In October 203, Li Su arrived in Yangzhou again in the name of "off" and was about to arrive in his fiefdom for the first time-

Five and a half years ago, when Li Su led the army to pacify Jiangdong, the last battle he personally presided over was just a decisive battle with Zhou Yu's Taihu Lake. After that battle, the subsequent finishing work was handed over to Huang Zhong, Taishi Ci and Gu Yong.

Therefore, Li Su's footprints were only at Wujun and Wucheng County to the south. He had never been to the area south of Wucheng County, and it was even more impossible for him to cross the Qiantang River and set foot in Kuaiji.

As time passed, when he came back five and a half years later, Li Su brought many staff members and naval generals, including Zhou Yu, who had been defeated and returned to the Han Dynasty. It has to be said that fate is sometimes elusive.

That was the enemy general who was beaten up by Li Su on the Taihu battlefield.

In addition, Li Su also brought Zhuge Liang, a disciple who also came for winter vacation. Zhuge Liang could only wander around on his own during these few months of vacation. When the spring of the next year begins, Zhuge Liang will go to Qing and Xu, and continue to be responsible for local comfort and post-war reconstruction work.

For Zhuge Liang, he also took advantage of this winter to first observe how his mentor built his fiefdom, and he could learn some experience.

After returning to Langya and the East China Sea next year, he can also consider building a new port on the northern coast of Xuzhou, developing maritime transportation, and cooperate with Li Su from south to north to make arrangements for the future continued eastward advance of the Han Dynasty.

The military generals Li Su brought this time were mainly Taishi Ci and Gan Ning. After all, they would cross the sea to deal with Gongsun Du in the future. There was no place for the generals of the Lu Army to use their skills, so it would be enough to bring these two for the time being.

Taishici's ancestral home is Donglai and is familiar with the situation along the coast of Qingzhou. In his early years, he also ran many sea routes between Liaodong and Mizhu's hometown, Qu County, Donghai County, and helped Mizhu immigrate the Xuzhou people in the East China Sea to Liaodong.

Therefore, Taishi Ci will follow Zhuge Liang to the north after the New Year. At that time, he can command the navy stationed in the coastal areas of Qingzhou and the Donghai County of Xuzhou to ensure coastal defense, wait for an opportunity in the future, and be responsible for the Northern Navy that fights against the Three Koreans.

Gan Ning stayed at the new garrison that Li Su was about to build at the Yangtze River Estuary, and will be responsible for the garrison along the Guangling County, Xuzhou on the north bank of the Yangtze River Estuary, and even the coastal garrison throughout Yangzhou.

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Li Su, Zhuge Liang and his party, with thousands of elite guards, left Luoyang on September 20th. After arriving in Bianliang, Chenliu County on the 23rd, Li Su left his wife and children first, and then visited his father-in-law for several days to visit his condition and gave some instructions to the medical officer.

It was only in early October that Li Su continued to go south from Bianliang along the canal. The reason why he stayed for ten days was mainly because he had a vague premonition in his heart: this might be the last time he saw Cai Yong. With Cai Yong's health, it was probably not enough to sustain Gongsun Du's destruction.

In the subsequent southbound itinerary, Li Su walked the canal, which was very different from the path he took when he went to Yangzhou five and a half years ago.

After all, when we went from Sili to Yangzhou, we had to go to Nanyang first by land, then by Qingshui, Hanshui, and the Yangtze River downstream. Now, from Luoyang to Bianliang, we can go to Hulao Pass or from Mengjin to the Yellow River downstream.

After Bianliang moved into the Great Gou, it was very convenient to adapt to the situation and switch between Ruying. This was entirely due to the fact that before Liu and Cao's decisive battle, Zhuge Liang suggested that Liu Bei dig a canal to fight against the enemy while the army was stalemate, which improved the shipping around Ruyang.

After Ruying entered Huaihe River, both Feishui and Hangou could connect to the Yangtze River. When Hangou was in Guangling on Taiping in Zhou, it was dredged during the war to facilitate grain transport.

The artificial river channel of the Feishui River in the Shaobi section was also slightly dredged. It was the series of battles that Li Su killed Cao Xiu and Cao Ren before the final decisive battle to ensure that the grain channels were absolutely unobstructed.

(Note: The Shaobi section of Feishui was built by Sun Shuao, the Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period, so like Hangou in the Wu State, it is also considered an artificial canal in a sense)

Li Su took this path this time, obviously because he had the intention of checking the effects of water conservancy projects by the way, and reviewing the farming achievements of his and Zhuge Liang's master and apprentice.

Their every move is beneficial to future generations, not just for the temporary military needs of the war of unity! After the war is over, the people can still benefit in the long run.

Honggou, Ruying, Huaihe, Feishui, walked more than a thousand miles of water, and took less than ten days from the Yellow River to the Yangtze River, which was basically equivalent to the entire journey of Tongji Canal and Hangou built by Emperor Yang of Sui in later generations.

On October 15th, crossing the river was about to come. Yangzhou governor Gu Yong received the news in advance and went to Niuzhu on the Yangtze River in Danyang County to greet the prime minister.

Gu Yong also knew that after Li Su came, he, the governor of Yangzhou, would soon be transferred back to the center and add a resume of the Nine Ministers of the Ministry of Justice, so as to facilitate the promotion to the Three Duke in the future.

To be a three-public official, you should ensure that you have managed both the government affairs of at least one entire state and the central department, so that you will have a high vision and low power.

In charge of the local government, what is supplemented is an official's down-to-earth ability. In charge of the various departments of the court, what is supplemented is an official's overall vision of looking at problems. It is both down-to-earth and overall vision, and it will not be easy to mislead the country after going up.

Gu Yong knew that Li Su was extravagant by nature, so he tried his best to receive the reception.

Fortunately, Yangzhou has not fought for five years, and the full restoration of people's livelihood has long been made to be self-sufficient. Because it can also export materials to the outside world and feed back to the court.

When Gu Yong took care of the show, he also tried his best to rest with the people and spent a small amount of money to do big things.

He knew that Li Su liked fresh seafood in Jiang, so he caught a large amount of precious fish and seafood in winter. He was less than the few things, but he did not plunder the people's wealth or destroyed the ecology. He let the fishermen remember to keep it after they were caught and it was purchased by the government.

So, Li Su was able to ensure the plump Yangtze River swordfish every meal, hairy crabs that could be eaten at the beginning of winter, and real bream that could be pulled back with sea water at the estuary of the East China Sea, and fresh phoenix tail shrimps that were the size of a palm.

Among them, swordfish and real bream were indeed listed as precious treasures in the Han Dynasty, while the other two were very niche and could be regarded as quirks. But who had eaten Li Sulai five years ago? Gu Yong remembered it.

This is not because he pleased Shangguan, it is not that vulgar. It is purely a kind of exchange between his fellow disciples. Gu Yong is Cai Yong's favorite disciple, so he cannot be considered Li Su's junior brother. So he was hosting his senior brother and nephew at his own expense.

However, there were some things that Gu Yong did not expect.

For example, he felt that the conditions in Kuaiji are quite difficult now, and they are mainly mountainous areas. Unlike Danyang and Wujun, located in the Taihu Plain, which is relatively a place of fish and rice. Therefore, Li Su should have stayed in Jinling for several months, and Gu Yong even packed up his mansion.

However, when he asked about Li Su's itinerary at the dinner table, he found that Li Su had already planned and had no plans to stay in Jinling for a long time.

Li Su bluntly talked about his plan: "In the past two years, he was ordered by His Majesty to move eastward. The first thing was to appease the three prefectures of Qing, Xu and Yan. The second was to build a new port city at the mouth of the Dajiang River, and then build a shipyard, connecting the north-south sea transportation of the Han Dynasty, so that the eastern coastal states would be more stable and stable.

So, while the winter slack farming season is slack, I plan to arrive in Kuaiji as soon as possible, and first inspect the selection of places and construction of ports in Lou County, Haiyan or Juzhang."

Gu Yong had no idea about this, but he still knew the geographical division under Yangzhou, so he couldn't help but ask:

"Since you want to build a port in Jiangkou, isn't it enough to choose Lou County? It's the most direct opposite Jiangkou, which is convenient for transportation. Moreover, the sea salt in Lou County is in Wujun, and only Juzhang is in Kuaiji."

The places mentioned by Gu Yong are roughly equivalent to Kunshan, Jiaxing and Ningbo in later generations, and are already the coastal areas of the Yangtze River Estuary.

As for Hujiang in later generations, I’m sorry, the Han Dynasty did not exist, and most of them were still at the bottom of the sea. There are only two areas in later generations, Songjiang and Baoshan, because the terrain is relatively high, and the sea level is exposed.

However, these two places are collectively called Huating, and they are not counties, but just townships. Huating Town is a coastal fishing town under Lou County.

Li Su: "Anything that is planned will be established, and if it is not planned, it will be abandoned. Of course, you should leave a few more points to investigate to prevent accidents. You don't understand the matter of sea transportation and ports. You can't just be located in the estuary of the river. You also need to see if the deep water is suitable for the mooring, and consider it comprehensively."

Li Su's steady consideration was obviously a scientific evaluation of Zhuge Liang on the way before.

It is not impossible to build a port directly at the mouth of a big river, but then it is necessary to solve the silt and sediment accumulation, and the waterway must be cleaned and maintained every year. The silt brought by the Yangtze River every year is also very huge, and this work will be very complicated and the long-term maintenance cost cannot be underestimated.

This is definitely not an exaggeration. It can be imagined that during the Song and Yuan dynasties, the ports still faced this problem. For example, during the Song and Yuan dynasties, the largest foreign trade was Quanzhou Port, where there were many people living in Seme, all of which were Arab Hu merchants.

However, after Yuan was expelled by the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was expelled and killed all the guys who were accomplices of the tiger because of hatred of the sluts of the Yuan Dynasty. After the Ming Dynasty, the Ming people no longer maintained the waterways of Quanzhou Port. Later, the largest foreign trade port in Fujian was moved south to Xiamen because Quanzhou was silted.

But the situation in Xiamen did not last long. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty banned the sea and blocked Ming and Zheng. In less than a few decades, Xiamen was disrepaired and abandoned. It was not until modern times that the port was restored and opened.

Quan and Xiamen are only the estuaries of the JIN and Jiulong Rivers respectively. Fujian is mountainous and has good vegetation coverage. In theory, there is little soil erosion and silt silt is so serious. If it is based on the amount of silt silt at the Yangtze River estuary, it will only be more troublesome.

(Note: You can tell the name of Chinese characters by looking at the map. Because it may promote external sites after writing them, so the pinyin is replaced.)

Moreover, Li Su had to consider other issues: If he was willing to invest in the capital, dredge the Yangtze River estuary well, and maintain a deep-water port for a long time, of course, it would be fine, at most, it would be low efficiency and high cost.

However, after dredging a large amount of mud and sand brought by the Yangtze River Estuary every year, will the land at the Yangtze River Estuary grow naturally? In the next thousand years, will the municipality directly under the central government of Jiangkou never exist? It has been dredged and dug into the seabed.

Therefore, in order not to interfere with the natural development of geography, let’s develop a lower-cost plan.

Gu Yong did not understand geography, but he also realized that Li Su attaches great importance to this project, so he may have to spend much more than expected manpower and material resources.

According to Li Su's introduction, the sea area north of the Yangtze River estuary and the sea area south of the Yangtze River estuary require different bottom structures, so a transshipment port must be built to open up north-south sea transportation.

No matter how much money or manpower a port or shipyard is, it is always cheaper than digging another canal. It is worth it to allow all the eastern coasts to travel by sea.

After Gu Yong's calculations, he had to say: "There are small people in Kuaiji County. If you really want to build a large number of projects, it may delay the farming work. Otherwise, it is unlikely that the construction will be completed within two years. Wu County has a larger population, with nearly 200,000 households. If the final location is in Kuaiji, can you transfer personnel from Wu County to serve?"

Li Su obviously thought about this question when he came, so he thanked and declined:

"Wu County seems to be a large county in Jiangdong, but it is actually worth it. It is all a fertile land in Zhenze. The people have abundant land, so there is no need to make trouble. Kuaiji is indeed a small number of people, and 100,000 households are not satisfied. It is necessary to build a large number of construction and fully develop it. Immigration is indeed needed, but Yuan Tan does not need to worry about the source."

This time, Li Su came to the coastal states to rectify, and he also thought about putting the development of the south on the agenda. Because according to the original trajectory of history, after the Three Kingdoms separatist occurred at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Eastern Wu was crazily developing the south.

Later, it entered the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. It was because of the chaos in the north, Yongjia traveled south and a large number of people fully developed the south, which increased the population capacity of the land in China later.

Now, unification has been implemented in advance, but no ruler is willing to spend enough energy on developing the South. Li Su can't sit idly by and watch the development that the Han people could have naturally achieved in history, because his disturbances could not be implemented, so it is appropriate to make up for this lesson in person.

Of course, Li Su's planned development is definitely more stable than the construction of the Six Dynasties in history. There is no way to travel south in history, and the north was destroyed. Li Su now wants to develop the south peacefully without damaging the development of the north.

Therefore, as long as we organize immigration to areas with crowded thalassin and insufficient fields in the north, we should not be tossed with northern prefectures and counties with enough fields to plant.

Gu Yong couldn't think of where Li Su was going to immigrate, so he humbly asked for it. Li Su didn't hide it and told him what he had discussed with Liu Bei before leaving Beijing:

"In the last five states that were revived from Cao Cao, Jizhou and Yuzhou were severely damaged by war, among which Yuzhou was the most serious. These three states were almost all plains, and now they are vast and sparsely populated and have abundant farmland, so there is no need to immigrate.

Qing and Yanzhou were the last ones that Cao Ang surrendered peacefully. Chenliu and Dongjun in the western part of Yanzhou fought a few battles, and the remaining 70% to 80% of the counties did not experience war. Qingzhou even failed to fight a single battle.

Therefore, according to the household registration statistics at the end of last year, Yan and Qing have the largest population reserved, and it is currently the only one in the eastern states of the Han Dynasty. The poor males have less than 100 acres of land.

Your Majesty has approved this year's immigration plan for southward migration. Yanzhou provides a small part and Qingzhou provides the main part. The counties involved include Jinan County, Taishan County, Qingzhou's Qi County, Dongguan County and Chengyang County. Each immigrates at least 10,000 households to go south.

Among them, Jinan County and Qi County were the core of Cao Cao, Cao Ang and Yuan Tan respectively (Cao Cao was the prime minister of Jinan after the Yellow Turban Rebellion), and these places also had the most new deadly gentry towards Yuan Cao, and needed to be moved and divided to better ensure long-term stability in the local area. Since Cao Ang surrendered, he should have this awareness.

Taishan County Chengyang County and other places are located at the junction of Yanqing, mainly in the Taishan and Mengshan Mountains, and are also the main mountainous areas south of the Yellow River. Because of the rugged terrain and few fertile land, they have been a place where bandits and bandits entrenched and fled for more than 20 years. In the early years, there were the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, but when they were defeated, they fled to the Mengshan Mountains. Later, the Taishan Birds and Cao Cao had been tug at each other for many years.

I have ordered Qingzhou officials to try to organize the people in these mountainous areas to move away as much as possible this year. I told them to divide the land after going south, and the court will fund their farm tools and livestock to reclaim wasteland.

In the future, Taishan and Mengshan and other places would only be left with important transportation roads and towns, and places with sufficient fields would be gathered. The mountain valleys were not suitable for roads and there were many people in the fields, so they would all move away."

Seeing that Li Su was so confident, Gu Yong no longer questioned. He just wanted to make a handover and cooperate.
Chapter completed!