After listening to Wang Xuance's words, Li Yuanji understood why Wang Xuance couldn't sit still.

At the same time, I also understood that I was a little too careful.

Always looking at modern problems from the eyes of future generations, he always felt that the current equipment could not provide enough security protection for the soldiers, but he subconsciously ignored that the current overseas, let alone steel warships, is not even a sail warship, not even a decent warship.

Fishermen in all coastal areas also have limited fishing distances, because there are no reliable enough vessels, so they can only fish inshore.

What is inshore fishing?

To put it bluntly, the timid guy only dares to fish where he can see the land, and once the land disappears, he will immediately go back until he sees the land.

The more daring ones dare to run a little farther, but no matter how far it is, this distance must be able to be rushed back in one day.

This is also due to the fact that the current fishing technology is not particularly advanced, and the fish in the ocean have not been caught and disappeared everywhere as in later generations.

Therefore, the absence of an opponent means that as long as the Tang army can land on land, the battle can be successful.

Although this is a bit arrogant, the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army is beyond doubt, plus a large number of grenades, it is not at all something that ordinary people can resist, even if they meet the Yamato people, with the performance of their generation of grenades, they cannot bring any devastating losses to the Tang Army.

Moreover, all their grenades come from Datang, and Datang can cut off the source of their grenades at any time and let them return to the primitive era.

In the words of later generations, this war is an outright asymmetrical war.

"What about your plans?" Li Yuanji has accepted this reality, and it will take three years, from the beginning to the end, even if all are proficient, it will take three years for a battleship.

Building two ships in three years, even if the scale of the shipyard is expanded, the scale is easy, but it is difficult for talents to be improved by leaps and bounds in a short period of time.

Therefore, the most important thing at the moment is technology, one is to solve the most time-consuming and labor-intensive splicing technology, and replace the heating and forging technology that is now being used with electric welding technology, although the electric welding technology is not difficult, but it is almost an unsolvable problem now.

The other is to solve the problem of propeller water ingress, although this method of introduction and re-arrangement can be effective, but at the expense of the performance of the battleship itself.

It's okay to get a few ships out to scare the enemy, and by the way, to train yourself and accumulate skills, but large-scale equipment is obviously not suitable.

Therefore, Li Yuanji's mentality has begun to change at this time.

He did not seek to wait for the steel battleship to be equipped before acting, but changed the original plan to the two aspects of technology accumulation and talent training, as for the result, leave it to fate, this is not something he can solve.

"Your Majesty, the plan is still the previous plan, but the minister has made some detailed plans and changes." Wang Xuance was suddenly happy in his heart, which meant that the emperor had agreed to do it, and hurriedly introduced: "The minister once went to that island, and ordered someone to draw a rough map, and found that the location of that island is extremely important, if the Tang Dynasty can occupy there, it can be a large-scale garrison on it." Once the war calls for it, there is no need to transport food and equipment from the mainland to the front line, even in the short term.

Therefore, the minister's plan was to occupy it completely in one year, and it was decided according to the cultivation situation on the island, but it was basically certain that after five years, the output on the island would definitely meet all the needs of the expeditionary force, and at the same time, when he was in the tuntian, he could also send a steady stream of soldiers to the island, where he could be trained and tuntian.

In this way, in as little as three or five years, or at most seven or eight years, the forces on this island can launch an attack from the sea against Goguryeo, Baekje, or any other country in Yamato. And this has the advantage that we can avoid the bad geographical environment there as much as possible, cut in from the sea, and only need to advance a distance of dozens of miles to directly attack the Yellow Dragon.

Of course, when the time comes, it will depend on the arrangement of the imperial court, but one thing is certain, the longer the preparation, the stronger the attack power of the island, if there is ten years, the minister is expected to be able to attack three countries at the same time. ”

Wang Xuance introduced his plans and ideas in a hurry, except for the last one, which was a little unreliable, the others were all decent.

However, with the passage of time and his understanding of Wang Xuance, Li Yuanji can be sure that this is by no means the only plan in Wang Xuance's mind.

The reason is very simple, this plan is too conservative, and it can even only be said to be steady and steady, for a veteran who seeks stability, they are more suitable for this plan, and they can spend more time to minimize their losses as much as possible and expand their own results.

But Wang Xuance is not such a conservative person, of course, there are some things that Wang Xuance doesn't say, and Li Yuanji is also very clear in his heart.

The plan is indeed this plan, but in order to promote the development of the plan as soon as possible, Wang Xuance should continue to accelerate the plan.

For example, in order to complete the planned mission, the first condition is that the island produces enough food to use the army.

But grain is not something that can be planted if you want to, if someone farms there, you can just receive it, and you don't need to prepare it, but if it is wasteland, you must first mature the land, otherwise, you can't grow food.

This process takes time to accumulate, and it requires early fertilization and ploughing to turn a piece of raw land into cooked land that can be planted.

Of course, if the requirements are not high, the raw land can also be planted, but the fertility of the land is basically absent, and the time required for a piece of raw land to become mature land is not something that can be done in one or two years.

At least two years, the third year of planting, but at this time the yield is not able to meet the requirements, according to the current average level, this process takes about ten years, the reason is that the fertilizer is insufficient, straw or something, are also pulled home to feed livestock or ignited, no one will return the straw to the field as fertilizer.

However, there is an exception, Zhenzhou.

It is a combination of pasture and arable land, and there is enough fertilizer in each area, so the land is cultivated relatively quickly.

No one knows the situation on the island, so Wang Xuance has prepared a lot of measures in advance, such as bringing fishermen over to meet the daily needs of the soldiers through fishing, and it is certain that in this way, an army of 10,000 people can save about 15,000 stone of grain a year.

And 15,000 stone is the normal need of 10,000 troops for half a year, if it is wartime, these grains are enough for them to use for four to five months, if you save a little, it is not a problem to hold on for a year, but the problem is that the combat effectiveness of the troops will be sharply reduced.

And this is only saved, not planted.

If the situation is more ideal, five years is enough to achieve the effect of the planned ten years.

"The reason why I am willing to wait is because I don't want to see too many Tang Dynasty men die in battle, you ...... Do you understand? Li Yuanji had already agreed to Wang Xuance's plan, in fact, it was the plan he had drawn up himself, but it was only implemented and changed by Wang Xuance himself.

The naval division and the Marine Corps have been established for more than three years, and they have long since known how many times they have been trained for landing operations, and there are many ways to land.

For example, the fire blockade of battleships, the troop carrier directly docked at the dock, and then violently seized the dock, this landing method is the fastest and safest.

Because the old cannons equipped with battleships are invincible in this era, even if its range is not long, even if it uses solid shells.

The other plan is the common beach-rushing landing in later generations, and the soldiers have been familiar with both plans countless times in three years, and basically there will be no problems.

But Li Yuanji still said his bottom line, Li Yuanji didn't want to let countless soldiers spill their blood on the battlefield for that bit of fame.

Perhaps this is the confidence of the rich and wealthy, and it is better to wait and wait than to solve it in other ways than to pile up victory with human lives.

Although this idea is not mature for the emperor, Li Yuanji is still unwilling to change, he does not want to go against his original intention.

"The minister can understand His Majesty's hardships, and he can understand His Majesty's importance to the soldiers, and the minister is willing to make a military order to His Majesty, and will never let the soldiers go to a senseless adventure, if something can't be done, the minister would rather retire temporarily, and will never choose to be reckless, if there is a mistake, the minister is willing to apologize!" How could Wang Xuance not understand what Li Yuanji meant?

The sacrificial palace opposite the palace is still under construction, which has never been seen in a thousand years, and no emperor has ever remembered it.

Everyone felt that the lives of the soldiers did not seem to be their lives, even if they showed a posture of loving soldiers, but no one made these actions in the current dynasty.

The sacrificial palace is only one of them, more, more willing to be accepted by the people, is a series of benefits and treatment of the imperial court for soldiers, coupled with reasonable planning, clear division of responsibilities, there is no phenomenon that the civil force is stronger than the military, so from this aspect, it has put an end to the situation similar to the Song Dynasty that the country is strong and the army is weak.

Wang Xuance knows Li Yuanji's bottom line, and everyone knows Li Yuanji's bottom line in this regard, which is Li Yuanji's most successful place.

An emperor who is unwilling to take the lives of his soldiers as a child's play can truly win the love of all the people and the support of the soldiers.

Wang Xuance is also changing, thinking, and giving up some tactics that seem to be practical, but need to be piled up with human lives.

"Outside, the king's order is not affected, in terms of details, I will not interfere, in addition, I will give you another thousand forbidden troops, go and prepare, after the first day of the next year, the army will go on the expedition!"