The first Wu general was Zhou Zuo, but he was the son of Zhou Ben, the assassin of Luzhou, and when he saw Tang Cai arrayed, he hurriedly shouted: "Don't misunderstand, the front is my sister, I came to greet me on my father's order!" ”

Murong Che glanced at Yang Meng, who was standing on the side of the carriage.

"This is indeed an uncle, but it is not necessarily a good heart." Yang Meng replied.

Murong Che nodded, then lowered the head of the gun a little, and shouted to the other side: "Then the general go back, please inform King Wu, if the Duke of Liyang and his wife want to go to Jinyang to meet the Son of Heaven, they will not send each other away!" ”

Zhou Zuo's face was gloomy, but when he saw that there were two more groups of dozens of riders gathering here, he didn't dare to make a move. He could only arch his hand: "Please also ask the general to agree, I will see my sister." ”

Murong Che thought for a while, nodded and said, "Then come over by yourself!" ”

Zhou Zuo didn't dare to clash with the Tang army, so he had to ride his horse alone, jumped off his horse after the Tang army's battle formation, and saluted Yang Meng and his wife: "Zhou Zuo has seen Liyang Gong and the second sister!" ”

Yang Meng didn't speak, and Mrs. Zhou said, "What are you doing here?" ”

Zhou Zuo said: "The younger brother was ordered by his father to pick up the second sister, Liyang Gongjia Luzhou. ”

"Hehe......" Mrs. Zhou sneered, "You are afraid that you will affect yourself, and you are ready to send my husband back to Jiangling." ”

Zhou Zuo smiled on his face: "What's the matter?!" ”

Mrs. Zhou said coldly: "I also know what you are thinking, please go back and come to the house to say hello to my mother for me." ”

Seeing that Zhou Zuo still wanted to speak, Yang Meng said: "It's useless to talk more, everyone is still a relative, so let's say goodbye!" ”

Zhou Zuo retreated to his own army in a huff, watching the carriage re-set over there, and walking farther and farther away under the escort of the Tang army, his face uncertain. It's not that he is instigating, but if it really starts, I'm afraid the consequences will really be unbearable......

……

The Hetao region has been turned upside down.

This Hetao refers to the Hetao Plain, not the Shuofang area, which says that "the Yellow River is harmful, but only one set of riches".

The Yellow River was forced to flow eastward until the foot of the Wolf Mountain, and the current Yellow River is in the north of the Hetao Plain, and the Yellow River in later generations was changed to a shortcut in the south of this plain.

Li Qi is not prepared to divert the Yellow River again, and he is not prepared to deal with the annual flooding of the Yellow River caused by ice blocking the river. He has always believed that the large swamps and saline-alkali wetlands created by the large amount of water from the Yellow River overflowing every spring are extremely important in maintaining the climate of the Wolf Mountain and Yinshan areas.

Of course, these wetlands and swamps can be planned and artificially guided to form them.

He was not prepared to let this area carry too many people, but began to move the Tuntian military households to the Western Regions.

"The westward direction of Luntai is more than 10,000 miles, and I also know that the hometown letter should be sparse.

The Longshan parrot can speak and send books for the number of newspapers. ”

In Yizhou in March, the winter snow has just melted, and it is still cold in the morning and evening.

A migratory procession of more than 1,000 wagons, ox carts, and thousands of camels slowly approached from the Gobi Avenue to the east, and appeared in the sight of the city defenders.

This situation is very common, as long as it is spring, under the instructions of the imperial court, two groups of military households will leave Yumen Pass from Hexi every month and migrate to Yizhou and Beiting for tuntian.

From spring to autumn, there are about 10,000 Tuntian military households that move to Beiting every year.

Most of the Tuntian military households who went to Beiting were not voluntary, most of them were forced to move over, and many of them were full of resentment. About one-third of them were convicts of crimes.

From Yumen Pass to the vast Gobi Desert of Yizhou, there are few people along the way, and there is no human population at all.

After leaving Yumen Pass, this migration team stayed overnight and traveled westward on the vast Gobi for fifteen days before arriving in Yizhou.

The Gaochang Kingdom and the Khotanese Kingdom in the Western Regions were both subordinated to the Tang Dynasty, but the imperial court's Tuntian plan had nothing to do with these two countries, but slowly advanced westward along the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains.

To the south of this Tianshan Mountain, except for Yizhou, it is still the jurisdiction of the kings of Gaochang and Khotan.

These two countries send envoys to Jinyang every year for the Hajj, but they are also very well-behaved......

Controlling the Western Regions is a long-term policy, and naturally it cannot be achieved overnight, but can only be done slowly.

Spring breeze turns rain, moisturizing things silently.

……

Li Qi ordered the establishment of a fourth naval camp at the foot of Laoshan Mountain in Laizhou.

Many believed that the emperor was preparing for the pacification of the south.

Regarding the discussion in this regard, Li Qi could only sigh after knowing it. The Chinese people's awareness of opening up the sea frontier is extremely weak, and they are unable to realize that the ocean, which accounts for more than 70 percent of the surface area of this planet, is the most valuable wealth in the world.

It's just to pacify Jiangnan, do I need to build a large water army?!

However, the lord of Fujian, Wang Yanjun, claimed to be the emperor, and he was never in the Central Plains, so it was not impossible to find an opportunity to destroy him first by sea.

After carrying out the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky and the god of the sea, a group of officials such as Liu Jiang, the supervisor of the Shaofu Governor, and Xia Chengting, the commander of the Gukou Naval Division, held a huge keel tied with red silk and placed it in the center of the cement slipway with Yang Mao, Lin Chenghu, and other officials of the shipyard.

This is the first sail warship installed with a steam engine as auxiliary power that the Gukou Shipyard began to build, and this two-masted battleship is more than 50 meters long and more than 10 meters wide, and is a 500-gauge sea ship. If you look at the displacement, about two hundred tons, it is not particularly large. In Jiangnan, some sea vessels have reached more than 1,000 meters, and there are not many technical problems.

The foundation of the shipyard is thin, but fortunately, more than 30 shipbuilding technicians were invited from Jiangnan and Quanzhou, and the structure of the hull absorbed some of the characteristics of the big food and Persian merchant ships, especially the sails, which changed the traditional hard sails of China to the common soft cloth sails of the big food ships, which improved the maneuverability at sea.

Unlike previous ships, the ship had boilers and steam engines installed in the aft cabins, as well as four guns on deck.

Shipbuilding is actually about the same as building a wooden building.

After the huge wooden keel was placed on the keel pier of the slipway, the bow and stern pillars were inlaid at the ends of the keel, followed by the installation of the ribs, which was very laborious work of the craftsmen. The ribs of a sea boat are quickly bent upwards from the moment they are connected to the main keel, making them much more difficult to manufacture than a flat-bottomed boat. The compound ribs are tightly attached to the bottom ribs. These are curved or curved ribs that make up the curved edges of the wooden boat.

The waterproof compartment technology in shipbuilding was first invented by the Chinese during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and it was not until the 17th century that it was transmitted to the West. Because it is a warship, it has many more waterproof compartments inside than ordinary merchant ships, and it uses a layered bottom. The other is the mast, which is actually connected to the keel.

Once the bottom of the ship was built, it was time to install the boilers, steam engines, and spindles into the bilge, which was the only process that was different from the original wooden ship. The boiler compartment is designed to be located at the rear of the amidships, and the forward compartment needs to be loaded with some counterweight cargo to balance the weight. However, due to the existence of power equipment such as boilers and steam engines, many ballast stones that were necessary in the original wooden ships were also omitted.

When this kind of warship equipped with steam-assisted power and artillery is put into service, the Datang Navy Division will become an invincible existence in this world......

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