Changsha County, 800 miles of Dongting Lake.

Thousands of miles of smoke and waves on the surface of the lake, such as a fairyland on earth, geese fall in the reeds, fishing songs sound, fishing nets are sprinkled, fishermen work hard, enjoy it.

Yang Xi drove the boat slowly, as if in a dream.

Dongting Lake is a lake in the south at this time, and Yunmengze is in the north, because there is a very beautiful mountain in the lake, called Dongting Mountain, also known as Jun Mountain, so it is named Dongting Lake.

"Zhongjing, I really envy you, you can live by this lake, how much worse than that fairy." Yang Xi sighed.

Dongting Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the world at this time, and dozens of rivers of all sizes, such as Xiangjiang River, Lishui, Jingshui, Zishui, Miluo River, and Yuanshui, are injected into it, creating a strange lake in the world.

Zhang Zhongjing said: "Childe, I have been too good in Changsha for several years, such a good land and beautiful water, and a treasure land in the south of the Yangtze River, I can't be vigorous with the people, but I am ashamed of the people of Changsha, and I hope that the son can give the people here an eternal peace." ”

Yang Xidao: "Dongting Yunmeng is indeed a treasure land, if it is used well, it can feed millions of people, and the fishery alone can feed the entire Changsha County, but it is a pity that the imperial courts of the past dynasties have failed to benefit the people." Now Zhongjing has entrusted this place to me, but it is a heavy responsibility. Zhongjing rest assured, I will spare no effort to build the 800-mile Dongting into a real land of fish and rice. ”

The first step of the decree has been issued, all the fishermen in the surrounding area, fishing does not charge any tax, as long as the registered county residents, all do not have to serve the levy, only when the fish is traded, only pay the business tax of 30 tax and 1.

This one goes out, it is simply earth-shaking, because the fishing products of these eight hundred miles of Dongting are simply inexhaustible, and it is not anyone's private property, and now it belongs to the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce.

This time in Changsha, Yang Xi personally made a strategic deployment, because of the separation of the military and government of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, Zhang Zhongjing was no longer in charge of military power, in order to appease him, Yang Xi came over in person.

This time, Yang Xi brought two people, these two people were more top-notch in the previous exams, one was Lu Meng, the other was Wenpin, and as for the latter few people, there were Yan Baihu, Ling Cao and others.

Yang Xi transferred 3,000 soldiers and horses from Changsha County to the west of Dongting Lake, with Lu Meng as the battalion commander and Ling Cao as the deputy battalion commander. He also ordered Wen to be hired as the battalion commander, Yan Baihu as the deputy battalion commander, and led 3,000 men and horses to the east of Dongting Lake, blocking the road into Lingling in the middle of Liu Biao, leaving only 6,000 soldiers and horses to guard the county and govern Xianglin.

When he arrived in Xianglin, he discussed with Zhang Zhongjing the general idea of the railway track and some infrastructure, and then left again, and the specific matter must have been handed over to the Minister of Railways and the Minister of Construction to communicate.

Yang Xi now has two problems to solve, the first is Zhang Xiu, and the second is Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu is better, but Zhang Xiu is a bit of a headache, it is obvious that he is Cao Cao's representative, a nail planted by Cao Cao in the south.

The two ports of Shangyu and Dongye are in Huiji County, Shangyu is okay, and after Hangzhou Bay is Wu County, and now Wu County is taken care of by Zhuge Jin, and can be supported.

Dongye, although it is close to Taiwan Island, it is far away from the base, and Yang Xi must protect him.

Zhou Yu's side, Yang Xi went to a letter, to the effect that enough, it's almost enough, so far, I won't move you, you can transfer more troops, go and go south along Jiaozhou, where there is a lot of territory.

There are countries such as Vietnam, and it is better to ask Zhou Yu to take them all.

Zhou Yu got Yang Xi's letter, and the generals discussed it, and the generals unanimously thought that now was not the time for Yu Yang Xi to turn his face, and it was advisable to take a step back for the time being.

Since Yang Xi acquiesced to taking more than ten counties in Guiyang, it was a worthwhile trip, Zhou Yu also thought so, so he suggested that Sun Quan should take Cheng Pu as the Taishou of Guiyang, guard this place, lead the troops back to the state, and hand over a letter to Yang Xi.

Yang Xi got the letter and felt that Zhou Yu was quite reliable, able to judge the situation, and able to bend and stretch, but it was not as good as the character mentioned in the romance.

After solving the matter of Jingzhou, Yang Xi passed on Yang Xiao and asked him to build ten more sky-bombing cannons.

Yang Xi was ready to use force against Huiji.

Reason?

Sorry, no reason.

The only reason is that I'm strong, I like it, and I need it.

I don't need to tell you about this, Cao Cao.

But before that, Yang Xi has to do one more thing, an important thing related to the development of Chenhe District in the future, which has laid a good foundation.

Currency has always been the most headache in ancient times, at this time with silver two, the standard is difficult to break, Yang Xi wants to mint money in Chenhe District, cast his own money, and then use the influence of Chenhe Chamber of Commerce to slowly expand to all directions.

As a result, more than ten people, including Liu Ba, dean of the School of Economics, Pang Shanmin, dean of the School of Finance, and Kan Ze, assistant dean of the School of Economics, were summoned to Yang Xi's office to study the matter together.

Yang Xi now has explosives, it is much easier to open mines, copper mines and silver mines are also being mined, and the casting technology is the first in the world, so he naturally has the conditions.

Then the experts saw Yang Xi's sketch of the coin.

The smallest coin is one cent, cast in bronze, with an amount on the obverse, and a river pattern on the reverse side, with the word "Yangtze River" written on it.

Followed by a corner, bronze casting, ten points equal to a corner, bronze casting, the reverse side of the Chenhe Square pattern, on the book "Chenhe Square" four words.

The largest is one yuan, silver casting, the front side is written one yuan two words, the reverse side is the pattern of Chenhe City, and the three words "Chenhe City" are written on it.

Ten dollars is one tael of silver, which is absolutely sufficient, and you use broken silver and silver dollars, which have a meaning, and can stand the test.

After the details of this plan were finalized, Yang Xi ordered Kan Ze to be the president of Chenhe Bank and prepare to form a bank.

Kan Ze, a real mathematician, was forced into a financier by Yang Xi.

There is another reason why Yang Xi is in a hurry to take this step, that is, hot air balloons have also been built, gunpowder has also been invented, why the intermediate level of the technology tree has not been activated for a long time, there must be something that has not been done in place.

It's always right to do what you can think of and what you can do.

The formation of the bank was complicated, and Yang Xi discussed it in Kan Ze for ten days before the articles of association were finalized.

The trust of the people, this is the first step, this has to be done slowly, it takes time to precipitate, and it is far from being as simple as imagined.

In May, the Wuyi fleet and the fortress fleet set off together, and Yang Xi only brought 3,000 to the trapped camp and 3,000 to the newly formed Second Artillery Battalion.

In mid-May, Huang Zhong led 12,000 troops to conquer the Eastern Army, marched south from Wu County, prepared to cross the Zhejiang River, killed Ben Huiji, Yang Xi and Chen soldiers went to Yugang, Xu Hu 10,000 troops in the Taidao Army, 3,000 people in the camp Gaoshun and 3,000 people in the artillery battalion, a total of 16,000 military horses, ready to go.

As for the fortress fleet, it was sent by Yang Xi to guard Dongye Port in case it was destroyed.

When the news spread, Zhang Xiu was shocked, and immediately wrote to Yang Xi, Yang Xi replied, there was only one reason for sending troops, and it was not Wang Lang.

If Yuzhang Taishou was not a mastiff, Yang Xi would also send troops.

Zhang Xiu had to gather the crowd to discuss the strategy of breaking the enemy, and Yu said: "Lord Taishou should first go to the court to state the facts, but here he ordered someone to dispatch military horses in case of accidents." ”

This Yu turned over was the person who personally led Yang Xi to demarcate the location of the port that day, and Yang Xi also helped him guard Shangyu.

Zhang Xiu nodded yes, and at this time, another general Dong Xi came out and said: "Why does the general have him Yang Xi, the general has 20,000 people, and he guards the city, even if he has 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses, he will not be able to win easily, not to mention that he Yang Xi only has 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers, and he wants to take down Huiji, which is a fool's dream." ”

When Zhang Xiu looked at it, he saw that it was Dong Xi, the original general of Huiji, who was eight feet long, with a broad nose and thick eyebrows, and thick hair, but he was a tiger general.

Zhang Xiu thought about what Dong Xi said well, but he didn't have time to think about it, but a general jumped out, but it was He Qi, the acting county magistrate of Yan County.

He Qi is a male seedling, a native of Huiji Shanyin. In his early years, he made meritorious contributions in the war to pacify Shanyue, and also quelled the rebellion, and was invincible after a hundred battles.

He Qi was extravagant by nature, especially in military affairs, his armor and equipment were extremely sophisticated, and the carriages and horses he rode were extremely luxurious.

He Qi said: "The general gave me 5,000 soldiers and horses, to kill him for a while, first give Yang Xi a dismount, before Wang Taishou was there, this person left and right Wang Taishou, and did not put us in his eyes, the war arrangement, did not consider us at all, this time, but let him know how powerful we are." ”