8th year of Qi Tianbao (557 AD)

In this year in the Southern Dynasty, the wonderful Chen Ba defeated the invading Northern Qi army twice in the year before (the fourth year of Chengsheng) and last year, and maintained stability south of the Yangtze River.

said that Chen Baxian is strange because his experience is completely legendary.

At first, Chen Baxian was just a small official in the countryside, and his rank was probably equivalent to that of a village official in later generations. Later, with the ambition of serving the country, he came to Jiankang (now Nanjing), the capital of Southern Liang, to be a small official guarding the oil depot.

After being appreciated by Xiao Ying, the nephew of Emperor Wu of Liang, he began to rise to prominence, and became famous for his meritorious service in quelling the rebellion in Lingnan with Xiao Ying.

In the end, what made Chen Baxian's emperor cause was the famous "Hou Jingzhi's 'Rebellion'".

By quelling the "Hou Jingzhi 'Rebellion'", the meritorious Chen Baxian gradually controlled the military and political power of the Liang Dynasty, and then successively defeated the famous Southern Liang general Wang Shengbi and others, and in the second year of Taiping (557 AD), that is, in October this year, he will replace the Southern Liang as emperor.

In the Northern Dynasty

In this year, the Northern Zhou Dynasty replaced the Western Wei Dynasty, and by seeking the land of Yiliang and the two states of Southern Liang in the "Hou Jingzhi 'Rebellion'", and also seized the northern part of the land of Jingxiang, it became a powerful country.

The ambitious Yuwen Hu kicked away the puppet Emperor Wei Gong, and made his uncle Yuwen Tai's third son Yu Wen Jue the emperor, and then with his young age, Yu Wen Hu held military and political power.

And Gao Yang, Emperor Wenxuan of the Northern Qi Dynasty, struck a blow the year before last, and had just defeated the original steppe overlord Rou and then invaded the Turkic Ili Khan with great ambitions, so that he was forced to call himself a minister.

The Northern Qi Dynasty, which freed up its 'fine' forces on the northern front, suddenly discovered that the Western Wei Dynasty had achieved such a big cake in the 'chaos' of Hou Jingzhi in the Southern Liang.

Immediately, Emperor Wen Xuan of Northern Qi Gao Yang was envious, jealous and hateful! Tens of thousands of troops were immediately sent south, but they were repelled by Chen Ba first, and then sent troops the following year, but they were still defeated and retreated.

However, although the two troops were repulsed, the Northern Qi still took the Huainan region of the Southern Liang and expanded the territory to the north bank of the Yangtze River, looking across the river from the Southern Dynasty.

At this time, the national strength of the Northern Qi Dynasty had reached its peak in history.

The 'spring' day is the season of the year when all things are full of vitality and growth, and the Southern Dynasty is dormant in the ruins, slowly regaining its strength. In the nascent Northern Zhou Dynasty, the national strength is growing rapidly. The Northern Qi Dynasty, which has always been proud of its strength, has slowly become weak in the quiet.

On April 21, thousands of people on the wharf in Muping, Changguang County, looked at the sea as if they were waiting for something.

Wang Yong, Cheng Chong, Zhu Rui, Lu Wen, etc. were all impressively listed, but Zheng Kui stood behind Wang Yong.

Since he was rescued by Wang Yong that day, he said that he didn't want to sit on the fifth 'handover' chair of the cottage, but only wanted to become Wang Yong's personal guard.

At this time, a young man who looked to be eleven or twelve years old strode over, saluted everyone, and asked, "Daddy, why hasn't the sixth brother's fleet arrived yet?" It turned out to be Wang Ze, who had reached the age of eight.

Over the past few years, Wang Ze has practiced martial arts with the lion cub camp for at least two hours a day, and has plenty of meat, eggs, poultry and fish every day, and has to drink a big bowl of cow 'milk' every day.

Under his leadership, it has become a common practice for young people to drink cow 'milk', but fortunately, the herd under the control of the cottage has expanded to nearly 30,000 heads, which is enough to meet the demand.

Wang Yong is tall, eight feet five inches long, so Wang Ze, who looks quite like Wang Yong, has grown like an eleven or twelve-year-old boy at the age of eight.

Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu, who have been Wang Ze and fart worms for several years, only followed at this time, and Zhu Bofu panted and shouted: "Da Lang, you are too powerful now!" I can't catch it! ”

"It's time for you to '' well! Deserve to be tired like a dead dog! But it was Cheng Hu beside Zhu Bofu who spoke.

Cheng Hu is now getting stronger and stronger, and his height is as tall as Zhu Bofu, who is nearly thirteen years old, but his honest face remains the same.

After three and a half years of exercise and abundant diet, the children who grew up in Shanzhai were generally taller than their parents. Lu Wen and the others smiled and watched a few people playing with each other, only Wang Yong smiled at everyone: "This kid is still young and has no patience!" ”

Then he said to Wang Ze: "Don't worry, don't worry, your sixth brother said that he arrived today, and he must arrive today!" Wait! ”

At this time, Cheng Chong, who had already endured the patience of 'sex' waiting, shouted loudly: "Come on, I see the sails!" ”

Everyone hurriedly looked towards the sea, although there was a faint black spot, it was a little blurry, and it didn't seem to have Cheng Chong's good eyes.

At this time, Wang Ze was unhurried, took out a long tube from his body and held it in front of him, Zhu Bofu squeezed over curiously, forced to look at it, and was suddenly startled: "Mom, what is this?" How can you suddenly see so far? ”

Wang Ze hurriedly grabbed it and said unhappily: "I've been with me for a few years, and I'm still making such a fuss, this is the telescope I told you a long time ago!" ”

A few years ago, when the school was first established, Wang Ze once obtained a clear and transparent East China Sea 'jade', that is, the East China Sea crystal, which was ground into a convex lens, and in the next few years, he did not find another piece of water 'jade' of the same quality.

It wasn't until last month that I found a similar piece, and then after pondering, it took more than a month to make this relatively rudimentary telescope.

Wang Yong saw that the two people around him actually came up with a novelty, and he also wanted to see what his son had researched.

So he opened his mouth to come over, and when he raised it in front of him, he was stunned, and the sea ship in the distance was the fleet led by Qu Liulang and Sun Xing, which had been set off for more than three months. Although the people on the boat couldn't see their faces clearly, they could still recognize Sun Xing and Qu Liulang.

Cheng Chong and Zhu Rui next to him heard that this telescope was so magical, and they were vying to see what was going on. In the end, Zhu Rui still couldn't fight for the process.

"Hmph, brother, I don't know how to let my brother go!" Zhu Rui, who failed to compete for the telescope, expressed his dissatisfaction on the side, "Beihai Kong Rong knew how to give the big pear to his brother when he was three years old."

"Kong Rong gave his brother a pear, because he was afraid that if he didn't give it to his brother, he would be beaten by his brother behind his back!" Cheng Chong listened to Zhu Rui's words, and said such a sentence without looking back, and Zhu Rui was dumbfounded.

Let Lu Wen next to him shake his head when he heard this, and muttered in his mouth: "It's really insulting to the sage!" ”

Wang Yong also laughed, Cheng Chong is sometimes so unscrupulous.

After another half an hour, the fleet saw clearly, and everyone on the shore had no intention of speaking, and watched the fleet slowly approach the dock.

The ships are all 3,000 stone class sea ships newly built last year, using fine elm, locust wood, oak wood and other materials.

When Xiao Jing came to invest three years ago, he brought nearly 1,000 shipwrights, including dozens of master craftsmen, and Wang Ze wanted to build ships at that time. However, according to the shipwrights, the construction of a ship requires the cutting of fine hardwoods that have been dried for three years.

Otherwise, there will be a danger of permeability and falling apart at any time when sailing at sea, and even if it does not fall apart, it will break down in two or three years.

In desperation, he had to cut down the ship's timber and build a shipyard first. Then these craftsmen were idle, so Wang Ze organized them and began to study new ship types.

The sea ships built by these craftsmen in the past were similar to the treasure ships of later generations, although the safety and 'nature' could be better, but the speed of navigation was too slow for Wang Ze to accept.

In order to improve the enthusiasm of the shipwrights, Wang Ze also set up a bonus, as long as a useful improvement method was proposed, the minimum was one or two gold.

It took a lot of money to 'spend' a year, to initially determine eight styles of sea vessels, and then to 'spend' another year to build experimental ships.

Finally, in the seventh year of Tianbao, the final four prototypes were determined, and eight large sea ships were built to ensure quality. It used to take more than ten days to get from Muping Wharf to the mouth of the Liaohe River, but now it only takes five days to arrive.

This time, Sun Xingqu Rokuro led his team to set off after the 16th day of the first lunar month, and their mission was to explore the sea trade routes to Goguryeo, Baekje and other countries on the eastern peninsula.

At this time, the boat docked, Qu Liulang was young after all, and he got down from the gangplank to the dock early, and saw that Wang Yong and others were waiting not far away, so he hurriedly ran over to greet him.

"Rokuro traveled far this time, but he suffered, and everyone was a lot darker!" As soon as Wang Yong came up, he asked for warmth, which was also from his heart, Liulang had followed himself since he was a child, and he had long been like a relative.

Qu Liulang was about to see the courtesy, but his eyes turned red at Wang Yong's words: "Lang Jun, Liulang is not bitter, but it makes you worry!" ”

While speaking, Sun Xing also got off the boat and came to everyone, and after greeting everyone, he said to Wang Yong: "Great commander, fortunately, I will return safely!" ”

As he spoke, he had to report on the situation along the way.

Wang Yong laughed and patted Sun Xing's shoulder, and said, "Don't be busy, don't be busy, you and Liulang will go to bathe and change clothes first, and I'll pick up the wind for you later." ”

He looked at Qu Liulang again and said, "This time, the Weihai Port in the east has been completely built, and next time you can start directly from Weihai Port, so that you can save another day's journey." ”

Originally, when the shipyard was built, according to Wang Ze's suggestion, an excellent harbor was found hundreds of miles to the east, named Weihai.

So Wang Yong sent people to build a large shipyard in this good port, and also built the corresponding wharf berths, and the surrounding areas of the port were also relocated to nearly 10,000 people for construction.

This time, Wang Yong didn't bother to buy land, anyway, there are very few people living in the east of Jiaozhou County, Changguang County, and there were less than 10,000 people in the place, and these people have been successively absorbed by Wang Yong in the past few years.

In the following two years, the 'Ru' Mountain camp was opened one after another, and nearly 10,000 people migrated.

There are now more than 10,000 people in each of these three major tuntian districts, plus the nearly 10,000 people who moved to the Changdao archipelago after the eradication of the Naohaijiao, and the camps in more than a dozen large and small basins in the mountains, the number of people in the first day of this year was nearly 60,000.

There were already more than 20,000 people in the cottage, and when they swept the mountainous area east of Jiaochang, they scavenged out six or seven thousand bandits, plus nearly three thousand people brought by Xiao Jing, this is more than 30,000 people.

In the past three years, we have successively collected some displaced people from the Southern Dynasties and other places, especially the displaced people who had been helped by Wang Yong and others four years ago.

For these people, after repeated screening, they were arranged to settle down in various villages.

In the past three or four years, thanks to the superb medical skills of the Taiqing Taoist priests, thousands of newborns have been added to the cottage. Looking at the cottage getting stronger day by day, the smile on Wang Yong's face has never stopped.