Chapter 825 Dingbei Affairs
No matter how grand the idea is, it is a matter of the future, and after sending Gongsun Du away, Wang Yu still has to focus on various complicated affairs.
On the one hand, he wanted to determine the details of the northern expedition, before subduing Gongsun Du, Wang Yu was worried that Gongsun Zhan was weak and it would be difficult to quickly open the situation surrounded by wolves.
Now that Gongsun Du echoes from afar, there is no need to worry about this, but to handle the relationship between the two carefully. Military cooperation, let them explore on their own, but the general territory or strategic direction of the two sides must be clearly delineated in advance, so as to avoid future quarrels and fights.
It is not good to divide the territory too big or too small, for now, Wang Yu can only be sure that the two of them are advancing to the north at the same time, Gongsun Chan is western, and Gongsun Du is eastward.
Gongsun Zhan's first target was the Xianbei tribes that were in infighting, and Gongsun Du's target was of course Goguryeo.
According to this principle, after discussing with Wang Yu, Gongsun Chan chose the first foothold of the Youzhou Army on the plain at the northern foot of Danhan Mountain. As the former king's tent of the Xianbei people, the environment of Danhan Mountain is very good, there are abundant water sources, there are mountains to rely on, even if you do not consider the role of the bridgehead of the southern invasion, it is also a good place for cat winter.
If you want to invade the south, you can either rush into the wall in one breath, or you can only pull out the nail of the Youzhou army first, no matter how you choose, you will encounter a lot of trouble.
It can also be seen from this that Gongsun Zhan is still the fierce general who is on the border of the country in his bones, and he chose Danhan Mountain as the first step in the expedition, mainly to shield the wall and become the first line of defense in Youzhou.
Of course, he probably also meant to humiliate the Xianbei people by doing this, and the royal tent of the grassland people was the capital of the Central Plains. If anyone builds a castle next to Luoyang without permission, do you think the emperor will lift the table and jump to his feet?
As long as this castle is built, Gongsun Zhan's slap will be slapped heavily on the face of the Xianbei people, but as long as they still have a trace of blood, the primary target of going south can only be Gongsun Zhan.
With such a significance, this castle under construction is naturally named Zhenyuan, and the brave and warlike Youzhou athletes will rely on this to continue to attack to the north and west.
Coincidentally, Gongsun Du also chose the target of others, and the one who was about to be unlucky was of course his old rival Goguryeo.
When he learned of his choice, Wang Yu was not surprised, but sighed that it was really so.
The capital of the Goguryeo people when they were founded in the Western Han Dynasty was in Susheng Gucheng, which was very close to Xuansu County, and the original intention was to use it as a base for advancement and compete with the Han Dynasty for Liaodong. Later, he suffered several losses, and found that even in such a remote place as Liaodong, the Han army was still very strong, and he couldn't defeat it, so he had no choice but to move the capital east and move to Mazishui, that is, the domestic city on the bank of the Yalu River.
Gongsun Du has been eyeing this place for a long time, and of course he didn't want to take the city, he just wanted to inflict heavy losses on the Goguryeo people and teach them a lesson that they will never forget. Now that he is going to give up the foundation of Liaodong, he naturally puts the goal of building the city here.
Since the beginning of the first three years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Goguryeo people have been operating in the domestic city for nearly 200 years, and they are somewhat popular, and it is of course much better to grab the ready-made than to start from scratch.
Of course, there are also people who have different opinions on this, Tai Shici has some sour comments, the reason why Gongsun Du chose the domestic city is because he is not dead in the thief heart, and his eyes are still staring at the sea.
Tai Shi Ci is not without purpose, in addition to Ma Zishui connecting to the East China Sea, when Gongsun Du visited Wang Yu for the second time, he once stared at the world map drawn by Wang Yu, and sighed that there are so many oceans in this world.
According to Tai Shici's observation, Gongsun Du has a brief look at other places, and he is very concerned about those extreme northern coastal areas in the northeast of Liaodong.
Now he chose the refuge of the Goguryeo people to flee instead of other strategic locations, and was obviously ready to focus on those places near the sea in the northeast in the future. There is a large forest there, and there is an abundance of timber, just in time for the re-establishment of the water division.
As for the original sea ships of the Liaodong Naval Division, he didn't plan to ask for them, compared to the warships in Qingzhou, those ships really don't have much merit, so it is better to let them go first, and then directly come to a unified refitting in the future.
Tai Shi Ci believes that for an unstable element like Gongsun Du, he must be strictly punished, and he must not be allowed to take any chance.
Of course, Wang Yu will not care, and the competition will not destroy unity, but will increase motivation. The great maritime undertaking of the Chinese civilization has only just begun, and it is pointless to divide spheres of influence and suppress potential competitors now, and it will only fall into the model advocated by bureaucracy, which will not contribute to social progress.
drove Gongsun Du out of Liaodong, he was also out of helplessness, and he was a little regretful for a while, whether the decision was too hasty, and whether it was better to place Gongsun Du on the Bangmao Peninsula. Now that Gongsun Du has taken the initiative to choose the area from the northeast to Vladivostok and Sakhalin Island, it is too late for Wang Yu to be happy, so what is there to be wary of?
He just laughed and joked about Tai Shi Ci, otherwise he would hand over Wa Island to Tai Shi Ci in the future, so that he and Gongsun Du could live next to each other, so that they could be closely guarded.
Tai Shici shook his head like a drum, and said that he would not do it. First, he thinks that there is a problem with the way Wang Yu names it, why is it called such a disgusting name for a good island, if he becomes the owner of Wadao Island, he will not be laughed to death by future generations? Second, he felt that Wajima was too small to show his hands.
Wang Yu then asked, what place did he think was more suitable? Is it possible to go to Europe or Africa?
Tai Shi Ci smiled, raised his hand and pointed at the Americas, he felt that this place was big enough, and conquering this place was majestic.
Wang Yu thought it was very interesting.
Optimistically, during his and Tai Shici's lifetime, the Han Empire's sphere of influence might expand into Europe and go to war with the Roman Empire - the Huns who migrated westward in history walked for more than 200 years before finally settling in the Danube Valley. The Xiongnu are lost dogs, and the Han princes with the support of the Central Plains should not take that long.
But the Americas ...... Wang Yu believes that with the technical level of this era, it would be good to be able to explore the Americas, and if you want to conquer the Americas, you will have to wait at least two or three hundred years later, the distance is too far, almost across the Pacific Ocean, much farther than the voyage of Columbus to discover the New World in history.
Even if there is a fleet that can arrive, when a fixed route is formed and a large number of immigrants are immigrated, I don't know if it will be until the Year of the Monkey.
Of course, these are all later words, Wang Yu will not pour cold water on his henchmen, in life, it is better to have a goal than nothing, a person like Tai Shici, still expect him to be able to live a life with a wife and children?
After the idle talk, jīng power still has to be put on business.
The two armies marched out of Cyprus and marched north, and the affairs involved were not ordinary. Organizing manpower and deploying material resources are things that Zhuge Liang and other staff members Zhang Luo, but Wang Yu doesn't need to be very careful, but as a monarch, he also can't be alone, just watching the excitement from the side.
Although the production method of honeycomb coal was not kept secret from the second grandson, Gongsun Chan was not interested in these things at all, and there was no one in the army who was good at clever production, so he directly shook his hand and threw these things to Wang Yu.
In his words, as long as a warrior can hold a sword, it doesn't matter how the knife is made? Pengju, you only need to mark the price of these things, and then it will be convenient for the children to exchange them.
Gongsun Du was not as radical as Gongsun Zhan, but after visiting the Qingzhou Army's workshop, he also gave up the original intention of making his own products, and instead made a new suggestion to Wang Yu. He proposed to let the craftsmen of Liaodong stay in Qingzhou for a period of time, and it was okay to be apprentices in the workshop, and it would be better to choose excellent ones to study in Taishan Academy.
In Tai Shici's words, Gongsun Du is a weasel giving a New Year's greeting to a chicken, and before people enter the door, their minds are crooked. I don't know if I want to steal the teacher, and I still don't pay the tuition......
Of course Wang Yu doesn't care, it's not something with unique technical content, just learn it, can you prevent stealing teachers by hiding it? How did the Chinese cottages that became popular all over the world come about?
Qingzhou's current advantage is not one or two new technologies, but the promotion of productive forces that has gradually formed after the abandonment of the emperor's post-abandonment and comprehensive popularization of education.
In the past, it was said that the lack of universal education in Chinese history was due to the limitation of productive forces. But Wang Yu felt that this statement was quite nonsense, not to mention, in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, after such a long and fierce war, the grain of several major official warehouses was eaten until the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and it was exhausted!
What an amazing accumulation?
With so much grain, taking out a granary is enough to feed thousands of teaching gentlemen for a lifetime, right?
In ancient times, teaching was nothing more than the teacher's words and deeds, and there was no need for large libraries, let alone electrified classrooms or even laboratories, and it was really difficult to popularize education?
It is nothing more than the Confucian ruling doctrine, which the people can use but cannot know, and only a comprehensive policy of ignoring the people can ensure the monopoly position of the high-ranking lords.
Thinking of this, how could Wang Yu worry about Gongsun Du stealing the teacher? He couldn't have more imitators.
Wang Yu didn't shirk these things related to new technologies, although he had always emphasized that he only read a lot, and he had seen a lot of anecdotes from some ancient books, and he didn't know anything about technology.
But although most of the craftsmen are not emotionally intelligent, they are not fools, and no one believes Wang Yu's nonsense. On the surface, he nodded his head and wrote down all kinds of words, but as soon as he looked up, he left it behind, and asked Wang Yu enthusiastically and humbly how to make honeycomb coal, what precautions are there for the production of down jackets, and how to perfectly embed it into the assembly line......
There is no way, the sister of the Huang family is not here, and Wang Yu can only point out the tricks.
Of course, this is only a side matter, and his main jīng power should still be placed on military affairs. The affairs of Northern Xinjiang have been decided, and although he can't get away for a while, his attention must be shifted to the Central Plains.
is still the same sentence, no matter how grand the idea is, there will be no hope of realization after the Central Plains is pacified, and the three opponents who are coming together are not easy to get along, how can you deal with it carefully?
"Cao**, Sun Ce, Ma Teng......" (To be continued.) )