In the sea in the north of Donglai County, until the Liaodong Peninsula, there is a long archipelago, and now it is called Penglai, Abbot and Yingzhou, that is, the Changdao and Miaodao Islands in later generations, among which there are 32 islands and more than 60 Ming Jiao, of which there are more than 10 inhabitable islands, enough to accommodate 40,000 or 50,000 people. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The people of Qingzhou come and go to Liaodong, all by boat through this island, and Tai Shici travels like this.

At this time, Zhang Liao under the leadership of Tai Shici, took a boat to the archipelago, and Zhang Liao also traveled to the Miaodao Islands in later generations, this time it was a revisit, and the topographic map of this archipelago also had a rough idea in his mind.

The Miaodao archipelago surrounds a natural harbor, which will be the starting point for his next step in implementing the naval strategy, starting from Miaodao and then to the harbor of Qingdao, when his fleet can go north to Liaodong, south to Yangzhou, and even east to Dongying, and south to Ryukyu, so that he can earn wealth by doing business, and can also advance into the Yangtze River at any time to carry out land and water strikes.

The natural commander of the naval army is Tai Shi Ci, Tai Shi Ci was born in Huang County, it is the seaside, proficient in water, and it is not a problem to lead the water division.

As for the shipbuilding technology, Zhang Liao also obtained in the palace, he saw the shipbuilding technology at the beginning, had discussed with Ma Jun and others, in fact, the shipbuilding technology of the Han Dynasty has been very clever, the most famous building ship can be as high as more than ten zhang, four or five floors, a ship can carry 3,000 soldiers, when the general Fubo Ma aided the southern expedition, he had led 2,000 large and small building ships, more than 20,000 soldiers, it can be seen that the scale of the building ship army is large.

However, the building boat also has shortcomings, high and unstable, it is okay in the inland river, and it is afraid of wind and waves when it reaches the open sea, and the center of gravity is high, and it is easy to capsize.

Zhang Liao knew that adding floating plates on both sides of the ship would make the stability better, and he did not pursue too gorgeous and too high-rise, in his opinion, three layers were enough, only large and stable enough, the attack and defense facilities were complete, and the lethality was by no means worse than that of high-rise ships.

Moreover, the power of shipbuilding technology at this time was sails and oars, the sails relied on the wind, and the oars relied on the rudder arm strength, but Zhang Liao still knew that the wheel and oar, the test was the strength of the legs and feet, which was faster, but it had not yet been invented at this time.

But knowing is one thing, how to design is another, Ma Jun is a native of Guannei, does not understand sea ships, really to design, but also rely on the coastal and even Wuyue land's shipbuilding experts, so Zhang Liao ordered to recruit people who are proficient in shipbuilding, to see if he can develop a large warship suitable for naval aviation.

It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to build a big ship, and it is not a one-time effort, but fortunately, Zhang Liao is not in a hurry, his current strategic goal is still land warfare, and he can have ten years to prepare everything.

Zhang Liao was taking a boat along the Miaodao Islands to explore the harbor situation, there was a sound in the air, Xiao Jin landed on the deck, Zhang Liao took the letter tied to its legs, opened it, and couldn't help but feel a while, his face showed joy.

Subsequently, Zhang Liao immediately ordered to return to the voyage, and after returning to Donglai, he handed over the affairs to Zhao Jian and other subordinates, leaving Tai Shici, Mu Han and Hao Zhao, and he took Shi A and more than 100 personal guards to rush to Bingzhou.

In the backyard, there was a tense atmosphere, because Tang Wan was about to give birth, and it was not easy to give birth.

Zhang Liao's mother, sister-in-law, Cai Yan with a big belly, as well as Yin Yue, Su Wan, Gu Caiying, and Xun Yu's wife Tang Shi all accompanied Tang Wan and comforted her.

This is Zhang Liao's first child, whether he can be born smoothly, whether it is a man or a woman, for these people, it means extraordinary.

Before I knew it, half an hour later, the child had not yet been born, and the faces of people inside and outside showed anxiety.

Click, click!

With the sound of hurried horses' hooves, nearly 100 horses rushed to the front of the state pastor's mansion, Zhang Liaofei, who was covered in dust, dismounted, strode into the mansion, and the guards at the gate of the mansion were about to stop him, and when he saw that it was Zhang Liao, he hurriedly saluted and opened the door.

"The lord, the lord and the mother are ...... It's been half an hour. Xun Yu came up and hurriedly arrived.

Zhang Liao nodded, without saying a word, and went straight into the back house, Diao Chan followed closely behind him.

Along the way, there were anxious maids who saw Zhang Liao, and when they saw Zhang Liao, they were overjoyed, and they all got out of the way, and another maid was in a hurry to report to the house.

Cai Ying and Dong Bai were overjoyed when they saw Zhang Liao coming back.

"Yuan Fang, how is Wan'er?" Zhang Liao hurriedly asked Zuo Ci that he had left Zuo Ci in Bingzhou just in case, because he knew that it was dangerous to have a child in this era, whether it was for the mother or the baby, and if there was a difficult birth, it would be even more terrible.

Zuo Ci shook his head and said, "It's okay. ”

Cai Yan, who was accompanying Tang Wan in the back room, heard the maidservant's report, Zhang Liao rushed back, and they were all overjoyed, Cai Yan hurriedly said in Tang Wan's ear: "Wan'er, husband is back!" ”

Tang Wan, who was already exhausted, heard this, and then gave birth to another strength.

Just as Zhang Liao took off his robe, shook off the cold, and stepped into the threshold, a wow sound came from the house, and a cry of surprise came from inside: "It's a son, mother and son are safe." ”

Zhang Liao's body was shocked, and he couldn't help but burst into tears.

The women inside and outside cheered in unison, and many maidservants wept excitedly, knelt down and kowtowed to thank God repeatedly, which shows Tang Wan's kindness in the backyard on weekdays.

Zhang Liao entered the house, and the two stable women accompanied Zhang's mother to carefully hold a baby up: "Congratulations to the general, it's a son." ”

"Haha! Good! Good! Reward! Reward! Inside and outside the house, all are doubled! ”

Zhang Liao was overjoyed, and carefully took the baby, but he didn't expect the little guy to not close his eyes, but to look at him with wide eyes, a feeling of blood connection made him feel that his whole person seemed to be different, and he was a little unsteady when he walked with the child.

Cai Yan and the other girls hurriedly came up to see the child, Zhang Liao carefully gave the child to Cai Yan, and then came to the pale Tang Wan and took her hand: "Wan'er, suffer." ”

Tang Wan leaned weakly into his arms and shook his head: "It's not bitter, the concubine likes it very much in her body and mind, and the husband has rushed back thousands of miles, are you tired?" ”

"It's fine." Zhang Liao hugged her.

Tang Wan's pale face was dizzy with excitement again: "Husband, the concubine wants to see our child." ”

Cai Yan hurriedly and carefully hugged the child to the couch, Tang Wan looked at the baby's big bony eyes, and a happy smile appeared on her face.

Cai Yan on the side couldn't help but touch her lower abdomen, Tang Wan gave birth, she was also about to give birth, at first seeing Tang Wan so painful, she was still a little apprehensive in her heart, but seeing such a lovely baby, her heart was full of expectation.

"Can Xiaobai and I take a look at the baby?" Cai Ying, who had been squeezing in for a while and hadn't squeezed in, pulled Dong Bai and said pitifully.

The room was filled with laughter.