and Han......" Peng Chengjun's idea was not surprising, and several courtiers in the Zheng Dynasty also estimated it this way, thinking that the time of Chu was about thirty years.

"It will take more than ten years for Qin to attack Zhao, how can Han Wei be compared with Zhao State?" Xiong Jing Road. "Qin annihilated Han Wei, and he wanted to attack Chu, or ten years. Dongting County is the border, the Qin people may attack tomorrow, how can they be lucky to think that there are still a few years? ”