Chapter 374

In Chinese history, Huai'an is a unique place. Although it is only a small government, the imperial court has placed the river governor and water transport governor here.

The highest officer of water transport is the water transport governor, who is stationed in Huai'an and commands the water transport administration. The water transport governor also governs the water transport officers and soldiers and the sub defense battalions, known as the water transport standard, which is specialized in urging and protecting the grain ship.

Since the Yellow River seized the Huaihe River and entered the sea, the geographical environment structure of the Huaihe River has been greatly changed.

Since the Yuan Dynasty, the Grand Canal has changed its east-west direction since the Sui and Tang Dynasties into a north-south Grand Canal. Because the local potential is high in the north and low in the south, the canal does not have its own water source, so it can only use the water tanks along the way, that is, reservoirs to fill the canal section by section, coupled with many gates and dams, so as to gradually raise the water level and allow ships to pass through.

The junction of the Yellow River, Huai River and canal is Hongze Lake in Huai'an Prefecture. Hongze Lake is also a famous canal water tank. However, the water source of Hongze Lake comes from the Yellow River water with a large amount of sediment, which leads to the dilemma of the water level of Hongze Lake. The water level must be high enough, otherwise the canal will have no water source; If the water level is too high, there will be too much sediment deposition and it is easy to burst. However, the Jianghuai region is the most developed region in contemporary times. Once the burst occurs, the local people's livelihood and economy will be seriously hit.

It was precisely because of this dilemma that the imperial court set the river governor and water transport governor in the small Huai'an mansion.

Huai'an Prefecture is the place of Zhili in the south. One of the two prefectures in the north of the river is Yangzhou Prefecture.

As governor of Cao Yun, Zhu Dadian stayed in Fengyang mansion to guard the ancestral mausoleum when he was free, in Taizhou under Yangzhou mansion to prevent pirates when he was busy, and stationed in Huai'an when the imperial court was transporting water. These are the places where he stayed.

There is also Lianghuai salt farm, which has the oldest development history and the largest production scale in Huaibei salt farm. It is known as the benefit of boiling salt since ancient times, which is more important than that in the southeast. Lianghuai is the most important, and Lianghuai salt tax is the best in the world.

At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, Yancheng was renamed Yancheng in the Jin Dynasty because it was a county with salt. Before the Northern Song Dynasty, the production scale of Huainan salt farm was the largest. At that time, there were 123 salt pavilions in Yancheng County, South Yanzhou. There were industrial and private commercial transportation, and there were often thousands of ships every year.

Huai'an mansion is where the two huais are located, but the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. Now there are pirates here, which makes him feel even more shocked. He thinks how these damn pirates come to him?

You know, now is a critical time. In half a month at most, immortal Baiyun will become an immortal and will no longer hatch silver for them. This can be said to be the most critical time. However, at such a critical time, he had to transfer Liu Bu, a confidant, so that he felt that there were no hands available.

Not only the elite troops of Liu Bu, the fierce general under his command, have to be transferred, but even he himself must enter Huai'an. If anything happens to Huai'an, will he be the governor of water transport?

So even though Zhu Dadian did not want to, he still had to go to Huai'an to sit in town in case of any changes, which really made him very angry.

Now he is lamenting that there is only one big man left in Yangzhou City, hongchengchou. Other people are not his opponents at all, and they are not enough to fight. If he has any crooked thoughts, other people don't dare to fight him at all. What should we do?

Zhu Dadian originally wanted to discuss with Liu Bu, but he found that Liu Bu immediately dispatched his troops to support him after he heard of the accident outside Huai'an. It was impossible for him to find someone to talk about the plot. Therefore, he could not help feeling a little relieved. Although Liu Bu was greedy and easy to be angry, he was still very responsible for his work, I'm very serious. As soon as I heard of an accident in Huai'an mansion, I immediately sent troops. They didn't even keep their cornucopia in Yangzhou mansion.

However, Zhu Dadian believes that his practice is still a little light wave. He should Liu Bu, not himself. He should first explore the wind. The main army should still be deployed in Yangzhou government to ensure that their Qingyun view is safe.

But Liu Bu has to go now if he doesn't go. He has no choice but to listen to him.

Zhu Dadian felt in a dilemma, but Hong Chengshou felt that the opportunity was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and God helped me. He made people make trouble about the Western ritual expedition, mainly to attract Liu Bu's attention and let him send troops to calm down. Even if he didn't go, someone Hong would order him to go, just to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

But the pirates on the sea harassed the Lianghuai salt farm. It was really none of his business. He was still thinking that it was really sleepy and the pillow would come. Now it was God who wished him to achieve great things.

Watching Zhu Dadian and Liu Bu leave one after another, I was a little happy and gratified. In this way, no one in Yangzhou can compete with him and no one can compete with him.

But although there are guards outside Yangzhou, he didn't pay attention to these garbage soldiers at all. With his elite main force, it's very easy to win these people.

When things came to this stage, Hong Chengchou felt that everything was heaven's help, and he could feel that heaven and earth had the same benefits when it was transported.

So he immediately ordered his confidants to start planning this matter. Until this time, he didn't tell it all to their subordinates.

After listening to Hong Chengchou's plan, his men did not panic, but were more happy. They showed an expression that they should have done so long ago.

They are soldiers who eat food and work as soldiers. Most of them are outlaws who lick blood on the head of a knife. When they come to the colorful world of Yangzhou, they can not only see what is called paradise on earth, but also have the greatest loss, that is, why people can live such a good life, but they have to work hard just for a meal.

Now their commander-in-chief leads them to loot the rich here. Everyone is excited and eager. They know that they have done this vote. With the fairness of commander-in-chief Hong, everyone will be rewarded. What else to say if they have money? Just do it.

Hong Chengchou was still worried. He told his men that they were doing this and had to try to convince them, but now it seems that there is no need at all. The greed of these soldiers is beyond his imagination. This is that they only have money in their eyes. They say they are going to rob money. They don't care where they rob, so they start directly.

Such military discipline and morale are worrying. Hong Chengshou thought that after this incident, he had to rectify the military discipline.

Now that he has convinced his internal officers, Hong Chengchou is confident and ready to do a big job. He thinks that as long as they successfully ransacked the silver in Qingyun temple this time, most of it will be handed over to the imperial court, and a small part will be cut off and kept properly, the whole situation will be different. As long as the silver is in Hong Chengchou's hand, He has the final say.

Since he took over as the governor of the five provinces, he has always been very low-key, so low-key that these people think that he is a governor. Now let them know that the authority of his governor, except for the angels appointed by the court, can't do anything to him?

Even if these people sue the court afterwards, what will he do if he gives the silver to the emperor and the Emperor sees so much silver? Will he beat his hongchengchou 50 big board and return the silver? Then they wear patched clothes, and these rich people continue to live a luxurious life of spending a lot of money and drinking.

It can be said that as long as he gets the vote and gives the money to the court, no one will say what he is like. At most, the court minister just blames him, but in the eyes of the emperor, he is the best minister.

Hong Chengchou felt excited when he thought of this place. He was thinking that he had studied hard for ten years and was deeply favored by the imperial court. Now is the time when the imperial court is in trouble and he is making great efforts to repay the imperial court. If he can make great efforts to repay the Imperial court and make the imperial court tide over the difficulties, he will not waste what he has learned and his lifelong ambition.

Hong Chengchou was originally a very decisive man. Otherwise, he could not climb all the way to become the governor of five provinces by a civilian official in just a few years. After he made a decision, he immediately ordered his men to prepare. His men were very few, only 100 cavalry.

On the next day, more than 3000 civilian men joined him. These civilian men came to Qingyun temple with a large amount of silver to join the ranks of incubating silver. 3000 people said they were escorting civilian men, but they were actually disguised by the most elite soldiers under his command. They just didn't wear armor or their own flag, but they still carried their weapons, It's just put in the cart and can be taken out at any time.

In order to hide people's eyes and ears, his army can only go to battle lightly and come secretly. If Liu Bu sent thousands of troops in the city, he really can't get along with them. However, Liu Bu led the army to fight against pirates at sea, which turned into a relative emptiness of Defense in Yangzhou city. In fact, the thousands of guards in Qingyun temple are garbage soldiers, He didn't pay attention at all. Hong Chengchou was thinking that as soon as the army in my hand went out and made an all-out impact, I could defeat them until I cried for my father and mother and begged for mercy on my knees, and Qingyun temple would fall into their hands.

If Qingyun Temple falls into their hands, the silver will belong to them. He can quickly transfer or control the silver before Liu Bu comes back. As long as the silver is in his hand, does Liu Bu dare to rebel against him? He doesn't believe it. Does he dare to rebel now?