After five years of development, Qianguo has become a country of social tranquility, strong soldiers and horses, a total army of more than one million, a full treasury, a mountain of grain and straw in various localities, a prosperous people, an unprecedentedly prosperous cultural development, and a large number of talented people have emerged.

The prestige of the local government in the hearts of the people was fully established, and the control of the local court of the Great Qian Dynasty was more solid, and after a large number of massacres and destruction of the northern families by the Northern Wei Dynasty, the influence and constraints of the family were minimal when the Great Qian was founded, and after the founding of the Great Qian, although Zhao Junsheng did not completely eradicate the old family, he also vigorously suppressed it, and promulgated and formulated a series of measures and laws in order to prevent the emergence of the new family and its impact on society and the state.

On the other hand, Liu Song, since Liu Yu usurped the throne and established the country, has been deeply influenced by the family, the government and the military array are almost all controlled by the family, and it is almost more difficult for the cold and civilians to have political appeals, even if there are occasional high officials from the cold family, it is difficult to enter the position of Zaifu, and only a few military generals from the cold family will become the nominal prime minister in the form of the emperor in the form of adding officials, and in fact there is no power of the prime minister.

Liu Song was supported by the family, and if the family collapsed, Liu Song would also collapse.

If the clans want to maintain their status as the ruling class, they must always suppress and restrict the Hanmen, and also compete with the emperor for power, and if they want to suppress and restrict the children of the Hanmen, it is best to rely on restricting the flow of books into the hands of the Hanmen and the common people, because books are tools to carry knowledge and culture, and the Hanmen and the common people have no books to read, no matter how smart they are, they are in vain, and they can't be officials.

The reason why books can be controlled by the family is because the wooden slips and bamboo slips are too heavy, not easy to carry, and inconvenient to write, resulting in inconvenient transmission and circulation, and at this time, the paper production process is complex and the quality is poor.

For more than 20 years, the production process of paper has long been perfected, not only the output is large, and the production speed is fast, the quality of the paper is divided into several grades, the best is of course the high-grade rice paper, which is divided into ordinary high-grade paper, which is used to make books and official paper is the best; Poor paper can also be used to practice calligraphy, glue windows, and frame.

Qianguo has always wanted to transport a large amount of paper into the Liu Song Dynasty to sell, so that the paper can circulate in large quantities in the territory of the Liu Song Kingdom, so as to impact the monopoly of the family on books and cultural knowledge, only the large circulation of paper to facilitate the copying of articles, can break the monopoly of the scholars on cultural knowledge.

But the scholars of the Liu Song Kingdom were not fools, and they soon understood that the circulation of large quantities of high-quality paper in the market would have an impact on their rule, and this impact was even devastating, so they forcibly stopped the flow of paper from the Qianguo into the territory of the Liu Song State by means of power.

For a period of time, there was a wave of arrests and arrests of businessmen who sold paper and books in Liu Song, and paper was not listed as contraband in Liu Songguo, not only did Qianguo paper not enter Liu Song's country, but also did not allow ordinary people and literati to use it.

In the spring of the twenty-fifth year of Daqian, Zhao Junsheng inspected the Lujiang River.

On the sixth day of the first month of March, the royal driver came to Chaohu Lake.

The 5,000 men and horses of the Royal Forest Army guarding and escorting the car were mighty, and the flag covered the sky and the sun.

There are still seven or eight miles away from Chaohu Lake, and Zhao Junsheng sat on horseback and saw the towering masts and sails on the edge of Chaohu Lake.

"Your Majesty, it's only seven or eight miles away from Chaohu Sailor Water Village, and you can see the mast and sail of the warship standing on the lake!" Wu Xi, the general of the water division, introduced to Zhao Junsheng.

In order to fight against Liu Song's sailors, Zhao Junsheng ordered the construction of a sailor base in Chaohu Lake five years ago, building 3,000 large and small warships with heavy money, using as many as 100,000 carpenters and boatmen, including 68 ship designers and team members.

The reason why it was able to recruit so many ship designers was also due to the cultural and academic exchanges with the Roman Empire, and the Qianguo sent several missions to the Roman Empire for several years in a row at the beginning of the founding of the country, among which there were many craftsmen and scholars, who after returning to Daqian, passed on the knowledge they had learned to their disciples after research, and the disciples passed on to their disciples.

The method adopted by the Chaohu Naval Division is to build a warship and immediately carry out sailor training during the launching trial, which can save a lot of time, and it took three years to complete the construction of 3,000 large and small warships, and the shortest training of sailors also took two years, and the longest training was five years.

The total cost of these 3,000 warships, large and small, was 29.6 million guan, plus the food and clothing of the designers and craftsmen and the salaries of five years, plus the food and clothing of the 100,000 officers and men of the naval division, armor, weapons, bows and arrows, bed crossbows, and training losses.

Before the royal driver arrived at the edge of Chaohu Lake, Zhao Junsheng and his entourage of ministers and officers and soldiers of the Imperial Forest had already heard the rumbling war drums coming from the lake.

When he got closer, Zhao Junsheng finally saw the situation on the lake clearly, and saw that at this time, there were countless large and small warships on the lake that were practicing in a certain formation.

Soon, Zhao Junsheng, under the escort of the Imperial Forest Army, passed through the sentry posts around the base of the Navy Division and arrived at the edge of Chaohu Lake, so that he could clearly see the fleet of the Navy Division conducting tactical formation drills on the lake.

Zhao Junsheng looked at it for a while and asked Wu Xi: "General Wu, do you have anything to say about this tactical formation?" ”

Wu Xi clasped his fists and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, this is a T-shaped tactical method, and this method is almost always used in the battles of sailors, and this is also the most common way of attack!" You see, most of our current warship engagements are to first carry out long-range strikes with arrows, and then hit the enemy ship with the bow collision angle, which depends on who grabs the T-shaped position first, that is, the bow is aimed at the lateral side of the enemy ship, and when it grabs the T-position, it will hit it at full speed, even if it can't knock the opponent's warship over, it can hit a big hole, and then it will be a white-knuckle battle on the side! ”

Zhao Junsheng listened to Wu Xi's narration while watching the fleet on the lake conduct tactical drills, and sure enough, it didn't take long for him to see the fleet suddenly turn sharply, almost turning at 90 degrees and rushing forward, the bows and arrows and bed crossbows on each ship were also firing non-stop, and the soldiers on the ship drew their blades and spears and grabbed the fixed positions, ready to meet the ramming and engagement.

Zhao Junsheng watched for a while, and couldn't help nodding: "Yes, this kind of actual combat drill is good, we have no experience in water warfare, we just have to do more such actual combat drills, don't be afraid of spending money!" ”

Wu Xi was very happy, and hurriedly clasped his fists and said: "The ministers generally only conduct actual combat drills every three months, and they are simulated training on weekdays. ”

The tactical formation drill of the flotilla on the lake lasted for two hours before it ended, and the ships drove into the dock under the command of the flagship, and the officers and men of the sailors on board lined up one by one.

"Your Majesty, General Xu's side is ready, let's go over!" Seeing this, Wu Xi said to Zhao Junsheng.

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "Let's go, go over and have a look!" After saying that, he took the lead and rode in the direction of the dock.

With the arrival of Zhao Junsheng, Xu Yibao immediately took the generals out of the water village to greet them.

"Minister Xu Yibao and the officers and soldiers of the Chaohu Water Division greet Your Majesty, long live, long live!"

All the soldiers bowed down and shouted: "Long live, long live!" ”

"Flat!"

Zhao Junsheng said that he walked from the middle of the military formation to the gate of the water village, and the officers and soldiers of the water division got up and looked at Zhao Junsheng and the accompanying ministers and the officers and soldiers of the Yulin Army.

The water village is surrounded by a high wall, with a high guard tower in the middle, and there are a large number of enemy towers and arrow towers on the city wall, which are full of archers and large bed crossbows, and even a trebuchet every other section of the city wall.

Zhao Junsheng and his entourage, accompanied by Xu Yibao and Wu Xi's other generals, first climbed the tower and inspected the defense facilities, troop deployment, and military appearance of the water walled city.

Later, he went to the ordnance warehouse, grain and grass warehouse, and other material warehouses in Shuizhai to inspect and check the degree of defense.

Zhao Junsheng said to Xu Yibao and Wu Xi while inspecting and observing: "There are more than 100,000 sailors, and the number of ordnance, bows and arrows allocated by the imperial court is large, and if the training is frequent, the loss is also large, but we must make a good record, if the damaged weapons, bows and crossbows, and armor can be repaired, and if they can't be repaired, they will all be destroyed, and they must not be disposed of as scrap and sold to illegal traders. ”

"I heard that munitions have always been a department full of oil and water, and many quartermasters have made a fortune from this, not only extorting money from the generals who come to receive equipment, but also selling scrapped ordnance to illegal traders without permission, this kind of behavior is simply insatiable and heinous, you must pay more attention to this aspect, if there is a problem with the munitions, the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of the naval division will be greatly reduced, do you understand what I mean?"

Xu Yibao immediately clenched his fists and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister and General Wu have always attached great importance to these aspects, and will never allow the black sheep to mix in it and harm the combat strength of the water division, no matter who dares to stretch their claws to the military quartermaster, catch one and kill the other, and show no mercy!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Okay!" I'm going to go on the ship and have a look! ”

"The minister leads the way for His Majesty!"

Accompanied by Xu Yibao, Wu Xi and others, Zhao Junsheng and his party came to the wharf through the square in the water village, and the warships docked on the wharf, one after another, in rows, the big ships docked close to the wharf, and the middle ships and small boats docked outward in turn, everything was in order.

Xu Yibao led Zhao Junsheng and others to a small boat and introduced: "Your Majesty, this is a small warship of two hundred materials, which is generally used for patrolling, so we call it a patrol ship, the ship is equipped with two small bed crossbows with a range of four hundred steps, in addition to the soldiers who operate the bed crossbow, there are five spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, five crossbowmen, and twelve boatmen, two bows and arrows are responsible for daily maintenance, and the boatmen are both oarsmen and sailors, and they can repair and repair the ship when necessary!" In large-scale water battles, this patrol boat can also act as a perimeter guard, blocking the opponent's small boats from approaching to set fire to or break our defenses! ”