On the Yangtze River, the horn whimpered, the flag was unfurled, thousands of sails raced, and hundreds of boats competed for the current.
Shi Lang received the holy decree, led 5,000 sailors, plus more than 10,000 boatmen, auxiliary soldiers, and various craftsmen, carried 3,500 ploughing cattle, and brought a large number of grain seeds, including rice, wheat, soybeans, sorghum, cotton, tea, etc., which were nearly 10,000 stones, and sailed eastward on more than 1,000 warships, large and small, to Yizhou Island to expand overseas territories.
Lu Xun made a contribution to sweeping Taiwan this time, and Liu Wei specially ordered Lu Su, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, to carry the holy decree and seal of Lu Xun as the general of Anton as the governor of Yizhou, and follow Shi Lang to Taiwan to reward the three armies.
There are only 130,000 residents on the entire island, half of the old and weak women and children are removed, and the remaining strong is about 60,000 people, and it is impossible for all the people to be soldiers, or tribal fighting separately, it is estimated that there is basically no armor, and the weapons are not much stronger than the Orions.
Lu Xun led more than 20,000 fully armed elite soldiers, assisted by Di Qing, Ding Feng, Lu Kang, Maeda Keiji and others, if he could not sweep Taiwan, he would simply commit suicide by throwing himself into the sea.
If Liao Hua, Zhou Tai and others are replaced, they can also sweep Taiwan, which is really not a big book, and there is no need to let the dignified officials and Shangshu personally canonize Lu Xun as the governor of Yizhou.
However, Liu Wei sent Lu Su, the secretary of the ministry, to go out in person, so he naturally had another deep meaning.
In the depths of Liu Bian's heart, he has always been careful to guard against local officials to avoid a situation of supporting troops and self-respect, so Liu Bian implemented the separation of military and political affairs from the feudal officials and army governors in various places.
The governor commands the military and has no right to interfere in local government affairs, and the governors are responsible for governing the localities, and cannot mobilize the regular army except for the county soldiers and county soldiers who defend the localities; The two complement each other and check and balance each other, so they ensure a high degree of centralization of power in the central court.
Although the army of the Eastern Han Dynasty has exceeded one million, it is still firmly controlled by Liu Wei, strategizing, commanding and dispatching, and is as flexible as five fingers.
Even if he is as high as Li Jing and as prominent as Yue Fei, if he wants to dismiss the official and go to the wilderness, it is only a matter of the emperor's words.
After years of hard work, Liu Bian's control over the military and politics has become more and more perfect, so naturally he will not allow the integration of the military and the government on the island of Taiwan, not to mention that behind Lu Xun there are still the Jiangdong clans represented by the Lu family, as well as Concubine Wu Ruyi, so Liu Bian must be even more cautious.
Don't look at the fact that the population of Taiwan Island is only 100,000 now, because it is a foreign land, it has not yet been baptized by civilization.
With the spread of the Han civilization, with the inflow of all kinds of ironware, ceramics, crops, science and technology, medicine, and culture, and with the coming and going of foreign traders, Liu Wei believed that in less than 20 years, Taiwan's population would increase dramatically to about 500,000.
In addition, the island of Taiwan faces the mainland across the sea and has inconvenient transportation, so if the people in power on the island gather the military and the government together, no one can guarantee that they will not breed a sense of disobedience and become the second "Zheng family" and become an independent regime.
Liu Wei would never allow this kind of situation to occur, not to mention that Liu Wei also planned to use Taiwan as a springboard to enter the Japanese Kingdom and swallow the Japanese islands, so Liu Wei appointed Zhuge Jin, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, to go to Taiwan to serve as the assassin of Yizhou.
But Zhuge Jin is a native of Qingzhou, and his prestige in Jiangdong is very average, and Liu Wei is afraid that Lu Xun will not buy his account, so he asked Lu Su, the secretary of the ministry, to go out in person.
Nominally, he canonized Lu Xun as the governor of Yizhou, and the real purpose was to send Zhuge Jin to serve as the assassin of Yizhou.
Before leaving, Liu Wei told Shi Lang that the 5,000 men and horses he led would train with Lu Xun's army on weekdays, but if there was a contradiction between the governor and the assassin history, he would unswervingly stand on Zhuge Jin's side, and all the materials, grain, and cattle transported would also be handed over to the assassin for distribution.
In addition to Shi Lang, Lu Su, and Zhuge Jin, Liu Wei also sent Li Shizhen to accompany more than 150 young and powerful medical craftsmen to Taiwan Island to check the diseases of the tribal people, eliminate hidden dangers, and make the people on the island healthy, so as to accelerate the reproduction of the population and provide a steady stream of troops for the Han Dynasty.
Liu Wei stood on the tall and majestic Jinling city wall, looking into the distance, looking at the thousands of sails on the Yangtze River, and the mighty down the river, his heart was not only full of enthusiasm: "The occupation of Yizhou is just the beginning, sooner or later, I will let the banner of my Han Dynasty be planted all over the world."
"The Dingdong system prompts that after continuous training, the attributes of the host have been improved again, and the current host's attributes have changed as follows: Liu Bian's command is 96 recent 1, force 95 has no change, intelligence 94 recent 1, political 99 recent 1."
The river wind swept in, blowing Liu Wei embroidered the golden cloak of the flying dragon in the sky, and secretly groaned in his heart: "Politics is about to break 100, last time the charm broke 100 and broke out Napoleon, Uesugi Qianxin, and Nguyen Weng Trong, if it is the second time, I don't know who will break out."
On the third day after Shi Lang led the sailors into the sea, two troops of more than 10,000 people were withdrawn outside Jinling City.
Liu Wei met with Zhao Kuo and Shang Shi's apprentices in the Hanyuan Palace, and listened to their reports on the southern expedition to Shanyue.
Zhao Kuo bowed down: "Qi Shengshang, Weichen since September last year led his troops out of Jinling, from Huiji, Linhai to the south, all the way to Yongning, after nine battles, invincible all the way, pacified the Shanyue rebels 13,000 people, including 6,000 recalcitrant bandits, 7,000 prisoners.
In addition, all the 70,000 old and weak women and children of the Shanyue tribe who had gathered in the mountains were driven down the mountain and handed over to the local officials for resettlement so that they could reclaim the wasteland.
In the area of Linhai and Yongning, the minister dared to protect it for three years. ” Liu Wei applauded: "Yes, General Zhao was the first time to blame the handsome, and he made a great record, I am here to grant you the title of rebellious general, and temporarily assign the team to Meng Heng, and wait for dispatch."
"Thank you, Your Majesty Longen" Zhao Kuo was overjoyed and knelt on the ground to thank him.
Liu Wei took the opportunity to instruct the system: "Check the change in Zhao Kuo's ability for this host" "The system is querying, please wait for the host" "Dingdong's current changes in Zhao Kuo are as follows, the Southern Expedition to Shanyue won all nine battles, the first five times obtained five attribute point increases, and the last four times because of the increase in their own attributes increased the requirements for the enemy, and the elimination of the rabble is no longer effective."
"At present, Zhao Kuo's four-dimensional command is 913, the military force is 78, the intelligence is 881, and the politics is 691."
Liu Wei secretly groaned in his heart: "Zhao Kuo's growth is quite fast, but it's a pity that there are no small princes like Liu Xuan, Yan Baihu, and Yuan Shu now, otherwise Zhao Kuo has a lot of room for growth, and it's not easy to fight anyone now, when the preparations for Taiwan Island are completed, send Zhao Kuo to Japan Island to fight monsters and upgrade, I hope that the princes of Japan Island will be more powerful, and don't have a unified situation early."
Compared with Zhao Kuo's record, Master Shang's record is slightly worse, not that he can't fight, but that Master Shang chose the wrong route, going around in the mountains in the south, and only found a small group of Shanyue bandits.
Master Shang and his apprentices marched south for four months, fought five battles, large and small, annihilated a total of 2,000 Shanyue thieves, captured 3,000, forcibly drove down 30,000 old and weak women and children from the mountain, and burned 15 nests of Shanyue entrenched on the mountain.
This kind of record is inferior to Zhao Kuolai.
"However, Wei Chen captured a purple horse in the jungle of Shanyue, its gallop is like lightning, jumping like flying, endurance is long-lasting, even better than Wei Chen's crotch This horse is even better, specially brought to the palace, dedicated to Your Majesty."
Since Master Shang lost to Zhao Kuo on the frontal battlefield, he had to find another way.
Liu Wei was overjoyed: "Oh, haha, General Shang is really a world, bring it quickly and let me see" After a while, Master Shang went to lead the purple horse captured by himself to the front of Hanyuan Palace, and invited the Son of Heaven to watch: "Please give this horse a name."
"Sure enough, it's a BMW" Liu Wei was full of praise after seeing it, and gave a thumbs up to Master Shang's apprentice, "It's called Sa Luzi."
The jade-topped fire dragon horse drawn a few days ago has been sent to Gao Chong, and the horse presented by Master Shang and apprentice will be temporarily locked up in the royal stables of Qianyang Palace, and the horses will be rewarded to the civil and military forces under his command as needed in the future. t1706231537: