Seeing that Chen Ban's report was finished, Gao Shi stood up.

"My lord, Suizhou has also had a bumper harvest this year, and you can buy 500,000 stones of surplus grain."

"Oh? So much? ”

Li Yu was very surprised.

Gao Shile reported the situation in Suizhou.

Gao Shi is Li Yu's old team, and he is much more familiar with the recruitment of displaced people than the Chen class, and the combination of policy scale grasp and flexibility.

Coupled with the favorable conditions of time and place, the number of displaced people recruited by Suizhou is twice as large as that of Dengzhou.

It turned out that as soon as the news of the recruitment of displaced people was released, the landless people in the Central Plains and Huainan dragged their families to Nanyang.

Zhu Wen strictly guarded against death, and all the displaced people who went to Nanyang through Fangcheng Pass and Luyang Pass were not allowed to pass.

The flow of people is like the flow of water, if you don't get through here, there must be a place to go.

The Central Plains refugees entered Huainan, and when they entered the jurisdiction of Nanyang, they must first enter Suizhou.

Since April, there have been displaced people entering Suizhou, and in May it was overcrowded.

Gao Shi placed the families with young and strong laborers in Suizhou, and let them go to Dengzhou for the rest.

Therefore, Chen Ban received all the rest of Gao Shixuan in the early stage, and in the later stage, Suizhou could not be placed for a while, so he sent people to Dengzhou.

The displaced people who came after August went directly from Suizhou to Tangzhou. Therefore, the food rations of the displaced people in Tangzhou this year have become a problem.

Suizhou has Suixian, Guanghua, Tangcheng, Zaoyang four counties, Suizhou south of Jingxiang Yingzhou, between the two states there is Dahong Mountain.

There are several rivers in the territory.

The water originating in Dahong Mountain passes through the south of Suizhou, flows through Suixian and Guanghua, and goes to Anzhou and Chuzhou in Huainan in the southeast, and finally reaches Jiangxia.

The north of Suizhou is Tangzhou, which is blocked by Tongbai Mountain.

The 溠 (zhà) water, which originated in Tongbai Mountain, flowed south through Tangcheng and then joined the Zhuanshui.

Baishui, which also originated in Tongbai Mountain, turned westward after moving south in Suizhou, converging with the water and entering the Han River.

Zaoyang County, on the other hand, is at the turn of Baishui.

It can be said that several counties in Suizhou have water conservancy.

Suixian and Guanghua counties are plains, while Tangcheng and Zaoyang are hilly and mountainous.

The resettlement of displaced people is mainly in Zaoyang and Tangcheng.

Suizhou was a large grain producer when it was under the jurisdiction of Jingxiang, and the main production areas were in Suixian and Guanghua. Today, Gao Shi has resettled displaced people, and the number of households in Zaoyang and Tangcheng counties has increased from 6,000 to 30,000.

The number of households in Suixian and Guanghua counties has increased from 17,000 to 30,000.

Suizhou has become a large state with 60,000 households, with a population of more than 260,000.

Faced with such a situation, Gao Shi was both happy and worried.

Happily, there are people, and the development of Suizhou has a foundation, and all kinds of production and commerce are unprecedentedly prosperous.

The concern is, what do so many people eat and drink? There is also the issue of law and order.

Fortunately, after Zhou Kuan received Gao Shi's request for help, he immediately sent people to escort grain and seed farming tools to support.

Zhou Wu even sent town soldiers to maintain law and order in the four counties.

With the concerted efforts of everyone, these displaced people cultivated land and built villages, and soon villages sprang up all over Suizhou, smelling each other and seeing the smoke of cooking.

Gao Shi saluted Zhou Kuanshen: "It's all the credit of Changshi, otherwise there may be a great famine in Suizhou, and there will be no seeds if the cultivated land is opened." ”

Zhou Kuan pulled Gao Shi, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

The sense of accomplishment of colleague cooperation and accomplishment of great things makes both of them happy.

Seeing this, Li Yu smiled and said: "The two Changshi cooperated with each other and cooperated with each other to successfully complete the immigration work in Suizhou, which is very happy." ”

He turned to the others and said, "All kings should learn from the two of them, be sincere and united, and be dedicated to the public, for the sake of good ministers and virtuous ministers!" ”

And everybody said yes and again.

Tangzhou was incorporated relatively late, and was directly managed by Zhou Kuan.

In August, as many as 10,000 displaced people entered Tangzhou.

Fangcheng in the north of Tangzhou has been assigned to the Dewang Mansion.

Today, there are only six counties in Tangzhou: Biyang, Shangma, Huyang, Pingshi, Tongbai and Ciqiu.

The north of Tangzhou is Fangcheng Mountain and Fangcheng Pass, the south is separated by Tongbai Mountain and Suizhou, the east is the remnant of Funiu Mountain, and from north to south are respectively Rongcheng Mountain, Ma'an Mountain, Langling Mountain.

The Shahe River, which originates near Ciqiu, flows eastward, passes through the valley between the mountains and the Ma'anshan, enters the territory of Yuzhou, Henan Province, and joins the Rushui.

Bishui, which originates near Ma'anshan and Langling Mountain, flows through Biyang and joins the blocked water that originates in Fangcheng Mountain.

Lishui, which originates in Tongbai Mountain, flows through Pingshi County and joins Bishui in Shangma County.

The Huaishui originating from Tongbai Mountain, flowing through Tongbai County, goes out of the southeast.

There is a valley in the east of Biyang that can communicate with Langshan County, Yuzhou, and there is a passage in the southeast to enter Huainan, and across Huaishui can pass to Yiyang, Shenzhou.

In the original seven counties of Tangzhou, there were 42,000 households with a population of 180,000.

Today, there are only 38,000 households in Fangcheng.

Migration began in August, and in three months, the number of households increased by 10,000.

There are 48,000 households with a population of nearly 200,000.

With such a large population, we can only open up the wasteland first, turn over the land, and grow grain next year.

Nanyang sent a large amount of food to Tangzhou, and these immigrants could not starve to death no matter what.

This large-scale grain transportation made Zhou Kuan personally feel that Nanyang was going to Biyang in Tangzhou, which was really not an ordinary detour.

After the grain of Nanyang is loaded, go south through the water, pass through Xinye, turn into the water at the intersection of the water and the water, go all the way north, and go east through Shangma County to reach the city.

The whole journey is in a big "V" shape.

Not only detour, but also delayed time, if there is something in Tangzhou, Nanyang rescues, I am afraid that the daylily will be cold.

"My lord, this year, Tangzhou has resettled forty or fifty thousand displaced people, and just eating has no output, but it has turned over some wasteland, and it will rest as soon as winter comes. I wondered if I could still do some water conservancy projects with work for relief as before. ”

"Yes. It is necessary to mobilize them all, and they must not be idle, because they are too idle and easy to make trouble. ”

Zhou Kuan took out a drawing.

Li Yu saw that it was a water conservancy planning map.

As you can see on the map, a straight line is drawn between Xiangcheng and Fangcheng.

"What does this mean?"

"My lord, as long as there is a waterway between Xiangcheng's water and Fangcheng, then Nanyang's goods can not only enter the water through the waterway, but also unblock Tangzhou, and Fangcheng's military supply will be timely. What does the lord think? ”

Li Yu stared at the lines on the picture, looking up and down, left and right.

As Zhou Kuan said.

As long as the waterway between the water and the water blockage is opened horizontally in the direction of the city, and then you can go to Tangzhou to directly enter the water blockage and water, and go straight to Shangma County and Biyang County, and take Lishui to pass Pingshi County.

It's a one-size-fits-all approach.

If you extend this waterway further east, you can go straight to Fangcheng.

At that time, not only can Nanyang and Fangcheng be connected by canals, production and trade, and the most important thing is the transportation of military grain and grass, if the waterway from Fangcheng to Fangcheng Pass?

Isn't that city pass foolproof?!

Thinking about the military value in this, Li Yu's eyes were red.

Why didn't he take advantage of the victory to pursue and drive Ma Yin out of Hunan this time? Isn't it just that Zhu Wen is afraid of a sneak attack from behind?

Now that there is a waterway from Nanyang to Fangchengguan, there will be a lot less worries about your future.

"Well, Changshi is very worried. Well, the conscription of Nanyang and Tangzhou Qingzhuang, vigorously excavate the river, to ensure the waterway traffic in Fangcheng. ”

"Yes."

"Well, by the way, this waterway is named Xiangfang Canal."

"Yes."

Seeing that the deliberations were over, Li Yu was about to announce the adjournment of the meeting.

Gao Shi hurriedly went out of class and said: "The lord, the minister also has a water conservancy project, please take a look." ”

Gao Shi also took out a drawing.

Li Yu looked at Gao Shi and blinked, and said in his heart, why didn't you say it just now?

When I took the drawing, it turned out to be a map.

"What does Gao Changshi mean by this?"

Gao Shi hurried over, pointed to the blank space on the map and said, "Lord, although Suizhou has a bumper harvest this year, there are too many people, and they can't be idle in winter." ”

"Look here."

He pointed to the empty space between Tang Cheng and Zaoyang.

"If a waterway to Zaoyang is opened in the Lishui of Tangcheng, it can connect the Lishui and Baishui. In this way, my Suizhou can not only connect Xiangyang in the west, but also connect with Huainan Anzhou, Chuzhou and Jiangxia in the southeast, and can also be connected with the Nanyang waterway. ”

Li Yu blinked, and then looked at the map, it was really like this.

"So, so Dengzhou, Tangzhou, and Suizhou all want to engage in water conservancy projects?"

Zhou Kuan, Chen Ban, and Gao Shi all nodded like chickens pecking rice.

"Our Food ......"

"Rest assured, the food is self-raised."

"Is that okay?"

"Hehe, lord, only I, Tangzhou, need government relief."

"Yes, my Dengzhou homeless people have rations, and they only need a small amount of supplies."

"I have more food in Suizhou, I don't need supplies, I can be self-sufficient."

"Okay, in that case, then let's do it, I support you."

All of a sudden, the three prefectures under the jurisdiction of Nanyang posted notices to levy young people and dig rivers and canals.

A vigorous winter water conservancy construction has begun.