The speed of the fast boat provided by the Jinling Navy is really not slow, and it is much faster than the light boat that Chu Huan took before.

On this ship, there were more than 20 sailors, plus dozens of Jinling soldiers led by Zhang Jian, but the Jinling Navy sent dozens of people to escort Ximen Yi to Weiling Mansion.

There is no doubt that General Tu of the Jinling Navy attaches great importance to the arrival of the envoy of the Northwest Army, but this person does not show up, and obviously he is still on guard against the Northwest Army.

There are specially equipped cooks on the ship, three meals a day, but also sumptuous, and there is also a supply of melons and fruits, which really treats Ximen Yi and his party as guests.

Passing by the Qionghe wharf, Chu Huan could see clearly, there were more than ten large ships docked at the wharf, and many small boats, and the entire wharf was very well guarded.

After traveling to the east for half a day, he saw that the monk had a lot of boats in a row, but these boats were all practicing on the river, Chu Huan saw that the Jinling Navy not only had many ships, but also the Navy drills were also very diligent, orderly, but his heart was even heavier, there was no doubt that Xu Chang attached great importance to this Navy Army, not only was there a large number of people, but obviously did not want this Navy Army to just become a rabble on display, but carefully trained to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Jinling Navy Army.

After two days of traveling, we arrived at a fork, but it was the junction with the Huijiang River, the green hills on both sides of the river were green and beautiful, and the ship turned into the Huijiang River, turned to the southwest, just caught up with SF, raised the sails, and the speed was much faster.

The green hills on both sides of the river are continuous, and the Huijiang River is very wide, but on the way, I encountered several warships, which seemed to be cruising on the river.

Chu Huan secretly admired in his heart, the naval army formed by Xu Chang obviously played a significant role, and the Qionghe Huijiang River had been completely controlled by the Jinling naval army.

And Chu Huan knows very well that the Qiong River not only leads to the Huijiang River, but also can pass through the water, and the Rao water leads directly to the Luo'an capital, in addition, several tributaries of the Huijiang River are also all over the southwest region, after the Qin State, it has a strong army, but the strength of the water army is far from enough to be compared with the army, and the only few water armies are only distributed in the harbor, and there is almost no real water division in the inland lakes.

In the case of the unstable foundation of the empire, it is naturally impossible to reduce the army, the empire has always maintained a huge military strength, in addition to the guards stationed in the various provinces of the empire, the annual military expenditure of the Liaodong Army and the Northwest Army is not a small amount, to support such a huge army, the empire's finances are already stretched, and it is naturally impossible to have excess silver to form a naval army.

After that, the national strength gradually recovered, the treasury began to be full, and the people's lives had just improved, but the emperor suddenly became obsessed with monasticism, and from then on, the empire immediately turned from a brief prosperity to decay, and it was impossible to have the energy and financial resources to form a naval army.

Qionghe, Raoshui, Huijiang and the rivers and waterways in the middle and southwest of the empire, there is no naval army with combat effectiveness at all, this time Chu Huan saw the Jinling naval army, but his heart was also sighed, this Xu Chang can kill the master and stand on his own and rise to prominence, he is really not a general, compared to the many separatist forces in the world, Xu Chang is the first person who thought of forming a naval army, although the reason may be because he is worried that someone will attack Jinling Cang from the waterway, but in fact, Xu Chang's Jinling army has taken the lead and has a naval army that spans the waters, The strength of the Jinling Army is naturally greatly improved.

"Zhang Baihu, your army's sailors are indeed majestic." The night breeze was blowing, Chu Huan walked to Zhang Jian, who was standing at the bow of the boat, and said with emotion: "I really admire such a navy army, which controls all waterways and advances and retreats freely." ”

Zhang Jian glanced at Chu Huan, and said proudly: "I heard that the cavalry of your Northwest Army is also invincible, and the Xishan Army is vulnerable in front of your Northwest Iron Cavalry. Hehe smiled and said: "But then again, if your iron cavalry arrives in Jinling, it will be difficult to move an inch, and there are many rivers and lakes in Jinling, which is not as flat as Xishan." ”

Chu Huan said with a smile: "Zhang Baihu is serious, if an agreement is reached this time, your two armies will be allies, and the Northwest Army will not set foot on the land of Jinling." Then he smiled and said: "Could it be that your army has been worried that our Northwest Army will whip into Jinling?" ”

Zhang Jian frowned slightly, and quickly said: "Fortunately, you didn't do this, you have to come seriously, you can enter Jinling, but you can't get out of Jinling." His eyes rolled and he said with a smile: "I heard that your Northwest Army is short of food and silver, and even the soldiers can't eat enough, how can you have the strength to fight?" ”

Chu Huan sighed and said, "This is really not as good as you, you are guarding the Jinling Warehouse, eating and drinking without worry." ”

Zhang Jian said with a smile: "How many people in the world want to fight the idea of Jinling Cang, but King Nioh has arranged Jinling Cang with golden soup, and even a mouse can't get in." But then again, we Jinling has money and food, I heard that the conscription in other places is to rob the strong men to join the army, we Jinling has no such thing, the conscription office is lined up all day and night, if you can't pass the test, if you want to enter the army, then there is no chance. ”

"Oh?"

Zhang Jian said proudly: "The grain in Jinling Cang is to supply 100,000 troops, which can also support many years, and now there are hungry people everywhere, reward him with a steamed bun, and he can work hard for you." After entering our Jinling Army, three meals a day will make you full, and you say that fools are unwilling to join the army. Glancing at Chu Huan, he said: "If there is no food, even if you have 100,000 soldiers, you will be clean soon, but with food, it doesn't matter how many soldiers and horses you want." ”

Chu Huan smiled: "It makes sense. ”

Zhang Jian leaned over and lowered his voice, "Your King of Chu sent you here to form an alliance?" ”

"Exactly."

Zhang Jian said with a smile: "In my opinion, it is better to let you King Chu take refuge in our King Ren." As long as your Northwest Army returns to King Ni, you will be guaranteed to be well fed and clothed, and you will not have to be full and hungry like now. ”

Chu Huan was funny in his heart, but he also understood in his heart that Zhang Jian was a hundred households, and he looked at the Northwest Army like this in his heart, perhaps in the eyes of many people, the Northwest Army was like a group of people called Huazi from the Northwest.

Chu Huan didn't care about this, but felt that it would not be a bad thing if all opponents despised the Northwest Army like this.

However, from Zhang Jian's words, it can also be heard that the Jinling Army is indeed rich in money and food, and there is a sense of wealth and wealth, but in his heart, although Jinling Dao has always been rich, but when the world is in turmoil, only one force can accumulate logistics resources that even ordinary soldiers and generals can proudly profuse, I am afraid that the benevolent king Xu Chang's exploitation of Jinling is indeed not light.

"Brother Zhang, I heard that the taxes collected by King Ren in Jinling are not light, don't the people complain?" Chu Huan asked in a low voice: "The soldiers are full of food and drink, but the people are poor, and they are not afraid that the people will make trouble?" ”

Zhang Jian turned his head to look at Chu Huan, and said with a disdainful smile: "Brother Li doesn't seem to understand, if there is chaos today, whoever has a hard fist is the overlord, don't you understand this truth?" What the fist relies on is the soldiers and horses, and whoever has strong soldiers and horses will have a hard fist. If you want to let the soldiers sell their lives, it is natural to let the soldiers eat and drink enough, and what can the people do? The king will keep them safe, and they will feed us enough to be satisfied. ”

Chu Huan nodded and smiled: "What Brother Zhang said makes sense. ”

"In troubled times, there are some things that you can't take care of too much." Zhang Jian looked at Chu Huan and seemed to be very modest, and his mood was also comfortable: "In fact, the object of King Ren's tax collection is not those ordinary people, but those gentry and rich households, your Northwest Army has conquered Tongzhou, after entering the city, have you not noticed how many gentry and gentry have thousands of wealth, and the money and grain in the warehouse are piled up, if you don't ask them for it, wouldn't it be cheaper for them?" ”

"It turns out that Nioh collected taxes from them." Chu Huan looked suddenly enlightened, "They are also willing to take it out?" ”

"Bullshit." Zhang Jian spat at the mouth, "Nioh didn't rob them, at first he was kind to discuss, saying that their money and grain were piled up in the warehouse, and sooner or later they would all rot, so it was better to lend them to us, and repay them twice in the future, those guys didn't know what to do, and hesitated, hehe, Nioh didn't have good patience, he caught a dozen of them, pulled them to the vegetable market and cut off their heads, confiscated the family property, and all the women in the family were thrown into the barracks to act as military prostitutes, and the rest of the guys were frightened, and immediately sent the money and food out of the family, one faster than the other!" At this point, I laughed out loud, so unexpectedly.

Chu Huan just smiled at the corner of his mouth, but did not speak.

"We have heard that your Northwest Army entered Tongzhou, and Qiu did not commit any crimes, hehe, your King of Chu is to save face and not to be guilty." Zhang Jiangao said: "Are you a good thing to be a gentry? Whoever has soldiers and horses in their hands, they will listen to whomever they want, but they will not be grateful to Dade because of your kindness to the king of Chu. Brother Li, to put it mildly, don't blame it, if your Northwest Army is driven out of Tongzhou one day, those gentry will definitely turn to others again, and your Northwest Army will gain nothing at that time. So, take advantage of the moment, hurry up, take out all the things in their stomachs, hold them in their hands is the real thing, if they are disobedient, just like us, kill a few of them and give them a try, and make sure that they are all obedient! ”

Chu Huan smiled and was noncommittal.

"Hehe, you must know that the ladies and ladies of those gentry and wealthy merchants are no more vulgar than ordinary vulgar women." Zhang Jian lowered his voice and said: "It's all fine skin and tender meat, slippery hands, crying, that voice is also the most fucking ecstasy, as long as you taste it, you know that the taste is great." He raised his hand and patted Chu Huan on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "Brother, you still look young, in the future, your Northwest Army will have to fight everywhere, I will teach you a way, and in the future, you will go to the largest mansion in that city, not only the most treasures in it, but also the most beautiful lady and miss, it must be there, you have to remember." ”

Chu Huan arched his hand and said: "Brother Zhang's experience has benefited a lot, and I admire and admire it. ”R1058