Hearing the news, Chen Xian immediately returned to Qingdao, he first met with Wang Sheng, and after a detailed discussion between the two, Chen Xian met with several officers in the captured Song army, inquired about the situation of some Song army sailors, and sent these people to the mine "labor reform".

Next, Chen Xian invested in the expansion of the wood drying room, built a shipyard, and prepared to start a large number of shipbuilding work.

This time, in addition to building a sailboat, Chen Xian also planned to build a pulp sailboat, that is, a centipede ship in the future.

This type of boat pulp and sail can be used at sea, but also in inland rivers where the wind is less.

The reason why he remembered to build this kind of pulp sail warship was because when Wang Sheng reported to Chen Xian, he specifically mentioned that sail ships have the shortcomings of insufficient power and inflexible steering in inland rivers, and his original intention was to suggest that Chen Xian try to avoid letting sea boats enter rivers or narrow waters, so as not to be taken advantage of by local fire attack ships.

Wang Sheng's suggestion reminded Chen Xian of this kind of galleys that once crisscrossed the Mediterranean.

Cipede ships could not place their guns on either side of the ship because of the arrangement of the paddle hands in the middle, and the guns could only be mounted on the circular bow and stern, which was far less powerful than that of a sailboat, but this kind of ship could rely on two layers of oars on both sides of the ship to maintain a high level of maneuverability in the absence of wind.

After the design and manufacture of sailboats before, Chen Xian is now considered the best ship designer of this era, and when there are prototype drawings, he quickly designs the drawings.

The first one was still a test ship, but this time Chen Xian was even more bold, he directly designed and built a test ship more than 20 meters long and with an empty displacement of more than 100 tons.

On the one hand, it is a manifestation of his self-confidence, but more importantly, because of his deep pockets, to this day, wasting a 100-ton ship is not a matter for him at all, and saving time is more important than cost.

Chen Xian was in full swing preparing to build a ship, and at the same time, he was intensively training sailors and recruiting crews.

After repairing in Qingdao for a month, Wang Sheng and his fleet set off again, this time to the north.

This time, Chen Xian still organized a team of many local maritime merchants in Mizhou to go to Goryeo and Japan in the north together.

Chen Xian's fleet was loaded with ironware, glassware, and soap, as well as silk and porcelain brought back from the south.

Goryeo and Japan were the traditional trading destinations of Mizhou's local maritime merchants, and although no one wanted Chen Xian to participate in this trade route, who in Shandong would dare to say no to Chen Xian?

Wang Sheng's voyage took nearly half a year, not only to sell out the goods on the ship, but also to buy a large amount of copper and silver from Japan.

In the past six months, Chen Xian's shipyard built ten new sailing ships with a load of 150 tons and ten sailing ships with a dead weight of 100 tons.

After Wang Sheng returned to the voyage, Chen Xian dispersed the mature crew members in his fleet who had been trained during the voyage to the new twenty warships, and recruited a large number of sailors from the local high-tech in Mizhou to supplement the fleet.

In addition to these skilled sailors and sailors, Chen Xian had already drawn a large number of infantry and gunners from his army half a year ago to Qingdao City for selection and training, from which tens of thousands of sailors and gunners were selected.

As soon as the new ship was launched, the sailors and gunners who had been selected for training began on board.

In addition, Chen Xian also recruited thousands of paddlers from the displaced people from the territory of Jin and filled ten sailing boats.

After half a year of training and preparation, a huge fleet of 26 warships and more than 30 large merchant ships left Jiaozhou Bay.

This time, the target of the fleet was Suzhou (today's Jinzhou District of Dalian) on the Liaodong Peninsula.

At this time, Liaodong had been turned into a pot of porridge by the three warlords of Yelu Liuge, Wanyan Pingtao, and Puxian Wannu.

Yeluliuge is said to be a descendant of the Liao royal family, in the second year of Chongqing (1212), taking advantage of the defeat of the Jin State to the Mongols, he rose up and quickly formed a prairie fire.

The Jin State sent troops to attack Yeluliuge, Yeluliuge felt that his strength was insufficient, so he defected to Mongolia, and with the help of the Mongolian cavalry, he defeated the Jin army that crusaded against him twice, and established the historical Eastern Liao Kingdom.

The commander of the Jin army who was defeated by Yeluliuge for the second time was Puxian Wannu.

After the defeat of Puxian Wannu, he retreated to Tokyo, that is, Liaoyang, in the Jin Kingdom.

In the second year of Zhenyou, the Jin court moved south, and then, in the third year of Zhenyou, the central capital was lost, and the land was divided into two sections by the Mongols, and Liaodong lost contact with the Jin court since then.

Jinting's abandonment of Zhongdu made the Jurchens in Liaodong feel abandoned by the imperial court, and Jinting was greatly disheartened in Liaodong.

Puxian Wannu took the opportunity to expand his power, and finally sentenced Jin to stand on his own and establish the Great True Kingdom.

Just when Puxian Wannu had just raised the flag of judgment, Wanyan Pingtao and his son arrived in Liaodong.

Wanyan Pingtao was originally ordered to crusade against Yeluliuge, but he happened to encounter the rebellion of Puxian Wannu, so he naturally turned around and quelled the rebellion.

In the face of Wanyan Pingtao's 30,000 Tianping army, Puxian Wannu once again made the mistake of underestimating the enemy, and went out of the city to fight with Wanyan Pingtao, but was defeated by the muskets and artillery that appeared on the battlefield in Liaodong for the first time and fled.

Wanyan Pingtao took the opportunity to seize Liaoyang, Tokyo, in one go.

After occupying Liaoyang, Wanyan Pingtao and his son took the opportunity to purge some officials and generals loyal to the imperial court under the pretext of purging Puxian Wannu's comrades, and installed their cronies, and soon completely controlled Liaoyang Mansion.

After gaining a firm foothold in Liaoyang Prefecture, Wanyan Pingtao occupied Shenzhou (today's Shenyang area) in the north.

Although Wanyan Pingtao and his son had not yet raised the flag of rebellion at this time, their ambitions had already leaked.

After capturing Shenzhou, Wanyan Pingtao continued northward and made a tentative attack on Yeluliuge, again victorious.

After this victory, Wanyan Pingtao not only did not continue the attack, but retreated to Liaoyang and began to accumulate strength.

In Liaoyang Prefecture, Wanyan Pingtao began to learn Genghis Khan's thousand-household system to integrate the Jurchen tribes in the areas under his control.

He first used Huairou means to move the originally stronger tribes to the rich plains, and forcibly relocated the weaker tribes to the eastern mountains.

After that, he used iron-blooded means to forcibly break up and reorganize those weaker tribes, and compiled them into a complete Meng'an, that is, a thousand households, and appointed his henchmen as Meng'an Bo Jilie.

Compared with the Jurchens in the Central Plains Flower World, these Jurchens who were originally left in Liaodong still retain part of their ancestors' fishing and hunting lifestyle.

Wanyan Pingtao asked his subordinates to select strong men who could ride horses and shoot arrows from among their own people, and sent them to the Tokyo camp for training.

Wanyan Pingtao stipulated that each Meng'an must send 400 strong men to Tokyo for training, and these 400 strong men would not be dispersed, but would be led by each Meng'an Bo Jilie himself or sent cronies.

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