At dawn the next day, several dragon boats quietly approached the estuary of the Yangtze River and approached Chongming Town during the early tide. Zhao Bing held a telescope and looked at the sandbank in front of him and frowned. This was not only a bit big from what he saw and knew in his previous life, but also a big big one, completely subverting the concept of Chongming Island in his mind. Of course, he did not mean that there were no tall buildings on the island, but like ships passing by, but it was too small.

"Are you sure this is Chongming Town?" Zhao Bing asked Zhao Mengjin beside him with little confidence.

Modern people know that Chongming Island is the third largest island in China after Taiwan and Hainan Island. When he arrived in this world, he still had no chance to visit Taiwan Island, but Hainan Island has lived there for nearly ten years. It can be said that he has visited almost every county and township. Although the place name and natural form are very different from that of modern times, it is still in line with most of the modern times.

Zhao Bing knew that the Yangtze River Delta and Chongming Island were impacted by the mud and sand carried by the Yangtze River for thousands of years, but the Chongming in front of him not only did not have modern weather, but also was very small in area. It was divided into two unconnected sandbanks and the surrounding sandbags flooded by tides. No matter how he imagined it, it was difficult to connect with the Chongming Island in his impression, so he doubted whether he had come to the wrong place.

"Your Majesty, there is nothing wrong with this place. This is Chongming Town. In the past, I was in Taizhou, which was close to the north bank of the river. I don't know how many times I have been going back and forth, how could I admit my mistake?" Zhao Mengjin looked out again and confirmed again. But he was very puzzled by the little emperor's strange behavior. These two sandbanks have been here for many years, so why did they even suspect that these two small islands have come.

"Oh, why is it so different from what I imagined?" Zhao Bing murmured with a touch of his chin.

"Guo Lin, you are familiar with Jiangdong geography, and report it to Your Majesty!" Zhao Mengjin saw that the little emperor was still full of doubts, and turned around and said to the person behind him.

"Guo Lin, the deputy director of the Privy Council, pays homage to His Majesty!" The man hurried forward to salute the little emperor when he heard the call.

"No gifts, tell me!" Zhao Bing raised his hand and asked him to no gifts. At the same time, he looked at the man up and down. He saw that he was about forty years old, medium-sized, wearing a long blue paired pair of clothes, a Dongpo scarf, a white face, a national face, three beards under his jaw, and a standard dog-headed master. Yuanwailang was also a sixth-rank young official.

"Your Majesty must have read the local chronicles of the previous dynasty to have this misunderstanding." Guo Lin bowed again and said, "During the Tang Dynasty, Jiangkoumen was still in the area of ​​Yangzhou and Runzhou. According to historical records, there were two sand islands at that time, called Dongsha and Xisha. The area was very small, about twenty miles in radius. Some people moved to the island from Danyang, Jurong and other places, and took fishing as their business. Chongming Town was established in Xisha in the year of Shenlong in the Tang Dynasty."

"Well, I didn't expect that Chongming Island had moved down a hundred miles in five or six hundred years. It was really a change of world!" Zhao Bing nodded to cover up the situation. He did not expect that Jiangkou had been in the Yangzhou area, and hundreds of years of river erosion had actually created a thousand miles of land. It seems that things from ancient and modern times cannot be generalized, otherwise it would be a mistake.

"Yes!" Guo Lin also sighed and continued, "After the Tang Dynasty, Chongming Island continued to move down the river, rising down and collapsed. Dongsha, Xisha gradually rose and finally washed away. The old and new ones came, and by our dynasty, a new sand bank had grown in the northwest of the Xisha. The people of the first two sands also moved along with the sand bank. Dacheng villages were named Yao Liusha because of the many Yao and Liu surnames. It extends from northwest to southeast to border Dongsha. The two islands gradually merged with the west expansion of Dongsha."

"After more than 70 years, to the first year of Jianzhong Jingguo, a large sandbank emerged in the river fifty miles northwest of Yao Liusha. Because it was formed by the merger of three small sandbanks, it was called Sansha, which is its current location. Later, our dynasty promoted the Tianci Salt Field established by Yao Liusha to Chongming Prefecture."

"Well, so that's it!" Zhao Bing nodded, picked up the telescope and looked southeast. It should be the location of modern Shanghai, but at this time there was no trace of prosperity at all, and even the name did not appear.

"Your Majesty, the mouth of Taicang River is ahead!" After the fleet passed Sansha, Zhao Mengjin pointed to the southwest road.

"The enemy Chongming naval army was annihilated and Liujiagang was burned. There is no sign of recovery yet!" Chongming Island was already in front of me, but there was no enemy naval warship patrol. Instead, it looked like a scene of declining after the war. Liujiagang on the south bank was dark, as if the sky fire had fallen. It seemed that Dong Yicheng had burned it clean and wanted to reopen it.

"Your Majesty, it's time for autumn grain to be transported into the warehouse to prepare for transportation in the north. The granaries of the port were burned. If the enemy cannot resume shipping, they are afraid that there will be famine in Yanjing area. In order not to starve, they will definitely fight with us!" Zhao Mengjin looked at the situation and said.

"I have also received a report that Shaoxing and Suzhou are controlled by our army. The enemy is raising levies in the grain production areas in Changzhou and Changshu, hoping to transport the capital through the canal. If they succeed, it will cause a grain shortage in the south of the Yangtze River, so it would be better to fight this battle early!" Zhao Bing said with a serious expression.

He knew that the Yuan court used sea grains to divide them into spring every year and started transportation twice in autumn. In order to ensure that 3.5 million stones of rice grains are entered into Beijing throughout the year, the average annual total transportation volume must reach more than 1.5 million stones. Even if a thousand stone grain ships are used, nearly 2,000 ships must be used. If the stability of this area cannot be guaranteed, it will be difficult for the enemy to transport food north safely. He must also take action as soon as possible to keep this batch of grain in the south of the Yangtze River to support the army's operations, so as not to cause new conflicts if excessive tax collections are caused.

"Your Majesty, the enemy is not clear about the strength of our army, and its Wanhu Mansion on the Seaway has only lost one thousand households. They are still able to choose another wharf to transport grain to the north. However, if we stuck to the Yangtze River Estuary, they have no choice. So as long as we occupy Chongming Island, the enemy will come to fight." Liu Zhu said.

"Zhu Qing is afraid that he is clearer than us. He is regarded as a traitor by our dynasty and knows that he will die. If he cannot send food to Dadu on time, it is a death sentence, and there is still a chance of defeating us. In addition, I heard that Zhang Xuan used his position to buy a lot of merchant ships, engaged in maritime trade business, and made a fortune. He was from Chongming, so he must be heartbroken if he took out his nest!" Zhao Bing said with a wicked smile.

"Your Majesty is right. As long as we capture Chongming, they will realize that our army is going to go up the river. At that time, his last chance will be gone!" Zhao Mengjin rubbed his hands. He knew that His Majesty always had no time to fight and would have to gain some benefits. Zhang Xuan was probably the fat sheep, and taking his own reward was also indispensable.

"Okay, let's occupy Chongming first. If he still doesn't fight, we will cut off his contact with Jiankang from Taihu Lake along the canal north and take their sacrifices!" Zhao Bing knew that he could not wait for a long time, and if he didn't get into the trap, he would attack up and down and annihilate him in Jiangyin first, and then concentrate his armies on the water and land to attack Jiankang.

"Your Majesty is at the mouth of the river!" Liu Zhu reminded at this time.

"Enter the Taicang River and go to Dong Yicheng to ask for a meal!" Zhao Bing said to everyone with a smile. The people on the boat were the first to follow him. At that time, they dared to follow him to fight Guangzhou with only three thousand ragtags. They were more courageous than Japanese melons, and they were afraid that the world would not be in chaos. They would not be able to persuade others if they were in slight danger. Now, with him as the leader, they were even more afraid, and agreed to go and find Dong Yicheng's bad luck...

Five dragon boats sailed into the Taicang River and headed towards Taihu Lake. Speaking of which, these people were really reckless. You should know that although the Yidu Army stationed in Pingjiang was completely wiped out, the subordinates such as Kunshan, Changshu, Wujiang and other prefectures and counties were not recovered. If the emperor of the "Residual Song" and the senior generals of the Eastern Theater Command were all on these ships, they would probably concentrate all the forces that could be mobilized to fight a battle, and even if they died, they would make a profit.

Fortunately, the modified dragon boat has omitted the extremely cool dragon head on the bow. Zhao Bing thought that the thing was of little significance in actual combat except for bluffing people, and the effect of emitting smoke invisibility was also unsatisfactory. The dragon boat without the dragon head did not look so abrupt. If you close the cannon door, you really can't tell that it was a warship, so they did not attract the attention of others when they were walking on the river.

Zhao Bing looked at the Taicang Waterway at the bow of the boat. There were paddy fields on both sides. Although it had been harvested, there was still residual water, which was not conducive to the development of the army. The water surface was quite wide, and it should be able to travel a large ship when the tide was rising, which had no effect on the dragon boat at the bottom of the U-shaped ship. With the help of the tide's support and the sailors rowed with all their strength, the warship rushed through Kunshan and headed straight for Suzhou.

"Guo Lin, how many waterways are pouring into the East China Sea?" Zhao Bing asked in front of Suzhou.

"Report to Your Majesty, it is said that it was 4,000 years ago that Xia Yu was ordered by Emperor Shun to control floods in Taihu Lake, and dug three main waterways, Dongjiang, Loujiang, and Songjiang, and communicated the channels between Taihu Lake and the sea, and drifted the flood into the sea. This is what Sima Qian recorded in "Records of the Grand Historian": Yu controlled the flood in Wu, and opened the three rivers and five lakes. The water surface of Taihu Lake was extremely vast, 200 miles from east to west and 120 miles from north to south. At first, it was 36,000 hectares. Later generations reclaimed fields, and the lake surface decreased." Guo Lin replied.

"Well, how many boats can be used to fill the rivers that can enter Taihu Lake?" Zhao Bing nodded and asked again.

"Your Majesty, there are five main waters that pass through Jiangyin into the canal to the lake; the water of the canal enters the lake from Changzhou into the lake, connects to the Xili River, and then enters the Yangxian River. The water of the Yangtze River flows into the Yangtze River flows into the lake from Wuhu, and can also enter Taihu Lake through Yangxian River; in addition, the water of Taihu Lake can go to Huzhou through Dongtao River, and enters Qiantang to Hangzhou." Guo Lin replied for a moment.

"Well, it's not bad. It seems that the situation in Jiangdong is all in your heart!" Zhao Bing used a pen to draw on the map and drew a sketch.

"Your Majesty is so arrogant. Your Majesty is just a detainee, but Your Majesty has the world in mind!" Guo Lin quickly saluted.

"Haha, you are so good at speaking, much better than that boy Jiang Chaozong!" Zhao Bing smiled and waved his hand to let him salute, "But your words will make me suddenly enlightened, reward!"

"Thank you for your reward!" Guo Lin said again.

"Your Majesty has another good idea?" Zhao Mengjin asked to the podium.

"Haha, Taihu Lake is beautiful. Let's talk about it after the lake!" Zhao Bing smiled but did not answer, and turned to Guo Lin and asked, "Master Guo, what delicious food is there in Taihu Lake?"

"Your Majesty, this Taihu cuisine is the first to recommend the 'Three White'!" Guo Lin said without hesitation.

"But silverfish, white fish and white shrimp?" Zhao Bing sat upright and asked back.

"Yes, yes, it turns out that Your Majesty knows it too!" Guo Lin said in surprise.

"I just heard it, but I didn't have the chance to taste it!" Zhao Bing licked his lips and said. In his previous life, he went to Wuxi to apply for a job and wanted to taste the famous Sanbai, but he looked at the price and touched his wallet. He still couldn't bear to wait until this life to eat.

"In addition, the crabs in the lake are also very fresh. In addition, there are various lake foods, and it will take some time to eat them all!" Guo Lin introduced again.

"Okay, we have eaten seafood for so many years. Let's try the lake food today!" Zhao Mengjinyan said.

"Suzhou is ahead. Zheng Yi has to find a good cook for us and don't ruin good things!" Liu Zhu interrupted at this time.

At noon, the fleet arrived in Suzhou. Zheng Yi, the commander of the First Land War Brigade, received the report and hurried to the dock to welcome him. But he saw only five boats accompanying him, not only the young emperor, but also a group of high-ranking officials in the army. He was shocked. He could not afford to offend him, so he scolded the commander of the navy and his younger brother Zheng Yong. In order to prevent the leak, Zhao Bing only told him not to speak out, and he only used the meal in the camp and went to Taihu Lake. Zheng Yi did not dare to be careless, so he dispatched two warships to personally bring a battalion of soldiers to escort him.

The fleet set sail again and then moved into Wujiang after sailing in the canal for two hours. It didn't take much time to finally enter Taihu Lake. It was dusk at this time, and the sunset glowed into the lake and bloody red. In addition to the vast lake surface that came into Zhao Bing's eyes, the ship came up after a short while. After reporting it in flag words, the two sides sent a notice to Dong Yicheng back and a ship led them to the berth of the First Fleet.

Turning around and exploring the cape formed by land in the lake, two small islands were reflected in their eyes. Zhao Bing looked down at the map and picked up the telescope to look northwest. The east and west islands confronted each other. There was a bridge between the west island and the north shore of Taihu Lake. The lake water should not be deep. A large gap several miles wide appeared between the two islands after the fleet bypassed the west island. The ship obviously felt stagnant and slowed down. He immediately understood that this was the water from the east of the lake flowing in from here, and the ship was naturally blocked from the upstream, but it was also the throat that entered the center of the lake from the west.
Chapter completed!