As for the problem of the sailor, as early as a few years ago, when it was still Changsha State, when Lu Yuan led the Triple Alliance to confront Ning State, he was deeply aware of this shortcoming.

Ning Guo only produced 50,000 sailors, so he directly divided Dongting County into two, isolating Changsha from the north and south.

At that time, Changsha was cut off from north to south.

Business travel is blocked in various ports. The transmission of domestic decrees had to be delayed. The north and the south communicated information, and even sent martial arts masters to take a small boat to smuggle in from the blockade of the Ning State Naval Division.

It can almost be said that as soon as the other party blocked the Yangtze River, it almost shut down Changsha State.

These lessons are vividly remembered, and now that only half a year has passed, Lu Yuan naturally has not forgotten them.

It's just that although he knows the importance of the sailor, he also takes this matter to heart and is deeply ashamed.

But if you want to start a sailor, you need a lot of money.

And today's Chu State is precisely lacking money.

"But now, in two years, Changsha's taxes will be able to break even. At that time, the five million taels of silver aided by the Su State and the South China Sea State can be used to support the sailors.

Five million taels of silver, even if it costs twice as much to support a sailor of the same size, it can be twice as much as the army, and it can raise 50,000 sailors.

At that time, there are these 50,000 sailors, and it may be difficult to compete with the Ningguo sailors on the Yangtze River.

However, relying on Baling, Tianmen, Xiangyang and other important cities on the Yangtze River and the Han River, it is still possible to block the enemy from the country and ensure the smooth communication between the north and the south of the country.

To be able to do this, it is enough. ”

Lu Yuan calculated like this in his heart, and gradually became a little eyebrows.

Regarding the requirements of the water master, he never expected to be able to defeat Ning Guo by relying on the water master and thus seize the land of Jiangdong.

Ning Guo inherited the Yue State, and the Yue State inherited the previous dynasty, under the management of these Linhai clans, the entire Jinling Imperial Court accumulated too many talents in terms of sailors.

The other party's accumulation of more than 2,000 years, is it that you can defeat the other party if you say that you can defeat it?

To be able to defend the country, for him, the sailor has already completed his task.

In other things that competed with Ningguo, he commanded the elite army, smashed Yuzhang and Linhai on the shore, and went all the way to Jinling City.

Compared with the current shadow sailor, he has been in command for more than ten years and has rich experience in land warfare, which is obviously more reliable.

However, although it mainly relies on the army, it is indeed time for the naval division to prepare.

At present, between Ning and Chu, although they need time to recuperate and digest, they are in a state of peace for the time being.

But in such a world of great controversy, no one knows whether war will come in the next moment.

But don't let the war between the two countries start at that time, and the Ning State Navy Division will drive straight in without hindrance and divide the Chu State into two halves, which is too embarrassing.

So now it is necessary to build a prototype of a sailor, put up the shelves, and then slowly fill the complete components.

As for where does the money come from?

Build a prototype of a sailor, purely when accumulating experience. You don't need to recruit too many people, just five or six thousand. Even if you count the cost of building a battleship, it is only four or five hundred thousand taels of silver a year.

Now Lu Yuan's private treasury still has a lot of silver, so he can naturally advance it first.

And next year, although those immigrants are still in the tax holiday, according to Sun Siwen, the commercial tariff will be further increased, and a million taels of silver will be left.

With this money, this year and next year, it is enough to raise 10,000 sailors.

With the foundation of this 10,000 people, it will increase a little bit every year in the future, expand the scale step by step, and in a maximum of ten years, you can raise 50,000 sailors who are good at fighting.

There's plenty of time to plan slowly.

……

The plan was set here, and the next day, Lu Yuan asked people to exchange for Chu Wei.

"I've seen the king."

After Chu Wei arrived, he immediately saluted.

"Xiao Wei is here."

At this time, Lu Yuan was writing the sailor's plan on the shore, and when he heard the voice, he raised his head and said with a smile: "Didn't you say it?" You are my disciple, and there is no need to be so polite between our master and apprentice. ”

Although in his heart, in this world, the only people who are really close and worthy of trust are Sun Siwen and Zhou Qing.

But for others, such as Lan Cai'er, Cui Changqing, and a few of his true disciples, it is absolutely false to say that they have no feelings at all.

People are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless.

After getting along with people for a long time, more or less, you will have a little good feeling.

Not to mention that Chu Wei's disciples were extremely respectful to Lu Yuan, and they had done enough courtesy between the disciples and the monarchs, and there was no place for them to exceed the rules.

Such disciples and courtiers, who are they, can they love it in their hearts?

Therefore, in addition to Sun Siwen and Zhou Qing, who are close to the first echelon, Lan Caier and Chu Wei are the second echelon.

And for people close to him, Lu Yuan naturally likes it too.

"In front of the master and the monarch, the disciple does not dare to exceed the rules."

However, in the face of his love, Chu Wei did not get carried away, but was still cautious.

"You." Seeing this, Lu Yuan couldn't help but smile, but he didn't embarrass the other party, but took out the freshly written sailor preparation strategy from the eucalyptus and handed it to his disciple: "Here is a copy of the sailor strategy written by Gu Gang, you can take it and take a look." ”

Chu Wei took the strategy and looked at it carefully.

After a while, after reading the content word by word, he put it down, looked up at his master and said, "The king wants to build a water master?" ”

According to the strategy, the Chu State Naval Division will initially build 5,000 people, expand to 10,000 next year, and then increase it to 5,000 every year, and so on for ten years, and finally build a 50,000-person naval division.

This 50,000-strong sailor division will be divided into five armies, each of which will be commanded by a general. Above the five army water divisions, there is a water division commander to command the five army water divisions.

Judging from this plan, the status of the water division is equivalent to the forbidden army, and it also belongs to the sequence of soldiers directly under the jurisdiction of the court of Chu State.

Even in a sense, the status of the head of the water division is higher than that of the generals of the forbidden army.

The reason is simple, the naval division is divided into five battalions, each of which is led by a general. The Great Chu Forbidden Army was divided into nine armies, and each army was also led by a general.

But above the nine armies of the Great Chu Forbidden Army, there is no one in charge, and all the armies are directly under the orders of Lu Yuan, the king of Chu.

And on the side of the sailor, there is a general manager.

In this way, isn't this governor a powerful figure who is higher than the generals of the land and water armies?

Of course.

On top of the forbidden army, in fact, it is not that there are no higher-level generals, isn't Zhou Qing, a great general?

However, the position of a general is in charge of the military affairs of the whole country, which also includes both the land and water armies.

From this point of view, the position of the head of the water division has become the position second only to the general, and it is the second person in the sequence of the Great Chu soldiers.

'At this time, my own master called me and was talking about it again, could it be ......'

Chu Wei thought of this, and his heart couldn't help but thump.

This is the second person in the military, the power of the chief sailor!

To say that you are not tempted, it is absolutely false.

And he became the head of the water master, so in terms of status, wouldn't he become the second person under the master, second only to the senior brother Zhou Qing?

This leap in identity cannot be ignored.

And at this moment, Lu Yuan also spoke: "As you can see, Lonely wants to prepare for the establishment of the Great Chu Water Division. The last time I confronted Ning Guo, my Great Chu was subjected to the Sailor Division, and there was almost a risk that the land would be split into two.

Such a big loss is enough to suffer once, and it must not be allowed to happen again.

You are a lonely disciple, and you are my Great Chu General, your identity is different from others, and you should take on more responsibilities.

Therefore, I am not prepared to entrust you with the responsibility of preparing for the establishment of the water division.

Would you like to? ”

With such a good thing in front of him, how could Chu Wei refuse?

So after hearing the words, he knelt down directly and said: "The king has an order, how dare the minister disobey?" The master can rest assured, there are disciples here, and he will prepare for the construction of a naval army with his heart, and the immortal Ningren Sailor will be powerful in my great river. ”

When Lu Yuan heard this, he nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, since that's the case, then you will first have the rank of general and the position of the head of the water division." When the sailor division is ready and the five armies are ready, Lone will give you the rank of general to command the sailor. ”

After the establishment of the new dynasty, the original Changsha State and the current Chu State, the rank system of civil and military officials was basically the same as that of the previous Yue.

If the civilian officials don't say it, they will use force to talk about it.

Among them, the first-class military rank is naturally the general, which is the first grade. This is not only a military rank, but also a military position, which can lead the military affairs of the whole country.

The second class is the hussar general and the chariot general, and these two generals are from the first rank. However, both generals are only military ranks, and there are no specific positions.

But according to the convention, if you add a big word in front of the two generals, such as the hussar general, then these two generals are no worse than the generals. He is also qualified to manage the country's military affairs.

Therefore, the second-class hussar and chariot cavalry generals have always been regarded by the warriors as second only to the generals.

But these two generals are basically not permanent, and even empty all the time, so they will not be set up at all.

At the time of Qianyue, Bai Mengyang, the Marquis of Wu'an, was specially appointed as the general of the hussars because of his merits, and his position was higher than that of the general Shenqiu.

This is also the reason why the other party was able to negotiate various agreements with Lu Yuan on behalf of the imperial court when he was in charge of Xiangyang at that time.

Because of the position of hussar general, he could have represented the Yue country.

Further down is the third class, the third class is divided into front, rear, left, right, and guard five generals, of which the first four generals, all of them are from the second rank.

These four generals are basically held by generals who can fight well in the DPRK and China, and they do not have specific positions on weekdays. When it was time to go on the expedition, he led the army and fought for the country.

And General Wei is the second rank.

This military rank is more respected than the Quartet General, and has always been called the Yada General. It is also like the two hussars and chariot generals of the second class, which are usually not set up and are always empty.

Now Lu Yuan's true disciples except Zhou Qing have five people, namely Chu Wei, Li Liang, Han Shun, Zhang You, and Zhuang Hua.

Among these five people, Chu Wei, Li Liang, Han Shun, and Zhang You have accumulated merits over the years, and they have served as front, rear, left, and right generals respectively.

Among them, Han Shun served as the governor of Xichuan County with the rank of general Zuo, and was responsible for the military affairs of Xichuan County.

Zhang You, with the rank of right general, served as the governor of Xiangyang County and was responsible for the military affairs of Xiangyang County.

Chu Wei and Li Liang did not have specific positions, but were just raised in the capital, waiting for appointment.

The last Zhuang Hua, because it was too late to break through the first-class, and at the same time the credit borrowed was not enough, at present, he only added a miscellaneous rank of Jianwu general, and served as the post of Jinwu, leading 4,000 Jingshi Jinwu soldiers, responsible for the security and defense of Baling City.

Therefore, if Chu Wei can be promoted to General Wei, then he will be one level higher than the rest of Zhou Qingwai's peers.

In terms of power and position, one is General Wei, who is in charge of the national naval division, and the other is a Quartet general who is only in charge of the military affairs of a county, or has something to do when he goes on an expedition.

Tell me, is there a big difference?

Therefore, when Chu Wei heard this arrangement, he was so excited that he immediately said, "The minister obeys the king." ”

Although his rank of guard general will not be awarded until all 50,000 sailors have been established.

It could take up to a decade.

But compared to the authority to serve as the chief of the national water division, is this ten years a long time?

Chu Wei is only thirty-two now, well, this age is only four years younger than Lu Yuan.

So even if he waits another ten years and becomes General Wei by then, he will only be forty-two years old.

Compared with the position of the national chief of water division, this age is simply in the prime of life, and even quite young.

With this great future, what is there to complain about?

Compared with Han Shun and Zhang You, who are still circling around the place, and Li Liang, who is still waiting for the expedition at home, Chu Wei is already much better.

At this time, he can be described as full of energy.

In front of me, there is also a bright light.

……

After handing over the matter of the water master to Chu Wei, Lu Yuan did not devote much energy except for taking the time to look at the official documents from time to time that this disciple reported the progress of the preparation of the water master.

Not only that, but there is not much time to manage other domestic government affairs.

Because at this time, all his energy was focused on his queen.

From Lan Cai'er's pregnancy in October last year to August of the first year of Shenwu, nearly ten months, the queen finally reached the time of giving birth.

Especially in the past few days, according to the experienced midwife, the child will be born at any time in the future, and now it is time to prepare.

It is about his own children, about the prince of the country, in the face of such major events, naturally all kinds of things have to be put in the back row.

Even the ministers like Sun Siwen knew that the queen was about to give birth, and they were all nervously looking forward to it, and from time to time they went to the Tao to express their words, so that Lu Yuan would pay more attention.

So in this atmosphere of nervous anticipation, on August 25 of the first year of Shenwu, just ten days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, in the Linhua Palace, Lan Caier, the queen of Great Chu, gave birth to a son.

The birth of the eldest son is naturally to celebrate with the whole country.

Lu Yuan was happy, not only rewarded him in the palace, but also rewarded the officials and ministers outside the palace, and even the people in China.

For this, he did not hesitate to spend a million taels of silver.

But it's worth it.

Under this heavy reward, the whole country has offered heartfelt blessings to the eldest son of the newly born king.

Lu Yuan also congratulated the eldest son three days later, Lu He, meaning that the whole country congratulated the birth of the eldest son of the prince.

This also contains his ardent hope that this eldest son, who is congratulating the birth of the whole country with goodwill from all over the country, can grow up smoothly.

And this eldest son of the prince did not live up to the expectations of his father, the domestic ministers and the people, since he was born, he has been in good health, this is only a full moon, he has ten pounds, and he is full of vitality.

"Ahhhhhhh......h

In the Changle Palace, as a residence specially granted to the eldest son of Wang Yan, at this time, Lu Yuan took Lan Cai'er, who had just finished confinement, and teased his son who had just completed the full moon together.

Watching the baby constantly moving in the queen's arms, Lu Yuan touched his little nose, and couldn't help laughing when he looked dissatisfied with the evasion.

While laughing, his mood quietly gave birth to a different taste.

Is this my son, my bloodline in this world, the continuation of my life?' ’

Lu Yuan looked at the little guy in front of him, and his heart was filled with a complicated feeling.

There is joy, expectation, confusion, and even some trepidation......

There were so many emotions in one place, which made him a little overwhelmed.

The little guy in front of him is the first time to be a man, but Lu Yuan is also the first time to be someone else's father, both of them are the first time, and he is really catching ducks on the shelves!

"Okay, if the king continues to tease, He'er will cry."

Just as Lu Yuan's thoughts were flying, Lan Cai'er next to him saw that his son was about to cry, and quickly slapped away the hand that was still teasing the other party, and said angrily.

"Okay, okay, don't get it alone, don't get it alone."

Lu Yuan laughed twice, withdrew his hand, and glanced at his son twice, but he really didn't want to make the other party cry.

Otherwise, when the child starts crying and wants to be appeased, it will be really head-wrenching.

Although he had only been a father for a month, in this short period of time, he had already learned the horrors of it.

That's really more hard work than practicing martial arts and fighting by yourself.

Not only is the body tired, but the heart is even more tired.

After preparing for the little guy, Lu Yuan looked at the time, and then pulled the queen: "Cai'er, the time is almost up, He'er's full moon banquet is almost ready in Qinghua Palace." Let's go first, don't keep the ministers waiting. ”

The birth of the eldest son and the succession of the state are naturally a great joy.

Therefore, in the Jingshi Dynasty, Lu Yuan invited the civil and military ministers in the city and the powerful people in the country to hold this full moon banquet to celebrate the birth of the little one.

And that's not all.

He even sent envoys to various countries, intending to invite them to attend the feast of the little one in eleven months.

For the sake of a newborn son, to such an extent, it can be seen that Lu Yuan loves it in his heart, and at the same time, Fang Cun is also a little messy.

But happy.

The state of Chu has an heir, and not only the king is happy, but the ministers are also happy.

There are successors to Da Chu, and their wealth can also be guaranteed, and there is no longer a bottom in their hearts.

Therefore, for Lu He, who brought all this, the ministers also loved and thanked him from the bottom of their hearts, so they also ignored or supported Lu Yuan's slightly outrageous things.

The king has a new eldest son, and when he is so high-minded, let him go.

Anyway, it's just this one.

"Yes, yes, I almost forgot about it, let's hurry up, don't miss the hour."

For her son's full moon banquet, Lan Caier was naturally very concerned, and when she heard the reminder at this time, she was also a little anxious.

Pulling Lu Yuan, the husband and wife hugged Xiao Lu He, and hurried towards Qinghua Palace.