Towering like a mountain, floating on the waves, the head of the brocade sail crane, yielding to the cockroach.

Looking up at the approaching behemoth, even Zhao Mengqi was amazed, this was definitely the largest ship in the world.

When Song Shenzong, in order to envoy Goryeo, the edict ordered Mingzhou to build two Wan Hu ships, one Hu in the Song Dynasty was five buckets, two Hu is a stone, and this Wan Hu ship is actually a thousand material ships.

When he arrived at Song Huizong, who liked "Fengheng Yuda", he felt that this was not enough to show his compulsion, so he ordered Mingzhou to build two even more huge ships and called them "Shenzhou".

When he went to Goryeo, he also hired six 2,000 civilian ships called "passenger boats", which were more than ten zhang long, two zhang and five feet wide, and three zhang deep, and the shape data of Shenzhou were three times that of passenger boats, and the load reached more than 20,000 stones.

The shape of the Shenzhou is roughly the same as that of the passenger boat, because the Song Dynasty created the shipbuilding technology of ship model lofting, that is, to first make a small boat model to experiment with the ship type, and then enlarge it in equal proportions, and the size is magnified by three times, and the volume is theoretically magnified by twenty-seven times, which will actually be a little smaller.

The Shenzhou in front of Zhao Mengqi was naturally not from Huizong's time, but was rebuilt by Ningzong's order in the twelfth year of Jiading.

At that time, there was a big fight between Song and Jin, and the war affected all areas from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to the lower reaches, and the situation was very tense for a while.

As soon as Shenzhou was built, Ning Zong died, and Zhao Yun knew about it after succeeding to the throne, and he also felt prepared, so he ordered Qingyuan Mansion, which was the previous Mingzhou, to take good care of it and ensure that it was available at any time.

After Zhao Mengqi came, he intended to focus on the development of marine power, and this Shenzhou was naturally remembered by him.

In his opinion, leaving such a treasure idle is simply a violent thing, and immediately let people repair and renovate it, and conduct several sea trials, collect data, so that it can be further improved, and it will be mass-produced in the future.

Shenzhou needs nearly 200 sailors, all of whom are from the elite of the Dinghai Navy, and there is also a battalion of soldiers who are Dongwei, and the battalion commander is Shi Cheng of the former Hengshan Island garrison battalion.

After loading more than 600 people, it was still more than enough to pack Zhao Mengqi's entire Chinese army.

In addition to more than 500 officials and guards of the Jiedu Prefecture, there are also more than 500 people from the military hospital and the propaganda team.

Most of the nurses in the military hospital are women, and the propaganda team is completely a women's army, they are all dressed in military uniforms at this time, and the difference between them and male soldiers is not obvious, so the people did not notice.

When they began to board the ship, the onlookers found out the clue and were amazed, after all, although there were female generals and female soldiers in Chinese history, they could only be said to be rare, and they were actually very rare.

"Uh, why do you still bring women to war......

"Hehe, King Yan is literary and romantic, and his nature is naturally romantic, not to mention that he is in his youth, isn't it normal to have a little pretty concubine?"

"That's too much, I look at at least three or four hundred people, can he eat alone, I see, it's probably a camp......

"Fuck your shit, even if you haven't been to the Xincheng Military Hospital for treatment, and you haven't read the Tianxia Daily, you've always heard people say that this is a female escort who saves lives and helps the wounded, not a battalion!"

"Female Guardian!? I just saw the face of one of them, it was dazzlingly beautiful, if the female guards were so good-looking, wouldn't all the soldiers be injured in a hurry?"

"This is the genius of His Royal Highness King Yan, not only can he be treated in time if he is injured, but also has a beautiful little lady to serve, which is equivalent to a bad thing becoming a good thing for the big head soldiers, where will he be afraid of being injured, and when he is in battle, he must be brave to be the first."

"Don't talk about them, even if we see it, we can't help but want to be a soldier......

"In the middle of the day, who can be the soldier of King Yan? You have a thin dog-like body, and you don't know a few big characters, so I'm afraid you don't even have the qualifications to sign up."

At this time, Qian Duo, who was served by a female soldier, had just stepped on the deck, covered his face and secretly crossed the side of the boat to look at Zhao Mengqi, and saw that he was facing away from the boat and talking to the people who came to see him off, so he was relieved.

When she boarded the gangway just now, because she was nervous, she almost fell down when she stepped on the air, but fortunately Ji Ni pulled it in time, but the twisted figure made her countenance

Completely exposed.

So she was very worried that if she happened to be seen by Zhao Mengqi, then her plan to secretly Chen Cang would be abandoned.

Immediately, Ji Ni grabbed her arm, "Hurry up, go quickly, it's safe to enter the bilge......

At this time, Zhao Mengqi said goodbye to Cheng Yuanfeng and other ministers one by one, and it was Lin Yanban's turn.

"Old man, I don't know how long I'll be here, my father and the palace will all rely on you to take care of it, you should work hard, be vigilant, don't let people take advantage of the loopholes, and also, drink less wine, and make up for it all for you when I come back."

Old Man Lin rolled his eyes and said angrily, "Long-winded, still use you to teach me to do things!?" It's you, the battlefield sword has no eyes, don't take risks easily, otherwise if your father ends up with a white-haired man to send a black-haired man, don't blame me for peeing on your grave."

"Bah, you old crow......

Thinking of that picture, Zhao Mengqi couldn't help but shudder, the bad old man was really bad.

In the end, Huang Zhi accompanied the two sisters, Zhao Xun and Zhao Hui, to say goodbye.

Huang Goji babbled a lot, "...... Ah Lang, the villain only hopes that you will return safely as soon as possible."

Although Huang Zhi was a special mother-in-law at this time, Zhao Mengqi listened to him very patiently, "I know, you don't have to worry too much, if you hear any bad rumors, don't believe it, just take care of your family."

Then Zhao Yan crashed into the arms of Zhao Mengqi, who was wearing iron armor, and his forehead hit the heart guard and made a loud noise, but he didn't seem to feel pain, and tried to hug his brother's waist, choking, "Fourth brother, you must come back early, otherwise you will be sad if you miss you too much."

"Silly girl, it's all up..." Zhao Mengqi took off his gloves and stroked his sister's red and swollen forehead, "If you stay bored in the house, you can go to live with your mother, okay, the fourth brother will come back as soon as possible."

Zhao Hui's red eyes were also moist, and he stepped forward to hold Zhao Mengqi's arm, "Fourth brother, I'm just a brother, you are definitely not allowed to lose it to me!"

"The people who are all out of the cabinet are still covered with horse urine, are they ashamed?" Zhao Mengqi stretched out his thumb and wiped away her tears.

Then he realized that something was wrong, "Hey, what about that girl Qian Duo?"

"She's been depressed lately, and she said yesterday that she was going back to Qianfu, probably because she was still angry with you, so she didn't come to see you off today." Zhao Wei explained casually.

Got back to the money house?

Then why didn't Qian Tao mention it just now?

Zhao Mengqi was a little puzzled, and was about to ask Qian Tao to ask, but at this time, the drum and trumpet representing the auspicious time sounded, so he had to give up.

"Alright, I'm going to board the ship, so you should go back early."

After saying that, he did not linger any longer, turned his head and walked to the gangway, stepped on it, and when he reached the top of the ladder, he turned around again and waved to the crowd who saw him off.

Cheng Yuanfeng took the lead in waving his hands and saluting, "Ministers, I wish His Highness a triumphant!"

The other subjects bowed one after another, and tens of thousands of people gathered in a surging voice, "May Your Highness be victorious!"

In the midst of the noisy prayers, Zhao Mengqi looked up at the Lin'an city wall in the distance, and silently said in his heart, "Lin'an, goodbye!"

After the three drums and trumpets sounded, the Shenzhou pulled anchor and set sail, merged into the waiting fleet, and then sailed eastward en masse.

The reason why Zhao Mengqi only led more than 10,000 soldiers first was mainly because the tide of Qiantang was coming, and he could only get so many ships in a short time.

In fact, the prevailing southeast wind in this season is not suitable for southward travel, but fortunately, the Chinese hard sail is not only relatively easy to operate, but also can adapt to various wind directions, which is commonly referred to as being able to eat the eight-sided wind.

Even if there is a headwind, you can still take a zigzag route through the "tuning", and you can still sail to the destination, but it takes a lot more time.

However, due to the size of the ship and the limited communication technology, it is not convenient for command and easy to cause chaotic collisions, so after the fleet left Hangzhou Bay, it was divided into five small fleets and marched separately.

Under the unfavorable wind direction, after non-stop sailing day and night, Zhao Mengqi's detachment arrived in Fuzhou eight days later.

After docking, I learned the latest news, the information of Tingzhou and Shao Wujun had been completely interrupted, and a large number of bandits had appeared outside the capital of Jianning Prefecture and Nanjianzhou Prefecture

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Although they did not attack the city, they wandered through the villages and towns, plundered the goods, and then dragged the people into the ranks, so that the bandits' ranks snowballed.

The local government could do nothing about it, so they could only shrink into the city and tremble.

And the territory of Fuzhou was no longer peaceful, and after the miners of Gutian Jinkeng and Dayan Yinchang were instigated, they killed the officials who managed the mine and gathered a crowd to surround Gutian County.

Gutian is less than 150 miles away from the city of Fuzhou Prefecture, and even though there are still 800 left-wing troops and 1,500 Wuji sailors in the city, the officials and people in the city are still panicked.

When they saw the arrival of the imperial reinforcements, and the arrival of the crown prince himself, the people were a little relieved and no longer so panicked.

Fuzhou, as the seat of Fujian Road, has many yamen, so the scene of welcoming Zhao Mengqi is very grand, firstly, to make sycophants, and secondly, to calm the people's hearts.

Zhao Mengqi originally didn't like this kind of ***, but considering the current situation, he didn't show it, so he could only patiently go through the motions.

After sending all the officials away, Zhao Mengqi couldn't wait to pull Chen Wei to start the discussion, and didn't ask him if he was willing to come back and accept the appointment.

"Bachelor, the military situation is like fire, Xiao Wang won't play those imaginary things with you, now in this situation, where do you think to start?"

Seventy-seven-year-old Chen Wei didn't expect King Yan to be so resolute, and couldn't help but pause for a while before he slowly spoke, "Your Highness, do you know what the real root cause of this chaos is?"

"I know! Because some people have lost their minds!" Zhao Mengqi's face was full of disdain.

Chen Wei is really old, sitting on a chair, he has to rely on his hands to support the crutches in order to straighten his upper body, so as not to be rude.

He nodded slowly, and slowly sighed again, "The human heart is not enough to swallow elephants, these people are not willing to spit out even if they eat what they eat in their stomachs, even if they die, the appearance of His Highness made them panic, so they tried to use the popular rebellion to persecute the court in order to achieve their own selfishness."