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"Your Majesty, Sun Chuanting replied: From Hejin to Jiangzhou on the Fenhe River in Shanxi, it is possible to carry a ship carrying a hundred stones, and from Jiangzhou to Pingyang it is possible to carry a ship carrying fifty stones. However, from Jiexiu to Taiyuan, the river is shallow and has a lot of sediment. It is necessary to build another twenty-stone boat to pass!" Hong Chengchou couldn't help but report.

"Oh? It seems that the Fen River is stronger than the Wei River!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but said in surprise.

A small boat on the Wei River can only carry two thousand kilograms, and a boat can only carry sixteen stone. However, the upper reaches of the Fen River to Taiyuan can still carry a small boat carrying twenty stone, and the situation is much better.

Of course, with such a small carrying capacity, the actual transportation efficiency is not high.

But no matter how low it is, it is still many times better than carts and horses.

Take Zhang Shun's previously improved Taiping Car as an example. The load was only over a thousand kilograms, but it required several oxen to drag it.

Not only is it slow, but it is not as good as even the smallest boat.

If it were replaced by mules and horses, the load of the cart would be better than nothing, and since the pacific cart couldn't drag it, it still wouldn't work.

"Okay, let's do this!" Zhang Shun thought for a while, turned to Lu Weiqi and said.

"Mr. Lu, in a moment you can draft an order for me, asking the counties from Xi'an to the mouth of the Yellow River to recruit labor and dredge the Wei River!"

"There is no need to go to war and miss the farming season. Just dig the river as deep as possible, as long as the boat can carry a twenty-stone boat!"

"Alright!" Lu Weiqi thought for a moment and nodded.

"The counties downstream are mostly held by Heluo scholars. Firstly, they can be used with confidence, and secondly, there is no risk of leaks."

"No, no, no!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but waved his hands and said, "It's better to block than to clear!"

"I have thought carefully about it these past few days. With such a big movement in the territory of the rebel army, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty and the public not to get some news."

"Therefore, it is impossible to conceal anything. It can only be false and true, making false claims in the east and attacking in the west."

"All the grain and grass transported to Yan'an are transported in the name of disaster relief, and the dredging of the Wei River this time is carried out in the name of water conservancy repair."

"Mounting troops and horses vigorously, they claimed to seize Hanzhong and occupy all of Shaanxi."

"Recruit ships... Recruit ships and claim to be a naval officer, hehe!"

When Hong Chengchou and Lu Weiqi heard this, they almost burst into tears.

Training a navy engineer? If you train naval forces here on the Weihe River, you are fooling the devil!

"It doesn't matter. You can just find an excuse. If you have a better reason, you can also mention it." Zhang Shun looked at the expressions of these two people and didn't know what they were thinking, so he couldn't help laughing.

Good guy, Hong Chengchou and Lu Weiqi thought about it for a long time after hearing this, and they really had no better reason, so they had to obey Zhang Shun.

"Your Highness, this is what I'm planning!" Hong Chengchou continued to report.

"One of the best ways to do this is to set up a transfer station at the intersection of the Luo River, the Wei River and the Yellow River, and to build a grain depot specifically for the transportation of grain and grass."

"Secondly, grain stations were established in Jiangzhou, Pingyang, Huozhou, Fenzhou Jiexiu, and Taiyuan."

"Among them, Jiangzhou, Pingyang, Huozhou and Jiexiu are transfer stations, and Taiyuan is storage station."

"When Taiyuan City is conquered, all supplies for the rebel army will come from Taiyuan."

"The twelve hundred miles are all traveled by water, and the loss and cost are less than one-fifth of those of land transportation, saving countless money and food."

"Well, this is a great strategy!" Zhang Shun nodded.

Originally, he led the main force in the middle to attack Shanxi, with the intention of benefiting its waterways.

In his previous life, Zhang Shun had heard about the Battle of Rafting in history textbooks. At that time, the Qin State also used the Wei River, Yellow River and Fen River to transport grain.

Unexpectedly, two thousand years later, despite the changes in the world, the river has been seriously silted up and is no longer as prosperous as it once was, but it can still be used reluctantly.

"That... that, actually, King Shun, I have another plan!" Lu Weiqi usually rarely participates in military aircraft, but now he didn't know what he thought of, and he couldn't help but say.

"Mr. Lu, please speak!" Zhang Shun respected him as always.

"Pingyang Mansion is the second largest tax-paying mansion in the world after Suzhou Mansion. It has fertile land and a large population." Lu Weiqi couldn't help but mention.

"If the rebels occupy Pingyang Mansion, they can set up officials to collect grain, grass, and labor."

"On the one hand, it can greatly reduce the cost of transporting grain and grass, and on the other hand, it can facilitate long-term peace and stability and win over the gentry."

"Haha, what Mr. Lu said is true. It's just that the rebel army still has insufficient civilian officials, which is quite difficult." Zhang Shun smiled after hearing this.

In fact, he had already planned this, but the rebel army was also short of manpower, and he didn't know how much he could collect.

"Han Lin from Jiangzhou, Zhang Shenyan from Zezhou, and Zhang Daojun from Douzhuang are all from Jin. How can they be said to have no one?" Lu Weiqi couldn't help laughing after hearing this.

"That makes sense!" Zhang Shun also laughed when Lu Weiqi said this.

Lu Weiqi spoke very tactfully, but Zhang Shun also heard what he meant.

In the past, after the rebels led by Wang Ziyong of "Purple Gold Liang" crossed the Yellow River and entered Shanxi, they undoubtedly and thieves completely ruined their reputation, so it may affect Zhang Shun's reputation.

Instead of doing this, Zhang Shun's officials from Shanxi could not help but be transferred to carry out "united front" work.

Originally, after Zhang Shun listened to Governor Zhang's suggestion, he planned to let him follow him and build cannons wherever he had to.

Now after listening to Lu Weiqi's words, he couldn't help but change his mind and said with a smile: "Mr. Lu is really thoughtful. If that's the case, then just send Han Lin and Xu Ziyuan to follow me to Shanxi."

When Hong Chengchou saw that the two of them had finished talking, he continued: "The army on the North Route has heavy supplies of food and grass and can only rely on cattle, horses and livestock."

"One of the carts can only carry a thousand kilograms, and a mule can only carry more than a hundred kilograms. It is not as far as a boat!"

What does it mean?

That is, although the offensive route of the Northern Route Army is short, it can only rely on people and horses to pull it, and there is no other way.

"This...can we requisition more livestock?" Zhang Shun thought for a while, and there was no good way, so he could only use livestock to support them.

"If you say there is, it is actually true!" Hong Chengchou hesitated and said, "It just depends on King Shun's face!"

"How do you say this?" Zhang Shun thought to himself: We are just talking about food and grass, what does it have to do with my face?

"The Yulin general's home has many cattle and horses. Among them, General Zuo's family has three to five thousand good horses, and General Yu's family also has one or two thousand." Hong Chengchou couldn't help but sneered.

"The other Yulin generals each have thousands of good horses, and countless cattle and sheep!"

"If King Shun can procure 20,000 horses and mules and tens of thousands of oxen, why worry about the lack of food and grass?"

"In addition, the princes also have tens of thousands of cattle, horses, mules and livestock, which can be collected together."

"So many?" Zhang Shun couldn't help being surprised.

"Originally, there were millions of hectares of government-run grassland in Shaanxi and 160,000 horses. How did it end up like this? Wasn't it because they filled their own pockets and took it for themselves?" Hong Chengchou couldn't help but remind him.

Well, the last time Zhang Shun fought against the autumn wind, he was surprised to squeeze out a cavalry battalion from his father-in-law's place, but he didn't expect that they would still be so rich.

"Let's do this!" Zhang Shun thought for a while and said, "How many livestock are there in the palace's property? Send someone to count them and use them all for military use."

"I'll think of a way over there in Yulin and try to borrow more. If there's a shortage, I'd better think of ways to confiscate the cattle, horses, mules and other livestock in the Shanxi border!"