Xia Xun's trip to the east, is not like the previous casual, used to sleep when you want to sleep, get up when you think of it, stop and go at will, now it can't be, the honor guard of the national prince is placed there, everywhere, the officials are welcome out of the state and county ten miles, and the city is a big banquet, the city's qualified officials and gentry come to accompany each other, singing and dancing, sycophancy continues.
However, these eunuch veterans will definitely not make people feel numb when they are sycophants, and their speaking skills are extremely clever, obviously praising you, but also making you feel it, and you will be fluttering unconsciously.
Of course, these officials are so flattering, in addition to his high position and honorable status, there is also the main reason that these officials are all retained by Jianwen's former ministers, and they have limited understanding of Zhu Di.
Until they heard that the emperor had no intention of expanding the purge, especially the sentence that Zhu Di always repeated in front of Jianwen's old ministers in order to show his intentions recently: "You are all the remnants of Taizu, naturally loyal to Jianwen, and now I inherit the unification, as long as the secretaries are attentive to state affairs and loyal to me, they will not be held accountable for past matters."
"That's what makes it a solid deal.
Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang is jealous and greedy, Zhu Di and his Lao Tzu are the same, the atmosphere at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty was relatively positive, these officials did not know the surname of Yang Xu, the auxiliary prince, so no one dared to bribe him and send women.
He didn't really want to accept bribes or accept a few beauties, but it would be good to look at the treasures and all kinds of beauties, and then refuse them sternly.
It is said that Xia Xun was quite fascinated by the love affair of Yang Ling's return to the Ming Dynasty as a prince, and the three eunuchs in the south of the Yangtze River Zhi, and the second gear of Cheng Qiyun who "listened to the spring rain in Xiaolou all night", this is the bad taste of Xia Xun who suddenly got a high position, where do those officials know, so this sycophant is not much to the point.
Xia Xun rushed to Changguowei and met with Chen Xuan, the governor of the capital who came here on the order of Emperor Yongle.
Chen Xuan's boatmen were mostly inland ships, which were easy to travel on inland rivers and not easy to go to sea, but they could still patrol and defend along the coast.
Chen Xuan welcomed Xia Xun into the Chinese army, and after some politeness, Xia Xun asked about the situation on Shuangyu Island.
Chen Xuan said: "Most of the general's warships are inland river ships, not suitable for sailing at sea, so for the situation in the open sea, the last general is not very clear, the pirates entrenched on Shuangyu Island are hundreds of miles away from here, compared to the scourge of the Japanese invaders, the Shuangyu pirates are still their duty, so the last general has little contact with them, I don't know much about them, only know that they are not much in the coastal sea recently, I don't know if the last general has enhanced the strength of the sailors, or has been restrained by the Japanese invaders. ” Xia Xun's expression moved, and he asked, "Do the Japanese still often come to the coast to harass now?"
Chen Xuan said: "Since the reinforcement of the coastal defense station, the strength of the naval division has increased greatly, but the Japanese have come a few times, and they have suffered a big loss, and they have been less disturbed recently.
However, since the Duke of the State asked, he had some thoughts and wanted to ask the Duke of the State to report to His Majesty on his behalf. ” Xia Xun hurriedly said: "Governor, please speak." ” Chen Xuan said: "Guogong, since ancient times: only a thousand said to be thieves, no thousand said to prevent thieves, our current move of mobilizing a large number of sailors to patrol the coast day and night is too expensive, and the officers and soldiers of the navy division cannot afford it, this is impossible to last, if I use this passive means of being beaten to defend the sea and frontier of the Ming Dynasty, the investment in coastal defense alone is enough to drain the imperial court." ” Xia Xun nodded, thinking deeply.
Seeing that he agreed, Chen Xuan perked up and spoke more energetically: "However, once the sailors are withdrawn, or the number and frequency of patrols are discounted, it is difficult to guarantee that the Japanese will not be killed again, if we want to form a real deterrent to the Japanese invaders, we can only deal a heavy blow to them, in this case, we must have ships that can sail far away, and train soldiers for long-distance naval warfare." ” Further down, what Chen Xuan is talking about is the professional knowledge of ship manufacturing and naval training, which Xia Xun sounds like he doesn't understand.
After the last conversation with Ming'er, Xia Xun has realized that as a traverser, his advantage is only in the grasp of the general trend, and other aspects are not better than others, especially in various professional fields, or hundreds of years ago in various professional fields, even if this field is an expert in modern times, in this era, he may not be aware of the technical standards limited by this era and various technical terms that have long been abandoned, if he understands better than the people who have been immersed in silver in these lines for a lifetime, then he is not a person, but a god.
So Xia Xun is neither inferior nor inquiring, he is not here to be a technician, if this matter will involve him, then it is enough for him to grasp the general direction and create sufficient conditions for those professionals.
He interrupted Chen Xuan's words and ordered: "Governor Chen, the emperor is also interested in building a powerful Daming Water Division, I think you will definitely be valued by the emperor when you play at this time." ” Chen Xuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly agreed.
As the two were talking, Luo Yu, the commander of the Hangzhou Bay Water Division, rushed over.
Chen Xuan hurriedly got up and introduced: "Guogong, this is Luo Yu, the commander of the Hangzhou Bay Naval Division, he has a few ships suitable for long-distance sailing, and Guogong wants to go to Shuangyu Island in person, so Luo Commander personally leads the ship to accompany him." ” Luo Yu hurriedly stepped forward, knelt on one knee, and saluted Xia Xun with a fist: "The last general, Hangzhou Sailor Luo Yu, meet the Duke of Fuguo" Before his body could fully bow down, Xia Xun had already taken a step forward, fought with his arms, helped him up, smiled at him, and said, "Lord Luo, I haven't seen you for a long time."
Luo Yu looked at him, only to feel very familiar, stunned for a moment, and then said, "Has the last general seen Guogong?"
At the beginning of September, the sky was clear and blue.
The sky is high and the clouds are light, the sea breeze is mighty, and when I stand on the bridge, there are thousands of waves in front of me, and my heart is suddenly broad.
"Ziqi, thank you, Ying'er, I'm here and Xiao Di, and my baby daughter" Xia Xun grabbed the side of the boat that was warmed by the sun with both hands, and he was very excited.
There were differences before, and it didn't seem to have such a strong feeling, I don't know if it was because this time the separation was too long, or because I was getting older and started to love home.
Thinking of his flower-like wife, his heart was ape for a while; Thinking of his precious daughter, he can't help but feel a little guilty.
However, he was sincerely proud and proud to think that he had earned such a fame and status, and that his wife and daughter could live happier from now on.
When Xia Xun's mood was fluctuating with the turbulent waves, the sentinel ship in front of him suddenly sent back the flag.
Luo Yu has been directing the advance of the battleship on the second deck, and this time the battleship that accompanied Xia Xun to Shuangyu had a total of four large ships, ten centipede speedboats, and six sentinel ships.
Although Xia Xun has already said that he has already had an alliance with Shuangyu, and he is here to recruit peace, not to fight, but the prince is on the ship, and it is their responsibility if something happens, Luo Yu does not dare to be careless.
As soon as the ship went to sea, the three big ships guarded Xia Xun's flagship in the center, and the ten centipede speedboats were arranged in the shape of goose wings, and the six sentinel ships had two cabins on the left and right, distributed outside the ten miles of the sea route, and now since there was a sentinel ship returning to send a signal, there must be something wrong ahead, Luo Yu's expression was tight, and he immediately ordered to slow down and stop the ship, and at the same time hurried to the upper deck to report the situation to Xia Xun.
The two waited patiently for a while, and the sentinel boat sailed to the bottom of the battleship, set up a soft ladder to let the people on the sentinel boat climb onto the big ship, ran to Xia Xun and Luo Yu, and reported: "Report, Guogong, commander, there is a scuffle in the sea area ahead, and there are dozens of large and small ships. ” Xia Xun was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who is fighting?"
The sentry boat soldier said, "One of them is playing the flag of the Shuangyu pirates, and the other side is playing the banner of the Great Bodhisattva of Hachiman, which is the ship of the Japanese people. ” Luo Yu looked at Xia Xun, Xia Xun did not hesitate, and immediately ordered: "Full speed forward, catch up" Luo Yu said: "The enemy's situation is unknown, the number is unknown, besides, the Shuangyu pirates don't know that our officers and soldiers are coming to recruit them, once we join the war, I'm afraid it will be easy to cause misunderstanding, and it may be possible to suffer the enemy on both sides."
The last general is naturally not afraid, but the status of the national prince is precious, in case" Xia Xun was only worried that Su Ying was also on the boat on the Shuangyu side, for fear that she would make a mistake, so he waved his hand and said: "If we relieve the siege for them, wouldn't it be easier to recruit An, besides, these Japanese invaders invaded my coast, burned, killed, looted, and annihilated silver women, and did all kinds of evil, now that we have the opportunity to fight with it, my Daming Sailor has the responsibility of guarding the sea and defending the people, how can I easily let it go and move forward at full speed."
Luo Yu had no choice but to go down, several big ships were full of sails, and the centipede speedboat was moving forward with all its might, gliding lightly across the sea, leaving white waterlines.
"Hurry up, hurry up and fuck it, Chen Erzhuang, throw the oil drum over to me" On both sides, one side hooked the other party's boat with a hook, and the other side stabbed the warriors who forcibly jumped the gang with a long bamboo pole sharpened with tung oil, and some people held long knives and short axes, grabbed the cable in one hand, and wandered to the other party's boat.
In short, it was my ship that had the enemy, and the enemy ship had me, and it was a mess.
Chen Erzhuang, whom He Tianyang shouted, was a man as powerful as an ox, and his figure was also tall, with a shaved head and a face full of horizontal meat, very fierce.
He picked up a bucket of tung oil, his arms were tense, the grave was like a mound, and he shouted loudly, and a bucket of tung oil weighing dozens of catties was thrown directly into the boat of the Japanese from the sea more than two feet away.
"Tom" tung oil barrel fell to the ground, fell out of a few gaps, rolled all the way along the deck, tung oil sprinkled all over the deck, He Tianyang in his hand a torch windmill like a wheel turned and threw over, fell on the deck, the fire just burned, ignited the tung oil all of a sudden, and the ship suddenly exclaimed.
He Tianyang laughed: "Damn, do you bully less boats with more boats, Lao Tzu burned your boat, let you all go and feed Wang Ba" At this moment, the pirate at the helm exclaimed: "Officers and soldiers, there are officers and soldiers" In the distance, the warships of the Daming Navy Division came violently, and the pirate ships and the Japanese ships were discovered, and the battle between the two sides immediately stopped.
The warships of the Ming naval division were much smaller than those of both sides, but when it came to the equipment on the ships, it was not the same.
Besides, there was a mortal enemy beside him, although the Japanese were worried that the Ming warships would attack them, and the pirates were also worried about the indiscriminate attack of the officers and soldiers, and the leaders of the two sides hurriedly ordered to try to gather their own ships, and watched vigilantly at this force that was slaughtered in the sky.
To be continued: