At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

But things have come to this, he has nothing to do.

"So the only winner is Emperor Wei, Mr. Zhang, even if I let them retreat, it won't be long before you can see Wei Jun coming to your door to punish you. Of course... the premise is that you can live by that time."

Shi Xie looked at the pale Zhang Jin mockingly.

Zhang Jin's lips trembled slightly.

Naturally, their fate could not be reversed.

Knowing the civil strife in Jiaozhou, Guo Peng can already predict that there will be war in Jiaozhou. At that time, both Zhang Jin and Shi Xie will be able to ask their crimes openly.

The population of Jiaozhou cannot be considered too small, but the available resources and equipped military forces are very limited, so it is very weak, and it can only survive due to difficult roads and Wuling Xiongguan. However, in any case, this local war Still have to fight.

Guo Peng didn't plan to use a large army to go out. He used a large army when he was most developing. He didn't need to attack. He only needed one army to occupy Jiaozhou.

So Guo Peng decided to hold an imperial meeting on the staff desk, and at the imperial meeting, Guo Peng put forward his own views.

Instead of going by land, go by sea.

Chapter 1353 One thousand 260 There is an elephant next to the word Sanyu

Guo Peng decided to order Tai Shici, the general Dinghai who commanded the navy, to lead a large number of sea ships and [-] naval soldiers to go south.

On the way, he brought a group of elite troops from the Danyang Daying Camp in Yangzhou, and then went south together, making up 2 people.

This group of troops has lived in the Jiangnan area all year round, and they are already familiar with the warm and humid climate in the south of the Yangtze River. When they go to Jiaozhou, they will not be intolerable to the scorching heat, and the battle will be very simple.

Use the navy to bypass the difficult road on land, and divide the troops into two groups.

All the way landed at the mouth of the Pearl River, captured Nanhai County, and then headed west.

All the way went directly to the coastal area of ​​Jiaozhi County, landed directly in Jiaozhi County, and launched an attack on the core area of ​​Jiaozhou.

The reason is naturally to suppress the rebellion, and to blame Jiaozhou Mu Zhangjin and Jiaozhi prefect Shixie.

Using such a reason to uproot these two forces from Jiaozhou, and then enforce the Qingzhang land policy, the weak local forces in Jiaozhou can be wiped out in a short period of time.

Then, Jiaozhou is directly under the Central Government.

The combat troops were drawn from the navy and the Danyang camp, and the commander in chief was Tai Shici.

The logistics of the troops were transferred from Yangzhou, and the sea transportation strategy was also adopted to maximize the use of sea ships and sea transportation, and maximize the use of local resources to reduce war losses.

Guo Peng also didn't want to spend too much money and food for this barren land.

The development of Jiangnan was very expensive. Part of the money Guo Peng got from mopping up the Haoqiang manor was used for the construction of Mozhou and the construction of the Grand Canal, and the rest was invested in the development of Jiangnan, in order to increase the speed of Jiangnan's development.

Little Binghe is approaching step by step, time is not waiting for me, Guo Peng can already feel that his time is running out.

It won't take many years for the Huaihe River Basin to freeze over in winter.

The southward shift of the zero-degree isotherm is a huge and devastating blow to the farming nation. Not only Liaodong, not only Hebei, but the entire Jiangbei agriculture will suffer a major blow.

It is hard to say whether the south of the Yangtze River will be affected, but the truly safe place is Lingnan.

However, the current development of Lingnan is tantamount to no, and the land in Lingnan has less arable land and more hills when it is developed, which cannot share much of the pressure from the north.

What can play a big role is probably the Honghe Plain, a treasure land with three crops a year.

The soil is fertile, the climate is warm and humid, and there are three crops a year. The advanced agricultural technology of the Central Plains is transferred here, and this place will soon become the granary of the world and the light of hope.

Guo Peng estimated that the Wei State would only have ten years. If the Honghe Plain could not be turned into a granary and the agriculture in the Lingnan area could not be initially developed within ten years, the Little Ice Age would be very difficult.

There are also shipping and the Grand Canal.

The south-to-north grain transfer project requires sea transportation and canals. Ordinary land transportation cannot be considered at all. The efficiency is too low and the speed is too slow. It is a problem for the army to go out, let alone support the whole people.

Without sea transportation and the Grand Canal, grain from Jiangnan and Lingnan could not be transferred to the north for support.

Sea transportation can transfer grain from Lingnan to the Grand Canal, and then the Grand Canal will transfer this part of the grain to the hinterland of the Central Plains, and then to the Guanzhong and Kansai regions.

Shipping can even directly transfer this part of the grain to Youzhou and Pingzhou to directly support the two states and ensure the stability of the two states.

Of course there are losses, but this large-scale south-to-north grain diversion project that breaks through time and space constraints is itself very difficult.

Therefore, Guo Peng now entrusts Cheng Yu to take the lead in punishing corrupt officials, and let Cheng Yu kill all parties to intimidate the officials, while he devotes himself to the construction of the Grand Canal.

There is no time for delay.

Since the second year of Yande, the Grand Canal project has been put on the agenda.

Later, while the political turmoil occurred, the Grand Canal project continued to advance, and the original plan to arrive in Luoyang was revised to extend to Hebei and Jizhou.

The North-South traffic is communicated through the Grand Canal, from Hebei to Luoyang and then to the Hangzhou Bay area in the south of the Yangtze River.

The specific plan is to make full use of the ancient canal projects and natural waterways repaired during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods and the Qin and Han Dynasties to connect the north-south traffic.

The construction of the Grand Canal is not a waterway dug out of thin air.

Digging waterways must be dug, but this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is to use the canal projects and natural waterways that have been repaired by the predecessors to minimize costs.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Wu and Yue fought for hegemony, and both Wu and Yue went north to fight for hegemony, so at that time they also understood the disadvantages of transportation in the south of the Yangtze River, so they built water conservancy projects and canals.

Now the Jiangnan area also has ancient canals dug by ancestors in the Spring and Autumn Period and maintained by later generations.

Through this part of the canal, the Hangzhou Bay area and the Yangtze River are connected together, and the Jiangnan and Huainan are connected through the Yangtze River waterway, and the Huainan and Huaibei are connected through the Huaihe River, which further leads directly to the hinterland of the Central Plains and further connects Luoyang and Hebei.

This huge project has been determined to be carried out since about six years in Yande.

Beginning in the sixth year of Yande, the Wei Empire carried out preliminary exploration work for the repair of the Grand Canal.

In the seventh year of Yande, the specific plan was submitted to the emperor for review, and Guo Peng convened an imperial meeting to discuss and confirm the implementation.

In the second half of the seventh year of Yande, the Grand Canal project began to advance in an all-round way, and the north and south routes were carried out at the same time.

With the help of a large number of Xianbei and Karasuma captured by the Northern Expedition, as well as the financial and material resources captured in Yande's nine-year suppression of the rebellion, the Grand Canal project has entered a process of rapid deployment.

Although Guo Peng captured more than one million Xianbei and Karasuma people, they still have a lot of other things to do, such as repairing the Shu Road, etc. The amount of work is huge and the death rate is high. The number of people is slightly insufficient.

Therefore, Guo Peng had no choice but to order the recruitment of civilians from the surrounding areas along the canal to launch a mobilization edict based on villages and villages to obtain a large amount of manpower to promote the repair of the Grand Canal.

Dig new waterways, widen and renovate ancient canals and natural waterways, discuss the direction of canals, survey and map all data, and provide real-time feedback to the central government, etc.

In the ninth year of Yande, due to the occurrence of the rebellion, the project was slightly affected, but not too much. The activity of the local militia limited the scope of activities of the powerful rebels, and they never invaded the Grand Canal project area.

Therefore, the Karasuma people and Xianbei people in the project area naturally have no hope of escaping, and the entire project is still well protected.

After the rebellion subsided, Guo Peng had another group of laborers on hand, and all of these laborers were put into the construction of the Grand Canal.

For this reason, he specially set up a Canal Office, and appointed Zhuge Jin and Pang Tong, the attendants of the South Study Room, as the principal and deputy heads of the Canal Office.

The Canal Office is directly responsible to him, and he is responsible for coordinating and handling everything, and everything must be made known to him.

The emperor is directly in charge of the Canal Office, which shows how much the emperor attaches importance to the canal. People only think that the emperor attaches importance to the canal to communicate the traffic between the north and the south, so as to better control the south. Most thought it was a joke.

How can grain production be reduced if it is said to be reduced?

How can the climate change?

The cycle of four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter, has existed since ancient times. The so-called climate change is nothing but an uncertain guess.

Even though he is the emperor, this kind of words still cannot be believed by the officials. Most people think that the emperor is alarmist. There must be a deeper political meaning behind such words. Even those who support him regard this kind of thing as political speculation. .

No one believes that the future of small glaciers and reduced food production is really here.

As the Wei Empire continued to develop the territory in the south of the Yangtze River and promote reclamation in the south of the Yangtze River, the annual grain output of the Wei Empire continued to rise, and there was no sign of a downward trend, just like the population was also increasing.

Guo Peng didn't know how to convince them that during the Shang Dynasty, the Yellow River Valley could still run elephants, and there were tropical forests everywhere, and the place where they live now is still a paradise for wild beasts.

Otherwise, why is there an elephant next to the character [Yu] in Yuzhou?

Moreover, at the peak of the Jin Dynasty, it ruled a population of just over 2000 million. After crossing the south and going down, it has no qualifications or necessity to scruple on the north.

It is not at the same level as the current population of the Wei Empire going straight to 8000 million, and the situation the two sides have to face is completely different.

There are some things that can't be said, but when the food production is really reduced, they will know how powerful it is.

And if it is not prepared by that time, the Wei Empire will really face the dimensionality reduction blow of nature.

With a population of this size, many people will die.

Chapter 1354 One thousand two hundred and sixty four plow courtyard sweeping policy

Many people are powerful.

More people can do more things, create big engineering projects, and solve big problems. Many things need to be solved by more people. This is the truth.

But in this era of low productivity, crowds, famines, and plagues are often bound together.

The law of the northern nomads going south is that the large population accumulated in the warm period cannot be fed in the cold period, and the grasslands are frozen to death by heavy snowfall. They cannot survive and must find a way out.

Either kill each other, or sacrifice their lives to invade the south.

During the warm period, few leaders of the northern nomadic, fishing and hunting regimes would have political goals and ambitions to dominate the Central Plains, but this was not the case during the cold period.

Even if you want to survive, you have to go south.

Due to the southward shift of the zero-degree isotherm, the Central Plains Empire was unable to mobilize a large-scale army to resist the southward movement of nomadic cavalry due to insufficient food supply on the northern border, and was often at a disadvantage.

The nomadic cavalry has an advantage due to its high mobility and flexibility in logistical supplies, and it comes and goes like the wind, causing headaches for the Central Plains Empire.

The logistics of a large army is definitely the first element, and the huge army of the Central Plains Empire needs large-scale logistics as a support.

Without logistics, without food, everything will stop.

So Guo Peng attaches great importance to all this.

He knew very well that, judging from the northern territory and population size of the Wei Empire's current expansion, if the Grand Canal, the Grand Canal, and the sea transportation were not built, life in the future would definitely be difficult.

Of course, it is also a way to wipe out the nomadic tribes on the northern grasslands in advance.

Therefore, after Guo Peng established the organizational system of Mozhou and Pingzhou, he also arranged for local cavalry to be stationed in Mozhou and Pingzhou. Each of the two states had a cavalry team of [-] people active.

The [-]-man cavalry team in Mozhou was led by Zhang Yan, the former Heishan general, and the [-]-man cavalry team in Pingzhou was led by the former Liaodong prefect Tian Yu.

After the main threat force was wiped out, the task of the two ten thousand cavalry troops was to go on a safari, explore the border, find the residences of the native barbarians, and then kill them directly.

If you find a tribe, kill a tribe. If you can bring back the strong women and men, you will bring them back. If you can’t bring back the old, weak, sick, disabled and young children, you will be wiped out. Set fire to the local area and destroy everything.

This is Guo Peng's long-term policy of "sweeping holes in the courtyard" issued to Mozhou and Pingzhou.

This policy will continue as long as the Wei Empire exists.

For Mozhou and Pingzhou, the military policy of Liting and sweeping caves will continue forever, and it will never stop.

The Mozhou area has a vast area of ​​jurisdiction, and almost all the prairie that can be seen is included in the scope of Mozhou. Wherever the soldiers go, it is the territory.

In such a vast prairie, in addition to Xianbei, there must be many miscellaneous Hus.

Although Xianbei has been wiped out as a political entity, Guo Peng believes that there must be many Zahu tribes living on the prairie that have not been found. No one knows whether they will grow up and become a huge threat in the future.

Xianbei was just a slave tribe of the Huns at the beginning, and gained a respite during the Han government's attack on the Huns, and eventually grew into the Huns Empire 2.0, which made the rest of the Eastern Han Empire restless.

Guo Peng believed at the imperial military meeting that Xianbei is gone, and the ghost knows whether there will be a second or third Xianbei, so vigilance is necessary and cannot be reduced.

The policy of sweeping acupoints in Liting must be implemented forever.

Therefore, the small-scale military operations in Mozhou have never stopped.

Guo Peng therefore created a cavalry force modeled after the nomadic cavalry lifestyle.

Supplies based on cattle, sheep and horses do not require additional logistics, large-scale hunting grasslands.

When the army is in action, in addition to the dried meat it carries, there are also large herds of cattle, sheep and horses accompanying it. According to the lifestyle of nomadic cavalry, an attack often lasts for several months without additional logistical supplies.

Found a tribe and wiped out a tribe, killed the old, the young, the sick and the disabled, and plundered as many strong women and men as they could, in order to cut off the threat of the grassland tribes to the future Wei Empire, and train elite and powerful cavalry by the way.

Pingzhou is the same.

Pingzhou's current exploration scope has crossed Heilongjiang, entered the outer northeast, reached the eastern coastline, and landed on Sakhalin Island for inspections, and discovered some indigenous barbarians living here.

According to Guo Peng's policy of sweeping holes in Liting, these indigenous barbarians were ruthlessly hunted and killed by the imperial hunting cavalry. As long as settlements were found, they would be destroyed, and they would not be given a chance to survive.

If a large-scale tribe with a tendency to form a political power is found, a thousand-strong hunting cavalry will be dispatched to launch an extermination strike against them.

The hunting cavalry is generally based on a centurion. Each team is led by a centurion to go deep into the depths of the primeval jungle, explore undeveloped territories, hunt and kill the barbarians living here, and expand the empire's understanding of the border areas. .