Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1857 Tianjin Port

Chapter 1855: Tianjin Port

Zhou Yu set off from Bohai Port, and it would take three days to reach Youbeiping County, but Youbeiping did not have a port to call at, so it might delay some time.

There is no port, which means that the navy has no foothold, and there is no place to store the goods on board, so the Qin army needs to build the port itself.

Qin Hao naturally also considered this point, so after giving the order, he ordered Jiang Jiong to lead five thousand troops to the seaport, choose a place suitable for docking to build a port, and recruit [-] people in Xuwu City as strong men. To carry grain and grass.

Although Xuwu County was expanded by Liu Che into a medium-sized city, which can accommodate a population of 8 to 3, the total population of the county is only a little over [-].

Qin Hao recruited [-] strong men at one time, and basically wiped out all the young and strong in the county, and the rest were old and weak, women and children.

Qin Hao didn't want to recruit laborers on the spot. After all, the local people's hearts had not yet joined, but if the hard work of moving food and grass was left to the army, it would really be like killing chickens with a sledgehammer.

The 13 Qin army in Youbeiping had to fight against the Qing army, which was twice as large as itself. It was impossible to assign people to carry food and grass, so this kind of hard work could only be left to the local people.

"Military Master, this king thinks it's better to use work as relief. Xuwu County belongs to my Qin army. If the people's hearts have not yet been attached, if the people are allowed to work for nothing, the people will definitely not be happy." Qin Hao said.

Hearing this, Liu Bowen showed helplessness, and said with a wry smile: "My lord, Youzhou is different from other regions. When fighting together, in order to protect their homeland, it is common for all the people to be soldiers.

The lord did not let the people go to the battlefield, but just used them as laborers. This is a normal thing for the people of Youzhou, so why would they not be happy? "

"It's true to say that, but I still think it's better to use work in lieu of relief. Anyway, our army is not short of this kind of wages."

Qin Hao had already talked about this point, what else could Liu Bowen say, after all, he didn't need to pay for labor.

Even if the wages of 300 strong men are increased, if each person is paid [-] qian per day, it will only be [-] million yuan a month, which is only [-] guan.

In this era when an ordinary war horse can be sold for 300 yuan, [-] million yuan is only the price of [-] war horses, and the total number of war horses in the Qin army is measured in millions.

Therefore, what Qin Hao said is not wrong. Although Qin Jun's current financial balance is somewhat unbalanced, he is indeed not short of this money.

Even if the wealth of Tiangong Treasure has been spent, as long as the millions of war horses in Hetao and Bingzhou are still there, no matter what, they will not reach the stage of financial collapse.

After the sales of ordnance are saturated, it is a big deal to sell war horses, and there must be no shortage of sellers for war horses.

Of course, having millions of war horses does not mean having matching wealth. After all, princes do not have that much purchasing power, and it is impossible for Qin Hao to sell war horses without restriction to make money.

"My lord loves the common people and sympathizes with the power of the people. It is really a blessing for all the people." Liu Bowen said sincerely.

In terms of caring for the people, even Liu Bowen has to admit that no prince along the way can compare with his own lord, that is, spending money lavishly.

Forget it, anyway, it has nothing to do with me, let the people in charge of finances have a headache.

After Xu Wu's people were recruited, they were not unhappy when they learned that the Qin army wanted them to work as laborers to build a new seaport.

Working as a labor force during the war is a matter of course for them, and they have long been accustomed to it, so how could they not be happy.

But when they learned that working for the Qin army, not only would they have food to eat, but also money, and they would get ten dollars a day, all the strong men cheered for joy.

He had been conscripted by the government so many times before, but he had never been given a penny, but now this is the first time in history. Qin Jun is really a teacher of benevolence and righteousness.

After Qin Hao's work-for-work came out, Xu Wuxian's hearts quickly returned, and many old and weak wanted to join the labor force to earn wages.

Qin Hao did not refuse this either. After all, the Qin army is in short supply of labor force, and the old and the weak can also contribute, but it is definitely not as good as the young and strong, so the wages will definitely be reduced accordingly.

After gathering [-] laborers, Qin Hao sent all these strong men to Yanshan, thirty miles southeast of Xuwu County, and the mouth of the sea to the south of Yanshan was the place Qin Hao chose to build a port.

If it was just an ordinary port, it would naturally not require so many people, but Qin Hao had a big plan in mind. He wanted to build a brand new port city in the lower reaches of the Haihe River, south of Yanshan Mountain.

In Qin Hao's view, even if the Qin army destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty and unified Youzhou, the war with the Manchu Qing would still be protracted, and it would definitely not end in a short time.

Therefore, it is necessary to build a port city in the north to transport and store various strategic materials to facilitate transportation to the front line.

Qin Hao decided to name this new city built by the port: Tianjin.

Well, Qin Hao just wanted to build Tianjin in the original Tianjin Wei's place.

After the construction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in the Sui Dynasty, the intersection of the South Canal and the North Canal was called Sanhui Haikou in history, and this was the earliest birthplace of Tianjin.

There was no Tianjin at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it did not prevent Qin Hao from building a Tianjin.

Tianjin, which Qin Hao conceived, will be located on the original site. After completion, it will be located in the southeast of Xuwu County and southwest of Tuyin County. It will be supported by the two counties. In addition, it is backed by Yanshan Mountain, so it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

With Tianjin as a material transfer station, Qin Hao can easily transport the materials from Hebei to Youzhou with the help of the navy.

At that time, with Youbeiping County as the base, gradually encroach on the other counties in the eastern part of Youzhou, and drive the Qing army out of Youzhou little by little.

Of course, it's too early to talk about building a city. The port must be built first.

When Liu Bowen learned that his lord was going to build a city in Hong Kong, he felt both helpless and surprised.

Helpless, the lord spends money like water, and he is thinking about building a city before he has conquered Youzhou.

What is surprising is that once Tianjin City is built, it will be of great help to the Qin army, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is strategic.

Although the cost of establishing Tianjin City was high, the benefits of the Qin army were self-evident, so Liu Bowen naturally would not object, but instead went to Tianjin Port to explore the foundations and draw drawings, planning to design Tianjin City himself.

With [-] laborers and [-] troops, under the command of Jiang Jiong, it took only three days to open up the crude Tianjin Port.

Three days later, when Zhou Yu's navy arrived at the port, they realized that the lord had opened a new port in Youzhou from scratch.

There is nothing surprising about opening a port, but what surprised Zhou Yu was that although this port is very simple, with nothing but foundations and simple warehouses, its scale is even larger than Bohai Port.

It's just that it is absolutely impossible to build such a large port for transporting materials.

Zhou Yu vaguely guessed that the lord had plans to build a city here, but he didn't say much. He directly ordered the soldiers and laborers to move the grain and grass together. After unloading all the grain and grass on the ship, he led the navy back to Bohai Port to continue transporting grain.

13 shi of food is not enough for the Qin army to consume. Zhou Yu's navy needs to continue to go back and forth, and it needs to be transported several times.

After Zhou Yu left, Jiang Jiong personally led [-] soldiers and [-] laborers, and began to transport grain and grass to Xu Wucheng.

Although Jiang Jiangjiu left, Liu Bowen left [-] soldiers to guard the port, and [-] laborers to continue to build the crude Tianjin Port.

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