Chapter six hundred and thirty seventh talk on paper
Five days later, Guo Song led the army to Taiyuan City, and the wounded soldiers stayed in Shanyang County to recuperate. Guo Song led 25,000 people southward. Together with the 20,000 troops in Taiyuan City, his total force in Taiyuan City reached 40,000.
Five thousand people.
In fact, the real target of Guo Song's troops coming to Hedong this time was not the Huihe army, but Li Huaiguang in the south.
Although the epidemic caused Zhu Si's army to temporarily retreat, once the epidemic is over, Zhu Si's army will inevitably come back. With Li Huaiguang's current strength, he simply cannot resist Zhu Si. Rather than being occupied by Zhu Si in the southeast of Henan, it is better for him to take the initiative and attack
The southern part of Henan Province is included.
In fact, the essence of Hedong is also in the south, with a large population, fertile land, and rich products. The Taiyuan Basin in the north is slightly better.
Guo Song entered Taiyuan City, accompanied by the Taiyuan governor Wang Wei, the chief governor Xue Fan and the Hedong inspection envoy Meng Jianchun. Bingzhou Street was very wide, with neat square walls on both sides. The street was crowded with people and extremely lively.
Taiyuan City is under the management of Jinyang County. The city has a circumference of more than 60 miles and a population of more than 500,000. It is worthy of being the northern capital of the Tang Dynasty. The entire city structure is the same as Chang'an, with a chessboard structure. Originally, Jinyang Palace and the adjacent
Jinyang Cangcheng was independent from the city. Later, the city was expanded to include both.
So due north is Jinyang Palace, and next to it is Cangcheng, which is composed of hundreds of warehouses.
At this time, the governor Wang Yan smiled and said: "We are all talking about whether the emperor should consider moving the palace to Taiyuan to make it more worthy of the name?"
This is talking about Guo Song being named King of Jin. Since he was named King of Jin, he should no longer be in a corner.
Guo Song smiled. In fact, he also considered this, but at least he had to capture the southern part of Henan Province, Yanzhou, Qingzhou and other places, and connect Guanlong, Guannai and Hedong into one area before he could consider moving the palace to Taiyuan.
“I don’t have the energy to think about so much yet, let’s talk about it later!”
A group of people came to the official office of Jinyang Palace. Jinyang Palace covers an area of 500 acres and is divided into two. The first 200 acres is the official office and the back 300 acres is the palace garden. It was renovated by the Yuan family a few years ago and is extremely beautiful.
Luxurious atmosphere.
At present, the governor's office is still under renovation, and the government offices are temporarily placed in Jinyang Palace. When they come to the government offices, everyone leaves for the time being.
At this time, Guo Song asked: "Where is what I want?"
Meng Jianchun said quickly: "The humble post is ready. Please come with me."
They walked quickly to the Office of the Supervision Department, and when they found this opportunity, Guo Song asked: "How have the two of them performed in the past few months?"
Guo Song was naturally referring to the governor Wang Wei and the chief governor Xue Fan. Meng Jianchun leaned forward and said: "Reporting to the envoy, the two of them are quite good. They pay more attention to people's livelihood and people's sentiments, and they are also more self-disciplined. Ten days ago, the nephew of the governor Wang went hunting.
, trampled several acres of wheat fields, and was severely whipped by the governor Wang in public, and ordered him to compensate farmers for their young crops. At first, he thought he was trying to win people's hearts, but later he realized that this was actually them protecting the family's reputation.
Frankly speaking, the children of aristocratic families are generally self-disciplined and have good character, which is much better than that of the Guanlong nobles."
"On this matter, how can you draw such a conclusion?" Guo Songxiao asked.
Meng Jianchun shook his head quickly, "The humble position is also to secretly explore the public opinion. Generally, if the children of aristocratic families cause trouble outside, people will go directly to their families to complain. Then the children of the aristocratic family will be severely punished by the head of the family. Over time, not many people dare to cause trouble outside.
Come on, this is also the confidence that the family can survive for hundreds of years."
Guo Song nodded, "Last time a jewelry store was robbed, what was the final result?"
"That case has been closed. It was the martial arts school and a few martial arts masters who pretended to be the Hexi Army. All the stolen goods were recovered, and all five criminals were jailed."
The two came to a side hall. There was a huge table on the side hall. It was at least two feet long and one foot wide. It was about six meters long and three meters wide. It was made of mahogany. But when you get closer, you can see that it is
But it's not a table. The mountains, rivers, cities, and all the phenomena on it are actually a wood-carved map of Hedong. The carvings are meticulous and lifelike.
This is the map of Hedong that Yuan Xuanhu sent people to spend two years and nearly 10,000 yuan to carve. It stretches from the Yellow River in the south to the Great Wall in the north, the Qin-Jin Grand Canyon in the west to the Taihang Mountains in the east, including the Hedong Road.
There are more than 20 state capitals and hundreds of counties.
This is not only a work of art, but also an important military resource. In fact, the original intention of carving it was that the Yuan family wanted to seize the entire territory of Hedong.
Guo Song saw Taiyuan City on the map, which was about one and a half feet square. It was the largest city among all the cities. It was very finely carved, including Jinyang Palace, Cangcheng, Sixty-Four Squares, Nanshi and Dongshi, and Bingzhou.
Main streets, temples, Taoist temples, various landmark buildings, and even the bridge between Yuanqingfang and Dajifang were carved out.
To the west of Taiyuan City is the Fen River, which originates from Tianchi in Guanjuan Mountain, meanders southward, and finally flows into the Yellow River.
Guo Song discovered that there was a boat on the Fen River, and he immediately asked with interest: "Is the original map of this wooden map still there?"
"The original drawing can no longer be found. It seems to have been burned down in a fire, but the two carvers are still there. I have asked them to wait outside."
"Tell them to come in, I want to ask them!"
Not long after, two carvers in their forties were brought in. They knelt down and saluted, "Greetings to Ambassador Guo!"
"Both of you, please get up!"
Guo Song asked them to stand up. Seeing that they looked alike, he smiled and asked, "Are you brothers?"
"Exactly, the villain is my elder brother Zhang Song, and he is my brother Zhang Bai. We are both natives of Taiyuan."
"Did you carve this wooden map?" Guo Song asked, pointing to the map.
"It was carved by us. It took us two years to travel all over the river bottom states and counties to carve this map."
Guo Song nodded, "I don't understand something because the original picture can't be found, so I can only ask you."
Guo Song pointed to the boats on the Fen River and said, "Do these boats really exist?"
"I would like to inform you that Fenshui has always been an important transportation channel east of the Hedong River. We are carving it exactly as it is."
"How big are these ships?"
"Cargo ships worth one thousand dan are more common, but we have also seen large ships with 2,000 dan."
"What about the three thousand stones?"
Guo Songxiao asked: "Is there a cargo ship with a capacity of three thousand stones?"
Zhang Song hesitated and said: "We two brothers have also discussed this issue. Logically speaking, Fenshui can carry a cargo ship with a size of three thousand stone, but in fact, a cargo ship with a size of three thousand stone is basically invisible."
"Why not?"
"We think it has something to do with crossing Mengmen Mountain."
"You mean boating on dry land?"
Mengmen Mountain is today's Hukou Falls. The drop is nearly 20 feet and it is impossible to sail a boat. So when the boat got there, it was pulled over from the land next to it. There were logs placed underneath, and hundreds of people pulled together, and the boat was on the land.
Walk uphill for two miles, bypass Hukou Waterfall, and then sail into the Yellow River.
The two brothers nodded, "That's right. A ship with three thousand stone is too heavy, and it is very inconvenient to sail on dry land. Generally, ships with a thousand stone are heavier. Although there are many ships, the carrying capacity of a single ship is not large."
Guo Song nodded and said to the soldiers next to him: "Go and invite Governor Wang and Chief Xue!"
The soldiers left quickly, and not long after, Chief Shi Xue Fan hurried over and said apologetically to Guo Song: "The king, the governor, went to the prefecture outside the city to study and inspect. What orders do you have?"
Guo Song said slowly: "I want to know, how many ships of more than a thousand stones can Taiyuan Mansion gather now?"
Xue Fan thought for a while and said: "The Wang family's fleet alone has two hundred and thirty ships, and the Xue family's fleet is about one hundred and forty ships. If we collect private bulk ships, we can probably gather five hundred ships."
When Guo Song heard that he could collect five hundred thousand-stone cargo ships, he was very happy and said with a smile: "Then please ask Xue Changshi to collect ships for me. This is very important for my next actions."
"The humble duty will collect all the ships within three days."
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Xue Fan did not disappoint Guo Song. In just three days, he collected 530 thousand-stone cargo ships, all of which were anchored on Fenshui River in the west of Taiyuan.
Although the Hexi Army also parked hundreds of ships in Yanzhou, the ships could not come to Taiyuan Prefecture. They had to pass through Li Huaiguang's territory and were worried that Li Huaiguang would confiscate them all.
Guo Song began to deploy troops and generals. He ordered his fleet to serve as a logistics convoy for food and grass. He led an army of 40,000 to leave Taiyuan City and march toward the south, starting a campaign to conquer the southeast of Henan Province.