Chapter 1857 Tianjin Port


    Chapter 1855: Tianjin Port


    Zhou Yu set out from Bohai Port and it will take three days to arrive at Youbeiping County, but there is no port to dock at Youbeiping, so it may take some time to delay.


    The absence of a port means that the navy has no place to settle down, and there is no place to store the cargo on the ship, so the Qin army needs to build the port.


    Qin Hao naturally considered this point, so after giving the order, he ordered Jiang Jiong to lead 5,000 troops to the estuary, choose a suitable place to dock to build a port, and recruit 10,000 people in Xu Wucheng as strong men to transport grain and grass.


    Although Xu Wuxian was expanded into a medium-sized city by Liu Che, which can accommodate 70,000 to 80,000 people, the total population of the county is only more than 30,000.


    Qin Hao recruited 10,000 strong men at one time, basically capturing all the light and strong men in the county. The rest were the elderly, weak, women and children.


    Qin Hao was not willing to recruit laborers on the spot. After all, the local people have not yet surrendered, but if all the laborious work of transporting food and grass is left to the army, it would be really a killing knife.


    The 130,000 Qin troops in Youbeiping need to fight against the Qing army that is twice as big as theirs. It is impossible to separate people to transport food and grass, so this kind of hard work can only be left to the local people.


    "Military advisor, I think it''s better to use work for relief. Xu Wuxian belongs to our Qin army. If the people have not yet surrendered, they will definitely not be happy if they let the people work for nothing." Qin Hao said.


    Hearing this, Liu Bowen showed a helpless look and smiled bitterly: "Lord, Youzhou is different from other regions. When war comes, in order to protect his home, it is common for all the people to be soldiers.


    The lord did not let the people go to the battlefield, but just acted as a laborer. This is a normal thing for the people of Youzhou, so why would he not be happy? ”


    "That''s right, but I still think it''s better to use labor for relief. Anyway, our army is not short of this wage."


    Qin Hao said this, what else could Liu Bowen say, after all, he didn''t have to pay the labor wages.


    Even if the wages of ten thousand men are higher, each person will be given ten cents a day, which is only three million cents a month, but only three thousand cents a month.


    In this era when an ordinary war horse could be sold for 100,000 yuan, three million yuan was only the price of thirty war horses, and the total number of war horses of the Qin army was measured in millions.


    So, Qin Hao is not wrong. Although the Qin army''s finances are now somewhat unbalanced, it is indeed not short of this little money.


    Even if the wealth of the treasure of God has been spent, as long as the millions of war horses in Hetao and Bingzhou are still there, they will not reach the point of financial collapse no matter what.


    After the ordnance is sold to saturation, at most, you can sell war horses again, and war horses are definitely not short of sellers.


    Of course, having one million war horses does not mean having matching wealth. After all, the princes do not have that much purchasing power, and Qin Hao cannot make money by selling war horses without restrictions.


    "The lord cherishes the people and compassionate with the people''s strength, which is a blessing for all people." Liu Bowen said sincerely.


    In terms of cherishing the people, even Liu Bowen has to admit that no prince can compare to his lord, but he spends money and makes a lot of money.


    Forget it, it has nothing to do with me anyway, so let the people in charge of finance have a headache.


    After Xu Wujian was summoned, he learned that the Qin army wanted them to be laborers and went to build a new harbor, so he was not unhappy.


    They thought it was a matter of course to act as a laborer in wartime. They had long been accustomed to it, so how could they not be happy?


    But when we learned that we had not only food to eat for the Qin army, but also money to get, and we had ten coins every day, all the strong men cheered.


    I was recruited by the government so many times before, but I never gave a penny. Now this is the first time in the first time. The Qin army is really a benevolent and righteous army.


    After Qin Hao''s labor-for-relief was released, the people of Xuwu County quickly surrendered, and many elderly and weak people wanted to join the laborers and earn wages.


    Qin Hao did not refuse this. After all, the Qin army is in a hurry to have labor force, and the elderly and weak can contribute, but they are definitely not as good as young and strong, so their wages will definitely be reduced accordingly. After summoning 13,000 workers, Qin Hao asked all these strong men to go to Yanshan 30 miles southeast of Xuwu County, and the sea outlet south of Yanshan was the place Qin Hao chose to build a port.


    If we just build an ordinary port, we will naturally not need so many people, but Qin Hao has a big plan in his mind. He wants to build a brand new port city in the lower reaches of the Haihe River and south of Yanshan Mountain.


    In Qin Hao''s view, even if the Qin army destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty and unified Youzhou, the war with the Qing Dynasty would still last for a long time and would never end in a short period of time.


    Therefore, this requires the construction of a port city in the north to transport and store various strategic materials to facilitate transportation to the front line.


    Qin Hao decided to name this new city built on the port: Tianjin.


    Well, Qin Hao just wanted to build Tianjin in the original Tianjin Wei location.


    After the construction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in the Sui Dynasty, it was known in history as Sanhui Haikou at the intersection of the South Canal and the North Canal. This is the earliest birthplace of Tianjin.


    There was no Tianjin at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it did not prevent Qin Hao from building a Tianjin.


    Tianjin, which Qin Hao conceived, will be located on the original site. After completion, it will be located in the southeast of Xuwu County and the southwest of Tuyin County, forming a horn support with the two counties. In addition, it will be backed by Yanshan, so it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.


    With Tianjin as a material transfer station, Qin Hao can easily transport Hebei''s materials to Youzhou with his navy.


    By then, using Youbeiping County as the base area, gradually erode other counties in the eastern part of Youzhou, and completely drive the Qing army out of Youzhou bit by bit.


    Of course, it is too early to say that the city is built, and the port must be built first.


    When Liu Bowen learned that his lord was preparing to build a city by harbor, he felt helpless and surprised.


    Unfortunately, the lord spent money like flowing water. Before he could capture Youzhou, he actually thought about building a city.


    What was surprised was that once Tianjin City was built, it would be of great help to the Qin army, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was strategic.


    Although the cost of establishing Tianjin City is high, the benefits of the Qin army are self-evident, so Liu Bowen naturally would not object. Instead, he went to Tianjin Port to explore the foundation and painting drawings, preparing to design Tianjin City in person.


    15,000 laborers, plus 5,000 troops, under the command of Jiang Jiong, the simple Tianjin Port was opened in just three days.


    Three days later, when Zhou Yu''s navy arrived at the port, he realized that the lord had opened a new port in Youzhou from scratch.


    There is nothing to surprise when opening a port, but what surprised Zhou Yu was that although this port was very simple and had nothing except foundation and simple warehouse, it was even larger than Bohai Port.


    It’s just that it is impossible to build such a large port for transportation of materials.


    Zhou Yu vaguely guessed that the lord had plans to build a city here, but he didn''t say much. He directly ordered the soldiers and laborers to carry food and grass together. After unloading all the food and grass on the ship, he led the navy back to Bohai Port to continue transporting food.


    130,000 stones of food were not enough for the Qin army to consume. Zhou Yu''s navy still needed to continue to travel back and forth, and it took several transportations.


    After Zhou Yu left, Jiang Jiong personally took three thousand soldiers and five thousand workers and began to transport food and grass to Xu Wucheng.


    Although Jiang Jiangjiu left, he left Liu Bowen with two thousand soldiers guarding the port and ten thousand workers continued to build the simple Tianjin Port.


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