The county seat of Bozhou Prefecture. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The whole Bozhou is an oblique triangle, Jushui, Zhushui, Vortex, Shuishui, four northwest-southeast rivers from east to west to unfold, of which the vortex is undoubtedly the most important river, it obliquely runs through the entire Bozhou, Zhenyuan, Qiaoxian, Chengfu, Shansang (Mengcheng) four counties are close to the vortex river.

The eight counties of Bozhou are extremely unevenly distributed.

There are five counties in the north of Chenzhou and Songzhou, Luyi, Zhenyuan, Qiaoxian, Yuxian, and Yongcheng, almost in a straight line.

In addition to the remaining three counties, there are only two counties left in the border of Xuzhou, which is close to the east, one is Chengfu County, which occupies the middle, and the other is Shansang County, which occupies the south, and it can be said that the area under the jurisdiction of the two counties in the central and southern parts of the country accounts for almost half of the entire Bozhou.

As the state of Qian County, it is located in the middle of the five counties in the north, but because the location is too far north, it is 300 miles from Qian County to the southernmost Shansang County.

It is precisely because of the vast area and fertile land that Caizhou covets Bozhou, even if it is a huge risk, it will be taken in one fell swoop.

Taking Bozhou, you can make Cai Yingbo three states can be connected as a whole, Caizhou's strategic depth has been greatly expanded, especially in the south of Chenzhou between Caizhou and Bozhou and even the entire Chenzhou to form an encirclement situation, once the situation changes in the future, it can be very easy to attack on both sides, recapture South Chenzhou and even the entire Chenzhou, which is also a major reason why the Yuan family is planning to take the two states of Yingbo.

Yuan Wuxing coughed lightly, his gaze still flowing on the street.

I have to admit that the seat of the state of Qian County still has some heritage, although the entire Bozhou has experienced the sacking of ant thieves, but as the seat of the state government, Qian County has suffered a large number of gentry fled into the county because of the poison and ravages in other counties, showing a kind of deformed prosperity, even if the ant thieves have evacuated Bozhou later, but many gentry who are afraid of the ant thieves going and returning are still staying in the city and have never left.

Although it has not been in the hands of the Yuan family for a long time, it can be seen that the lively scene on the street has slowly recovered, which makes Yuan Wuxing feel both relieved and a little worried.

Fortunately, Yuan's strategy in Yingbo Prefecture still worked, and the policy of wooing and loosening made the local gentry who were originally very resistant to Yuan's entry into the house began to slowly accept this reality, especially after some commercial monopoly franchises began to be thrown, the local gentry and merchants also began to divide and disintegrate, and as long as such a head was opened, everything would be much easier.

There are a lot of things to worry about, look at the continuous influx of northern disaster victims on the streets, Yuan Wuxing is anxious about storing grain, now Bozhou is short of food, the price of grain has risen to 1900 Wen Yidou, and many times there is no market.

There are still some grain reserves in Caizhou, but due to the bad weather in the entire Central Plains, the price of grain in Caizhou has been on an upward trend.

For the displaced people from the north, there are also great differences within the Yuan family, and those who support the inclusion are that they believe that Yingbo Erzhou has experienced the ravages of ant thieves, the population has suffered a great loss, and even a large amount of land in various counties has been abandoned, so these displaced people are urgently needed to enrich the reclamation.

The reason for the opponents is also very simple, Yingbo Erzhou can't afford to support so many people, there is not so much food, and with the current strength of Caizhou, many of these displaced people will not be able to survive this winter.

But if these northern disaster victims are driven away, these people may continue to go south and enter Huaiyou, and if this winter really passes, once God opens his eyes next year, if Yingbo Erzhou wants to recruit such a cheap population again, then don't think about it.

The horse's hooves trampled, Yuan Wuxing couldn't help coughing again, the guards in front had already jumped off the horse, and led the horse for him to the place.

It's an old government office with some history, but the wide gate and the wide street in front of it are enough to make people understand what this place is.

At present, the control center of the Yuan clan in Bozhou is here, the Bozhou Thorn Mansion.

Since his body had not yet completely healed, Yuan Wuxing had to go out, so Yuan Wuxing estimated that he might have to slowly repair it half a year later than expected, which was not a good thing, but he couldn't refuse the call of the family, in the face of this kind of big event, everything personal could be abandoned.

Entering the Assassin's Mansion, people come and go, this aspect also shows the vitality of Bozhou, only when many people are busy, it proves that now the Yuan family has gradually controlled the entire Bozhou, and all orders and arrangements are issued from here.

Yuan Wuxing didn't go anywhere else, and went directly to the staff room.

It's just that the staff house transplanted according to the Caizhou model is also an indispensable institution for each feudal lord.

Due to the new entry in Bozhou, the staff house basically took over from the original branch in Caizhou and expanded rapidly, but in fact, the core is still those.

With the end of the Yingbo war, the scope of intelligence collection of the staff room began to expand rapidly to the periphery, and at the same time, it also formed an exchange with the intelligence from Caizhou.

What surprised Yuan Wuxing a little was that Yuan Wuwei was also there.

According to past practice, as the main military person in charge of Bozhou who is currently second only to Yuan Huaiqing, Yuan Wuwei still stays with Yuan Huaiqing more often and assists in handling the military affairs of Yuan Huaiqing's side.

And Yuan Huaiqing has been reported to the imperial court by Caizhou as the Bozhou assassin and the training envoy of the Yingbo regiment, but the main energy has begun to turn to the government affairs to stabilize the Yingbo situation, especially to deal with the gentry and businessmen on the Yingbo side, Yuan Huaiqing, who is older and has a calm personality, is undoubtedly more suitable.

"Old Seventh is here?" Yuan Wuwei wasn't surprised to see Yuan Wuxing here, "You should spend more time on cultivation and recover as soon as possible." ”

"Well, in two days, I'm going to go back to Mt. Shengshan for three months of retreat. Yuan Wuxing also felt that his body had reached a limit, and if he didn't retreat again, it might cause even greater harm to his martial arts entry in the future, and might even cause him to never be able to enter the Little Heaven Rank.

It is a famous mountain in the west of Wufang (now Suiping), and it is also a blessed place for the Yuan clan to practice martial arts.

"That's the best, and in three months, maybe we can think about other strategies. Yuan Wuwei nodded, and his gaze fell back on the information placed on the table.

"Is there any new movement?" The reason why Yuan Wuxing did not return to the mountain immediately after taking the entire Bozhou to retreat was mainly because he couldn't let go of the affairs of Bozhou, because it was too smooth, especially the big beam in the north and the Huaiyou in the south did not make any moves, which made it difficult for him to rest assured.

"Nothing new. Yuan Wuwei shook his head, "However, the price of grain in the Central Plains has risen very quickly recently, and the two states of Yingbo have also soared, and the grain sent over from Caizhou has been sold out in a day or two, and everyone is storing grain, I don't think it's a good phenomenon." ”

"Isn't there no restriction on Huaiyou's side?" Yuan Wuxing was a little strange, "You can buy grain from Huzhou and Shouzhou through an intermediary." ”

"There are no restrictions, but the price of Huaiyou grain has also skyrocketed a lot, and it is said that a large amount of Huaiyou Guancang grain was shipped to Yanyunyi Sanzhou and Xuzhou to sell. Yuan Wuwei sighed, "This time Huaiyou has earned enough, Jiang Feng is a good calculation, he has been buying grain since the year before last, according to Huainan Zhuzhou has not been short of grain, I am still wondering if this guy is short of grain but afraid, to develop a habit must have food to be practical, I didn't expect that now the old grain in the past two years can be sold at a good price in the north." ”

"Third brother, you can't learn it. Yuan Wuxing was silent for a moment, "Jiang Feng took one step and looked at three steps, after he took Shouzhou, he thought that he was going to do something to the two Umeda families, but he didn't expect him to hold it high and take the Umeda two families into his pocket, and the consequence was that the water transportation power of the Umeda two families in the Huaishui Basin was all in his hands, not only was it not damaged, but it was also greatly expanded, without the Huaiyou Navy and these fleets, how could the grain of Shouzhou be transported to all parts of Huaibei?"

Yuan Wuwei knew that Yuan Wuxing still had something to say, so he listened quietly.

"We took the two states of Yingbo, these two states have vast land, and Caizhou is similar, originally the agricultural production environment here is not worse than Caizhou, but now it has been completely ruined by Shi Yu and ant thieves, the population is not even one-third of the original, this is good to say, a large number of displaced people in the north can also be replenished, but the market town was destroyed, the irrigation canal has been in disrepair for many years, and the gentry have run to the city, and it is not possible to restore it in a year and a half. ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Wuxing couldn't help but sigh, Yingbo Erzhou was won, but there was a long way to go to restore it to become like Caizhou, and the investment and time required were very tricky.

"In contrast, Huaiyou is very smart, Shouzhou is fertile, coupled with excellent irrigation conditions, and by the way, it has absorbed the displaced people from Yingbo and Erzhou, so it recovered all of a sudden, with food, and transportation channels, you can go straight to the north to make money, this is the confidence of Jiang Feng to dare to fight and Li Yu. ”

Not only that, Jiang Feng also reopened the Shouzhou kiln in Shouzhou, and a large number of Persian Hu merchants and Sogdian merchants went to Shouzhou to buy porcelain and ship it to the Western Regions to sell for a large price. Yuan Wuwei added.

"Sogdian merchants also fled to Shouzhou?"

Yuan Wuxing was a little surprised.

On the one hand, Jiang Feng had a concubine who was a Persian Hu girl, and he got into a relationship, and on the other hand, because the Persian Hu merchants bought war horses and provided funds for Huaiyou through Guanzhong and the party members, so they would get Jiang Feng's permission.

How could Sogdian merchants break in?