After the meeting in Sizhou, Zhao Yu went to Fuli with the command of the imperial army, and he abandoned his horse and took the boat to go north along the canal. Due to the fact that after the construction of the new canal, the role of the old canal declined, and the dredging was no longer carried out in time, resulting in the narrowing and shallowness of the sediment sediment channel, and the seaworthiness was greatly reduced, making it difficult for large ships to pass. The draft was too deep and it was easy to run aground, so he had to transfer to a newly built medium-sized warship. He was very satisfied with this new ship, and secretly praised Zhou Xiang for being really sensible.

Speaking of which, Zhou Xiang is also worthy of Zhao Hao's praise, his background is low, but he has high emotional intelligence, he is good at observing words and feelings, and he can do things for you quietly. Of course, he is highly used, not only because he is a good sycophant, but also has excellent organizational skills in doing things, otherwise he would not be put in charge of the Inner Palace Craftsman Workshop and the Ordnance Workshop.

After recovering Jiangnan, Zhou Xiang already realized that the emperor had few opportunities to go to sea, and although the imperial boat was well maintained, it was also a decades-old ship after all, and it had experienced several major wars and was also scarred. And the little emperor also traveled on the imperial boat several times in the south of the Yangtze River, and it seemed that he was not suitable for sailing on the river, so he planned to build a new ship for the little emperor at that time.

The opportunity soon came, and the little emperor designed two new types of ships, and ordered Zhou Xiang to supervise the construction of the fine timber brought back from the South Seas by the ocean-going fleet. It was also affirmed that these ships were mainly equipped for ocean-going caravans to open up new shipping lanes and to transport goods over long distances, and that they would gradually replace the old warships of the three major naval divisions to strengthen their ocean-going combat capabilities.

Zhou Xiang was very clear about the holy will, the ocean-going caravan was a chicken that laid golden eggs, which could bring tens of millions of profits to the inner government every year, and it was also an important tool for maintaining the imperial court's finances, so it was naturally a priority. The three major naval divisions are mainly engaged in coastal operations, and in the current situation where the Mengyuan naval division is defeated, it is mainly responsible for the task of protecting the maritime trade routes and providing support for the infantry army, and it is not urgent to strengthen the ocean-going combat capability in the case of the Mengyuan and Yuan dynasties. On the contrary, most of the warships of the Imperial Navy are old and need to be replaced.

Of course, Zhou Xiang understood that if he proposed to give priority to changing ships for the Imperial Navy, others would not dare to object, but His Majesty would definitely reprimand him, and it would definitely be impossible to change ships. So he adopted the strategy of 'saving the country with a curve', and put the idea on the experimental ship used to test the new type of ship, and then handed it over to the imperial navy in the name of waste utilization and experimentation, and the little emperor couldn't say anything.

Therefore, at the end of last year, three large Galen warships, six medium-sized Galen warships and more than a dozen small gunboats were sent to the Imperial Naval Army, replacing the old Imperial Ships and a number of escort and baggage ships, and the original dragon ships were refurbished in the name of overhaul. Several of these medium-sized warships, which were used for testing both river and sea uses, were also sent to the Imperial Navy as failures.

For Zhou Xiang's kindness, Zhao Hao also opened his eyes and closed his eyes to agree, he actually knew his needs as well. The ships incorporated into the fleet of the Imperial Boat include medium-sized warships that have been transformed, the ships are more than 12 zhang long, about 3 zhang wide, with three decks, using U-shaped bottoms, with a displacement of about 500 tons, and using two kinds of power, sails and oars, which can not only travel in most rivers and lakes, but also have a certain resistance to wind and waves and can sail in the near sea.

The ground floor was used as a power compartment and storage room for oars, the first floor was used as a rest area for sailors, and the second floor was transformed into a work and rest area for the courtiers and guards. The entire third floor is the emperor's office and rest area, which is an independent space. Although it was a royal boat, considering that the little emperor liked to rush forward in battle, the warship was still equipped with seven small short-body guns on each side, and two medium-sized Weiyuan guns on the head and tail as self-defense weapons.

Early in the morning, Zhao Yu climbed to the top deck and looked around, on the main road to the north was the marching imperial guard infantry cavalry, and the marching brigade of tens of thousands of people rolled away, and the end was gone. On the canal, more than 20 warships of the Imperial Front Navy surrounded the Imperial Boat and rode the wind upstream, with five dragon boats in front of them playing the front, two baggage boats accompanying them, and gunboats escorting the transport ships carrying the Guards Regiment and the Baggage Regiment in the rear. Behind it, a large number of boats are connected from head to tail, loaded with heavy grain and grass to move with the army, and the inland river navy cruises back and forth to guard the river, and the sail shadow covers the river.

The land and water armies marched side by side, covering each other, and the drums and trumpets heard each other, and Zhao Hao looked at the spectacular marching picture with great emotion. Thinking that Jiazi Town became an army back then, he would be less than ten, no more than a thousand soldiers, panicked and hungry, where would he think that there was today's grand occasion, and it was even more difficult to imagine that he could lead an army of 200,000 to the north to the Central Plains and enter the old capital.

"Changhuai is broken, and the plug is reckless. The dust is dark, the frost and the wind are strong, and the sound is quiet. Gloomy condensation, reminiscing about the past, the number of days, non-human, Su Si, the string song, but also fishy. Across the water felt township, under the sunset cattle and sheep, the district is off vertically and horizontally. Look at the famous king night hunting, riding the fire and a river. The drums roared. Shocking. Reading the arrow on the waist, the sword in the box, and the empty beetle, how can it be. Time is easy to lose, the heart is strong, and the age will be zero. Mi Shen Jing. Gan Yu Fang Huaiyuan, Jing Fengsui, and truce. The crown covers the cap, galloping, if it is love. Hearing the old man of the Central Plains, he often looked south and feathered up. So that the pedestrians came here, loyal and indignant. There are tears like ......"

"Minwu, why are you so emotional?" Zhao Yu suddenly heard someone singing beside him, the lyrics and songs were sad and sentimental, and when he looked back at Chen Shi, he asked.

"Your Majesty, as far as this is concerned, my subordinates suddenly remembered that Emperor Xiaozong raised an army to the Northern Expedition and recovered Suzhou, but the generals were not in harmony and fought each other and were defeated by Fuli, so they had to negotiate peace with the Jurchens, call the enemy nephews, cut the land and pay tribute, and the people were all sad and angry. Since then, Suzhou has been away from the country for more than 100 years, and his subordinates are not only sighing today, so they think of Zhang Moge's work. Chen Shishi saluted His Majesty.

"I have been in the Song Dynasty for three hundred years, and the humiliation inflicted on my dynasty by foreign races does not stop here, and my generation must pay it back one by one!" Zhao Yu sighed lightly when he heard this, patted Chen Shishi on the shoulder and said.

Fu Li's memory in Zhao Hao's previous life only has 'roast chicken', and the high-speed rail train named after it, otherwise he can't remember that there is such a place. But now Fuli is not as lonely and nameless as in the previous life, Fuli is named after the grass from the mountains in the north, Qin set up Fuli County with the name of the county, the Han Dynasty was named as a vassal state, the Eastern Wei Dynasty was renamed Suizhou Suinan County, the Tang Dynasty built Suzhou on the basis of Fuli County, to Song Suzhou for the Baojing Army Festival, the full name is Suzhou Fuli County, Suzhou and Fuli County are in the same city, because they are above Bianshui, they become Tongdu Dayi, extremely prosperous.

Because of its proximity to Huaishui, Fuli controls the passage from south to north, and has always been a place for soldiers to fight. The excavation of the Grand Canal in the Sui and Tang Dynasties made Fuli no longer only the center of north-south transportation, but also the throat of east-west water transportation. Because of this, Fuli's strategic position is abnormal, and it has become a famous "Hundred Battles Road" and "Fuli Sai" since ancient times, and it is by no means a small market town that can only be remembered by roast chicken in modern times.

Therefore, the Longxing Northern Expedition initiated by Xiaozong was first and foremost to open up this north-south passage, but it was defeated here, and hundreds of thousands of troops were all lost, and they were forced to negotiate with Jin, which is called Longxing peace. The Longxing Peace Conference was the second humiliating peace treaty between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty after the Shaoxing Peace Conference. Provisions: The emperor of the Song Dynasty changed the title of minister to the emperor of the Jin Dynasty to be called a nephew; changed the "New Year's Tribute" to "New Year's Coin", and reduced the silver and silk negotiated in the "Shaoxing Peace Conference" by 50,000 yuan each to 200,000 taels and horses; Song cut Tang, Deng, Hai, and Si outside the four states, and then ceded Shang and Qin to the Jin State.

The impact of Fu Li's defeat was not only the signing of the "Longxing Peace Agreement" that humiliated the country and maintained the 40-year peace with Jin, but more importantly, the Song Dynasty lost the strength to fight again and was unable to go on the Northern Expedition, which caused countless people to sigh and be extremely sad and indignant. Now Zhao Hao's northern expedition again competed with the enemy for Fuli, not only to open up the passage to the north to seize Erjing, but also an important part of the capture of Xuzhou.

The city of Fuli spans the Bianhe River, and is located on the road leading to the north of Xuzhou, only by seizing Fuli can go north along the canal to Yingtianfu, and even Kaifeng, and form a pincer attack on Xuzhou. As a place where soldiers must fight, Fu Li has already built a city in the Tang Dynasty, the city wall is rammed, the circumference is more than six miles, the height of the battlement is three zhang three feet, and the thickness is two zhang and five feet. There are four gates, and the water runs through the city, so the east and west are all water gates, and there are moats dug outside.

What makes Zhao Yu feel funny is that after entering the Song Dynasty, the city hastily established during the division of the Tang Dynasty can no longer meet the needs of development, and Zhou Yi, the governor of Suzhou, is ready to expand into a new city with a circumference of twelve miles and start the Lingbi to withdraw the town and build a county, but Su Shi's paper "Begging Suzhou to repair the city" made the outer city of the city unfinished, so the current scale is no different from the scale of the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, Su Shi, who had studied the past and the present, was afraid and did not expect that Suzhou would become the front line against foreign invasions. Now, for Zhao Hao, the city has not been expanded and reinforced, otherwise it will become a strong fortress in front of his army. It's really something that no one can understand, even the sages of that time.

However, at this time, after the opening of the new canal, the status of the transportation hub has been greatly reduced, coupled with the continuous invasion of the Mengyuan and Yuan, it inevitably went into decline, and was merged into Suzhou by the Yuan court and Qi County, Linli and less than 1,000 households of Lingbi, Hongxian and other counties, Fuli County was also reduced to a set, and there was no former glory, but at this time it was called the battlefield of the war between the two countries, and the place where the national fortune was determined.

That night, the army camped at Lingbi, and Zhao Yu was also temporarily stationed here. In fact, the battle for Suzhou has already begun, Du Ge took advantage of the emptiness of the enemy's forces to seize Fuli in advance, but was defeated by Meng Yuan's support of the guards, and there was no rout under the response of Liu Zhixue in the north, at this time the troops confronted the enemy in Xin'an Town, which was seventy miles away from Fu, although there was no major war between the two sides, but small-scale battles continued, raids, ambushes and encounters happened almost every day, and it was learned that His Majesty's leading army had reached the zero wall, and the two came to meet in the starry night......

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