Han Ergou was wearing a lake-green robe, standing behind the eunuch who led the way, and walked towards the gate of the Qinzheng Palace.

"Knock Knock ......"

Han Ergou felt that his heart was beating fast, just as nervous as when he knew that the salary of the navy was high and he was waiting to be selected by the captains.

The entrance of the main hall was full of crimson and lake-green guards, and Han Ergou glanced at it, his heart full of nervousness.

These are all fierce generals who have survived a hundred battles, and they can be selected as janissaries, not only are they good and well-paid, but they are also not dangerous.

If only I could come when I could.

Just as he was thinking about it, the eunuch in front suddenly stopped, and Han Ergou couldn't react, almost couldn't stop the car and crashed into the eunuch's back.

"Wangjiang Water Army, Han Ergou and a meritorious sergeant brought it."

The eunuch's voice was soft, which made Han Ergou in the back feel a little angry when he heard it, this eunuch was really girly.

"Soldiers, come forward."

Li Qing's voice sounded on the imperial steps.

Han Ergou took a deep breath and walked first, reaching three steps outside the imperial staircase, and touched the ground on one knee.

"Han Ergou has seen Your Majesty."

"Duan Xiu has seen Your Majesty"

"Song Chunan has seen Your Majesty"

In front of the imperial steps, there were sturdy men kneeling with sailors.

Li Qing got up, commanded, and said:

"The generals are flat, and the governor of Su Ping has sent a letter to me, counting your exploits in this battle of Wangjiang, asking for merit for you, and giving you knighthood."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long."

Han Ergou and the other soldiers who were kneeling immediately said loudly.

Li Qing smiled and pointed at Zhao Pu in the military department.

"Zhao Pu, this matter will fall on you, be sure to let their rewards be implemented, and be preferential."

"There is no problem with your reward, but Lord Zhou Ping said that our navy has suffered a lot of damage this time, and if there are no new large ships and auxiliary ships to replenish, the navy will not even be able to go out to sea."

"Zhou Shangshu of the household department said that he has no money, and he is only willing to allocate the money to build a warship, and I have been irritated about this for more than a month."

"Before going to the court today, I asked the prince about this matter, and the prince said, let you, the soldiers of the navy who are still walking, come and tell our lords in the court about the naval battle, tell the origin of the scars on your body, and boast about your own military exploits."

A group of sailors and soldiers were stunned when they heard this, what does this mean, do you praise your merits, but this is the palace of diligence, and you can't be bare-chested, so how can you praise your merits.

Zhou Yuan stood in front and said in a calm tone:

"Your Majesty, the minister knows the prince's personality and never does anything without a purpose, but this money is really unaffordable."

"Don't say that the six of them come to boast about their merits, even if the soldiers of the navy are here, my household department still says the same thing, and the silver really can't be used like this."

Li Qing waved his hand, stopping Zhou Yuan's idea of continuing, and his gaze swept over several sailors.

"Han Ergou, take off your robe and let Lord Zhou Yuan see the scars on your body."

Although Han Ergou is used to obeying military orders, this is the Qinzheng Palace, and His Majesty is sitting on it, so it is really a little difficult to untie the robe on his body.

Dong Cheng scolded annoyedly beside him:

"At the beginning of the Battle of Wangjiang, five fireships attacked the enemy, and your grandson got on the grasshopper boat without blinking, and he was not afraid of death at that time, why, it was difficult for you to take off your robe!"

Han Ergou was aroused by Dong Cheng's courage in blood, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, his robe was pulled open, and several buttons were broken.

Zhou Ping clasped his fists and saluted Li Qing:

"Your Majesty, please ask for your order to personally point out the scars for Captain Han."

Li Qing waved his hand and motioned for Zhou Ping to start.

Zhou Ping took a few steps forward, stretched out his hand and pointed to an oval scar on Han Ergou's chest that had been scabbed, and asked:

"Captain Han, this scar is an arrow wound, the scar on the thickness of the arm is not a small crossbow arrow, how did it come about?"

Han Ergou glanced at the scar and said heroically:

"This is the end of the war, Su Dudu personally braved the arrows and stones, and led us and others to attack the enemy's only remaining medium-sized auxiliary ship, and was shot by the bed crossbow on the auxiliary ship."

Zhou Ping's face was straight, and he asked loudly:

"There are arrowboards, fish scale nets, and life-size shields on the big ship, can't they stop these bed crossbows? said, did Su Ping bend the law for bribes and sell all these weapons? ”

Han Ergou glanced at Zhou Ping in amazement, and said in his heart, this old guy has a lot of eyes.

"Lord Hui, those things have been burned clean, our big ship, and the enemy's two ships have been fighting for more than two hours, and everything that can be burned on the deck has been burned clean, and all the big shields and fishing nets are gone."

Zhou Ping pretended to be angry:

"Then in this case, no matter how many big ships are built, it is useless, they are all burned by the enemy, and they are all fart."

Han Ergou sneered:

"That's because we have few ships, and the two ships of the Intertmen fight to the end, if it weren't for the fall of a mast, people's fishing nets and wooden shields would be fine."

"Hmph, if it weren't for the wisdom of the prince and the ballista and birds on the big ship, we would have been eaten by people a long time ago."

Zhou Ping pulled Han Ergou and turned his back to the courtiers.

"There's also a big scar here, I think it's similar to the one in front of you, is it caused by a crossbow arrow?"

"Yes"

Han Ergou roared in a hoarse voice.

"The crossbow arrow is so powerful that it directly penetrates my body, if it weren't for the quick eyes of the commander and grabbed the crossbow arrow, I would have to be torn off by the tail of the crossbow arrow at that time."

Zhou Yuan patted Han Ergou on the shoulder and continued to ask:

"This place, across most of the waist and abdomen, is the injury caused by a thin arrow when the hand-to-hand combat, right?"

"It's a good time for hand-to-hand combat."

Han Ergou's gaze swept over the ministers, especially Zhou Yuan, and glared at him viciously.

"But it's not the rapian, it's the iron hook, our big ship was besieged by two warp fighting ships, and a small grasshopper ship of the enemy saw the opportunity, and when it passed by our big ship by mistake, it threw the iron hook and came up to hook the commander away."

"I pushed the Governor away, and the hook made such a big piece on me."

"At that time, if there was such a big ship that could drag another big ship of the Inters, we would not be attacked by the little grasshopper ship and led by their noses."

Zhou Ping patted Han Ergou on the shoulder:

"It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive."

Han Ergou shook his head:

"I, Han Ergou, am lucky, I survived such a serious injury, but I want to ask all of you, and ask Zhou Shangshu of the household department."

"Since we have the money to build a ship, then why should we drag it out, and let the brethren use their flesh and blood to fight against the enemy's ships and the enemy's ballista hooks."

Zhou Yuan was a little speechless for a while, it was really that the impact of the two wounds just now on him was too great, in the past, he only heard about the battle damage and how many people died, but this was not as straightforward as the impact of a wound with a grinning mouth.

Is it right or wrong to insist on not giving money?

"My wound is no smaller than Lao Han's."

Duan Xiu, who was also a school captain, removed his jacket and showed everyone a huge scar across his stomach.

"When the ships were wrong, the rain of arrows of the Interns killed all the sergeants who operated our guns, and a crossbow arrow as thick as Zhou Shangshu's thigh was pulled from my belly."

"Good guy, the intestines flowed out at that time, and the army Langzhong blocked Lao Tzu's intestines back, and Lao Tzu thought that he couldn't live, but he didn't expect to die."

"I Duan Xiu is also the same sentence, our Han country has money, why don't you build ships?"