Chapter Forty-Three: The Winter Snow Wind

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In order to avoid delaying the construction of this naval base by something similar to last year's ship being frozen in the port, Zhang Jiashi finally thought for a long time and decided to transport a large amount of corresponding supplies to Jeju Island in advance, just in case.

According to Zhang Jiashi's own ideas, that is, the building boat base on Jeju Island should be completed as much as possible before April next year, after all, this is related to Zhang Jiashi's next strategy phalanx corresponding to the Kyushu Island region of Japan.

And the route of the Tsushima Islands has been mapped, which makes Zhang Jiashi breathe a sigh of relief for the time being.

Although due to the size of the islands, Zhang Jiashi was unable to build a large-scale Lou Boatman base on several large islands in the Tsushima Islands. But the construction of a small port in this place, as well as a medium-sized camp for the training of troops, is not a big problem.

Zhang Jiashi is well aware that although the base on Jeju Island will not be completed until next year, it does not mean that Zhang Jiashi cannot conduct tactical exercises in these places.

In Zhang Jiashi's plan, once Kyushu Island was successfully included in his sphere of influence, it would be much more reliable to gradually garrison a defender force that was more of a Marine nature than to send hoplite troops around Kyushu Island.

First, in a sense, such an arrangement can alleviate the water and soil discomfort caused by the climate of the island, although it is not too serious, but people from Liaodong County to North Korea have had similar experiences, and Zhang Jiashi has to think about the arrangement at that time.

Second, there is a situation that Zhang Jiashi cannot ignore, that is, using a large number of well-equipped troops to hold on, but will share his current strength, after all, in terms of current armaments, in the absence of high-quality coal, Zhang Jiashi can only maintain the production of weapons as much as possible.

Zhang Jiashi is not depressed about one thing, that is, his newly recruited troops, many of whom are even assigned to leather armor in the warehouse. Zhang Jiashi didn't want to make such an arrangement, but in the case of a shortage of materials, it was difficult for Zhang Jiashi to even produce a large number of low-quality iron armor pieces, and Zhang Jiashi also had his own indescribable hardships when using these old armors.

"If I occupy the northern part of Taiyuan County in the future, I swear that if I have the opportunity, I will make a piece of armor, and then let someone hang one as a decoration!"

Zhang Jiashi's muttering words in the study made the white wolf lying on the ground pretending to sleep open his eyes and look at Zhang Jiashi, and glanced at the other party angrily.

If Zhang Jiashi knew the white wolf's thoughts, he would probably be half angry:

"What kind of broken idea is this, saying it is equivalent to not saying it. ”

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Zhang Jiashi naturally did not expect that he had purchased grain and grass from some counties on a large scale some time ago, so that many merchants even from Nanyang County and even Ba County and Shu County turned into hungry wolves who smelled blood, and after snapping up the grain in the hands of many farmers, he transported it to the trading camps built by Zhang Jiashi in Guangyang County and some coastal areas of Shandong Counties.

There was nothing wrong with this, but Zhang Jiashi didn't know that Chen Ping had a trace of guilt in his eyes after knowing that a lot of grain had been piled up in many granaries.

After all, under the influence of this corresponding situation, which was not too serious, after Zhang Jiashi purchased more and more grain, many Qianshou who did not have much grain in stock for various reasons began to change dramatically in mid-October, that is, less than a month after the autumn harvest.

Except for a small number of people who left a considerable amount of food out of reason, the closer they were to the counties within the range of the caravan sent by Zhang Jiashi, the more serious the problems began to appear.

Soon, there were many people in Guangyang County who sold the grain to some merchants or the caravans sent directly to Zhang Jiashi, and the money obtained was simply not enough to buy the food needed for the winter or even the next year.

In many places, the price of grain has risen several times a day, and many people are unable to buy grain at the price of yesterday with some copper coins or gold in their hands.

Many people look at the increasingly "clean" places to store food, and they can only try their luck on the streets again after talking to their families.

Maybe some will sell small batches of grain that they think are profitable. But for the growing number of people who need to buy food, it is far from meeting everyone's needs.

Soon, in addition to some big cities or some counties in more distant areas, even the county seat of Sanchuan County, Rongyang City, was more and more seriously affected.

In this case, if Zhang Jiashi resells the grain he purchased, the profit obtained is several times the cost, and it is naturally not a problem.

But Zhang Jiashi didn't know this, and in his plan, the grain purchased was more for a rainy day.

Zhang Jiashi was even more unclear, and in a sense he had to conceal that his subordinates were holding a secret meeting in the county guard's mansion.

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"Based on the intelligence we've gathered these days, it looks like we can close the net. Chen Ping gently picked up the cup in front of him, took a sip of warm water, glanced at the few people he had summoned, and said this.

After Xiao He heard this, he sighed silently, looked at Chen Ping for a while and said, "Do we have to do this?"

Xiao He's words did not mean that he had now become an "accomplice" in his next plan, but that he had not known about the first stage of the plan.

Seeing a lot of newly built granaries these days, and the sacks of grain transported by the endless stream of tricycle troops were piled up again in the warehouse, Xiao He didn't feel that he should be happy, but he couldn't change the plan.

After hearing Xiao He's words, Li Zuoche shook his head: "Lord Xiao's words are wrong, if it weren't for the greed of someone himself, even if we wanted to do such a thing, it would naturally be difficult to ascend to the sky." Lord Xiao should know very well that even if we don't do some things, there are people who will help us do it. Besides, if we can successfully relocate a large number of people, we can be regarded as redeeming our own small mistakes. ”

Li Zuoche, who was supposed not to be here, was urgently summoned by Chen Ping when he returned to Wang Jiancheng a few days ago, in a city located at the junction of Liaodong County and the Korean region. Li Zuoche and the others, who knew very well what Chen Ping had summoned them to return to Liaodong, quickly turned back to Dingxiang City after explaining some things to Xiangjian.

After Xiao He heard Li Zuoche's words, he couldn't help frowning, he wanted to say something to refute Li Zuoche, but he couldn't say anything in the end.

It's not that Xiao He can't find a reason to refute Li Zuoche's words, but Xiao He knows very well that when the matter has come to this point and the wood is already in the boat, no matter how much he says, it will only be useless.

Xiao He knows very well that not to mention the people who have been relocated, how many of their families will fall on the road before the implementation of the second phase of the plan begins.

Just the other people who were not arranged or taken into account, Xiao He knew very well that there were far more people who would be lost because of this situation than those who were "saved" by them.

But what can this be? Xiao He can't care too much about their life and death. In Xiao He's heart, these people can only resign themselves to fate.

And Sun Po on the side watched Xiao He sit back in his place as if he was nothing, and then he said: "Ladies and gentlemen, should we retreat from the personnel arrangements in Guangyang County?"

Hearing Sun Po's words, Chen Ping nodded: "Well, let them return to Liaodong first." After all, although Guangyang County is the closest to us, in many ways, when we are also beyond the reach of the whip, we should have done it by letting these people retreat. ”

Chen Ping, who said this, knew very well that they had no intention of becoming "human traffickers" from the Liaoxi Corridor that needed to be risked from the beginning, after all, with the current situation in Liaoxi County, if something went wrong, it would undoubtedly be a fool's dream for them to rescue the four or five hundred people in the caravan.

What's more, if it really starts a war with the new county guard of Liaoxi County, in many aspects, it will not be beneficial to Zhang Jiashi and General Zuo's mansion, but it will really make Xianyang a killer.

Although Chen Ping and others do not think that the battle situation will become one-sided, if it continues for a long time, it is estimated that General Zuo's Mansion, which is at an absolute disadvantage, will not end well.

In this case, one of the best ways to avoid this problem is to transfer all the personnel of Gwangyang County back.

According to the second-step plan that Chen Ping, Li Zuoche and others came up with, they would give up the temporary headquarters of the caravan located on the northern coastline of Jiaodong County at an appropriate time to distribute a message to the outside world.

This information is that they hope to let some Qianshou who can't live in the inland counties move to live in Liaodong County, and General Zuo's Mansion will provide corresponding help as much as possible.

This can be carried out not only by caravans, but also by merchants from all over the world. Of course, it can be said that this point does require risk, but Chen Ping is confident that these businessmen will not be able to make any big moves.

After all, these relocated Qiantou have a better place to go, and that is the Samhan area, which is now undergoing various plans.

In a sense, the Samhan region, which suffers from its vast and sparsely populated area, can be said to be more than enough to accommodate 200,000 to 300,000 people again, so why not let these people fill it out...... Where there have been no inhabitants for a long time?

According to the investigation of the personnel who were sent by Chen Ping to have a fairly high level of agriculture in the past, the soil in the Samhan region is also quite fertile, and in a sense it is even possible to produce more than Liaodong County.

In this case, Chen Ping, who does not take advantage of this geographical advantage, is really sorry for Zhang Jiashi and his "ambition" to leave a name in history books.

Chen Ping naturally didn't say that there was another situation, and they also hid it from Zhang Jiashi, that is, this year's autumn harvest can be regarded as a smooth Liaodong County, just the various farmlands that were reclaimed last year and built with corresponding facilities are enough to support the consumption of Liaodong County to the next year. Not to mention the corresponding infrastructure in Liaodong County, which has been developed before. The harvest of these old areas gradually replaces the old grain stored in the warehouse, and enriches the warehouse.

In a sense, Zhang Jiashi is not short of grain at all now, at least, after the purchased grain replaces the remaining old grain, he has to build more warehouses to store it.

According to preliminary statistics, the amount of grain transferred back until a few days ago, the amount of grain stored in General Zuo's Mansion was enough for the more than 800,000 people in Liaodong County and the Korean region to consume at least a year and a half.

This is also the reason why Chen Ping is the most confident and able to do a good job in the arrangements he has planned.

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The meeting is not over yet, and after Chen Ping finalizes the implementation of the second-step plan, he still needs to sort out some aspects of the arrangement or scheduling.

It's like the personnel arrangement of the village, the construction of roads and other issues, Chen Ping naturally knows very well, this kind of problem is not sloppy at all.

I don't know how many oil lamps in this room need to be added to the lamp oil, and Chen Ping and others don't know how long they have been discussing.

What they didn't expect was that it was the "little things" in this regard, under the rotation of disputes or thinking, until after a rooster crow sounded the next day, Chen Ping, Xiao He and others jointly signed an order and announced the end.

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In the following period, Zhang Jiashi mainly paid attention to the movements from Liaoxi County and Donghu, and he didn't know that more and more people who felt or really thought that they couldn't survive in their hometown, under the influence of various factors, took boats one by one, crossed the sea, and came to their new home on the Korean Peninsula.

Many people thought that this place was Liaodong County, and they settled their new home here under the arrangement of officials from the General Zuo Prefecture sent to Korea headed by Li Zuoche.

And Qin Min has become the busiest person up and down General Zuo, and there is no one. As the boss of the Lou Boat Soldier, Qin Min can almost only take turns in the three-point area.

Alternatively, he transported various supplies to the caravan headquarters in Jiaodong County, which was almost across the sea, and after unloading the supplies, he would send groups of people onto some large ships to the southern Busan area of the Samhan region, and then turn back to his home port.

Alternatively, he set out from the port of Liaodong County to transport supplies to the port in the Busan area, and then went to the station in Jiaodong County to transport some money, grain, or people back to his home port in Liaodong County.

It can be said that under this lifestyle, Qin Min would like to find someone to complain. But he didn't dare to let this matter be known to Zhang Jiashi, if Zhang Jiashi knew about this kind of thing, Chen Ping and others would first trouble him.

Qin Min didn't know how long he could hide such a thing, and he was also praying that he would be able to complete this secret mission assigned to him safely.

As for when Zhang Jiashi only found out about such a thing......

The answer to this question is unknown. Later historians have different opinions on this aspect.

Some people say that Zhang Jiashi actually knew about this situation, but did not say this due to many factors.

Others say that this fact became known only after the first census conducted by Zhang Jiashi (mid-201 B.C.).

And there is also an argument, that is, Zhang Jiashi did not know the facts of this matter until the day of his death......

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Compared with this behavior of "being sold", Zhang Jiashi, who did not know it, paid attention to the movements of Liaoxi County and Donghu in the north in the following winter.

The civil strife among the Donghu people has not yet ended, and according to the detailed investigation dispatched, there is a tendency to intensify.

In Liaoxi County to the west, there is no abnormal action.

But Zhang Jiashi will not be taken lightly by the "peace" of his two neighbors, especially Liaoxi County in the west.

After all, compared to the crippled Donghu people, it may not be so easy for the other party to come to "fight the grass valley". Although Zhang Jiashi has no plans to trouble the Donghu people now, it is unlikely that the Donghu people want to cross the Great Wall and raid an area, plundering before leaving.

And Liaoxi County is different, although from Chen Ping's report, the situation in Xianyang is not good, but once he really tears this layer of hypocrisy with Xianyang and starts fighting directly, Zhang Jiashi knows with his knees that he can't win Zhao Gao and Hu Hai.

Therefore, for his neighbor to the west, Zhang Jiashi adopted a defensive posture.

The county guard of Liaoxi County naturally knew very well that Zhang Jiashi was guarding against him, but in fact, everyone should not laugh at anyone, why didn't he receive Zhao Gao's order to guard against Zhang Jiashi?

There is one thing that this county guard doesn't understand, that is, with the strength controlled by his master Zhao Gao, it is true that he has to pay a considerable price to destroy Zhang Jiashi, who is indeed famous. But the other party will also only be directly crushed by the army after the last moment comes.

And Zhao Gao has not acted, which has to make him think about something more.

In fact, if Zhang Jiashi knew the thoughts of this county guard, it is estimated that he would also say that he didn't have the same question?

Zhang Jiashi was also very puzzled, why Zhao Gao and Hu Hai's patience was so good, as his strength became stronger and stronger, it was impossible to want the other party to do that kind of thunderous offensive and then directly defeat him.

It's not that Zhang Jiashi feels quite good about himself, but that there are some things, just like the current Qin army troops, and Zhang Jiashi can also understand the facts.

There were not many Qin troops who could fight desperately against Zhang Jiashi's 100,000-strong army and achieve victory, especially the county soldiers of inland counties, except for a few county lieutenants and county guards who were good at commanding operations, Zhang Jiashi did not worry about this.

Of course, there is a problem that Zhang Jiashi can't ignore, that is, in terms of the current situation of General Zuo's Mansion, it is not a good thing to provoke the two inhumanitys of Xianyang too much.

Perhaps, maintaining the status quo and silently developing his own strength is what Zhang Jiashi needs to do the most.

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