At the end of December, Lu Yuan officially appointed Lai Qing as the deputy inspector of the Spiegel Academy. A day later, he got a shocking message from Su Liuying.

The Goryeo Emperor Wang Jian went to the throne and declared himself a vassal to the Liao State.

This incident made Lu Yuan feel a trace of unusualness, but the New Year was coming soon, and he didn't pay too much attention to it, and put his mind on celebrating the New Year.

This will be his third New Year since he came into this world.

In January 953, just as Lu Yuan and the southern kingdoms were enjoying the New Year, the northern Liao state suddenly sent troops and invaded the Zhou state.

The four states on the border between Zhou and Liao were attacked at the same time, and the Northern Han also sent the general Liu Jiye to march to the Zhou state, and the entire north was suddenly plunged into war.

When the news reached Hangzhou, Lu Yuan was in the north courtyard of the Engineer Academy, inspecting three models of warships.

One of them was Wang Gui's sea falcon ship, which could carry 2,000 people, and the other two were Yang Xun's improved Wu Yue warships, which could carry 1,000 and 500 people respectively.

Rikuhara's goal was to build a fleet at sea, so the ships couldn't be too small, otherwise it would be difficult to sail on the seas.

And these three types of warships are enough in size, and Lu Yuan is ready to make them the main force of Wu's naval army.

Three types of warships were also renamed, with the Sea Falcons named the "Wyverns" and the other two named the "Flying Tigers" and the "Flying Leopards".

At present, there are more than 40 warships of Wu State, except for four flying dragon ships, most of the others are captured warships of Wu Yueguo, which can carry a total of 30,000 sailors.

This is far from enough, so Lu Yuan hopes that the Engineer Academy can produce these three kinds of warships in large quantities within three years, at least for another 60,000 sailors.

In this regard, Wang Gui expressed some difficulties.

"Your Majesty, if you want to use 60,000 people, you need at least a hundred warships, and even if the shipyard does it day and night, it is impossible to make it in three years."

"Is there any way to do that?"

Yang Xun and Wang Gui glanced at each other, and they both showed embarrassment.

Yang Yi, who was behind Yang Xun, suddenly spoke: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that if the private dock can help make it, it may be able to catch up." ”

"Nonsense, what if they let the drawings and craftsmanship be circulated?"

Lu Yuan stretched out his hand to interrupt Yang Xun's reprimand, "Then can they be responsible for making the less important parts, and you will make the rest?" ”

"But the ship is too big to move." Yang Xun said.

Lu Yuan frowned and pondered.

Yang Yi said again: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that he can hand over the Flying Leopard Ship to those ship dealers, and send someone to supervise and keep it secret, even if it is really stolen, the Flying Leopard Ship is not so important." ”

Yang Xun glared at his son angrily, what is not so important, it was all drawn by him with painstaking efforts.

However, he didn't dare to speak out against it, he had already seen that Lu Yuan wanted to build a warship as soon as possible.

Sure enough, Lu Yuan spoke: "Deputy Yang's opinion on the inspection is very good, I will send someone to contact those ship merchants." ”

"Your Majesty, the two largest merchant ships in Hangzhou are the Baijia Dockyard and the Chen Family Dockyard, and Weichen is very familiar with them, you can leave this matter to me!" Yang Yimao recommended himself.

Yang Xun frowned and looked at Yang Yi, he really couldn't understand why he was so enthusiastic about this matter.

He didn't know that Yang Yi did this all for one person - Du Xuan.

When Yang Yi was in Hui'an Mansion, he kept asking Du Xuan around, but unfortunately no one knew about this person.

At the beginning, Du Xuan's letter of recommendation to him was given to Wang Gui, but when he asked Wang Gui, the old man showed embarrassment and refused to tell him.

This made Yang Yi realize that Du Xuan's identity may be very secretive.

Yang Yineng's current life is all thanks to this person, and his wife Xuemei also agrees with him, but the couple can't even find each other, so how can they repay each other.

He suspected that Du Xuan was a secret guard under King Wu and something like that, thinking that if he made a great contribution, when King Wu was rewarded, he would mention Du Xuan's matter, maybe His Royal Highness King Wu would tell him.

As long as he makes enough contributions in the future, he may be able to help Du Xuan get rid of the dark life of the dark guard and return to the sun.

To this end, he mustered up his energy.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you." Lu Yuan nodded in agreement, not knowing the reason why the other party was so positive, but it was to repay himself.

At this time, a personal guard walked up to Lu Yuan and said something in his ear, Lu Yuan's face changed slightly, and he said to the officials in the dock: "I still have something to do, you can continue to be busy." ”

"Congratulations to the king." And when they were bowed down, they would bow down.

"These bowing rituals can be waived in the future." Lu Yuan waved his hand and left the shipyard.

……

As one of the largest commercial cities in the world, Hangzhou is very famous for its merchants.

Among them, the most famous is Hangzhou's largest businessman, Bai Jin.

Few people know that the Chen family in Hangzhou is actually not inferior to the Bai family in terms of wealth. However, Chen Li, the head of the Chen family, is a very low-key old man, which causes the Chen family to be far inferior to the Bai family in terms of fame.

Before Lu Yuan entered Hangzhou, the Chen family's backer was Cai Gao, and more than half of the family's business profits were donated to Houfu every year.

After Cai Gao's downfall, many people counted the days with their fingers, waiting for when the Chen family would collapse, so that they could pounce on it and get a piece of the pie.

Even the Chen family themselves live in fear all day long. They didn't even dare to leave Hangzhou, for fear of attracting the attention of the imperial court and taking action against them in advance.

Over the past period of time, Chen Li's sons have not struggled. They tried their best to bribe the officials of the Hui'an Prefecture to open a door.

It's a pity that the money can't be used, and the Chen family thinks that the imperial court is about to do something to them, so these officials don't dare to take bribes.

However, after waiting for month after month, from August to October, two months have passed, and the Chen family is still fine.

At this time, many people will come to their senses, and the imperial court may not intend to do anything to the Chen family.

Not only the Chen family, but also the other three giant businessmen are also doing well.

The Wei family even fled Hangzhou at the end of October, taking a risk, and the imperial court did not stop them.

Later, in early December, the Wei family moved back to Hangzhou for some reason, which made the Hangzhou merchants completely relieved and began to concentrate on running the industry.

However, the good times did not last long, although the crisis on the side of the imperial court passed, the threat of the merchants of Hui'an Mansion came again.

From December onwards, the merchants of Hui'an seemed to have made an appointment, and at the same time made a move on the merchants of Hangzhou, wanting to buy their properties.

These foreign merchants were more or less related to the imperial court officials, and some Hangzhou merchants could not resist the pressure and sold their properties.

Soon, the Chen family faced the same crisis.

A few days ago, Yue Yi, a big merchant in Hui'an Prefecture, wanted to buy the Chen family's dockyard, and this person visited the Chen family several times, although he did not explicitly threaten it, but during the conversation, he often mentioned his son-in-law, who was an official in Hangzhou Prefecture.

For this matter, the Chen family had a quarrel,

Several of Chen Li's sons and daughters-in-law decided to sell the dockyard and spend money to eliminate the disaster.

And the other party is also very kind, through this matter, maybe you can climb with the other party to hand over qi ng.

Chen Li, the head of the family, opposed it and resolutely refused to sell, which made his sons very anxious and almost took turns to come to him for persuasion.

On this day, in the Chen Mansion mansion, Chen Li was inspecting some things in the study, and the eldest son Chen Jing pushed the door in with tea.

"Father, you drink tea." Chen Jing walked over to the desk and handed over the teacup.

"Put it down." Chen Li didn't raise his head.

The eldest son couldn't find a conversation for a while, and stood aside with his hands down.

Soon, it was the old man who spoke first.

"From tomorrow, you go and invite a few of the best private school gentlemen to come and open a school in the house, and children over the age of eight will go to the school."

"Father, aren't you not allowing people from our family to take the Jinshi exam?" Chen Jing was a little puzzled.

"No, I have to go to study in the future and take the imperial examination!" The old man was very resolute.

"Why is that?"

"What so much nonsense, if you want to do it, you will do it!"

Chen Jing nodded and agreed, after all, this was a trivial matter, and he still wanted to persuade his father to agree to the conditions of the Yue family, not wanting to anger him in this matter.

"Are you here to persuade me to sell the dockyard again?" When the old man saw that he had not left, he glanced at him,

"Father, you really have to sell this time." Chen Jing looked serious.

"Why?"

"You may not know that just yesterday, the Bai family sold the dockyard to Qian Wanqian!"

"So what?" The old man disagreed.

"Even Bai Jin is like this, why do you bother to insist? Now that the merchants of Hui'an Mansion are powerful, we should find a way to have a good relationship with them. ”

"Oh, do you mean that Bai Jin kid succumbed, and I had to succumb to the old man?" Chen Li said in a hard voice.

"It's not called submission, it should be called cooperation."

"Fart cooperation, is there such a strong buy and sell?" Chen Li was furious.

The eldest son scratched his head and said anxiously: "But our family has no backer now, and if we offend Yue Yi, I'm afraid that he will rectify us." ”

"No, it won't." Chen Li replied in the affirmative.

"How do you know?"

The old man smiled slightly, pointed to the paper on the table and said, "Do you know what this is?" ”

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