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From the beginning of summer, the waterways around Beijing become increasingly busy. A large number of boats loaded with goods continue to swim up the river and turn into the water.

For this situation, everyone in Beijing was not surprised. After all, Shen Zhezi, the commander of the horses, also has a very high reputation in Beijing, and his every move is widely watched in this realm. The horses should vigorously operate Tuzhong, and naturally they should draw materials from the capital.

Gradually, however, people began to discover something unusual. The busy waterways have been going on since the beginning of summer, and they tend to get worse. What started to be a few large ships a day off the coast gradually expanded to more than a dozen, and once it started, it didn't stop and lasted for several months. This posture is no longer used to extract materials from the Beijing Mansion, it is like emptying the Beijing Mansion!

In the south of the city, there are now large warehouses in the south of the capital, and the warehouses are like mountains one after another, and there is no shortage of people who are proud to ask how much is stored in these warehouses? It seems that the questions of these people have been heard, and the continuous flow of ships has given them a chance to measure.

According to the statistics of several large wharves in Linjiang, Beijing, the material use dispatched to the north has exceeded one million yuan of salt and rice alone! The rest of the goods are countless! However, this is not the end, and the near-terrifying transport continues.

For a time, the entire Beijing Mansion was slightly panicked, and there were no shortage of rumors that the Wuzhong Business Alliance was going to abandon the Beijing Mansion and turn to Liang County in a big way. As soon as this rumor appeared, the impact on people was not small, and all the scholars flocked to Yanshan Manor, the headquarters of the Wuzhong Business Alliance.

You must know that the current prosperity of Beijing has a great relationship with the material exchange of Wuzhong Business Alliance, if the influx of goods in Wuzhong is cut off, the development trend of the entire Beijing Mansion may be cut in half, and hundreds of thousands of people will have no food and clothing, and completely collapse!

Yanshan Manor's reaction was quick, and it quickly gave the people an answer: the resource dispatch that lasted for several months had nothing to do with the business alliance as a whole, but the Shen family itself was calling for resources. The business alliance has always been in Beijing, and accepts orders and ships as usual.

With the response of the Shang Alliance, the hearts of the people in the capital settled down, but soon another shock came to their hearts. Such a huge carrying capacity is just to dispatch the goods of the Shen family? What kind of staggering accumulation does this Jiangdong Haoshou have!

This question is a great shock to people. However, Shen Ke, who was one of the parties involved, had no time to be complacent, and the message from Liang Jun was that he should mobilize all the forces that could be mobilized to transfer as many materials as possible to Tuzhong!

Even if Shen Ke was in the capital, he couldn't figure out how many goods he had sent to Tu Zhong during this time. However, just to pay the people's expenses, the grain has exceeded 100,000 hundred!

With such a huge amount of resource scheduling, the Shen family naturally couldn't do it alone. Although the surrounding areas of Beijing have now been fully developed, the acres of land controlled by his family are either self-sustained, held by others, or indirectly controlled, and have exceeded 10,000 hectares.

However, the investment in the early stage, plus the fact that it has been sold in the market one after another over the years, and the establishment of a rebel army in the year before last also cost a lot of money. Therefore, in this huge volume, the materials that really belong to the Shen family account for less than one-third, and the rest are all borrowed.

The business alliance has its own loan agreement, and the interest rate is much lower than that outside, but after all, it also needs to be repaid, and the business alliance also needs to maintain the market operation of the entire Beijing government, so although everyone is willing to lend money, the pressure is also urgent.

Shen Zhezi can ignore it in Liang County, just urge. However, more than half of the warehouses in Beijing have been emptied, while many large orders from Guangling and Jiankang are about to meet their delivery deadlines. Shen Ke was also very anxious here, and frequently sent letters to Wu Zhong, asking for materials to be transported here as soon as possible.

After several years of running-in, the Wuzhong water transport network has already been polished and matured. As an important transshipment center in the lower reaches of Beijing, the vicinity of Taihu Lake has also been very busy recently. A large number of materials are going north, and the simple waterway can no longer even meet such a huge volume requirement! The Shen family also went around asking for advice, and all the furniture mobilized servants and cattle and horses to help with the transfer.

In the countryside of Wuzhong, the scene is even more spectacular, distributed in the wilderness of the various manors of the people or sampan bamboo rafts, or ox cart manpower, as little as three or five hundred, more than one hundred and ten hundred, spontaneously transported to Longxi and other large wharves. The grain is shipped here, it will be loaded into the ship immediately, and it will be shipped as soon as the ship is full!

In the past, Shen Hong sat in the township, and he was also a person who paid great attention to demeanor and grooming, but recently he has gradually become unkempt, with more than a dozen family members behind him, or cruising in various manors in the township, or personally directing the loading and shipping on the dock, and he was so busy that he didn't have time to eat every day.

In addition to doing his best to meet the frequent reminders sent by the Beijing government, Shen Hong also sent letters to Dongyangzhou, complaining to his eldest brother Shen Chong urgently, if the goods in Dongyangzhou are not transported quickly, according to the posture of the Beijing government, this will be the whole cold winter in the future, and the whole family is afraid that they will not even be able to drink porridge!

The next important node in this busy transportation network is Yuhangzhou City. As an important node of north-south transportation, Zhoushi has an unimaginable freight volume. The annual boat tax alone is an extremely staggering figure, and it is also the most important financial pillar in Taichung today.

Xie Shang was appointed as the commander of Qiantang earlier, in charge of Zhou City, although the ministry is not high, but its importance is even more than that of some small states. Since the Zhoushi tax package, the general affairs have been in charge of each family in the township, and the task will be completed ahead of schedule every year. Therefore, although the ministry is important, Xie Shang is relatively leisurely.

But with the end of the line in Liangjun, Jiangbei, Xie Shang's leisure time is gone. The Dongyang Army directly entered the country and took over the Zhoushui warehouse, and the Taiwanese capital originally used to send to Jiankang Taicheng was directly misappropriated and disappeared into the Zhoushi City like snowmelting. And the several water transport wharves that went north and west were like fierce beasts with their mouths wide open, devouring all the boats and ships full of goods, and there were no entrances and exits.

During this tenure, Xie Shang not only had to fight with Taichung's edict to demand the payment of Taiwanese taxes, but also frequently went south to negotiate with the Dongyang Prefecture, so that he could sprinkle a little surplus grain in his hands to comfort the hunger and thirst of those who were waiting to be fed in Taichung.

Dongyangzhou is also refreshing, there is money and food, but there is no capacity. If Taichung is too poor to open the pot, he can drag his family to eat at the meeting. Otherwise, simply borrow directly from Dingcang, and wait until next year's transportation capacity is slow before shipping Taiwanese capital.

It is not only Wuzhong that is busy, but also Poyang County, Jiangzhou, which is also busy. Since Wuxing and Shen Xian served as the Taishou, they almost didn't even live in the town, so they were busy going over the mountains and mountains to conquer the mountains and mountains and the barbarians, and a large number of Dingkou hiding in the mountains and lakes were driven to the plains, and then sent envoys to the north and south.

Its action was so big that even Tao Kan, who was sitting in Wuchang, was alarmed, thinking that the Shen family was going to make some big move in Jiangzhou, and mobilized several people to surround Poyang. Therefore, surrounded by heavy troops, Shen Xian's affairs were easier to do, and there were originally a few barbarians who were a little untamed because of their own people, but after perceiving this situation, they thought that Jiangzhou was going to have a big event, but they didn't dare to act rashly, so they could only cooperate obediently.

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In recent months, the city of Liang County can be described as a blow-like growth, since its appearance until it has become a majestic city in the upper reaches of Tushui, even those Yuzhou generals who are watching this city rise, it is inevitable to smack their tongues when it comes to the short time it takes.

Today's Liangjun City, across the Tushui near the shore, inside and outside the camp, the city is majestic. Near a water village wharf on the left, on the deepened and widened river bay, there are often more than a dozen boats moored and ready to go. Between the water village and the city, there are seven or eight towering warehouses like mountain peaks, where a large amount of grain and rice are stored, as well as many ordnance such as bows, armor, knives and arrows.

More than ten miles to the northeast of the city, there is a huge boulder piled up, rammed earth filled escort embankment, and across the embankment is several river dais with an amazing amount of water. Around the river, the two armies are heavily tuned, the barracks are not inferior to the fortified city, one is in a horn with the Liangjun city to defend together, and the other is along the water to protect the dai to ensure that the waterway is unimpeded.

And around the Liangjun City, there are many scenic spots, and there are also large and small camps set up, which will firmly protect this area, and it is no longer a lonely city.

In such a short period of time, such a large-scale construction, the consumption of manpower and material resources required is amazing, it is unimaginable, and it is by no means hundreds of millions of dollars! Moreover, in the process of construction, it is necessary to deal with the frequent harassment of Huainan slave soldiers, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a miracle to be able to achieve the current situation.

As the weather cooled down, the construction around Liang County was nearing completion. Even if Huainan attacks again, it will be difficult to easily tear through the current Tushui defense line. And Shen Zhezi's heart, which had always been hanging, finally relaxed slightly.

As soon as he relaxed, he was in the mood to sort out what kind of price he had paid to build this line of defense recently. Speaking of consumption, Shen Zhezi himself doesn't have much position, anyway, the manpower and materials that can be drawn out are all invested in it.

And the third uncle of his family, Shen Yun's father, Shen Hong, wrote a few days ago to complain, because of the investment regardless of the cost during this period, almost even the winter food in the Wuzhong countryside is urgent! The price of grain in the capital has more than doubled, and in Beijing it is even more exaggerated, it has tripled!

After several years of accumulation and operation, it can be said that it has completely exploded in this very short period of time! Even if Shen Zhezi doesn't show off his wealth, he has to admit that with Taichung's current income from money and food, even if it is accumulated for several years, it is impossible to support the consumption of this time!

The scheduling of such a huge material is itself a demonstration of strength. If in previous years, people still didn't know how rich the Shen family was, then today's Liangjun defense line is an answer! Although it is only a corner of the land, because of the required time, the cost of construction is more than twice as much as that of ordinary slow construction!

From Jiangzhou to Wuzhong, the use of civil power involved exceeded 300,000 people! Such an astonishing invocation and such a smooth logistics channel all show that the power of the Shen family is far from being as simple as it seems on the surface!

In order to grab time and avoid those meaningless disputes, Shen Zhezi completely operated Liangjun as a gateway to private land, regardless of all the noise around the outside world, he also wanted to build this bridgehead for the advancement of Jiangbei in the shortest possible time!

Even his family, including his father Shen Chong, didn't understand this urgency, and repeatedly wrote to him to persuade him to work steadily and steadily, and never be greedy for merit. After all, today's Shen family is different from the past, no matter whether it succeeds or fails, the impact is by no means limited to the gains and losses of one family.

And Shen Zhezi also had to admit that when it really rose to the level of planning the general trend of the world, the private power of a family, no matter how strong it was, had very little effect. Just operating Liangjun alone has already made his family's rice warehouse run rats. But no matter how much money and food you accumulate, you have to use it where it is needed, and a huge investment means a huge return.

Although Shen Zhezi has not specifically discussed the sharing of the cost of the war with Taiwan at the moment, if Taiwan really just stays out of the matter, thinking that he will start to fall into madness after his small victory, and wants to sit back and watch success or failure, then these people are also dreaming. Shen Zhezi just doesn't have time at the moment, and when he takes out his energy, he will settle a detailed account with Taicheng!

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