From Wusong to the north, it is the Yellow Sea, and the sea area is yellowish.

The Yellow Sea is said to be derived from the Yellow River to seize the Huai and divert it, the original Yellow River into the sea is through the North Zhili, Tianjin Haihe River channel into the sea, now it is from the South Zhili Huai'an Mansion (north of Jiangsu) into the sea, because the Yellow River brings a large amount of sediment, so the color of the coastal water surface is yellowish, over time, it is called the Yellow Sea.

For more than a year in the south, Father-in-law Wei has never swam in the sea, so this time he wants to have time to swim in the north, so as to leave a good sentence of "no matter the wind and waves, it is better than a leisurely walk".

However, the sea area north of the Yangtze River in Nanzhili, where the fleet passed, made it difficult for Wei Gonggong to realize his dream, and the fleet basically had no way to land on the shore, because the sea area in northern Jiangsu was full of silt and tidal flats, and there was no beach.

In some places, the tidal flats stretched for hundreds of miles, and Hugh said that the fleet could not land, even if the area extended two or three hundred miles inland, there were no official roads.

The only official road was built in the Northern Song Dynasty Fan Zhongyan built a seawall, based on which later generations built a national highway running through the north and south of China, the northernmost is Jingshi, and the southernmost is in Guangdong.

Wei Gonggong believes that this is probably why the Japanese have been invading and harassing in the southeast, but have not appeared on the northern coast.

From a geographical point of view, the north of the Ming Dynasty must be closer to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, and then the troubles of the Ming Dynasty were always in the southeast, and the fundamental reasons for this are four.

First, the northern coast of the Ming Dynasty is not as rich as the southeast.

The second is that the northern coastal terrain is not conducive to the landing of the Japanese invaders.

Third, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army assembled in the north was higher than that in the south.

Fourth, the masterminds of the so-called Japanese are actually Han people along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, and they are more familiar with the southeast.

Under the influence of these four factors, the Japanese did not invade the hinterland of the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, because for them, the gains outweighed the losses.

After the fleet traveled for three days, the weather was unusually warm, and Father-in-law Wei took the bow of the boat, looked towards the distant coast, and casually asked where Ruan Dacheng, who was forcibly pulled by him, was.

Ruan Dacheng didn't know where this place was, so he hurriedly went to find a chart to see, and after looking at it, he determined that this area should belong to Yancheng County, which belongs to Huai'an Prefecture.

"Oh, Yancheng."

Grandpa Wei nodded, he had a special affection for this place.

Yancheng is named after salt, very famous, the northern part of the county belongs to Huai'an Mansion, and the southern part belongs to Yangzhou Prefecture. The Lianghuai Salt Farm is also located within the scope of this county, and both are under the jurisdiction of the Lianghuai Salt Administration in Yangzhou. The dense reeds on the tidal flats can reach hundreds of miles from south to north, and red-crowned cranes and deer-like animals can be seen in the distance.

The two Huai salt farms do not dry salt, but boil salt.

It is necessary to boil salt with reeds, so the places where salt people live are mostly called "regiments", "stacks" and "fields".

"There are two people in Yancheng, one Lu Gong Xiufu and one Zhang Gong Shicheng, both of whom are the great heroes of my Han family, we must remember and remember as future generations, and our children and grandchildren must be remembered from generation to generation......"

Gonggong Wei remembered that today happened to be the Qingming Festival, so he specially burned incense on the boat and sacrificed, and by the way, he told his subordinates about the martyrs.

Lu Gong Hidefu is a national hero, the Southern Song Dynasty anti-Yuan famous minister Lu Hidefu, the battle of Yashan held the emperor rather die than surrender, threw himself into the sea and died, 100,000 soldiers and civilians followed him and jumped into the sea to martyrdom!

In this war, China was conquered by the northern nomads for the first time, and the Chinese civilization declined and fell, so there is a saying that "there is no China after the cliff mountain".

Fortunately, the Red Turban finally expelled the Tartars, restored China, and revived the Chinese civilization without sinking for 10,000 years!

"What is the Yashan Spirit? It's better to die than to surrender! ”

Wei Gonggong first put forward the "Yashan Spirit" when he gave Lu Xiufu the god card, and he pointed out that the "Yashan Spirit" is the national spirit of my Han family, and the spirit of our Han family.

"In the Battle of Yashan, our Han people were defeated, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians were martyred, and since then we Han people have become Tartar slaves. But why are we now able to regain our kingdom and drive out those Tartars? … Because we Han people have a spiritual energy, today the alien race can defeat us, occupy our land, and ask us to be their slaves, but as long as our Han people are not exterminated for a day, we can finally take revenge, and finally drive the alien race away, or even wipe out all of them! ”

Wei Gonggong emphasized that the national spirit of the Han family is the spirit of the Ming Imperial Army, the Ming Imperial Army and the Han nation are inseparable, and the Imperial Army is not only the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, but also the most staunch defender of the Han nation!

"Ladies and gentlemen, we hope that you can always remember Lu Gong Hidefu, always remember the national spirit and integrity shown by the Battle of Yashan and the Battle of Yashan, and every soldier of the Ming Imperial Army has the responsibility to dedicate himself to the survival, self-esteem, and self-defense of my Han nation!"

Wei Gonggong said that these words were made by feeling, and as the expansion of the Ming Imperial Army has been officially put on the agenda, then the inheritance and spirit of the army must also be put on the table.

The Ming Imperial Army cannot be an army that works hard for silver and future, but must become the vanguard, guardian, and pioneer of the Han nation.

Therefore, ideological work must be started and strengthened.

Taking a clear-cut stand and propagating the "Yashan Spirit" in the army is conducive to changing the thinking of officers and men.

For Zhang Shicheng, because of his defeat of the Taizu of this dynasty, it is inconvenient for Gonggong Wei to talk so much, and only talks about his anti-Yuan deeds.

Zhang Shicheng led the salt people to revolt in the late years of the Mengyuan Dynasty and established the Great Zhou regime, and the rebel army under his command crisscrossed Jiangsu and Zhejiang, controlling the richest areas in southeast China, cutting off the main source of grain and financial revenue for the puppet Yuan. The first battle of Gaoyou was even more famous in the world, disintegrating the main force of the million-yuan army led by the puppet Yuan minister Xiang Totuo, and there is no doubt that Zhang Shicheng was a hero of the puppet Yuan war.

Now it is widely circulated in the market, and the authors of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", which are very popular with the people, Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, all serve Zhang Shicheng. However, Zhang Shicheng was finally defeated by the Taizu of this dynasty, but whether it is official or civil, Zhang Shicheng is still a famous anti-Yuan hero.

Gonggong Wei didn't say much, and his subordinates also knew it.

"Dacheng must write down, extract, and sort out the speech on the spirit of our family's Yashan, and organize the officers and soldiers to study it in the near future."

After Wei's speech, he did not forget to tell Ruan Dacheng to sublimate his speech.

This second generation of Ruan Dacai's rich son was obviously used as a pen by his old man.

Ruan Dacheng was very distressed, he felt that he was completely being used by Eunuch Wei, but he had to do what he said.

He had a hunch that if he couldn't get out of the "sea of suffering" as soon as possible, he was likely to become Wei Gelding's minions in the eyes of the world, and everyone would spurn him.

Seeing the blue sky and white clouds, and the breeze without waves, Father-in-law Wei suddenly became interested, ordered him to put down the boat, and brought dozens of followers to row to the shore, and picked up small crabs and mud snails barefoot on a tidal flat.

After picking up for more than an hour, he got on the boat and returned satisfied, and then asked someone to soak the mud snail in water to make it spit out sand, and then called the material to choke.

Two days later, when the fleet arrived in the Haizhou (Lianyungang) area, my father-in-law finally tasted the taste that he had not seen for a long time.

Ah, that's the best taste in the world.