The waves are gusting, and the wind is blowing in with a salty smell.

Liu Zhiyuan used a clairvoyant mirror to observe the situation in the Song people's village, and for the Xia people on the island, observing another state of life across the sea was a relaxing entertainment activity. The Xia people were nervous about guarding against the enemy all the time, while the life of the Song immigrants was much more lazy and casual. But neither the Heifanu nor the Tufan tribe had a complicated and interesting life as the Song people. The ratio of men to women among the Song immigrants was slightly lower than that of the Xia immigrants on Longzhu Island. The houses they built were too scattered to facilitate work and not conducive to defense. The Xia people on the island all live within the narrow wall, and at most a temporary shack is built in the fields. Outside the walls were the townhouses where the black slaves lived, and only a very few of the most reliable slaves were allowed to enter the village, and only to a limited extent.

In order to avoid trouble, Longzhu Island uses black slaves as laborers, and the Song or Tufan people are not allowed to go to the island. The grain harvest of the black slave was far inferior to that of the farmers from the Kanto region, and only sugar cane was easy to grow. Li Yong originally wanted to use black slaves to grow sugarcane on the north and south banks, but built a sugar factory, warehouse, and wharf on Longzhu Island. After the marching division discovered Longzhu Island, a large number of black slaves were used to strengthen the walled city, and the labor in the fields was not enough, and Longzhu Island was far from being comparable to the achievements of the Song people.

A year ago, a big food navy crossed the Ivory Strait, and at that time, the island's defense facilities were still built, and Liu Zhiyuan could only let it pass, trying not to provoke disputes with the big food fleet. Even now, there are only 1,500,600 Xia people on the island, including more than 200 artillery men and more than 1,200 strong men. Therefore, Liu Zhiyuan also looked forward to the early arrival of the South China Sea Naval Division, and it was best to block the Great Food Navy on the east side of the Ivory Strait.

"The other side will sow again tomorrow." The steward Liu Wu said stupidly, "I'm afraid I'll have to buy grain from the other side in a few months." ”

"It's nothing," Liu Zhiyuan sneered, "They also beg us sometimes. ”

"Huh? Is it? Liu Wu looked at Liu Zhiyuan in surprise and said in a low voice, "Is it possible..... Those brutes are going to kill the pigs? ”

"Not necessarily." Liu Zhiyuan said in a low voice, "However, the Lord is poor and the guest is rich, and this day will come sooner or later." ”

Although the strength of the island was not enough to deal with the Great Food Navy, it was far superior to the defenders of Huating County of the Song Kingdom, and it was not inferior to the princes of Srivijaya. Liu Zhiyuan has been buying fine works in Fanluo, and I heard that Huating County is getting richer and richer, and many Fanluo leaders are salivating, and the places where the Song people are reclaimed are getting wider and wider, and they are also in conflict with the original Fan people. There are even big food merchants who sow discord among them, saying that the Song people are very cunning, occupying the land that originally belonged to Fanbu in vain, and taking advantage of the trade, so an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and greed is secretly accumulating in the nearby Fanbu, and even the princes of the Three Buddhas are almost unbearable.

"No," Liu Wu wondered, "Aren't the Three Buddhas fighting with the Great Food Princes?" The Song Kingdom is also at war with the Great Food......"

"That's the matter of the princes in the north," Liu Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "These earth kings in the south don't care about this, the big food merchants are deeply rooted here, and they have fed the earth kings hundreds of years ago." The Liuguan of the Song State was high again, humming ...... "Liu Zhiyuan's face showed dissatisfaction, the Liuguan of the Song State was arrogant, even if the Xia and Song countries were allies now, every time they bought grain from Huating County, they had to be embarrassed by the Liuguan, and they repeatedly asked Longzhu Island to recognize the Song State as Zhengshuo, and it took a lot of effort. For Liu Zhiyuan and others, this is tantamount to a humiliation. "In a few years, they'll regret it."

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"The gentleman asks for himself, and the villain asks for others, why is this?......"

The boat shook slightly, and in the White Tiger Hall, Zhao Xingde was in a handsome position, holding a volume of "Analects" in his hand, and explained slowly and logically. The hall was filled with officers of the Naval Division, some listening intently, others absentmindedly looking out the window at the sea. Half an hour each day for morning recitation and evening reading, this is the third day. Du Blowhorn fought with his upper and lower eyelids, but he still held on to his spirit. Since Zhao Xingde resumed the banquet, although he asked the officers to participate voluntarily, no one dared to shrink their necks and not come.

"Only when there is a gentleman's position on the outside and the righteousness of a gentleman on the inside, can we do the way of a gentleman. A gentleman is not attached to others, either in terms of status or mind. Therefore, when he encounters anything, he has both the power and the ability to decide and deal with it. The villain, on the other hand, has to be attached to others in terms of status and ability. People who have status and rely on others to make ideas, such as King Chu Huai relying on Zhang Yi, Emperor Han Huan relying on the Ten Standing Servants, and state officials and county officials relying on swords and pens. A person who has the righteousness of a gentleman but does not have the status of a gentleman, unless he would rather be broken than destroyed, it is difficult to practice the way of a gentleman, and he has to resort to others. Therefore, if you want to make everyone in the Great Song Dynasty a gentleman, it has a long way to go. ”

"That's all for today." Zhao Xingde closed his discourse and said in a deep voice: "Everyone has worked hard. ”

"Thank you for your advice." All the officers said in unison. Early every morning, the officers gathered in the White Tiger Hall to listen to the lectures. In addition to the scholar officer who is also the main lecturer of the ship, a scholar officer is elected on each boat, who is responsible for preaching the way of a gentleman to the officers. Zhao Xingde has already written a memora to the Ministry of War, and in order to stabilize the morale of the army, the rank of the student officer is customized. In the future, on each ship, the commander, the cadet, and the escort envoy will be three of them, and although the commander of the ship is extremely powerful, he shall not appoint or dismiss the apprentice and the escort. If the commander is killed or removed in battle, the Protector will be given priority, and if the Protector Commander is killed or dismissed, the Scholar will be given priority.

When the officers could speak, the guards tidied up the cabins and scrubbed the decks. Then Zhao Xingde led the officers to inspect all parts of the ship, and then all the officers and soldiers had a meeting, Zhao Xingde in addition to arranging military affairs, but also to all the officers and soldiers to tell a short piece of gentleman's way, he also encouraged the officers and soldiers to discuss with each other, speak freely. In the evening, such a procedure had to be reversed again, except that the officers first organized the evening meeting of the officers and soldiers of each department, and then Zhao Xingde organized the evening meeting of the officers of the whole ship. At the twilight meeting, everyone had to speak, encourage and summarize their own shortcomings, encourage officers and soldiers to bully and oppress robes and other violations of military law, Zhao Xingde called "a gentleman three times a day to save my body", but also to help others "change their past wrongs".

In short, everyone is under the public eye from the outside in, and everyone has a lot less leisure time and less space for small group activities. However, the gentleman's way that Zhao Xingde instilled in the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division with all his might is the most self-reliant and self-reliant. In other words, he wants everyone not to hide and passively avoid the world, but to join the public life of the ship, find their own place, express their own opinions, and hold their own territory. This allowed for an open and stable order on board. Any person or behavior that disrupts this order will be discovered and corrected as soon as possible. Active and savvy soldiers have the opportunity to improve and cultivate. Life on board is closed and simple, and with each passing day, the officers and men will gradually become accustomed to a completely different life and order than they used to live in the village or in their relatives.

At the urging of the Ministry of War, Zhao Xingde led the sailors to lift anchor in advance and sail south. However, in order to wait for the naval divisions of various departments to meet with the Yangzhou merchant fleet, Zhao Xingde sent a fast ship to inform the ports of Guangnan Road to strictly guard against pirates, and the main force of the naval division only sailed slowly along the coast. Although the military department urged the troops to be very urgent, Zhao Xingde was unwilling to rush into battle with the Great Water Division, so he kept going and stopping like this, lining up on the sea when the wind and waves were light, and anchoring for a few days when the wind and waves were strong.

On this day, anchored on Pinghu Island in Jinjiang County, where there is no government office, only a few villages, and nearly 1,000 households.

The people heard that the official army and the sailors were on the shore, and under the leadership of the elders in the village, they carried three live sheep, five pigs, and ten jars of turbid wine brewed by the farmer to come to the army, and cried to Zhao Xingde, there is a big island named Liuqiu in the east of Pinghu, there are countless lives on the island, and the language of the Central Plains people is incomprehensible, one by one, they are naked, like beasts rather than human beings, especially good at killing and plundering, and hanging the severed heads on the outside of the house to show martial bravery. Therefore, unless there is a strong wind and waves, the passing merchant ships do not dare to dock at this Liuqiu Island, and this island has become a lair of Shengban and Haikou. In particular, there was a tribe called Visheya, who often crossed the sea to kill people and steal goods.

"Lord Qingtian, the Fan Gang is all murderous without blinking, and they have caused great harm to us overseas remnants. For many years," the old man said, the more miserable he became, "the villagers did not dare to look at the East China Sea during the day, and did not dare to light the lights in the village at night, for fear that the Haikou would see the people and come ashore to harm us." The villagers next to him also looked sad, and hundreds of men and women knelt down together, crying and begging: "Lord Qingtian, please exterminate Haikou and be the master of the people." "There are also village women who hold their children and kowtow together.

Although Pinghu Lake faces Quanzhou across the sea, it is only a small island hanging overseas, and the annual tax is dispensable. The island has been harassed by pirates for many years, and Quanzhou Prefecture and Jinjiang County have turned a deaf ear and are unwilling to make a big deal about it. Therefore, when the people saw the warships of the officers and soldiers passing by, they begged desperately. Listening to the cries of the villagers, many officers were eager to try, and some of them were indignant.

Zhao Xingde pondered for a moment and asked, "How far is Liuqiu Island from here?" And where is Vaishya? ”

"It only takes one day and one night to sail to the island of Liuqiu," said the old man, "there are people in the village who have been taken captive to the island by Vaishyashengfan and have escaped," he called out a man in his thirties from among the villagers, "and he can be a guide for the general." ”