Ji Han Da Sima

Chapter 189: Setting up a line to build a racecourse

"Madam, please take A Niu away!"

Seeing Bu Lianshi enter the house, Huo Jun hurriedly put the crying baby in his arms into Bu Lianshi's arms.

Trainer Bu hugged little Huo Yi with both hands, coaxed the baby, and asked knowingly, "Why doesn't Mr. Lang hug A Niu?"

Huo Jun smiled and said, "Aniu keeps crying, and crying makes me upset."

Trainer Bu rolled his eyes at Huo Jun and said with a smile: "Lang Jun can cure an army of ten thousand people, but he can't cure a small baby. Wouldn't it make people laugh if you tell me."

Huo Jun smiled and said: "Men and women each have their own strengths. Jun governs thousands of people, uses sticks and kindness, and is knowledgeable in military law. Madam caresses A Niu, and uses tenderness and kindness to influence his heart. This Jun is not as good as Madam .”

Bu Lianshi, who was coaxing little Huo Yi, felt as if he had eaten molasses.She is young, so few people in the clan fear her, most of them respect her because of her status as Mrs. Huo Jun.It was difficult for her to interfere in the affairs of the clan, so she could not help but think too much sometimes.Now that Huo Jun admitted his shortcomings and talked about her strengths, it made her feel happy.

The smile on his lips was hard to hide, but Trainer Bu seemed to remember something and asked, "General Lang Jun will lead his army to sea and sail to Liaodong?"

"How did Madam know about this?" Huo Jun asked.

Huo Jun's first priority in managing his family is not to talk about his work content to his family.Trainer Bu didn't know his plan or his secret.If the Bu trainer asked, Huo Jun would often answer vaguely.

After Bu Lianshi coaxed little Huo Yi to sleep, he explained in a low voice: "I don't know about your husband, but I heard about it recently when I saw your husband collecting charts and often calling Jiangzuo merchants to consult about Liaodong."

As he spoke, Master Bu said worriedly: "I heard that there are strong winds and waves on the sea, and ships are often destroyed and people are dumped. Since Langjun is the general of Jiangzuo, how can he lead the boatmen to cross the sea and abandon his life in danger?"

From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Great Navigation Period, crossing the sea by boat was basically dancing on the tip of a knife.For example, Guan Ning, a native of Beihai, returned to the Central Plains from Liaodong. He took the Changshan Islands route and crossed the Bohai Strait. He encountered a big storm on the way. Except for his ship, all the ships capsized and no one was spared.

It is so difficult to cross the short Bohai Sea, let alone sail two or three thousand miles from Jiangzuo to Liaodong, which is extremely difficult.

Huo Jun smiled and explained: "Jun did not cross the sea to Liaodong. Now he led his navy to go to the sea and stationed in Yuzhou, Qu County, Donghai County (today's Lianyungang). He went to sea for only a few hundred miles, and there was no danger. There were coasts along the way. To Yuzhou When I arrived in Zhouzhou, my husband ordered people to go north to Donglai County and cross the sea to Liaodong by boat. Since it is autumn and winter, there are few winds and rains, so this trip is safe and there is no need to worry."

In Qu County, Donghai County, Bu Lianshi heard about it.She is from Huaiyin. When she was young, she heard her mother tell the story of Tian Heng's death. Tian Heng fled across the sea to live in Yuzhou in Qu County.Yuzhou is not far from Jiangzuo and is close to Qu County, so there should not be much risk.

Trainer Bu frowned slightly and warned: "Since the husband has made arrangements, it is not convenient for me to say more. You should be careful in everything."

"Ok!"

Even the trainer knew about the dangers of the sea route, so how could Huo Jun not know about it.It was impossible for him to go to Liaodong in person by taking a boat.Not only was he afraid that the wind and waves on the sea would capsize the ship, but he was also worried that Gongsun Kang would have a brain attack.

Historically, Sun Quan sent tens of thousands of people to sea and traveled across the ocean to Liaodong, where he ennobled Gongsun Yuan as King Yan of the King of Wei and Wu.Gongsun Yuan was afraid of Cao Wei, so he killed the envoys sent by Sun Quan and engulfed those ten thousand people. Sun Quan was so angry that he wanted to cross the sea to attack Liaodong, but fortunately Lu Xun and others dissuaded him.

Now Gongsun Kang is afraid of Cao Cao, and he might send his head and the heads of two Yuans to Cao Cao, and then he will not even have a place to cry.

Bu Lianshi carried little Huo Yi and left the study, where Huo Jun was studying the navigation route mentioned by Jiangzuo merchants and the nautical charts he already had.

Huo Jun has long had the idea of ​​opening up the navigation route to Liaodong. Last year, he built large keel ships not only for use in water warfare, but also wanted to use the large keel ships to open up a sea route from Jiangzuo to Liaodong.

As for why we want to open up the Liaodong sea route, the reason is both simple and complicated.The simple thing is that Liaodong has the necessary strategic resources and war horses for Jiangzuo; the not simple thing is that Huo Jun wants to open a racecourse in the Jianghuai area.Um!
Horses can be raised in the Jianghuai area, and war horses can be raised on a large scale. The war horses raised are also excellent.

How did Huo Jun know that Jianghuai could raise horses?Without it, it is only in Zhu Yuanzhang.

Everyone said that in all dynasties, only Zhu Yuanzhang won by conquering the south and the north.As everyone knows, in the late Yuan Dynasty, apart from the fact that the prosperity of the south of the Yangtze River surpassed that of the north, and the internal chaos of the Yuan Dynasty in the north, there were also reasons.Another important point is that Zhu Yuanzhang is different from other southern regimes. He inherited the legacy of the Yuan Dynasty, namely the Luzhou Racecourse.

After the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Jin Dynasty, the Mongols settled in the Central Plains and were gradually assimilated by the Han people. Instead of raising war horses, they began to cultivate and cultivate crops like the Han people.Being accustomed to farming can bring wealth, but it also makes the Mongols lose their proud war horses.

During domestic wars, the Mongolian army lacked war horses.For example, when Kublai Khan and Ali Buge were competing for supremacy, Kublai Khan's army occupying the Central Plains was short of horses. As a last resort, Kublai Khan spent his own money to buy tens of thousands of horses to supplement the army.

After the Southern Song Dynasty was pacified, the south often rebelled, and the Yuan Dynasty suppressed the rebellion in the south.Kublai Khan decided to open a racecourse in the Jiangnan area. After searching hard, he finally chose Luzhou as a racecourse near the Dabie Mountains.

Luzhou, that is, the Han area of ​​Hefei, Shucheng, and Wancheng, almost coincides with the counties in Jiangbei where Huo Jun is located.Zhu Yuanzhang raised troops in Huaixi, which was close to the Luzhou Racecourse of the Yuan Dynasty.

This is also the fundamental reason why Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and other Huaixi military groups under Zhu Yuanzhang are good at riding combat. That is, they may have been exposed to horses since childhood and are no strangers to cavalry.

Later generations can learn from what happened. The Dabie Mountains in the north of the Yangtze River can be used as horse breeding areas. Huo Junrang Shiren has already tried it.Several mares and stallions in the army have successfully given birth to young horses, which have grown vigorously recently.Therefore, Huo Jun made up his mind to open up the Liaodong sea route and open a racecourse in Jiangbei.

Jiangzuo has cavalry. Even if it is not as prosperous as the north, it can be self-sufficient through Liaodong war horses and narrow the gap with Cao's army in field battles.

After all, if an army lacks war horses and fights against an enemy with abundant war horses, even if you can defeat the opponent, you will not be able to defeat the opponent.The enemy has horses that come and go like the wind, how can he defeat them?Yue Fei, who was as strong as Yue Fei, was able to defeat the Jin army many times because of the strength of his cavalry.

For the development strategy of Jianghuai Racecourse, Huo Jun must personally take charge and sit in the army.

Of course Changxi also wants to rescue!

While thinking about the sea map, Huo Jun picked up the letter sent by Liu Bei.The words in the letter stated that after Chang Xi rebelled, he learned that Xiahou Yuan and Yu Jin were going north to conquer him. Chang Xi sent a letter asking for help to Jingkou, hoping that Liu Bei could lead his army north to rescue him.

How could it be so easy to rescue Chang Xi? Chang Xi was in Donghai County, in Xuzhou, north of the Huaihe River.If Liu Bei had the ability to raise his troops to the Huaihe River, he would have already gone north to attack Hefei and Shouchun, so there is no need to retreat to the south of the Yangtze River now.

If you take Hangou to enter the Huaihe River, except in autumn, there will be a series of problems such as water level drop and silt blockage.Moreover, Xia Houyuan had already taken precautions and ordered Wu Dun, the governor of Licheng, and Zang Ba, the prime minister of Langya, to station troops at the dangerous location of Hangou to prevent the enemy from advancing northward.

In order to prevent the Taishan generals from repeating themselves, Cao Cao directly merged Changxi's Donghai County into Zang Ba's Langya Kingdom, in order to appease Zang Ba, and then used Zang Ba to calm the hearts of the Taishan generals.

After pondering for a while, Huo Jun wrote back a letter to Liu Bei, saying that Changxi could be saved and that he would go to Jingkou in a few days to meet with Liu Bei.

"Come, please send this letter to Jingkou."

"promise!"

　There are two more chapters tonight

　　
　
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