The atmosphere in Ezhou City is the same as usual, full of noise and noise.

The Great Rites Discussion is imminent, and all kinds of people gather in the imperial court, making Ezhou much more noisy and noisy than usual. The Ministry of Rites arranged for the local scholars and politicians to live in special pavilions, and the Ezhou government arranged for officials to strictly guard the surroundings in the name of protection. Except for Xuezheng's entourage, idlers and others are not allowed to enter the pavilion. In order to prevent trouble, the state and county schools near Ezhou were also suspended, and the scholars were allowed to return to their hometowns and reopen after the imperial court's ceremony.

However, from the officials of the court to the people in the market, everyone is not the same as a few years ago. Everyone knows that the great etiquette law of the imperial court is closely related to vital interests, so the enthusiasm of the people is also particularly enthusiastic. The big and small corners of Ezhou are talking about the upcoming big ceremony. "Suppressing speech" is a crime of Cai Li's traitorous party, and now that the Great Song Dynasty is in the Zhongzheng Dynasty, it is naturally impossible to make a move to "defend the people's mouth". Therefore, there is really no impermeable wall in the world of the Great Song Dynasty, and all kinds of gossip are circulating everywhere through the most shoddy letterpress tabloids.

The stars in the sky have not yet receded, the east is twilight, the river surface is floating with milky white fog, the clear wave sail shadow, the still water is deep, and the soft river water surrounds the city wall, bringing a different kind of beauty to Ezhou. And the gentle breeze blows, and the people who start to be busy before dawn bring fresh vitality to the ancient city.

"It's really rare to have half a day in life."

Fan Changheng sat at the tea stall on the dock of Zhuyanmen, ordered a bowl of salt and soy soup, and two sugar cookcakes were piled up on the plate, chewing one unhurriedly in his hand. Suddenly, someone at the next table said "This great gift, ah......" into his ears, which immediately destroyed Fan Changheng's good mood of enjoying leisurely frying some soup and tea, and his ears involuntarily stood up.

In Ezhou, after tea and dinner, there are always people foaming at the mouth, and the secrets behind the Great Gift Discussion are vividly told. It seems that there are storytellers everywhere, using extremely rich imagination to add all kinds of unbelievable annotations to any action of the imperial court, especially the teahouse restaurant on the pier outside the bamboo gate, which has become a distribution center for all kinds of rumors. Here are gathered traders from all over the world, boat people begging for a living on the water, these rootless and bottomless duckweed-like people, once they dock at such a big wharf in Ezhou, they have a special habit of inquiring, talking big, and not afraid of heaven and earth. There is nothing in this world that they dare not say.

The scribe sat on duty every day, and Fan Changheng was able to sit here gracefully, just because he was borrowed to the Ministry of Rites as an errand.

This kind of errand of collecting rumors in the market was extremely disdainful of many officials from scholars, but Fan Changheng did it extremely dedicatedly, and every day he would sort out a report with several pages of thick letters, and hoped that he could win the appreciation and support of a nobleman. At this time, Fan Changheng was like a sour and down-and-out Jianghu scribe looking at the vast river mist in the distance, and in the mist of soup and tea, his eyes seemed very focused.

"Poor Lu Fuxiu," said a Sven voice: "Old man, there may be lonely ministers in danger, and the son of a sinister son is ...... heart."

"I heard that the era name is going to be changed," another person said, "Now, the official family can be regarded as sitting on the dragon chair, right?" ”

"Bullshit!" An unfamiliar voice made Fan Changheng excited again, and he cheered up and eavesdropped.

"Cover the sky with one hand. Blocking the mouths of people all over the world, Wang Mang can't do it, Cao Cao can't do it, Sima Yi can't do it, and Chen Shaoyang can't do it either. Don't look at Mr. Lu Fuxiu running into walls everywhere, in fact, in the study of politics, there are still many cronies who are waiting to participate in politics, Wu Zilong's henchmen, and there are many people who are dissatisfied with Chen Shaoyang's domineering, but there is no suitable opportunity to bring him down in one fell swoop. I tell you, this time has not yet come, and when the time comes, I see that his position as prime minister will fall like a papier-mâché house! ”

"Good guy, it's not a small tone." Fan Changheng was not only not disgusted, but happy.

If there were no words of disobedience, his report would not have attracted the attention of the nobles. He peeked at the man who was speaking, and secretly noted his appearance. In fact, the Ministry of Rites only collects folk rumors, and does not require the identity of the speaker to be recorded, nor does it intend to punish him. However, Fan Changheng not only quoted it in the original way in the report, but also added one or two sentences about the appearance of the characters like the case file of the Criminal Department, such as "black-robed scribe", "wide nose and wide forehead", "a small mole under the earlobe", "a woman with charm still existing", etc., which seems to be true.

"Blind, the prime minister of this dynasty has the sole power, no matter whether he changes the year name or not, now the prime minister in this court has the final say, Hou Huanyin is in prison, Wu Shangshu is dormant, Chen Xianggong has the power alone, it is said that even the emperor is afraid of him...... I heard that in order not to be constrained by the academic administration, Chen Xianggong has prepared to revise the Great Rites Law, first adding the position of the academic administration, so as to divide the power of the locality, and then seize the power of the joint impeachment of the academic administration. It is said that in the future, the state school students will be directly elected as prime ministers, and they will no longer have to go through the pass of academic politics. ”

"Impossible, right? Seeking skin with the tiger, Xuezheng can also agree? ”

"Blind, you didn't see the officials surrounding the pavilion, if Xuezheng doesn't agree, it will definitely be another big bloody case."

"You are blind, except for Zhao Yuanzhi, who else dares to do this, isn't he afraid that the world will attack him? With Zhao Yuanzhi's prestige, he also had to take the blame and lead the South China Sea Navy Division to conquer Dashi, but it was just a disguised assignment to give him an explanation to the clear stream of the world. The man paused, as if he had taken a sip of tea, and it was not worth saying, "It's a pity that a generation of famous generals has been idle since then." ”

"Bullshit." Fan Changheng covered the disdain at the corner of his mouth with a tea bowl, and secretly thought, "Yangzhou Nanhai stock bonds are doing well, the fleet has not yet gone to the South Seas, and the price of Zhengxintang stock bonds has risen one after another, and the total amount has reached millions of yuan. Whoever controls the waterways of the South China Sea is simply richer than Deng Tong and Shi Chong. This is also called throwing idle and scattering, and the official here is called begging and selling. He was disdainful in his heart, but his ears were not lazy, and he listened carefully to the discussions of these idle people, and never let go of a word.

............

The sea is vast, the warships are lined up in columns, and the sea in the distance stirs up a group of splashes, and the four gunboats of the Han army are concentrated at the front of the fleet, and the water splash caused by the cannons is the largest. After the ships fired their guns at the same time, they raised their sails and circled a small arc in columns. The gunboats of the Han army in the vanguard and the warships behind formed a flanking attack on the middle sea, and under the command of the handsome ship, the warships once again opened fire in unison. The shells stirred up a column of water in the middle sea.

Zhao Xingde used the clairvoyant mirror to pay attention to the formation of the warship, nodded and said, "It's basically good!" "However," his face was slightly gloomy, he put down the clairvoyant mirror, and said to the flag officer, "Tell Liang Bi that the rudder is too slow, and if the enemy ship rushes up, it may tear our formation, and the next time it is committed, the Pinghai will be handed over to someone else." The flag officer immediately sent out Zhao Xingde's reprimand with a flag, and the entire fleet of the South China Sea Navy Division on the sea saw it, and the colorful flag of the Pinghai quickly made a line of "obey the order" in reply.

"Practice for an hour today," Liang Bi's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he roared at the sailor: "The handsome man is watching!" ”

"No!" The sailors agreed for a while, but everyone looked depressed and secretly gritted their teeth.

In the middle of the sea, a ship sinks in battle, and everyone dies, and the same is true during training. The sailors' regulations stipulate that if the warship fails to fulfill the military order, so that the commander is guilty, all the officers and men of the ship must sit together, and no one can deduce that "one general is incompetent, and the three armies will be exhausted." If the "Pinghai" does not perform well in training, and even Liang Bi is dismissed, the officers concerned will be implicated, especially the middle-level officers who are responsible for sailing and steering on the ship, and some skilled sailors may even be transferred from other ships, while the original sailors of the Pinghai may be demoted to other ships, and they will not only have to start from the lowest rank, but will also be ridiculed and excluded.

Only when one is prosperous and one is lost, can every ship, and even the South China Sea Naval Division, be forged into an unbreakable whole.

The movement of the sea ship is closely related to the wind direction, wind force, and sea current, and any action of the warship must be completed by dozens of helmsmen and sailors together, and if any of the links are not well coordinated, the actions of the ship may be biased, and if any ship has a problem, the formation of the entire fleet will have a problem.

The sea is undulating, the ship is not easy to control, the sailor has never maneuvered, outflanked the saying, has always been a head-on hard encounter, big ships better than small boats, more ships than fewer ships. In the formation of the sailors, the large ships are not lined up horizontally, but are arranged like awls, trying to cut through the enemy formation. And the South China Sea water is such a law of war, which is very different, and the thin "two" character long snake formation. The best and largest gunboats of the Song army were in the first array, and in addition, the entire formation was protected by small boats cruising around the entire formation to prevent arson by enemy ships or scuttling by water ghosts.

Naval battles turned into a gamble, and if the enemy was not routed by salvo fire, the formation of the South China Sea Naval Division would be easily cut through.

However, it was extremely difficult for the sailors to maintain a strict queue, and the tactic that Zhao Xingde was practicing repeatedly now was to seize the upper hand and use the Han army's heavy artillery ships to attack one wing of the enemy's ship formation. After defeating one wing of the enemy fleet, the naval ships turned into a concave shape, surrounded the remaining enemy ships, subjected them to artillery fire from both sides, completely routed the enemy fleet, and finally captured the enemy ships in the broadside battle. When carried out with well-trained cavalry, this is a simple and classic tactic of crushing and outflanking, forcing the enemy army to collapse one after another. However, such a simple cavalry tactic is very difficult to implement at sea with warships. If it weren't for Zhao Xingde's extremely high prestige, some people would have said that this was whimsical. At Zhao Xingde's insistence and the practice over and over again, the top and bottom of the Nanhai Navy Division began to see the hope of success, and then they were full of expectations. The more difficult it is to do it, the greater the benefit once it is done. If the South China Sea Naval Division can successfully complete the queue drill at sea, it will establish an almost unshakable advantage at sea.

Author: Today's second watch will probably be postponed in the early hours of the morning to be realized, thank you for your support.