Chapter 499: All the way south
At the end of March, Lin Yuyan set off for a southern tour, and it was already a month after arriving in Jiangxia.
Sure enough, for the southern counties guarding the heaven-given treasure land of "Yunmeng Daze", the lack of grain is still not as urgent as the Nanyang Army, Yunmeng Daze is very rich, known as the granary of the old Chu, but this granary refers more to the south of Yunmeng Daze.
For Yunmeng Daze, which borders Jiangxia and Nanjun, it is still a primeval forest, and there are all kinds of rare wild things wandering in it, and there are countless jackals, tigers and leopards.
In the past, the people of Jiangxia and Nanjun didn't say that they were Yunmeng Daze, but whenever they were close to the deep mountains and dense forests, ordinary people would not approach easily, for fear that some fierce beast would come out and eat themselves alive.
But now, with the reduction of the soldiers of the Yunmeng Army back to their hometowns, especially the Great Qin Imperial Court, these soldiers were allowed to return to their hometowns with some blades, and the local governments also opened the ban on mountains, forests and ponds, encouraging people to go deeper into Yunmengze to hunt and make up for the lack of local food.
Therefore, the people in the countryside were also organized in various places, and under the leadership of the veterans of the Yunmeng Army, they carried out an expedition to Yunmeng Daze, and those fierce beasts that were in front of people in the past suddenly became the prey in the eyes of everyone, and the identity changed so quickly that it almost made the people of Jiangxia County uncomfortable.
Lin Yuyan arrived from Wancheng, first by river, then by land, and there was no shortage of local people who were either holding harpoons, bows and arrows to shoot fish, or holding steel forks and spearheads, searching for all kinds of prey in the mountains.
Just in the area of Tongbai Mountain, Lin Yuyan saw three or four villages of people Yong carrying the bloody corpses of various beasts with wooden poles, and Lin Yuyan saw that the largest scale was a household in Tongbai Mountain called "Gaoyi", a small village of 100 households called "Gaoyi" nearly 100 young people returned with the corpses of several tigers, so that some businessmen who went north to Nanyang County paid a lot of money to buy the preciousness of these tigers.
Lin Yuyan also rarely ate a few wild meats, although it is a gas, but I have to say that for ordinary people, this is a rare delicacy.
At this time, humans were already at the top of the food chain, but they were also generally afraid of all kinds of wild beasts that lived in the deep mountains and dense forests, so it was exciting to be able to catch these beasts and use them as food.
At present, the countries of the Central Plains have successively issued explicit prohibitions such as "the axe should enter the mountains and forests at the right time" and "the number of grains will not enter the ponds", etc., all of which require the government to pay attention to the closure of mountains and forests, and not to open the benefits of mountains, forests and ponds to ordinary people.
Among them, the Sanjin Dynasty attaches the most importance to it, which is because the original location of the Sanjin Dynasty is in the north of the big river, west of Taihang, the terrain is undulating, mountainous and mountainous, and the Central Plains is densely populated, so that the arable land is less, so the Sanjin Dynasty is very concerned about the protection of the so-called benefits of the mountains and forests and ponds, in fact, it is more because the selfishness of the princes' offices is to take the benefits of the mountains and forests and ponds in their own hands.
But this is not the case for Great Qin, I have to say that although the more than one million people looted from Jingdi have caused a heavy burden that cannot be ignored to the Great Qin government, but in fact, for the vast territory of Qin now, let alone one million, even if it is increased, the territory of Qin can also be accommodated.
Seeing that the various places were finally stable, although they also heard that the households in various places criticized the "twentieth-class meritorious lord system" implemented by the Great Qin government not long ago, but when they saw that the wood was already in the boat, especially even in the twentieth-rank meritorious lord system, those soldiers still had benefits that could not be ignored, and most of the people accepted it calmly.
In the past May, Lin Yuyan finally rushed to the county administration of Jiangxia and Suiyi.
Feng Jian is also a virtuous person, after Lin Yuyan's original laws and regulations, although it is in the direction of "heavy agriculture" to make changes, but it is also the continuation of many of the original policies, although Daqin is facing the dilemma of various famines, but Jiangxia's commerce and trade are still very prosperous.
Especially after the recent docking of Jiangxia Commercial Bank and Wancheng's Commercial Office, the business travel on the rivers and straight roads between Wancheng and Suiyi every day is simply endless.
Feng Jian also knew that Lin Yuyan was coming, firstly, the decree of the imperial court came to Feng Jian more than half a month ago, and secondly, Gongzi Yan's Zongwei also arrived early, so that Feng Jian informed the general of the Yunmeng Army, Ji Hunt, to select hundreds of elite soldiers.
waited until today, it was only when Gongzi Yan arrived, Feng Jian was originally going to set up a banquet for Lin Yuyan to catch the wind and wash the dust, but was told by Lin Yuyan that it was not necessary, this southern tour was not to inspect the government affairs of the county governments in various places, but more to pay attention to the people's livelihood in various places.
Therefore, Lin Yuyan also mentioned the main matter, and told Feng Jian about the war between Wuling County and Yingdu.
Although Feng Jian said that he was a county guard, most of the battles between Wuling County and Yingdu were in the south of the river, and they were too far away from Jiangxia, and the Jiangxia County Government did not know the specific situation, so he could only inform Lin Yuyan of a rough idea.
That is, Changsha Shouyuanzhang of Chu led the Chu army to fight a big battle with the old Jingdi army that had originally retreated to Wuling in Jiangling.
For such a rough news, Lin Yuyan was helpless, after all, as Feng Jian said, Jiangxia and Yingdu are too far apart, and there is no straight connection at present, and the river is occupied by water bandits and the Chu army, so it is really inconvenient to exchange news.
However, it is easy to do when it comes to Jiangling, Lin Yuyan is to rest in Suiyi for a day, and Ji Hunt, the general of the Yunmeng Army, has already selected the Shiwu Commander and even the Centurion of the Han Water Army according to Lin Yuyan's notice, and filled it into the elite soldiers, getting three hundred elite soldiers, and the next day he went to Wulin with Gongzi Yan.
After Wulin, it is Jingling, the former Jiangxia city, which was also rewarded by the Duke of Qin to Huan Yu, the nominal general in the first battle of Yancheng, for Jinglingjun.
Since Huan Yu broke his arm, he has been getting older day by day, and when Lin Yuyan saw him again, the former Shouwang of Jing Kingdom had all white hair, and his eyes were full of loneliness, and he seemed to be able to feel that time was running out.
Hearing that Lin Yuyan was about to rush to Jingdi to help King Jing, Huan Yu also asked his son to follow Lin Yuyan and rest in Jingling City for a day, Lin Yuyan dared to go to Zhecheng again.
Zhecheng is now the seat of Changsha North County, in addition to Changsha Shoufan Xuan, Lin Yuyan recruited another person, who is the son of the original King of Jing State, and is now the Zhecheng Jun Qu Min of Great Qin. Read the latest chapters, stay tuned