Chapter 3241: The Birth of the Great Song Dynasty "Navy".

In March of that year, new appointments to the imperial court were also made, and the name was Southern Tranquility, and the two officials were re-elected on the spot.

But in fact, everyone knows that Zhao Xing gave the imperial court a step, and the imperial court took advantage of this step to give Zhao Xing what he wanted, and at the same time, the court officials also prepared enough empty money bags, waiting for Zhao Xing to transport things to fill those bags.

At the end of March, Chen Buqun led the Guangnan Navy to finally escort the Great Song merchant ships through the Lion City and into the waters of the Indian Ocean.

This move means that the "Guangdong Naval Division" has officially become a "navy".

In modern times, the theory of sea power holds that a fleet that does not carry out transoceanic escort is just a "warship on the table", or a "sailor in the ditch". Only a transoceanic escort operation against merchant ships was carried out that the fleet was officially upgraded to a "navy". At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the reason why the Chinese fleet only dared to call it the "Beiyang Naval Division" and "Nanyang Naval Division" instead of the "Beiyang Navy" and "Nanyang Navy" was because they had never escorted civilian ships.

This time, Chen Buqun's transoceanic escort operation made China officially have a "navy" in the Song Dynasty.

It is a pity that the people of the time did not appreciate the significance of the Quang Nam Naval Division's breakthrough into the Indian Ocean to escort the convoy, and they were only concerned with the trade situation of the Indian subcontinent. And Zhao Xing's first purchase order also made them laugh off their big teeth, because Zhao Xing's first purchase order was a sapling, and he placed a large order of 600,000 sour horn saplings to the king of India, asking the king to deliver it within two years.

The first batch of saplings purchased by Zhao Xing filled several large ships, which did not dare to stay in the local area because they were carrying saplings, so they immediately returned and brought back the hope that the Song merchants would break the blockade of the Arab merchants and realize direct trade with the Tianzhu merchants. Subsequently. The Song ships loaded with tea, silk, pottery, and other goods on the wharf pulled up their sails and followed the 2nd Quang Nam Fleet towards India.

This was followed by a continuous return voyage of Song ships, one by one, from Guangzhou Bay to the end of the sky, and if someone walked from the bow to the stern of one ship and then jumped on another ship, he could walk all the way to India without touching the water.

The returning Song ships brought back Indian gold, the famous Uzi steel, Indian livestock, and huge quantities of grain, jade, precious stones, tortoiseshell, ivory, and tiger skins. And a whole shipload of spices. Those dazzling riches made the maritime merchants of Guangzhou port red-eyed, and they immediately organized a third fleet and rushed to India under the protection of the third detachment of Guangzhou.

Zhao Xing stands on a headland in Hong Kong. After bidding farewell to the last Song ship, Ledi's mouth couldn't close: "What did I see, my eyes were full of taxes, every ship that went to sea, 10% of the goods went to the city, so many ships went out, Guangzhou's taxes this year must have increased unimaginable...... Well, there is money for the war. ”

Wan Qiyong touched the goatee on his chin. Said excitedly: "My lord said that raising a naval escort is the most profitable. I now know that it is better to invest in warships than to invest in any investment. This ship went out and brought back at least three hundred (one hundred and fifty tons) of booty. There will be military spending for a year. It can also give us a tax increase. Earn money, we have to raise a few more of this navy, I heard that Tianzhu used to be a big food in black, and the big food in black used to be the African continent where Deng Yufu went, and that land is similar to the size of the continent under our feet, such a big ocean, how many warships do you need to protect the land. ”

Zhao Xing replied with a smile: "Three years ago, Srivijaya fought a small-scale naval battle with the country stationed in the country, and the country stationed in the country dispatched 4,321 large and small ships, which is only part of the military strength of the country stationed. Of course. Half of the warships stationed in the country are canoe-class, and we can crush them with a warship. ”

Shuai Fan suddenly interjected: "Three years ago. I remember that when I took office three years ago, I spent more than a month at sea, did I witness that naval battle--- who on both sides won? I remember that the adults suppressed the South China Sea this time, and the three Buddhas fell alone. ”

Zhao Xing touched his head and smiled very honestly, he replied: "No one won, because the two sides fought for two days and two nights, and when they were exhausted, the Mayi navy participated in the battle, and it fought everyone when it saw it, and the first battle sent all the navies of both sides to the bottom of the sea." After that, the struggle between Sriwijaya and the country in which it was stationed weakened as neither side could afford to fight. ”

Shuai Fan rolled his eyes, and his lips squirmed silently. Zhao Xing ignored Shuai Fan's small movements, he pointed to the sea where thousands of sails were racing, and said to Shuai Fan: "Lian, my students have opened up the sea route, and the land depends on you." ”

Shuai Fan snapped his fingers and calculated: "The rainy season will not stop until the end of July (lunar calendar), and when the ground dries down a little, you can drag the cannon away, I am only a single soldier at hand now, didn't you say that you can cross the entire Zhenla from the Mekong River and break into Dali, has Chen Buqun started to act?" ”

Zhao Xing shook his head: "I estimate: the voyage across the entire Mekong River will take a month. So I asked him to start his journey after the rain stopped, and the appointed date was July 20th. You'll need to calculate your itinerary and try to get to Zen Sean by August 2nd. ”

At the beginning of April, Xie Lin, the transit envoy of Jinghu North Road, sent a letter to Zhao Xing, who complained to Zhao Xing in his own tone that due to recent climate changes, the agricultural harvest in the Jingyuan Road area has dropped sharply, and even commerce has been deeply affected......

At the end of the letter, Xie Lin pointed out worriedly: Could it be that the luck of the Great Song Dynasty is about to end, and is there another civil uprising on Jinghu North Road? Don't......?

In the same month, the roads in Guangdong Province were officially repaired, and at the same time, the cross-border highway from Guangdong to Guangxi was also completed.

"Xie Lin can't pull it down after all", Wan Qiyong read Xie Lin's letter and explained with a chuckle: "I heard that this official and academic master is on Jinghu North Road, governing civil affairs with Lantian Township, and holding township drinking ceremonies with the township elders from time to time, so that the people of Jinghu North Road are generous and loved by the people. My lord, he is asking for this letter. But it was difficult to speak, so I had to complain tactfully. ”

Zhao Xing touched his head and recalled vigorously, he remembered that in the original history, during this time, there was indeed a large-scale riot of displaced people in the area of Jinghu North Road, and these displaced people swept away the crops on Jinghu North Road like locusts, and took revenge on the society with killing and robbery. It seems that this rebellion was also a large-scale peasant uprising in the history of the Great Song Dynasty---- mainly "uprising" based on robbing peasants.

"It's a one-shot thing", Zhao Xing put down his hand supporting his forehead. He said: "We need labor now, a lot of labor, Yayan (Wan Qian Yong), you tell Xie Jinglue that we can absorb 200,000 to 300,000 displaced people, let him do it quickly." ”

The seven-year famine is coming to an end, and the West has ended the famine in the form of war, while the East has survived the climate change with large-scale relief. But the imperial court also spent its savings for a hundred years, and now the imperial court still has to deal with the war with the Western Xia. In addition, there is the need to deal with displaced farmers. If he is not careful, the country will fall into turmoil again, so Zhao Xing decided to help Xie Lin as much as he could.

Wan Qiyong agreed, while quickly writing a reply to Xie Lindi, Zhao Xing muttered in a low voice there: "Is it Fang La?" Zhong Xiang, Mrs. Yang, or Wang Xiaobo? ”

Zhao Xing's guess was wrong, Fang La's uprising was still twenty years later, and Wang Xiaobo's uprising should be a hundred years ago. Wan Qianyong directly refuted: "Dong Weng, you shouldn't know Wang Xiaobo." That Wang Xiaobo once proposed......"

Wan Qian Yong wanted to speak and stopped. Zhao Xing smiled faintly and added three words: "Juntiandi!" ”

Wang Xiaobo means: others work hard to make a fortune. It is not a necessity that they are entitled to enjoy the fruits of their labor. As long as I have no land to plant, the man who has more land should give me a piece of land and let me take it as my own property. If they don't want to, I will rob and "rob" their "rich" and "rich" and "help" their own "poor" and poor, which is referred to as "robbing the rich and helping the poor", which is a "hero" behavior worth advocating.

Wang Xiaobo's remarks were taboo in the Song Dynasty, because this slogan of robbery was too lethal to landless peasants, and robbery was the least expensive investment in troubled times, and only one's own life was invested. If this theory becomes the "truth", then the creation and production of the things that everyone disdains the most, locust predation and destruction, will become the mainstream. Successive dynasties and governments believed that locusts should not be encouraged, so they designated it as a "fallacy and heresy" and were reluctant to mention it. Wan Qianyong wanted to speak just now and stopped for this reason.

Unfortunately, there are some things that you can't hide from without closing your eyes. Just when Zhao Xing was discussing with Wan Qianyong, Shuai Fan hurriedly came in with a report and exclaimed: "Oh no, no, no, Jingdong, Jinghu, Liangzhejiang, Fujian and other places, there have been riots of displaced people, it is said that some places have developed to the extent of attacking cities and plundering land, and even several small county towns have been occupied. ”

Zhao Xing shook his head slowly and replied, "Don't worry, they will never admit it." ”

The "they" that Zhao Xing refers to are the new party in the upper echelons.

On the eve of the seven-year famine, the Great Song Dynasty was fortunate to let the conservative Yuan Party come to power, and in the successive years of famine, there were no large-scale riots in various places, but now a group of "reformers" have come to power, and they have taken out the policy that once caused millions of displaced people, and caused the scene of thousands of miles of displaced people described by Zheng Xia that day, can the New Party admit this phenomenon?

Shuai Fan patted the table and interrupted Zhao Xing's leisure: "Jinghu North Road is adjacent to us, I have lived a rich life in Guangdong in the past few years, those homeless people can't grab things in Jinghu, it is inevitable that they want to go south, my lord, now is not the time to talk about the wind and cold, our army is planning to attack Dali, now, this year's plan is soup." ”

Zhao Xing sat steadily and replied: "The action of attacking Dali cannot be changed!" Just kidding, beating Dali Duan's is to grab money for Da Song; Fighting the homeless people, that is slaughtering compatriots, and they are also poor compatriots, winning the battle will consume my gunpowder and armament, and I will not gain a penny, and I will spend money to settle them---- I will not do the loss-making business. ”

Shuai Fan jumped to his feet and said, "My lord, I can't help you." When the displaced people enter the country, they are robbing what they see. Pity our newly built roads, which will inevitably be destroyed, and those displaced people will not care how hard you worked to build them. In case we move our forces against them, they will absolutely dig up our new pavement, tear down our houses, and burn our seedlings...... My lord, we don't have enough troops. ”

Wan Qiyong saw that Zhao Xing was not in a hurry, he tapped his fingers on the table, and reminded idly: "Your Excellency has been reorganizing the Guangdong gunners since last year. At present, although our regular army is only about 2,000, there are no less than 30,000 people in various places.

That's a lot of troops. Kim Fuji set up martial arts gyms in various places and trained the gunmen for two or three years, and I don't believe they could beat the group of farmers. ”

Shuai Fan's lips squirmed, he was about to ask Zhao Xing to gather the township warriors from all over the country, but he opened his mouth, and thought that now in the summer harvest season, there is a shortage of labor everywhere, so he wants to gather the township warriors. I'm afraid there won't be many people coming.

After hesitating for a moment, Shuai Fan knocked on the side and reminded: "My lord, I have been building Guangzhou for three years. It only takes a few months to destroy all this, my lord, take precautions. ”

Zhao Xing glanced at the report in Shuai Fan's hand, and asked again: "Your report, I'm afraid it's not an official report of the imperial court?" ”

Shuai Fan shook his head slightly: "This is the news sent by your Swift Beast Firm, I happened to be leading the military in the military department, and I saw this information......"

Zhao Xing let out a long sigh. Said slowly: "Since it is not the imperial court, we will transfer troops privately. I'm afraid the Privy Council will have an idea. In this way, I first asked several states and counties on the border of Quang Nam East Road to raise their alert. Rush to plant and harvest summer grain, as for the specific transfer of troops, we will have to wait until the Privy Council promulgates the news! ”

Shuai Fan rolled his eyes and muttered: "When did you get permission from the imperial court to mobilize the army?" ”

Wan Qianyong handed a dossier to Shuai Fan and explained with a smile: "We can occasionally offend in other places, but not at this time." Fighting Dali, that is to rob the court of money, the court may have endured. But mobilize troops. Blocking the roads adjacent to the surrounding counties, I am afraid that the imperial court will guess that we are divided. ”

Wan Qiyong explained. Shuai Fan looked down at the file he had just handed over, and immediately became happy: "My lord, you are ...... It's a little too bold. The imperial court has just allowed the adult to be re-elected, and this term has only been re-elected for three years, but the adult is going to announce the five-year plan, isn't this a slap in the face of the imperial court? ”

Of course, it was the face of the court. After Zhao Xing's term expired, most of the officials under him were allowed to stay, but the power to appoint officials still rested with the imperial court, and the term of office was only three years. Zhao Xing has now proposed a "five-year development outline" that spans his term of office.

Shuai Fan laughed, flipped the outline and sighed: "However, this outline is really well written, we just built roads a few years ago, and did a good job in the infrastructure construction in various places, and now the number of immigrants has increased explosively, and there should be a guiding development plan."

Yes, I am very satisfied with the first part of the crop development plan, although we tried our best to plant sour horn in the past few years, but the results were not much, and now it is time to propose a comprehensive plan to replace mulberry forest with sour horn forest for silkworm farming. The commercial value of a sour horn tree is more than 113 mulberry trees, and the farmer originally had an acre of mulberry forest, but after changing to a sour horn, it is equivalent to 113 acres of mulberry forest. ”

"It's a pity that this sour horn tree is only suitable for planting in the tropics, otherwise, Fujian is mountainous, and planting such a sour horn forest does not occupy farmland, and the income will increase significantly......," Zhao Xing said with emotion.

He didn't know that because when he established the naval army in Guangdong, he absorbed a large number of Fujian boat people, so that the scale of the riot in Fujian was far smaller than the original.

Shuai Fan continued to flip through the outline, chatted with Zhao Xing for a few words, threw the file on the table, and said boredly: "I'm not familiar with things like this, so I can't give my opinion, but Lianzhou and Shaozhou, which are adjacent to Jinghu, need to immediately issue a notice to gather the villagers." Chaozhou and Meizhou, which are adjacent to Fujian Road, are short of troops, so I need to quickly transfer a team of people over, and Xunzhou and Nanxiong Prefecture, which are adjacent to Jiangnan East Road, should also raise the vigilance ---- to me! ”

Zhao Xing casually pulled a piece of official paper, stamped an official seal on this blank official paper, and handed the blank authorization to Shuai Fan, Zhao Xing reminded him: "The homeless people are rioting, the news of the imperial court has not yet been released, we are prepared in advance, it will make the imperial court very faceless." I've done too many things lately that have made the court faceless, so don't make trouble for me. ”

Shuai Fan grinned: "It's not bad for this one!" ”

After that, Shuai Fan grabbed the blank authorization and ran out of the Economic Strategy Division in a puff of smoke. Wan Qiyong looked at his back running out, touched his goatee, and said thoughtfully: "The number of immigrants on my Guangnan East Road has skyrocketed, and some people can't find jobs for a while, so it's also a hidden danger for them to wander around." I estimate that the imperial court will soon issue a notice to suppress bandits, and assign tasks to various places to suppress bandits, in this area of Jiangnan, only Xie Jingliu and adults have fought, and the Privy Council must put the burden on the two of you, so it is better to ......"

Zhao Xing's eyes lit up: "This is an opportunity, an opportunity to increase troops, gather idle people and train them." Even if they were eliminated later, those eliminated people had received our military training and were paid for several months. I am also familiar with the environment in Guangdong, and I don't have to worry about finding a job. ”

Wan Qiyong high-fived and added: "Yes, I have money in Guangdong, the climate here is suitable, the rice is harvested three times a year, there is money and grain, and it is not up to the adults to say how many soldiers they recruit." ”

"Recruitment. …… The more the merrier...... Eliminate while training". Zhao Xing's eyes lit up and said excitedly.

What is Zhao Xing best at. What he does best is playing with dynamic data. If the villagers are recruited for training like a flowing stream, and the unqualified ones are dismissed like a flowing stream, this one recruits people and that one is dismissed, and a huge reserve team will be retained in the barracks, and the court is not good at accusing him, because he is indeed eliminating manpower on a large scale.

Wan Qian was fast, and as soon as Zhao Xingcai finished speaking, he had already finished writing the notice. Then. Zhao Xing took out one official seal after another from his pocket. Cover it.

This kind of conscription of soldiers is under the jurisdiction of the Yamen of the Economic Strategy Division, but because the recruited soldiers have to protect the normal transfer of the Yamen of the Transit Division. Therefore, it is necessary to stamp the official seal of the Yamen of the Transshipment Division. And because the merchants of the Guangzhou City Department heard the news of the riot, the merchants would panic, so the trained soldiers needed to protect the City Department and stabilize the mood of the merchants, which needed to be stamped with the official seal of the City Department.

The official seal of the Qian Division cannot be missing, and with this official seal, Zhao Xing can even reach into Guangxi...... Piles of official seals were stamped on the official documents, so that half of the entire proclamation was the official seal and half was the main text. Zhao Xing finished stamping the best official seal, looked at the red notice regretfully, smacked his lips and said, "It's a pity that the paper on the notice is too small......

Wan Qiyong ignored Zhao Xing's words, he picked up the original notice and asked his subordinates to transcribe 300 copies. After a pause, Zhao Xing added honestly: "There are so many official seals, all in my pocket, if I am not a big warlord, who is?" ”

Wan Qiyong turned around and said, "My lord, you can't talk nonsense, just know yourself." Speaking of which, an official who is similar to an adult can really find one, such as the Lord Xie Lin Xie who just wrote to you, he is not the transfer envoy of Jinghu North Road, and he is also under the jurisdiction of the army and horses of this road, except for the envoy of this road, I heard that the official title on the head of that adult is not less than that of Dong Weng. ”

Zhao Xing sighed and commented: "Two big warlords! ”

Yes, Zhao Xing and Xie Lin were the two major warlords in the south of the Song Dynasty, and that month, the imperial court, which was overwhelmed by the riots everywhere, gave Zhao Xing and Xie Lin a free hand, allowing them to train village warriors and suppress local riots, and even forced the two to be divided into pieces to be responsible for quelling the turmoil in the south. Xie Lin was assigned the territory of two lakes, two rivers and two Huai, and was responsible for clearing the peasant rebellion in this area. Zhao Xing is in charge of the coastal areas of Guangzhou, Zhejiang, and Fujian. After that, Zhao Xing began to expand the army with Xie Lin.

Xie Lin's territory has a large population, and there are many people who are idle, he recruited 30,000 soldiers in one go, Zhao Xing worked hard to recruit 5,000 people in Guangdong, and Zhao Xing, who was embarrassed and angry, simply wrote to Xie Lin, asking Xie Lin to distribute half of the army at hand to him, Xie Lin replied, asking him to transfer every soldier, with five old and weak family members, by Guangdong to give resettlement. Zhao Xing readily agreed, so Xie Lin stuffed all the 30,000 troops on hand to Zhao Xing, and took the money that Zhao Xing handed over to him to buy and sell people, and recruited another 40,000 people in Lianghu.

This move made Zhao Xing stomp his feet angrily, and he immediately sent recruiters to go deep into Fujian and Lianghuai, and simply pulled people directly from the two places.

This recruitment competition ended with Xie Lin reaching 50,000 troops first, because Xie Lin could no longer afford to raise more people, and Zhao Xing also stopped this recruitment competition after Xie Lin recruited 50,000 troops, and the two sides ended up with a 1-1 draw.

is also 50,000 people, but the quality is different, Xie Linzhao's people imitate the establishment of the Xiang Army, equipped with no more than a red shirt and black pants, a Fan Yang hat, and a tassel gun and waist knife in each hand; And Zhao Xingzhao's army continued the style of serving the demon army, with six sets of military uniforms per person, and the costumes were dazzling and demonic. As for the ordnance...... Don't mention this thing well, lest Xie Lin get dizzy.

Xie Lin's troops had only undergone simple training, and the level of food was comparable to that of the Xiang army, while Zhao Xing's 50,000 troops had survived the fittest, and even those who were eliminated to work in the arsenal would have a big meal of meat every day, and their salaries were two to three times that of the forbidden army.

Xie Lin's army had very few archers, but among the 30,000 soldiers selected by Zhao Xing, there were 6,000 crossbowmen, and those crossbows were all high-grade "famous bows" made of high-quality red sandalwood--- which were actually "fake mahogany bows" made of sour horn branches.

Xie Lin's army had no cavalry, but Zhao Xing had the luxury of forming a cavalry team of 2,000 people, and a musket team of 3,000 people.

Throughout May, Shuai Fan ran at both ends of Jinghu and Guangdong, dividing the defense area with Xie Lin, and after seeing Xie Lin's army, he turned around and quietly told Zhao Xing: "My lord, you finally cut 20,000 people, I think you did the right thing." Our army of 10,000 can cost them 50,000 men, and in my opinion, we 5,000 men can sweep away the 50,000 soldiers at his disposal. ”

"Five thousand people defeated Xie Lin's army---- you underestimated me", Zhao Xing smiled proudly, and added: "Of course, you also underestimate yourself." What kind of training methods do we have, and what training methods does Xie Lin have? Although both armies were formed by Huanqing veterans as officers, they were strong armies. However, we are different from Xie Lin, Xie Lin's military training is based on empiricism, and our military training method has been made into a theoretical and systematic scientific model. In my opinion, if we send a thousand men out, we will beat him all over the ground and find teeth. ”

Shuai Fan smiled, licked his face and asked: "My lord, it was originally a surprise attack on Dali, but now there are 30,000 more troops, it will be different, you give me another 10,000, and I will bring you more things." ”

Zhao Xingyi shook his head: "To deal with the harassment of the rogues, I need Ma Jun." The horse army can't move, the musket team can't be used on the battlefield unless it is absolutely necessary, and you can take the rest. However, what is the use of these soldiers who have only been trained for a month, at most they are just porters. ”

Shuai Fan also agreed with Zhao Xing's statement: "It's good to have porters, I went to Dali this time to be a porter, and the more porters, the better." ”

Zhao Xing and Guangxi Economic Strategy made Zhang Tian sharpen his knife Huo Huo, but then to test the thickness of the face of these two people, although the road is muddy in the rainy season, but Dali is not idle at all, they have sent six envoys so far, directly from Dali into Chengdu, and then from Chengdu to Bianliang. The envoy sent by Dali was humble and sad, so he almost said directly to the court: You quickly drive away the tiger next to us, we can't afford to provoke it, now we are willing to give in, don't bully us.

Dali's envoys are like a coquettish child with the court, and they also meet people on the streets of the capital to tell their grievances, and for a while, even the three-year-old child in the capital knows about Zhao Laohu's murderous reputation, and it also makes the court not make a statement.

At the end of May, it was estimated that Zhao Xing's impatient Privy Council twisted and issued an edict, in which the clouds and mountains and foggy seas talked about benevolence, righteousness and morality, believing that benevolence and righteousness should be used to influence the four yi, and should not use swords and soldiers...... However, what exactly is to be done, the imperial court did not make it clear.

This edict was conveyed to Liangguang, and Zhang Tian was embarrassed by the passage of Guangnan West Road, and he secretly disbanded his assembled army, but Zhao Xing's face was thicker than the city wall, and he directly announced: Guangnan East Road will send two forbidden troops under the command of the Southwest Shanyan Mansion in the near future to "protect the interests of the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty".

At this point, the prelude to the war began.

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