In July 208, Huang Zu and Xu Sheng rushed to Jiangnan Mansion by land, and heard that it was Tao Ying's second brother who came, and the Jiangnan prefect hurriedly came to greet him in person. Seeing that the Jiangnan prefect was a young man, Xu Sheng was surprised. In the past few years, he has rarely come to Xuzhou, and he has no idea about the personnel transfer of various cities in Xuzhou, and he still thinks that the prefect of Jiangnan Mansion is Chen Deng!

Xu Sheng made his intentions clear to the new prefect, so the new prefect took Xu Sheng to visit his cannon factory and introduced Xu Sheng to nearly a dozen kinds of large and small artillery. Looking at these novel artillery, Xu Sheng was even more surprised and couldn't believe it. Xu Sheng thought that the artillery was the same as seven or eight years ago, but he didn't know that it was so powerful now.

Not only Xu Sheng, but even Huang Zu couldn't believe it! The most powerful thing Huang Zu has ever seen is the Jiangdu No. 2 sold by Guangling Mansion to Sun Quan, which is the most powerful warship of the Han Dynasty that has been assembled, and it is only equipped with third-generation guns. At this time, in Taoling Town in the north, the artillery has been updated to the seventh generation of artillery, that is, Jiangnan Mansion in the south, and the artillery has also been developed to the fifth generation of artillery.

After visiting the ship-borne artillery of Jiangnan Mansion, Xu Sheng wanted Jiangnan Mansion to build a battleship for the Jiujiang Naval Division, but Huang Zu hurriedly persuaded him that it was better to go to Guangling again. So Xu Sheng resigned from the Jiangnan prefect and went to Guangling Jiangdu. When Jiangdu Taishou heard that Xu Sheng was coming, he hurriedly came with Guangling Taishou to greet Xu Sheng, and even the Guangling prefect also rushed from Suiling.

After hearing about Xu Sheng's intention, Guangling Taishou took him to visit Guangling Shipbuilding Group. In the shipyard of Guangling Shipbuilding Group, those shipwrights are working day and night to build large and small warships. Guangling Taishou introduced these warships to Xu Sheng one by one, and Xu Sheng pointed to a super battleship the size of five or six football fields in the distance and asked, "Where is this battleship customized?" ”

Guangling Taishou hurriedly introduced: "This ship is called Xiangyang, and it is a battleship customized by Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao. The one next to him is about the same size as this one, it was customized by Sun Quan, and he heard that Liu Biao bought a super battleship here, so he also bought a super battleship here! ”

Jiangdu Taishou pointed to some other small warships and introduced them to Xu Sheng, saying that these were customized by Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, these were customized by Liu Zhang in Yizhou, and some were customized by Yuan Shang in Runan. Nowadays, Guangling's military industry is booming, and Guangling's tax revenue alone is the sum of the taxes of Shangyouzhou and the three prefectures of Liaoning and Liaoning Province!

Looking at these big guys, they were very different from Jiujiang, so Xu Sheng had to sigh that he was getting more and more unable to keep up with the pace of Xuzhou's development. After Huang Zu saw these warships, he hurriedly persuaded Xu Sheng to buy the largest warship to defend Jiujiang Mansion, and when he heard that Xu Sheng was here to buy a ship, Jiang Du was too shou to cry and laugh, and thought he was here to visit!

If Xu Sheng ordered their ship, how would they dare to charge him how much manual fees? You must know that if you sell a warship to another place, the profit will be no less than 6,000 taels of silver! Looking at the battleship they had built, Xu Sheng couldn't help but nodded. Just as Xu Sheng opened his mouth to order a battleship, suddenly a designer's assistant rushed all the way to him, shouting as he ran: "Lord Taishou, Master Wei has solved the problem of the steel ship, Master Wei has solved the problem of the steel ship!" ”

The designer's assistant just ran to Jiang Du Taishou's side, and Jiang Du Taishou's face was longer than a donkey's face! Xu Sheng couldn't help but ask next to him, what does the steel ship mean? The little assistant said proudly: "Our master has designed a battleship, which is all made of steel, and with the newly developed steam engine, the speed is faster than that of ordinary wood-iron hybrid ships!" ”

Huang Zu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this: "Then if it is equipped with the artillery of Jiangnan Mansion, wouldn't even Jiangdu No. 2 have to hide far away?" ”

When Xu Sheng heard this, he clapped his hands on the spot and said, "You have to customize such an ironclad ship!" If you want to start work as soon as possible, I'm going to tell my eldest brother! After Xu Sheng left, the faces of the two were green, and sure enough, when the Guangling prefect arrived, he learned that Xu Sheng had customized an ironclad ship, and the angry Guangling prefect reprimanded the two fiercely.

Xu Sheng reported the development of the Southern Navy to Tao Ying, and Tao Ying knew that the ironclad ships under his jurisdiction had really been designed! Sure enough, the human brain is the most incredible! The two prefectures in the south were originally to make money, but they didn't want to indirectly promote the development of the navy, which surprised Tao Ying and decided to increase investment in the warships of Jiangnan Mansion and Guangling Mansion, which made the prefect of the two prefectures excited after hearing about it.

After a month of discussions, the north thought that it was going to prepare for war, so it couldn't spare the money to build an ironclad ship, so Tao Ying asked Jiujiang Prefecture to fund the construction of an ironclad ship. So after this trip to Jiangnan Mansion, Sun Shao took out three years of taxes from Jiujiang Mansion as a deposit to customize the first ironclad ship - Jiangnan! The reason why it was named Jiangnan is because the ship was built in Jiangnan Province, the hull was designed by Guangling Mansion, and then technicians from Guangling Mansion were sent to guide the construction, and the boatmen were provided by Jiangnan Mansion, and the cannons were also provided by Jiangnan Mansion.

In order to prevent the shipyards of Jiangnan Mansion and Guangling Mansion from being destroyed by Sun Quan, Tao Ying ordered that while building warships for Jiujiang Mansion, the two governments would jointly invest half of the capital, and the Xuzhou Mansion would invest half of the capital to build a super ironclad ship, the Mir, to anchor in Jiangdu Port. The Mir battleship was under the management of the Jiangdu Naval Division led by Gan Ning and was responsible for guarding the safety of the Yangtze River. Now that Jiangxia has been destroyed, the next step is afraid that Sun Quan will take action against his enclave Jiujiang Mansion, so Tao Ying ordered Jiangnan Mansion to start construction day and night, so that it must be completed within three years, and the two warships must be launched and put into service in 200 years.

When Jiangnan Mansion and Guangling Mansion accelerated the time to build warships for Jiujiang Mansion, in order to prevent Sun Quan from raiding Jiujiang Mansion and stirring up trouble, Xu Sheng was busy and asked people to build fortifications to prevent Sun Quan from raiding Jiujiang. After hearing that Huang Zu had taken refuge in Jiujiang Mansion, Sun Quan really led his troops to Xingshi to ask for guilt. This Huang Zu killed his father Sun Jian back then, so Sun Quan would attack Jiangxia every day.

Sun Shao didn't want to lead the war to the rich Jiujiang Mansion, so he discussed with Xu Sheng and asked Huang Zu to still lead his troops to Jiangxia to garrison, and then turn Jiangxia into the battlefield of their war. After Tao Ying heard this, he hurriedly ordered Xu Sheng to give Huang Zu 6,000 elite sailors, 30 small warships equipped with third-generation guns, and 20 medium-sized warships, and handed over to Huang Zu after the refit of the large ship Jiujiang was completed, so that he could be stationed in Jiangxia.

After getting the equipment and returning the military horses, Huang Zu returned to his old nest Jiangxia to garrison. Jiangxia County is located on the Yangtze River, which divides Jiangxia in two, and its northern part is adjacent to Nanyang County, another enclave in Xuzhou, and is an important military location. Sun Quan attacked Jiangxia several times, Huang Zu was repeatedly defeated, and after this time was breached, Sun Quan slaughtered Jiangxia City, so that the people of the city had no intention of surviving.

Hearing that Huang Zu had voted for Xuzhou, Sun Quan did not dare to rashly provoke an incident, so he sent someone to Xuzhou to ask for the guilt.

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