In this era, there were no decent sailors and generals, at most hundreds of wooden boats on the rivers, and then fired rockets at each other, it was rare to have a few big ships, and I don't know how to apply the road, just like the one that took three years, "carrying 3,000 people, twice as much rice." He Zhouzai was stranded in the inland river, and Wu Zaishi set fire to it.

Therefore, Baili Wuji decided to use newcomers, and newcomers will receive quickly, and will not be swayed by old concepts, after all, ships equipped with artillery are already fighting differently than ever before.

So, Baili Wuji summoned Peng Xiao, poor Peng Xiao had only been in the special operations army for more than a month, and he had just become familiar with his face, and he was dismissed.

After talking to Baili Wuji, Peng Xiao's resentment disappeared.

The unique sailor of the Chu State, with huge ships and artillery. These alone can satisfy this young man who has just debuted.

Leaving him in the palace to communicate for ten days, Baili Wuji had already explained to Peng Xiao everything he could think of and had an impression of the artillery ship tactics, and specially took Peng Xiao to the armory workshop to actually watch the artillery shooting.

August 20.

Order of the King of Chu.

Ren Peng Xiao was appointed as the governor of the Xingwang Mansion, and immediately went to train 8,000 sailors.

Everything began according to the plan.

It's the end of the year in the blink of an eye.

Xu Shiming and Sun Guangxian reported this year's income to Baili Wuji.

The state of Chu has a total annual income of 15.57 million taels this year. Among them, the agricultural tax is 9 million taels, the commercial tax is 5.3 million taels, the salt tax is 600,000 taels, the iron tax is 300,000 taels, and the rest of the miscellaneous taxes are 370,000 taels. Including the tax revenue of the Southern Chu land.

Among them, 5 million taels of the 9 million taels of agricultural taxes are tea tax revenues, 1.5 million taels are cotton tax revenues, and 1 million taels are Dansha tax revenues, while the real grain taxes of Chu and the former Southern Han Dynasty add up to only 2.5 million taels. Baili Wuji knows that this is the reason why he reduced the grain tax to one out of ten.

But in general, the people have benefited, and that is more important than anything else.

After two years of accumulation, the reserves of sweet potatoes and rice in the official warehouses in various places have exceeded 10 million stones, and rice has exceeded 2 million stones.

When Xu Shiming wanted to say a few words, Baili Wuji stopped him with a smile and said, "Xu Xiang didn't seem to say that he confiscated the money of the Southern Han Emperor Liu Yan's treasury, right?" ”

"Uh......."

"This king can wait another two years." Baili Wuji pointed to the map and said.

……。

A new year is coming.

The news came.

In the first month of the sixth year of the Guangzheng reign of Hou Shu, Wang Tingzheng, the king of Fujian, was the younger brother of the Fujian emperor Wang Xi, and was called the emperor in Jianzhou, with the country name of Da Yin, and changed to Yuan Tiande. Since then, the country of Fujian has been divided into two.

In February, Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty took pills, but he did not succeed in ascending to immortality, and he did not want to die in his back, so he did not mourn, and he took Li Jing, the king of Qi, as the prisoner. A few days later, Fang Xuan's legacy system, on the first day of the third month, Li Jing was the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and changed the Yuan Baoda.

In the sixth year of Shu Guangzheng, the fifth day of the third month.

Yang Shi sent a messenger to report that the two ships of Xingwangfu and Zhenzhou Shipyard and Zhouzai were completed.

Baili Wuji led his guards to ride fast horses to Xingwangfu on the same day, and ordered the armory workshop to transport all the well-made artillery to Xingwangfu.

Four days later, I saw this legendary giant ship in the shipyard of Xingwangfu. Hezhou is as tall as a building, the bottom is wide at the top, the head and tail are high, and there are guard plates on both sides. The whole ship is divided into four layers, the lower layer is equipped with slate ballast, in order to facilitate stability, the second floor is the soldiers, the third floor is the main operation place, the upper floor is the combat site, condescending, bows and arrows and ballistas are sent down to the Lu, often able to defeat the enemy.

The head of Hezhou is high, and there is a strong impact device, which can plow and sink the enemy ship by pressing down on the wind, and win with more ship strength. With a draft of more than five meters, it can carry 4,000 armored soldiers and countless supplies.

Baili Wuji was deeply shocked in his heart, the craftsmen of this era were able to build such a magnificent ship. Such a length is enough for a single-sided configuration of eight guns.

Subsequently, Baili Wuji inspected the officers and men of the naval division who were training and delivered an impromptu speech. As much as he incited, he drew a huge pie for the sailors, telling them that on the other side of the sea, there were countless gold and silver, countless treasures, and countless beauties, and most importantly, the ocean could make the sailors win the highest honor in the Chu State.

Seeing the excited expressions of the sailors, Baili Wuji left satisfied.

Three days later, eight four-inch guns and four five-inch guns from the armory workshop arrived.

After Baili Wuji had someone demonstrate to Yang Shi and other craftsmen in the shipyard, he ordered them to carry out the modification at full speed. The requirement was to install eight four-inch guns on each side of the third level of the Hezhou ship, and then one five-inch gun on each side of the bow and stern. And replace the stone slabs on the bottom with lead blocks to save space and load more materials.

At the same time, it sent people to quickly send a message to the ordnance workshop, temporarily stopped the production of five-inch guns, and concentrated efforts on the production of 24 four-inch guns.

In order to prevent recoil and facilitate the loading of ammunition, each gun is equipped with a pedestal, which only needs to be pushed to the side window of the ship when firing, and quickly pushed back to the middle barrier after firing. At the same time, when there is no combat mission, the side window of the ship is closed, and outsiders cannot see what weapons are inside this window, which brings convenience to the secrecy of the artillery.

Only by surprise can we achieve good results.

Baili Wuji then inspected the 12 large cargo ships that had been built, and Yang Shi said that the merchant ship was based on the Canton ship, and the robustness and loading capacity were strengthened. The head is long, the beam arch is small, and the ridge arc of the deck is not high. The transverse structure of the hull was made up of tight ribs and bulkheads, and the longitudinal strength was maintained by the keel and the bulkhead. The structure is sturdy, and it has good seaworthiness and endurance. Each merchant ship carries more than 8,000 stone of cargo.

Baili Wuji told Yang Shi that after the two ships were refitted with artillery, they returned to Tanzhou and had another task assigned to him.

……。

Back at the Chu Wangfu in Tanzhou, Baili Wuji was stunned by a surprise, Meng Yanyi was pregnant.

The joy of being a father made Baili Wuji run to Meng Yanyi's west courtyard from time to time.

Unexpectedly, this move triggered a series of consequences.

Gao Rongrong had a huge sense of crisis about this.

It's not that Gao Rongrong made a ** attempt, but as a woman, she didn't get pregnant like Meng Yanyi, which gave her a sense of crisis.

She is afraid that if she will not have children in the future, she will lose her favor.

So, she began to think.

She needs help.

The first person that appeared in her mind was Lu Shiyun.

Women have an innate hostility towards women, and few women are able to trust another woman completely, especially between beautiful women, and this is even more pronounced.

Although Gao Rongrong knew about the existence of Lu Shiyun a few years ago, it was the first time she met today.

Gao Rongrong secretly came to Lu Shiyun's residence.

At first glance, Gao Rongrong was amazed. Such a woman should have belonged to heaven, but why did she fall into the mortal world?