Guo Peng decided to order General Dinghai, Taishici, who was commanding the navy, to lead a large number of naval ships and 10,000 naval soldiers to head south.

On the way, we brought a group of elite troops from the Danyang Camp in Yangzhou, and then went south together to gather 20,000 people.

This group of troops lives in the Jiangnan region all year round and is already familiar with the warm and humid climate of the Jiangnan region. When you go to Jiaozhou, you will not be able to withstand the heat, and the combat will be very simple.

Use the navy to bypass the difficult roads on land and divide the troops into two groups.

Landed all the way at the Pearl River Estuary, guided Nanhai County, and then headed west.

All the way, we went directly to the coastal area of ​​Jiaozhi County, landed directly in Jiaozhi County, and launched a crackdown on the core areas of Jiaozhou.

The reason is naturally to suppress the rebellion and to punish the Jiaozhou governor Zhang Jin and the Jiaozhi prefect Xie.

Use this reason to uproot these two forces from Jiaozhou, and then forcefully implement the policy of clearing the land, which can eliminate the weak Jiaozhou local forces in a short period of time.

Then, Jiaozhou is directly under the central government.

The combat troops were drawn from the Navy and Danyang Camp, and the combat commander-in-chief was Taishi Ci.

The army logistics were transported from Yangzhou, and they also adopted a maritime transportation strategy, maritime shipping and maritime transportation, and maritime transportation to the greatest extent, so as to minimize local resources to reduce war losses.

Guo Peng didn't want to spend too much money and food for this now-wild land.

The development work in Jiangnan was very expensive. Some of the money Guo Peng got from sweeping the Haoqiang Manor was spent on the construction of Mozhou and the Grand Canal. All the rest was invested in Jiangnan development in order to increase the speed of Jiangnan development.

The little ice river approaches step by step, and time is running out. Guo Peng can already feel that he has not had much time left.

It won’t take many years to freeze the Huaihe River Basin in winter.

The southward movement of the zero-degree isotherm is a huge devastating blow to the farming people. Not only Liaodong, but also Hebei, but also the agriculture in the entire Jiangbei region will be subject to a major blow.

It is hard to say whether it will be affected south of the Yangtze River. The truly safe place is Lingnan.

The current development of Lingnan is equivalent to not having it. The land in Lingnan has less arable land and many hills, so it cannot share much pressure from the north.

What can play a big role is probably the Honghe Plain, a treasure land that is ripe for three years.

The soil is fertile, the air is warm and humid, and it is ripe for three years. The advanced agricultural technology of the Central Plains is transferred here, and it will soon become the granary of the world and the light of hope.

Guo Peng predicts that the Wei State will only last ten years. If the Red River Plain cannot be built into a granary and the initial development of agriculture in the Lingnan region, the Little Ice Age will be very difficult.

There are also sea transportation and the Grand Canal.

The South-to-North Grain Diversion Project requires sea transportation and canals, and ordinary land transportation cannot be considered at all. The efficiency is too low and the speed is too slow. The military's expedition is a problem, let alone support the whole people.

Without sea transportation and the Grand Canal, the grain from Jiangnan and Lingnan could not be transferred to the north for support.

Maritime transportation can transport grain from Lingnan to the Grand Canal, and then transfer this part of the grain from the Grand Canal to the hinterland of the Central Plains and to the Guanzhong and Guanxi areas.

Shipping can even directly transfer this part of the grain to Youzhou and Pingzhou, directly support the two states to ensure the stability of the two states.

There are certainly losses, but this large-scale South-to-North Grain Diversion Project that breaks through time and space limitations is very difficult in itself.

Therefore, Guo Peng now handed over all the punishment of corrupt officials to Cheng Yu, allowing Cheng Yu to kill all directions to intimidate the ministers, while he devoted himself to the construction of the Grand Canal.

Can't slow down for a moment.

Since the second year of Yande, the Grand Canal project has been put on the agenda.

Later, while the political storm was in progress, the Grand Canal project was also continuously promoted, and the plan to arrive in Luoyang was modified to extend to Hebei and Jizhou.

The Grand Canal connects north-south transportation, from Hebei to Luoyang to the Hangzhou Bay area in the south of the Yangtze River.

The specific plan is to make full use of the ancient canal project and natural waterways repaired during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the Qin and Han Dynasties to connect north-south transportation.

The construction of the Grand Canal was not just a waterway that was dug out of thin air.

It is definitely necessary to dig a waterway, but this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is to use the canal project and natural waterway repaired by our predecessors to minimize costs.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Wu and Yue competed for hegemony. Wu and Yue all went north to compete for hegemony. So at that time they also understood the transportation disadvantages of Jiangnan, so they dug water conservancy projects and canals.

Now the Jiangnan region is also an ancient canal dug by our ancestors in the Spring and Autumn Period and maintained by our later generations.

Through this part of the canal, the Hangzhou Bay area is connected with the Yangtze River, and the south and Huainan are connected through the Yangtze River waterway, and then the Huainan and Huainan are connected through the Huainan and Huainan and Huainan are connected together through the Huainan and the hinterland of the Central Plains, and further connect to Luoyang and Hebei.

This huge project was confirmed to be carried out around six years in Yande.

Starting from the sixth year of Yande, the Wei Empire carried out preliminary exploration of the Grand Canal repair.

In the seventh year of Yande, the specific plan was submitted to the emperor for review, and Guo Peng convened a meeting for the imperial predecessor to discuss and decided to implement it.

In the second half of the seventh year of Yande, the Grand Canal project began to be fully promoted, and the north and south roads were carried out at the same time.

With the help of the large number of Xianbei and Wuhuan people captured by the Northern Expedition, as well as the financial and material resources seized from the suppression of the rebellion in the ninth year of Yande, the Grand Canal Project entered the process of rapid development.

Although Guo Peng captured more than one million Xianbei and Wuhuan people, they had many other things to do, such as repairing Shu Road, which had huge projects and high mortality rates. The number of people was slightly insufficient when it came to the Grand Canal project.

So Guo Peng had to order the recruitment of civil servants from the surrounding areas along the canal, and initiated a mobilization edict based on villages and villages, and obtained a large amount of manpower to jointly promote the renovation of the Grand Canal.

Dig new waterways, widen, renovate ancient canals and natural waterways, discuss the direction of the canal, survey and map all data, and provide real-time feedback to the central government, etc.

In the ninth year of Yande, the project was slightly affected by the rebellion, but it was not big. The activity of local militias restricted the scope of activities of the powerful rebels, and they never invaded the Grand Canal Engineering Area.

Therefore, the Wuhuan and Xianbei people in the project area naturally had no hope of escaping, and the entire project was protected very well.

After the rebellion was quelled, Guo Peng had another batch of labor force, and all of this batch of labor force was put into the Grand Canal project.

To this end, he set up a canal office and appointed Zhuge Jin and Pang Tong, the attendant of Nanshufang, as the heads and deputy heads of the canal office respectively.

The Canal Office is directly responsible for him, and he is responsible for coordinating and handling everything, and he must let him know everything.

The emperor was directly responsible for the canal office, which shows how much the emperor attached to the canal. People only thought that the emperor valued the canal to communicate north-south transportation to facilitate better control of the south. However, most of the ministers thought it was a joke about the emperor's proposal of reducing grain production in severe cold climates.

How can grain production be reduced if it is said to reduce production?

How can the climate change at any time?

The four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter have been reincarnated since ancient times. The so-called climate change is just an indefinite speculation.

Even though he was an emperor, such words could not be believed by the ministers. Most people think that the emperor was exaggerating. Saying such words must have deeper political significance. Even those who support him will regard this kind of thing as political speculation.

No one believes that the future of Xiao Ginghe and grain production reduction will really come.

As the Wei Empire continued to develop Jiangnan territory and promote Jiangnan settlement, the annual grain output of the Wei Empire was still increasing, and there was no sign of a decline, just like the population was also growing.

Guo Peng didn't know how to make them believe that elephants could run in the Yellow River Basin during the Shang Dynasty, and there were tropical forests everywhere. The place where they live now is a paradise for beasts.

Otherwise, why is there an elephant next to the word "Yu" in Yuzhou?

Moreover, the highest peak of the Jin Dynasty ruled a little more than 20 million people, and after crossing Henan and heading south, he had no qualifications or necessities for the north.

It is not the same magnitude as the current Wei Empire's population that is heading straight to 80 million. The situation that both sides have to face is completely different.

There are some things that cannot be said, but when it is time for grain production to be reduced, they will know that they are amazing.

If we really don’t prepare at that time, the Wei Empire will really face the dimensionality reduction attack from nature.
Chapter completed!