Li An went south this time to open up a new road to wealth, and the responsibility is very heavy, so if you don't want to bring your family, it is enough to bring only a few servants. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

As for the soldiers and horses, the scale and types of troops have been basically determined, and the capital needs to transfer a flying brigade, plus a fully equipped ironclad artillery brigade, and the specific division of soldiers and horses, it is also necessary to consider that the main steam gunboats in Laizhou should be transferred more than eighty percent, anyway, there are no interested pirates on the routes of the Americas and Australia, and only one or two frigate gunboats are enough for a fleet.

In addition to these, Ang Lee also has to consider the problem of Datang Daily, although Li Du and the others have fully understood the workflow of Datang Daily, but the most important content of the novel serialization still needs to worry about themselves, the latest serialized manuscript has been less than ten days, and it will take one or two years for Ang Lee to go south, so before leaving the capital, Ang Lee must get the manuscripts of many novels right, so as not to cause the quality of Datang Newspaper to decline.

In order to accomplish this task, Ang Lee found ten literati who could write very quickly, dictated the content of each novel and asked them to record it, one person was tired and couldn't write, so he immediately replaced the next person, and so on, writing at least thirty chapters a day, so that he could write two or three years of updates in a month, which was enough for Ang Lee to return to the capital.

In addition, after Li An drew the drawings of the aircraft carrier and the landing ship, he immediately sent people to Guangzhou to send them to Guangzhou under the stars, so that the large shipyard in Guangzhou could immediately start rebuilding them, and they should get these two powerful ships out as soon as possible.

The work of selecting the main force to the south also began very quickly, and there was nothing to say about mobilizing the main gunboats of Laizhou to go south, just give an order.

A Celestial Army Brigade and an Ironclad Artillery Brigade in the capital need to be selected, and Ang Lee's opinion is to select the most combat-effective troops.

The First Flying Brigade of the Heavenly Army has the best training and combat effectiveness, and Li An has taken a fancy to this unit, and has decided to transfer this unit to the south.

The first brigade of ironclad artillery vehicles was established the earliest, and its combat effectiveness was the most powerful, and it had just been redressed a few months ago, and its combat effectiveness had once again jumped, and it was an ideal elite unit to go south, and Li An had already set his sights on it.

In addition to these two core elite troops, this time it is necessary to mobilize a lot of troops to occupy key points overseas.

A group of these troops will be transferred from the capital, and after arriving in Guangzhou, a group can be mobilized locally, and the scale of about 10,000 people can be gathered.

As for the logistics people, it is better to prepare, and it can be transferred from Guangzhou at will, and there is no need to prepare it in the capital.

If you have an idea in your heart, you must prepare as soon as possible without the slightest delay.

Li An first informed the imperial court, and after obtaining consent, he immediately went to the airfield and the station of the ironclad artillery brigade to inform them of the imperial court's decision, and asked them to immediately make all kinds of preparations and go south to open up the maritime Silk Road at any time.

The team of the 1st Flying Brigade of the Celestial Army is a very outstanding soldier of the Celestial Army, he is not of high background but strong strength, and he is very good at piloting aircraft, and he was directly promoted from a small soldier to a team leader.

The treatment of the Heavenly Army is the same as that of the brigade commander of the Ironclad Artillery Brigade, and it is comparable to the general of the Longwu Army, which is a very promising position, and the future is even more limitless.

The first brigade of the Heavenly Army is positive, and the surname Nan is a single name, and there are not many people with the surname Nan, so it is even more surprising to call it south.

As for the brigade commander of the first brigade of the ironclad artillery truck, Li An knows him, he is Zhang Guangsheng, who has followed Li An for many years, this guy has good strength, but because he has not been good at pleasing big officials, the brigade commander of the artillery brigade has been working for many years, the only difference is that he has gradually been promoted to the brigade commander of the first brigade, in fact, the position of the brigade commander who can be the ironclad artillery brigade is not low, and the salary is quite good, at least, Zhang Guangsheng is content.

"Li Shilang, the First Flying Brigade of the Heavenly Army is heading south, and Zhang Erniu, the commander of the First Brigade of the Ironclad Artillery Car, has arrived."

The subordinate reported.

Li An nodded and said, "Let them in." ”

Soon, Nan Xia and Zhang Erniu entered Ang Lee's office and bowed slightly.

"You are already clear about the will of the imperial court, and this official has something important to tell you when he comes to you this time."

"Li Shilang, what's the important matter?"

The two hurriedly asked.

"It's about training, your previous training is not good, you have to train again according to the requirements."

Li An said seriously.

"Li Shilang, how to train."

Nanxia asked curiously.

Li An paused and said: "Taking the Celestial Army as an example, you have always taken off on a stable airfield runway, but this time you go south, there is no ready-made airstrip for you to use, your runway is on a bumpy big ship, which has relatively high requirements for take-off and landing, so you must change the way of training, the runway that imitates the ship is almost completed, and when the time comes, your first flight group will train there." ”

"Yes, Li Shilang, I understand."

"Li Shilang, how should we train our ironclad artillery vehicles?"

Zhang Erniu couldn't wait to ask.

Li An thought for a moment and replied: "This time the southward journey is by sea, and the ironclad artillery car has been loaded in the ship, and when the war is fought, you have to drive out of the ship's cabin and rush to the beach to land, so recently, you have to train the ironclad artillery car to get on and off the ship and drive in diving." ”

"Yes, I understand."

Li An nodded, and was about to let them go back to prepare, when he suddenly looked south and asked, "Nan Zheng, is there anything special about your name?" ”

"Back to Li Shilang, this is all caused by lowly parents, and there is nothing to pay attention to."

Nanxia replied confusedly.

"Oh, well, there's nothing to do, you guys go down and get ready!"

Li An nodded and asked the two of them to go back and prepare.

Not long after, Guo Yan walked in, he is now the commander of the first army of the Tang Dynasty ironclad artillery car, all the four brigades of the ironclad artillery car in the capital are under his control, and the soldiers and horses that Li An is going to transfer this time are also the army under his command.

"Li Shilang, is it enough to only transfer one artillery brigade south? Do you want to tune it up a little more? ”

Guo Yang has also looked at the map of the south, and feels that there are too many points that the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses need to maintain, and such elite soldiers and horses do not seem to be enough.

"Master Guo has been thinking a lot, although there are many locations along the way, there are not many strong enemies that are difficult to defeat, and an ironclad artillery brigade is enough."

Li An smiled and declined Guo Yang's kindness.

"Hey, in fact, I want to go to Nanyang to see, if I transfer two brigades, I have enough reasons to apply to go south."

Guo Yang said helplessly.

"Haha! Why is Master Guo in a hurry? As long as the trade route is opened, there will be opportunities to go to Nanyang in the future, and there is no need to rush for a while. ”

Li An opened his mouth to comfort.

"Forget it, if you don't go, you won't go, by the way, which army does Li Shilang want to transfer, just the heavenly army and ironclad artillery vehicles are definitely not enough, there are too few troops."

Guo Yan asked.

Li An thought for a moment and replied: "My brother Li Feiyu is now the general of the Longwu Army, and it should not be a problem for me to let him choose the two most elite armies to go south with me." ”

"Well, good idea, General Li Feiyu is Li Shilang's brother, and it is most suitable for him to lead the army south."

Guo Yang agreed.

After talking about some more things about sea trade, Guo Yang left, and Lian sent someone to find Li Feiyu and ask for the brother's opinion.

"Big brother, you look for me."

After so many years, Li Feiyu has always called him eldest brother when he saw Li An, because he is used to being called, and it is difficult to change his words.

"Feiyu, big brother, congratulations! All of them have become generals. ”

Ang Lee greeted happily.

"The eldest brother has won the award, Fei Yu is the most backward one, the eldest brother and the second brother have much higher positions than me."

Li Feiyu said modestly.

"Don't be modest, Feiyu, you're already very good, how about it, the eldest brother is going south to open up a sea route, do you want to go?"

Ang Lee asked.

If his brother didn't want to run so far, he wouldn't be reluctant.

"I want to go! Why not? After such a journey, maybe you can be promoted and make a fortune? ”

Li Feiyu said happily.

"Okay, since that's the case, then the eldest brother will report to the imperial court and let you lead your troops to the south with me."

Li Ang is also very happy, and he will be in a much better mood to have a good brother to accompany him to the south.

"Big brother, how many soldiers and horses do you need?"

Li An replied: "You transferred the two most elite armies from your command, and more than 6,000 soldiers and horses are enough. ”

"Okay, that's it, I'll go back and prepare."

Li Feiyu happily went to prepare.

Li An thought about it for a while, and he still needed to go to Chen Xuanli to discuss, Long Wujun was his subordinate, and Li An also wanted to greet him if he wanted to transfer troops.

"Li Shilang, why do you have time to come to me."

Chen Xuanli greeted happily.

Over the years, he has basically gone to look for Li An, but Li An rarely takes the initiative to visit, almost never once.

"The R&D center, as well as the Datang Daily, are busy with me, where can I have time to go to your house, in a few days, I will have to go south, and it will take a year or two to come back."

Ang Lee complained.

"It's a trip, it's not a big deal, isn't there something to find me!"

Chen Xuanli said cunningly.

"That's right, I need a lot of soldiers and horses to open up a sea trade route in the south this time, I want Li Feiyu to lead two armies of Longwu Army to the south and come over to talk to you."

Ang Lee replied truthfully.

"It's just a trivial matter, would I, Chen Xuanli, deliberately stumble on you? No, the soldiers and horses of the Longwu Army, you can just pick which force you want. ”

Chen Xuanli said domineeringly.

"Okay, with the general's words, I'm much more relieved."

Ang Lee laughed happily.

Subsequently, the two talked about some topics about Nanyang, although Chen Xuanli has not been overseas, but he still knows a little about the situation overseas, and there are many rare commodities transported from Nanyang at home, and at the same time, he is also very supportive of Ang Lee's request to open up sea trade routes.

The trade routes in their own hands are the real trade routes, and on this point, Li An and many ministers of the Tang Dynasty have a consensus.

After all, if you can't control the route well, the benefits that the route can bring are not high, and there is a possibility of interruption at any time.

In the days that followed, the officers and men of the 1st Flying Brigade of the Heavenly Army and the 1st Brigade of Ironclad Artillery Vehicles began new training in accordance with Li An's requirements, and Li Feiyu mobilized the most elite Sixth Army and the Ninth Army of the Longwu Army, and also began actual combat training.

Since the operations after the southward movement were mostly landing operations, the training of the Longwu Army had to be close to actual combat, and boat training was an indispensable one, and it had to be carried out almost every day.

In addition, in order to increase the combat effectiveness of these two armies, each corps had an artillery brigade under its jurisdiction, that is, fifty artillery pieces.

The 3,000 elite Longwu Army, with an artillery brigade of 50 cannons, can form a strong combat effectiveness that can be imagined.

In this way, the force of only one army can make the countries along the way invincible, let alone pirates.

A month passed quickly, and Li An was ready to go south at any time, and before leaving, he had to go and ask about some important things again to ensure absolute safety.

"Editor-in-chief Du, in the future, the Datang Daily will be completely handed over to you, and this official has resigned from the position of editor-in-chief, you have to do a good job!"

Li An patted Du Fu's shoulder and said seriously.

The reason why the Datang newspaper was handed over to Du Fu instead of Li Bai was naturally because Du Fu's eldest brother was more calm and more suitable for this position, and Li Bai was too dissolute and uninhibited, and it was really uneasy to hand it over to him.

"Li Shilang rest assured, he will do his best to run the Datang Daily, and he will not disappoint Li Shilang's hard work."

Du Fu also took the lead and did not shirk at all.

He believes that his strength is fully qualified to be the editor-in-chief of Datang Daily, of course, he also understands that his good brother Li Bai is also competent, but the editor-in-chief has a heavy responsibility, and Li Bai is always a little unstable, good at drinking and making friends, in case of mistakes, it is not good, besides, he drags his family and mouth, and he also does not want money, and the salary of the editor-in-chief is much higher than that of the deputy editor-in-chief, which can relieve his financial pressure.

"This is the manuscript of several novels, enough to be serialized for two or three years, you have collected it, remember not to leak it out, only one chapter of Datang Daily can be serialized."

Li An cautiously handed over the manuscript to Du Fu and admonished earnestly.

Once the manuscript is leaked, it is equivalent to a spoiler, so readers will not be able to read it, and it will cause great losses to Datang Daily.

In addition, the reason why Ang Lee previously hired ten literati to take turns to write novels was also for the need for secrecy, and the intermittent records of the ten people were completely unclear, and they could only remember the scattered plots, so they could not outline the complete storyline.