The development of the navy is the established policy of Gao Junshan, and if you want to be the supremacy of the sea, you can't achieve the goal by relying on the paddle sailing ship alone, and you must have a steam engine.

Therefore, in order to solve the problem of insufficient power of the steam engine, he personally went to Wuchang, and he did not let Sun Yuanhua go with him, because he considered that Sun Yuanhua was old and could not let him go around again.

On this trip, he didn't put on an emperor's shelf.

According to records, the emperor traveled to sound the gong to open the way, and took the golden chariot and jade chariot; The dust dust gold stove, incense box, bath basin, spittle, dog small gold bottle, gold chair, and gold hang should all be brought with you; Thirty large and small guards, some with broadswords, some with bows and arrows, and some with tail guns; In addition, there is a person holding a yellow cover of the crank in front of each hall holding a halberd; four men with a whip in their hands; Between the canopies, in addition to the ten horses of the guard of honor, there were 1,000 guards on horseback, and the total entourage was as high as 1,800 people.

The purpose of taking so many people on the trip was mainly to ensure the safety of the emperor and his attachés, and to show the supreme authority of the emperor.

Gao Junshan didn't make such a possibility, he only took Sun Kewang and seven or eight entourages and went on the road, of course, by water, and on his own boat.

Hehe, to put it mildly, there are still Caoyun people protecting them along the way, and Sun Kewang only belongs to personal guards.

The road was smooth, and arrived in Wuchang a few days later, Gao Junshan was very low-key, and there was no pick-up ceremony in Wuchang for thousands of empty alleys, and at the Wuchang wharf, only Zhou Wenjiang, the secretary of the Admiralty, greeted him.

When Zhou Wenjiang saw that the emperor was about to bow down, he was stopped by Gao Junshan, "Zhenqing, this is not in the capital, you and I don't need too much etiquette." Immediately afterwards, Gao Junshan quipped, "I haven't seen you for a year, I heard that you are wide!" ”

Zhou Wenjiang was puzzled and said, "Your Majesty, the subordinates don't dare to dictate power, let alone gather wealth!" ”

"Hahaha!" Gao Junshan laughed, "Your navy has collected more than 500 ships of various types in the past dynasty in one year, and it is not wide?" ”

Zhou Wenjiang's eyebrows stretched out, and said, "This is all thanks to His Majesty's imperial grace!" These more than 500 ships were brought by the former naval division who came to Toucheng. ”

Gao Junshan said: "To be rewarded, to be rewarded." Meritorious personnel must be commended and publicized. Let the people of Jiangnan know that not only do we welcome their sailors to come and surrender to Chengcheng, but we also welcome all civil and military officials. ”

Zhou Wenjiang reported: "Your Majesty, Huang Degong said that he wants to surrender to us, he will come to Wuchang in the next few days, if it is convenient, will Your Majesty see him?" ”

"What kind of official is Huang Degong on Nanming's side?" Gao Junshan asked.

Zhou Wenjiang introduced: "Huang Degong went out of the customs when he was in his prime, entered Liaoyang, and later joined the army in Liaoyang to become a personal soldier of Jinglu. He was promoted to guerrilla general for his merits, and later joined Shandong and was promoted to general. Soon after, he was appointed by the deputy chief military officer and the crown prince and the young guard, acting with the rank of chief soldier. ”

"Oh, it turned out to be a general soldier."

Zhou Wenjiang continued: "Nanming named him Jingnanbo, and the garrison Luzhou was listed as one of the four towns. ”

Gao Junshan asked again: "Which four towns?" ”

Zhou Wenjiang replied: "He and Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, and Gao Jie are known as the four towns of Jiangbei. ”

"Gao Jie? Is it the Gao Jie who kidnapped Li Zicheng's wife? ”

"That's the man."

"Interesting." Gao Junshan came up with a sentence.

Zhou Wenjiang continued: "Zhu Yousong opened four feudatories in Jinling: Xingping Bo Gaojie guarded Chuzhou and Hezhou, Dongping Bo Liu Zeqing defended Huai'an and Yangzhou, Guangchang Bo Liu Liangzuo guarded Fengyang and Shouzhou, and Huang Degong was promoted to marquis and guarded Luzhou and Anqing. ”

Gao Junshan ordered: "You tell Huang Degong that his official position will remain unchanged when he comes to our side, and he wants to take control of his army and wait for Cao Wenzhao to take over." ”

"Your Majesty, can you see Huang Degong?" Zhou Wenjiang asked again.

"See, meet, you arrange a time."

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Admiralty of Wuchang.

Seven senior generals of the navy and land, including Cao Wenzhao, senior general in Wuchang, senior general Hui Dengxiang, Zhou Wenjiang, secretary of the Admiralty, Liu Wenxiu, governor of Caoyun, Li Xin, deputy commander of the Caoyun Military Division, Li Jiuhua, the left attendant of the Admiralty, and Pan Shiyu, the right attendant of the Admiralty, were receiving Gao Junshan.

A dragon chair was placed in the middle of the meeting hall, and Gao Junshan was already in a yellow robe, sitting on the dragon chair energetically.

"Long live our emperor! Banzai! Hooray! ”

Seven generals saluted the monarch and ministers to the high mountain.

"No rudeness!" Gao Junshan smiled, "Please all sit down!" This time I came back to Wuchang and changed a lot! Not only have you pacified the entire area of Huguang, but now even the high-ranking officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty are moving closer to us, and Zhu Youxiang's small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty is unstable. ”

Cao Wenzhao said: "Your Majesty, Jiujiang, Nanchang, and Jingdezhen are all under the control of our army, and the Ming Dynasty only has a small piece of territory left in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. ”

Gao Junshan waved his hand: "Our army is equipped with a lot of hot weapons, which is different from the era of cold weapons, many people will die in a war, and the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are also my Chinese family, we can no longer use military means to seize Jiangsu and Zhejiang." ”

Cao Wenzhao asked, "What should I do then?" Is it just to let Zhu Youxiang be his little emperor in Jinling safely? ”

Gao Junshan said instructively: "Huang Degong's surrender will bring about a multi-miro effect, you wait and see, and then there will be more generals on our side." ”

"The Domino Effect?" Whitden asked suspiciously.

Gao Junshan explained: "The dominary effect is a new term, and in an interconnected system, a small initial energy can produce a series of chain reactions, and this reaction is caused by the domino effect. ”

The crowd still didn't understand.

"Don't understand?" Gao Junshan waited for his eyes to ask, "It's okay if you don't understand, you will understand slowly." ”

Zhou Wenjiang asked again: "If we don't use military means, will Zhu Youxiang hand over the throne by himself?" ”

Gao Junshan said: "Zhenqing's question is very good. We don't take military action because we are afraid that once the war starts, it will definitely hurt the people, even if we don't hurt the people, these soldiers of Nanming are also our Chinese people, and they also have the right to live, and it is Zhu Youxiang who should be killed. With my lofty mountains here, we must not let the people of China die in war again. ”

When the ministers heard this, they fell to the ground and bowed: "Long live my emperor!" ”

Gao Junshan smiled and raised his hand: "Get up!" Get up! There's no need to be so excited, you guys kneel down as soon as you are moved, and let me not speak well? ”

The ministers hurriedly got up and sat back in their seats.

Gao Junshan continued: "We can't be soft on Zhu Youxiang, and when the time is ripe, we will adopt the strategy of combining the inside and the outside, and send an assault team to carry out the beheading operation for Zhu Youjian, so that the casualties of the war can be minimized." ”

"Decapitation?" Cao Wenzhao was also puzzled.

Gao Junshan tirelessly explained: "The decapitation action is to capture the thief and capture the king first, and the meaning of hitting the snake and hitting seven inches is fast, accurate, and internal. You must create public opinion, make extensive propaganda, and tell the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang that it is not that we cannot fight, that we are unwilling to fight, and that we do not want to burn the flames of war on the heads of the people in the south of the Yangtze River. ”