"Husband, did you agree to Si Yan's request?"

"It's just a few hundred ships that the imperial court can't use. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "Li Zhi said indifferently: "Since the destruction of Goguryeo, there has been no major war in the east and south, and it is also a waste to build thousands of sea ships a few years ago to stop in various water villages. Let's see what he can do with his focus on overseas. ”

In this era, the importance of the navy was not well known to the world, when the Tang army attacked Goguryeo, most of the Tang army's naval divisions only undertook transportation tasks, and only Liu Renliang commanded the Tang naval army at the mouth of the Baijiang River to defeat the Japanese army.

Empress Wu lightly covered her red lips and chuckled: "The husband so happily agreed to Si Yan's request, it is estimated that Si Yang has to be very happy, he has been talking about these sea ships of the imperial court before. With this batch of ships, the shipping capacity of Jiaolong under the command of Si Yang will be increased by more than three parts. ”

It's just that the opposition of the DPRK and China to Siyang's recruitment of the people of the Central Plains to overseas reclamation has become more and more intense recently. Husband, should there be some restrictions on Siyang's immigration movements? ”

Li Zhi thought for a while and shook his head and said: "Not for the time being, since the first year of the General Chapter, locust droughts and frost disasters have frequently broken out in Guanzhong, resulting in a series of grain failures in Guanzhong, and the hungry people are everywhere, which has caused several waves of displaced people, and the disaster has not been alleviated this year. Wars in the northwest were also frequent, and most of the grain stored in the Changping Harvest Year in Guanzhong, Henan, and other places was previously transferred to the military, resulting in no surplus grain in the warehouses to revive the victims. To the east of the canal, Hebei Cangsu relief Guanzhong Baiya Cang has not yet been built. Siyang's recruitment of disaster victims to overseas reclamation undoubtedly played a major role in alleviating the disaster situation in Guanzhong and settling the victims who had no food and clothing. At this time, Nuo's immigration policy of restricting Si Yang will put relief and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of disaster victims on the imperial court, which is not ready for relief, which is not good for the country. ”

Wu Hou thought that what Fujun said was also right, since Si Yang set up the Anton Pioneer Group to recruit disaster victims on a large scale in the affected prefectures and counties in Guanzhong, in previous years, there were many fewer reports of serious disasters and local unrestfulness caused by the displacement of ordinary people.

According to local rumors, most of the victims from all over the country gathered at the Wei River and Yellow River ferries, and in addition to being able to eat the relief porridge of the Andong Pioneer Group, they were waiting for the migrant fleet to dock and go to the overseas rich places advertised in the Royal Weekly.

Thinking of the Royal Weekly jointly run by Si Yang and his sons Da Yang and Er Yang, he almost became the mouthpiece of Si Yan. In addition, since the establishment of the Royal Weekly, the newspaper fever has risen in the two capitals, and it has gradually swept the world. In addition to being profitable, the newspapers they run are all using this to propagate their ideas and theories and influence more people in the world.

Empress Wu's expression flickered, and she suddenly found that she stayed in the deep palace every day to deal with government affairs, and she had no cronies in the court except for Xu Jingzong, who was about to enter the earth, and she had no voice of her own outside the court.

No, this state of affairs must not continue. Outside the court, these old guys were not lonely, and they joined forces to set up a newspaper to publish their own newspapers and influence public opinion.

Not only must there be my voice in the court, but also outside the court, and in the world, there must be my mouthpiece.

Li Yu continuously used the Royal Weekly, the largest newspaper in the Tang Dynasty, to publish articles that were beneficial to himself and attracted people to go overseas, which gave Empress Wu a major inspiration that he must establish a newspaper that spoke for himself.

Three days later, a North Gate News Agency was opened in Sishunfang on the west side of Luoyang South City, and then a branch of the North Gate News Agency was opened in Pingkangfang on the west side of Chang'an East City.

As soon as those who knew something about the imperial court heard the name, they knew that this newspaper had a lot of origins, and it was even more shocking than the royal weekly run by the crown prince and several princes in the court.

The first newspaper issued by the Beimen News Agency really attracted the attention of everyone inside and outside the court, and it published a fu written by the pen name 'Wen Niang', entitled "Ancient and Modern Talented Women", which described the talented women of the Han Dynasty Zhuo Wenjun, Cai Wenji, Ban Zhao, and the talented women of the Wei and Jin dynasties, Su Hui, Mrs. Wei, Zuo Di, Xie Daoyun, Bao Linghui, Liu Lingxian, and Han Lanying.

All of a sudden, because of "Ancient and Modern Talented Women", the first issue of the newspaper of the Beimen News Agency was actually circulated by the scribes of the two capitals, and it spread all over the north and south of the river in January.

Some people even rashly broke into the Beimen News Office to look for Wen Niang, but they didn't ask a word, and they were bombarded out. However, the ministers of the DPRK and China privately speculated that Wen Niang was actually the current queen, and the prime ministers Dai Zhide, Zhang Wenguan, and Hao Chujun undoubtedly frowned at the meaning expressed in "Ancient and Modern Talented Women".

The above point of view that there must be outstanding women in this generation based on the talented women of ancient times, implying that women are not worse than men, made several prime ministers feel uneasy, and it is not clear why.

The North Gate News Agency publishes one issue every four days, or two issues every ten days, which is much faster than the seven days of the Royal Weekly. In terms of content, it imitated the Royal Weekly, in order to publish facts and social intersections, and the poems and articles written quickly became famous among the people, and the circulation of just over a month beat all the newspapers and periodicals in Beijing except for the Royal Weekly, becoming the second in the Tang Dynasty newspaper industry, and having the potential to seize the position of the boss of the Royal Weekly.

In each issue, the newspaper published by the North Gate News Agency will carry an article by Wen Niang with rich meanings, plus a poem that is praised by everyone.

Wen Niang's name became a household name, but people of insight in the court became more and more uneasy.

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Li Zhi gave Li Yu 800 large and small sea ships at one time, of which 300 were warships, 150 were building ships that could carry more than 600 people, and the rest were warships, fighting ships, boats, yachts, and sea falcons.

Having received such a large sea fleet from various water villages in the southeast, Li Yu smiled almost from ear to ear.

Every time someone is sent to a water village to receive a boat, he will send someone ashore to search for and recruit sailors who were recruited for the imperial court that year and later revoked because there was no war.

A total of more than 5,000 former sailors were recruited, plus the personnel previously recruited from Huainan, Jiangnan, and Lingnan, barely equipped with all kinds of personnel needed for 800 ships.

With 300 warships in his hands and 5,000 soldiers who had experience in battle formations at sea, Li Yu's confidence at sea was undoubtedly more sufficient.

The Liaodong shipyard was ordered to slightly modify 800 ships so that they could borrow more wind power and be suitable for open sea navigation.

After the completion of the ship transformation, Li Yu separated the 300 warships and their personnel from Jiaolong Naval Navigation and organized them into the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea. Since there was no strong external enemy, the East China Sea and the South China Sea did not need a strong naval combat capability, and they were each equipped with 50 warships to assist the army to colonize in the south.