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On the school grounds of the Martial Arts Academy, 100 students were divided into two cities, in two phalanxes, wearing armor and holding swords, and were practicing the battle formation. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The armor is not iron armor, but the unique wooden armor of the Yanwu Academy, the structure is soft and hard, and the body is protected, the design is inspired by Li Congjing's handwriting, and the blade is not iron, but a wooden stick and long knife. Rao is like this, in the end, half of the students of the Martial Arts Academy are from the army, and they are very powerful, so the scene is still shocking.

Li Congjing watched from the sidelines for a moment, and said to Du Qianshu beside him: "The Yanwu Academy already has a naval division, and now we want to add a maritime branch to teach students the knowledge of ships, navigation, naval warfare, and landing warfare, so as to prepare for the expedition of our Tang fleet to the four seas." Sir, I brought some from Yangzhou, and I also ordered Qian Mu to be requisitioned from Mingzhou, except for the old men in the shipyard, that is, the merchants and shipwrights who have been to the sea all the year round, they are all knowledgeable in the construction, use, and navigation of sea ships, you gather people and edit the teaching materials as soon as possible. ”

Li Congjing had already told Du Qianshu about the formation of an expeditionary fleet for the Tang Dynasty, but Du Qianshu was not surprised, but said: "People in the people only know about literature and affairs, and it specifically involves going to sea to fight, I'm afraid there is nothing to teach these students." ”

The word naval battle is too unfamiliar to Du Qianshu.

Li Congjing had already thought about this, "When long-distance artillery fire has not yet appeared, naval warfare is not complicated, it is similar to naval division operations, and the conquest of overseas countries, whether it is an island or land, is the important link of landing operations." In addition to learning from the sailors, it is up to the Maritime Branch and the fleet to explore on their own. ”

Thinking of this, he showed a meaningful gaze, "The southeast Liuqiu Island is the best training ground. ”

Du Qianshu was stunned, "When is Your Highness going to order the fleet to go to sea?" ”

Li Congjing has a rough plan for this, but the specific situation depends on the progress of all things, "If Jinling can be fixed within two years, then Wuyue and Fujian will be almost equal, and within three or five years, my Datang fleet will land in Liuqiu." ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Du Qianshu, "I have passed down the decree to ask Ma Huaiyuan to transfer 300 elite soldiers from the Jiangling Naval Division, and they will arrive in Luoyang within the year, and the other students are mainly selected from the Jianghuai Army who are proficient in water, and the first batch of students of the Maritime Branch will have to teach by next spring at the latest." Within two years, the first batch of students were to graduate and go to Yangzhou to form their first fleet, and then look for a suitable harbor on the southeast coast to establish a naval base. During this period, the first battle is to beg! ”

Liuqiu is the island of Taiwan.

After talking to Du Qianshu about the Maritime Branch, Li Congjing came to the Armaments Research and Development Department.

Today he is going to inspect the real objects of the return artillery, land mines, and grenades.

The structure of the return cannon is actually still a catapult, in history, the battle of Xiangfan in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, this thing has shown its might, there is a record of "machine hair, sound shock heaven and earth, all the blows are destroyed, seven feet into the ground", at that time, according to the Song general Lu Wenhuan who guarded Xiangfan for five or six years, he was afraid and fell.

It is sad to say, Yuan can destroy the Song Dynasty, this cannon has made great contributions, "The so-called guns in ancient times are all machine-fired stones." At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the Western Regions artillery ...... Start with fire. "The one who made the Huihui cannon turned out to be the Hui people, and the one who used the cannon to determine the country was not the Han people in the Central Plains.

"According to His Highness's wishes, we will 'use gunpowder as the core, wrap it in gravel, and seal it tightly' to make a round 'cannonball' weighing two or three hundred catties, and then use a modified catapult to eject it, and ignite the fuse in battle, so that the 'cannonball' will hit the ground and explode, which is enough to destroy the building and break the wall." Xu Banxian and Liu veteran Li Congjing led a return cannon to the front, and several family treasures introduced Li Congjing.

Since Li Congjing has improved the gunpowder, he will naturally not destroy the heavens, and the lethality of the cannonball lies in the word "explosion". After the crushed stone, broken iron, and broken copper wrapped in the explosives are blown up, they fly at extreme speed in a very short time, but they are much more powerful than arrows.

In addition, the "cannonballs" that can be fired by the return cannon can reach two or three hundred catties, and the power can be imagined.

The same is true for land mines, hand-grenades - of course, they all need to be lit with a fuse.

In any case, this places great demands on the quality of the explosives. If the explosives are not powerful enough, they will not have the effect of "exploding".

Li Congjing followed Xu Banxian and Liu Lao to the open and remote areas to experiment with the power of the land and the power of the hand-grenade, for Li Congjing, who is used to seeing the big scenes in later films and televisions, the power of these two things does not give him much shock, but just looking at the dull gaze of other people like seeing the gods, he knows what effect these two things will have when they are sent to the battlefield.

Finally, the return cannon was returned, and the place of the experiment was in the wilderness outside the city. Xu Banxian and Liu Lao asked people to build several earthen buildings and small city walls in the wilderness in advance, and it took a lot of effort to adjust the firing range of the return cannon in the battle, and finally when the return cannon was powerful, thunder fell from the sky, the earth building collapsed, smoke and dust rose everywhere, and the small city wall cracked.

Li Congjing was quite satisfied, and praised Xu Banxian and Liu Laohaosheng, which made the two "science madmen" happy to keep their mouths together.

On the way back to the city, Li Congjing said to Du Qianshu: "Since the cannonballs can be manufactured, there is no need to wrap them in gravel in the future. ”

Du Qianshu naturally understood, but he was still surprised, "In this way, there is a great demand for copper and iron, where can the imperial court ask for so much copper and iron?" ”

Li Congjing has already planned, "Previously, Wei Ziming had discovered many iron ore deposits in Xiangzhou, Zhaozhou, Xingzhou, Shizhou and Wutai Mountain, and the iron ore in these places was already preparing for mining, and it is expected that the ore will come out after the year. ”

"Prince Takami!" Du Qianshu saw that Li Congjing had already taken precautions, and he had to admire.

Du Qianshu had no opinion, but Li Congjing muttered on horseback, "However, although artillery and other things have been developed and put into production to the front line of continuous supply, it will take some time. ”

Today's Huihui Cannon is no longer the Huihui Cannon in history, and because he is from the hands of the Yanwu Academy, he has nothing to do with the Huihui people, so naturally there is no need to call the Huihui Cannon again. Li Congjing didn't think much about it, so he called it artillery, or took the name of "His Royal Highness the Invincible Prince of the World"?

Li Congjing decided to hand over the task of manufacturing artillery and grenades to Zhang Ziyun, and asked him to find a sparsely populated place in the suburbs of Luoyang, build a courtyard, and manufacture them secretly.

After all, the former has been walking on the canal for more than a month, and has a practical understanding of the local transportation affairs, and now Su Yuqi is about to travel eastward, and he naturally has a lot of places to advise.

"When the palace returned to the north, there were many officials left along the canal, inspecting the situation of the canal in various places, and now since the matter of Cao Yun has been handed over to you, when you go to Shandong and Jianghuai, these officials will be temporarily controlled by you, and when the errand at hand is completed and handed over, let them return to Luoyang on their own." When it was over, Li Congjing said to Su Yuqi.

To rectify Caoyun, it is necessary to clear the place, Su Yuqi has been an official in the Criminal Department for several years, and he is also a figure who regards the law of the Tang Dynasty as a god, so he asked him to go to Shandong to sort out the affairs of Caoyun, Li Congjing believes that he can make Caoyun "clean".

After Su Yuqi left, Li Congjing saw Zhang Ziyun again, and the two of them summed up the construction of the courtyard, and then Li Congjing issued a decree of the prince, appointing Zhang Ziyun as the supervisor of the Luobei Academy, and the general leader of the construction of the Luobei Academy.

- As for whether this Luobei Courtyard is different from the ordinary Academy, and what is the difference, it is not something that others can know.

It takes time to dredge the transportation and make artillery, and during this period, Li Congjing is impossible not to toss except for his daily affairs.

This time, what he tossed out was called "Xing Province".

Li Siyuan looked at Li Congjing, "What is the province?" ”

Li Congjing said: "The so-called province is similar to the state of the Han Dynasty and the Tao of the former time. ”

He said: "Over the years, Wang Shi has won Jiangling and Pingliangchuan, and now he has captured Jianghuai, the land controlled by the imperial court is getting larger and larger, and there are more and more states and counties that need to be governed. If there are many states that are not easy to govern, then provinces should be added above the states to unify the states. ”

As soon as Li Congjing said this, Li Siyuan understood what he meant.

Han Cheng Qin system, Tang followed Sui regulations, since the Sui Dynasty opened the early years of the abolition of counties and prefectures, the local has been implemented is the state and county two-level system, the world began to have more than 300 states, nearly 1,000 counties. Sui Zuo was short-lived, the problem of the two-level system of states and counties was not obvious, to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the disadvantages were becoming more and more obvious, Zhenguan fifteen years, then divided the world into ten ways, and sent envoys to patrol the states and counties of the world.

In the twenty-first year of Kaiyuan, Xuanzong Xu Zhang Jiuling's performance set up fifteen interview envoys. Subsequently, the interview gradually developed into a local chief executive. After the interview envoys, the observation envoys and the defense envoys appeared one after another, and the affairs under their command all covered several states, until the Jiedu envoy was in the world, and then there were forty or fifty feudal towns.

"What is the province or the other name of the feudal town?" Li Siyuan asked with concern.

Now that the feudal towns have finally been leveled, the local festival has basically existed in name only, except for the border passes and the four towns that fought in Shouchun, and at this time Li Siyuan naturally did not want to "repeat the mistakes of the past".

- The feudal towns exist in name only, and it is time to establish the provincial system.

Of course, the province is not another name for the feudal town, and Li Congjing replied: "The province only deals with civil affairs, not military affairs. ”

Prime Minister Li Qi pondered: "In the second year of Jingyun, the imperial court had a resolution to set up twenty-four governors in the world, 'all the states in the world are subordinated to the governors, and the authority to kill and kill, and the department of punishment and punishment', but in the end it was not implemented, and the reason is that the weight is difficult to control. The imperial court governs the world, needs strong and weak branches, if the governor's office is divided into the world, the authority is too heavy, and there is a suspicion that the tail is too big, I am afraid that it is too upside down. ”

Li Congjing said: "The province is not the governor's mansion. The difference is obvious: the governorate has all the power of the locality, while the province has only the power of civil administration. There are only three kinds of local authority: political affairs, military affairs, finance, provincial affairs, and the establishment of military affairs and finance ministers. In addition, since the Minister of Civil Affairs, the Minister of War, and the Minister of Finance and Welfare were not subordinate to each other, the local authority was effectively restored to the imperial court. ”

Hearing this, everyone fell into deep thought.

Li Qi was the first to react, showing joy, "If that's the case, it's really good." ”

Li Congjing said with a smile: "In addition, a branch of the criminal department can be set up in the province to take charge of all matters of criminal law, and at the same time, a branch of the Yushitai can be set up to supervise the locality. ”

Li Congjing's proposal is not only to draw on the system of a later dynasty, but also to mix the experience of later generations, and it is not just a copy of the system of later generations, which has been selected and improved, and is also suitable for the current situation.

"All in all, in the future, the imperial court divides hundreds of states into dozens of provinces, which can avoid the complicated inconvenience of directly ruling hundreds of states, and is also conducive to the development of local affairs. Li Congjing said in the end.

After discussing this matter for a few days, the prime ministers all felt that it was feasible, and then there was the question of how many provinces the world should be divided into, and how to divide the territory of each province.

In this regard, Li Congjing gave a rough range based on his personal experience, and asked the ministers to agree according to the actual situation.

It was not until the end of the year that the approximate jurisdiction of each province was determined, and then the imperial court sent officials to investigate the site and finally decide on the number and territory of the provinces, which was a matter of the year later. Of course, that's all for later.

Matching with the system of decentralization of local provinces is the adjustment of the power department of the imperial court, and it is also the adjustment of the monarch's power.