The Great Explosion of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 341

"Brother, aren't we going to participate in the compilation of that dictionary?" Cao Jie called out to his brother on the way south.

"Even if we participate, it's just a helper at most!" Cao Pi, or the current Xia Houpi turned around, "Since it's just a helper, why not take a look at how this land in the south of the Yangtze River is doing under Shihui's command? It was originally the mission assigned to us by our father!"

Take a boat from Xiangyang, go down the Han River, and enter Dongting Lake through the Yangtze River in two days.Seeing the vast farmland along the coast and the soldiers working hard to cultivate the fields, Cao Pi already knew where the rations for 30 soldiers and 60 auxiliary soldiers mainly came from.

It is true that Jiangxia, Nan, and Nanyang counties in northern Jingbei; Jiujiang and Lujiang counties; Guangling and Xiapi counties all had military settlements. However, in the first year, many farmlands had not yet been fully developed.In contrast, the farmland built around Dongting Lake has been fully developed and can provide a lot of food every year.

When I actually arrived at Linxiang City in Changsha County, I realized that it is very prosperous. After all, it is a hub for traveling from south to north, and Changsha County has been fully developed.

"What are those big warehouses outside the city for?" Sitting on the boat, Cao Pi pointed to more than a dozen large warehouses near Linxiang City Wharf, and asked the boatman.

Maybe he didn't know that the ship he was on, from the boatman to the sailors, were all spies of Jin Yiwei.However, this kind of question is not a secret, so the leading ship owner answered: "These are transit warehouses. The grain from Jiaozhou and Yuezhou will be transported here for storage, and then shipped to other places."

"How much can such a large warehouse hold?" Cao Pi couldn't help being curious.

"Haha, we don't know about this!" This is something that cannot be answered, and the boatman will naturally not answer.In fact, these warehouses are built according to the amount of 100 million shi. After all, Shihui often recruits millions of people. Although there is no centralized recruitment now, these warehouses have also been kept.After all, things like warehouses can be simply remodeled and divided into several areas, which can be rented out for other purposes, and there will be no waste.

Even if the boatman didn't say anything, Cao Pi took a brief look at the size of the warehouse, and found that the reserves were about 100 million shi.He couldn't help but be surprised to get this result. Could it be that there are often millions of stones of grain coming and going here?
A simple calculation, as long as these warehouses are filled, it will take more than two months for the soldiers and Huibu to fight abroad. The key is how many million-level warehouses are there in various places in the south of the Yangtze River?
He suddenly felt that he should immediately write a letter to his father and report the situation here. If he continued to reserve military rations for Shi Hui, once the problem of military rations was resolved, then Shi Hui's general attack would probably begin.

The point is, why does he feel that this time will not be too long?Perhaps, this year, or even next year!Suddenly he understood why his father asked him to come to the scientific research under a pseudonym. If the imperial court really couldn't stop Shi Hui's general attack, then his father... Oops!
"Sister, father..." Cao Pi quickly looked at Cao Jie.

Cao Jie was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that the knowledge and experience of being a high school graduate must not be bad. Seeing this, he smiled and said, "The thing hasn't happened yet, so why worry? Otherwise, there will be you and me!"

After a pause, he continued: "Do you think that my father called me here just to take the imperial examination? After all, he hopes that I can seduce Shi Hui. If I can make him addicted to women, maybe he can influence his thoughts." , at least the royal family of the Han Dynasty can be preserved. But look at the references this time, there are many people who are more beautiful than me and more knowledgeable than me. In front of them, what advantage do I have that can make Shi Hui obsessed? "

The two talked for a long time in the cabin, but they didn't want that there was a hidden copper pipe in the wardrobe in the corner, and the other end of the copper pipe was in the captain's cabin. The conversation between the two had already been heard clearly Chu.

"Report this news to Lord Qianhu. Perhaps this is not an isolated case. Those women who come here for reference may have to pay attention...Of course, that's not what we need to worry about!" The captain immediately asked his cronies to continue. .

They are just ordinary Jinyiwei spies, and the captain is just a banner officer. Every county has a chief banner officer, every county has a hundred households, and every prefecture has a thousand households. On the other side, that is, Jia Xu's place.It is this level-by-level distribution and level-by-level screening that can ensure the high efficiency of the Jinyiwei system.

Three days later, the fleet came to Nanhai County in Jiaozhou.In Cao Pi's initial impression, this place is just a barren land, or Panyu is okay, other places are desolate and desolate.

When I really came here, I found that this place has become prosperous. Except for Panyu to the west, the official road is very wide. The key is that you can choose to take the sea route. It is said that you can go directly to Yuezhou, Hainan County, or even go east to Yi State.

At the same time, they also found out that as long as they reached Yizhou, they could continue to go north, eventually enter Kuaiji County, and take the Yangtze River back to Xiangyang.It is this connection of the water network that allows a large amount of goods from the south to be transported to the north, and goods from the north can also be transported to the south for sale in large quantities.

"Waterway, waterway!" Cao Pi was shocked when he heard this. Since Shihui can travel by waterway, he can naturally attack Xuzhou and Qingzhou at any time, and even go north to attack Bohai County, Youbeiping County and Liaoxi County.

Take ten thousand steps back and say that it is no problem to directly attack the areas along the Yanzhou and Jizhou along the Yellow River, or even Luoyang.With the combat power of the navy under the command of Shihui, who can fight against it?

"So, is it true that the imperial court is not fortified?" Cao Pi suddenly felt that he should write a letter back to his father and ask him to invite the imperial court to arrange sentries along the coast to prepare fortifications.

"Brother, we are going to Yuezhou for sightseeing. There is no need to talk about these things now! Actually, we have too many things to care about along the way. If we report them all, let alone whether father will make preparations for these matters, I'm afraid he will see us The content of the report may suddenly give rise to the idea of ​​being powerless." Cao Jie sighed.

The more I checked, the more I found that there was indeed a reason for Shi Hui's rapid rise.Just talking about Jiaozhou, it has been built to the same level as some states and counties in the Central Plains after a few years, which is very rare.The key is that there are so many Han people, where exactly the Shihui was recruited, this is what Cao Jie needs to pay attention to.

If you know the answer, maybe you can figure out where the soldiers and horses were recruited and purchased.For some reason, her sixth sense as a woman told her that maybe she would know the answer when she arrived in Yuezhou.

With these and other thoughts in mind, the two came to Yuezhou, a new state built from the wilderness. It is said that it is as big as Jingzhou. You must know that Jingzhou includes Jingbei and Jingnan.Excluding the three counties of Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, and Rinan that were merged into it, the other counties were built from scratch.Compared with Cao Pi, Cao Jie hopes to see the current construction situation of Yuezhou...

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