With the increase of the floating population, coupled with the fact that the sea ships sent the goods of the Great Song Dynasty one by one, the market became more and more lively, and the streets gradually became lively. In addition to agricultural and livestock exchanges, grocery stores, hotels, and teahouses have also opened.

When Cao Zheng vigorously purchased cattle and sheep, in Shepherd City, in Shi Jin's study, Li Jun and Zhang Heng jointly complained to Shi Jin.

"Marshal, that Cao Tiju has repeatedly complained that our navy's transportation is unfavorable, which has caused the goats to stagnate in Dalian, which has affected the follow-up plans of the Agricultural and Livestock Exchange! But there are only so many ships in our navy, and they are already being transported day and night. Even because we have to transport troops, horses, and goods, it has already affected the normal training of our navy. Marshal, Liao also has a water division. Although in terms of scale, in terms of combat effectiveness, it is far inferior to our army. However, if our navy continues to do the work of a transport brigade in this way, it will not be able to deal with the Liao State Naval Division. He also asked the marshal to set up another department to manage the transportation affairs, so that our navy could concentrate on training and preparing for war! ”

Shi Jin heard Li Jun and Zhang Heng's complaints, and reassured: "This is a lack of consideration by Ben Shuai before, you can rest assured, I will set up a city shipping department in Dalian to manage the government of maritime foreign trade, and at the same time set up a transportation company to be responsible for transporting these goods!" ”

Li Jun and Zhang Heng hurriedly bowed their hands when they heard this: "The marshal is wise!" ”

Shi Jin waved his hand to make them all sit down, and asked, "When I asked you to go to Lushun to inspect the military port before, how was the inspection?" ”

Hearing Shi Jin ask about Lushun, Li Jun stood up and said excitedly: "Marshal, that Lushun is definitely a natural military port, the best military port I have ever seen." The military port is located at the southwest end of Jinzhou, on the north shore of the Yellow Sea. The port gate opens to the southeast, with the Golden Mountain on the east side and the Tiger Tail Peninsula on the west side. The crooked dry beach of Port Arthur resembles a tiger's tail, and we call it a tiger's tail. The southwest is the old iron mountain, the estuary is formed by the confrontation between the two mountains of the golden mountain and the old iron mountain, the width is less than 100 zhang, and the channel is only 30 zhang. Only three or four large warships can be passed at a time, which is the most easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as the mountains on both sides of the waterway, set up lighthouses, build hidden batteries, fortresses, and have artillery guards. Lushun has a mouthful, and the natural shape wins, that is, there are thousands of troops and horses, and they cannot be broken. ”

Zhang Heng also shouted: "And the tiger tail divides the entire bay into east and west ports. The Donggang port is 35 zhang wide, the water depth is two zhang, and the wharf is surrounded by stone shore walls. The width of the port is 70 zhang, the waters in the port are vast, not frozen and not silted, the concealment and wind resistance in the port are good for the shallow water beach, and the existence of the tiger tail peninsula forms a large breakwater, so that the west port is like an inner lake. Even if the storm comes, the ships of Westport can be protected from the threat of the storm, which is simply the ideal harbor! ”

Shi Jin nodded when he heard it, and sure enough, Lushun was very suitable for being a military port.

"Since it is so suitable, you submit the construction report as soon as possible, and I can arrange for people to build the military port and treadmill!"

"Yes, Marshal!"

Waiting for Li Jun and Zhang Heng to go out, Shi Jin sat in the study, covering his forehead, thinking hard.

Building a new city is indeed a thousand difficulties. There is a serious shortage of manpower, and the money is like water......

Thinking about the difficulties he faced, Shi Jin thought to himself: "The population of Jinzhou is too small, so we still have to recruit people from the Great Song Dynasty." For the sake of his own plan, even if he is abducted by the pit gate, he will fool people! ”

Shi Jin found Zhu Wu and Lu Zhishen.

"Even if we know that Jinzhou has been conquered by our army, it will take at least a month or two to spread the news to Liaoyang Mansion, and then send it back to Shangjing, and then send troops. Now that Jinzhou is in ruins, it needs a lot of manpower, and I am going to go back to Shandong to recruit manpower. I will entrust you with the responsibility of this military and political affairs in Golden State. ”

"Marshal, rest assured, we will do our best to ensure that the Golden State is not lost!" Zhu Wu and Lu Zhishen shouted with their hands.

……

Standing at the bow of the ship looking at the vast sea, Shi Jin patted the side of the ship, the speed was still too slow.

Now that his main force is still in Shandong, but he is in Liaodong, so that the two places are separated, and communication and communication become extremely important.

Once you encounter an emergency, but you can't send the information to your own hands in the first time, it will be a big mistake!

Relying on the current navigation technology, it takes three days to get from Shandong to Liaodong, and it may take longer if there is a headwind.

More than three days, that's too long!

Is there any way to speed it up?

Internal combustion engine?

That's still forgotten, with the current level of technology, it is impossible to achieve it.

Steam engines?

This basic principle is well understood, but the problem of cylinder closure and how to improve thermal efficiency requires continuous trial and improvement to create a qualified and durable steam engine. If you don't have more than ten years or decades, I'm afraid you won't be able to do it.

Now I'm stepping up my attack on Liaodong, where can I wait for so long.

Is there any way to speed up the ship?

When Shi Jin was thinking hard, Lu Fang walked behind Shi Jin and shouted softly: "Marshal, the wind and waves on the opposite side are strong, let's rest in the cabin!" ”

When Shi Jin heard this, he turned his head and just wanted to enter the cabin, when he saw the sails on the ship, an inspiration flashed in his mind.

Sail! Sailing boat!

I remember that there were windsurfing competitions in later generations, and windsurfing sailing was also simply driven by the wind, but the speed was fast, and the speed could reach eight or nine knots, and the maximum speed could even reach twenty or thirty knots.

If you use windsurfing and sailing boats to travel between Dalian and Dengzhou, it should not take more than a day.

The sailboat seems to have another name called the flying scissor boat, and he provided a sketch according to the shape in his memory, and asked Meng Kang, the jade flag, to experiment and study.

With the mention of his own pattern, coupled with Meng Kang's many years of shipbuilding experience, I believe that he will soon be able to manufacture a clipper ship.

With the clippers, this exchange will be fast in the future, and it will be easy for him to cross the Pacific Ocean and conquer the Americas in the future.

Thinking of this, Shi Jin first used charcoal to draw the appearance of the windsurfing sailboat in his memory on rice paper, wrote down the characteristics and key matters of these two types of ships in detail, and handed them to Meng Kang, the jade banner pole, when he was about to go to Laizhou.

Solving a matter on his mind, Shi Jin was very happy, he strode to the cabin and shouted: "Lu Fang, take out the wine, Ben Shuai is in a good mood, I want to drink a few glasses!" ”

Seeing that the marshal was happy, Lu Fang also shouted happily: "Okay, marshal, you do a good job, I will let my subordinates copy a few more good dishes, so that they can drink!" ”

"Well, go ahead!"

After three days of sailing at sea, Shi Jin and his party finally arrived in Dengzhou.

As the navy returned again and again, sending a ship full of goats to Shandong, now Shandong Shui did not know that Shi Jin, the nine-patterned dragon, had led the Liangshan army to defeat the Liao soldiers and capture the Suzhou Mansion of the Liao State.

Hearing that Shi Jin returned to Dengzhou by boat, the people of Dengzhou were all happy, helping the old and the young, lining up the door, incense, lanterns and candles, and running out of the house to see Shi Jin and Liang Shanjun.

I saw Shi Jin in the front riding a tall charcoal red horse, wearing a golden lotus leaf helmet, wearing a chain of beast-faced chain gold armor, a lychee Qibao gold belt around his waist, and a Xichuan red brocade robe, which was majestic.

Behind Shi Jin was followed by Yu Baosi, the leader of the handsome flag, who held a handsome flag with the big characters "History of General Poliao".

After the handsome flag, the left hand is the iron rod Luan Yu, the right hand is the red-faced tiger Yuan Lang, leading 500 light cavalry, all of them are flame red flags, red armor and red robes, Zhu Ying red horses, holding spears, full of bows and arrows.

The infantry army followed the horse team, led by the two generals Xiaowenhou Lu Fang and Sai Rengui Guo Sheng, all riding war horses, holding halberds and swords hanging from their waists. The 500 tiger guards led by him were each armed with steel swords, axes, broadswords and spears.

Although the people all over the city were staring at him, the soldiers of the Liangshan Army were not affected by the outside world, and walked silently with serious expressions one by one.

Seeing the banner of the Liangshan Army and the majestic ranks.

The onlookers all praised the award and admired it.

"I finally know why these Liangshan heroes were able to defeat the Liao army and capture the cities of the Liao State. So that's at stake! ”

"You only know now! Tell you, as long as there is a nine-patterned dragon Shi Jin, there is no opponent that the Liangshan army can't win! ”

"What's even more admirable is that this Liangshan Army is not like those officers and soldiers who are like bandits. This Liangshan army passed through the place, and it was autumn and did not commit any offense to the people! ”

"But how did I hear that when the Liangshan army went to Liao, they robbed a lot of herdsmen's goats?"

Hearing someone questioning Liang Shanjun, a common man scolded: "What is it called robbing the things of the Liao Kingdom?" Those herders are not a good thing. They often respond to the Liao Dog Emperor coming to our Great Song Dynasty to grab things. If you want to talk about me, the marshal is still too kind, he should kill all those Liao people! ”

"That's it! It is! Sun Tzu's Art of War has a cloud: Therefore, the wise general will eat the enemy, eat the enemy for one hour, and be me for twenty minutes; Avoid one stone, when I have twenty stones. The marshal is eating the enemy and weakening the Liao State. ”

……

In a restaurant in Dengzhou City, everyone is looking at the Liangshan Army passing by through the doors and windows of the inn, the military appearance is extremely neat, and you can feel a kind of murderous atmosphere from a distance!

At a glance, you can see that the Liangshan Army in front of you is a well-trained and elite army of tigers and wolves.

Looking at the Tiger Wolf Master in front of him, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Although this man was dressed in the clothes of a scribe, the bulging muscles on his body exuded a heroic aura, and there was a matching sword hanging from his side, and he looked more like a martial artist than a literati.

"Nine-Pattern Dragon Shi Jin, I hope you don't disappoint me!"

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