Li Zhi was a little apprehensive in his heart, he heard that many people in Beijing were good men, and as soon as he was joked, he always thought about it and trembled a little.

He hesitated at the door for a long time before reaching out and knocking.

"Come in." It was Yu Jingning who opened his mouth.

Li Zhi heard this voice, and it sounded like a young man about the same age as himself, so he pushed the door in with confidence.

"The prince? Scholar Tam? Li Zhi had met these two people, although he didn't know each other very well, but Li Zhi could match their faces with their names.

"Here we are." The first to speak was Tan Huaiju, who was still holding a teacup in his hand, "You are a student of Brother Bochao, I remember that my uncle accepted a student, you call him Li Zhi, right?" ”

"Exactly down there." Li Zhi bowed to the two of them.

"Sit down, don't be too restrained." Yu Jingning rushed to humanity.

Tan Huaiyu continued to smile at the people and put the cup down: "The prince and I originally planned to talk about some political affairs in this restaurant, but I never thought that this downstairs was also discussing politics, so I listened to it on a whim. Li Shilang is a young man, I heard that the last Guozi Prison and the group of prisoners admonished in the rain, and you are the leader, isn't it. ”

Li Zhi nodded his head implicitly.

"The two of us now want to invite you to discuss politics together, presumably if your teacher Chen Bochao is present, he will also approve of us bringing you." Tan Huaiyu beckoned Xiao Er to pour tea for Li Zhi, and added another pair of dishes and chopsticks, "You have just used the meal, now you want to use some more with us, if you don't want to use it, it's good to just drink some tea." ”

"Oh, yes." Tan Huaiyu suddenly remembered something, "Do you drink?" If you drink wine, you can drink two glasses with the prince. Tan Huaiyu himself doesn't drink very much, and when he talks to Yu Jingning, he always uses tea instead of wine

Li Zhi thanked the two of them, and sat down upright.

Yu Jingning and Tan Huaiyu asked him how he studied in Guozijian and so on, and after greeting for a while, they quickly cut to the chase.

"The current troubles are indeed inseparable from the closure of the sea ban." Yu Jingning didn't eat a few bites of food, so he put down his chopsticks and concentrated on speaking, "But now that there is a war, there is really no way to mention the reopening of the sea ban at this time, so I can only postpone the discussion. ”

Li Zhi pricked up his ears and listened quickly, eager to take out a small notebook to write down what Tan Huaiyu and Yu Jing said, but he almost didn't have eight hands.

"I used to stay in Liaodong, and at that time I thought that as long as I built a solid defensive line, there would be no more invasions, but now I think this is not a big test at sea." Yu Jingning flexed his index finger and knocked on the table, "Daheng's fight against the Japanese invaders has not ended for so long, but it has intensified, from the perspective of civil officials, it is indeed inseparable from the blockade of the Thirteen Ports, but if you look at it from the perspective of the generals, you can see more different things." ”

"Daheng's coastal defense space is empty. I read the previous anti-Japanese war reports, all of them were Japanese landing, and then the anti-Japanese guards drove them to the sea, although there were also naval divisions and coastal battles, but most of them were this combat routine. We've never really fought them at sea. Yu Jingning said.

"So?" Li Zhi listened for a long time, and finally relieved himself from the discomfort of why he didn't bring a pen and paper, and said, "So, we are just forced to defend, and when the Japanese invade land, we will drive them out." However, the Wako were extremely familiar with the sea, and once they were allowed to escape to the sea again, they would have completely escaped the control of Daheng. In this way, the Japanese are like wildfires that burn inexhaustibly, and the spring breeze blows and grows, killing them inexhaustibly, and driving them inexhaustible. ”

"That's right." Tan Huaiyu said with a smile, "I have the northwest cavalry and the Sichuan army in the infantry, but there is no strong naval division. ”

"When I was in Liaodong, I met the sailors on Juehua Island." Yu Jingning continued, "There are only a few cannons, and the guns are almost useless. Don't say that, some soldiers don't even have armor, and they can't be compared with the other military branches. Although Jiangnan is rich, I always feel that it is not necessary to be any better, the ship of the Great Heng Sailor is still the style of the early years of Longwu, and it was indeed a first-class ship back then. But now, these ships can't withstand heavy guns at all, and how can the light Franc cannons withstand when they really encounter a sea battle. Small-scale battles can be won by 'odds', but if a big battle is really fought, it is still fought with manpower and material resources, as well as firearms and cannons. ”

Yu Jingning is a military general, and the angle of seeing things is naturally different from Tan Huaiyu, he has seen the land of Liaodong, and he set out to build the Liaodong defense line himself, and directly incorporated the Wuliangha Sanwei into the Liaodong Capital Division, but he has not seen what the southeast is like.

"If no one offends me, I will not offend anyone. However, Daheng must not fall into such a situation of being passively beaten. Yu Jingning glanced at Tan Huaiyu and frowned, "If you can, I also want to ask for an order to go to the Southeast Front, but this matter is ...... Difficult. ”

The Sichuan army is indeed the best choice to send to aid Nanjing, if Yu Jingning really wants to go, then he has to squeeze Lin He out, but ...... It is rumored that Lin He is a mediocre person, but although this person is mediocre, there is nothing wrong with him, so there is no reason to kick him back to Shuzhong.

If Yu Jingning had to do this, it would look like he was fighting against dissent in the party and excluding dissidents, which would not only be not beneficial to the Yu family, but also to the entire new faction.

But if Yu Jingning went to the southeast, but he didn't have a military rank, then how should he meddle in the defense of the southeast?

Tan Huaiyu comforted: "Virtuous brother doesn't have to be anxious first, now the matter of coastal defense, far-sighted people see it, and it is imperative to consolidate coastal defense." It is indeed difficult to do it now, but if the war in the southeast is over and General Lin returns to Shuzhong, there is no chance. The top priority now is to tell the emperor the truth of this matter at the court meeting, and the emperor is only now in power, and when he really accepts his opinions, he will definitely be able to understand and adopt our opinions. ”

Yu Jingning nodded at the person, and Li Zhi also echoed beside him: "What Scholar Tan said is that there must be a way." ”

"I heard Brother Bo Chao say that our military factory has begun to supply now, let's not mention the matter of money. The newly made flintlock gun can first provide a batch of support to the southeast battlefield. And ......," Tan Huaiyu smiled, "Since the prince has mentioned it now, then we might as well talk about this idea with the military factory, and let the factory build a new warship for Daheng." ”