Needless to say, the risks of ocean activities at sea require a lot of money and time, which is not a price that a lord can bear, even if overseas land is discovered, the infrastructure and immigration investment required in the early stage is a bottomless pit, Jiang Qian thinks that overseas exploration is simple.

Geographically speaking, the southern hemisphere as a whole presents a scallop type, Changsun is the only scallop on the scallop to the north of the prominent huge peninsula, the territory of Changsun extends from the Central Plains to the north for nearly 2,000 kilometers, until near the equator, through the north coast of Changsun is the safest and most cost-effective to go to the ocean.

At present, the scope of exploration of the Xianguo Navy is still limited to the ocean east of the Changsun Peninsula, and the farthest distance is far from breaking through the latitude line extending eastward from the northernmost territory of the Changsun Kingdom, and it is almost impossible to find the mainland within this range.

Jiang Gan's understanding of the land, at best, mistook the rumors of Lingjing Island for the mainland, and thus gave birth to the plan to go to sea. With the current land area of the southern hemisphere, it is theoretically almost impossible for a continent to be truly geographically defined, and even if there is, it should be a huge island between the east of the Jin Kingdom and the west of the West Sea.

"If it weren't for me hitting my brother-in-law, it would be impossible to find land overseas now, so it would be better to run Guangxin well, and there would be an opportunity to go to sea in 20 years."

"Who knows what will happen in 20 years, I don't want to be left behind."

Jiang Qian, Jiang Rong interjected at this time:

"Swallows are never wrong, and there will be a turnaround in twenty years."

"Alas...... Never mind. Bai Liyan's attitude was loose, and he said a little helplessly: "The reduced horses are enough for Guangxin to buy a 10,000-stone ship, and since my brother-in-law wants to go to sea, I will not stop it." However, my brother-in-law would like to give my brother-in-law two words of advice. ”

Jiang Qian cheered up and said solemnly:

"I want to hear about it."

"First, the sea is unpredictable, the wind and waves are merciless, and you and your heirs are not allowed to go to sea. Second, all the islands that can be occupied in the sea north of Xianguo have been discovered by the Xian army, and even if there are very few, you are new to the sea, I do not recommend my brother-in-law to go to sea.

When the shipyard has spare ten thousand stone boats, I will sell two of them to you, and in a short time you should first gather fishermen to practice and start with coastal trade, accumulate sailing experience, and do not rush to seek greed and bury your life. In addition, I will allocate excellent nautical equipment to my brother for navigational use. That's all for today, it's useless to say anything else now, and my brother-in-law should do it himself. ”

"Well, thank you brother-in-law for your warning, Jiang Qian will never forget it in his life."

Jiang Qian raised his hand and bowed deeply, very respectfully. Baili Yan sighed, and then said:

"The reinforcement of the north wall of Guangxin and the main forts on the east and west wings will be completed before the summer harvest next year at the earliest, and will not be delayed until the end of next year at the latest. After that, we will continue to build new forts and fortresses on the periphery of the east and west wings, and there is one thing I have to tell my brother-in-law to do it as soon as possible. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Pucheng is under the rule of your Guangxin, and the Guanling Ferry is also under the control of Guangxin, which is the water and land of the inland river and the Beihai Sea west of the Xianguo, and you must dispatch manpower to carry the stone piles and within two miles on both sides of the ferry.

Jiang Qian was taken aback when he heard this, and asked in a hurry

"The Guanling Ferry is the only inland river west of Xianguo that can be used for 10,000 stone boats or even 20,000 stone to go to the sea, once it is blocked, it will be very difficult to dredge."

"It is precisely because of the difficulty of dredging in a short period of time that it can curb the intrusion of large ships at sea into our inland rivers through the Guanling Ferry during extraordinary times. It was through here that the eldest grandson Huimeng arrived at my Yongxing River, which was very close.

If you change to other rivers, you need to detour, and the land route along the way is far away, so you can delay the attack at any time, but the Guanling ferry is too close. There is one thing you don't know, Xian and Liang have negotiated to sell the construction of 10,000 stone ships, and all countries may be able to build them in the future, which is very harmful, and it is necessary to fortify it in advance. ”

Guanling Ferry is one of the few deep-water rivers west of Xianguo, and even west of Xianguo, which can pass through 10,000 stone boats, and under the condition of being familiar with the waterway and seasonal tides, 20,000 stone boats can also sail into the Yongxing River through Guanling Ferry in the summer wet season, and the threat is very huge.

Bailiyan has ordered all inland rivers in Dongyuan County that can pass through the Wanshi boat to go to sea are pre-placed on both sides of the river, and they are used to silt up the river during the extraordinary period. At that time, the navy will sail into the inland rivers or riverbank wharves of Dongyuan and Jiangdong counties through the Jiangdong Wangqin River estuary, retreat to the local rivers, and expand the enemy's naval front.

Historically, there have been numerous military cases of invading the mainland through inland rivers through the open sea, and it is extremely necessary to prevent problems before they occur.

Generally speaking, after losing the right to control the sea, more land-based long-range weapons are used to attack enemy invading ships to prevent landing and coastal attacks.

No matter how quickly the position of the breech guns is shifted and loaded, they are still affected by mobility and rain, and even though the strategic depth on land is greater than that of ships on inland rivers, in the case of a decisive battle, it will be a head-to-head battle.

Naval guns or double-deck two-sided naval guns, or even three-deck two-sided naval guns, one side of the ship's side fired a salvo of as little as twenty or thirty rounds, and as many as forty or fifty rounds, and both sides fired at both sides at the same time, with projectiles ranging from sixty to one hundred.

And the lower deck guns were confined to the cabin, and the loading was almost impervious to the weather. In addition to the winter in the Beihai region, it is rainy all year round, which is very unfavorable for roadbed firepower operations. Although the artillery of the Xian Army was issued with oilcloth and wax paper medicine packs containing nitrate to protect them from rain, the effect was not satisfactory.

In addition, the trade and strategic revolution brought about by the early sea power doctrine determined the focus of the construction of the military system, from the traditional continental army to the coastal defense, supplemented by ocean-going strikes, and the number of roadbed artillery is not as good as the number of naval artillery has always been an unavoidable problem of roadbed.

A 10,000-stone ship is equipped with between 50 and 55 guns, and 20,000 stones wear more than 90 to 100 guns, which is the configuration of a ship, enlarges a fleet, and the national strength and area of the size of Xianguo can support 20,000 stone ships in peacetime ten years later, supplemented by 10,000 stone ships, a total of more than 200 main fleets, equipped with more than 10,000 guns, more than three times that of army artillery.

The roadbed artillery does not rely on the fortress to defend it, and in the face of the indiscriminate bombardment of the 10 capital ships and hundreds of front guns, there is basically no way to live, not to mention the intensive bombardment of dozens or hundreds of capital ship guns, and the roadbed artillery will be difficult to parry.

On the seventh day of the fourth month, the Marquis of Lu learned about the aftermath of the king's family and returned to the palace to hand over the decree to the king of Xian, and in the afternoon he invited Bailiyan to the banquet in the mansion.

"It's rare for the old man to invite the Marquis of Yongxing to come over for a banquet, and today you and I will get drunk and rest."

"Lu Hou is polite, the younger generation is here to pay tribute to Lu Hou first."

Baili Yan did it first as a respect, and Lu Hou nodded with a smile and was very happy:

"Yongxing Hou is really bold, hehe......"

"In terms of wine power, the younger generation is really invincible to Luhou and the king, which makes Luhou smile."

Lu Hou took a full drink of his long white beard, and then said:

"Good wine......"

"This wine was aged 10 years ago, and it is more than 10 times better than the original wine. If it is aged for 30 or 50 years, it tastes better. ”

"Well, the old man still has two cylinders of thousand-year-old Chen that have not been opened yet, and it is a pity to think about drinking it, I am really reluctant."

"If you are reluctant, it is better to pass on the resources of writers in later generations, which may not be a beautiful thing."

There were a total of 72 jars of millennium Chen that year, each cylinder was about 80 catties of rice wine, of which 50 jars were given to the king of Xian, the remaining 22 jars, five jars were given to the Marquis of Lu, 12 jars were given to Bailiyan, two jars were given to the Marquis of Xuanting, and the remaining three jars were filled into two catties and one jar, which were used to reward meritorious generals and rewards.

The three jars of the five jars of wine of the Luhou were divided into two catties of jars, most of which were distributed to the tribes, and the other two jars were kept by themselves. Baili Yan's twelve cylinders, Zhao Anling, Guan Longxiang, Zong Botai each got a cylinder, Yuke, Ligong sent two cylinders each, Baili Yan only left seven cylinders of wine, six cylinders were hidden in the wine cellar, a cylinder was divided into two catties of altars, self-drinking or soaking wine, the effect is very good.

Today's millennium Chen has become famous abroad, becoming the world's famous wine, chasing countless people, there is no shortage of people who fool the world in the name of millennium Chen, and there are really very few people who can really drink millennium Chen.

Lu Hou was sandwiching the vegetables, tasting the taste, and his face showed a bit of enjoyment.

The previous generation of Luhou Xue Teng was trapped in the civil war for a long time, the treasury could not make ends meet, and often needed to pledge, and the power of the salt lord was frustrated since then, and the intervention of the Jin State accelerated the differentiation of the salt lord, forming a situation of two sides of today's Xianwang faction and the prince's faction.

Xue Chong, the marquis of this generation, is a hereditary noble who enjoys the development dividend of the Xian country, and is a loyal fan of the king of Xian, relying on the huge benefits brought by the chemical industry, and his strength is like the sky, and he gradually has the momentum of getting rid of all the salt barons and being unique.

In fact, this is not necessarily a bad thing, salt is the earliest chemical products, the progress of technology, the development of society, will inevitably form a high, medium and low three sections of the industrial chain, Luhou is unique and occupies the high-end industry is an inevitable trend, but in the process of development, the interests of other families and career orientation will inevitably become the focus of controversy within the group.

The cake in the relative period is so big, how to divide it can not be satisfied with everyone, so the current salt barons have lived up to the unity of the salt barons back then, and the development of technology has broken the existing single interest bond, so that the salt barons can transform to rights and other economic fields.

At this time, Lu Hou borrowed the strength of the wine to open the previous chat, and the conversation suddenly changed and said:

"Yongxing Hou, the daughters under your knees are gradually coming and going, but there is a match?"

"Not yet married. However, the younger generation has an enlightened family style, and the children's affairs should be determined by the children's self-determination, and if the forced marriage is not worthy of the children's hearts, I am afraid that it may not be happy in the future. Therefore, there is no hurry, let them find their own favorite person, as long as they are still talking about the past, the younger generation will not care. ”

"This is not good, the parents' orders and the words of the matchmaker cannot be violated, let the children find their own people, if the family style is corrupt, wouldn't it harm the daughter of the Hou Mansion."

"Hehe, as Lu Hou said, of course a person with a corrupt family style can't do it, even if the child is willing, I will break her leg."