To build a channel for troops, the money and food consumed would be incalculable..."

"Master Wang, are you willing to go to Chaishan?" Zhou Bin asked.

The king looked down and thought: Chaishan is located in the hinterland of Huaishan Mountain. Although it is remote and poor, no matter what Luo Xiancheng chooses in the future, if he and his disciples go to Chaishan in person, even if it is not the best, they can stay in a corner and calmly watch the changes in the world.

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He does not seek to be heard and reached by the princes, but seeks to be able to stand alone; and speaking of the general situation of the world, the only one who can compete with Yan and Hu is Huaidong.

After a long time, Wang Xiang took a step back, bowed towards Luzhou in the southeast, and said: "I have been so earnest in asking Chen Hansan to borrow military supplies, but Luo Shuai couldn't hear a word and went in, and there was no one in Suizhou who could do it.

There is no place for me, so I can only follow Duke Chong and ask for peace and quiet in Chaishan..."

Wang Xiang still left some room for himself in his words, but Zhou Bin just ignored it and said happily: "I will return to Yijiang immediately to report the good news to my lord..."

When Zhou Bin arrived at Yijiang, the news that Chen Hansan led his troops into Qichun also reached Yijiang.

Yijiang is the Wuyang of later generations. The source of Yiyang River comes from Gucheng County at the southern foot of Maoshan Mountain, and flows into the Yangtze River from the east of Yijiang City via Lishui River. Today, Yijiang has become the most important garrison of the Huaidong Army on the west line of Jiangning.

The prefecture was also placed under the jurisdiction of Yijiang, with a total of more than 60,000 water infantry under its jurisdiction.

In addition, large-scale training of supply troops will be conducted as reserve troops and stationed in Yijiang and Luzhou.

The news that Chen Hansan led his troops to enter Qichun reached Yijiang, making it difficult for Lin Fu to sleep peacefully on the Mid-Autumn Festival night. He sent Gao Zongting, Song Fu, Ao Canghai, Chen Huawen, Ge Cunxin, Zhou Pu, Sun Zhuang, Zhu Ai and others to

Summoned to discuss military matters.

"Luo Xiancheng did not have the intention of being submissive, so he used Chen Hansan to gain a foothold in Qichun to weaken the pressure that Jinghu and Chizhou might have on Suizhou. With the support of the She family and Luo Xiancheng behind him, the development of Chen Hansan's remnant forces in the Ezhou area was afraid.

It will be faster than we imagined." Lin Fu stared at the map, and the ruined eastern Hubei region was still a blank area on the map. Because it was located on the outskirts of Suizhou, it had been cleaned by Luo Xiancheng and his troops. After the Changle army withdrew, Jingzhou

The lake has never sent troops to take over, and the refugees have formed associations and bandits.

Thinking about it with your toes, the bandits in eastern Hubei must be inextricably linked to Luo Xiancheng. Luo Xiancheng wanted to keep a low profile and not arouse the alert of other forces, so he retreated to Suizhou and Xiangyang, but in the peripheral areas of Suizhou,

He must not be willing to let others take it away, but if he insists that Chen Hansan go to the east of Hubei to establish a foothold, the situation will be completely different.

Edong and Ezhou and Jiangzhou face each other across the river. The She family insists that Chen Hansan establishes himself in Edong. This is something that anyone with a discerning eye will know at a glance.

"In any case, even if a troublemaker like Chen Hansan comes in and Jiangzhou is threatened by Chizhou and Ezhou, the She family will not dare to have too few troops in Jiangzhou," Gao Zongting said, "and once Yue Lengqiu follows

When Chen Hansan and the troops of the She family stationed in Huanglongling on the north bank engage in battle, the war will not stop, and the impact on our military deployment in western Zhejiang in the autumn will not be too great..."

Sometimes a great victory is not necessarily required. The She family currently has 160,000 to 70,000 troops and controls most of northern Fujian and Jiangxi. As long as it is forced to continuously increase troops and military consumption to the outer defense line, it can continue to weaken the She family and intensify the situation.

The purpose of following the She family's westward migration was to conflict with the local forces.

"The blind man is back!" Xu Daozi, who was staying overnight, came in to report.

"Oh," Lin Fu said happily when he heard that Zhou Bin had arrived in Yijiang, "call Blind Zhou over quickly..."

Before Zhou Bin could take a breath, he rushed to the capital hall where the matter was being discussed. Seeing that the hall was filled with key figures from Huaidong, he reported: "Wang Xiang is willing to cooperate with us to guard Chaishan Mountain and repair the mountain road..."

"Okay!" Gao Zongting said with a smile, "If we can really build a military channel between the Huai Mountains, we can equip one hundred thousand troops!"

Lin Fu wanted to transfer Yicheng to Chizhou, and he would lose the direct way to seize the hinterland of Suizhou, so he had to bite the bullet and open up a channel in the hinterland of Huaishan Mountain so that he could compete strategically in the future.

Furthermore, Huaishan Mountain is thousands of miles deep. Due to the dangerous roads, the government's control over Huaishan Mountain has always been weak, making it easy for bandits to live in. Most of the villages in Huaishan Mountain are both bandits and civilians. And Huaishan Mountain is located in the hinterland of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River.

The gathering of thieves caused great damage to the peripheral prefectures of Shouzhou, Xinyang, Haozhou, Luzhou, Ezhou, Suizhou, and Jiangxia. These areas, which should have been land of plenty, have been affected by the constant robberies of the Huaihe River in recent years.

The actual tax potential is far weaker than that of the Jiangnan region.

To strengthen control over Huaishan, building roads and improving traffic conditions are the first prerequisites.

Lin Fu said to Song Fu: "Song Gong issued a military order for me, asking Tang Xitai to lead two battalions of armored soldiers. Ten thousand troops will immediately go into the mountains of his hometown to suppress the bandits." He then said to Zhou Bin, "Since the king is cooperating with us,

If you go over this time, you will stay to help Wang Xiang manage Chaishan. Keep it strictly confidential, and you can’t ask too many people to take you there. Carefully select some reliable people to go with you; build roads on both sides first, and connect them first with

The trails are connected by secret paths and will be widened at the end! It is not possible to transport rice to Chaishan at the moment, but we can add more salt, iron and medicinal materials so that you can raise more rice from the hinterland of Suizhou in Chaishan."

Although it is difficult to open a mountain road in the hinterland of Huaishan Mountain, as long as Wang Xiang and Zhou Bin can raise the rice grain to sustain the livelihood of 20,000 to 30,000 men, it will not be difficult to open a channel from Lishan to Chaishan. Of course, Suizhou is known to have troops.

Of the two hundred thousand, the number of capable soldiers was only about fifty thousand. It would certainly not be an easy task to raise enough rice and grain to sustain the livelihood of two to thirty thousand men and their families in Suizhou.

It's a pity that the medicine road between Huaishan Mountain is too dangerous. Before the plank road is built, it is impossible to transport large quantities of materials between Chaishan Mountain and the old port. It is enough to refuse to directly send troops to occupy it. Why bother to expend such effort?

Nowadays, the blockade of Suizhou is very strict in various places. Salt and iron are more expensive than copper in Suizhou. In comparison, even though rice is still in short supply, it is the most abundant material in the hands of Suizhou's Le army.

Organizing two hundred people to walk between the Huaishan Mountains in the name of a private lord, transporting 20,000 to 30,000 jins of rice grains by camel back and forth in a month, he cannot be called a king at all. Zhou Bin persisted in Chaishan for a few more days, but he could make 20,000 to 30,000 jins of rice every month.

The input of salt and iron is completely different.

Suizhou is located at the western foot of Huaishan Mountain, and the uncontrolled area in the hinterland of Huaishan Mountain is even larger than Suizhou Prefecture. A large number of mountain people also live and breed in the Huaishan Mountains, making use of the sloping fields and valley farming between the valleys.
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