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The waterways of the south of the Yangtze River are longitudinal and horizontal, and the Wu people are almost inseparable from the boat in their lives, and the boat is like the ox cart and carriage of the Central Plains people for them, so Wu is also one of the earliest areas in the world to dig a canal. Twenty years ago, in order to facilitate the boatmaster's expedition to Chu, Wu Zixu asked Wu Zixu to dig the "Xu River" between Taihu Lake and the Yangtze River, which was also the first canal in China.

After Fucha succeeded to the throne, his ambition was greater than that of his father, in view of the competition with Zhao Wuxian for the Song Dynasty ten years ago, and the struggle with the Chu State for Chen and Cai a few years ago, Wu Shi always suffered from inconvenient transportation and was unable to transport the armor and grain from Jiangnan to Huaishang. At the suggestion of Bo Yao, Fucha decided to continue the excavation of the Xu River by his father Wu Wanglu, and also built a canal north of the river, the source of which was Hancheng, which was later Yangzhou, so its name was "Hangou".

In order to avoid Wu Zixu from making noise around him, Fucha has sent him to repair the "Hangou" in recent years, but unlike the Xu River, which is only a few tens of miles long, the "Hangou" plan diverts water from the Yangtze River to the north, and finally joins the Huai River, with a total length of more than 300 miles. Even though the water network between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River is crisscrossed, and in some places it is only necessary to connect two lakes or natural rivers with short artificial channels, but it also takes a lot of manpower and material resources to dig them......

But Fucha didn't care, although Wu Zixu had some admonition, but he thought that with the prosperity of Wu's national strength, a canal was not a problem, and there was no intention of digging a "Wei Canal" with the Zhao family in the north.

At this moment, when it came to Hangou, Fucha smiled meaningfully: "Most of the chiseling of Hangou is done by the Yue people south of the Five Lakes, so that Uncle Grandfather and Wu Zi don't have to worry about the Yue State having the spare strength to be the henchmen of Wu State!" ”

Ji Za still needs to be persuaded again, but the husband has already made up his mind, he said: "Let Wu Zi hurry up and dig this waterway, if the labor is insufficient, you can send Xu, Zhongwu, and Qunshu people to work, and when the whole line of Hangou is unblocked next year, it will be the day when the widow leads the troops north!" ”

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In July, in August, in the distant Jin Kingdom, it also ushered in an annual harvest, and the territory of the Zhao family has now increased to one capital and nine counties, with a population of more than four million. Although this year's harvest is not very good because of the severe drought and locust plague last year, there is at least grain to harvest in Yecheng, Taiyuan, Hanoi, Dongyang, Hejian, and Shangdang, and the people have no problem with food and clothing; Dai County and Shang County are not grain producing areas in the first place, and there is no need to count on it; However, Hedong, the former grain-producing powerhouse, was almost no harvest because of the repeated wars, and Feng Yi, who was cut from the Qin State, was not optimistic......

After returning from Hexi, Zhao Wuxian first prepared for the establishment of Hedong County in Xinjiang, allowing Ren Zhang to recruit war refugees to resume production, and at the same time had to exhaust the surplus grain in Changping to receive relief from hundreds of thousands of hungry people in Hedong...... Although this large county was added, it became a burden for the Zhao family for a short period of time.

It happened that most of the conscripts in other counties returned to their hometowns for the autumn harvest, Zhao Wuxian simply recruited more than 10,000 people in Hedong, called it the "Hedong New Army", and went to Hanoi with the soldiers to assemble and train, and he returned to Yecheng to discuss with Ji Ran how to incorporate the two newly added counties into Zhao's economic system and turn losses into profits as soon as possible.

When he was busy working until July, he also learned of the new progress of the Song State Incident.

The Shangqiu Song army was blocked at the foot of Pengcheng due to the intervention of the Wu State, and Le Wei did not survive and died last month......

"Mourning my brother Ming ......" In Yecheng, Zhao Wuxian has been paying tribute to the dead Song Dynasty Sicheng Le Yao for several days, comforting his wife Le Lingzi not to be too sad, his sister-in-law Zhao Heng was born in the year of the destruction of the Zhao family, and is now six years old, he is already very sensible, and he also knows that he accompanies his mother and wears filial piety clothes for his uncle.

Le Lingzi cried haggard in the first few days, after all, this is her only brother, but she quickly calmed down and turned to care about the future of Cheese City Le's......

Le Hui's eldest son is named Le Qi, and his birth is very embarrassing, and it was born when Le Wei was filial piety to his father Le Qi...... Now he is fifteen or sixteen years old, and he has inherited the position of Dasicheng, and the Le family has the support of the old man and the family Sima, so there should be no big problem. However, the current situation of the Song State is extremely unstable, and Song Gongjiao, the Huang family, and Sima Ziniu ran to Pengcheng to attack the Le family, who occupied Shangqiu, as a rebel. The Shangqiu Song people insisted that the Song Duke was immoral and had been removed from the throne by the Great Wuge, and the current monarch of the Song State was the "Xuanzi" of "the Xuanzi of the Heavenly Mandate and the birth of Shang".

In August, Zhao Wuxian finished arranging domestic affairs, under the pretext of preparing for the rescue of Le's, left Yecheng and went to Hanoi, a low-key mission had arrived in Chaoge City, and a swaddling baby was handed to Zhao Wuxian under the careful care of Wu Zhu and his mother......

This is the "Xuanzi" who was passed down by the Song people as a god, and it is also a certificate that gives them the courage to turn their backs on the monarch.

The small mouth of the bean grain, and the faint eyebrows raised after being disturbed in sleep...... Although he is less than half a year old, he looks like no one or another, and he can already see the name between his eyebrows.

After Zhao Wuxian looked at him for a long time, he smiled and said softly: "This son looks like me......"

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In the autumn of August, the soldiers of the Zhao army of the western expedition had been resting in Hanoi for more than a month, because the "Hedong New Army" that had no choice but to join the Zhao army had no harvest in their hometown, and was also trained by the soldiers for more than a month.

"Although it is called the New Army, in fact, many of the people in it were soldiers of the Wei family, and there are even many so-called Wei soldiers, thanks to the Wei army's discipline and system, which are copied from the Zhao army, so there is basically no need for training, these soldiers can be lined up, and then they can be taught military law, and they can look like each other." Qi Wan reported to Zhao Wuxian about the formation of this new army, compared to heavy training, it is also an excellent way to expand the army, anyway, the relatives of these people are all in Hedong, and the monks can't run the temple.

"If you pull it out now, will this new army be able to fight?" That's what Zhao cares about.

"Many people have not forgotten the situation when they were defeated and captured, the morale of the soldiers is not high, and it is okay to follow the soldiers to fight a good battle, but if they attack the fortification, it will be unsatisfactory......"

Zhao Wuxian bowed his head, and he also felt helpless in his heart because of the low efficiency of war in this era.

Le Shi is his in-law, Nanzi is his mistress, if you want to realize the change of the tanuki for the prince and let the son Shang replace the Song Gong, it is imperative to save Song.

However, Pengcheng's Song Gongjiao and his ilk were only jumping beams, and the real threat was the Chen clan of Qi, who constantly connected the anti-Zhao alliance, and the state of Wu, who was eager to try Surabaya, Song, Lu.

At Sun Wu's suggestion, the battle between Zhao Wuxian and Lian Heng was mainly concentrated on the western front, and the eastern front was only contained, so the Zhao army failed to penetrate into the Qi country, and the Qi army could not help Lu and defend it.

Wu was a rising military power between the Jianghuai and the Yangtze River, and the economy of Qi and the complementarity of Wu's soldiers were enough to have a huge impact on Zhao Wuxian's Lu and Song orders.

Fortunately, the Qi army had no courage and kept cowering on the line of Yiyi, Gaotang, Pingyin and the Great Wall of Qi.

And considering that Wu had just ended a big war with Chu, Wu Wangfucha did not send Wu Jia to the north, he first sent thousands of people into the vicinity of Pengcheng to assist Song Gongjiao to maintain the status quo, according to the secret letter sent by Qu Ao, until the canal between the Jianghuai River and Huai is repaired next year, Fucha will wave his army to invade the north - but as the contradiction between Zhao and Wu is increasingly on the table, Qu Ao is becoming more and more vigilant, and he is now in addition to assisting Wu Zixu to repair the ditch, there is no official and half-post.

Wu has its own strength and must be delayed until next year, so why not Zhao Wuxian?

He also asked Sun Wu for advice on how to fight against Wu and Qi, but Sun Wu did not hesitate to advise Zhao when he was an enemy of Qin and Wei, and Zhao Wuxian formulated the most successful three-front encirclement strategy since the start of the army. But when it was his turn to his old club and his home country, he didn't say a word, just said something in a roundabout way, "No more service, no more food." This means that those who are good at fighting with soldiers do not recruit soldiers twice, and do not deliver military rations three times......

After more than half a year of fierce battles, the Zhao family has overdrawn several years of food, the soldiers are tired, and the minds of the soldiers are all in the fields at home, and even more than 10,000 war horses that have been saved for several years have been killed and injured in thousands of miles of attack, and Yu Xi's Daijun cavalry has many people who have no horses to ride......

If you go all out and start a long-term war with Qi and Wu immediately, I am afraid that the country will not be able to bear it.

"The Zhao clan can no longer use troops thousands of miles away this year, so the situation in the Song State can only let Cao and Lu send troops to support and maintain the status quo."

In Zhao Wuxian's plan, the battle to save the Song Dynasty, the war of Qi, and the anti-Wu campaign can only be postponed until next year, and like Fucha, he also has to wait for a canal to be dug through, that is, Zigong has been busy with the "Heshui" for three or four years.

Where the railways and highways are built, the conquest of modern civilization can be reached, and the same is true in ancient times, where the canals are built, the army can be dispatched......

"Once Heshui is completed next spring, it will connect Jishui and Surabaya, so that Zhao's soldiers and grain can directly reach Sishang from the big river, so that they can compete with Wu State!"

"But there's another premise." At the military meeting held in Chaoge, Zhao Wuxian's fingers went up to the water and reached the confluence of the river......

The flow direction of Guji water is recorded in the "Yu Gong": "The water is guided to flow eastward, enters the river, overflows into the Xing, east out of Taoqiu north, and east to He, and northeast will be in Wen, and north and east into the sea." ”

The Jishui River referred to by Zhao Wuxian is actually an old road of the Yellow River, which is separated at Xingkou and runs east alone.

And Xingkou is still in the territory of Zheng State!

Old hatred and new grudges are just avenged together!

Zhao Wuxian said to everyone: "In the past, if Jin and Chu wanted to fight for the Central Plains, they must first fight for Zheng, and now if we want the Song Kingdom, we must first occupy Jishui and save the Song Dynasty, and we should start with Zheng!" ”

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