Fighting in inland rivers is different from fighting in the sea, where the focus is on speed, firepower, and protection capabilities.

But in inland warfare, while all three are also very important, what is more important is flexibility.

In order to ensure that inland river warships are flexible enough to fight in some small and medium-sized rivers and lakes, the draft of the ships must be shallow, and at the same time, the ships must not be too large, otherwise it will be difficult to turn around and turn.

On this basis, increase the firepower and protection capabilities as much as possible, as well as the speed.

However, there is also a very important, and even the most important, is the cost.

In the past, the warships of the Datang Navy often paid too much attention to performance, so the cost of the ships was extremely high, a frigate cost 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver, and a cruiser exceeded 100,000 taels.

As for the first battleship under construction, even if it is only the lowest battleship, it is estimated that the cost will exceed 300,000 taels.

Too much attention is paid to quality and the combat effectiveness of a single ship, resulting in a relatively small number of main warships of the Datang Navy under limited military spending.

In order to change this situation, the Datang Navy has specially developed a low-cost Lianping-class patrol ship!

The same is true for inland river warships, the new second-class river warships all adopt mature technology, and the artillery is also cheap five-pound guns and three-pound shotguns.

In this way, the cost can be controlled, and with enough production, the cost can be diluted.

Therefore, the performance level of this second-class battleship is not much higher than that of previous river warships, but the reduction of cost is its most outstanding feature.

On the navy, it is already planning to start the full-scale construction of this new type of second-class warship and continue to expand the scale of inland river warships.

After finishing the inspection at the Jiangnan Shipyard, Li Xuan returned to the city with people, and after returning to the palace, Li Xuan, who was in a good mood, watched the palace dance for another night.

After moving the capital to Jiangnan, Li Xuan deeply felt that the culture and art in the Jiangnan area were developed, and specially recruited many Jiangnan women to join the palace dance troupe, expanding its scale from more than 10 people to more than 30 people, and also divided into several dance teams.

Li Xuan often watches and comments on the artistic level of these dance troupe members, especially the dance postures, and often personally helps them correct their movement mistakes, and will dance with them.

Tonight, after Li Xuan watched several dances of the old dance team in a row, a new dance team came on, this dance team was newly formed recently, and it had been taught and rehearsed by the predecessors before, and it had never been officially played, and today, they will present the first dance for Li Xuan, the Holy Monarch of the Ages.

After five or six young women wearing light veils came on the stage one after another, they danced to the music played by the female musicians on the side, and the jade fat skin under the light red veil loomed, and their artistic level was so high that even Li Xuan, a master of dance criticism, was sideways.

Especially one of the girls, the beauty of her dancing posture made Li Xuan look at her from head to toe, so much so that she forgot to drink the wine glass in her hand for a long time.

This woman is about sixteen years old, and her figure and dress are actually no different from other women, they are Li Xuan's favorite type of convex and backward, and she is also wearing a uniform pink light gauze transparent high-fork long skirt.

Then his face looks more pleasing to the eye, Li Xuan prides himself on being a veteran of the dance industry, he has seen many beautiful women dancing and learning dance skills, the face of ordinary dancers is already difficult to move him, but this woman's face makes Li Xuan feel that this woman should not really exist, but should be in the painting.

In addition, when the girls were dancing, many others frequently threw various glances at Li Xuan, looking forward to letting Li Xuan personally comment on their dancing skills, but this woman didn't look at Li Xuan very much, and the expression on her face was also a little cold.

So much so that this woman is like an ice lotus mixed into a fire lotus among all the women!

Li Xuan continued to enjoy the dance with interest, and his eyes frequently fell on the cold woman, this woman should have felt her gaze, but she continued to dance as if she didn't see it, as if the whole person was immersed in the dance!

Even when she danced and walked in front of Li Xuan, Li Xuan stretched out his hand and pulled it gently, that is, when she pulled down the red light gauze dance dress on her body, this woman was still unmoved, and continued to flutter like a white snow lotus.

This woman is a little interesting!

Then, Li Xuan also had a great desire to learn, and immediately went down to the field to learn from him, this woman's figure did not dodge, but learned with Li Xuan, with the intensification of the dance movements, her face seemed to be flushed because of the excessive amount of exercise, but her expression was still a clear and jade appearance, which made people look as if they were in the two heavens of ice and fire.

This battle, it was evenly matched, like two armies fighting, attacking and defending each other, but no one could help anyone, and in the end, Li Xuan gritted his teeth and directly sacrificed hundreds of millions of troops!

Hundreds of millions of troops charged, and the scene was so spectacular that it directly caused this woman to be defeated, perhaps because of the failure of the dance competition, and she let out a painful moan at the last moment.

Afterwards, Li Xuan hugged the woman's waist, leaned over and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Your Majesty, Concubine Song, nicknamed Xuelin!"

Song's? Li Xuan thought about it slightly, and just remembered the origin of this woman, who should be the daughter of the Song family in Suzhou, Jiangnan, who entered the palace a few months ago.

According to the draft materials he had seen before, in the first draft specially prepared for the Jiangnan area, a total of 22 people were selected, and almost all of these people were the daughters of the gentry and official families who were representative in the Jiangnan area.

The Song family in Suzhou is also a traditional Jiangnan gentry, and there have been officials from generation to generation, and this girl should be the daughter of the Song family.

However, he remembered that this batch of Jiangnan women in the draft, like dozens of women with the nature of marriage in the past, were all given the title of Zhaoyi by him, raised, and occasionally he would randomly go to see a few of them when he was interested, and these Zhaoyi were not members of the dance troupe.

Most of the dance members in the Tang Dynasty Court Dance Troupe are beautiful women found by Li Xuan through informal channels, such as those found in the palace affairs department of the Hanlin Academy, and the courtiers are offered.

Although the members of these dance troupes can often be favored by Li Xuan, their political status is generally not high, basically only the title of talent, and only a few more favored ones are given the title of beauty.

As for the two levels of concubines and concubines, there are no more than ten in the entire Tang Palace, either they are concubines who have been with Li Xuan in the early days, or they are women who have given birth to children for Li Xuan, or both.

How could a concubine who came in the draft and had the title of Zhaoyi enter the dance troupe? This doesn't need to guess Li Xuan to know the reason for the matter, it's nothing more than trying to get his attention through this means.

But does Li Xuan care?

He doesn't care!

So after he heard Song Zhaoyi's words, he guessed the cause and effect in a short moment, but he didn't show any abnormality, but said with a smile: "Stay tonight, don't go back!" ”

The next day, a news spread in the Tang Palace that the Suzhou Song family, who had been drafted into the palace a few months ago, was named Kang Concubine, becoming the first concubine in the past year to be awarded the title of 'concubine' without giving birth to a prince and a princess.

However, many people are the cause and effect, many people have found out that Concubine Kang was mixed into the dance troupe, and then she met His Majesty, and then flew on the branches after being favored overnight, and many women in the harem want to repeat this successful path and want to blend into the dance troupe.

This is a matter of the future, not to mention it, in the past few days, Li Xuan has been a little obsessed with Concubine Kang Song, this woman is definitely the most beautiful woman Li Xuan has ever seen in his two lives, and she is also the kind of person who has a cold appearance and a fiery heart.

Of course, although Li Xuan spent most of his time on Concubine Kang's side when he was in the harem, Li Xuan naturally would not give up his job because of just a woman, and he still insisted on handling the daily government affairs, and the schedule was full.

And after a busy day, when he returned to the harem, he was able to get a good relaxation on Concubine Kang's side, so Li Xuan went to Concubine Kang's side more often, and he didn't dare to say that he went every night, but in the ten days, he stayed at Concubine Kang's side for seven or eight days.

For this reason, many women in the harem are envious, jealous and hateful!

However, Queen Dong Yunyun is very calm about this, she has been married to Li Xuan for several years, and Dong Yunyun is not stupid, she may not be able to see it in the early years, but now she has already seen it, this His Majesty is a person who is affectionate, and likes the new and hates the old, it is normal for this Concubine Kang to be able to attract Li Xuan for a period of time, but it is less than three months, and no more than half a year, Your Majesty should be replaced.

Over the years, almost every few months, Li Xuan will be particularly fond of a certain one frequently, in the past, Li Concubine and Concubine Shu were like this, but now? It would be good for Li Xuan to be able to go to them once a month.

However, she Dong Yunyun is the queen, although Li Xuan does not come to her many times, but she always comes every once in a while, and she is already pregnant for the second time recently, if she can give birth to a prince smoothly, then everything will be better.

Now she is focused on raising a fetus, where she can take care of what concubine Li Xuan loves!

Now her status, as long as she herself does not make any fatal mistakes, then the position of the queen is almost unshakeable, to put it mildly, even Li Xuan can't do it, if you don't want to cause criticism in the world, Li Xuan, the emperor, will never abolish her, the queen who shares suffering!

The mother is more expensive than the son, the son is more expensive than the mother, Dong Yunyun is the queen, and the prince she gave birth to will be the prince of the Tang Dynasty, according to the traditional etiquette, this prince will be the most legitimate heir to the throne of the Tang Dynasty!