The new chief of the Water Supply Management Section of the Logistics and Supply Department of the Maritime Safety Administration looked serious, and after reading the order, he confirmed again, "Is it correct what is written on the document?" ”

"Do you think the court wants to entertain everyone?" The voice of the Chief of Logistics was full of malice.

After listening to this, the section chief also felt that what he said was too unreliable, and now the official documents of the imperial court are expository essays, and they are no longer argumentative essays or lyrical essays when the former scholars were in power. The requirement of the expository essay is truthfulness, and the possibility of public lies in the official documents of the imperial court is very small.

"I'll do it right away." The section chief bowed his head in agreement.

When he left the director's office, the section chief's face naturally showed joy that could not be hidden. Walking briskly back to his office, the section chief sat down in a chair, put Wen Gong on the table, and just read the title again, and his face was full of smiles. In the end, he couldn't hold back his joy, and the section chief simply leaned back in his chair and laughed. See the red headline of the document that reads 'On the Commencement of the Phase-out of Sailboats and Arrangements for the Supply of Boiling Water to Steam Vehicles and Vessels'.

The heat provided by the boilers of steam cars and ships can boil water, and boiling water is a more effective way to sterilize than anything else. The water storage tank of the steam car and ship no longer needs sterilization equipment such as silver flakes. There was no silver piece, only a ceramic water tank, and probably only the neurotic went back to steal it.

The section chief also felt that it was unseemly for him to laugh out loud like this, and he stood up and walked back and forth a few times, finally suppressing his happy mood. Strict inspections require a lot of manpower and material resources, and regulatory inspectors are also thankless tasks. This official document made the decision to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, and silver sterilization will become a thing of the past, and boiling water will become the standard configuration of the new era. The pressure brought by the previously tangled cases naturally became lower and lower until it became zero.

Happiness is just one thing. There is a lot of work in the Maritime Administration, and there has been a recent movement of a large number of ships to the north. It takes a lot of energy just to get these people things right. The section chief put away the joy of getting rid of the trouble, and began to work on his mind.

It's not just the fleet, the army, the equipment, and the logistics supply that are going north, but many departments are working this matter. Zhu Hongwu, the commander of the newly established Korean Military Region, who was in charge of this operation, was worried at his level about what latitude and longitude the border between the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo should be in the future.

China has long set up administrative institutions on the Korean Peninsula, and compared to the present day in 324 of the Great Song Dynasty, it has been more than 2,000 years since the remnants of the Shang Dynasty established the Jizi Joseon. Later, it was the four counties of the Han Dynasty, and then the three Han of the Tang Dynasty. Samhan's territory is south of the Han River, and there is no way to determine how south it is. After all, since the rise of the Khitan in the late Tang Dynasty, the Han people have lost control of the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. It was only last year that the Han Chinese army reached north of Yinshan again after 600 years. Zhu Hongwu is also a reader, and when he saw the newspaper comments, he burst into tears.

Zhu Hongwu was not the only one who discussed this matter, and the staff officers of the Liaodong Military Region Command were unable to find out the specific content from the pile of old historical papers, so they persuaded: "Commander Zhu, when the time comes, it will be counted wherever the battle goes." In short, leave some land for the Koreans, and we will not suffer losses ourselves, and that's it. ”

"The official family is so wise, we are so perfunctory, I am afraid that it will make the official family unhappy." Zhu Hongwu has infinite respect for the Zhao official family who restored the old land of the Han family.

The staff officers looked at each other, and the deputy chief of staff replied: "Commander Zhu, I think that with the meticulousness of the official family, if he really knows how to demarcate the border, he will definitely send a document." We've never heard of official pretenses. If you don't believe me, send a telegram to the official family and ask. The officials know everything about us. ”

was said by everyone, and Zhu Hongwu's thinking was also opened. Zhao Jiaren is indeed not a person who plays tricks, and what he didn't explain is basically something he doesn't know. If the Zhao official family didn't know about it, it was natural that his subordinates should work for the official family. Zhu Hongwu immediately said: "We will recover the old land for Huaxia." ”

The current location of the Liaodong Military Region is the city named Lushun by the Zhao official family, that is, a port at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula. It is a very good deep-water port, where ships and troops have already been assembled. On July 3, 324 of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhu Hongwu did not wait for all the follow-up troops to assemble, and set off by boat with a division of troops himself.

The destination of the fleet was Pyongyang, a famous city on the Korean Peninsula, which was also called Miseong because it was the capital of the Minzi Joseon Dynasty. Pyongyang has always been an important city in Korea, and the south of the Mongol province of Zhengdong is the former land of the king of Goryeo, so the prime minister's palace of the king of Goryeo's province is in the south. The real center of Mongol rule is in Pyongyang.

In Pyongyang, there is a river in Pyongyang, where the Taedong River flows into the sea, and the steam wagons and ships of the Song army fleet put down four 20-oared sail warships of the Song army at the mouth of the river. There was such a big movement, and someone on the shore had already noticed it. But the warship, armed with artillery, did not care about the enemy's reaction at all, and it was so arrogant to advance.

Two days later, a small city, Pyongyang, finally appeared in the telescope. The ships docked, and the troops disembarked. When the army cautiously approached the city of Pyongyang, they found that the Mongol army and the Mongols in the city had all run out. A careful search revealed that there were no Mongols in the city. I arrested the people in the city and asked, and these people were all Han Chinese. When I asked them, it was obvious that the language of these people was similar to that of the northern Chinese.

Asked where the Mongols had gone, the frightened locals quickly responded, "A little more than a day ago, those Mongols suddenly packed up their things and ran away, and we only know that they are heading north." I don't know where it is. ”

Naturally, the way north from Pyongyang is to Liaodong. When you enter Liaodong, you can escape to Helin, which is the capital of Mongolia and the Mongolian nest in Zhu Hongwu's heart. Zhu Hongwu could only send troops to search the vicinity, and at the same time send ships to measure the depth of the water on the river. If the fleet could sail directly to Pyongyang and land, it would save a lot of energy.

Three days later, another fleet arrived in Pyongyang, disembarked by a division commander who handed over the command of the troops to the chief of staff, who immediately came to see Zhu Hongwu. I wanted to say something polite after the meeting, but the division commander swallowed the polite words back into his stomach and asked tentatively: "Commander Zhu, what happened to you?" ”

Zhu Hongwu himself didn't notice that his brows were furrowed, he was full of puzzlement at this time, and just when he met someone who could tell, he asked the division commander to sit down, and then pointed to the map and said: "We sent scouts around, and most of the villages we saw were plundered by the Mongols. The farther south you go, the fewer people there are. Although I heard that the Mongols were plundering the population of Goryeo, I did not expect that the population of Goryeo would be so lost. ”

"How big is that?" The division commander tried to figure it out.

"The population of Pyongyang and nearby areas where horses run for a day is less than 10,000." Zhu Hongwu gave a more accurate answer.

At this time, there were about ten large cities with a population of more than one million in the Great Song Dynasty, half of which were in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and these cities were not only densely populated, but also surrounded by many towns and cities. The fact that the population of Pyongyang City and the nearby territory for a day was less than 10,000 was indeed surprising to the division. It is a place where the Great Song Dynasty is not rich, as long as it is a county seat, it will not be like this.

"What does Commander Zhu mean?" The division commander asked very cautiously.

"If there really isn't any population left in Goryeo, we may be able to dispose of it conveniently." Zhu Hongwu's brows were still unfurled.

"Commander Zhu thinks it's not good to have fewer people?" The division commander tried to find out the reason for Zhu Hongwu's unhappiness.

"It's hard to do things with fewer people." Zhu Hongwu was indeed worried about this. encountered such a problem when he was in Liaodong, although Zhu Hongwu wanted to kill all those female straights, but the female straightsters who defected to the Great Song Dynasty were still diligent and could be of some use. Those who opposed the slaughter were in the majority.

When the division commander heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said, "There are few people here, and there is a lot of land. If you tell more about the soldiers of our army, you can share more land by moving here, maybe they will come. ”

When Zhu Hongwu heard this, he could only smile wordlessly. The situation of other people's families is not easy to say, Zhu Hongwu's family was originally a Gaoyou landlord, but the land reform has been carried out, and there is no shortage of land at home. I don't know how much better the land of Goyou is than that of Goryeo. But Zhu Hongwu didn't want to let his family stay in Gaoyou to farm now, he tried to let his clansmen go to Hangzhou, Gusu, Jiangning, Yangzhou, and Songjiang Mansion to develop.

The city not only has a convenient life, but also a good education system. There are many errands to do after studying, and compared to farming in your hometown for the rest of your life, you will have a real future in the city. Because of his own opinion, Zhu Hongwu was very dissatisfied with the idea that the soldiers were willing to move to Goryeo.

The troops that recovered Goryeo this time were mainly to mobilize the Hebei Military Region and the Shandong Military Region, and four divisions soon arrived in Goryeo. There are steam vehicles and ships to and fro, and the logistical pressure is not great. The reconnaissance troops of the Great Song Dynasty searched the south of Pyongyang and saw the scourge of the Mongols on Goryeo. North of the Han River, all the cities are largely deserted. All the mighty granges outside the city have been breached, and only a few fish have escaped the net to secretly rely on a few pieces of land that continue to be cultivated to make a living.

When they were caught and asked, the stories told by the gang were all the same. In the past, the Mongols only required Goryeo to pay tribute, boys and girls, and various craftsmen. Since last year, the Mongols have taken matters into their own hands and sent Mongolian troops to sweep all over the country and arrest anyone they see. After being caught, the old man and those who are not fit for action are executed on the spot, and the others are all arrested.

In the past, Mongolia demanded population, and wealthy families in Goryeo were spared through connections. This time, the Mongols carried out a severe crackdown on the granges of the wealthy families of Goryeo, and the dilapidated granges were broken by the Mongols.

The Song army continued south, and after crossing the Han River, they saw that the situation was no different from that north of the Han River. The remnants told the Song army that the Mongols had not only launched a plunder. Rather, they came once every few dozen days, and the people who escaped at the beginning did not know the methods of the Mongols, and when they saw the Mongols retreating, they returned to their original places. The Mongols sneaked back to catch people, and there was nowhere to escape if they slipped through the net.

The troops continued southward and found that, according to measurements, if they continued to move south without stopping, they would reach the southernmost point of Goryeo within a day or two. At this time, Zhu Hongwu also felt that it was inappropriate, so he hurriedly sent a telegram to Hangzhou. Since Goryeo had been plagued like this, the Song army also built a telegraph station. The telegram soon sent the news to Pyongyang, from which it sailed to Lushun, and finally from Lushun to Hangzhou.

On the fourth day, Zhao Guan's family received a telegram. At first, Zhao Jiaren was quite satisfied with the diligence of the Mongol army, but when he thought about it, he felt that things were not so right. If Goryeo still had a basic state system, it could still coerce and induce the king of Goryeo to submit. The Mongols did it so thoroughly that the king of Goryeo was useless. The Great Song Dynasty had to expel the population personally. But what the Great Song Dynasty needed most at this time was a population that could be used by the state.

In the 21st century, Zhao Jiaren feels that the demographic dividend is that there are many young people. Back in the 13th century, Zhao Jiaren finally understood that a large population and a large demographic dividend are not the same thing. It's like ridiculing on the Internet that out of the 1.3 billion people in India, there are only 100 million people, and the other 1.2 billion people are mouths.

For example, the Great Song Dynasty has a population of 80 million, but there may not be 20 million that can be managed by the state. Of these 20 million, less than 10 million can really become soldiers. However, the 20 or 30 million people in Mongolia are under a very cruel and effective system, although the level of civilization is low.

The Great Song Dynasty needed to provide social support for the people, and Mongolia did not use it at all. The weak will die, and if they don't want to die, they will go to war as soldiers, and give them a share of what they have plundered from the outside world. In contrast, Mongolia is much more efficient in the use of manpower. So it wasn't until after the age of firearms that those barbaric nomads were completely overwhelmed and became the most vulnerable.

Now the Great Song Dynasty is of course very powerful, but the Zhao official family found that no one was willing to go to the most difficult place. Moreover, the system of the Great Song Dynasty was not as good as that of New China, and it was impossible to give an order, and the intellectual youth went to the mountains and countryside, and those people set off towards the great rivers and mountains of the motherland under the command of Zhao Guanjia. The sons of good families want to stay in their hometowns or develop in cities near their hometowns. To the distant Korean Peninsula...... Anyone who knows where the Korean Peninsula is has to be a fifth or sixth grade elementary school student. How can a baby with this education really go to those places.

Or simply move the capital. Zhao Jiaren even had such a thought. If the capital is moved, Zhao Jiaren can justifiably call on the people of the Great Song Dynasty to follow the official family to Henan. Based on Zhao Jiaren's evaluation of himself, he should have a certain appeal. Although tens of millions of people are not enough, at least 100,000 people can still be called for.

Let his thoughts fly for a while, and Zhao Jiaren finally retracted his thoughts. He gave a very pragmatic order to find out the prime minister of the Mongol expedition to the eastern province first. If the Goryeo royal family was really killed by the Mongols, Zhao Jiaren felt that he would simply rule Goryeo without any one left.

Zhu Hongwu, who received the information, considered whether to call back to Zhao Guan's family immediately. He has begun to search for the prime minister of the Mongol expedition to the east, but there is no clue so far. The Goryeo people encountered by the Song army either did not know that there was a prime minister in the eastern province of the Mongol conquest, or they did not know who the king of Goryeo was. All they knew was that the lords who ruled them were destroyed by the Mongols while guarding their property.

What to do next, Zhu Hongwu frowned and considered. After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't have any ideas. They can only deal with military affairs in a sullen manner. Although he knew that he was just a soldier and it was not his job to handle government affairs, Zhu Hongwu was still deeply unhappy. The frustration of not being able to solve the problem made Zhu Hongwu depressed.

The next day, Zhu Hongwu received another telegram from Zhao Guan's family. Looking at the newspaper, Zhu Hongwu hesitated and didn't want to open it. He really didn't want to see the criticism of the Zhao official family. In the end, Zhu Hongwu still opened it, and saw that the telegram was written, "Your ministry will deal with it locally first, and the imperial court will send some Japanese to Korea as soon as possible to help." ”

Seeing this order, Zhu Hongwu was overjoyed. The Shiban team of the Wa Kingdom was also a bit of a minor name in the Great Song army, and they used to be in charge of dangerous jobs such as gang jumping at sea. In recent years, he is known for his participation in the campaign against Sriwijaya. If there is help from these people, I think it can greatly reduce the difficulties of Zhu Hongwu's department. Using barbarians to deal with barbarians, Zhu Hongwu did not have the slightest mustard in his heart.

"Report to the commander, there is a telegram." The correspondent shouted.

"Read." Zhu Hongwu replied in a good mood.

"There were Mongol troops attacking Pyongyang and retreating after a short fierce battle with the defenders."

"......, tell them I'll go back right away!" After Zhu Hongwu finished speaking, Teng stood up. At this time, his heart was full of joy to be able to fight fiercely with the Mongols. The biggest purpose of going to Goryeo was to fight the Mongols, and if the Mongols really tried to retake Pyongyang, Zhu Hongwu could let go and fight the Mongol army.

Along the way, Zhu Hongwu wanted to fight the Mongol army, and after returning to Pyongyang, he immediately entered the headquarters and asked: "Where are the Mongol troops located now?" ”

"It seems that they have mobilized troops from Liaodong to attack Pyongyang." The staff officer immediately sent the latest information.

The Mongols had subjugated many Nüzhi tribes in Liaodong for decades, and the Nüzhi provided troops for the Mongols. According to the Great Song Dynasty's tree-cutting stronghold in Liaodong, Mongolia did not want to arm Liaodong women, so it only gave 4,000 places. A standing army of about 4,000 women was maintained.

Later, because of the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, Mongolia relaxed its suppression of women. It is said that a Mongolian nobleman of the Erjin family commanded hundreds of thousands of female households in Liaodong, and there were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. This force was in the central and northern parts of the Liaodong Peninsula, just at the junction of the Eastern Province and the Liaodong Peninsula. At the beginning, Zhu Hongwu thought that the Liaodong Military Region would first fight against this force and then enter the Korean Peninsula.

"How many people are there?" Zhu Hongwu asked.

"There were about thirty or forty thousand people. Cavalry is the majority. It's just that they've been harassing our army and don't know what they're going to do. ”

"When will there be an accurate reconnaissance?"

"The reconnaissance team has agreed to come back tomorrow."