Han Qian assigned Han Donghu to personally direct the sneak attack.

Wang Che did not accompany him, but Shen Peng, Zhao Ci and other seven Liang Jun secret agents, as well as a dozen scout attachés from the Military Intelligence Staff Department, and two battalions of elite cavalry guards set out from East Lake early the next morning under the leadership of Han Donghu.

After arriving in Linhuai, they will look for opportunities to change their clothes and sneak across the Huaihe River in batches, enter the western territory of Sizhou, and go to the northern part of Xuzhou; in addition to Lin Haizheng of Haozhou, they will send a small group of troops to cooperate with the crossing of Huaihe to harass Tongkou and others. In addition to arranging people and horses for later support, the Chishan Club will also directly arrange for several sea ships to rush to the waters near Haizhou in two locations to lurk.

No matter what, it is still worrying to see hundreds of elite key soldiers leaving their base during the cold weather, taking the risk of sneaking into enemy territory to carry out such a big move when many situations are uncertain.

Watching the distant generals disappear in the vast mist, Han Qian, accompanied by Xi Faer, Xi Rong, Huo Li and others, took a detour from the north slope of Qingcang Mountain to Liyang.

No matter how well the confidentiality work is done, the sudden movement of five to six hundred elite bodyguards and cavalry from East Lake will inevitably attract the attention of spies from all sides. In order to confuse these spies, Han Qian left East Lake with the sneak attack troops in the early morning, using All this looked like an ordinary trip for him.

After seeing off the sneak attackers, Han Qian will not return to East Lake for the time being. Instead, under the protection of a small team of troops, he will take a detour to Liyang. In the past few days, he plans to stay out of the sight of ordinary people and stay in Lianyuan to handle official duties.

Gao Shao, Feng Liao, Guo Rong, Guo Que, Wang Che and others rushed to Lianyuan early in the morning to wait.

Han Donghu led his troops to the north, and even if he successfully hijacked the Wen clan and returned, even if he did not consider other variables, he could successfully persuade Lu Qingxia and others to use rat weapons, and he did not dare to easily let Chai Jian send troops from Junzhou to attack Wuguan, but the root of the problem was not solved. solution.

At this time, it was the monarchs and ministers of Shu who really wanted to attack Guanzhong and wanted to incorporate Guanzhong into their territory.

Among the four kingdoms of Chu, Liang, Jin, and Shu, Shu was the weakest at the beginning of the founding of the country. It was even so weak that the leader of Shu, Wang Jian, did not dare to directly proclaim himself emperor. Instead, he presented a petition to the Liang State as a minister, accepted the canonization of the Liang State, and became the King of Shu.

Although there have been constant internal troubles in Shu over the past few years, they are much better than those in Liang and Chu, which were plagued by endless civil strife and frequent invasions from foreign enemies. After so many years of rest and recuperation, the country's national strength can barely be considered to be thriving.

Guo moved a sack of files into the study.

Over the past few years, without realizing it, the Military Intelligence Staff Department had accumulated so much intelligence collected from Shu and divided into categories.

As for Wei Qun's mission to Jinling, the Marquis of Changxiang and Wang Yong have not yet sent anyone from Yuzhou to inform them, and no new news has come back from the hidden stakes they sent to lurk in Shu, and Wei Qun has not sent anyone. When they come to Donghu to make contact, the exact information they have received so far is limited. All they can do is to go through the information collected in the past.

"Is it possible that the Marquis of Changxiang knew our position, and they supported sending troops to annex Guanzhong, so they didn't send anyone over to communicate with us?" Feng Liao speculated.

After the civil unrest in Sizhou was successfully resolved, their focus shifted to Jianghuai.

At the same time, there were also large internal personnel transfers. He Liufeng, who was previously responsible for spying on intelligence in the Shu region, was promoted to the rank of Du Yuhou and commanded the troops. Naturally, it was impossible to continue to keep an eye on this mess.

At present, there are only three scout military attachés in the Military Intelligence Staff Department who are dedicated to their duties. There are also Tan Yuliang and Chishan Society who are in close contact with Yuzhou and are more aware of the situation in Shu. However, after learning that Wei Qun was sent to Jinling as an envoy,

Only four days have passed, and some personnel who are more familiar with the situation have not yet been transferred to East Lake for questioning.

More than three years have passed, and Feng Liao, Gao Shao, Guo Rong and others, like Han Qian, need to reorganize the intricate relationships within Shu.

The focus of conflict within the Shu Kingdom is still the dispute between Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong and Crown Prince Wang Hongyi.

In the past few years, Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, governed Yuzhou, controlled Banan well salt, and conducted large-scale border trade with Xuzhou, accumulating a large amount of resources, and was able to form a formation headed by him, with Qi Lun, deputy envoy to the privy council, and Jing Qiong, the official minister.

Wen, Yuzhou Sima Cao Qian and others were the core, and the military and political forces were supported by the Zuo Qingjiang Army.

Although Wang Hongyi, the crown prince, was jealous of the Shu Lord Wang Jian and had kept a low profile in the past two years, he was assisted by a number of generals such as Zhao Weisheng, his minister, and General Zhenqiang, Weihou Wang Xiaoxian, and Wei Qun, the minister of Honglu Temple. His reputation was still high.

Steady pressure over Changxiang Hou.

The most important thing is that although Wang Jian, the king of Shu, was quite suspicious of his crown prince Wang Xianyi, he never expressed the idea of ​​changing his heir.

Now even if it can be speculated that Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong most likely supported the Shu army's attack on Guanzhong, it is difficult to speculate based on what the Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong had in mind for his support.

Did he see that the monarchs and ministers of Shu strongly advocated this and he personally could not disobey it, or did he see better opportunities to expand power or compete for heirs?

Wei Qun, as a Shu minister who was closer to the Shu Crown Prince Wang Hongyi, rushed to Jinling again. Undoubtedly, the Shu Crown Prince Wang Hongyi and his family also advocated taking advantage of the situation and attacking Guanzhong.

It was previously speculated that Guanjiang Tower might be secretly adding fuel to the flames. In other words, it has a deeper relationship with Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong and Shenlingsi. What kind of conditions can Guanjiang Tower promise to enable Wang Yong and Wang Hongyi to at least superficially join forces with the Shu army?

Is there a unanimous opinion on cutting down Liang?

The Lord of Shu, Wang Jian, had previously been suspicious of the crown prince Wang Hongyi and worried that Wang Hongyi would usurp the throne if he became more powerful. Even before Liang Emperor Zhu Yu usurped the throne and the Liang Kingdom was in civil strife for the first time, he gave up the opportunity to attack Guanzhong. This time it was out of fear that Wang Hongyi would usurp the throne.

What kind of mentality leads to greed for the Guanzhong area?

Analysis after analysis, before further intelligence information is obtained, too many doubts are intricately intertwined. It will be difficult to see through it for a while, and it is impossible to guess what kind of deployment the Shu army will use to attack Guanzhong. Han Qian can only make Feng Feng

Yi and Guo Que first rushed to Yuzhou to meet the Marquis of Changxiang, Wang Yong.

Even if he could not influence more Shu kings and ministers, Han Qian also hoped that Wang Yong would understand in his heart that the Mongols were completely different from the nomadic peoples who had entered the Central Plains for two to three hundred years and were satisfied with just looting, but did not have enough strength to take root.

Same.

Han Qian hoped that Wang Yong would understand in his heart that once the Shu army launched a large-scale attack on Guanzhong this time, even if it had a chance to defeat the main force of the Liang army, it would not be possible to annex Guanzhong, and it would even be more likely that the Mongols would gain another advantage.

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After Feng Yi and Guo Que set foot on the westward road to meet Wang Yong, the land of Jianghuai quickly cooled down.

Han Qian could not predict which direction the situation would develop.

Han Donghu led his troops to sneak into the Xusi area. Although it was not too far from Zhongli and Linhuai, within a range of about three to four hundred miles, he pretended to be Liang Jun and sneaked further north, and then pretended to be Han Yuanqi.

Or Chen Kun's troops marched south.

In order to reduce the probability of being discovered by Xu Si and the Shouzhou Army, unless there are very special circumstances, or the Wen clan members are successfully hijacked and then withdrawn, Han Dong will not take the initiative to contact Tangyi again when he sees them.

All Han Qian can do at this time is to consolidate the foundation of Huaixi as much as possible. Even if the world falls apart, he must take it calmly.

The Liang Kingdom was in chaos, and the drought in the Liang Kingdom was still particularly serious since summer.

The locust plague seems to be directly related to the severe drought. Scout Search

Regular information retrieved shows that locust swarms in Yingqiao, Xusi and other places have covered the sky like dark clouds. Floods have occurred in Dachu since the spring and summer this year, which has had a great impact on crop production in Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places.

, seems to want to show the people of the world what natural disasters and man-made disasters are, and the world is difficult.

When Han Qian was inspecting shallow coal mine resources in Wujianshan, the torrential rain that lasted for several days was actually a large typhoon that had not happened once in decades. It landed in Xiuzhou, swept through the prefectures and counties along Taihu Lake, and then passed from Gyeonggi Province.

Chizhou swept towards Chaochu, Haoshou and other places in the north.

Suho, Gyeonggi and other places were severely affected by the storm. According to preliminary statistics, more than 100,000 houses collapsed, tens of thousands of people were injured or killed, and countless people were displaced.

In places such as Chichao, Chuhao, Shushou, etc., the wind disaster was not serious, but heavy rain fell continuously over a large area, floods occurred in the mountains and hills, and flash floods surged, making life difficult.

Chao Lake, which collects water from the surrounding mountains, almost overflowed the newly built lake embankments on the east bank at the end of August. The two new embankments on the west side of the East Lake were both built according to the height of the largest flood remnants that can be measured so far.

It has reached a level that only occurs once in fifty years, but the end of August is already mid-autumn and the turn of late autumn, so there is still such a large flood coming, which catches everyone off guard.

East Lake once deployed four thousand soldiers and horses to guard the embankment, fearing that the embankment would be washed away by the turbulent waves of the lake, destroying the construction achievements on the east bank in the past three or four years.

Fortunately, the dredging and widening of Yuxi River has not stopped in the past two years. As soon as the heavy rain stopped, the water level of Chaohu Lake dropped quickly. By early September, the danger was completely over.

The wind and rain have stopped now, but the disasters in various places are approaching as quickly as the snowflakes.

Fortunately, Huaixi is vast and sparsely populated, and most houses are built on high ground. Once the heavy rain stops, there is no need to worry about waterlogging.

Townships and counties are currently focusing on strengthening the drainage of rice fields that are about to bear ears, so that the losses are within an acceptable range.

Dozens of newly built coal and iron mines and workshops in various counties were destroyed by flash floods and mudslides. Fortunately, casualties were minimal, and production in the entire Huaixi region was not greatly affected.

At present, the Chishan Association is using the manpower deployed along the Taihu Lake to more actively guide and divert the victims whose homes were destroyed by the wind to Huaixi.

In fact, since the beginning of summer, floods have been frequent along the Yangtze River and Taihu Lake. Thousands of flood victims have fled to the countryside. The local authorities have found it difficult to control them and cannot provide timely relief, so they have become refugees. Under the active guidance of the Chishan Society,

, as many as two to three thousand households flowed into Huaixi in July and August.

The number of victims flowing in in September was even greater.

In more than two years, Tangyi Army's defense line made great strides forward twice to the north.

The previous defense lines built along the Chu River, Shiquan River, and Fucha Mountain, as well as the later defense lines built along the Wujin Ridge, Zipeng Mountain, and the northwest foot of Wujian Mountain, as a large number of garrison troops advance northward, there are currently a large number of semi-permanent defense lines.

All the military camps and villages were vacated.

The vacated military camps and villages, as well as the newly reclaimed fields near the villages, can be used to resettle newly moved households without any additional investment; and even if they are sold to the victims at a low price, they can be recovered to a certain extent.

Some military expenditures.

And long before Han Qian and Wang Jun got married, after the large-scale relocation of disaster-stricken households from Huaidong last year, Han Qian came forward with the official money bureau to purchase a large number of livestock from Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places, and developed from Xuzhou

The various workshops that were established purchased large quantities of iron farm tools and necessary daily necessities, and then distributed them to newly relocated households in the form of loans.

When Han Qian first came out of Xuzhou, the total capital of the Official Money Bureau was only 200,000 yuan. However, weavers in Xuzhou were allowed to directly fold cotton yarn into money and deposit it into the Official Money Bureau, and through Chishan, Jiangdong and Jiangxi

After selling in other places, the total capital of the Guanqian Bureau soon expanded to 1.2 million yuan.

In the next two or three years, the total capital of the Official Money Bureau expanded steadily to 4 million yuan, which of course included the millions of yuan of grain imported by Qiao Chen and other families; and sold land and houses to households that moved in from various places,

The money and food loaned out are also included.

Among the four million yuan, the total amount lent to Prince Shou's Mansion and Huaidong reached 1.2 million yuan. In order to make up for the lack of military resources, the Tangyi Army lent a total of 1.1 million yuan.

Donghu runs various workshops, weaving courtyards and coal and iron mines, and borrows a total of more than 500,000 yuan. In addition, in addition to the official money bureau, which still has a reserve of 600,000 yuan, there is almost more than 500,000 yuan in savings.

It is lent out in this way.

In this way, in addition to ensuring that the capital of the Official Money Bureau can increase steadily and making full use of the capital of the Official Money Bureau instead of sitting idle in the money warehouse, more importantly, it can no longer be limited to the limited fiscal resources of counties and townships.

level, and can help newly relocated farmers quickly take root in Huaixi and quickly improve local agricultural production levels.

Large-scale centralized procurement also contributes to the stable expansion of the production scale of various workshops in Xuzhou and Donghu.

In the early years, Chuzhou Pavilion had a similar official money shop, but its function was too single. It obviously lacked a sufficient and deep understanding of the prototype of this early financial institution, and there was no way to integrate it so closely with local governance.

Only by continuously filling in new populations and allowing them to take root quickly can the land in Chuzhou, northern Chaozhou, and southern Shouzhou and Huozhou that was abandoned due to frequent wars and wars be redeveloped.

However, even though the total number of soldiers and civilians under the jurisdiction of the Tangyi Zhifu officially exceeded one million at the end of June, and the monthly inflow of people in July and August was more than 10,000 people, compared with the vast area, there are still too many people.

Thin.
To be continued...