Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 658
Since summer, the waterways around the capital have become increasingly busy.A large number of boats loaded with goods continue to travel upstream along the river and turn into Tushui.

No one in the capital was surprised by this situation.After all, Shen Zhezi, the captain-in-law, is also very popular in the capital, and his every move is widely watched in this environment.The son-in-law wants to vigorously manage Tuzhong, so naturally he has to draw materials from the capital for use.

But gradually, people discovered something unusual.The busy state of the waterway has been going on since summer, and it is getting worse.Originally, several large ships left the shore every day, but the scale gradually expanded to more than a dozen ships, and once it started, it continued for several months without stopping.This posture is no longer used to withdraw things from the capital, it is almost like evacuating the capital!

In the south of the capital, there are now large warehouses, and warehouses rise and fall like mountains. Many people are proud to ask how many things are stored in these warehouses?It seems that they have heard the questions of these people, and the continuous fleet has given them a chance to measure.

According to the statistics of several large wharves in Linjiang, Beijing, the material dispatched to the north, such as salt and rice alone, has exceeded one million dendrobium!The rest are used for goods, and there are countless!However, this is not the end, and the almost terrifying transportation is still going on.

For a while, the entire capital was a little panicked, and there were many rumors that the Wuzhong Business Alliance was about to abandon the capital and turn to large-scale management of Liang County.As soon as this rumor appeared, it had a great impact on people. All the scholars and ordinary people flocked to the Yanshan Manor, the headquarters of the Wuzhong Business League.

You must know that the current prosperity of the capital has a great relationship with the material exchange of the Wuzhong Business Alliance. If the influx of materials and goods from Wuzhong is cut off, the development of the entire capital may be cut in half, and hundreds of thousands of people will lose their lives. All food and clothing completely collapsed!
Yanshan Manor reacted quickly, and quickly gave the answer to the public: the allocation of resources that lasted for several months has nothing to do with the business alliance as a whole, but the Shen family itself is using resources.The business alliance has always been in the capital, and accepts orders and distributes products as usual.

With the response from the business alliance, people in the capital were able to settle down, but soon another shock came to their hearts.Such a huge carrying capacity is just for dispatching the goods of Shen's family?What kind of astonishingly rich accumulation does this Jiangdong Haoshou family have!

This question has brought great shock to people.However, Shen Ke, one of the parties involved, has no time to be complacent. The message from Liang Jun is to mobilize all possible forces and transfer as much supplies as possible to Tuzhong!

Even if Shen Ke is in the capital, he still can't figure out how many goods have been sent to Tuzhong during this period.However, just paying the expenses of the civilian husbands, the grain discount has exceeded [-] hu!
Naturally, the Shen family alone cannot accomplish such a huge resource allocation.Although the surrounding area of ​​the capital has been fully developed, his family's farmland is either self-managed, or held by others, or indirectly controlled, which has exceeded tens of thousands of hectares.

But the investment in the early stage, plus the fact that it has been sold in the market one after another over the years, and there is also a large amount of expenses for the establishment and mobilization of the rebel army in the previous year.Therefore, in this huge volume, the materials that really belonged to the Shen family accounted for less than one-third, and the rest were all borrowed.

The business alliance has its own agreement on lending, and the interest rate is much lower than outside, but after all, it needs to be repaid, and the business alliance has to maintain the operation of the entire capital market, so although everyone is willing to borrow for face, the pressure is also without delay.

In Liang County, Shen Zhezi could not ask, but only urged.However, more than half of the warehouses in Beijing have been emptied, while Guangling and Jiankang have many large orders that are about to reach the delivery deadline.Shen Ke was also very anxious here, and frequently sent letters to Wu Zhong, requesting that supplies be brought here as soon as possible.

After several years of running-in, Wuzhong's water transport network has already been polished and matured.As an important transshipment center in the lower reaches of the capital, the vicinity of Taihu Lake has been very busy recently.A large number of things are going north, and the pure waterway can't even meet such a huge volume requirement!The Shen family also sent out everywhere to ask for advice, and it was a good thing that all the furniture mobilized their servants to help with the transfer.

In the rural area of ​​Wuzhong, the scene is even more spectacular. People scattered in various manors in the wilderness spontaneously transported to Longzhou with sampans, bamboo rafts, or ox carts. Creek and several large docks.When the grain is transported here, it will be loaded on the ship immediately, and it will be shipped immediately after the ship is full!
In the past, Shen Hong was a person who paid great attention to demeanor when he was sitting in the township, but recently he has gradually become unkempt. I am so busy every day that I don't have time to eat, and even the best self-cultivation is exhausted in this long-term busyness. Every time I encounter obstacles, I just blurt out local slang.

In addition to doing everything he can to satisfy the frequent reminders sent by the Beijing government, Shen Hong is also sending letters to East Yangzhou again and again, complaining to his elder brother Shen Chong that if the goods in East Yangzhou are not delivered quickly, according to the With the attitude of the Beijing government urging the goods, the whole family will not even be able to drink porridge for the whole winter in the future!

On this busy transportation network, the next important node is Yuhang Zhoushi.As an important node of north-south transportation, Zhou City has an unimaginable volume of cargo. Thousands of trees are in the river, and thousands of sails are competing.The annual boat tax alone is an astonishing figure, and it is also the most important financial pillar in Taichung today.

Xie Shang served as Qiantang Commander earlier, in charge of Zhoushi. Although his position is not high, its importance is even higher than that of some small state governors.Since the Zhou City tax package, the general affairs have been shared by each family in the township, and the tasks are completed ahead of schedule every year.Therefore, although the ministry is important, Xie Shang is more leisurely.

However, with the pulling of the thread in Jiangbei Liang County, Xie Shang's leisure time was gone forever.The Dongyang army directly entered the country and took over the boat tax warehouse. The Taiwanese capital originally used to send to Jiankang Taicheng was directly embezzled, and disappeared in the boat city like snow melting.And the several water transport piers going north and west, like beasts with their mouths wide open, devoured all the boats and boats full of goods, without entering or exiting.

In this position, Xie Shang, in addition to arguing with Taichung's order to urge the tax payment of Taiwan capital, also has to travel south frequently to negotiate with the Dongyang Prefecture Government. At least some surplus food is in his hands to comfort the hunger of those in Taichung who are waiting to be fed thirsty.

East Yangzhou is also refreshing. There is money and food, but there is no transportation capacity.If Taichung is too poor, you can bring your family to Kuaiji for food.Otherwise, they can simply borrow money from Dingcang, and wait until next year's shipping capacity slows down before shipping the Taiwanese capital.

It's not just the transportation route in Wuzhong that is busy, but Poyang County in Jiangzhou is also busy.Since Wu Xing and Shen Xian served as the prefect, they have hardly even moved into the town, so they have been busy crossing mountains and ridges to conquer the mountains and rivers and the barbarians in the middle of the country. A large number of Dingkou hiding in the mountains and lakes were driven to the plains, and then went north and south. Issue envoys.

The action was so big that even Tao Kan, who was in Wuchang, was alarmed, thinking that the Shen family was going to do something big in Jiangzhou, and mobilized several people to surround Poyang.As a result of being surrounded by heavy soldiers, Shen Xian's affairs are easier to handle. Originally, there were still a few barbarian tribes who believed that they were a little bit unruly, but after realizing this situation, they thought that Jiangzhou was about to have a major event, so they didn't dare to act rashly and could only be obedient. Cooperate.

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In the past few months, Liangjun City has become as strong as a breath of air. From its appearance until it became a majestic city in the upper reaches of Tushui. It is inevitable to smack your tongue.

Today's Liangjun City is located near the Tushui River, with fortifications inside and outside, making the city more majestic.There is a wharf near a water village on the left, and on the deepened and widened river bend, there are often dozens of boats moored and ready to go.Between the water village and the city, there are seven or eight warehouses as high as mountains, storing a large amount of grain, as well as bows, armors, knives and arrows and many other weapons.

A dozen miles to the northeast of the city, there is an escort embankment piled up with huge stones and filled with rammed earth. Facing the embankment across the water are several dikes with astonishing water volume.The two armies were heavily stationed around the river, and the barracks were not inferior to the strong city. One was in the form of horns for defense with Liangjun City, and the other was along the water to protect the dai to ensure the unimpeded flow of waterways.

And around Liangjun City, there are many scenic spots and dangerous places, all of which have large and small camps set up to firmly guard this area, and it is no longer an isolated city hanging outside.

In such a short period of time, such a large-scale construction required an astonishing consumption of manpower and material resources, which is already unimaginable, and it is definitely not in the hundreds of millions!Moreover, during the construction process, it had to deal with the frequent harassment of Huainan slave soldiers. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a miracle to be able to achieve the current situation.

As the weather gets cooler, the construction around Liangjun City is coming to an end.Even if there is another attack from Huainan, it will be difficult to tear through the current water-coated defense line easily.And Shen Zhezi's heart, which had been hanging all along, finally relaxed a little.

Once he relaxed, he was in the mood to sort out the price he had paid for building this line of defense recently.When it comes to spending, Shen Zhezi himself doesn't have much of a stand. Anyway, all the manpower and materials that can be mobilized are invested in it.

And his family's third uncle, Shen Yun's father, Shen Hong, who lives in the countryside, wrote to complain a few days ago. Because of the investment during this period regardless of the cost, the Wuzhong countryside is almost in short supply for the winter!The price of food in the capital has more than doubled, while the price in the capital is even more exaggerated, it has tripled!
Years of accumulation and operation can be said to have completely exploded in this extremely short period of time!Even if Shen Zhezi doesn't flaunt his wealth, he has to admit that the current income of money and food in Taichung, even if it has been accumulated for several years, cannot support the consumption of this period of time!

The scheduling of such a huge material use is itself a display of strength.If people in the past didn't know how rich the Shen family was, then the current Liang County defense line is the answer!Although it is only a corner, but because of the required time, the consumption is more than double the usual slow construction cost!
From Jiangzhou to Wuzhong, more than 30 people were involved in the use of people's power!Such an astonishing call of strength, and such a smooth logistics channel, all show that the Shen family has a lot of power, which is far from being as simple as it seems on the surface!
In order to save time and avoid those meaningless disputes, Shen Zhezi completely managed Liang County as a private land, regardless of all the hustle and bustle around the outside world, and built this bridgehead for the Jiangbei advance in the shortest possible time!
His urgency, even his family members, including his father Shen Chong, don't understand. He has sent letters repeatedly to advise him to act steadily and not to be greedy for success.After all, today's Shen family is different from the past, regardless of success or failure, the impact is not limited to the gains and losses of the family.

And Shen Zhezi also has to admit that when it really rises to the level of planning the general trend of the world, no matter how strong the private power of a family is, the effect it produces is really negligible.Just managing Liang County alone has already made his rice warehouse run out of rats.But no matter how much money and food is accumulated, it must be used where it is needed, and a huge investment means a huge return.

Although Shen Zhezi has not discussed the issue of apportioning the cost of the war with Taiwan in detail, but if Taiwan really just stays out of the matter and thinks that he will start to fall into madness after a small victory, and wants to sit back and wait for success or failure, then these people are dreaming.Shen Zhezi just doesn't have time right now, and when he has the energy to spare, he will settle a fine account with Taicheng!
　First post a chapter to remind everyone to take a look at the pockets of the monthly pass. At the end of the month, don’t forget to waste your vote. . .

　　
　
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