According to the intelligence of the police department, the Liao Emperor planned to set up a naval division to capture pirates because of pirate attacks on the coast, which caused a large reduction in the production of sea salt from Runzhou in the south to Jinzhou in the north, and affected the tax revenue of the Liao State. Moreover, some people in the Liao State offered a plan to use the water division to go straight down to Shandong from the Bohai Sea to force the Great Song Dynasty to increase the New Year's coin. Now that the Liao state seems to have put this idea into action, the Liao emperor ordered the recruitment of seafaring talents, and sent an envoy to Goryeo, asking Goryeo to contribute shipbuilders, and also asked that the Song maritime merchants who remained in the capital of Goryeo be sent to Liao to teach navigation.

The undisciplined master who had instigated the invasion of the Great Song Dynasty in the Liao State was suddenly changed his words before the war and said that the best time had been missed, so after the war, not only was he not condemned by the Liao Emperor, but he was more valued by the nobles of the Liao State, and now he lives a more nourishing life. In the spring, he sent a message to Li Buqi that the Liao Emperor had the intention of building a water division and asked him if it was feasible.

This kind of thing is not quit this kind of flower monk doesn't understand, so while delaying, he hurriedly passed on the news and asked Li Buqi to find a way for him. Li Buqi didn't think too much about this, because he hadn't heard that the people on horseback could play with the transfer of boats - later the Mongols were able to cross the Yangtze River because the Mongols occupied North China and controlled many Han Chinese - let alone the navy. Yelu Zongzhen has also been an emperor for more than 20 years, and Li Buqi thinks that he, as an adult, should understand that it is not realistic for the Liao State to engage in a navy.

Therefore, in order to strengthen the lofty image of the "master who does not quit" and is loyal to the monarch and patriotic, Li Buqi told Yelu Zong that the real Liao State has no technology to build sea ships at all, let alone a talent reserve for the navy. In this way, if Yelu Zong is really just a whim, he will dispel his thoughts, and he will think that it is very reliable if he does not quit. In case Yelu Zong really has a brain convulsion and wants to engage in the navy, then he also knows how to start.

To tell the truth, Li Buqi really hopes that Liao can develop its navy on a large scale. You must know that from ancient times to the present, the navy has been very expensive, and it can lose the entire war in one day. Imagine if Liao and other Liao countries spent great efforts to build hundreds of ships carrying tens of thousands of people to the sea, but all of them were sent to the bottom of the sea, how huge the blow would be to Liao. The Great Song Dynasty now has so many ships and sailors, and a little organization is a sailor who can completely crush the Liao army. It's just that I didn't expect Yelu Zongzhen to really want to play a big vote this time, and Li Buqi couldn't help but sigh that his luck was too good.

Just now, when Li Zhang reported to the emperor that the Liao people intended to build a large sailor, the emperor was scared. The Great Song Dynasty deployed hundreds of thousands of troops in Hebei and Hedong to withstand the pressure of the Liao State, which had already put a heavy financial burden on the imperial court. If there is a possibility that the Liao State will attack by sea, then Jingdong Road will also deploy a large army to resist, and I don't know where to get money. What's more, this emperor has no confidence in blocking the Liao army at all, and now he regrets his strategy of using pirates to contain the Liao State.

Pang Ji and the others were called back, and they also had a big headache after hearing about it. Although Pang Ji was not as worried about the Liao State landing in Shandong as the emperor, but the Liao State had a sailor in the Bohai Sea, so the Great Song Dynasty would also arrange a sailor in the Bohai Sea, where would I get the money?

These people were gloomy, so they called Li Buqi, who was said to be the most familiar with maritime affairs, back, hoping that Li Buqi could come up with an eye-catching idea, so they looked at Li Buqi's expression when even Guangzhi explained the information to Li Buqi. They found that the corners of Li Buqi's mouth were almost grinning, it seemed that if it weren't for the Chongzheng Palace, this guy would be laughing, what was going on?

Zhao Zhen thought that he knew Li Buqi, and when he saw Li Buqi's happy appearance, he asked: "If you don't give up, how should this matter be handled?" ”

Li Buqi said: "The minister can't believe that this is true. If the Liao State really wants to rely on the sailors to invade the Great Song Dynasty, then it is impossible to ask for it. ”

Zhao Zhen hurriedly asked, "Why is this?" ”

Li Buqi said: "As the saying goes, the mountains are not the water, and there are dangers everywhere when taking the waterway, especially at sea. Not being familiar with the sea routes at sea, failing to cope with a situation, or even a mistake in the cooperation of a group of sailors can cost a boatload of people's lives. Therefore, the sailor is a technical job, and this skill comes from experience, which is piled up with human life. It just so happened that the Liao State basically did not have these technologies, and the Great Song Dynasty happened to be the strongest in navigation. If the two armies meet at sea, as long as our army does not make low-level mistakes, victory will belong to the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to build a fleet that can go to sea. If the fleet built by the Liao State with huge strength is wiped out, I am afraid that it will be the beginning of the decline of the Liao State's national strength. Now the minister is hoping that the Liao people are really dizzy and build a huge fleet to compete with the Great Song Dynasty at sea. In that case, the recovery of Yanyun is just around the corner. ”

Speaking of this, on the one hand, Li Buqi wanted to show that he did not know the situation in Liao, and on the other hand, he was afraid that the emperor would think that the police department was hiding secrets from the Privy Council and give Lian Guangzhi a chance to explain, so he said: "What the minister is worried about now is that this information is not true. ”

Even Guangzhi was very cooperative with Li Buqi's acting, and immediately picked up Li Buqi's words and said: "This news was obtained from the Jingdong Road pirates. When we learned the news, we were also surprised, and we were also afraid that it would not be true, so we notified the Privy Council and asked for verification in many ways. Now, through some past intelligence and clues, it can be basically confirmed that this matter is true. ”

"Judging from the past actions of the Liao monarchs and ministers, in the past few decades, the Liao people thought that their military strength was strong, the world was invincible, and the soldiers were invincible. However, this time the Liao army attacked, but the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State found that our Great Song Dynasty was solid, and there was no chance for it, and the self-confidence in the past was illusory, and it was inevitable to feel lost. Therefore, the Liao people were eager to find this original kind of self-confidence from somewhere, so they wanted to invade our Great Song Dynasty by sea and force the imperial court to make concessions to the Liao State. ”

"Moreover, the Empress Dowager Liao wanted to establish Chongyuan, the younger brother of the current Liao Emperor Yelu Zongzhen, but Chongyuan was close to his brother, and Yin sued Zong Zhen about this matter, and resigned from the throne, so Zong Zhen was able to ascend the throne. Zong Zhen felt the friendship of Chongyuan, named Chongyuan as the emperor's younger brother, and promised to pass on to Chongyuan after death when he was drunk, and Chongyuan also held the high power of the soldiers and horses in Nanjing of Liao State for a long time. Yelu Hongji, the eldest son of Ran Zongzhen, was named King of Liang at the age of 6, and at the age of 11, he was the general leader of Zhongcheng and the king of Yan, and at the age of 12, he was always aware of the Privy Council of the North and South, and he was given the order of the Book of Books, and he was named the King of Yan Zhao, and at the age of 19, he led the Privy Council of the North and the South. Zongzhen's inheritance of Hongji's heart is well known to passers-by. However, in recent years, the Liao Emperor has invaded Western Xia twice, both of which were invincible, and he raised troops in Hebei, but he also returned with a big defeat, and his prestige was seriously hit. The minister thought that in order to regain his prestige, the Liao Emperor smoothly passed on to his son, and tried to use the sailor to regain the advantage of my Great Song Dynasty, or even just to force my Great Song to make concessions, it was also possible. ”

"Moreover, the Liao people have a habit of attacking and pirates harassing the coastal areas of the Liao country, and the Liao people can only watch but are helpless, and the Liao people must be extremely angry. Therefore, although the Liao people were not good at water warfare, they still built some ships to cruise at sea and fight pirates. Most of the pirates were small boats, and they were for money, and they took refuge when they saw Liao warships. The minister guessed that this made the Liao people mistakenly think that they were also capable of water warfare, so they had the idea of building a water master. Now the pirates found that the Liao people had set up a shipbuilding yard in the Xingshan Army in Zhongjing Province; The maritime merchants who reported to Goryeo that the Liao people really asked Goryeo for craftsmen and seafaring talents, which shows that they are really preparing to build warships. ”

Li Buqi had been thinking about Lian Guangzhi when he was analyzing, and when Lian Guangzhi finished speaking, he immediately said: "Well, it also needs to be reasonable." It's just that the Police Department has handed over all the things done to Liao Xi to the Privy Council Zhifang Division, and whether this matter is accurate or not still needs to be confirmed by the intelligence of the Zhifang Division. ”

As soon as he said this, Zhao Zhen really turned his gaze to Gao Ruone: "Gao Qing, does the Zhifang Division have this kind of information?" ”

Gao Ruone hurriedly said: "The Zhifang Division is also aware of this matter, but it is said that the Liao people have the intention of building a water division, or the Liao people are not used to water warfare and dare not go to sea, so they don't have any opinion." The minister thought that he couldn't do it, so he didn't dare to mess with His Majesty's audio-visual. ”

Li Buqi asked: "I don't know if the Liao people are shipbuilding in Zhongjing Province and asking for shipbuilders from Goryeo, can the Zhifang Division have any news?" ”

Gao Ruone's face was as black as the bottom of a pot: "This, there is no news." ”

Li Buqi asked, "I wonder how much time it will take for the Naokata Division to get the exact news?" ”

"This ......" Gao Ruone didn't dare to pack tickets casually, except for being a magistrate and a transfer envoy, he has always been a counselor, and he is good at literature, so he has basically never done any practical things, where does he know how to engage in intelligence. He had to take the opportunity of groaning and waiting for Wang Yaochen, the deputy privy envoy, to relieve him of the siege.

But Wang Yaochen didn't dare to speak casually. Because Wang Yaochen served as a pacification envoy in Shaanxi during the Song-Xia War, and later also served as the third envoy of Quan, he was more knowledgeable than Gao Ruone, and it was precisely because of this that he knew that the uncles of the Zhifang Division said that the set of the police department was inconvenient, or according to the previous set, and all the detailed works handed over by the police department had lost contact, and now some information is also based on the hearsay of businessmen who trade on the border, and there is nowhere to get information like this that needs to be obtained from the high-level of the Liao State. Therefore, he could only keep his head down and not speak.

There was an awkward silence in the hall for a while, and Zhao Zhen looked at Gao Ruone with a little more disappointment in his eyes.