"Uncle, it seems that the people here don't trust the court very much. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis place is more than 300 kilometers away from Lin'an and only a few dozen kilometers away from Yangzhou, why has it changed so much? Bo Jiao looked at the large body of water in the distance, his eyes were blank, and he couldn't even find the way, so he could only send out a few waves of scouts to find the way in a fan-like shape. Taking advantage of the stay of the large army, he began to ask Hong Tao questions.

"It's your first time here, and it's the first time I've been here, so I don't know why! However, this question is not too difficult to answer, and according to my understanding, there are no more than two reasons. First, this place is not far from the northern border before the Great Song Dynasty, and it is under the threat of foreign enemies all the year round, and the imperial court will not invest any resources in the construction here, so the development is relatively slow, and life is difficult, and there are naturally few people. Second, the water network is dense, the roads are muddy, and there are no fields in sight, so it is estimated that the flooding is relatively serious, which is also an important cause of poverty. The common people are not having a good time, and the court is unwilling to take care of it, so it is strange that they can trust the court. If it were me, it would have been reversed a long time ago, and in this way, the people here are much kinder than me. ”

The lower half of the map that Hong Tao held in his hand was very densely lined, with small black dots and small circles everywhere, and the drawings were very detailed. But as soon as the Yangtze River is crossed, the lines on the north side begin to sparse, and the black dots and circles are scattered, and many places are blank. This map is also a military map brought by Kong Pei, which was drawn by intelligence officers of the Imperial Supervision Department for more than ten years through field exploration and reference to the map of the Great Song Dynasty, but it is still not very detailed in the area north of the Yangtze River, especially in the inland areas. The simple reason is that these areas are difficult to explore. Hong Tao looked at it for a long time, but he only saw that there was a town called Chuzhou in front of him, and he didn't understand anything else.

"No wonder the Mongols didn't go south from here back then, more than 2,000 of us had to walk so hard, and we had to rely on the canal to solve the logistical problem. When the large army came, it could not be spread out at all, and they all dispersed as they walked. If it rains again, don't leave. Kong Pei rode back from the front at this time, and the scouts who explored the way had already returned several times, and it seemed that they had not found any suitable path.

"Hey! I said can you stop talking, you see, you see, go down! Hong Tao understands Kong Pei's complaints, but hates his crow's mouth. As soon as his words fell, a few water droplets appeared on his map, and when he looked up, it was really raining, winter rain.

"If I had this ability, I would have been offered up a long time ago! The heralds, blowing the trumpet, went to camp on the high ground by the lake in front. In addition, the boats in the canal were also informed to dock and wait for the rain to stop before leaving. Kong Pei felt that he was very wronged, this rain really didn't come by himself, but it's useless to explain it now, let's do something serious. Even the cavalry could not brave the rain in such a muddy place, so they had to find a place to camp first.

The Imperial Army from the tropics was not afraid of the rain, even the tents were rainproof, and they did not use firewood for cooking, but coal. Regardless of whether the coal is dry or not, it is enough to pour gasoline on it, so no amount of rain will affect their food and shelter. As for the Indian Guards brought by Hong Tao, they are even less afraid. A few years ago, they might have slept in the jungle wrapped in leaves, and a little rain was a fart. The temperature here was a little uncomfortable, but with a fire, the problem was solved.

Hong Tao is not afraid of rain, and people who are used to running on the sea have no opinion on rain. It's just that he hates to nest in a tent, and he always feels depressed when he can't see the sky. And there is not much to do here except for swamps and lakes. No, for Hong Tao, it's fun here. For a keen fisherman, as long as there is water, there is no need to play. A fishing rod, a coil of silk line, and a hook can be played for days.

Hong Tao didn't run far, but found a gap in the reeds on the shore of the lake to the west of the camp, and saw that the needle was hooked. The bait is also very simple, it is the canned whale meat brought by the Imperial Army, what tastes bad or not, the fish of this era are also the same as most people, they are still half-starved and half-full, and they are not picky at all, as long as they can be eaten, they basically eat them.

"Damn, it's you making trouble!" But this time Hong Tao encountered a problem, there was a fish biting the hook, but he couldn't catch it, and the bait was always eaten up. After going back and forth several times, the cunning fish under the water finally took the bait, but it was not a fish at all, but a crab with teeth and claws.

Hong Tao has no appetite for fist-sized freshwater crabs, and no matter how delicious the food is, as long as it is troublesome to eat, it is not to his taste. The freshwater crab is too small and has little meat, which is very troublesome to eat, so Hong Tao does not plan to eat it. But you can't let it go, this thing is the sworn enemy of the angler, and whoever fishes and encounters a crab in the water will have to die.

"No, is this Hongze Lake?" Just about to tie up this trickster with reed leaves and torture, Hong Tao suddenly found a vague H on the crab shell, and rinsed it with water, and then looked closely, yes, it was an H-shaped word. This kind of crab is very famous in later generations, and the hairy crab of Hongze Lake is also. The H-shaped mark on its back shell is also a characteristic of authentic wild Hongze Lake hairy crabs, which are not farmed.

It is said that in winter the crabs burrow into the mud, but the crabs here do not survive the winter like this, they all hide under the fallen reed leaves, Hong Tao tried to tease the gap in the aquatic plants with a fishing hook, and sure enough, another one was caught. Now Hong Tao has played, he doesn't sit in one place to fish, he walks along the shore with a fishing rod, specifically looking for a place with many reed leaves to hook, and soon catches more than ten crabs. Each one was tied up with reed leaves, and thrown on the ground, and as he went, he made a bunch of reeds, a whole four.

"Come on, you two, I'll add another dish to our dinner!" When Hong Tao returned to the camp, just in time for the smoke to curl, the crabs became his snacks.

"Your Majesty is indeed not a mortal, and even eats these restless things." Although Kong Pei is a man from the navy, he is not cold to crabs at all, and he will not eat them if he can, he always feels that this thing is like a bug.

"If you like to eat it or not, the whale meat tube is enough, you can eat it openly." Hong Tao will not force others to eat crabs with him, he can't eat them all, it's all his own.

"Scrub this thing, cut it into four pieces, and fry it with chili peppers, it's called spicy crab!" Remember the method, and when you retire in the future, you will open a restaurant in Jinhe City, specializing in spicy crabs. Don't forget that there's a share of mine in it, dry shares! Hand the crab to the soldier in charge of the meal, Hong Tao didn't forget to get himself an extra pension money.

"Take out the map, I know what this is...... Have you seen this Hongze Lake? We're just east of it. This map is not accurate, Chuzhou should be in our northeast, we have gone astray. "Eating is still secondary, and through these crabs, Hong Tao found a mistake on the map.

"Isn't that right, shouldn't the small lake on the picture be so big?" Bo Jiao was very serious, and specially brought a compass for navigation, measured the size of the small lake on the map, and then looked at the size of the lake in front of him from afar, and raised questions.

"Don't be blind, this map must have been drawn for a long time, or no one has come to this area at all, and it was drawn according to the data of the original map of the Great Song Dynasty. It is no wonder that no matter how powerful the people of the Ministry of Supervision are, it is difficult for them to come to such a place to investigate. It is useless if there are fewer people, and if there are more people, it will attract the attention of the Great Song Dynasty. I guess this lake may have been so big originally, but then I don't know if it was the Huai River or the Yellow River that poured in, and the small lake became a big lake. I thought about it carefully just now, and the reason why this area is full of swamps may be caused by the Yellow River seizing the Huai into the sea. The whole area should be a yellow flood area, so there is no one farming, and if it is planted, it is also a white seed, and when the Yellow River floods, what fields are also in vain. After determining a place, Hong Tao had a rough map in his mind, and he remembered more situations.

According to the original idea, it should be Chuzhou on the edge of the Huai River, and it should be near Huai'an in the future. However, it is obviously wrong now, because the Yellow River did not flow into the Bohai Bay from the Daqing River in the north at this time, but diverted to the south to seize the mouth of the Huai River, and from the south of Lianyungang into the Yellow Sea. As for when the Yellow River was diverted, Hong Tao didn't know, he had never paid attention to this matter, and if it wasn't for this time he passed by north from the land, he wouldn't have remembered it.

"These bunch of rubbish who have suffered a thousand knives, they can't draw a map neatly! If we follow their map, we will pass by the west of Chuzhou. If this were to be put in wartime, it would be a felony to be court-martialed. I have to talk to Ciqi about this when I go back, if you don't know, don't draw it, you must paint it accurately, this is not a pit person! Bo Jiao looked on the map according to what Hong Tao said, and sure enough, the location of the junction of the Yellow River and the Huai River was directly ahead, and if he went down in this direction, he couldn't find the ferry at all. He was born in the military, and he is very sensitive to this kind of thing, and if he takes the wrong road for dozens of miles on the battlefield, it is likely to be a tragedy, and he really can't bear it.

"It's better to pull it down, in the future, the map will be drawn by the Great Song Dynasty himself, the Imperial Supervision Department can't send people to wander around the territory of the Great Song Dynasty without anything, you really don't take me, the prime minister, seriously, right?" Bo Jiao's attitude towards this matter Hong Tao understands, but his way of dealing with it Hong Tao resolutely cannot agree. He naturally regarded the Jinhe Empire and the Great Song Empire as one country, and this kind of thinking can be had, but it can't be said yet, and it will be talked about later.

(To be continued.) )