Chapter 102: Choose one!
Beginning with Qin Shi Huang's conquest of 500,000 troops, the entire Lingnan (i.e., Guangnan), including Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hanoi, was the territory of China.
After the annexation of Nanyue to Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, the territory of the Western Han Dynasty even extended south to the mouth of the Mekong River in later generations, and a total of three counties of 'Jiao' Toe, Jiuzhen and Ninan were established in the later Vietnam region, of which this Ninan County is the location south of Hue, Vietnam to the mouth of the Mekong River.
Although in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the southernmost province of Ilnam County established itself as the state of Linyi, until the Northern Song Dynasty, the entire central and northern parts of Vietnam remained China's inherent territory, and its time span as a Chinese territory has lasted for thousands of years.
Due to the drastic reduction in the territorial scope of the Southern Dynasties, the area occupied by the Lingnan 'Jiao' and Guang'er Prefectures even accounts for one-third of the current territorial area of the Southern Chen.
As long as such a large piece of vast land is initially developed, it can make Nanchen's national strength get a qualitative improvement, and it is also related to Wang Ze's planning for the next few decades.
Lingnan, Guangzhou, and the 'Jiaozhou' prefectures are rich in water and heat, and the terrain is flat and fertile, so it can be said that it is a big granary with a little development.
More importantly, if it is developed, Wang Ze can plant sugarcane in a large area, juice can be used to make sugar, bagasse can be used to make wine, and finally the residue of sugarcane can also be used as 'fertilizer' material 'fertilizer' field.
As long as there is some foundation in Lingnan, it can lay a solid foundation for continuing to travel south through the South Seas in the future, and even lay a solid foundation for exploring trade routes to the West.
It seems that Hainan Island is also Mrs. Xian's sphere of influence now, I remember that there was a TV series "Mrs. Xian" in later generations, which completely said that Mrs. Xian was a Hainanese, but although Mrs. Xian was a native of Gaozhou, Guangdong, the land she controlled included most of Guangdong, part of Guangxi and the whole of Hainan, and she was really not an ordinary powerful 'woman' strong man.
Just as Wang Ze was immersed in how to lay out Lingnan in order to obtain rich profits in the future, Chen Ba first asked Wang Ze why he didn't talk about how to develop Xiangshui and Ganshui.
Xiangshui is the Hunan region of the later generations, and Ganshui is the Jiangxi region, and these two places are only slightly developed around the 'Dong' Ting Lake and Poyang Lake, and other places are still reckless primeval forests except for some areas along the river.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, although a large number of northern people went south, they were basically concentrated in the south of the Yangtze River, and the two places further south did not wait until the Northern Song Dynasty, because of the strong military pressure of the Liao State to be developed on a large scale.
Hearing Chen Baxian's question, Wang Ze reacted and hurriedly wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and explained carefully: "Uncle Chen, now that Wang Lin's destruction is imminent, as long as Uncle Chen develops Lingnan, this along the Ganshui Yuzhang, Luling, and Nankang all the way to Shixing will inevitably be the key point of the north-south 'cross', and at the same time as the development of Lingnan, the prefectures and counties along the Ganshui River will also develop together."
Although the Xiangshui Basin also has the advantages of the 'cave' court and the advantages of the spiritual canal, it is because it has to face the pressure of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the local mountains often repeat between the two countries, so although the conditions are also very good, the time for development is not yet ripe! ”
Chen Ba nodded first, what Wang Ze said coincided with what he thought in his heart, it seems that this son really has great wisdom, although the small details are not enough, but the control of the overall situation is already rare.
"Tan Qian, you go back in the next two days to draft an edict, and discuss it with the provincial officials after the court meeting tomorrow, so that you can check and fill in the gaps!" In the end, Chen Baxian decided that the development of Lingnan should not be delayed.
Even if Wang Lin is still threatening Jiankang's safety, the preliminary work for the development of Lingnan must start preparations now, and Chen Qian will be the heir of Da Chen in the future, of course, he must undertake the overall preparatory work from the beginning.
After talking about the Southern Dynasty, Wang Ze finally remembered that his father Wang Yong was being suppressed by the Northern Qi army, so he hurriedly asked Chen Baxian: "Dare to ask uncle, I don't know what is the situation in my father in Qizhou now?" ”
Chen Baxian sighed and said: "I'm afraid the situation with your father is not too good, if it wasn't for your father who attracted a large number of Qi troops for me a few years ago, how could my Northern Expedition be so smooth." I'm afraid that Shou 'Chun' and Huai 'Yin' will definitely not be able to take it.
Now that the Turks, Khitans, Kumoxi, and Goguryeo have all withdrawn, the pressure on the Northern Qi has dropped sharply, and the town army guarding the northern Xinjiang can move south, plus the hundreds of thousands of young men and women who were requisitioned last year, the pressure on your father is not ordinarily small! ”
In the middle of February of the third year of Yongding (559 AD), the Turkic army, which had been defending Shuozhou for more than a month, once again attacked the Hulu Association, returned again in vain, because it could not be attacked in Shuozhou for a long time and suffered heavy casualties.
At the beginning, he led his troops to eliminate the previous generation of steppe overlord Rouran, the first Turkic Khan Ili Khan has now died of illness, and his son Yixiji Khan has been burping for less than two years, and the current Turkic Khan is known as the Wooden Pole Khan.
Although in the next nearly twenty years, the grassland is really the world of the wooden pole khan, but it cannot solve the current embarrassment of the wooden pole khan.
At this time, it was the time when the Turks were poor in food and horses, after a winter of consumption, the horses of the Turks were thin and weak, and many of the soldiers under their command were sick and starved to death.
As a nation on horseback, the Turkic cavalry is good at raiding and fighting, but it is difficult for them to storm Shuozhou City, and the Turks have suffered heavy casualties after more than a month of strong attacks.
Under these circumstances, many tribal leaders clamored for the withdrawal of troops, and even the Wooden Pole Khan could not ignore the demands of these people, and in desperation, the Wooden Pole Khan had no choice but to lead his army westward, preparing to obtain a large amount of compensation from the Western Regions and the Transoxiana States.
Otherwise, in the future, the command of the Turkic tribes to the Wooden Pole Khan will not be as obedient as before, but because of the heavy losses, the Wooden Pole Khan's collection of the Western Regions and the countries in the river has also intensified, making the countries miserable, and also laying the foundation for the contradictions between the Western Regions and the Turks in the future.
Since the Turks withdrew their troops, the Khitan tribe and the Kumoxi tribe who were attached to the Turks naturally did not dare to continue to attack the Northern Qi, and the province itself became the punching bag of the Northern Qi.
Goguryeo has always been an expert at seeing the wind and steering the rudder, and withdrew its army to the east of the Liao River long before the Khitan and Kumoxi collected their troops.
Since the pressure in the north was greatly reduced, the Northern Qi had the spare strength to deal with the war in several other directions, so a large number of town troops began to move south.
Because of the special status of Jinyang in the Northern Qi Dynasty, Changshan King Gao Yan sat here, and the Xianbei nobles who controlled most of the 'elite' elite troops in the Northern Qi Dynasty were willing to obey Gao Yan's orders, and this place once again became the military center of the Northern Qi Dynasty.
No matter how he competes for power and profit with Yang Su and others, the world of the Northern Qi Dynasty belongs to the Gao clan after all, and Gao Yan cannot help but be indifferent to the current situation in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and he also hates Yang Su even more for himself and Gao Zhan and the Xianbei nobles.
At this time, Gao Guiyan, the uncle of the Gao Yan clan, as the supreme military commander of more than ten prefectures and counties in the north and south of the Governor of Northern Qi and Fenshui, resisted the fierce offensive of Daxi Chengxing in Jinzhou, and the Luoyang army was fighting with the army of Wei Chi in the river 'Yin' under the leadership of the new commander Hu Lujin.
Although they couldn't defeat Wei Chi Hui and Yu Wenxian for a while, they had already saved the safety of Henan County and Yiyang County.
This time, there was a young general's name that caught Wang Ze's attention, that is, Gao Changgong, the famous Lanling King in later generations, this time he followed Hu Lujin to injure Yu Wenxian under Luoyang City, which was the first famous battle of the Lanling King.
Without further ado, Gao Yan sent a scout to see that the Turkic army had indeed retreated, so he asked Hu Sidun to serve as the assassin of Shuozhou to defend against the Turks and return.
The former Shuozhou Assassin Shi Hu Lawyers Association was urgently recruited by Gao Yan and led an army of 50,000 to the south, preparing to rush to Pengcheng to resist Chen Baxian's attack.
It's just that Chen Baxian then stayed in Shou'chun due to illness, and only sent Hou Andu and Cheng Lingxi to the north, but although the two of them worked together to capture Eastern Chu Prefecture, they couldn't move forward under the Xiapi City garrisoned by Murong Yan, the general of Northern Qi.
In this way, the Hu Lawyers Association, who had just arrived in Jizhou, received a military report from the Northern Qi court, ordering him not to continue southward but to turn eastward, and to limit the Hu Lawyers Association to sweep away Wang Yong, who occupied the land of Sanqi, and the powerful forces that seized other states and counties within three months.
Chen Baxian deduced from the intelligence from the secret agents in Qi that he was afraid that at this time, the tens of thousands of troops of the Hu Lawyers Association had already arrived in Pingyuan County, and Jeju on the other side of Pingyuan County was the powerful Meng clan that had seized the local area.
Hearing Chen Baxian's recount, Wang Ze couldn't help but worry for a while, those Haoqiang who divided the prefectures and counties had no combat effectiveness at all, so Wang Yong would have to face the tens of thousands of most 'elite' troops in the Northern Qi Dynasty.
Most of the generals under Wang Yong's command were from reckless backgrounds, where they had experienced many major wars, and they had only barely won the victory against Lou Errong and Murong Shaozong before relying on the strength of the people.
When the parties besieged the Northern Qi Dynasty before, Wang Yong not only sent Cheng Chong to the south to capture Jiaozhou and Nanqingzhou, but also to open up land links with Nanchen; In addition, there has never been a large-scale initiative to attack, also because the generals and soldiers under his command are all newcomers to the battle, for fear of attracting serious attention from the Northern Qi.
Now the Turkic, Khitan, Kumoxi and Goguryeo in the north of the Northern Qi have also withdrawn, and the offensive of the Southern Chen is no longer as brave as before because of Chen Baxian's return to the division, and only the Northern Zhou army is still fighting fiercely with the Northern Qi.
"Uncle Chen, I'm afraid that I will return to Qizhou first, and now that the Northern Qi army is pressing the border, how can I not accompany my father!" Wang Ze couldn't sit still.
Seeing Wang Ze's anxious face, Chen Baxian smiled and said: "Da Lang is really a filial son, so I won't force you to stay with you anymore, and when you come to the court meeting tomorrow, you will also see a good show!" ”
The first thing Wang Ze did when he left the imperial city was to hurriedly find Cao An, and asked him to urgently send people to Qinjin and other places in the East China Sea to 'pump' Zhang Hang, Chu Honghang, Meng Xian and others, and lead all the men and horses of the Blue Wolf Battalion to Qizhou quickly to support.
In addition, most of the more than 10,000 infantry troops under Jiang Chuan's command, which was still attacking the Anyi area of Long Island, were also 'pumped' out and returned to Qizhou with the blue wolf battalion.
As for the defense of Jeju, Qinjin and other places, Qu Liulang's navy is currently in charge, and Xu Ning and Zheng Kui are responsible for organizing militias on the shore to be stationed in various places, so there is no need to worry about the counterattack of the Japanese people for a while.
Cao An was just about to leave Xiao Jing came over: "Xiao Langjun, I have collected a lot of orphans in the past few days, but are these children sent to Donghai and other places or arranged to Da Langjun?" ”
Wang Ze thought for a while and said to Xiao Jing: "Send these children directly to Jeju Island, it is only ten days to fly directly from Jiankang to Jeju Island, and the schools over there are relatively complete, send them there, and the education will be with us in the future." ”
Xiao Jing agreed, and then complained that most of these children were secretly controlled by some lower nine ranks, and for the sake of these children, Xiao Jing had many conflicts with these people, which greatly damaged the face of his former Xiao Liang clan or something.
Wang Ze smiled to appease Xiao Jing, and asked Cao An to inform Gu Bin to arrange a group of merchant ships to send these children away.
Children are the future of a country, as long as a large number of orphans are collected from the Central Plains every year in the future, they will all be supporters of Wang Ze's foundation in the future. And the countries have never cared much about these orphans, and if they die, they will die, and they will not attract the attention of others if they are quietly transported away by Wang Ze.
The poor people of the Southern Dynasty can no longer dig now, after all, Nanchen needs too many people to develop Lingnan, and the land of Sanqi occupied by Wang Yong is also a very dense and rich place.
These populations are mainly concentrated in Qizhou and Qingzhou, and it is roughly estimated that the local population is no less than 2 million, in order to avoid the Northern Qi Dynasty from killing good people and making meritorious contributions, the people between the south of the Yellow River and Jishui are basically all relocated by Wang Yong to Donglai, Changguang and other places east of Qingzhou.
In addition, the strong military discipline of the surrounding states and counties was 'mixed' and 'chaotic', resulting in hundreds of thousands of people from the surrounding Jeju, Yanzhou, Dongping County, North Xuzhou and other places pouring into the states and counties occupied by Wang Yong.
Now Du Sheng and the others are taking all the spare ships in the cottage to Jeju, Qinjin and other places to transport these poor people who have flocked to Sanqi and other places, and they have no time to relocate, where is there still 'Jing' to take care of the people in other places.
When I returned to the post house, I saw that Feng Servant had been waiting here for a long time, and Cheng Xueying and Zhu Qingqing were teasing this little brother who always looked like a little adult.
Feng Fu is also a ghost 'spirit', as soon as he saw Wang Ze coming back, he shouted at Zhu Qingqing: "Little sister-in-law, my eldest brother is back!" In an instant, Zhu Qingqing turned into a big red face.
Cheng Xueying twisted Feng Servant's ears in a circle, and said angrily with a tense face: "Servant, I'll let you have a big mouth and 'mess' to say!" With that, he escorted Zhu Qingqing, who was flushed, back to the back room.
Wang Ze looked at Feng Servant with a bitter face and asked with a smile, "What's the matter, Servant, have you made Sister Cheng angry again?" ”
Feng Fu didn't answer Wang Ze's words, but looked around for a while before asking: "Brother, this time Your Majesty summoned you 'privately', but what did you say?" ”
Wang Ze knocked on Feng Fu's head angrily and said, "Children ask about some adult things all day long, and they are not afraid of being pressed by their minds!" ”
Feng Fu 'rubbed' his head and pretended to be in pain: "Oh, brother, aren't you only two months older than me, I don't think there is anyone who can pretend to be an adult better than you!" ”
In the past year or so, many people Wang Ze has come into contact with no longer regard Wang Ze as a child, they all regard him as an adult, and with the essence of Wang Ze as a traverser, he sees himself as an adult.
Looking at the complaining Feng servant, Wang Ze smiled and said to him: "Don't shout, I have a big deal here, do you want to do it with me?" ”
Feng Fu, who was still 'rubbing' his head just now, immediately jumped up, happily took Wang Ze's hand and said, "I know that the eldest brother is the best, and this is not a good thing to think of me," said Feng Fu moved over a stool, and said to Wang Ze with a sneer, "Big brother, sit down!" ”
Looking at Feng Fu's flattering face, the words 'sycophant'' and ''jing'' were almost written on his face.
To say that Wang Ze's layout of Lingnan still needs Feng Fu's strong cooperation, so Wang Ze will selectively explain the conversation with Chen Baxian to Feng Fu one by one, and finally ask: "Now I have a general plan, the first is that I send weapons and you send troops to 'Jiaozhou' to catch a large number of slaves to develop Lingnan and plant sugarcane."
The other is that I bought a piece of land with you to make a port, and I will give you thirty percent of the port's dividends in the future, of course, there is a share of the king of Linchuan in the remaining seventy percent, you can choose one of the two!"
Feng Fu scratched his head and said to Wang Ze: "Big brother, I think these two attention are 'very' good, or I will choose both, right?" ”