When Shen Zhezi talked about these with Yu Yi, it was not aimless or worrying about it. Because Shouchun was located, it was really important, especially in this confrontation between the north and the south. Whether it was the Jiangdong court defending the Huai River or the north to come to the south, it was the most important strategic location.

Since Yongjia, more than 300 years of turbulent times, the north and south have been chasing and fighting, and all large-scale wars have almost all been related to Shouchun. The most famous Battle of Feishui in the Former Qin Dynasty, its main battlefield is Bagong Mountain not far outside Shouchun City. The most significant time when the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, Yang Guang, the Emperor Yang of Sui, who was the King of Jin, set up his command center in Shouchun, controlled more than 500,000 troops and went south to destroy Chen.

For the northern court, the three main roads facing south are from Xiangyang to plunder the Han Mian, from the Han River to the Yangtze River. This road is too far from Jiankang in the Jiangdong court, and there are many variables in the middle.

From Pengcheng, Xia Pi crossed Huaiyin and arrived at Guangling, the disadvantage is that the river is wide forty miles, which requires too high a requirement for the navy and overall national strength. In addition, the founding of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was the people who crossed the south by Qing, Yan, Xu and others. The surrounding areas of Guangling have always been the most important defense areas. Even in the Southern Dynasty, this tradition was maintained. From this, going south, not to mention reaching the river, it is extremely difficult to break through the Zhongdu River downstream of the Huai River.

The starting point of Shouchun route is in the Heluo Plain in the heart of the Central Plains. Large-scale personnel and materials are extremely convenient to dispatch. From Yingshui to Huai River, Huai River passes through Shaobi, Feishui reaches Chaohu, and rushes through Ruxukou to Hengjiang. Once you cross the Hengjiang River, you will sweep the Three Wus!

For the Southern Dynasty, the use of troops to the north mostly attacked from Jing and Xu, which was determined to a large extent by the old political and military structure. Jingzhou has been divided into important towns in Shaanxi since ancient times. As long as Xiangyang starts, it will open a southern gate to attack China. Xuzhou is the foundation of the Jiangdong court, with many soldiers and wide generals, and there is no worries in the back.

But this does not mean that Shouchun is not important. Shouchun is located in the middle section of the Huai River, the so-called place where the eight rivers converge. Whether the east and west send troops, this place is the most important support route. Ziying River directly hit Heluo. If the northern regime does not have a strong and stable center, the advancement of this road will be enough to split the northern regime!

For Shen Zhezi, this is his first strategic location that can influence the world's general trend with his hands. All his efforts before can be said to be for today! Only in this position can he truly have the means and ability to directly affect the north and south pattern!

It is true that among the three major towns in Jiangbei, Yuzhou is the most powerful. However, at this point in time, Tao Kan of Jingzhou is old and still rises up. However, once the power is transferred, it will inevitably cause turmoil among the subordinates of Jingzhou and no longer have the spare energy to make more hope.

In Xuzhou, the situation has always been complicated, and the typical situation is more than capable and less enterprising. If the internal contradictions are not clear, there is no opportunity for a single head and a full-scale attack!

Therefore, although Yuzhou has the shallowest foundation and the weakest strength, with Shi Zhao about to hand over the regime and there will be severe internal turmoil, the only one who can seize this opportunity and attack lightly is Shouchun!

Under such circumstances, Shen Zhezi could not allow a fire in the backyard in any case. He must ensure that his alliance with the Yu family is intimate and cannot create any rift that can be exploited!

Without Yu Yi's strong support, it would be almost impossible for him to sit in Shouchun. Even with the support of the Empress Dowager, it would be difficult, not to mention that the Empress Dowager's support for him may not be the kind he likes. It is more likely that the Empress Dowager even hopes to transfer him back to Jiankang instead of in Shouchun, a place where he has been fighting for a long time.

So before the war started, Shen Zhezi sent someone to send Princess Xingnan back to Jiankang, hoping to influence the Empress Dowager and the Emperor through the princess, and not to believe others' words and transfer him from the front line of Shouchun.

Once this opportunity is missed this year, if you want to remedy it and save it, you may not have such a good opportunity within ten years! And even if you seize the opportunity in the future, the price you will have to pay will definitely be much greater than now.

If he wants to sit firmly in Shouchun, Shen Zhezi's current power is definitely not enough. Although he actually has the power to take charge, he is still nominally a subordinate of Yu Yi, the governor of Yuzhou. Even if he even wins a lot, he is not even qualified to directly submit combat plans and war reports to Taichung.

In other words, even if Shen Zhezi recovered Huainan and Shouchun, if his war report was not confirmed and submitted by the Yuzhou Governor's Office, Taichung would not recognize the result at all. As for his behavior of showing kindness to the owners of Huainan Dock and promising great achievements, it was just nonsense!

Shen Zhezi's current official position is only the General of the Western Central Army and the Prefect of Liang County. Of course, this general's title is already high, but if he is not worthy of specific duties, it is just a title. Only after the holiday festival can he have the power to lead troops independently. But it is far from enough to sit in Shouchun with these alone.

Even if the original old subordinates of Liang County did not care about Shen Zhezi's reputation, these newly cast members of Huainanwu walls would be difficult to suppress if they did not have enough reputation to manage them. Even Guo Song and Mao Bao, who cooperated with the operation this time, did not have the right to directly dispatch, and they had to go through the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion.

Once the war becomes fierce, large-scale military dispatch is required, and it is okay to follow the expedient measures once or twice, but if the governor's office is frequently left aside, Yu Yi is considered nothing. No matter how good the relationship is, it will become embarrassing.

Therefore, if you want to take control of Shouchun in a legitimate way, Shen Zhezi must take a step forward in terms of fame and status. Even if you cannot open a government due to age issues, the Huainan prefect is the most basic and must obtain the position of supervising the army in military terms.

Even if Shen Zhezi still has to be subordinate to Yu Yi's Yuzhou Governor's Mansion, if he wants to preside over the war next year, he still needs to separate Liang County and Huainan and divide it into a separate combat zone, which he has fully grasped.

Therefore, these issues are to brief Yu Yi in advance so as not to have any unnecessary conflicts between each other. To be honest, Yu Yi is not a strong person because he has an overly strong brother. This is also one of the prerequisites for the Shen family to be able to live with the Yu family now.

If Yu Bing and even Yu Yi, who is not yet in the current state of the current Yu family, will inevitably part ways with the two families when they cooperate to this point.

Now that the boundary of Yuzhou township has been directly pushed to Huai River, there will inevitably be a large-scale adjustment in the personnel structure. Since Shen Zhezi has determined to be in Shouchun in the future, he hopes to hand it over to Yu Tiao, the rear of Liang County.

Although Yu Tiao is now in Linchuan, Jiangzhou, and there were some considerations at that time, it seems that the role Yu Tiao can play in Jiangzhou is far less than that in Jiangbei. In the future, Yu Tiao will inevitably have a closer connection. In the early years, because of his Yin Jue relationship, there are quite a few people in Guangling's military leaders.

Yu Yi originally hoped to transfer Yu Yi, the youngest of his brothers, to Liangjun, to come. This place will be the most important supply land in the Huainan area in the future. It is not too dangerous and has enough experience.

But Shen Zhezi had already regarded Liang County as his own private land, and he thought that Yu Tiao was more suitable than Yu Yi. If he really wanted to choose Yu Yi, it would be better to let Du He stay in Liang County directly. So he simply refused on the grounds that Liang County is heavy and Yu Yi has a short qualification. I don’t know how he had the confidence to say such words. You must know that Yu Yi is also his uncle in terms of seniority and age is much older than him.

But Yu Yi just listened to Shen Zhezi's words, and he couldn't help but blame his elder brother for suppressing his brothers too much when he was alive. Yu Yi is now nearly thirty years old, but he has never been useful. He is still white in his twenties, and he still cannot show off his experience of convincing people when he is employed.

If Yu Tiao was transferred to Jiangbei, the Yu family would not stay in Jiangzhou anymore. This was a pity for Yu Yi. Although Taichung had already intended to let Yu Zhang prefect Zhong Ya take over Jiangzhou in the future, with the great momentum in recent years, Yu Yi also had this idea.

Nowadays, except for Yu Bing, who is scattered in the capital, the rest of the three of them will be concentrated in Yuzhou. Hefei and Huainan have successively recovered, and Liyang has also become a stable rear. In the future, Yu Yi moved to Hefei, so he used Yu Yi as the supervisor to stay in Liyang.

Since it was Shouchun, Yu Yi was not in a hurry to leave, so he simply came forward and comforted the villagers in the countryside.

Jienu sent troops in his early years, but only attacked Zuyi, who was in charge of Shouchun, and kidnapped nearly 20,000 households in Shouchun City. As for the farther countryside, the damage was not large. The middle section of the Huai River is one of the concentrated areas guarded by the dock wall, especially around Shaobi. It has convenient water conservancy and lots of fertile land, which is enough to rest and recuperate.

After Shen Zhezi settled in Shouchun, he took over Jie Nu's exploration and mastery of the surrounding walls and Dingkou in the past two years. There are hundreds of large and small walls in this realm.

After the past two years, Peng Biao either defeated or forced to win over it, and nearly 200 families disappeared, and this part of the population is now directly controlled by Huainan. In addition to the more than 3,000 households who stayed directly in several cities such as Shouchun, the rest also had more than 1,000 households who were dispatched to military farms and forts.

Therefore, in the battle of Huainan, the direct population harvest alone reached more than 30,000.

As for the remaining walls, more than 100 of them are still living in the mountains and fields, closely guarding foreign affairs. Shen Zhezi will not be polite to these families who do not know the current affairs and pretend to live in Taoyuan. They will be the main target of breaking and cleaning in the next few months. All these people should be included in the direct system and quickly organized production and settlement in order to restore the vitality of the Huainan land as soon as possible.

If the families who took the initiative to surrender were divided into clans, there were seventy or eighty households. It seemed that there were not many, but these families who dared to stick their heads out to make bets during chaos and war were not weak either. The least of them had nearly a hundred households, and five or six were more than a thousand households, all of which were tyrants of the village’s tyrants.

After doing this, the land and cities obtained in Huainan alone will be 100,000 or 200,000 yuan. Of course, most of them cannot be directly grasped at the moment, but this number is enough to make Yu Yi and Shen Zhezi overjoyed.
Chapter completed!