Chapter 255: Emperor Sui's thoughts

Since the iron-blooded attack half a year ago, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui seems to have regained his youth and high morale, and has issued a lot of decrees one after another, and has mobilized most of the resources of the court to reorganize the fleet of the Son of Heaven!

Maybe it was because he was afraid of Yang Guang's iron blood, or maybe he saw through Yang Guang's attempt to form a fleet, the big families who opposed Yang Guang in Luoyang City were much more docile, and the various decrees issued by Yang Guang could also be smoothly implemented in the capital!

With the tacit understanding between the two sides, the formation of the Son of Heaven fleet became extremely smooth, and the newly built Son of Heaven Dragon Ship was also installed two months ago and successfully launched.

After more than a month of inland river trials, the Tianzi Dragon Boat successfully passed the acceptance of the Imperial Court Craftsman's Division, returned smoothly ten days ago, and entered the Tianzi Wharf of the Imperial Palace!

Three days ago, the usually quiet Tianzi Wharf began to become busy, hundreds of large and small ships of the Tianzi fleet docked one after another, and the palace eunuchs and maids, guards and forbidden troops, came and went, constantly moving things to the ship!

Half an hour ago, the Son of Heaven's fleet was prepared and began to set sail, officially starting the voyage south.

The dragon ship of the Son of Heaven, inside the cabin.

Yang Guang, who was full of exhaustion, changed his solemn and serious image of the emperor in front of the minister, leaned back on the back of the chair, and sat relaxed and paralyzed.

Behind him, Queen Xiao, who is still beautiful and dignified, has a pair of slender jade hands that are as soft as bones, and she pinches her shoulders for him without weight, but there is a trace of reluctance and worry on her extremely beautiful face!

"Your Majesty, Zitong is a little reluctant to leave Luoyang City!"

Yang Guang gently grabbed his wife's jade hand and sighed, "Zitong, I'm not reluctant!" I don't want to leave Luoyang City at this time! ”

Empress Xiao sat in her husband's arms, leaning lightly, "Then why did Your Majesty go to Jiangdu?" ”

"I have to go!"

Yang Guang let out a long sigh again, his face became a little gloomy, "The taxes in various places can't be collected, the treasury is about to be empty, if it weren't for the raid of those more than ten families some time ago, I can't afford to support those Praetorian Guards now!" ”

Empress Xiao thought for a while and said softly: "At the beginning, the seventeen large and small families, just in Luoyang City, seized more than two million taels of silver worth of grain and property, it can be seen that there is no shortage of money, grain and property in Luoyang City, and when the national disaster is at hand, Your Majesty can issue an order to let the big families in the city donate money and food!"

"It's useless! There won't be many family donations, it's just a drop in the bucket, and it can't solve the problem! ”

Yang Guang shook his head and said, "Don't look at those big families in the city, on the surface, they are all obedient, and the ministers of the court are also loyal, in fact, among them, there are many people who wish I left Luoyang City, if I don't leave, maybe these people will take action to drive people out!" ”

"Then isn't it just what their majesty wants when he leaves?" Empress Xiao was a little puzzled.

"If I leave, I will also take away most of the court ministers, many of them are important people of the family, without these people's constraints, Dong Er, who stays in Luoyang, can take the opportunity to reorganize Luoyang City. And the ministers who were born in the family have left Luoyang City, they are rootless grass, and it is much easier for me to deal with them! ”

As he spoke, a glimmer of light flashed in Yang Guang's eyes, "Moreover, Jiangdu City is the place where I started, and the people in Jiangnan are more loyal to me, so I can re-operate Jiangdu and reorganize the Great Sui World with the wealth of Jiangnan!" ”

After speaking, Yang Guang sighed a little, I don't know if he thought of something, or if he was worried about the difficulty of the road ahead!

Yang Guang didn't speak again, Queen Xiao didn't ask again, the husband and wife snuggled quietly, silently enjoying a little tranquility!

……

In the hall of the Chinese army, Su Shang and Du Ruhui and others were discussing military and political affairs, and a personal guard poked his head at the door, Su Shang saw it, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Marshal, General Li Yixing has a situation to report."

"Let him in!"

After a while, Li Yixing, who was dressed in armor, walked into the hall quickly, and then saluted Su Shanglizheng: "Good marshal!"

Su Shang nodded and asked, "What happened?"

"Report to the marshal, a civilian intelligence agent in Xicheng reported yesterday night that a new shop has opened on Xicheng Street, and the things they sell are very eye-catching."

"What do they sell?" Su Shang asked curiously.

"Bring it in!" Li Yixing turned around and shouted outside the door.

Several soldiers walked into the hall, holding bows and arrows or crossbows, and two carrying a wooden box without a lid, in which there were two sets of armor, one ordinary Mingguang armor and one leather armor.

Su Shang's face suddenly became gloomy, "Military crossbows and armor are all forbidden things for the people, all over the Great Sui, including under the rule of the rebels, this is not the case, and now someone dares to sell them in Donglai City, has the store been sealed?" ”

"No, but the shop is temporarily closed. They only sell hunting bows, crossbows and armor are their displays, not for sale, and this crossbow and armor are a little abnormal, and the general feels the need to let the marshal take a look! ”

Hearing that the store did not buy and sell contraband, Su Shang's face immediately returned to normal, but Li Yixing's report made him a little interested in these crossbow armors.

He walked to the wooden box, picked up the leather armor and inspected it in detail, the appearance and material of this set of leather armor are exactly the same as the leather armor equipped by the second-line team of the Allied Army, the only difference is that this set of leather armor has an extra layer of mesh lining, the mesh lining is a piece of wire braid, the shape of the gown, just enough to protect the upper body of the soldier!

Su Shang put down the leather armor, and opened the Mingguang armor to take a closer look, like the leather armor, the inner lining of the Mingguang armor also has an extra layer of iron mesh lining.

Su Shang didn't speak, and picked up another crossbow. The appearance of the crossbow is very new, and it looks like it was made not long ago.

This crossbow is similar in style and appearance to the normal crossbow, but it has a longer bow arm, but it is shorter than the new crossbow that has been newly improved by the Craftsman School and is being equipped in a small area by the Allied forces.

The length of the bow arm of the crossbow is directly related to the effective range of the crossbow arrow. In general, the longer the bow arm, the longer the effective range of the crossbow.

However, the longer the bow arm, the greater the power consumption, and ordinary soldiers may not be able to pull it open, so the general bow and crossbow are designed with the bow arm length under the condition that ordinary soldiers can pull the bowstring normally.

The new type of military crossbows of the Allied Army, their bow arms are much longer than ordinary military crossbows, that is because the bow masters of the craftsman's school have improved the production technology of military crossbows, and found trees that are more suitable for making bow arms, but the effective range of the new crossbow is only about 220 steps, which is only more than 10% more than the ordinary crossbow. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Overlord Claw Book House at the End of the Sui Dynasty" for free for the first time.