Sima Yi was "dispatched" by Li Sheng to the south to develop a naval army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIt was after the arrival of Sima Yi's wife, Zhang Chunhua, and Sima Shi in May of the fifteenth year of Jian'an. Before this, Li Sheng used the same set he used to deal with Zhao Yun to deal with Sima Yi, he made Sima Yi one of his attendants, as long as he had a long talk with Sima Yi, trying to influence Sima Yi from the aspects of feelings, ideals, and coupling views on the general trend of the world, so that he thought that he valued him.

Due to the frequent interviews, the two spent more time together, and even Sun Ren, the wife Li Sheng's wife who had just married, had a lot of opinions about this: "My husband is better to Mr. Zhongda than me!" I may not be able to see my husband's face every day, but Mr. Zhongda can. Sun Ren boldly complained to Li Sheng. This is not once or twice, sometimes Li Sheng heard from his eldest wife Zhong'er that Sun Ren had tried to verify with her: "Is the husband as good as Longyang?" He got along too closely with Mr. Chung Tat. ”

"Holy!" Li Sheng is not good at saying dirty, but for Sun Ren's ignorance and fearlessness, he can't help but scold in his heart. had no choice but to behave more courageously in a certain aspect, to gamble and plug Sun Ren's cranky heart: "What about returning Longyang?" God knows where this little girl got this term from! Li Sheng could only be helpless about this, he gave the day to Sima Yi and Kong Ming, so he had to give the night to his wives and concubines. As a result of almost no rest for twelve hours a day, it was after more than a month that Li Sheng was very sad to find that his original very standard body shape was slightly developing in the direction of malnutrition, and all the dark circles on the faces of the two national treasures were obviously hanging on Li Sheng's face.

"It's really not human." Li Sheng couldn't stand it, and he couldn't help but secretly swear in his heart, "I will never learn from Liu Bei in the future." It's really hard work. ”

Just when Li Sheng couldn't bear it, the arrival of Sima Yi's wife and children finally made Li Sheng breathe a sigh of relief. He knew what the arrival of Zhang Chunhua and Sima Shi had shown, and he already had some understanding of Sima Yiyu's loyalty to him. He felt that he could let Sima Yi go out to do things, so he let him take the official position of military lieutenant general and the chief secretary of Jiaozhou, and let him go to Jiaozhou to help Gan Ning implement his maritime strategy.

Of course, before this, Li Sheng had already told Sima Yi his whole idea of striving for world domination and the importance of letting Ganning develop the navy in Jiaozhou: "...... Having a navy is equivalent to our army having a whip that can hit the enemy at will. The navy, like the cavalry, is a class of troops that can carry out long-range assaults. Once our army succeeds in developing its maritime forces, Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Jizhou, and even Youyan Liaodong in the north can become the targets of our attacks. We can put our men and horses on ships and land on them from one coast at will. Since we have a navy and they don't have one, only we can fight them, and without them we can fight us. The inland river navy has become a situation in which Jiangdong is the only one in the world, and we are now friendly with Jiangdong, and we cannot vigorously develop the inland river army to arouse Jiangdong's dissatisfaction with us. Therefore, we can only start with the navy where Jiangdong has not yet discovered its superiority, and borrow the existing foundation of Jiaozhou to vigorously develop our water power. You can treat our navy entirely as directed against Sun Quan, or you can treat him as directed against Cao Cao. In short, no matter what, you just have to cooperate with Gan Ning to train our sailors well. ”

After a night of talking, Sima Yi thoroughly understood Li Sheng's layout, understood what kind of uniqueness his newly recognized lord had in terms of strategy, and knew what kind of important responsibility he entrusted to him, a newcomer who had just joined. "General Zhonglang of the military division, that is an official position on an equal footing with Pang Tong and Liao Li. And Pang Tong and Liao Li have been serving Li Sheng for a long time, and they are just coming. Sima Yi whispered this, and he couldn't help but feel a kind of emotion in his heart for Li Sheng, who died as a confidant.

Of course, Sima Yi didn't know too much that the reason why Li Sheng put himself in Jiaozhou in the south and gave him great power was actually to prevent his own disloyalty and leak Changsha's secrets.

Although he has been getting along with Sima Yi every day, Li Sheng has tried his best to put on a look that I believe in you and can't do without you, but in fact, because Sima Yi's reputation in history is too great and he dominated a series of major events in the later period, Li Sheng can't always believe in Sima Yi like he believes in Zhao Yun, even if Sima Yi always maintains deference and respect in front of him. Leaving such a person, I can't believe in his loyalty, and I don't want him to return to Cao Cao's side, what should I do? Li Sheng thought about it and gave him the extremely high position of "General in the Army", and at the same time asked him to go to Jiaozhou to develop the navy with Gan Ning.

This is a very important task, and its position in Li Sheng's strategic conception is as Li Sheng said, a whip that can strike at the enemy at will, and naturally does not make Sima Yi feel that he has been ignored and sent aside. At the same time, it is also a task that is not easy to produce "results" and needs to be completed step by step. In Li Sheng's view, this is the best way to study Sima Yi's heart. Since Jiaozhou was far to the south, and the establishment of the navy had just begun, there were not many secrets that Cao Cao could know, so Li Sheng was not afraid of what Sima Yi was doing in Jiaozhou. What's more, with the development of the Jiaozhou Navy, the first thing he felt threatened was not any one of the princes, and the relationship with Cao Cao was still 108,000 miles away, so Li Sheng was not worried that Sima Yi conspired with Cao Cao to seize his Jiaozhou. After all, it was an enclave, not adjacent to Cao Cao.

Of course, even for these reasons, Li Sheng still asked his intelligence director Luo Zhao to strengthen the investigation of Jiaozhou, especially Sima Yi himself. This is also what Li Sheng said to Sima Yi before Sima Yi left. Li Sheng directly told Sima Yi that there was such a system in his army to monitor hundreds of officials and generals: "...... It's not that I'm worried about you, but out of the consideration of what happens. You also know that I attach more importance to the system and the existence of the law. So I think any power has to be based on oversight. Without oversight, power will corrupt people. Of course I don't want that to happen to you. Of course, you don't have to worry too much about going to the south, because the information about you is not known to others, but to me. All Monitors have only the power to scout and report, but not to interfere in your affairs, and will not check your actions. You'll understand this when you meet General Ganning in the south. Li Shengzhen said all the words to the front.

"I know." Seeing that Li Sheng said it really clearly, Sima Yi nodded again and again: "The state has national laws, and the family has family rules." Since I have worshipped the Lord as the Lord, I will carefully abide by all the rules that the Lord has set and not think about him. Please rest assured. ”

"In this way, the matter of Jiaozhou will be entrusted to Zhongda." Li Sheng smiled and patted Sima Yi on the shoulder very affectionately: "Zhong Da is going to Jiaozhou, there are really three major things that need to be arrested. Since Sima Yi had expressed his position like that, Li Sheng didn't want to say anything more, so he had to tell Sima Yi about some things.

"What three things?" Sima Yi asked.

"First of all, the detection of the movements of those big families in Jiaozhou, and the adjustment of the relationship between them. After all, our naval base is built on the ground in Jiaozhou, so we must manage the environment of Jiaozhou. For the big clan forces on the ground in Jiaozhou, Zhongda still needs to be careful. Li Sheng said quietly: "The second is the issue of military reform in Jiaozhou. At that time, due to the new establishment of Jiaozhou, the army could not move in a big way, so the military reform carried out in Changsha had not been put on Jiaozhou itself. Now that half a year has passed, the situation in Jiaozhou has stabilized, and I think it is time to carry out military reform in Jiaozhou. The main purpose of the military reform is to clarify the division of duties and powers between the two divisions of the Jiaozhou Marine and Land Divisions, the composition of the troops, and the determination of the new class of the commanders at all levels of the army. Although I made Lai Gong the governor of Jiao, he is only suitable for dealing with internal affairs, and as for these military-related matters, I think you will take care of all of them. Finally, there is the collation and summarization of the charts. The navy is composed of ships and soldiers, and how to make them give full play to their combat power needs to be achieved through training. In the training of the navy, the training of navigation is a very important thing, because the north is the sphere of influence of Cao Cao and Sun Quan. Before I don't have a certain strength, I can't bother them to expose their strength. Therefore, at the present stage, the focus of our military is to reconnoiter and patrol the waters south of Jiaozhou. I will give you about five years to explore the world, and to train yourself in navigation, and after five years we will need to reconnoiter the northern coast. In any case, I intend to spend ten years training such a navy, and your task is to write and compile a complete chart based on the charts obtained by Admiral Ganning's voyage. This is of vital importance to us, both militarily and economically. ”

"I made a note of it." Sima Yi nodded, "Please wait for my good news." Seeing that Li Sheng said so formally, he didn't dare to be the slightest bit lazy, so he reassured again and again.

"That's very good." Li Sheng smiled with satisfaction.

He personally went to the dock to see Sima Yi off on the day he was leaving, but he gave Sima Yi a very high treatment. Not only does it seem to outsiders that Li Sheng attaches great importance to and trusts Sima Yi, but even Sima Yi himself thinks so.

Sima Yi left. Li Sheng's life is quiet again. It turned out that the day and day in front of his wife disappeared, and it became a commuting system similar to that of later generations: Li Sheng appeared in the lobby of the Taishou Mansion every day to find the first class of Shangchen and began to work, and it was the same until the end of the afternoon, with a break of about one hour in the middle, and the office hours were about three hours. In the two hours before noon, he mainly dealt with some daily affairs and the signing and approval of documents, while in the hour after noon, Li Sheng called his intelligence supervisor Luo Zhao to listen to his report on news from various places.

Compared with Cao Cao's intelligence agency, which had a large number of personnel but was not tightly organized, Li Sheng's intelligence agency had a clear division of labor: his county was a basic unit, and each county's intelligence group had a special intelligence officer, an intelligence director, an intelligence agent, and an intermediary group. The Chief of Intelligence is the chief officer of a county's intelligence agency and organizes the operation of the county's intelligence agencies. The intelligence master is the clerk of the intelligence agency in the county, which is responsible for the simple summary of the collected information and the classification of intelligence, and most of them are also responsible for monitoring the intelligence officer to prevent the defection of the intelligence officer. Intelligence spies, on the other hand, are ordinary spies, wandering the streets and alleys, lingering in teahouses and restaurants, haunting the courtyards of the family, and inquiring about all useful news, they are the largest group of people. As for the action group, it is a group of mysterious people lurking in the darkness. Usually they don't have much contact with ordinary intelligence personnel, but only appear on special occasions to cooperate with BFIPU personnel to carry out all kinds of things such as assassination, burning food and grass, and stealing the planning documents. These members of the inter-governmental group were specially trained and directly obeyed the commands of Luo Zhao and Li Sheng, and they also had a set of management systems. Although he is under the name of the county intelligence group, he does not obey the command of the county intelligence team chief.

Because of the strict organization and clear division of labor, Li Sheng's intelligence agency in his hands. Although there was still no way to spread almost all the places in the Han Dynasty like the intelligence agency in Cao Cao's hands, intelligence groups were set up in some important places such as Xuchang, Runan, Huainan, Lujiang, Yuzhang, Chaisang, and other places, and many important anomalous information were obtained. It can be said that the intelligence agency in Li Sheng's hands is not the largest intelligence agency in the world, but it is the most well-organized and efficient intelligence agency in the world. Because the owner who mastered it, Li Sheng, was deeply influenced by later generations, this intelligence agency also had its own code name -- "White Clothes".

“…… According to the report three days ago, Sima Junshi had arrived in Guangzhou City and officially entered the Guangzhou Naval Governor's Mansion as a lieutenant general of the military division. Still the same as every day before Sima Yi came and after Sima Yi left, after Li Sheng got up from his lunch break, he sat in the lobby of his Taishou Mansion and listened to Luo Zhao, the "white-clothed" governor, tell the information about the recent arrival in Changsha.

"Zhongda has arrived in Guangzhou?" Li Sheng was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then nodded: "I know, don't relax your check on him." Let the man in the 'white' inform General Gan Ning and order him to test Sima Yi's situation. After discovering that he does retain some loyalty to us, it is appropriate to let him know some of our strengths, and not to shock him. ”

"Understood." Luo Zhao nodded, then took out a charcoal pen from his arms, and quickly recorded what Li Sheng had just ordered on the hundred boards made of wooden boards and white paper.

"By the way, the Ordnance Department of the Guangzhou Navy Governor's Mansion came to report on the sixth day that the 'Erlong Out of the Water' thing is about to pass the preliminary inspection, I don't know what the current situation is?" Seeing that Luo Zhao had finished recording what he had said, Li Sheng immediately asked about one thing he had been thinking about - the research and development of Huoyao weapons.

Since Li Sheng, Zuo Ci and the Taoist priests who later joined them made up the fire yao, which was extremely conducive to war, Li Shengjun's research on fire yao weapons was quickly put on the agenda. Due to the immaturity of steel smelting at this stage, there is no way to make the equipment for the control of firearms a reality. Therefore, Li Sheng pointed out such a promising development direction of controlled firearms, and set up a separate research institute for controlled firearms to conduct research and development of controlled firearms, that is, the establishment of the Army Ordnance Department and the Navy Ordnance Department to be responsible for the research and development of firearms weapons in both the army and the navy. Among them, the Army's research projects are mainly mines, priming bombs, thunderbolts (grenades), thunderbolts and the like; On the navy side, this is the study of naval fire and moisture-proof devices, naval mine-throwing, naval rockets, naval thunderbolts, naval thunderbolts, and the first to be developed 'Erlong out of the water'.

The so-called "Erlong out of the water" is actually a kind of two-stage rocket that is completely propelled by fire. Three main bodies, the longest one is outside, between them, the short one is the warhead inside, nested with each other, and the hole is opened on one side of the projectile body, which is a perforation. When used, the launcher is directly across the side of the ship, ignites the fuse and falls, triggering the projectile in the body of the projectile, drifting several feet above the water surface to take the enemy ship. Although the cost is much higher than that of the Thunderbolt launched with a bed crossbow alone, it is a few points better than the Thunderbolt in terms of range and portability. And because its attack position is quite low, almost close to the ship's waterline, and can often cause greater damage to enemy ships, Li Sheng immediately decided to make this "two dragons out of the water" one of the first weapons to be developed by the Navy's Ordnance Department, and sent Kong Ming's wife Huang Shou to Guangzhou to personally guide the research and development of this weapon.

Kong Ming originally pitied his wife and didn't want her to travel far, but he went to Li Sheng to make a big fuss, but was forced to be pressed down by Li Sheng. ordered Huang Shou to go south, and allowed him to make the "two dragons out of the water" and return north. Although it is easy to say that it is reasonable, Kong Ming still asks questions every day, so that Li Sheng has to pay unusual attention to this matter. Fortunately, half a year later, this thing is going well. Now that it is the final stage of testing, Li Sheng is naturally looking forward to good news. After all, he was also annoyed by Kong Ming's troubles.

"I just received a message from the Ordnance Department of the Guangzhou Navy Governor's Office this morning--Cheng!" Luo Zhao told Li Sheng the situation in an affirmative tone.

"That's great." Li Sheng became excited. It is no wonder that with the weapon of "two dragons out of the water", it is equivalent to adding countless warships to the navy. Because the "two dragons out of the water" is not like a large weapon such as a bed crossbow or catapult, it has to be equipped with a large ship, but it can even be equipped with weapons even if a small fishing boat has been slightly modified, and its power is slightly weaker than that of a thunderbolt, which is suitable for the current lack of ships in the early days of the navy's grass-roots creation, and it is considered an emergency product. Of course, it is not exactly an emergency product, even if the big ships are equipped one by one in the future, these "two dragons out of the water" things can be calmly sold to those families under their control, so that they can change their merchant ships into armed merchant ships to adapt to the security problems of the ocean in the future. After all, Li Sheng did not intend to tie his navy to these big families for the rest of his life. The navy is used to attack and break the enemy, and it can only be used occasionally as a bodyguard.

"Order the Guangzhou Navy Governor's Mansion to reward all the personnel of the Ordnance Department with thousands of dollars and 100 horses of Shu brocade, and order the copywriting office to file and record, which is an eternal example." Li Sheng smiled and quickly issued a commendation order for these meritorious personnel.

"This ......" Luo Zhao was slightly stunned when he heard this, "Wouldn't this be too heavy?" After all, it's just a trick to get dirty. Although he is in charge of intelligence, which is not compatible with the Confucianism he learns on a daily basis, and most of the contacts are more utilitarian things, Luo Zhao still retains the reserve and habits of ordinary Confucians in the depths of his heart. He also looked down on the craftsmen and the things invented by the craftsmen. Even if these things are really useful, they deserve a heavy reward, but it's just a reward for money, so that the copywriting office can file records? Li Shengjun's copywriting department is a department that is responsible for handling documents and recording facts. This department seems to be no big deal in general, but Luo Zhao knows that anything that is recorded by the copywriting department is likely to be hired in future history books. In other words, it is very likely that the invention of "two dragons out of the water" by these craftsmen will be passed down in history. This is a great honor, and this is what my own people are pursuing. Therefore, Luo Zhao felt that Li Sheng's reward for those people was too heavy.

"Too heavy? I don't think so. After all, this thing is very beneficial to our army's war. Li Sheng said with a smile, he looked at Luo Zhao, who was still depressed, and looked at the uncertain and still somewhat puzzled expression on his face, so he simply said the matter: "We have few people and a weak foundation." If we don't rely on the weapons and tools invented by these craftsmen to strengthen ourselves, I'm afraid that we won't be able to compare with Cao Cao after a lifetime of development. You don't look down on these. To put it simply, if what used to be done by three people can now be done by one person with the help of tools, then we have tripled our manpower. This is a matter of benefiting the country, the people, and oneself. Whether it is a general, a soldier, an official, a Confucian student, even if they are craftsmen or ruffians, as long as it helps us defeat Cao Cao and dominate the world, is conducive to the development of the people's livelihood, and the people's life is stable, we must pay attention to him and use him. The reason why people are called human beings, in addition to our knowledge of etiquette and wisdom, the most important thing is that we can use our wisdom to make and use tools. This is where we can finally defeat the tigers, leopards and jackals. ”

"This ...... There is some truth to that. Luo Zhao saw that Li Sheng said solemnly, and when he turned his head and thought about it, it seemed to make sense, so it was not easy to persevere. Several years of intelligence work have made him mellow, and at this moment, looking at Li Sheng's expression, he naturally understands that his lord has made up his mind.

"Any other news?" Seeing that Luo Zhaowei still had a little unconvinced on his face, Li Sheng shook his head with a faint smile, but he no longer continued to talk about this topic, but asked in a different direction.

"Yizhou envoy Zhang Song has come out of Xuchang five days ago. Looking at the direction, it seems to be going to Huainan. Luo Zhao breathed a sigh of relief because of this, and then reported to Li Sheng the other information that Li Sheng had explained to focus on.

"To Huainan? Could it be that Zhang Song wants to see Liu Bei? Didn't he give up on Liu Bei? After listening to Luo Zhao's report, Li Sheng couldn't help muttering to himself.

"If you haven't been to this era, you can't imagine how charming Liu Bei is. At present, Liu Bei's territory is not connected with Yizhou, and the first person Zhang Song thought of offering Yizhou was actually Liu Bei, which is really unimaginable. Li Sheng thought about it, shook his head with a slightly wry smile, and then ordered Luo Zhao: "Give me close attention to Zhang Song's movements." I think if we want to take Xichuan, the key lies in this person. ”

"Understood." Although it was not clear what Li Sheng had made such a judgment, Luo Zhao quickly agreed, which was originally what he was responsible for.

As a result, the "white clothes" under Li Sheng began to operate, and the county intelligence departments of Xuchang, Runan, and Huainan continuously reported Zhang Song's situation to Luo Zhao. Although there was always an inevitable delay in the information sent because of the long distance, but with the attention and efforts of everyone, this delay was only a day's work -- the "white-clothed" people used the fastest means of transmission in their hands, flying pigeons to send messages. This made Li Sheng have a clear judgment on Zhang Song's every move: Zhang Song went to Huainan from Xuchang through Runan, and after he arrived in Huainan, he went to meet with Liu Bei by himself, and was left in the mansion by Liu Bei for three days, and after three days, he came out of Liu Bei's mansion with a deep loneliness and disappointment on his face.

"Come to think of it, Liu Bei didn't agree to Zhang Song's request to dedicate Xichuan to him." Li Sheng said after learning the news of Zhang Song's departure from Huainan: "Liu Bei may have done this because of me, after all, in the last meeting, I had vaguely revealed the idea of wanting to take Xichuan. Although the thought is just a thought, I have the strength to capture Nishikawa after all. If Liu Bei wants to take Xichuan, he will definitely fall out with me, but now that Liu Bei has been unhappy with the bookmark, how dare he provoke me? Li Sheng thought about it, shook his head slightly, and then gave an order: "Let General Zhao Yun, who is stationed in Jiangling, give me efforts to pay attention to the situation on the river, and if I find Zhang Song's appearance, I will directly detain him for me." ”

"Yes!" Luo Zhao's answers are always concise, but at critical moments, he can make things clear to the point.

After another three days, Li Sheng finally received a message from Zhao Yun from Jiangling: "Mr. Zhang Song has arrived in Jiangling and is now entertained by me in the Taishou Mansion. Do you want to send him to Changsha? Because the order given by Li Sheng that day was really too hasty, and he didn't say how to deal with Zhang Song's matter after the deduction. Therefore, after Zhao Yun listened to Li Sheng's words and left Zhang Song at this moment, he did not dare to send Zhang Song over directly, but sent someone to Changsha to ask such a question.

"Then send him here." Li Sheng subconsciously gave the order, and suddenly felt that it seemed a little too rude to do so, so he changed the herald who wanted to leave after receiving the order, and said, "I still don't want it." Prepare a ship, and let Mr. Kong Ming and Mr. Shiyuan accompany me to Changsha to pick up this Mr. Zhang Song. Well, we have a big picture, so it's better to be polite to him. ”

To be honest, Li Sheng looks down on people like Zhang Song. In Li Sheng's view, Zhang Song's dedication to Xichuan is no different from the betrayal of the country by later generations. However, because Li Sheng wanted to seize Xichuan himself, whether there was a suitable reason to seize Xichuan in his hands, he was very much looking forward to Zhang Song's arrival. Because he knew that as long as Zhang Song was moved, it would be much easier for him to capture Xichuan in the future. After all, there is a different way of playing with internal response and a style of play without internal response, and even a fool can see which is easier and which is more difficult.

“…… On June 15, the 15th year of Jian'an, Zhang Song, who had lived in Xuchang for two years, returned to Xichuan via Jiangling. Jiangling Taishou Zhao Yun admired Zhang Song's talent and left him in Jiangling to treat him well, and later reported it to the above. Shang Nai took a large ship and took everyone to Jiangling to meet Zhang Song for a while...... "Regarding this meeting, Li Sheng's copywriting office made such a record.