A few years ago, in order to cooperate with Guo Peng's war horse trade, the Mi caravan gave up the dangerous land roads in accordance with Guo Peng's request.

They chose relatively safer maritime routes and began to vigorously develop their shipbuilding business.

With years of development, the Mi family has already had a professional shipbuilding team with more than 500 people, and more than 100 experienced shipbuilding masters.

Mi Zhu was very happy to learn that Guo Peng was going to establish a navy.

"Mi finally has another chance to repay the kindness of the public."

With such excitement, Mi Zhu handed over 70% of his shipbuilding team to Shenjishi, a craftsman management organization under Guo Peng for free.

Guo Peng attaches great importance to the cultivation and inheritance of technical talents.

Therefore, in order to have the world's skilled craftsmen to provide services to themselves and contribute to the development of China's technology, Shenjishu, an institution specializing in managing various craftsmen talents was established.

The existence of Shenjisi is to facilitate the management of all kinds of craftsmen.

All craftsmen with a skill will register and create books in Shenjijiji, paint and look, give them to famous brands, arrange family accommodation, and pay monthly salaries according to their respective levels.

This increase in the treatment of craftsmen, rewarding meaningful inventions and creations, and attracting all kinds of skilled craftsmen to Guo Peng to serve him is an important reason why Guo Peng can establish a complete ordnance production line in his territory.

No one cares more about the development and application of technology than Guo Peng.

The catapult is the product of technological development, as are the large number of slashing and slashing crossbows, and the sharper weapons. All of this is indispensable for technological progress.

I have you or not, I am stronger than you. Every time I improve my technology, my hard power will be stronger. If I reach a certain level of strength, I can achieve a dimensionality reduction attack.

At that time, fighting for power is actually meaningless.

Now Guo Peng needs to prepare for a navy, but lacks shipbuilding craftsmen. Mi Zhu gave 70% of his team without saying a word, directly making up for the shortcomings of the Shenji Division. Guo Peng was overjoyed when he heard this and wrote a letter to thank Mi Zhu.

So Mi Zhu immediately commanded his own shipbuilding team, mobilized enough manpower and material resources with the support of Xun Yu, and recruited civilians in the slack season to help build ships. Soon the establishment of the navy was brought on the agenda and began to develop.

The navy was planning to establish the country, and Guo Peng was also re-establishing an orderly Pei Kingdom according to his usual practices, and was preparing to cross the river to attack Shouchun.

Yuan Shu's army has been destroyed, and Yuan Shu has no more troops to fight against him. Only Shouchun is left. As long as you chase after him, you can fill the Chen Empire established by Yuan Shu with one breath.

The Yuan family in Runan, a century-old prominent family and the leader of scholars in the world, actually embarked on the road to self-destruction. Isn’t this the funniest thing?

The grain road was opened in early December and the operation was smooth. So Guo Peng led his army to Longkang County, met Xiahou Yuan and Yu Jinlejin, and led the generals to go to the Huai River to see the specific situation and consider when to launch an attack.

"Although it is severely cold, the Huai River has not frozen. If it is frozen in winter like the Central Plains river, our army will not have to worry about ships or something, and can cross the river directly."

Guo Jia looked at the still flowing Huaihe River waterway in disgrace, his face full of disgust for the Huaihe River.

Guo Peng was amused and crying about this.

The rivers south of the Huai River do not freeze, but are rare. Obviously, they did not hit that time.

"Even so, no one can stop our army from crossing the river!"

Xiahou Yuan said to Guo Peng: "According to the general's order, his subordinates have arranged for their subordinates to cut wood and boats to detect waterways, and soon they can build a floating bridge to help the army cross the river! At that time, only the general's order is required, the army can cross the river immediately!"

Guo Peng nodded, held Xiahou Yuan's hand, and smiled and said, "Miaocai, thank you for your hard work."

"Doubtly, unfortunately."

Xiahou Yuan looked dead with a look of home.

"Hahaha."

Guo Peng smiled and said, "We are a family, so I won't speak the two families anymore. Arlene is very respectful. I like it very much, and the children I gave birth to are also very cute. Everything Xiahou did for me is not less than Cao's. Although you have always guarded the rear for me, you have made the same contribution."

"Thank you, General!"

A smile appeared on Xiahou Yuan's face.

"I will take you as the pioneer in this river crossing battle and open up the road from Huaihe River to Shouchun for me. Do you have confidence?"

Guo Peng pointed his hand in the direction of Shouchun City.

"If the general has an order, his subordinates will not want this life and will do this for the general!"

Xiahou Yuan was very excited when he heard Guo Peng say that he would be the pioneer.

"Who made you fight to the death? For the generals, don't talk about life and death at any time. You are an officer. Your safety is as important as victory or defeat. You must not charge yourself unless you have to. You must not take risks easily until the critical moment. Do you understand?"

"yes!"

Xiahou Yuan immediately agreed.

"Let me do this, I will transfer a team of fifty-man Tiger Guards to be your personal soldiers to protect your safety. Tiger Guards are all warriors from a hundred, and they are all worthy of one on the battlefield. Only then can I feel at ease."

Guo Peng held Xiahou Yuan's hand tightly. Xiahou Yuan felt a warm current flowing through his heart, and he saluted with excitement on his face to express gratitude.

After the Pioneer Crossing the River Plan was confirmed, Guo Peng took his men to travel around the north bank of the Huai River, observing the ecology and hydrology of the Huai River area that was very different from the Central Plains, and observed a large number of primitive jungle landscapes and a large number of undeveloped and rare areas.

"Everyone says that Huainan is vast and sparsely populated, with a lot of land and a small population. The Han Dynasty has a large population in the Central Plains and Guanzhong, but not in Huainan. However, if such fertile soil is not developed, wouldn't it be a waste of natural resources?"

Guo Peng said slowly to Guo Jia and Xi Zhong who were following him.

"What the general said naturally makes sense."

Xi Zhong said, "But the Huainan land has not been a place with abundant population since ancient times. It has dense water networks and inconvenient transportation. The Han Dynasty's control over the south is far less important than controlling the Central Plains and Guanzhong. Moreover, the southward, the smaller the population and the more southern barbarians. It is said that it is development, but in fact, it still needs to be fought."

Guo Jia also agrees with this view.

"That's right, the more you go south, the fewer Han people and the more barbarians. Most of the barbarians are living in the south of the river. Jingzhou, Yizhou, Yangzhou and Yangzhou are living in the south of the barbarians. The mountains and forests are densely populated, with very little arable land and inconvenient transportation. Not to mention the Han official army, even the local tyrants are not allowed to go deep. The barbarians are fierce and have strong combat power, so it is enough to be surrendered."

Guo Peng did not object to their views, because this was very realistic.

To develop, we must always handle transportation and population. In addition to the riverside area, there are many foreigners south of the Yangtze River, so development is not worth the cost.

In other words, Qin Shihuang made a plan to immigrate a million people, mobilized 500,000 Qin troops to develop the south, and shed countless blood to symbolically subdue these lands to the Central Plains.

However, there are still only a few Han people living in those places, basically near the county town. Leaving the county town is equivalent to not the territory of the Han Dynasty. The counties and counties in southern Yangzhou and southern Jingzhou are particularly large, and the administrative divisions of Kuaiji County are comparable to those in Guandong and Hebei. It is conceivable how sparse the population is.

Development costs more money than fighting wars, so emperors of all generations naturally did not want to develop it.

Not everyone can and is willing to mobilize the whole country to develop wilderness, and the benefits of the large-scale immigration strategy that brings national power are often not visible in ten or twenty years.
Chapter completed!