Chapter 445 Great God

I saw Lu Xiufu spitting and spitting, so I said, "Lu Aiqing, please have something to say." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister suggested that Lord Li Tingzhi should be the main general of the Xiangfan Campaign, and Your Majesty should still stay in Lin'an to preside over the overall situation."

"Lu Aiqing, Li Tingzhi is a famous general of our dynasty, from a military point of view alone, Li Aiqing is fully qualified for this position, and even stronger than me, but there are three key points in this. First of all, the Battle of Xiangyang was a large-scale battle in which the Xiangyang Military Region, the Jianghuai Military Region, the Lin'an Military Region, and the Naval Division of our army worked together, so the coordination of all parties, including logistical supply, will become one of the key factors in victory or defeat. Secondly, our army will use firearms in this campaign, and relatively speaking, we are the most familiar with the use of firearms; Third, if I were to go to the front line, I could greatly boost the morale of my soldiers, and at the same time, I could make Kublai Khan decide to throw heavy troops into Xiangfan in the hope of a decisive battle with our dynasty. Speaking of this, I said with a firm expression, "So, I must do it myself." Ladies and gentlemen, I know your good intentions and don't want me to be in danger, but I will not mention this matter in the future. ”

Lu Xiufu's face was slightly red, but he was very admired in his heart: "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

In the battle of Xiangyang in history, although the Southern Song Dynasty court was also trying its best to support Xiangyang, it was unable to keep pace, so it was broken by the Mongol army. Although I have changed a lot in the situation that the major generals of the military affairs system cannot work together, I am still worried that since I have placed a bet on Xiangyang, I must not make the same mistakes that have occurred in history.

At the end of the meeting, Yin Yinglei asked: "Your Majesty, is there a suitable person for the commander of the independent compartment of the Lin'an Military Region?" ”

"I have already thought about it, Yin Aiqing, I plan to appoint Han Jing, who is newly joined by our army, you have all seen it in the Military Affairs Yuan, although Han Jing is young, but he is strong in martial arts, and he has the courage of ten thousand people, but he is very malleable, I ordered him to serve as the deputy commander of the independent box, and the commander of the box will be Yin Aiqing for the time being."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Yin Yinglei is resourceful, but not proficient in martial arts, Han Jing is proficient in martial arts, but he is negligent in the art of war, so I asked Han Jing to follow Yin Yinglei, first, to protect Yin Yinglei, and secondly, I also hope that Han Jing can learn from Yin Yinglei, from a single fierce will become a commander of both civil and military.

That night, I hosted Jerry at the Jiying Palace. Porro's recruits from abroad.

Of these twenty people, three felt uncomfortable with the life of the Song Dynasty and made a request to return to Venice. I had already seen this in the previous year, so I readily agreed to the request of the three men, and mentioned that my second voyage would be in late March and early April of this year, and they could leave by boat.

In the year or two after the construction of the first Shenzhou giant ship, the shipyard directly under the imperial court built two similar giant ships one after another, named "Huaxia" and "Zhonghua" respectively. I have allocated all these three giant ships to the sailors, and I plan to serve in the North Sea Fleet first for the Huaxia and Zhonghua, and I am ready to let the original giant ship Shenzhou continue to undertake the task of sailing.

After I finished announcing the news, Wen Tianxiang, who accompanied me, said: "Your Majesty, Lord Ruan Sicong can't leave this voyage, I don't know who can take the lead?" ”

"I haven't thought about it either, Song Rui, do you have a suitable candidate?"

Jia Rudao, who was sitting on the other side of me, shook his head when he saw Wen Tianxiang and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the minister recommends one person." ”

"Really? Master, who? ”

"Your Majesty, this person's name is Yang Fa, and he was one of Ruan Sicong's assistants on the last voyage."

"Yang Fa?" I thought about it, and it didn't seem to be familiar, "Master, tell me in detail." ”

"Your Majesty, Yang Fa's ancestral home is Fujian, and then moved to Liangzhejiang East Road, which is today's Zhejiang Province, once served as the Lizhou Thorn History, the former commander of the Imperial Palace, and later served as the deputy commander of the Privy Council, has been in charge of the equipment of the sailors, and is very familiar with the performance of all kinds of warships of our naval division, and served as the chief helmsman of the warships when the Shenzhou first voyaged, according to Yang's speech, his ancestors had followed Xu Jing to envoy to Goryeo during the Xuanhe (1119-1125) period, and their Yang family called themselves a seafaring family."

Xu Jing I know that when reading the information of the Xianwen Pavilion, I have seen Xu Jing's record, this person was ordered to envoy to Goryeo in 1123, and in the second year after returning to China, he compiled what he saw and heard into an illustrated "Picture Classic", in this book, Xu Jing in addition to recording the customs and rules of Goryeo, but also recorded in detail the navigation route between the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo, but it is a pity that this book was lost in the Jingkang Rebellion, otherwise it should be the earliest navigation log in our country.

As for Yang Fa that Jia Yidao said, I don't know.

There is indeed this person in history, Yang Fa, a native of Zhejiang, later descended to the Yuan, his son Yang Zi, and his grandson Yang Shu, all engaged in maritime trade for three generations, and also officials and merchants, and the "official ship" system during the Yuan Dynasty was proposed by the Yang family. It's just that in the ancient times of light commerce, the contribution of the three generations of the Yang family to China's navigation industry was not in the eyes of the imperial court and historians, if they were not officials, it is estimated that no one would record their navigation deeds.

"Master, I'll see this Yang Fa when I have time."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

In the past year, the foreigners in the Jiying Hall have basically learned Chinese, of course, most of their tones are the same as Jerry's, even the best speaking Nina among them is no exception.

Crete, Hans, and others came to the front one after another, toasted to me, and congratulated me on a happy new year according to Western etiquette, except for Ms. Nina, who had joined the Great Song Dynasty and became an official of the imperial court, who saluted and congratulated me according to the ritual of the Song Dynasty's monarchs and ministers.

Of these people, the three who pleased me the most were Crete, Hans and Nina.

Crete brought Western fine machining technology, so that the weight and accuracy of firearms have been improved to a certain extent, at the same time, with the joint efforts of Yun Bofei, Wan Yan Tianlei and others, the development of smoothbore guns has also progressed, although it has not yet succeeded, but let me see hope.

After the invention of the original medical alcohol, Hans performed a total of 18 surgical surgeries last year, and these 18 surgeries were unprecedentedly successful in 12 cases, with a success rate of more than 60%, and what makes me even happier is that Hans has brought out a group of outstanding students, and this group of young students from the School of Medicine of Lin'an University has even surpassed Hans's idea of accepting new things, which makes Hans also admire. According to Hans's plan, by June this year, this group of students will be fully qualified.

As for Nina, her contribution lies in straightening out the laws of the imperial court and forming a systematic judicial concept, expounding for the first time the principles, concepts and norms that constitute the law, and subdividing the types of laws.

The three of them also have one thing in common, and that is that they adore me to the extreme. Whether it is firearms, surgery, or law, my knowledge is higher than theirs, especially after they read the textbooks of Lin'an University, they feel that I am great, and Nina, who has the most contact with the court officials, told Crete and others that in the Song Dynasty, His Majesty the Emperor was made a god by the ministers, and therefore, Crete and others fully believed in it, and added two words before this god, great god.

There was another person I was interested in, this person was named Walder, who worked as an engineer at the Great Song Shipyard, and later became interested in the idea of the steam engine from the Academy of Sciences.

After the group took turns to toast, I said: "Dear Aiqing, friends, you have made great contributions to my Great Song Dynasty this year, I am very happy, although the vast majority of you and my dynasty are only in an employment relationship, but I still want to say to you, 'thank you'." At the end of last year, some of you proposed to the Government Council that you would like to join the nationality of our DPRK, and I agreed to all of you, and you can go to the household office to go through the formalities on the seventh day of work. ”

"Your Majesty." Crete, Hans, and a dozen people, including Walder, spoke in unison.

"In recognition of your contributions, I would like to give each of you 1,000 Chinese coins, five horses of colored silk, and a bottle of Chinese special brewing liquid as a bonus for you, including Mr. Jerry. At the same time, for those who join our dynasty, according to the practice I have done with Mr. Jerry and Ms. Nina in the past, each of them will be given another 5,000 yuan as your settlement expenses. In addition, Crete, Hans, Wad, and the twelve, since you are about to become a member of our dynasty, I hereby give you the title first. ”

"Wow, that's a reward." The rest of the people who didn't join the Song family thought.

"Crete, I have crowned you as the deacon of Zhengyin of the Machinery Department of the Gunpowder Administration, received the title of the sixth rank, and awarded the Great Song Dynasty Imperial Five-Rank Scientific Scholar."

"Thank you for your grace." Crete walked to the middle and knelt down in thanksgiving as a courtier. Crete and the others had been living in Lin'an City for more than a year, and they were full of joy when they knew that the official position of the Great Song Dynasty was divided into several grades, and they also knew the treatment of scientific scholars.

"Aiqing is exempt. Hans, you are engaged in scientific research at the Academy of Sciences, so you do not belong to the official system of our dynasty, and I have awarded you the Five Grades of Science Scholar, and in addition, the scientific research level of your scientific research group has been upgraded from the third level to the first level. ”

"Your Majesty." Hans also knelt down and thanked him. Hans doesn't care if he is an official or not, the best laboratory for a Frankenstein like him is the biggest reward for him, and when I say Level 1, it means that there will be no upper limit on the research funding of Hans's group this year.

"Nina, you are the first Westerner to join our dynasty and have made great contributions to the laws of our dynasty.

"Your Majesty." Nina said happily, "Your Majesty, is that minister at the same level as Lord Qian, the prefect of Lin'an?" ”