After returning to Liyangcheng, Han Qian still couldn't rest.

Although the Wen clan members were secretly detained in Liyang City, they also took Wang Zhi to Li Zhigao's army to discuss defense matters, and forcibly sent a letter to Luoshan City. Later, they sent more than a thousand cavalry to Le'an and Huangchuan cities.

and more than 3,000 military horses to improve the mobile combat capabilities of Kong Xirong's troops, but they still need to pay close attention to the movements of Luoshan City at all times.

There is no guarantee that Li Zhigao will not transfer the main force of Chai Jian's Left Shenwu Army from the northern foot of Tongbai Mountain to the west of Guangzhou in order to forcefully capture the Luoshan defenders.

East Lake is close to the east coast of Chaohu Lake, and a long embankment was built between Qingcang Mountain and Xuru Mountain, opening up a wide area, which is conducive to the development of various industries, port trade, and even the area along the lake from Qingcang Mountain northward to Chaozhou City.

Although thousands of hectares of high-quality agricultural grain fields were cultivated, the floods in summer and autumn were serious, so the government was temporarily moved to Liyang City, which was only thirty miles away.

At present, Liyang is also the center of the entire Huaixi.

Although Guo Rong, Feng Liao and others advocated that the government be located in Chaozhou City, which is located in the center of Huaixi, Chaozhou City was damaged in the wars in these years.

However, the current limited money and food must be used as quickly as possible to help counties resume farming, build more workshops and resettle people. The reconstruction plan of Chaozhou City has been postponed indefinitely.

Guo Rong, Gao Shao, Xi Faer and others were all in Liyang. When they learned that Han Qian and Wang Jun were rushing to Liyang, they all hurried to Lianyuan even late at night, but there was no sign of Feng Liao or Cao Qian who was secretly greeted today.

, and was quite surprised. After listening to Feng Yi's explanation, I understood what was going on.

"According to me, it is not a bad thing for the Marquis of Changxiang to launch a mutiny to usurp the throne - he is going to launch a mutiny. How can Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian continue to attack Guanzhong and not quickly lead their troops back to the capital of Shu?" Feng Yi and Guo

Rong, Gao Shao and the others explained, sipping tea to quench their thirst. Seeing Han Qian's depressed look, they comforted him and said, "You have always been worried that the Mongol people would benefit from the fishermen, but now you have solved the worries of Guanzhong."

, who cares how the Shu Kingdom will be beaten?"

"Things are not that simple," Guo Rong said. "Wang Yong launched a mutiny, and he had to wait until Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiao first broke into Guanzhong and became entangled with the remnants of Liang's army. At that time, Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian led their troops to retreat, and Guanzhong

Liang Jun has been crippled, but the other three troops attacking Guanzhong from Wuguan, Tongguan and Fenshui Valley will not stop their offensive."

Feng Yi did not think so deeply and asked hesitantly: "Then we leak the news in advance and expose Wang Yong's wolfish ambitions?"

"Of course not," Guo Rong shook his head and said, "If we leak the news and expose Wang Yong's ambitions in advance, we can break the siege of Guanzhong, but the lord of Shu, Wang Jian, and the prince of Shu, Wang Hongyi, will turn their heads and lead their troops to destroy Wang Yong.

.And over the years, we have secretly supported Wang Yong in his rise to power. In order to seize the Wuchuan Valley, we also intended to help Wang Yong eliminate Wang Hongyi's influence in the Zuo Qingjiang Army. According to this account, Wang Hongyi, the prince of Shu, Wang Xiaoxian, the Marquis of Wei, and others

I must remember it clearly in my heart. Besides, the Shu army thought they missed the best opportunity to seize Guanzhong. When the time comes, the Lord of Shu, Wang Jian, wants to build momentum for the emperor, and Wang Hongyi wants to build momentum for the establishment of a direct descendant. Do you think they will use tens of thousands of elite Shu troops?

To whom should we direct our grievances? At that point, we can hardly hold Xuzhou, and we can only watch Qianzhong land fall into the hands of the Shu army..."

"Damn it, why is Han Qian looking so sad? It turns out that it was Lao Guo who thought it through. Fortunately, the Queen didn't use you much back then, otherwise our life would not be as easy as it is now." Feng Yi clicked his tongue and said.

"How can I be your opponent, Master and Master Feng?" Guo Rong smiled bitterly and teased Feng Yi.

"Don't be modest. Han Qian must use you, and he has his own reasons - we were thinking about catching you and locking you in a water prison for the rest of your life," Feng Yi said nonsensically, "Now this problem, what do you think?

How to solve it?"

"The adults are all looking so sad, how can I have any good ideas?" Guo Rong spread his hands and said.

"Liang Emperor Zhu Yunai used all his troops. Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian may not be able to enter Guanzhong." Gao Shao looked at Han Qian's sad face and consoled him.

Gao Shao's words did not comfort Han Qian. He spread out the terrain map and stared at the Guanluo mountains and rivers in trance.

Indeed, as Gao Shao said, Ziwu Road, Chencang Road, Baoxie Road and Luogu Road, as the main passages between Liangzhou and Guanzhong, span the Qinling Mountains, winding from five to six hundred miles to nearly a thousand miles. Zhao Mengji,

Wang Xiaoxian divided his troops into four groups, and they may not be able to enter Guanzhong. It is even very likely that one or two groups of soldiers and horses will suffer greatly at the hands of Emperor Liang Zhu Yu. However, the problem is a huge strategic disadvantage, not a tactical one.

What two wins can bring back.

Emperor Zhu Yu of the Liang Dynasty currently has 60,000 elites available in Guanzhong. The Chu-Shu allied forces on the southern front are divided into five groups, with a total of nearly 70,000 elites attacking Guanzhong. How many troops and horses does the Emperor of Liang need to deploy on the southern front, and hopes to succeed?

Repel these five troops?

Before dividing his troops on the southern front, how many troops did Emperor Liang have in Hejin and Tongguan to block the attacks of the Mongol elite and Weizhou rebels?

And if the Chu-Shu coalition attacked Guanzhong, Guanjianglou was the instigator secretly. Han Qian believed that Xiao Yiqing or Wang Jinrong would never forget to send people to persuade Li Sijing, the leader of the Pingxia people who lived west of Qinzhou, to send troops into Guanzhong to get a share of the war.

soup.

"You guys go and have a rest first." The night was already dark, and it was going to be dawn in a blink of an eye. Han Qian asked Guo Rong, Gao Shao, and Feng Yi to go and have a rest first. Everyone had their own affairs to attend to, and there was no need to accompany him here.

Gan Bo, he needs to sort out his thoughts.

Guo Rong, Gao Shao, and Feng Yi also knew that working hard was not an option and that staying would mess up Han Qian's mind, so they all returned to their respective residences first.

Everyone returned to their residence, their thoughts were confused and they couldn't lie down to rest. Watching the dawn, they heard the sound of horse hooves galloping into the city, guessing that it might be Feng Liao coming back from Dongguan Town late at night.

Everyone put on their clothes and rushed to the meeting hall, wanting to know exactly what Feng Liao and Cao Gan were talking about.

Feng Liao rushed over in a hurry, without even taking a sip, and walked into the meeting hall with everyone else. He saw Han Qian, whose robe was still untied, sitting behind a long desk. There were a lot of maps and other books spread out in front of the desk.

Look through it with your head down.

In addition to Wang Jun, Xi Rong and Zhao Ting'er also came to the front office hall at some time to help browse various materials.

"Did Cao Qian come here this time with the intention we guessed?" Feng Yi was a little confused.

He couldn't wait to pull his brother Feng Liao and asked.

Seeing Han Qian put down the book in his hand and looked up, Feng Liao swallowed and said, "Although Cao Qian didn't say it explicitly, this should be his intention——"

Feng Liao sat down and talked about the many things Cao Gan mentioned after Han Qian left, which can also be said to be Yuzhou's requests to Tangyi. They can be summarized into two points:

The first point is to use the Shu-Chu Allied Army's Northern Expedition to Guanzhong as an excuse to purchase a large number of various types of armor and war equipment from Xuzhou. The more the better, and it must be able to equip at least about 10,000 soldiers and horses;

The second point is to hope that Han Qian will maintain military mobilization in Xuzhou during the Chenzhou crisis. Yuzhou will create an excuse so that Xuzhou can move most of its troops to the Wuchuan Valley. At the same time, it is also hoped that Han Qian can send Guo

However, a senior general of this level went to Yuzhou as a liaison messenger.

"In addition to wanting to expand their troops before the uprising, Yuzhou also thought that if something unexpected happened, they could directly borrow troops from Xuzhou as quickly as possible. What a wishful thinking!" Gao

Shao sighed and said, "Did Cao Qian mention what Yuzhou can give us in return?"

"Yuzhou has misjudged the local demand for Banan well salt in Qianjiang in recent years, resulting in Yuzhou hoarding more than 200,000 shi of well salt over the past few years. It can be used as purchase money for soldiers, paid to Xuzhou in one lump sum, or shipped directly to

Come to Tangyi..." Feng Liao said.

When Wuchuan was first established as a county, the production of well salt in Wuchuan had not yet increased. In order to meet the needs of border trade on the Qianjiang River, the Salt and Iron Supervision Institute controlled by Xuzhou purchased well salt from Banan on a large scale at a high price of two thousand yuan per stone and sold it to

In the central Guizhou region, the purchase volume was as high as 60,000 shi in the first year, but dropped to 40,000 shi in the second year, and has remained at 20,000 shi in the past two years, which is interesting.

However, Yuzhou never expected that Wuchuan could produce well salt on a large scale. It initially invested manpower and material resources in the Banan Salt Field with the goal of producing 100,000 stone well salt per year, but it did not expect that it would have a large amount of well salt in its hands.

The well salt cannot be digested.

However, in any case, cloth, well salt and grain are all hard currencies.

There is a large amount of well salt hoarded in Yuzhou that cannot be sold in the hinterland of Sichuan and Sichuan, but the Tangyi government controls Huaixi, more than 30 counties in Xuzhou, a population of 13 to 40 million, and the trade routes in the upper reaches of the Ruan River and Qianyang.

The annual domestic and export salt sales amount to 260,000 shi.

Due to production capacity constraints, Wuchuan can only produce half of the well salt it produces each year. It also needs to receive 120,000 to 30,000 shi of sea salt from the Salt and Iron Transfer Company at a high price each year.

If the well salt accumulated in Yuzhou was transferred to the Tangyi government and digested in two or three years, it would save nearly 300,000 yuan in transportation of salt and iron.

Cao Qian represents Yuzhou. The price of this batch of well salt is only 200,000 yuan. It is also the purchase of armor and war weapons cast by the Bureau of Industry and Manufacturing. It can bring Tangyi an additional net profit of nearly 200,000 yuan.

, putting aside the so-called overall situation, this can be said to be a very sincere condition.

"Yuzhou is too petty. Don't they know how much they will lose if Xuzhou launches a comprehensive military mobilization?" Feng Yi muttered.

Before launching an attack on Chenzhou due to the rogue bandits, Xuzhou conducted a military mobilization. The number of active troops was once expanded to more than 8,000, including 5,000 elite veterans who were recruited from the Zhugongfang mines as reserve soldiers.

In about three months, the military expenses incurred and the indirect losses caused by delayed production were equivalent to as much as 100,000 yuan in money and food, which was equivalent to the annual income of an ordinary state capital in other places.

Yuzhou bought soldiers and armor from Xuzhou, but it was forgotten. He also wanted Xuzhou to carry out comprehensive military mobilization to ensure that they could not control the situation and could borrow troops from Xuzhou, even if they did not consider the impact of the whole thing.

The negative impact on surrounding states and counties, just the additional military expenditures and related indirect losses, will definitely exceed 100,000 or 200,000 yuan.

It’s no wonder that Feng Yi complained that people like the Marquis of Changxiang were petty.

Feng Liao smiled bitterly and said: "Yuzhou does lack an in-depth understanding of Xuzhou's mobilization mechanism, but this is not the only condition - they will initially pay four cents per person per month based on the scale of Xuzhou's mobilization of generals.

The military expenditures will be converted into military pay, and Shu brocade and medicinal materials equivalent to 200,000 yuan of grain will be directly paid to us in advance. Later, we will ensure that the arrears of money and grain can be converted to us in the form of Western Tibetan war horses."

At present, Xuzhou can purchase horses from central Guizhou, Nanzhao and other places, but mainly mountain dwarf horses.

In central Guizhou, the dwarf horses produced in Nanzhao have strong endurance but insufficient explosive power. They are suitable for supplementing the lack of livestock power required for agricultural production, but they are not suitable for use as charge horses.

The war horses produced in the Xibo and Songbo areas to the west of Sichuan and Shu can be easily obtained by the Shu Kingdom every year with tea, cloth, salt, iron and other products, but they strictly control the flow into Chu.

Chongqing and Xuzhou conducted border trade through the Qianjiang River, and the Marquis of Changxiang only agreed to trade a thousand Tibetan war horses to Xuzhou every year, which could not meet the Tangyi Army's need to expand the cavalry force.

This condition is equivalent to saying that once Changxiang Hou Wang Yong succeeds in usurping the throne, he will relax the restrictions on the war horse trade against the Tangyi army.

Tangyi's army has grown to the size it is today. It is still mainly composed of infantry, supplemented by naval troops. The total number of cavalry guards is more than 3,000, which is not yet large-scale.

However, even if we don't compete in the Central Plains, we just stick to the south bank of the Huaihe River. From the upper reaches of the Huaihe River to the south to Huaiyang Mountain, and from the middle reaches to the south to the north bank of Chaohu Lake, there is a flat plain.

After the beginning of spring and lasting until late autumn, the Huaihe River is mighty and there are naval forces to help defend it. Of course, there is no need to worry about enemy troops infiltrating. In the past 50 or 60 years, the weather in winter has been particularly cold. The Huaihe River has been closed for almost two months every year.

Freeze period.

Without large-scale cavalry to assist in defense, is it possible that Tangyi could build a long wall of more than 700 miles on the south bank of the Huaihe River, from Zhongli to the west of Huangchuan, to protect the farming production on the south bank?

Well-bred war horses can be said to be the most urgently needed military supplies in Tangyi at this time.

Hearing what Feng Liao said, Feng Yi couldn't help but nod and said: "This is not satisfactory - how about we cooperate with Wang Yong? Anyway, the world's corruption is a foregone conclusion, and it's not up to us to be kind and save it if we want."

If we can save it, at least we can protect the Jianghuai area from being invaded by the barbarians."

"It can't be that easy." Han Qian sighed softly, propped up the long case with his hands, sat up straight, and slightly alleviated the accumulated pain in his back, and said, "Since we are 70% to 80% sure, we can be sure that Xiao Yiqing
To be continued...