It is definitely not possible for merchant ships or warships to do this.

Of course, we really need three or five sturdy cargo ships or warships here, and Yin Peng believes that Chishan, with the support of Xuzhou behind him, will find his own way to get them.

On the contrary, Chishan will establish a foothold here. There is a huge need for small fishing boats that can catch fish and shrimps in Fanliang Lake and nearby streams. One or two hundred boats may not be enough, so there is no way to directly fish from other places.

Large-scale mobilization has come, and construction can only be organized in the camp.

I saw that the fields inside and outside the camp have been cultivated, but in any case, even if the new fields of two to three thousand acres are planted with food, even if there is a harvest, it will not be enough to maintain what is already in the camp at this time.

The daily consumption of two thousand people.

Then he secretly estimated the population gathered in the surrounding camps. Chishan Club had gathered about 3,000 people nearby in a short period of time. Yin Peng was also secretly surprised. He just didn't know how many were refugee forces recruited from nearby and how many were recruited from Guangde.

The government was transferred to the old headquarters of Zuo Guangde Army.

"Yin Sima, would you please make this trip..." Feng Yi walked out of the yard to greet Yin Peng and his entourage.

"The Marquis of Qianyang has been staying in Baiti Gang?" Yin Peng didn't know beforehand who he would meet and negotiate with after he came over, but he thought that Han Qian should have returned to Xuzhou since the meeting at Zhuyu Bay, and would not have stayed

Take the risk of staying in Jianghuai.

When he saw Feng Yi, he realized that he had been wrong from beginning to end. He secretly felt that it was not unjust for Chuzhou to personally instruct people to attack the Baitigang camp and suffer such a huge setback.

Walking into the conference hall that was renovated from the ancestral hall, Han Qian stood in front of the newly drawn map and was calculating the amount of subsequent dredging work for the Chongjin Duheng Canal with Xi Yong.

The river that goes north through Chongjin Ferry was subsequently confirmed to be the Sanglim River that leads directly to the lake south of Hongtaekpo.

In the middle and early stages of the previous dynasty, Shiliang County organized civilians to dig a seven or eight-mile long horizontal canal directly to the north of Chongjin Ferry, connecting Shanglin River and Fanliang Lake to the east of Baitigang, making Fanliang Lake

Lianghu and Hongzepu have an additional title in Shiliang County

Water connection.

However, at the end of the previous dynasty, the Jianghuai heroes were competing for hegemony, and the water conservancy was in disrepair for many years. After the founding of the Chu State, the counties in Huainan were regarded as the buffer zone between the Liang and Chu countries. There were several floods, and the horizontal canals had long been blocked. Fan

The connecting waterway between Lianghu and Hongzepu in Shiliang County was therefore cut off.

Whether it is connecting Fanliang Lake and Hongzepu, conducive to irrigating farmland, or channeling and draining floods from the upper reaches of the Shanglin River to a greater extent, the role of this horizontal canal is very important.

Even though there are some things that cannot be started immediately at this time, Han Qian still hopes to help Han Donghu and Su Lie finalize the later work plans first.

The horizontal canal has its previous foundation, and the blocked areas are mainly located at both ends, so it is relatively easy to re-excavate and dredge it.

Once the Hengqu canal is dug, the strategic position of Chongjin Ferry will become even more prominent, not even under Baitigang.

After all, the area facing the lake on the east side of Baiti Gang is too narrow, and it is impossible to control ships sailing into Fanliang Lake, which is 140 to 50 miles deep.

In comparison, after the horizontal canal was dug, Chongjin Ferry became a more important strategic node.

Han Qian put down the charcoal and placed it on the map. He turned around and looked at Yin Peng: "Your Highness, King Xin, is sure of your trust this time. He won't make any more tricks to attack Baiti Gang at night?"

Yin Peng smiled awkwardly, Huaidong couldn't make up his mind to break up with Xuzhou, and they broke up with each other. He was beaten with bruises and bruises for playing such a little trick, and he was speechless.

Even if Yangzhou was in charge of this matter, it wouldn't be so embarrassing.

"The Chishan Society secretly established a foothold in Shiliang County. There is a worry about raising tigers in Huaidong, but there are no visible benefits." Yin Peng put aside his embarrassed expression and said seriously according to the words he and Wang Wenqian had agreed upon, "Huai

Dong Neng can turn a blind eye, which is enough to deal with the Marquis of Guizhou Yang, but if Chishan wants to use Hangou to transport materials and personnel through Yangzhou, it may not be too difficult, right?"

Obviously, after Li Zhigao regained Chaozhou, the situation would be unfavorable to Huaidong, but it was impossible for Huaidong to not only tolerate the Chishan Society's foothold on the west bank of Fanliang Lake, but also condone the Chishan Society because of this or because of Han Qian's intimidation.

ships passed through Yangzhou.

If this is really the case, why would King Xin lose any face?

"Huaidong is connected to the sea in the area controlled by Haizhou. Are you really not curious whether the new salt-drying method I mentioned is true or false?" Han Qian stared at Yin Peng and asked.

The Huaidong Salt Fields directly under the jurisdiction of the Salt and Iron Envoys is located on the vast coastal shoal between the Jianghuai River estuary, but currently, most of Haizhou to the north of the Huaihe River estuary is still under the control of the Huaidong Kingdom.

The eastern part of Haizhou is also connected to the sea.

Part of the salt in Huaidong was obtained by secretly organizing people to boil the sea on the tidal flats in eastern Haizhou.

However, cooking sea salt is not an easy task.

The Salt and Iron Bureau has more than 40,000 households and nearly 300,000 salt farmers in the Huaidong Salt Fields. It has 3,000 salt soldiers and thousands of salt officials, large and small, so that the Huaidong Salt Fields can be maintained.

More than one million tons of sea salt are produced every year.

Haizhou has always been a barren land, with three counties. At the height of the previous dynasty, the population was only 140,000 to 50,000.

In the middle and late period of the previous dynasty and when Liang and Chu fought for supremacy on both sides of the Huaihe River, although Haizhou was located on the edge of the main battlefield in the east, there were constant battles of all sizes. A large number of people either died or fled, and large areas of land were abandoned.

At present, the area directly controlled by Huaidong in Haizhou has a population of only more than 2,000 households, except for the garrison.

Even if we don't take into account that Liang Jun may infiltrate and attack at any time, even if we don't take into account the supervision of the Salt and Iron Envoy, how many people can Huaidong organize on the coastal beach at the mouth of the Huaihe River to boil seawater and make salt?

If we really want to keep up with the salt boiling efficiency of Huaidong Saltworks, Huaidong needs to organize at least 4,000 households, nearly 30,000 salt households, to collect firewood on the tidal flats in eastern Haizhou and boil the sea to make salt, in order to satisfy Huaidong.

Salt was used by millions of soldiers, civilians and livestock in the east.

In fact, the scale of Huaidong's secret salt production on the tidal flat in the east of Haizhou is only seven or eight thousand tons per year, which is less than one-tenth of what Huaidong needs. The real needs are mainly from the Salt and Iron Bureau.

Taking advantage of the loopholes in supervision, they took advantage of the convenience of geographical proximity and directly sent people to collude with kitchen households or salt farm subordinates to directly traffic illegal salt into the country.

This also ensures that Huaidong Fan Kingdom can obtain more than 300,000 yuan of salt profit every year.

Huaidong can currently maintain 120,000 troops, mainly relying on the looting of Changrun and other states during the Jinling Incident, but one-time looting cannot last long.

The consumption of soldiers and horses is extremely huge, not only the food and wages of the generals, the construction of barracks, the preparation of soldiers, weapons and vehicles, the maintenance of livestock and horses, four sets of military uniforms per person every year in winter and summer, the total number of the army is 480,000

The preparations for the military uniforms and the rewards during the holidays are all huge.

Huaidong maintained an army of 120,000 troops, and in just one year, it consumed most of the goods previously plundered from Changrun and other states.

Next, without any pressure from the court, Huaidong itself had plans to reduce its standing troops to 60,000, vacate 60,000 troops and form garrison troops, and organize land hoarding and reclamation to make up for the lack of military supplies.

Even so, Huaidong's financial expenditure cannot be separated from the annual salt profit income of up to 300,000 yuan.

Therefore, no matter what, Huaidong must try its best to weaken the control of the Salt and Iron Commissioner over the Huaidong salt field and hinder the court from carrying out fundamental reforms in salt matters.

As for whether the new salt-drying method mentioned by Han Qian was true or false, when Yin Peng went to Chuzhou to report the matter, Ruan Yan and others did not dare to easily conclude that it was false.

"..." Han Qian took out a pamphlet from his desk, handed it to Yin Peng, and said, "The sun-drying method has been used to make salt in the Hedong Salt Pond for hundreds of years, but it is not used along the coast. It's not that they haven't tried it before. In fact, in the past, it was dried by the sea.

Compared with boiling salt, salt is not necessarily beneficial. I have collected books on salt from hundreds of years ago and carefully analyzed the pros and cons of each method. I summarized the following: coastal beach, leakage from drying fields, tidal intrusion, and turbid salt brine.

Storms, hurricanes, and rain are all its drawbacks. Some drawbacks are difficult to overcome, but others are easy to overcome. Therefore, methods for building salt field dams, testing salinity, diverting irrigation, and leaching brine are all described in this booklet.

It’s just that the new method has not been tested on a large scale, and there may be a lot of room for improvement. But I wonder if Huaidong will go to Haizhou to verify this method first? I believe it is always better than going to Huaidong Saltworks for verification, Mr. Yin

,dont you agree?"

Yin Peng stared at the pamphlet Han Qian handed over. He didn't believe that Han Qian would really let Huaidong get this new method of drying salt easily.

Han Qian thrust the pamphlet into Yin Peng's hand and said: "My conditions are very simple. In a few days, two merchant ships will be stationed in Yangzhou from Xuzhou. When the time comes, please invite Mr. Wang and Mr. Yin to show your support..."

Xuzhou is a Fanzhou. When merchants enter the hinterland of Dachu, they need to go to designated areas to conduct transactions after extracting and buying.

Xuzhou merchant ships can theoretically enter Chuzhou, but under the supervision of the Salt and Iron Envoy, it is obviously impossible to trade with the refugee forces in the northeast of Chuzhou. The territory of Yangzhou, which belongs to Huaidong, is the Salt and Iron Envoy.

Blind areas beyond the jurisdiction of

The Chishan Society wants to establish a foothold on the west bank of Fanliang Lake, maintain contact with the outside world, and obtain different supplies. The most stable channel is also Yangzhou...

Han Qian did not raise any higher requirements at this time. Yin Peng could take away the new method of drying salt and verify it first, but at this time, he would have to allow two ships of supplies from Xuzhou to sail to Baitigang via Yangzhou.
Chapter completed!