The Three Kingdoms: A vicious plan was offered, and Liu Bei was stunned!

Chapter 297: Zhou Lang harms others and does not benefit himself, Luo Yuan thinks about Red Cliff on the boat

You can't control what others say.

Talking about the master is meaningless. Don't we all live by making fun of others these days?

Luo Yuan was helpless. It didn't matter if he just watched the show, but he couldn't let Wen Ji and the others misunderstand him.

"Hey, hey, you guys are not talking nonsense, are you? Please don't make my house restless!"

Xu Shu rolled his eyes and said, "How can we be so ignorant? Gongqi, what's going on between you and Madam Cai?"

"Nothing's wrong!"

I do not believe!
Xu Shu looked disappointed, and after thinking for a while he whispered, "Now it's just you and me, you tell me, I promise not to tell anyone!"

Luo Yuan was tidying up his clothes and ignoring Xu Shu. He pulled out a thread from his clothes and looked at it very seriously. Xu Shu rolled his eyes when he saw that Luo Yuan was unwilling to say anything.

I just want to find out the specific situation. What happened?

Luo Yuan is the lord.

"Gongqi, you are the lord, and there is no private matter for the superior."

What the hell!

You just want to eat some melons and gossip, but you talk so seriously. Can't I have a little privacy? Do you want to know what positions my wives and I use at night?
"You are just talking nonsense," Luo Yuan took Xu Shu's teacup, "I won't give you any more. You have evil intentions and a black heart."

Xu Shu laughed and quickly snatched back his teacup. If he didn't want to talk about it, he would say something else: "I am a little worried about Zhou Lang stationing troops in Lukou. Although our army is not afraid of Zhou Lang, the navy is tied down by Jiangdong. Now that winter is coming, the navy is doing its best to fish and store military rations. Because of Zhou Lang, our navy can't fish with peace of mind!"

Jiangling has too many people, and the daily consumption is a huge number. Currently, the main meat in Jiangling is fish. Since they rely on the Yangtze River, they naturally eat from the Yangtze River.

The fish and meat in Jiangling are mainly supplied by the navy. When there is no war, the navy’s main task is to catch fish. During the fishing process, the navy trains the ships to cooperate with each other!

The section of the Yangtze River above Chibi in Hubei is deep and the water surface is like the sea, which is very suitable for large ships to sail, but the fish catch is not as much as in the lower reaches!
The fish resources in the Yangtze River are relatively abundant in the lower reaches, and there are even more at the estuary. The Jiangling navy usually goes a long way downstream when fishing.

The bastard Zhou Yu interfered with the navy's fishing downstream. When the Jiangling navy was fishing, the Jiangdong navy came over for training. What was the point of catching fish when the fish had all run away?

Xu Shu said that because of this, Jiangling's fishery income had dropped by at least 30%, with a daily income of only more than 10,000 kilograms. Normally, the daily catch was at least 13,000 to 15,000 kilograms.

Luo Yuan's army carried out digital calculations, and all supplies were recorded clearly, so that once a war broke out, they could use numbers to carry out wartime distribution.

The fish in Jiangling is stored in the form of dried fish, meat floss and salted fish. Winter is a good season for making cured fish. Local people have long been accustomed to eating cured fish, and it is no problem to air-dry and store cured fish for three to two years.

Zhou Lang was smart now. He just interfered with Luo Yuan’s navy’s fishing operations, which did not count as declaring a war. He divided the Yangtze River into two and did not allow Jiangling fishermen to go to the other side to fish.

Luo Yuan rolled his eyes when he heard this, thinking the Yangtze River was the English Channel.

"Zhou Lang has become smarter,"

Xu Shu smiled bitterly and said: "I can't solve this problem. The fishermen's fishing is related to their survival. I still need to talk to Zhou Lang about it."

Luo Yuan said: "Let's go fishing together tomorrow, and then we can go meet Zhou Lang and have a good talk."

It's not okay to flirt with hooligans, but please don't force me to be a hooligan.

The next day, Luo Yuan led Gan Ning's navy out of the Yangtze River. The three-story ship was quite majestic, forty meters long and eighteen meters wide, and could carry more than a thousand soldiers. It had two floors, and three more floors above the deck. It used hard sails, and there were windows on the lower level of the three masts, which could be used for archery and spears during combat, and people could also be stabbed through these windows. They could also paddle when sailing!

Quite advanced!
This was already the pinnacle of shipbuilding technology in the Han Dynasty, but Luo Yuan had already discussed the new ship with Huang Yueying.

This type of boat uses a mortise and tenon structure, so it is no problem to sail on the Yangtze River, but it is easy to get into trouble when the wind and waves are a little stronger. Luo Yuan suggested that Huang Yueying observe the various fish in the Yangtze River carefully.

When it comes to shipbuilding, just learn from fish. The streamlined hull is enough to last for thousands of years.

Gan Ning, Wen Pin, Xu Shu, and Luo Yuan were eating fish hotpot on the deck. Gan Ning was an expert at killing big fish as long as they could catch them in the Yangtze River.

He had the style of fishmongers in later generations' vegetable markets. He sliced ​​a big fish into pieces with just a small knife in a blink of an eye.

Then rinse it in a pot of clean water, it will be cooked in a blink of an eye, and then just dip it in soy sauce.

"How is Zhongye doing recently?" Luo Yuan and Wen Pin asked.

Wen Pin smiled and said, "Very good, why do you ask this, my lord?"

Wen Pin felt so happy. His whole family was in Jiangling. The Military Command had built a house for him, and his family members were also running a kiln business!
The social atmosphere in Jiangling is completely different from that in other places. It is open and free, the people are wealthy, and the markets are rich in supplies.

The Wen family is also a noble family in Jingzhou, but they cannot live the kind of life they have now.

Luo Yuan didn't mean anything else, he just said that Wen Pin was very busy and seldom participated in high-level meetings of the Military Command, so they rarely met, and he just wanted to care about his subordinates.

It seems... useless.

"I mean, are you adapting well in the military?"

"It's pretty good. Every day is busy and fulfilling." Wen Pin is a down-to-earth person. "My lord, 20,000 naval forces are still a little too few. Can you recruit more soldiers?"

"It's enough for now. Twenty thousand naval forces are enough to block the river. Maybe we can increase the number in the future!"

"When?"

"In the future!"

"..."

Wen Pin looked at Luo Yuan and decided to eat fish.
Luo Yuan smiled and said, "Don't worry. Whether to recruit soldiers depends on the situation and the finances. The pressure on the Military Command is a bit great. Although we still have money, we don't have enough supplies. There will be a war in Jingzhou next year. Now there are too many troops and the consumption is too great. Jiangling's 80,000 troops are enough. The more troops, the better."

The following year, Cao Cao's fifty armies will march south, and together with the population to supply military supplies, at least one million people in the north will have to be mobilized to participate in the war.

The supply lines are still so long, it's just playing with fire.

Now when Luo Yuan sees Cao Cao's move south, he feels really screwed. How could Cao Cao dare to do this?

This really mobilized the largest military force in the north to move south, but it was burned down by Zhou Lang and Kong Ming, and the north no longer had the ability to move south.

Cao Cao died in less than ten years.

After the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao focused his attention on the north and attacked Zhang Lu.

The grand narrative of a million troops crossing the Yangtze River was not completed.

What a pity.

I don't understand why we had to have a decisive battle with Zhou Yu on the Yangtze River. It would have been easier if we just led our troops south and crossed the river when we got to Jingzhou. How many troops were there in Jiangdong?
If they choose more than a dozen locations to cross the river at the same time, can Jiangdong stop them?
Luo Yuan estimated that it had something to do with the geographical transportation of this era! Or maybe it was because Meng De underestimated the enemy.

(End of this chapter)