The Han Navy's mission was to explore the charts of the East China Sea, and it also served as a fishing mission when there was a shortage of food, making outstanding contributions to enriching the food variety of the Han people. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

By now, both tasks have been almost accomplished. The chart of the East China Sea is very detailed, including the distribution of islands in the East China Sea, the distribution of reefs, the types and distribution of fish, the activity of some ocean currents, and the changes in the monsoon.

These things are important references for navigation and fishing. If it is said that the two tasks of the Han Navy on the surface have been completed well, then there is another mission hidden in the shadows that can be said to be nothing.

This hidden mission is to search for and exterminate the remnants of Soochow. In the past few days, all the ships of the navy that can go to sea have been scattered, and the entire East China Sea has been plowed and all the desert islands have been searched, even on a large island like Yizhou, Guan Gong has sent tens of thousands of troops to land on the island and search the entire island.

However, they have never been able to find the remnants of the Eastern Wu who went to sea in a hurry, as if these ships had all disappeared out of thin air. Guan Gong also guessed whether these people would encounter wind and waves and have already been buried in the sea.

In the vast sea, even if a fleet of 10,000 people is put into it, it is no different from a flat boat, especially the backward shipbuilding technology of this era, not to mention in the sea, even on the river may not be safe, it is conceivable that as long as the Soochow fleet encounters a decent typhoon, even if it will not be wiped out, it will lose seventy or eighty percent.

Well, in fact, everything is speculation, although many ministers who know the inside story, including the navy and the DPRK, do not support continuing the search, thinking that there is no need to waste huge manpower and material resources on this kind of lost dog, but Liu Hou and Guan Gong still insist on doing so.

The reason why Guan Gong insisted on not letting go of the remnants of Eastern Wu was because he hated Lu Xun and those Eastern Wu monarchs and ministers who participated in framing him, so even if he knew that these people who had gone overseas no longer posed much threat to the Han Dynasty, he still refused to give up, vowing to kill all these people before he gave up.

However, the reason why Liu Hou insisted on searching for the remnants of Eastern Wu was based on strategic deployments such as training the navy, cultivating an ocean-going fleet, and expanding overseas territories, and these deployments were not suitable for public explanation, so as not to arouse opposition from conservative Confucian ministers.

Relatively speaking, the excuse of pursuing an enemy seems more reasonable and acceptable to the average person. Of course, top wise men and old foxes like Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi can faintly perceive that the emperor is so concerned about pursuing the remnants of Eastern Wu, and it seems that his motives are more than that simple, but they are all smart people, and even if they know anything, they will not talk nonsense.

The reason why Liu Hou was suddenly interested in reorganizing the navy was because he was inspired by the change of commander and reorganization of the Tubo Legion, and he also moved the idea of reorganizing the navy into a new type of army. He wanted to copy the model of the reorganization of the Tubo Army and formally merge the Han Navy into the Hong Army sequence.

And if you want to transform the Han Navy from an old-style army to a new-style army, the first thing to do is to uproot the conservative forces in the army. Of course, this kind of uprooting is not killing, after all, even if it is a conservative force, it is also a meritorious man in the Han army.

The only way to make way for these conservative personnel who are hindering the reorganization of the army is to treat them mildly, such as transferring, promoting, retiring, re-educating and returning to service. How to do this depends on each person's situation.

Liu Hou of the Tubo army didn't have to care too much, just throw it to Zhang Bao and Pang Tong to have a headache, and it was too far away from the capital, so he couldn't manage it if he wanted to. But he had to take care of the Han Navy, because there was a boss-level conservative here, and it was still full.

Zhang Fei, the boss of the Tubo Legion, was seriously ill and weak, no matter how much he had ideas, he could no longer interfere in the affairs of the Tubo Legion, and after he knew that it was his son who took over his position, he just scolded: "What can this rabbit cub do." After that, he completely left it alone.

But the Han Navy has always been in the hands of Guan Gong, and Guan Gong is still alive, and it is not easy to let him retreat. He is different from Zhang Fei, he is a very arrogant person, if you directly tell him to let him retire and enjoy Qingfu, it will definitely be no way.

He didn't think he had reached retirement age at all, in fact, there were no strict retirement age regulations in that era, theoretically executives like him could live to old age, as long as he could still get on the horse, who would dare to let him retire?

In fact, no one cares about age, sometimes prestige is more important than age. With his current status, even if he can't ride a horse and sit in a wheelchair now, he can continue to do it as long as he wants to.

Isn't Zhuge Liang often sitting in a wheelchair and directing wars with a goose feather fan?

What's more, Guan Gong is simply a person who does not accept old age, and he even thinks that he can still carry a knife to kill the enemy.

Therefore, Guan Gong is actually the biggest obstacle to the restructuring of the navy, and with him, he doesn't want to move the navy at all. And if you want to dismiss Guan Gong, the normal way will not work, I am afraid you will have to use some tricks. Although Liu Hou knows a lot of future scientific and technological knowledge, he is actually not good at intrigues and tricks, at least compared to those top strategists in the Three Kingdoms era.

Fortunately, he is not fighting alone now, he can now be said to be a fierce general like a cloud, a strategist like rain, and it will not be bad to get someone under his command to come over and give him advice. But it's not easy to say it publicly, because it's a bit of a suspicion of calculating your uncle, and it's not good to say it, so it's better not to make a big fuss.

So, Liu Hou summoned his military adviser Sima Yi over. Guan Yu's matter belongs to the military, so naturally it is not good to bother the ministers of the cabinet, and the cabinet auxiliary ministers are usually more sanctimonious, all of them boast of being gentlemen, and they are all respectful and upright in handling things, so it is best for Yang Mou to find them, and those "special advisers" of him should be found for conspiracy and trickery.

Sima Yi was the best of these "special advisers", so Liu Hou thought of him for the first time and summoned him to ask questions. Sima Yi really didn't disappoint him, after Liu Hougang finished talking about the situation, he immediately gave a solution, maybe in his opinion, such a simple problem is simply not a matter.

Sima Yi's solution is indeed very simple: in the name of Zhang Fei's critical illness, summon Guan Gong back to Chang'an to meet, and then slowly draw him. If necessary, you can ask Zhang Fei to help persuade you.

Liu Hou was overjoyed when he heard this, and this plan did have a great success rate. The biggest obstacle to Guan Gong's dismissal is that others are far away in Jianye, the emperor is far away, and others are more stubborn, if he refuses to hand over the military power, relying on Jianye, Liu Hou really has no way at all, can he still let people arrest him?

Liu Hou didn't want people to point his nose and scold him for being ungrateful, crossing the bridge and drawing boards, and disowning his relatives, and a tyrant who began to kill loyal ministers when he won the world, so he could only take a peaceful way to "trick" him back to Chang'an.

As long as others return to Chang'an, it will be much easier. Therefore, the biggest difficulty in this matter is how to make him return to Chang'an willingly. The excuse Sima Yi made can be said to be extremely good and reasonable.