Fenzhou, Dahan River Reservoir Camp. Several naval warships slowly approached the dock, in the shouting on the side, throwing cables, anchoring, and setting up a springboard, the sailors on the ship cheered, several days of water training, eating, drinking, and sleeping were solved on the ship, so that they suffered a lot, but in the past few years, such days have basically been rotated once a month, and everyone has become accustomed to it, and the price of doing so is that the combat effectiveness of this naval fleet has risen sharply, and in the past, it could only suppress water bandits, check smuggling, at best, it is a water police, but now, They can proudly say that they are soldiers.

The leading general of this naval fleet is Li Quan.

The name Li Quan is extremely unfamiliar to the vast majority of people in the Han Dynasty, but when it comes to his father Li Can, I am afraid that everyone in the entire Han Dynasty knows it, and no one knows it. In just a few years, Li's maritime strength, with the expansion of the Han Dynasty overseas, also showed a blowout development, and became an out-and-out maritime giant, but three years ago, Li Can was suddenly demoted from the position of Minister of the Sea to Cangzhou as the principal of the navy for no reason, which was surprising and inexplicable.

Of course, for those who know the inside story, this punishment for Li Can is quite light, mainly considering the influence of the Li clan in the maritime affairs and their strength at sea, the Li fleet in order to dominate the overseas trade back then, in the Ryukyu conspired to destroy another fleet that had the strength to compete with them, which led to Gao Yuan's anger.

Li Can was demoted, and the overseas trade and colonial policy of the sea also underwent earth-shaking changes, and the imperial court vigorously encouraged private capital to enter the maritime transport, which could obtain sea ships from shipyards with loans, and where could artillery be purchased from the imperial court. Encourage joint ventures, etc., under the stimulus of the imperial court policy, but also under the stimulation of overseas trade and colonial profits, the overseas trade of the Han Dynasty entered a period of vigorous development, and a large number of hands accumulated countless wealth, and the big businessmen who had entered a bottleneck period in the land business began to march overseas, and Li's shipping after this blow, also honestly shrunk its neck, and Fenzhou shipping took the opportunity to rise. Now the joint venture company of the twelve ship owners in Fenzhou can compete with Cangzhou, and even surpass it.

At the time of the incident, Li Quan had already achieved the position of vice admiral in the naval fleet, and was regarded by the naval commander Kou Shuguang as the best candidate to succeed him, but Li Can was implicated in the incident, transferred from the position of vice admiral, and was placed in the inland water division as a commander.

From the promising vice admiral to the same position, but with power, he was transferred all at once. The future is very different from that of the inland river master, Li Quan's psychological gap can be imagined, but he also knows very well that the king is already merciful. According to the sins committed by his father, in the past, even the nine clans were justified.

After being disheartened for a while, Li Quan picked himself up again. He was originally the eldest in the family and was not very valued, and his father sent him to the navy back then. It is more of a manifestation of sincerity to the Han King, but he was originally a scholar, and he followed Kou Shuguang's several years of maritime military career in the wind and rain, but he grinded him into a cold soldier. In overseas colonization, the killing is decisive, and you can't afford to hesitate at all, and the bright red blood has long worn away his original scholarly habits.

Among the inland water divisions, Li Quan began to rectify military discipline and retrain the army, even if he couldn't be a dragon in the sea, Li Quan didn't want to become a loach in the inland river.

In three years, Li Quan soaked in this inland river division, and never went back home, first, he wanted to do a new career, and second, he had no complaints about his father in his heart, although the son did not say anything about his father, after the accident at that time, he also went to Kou Shuguang to hope that the commander could help, but his career was hit hard because of this, and it was false to say that he was not resentful in his heart.

In three years, he turned an inland water division with little combat effectiveness into a strong army, and the new minister in charge of maritime affairs, Kou Shuguang, was originally his old boss, who admired him very much and was more sympathetic to his suffering, so in the past three years, he has also helped him a lot openly and secretly, at least the current inland water division has completely changed its new look compared to three years ago in terms of equipment.

Now the inland river division of the Han Dynasty has more than 100 large and small ships, including ten three-story warships, which is also the core combat effectiveness of the inland water division.

"Commander Li, you're back!" This is a military dock, and the officers on duty greeted them politely.

"Hmm!" Li Quan's bronzed face also had a hint of a smile, rubbing a pair of calloused hands, and asked with a smile: "What has happened in the past few days?" ”

"Nothing big happened, but the internal military newspaper said that my Han Army connected and won Yingchuan, Wulong, Tai'an, and Tanfeng, and that kid was cornered, and he actually went to Chu to grab a piece of territory, hahaha!" The officer on duty laughed happily, as an officer of the Han Dynasty, every news of the victory of the Han army would make him happy.

"Oh, so fast!" Li Quan was a little surprised, didn't he say that the Yingchuan soldiers trained by Tan Feng were very powerful, why were they so unbeaten? But he was so surprised, he didn't care much about the affairs of the army, what he cared about was when the Han would fight the Chu State, Li Quan knew very well, and he could only fight the Chu State, and his sailor might still have a use, because the Chu State also had a sailor. But up to now, I haven't heard any news about attacking the Chu State, and it is also true that the Great Han has always regarded the Great Qin as his biggest opponent, or before destroying the Qin State, how could he not start a war against the Chu State. I still have to be patient, I have to continue to train again, and I have to wait patiently for that day to come.

"Today, the military department has delivered a batch of weapons, including artillery and ammunition." While accompanying Li Quan to the barracks, the officer on duty said, "The person who escorted this batch of ammunition has to be signed by the commander in person, I said that the commander you don't know if you can come back, but he said that he is not in a hurry, he can wait, and now he is still in the barracks, I arranged for him to live first, and now these weapons have not been delivered because they have not been signed by the commander!" ”

"Artillery, ammunition?" Li Quan was stunned, artillery, a new type of weapon, has always been the best equipment for the navy, then the army, and the inland water division has always been unranked, and now the artillery of his ten three-story ships is still obtained through the back door of the old boss, why is it that a batch of artillery and ammunition are now transported for no reason?

"Who's coming? Do I know each other? ”

"He said he was a head of the military department, but I didn't recognize him." The officer on duty shook his head and said, "In the end, it is an official from Jicheng, that degree, that shelf, it is really not comparable to ordinary people." ”

"Okay, I'll go back to the public house first, if I don't come back for a few days, there must be a lot of official documents backlogged, I'll deal with these first, after you go back, ask the chief to come to my public house, and I'll sign and draw for him immediately, artillery and ammunition, these heavy weapons of the military state can't be ignored at all, you have to go into the treasury first."

"Subordinates understand, Commander, don't you take a break first?" The officer asked.

"What is there to rest, on the ship, I am resting." Li Quan glanced back at the battleship on the dock and sighed lightly: "This inland river is calm and calm, it is comparable to the rough waves in the sea, on this, for me, I am resting every day!" ”

Listening to Li Quan's sigh, the officer lowered his head, he knew a little about Li Quan's experience.

When he returned to the public room, he undressed his armor and sat down in front of the big case, and as expected, in front of him was a stack of accumulated official documents to be processed. Reaching out to open the top one, Li Quan picked up the pen and began to review.

"Commander, the head of the military department is here." In less than a pillar of incense, the voice of an officer came from outside.

"Please come in." Li Quan put down his pen and stood up, the light at the door dimmed, and a middle-aged man appeared at the door, seeing the person's face, Li Quan almost couldn't believe his eyes, his eyes blinked a few times, and he reached out and rubbed his eyes.

"Li Quan, you read that right, it's me!" People smiled and said.

"Commander Cole!" Li Quan walked quickly to Kou Shuguang, snapped a military salute, and wanted to speak, but his throat was choked, and he didn't spit out a word.

"You're much older." Looking at his favorite subordinate back then, Kou Shuguang sighed with emotion, "You are more than ten years younger than me, why do you look older than me?" ”

"Commander, Commander!" Li Quan choked up: "It's been more than three years, I finally saw you again, in the past few years, if it weren't for your support, I really don't know how to get through." ”

patting Li Quan's shoulder vigorously, Kou Shuguang smiled and said: "You have done a good job, not only in my eyes, but also in the eyes of the king, the king said, Li Quan, this kid has done a good job, he is not shocked by honor and disgrace, and he works solidly, and the Han needs a minister like him." These are the king's exact words! ”

"The king praised it in his heart, Li Quan is just doing his duty." Li Quan said excitedly.

The officer who came with Kou Shuguang was already stunned when he heard the true identity of this person, and he stood like a clay carved wood sculpture.

"Where are you doing? Why don't you hurry up and make some tea, no, no, no, bring the wine, I'm going to have a good drink with the Commander, by the way, keep your mouth shut, and don't talk to anyone about the Commander coming to me. Li Quan said in a loud voice.

"Got it!" The officer agreed, and ran out.

"You're still that attentive." Kou Shuguang glanced at him appreciatively. (To be continued.) )