Five days later, Guo Song led the army to Taiyuan City, the wounded soldiers remained in Shanyang County to recuperate, Guo Song led 25,000 people south, plus the 20,000 troops in Taiyuan City, his total strength in Taiyuan City reached 45,000 people.

In fact, the real target of Guo Song's army to Hedong this time was not the Hui army, but Li Huaiguang in the south.

Although the epidemic caused Zhu Zhu's army to temporarily retreat, once the epidemic is over, Zhu Zhu's army will inevitably make a comeback, with Li Huaiguang's current strength, it is simply impossible to resist Zhu Zhu, rather than being occupied by Zhu Zhu, it is better to take the initiative to attack and pocket the southeast of Hedong.

In fact, the essence of Hedong is also in the south, with a large population, fertile land, and rich products, and the Taiyuan Basin is slightly better in the north.

Guo Song entered Taiyuan City accompanied by Wang Zhen, Changshi Xue Fan and Meng Jianchun, the inspector of Hedong, and Bingzhou Street is very wide, with neat walls on both sides, and the flow of people on the street is like weaving, and it is very lively.

Taiyuan City belongs to the management of Jinyang County, the circumference of the city is more than 60 miles, there is a population of more than 500,000 people, it is worthy of being the northern capital of the Tang Dynasty, the whole city structure is the same as Chang'an, it is a chessboard structure, the original Jinyang Palace and the Jinyang Cangcheng next to it are independent outside the city, and later the city expanded, and the two are included.

So due north is Jinyang Palace, and next to it is Cangcheng, which is composed of hundreds of warehouses.

At this time, Wang Zhen of the Assassin Shi smiled and said: "We are all saying, should the envoy consider moving the palace to Taiyuan, which is more worthy of the name?" ”

This is to say that Guo Song was named the king of Jin, and since he was named the king of Jin, he should no longer live in a corner.

Guo Song smiled, in fact, he also thought about it this way, but at least he had to take the southeast of Hedong, Yanzhou, Qingzhou and other places, and connect Guanlong, Guannei, and Hedong into one piece before he could consider moving the palace to Taiyuan.

"I don't have the energy to think about it so much for the time being, let's talk about it later!"

A group of people came to the official office of Jinyang Palace, Jinyang Palace covers an area of 500 acres, divided into two, the front 200 acres is the official office, the back 300 acres is the palace, a few years ago was renovated by the Yuan family, extremely luxurious atmosphere.

At present, the Assassin's Mansion is still under repair, and the official office is temporarily placed on the side of Jinyang Palace.

At this time, Guo Song asked, "Where is the thing I want?" ”

Meng Jianchun hurriedly said: "The humble post is ready, please make the envoy come with me." ”

They walked briskly towards the official office of the Supervision Department, and when they found this opportunity, Guo Song asked, "How have the two of them behaved in the past few months?" ”

Guo Song refers to the natural assassin Shi Wang Zhen and the long history Xue Fan, Meng Jianchun owes and says: "Back to the envoy, the two are not bad, more concerned about the people's livelihood and people's feelings, and more self-disciplined, ten days ago, Wang Tingshi's nephew went hunting, trampled on a few acres of wheat fields, was whipped by Wang Tingshi in public, and ordered him to compensate the farmer Qingmiao money, at first he thought he was buying people's hearts, but then realized that this is actually them maintaining the reputation of the family, frankly speaking, the children of the family are generally self-disciplined, and their character is good, This is much stronger than that of the Guanlong aristocracy. ”

"You can come to such a conclusion on this one thing?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

Meng Jianchun hurriedly shook his head, "The lowly position is also secretly visiting the public opinion, generally the children of the family cause trouble outside, and the people will go directly to their family to complain, and then the children of the family will be severely punished by the head of the family, and over time, not many people dare to mess around outside, which is also the confidence of the family to continue for hundreds of years." ”

Guo Song nodded, "The last time the jewelry store was robbed, what was the final result?" ”

"The case has been closed, it was done by the martial arts hall and several martial artists pretending to be the Hexi army, all the stolen goods were recovered, and the five criminals were all in prison."

The two came to a side hall, there was a huge table on the side hall, at least two zhang long, one zhang wide, about six meters long, three meters wide, it was made of mahogany, but when they got closer, it was not a table, the mountains and rivers on it, the city of the mountains, rivers, and all the world, turned out to be a woodcarved map of Hedong, carved in fine detail, lifelike.

This is the map of Hedong that Yuan Xuanhu sent people to carve in two years and spent nearly 10,000 guan to carve, from the southernmost Yellow River to the northernmost Great Wall, the westernmost Qin-Jin Grand Canyon to the easternmost Taihang Mountain, including more than 20 state capitals and hundreds of county towns in Hedong Road.

This is not only a work of art, but also an important military resource, in fact, the original intention of carving it is that the Yuan family wants to seize the entire territory of Hedong.

Guo Song saw the Taiyuan City on the map, about one and a half feet square, it is the largest of all the cities, and it is very finely carved inside, Jinyang Palace, Cangcheng, sixty-four squares, Nanshi and Dongshi, Bingzhou Street, as well as temples and Taoist temples, as well as various landmark buildings, and even the bridge between Yuanqingfang and Dajifang has been carved.

To the west of Taiyuan City is Fenshui, which originates from the Tianchi Pond of Guanshui Mountain, and meanders to the south until it finally flows into the Yellow River.

Guo Song found that there was a boat on the Fenshui River, and he immediately asked with interest: "Is the original map of this wood carving map still there?" ”

"The original picture is no longer available, it seems to have been burned by fire, but the two carvers are still there, and the lowly has made them wait outside."

"Call them in, I'll ask!"

After a while, two carvers in their forties were ushered in, and the two knelt down and saluted, "Meet Guo Yuanjun!" ”

"Two of you, please!"

Guo Song asked them to get up, and when he saw that they looked quite alike, he smiled and asked, "Are you brothers?" ”

"Exactly, the villain is my brother Zhang Song, he is my brother Zhang Bai, and we are all natives of Taiyuan."

"You carved this woodcarved map?" Guo Song pointed to the map and asked.

"It took us two years to go to all the states and counties at the bottom of the river to carve this map."

Guo Song nodded, "I don't understand something, because the original map can't be found, so I can only ask you." ”

Guo Song pointed to the boats on the Fenshui and said, "Do these boats really exist?" ”

"Fenshui has always been an important transportation channel in Hedong, and we are completely carved according to the truth."

"How big are these ships?"

"A 1,000-stone cargo ship is more common, but we have also seen a 2,000-stone ship."

"What about the three thousand stones?"

Guo Song smiled and asked, "Is there a cargo ship with 3,000 stones?" ”

Zhang Song hesitated and said: "This issue has also been discussed by our two brothers, it stands to reason that Fenshui can carry a cargo ship of 3,000 stones, but in fact, a cargo ship of 3,000 stones can basically not be seen." ”

"Why not?"

"We guess it's related to the Monmen Mountain."

"You mean a boat on dry land?"

Mengmen Mountain is today's Hukou Waterfall, the drop is nearly 20 zhang, can not sail, so when the boat arrives there, it pulls it over from the land next to it, and there are logs below, hundreds of people pull together, the boat walks two miles on the land, bypasses the Hukou Waterfall, and then enters the Yellow River to sail.

The two brothers nodded, "That's right, the ship of three thousand stones is too heavy, and it is very inconvenient to sail on dry land. ”

Guo Song nodded, and said to the soldiers next to him: "Go and invite Wang Tingshi and Xue Changshi!" ”

The soldiers walked quickly, and after a while, Changshi Xue Fan hurriedly came and said apologetically to Guo Song: "Wang Tingshi went to inspect the state outside the city, what did the envoy command?" ”

Guo Song said slowly: "I want to know, how many ships of more than 1,000 stones can Taiyuan Mansion gather now?" ”

Xue Fan thought for a while and said, "There are two hundred and thirty ships in the Wang family alone, and the Xue family's fleet is about one hundred and forty. ”

When Guo Song heard that he could collect five hundred thousand-stone cargo ships, he was very happy, and said with a smile: "Then please ask Xue Changshi to collect ships for me, which is very important for my next actions." ”

"The lowly will collect all the ships in three days."

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Xue Fan did not disappoint Guo Song, and in just three days, he collected 530 Qianshi cargo ships, all of which were moored on the Fenshui River west of Taiyuan.

Although the Hexi Army also anchored hundreds of ships on the Yanzhou side, the ships could not come to Taiyuan Province, and they had to pass through Li Huaiguang's territory, fearing that Li Huaiguang would confiscate them all.

Guo Song began to dispatch troops, he ordered the fleet to be a grain and grass logistics baggage team, he led 40,000 troops to leave Taiyuan City, to the south of the mighty slaughter, opened the campaign to conquer the southeast of the river.