Chapter 1856: Transportation of grain by sea


    Chapter 1854: Transportation of grain by sea


    Qingzhou, Beihai County.


    After receiving Qin Hao''s order, Zhou Yu and Qi Jiguang had a dispute over who led the former Yellow River naval army to the north.


    Zhou Yu wanted to lead the army in person, but Qi Jiguang believed that Zhou Yu, as the chief general of the Qingzhou naval army, should not move lightly, and should lead the navy to the north by himself.


    Since Qi Jiguang came to Qingzhou, he cooperated very well with Zhou Yu and had never had a quarrel, but this time it was different.


    This time, the Qingzhou navy went north, which is the last chance for the navy to win credit in the Battle of Hebei, and it will be related to the candidates for the Navy''s Grand Commander General in the future.


    Qi Jiguang also wanted to win the position of the Grand Commander of the Navy, but he was not as qualified as Zhou Yu in terms of military merit, so he naturally did not want to miss this last opportunity to make a contribution.


    In comparison, Zhou Yu''s basic market is much more stable.


    Zhou Yu''s master is the Grand Governor Bai Qi, and his father is an official at the level of prefecture. He has backgrounds in both military and political parties, and his military achievements are also good. Even if he does not compete for the opportunity to lead the north in person this time, he will be the greatest possibility of becoming the Grand Governor of the Navy.


    But Zhou Yu is not the one who will make trouble for himself, and will never develop an opponent for himself. In order to ensure that everything is foolproof, he naturally wants to seize this opportunity to lead the army north.


    Zhou Yu and Qi Jiguang both wanted to lead the army north, but refused to give in to each other, and no one could convince each other. The fight was not over for an hour.


    Although Zhou Yu is the main general, Qi Jiguang is also the deputy general, and his status is second only to him, so he can''t forcefully seize this opportunity.


    Seeing that he couldn''t talk about Qi Jiguang, Zhou Yu sighed and said helplessly: "Brother Qi, since that''s the case, let the future vote anonymously. Whoever has more supporters will lead the north to Bohai. How about it?"


    Qi Jiguang frowned slightly. Although Zhou Yu had not been in Qingbei for a long time, he had come later than Zhou Yu. In terms of prestige, Zhou Yu must be higher.


    Although Qi Jiguang knew that Zhou Yu was digging a hole for him, he couldn''t escape the hole. In addition, he also wanted to know how many people would support him, so he nodded and said, "This idea is good, what should I do."


    Zhou Yu felt a little relieved and said, "Okay, start anonymous vote now..."


    The anonymous vote was not created by Qin Hao, and the first person to create it was Wang Mang.


    During the Battle of the North Sea, although Wang Mang was the chief general of the coalition, his military power came from other forces. In order to better restrain his generals and not to incite conflicts, he developed anonymous vote.


    After the Qin army learned about this, when Li Jing was still in Qingbei, he also used anonymous votes, and the effect was indeed very good, so Zhou Yu now decided to carry it forward.


    In addition to Zhou Yu and Qi Jiguang, generals at the rank of the lieutenant level and above participated in the anonymous vote. In the end, two-thirds of the generals voted for Zhou Yu, and only one-third voted for Qi Jiguang.


    After learning the result, Qi Jiguang was both disappointed and lost. He had great achievements in suppressing the Japanese. He thought that the gap with Zhou Yu would not be too big, but he did not expect that Zhou Yu''s supporters were twice as big as himself.


    “Brother Qi,”


    Although Zhou Yu won, he was also secretly surprised. He didn''t expect that Qi Jiguang would have so many supporters soon after he came to Qingbei. If he hadn''t been to Qingbei for a longer time, an anonymous vote might not have beat Qi Jiguang.


    Zhou Yu suddenly realized that the competitive pressure on the navy was not much smaller than that of the infantry and cavalry. Even if he became the Grand Commander, he had to be cautious and not make mistakes, otherwise Qi Jiguang and Han Shizhong would still replace him.


    After Zhou Yu handed over the task of training the navy to deputy general Qi Jiguang, he personally led 5,000 Yellow River naval troops, drove away all the large ships in Qingbei and some medium-sized warships to Bohai County.


    Small ships cannot cross the sea, and are slow, and are not suitable for transporting food and grass. Therefore, only large and medium-sized warships can undertake the task of transporting food this time.


    Most of the Liangshan Navy warships seized by the Qin army were small and medium-sized warships, with only three large warships, and more Japanese pirate warships were captured, but there were less than ten large warships.


    In addition to the Qin army''s own warships, Zhou Yu brought a total of twenty large warships and thirty medium warships, a total of fifty warships to the Bohai Sea.


    Each large warship can hold 5,000 stones of grain and grass, while the medium-sized can only hold 1,000 stones, which means fifty warships can transport 130,000 stones of grain and grass in one trip to the Bohai Sea and Youbeiping, which is enough for the Qin army in Youbeiping to spend a month.


    The Bohai Sea is hundreds of miles away from Youbeiping, and it takes at least ten days to transport grain by land. If you take the sea, it only takes three days, and the Qin navy can travel five times within one month.


    Therefore, for the current Qin army, transporting grain by sea is indeed better than taking land by land. Zhou Yu''s navy had just arrived at the Bohai port and found that the port was full of food and grass.


    Gu Yong, the prefect of Bohai Sea, attached great importance to the matter of transporting grain by sea. He mobilized 30,000 strong men to transport grain and grass, and helped Zhou Yu carry it on the ship.


    With the unremitting transportation of 30,000 strong men, all 130,000 stones of grain were transported on board in just one day, and 40,000 to 50,000 stones of grain were piled up at the port because they could not hold it anymore.


    "Gongjin, why did you bring only fifty warships?"


    Gu Yong said with a complaining look on his face. In his opinion, the war in Youzhou is more important than anything else, and all warships should be transferred to transport grain.


    "I think, but the Qingzhou naval army has a very thin foundation, and there are not enough sailors and helmsmen who control warships." Zhou Yu said with a wry smile.


    He and Gu Yong had known each other for a long time. Both were from Jiangdong families, and there were fewer people from the Qin army''s political arena, so they were naturally more united. The two were natural political alliances and there were not so many concerns when communicating.


    "That''s how it seems that training the navy is also a hard job." Gu Yong quipped with a smile.


    "How can you compare with Yuan Tan, you, the prefect of Bohai?" Zhou Yu said angrily.


    Gu Yong smiled and did not continue to talk. He was not in his position and did not know the hardships. Others thought that he, the prefect of Bohai, was glorious, but only he himself knew the difficulties and obstacles.


    It’s really hard to be a Qin official! Gu Yong sighed in his heart.


    "By the way, Yuanshang, I see those strong men keep moving goods."


    Zhou Yu pointed to another port and was transporting goods back and forth, asking, "What exactly are they moving?"


    "That is to be sold to Wei, Song and Wu and other countries. They were all seized by Han and Zhao. Our army cannot use it, so it is better to sell it in exchange for funds and develop Hebei."


    Gu Yong couldn''t stop talking as soon as he opened his mouth and complained to Zhou Yu: "Gongjin, you don''t know that our prefects have a hard life.


    The county has not much money on the books, but it costs money in every aspect, so it can only rely on selling arms to alleviate the finances. ”


    Seeing that some warships looked familiar, Zhou Yu pointed at him and asked, "Which country''s warship is this?"


    "That was not the warship of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu, but the warship of the Three Han Wangmang."


    "Who?" Zhou Yu asked with wide eyes and shocked.


    "Wang Mang. If you want to say that Wang Mang is really powerful, after the defeat of the Beihai War, he led only thousands of remaining troops to flee to the Three Hans, but he destroyed several small countries in the Three Hans and established another force. Now he has started business with our army..."


    After hearing Gu Yong''s words, Zhou Yu immediately took a breath.


    He has been training troops in Qingbei, and he didn''t know that Wang Mang and the Qin army were doing military weapons transactions, nor did he know that Wang Mang fled to Sanhan, and he also established another force in Sanhan, and he dared to buy military weapons from the Qin army.


    Zhou Yu participated in the Battle of the North Sea, so he naturally knew that the Qin army had a blood feud with Wang Mang, but now that Wang Mang has fled overseas, even the Qin army is beyond the reach.


    "This Wang Mang is really difficult to deal with. But after I trained 50,000 naval troops, I can only destroy them." Zhou Yu said confidently.


    After saying goodbye to Gu Yong, Zhou Yu led fifty warships full of food and grass to Youbeiping, which completely solved the problem of unstable food routes of the fifth Qin army.


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    (This chapter ends)