Luo Wenhu returned to Haizhou that night with a frigate that had been blown up due to a mishandling error in the Battle of Hejin and three nearby gun emplacements were also damaged at the same time—directly west from Hangang Bay, there was a current in the sea south of the Shandong Peninsula to allow the navigation to pass quickly.

When passing through the sea area south of Jimo, they also met a sentinel ship of the Dengzhou Naval Division, but the enemy sentinel ship fled north when it met, and under the condition that there was no encirclement and annihilation, the military headquarters also strictly forbade the new warships to pursue the enemy sentry ships, so as not to expose the details of the new warships in advance.

On the afternoon of 12 April, Luo Wenhu escorted the prisoners of war ashore in Haizhou; Prisoners of war were handed over to a special person.

Lin Jian directly carried out the world in Haizhou, issued a general mobilization order, imposed an indefinite curfew on Jiangning and other cities, and when the new brigade and reserve brigade were formed, the main thing was to assemble in Shouzhou, Xuzhou, Nanyang and other places one after another.

At least on the day Luo Wenhu arrived in Haizhou, the military department was still creating a war atmosphere that the Northern Expedition would send troops from Xuzhou and advance north along Bian, Si, and the news of Hejin's victory was tightly sealed, and the generals below the battalion level did not know about it.

When I entered the city, I met an old man I knew when I was in Suizhou, and I wondered why he was suddenly transferred back to Haizhou.

As soon as Luo Wenhu settled down in the post house, the General Staff sent someone to inform him that he had eaten the evening newspaper and went to the headquarters to report. How could Luo Wenhu be in the mood to have dinner at the inn? He hurriedly washed up, took the latest division plan of the Haidong marching army, and rushed directly to the headquarters office to wait for the summons.

Luo Wenhu rushed to the government office, and soon someone came to inform him that he was going to the inner courtyard, only to see Lin Jian and Cao Ziang, Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Zhou Pu, Ge Cunxin, Sun Jingtang and other senior generals eating around the table.

Seeing Luo Wenhu coming over, Lin Jian pointed to the table and said, "I thought you would come over later, did you have dinner?" Seeing that Luo Wenhu was about to refuse, he waved his chopsticks and pointed to the table, and instructed to wait, "Add a pair of chopsticks to Luo Wenhu, and there is no way to talk about things when you are hungry." ”

Zhou Pu and Ge Cunxin moved a place between them and asked Luo Wenhu to sit down.

Luo Wenhu thought that he had known this, so it was better to come back after eating in the post house, and he was full of anxiety among the senior generals and ministers, and he had a meal in a restrained manner. After the meal, the other generals were all busy, only Song Fu, Gao Zongting, and Cao Ziang stayed behind and accompanied Lin Jian to inquire about Luo Wenhu Haidong's affection.

"You've been in Haidong for more than two years," Lin Jian asked Luo Wenhu to sit down casually at the long table, and asked, "This time, you have also spent more than two days on the same boat with Cui He, in your opinion, can the military department put some of the chips on Cui's body......

Luo Wenhu thought that the military department urgently escorted Cui He back to Haizhou, and he must have wanted to find another way to solve the Goryeo issue, but he couldn't figure out the military department's plan in the overall situation for a while, and he felt a little difficult to answer when he heard Lin Jian directly ask such an important question.

Seeing that Luo Wenhu was a little hesitant, Gao Zongting explained the overall situation of Goryeo by the general's headquarters next to him: "The Zhen family hopes to completely overthrow the Goryeo royal family and replace the Li family as the king of Goryeo; However, this is not conducive to the quick resolution of the Goryeo issue. Zhen Feng's army in Haiyang was itself under the banner of the Qing monarch's side, and the military department was considering whether to retain the Goryeo royal family and only aim to eliminate the Goryeo Prime Minister Zuo Jing and his cadres, so that Goryeo could quickly recover from chaos and restore the people's livelihood? ”

Listening to Gao Zongting's slight explanation, Luo Wenhu wanted to understand.

The Goryeo Prime Minister Zuojing's forces that had surrendered to Yanhu must be eradicated, and the 20,000 Donghuma infantry who were fighting in Goryeo at this time must also be resolutely eliminated, but the military department did not want Zhen to replace Lee as the king of Goryeo who controlled the Goryeo Peninsula.

Lin Jian saw that Luo Wenhu was thoughtful, but he was expecting him to have some opinions.

Generally speaking, the new regime will have a stronger vitality to keep up with the self-motivation, and the new bureaucracy will be more clean and efficient. Once the Zhen clan replaced the Yi clan and rebuilt the Goryeo royal court, Goryeo would likely have a chance to rise in the following decades, which was not in the interests of the new empire in Haedong.

A relatively good plan is to retain the Goryeo royal family and let the Zhen clan replace the Zuo clan in Goryeo at this time, but there are also other forces in Goryeo that can counterbalance the Zhen clan - this plan can reduce the senseless sacrifices of the Haidong camp army in the Goryeo civil war, and can quickly relieve the current situation in Goryeo, and can also slightly limit the excessive rise of the Zhen clan.

Lin Jian hoped that Cui Quanchen, Cui He and his son could become the key promoters of this plan, so he urgently asked Ma Yigong to send the captured Cui He from Luo Wenhu to Haizhou.

Luo Wenhu said: "With the secret permission of Governor Chen, the last general has talked to Cui He several times on the ship. Goryeo's traitorous minister Zuo Jing used Cui Quanchen because he had to rely on Cui Quanchen's ability to govern the navy, but in the early years, Cui Quanchen was not promoted for many years as the commander of Shannan County, and he had nothing to do with Zuo Jing's family of officials. After Ye Ji Baishi went to Shaocheng to lead the troops, he was frivolous, and he had no respect for the veteran Cui Quanchen, and often called and drank, and the children of the Cui family were also dissatisfied with this; It's just that Donghu has always been strong in Goryeo and has a large-scale garrison, so Choi had to swallow his anger. Again, as seen by the last general, Cui He also seems to be so frightened that the fire god crossbow is so frightened that he has no will to fight - Cui Quanchen is more loyal to the royal family, if he does not abolish the Goryeo royal family, and kills the traitor Zuo Jing and helps to get rid of Hu Lu, such a condition should be able to make the Cui family accept ......"

"Since Wenhu said so, then I'll see Cui He." Lin Jian said, and ordered the attendants to go to the prison and bring Cui He over.

Just as Luo Wenhu said, when Cui He was guarding the main fortress of Flying Bird Mountain, he was afraid of the power of intensive artillery bombardment, and he had no will to resist, but in the end, there were still some demeanors of children of the family, and many years of experience in leading troops to fight, which also made him strong-boned.

Lin Jian didn't intend to talk to Cui He directly, but just asked some trivial questions about whether the captives could get used to life and whether there were any other requirements, so he asked someone to take Cui He down and said: "This court has also heard that you have a good reputation in Hanyang in Jiangning, so I shouldn't treat you like this." It's just that Goryeo was originally a vassal state of our dynasty, but it aided and abetted the abuse, so that this court had to send troops to suppress it. You are relieved to stay here, and if you have any requirements, you should ask for it, and when the fighting stops, I will consider sending you back to Goryeo......" instructed the following to change Choi Hyuk to house arrest and make him temporarily meditate in Haeju for a few days.

Choi Hyuk is Choi Quanchen's second son, but Choi Quanchen's eldest son has died on the battlefield, and Choi Quanchen is old, and Choi Hyuk is the natural heir of the Choi family. Cui He actually doesn't have much choice, Lin Jian is not worried that Cui He will refuse the conditions he offers, but is worried that Cui He can't support Adou.

After Cui He took him down, Lin Jian smiled and said: "This Cui He, he can still maintain some bearing after being captured, he is a good candidate......

"Walking around Haizhou City, don't you restrain him too much, let him have more knowledge?" Gao Zongting asked.

He wanted to make the new school system develop, but he could not actually stop it from spreading to the surrounding areas.

Jianghuai is in great need of high-quality coal from the south of Goryeo, which has actually led to the rapid development of Goryeo's coal mining industry. The great need for copper and silver from Kyushu Island has actually made great strides forward in the copper smelting and silver smelting technology of Kyushu Island - these are unavoidable things, and Zhen Feng, Saga Yoriyuan, Jinxiang Tsuno and others are themselves pragmatic and realistic heroes, with the example of the Huaidong Army in front, so that they have paid great attention to learning Huaidong's new school and new policy system in recent years, and have taken the lead in practicing Huaidong's new school and new policy in their respective spheres of influence in recent years.

Yan Hu's overall speed of promoting new learning is limited, but after all, he has twenty or thirty million Dingkou, and the actual scale of talents that can be gathered is also considerable, coupled with the high attention of individual powerful figures, he has shown a very good ability in imitating specific techniques - Lin Jian thought to himself that if there was a truce for two or three years after the Battle of Hejin, maybe Yan Hu would be able to create quite a well-watered artillery according to the actual shooting of artillery.

At this time, whether it was artillery, steam engines, or telescopes, they were all breakthroughs based on traditional craftsmanship, and they belonged to the level where you could see the light by piercing the window paper, and there was no bottleneck in the technical principle - and if the new empire wanted to popularize new education, there were some basic things that could not be kept secret. Some basic things should also be kept strictly secret, and universal education cannot be carried out, which in fact will only seriously limit one's own development.

Lin Jian could not prevent the Zhen, Saga and Jinxiang clans and even Yanhu and other foreign clans from imitating and learning from Huaidong's new school and new policy system. In fact, if you don't want the new empire to rest on its laurels, and if you don't want the new empire to stop moving forward after achieving some great achievements, you must have competitors.

But equally, Lin Jian also had to consider the potential for a substantial threat to the new empire from weakening these competitors.

Lin Jian will use the Cui clan to balance the Zhen clan in Goryeo in the future, if the Cui clan is complacent and still sticks to the traditional set, it will naturally not be Zhen's opponent, and Lin Tie has no way to prevent the Zhen clan from completely grasping the power of Goryeo, so that Cui He can see and open his eyes in Haizhou, which is actually quite necessary.

Lin Jian thought about it, nodded, and said to Luo Wenhu: "Then you will accompany Cui He and carefully explore what is going on in his mind." In addition to the military secrets above the secret level, you might as well introduce more to him. If the locking of the coastal defense line is smooth, you might as well ask him to go north with the army, or you can have a more intuitive feeling. ”

At this time, a guard came in to report: "Zhao Qingshan, the commander of the Southeast Water Division, and Yue Zhi, the deputy commander, ask to see ......."

"Invite them in...... Lin Jian stood up with the table propped up, looked at the door, and greeted Zhao Qingshan and Yue Zhi in.

Luo Wenhu only knew that the main force of the Southeast Naval Division had also been secretly transferred to the vicinity of Haizhou, and the first task force had finished supplying ammunition on Hejin Island, and there were almost no losses in the Battle of Hejin, and it could be put into another battle at any time......

Seeing that Luo Wenhu was about to get up and leave, Lin Jian left him and said, "You stay." I'll tell you about the situation later. ”