"Tan Fei, what time is it?" Zhao Yu soaked in the armory workshop for many days, and finally solved the technical problems one by one, and was relieved after the successful trial operation.

"Your Majesty, it's time now!" Tan Fei looked out at the rising sun and replied casually.

"I'm talking about days!" Zhao Yu took the silk scarf and wiped his face, and said with a wry smile.

"Oh, Your Majesty, it's July 22 now!" Tan Fei quickly replied after hearing this.

"Alas, I went to the court once this month, and I missed the Wangri court, and I don't know how many people are going to write to advise me." Zhao Yu didn't feel that he had stayed here for a few days, and was stunned for a moment, and then sighed.

"Well, it is estimated that after returning to the palace, Deng Zhongcheng is already waiting for Your Majesty!" Tan Fei said with a smile. He knew very well that the little emperor had been afraid of several masters since he was a child, and since His Majesty was in power, the governor should have rarely heard the lesson of the face-to-face order, and Governor Jiang would not reprimand him at every turn, but reminded him vaguely. Only Deng Zhongcheng is still the same, as long as he sees that His Majesty is at fault, regardless of the occasion, regardless of whether the little emperor can come down from the stage, he will come to a 'persuasion', which will make him lose face, and he has to laugh with him. This time, I haven't been in court for such a long time, and I can't escape a lesson no matter what.

"Let's go to the Taihu Lake Boat Yard to have a look, anyway, we will inevitably go back!" Zhao Yu turned around the room twice after hearing this, and suddenly turned around and said. According to the progress, he estimated that the manufacture of the "flying clippers" and "galen boats" should be in the final stage, and they should enter the sea trial stage.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this is even more inappropriate, isn't it?" Tan Fei was taken aback, the little emperor not only did not return to the palace, but also continued to evade even more, making him feel even more difficult to explain.

"What's wrong, one knife is also a knife, two knives are also a knife, just go back and borrow their ears!" Zhao Yu squeezed his eyes at Tan Fei and said.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that my subordinates will not be able to explain when they go back!" Tan Fei did have a bitter look, he could see that the little emperor was out of the way, but as His Majesty's personal entourage, he knew that his behavior was inappropriate, but he did not advise, and he would inevitably be reprimanded by the queen and the ruling officials of the court when he went back, which was really a little wronged.

"When the sky falls, there are tall people on top, and I don't speak, how can they stand you?" Zhao Yu looked at his 'unproductive' appearance, and reprimanded with a straight face.

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"You can send someone to inform the Imperial Office and ask them to send the official documents every day. And inform the queen and the two prime ministers that after I have dealt with these trivial matters, I will return to the palace two days later! Seeing that he bowed his head and was silent, Zhao Yu didn't care what he thought, and ordered.

"The subordinates obey the order, I don't know if Your Majesty will take the land route or the sea route, the subordinates will arrange it!" Tan Fei realized that the little emperor had made up his mind, and he couldn't control it, so he could only ask for a gift.

"Of course, take the sea route, let the Imperial Navy transfer a ship over, don't make a fuss, and after dealing with this matter now, we will do it tonight!" Zhao Yu saw that he was still sullen and said angrily.

"Yes, my subordinates obey!" Tan Fei knew that it was useless to say anything more, so he saluted again.

A sentence at the top, a broken leg at the bottom. Although the little emperor asked not to be publicized, Tan Fei did not dare to be careless, and sent someone to inform the palace and the two ruling emperors of their whereabouts. You must know that the emperor's 'disappearance' is a major event, which will not only cause turmoil in the government and the opposition, but also cause unforeseen events, and this kind of thing cannot be concealed in any way.

Then Tan Fei informed Ni Liang, the commander of the imperial guards, to order the mobilization of naval warships, and also to tell him where the emperor went. In this way, Ni Liang will naturally strengthen the control of the Beijing division according to the plan, to prevent His Majesty from taking the opportunity to make trouble when he is traveling, and he will also make the garrisons along the way strengthen their combat readiness and provide support for the driving at any time. Therefore, it is not so easy for the emperor to go out of Beijing for a private visit, and people in all aspects of his actions have already gotten the news.

In addition, Tan Fei knew that the little emperor had always traveled lightly and simply, and he didn't like to move the people, but this did not mean that he would pick up his backpack and leave, he still had a lot of preparations to do. First of all, the Imperial Front Office should arrange the accompanying personnel, formulate a guard plan, and have a plan for what means of transportation to take, where to rest every day, where to live, who to meet, how many roads to travel in a day, etc., and send people to the front station to arrange everything.

No matter what the little emperor's food, clothing, housing and transportation are, they must be prepared in advance and managed by a special person to ensure that they can be found at any time when needed, what to eat can be served, and even what books to read can be served at any time. Therefore, it is also very cumbersome to prepare, and this time the little emperor said that he was leaving, Tan Fei, as a close attendant, not only had to coordinate all parties, but also personally asked and checked them one by one, so as not to make omissions......

In the afternoon of the same day, Zheng Yong personally led the fleet to come, still a combination of Sheji, a baggage ship and six dragon boats, and when the tide passed, Zhao Yu and his party boarded the ship and sailed north along the coastline.

"Your Majesty, you haven't been to sea for a long time, have you?" Seeing that the little emperor was a little excited after getting on the boat, Zheng Yong asked with a smile.

"Yes, it should be more than a year, I really miss the days at sea, how pleasant it is!" Zhao Yu looked at the sunset floating on the horizon and said with deep emotion.

"Everyone also misses the days when they galloped on the sea with His Majesty and defeated the Mengyuan Naval Army, which is really happy. But now there are more and more days when this Sheji number is anchored in Hong Kong, and it is rare for Your Majesty to sit once! Zheng Yong patted the railing and said a little sentimentally.

"Alas, I can't help myself, otherwise where would you have the opportunity to go to Nanyang." Zhao Yu looked at Zheng Yongyan and said.

"Your Majesty who still remembers that when he was in Qiongzhou, he said that he would take us on a boat to travel all over the world, find a new continent, and open up a new territory, thinking about it is like yesterday!" Zheng Yong said with emotion.

"It seems that you have a lot of feelings about your trip to Nanyang!" Zhao Yu looked at Zheng Yong and smiled.

"Yes, my subordinates only knew the vastness of the world and the vastness of the ocean during this trip, and I felt that I was like a frog at the bottom of the well before, and I couldn't see the size of the world." Zheng Yongyan said.

"Zheng Dutong, I am a big country in the Song Dynasty, expanding thousands of miles, and overseas are just small vassal countries, why are you so self-deprecating!" Tan Fei was a little unconvinced when he heard this.

"Hehe, you should go out for a walk too!" Zhao Yu turned to Tan Fei and said with a smile, "The world is beyond your imagination, even if my Great Song Dynasty was in its heyday, it was only a corner of the world, and there are still many vast places overseas, and it is difficult for a poor person to set foot on every continent in his life, and he can't even dream of it without seeing it with his own eyes." ”

"Well, what Your Majesty said is that I only went to the South Seas when I went to sea, and those merchants said that there were still thousands of miles away from the Western Ocean, and they still hadn't been able to visit some places!" Zheng Yong nodded and said.

"Listening to the words of Your Majesty and Zheng Dutong, I also want to go to sea to see!" Tan Fei also said with fascination on his face when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, it's time to eat, please move to the cockpit!" At this time, Wang De came over and asked.

"The roof of this cabin is cool, so I will eat here, and you will also have two drinks with me here!" Zhao Yu waved his hand.

"It's disrespectful for subordinates to wait!" Tan Fei and Zheng Yong smiled when they heard this.

By this time it was already dark, and Wang De ordered people to hang lanterns on the top deck, put them on the table, and bring them up. The night breeze blowing on the sea brings a burst of coolness, driving away the stuffiness of the day, which is very pleasant.

"I haven't been on the ship for a long time, and the people on the ship have changed a lot, and many of them don't know each other anymore!" After three rounds of drinking, the sailors and sergeants on the ship also began to change shifts, and Zhao Yu looked down and said.

"Well, many veterans in the Imperial Navy have retired after reaching their service years, and some have been transferred to other departments to serve in other departments, and some new recruits have been added, so Your Majesty naturally doesn't recognize them!" Zheng Yong nodded.

"I heard that most of their accents were from Qiongzhou, Fujian, and Guangxi, but they were transferred from other naval forces!" Listening to the password of the changing sailor, Zhao Hao asked again.

"Some of the officers were selected from other naval forces, but most of the ordinary sergeants were selected from the recruit battalions." Zheng Yong replied.

"Oh, there are a lot of people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who are good at water, why are there so few local soldiers?" Zhao Yu was stunned for a moment.

"Your Majesty, haven't you heard the saying that the Wu people are cowardly and unusable?" Zheng Yong asked very strangely.

"......" Zhao Yu has not heard of it, I heard my father-in-law complain to himself that all departments are unwilling to use Jiangsu and Zhejiang soldiers, and ask them to take care of them to give priority to the selection of soldiers, and he has also taught him to focus on the overall situation, and today I heard the people around me say the same, then there is a problem.

"Your Majesty, your subordinates don't want to use Jiangsu and Zhejiang soldiers when they choose soldiers, these people are cowardly, they can't endure hardship, and they even become deserters!" Tan Fei also echoed.

"Alas, is it true that Wu Yuezhi's arrogance of treating death as if he were at home is really gone?" Zhao Yu listened to the complaints of the two, and drank a glass of wine for a long time before speaking. He held back such a helpless sentence for a long time, it was easy to be said that the region was black, but this was really not what he and the two people in front of him said. In fact, after the southern crossing, some people said this publicly, and this person is the famous general of the Southern Returning Northern Righteous Army, and the lyricist Xin Qiji.

This exposition of Xin Qiji was recorded by his friend Cheng Jue in "Zhushui Ji Bingzi Wheel to Sword". He said: To recruit border soldiers, they must be able to ride horses and shoot arrows and operate warships, and they should not be frightened as soon as they enter the battlefield like the Wu people. Even if they are mobilized, they must be separated from the troops from other regions, lest the latter also be tainted with bad habits. In a word, Xin Qiji thinks that the Wu people are not a good source of soldiers.

So, why did Xin Qiji say that the Wu people were not suitable to be soldiers? Is it really because of the black region, or is there a reason for the words? Because judging from some other records, the Wudi people mentioned by Xin Qiji are indeed very resistant to being soldiers. To explain all this, Zhao Hao feels that he has to start from the background of the times at that time. Because the Taihu Lake area was relatively less war-torn after the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it was also far away from the northern front. From the Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, there were not many regular troops here, which made the local tradition of military service lacking.

Of course, in addition to the regular army, the Song Dynasty also had township soldiers as local armed forces. And because the quantity and quality of the township soldiers in a region, as well as the treatment, can very much reflect the martial arts of a region. Wang Anshi advocated the development of armor protection and replaced part of the forbidden army with township soldiers. But in the early Song Dynasty, there were a large number of village soldiers who were brave. However, they were mainly distributed in the border areas of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia of Liao, while the Jiangnan region of the same period, especially the hometown of Wu County in the Taihu Lake area, did not have many records of relevant township soldiers.

If the southern township soldiers have a clear record time, it will be almost the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, and even the time for Wang Anshi to change the law. Therefore, for the people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai at that time, the lack of military literacy was a very common thing. In addition, the lack of military traditions in the Jiangnan region during the Northern Song Dynasty also had cultural and economic reasons.

First of all, the Song Dynasty did have a policy and atmosphere of emphasizing literature over military force. For example, in the era of Song Zhenzong, Jinshi Li Guangfu performed swordsmanship for Emperor Zhenzong to prove that he was both civil and military, but the result touched the emperor's sensitive nerves and was sent back to his hometown. This trend also affected the Taihu Lake area, and scholars began to abandon martial arts and literature, and many writers in Wu also started from that era.

Secondly, in terms of economy, the Sanwu Qiantang area has a large population and developed economy, and most of the money and grain taxes in the Tang and Song dynasties were taken from here. So in the eyes of the rulers, it is enough for the southeast to be an economic center. Large-scale local recruitment will affect the local economic development, and it is obviously not worth it. The above factors naturally made the Wu people in the Northern Song Dynasty lack military experience and tradition.

The situation changed after the Nandu, and as the Jin invaded the north, the Song court, centered on Hangzhou, had to recruit troops locally, and Hangzhou and the surrounding areas were populated. At that time, the population of Lin'an Prefecture was more than 1 million, and the population of Liangzhelu in the area of Suzhou and Hangzhou and the surrounding areas was more than 12 million, while the maximum number of troops in Hangzhou was only 130,000, and the maximum number of troops in the entire Liangzhejiang region was less than 200,000. On the surface, the quality of soldiers can still be guaranteed with such a high proportion of the population.

But the problem lies in the brutal and poor way of recruiting. For example, driving a big boat in a no-man's land in the Cao River, when you see a strong young man, you can catch him directly; Another example is to arrange a wooden fence with a mechanism, put some property in it, and if there is a greedy person to take it, activate the mechanism and close the fence. People have to sigh that this is a recruitment or a bird?

According to legend, there was a shortage of thousands of nominal elites in the Southern Song Dynasty and the former division of the Praetorian Guard Palace, and the emperor ordered the three yas to recruit and fill in months, and those who recruited soldiers in order to embezzle the property used for recruitment, directly arrested the common people and did not give money, and for a while, those ordinary people who made a living by cutting wood and selling fish and shrimp did not dare to go to Hangzhou.

And the so-called upper beam is not right, the lower beam can be crooked. The political corruption of the Southern Song Dynasty made most of the generals of the Sanya sloppy and incapable children. Therefore, the nominal top elite palace army in the Southern Song Dynasty was evaluated by the people at the time as "the palace soldiers are arrogant...... Returning to the heavy summer trip, unbearable suffering, crying and running out, the road side escape houses are all there, and the smell is unapproachable. There are many wells in the ground, or they will die in the meantime" In other words, the palace front army composed of Wu people as the main force did not even have the ability to march in the summer, and it was really too much to expect them to fight......