Beitangkou.

"This Great Song is not useless!"

Wang Yue looked at the two giant Shenzhou on the sea not far away with interest.

It's a bit of an incredible thing.

Although I know that the shipbuilding technology of the Great Song Dynasty is basically the first in this era, it is still surprising that such a huge sea ship is not the largest, in fact, the real largest is not the sea ship but the river boat. That is, those inland river vehicles and boats, this thing cannot be used at sea, because the wind and wave resistance is too poor, but it is very useful on the inland lake Yangtze River, so they can be built as big as possible.

Punts don't have to worry about draft, either.

However, the most important thing in ocean voyages is the ability to resist wind and waves, so only sailboats can be used, but offshore sailboats can be used.

But the ocean can only sail ships.

This has to be limited by the current sail efficiency.

Because the draft is too deep, these two ships can't enter the Lutai Port inside, and can only temporarily anchor at sea and float like that, in fact, they can't even enter Dengzhou Daoyu Village, and the bay of Penglai and Zhoushan are not of the same level at all. In fact, there is no use here in the future, Ruan Xiaoqi came here purely to make contributions, this thing is too big, it is not practical at all in Bohai Bay, and the most suitable for the shallow sea of the Bohai Sea is actually less than two or three hundred tons. It is better not to have more than one foot of draft, so that such a ship can berth at random in various ports along the coast, and a thousand-ton giant ship like this is simply useless except for shaking its majesty.

But it's a pity to tear it down.

So then I had to let Ruan Xiaoqi drag them to Lushunkou, where there was enough water depth for them to moor.

But because you can't enter the saury village, it is impossible to expect to transport them with them.

It's just a decoration.

"Back to the king, in addition to this kind of foreign running, the remaining six are all 2,000 passenger ships, and the people use up to 5,000 sea ships, and the largest 12,000 materials have been built on the Yangtze River before."

A red-robed civil official beside him bowed and groveled with a smiling face.

This is Lu Yundi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

It was not a great painter, his official position in the imperial court was a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, but he never returned to the capital after returning from the last envoy to Goryeo, and he was stranded in Jiangnan because of the opposition between the north and the south, and the great painter still let him send an envoy this time. There were also several officials who were accompanied by the last envoy, who set sail from Mingzhou to the east to insert the warm current of Taiwan, and the rest was pushed by the warm current to go southwest of Jiuzhou Island and turn towards Goryeo. When returning to the sea, take the coastal waters of Goryeo and continue to ride the warm current to the north, and there is a circulation in the area around Phi Dao, which can go south to Chengshantou, and then take the coastal current and continue to return south along the coastline.

It just avoided the Bohai Bay and the Dengzhou-Lushun route, which were mainly patrolled by the Changsheng Army's naval division.

Then they went to Tang Island to resupply.

But he didn't expect to collide with Ruan Xiaoqi, who attacked Tang Island, and became a prisoner.

But Zhao Gou ran away.

When Ruan Xiaoqi captured the two Shenzhou and returned to Tangdao Bay, Zhao Gou had already landed on the north shore under the protection of the remnant sailors and then fled to Banqiao, Ruan Xiaoqi could only burn the remaining ships in the bay, retreat to the sea with the captives and return to Dengzhou. He relied on his galleys and sailboats, and did not need to wait for the wind or the ocean current, and directly used centipede boats to tow two Shenzhou, and it took half a month to finally tow here.

"Are you really going to Goryeo?"

Wang Yue said.

"King, the small one doesn't make Goryeo, why bother to brave the wind and waves to go on this trip? The last time the small envoy came back from a storm, he almost got into the belly of the fish. ”

Lu Yundi said with a pure face.

"You're from Nanjing, aren't you?"

Wang Yue said.

Lu Yundi's face changed instantly......

"Even if you stayed in Jiangnan before, the imperial court did not hold you accountable, and even dismissed your officials, but don't think that I don't know what you are doing in Jiangnan, for those who follow the emperor, the official family will not show mercy, and those whose families are in the south are fine, after all, they can't reach them for the time being, but don't be ignorant of your family in Nanjing."

Wang Yue said gloomily.

Lu Yundi's legs were weak and he knelt down directly.

"The great king is gracious, and the small one is really committed to Goryeo."

He cried.

"Immediately send an order to Yang Zaixing, arrest all his nine clans, confiscate all the property, kill the men, and distribute the women to the brothers."

Wang Yue said to the guards beside him.

The latter saluted and turned around, and then the hapless Lu Yundi cried and hugged him all of a sudden.

"The king, the little one says, the little one tells the truth."

He looked at Wang Yue and howled.

"Then tell me the truth."

Wang Yue said.

"The small one actually went to contact the Jurchens, but in order to hide people's eyes and ears, he said to the outside world that he was going to make Goryeo, and the Emperor Taishang learned that the Jurchens had attacked Goryeo and occupied Goryeo Xijing Pyongyang, so he sent the small one north to contact the Jurchens in the name of envoying Goryeo. Previously, Cai You and Qin Hui instigated the Emperor Taishang to borrow troops to suppress the Kou, wanting to buy the Jurchens with money and go south, and when the time came, the king had no time to look south to raid the Kaifeng control officials.

Then force the king to negotiate peace.

Of course, if the Jurchens can defeat the king, the emperor can also continue to go north and fight with the Jurchens to defeat the king. ”

Lu Yundi said crying.

"Ah, that's the truth."

Wang Yue said with satisfaction.

He guessed that this was the case, otherwise the great painter's idle eggs would hurt, and he would not have sent an envoy to Goryeo for the second time after just over a year, especially in this kind of situation where the Jurchens attacked Goryeo and had already captured almost half of Goryeo.

If it is to contact the Jurchens, it is very reasonable.

It's normal to hide people's eyes and ears.

Zhao Huan had just broken through the Jurchen capital and captured the Jurchen Emperor alive, and he no longer recognized the Jin State, but he ran to collude with the Jurchens, which is treason anyway, even if the Emperor Taishang is no longer the emperor after all, he is also a crime, only Zhao Huan can decide to be the emperor as the emperor, but he ran to collude with the Jurchen is treason.

Emperor Taishang's treason is also treason.

So simply say to the outside world that it is an envoy to Goryeo, anyway, it is normal for the Great Song Dynasty to envoy Goryeo.

But actually went to find the Jurchens.

"Did the Jurchens agree?"

Wang Yue said.

"Yes.

How could such a good thing not be promised.

It's just a small suspicion that they don't have a sincere heart, and they won't really attack south, just to coax some food from the Emperor Taishang, the Jurchens are now extremely short of food, and they attacked Goryeo this time to grab food. Although they robbed a lot, Goryeo was not rich originally, and the grain they grabbed was not much that could be transported to Linhuang in addition to the supply war.

Therefore, don't leave the emperor, send them a million stone of grain first.

After they had finished fighting Goryeo, they went back to the south. ”

Lu Yundi said.

In fact, he didn't know that at this time, he had already captured Kaekyung, and civil strife broke out again in Goryeo, Wang Kai bribed Li Ziqian's in-laws, and Tuo Junjing, who burned the palace last time, captured Li Ziqian on the way to their Nanjing, that is, Seoul. After Wang Kai fled to Seoul and captured Tuo Junjing and exiled, now Wang Kai is really in power, and began to sue for peace with the Jurchens, in exchange for the withdrawal of the army.

It is not yet known how it turned out.

However, unless Wang Yue can send troops to rescue Goryeo at this time, Wang Kai's surrender is inevitable, after all, the Jurchens want them to pay tribute.

They had not been subordinate to the Jurchens before.

"Do you think the Emperor will agree?"

Wang Yue said.

Ruan Xiaoqi only captured two Shenzhou, but the other six passenger ships escaped, Lu Yundi was just a righteous envoy, and there were a few fellow officials on those six passenger ships, and they would definitely convey this condition to the great painter.

"This, it should be, it's just a million stone of grain, it's not worth mentioning to the Emperor, that is, it's a little more difficult to ship by sea, but when the small one arrives in Goryeo, he can't already attack Kaijing, and it is estimated that Kaijing has been captured at this time. It is a habitual road to ship from Jiangnan to there, and one million stones is just a few more trips, and it is not really to give him a million stones, but to transport a hundred thousand stones first to show sincerity. ”

Lu Yundi said cautiously.

Of course I agree!

A fool won't agree!

What has the Emperor been bullied over the years, but this Wang Yue is getting stronger and stronger, and the Emperor is becoming less and less confident, especially after this traitor played the card of playing the local tyrant and dividing the land, the Emperor Taishang and the princes of Jiangnan Gon were all frightened and restless.

They are all people who understand, and they all know the consequences if Wang Yue also plays like this in Jiangnan.

There is already a rebellion!

If there is another local tyrant who divides the land and leads the army to the south of the Yangtze River, it can be said that all those Diao people will fall into madness, and in this case, he must be killed no matter what. And at this time, the only thing that could be counted on was the Jurchens, although the Jurchens were also bullied by him very badly, but it turned out that Wang Yue did not dare to fight with Allah in the field. It can be said that now the Jurchens are the saviors in the eyes of the gentry in Jiangnan, since this is of course going to be united, isn't it just a million stone grain.

The gentry in Jiangnan are not short of this, and with the current grain price in Jiangnan, the commercial tax can be solved by just one road, because the six million stone rice rated for shipment every year has been suspended, and the grain price in Jiangnan is continuing to fall.

At present, Pingjiang Mansion has reached 300 wen and one stone.

One million stone is only a few hundred thousand yuan, and the annual commercial tax of Jiangnan East Road is nearly 600,000.

It's just a drizzle!

"Borrow troops to suppress the Kou!"

Wang Yue sighed.

The great painter has finally come this far!

That's really ......

"The Emperor is cutting himself off from the people!"

He said.

Lu Yundi continued to grovel and laugh.

"Send him to the capital!"

Wang Yue said.

"Wang, small family business?"

Lu Yundi said tremblingly.

"Then it's up to you to be sensible!"

Wang Yue said.

"Sensible, the little one is the most sensible, then Cai You and other traitors also bewitched the emperor, as long as they recaptured Kaifeng, they would kill the official family, and it was said that the palace servants took advantage of the chaos to rob the property and caused a fire, and burned the official family to death in the palace, and then the emperor was reinstated."

Lu Yundi said sensibly.

"Go ahead and tell the official family the news!"

Wang Yue patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction, and said like a dog's head.

Lu Yundi followed his movements, and his waist was more bent.

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