Pang Ji watched Gao Ruone stammering when he was asked, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. He knew that since the Privy Council drove the group of officials sent by the Police Department back to the Police Department to make information on their own, the information handed over to him was becoming more and more ignorant.

However, Gao Ruone is an orthodox civil official after all, and Pang Ji can't let the emperor down with the orthodox civil official, and he can't let Li Buqi see the joke, so he hurriedly changed the topic: "Where is this Liao State Xingshan Army?" ”

The emperor was busy ordering people to get a map of Liao.

Lian Guangzhi hurriedly walked to the map, and Li Buqi also leaned over. As a result, Li Buqi first found the location of the Xingshan army, which made the emperor a little more convinced of Li Buqi's views on the Liao people. In fact, Li Buqi went to find the location of Qinhuangdao in the later generations from the beginning, because Qinhuangdao is a deep-water ice-free port. As a port, it is very important for Liao to not freeze in winter.

As a result, when everyone saw that the position of the Xingshan Army was so close to the border between the two countries, they gasped at that time. Pang Ji was also anxious to divert Zhao Zhen's attention and made the situation serious: "As long as the Liao people go south not far from the land, they can either enter the Yellow River, or copy Cangzhou behind the mud ancient village. Therefore, the minister thought that Jingdong Road was not tight, but whether the Liao people were tracing the river or transporting tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to Hebei, it would be a big disaster and must be prevented. ”

Pang Ji actually just expressed the emperor's worries, and the emperor immediately turned to Li Buqi. Li Buqi didn't wait for the emperor to ask, so he smiled and said: "It can be seen that the Liao people can dominate the world by riding and shooting." The servant shot let the Liao people drill into the narrow Yellow River, or go upstream, as long as a new fire oil bomb made by the ordnance supervisor was thrown over, it would be all wiped out. The servant must have known that the Liao people conquered Western Xia the year before last, and Xiao Hui of the South Road was advancing westward along the Yellow River, and it is said that the ships stretched for hundreds of miles. It's just that the servants shot to know that the Liao people's ships were just transporting grain and heavy loads? The Liao people gave up their horses and went to the boat, which was to cut off their arms and let others slaughter them. ”

"As for the possibility behind the plagiarism of the mud ancient village by sending the army, it is just that the Liao army copied it with the infantry army? Or is it plagiarized by Ma Jun? I am worried for the Liao people. ”

Liang Shi said: "The Liao people are good at riding and shooting, so naturally they use boats to carry horses ashore and fight with horse troops. ”

Li Buqi's smile was even worse: "Have you ever thought about transporting the horses to Hebei by boat, how to get the horses ashore?" ”

"This ......" Liang Shi really didn't think about this question, seeing Li Buqi's smiling expression, he hesitated in his heart - isn't it okay to drive the horses directly to the shore?

Li Buqi said: "From the port of Liaoguo to Cangzhou, it is 300 miles to say the least, and the horses must be transported by large ships. Without a suitable dock, large ships could not dock and horses had to be transferred to small boats before going ashore. Not to mention that such a speed of transfer would allow the Liao people to concentrate a strong enough cavalry in a day, how could the servants only transfer horses from large ships to small ships? Did the Liao people have this technology? ”

Liang Shi also started with literature, but he is known for his knowledge of laws and regulations, and his courage and strategy, but he really doesn't understand these technical issues, and he doesn't dare to talk nonsense in the face of Li Buqi, an expert, so he can only shut up.

Seeing that Liang Shi stopped talking, Li Buqi said: "In short, it is not easy to transport a cavalry to Hebei for battle. As long as the imperial court stationed a force in each of the several ports in Hebei that could dock large ships, if the Liao army sailors came to attack, they would burn the ports, and the Liao State could only use infantry to fight ashore. The strength of the Liao army depends on cavalry, and the infantry is dominated by the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty. If the Liao State really landed on Hebei or Jingdong Road, as long as there was a naval army to interfere with the unloading of the Liao army, and then mobilize a large army to resist the landing of the Liao army, it would become a half-crossing attack, and it would be difficult for the Liao army to be undefeated. ”

Seeing Li Buqi talking confidently, Zhao Zhen and Pang Ji's faces looked a little better. But Pang Ji's face was still solemn: "In this way, the imperial court will have to expand the number of sailors stationed in Jingdong Road and Hebei, and I don't know how much grain it will cost." ”

The emperor was much more direct than Pang Ji: "Don't give up, I don't know how much food this sailor needs?" Now the imperial court can't come up with this money. ”

Li Buqi made a difficult appearance at this time: "This is really difficult to do. Maintaining a sailor is not just a matter of shipbuilding, the ship needs to be maintained, and the personnel need to go to sea for training, which is more expensive than shipbuilding. ”

Hearing Li Buqi say this, the emperor was even more shocked. But I heard Li Buqi continue: "However, there are also ways to spend less money. ”

Everyone's eyes immediately widened, and Li Buqi continued: "Didn't it cost a penny to recruit pirates to attack and harass the Liao Imperial Court before? It's better to continue with this method. ”

Gao Ronne immediately objected: "No! If it weren't for the pirate attack to harass the Liao State, how could the Liao State think of attacking from the sea? has caused such a big mess, how can you still use this method? ”

The method of using pirates to contain the Liao State was originally proposed by Lian Guangzhi, and Lian Guangzhi naturally had something to say: "Gao Shumi dared to pat his chest and say, if there were no pirates to contain the Liao State, would the Liao people accept the conditions for reducing the annual coins?" Speaking of this, the lower official has something to say. Originally, the lower officials recommended Tao Lin to raise the matter, but later the Privy Council sent two people to raise the matter and threw Tao Lin aside. It would be better if these two people were competent in this matter, but these two people did not know anything about the sea, and even because they were seasick, they could not go to sea, and they could not increase the number of sea ships and troops to supervise the pirates for the Dengzhou inspection, so they could only let the maritime merchants and pirates go their own way. According to the information of the Police Department, after the peace negotiation, the imperial court stopped the piracy, but there were coastal heroes who went to the Liao State to loot without permission, and these two people could not control it, so it caused today's disaster. ”

He turned to Zhao Zhen: "Therefore, it is the Privy Council that thinks it is the Privy Council that should be responsible for this matter. ”

Even Guangzhi hit a rake, Gao Ruone really had no choice. To tell the truth, he didn't care about the Jingdong Road pirates at all after he became a privy envoy, because there were not many reports there, and he really didn't know the inside story. And even Guangzhi dared to say in front of the emperor that the two people appointed by the Privy Council couldn't even get on the boat, then it must be true, and no one dared to talk nonsense about such an easy thing to verify. Therefore, Gao Ronne was choked up again and speechless.

This made Zhao Zhen extremely disappointed in the Privy Council, and now he has begun to think in his heart whether he should really change someone who understands the real thing to be the privy envoy, otherwise let such a bunch of waste run the army, although he can't rebel, but he can't sleep.

However, he knew that now was not the time to dwell on this issue, so he immediately diverted the topic: "Don't give up, what do you say you should do?" ”

Li Buqi said: "The minister thought that he could give a sailor the number of sailors, and send a capable man to recruit pirates, fishermen and sailors to form a fleet. If you enter, you will train the army, and if you go out, you will pirate and plunder the Liao country. Among them, it is very important to constantly plunder the Liao State. Because only by constantly infesting the coast of Liao can we always grasp the movements of the Liao people. In this way, as long as a small sailor is maintained, find the right time to fight a decisive battle with the Liao. Otherwise, I don't know when the Liao people will go to sea, and I don't know where the Liao people are going, so they have to fortify everywhere, and at least two naval armies will be deployed on Hebei and Jingdong Road, and the money and food required will be doubled. Secondly, the proceeds of plunder or trade can slightly supplement the lack of money and food provided by the imperial court to the sailors. But ......"

Li Buqi hesitated for a moment when he said this, and the emperor asked, "But what?" ”

Li Buqi said: "But in this way, the ability of the leader of this water division needs to be very strong, and he may not be able to appear on the roster of the imperial court for a long time, and those who want to be promoted to become rich will never be able to, so who will operate this matter is the key to success or failure." ”

Zhao Zhen habitually asked Pang Ji and others: "Who do you think can be responsible for this?" ”

Quiet, no one answered. With the experience of the past, no one dares to recommend people at will, because no one has anyone in their pocket who is very proficient in maritime affairs.

Zhao Zhen didn't speak when he saw it, and suddenly remembered what Tao Lin had just said, so he said, "Why don't you let that Tao Lin temporarily raise this matter?" ”

Liang Shi asked Li Buqi: "I heard that this Tao Lin was originally the escort of the envoy, what does the envoy think is this person?" ”

He took the opportunity to remind Zhao Zhen of the relationship between Tao Lin and Li Buqi. But he didn't know that the emperor didn't take this sailor too seriously, because according to the knowledge of popular science given to him by Li Buqi and others in the past, no matter how powerful the sailor was, he wouldn't be able to go ashore, right?

Li Buqi replied: "Tao Lin went to Jingdong Road a few years ago to preside over the maritime trade, and he is very familiar with maritime affairs, so he thinks that Tao Lin is up to the task. ”