Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 455 Hanshui Plan
At the first New Year's Eve banquet after the official establishment of Chu State, Bai Tu encouraged and rewarded the team that opened up the wasteland of Danzhou, and then routinely selected last year's outstanding government agencies, outstanding groups, and outstanding individuals...

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, after Bai Tu personally saw off the Danzhou wasteland reclamation group, various government agencies also began to deploy their annual plans for the new year.

After a month of "internship" at the Ministry of Industry, where he learned some new materials, and a group of hydrology and water conservancy bachelors from the Ministry of Industry, who personally visited and surveyed the Wudang area, Li Yan also gave Bai Tu a formal reply.

Six years.

"Has Fang Zheng thought about it? If the investment in this is aborted, it cannot be solved by a military order." Bai Tu emphasized again.

Li Yan didn't think it was "questioning" himself. After all, he knew the investment of Wudang Hanshuiyan the most. From digging interception tunnels, dredging water sections, excavating foundation pits... until the actual construction was completed, Li Yan estimated that it would take Six years.

Moreover, during these six years, it was not just Wudang County that had to contribute, but most of Nanyang’s manpower and material resources!
If it is true that after the investment, the project dies halfway, Li Yan would not be able to forgive his hatred by apologizing with death...

Of course, Li Yan is not allowed to take the blame alone.

The preliminary plan designed by Li Yan had already gone through three rounds of approval and defense at the Ministry of Industry. Each round required repeated revisions many times before it was finally approved.

In the end, it was Li Yan who was in charge of the overall situation, but there were several teams who made suggestions and checked for omissions!
"Don't worry, Your Majesty! Yan Ding will live up to his trust!" Li Yan said solemnly.

"Be sure to make good plans and predictions, especially the assessment of affected areas and risk areas...then give me the list of places where Hanzhong needs to cooperate, and also notify the people along the Hanzhong section to evacuate." Bai Tu emphasized in particular. road.

Bai Tu didn't expect that the manpower and material resources would be used to smash it down, and the result would be a flood...

In addition, Baitu also wanted to warn Hanzhong to avoid causing disaster to the people in the upper reaches of the Han River when the water level rose.

When the Hanshui Weir was first built, Bai Tu mentioned it to Zhang Lu's envoy and asked Hanzhong to bear part of the cost. After all, the improvement of the river course would also be beneficial to the upper reaches of the Hanshui River.

However, Hanzhong insisted that this was a private act of Chu State and had nothing to do with Hanzhong Tianshi Mansion...

Especially the previous contacts between Tianshi Mansion and Chu and Wei were not pleasant. Both Bai Tu and Cao Cao scoffed at his idea of ​​making the king... Now let Hanzhong pay?no way!
Anyway, for Zhang Lu, the Hanshui Weir was dispensable. If the Chu State built it, he would just touch it. If he didn't build it...then don't build it at all.

However, Zhang Lu has recently figured it out and gave up the unrealistic fantasy of "King Hanning". He hopes that Chu and Wei will support him in making him "Hanning Hou", and more importantly... he will be awarded Jiuxi!

Although everyone knows that Hanzhong is now a thorn in the side of the forces supporting the Han Dynasty, at least it can give Zhang Lu a sense of security before the internal crisis.

It is indeed in the interests of Chu and Wei for Zhang Lu to keep Hanzhong, but no matter what, Zhang Lu is begging Chu and Wei now, so... Bai Tu naturally took the opportunity to ask him to reimburse part of the Hanshui Weir!

In fact, Bai Tu didn't like the three melons and two dates in Hanzhong, but he was worried that if he didn't want anything, it would alert Zhang Lu and Hanzhong's counselors.

On the contrary, he looked unwilling to suffer, which made Zhang Lu believe that Bai Tu only wanted to build water conservancy projects.

Now Bai Tu has also received a letter from Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, and a messenger will arrive in Hanzhong soon...

And this time, it was Yang Song who came to Chu State again—the same Yang Song who had previously accepted a large amount of bribes from Chu State and even specially opened up channels for his family’s caravan!
When Yang Song came to Chu State, Li Yan had also handed over the assessment report on the Hanzhong side to Bai Tu.

Bai Tu showed some reserve and stayed with Yang Song for three days before meeting him in Jiangshan Garden.

Yang Song expressed this, or said it was just right "panic". Obviously he also understood that Bai Tu was dissatisfied with Zhang Lu's previous attitude!

It was difficult for Yang Song to figure this out. When he saw Bai Tu, he flattered and cried. He still couldn't convince Zhang Lu and made a self-examination.

Bai Tu didn't make it too difficult for Yang Song. After all...it was better that such a greedy messenger was sent by an outsider.

Yang Song came here not only to win the support of Chu State, but also to buy plate armor "on the way".

Previously, because Zhang Lu didn't have many cavalry, and when faced with Liu Zhang's shrinking turtle, there was no room for his plate armor to be used, so he behaved very coldly.

However, Zhang Lu apparently heard that other princes who came to buy plate armor seemed to have got their wish, so there seemed to be nothing wrong with Hanzhong having an elite plate armor cavalry as a deterrent force!
Hanzhong is a rare stable place in troubled times, and with the help of the Heavenly Master and Dao, the people have been more completely cut off. The level of wealth is no less than that of Yizhou, and the government's treasury is full, even no less than that of the country where there have been years of war. Wei State, so it is not bad to trade the goods of plate armor.

After some beatings, Bai Tu did not reach any agreement with Yang Song, and Zhang Chunhua contacted him afterwards...

Sure enough, after money cleared the way, Yang Song not only hinted at Zhang Lu's bottom line, but also revealed the reason why Zhang Lu suddenly became nervous!

Now in Liangzhou, Ma Chao, the son of Yonghou Ma Teng, with divine help in the past year, not only swept away the scattered warlords in Longxi, but also made many Qiang tribes surrender.

Although there is a natural barrier between Hanzhong and Guanxi, which is not friendly to cavalry in particular, the performance of Ma Chao in Liangzhou still puts a lot of pressure on Zhang Lu, and he is worried that one day Ma Chao will directly kill him...

However, when Zhang Chunhua asked vaguely about the news about Tianshi Mansion, Yang Song hesitated.

It seems that Yang Song also understands that Tianshi Mansion is his biggest "trump card". If it is gone, it will be worthless.

And when Zhang Chunhua hinted that he could be given a courtyard in Jinling and arranged for young people of the Yang family to study in Chu universities, Yang Song didn't show much enthusiasm either...

Zhang Chunhua didn't say anything more. After all, his goal had been achieved, so he returned to the Chu Palace and asked Bai Tu for instructions.

"It seems that Yang Song has no intention of completely surrendering." Bai Tu said with some regret.

Although he is a complete villain, at least when he is in the enemy camp, Bai Tu looks cute to him.

"Short-sighted people naturally cannot see the great king's ambition. People like Yang Song probably think that only Yonghou and Shuhou can threaten the Tianshi Mansion, so they will only treat these two families...especially Yonghou and the court behind him. Let's wait for the price." Zhang Chunhua could also guess what Yang Song was thinking.

Faced with the complete wooing of Chu State, what supported Yang Song was not his integrity, but the weighing of pros and cons!

Normally speaking, if the Chu State wants to conquer Hanzhong, it must first conquer Guanzhong, defeat Guanxi, and conquer Liangzhou, and then move south to Hanzhong, or it must first capture Bashu and then move north to Hanzhong...

As for going directly from Jingzhou to Hanzhong?Is such a big Wushan just a decoration?

(End of this chapter)