Daming Pingjiang Mansion, Taicang Liujiagang. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

A few months ago, the loneliness of a fire in Lin'an made Pingjiang Mansion become the richest place in a short period of time from a state capital that was not very special in the south of the Yangtze River, including the taxes of the Ming Dynasty in the past six months, one-tenth of which came from Pingjiang Mansion, and two-thirds of Pingjiang Mansion's taxes came from Taicang.

And now, with the pacification of the south of the Yangtze River and the expansion of the Ming army, the Dajiang that could have become the front line at any time finally no longer has to perform its duties of "moat", and the Ming soldiers stationed on both sides of the Huaishui River will never allow the Mongolian Tatars to drink the Yangtze River again, so the empty Dajiang on weekdays has finally become lively, and the merchant ships from the sea are no longer limited to anchoring in Quanzhou, after all, they can reach the more expensive place where their goods are sold upstream.

But after all, the draft of the sea ship is deep, and the operation is time-consuming and laborious, once there is no wind and no waves on this big river, it is not so easy to control the sea boat, so most businessmen choose to unload the goods on the ship, and then load it into the rest of the river ships to and fro.

The place where most merchants choose to trade and transship goods is Liujiagang.

This port, which used to be unsightly on the edge of the river, was naturally rising in the commercial exchanges in the past few months because of its proximity to the garrisons of the Divine Guard and the town navy, and the fact that it had many harbors and deep drafts.

Of course, there is another important reason, the shipyard of the Ming Dynasty was established in this Liujiagang, and the Zhenjiang Prefecture Naval Division also removed a lot of new warships and stationed them on the side of the port to defend the shipyard. In this place where the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty gathered, in addition to Nanjing, I am afraid that there is only this Liujiagang.

Especially for these merchants, every day looking at the huge warships breaking the waves in the shipyard, there will be a sense of pride and comfort from the heart. After all, they are all people from the former Song Dynasty, although the former Song Dynasty was rich but cowardly, they were oppressed by Zhenla in the South Seas, and the shadow of the Mongolian Tatars in the West was everywhere, making the maritime trade in these years much worse than before.

Therefore, when they saw this huge warship, the merchants would sincerely sigh in their hearts that an era of cowardice and darkness had ended, and another era of light and hope had begun. As long as you have run a trade at sea, you can see that these huge warships are not old-fashioned building ships, but real sea ships, and even some strange warships with pointed bows, even some old sailors who have been running in the South Seas all their lives can't recognize them.

Although those pointed-nosed warships were not big, they slipped around the water, but they were much faster than all the sea ships in the entire Liujiagang, which attracted the attention of many people at that time, but before the Ming official did not speak, everyone was subconsciously silenced.

However, the businessmen know very well that the Ming Dynasty will not build so many sea ships in vain, and it will not be able to use so many warships to deal with Mongolia without sailors, so there is only one possibility left, the Ming Dynasty is ready to clean up the South Seas, and really turn the South Seas into their own back garden ponds!

"In the past few months, a total of 20 large sea vessels have been launched, and there are five new flying clippers." Standing outside the Liujiagang shipyard, Guo Shoujing said respectfully, "This clipper adopts His Royal Highness's suggestion, uses a hollow bow, extends the head column outward to hang the side sail, according to the posture thrown out on the river outside Liujiagang before, from here to the South Seas, I am afraid it will only take less than a week, and it took a week for the sailors to set off from Yizhou when conquering Annan, and this clipper ship is indeed much faster than the previous warship." ”

Looking at the shipyard that was working in full swing, Ye Yingwu nodded approvingly: "The newly launched sea ships are already equipped with the two Huai Water Divisions and the Zhenjiang Mansion Water Division?" ”

Guo Shoujing said helplessly: "Most of the warships launched have been transferred south, because Zhang Guidutong, the sailor of Yizhou, and Zhang Shundutong, the sailor of Zhenjiang Prefecture, were originally brothers, so Zhang Shundutong had no objection to this, and even sent some soldiers to the ship to accompany him south. ”

Ye Yingwu frowned: "This Zhenla, it's really trickier than I imagined, I didn't expect that even Zhang Gui couldn't help but want to ask for help." By the way, the latest flying clipper ship to be launched, can it be sent south? ”

"No," Guo Shoujing made a gesture of please, and walked forward, "The latest flying clippers are all here, these flying clippers are mainly used for experiments, without the consent of His Royal Highness and the Right Prime Minister, the ministers dare not send them." ”

"According to the current situation, how many warships can be built by the end of the year?" Ye Yingwu looked up at a few warships with quite novel shapes not far in front of him, after all, what Guo Shoujing got was only a somewhat scribbled drawing drawn by Ye Yingwu, so it was naturally impossible to really build a flying clipping boat that was exactly the same as in history, but these few of different shapes and sizes presented in front of Ye Yingwu's eyes already looked like a flying clipping boat.

The reason why China has not been able to control the South China for thousands of years is that there is no fast and powerful fleet that can not only threaten and conquer the countries of the South Seas, but also rush to the aid of the Quartet at a critical juncture.

Now that there is a flying clipper, perhaps in Ye Yingwu's Daming, this dream can be realized.

"Now the shipyard is working on two flying clippers and five large sea vessels at the same time, but this is on the premise that there is enough wood," Guo Shoujing said with some embarrassment, "but there is a lack of timber in this area of the south of the Yangtze River, and it is time-consuming and laborious to transport timber down the river, which is time-consuming and laborious, and sometimes even has to wait, so the real ability of the entire shipyard has not yet been shown." ”

"Wood?" Ye Yingwu frowned, "I remember that there are still many towering trees in the mountains around Lin'an." ”

Guo Shoujing was stunned: "Your Highness is talking about ・・・・・・"

"The Imperial Palace Forbidden Garden of the Former Song Dynasty." A glimmer of light flashed in Ye Yingwu's eyes, because the trees in the forbidden garden of the palace are not allowed to be cut down by outsiders, and the palace of the Southern Song Dynasty has not been newly built and repaired several times in the past hundred years, which also makes the trees around Phoenix Mountain dense and towering, mostly century-old trees, just suitable for building warships, "The former Song Dynasty is dead, and there is no need for the trees to be touched on the mountain anymore." ”

As a person from the south, Guo Shoujing didn't have much affection for the former Song Dynasty, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that the former Song Dynasty was his enemy, so as soon as Ye Yingwu opened his golden mouth, he had no other concerns, and solemnly bowed his hand at the moment: "The minister obeys the order." ”

Ye Yingwu smiled and waved his hand: "In the future, the Daming Sailor will be able to dominate the world, and his hope will fall on Aiqing's shoulders, Aiqing will not disappoint Daming, and don't let down the businessmen who come and go in Liujiagang and the Daming Erlang stationed here." ”

Guo Shoujing looked at Ye Yingwu with trepidation, but when he saw the warm smile on the young man's face, there was still a warm current trickling in his heart, and he nodded without hesitation. And Ye Yingwu stood in the wind with his hands in his hands, and said lightly: "There is less than a week before the capture of Annan goes to Beijing, and Aiqing must remember to come when the time comes." ”

After hesitating for a moment, Guo Shoujing responded. And Ye Yingwu seemed to have forgotten his existence, and said to himself: "After all, one day, a certain will make Kublai Khan, like Chen Huang, surrender under the authority of the Great Tomorrow, and there will be a day after all・・・・・・"

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As a rare power in the entire Nanyang, Zhenla sat idly by when the Ming Dynasty conquered Annam.

It's not because Zhenla doesn't understand the truth that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, but because every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and the same is true for Zhenla. Now what gives Zhenla a headache is Champa. Since Champa was annexed by Chenla a hundred years ago, it has not given up resistance on the periphery, and even evaded the encirclement and suppression of the Chenla army several times, and recovered several towns in the north, cutting off the connection between Chenla and Annam.

Among these towns, the most important is Hengshan Pass, the first Xiongguan that guards the road between Annam and Champong.

Because he has not been able to break through the Hengshan Pass, Zhenla watched the Ming Dynasty conquer Annan, but he could only silently accumulate strength by himself, and continue to gather troops to the north.

In particular, the Ming Dynasty broke through Annan in the first war, which was almost effortless, and it deeply shocked Zhenla. Although Annam is not a big country in the South Seas, but the army is elite, and there is Chen Guojun, the recognized god of war of the Nanyang countries, it is not so easy for even Zhenla to defeat Annam, but who would have thought that it took only one week for the Ming Dynasty to wipe out the independent Annam, which has been independent for three hundred years.

It was only at this time that Zhenla understood that this brand-new Ming Dynasty was no longer the original cowardly Song Kingdom, and the lord of Zhenla was even more clear that what the Ming wanted was not Zhenla's loyalty, but the land of Zhenla. If you set off to go to Shenglong Mansion, there is a chance that it will be a dead end, so it is better to hurry up and prepare for war in the country, take advantage of the time and place, and fight to the death with this Ming Dynasty.

Although the Ming Dynasty is powerful, Zhenla has been a country for so many years, fighting in the south and the north, and becoming one of the top two powers in the South Seas step by step, but it is not intimidated!

From Hengshan Pass to the south, there is no danger to defend in the area of Champa, so the Zhenla army has been desperately attacking to the north since the destruction of Annan by the Ming Dynasty, and successfully broke through the Hengshan Pass on the twenty-ninth day of July to disperse the surrounding Cham army, and when the Ming army went south in two ways on August 1, Hengshan Pass has been controlled by Zhenla.

Finding that the original weak defense of Hengshan Pass changed the owner, Xuanwu Army also stopped, one needs to wait for the back of the large equipment, and the other is that Li Fu has always been a cautious person, knowing that the strong attack will inevitably cause many casualties, simply stop to see if there are any flaws in this Hengshan Pass.

"Although this Hengshan is low and gentle, it is too long, and it really holds the key point between Annam and Chenla." Standing on a hillside not far from the front of Hengshan Pass, Yang Ting couldn't help but sigh in a low voice.

While pulling the reins of the horse, Li Fu frowned and said: "Since ancient times, Hengshan is a place where soldiers must fight, during the Han and Tang dynasties, Chinese soldiers did not shed blood and sacrifice in this Hengshan, and later Zhancheng and Annan around Hengshan are also several bloody battles, if there is not such a Hengshan, I am afraid that Zhenla and Annan have already met each other and fought inseparably. ”

Yang Ting smiled bitterly: "In fact, Hengshan is fearless, mainly because of the continuous rainstorm for several days, which makes the road too muddy, and even our various equipment needs to rely on sailors for transportation." Otherwise, the flying thunder cannon will open a bombardment under the gate, are you still afraid that it will not be true! ”

Li Fu said in a deep voice: "Hengshan is not better than Langshan, Langshan in the final analysis is around several hills to guard the throat of the road, and this Hengshan stretches from the east to the west for hundreds of miles, and there are many roads in the middle, if you are not familiar with the area behind the mountain, it is easy to be bypassed Hengshan to copy the back road, so if you want to conquer Hengshan, it is not just as simple as conquering the Hengshan Pass in front of you. ”

"Uncle Zhang, what do you mean?" Yang Ting was a little surprised.

Pressing the saber in his hand, Li Fu replied in a low voice: "The sailor must have gone south, ready to go up along the Lancang River and cut straight into the hinterland of Zhancheng, and the left-wing Divine Guard Army will bypass Hengshan and attack Zhenla westward, so only we can rely on ourselves." But maybe you have forgotten that the enemy of the enemy is our friend, and for Zhenla to occupy Hengshan Pass, I'm afraid the people of Champa will not be willing. And this large area of land south of Hengshan is also a place to occupy the city. As long as the people of Champa stand with us, there is no need to worry that Zhenla will make a fuss on this Hengshan. ”

Yang Ting took a breath of cool air lightly: "Should you be in harmony with the people of Zhancheng?" ”

Nodding, Li Fu's gaze fell on the Hengshan Pass in the distance: "I hope that the people of Zhancheng still have the courage to fight for their dead fathers and villagers." ”

"Report, two generals, there is a small boat coming from the sea, claiming to be from Hengshannan." A herald came quickly, "Several commanders have sent special orders to their subordinates to ask for instructions, and dare to ask what should be done. ”

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives." Li Fu and Yang Ting glanced at each other with a smile, "I originally thought that we were anxious enough, but who knew that there was something more anxious than so." It seems that I still underestimate these Champers, but I hope they will not disappoint you and me. ”

Li Fu just lifted the curtain of the camp tent with his hands, and the two people who were waiting in the camp tent respectfully fell to the ground unexpectedly: "The grass people meet the **** general!" ”

"General ****?" Yang Ting patted Li Fu's shoulder with a smile, even Li Fu, who had seen a lot of wind and waves, couldn't help but be stunned at this time, **** General, it is really a laughable title, but it seems that in the eyes of these untransformed people, Li Fu is dressed in armor and has the momentum of the superior, which is no different from the general of the Han and Tang Dynasties many years ago.

"A certain is the commander of the Ming Xuanwu Army, Li Fu, the official worships the general of the Southern Army, but it is not what the two said about the **** general, the two of them should hurry up." Li Fu smiled and reached forward to help. The two ragged men stood up and carefully wiped the tears from their faces.

Several guards respectfully served tea, Li Fu walked to the upper seat, and said lightly: "A few people who claim to be from the south of Hengshan are from the sea, presumably ・・・・・・"

The first man nodded solemnly: "The two of us are the remnants of the Cham (author's note: Champa is the name of China, and its locals call themselves 'Champa'), Cham has been a vassal of China for thousands of years, a vassal of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and is loyal to China, but who knows that Zhenla has monstrous ambitions in this country, and he is not satisfied with Wang Hua, and even mobilized troops against my Champa, so that the Champa has unfortunately perished after decades of resistance, but my Champa has millions of people, and Anneng is a foreign slave, so the resistance has not stopped for many years, I only hope that one day the Chinese Dynasty will have a divine soldier descend from heaven to expel the enemy of Zhenla and help me recover the lost land. ”

"Please **** the kingdom and help me occupy the city!" After the man finished speaking, the two of them knelt on the ground at the same time and bowed their heads deeply.

Li Fu and Yang Ting looked at each other in some surprise, obviously the resistance of the Cham people to Zhenla is far beyond their imagination, Li Fu even suspects that over time, the Cham people may really be able to drive the opponent out of their own land.

Smiled lightly at the moment, Li Fu looked at the two people: "Daming is the **** Shangguo is true, but my tens of thousands of troops are not deep into the hair, to conquer Zhenla, but it is not said to come, to go, the exchange of grain and grass equipment in the middle, are all a lot of effort, and for the Ming Dynasty, Zhenla does not have to conquer, after all, the huge Nanyang Tiangao Emperor is far away, and His Royal Highness the King of Ming of my family has covered the universe, but there are some whips that are beyond the reach of here, I don't know how the people of Zhancheng will repay this favor after the Ming Dynasty helped Zhancheng to restore the country? ”

The two men obviously had already discussed with their own people when they came, and the person who spoke just now raised his head and looked at Li Fu without hesitation: "Once the **** kingdom helps the Cham to restore the country, the Cham should be the vassal of the **** kingdom forever, and the descendants cannot betray it, otherwise the heavens and the earth will be destroyed." And the middle school of the country should be a land master and a sailor, and implore the kingdom to help train and drill, so that the Cham can defend itself in danger. ”

Slowly clenched his fists, Li Fu said in a deep voice: "Okay, this matter still needs to be consulted by His Royal Highness, but please rest assured, as long as Zhancheng is loyal to Daming, Daming will naturally not be treated badly." In addition, although the Ming Dynasty is true to his word, if he wants to help Zhancheng restore the country, he must first defeat Zhenla, and now the Zhenla people firmly control Hengshan Pass・・・・・・"

Huo Ran, the man in the back, stood up: "The general's words are wrong, a Hengshan Pass, maybe not familiar to the **** soldiers who came from afar, but for us native-born Cham people, we are familiar with the passages everywhere, and it is easy to detour to the back of Hengshan Pass to attack back and forth!" ”

"Good!" Li Fu slapped the table, "Daming and Zhancheng should do their part to show each other's sincerity, as long as Zhancheng can give the guide to lead the way, I Daming will definitely take Hengshan Pass within three days!" (To be continued.) )