When Gao Yihuan and his entourage came to the shore, the first thing they saw was not a shipbuilding workshop, but a water village of the Wei army's sailors.

After Gao Yihuan took Shandong and Hebei, he immediately asked the military department to gather the captured ships and captured sailors and form the Beiyang Naval Division.

The naval division uses Dengzhou, Shandong Province as its main base, and plans to train at least 30,000 people, and Haizhou is also a base of the Beiyang naval division.

Gao Yihuan had high hopes for this naval division, and in the future, he would not only have to undertake the heavy task of crossing the sea to attack Liaodong and Korea, but also go south to fight with the Ming army's naval division.

When all this is over, Gao Yihuan also hopes that they can join the Great Voyage, crisscross the Quartet, and carry forward the majesty of the Great Wei.

At this time, Gao Yihuan and his entourage galloped to the shore, and the soldiers of the Wei Army, who had been transferred from the 6,000 land division to the water army, were standing in the sea breeze to practice.

The 6,000 Wei soldiers were the elite of the infantry army who were transferred to the naval division, they were good hands on land, but they were the army of the new curtain at sea.

Although the military department has tried its best to select soldiers who know how to work in the selection process, it is still not something that can be achieved in a short period of time if they want to form combat strength.

Gao Yihuan looked at the soldiers from a distance, and heard the general's roar, "We have changed from the infantry army to the water division, you and the general are both newcomers, but we are tigers on land, and we must be tigers when we go to sea, and we can't be landlubbers." We are invincible in the world, relying on training, and now as a sailor, I think the reason is the same, it is the word "practice". You turtle grandchildren, all cheer up Lao Tzu. ”

Gao Yihuan didn't go to check the training of the sailors, he didn't understand it himself, and he was blind to command, the Wei army lacked sailor generals, and now he could only cross the river by feeling the stones.

Gao Yihuan glanced at it, stood up straight, turned his head to Huang Bingzhong and said, "Is there a fort built at the entrance of the harbor?" ”

Huang Bingzhong was stunned for a moment and shook his head, "Back to Your Majesty, no forts were built." ”

Gao Yihuan sighed in his heart, the generals of the Wei army were good at land warfare, but they were completely ignorant of the threat at sea.

This made him worry about his maritime hegemony, without talent, how could Dawei cross the sea?

"Mr. Chen, let the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry coordinate and send people to build forts and control the port where the sailors are berthed. Now our sailors are still very weak and need the protection of the fort in case the Ming army sailors enter the port and destroy the warships! Gao Yihuan commanded in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty has considered it thoroughly, and the Cabinet will do so as soon as possible." Chen Mingxia commanded.

Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, and then galloped with everyone to the site of the Haizhou shipyard.

Haizhou, which is probably located in today's Lianyungang, was once home to a number of shipbuilding workshops, where in its heyday there were thousands of craftsmen who were able to build warships across the Bohai Sea, but they were destroyed once earlier, and now only the wreckage remains.

Gao Yihuan valued the sailor very much, and after the Wei army accepted it, the county order organized people to clean up the workshop.

Gao Yihuan and his entourage galloped over, and saw a large area in the distance, full of red flags, and groups of people, shoulder-to-shoulder, were cleaning the wood in the workshop, repairing the broken workshop and slipway.

The people lifted the timbers one by one, piled them together, built shanties to shelter from the wind and rain, and the busy scene and the music of the troupe were heard.

Gao Yihuan smiled slightly, "Is the Haizhou County Order from the Discipline Division?" ”

Chen Mingxia said: "This year, a large number of officials have been promoted by the Ministry of Officials to come to Hebei and Shandong to deal with local affairs. Haizhou County Order is the Discipline Division out of the short, surnamed Sun, the name Dingli, and the word is long. ”

Just as he was saying this, a swarthy man with a mustache hurriedly greeted him, knelt down and saluted, "Greetings to Your Majesty." ”

Gao Yihuan smiled slightly: "Sun Qing, please get up." ”

Sun Dingli saw that the emperor knew his surname, and he was a little excited, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, "What's the situation here?" Tell me about it. ”

When the group turned over and dismounted, Sun Dingli walked next to Gao Yihuan and introduced: "Your Majesty, the minister has consulted the Haizhou County Chronicle, which used to be able to build more than 2,000 large ships and five or six thousand craftsmen, but it was such a large-scale shipbuilding workshop, but in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, it was burned down by a fire of the Tartars. Now all that remains is ruins and scattered timber. ”

When Gao Yihuan heard him say this, his heart was half cold, and he frowned and asked, "In that case, is this shipyard still worth rebuilding?" ”

Sun Dingli was serious, and he replied with a straight face: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks it is completely worth rebuilding." Although the workshop was destroyed, the craftsmen were still there, and as long as there were people, the workshop was built and ships could be rebuilt soon. ”

Gao Yihuan raised his eyebrows, a little surprised, "The craftsman is still there?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the Qing army first attacked Shandong, and then went south to Haizhou. At that time, the craftsmen of Haizhou, after learning that the Qing army had entered Shandong, went south one after another to take refuge. The Qing army occupied Haizhou, burned down the workshop, and evacuated Haizhou, and these craftsmen returned one after another, but the workshop was gone, and the Ming court's household registration system collapsed, and no one managed them, so the craftsmen all went to farm. After the minister arrived in Haizhou, he had found nearly 1,000 craftsmen through visits. ”

After Gao Yihuan heard this, his face was overjoyed, "Okay! Good! Not bad! He praised a few words in a row, and then turned his head and instructed Chen Mingxia: "If there are any difficulties and requirements in Haizhou, the cabinet must try to meet them." ”

Saying that, he looked at Sun Dingli again and said: "This workshop, I will hand it over to Sun Qing, if the Qing family has any difficulties, they will go directly to the book, if the cabinet does not solve it, you will find me!" ”

Sun Dingli was overjoyed when he heard this, "In this way, the minister will definitely restore the workshop for the Great Wei." ”

Saying that, Gao Yihuan and his party walked to a few piles of wood covered with oilcloth, stretched out their hands and lifted them, and there were heavy logs underneath.

Sun Dingli introduced: "Your Majesty, there was not only this bit of wood here, most of which was burned by the Qing army, and the rest was stolen home by the nearby people. ”

Gao Yihuan looked at the surrounding pile of wood, bowed slightly, with his understanding, the villagers did not all move home, they were already merciful, and the folk customs were simple.

"I allocated a soldier from Haizhou to guard the workshop, forget the wood that was stolen before, and if you steal it now, you will be severely punished!" Gao Yihuan said in a deep voice.

At the moment, Gao Yihuan, under the leadership of Sun Dingli, inspected the workshop, and the whole workshop is still a construction site, in fact, there is nothing to see.

Gao Yihuan comforted the people, met with several craftsmen, and said that they would be treated as Great Wei craftsmen, which immediately caused a burst of cheers.

Wei abolished the craftsman registration, terminated the system of being craftsmen for generations, and changed to a mobile craftsman household hierarchy system, to be a craftsman, you must first obtain a certificate, from the apprentice to the master, and the rank obtained by the father cannot be passed on to the descendants.

Of course, if we want to implement such a system, we must improve the treatment of artisan households, attract ordinary people to take the artisan examination, and make the artisan status like the imperial examination, a channel for the people at the bottom to go up.

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After Gao Yihuan conducted an inspection in Haizhou, he continued to the south, and arrived at Qinghe County in the north of Huai'an in a few days.

Here the Wei army camps are all over the place, the cavalry gallops along the Huai River, and on the south bank of the Huai River, the Ming army also camps for hundreds of miles, and the warships shuttle in the river, and the atmosphere is tense.

At this time, Gao Yihuan was followed by hundreds of cavalry and galloped to a hill on the north bank of the Huai River, the hillside was covered with the cannons of the Wei army, and the muzzles of the black holes were facing the river.

Gao Yihuan and the others turned over and dismounted, climbed to the top of the hill, and observed the opposite bank with a clairvoyant scope, only to see that the camp tents were densely packed, and the Ming soldiers entered and exited the camp like ants.

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, "Black Tiger, how is the defense line of the Ming army?" ”

Xu Heihu said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the defense line of the Ming army mainly relies on the river water division. The minister had sent troops to force the crossing, and the soldiers and horses crossed Sancheng, and the Ming warship suddenly killed, knocked over the warship, cut off the connection between the two sides of the strait, and all the brothers who crossed the past were surrounded by the Ming army, and none of them came back. ”

Gao Yihuan's face was gloomy, looking at a huge warship with Western characteristics in the river, he couldn't help but be stunned, pointed his finger and asked, "Whose boat is that?" ”

Xu Heihu glanced at it, and then said angrily: "It's the ship of the Zheng family in Fujian!" ”

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(Thank you for the 1000 of the rainbow, the reward of the extraordinary dream of ordinary people, thank you for your support)

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