Qian Song

Chapter 125 Food War (Ask for a monthly ticket!)

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From Fujian to Liuqiu, the shortest straight-line distance is more than 100 kilometers.

However, this distance does not look very far, in fact, it is really not easy to pass.

Because there is a "black water ditch" of "ten to go, six to die, three to stay, and one to turn back".

In layman's terms, if ten people venture into this "black ditch", six will die at sea, only three will be able to pass through safely, and the last one will choose to give up crossing the sea because of fear of this risk.

This "black water ditch" is actually the waterway of Penghu.

The Penghu waterway is very fast and bottomless, and the color of the sea water is as if it has been dyed with ink, so it is called black water.

Moreover, this waterway also has a large ocean and a small ocean.

The large ocean and the small ocean make it very difficult to cross this strait from east to west, and because the water depth cannot be anchored, sailing ships must sail quickly with the wind to pass through, and if they fail to pass in time, they will be swept away by the current and lose their way.

However, most of the ships in this situation are small sampan manpower wooden boats. For the large ships of the Huben Army, when passing through the black ditch, as long as the wind direction is suitable, they can rush over in one breath.

The real trouble is that there is a lot of miasma in Liuqiu because no one has developed it and the vegetation is too luxuriant.

When Li Cun went to Fujian, the small team sent to Liuqiu fell ill not long after arriving on the island, and several of them even died of illness in the end.

Until these people set a big fire on the western coastal plain according to Li Cun's prior explanation.

It took almost a month for the fire to burn out a large area of ​​white land in the western coastal plain.

Strange to say, after the fire, the miasma in Baidi disappeared.

in fact--

It is wrong to say that there is no one living in Liuqiu.

There are thousands of Malays living on it in the high mountains behind the island.

There are even more than 1 Han Chinese on it.

These Han people are mainly Hokkien and Hakka, who first lived in Penghu.

Later, he slowly began to seek development from Lucy.

However, these Han people only make a living by fishing on the edge of the western coastal plain, and rarely go deep into the island.

The team that first landed on the island encountered many difficulties after landing on Liuqiu.

Not to mention the miasma, they also encountered Chucao.

The so-called chucao is the custom of headhunting, that is, after killing a person, the head is brought back and placed at home or in the first shed of the tribe to show his military exploits.

They cut off people's heads not for hatred or money, but for reasons that are sacred from their point of view, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors, proclaiming adulthood, showing off bravery, and getting rid of diseases, etc.

In fact, it does not mean that those Malays are promoting their own military power, even those Han Chinese, at first, had a strong hostility towards the Huben Army squad that came to their territory, especially after the squad suddenly set off a big fire to scare them. .

but--

After Li Cun sent [-] sailors to the island, everything became calm.

——It’s the same everywhere, big fists are the last word.

Compared with the real army wearing solid armor and holding sharp weapons and god-armed bows, whether it is those "savages" who think they are superior in force, or those fishermen who only know how to fish, including the tens of thousands of Han people entrenched in Penghu, It's not enough to see everything, you can only surrender.

Because the strength of the two sides is not of the same magnitude at all.

Later, Li Cun sent [-] peasants and a large number of craftsmen to build Liuqiu in one breath.

This made Liuqiu gain a little bit of popularity.

Now, with boat after boat of immigrants going to Ryukyu, Ryukyu will definitely usher in a period of rapid development.

But then again, even if Liuqiu develops at a high speed, it will not be able to change its original and backward nature in a short period of time.

Therefore, Li Cun only has three short-term expectations and one medium- and long-term expectation for Liuqiu.

The three short-term expectations are:
First, Li Cun counted on Liuqiu to help him solve the problem of victims caused by the war.

You must know that if these disaster victims are not handled properly, they will be a great hidden danger, and they may rebel against themselves in the future.

And throwing them to Liuqiu to reclaim wasteland can not only help him build a new land, but also solve this group of troubles, killing two birds with one stone.

Second, Li Cun is going to build a large shipyard on Liuqiu—because no one has landed on Liuqiu, there are a lot of shipbuilding materials on it, and some shipbuilding materials are even enough to build extremely huge treasure ships. It would be a pity not to use it.

The third one is that Li Cun plans to set up some glass factories and soap factories in Liuqiu to mass-produce artificial luxury goods to earn military expenses for himself.

As for the medium and long-term expectations, Li Cun hopes that Liuqiu can become his own granary, so that he can deal with the troubled times in the future more calmly.

As for retreating to Liuqiu, since Li Cun stopped by Liuqiu to take a look when he came back, Li Cun completely dismissed this idea.

Without it.

That was too desolate.

Li Cun didn't want to be the chief of a primitive tribe there.

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While preparing for the upcoming war, Li Cun went to Ryukyu to ask for immigration, and at the same time, he paid close attention to the progress of the decisive battle between Fang Layi's army and the Song army.

What Li Cun never expected was that Song's reinforcements were much slower than he had imagined.

What Li Cun didn't know was that it was actually thanks to him and Fang La.

Since Li Cun and Fang La occupied the largest grain production base of the Zhao Song Dynasty, and also robbed the autumn grain shipped to Bianliang City in Tokyo last year, Zhao Song's food was somewhat tight.

Of course, this does not mean that Zhao Song had no food. After all, one of the Chinese traditions for thousands of years is to store grain.

Because of this tradition, there is actually a lot of food in Bianliang City, Tokyo.

But the problem is that it is the food that guarantees the stability of the capital's dignitaries and the capital's people. With the disappearance of the largest grain production base in Jiangnan, who would dare to plan on that food?
Therefore, after discussing with Wang Fu and others, they handed over the task of guaranteeing food supply to the front lines to Lianghuai area, South Jingxi Road, Jingxiang area, Jiangnan West Road and other counties where the Song army transited.

After receiving this order, the officials of the various transshipment departments distributed the amount of food to the common people.

Due to the lack of transportation capacity, the officials of the various transshipment departments have used their brains - they specifically require the public to transport the food to the front line to pay, otherwise they will not be considered as having completed their duties and will face extremely heavy punishments, such as stabbing thousands of miles or something .

As a result, in order to transport one shi of grain, it took more than a dozen or even twenty shi of grain along the way, which brought great troubles and even disasters to the people.

Also, people can't figure it out.

There is a strict quota control in the manufacture of official ships of the imperial court. The national quota of tank ships is 850, and the imperial decree is not allowed to increase or decrease by itself.

What about the nearly [-] tank ships?

In addition, it is said that when Jia Weijie served as the deputy envoy of Jianghuai shipping, in order to echo Cai Jing, he built [-] large ships without authorization for the exclusive use of Huashigang, and transported Taihu stones and exotic flowers and trees from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to please Zhao Ji.

In addition, there are so many private shipyards, and many ships can be built every year.

There are so many ships in the Song Dynasty, how come there are no ships when it comes to transporting grain and grass materials, and they have to be transported by manpower?

What these people didn't know was that the nearly three thousand tank boats were all taken away by Li Cun because of the transportation of autumn grain last year.

As for the 2000 large ships transporting flowers and stones built by Jia Wei Festival, they must not be real, because Li Cun's people only found more than [-] large ships transporting flowers and stones.

There are also those private shipyards, sorry, they have all been confiscated by Li Cun, and they are now building warships for Li Cun.

As for the area currently controlled by Zhao Song, it cannot be said that there are no ships, but these ships are scattered in various areas of Zhao Song, and it is very difficult to gather them together in a short time.

People in many places, because they couldn't bear the order of "cash on delivery" issued by the Zhao and Song courts, many anti-donation storms or peasant riots broke out one after another.

This undoubtedly brought great difficulties to the Song army in raising grain and grass materials.

Because the supply of food and grass materials is always intermittent, the reinforcement army often has a meal without a meal.

In addition, the weather was too hot, so hot that these northern soldiers didn't even want to move.

In this case, not to mention letting these uncles march, just keeping them from mutiny, Tan Zhen, Xin Xingzong and others will be worried.

Later, Xin Xingzong discussed with these arrogant soldiers, marching for an hour every morning and one hour in the evening, taking a rest during the middle of the heat.

At the same time, Tan Zhen and Cai You asked for food and even bought food from the counties and counties they passed along the way.

Only then did they take great pains to bring this army to Jiangzhou and Hongzhou near the middle of July, and handed it over to Zhongshi Dao and Zhongshizhong.

What made Tan Zhen and Cai You's teeth itch with hatred was that these arrogant soldiers no longer had the bad problems they had before when they came to the cultivation way and the cultivation division, and they didn't make any noise at all.

At this time, Tan Zhen and Cai You also realized that Xin Xingzong's prestige was still not enough, at least not comparable to the two famous generals of the Western Army, Zhong Shidao and Zhong Shizhong.

After discussing with the generals, Zhong Shidao decided that he could not delay any longer. The longer the delay, the more unfavorable it would be to Da Song, and he must seek a decisive battle immediately.

On the other hand, due to the failure to capture the city and land in the recent period, and another 70 million troops were crazily consumed, the food supply of Fang Layi's army was almost bottomed out.

Therefore, Fang La is also eager to solve the Song army in the first battle, and then go to the vast and rich Jingxiang area to develop.

Therefore, Fang La gathered the most devout believers of Manichaeism and formed an elite army of 20 people, which he himself controlled. The remaining 40 people were divided into four armies by Fang La. Lu Mai and Zheng Mowang ruled, the left army was ruled by Fang Qifo, the right army was ruled by Fang Wuxianggong, and the rear army was ruled by Qiu Daoren and Lu Shinang. Taking advantage of the time when the Song army did not come, the 70 troops were in control every day. Drill and prepare to fight the Song army.

In fact, some people persuaded Fang La to defend the city, or he was diverted to Li Cun who forced him to fight the Song army to the death. Some people even boldly suggested accepting the imperial court's offer.

But Fang La refused all of them, and would shoot the people who suggested him to accept Zhao Song Zhaoan to death with random arrows. The reason Fang La gave was: "If you listen to this generation's words, I will live under the fence of Yongle Dynasty and never stand up. I will also be underestimated by the world, now there is an enemy but no me, and I am invincible, fight to the death!"

But afterwards, Fang La rarely found Bao Kang and said something else...

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I'm old, I couldn't stand it after a few nights of overtime, and then I fell asleep without completing the task, and then I overslept...

So it's a little bit late.

Ask for a monthly pass.

The monthly pass is powerful, and there are still at night.

(End of this chapter)