"Father, what does this court mean? Not only sent the Yangtze River Naval Division to inspect Jiangzhou, but also sent Qin to Jiangxi, what is the intention? ”

Seeing the holy decree in his father's hand, Zhong Kuangshi was a little puzzled.

Zhong Chuan, whose hair was already gray, looked at the holy decree in his hand, his expression was also a little dignified, and then he shook his head and sighed, "The tree wants to be quiet, and the wind does not stop!" Although he hadn't seen the young Son of Heaven, it was certain that he had set his sights on Jiangxi, and he didn't know what he would do. ”

"Father, does this court want to attack Father?" Zhong Kuangshi said with some disbelief.

"It's not enough to start, but the imperial court will definitely not let my father continue to control Jiangxi like this." Zhong Chuan said in a deep voice.

"Father, just unite with Tian Hao to prevent the imperial court's Qincha from entering Jiangxi." Zhong Kuangfan, the second son on the side, said loudly.

"Shut up!" Zhong Chuan's face was a little ugly, and he glared at this second son, "Everything is frizzy." Keep the envoys of the imperial court out of Jiangxi? It's easy to say, but if you can, do you still need to sigh here for the father?

Before speaking and doing things, can you learn from your eldest brother? Don't be so frizzy. ”

For this second son, Zhong Chuan also has a bit of a headache, smart is smart, but he is not calm in doing things, compared with the eldest son, it is still a little worse.

"Father, what should I do now?" When Zhong Kuangshi said, he didn't forget to glance at his second brother proudly.

Zhong Chuan shook his head, "There is no good way to be a father, I haven't even seen the Qin messenger sent by the imperial court, and I don't know the true intentions of the imperial court." This is all guessed by a few of us here, and we can only wait for the Qin messenger of the imperial court to arrive, and when we see that we are taking one step at a time, we are afraid that the imperial court will salute first and then soldier. ”

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Yangtze River, Jiangzhou section.

On the foredeck of the building ship in the middle of a fleet, Dugu Yi was standing there chatting with Wang Shimiao, the commander of the Yangtze River Naval Division.

"Commander Wang is also the first time to lead the sailor to Jiangzhou, right?" Dugu asked with a smile.

"What Dugu Shilang said is extremely true, it is estimated that Jiangxi is also shocked when he hears this news!" Wang Shimiao smiled.

This time, the Qin Cha was Dugu Loss, the attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and Wang Shimiao's front compartment was only responsible for escorting Dugu Loss and his party of officials and inspecting the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake.

As early as the eighth year of Qianning, Dugu was promoted to the head of the Ministry of Rites and became one of the members of the imperial court.

The waiter of the Ministry of Rites, the distance from the six Shangshu, seems to be not much of a gap, but with the promotion of the six Shangshu to the second grade, it is not easy to be promoted from the Shilang of the Ministry of Rites to the six Shangshu.

This time as an envoy, the candidate in Li Ye's heart was not Dugu Loss, but he took the initiative to ask for it.

Seeing that Dugu had this idea, Li Ye naturally fulfilled him.

And the reason why Dugu took the initiative to ask for his life was that he wanted to take the opportunity of this envoy to make great achievements and then seek the opportunity to be released.

He is now a waiter of the Ministry of Rites on the fourth grade, and in the court, there are so many official positions from the third grade, and the competition is bound to be great.

So he planned to seek release after making meritorious contributions, and if he was lucky, he would serve as a deputy position, and no matter how bad he was, he could also be a Shangzhou assassin, which was also an official position from Sanpin.

Because he had an idea, he made a lot of preparations before leaving Chang'an this time, that is, he planned to impress the saint.

"Shock is for sure, but he can't do anything about it!" Dugu said disdainfully, "It's the king's command here." Jiangxi's sailors are not strong, but the sailors of Xuanzhou and Shengzhou are strong, especially Shengzhou, can Commander Wang be confident? ”

"Dugu Shilang rest assured, with such a powerful warship in hand, the last general really doesn't look down on those rabble. Unless they really wanted to rebel, they would not dare to attack the sailors of the imperial court. "In addition to the court behind him, Wang Shimiao is naturally a powerful sailor under his command.

The Yangtze River Water Division was adapted from the original Right Shenwei Army, but the number of people has declined, only 15,000.

However, the combat effectiveness has risen a lot of notches.

In the past, the main force of the Right Shenwei Army was actually the infantry army, but now it is a pure water division.

Today's Yangtze River Naval Division has more than 600 warships of various types, and it also has five compartments, but the scale and number of warships in each compartment are different.

The stronger ones are the front, left and middle compartments, and the weaker ones are the right and rear compartments.

Among them, the front compartment was stationed in Ezhou, with a total of 3,300 people. It has more than 130 large and small ships, including 1 No. 2 Ning ship, 10 No. 1 Ning ship, and other auxiliary warships such as building ships, Wuya warships, and sea falcon ships.

The left carriage is stationed in Yuezhou, with a total of 2,700 people and more than 110 large and small ships under its jurisdiction, including 2 No. 2 Ning ships and 8 No. 1 Ning ships.

The middle carriage is stationed in Gangneung Province, with a total of 4,000 people and more than 150 large and small ships under its jurisdiction, including 3 No. 2 Ning ships and 12 No. 1 Ning ships.

The right compartment is stationed in Wanzhou, with a total of 2,000 people, and more than 70 large and small ships under its jurisdiction, including 4 No. 1 Ning ships.

The rear compartment is mainly responsible for logistics and transportation, a total of 3,000 people, under the jurisdiction of more than 180 ships, multi-floor ships such as large ships, including 8 No. 1 Ning ships.

The No. 2 Ningchuan is an improved and enlarged version of the No. 1 Ningchuan, which is the original Ningchuan with a displacement of 1,700 materials.

Compared with the No. 1 Ning, the No. 2 Ningchuan is larger, 19 zhang long, with a total displacement of about 2,500 materials (about 800 tons) and 24 guns. Among them, there are 8 Shence General Cannons and 16 Shenji Cannons.

The No. 1 Ning ship, in addition to the previous production, has been improved in the past two years, and can be equipped with 14 god machine guns, 7 on the left and right.

There is no doubt that the No. 2 Ningsha is more powerful than the No. 1 Ningbo.

At present, the construction of the Ningchuan of the imperial court is the responsibility of the shipyard set up by the imperial court in Gangneung Province, and this shipyard is subordinate to the ordnance superintendent.

However, the construction of the No. 2 Ning ship was very slow, and in addition to its size, it also had the problem of consumption.

In fact, because the increase in the number of forbidden troops to 18 has made the household department have a lot of opinions, and Li Ye has to think carefully about Li Yu's protest.

In the end, he came up with a solution, which was to reduce the number of forbidden troops.

For the number of forbidden troops stationed in the hinterland and without combat missions, the number of troops was reduced.

The only ones that have not been reduced are the three forbidden armies of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, the Zuo Shenwei Army of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, the left and right guards stationed in Chang'an, and the Yangtze River Naval Division and the Shenji Battalion, and the other ten forbidden armies have been reduced in number.

From 25,000 to about 18,000.

In this way, the number of the entire forbidden army was actually reduced by 70,000, and the cost was naturally much less.

Of the 70,000 people who were reduced, except for some who were transferred to local garrisons, the rest were sent back to their hometowns.

If it weren't for the reduction of 70,000 people here, Li Mi would not have agreed to build so many warships.

On this mission, Dugu's mission was to go to Jiangxi, and Wang Shimiao's mission was to take his fleet down the river.

As for the excuse, it was naturally to inspect the Yangtze River on behalf of the Son of Heaven and transport some supplies to the Zhendong Army.

And along the way, it is not known whether it can successfully reach Mingzhou through the five towns of Jiangxi, Xuanzhou, Shengzhou, Huainan and Zhenhai.

In contrast, the task of Dugu is much simpler.