"You have a second option... What a plan...! Hearing Li Zhan say that there was a second plan, Li Shimin was a little excited in his heart, because Li Shimin felt that he had summoned Li Zhan this time to meet the right one, and he knew that Li Zhan must have a way.

Looking at Li Shimin, who was a little excited, Li Zhan said: "The land route is not passable... The Datang waterway is smooth, and the waterway grain transportation has been mature enough...! ”

"But the court doesn't have a ship... Of course, this is also my problem, during this time, Datang has been threatened by the grassland tribes, so I ignored the water army, and now that I think about it, I really regret it.

If I only need to develop a little water army, I will not be choked by the Li family of Longyou now. Li Shimin bowed his head slightly.

Li Zhan said at this time: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty... I know that His Majesty's navy has not yet taken shape, so I have already bought twenty half-finished ships from a sea merchant, which are now being rebuilt, and it is expected that the transformation will be completed in ten days.

It will take 10 days to test the water, and I think it will be 20 days before the grain can be officially delivered. ”

After Li Shimin listened, he frowned and said, "Zhan'er... Slow, after twenty-three days, there will be no food in Chang'an, and it will take at least three days for your big ship to go back and forth... Before your ship returns, Chang'an may be about to riot. ”

Li Shimin's worry made Li Zhan smile and said: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, my ship doesn't need to go back and forth every three days, and the ship I rebuilt takes one day...!" ”

"One day?" Li Shimin was incredulous: "This is impossible, now the fastest ship in Datang also has to be three days, how can your ship only take one day?" ”

Li Zhan looked at Li Shimin very confidently and said: "Because the ship I rebuilt is not the current Datang ship, the name of the ship I rebuilt is the sand boat, a kind of large flat-bottomed sailing ship that is not easy to run aground in the sand... It can, adjust the wind, three masts and five masts, a thousand miles a day, the sail is long, increase the porthole, the river and the sea are appropriate. ”

"Shh Li Zhan's words made Li Shimin gasp, a thousand miles a day, if what Li Zhan said is true, it is undoubtedly a kind of revolution by Li Zhan on Datang shipbuilding.

In fact, Li Zhan's sand boat appeared in the late Tang Dynasty, but Li Zhan's reconstruction was indeed improved by the Song Dynasty.

The structure of the sand boat is unique, with square head, square tip, flat bottom, shallow draft, with the characteristics of wide, large, flat and shallow, the bottom is flat and can sit on the beach, not afraid of stranding, the draft is shallow, and the influence of the tide is relatively small; The sand boat has many masts and sails, high masts and high sails, shallow draft, low resistance, can sail fast at sea, and has good seaworthiness; The carrying capacity is large, and it is generally recorded that the carrying capacity of sand ships is 4,000 to 6,000 stones, which is about 500 to 800 tons.

In the 15th century, Zheng He went to the West seven times, accompanied by a large number of sand boats.

This kind of sand boat was still widely used until the Qing Dynasty, and it can be said that it was the best kind of boat in China at that time.

At this time, Li Zhan looked at Li Shimin and said with a smile: "So please rest assured, it doesn't matter whether the Longyou Li family agrees or not, and if the Longyou Li family doesn't agree, it will give me a chance to hit me hard."

Do you want to... If the Longyou Li family is unwilling to use their own fleet to save the people of Chang'an, and if they do not agree to the request of the Longyou Li family, the Longyou Li family must let the news of the death of millions of people in Chang'an be known by the people of Chang'an...! ”

Saying that, Li Zhan smiled and said, "Then I'm sure that Your Majesty will cut off at least one hand of the Li family in Longyou, or even more." ”

"Zhan'er... Can you really guarantee that the sand boat will be successful? Li Shimin's eyes showed a hint of brilliance, and Li Zhan knew that it was an excited look.

Following Li Zhan's answer, Li Shimin did not disappoint.

Li Zhan said with a smile: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, it will definitely succeed...!" ”

Looking at Li Zhan's confident appearance, Li Shimin asked with some curiosity: "This kind of sand boat, did you learn it in the immortal world?" ”

Li Zhan was stunned... looked at Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty has also heard rumors about me. ”

Li Shimin nodded: "Ice making, salt making, alcohol, sewing techniques... None of this can be invented by ordinary people, Zhan'er... Is there really a celestial realm? ”

Li Shimin's words made Li Zhan feel a little bad. Because he suddenly remembered the truth about Li Shimin's death.

You must know that Li Shimin ascended the throne at the age of 28 and reigned for 23 years, he accepted the lesson of the fall of the Sui Dynasty, worked hard to govern the country, recuperated with the people, gradually stabilized the society, and the country was unprecedentedly strong, creating the famous "Zhenguan rule" period in history.

is such a Ming Jun, after he has been the emperor for more than ten years, he is used to living a comfortable and hedonistic life, and gradually tends to be extravagant and corrupt. He restored the luxurious palace built by Emperor Yang of Sui in Luoyang. He once occupied Concubine Yang of Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and selected the fourteen-year-old daughter of the late minister Wu Shi Wok as a talented person, and named her "Mei", which is "Wu Meiniang". In his "old age", the last years of his reign as emperor, he was uncharacteristically superstitious about divination and obsessed with pills.

In the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin suffered a stroke and was paralyzed in bed. After the diagnosis and treatment of the imperial doctor, the disease recovered slightly after half a year, and he could go to the court once in three days. If you continue to treat and recuperate, you may be able to recover gradually. However, at this time, he was obsessed with the golden stone elixir refined by the monks, hoping that he would live forever. He first took the pills refined by the domestic monks, but it did not work, thinking that the Taoist skills of the domestic monks were shallow, so he sent people around to visit foreign masters.

In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, the minister Wang Xuance captured an Indian monk named Narasa in a foreign war. In order to cater to Li Shimin's psychology of begging for immortality, he was dedicated to Li Shimin. This Indian monk boasted that he was 200 years old, specializing in the art of immortality, and swore that after eating the elixir he refined, he would definitely be immortal, and he could even fly to the heavenly palace in broad daylight to become an immortal.

His nonsense really moved Li Shimin, so he arranged for this Indian monk to live in a luxurious pavilion, every meal is a sumptuous food, every day there is a large group of subordinates to serve, life is no less than the emperor.

This guy saw that Li Shimin was convinced of himself, so he took great pains to prescribe a large list of strange drug names, Li Shimin ordered the world, according to this recipe to collect all kinds of medicine and stones, no matter what the cost, at all sacrifices, as long as the medicine in the Indian monk's prescription can be procured, even if the sword mountain and the sea of fire have to be taken. A year later, when the medicine was ready, Li Shimin was very happy and ate all the medicine without hesitation, but he died of bleeding and poisoning. At this time, he was only fifty-two years old, and he was the first emperor in Chinese history to be poisoned by the "elixir of life". He didn't do it carefully, and he left the world prematurely in such a ridiculous, pathetic, stupid and confused way.

Li Zhan looked at Li Shimin's expectant eyes at this time, Li Zhan knew that he had to answer this question carefully, if he didn't answer well, there would definitely be trouble, so Li Zhan must think about it, how to answer this.

Because every emperor has a dream of immortality... This dream is not a good thing!

................................