From Propulsion City To Multiverse

After occupying Donghai County and Jiangdu County, the Human Revolutionary League does not need to give up Hailing as before, thinking that these two areas have obtained a line of defense at this time.

The Kangou and Shanyang sections of the Grand Canal, together with the Huaihe River, form a river defense line, so there is no need to worry that the enemy can sneak in and destroy it on a large scale.

Coupled with the capture of a large number of Wuya warships and Huanglong boats, Bai Yulou planned to use these waste warships, demolish the upper four wooden buildings of the Wuya warships, and turn them into a deck.

After all, the five-tooth warship is one of the variants of flat-bottomed sand ships. If wooden buildings are built too high, they will not only be easily shaken by the wind, but will also increase their dead weight.

The five-tooth ship with a displacement of 1,700 tons has a payload of only about 600 tons, and its speed is very slow. Even if the wind is smooth, the fastest is only about 8 knots, and the normal sailing is about 3 to 4 knots.

This speed is too slow.

After Bai Yulou captured these warships, he sent people to take them back to Zhoushan Shipyard and modify them into large sandships.

After annexing Jiangdu County, Xiapi County, and Donghai County this time, Zheng Sen quickly took 1,200 government officials to the north, quickly took over these three counties, and renamed it Xuzhou, which was also the name of the previous Han Dynasty.

There are currently six prefectures in the Human Revolutionary Federation, namely Jiangdong Prefecture, Liuqiu Prefecture, Dongnan Prefecture, Lingnan Prefecture, Guangnan Prefecture, and Xuzhou.

The bordering forces are Du Fuwei, Lin Shihong, and Xiao Xian from the three heroes of Jiangnan; Li Mi and Kou Zhong from the Central Plains; and Yu Wenhuaji who is currently fleeing north.

In the city of Yangzhou that fell without a fight.

Zheng Sen looked at the empty palace, but asked someone to clear out a palace that could be used as a temporary office, and the rest were prepared to be transformed into public facilities in the future.

Look at the data in your hand. .

Jiangdu County deserves to be the southern capital that Yang Guang worked so hard to manage. There are 130,000 registered households alone. Even after the war, there are still 86,000 registered households.

Xiapi County has 70,000 households, and Donghai County has 53,000 households, which are also the official statistics of the Sui Dynasty.

However, Zheng Sen, who has experience in census in Jiangdong Prefecture, would not believe that this is the real number. The war in the north was more serious, and many refugees fled to the south. In addition, the powerful landlords concealed the population.

It is estimated that Xuzhou's total population will be around 400,000 to 500,000 households, with a population of 2 to 2.5 million.

After all, Xuzhou is close to the Central Plains, and the degree of development is much higher than that of Lianghu, Huainan, and Ganjiang.

Coupled with Yang Guang's previous attention, it is the essence of the entire Jiangnan area.

This is also why, as soon as Zheng Sen received the news of Yu Wenhua and his escape to the north, he quickly launched a plan to capture Jiangdu County and Donghai County.

Through this battle, not only 120,000 people were snatched back from Yu Wenhua, but also 520,000 shi of grain and a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry were seized.

Of course, Zheng Sen has no interest in such things as gold, silver and jewelry. If someone is willing to exchange grain for these gold, silver and jewelry, he will exchange them without hesitation.

In this troubled world, food is the core, and gold, silver and jewelry cannot be eaten. Now that various forces have learned the skills, all kinds of trade have rapidly degenerated into a barter model, and gold, silver and jewelry are not accepted at all.

After all, Hao Jian caused the economic collapse of the Three Bears in the South of the Yangtze River, and a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry rushed into their territory, causing prices to rise wildly.

He put down the documents in his hand.

Looking at the big sand table in front of you, the current area of ​​Xuzhou is about 30,000 square kilometers, 95% of which are plains. In the classical era without artillery, this was the place where the four wars were held.

The total arable land potential is about 40 million mu, and tens of millions of mu have been developed so far. Based on Xuzhou's total population of 2 million, the per capita cultivated land is only about 5 mu.

Considering that the development of the area close to the front line has to be suspended, the land is even scarcer.

The population limit of Xuzhou in Zheng Sen's plan should be around 1.5 million, so the remaining population must migrate south.

He raised his head and ordered: "Self-restraint, teachers, you should formulate an immigration plan based on the current situation. Xuzhou only has a population quota of 1.5 million, and the remaining population must emigrate south."

Zhao Keji and Song Shidao nodded.

"Report!"

Zheng Sen saw that it was the guard in black: "Come in."

The guard in black quickly handed him a telegram: "Governor, this is the latest information from the Jianghuai Army."

Zheng Sen flipped through the telegram: "Du Fuwei blocked the river near Liyang, he really did, but he should have forgotten that Liyang and Jiangdu are bordered by land."

After thinking for a while, he ordered: "Continue to pay attention to the three bears in the south of the Yangtze River. When I stabilize Xuzhou, I will use Du Fuwei."

"Yes."

The black-clothed guard had just left when Zhang Guangzhi, who was in charge of contacting the various states in the secretary's office, walked in and handed him the latest information on Lingnan Prefecture and Guangnan Prefecture.

Song Que and Hao Jian have almost stabilized the two prefectures, and the arrival of more than 500 government officials also quickly started the reform work.

At this time, Song Que also felt that it was time to solve the remaining problems of the Song Clan. He offered to let Song Lu bring some of the Song family's children and those chieftains who surrendered to Liuqiu Prefecture.

On the Lingnan and Guangnan sides, Song Zhi handled about one-third of the Song family's children, mainly to let them complete the work of separation and resettlement.

He himself will take the remaining one-third of the children of the Song family north to the south of the Yangtze River, and disperse this group of children of the Song family to the newly established Xuzhou.

This is equivalent to the complete disbandment of the Song Clan. Song Que is not the kind of double-faced person. Since he decided to join the People's Revolutionary Union, he will naturally not engage in petty tricks like Li Mi and Du Fuwei joining Li Tang.

It's the same to take troops to seek refuge with any force, and to engage in double-faced tricks is to kill oneself.

Either surrender completely, or resist to the end, or simply walk away.

After all, no force will tolerate double-faced people.

Song Que completed the self-segmentation of the Song Clan, and then he took his family and more than 5,000 Song clan members to the north of the Zhoushan Islands on the boat of the Lingnan Squadron.

The Lingnan Squadron was not adapted from the Liuqiu Squadron, but the Lingnan Navy that originally belonged to the Song Clan, and the Water Dragon Gang that had dominated the South China Sea before.

These two sea forces in Lingnan have 13,000 people and 357 large and small ships.

After the reorganization, some qualified sailors were incorporated into the Lingnan Squadron, and some of the eliminated personnel were incorporated into the newly established South China Sea Transportation Company.

In order to avoid the formation of mountains, Song Que took the initiative to bring some of the personnel of the Lingnan Squadron to the East China Sea First Squadron in Zhoushan, and then exchanged part of the personnel of the two squadrons.

All the way along the coastline of the southeast coast, under the blessing of the southeast wind, the fleet headed north quickly at a speed of 9 knots.

Just when Song Que was heading north.

In the area controlled by Li Mi and Wang Shichong, a large-scale smallpox infection suddenly broke out. This incident immediately changed the faces of the major princes in the north.

The first force to react was Li Tang from Guanzhong. Li Jiancheng, who was guarding Tongguan, quickly came down to block Tongguan and strictly prohibited people from the Luoyang area from entering Guanzhong.

Then Dou Jiande of Jizhou and Kou Zhong of Liangdu also successively issued lock-up orders to strictly prevent people from Li Mi's territory from entering at the border.

However, Zhu Can, Du Fuwei and other forces with a strong style of banditry could not completely block the border, and soon many people ran from the Wagang Army to various places in the south of the Yangtze River.

The black-clothed guard lurking in the territory of the Wagang Army quickly reported this information to Zheng Sen.

Seeing this piece of information, he sighed helplessly: "The common people are so innocent! Let the guards in black send a letter to Li Mi, Wang Shichong and others, and at the same time send a medical team to guide them in vaccination."

"As ordered."

Daye April 27, 14.

Wagang Village.

Li Mi, who had just taken the position of leader, was also devastated by the sudden smallpox at this time, and his strategy of attacking Luoyang had to be interrupted.

"Wei Gong! Commander Shen is asking to see you." The guard outside the door reported.

"Let her in."

"As ordered."

Gu Wei

After a while, Shen Luoyan appeared in front of Li Mi: "See Duke Wei, Luoyan has something important to report."

Having a headache, Li Mi rubbed his temples: "Give me a seat."

But the anxious Shen Luoyan didn't sit down, but made a long story short: "Wei Gong, a black-clothed guard from the Human Revolutionary League has sent a letter from Zheng Sen, please open it."

"Zheng Sen of the Human Revolutionary League? My Wagang Army and the well water do not interfere with the river water. Why is he writing to me? Could it be to persuade me to surrender?" Li Mi muttered as he took the letter.

After unpacking the clay, Li Mi quickly browsed through it, and the others were also very concerned about this letter.

The firearms of the Human Revolutionary League are powerful all over the world, and now they have annexed the Lingnan Song Clan, which has the power to sweep the south of the Yangtze River and look north to the Central Plains.

The generals of the Wagang Army who were present naturally did not dare to underestimate the People's Revolutionary League.

Li Mi, who had read the letter, had a cloudy expression for a while, and finally gave the letter to others.

After some circulation, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Wei Gong, could it be the opponent's trick?" One of the generals reminded worriedly.

"Isn't it just a medical team of 200 people? Could it be that my Wagang Army is afraid of even 200 people from the People's Revolutionary League?"

Shen Luoyan stood up and said, "Duke Wei, the sores are rampant now. If the epidemic is not prevented as soon as possible, the morale of the army and the people will be severely damaged. Our Wagang Army is surrounded by powerful enemies."

Li Mi walked back and forth for a while, and finally sighed:

"Let their people come in! Luoyan, you are in charge of arranging this medical team, pay attention to guarding against them, let our doctors learn as soon as possible, and don't let them contact the people too much."

"Duke Wei has the people in his heart, and Luoyan must present his vitals to the people. This treatment is the result of Duke Wei's humiliation." Shen Luoyan immediately maximized the benefits.

Suddenly a scribe stood up: "Huang Miao, this method was created by Duke Wei, and it is the destiny."

Obviously someone was targeting Shen Luoyan, and at the same time flattering Li Mi.

It's just that Li Mi is not an idiot. Although he had this idea, he quickly came to his senses. The vaccination technique of the Human Revolutionary League is not a secret, but the various forces have not obtained the core technology.

Because the pox powder used in the vaccination is all uniformly produced by the smallpox pox powder company in Liuqiu Prefecture, the isolated overseas Liuqiu Prefecture is the most difficult area to explore among the states of the Human Revolutionary League.

Now that the Human Revolutionary Alliance has agreed to sell acne powder and sent a medical team over, don't go too far.

Li Mi knew that the Human Revolutionary League definitely didn't send a medical team to him, and sold acne powder and vaccinations.

He waved his hand: "Okay, don't mention this matter again, Luo Yan, you follow my previous instructions."

"Of order." Shen Luoyan also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, if Li Mi really dared to say that he invented the vaccination technique, it would be really troublesome.

...

At the same time, Wang Shichong in Luoyang also received a letter from the black guard. He was more decisive than Li Mi, because the area around Luoyang was the hardest hit area of ​​the smallpox outbreak.

If the spread of smallpox cannot be prevented, let alone fighting for hegemony, whether Luoyang can be kept is a problem.

Except for Wang Shichong in Luoyang, the forces around Wang Shichong and Li Mi all received letters from the black guard.

Although there is no idea of ​​sending medical teams to these forces, pox powder and vaccination will give them a certain amount to prevent the spread of smallpox.

However, acne powder and vaccination are not free. They are required to send a certain number of victims to the border of the Human Revolutionary Union, and exchange them in this way.

As for the forces near the water, Du Fuwei and Kou Zhong quickly organized tens of thousands of victims and sent them to the border of the Human Revolutionary Federation, and then exchanged for 100,000 copies of acne powder and vaccination.

As for Zhu Can, who has a serious habit of rogues, this guy doesn't care about smallpox at all.

On the contrary, Xiao Xian was so frightened that he hurriedly transported people to change the medicine. After all, once smallpox spread to his own territory, the gain would not be worth the loss.

...

The Wagang Army, which is close to the front line of Huainan, is the front line bordering on a small area with the Human Revolutionary League.

Shen Luoyan personally brought people here.

Zhou Shanmin and Shi Rui, who led the team, appeared in front of Shen Luoyan in white clothes.

Seeing the imposing "medical team", Shen Luoyan couldn't help feeling terrified, especially Zhou Shanmin and Shi Rui, the strong sense of oppression made her understand that this medical team is not easy to mess with.

"The two are the captains of the aid medical team?"

Zhou Shanmin smiled and nodded: "Exactly, we have brought all the medicines and equipment, let's go to the epidemic area as soon as possible!"

While riding the horse, Shen Luoyan reminded: "Then please come with me! In addition, please cooperate and don't bring disasters to the people."

What she meant was to stop propagating the People's Revolutionary Union in the territory of the Wagang Army, otherwise Li Mi would start killing people.

Although Li Mi's Wagang Army is a peasant uprising army, in fact Li Mi himself is of honorable background, and a large part of his generals are also of Kansai generals and powerful backgrounds.

They just want to block the borders, but they don't really want to plead for the people.

Zhou Shanmin also didn't want to make troubles: "We will take care of ourselves, and Master Shen will lead the way!"

What's more, the ideology and policies of the People's Revolutionary League are secretly propagated by the black guards. Many people have long known that in the south, there is a force that has land to the tiller, only taxes per mu, and exempts from corvee.

Along the way, Zhou Shanmin watched silently on both sides of the road, which was full of devastated and desolate scenery, and even bones of the dead could be seen scattered on the side of the road.

Sitting on the carriage, he sighed softly: "The ancient road is set in the sun and crows are singing, and the ruins are full of grass and bones; when the rise and fall of the dynasty will end, who will cry for the common people."

"..." Shen Luoyan at the side was touched for a moment, but then she became hard-hearted again.

For counselors, they are meant to serve the monarch, and the so-called common people are nothing more than a tool for them to realize their ambitions.

Suddenly, he came to a valley.

Hundreds of masked men emerged from the hills and fired a hail of rockets at the convoy.

"Enemy attack!" Shen Luoyan's eyes froze.

But the next moment, Litmus closed his eyes in the carriage and opened his eyes, his expression filled with cold killing intent.

"Magnetic attraction!"

She clapped her left hand, and suddenly an iron ball flew into the air. In an instant, the iron ball erupted with extremely strong magnetic force, attracting dozens of rockets to it.

The leader of the masked man who saw this scene screamed inwardly that something was wrong.

But in the next second, countless iron needles shot out from the carriage.

"Ahhh..."

Dozens of masked people rolled all over the ground after being stabbed with iron needles.

Suddenly, many masked people twitched all over.

not good! poisonous! The leader of the masked man quickly used his internal force, trying to force out the toxins in his body.

But the members of the medical team, who practiced scientific martial arts, all tended to the types of poison, electricity, and hidden weapons.

There was no way to force out the toxin with internal force, and these people were soon poisoned and unconscious.

Seeing this scene, Shen Luoyan raised his vigilance against the medical team again, and at the same time quickly arranged his followers to capture these masked men back.