Lu Wende, the envoy of Jinghu Manufacturing, was born as a local tyrant who made a fortune selling charcoal, and he often looked at problems from the perspective of commercial development; Liu Quan, the provincial and appeasement envoy of Kuilu, was born in a soldier and made his fortune by relying on his military exploits, and his perspective was to focus on the war situation. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The starting points of the two sides were originally different, but in the end, they both came to the point that they had to have control over the water traffic.

Liu Quan's intention is to resolutely avoid the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, and attack the land of Xiangfan wholeheartedly...... So keep all the waterways under control!

Lu Wende's intention is that without business, there will be no Lu Group, and without Lu Group, there will be no Xiangfan...... So we must not let them destroy the trade routes!

Both sides have their eyes on the water, and they are both building large and small ships.

Lu Wende's letter jumped the ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, could it be that the other party began to have something to do with Xiangfan?!

In fact, what Lu Wende, the envoy of Jinghu Manufacturing, meant, is that if I give some more military funds, I will also advance some money for the cost of shipbuilding this time!

However, some ministers saw an opportunity, and some people attacked the plan law implemented by Pingzhang Jia Yidao in the army, claiming that it was this plan that forced Liu Cheng to betray the Great Song Dynasty......

However, the plan implemented by Pingzhang Jia Rudao was to conduct a large-scale financial audit of the foreign armies under the condition that the Mongols withdrew and the situation was temporarily eased.

Besides, the Southern Song Dynasty adhered to the laws of the Northern Song Dynasty and still adopted the mode of collecting and decentralizing power in handling the relationship between the central and local governments.

Most of the revenue of the inland state capitals is provided except for basic expenses, which makes it impossible for the local governments to cope with the difficult affairs.

The border state capitals have little financial resources and are unable to organize defense independently.

Both require the reallocation of central finance, resulting in dependence on the central government.

And in the road-level political district. The leadership system of pacifying the envoys, raising the prison sentences, promoting the permanent peace, and transporting the envoys is still adopted, so that the powers of affairs are dispersed, and it is impossible to integrate and build the localities in large regions and strengthen the strength of the localities.

In terms of institutional design, the Southern Song Dynasty still adhered to the construction model of "strong cadres and weak branches".

Needless to say, the benefits of this system are not to be separated; The downside is. It's a mess......

Therefore, it is necessary to implement the law of planning, and not to allow the local army to abuse property at will...... There's nothing wrong with this, no normal society can allow generals to be corrupt and profligate, right?

As for Liu Quan's betrayal...... If a person betrays, he can find countless excuses!

So, what does this have to do with the plan?!

But no one said this publicly, it was just circulated in private...... Comrade Lao Jia was so angry that he didn't play cricket at home anymore, and wanted to find someone to argue, but no one said it publicly!

Then. Comrade Lao Jia used two means to fight back, the first was that he was going to deal with a few ministers who were talking nonsense behind his back, killing chickens to show monkeys; On the other hand, he has the tools of public opinion......

"Minsheng Daily" suddenly published an article on "Liu Quanchuan":

"Liu Quanzi Wu Zhong, Xinyang people, are less fierce and stubborn, greedy for money and have no credit...... At that time, war is settled. There is a lot of waste to be rebuilt, and there is a lack of property. Pingzhang Jia Rudao implemented the plan law to eliminate corruption and profligacy in the army, and sent officials to various military ...... Yu Xing is a letter minister, with the heavy responsibility of Pingzhang, and he sent officials to Luzhou to plan for money and food before the army, and he was greedy and afraid, and bribed him with a gold bottle. Xing is not accepted, and the whole to Gangneung to seek prosperity is instructed by the mother's book, and he does not accept it, and he is afraid of the city to descend to the north......"

As soon as this "People's Voice Daily" came out, Comrade Lao Jia won...... There are few private discussants among the ministers.

Then he took the opportunity to put on small shoes for a few of the people who had been a private discussant. One by one, they rushed to the remote countryside to become officials, and only then did they relieve their hatred.

At the same time, Zhao Yu, an official of the Great Song Dynasty, pulled out a sum of money from the inner treasury and sent it to the two cities of Xiangfan, and encouraged Lu Wende again.

Friction of varying intensity often occurs between the two sides on various waterways...... As a result, it was always Lu Wende who took advantage.

Liu Cheng later had to let the navy retreat, and the scope of the patrol was narrowed more and more.

In the skirmish between the two sides, the Jinghu system made Lu Wende's equipment take a big advantage!

The naval patrol sent by Liu Quan was generally based on three warships as a team, and Lu Wende also sent three warships as a team to confront ...... The two sides simply did not declare war, and neither openly wanted to go to war with the other.

When the two teams met on the river, they were fighting, one wanted to keep the merchant ships in pass, and the other wanted to stop the merchant ships from boarding and inspecting, and the two sides were irreconcilable contradictions.

However, Liu Quan's Tatar army immediately felt uncomfortable.

In fact, the sailors on both sides are Han people who grew up on the riverside, and now they are just their own masters.

In the past, when the two sides were far away, they would shoot at each other with bed crossbows, and when they were close, they would use bows and arrows, and when they got close, they would jump to fight.

Basically, a large ship defeats a small ship, a large ship defeats a small ship, and a downwind and a smooth current defeats a headwind and current, without exception.

Liu Quan's Tatar navy was going downstream, and Lü Wende's Great Song navy was going upstream.

When the Tatar navy saw that the ships on both sides were the same in number and size, and that they were still occupying the upper reaches, they were very confident that they would rush when they saw the Great Song navy!

The Great Song Navy also had self-confidence, and they did not turn around and run as before, but stepped forward against the Tatar Navy Army.

The confidence of the Great Song Navy came from their weaponry and previous training.

Their sand boats were loaded with two small stone cannons, not stone-throwing balls, but thunderbolt throwers...... The gunners and sailors cooperated with repeated drills on the Han River, and after more than a month, they could basically do a hundred paces away, and the ships of various sizes were six or seven out of ten.

The long-range weapons on the sand boat also have bed crossbows, but they tied a bamboo tube to the bed crossbow, loaded it with cotton linen soaked in whale oil, and then also loaded it with black fire/medicine, plugged in the fuse of the thunderbolt cannon, lit it and shot out, and the middle one burned on its own!

In close combat, they usually use a bow and arrow as a conventional weapon.

Lu Wende originally wanted to send the arquebus team as well, but found that when the river wind was strong, it was not conducive to filling the sub-medicine...... Later, a shipwright came up with a way to dig a small window of one foot square on the side of the second and third floor cabins, so that the musketeers could fill the cabin with sub-medicine and fire it there, so that they would not be afraid of the river wind.

In the same way, if the river is windy, then the bow and arrow will become a joke...... The Great Song Navy now believes that the Tatar Navy has really jumped to the gang, and they are by no means our opponents!

For the first time, they had real confidence!

Sure enough, in the first encounter, the Tatar army suffered a small loss......

。 (To be continued.) )