"Shaobao, please give the order." Yao Lin said.

"I'll give the order then, but I'll have to make it clear if I have it before. Let me talk about the difficulty of our future, if there are fewer soldiers, we cannot make a level exchange, and if there are too many soldiers, the cost of troops will be a serious problem. If the training is not handled well, on the contrary, it will strengthen their strength and make them even bigger, which will not only not be able to level the crossing, but will affect the management of Guangnan West Road in the future. But this is not a matter of strict zhòng, the strictest zhòng, let me ask you, you have all participated in the battle of the Southern Expedition, is it good to deal with Jiaozhi? ”

"It can be destroyed, but the cost will be great." Yanda replied honestly.

"But what if that little king and that eunuch in Jiaozhi withdrew from Thang Long City with their officers and soldiers and retreated to the dense tropical jungle to engage in guerrilla warfare with us?"

"What is guerrilla warfare?"

"Just like Li Jiqian, who took advantage of the unique terrain in the local area, the enemy advanced and retreated, and the enemy retreated and we advanced, without fighting with the main force of our army, and specially harassed our army to maintain law and order, escort food, kill the officials appointed by our court, and even destroy ships and roads, what will we do?"

"That would be troublesome," Yan Da said.

"Therefore, the enemy should not be underestimated, whether this battle can be won or not, mainly depends on you, General Yan. If General Yan is unwilling to carry it out, I don't blame you, I can understand, then General Yao will replace your duties. If General Yao was still unwilling, he had to let General Qu replace him. The rest is cooperated by Miao Lu and Yao Xiong. ”

Each has its own official position, that is, its own scope of activity, and Yao Xiong will be at the forefront, responsible for guarding the affairs of the six extraordinarily large confined states in the south. He Bin was responsible for the rear of Yongzhou and the safety of the first line of defense. Qu Zhen was in charge of Qinzhou's land routes, including Ruxizhai. However, in the future, he will also be responsible for training a southern cavalry. But now Wang Ju has not said that a large number of Yunnan horses, or local Guangma, must be brought in first, so that the cavalry can be put on the agenda.

There is also Yang Congxian, who was put in Qinzhou to train a small army of sailors after Wang Juti yì.

Qinzhou also originally had a seaport, as well as a large trading market, and many Jiaozhi people came by boat to trade with the Song Dynasty.

Li Changjie sent spies from Jie. The reality of Qinzhou was clearly felt, and then the navy arrived, and almost no obstacles were taken, and the port of Qinzhou was taken.

Therefore, Liu Yi's approach is not entirely wrong.

But why didn't Liu Yi send scouts to find out the truth of Dongliang Port, but Liu Yi was not wrong.

It's not that Liu Yi didn't send people to touch the reality of Donglianggang, but the system of the Song Dynasty was to eliminate the accumulation of defense, the enemy came over, we could resist, but take the initiative to attack the enemy, that would undoubtedly kill the parents of some scholars. International peace has been hindered, and the world has been in chaos. The Song Dynasty was overthrown and was about to perish......

In this case, how to make Liu Yi think of taking the initiative to attack, if there is another uncooperative comrade-in-arms like Su Yi, the tragedy will be staged.

When Jiaozhi retreated, the coastal areas of Qinzhou and Lianzhou were swept away by Jiaozhi, and not only property, but also the common people were taken captive. As for the former prosperous mutual market, it has long since disappeared.

However, some of the civilians fled to the rear in time and returned one after another, so a naval army had to be formed at the port just in case.

Yang Congxian was in Qinzhou Port, so he did not attend this gathering.

Wang Ju clapped his hands, and four people walked in from next door.

Yan Da and Yao Lin stood up at the same time: "Kang Dutou, why are you here?" ”

"Sha Deputy Dutou, why are you here?"

The two of them saluted: "The subordinates see General Yan." ”

"Subordinates participate in General Yao."

Kang Huaishen turned out to be Yan Da's subordinate, and Sha Huibao turned out to be Yao Lin's subordinate, but both of them were seriously injured and quit the army.

Wang Ju introduced: "Kang Huaishen and Sha Huibao, I don't need to introduce them to you, after they quit the army, although the imperial court gave them a pension, but the family situation is still not very good, so let me hire again, although I can't fight on the battlefield in person, but I can sit in command and be responsible for relevant training." ”

"Command training?" Qu Zhen asked in surprise.

"Qu Zhen, do you think that when you go overseas, there will be no fighting? There were savage natives, and there were pirates on the sea. ”

"I see."

"I will also introduce these two to you, Shao Xuan, Shao Zizhen, Jia Liang, Jia Liangguo. The voyage that brought many destitute people overseas was not as smooth sailing as you might think, and there were also many troubles. In particular, many people are hesitant and worried, so they must be sent to give them special education, so that they can learn to be friendly with each other, and Brother Zizhen and Brother Guoliang have done well. Therefore, during this training, I took them back and served as the political commissar of the political department, and then selected a soldier with a few words from each battalion to serve as an instructor. ”

"Political commissar of the political department, instructor?" He Bin is also stupid.

"Brother Zizhen, Brother Liangguo, tell me about your mission."

"Generals, our main task is to conduct special education for the instructors of each battalion, and when they have been educated, let them conduct special education for the officers and men of each battalion. The content of education is as follows, we are all people of the Great Song Dynasty, and we must be loyal to the Great Song Dynasty. We must be good officers and soldiers who love our family, love the collective, and love the country, and when there is a conflict between the collective and the state, we must put the state first, and the collective as the supplement, sacrifice the small self, and fulfill the big self, so as to create a peaceful and stable environment for future generations. In ancient times, a group of people moved south, lived in the south, in fact, thousands of years ago the barbarians were a family, so they returned to the origin, and now Guangnan West Road also has a barbarian family, regardless of each other, love each other. Treat friends as warm as a spring breeze, and treat enemies as merciless as an autumn breeze......"

The two said a dozen things in total.

Several fierce generals were sweating when they heard this.

Yan Da heard it, he didn't know the word brainwashing, but he knew that if the education was successful, after the training of these Han barbarian soldiers, they would no longer become powerful private soldiers.

After Wang Ju waited for them to finish, he said, "They are familiar with the situation over there, and they will cooperate with you in the future." ”

Yan Da already understood a little, and asked: "Shaobao, can you give an order to stop one or two boats, let me take a look at them." ”

"Okay, General Kang, Brother Zizhen. You ride with General Yan. Go and see the servant on board. ”

"Whoa."

The two took Yanda down.

Yao Lin asked puzzledly: "Shaobao." What are you talking about? ”

"Last year, you used troops blindly, and after repeated deductions, I found that it was difficult for you to return with all your achievements. Then the possible result is that there are two evils in the north, and another harm in the south, and our dynasty is in danger. Wang Ju said. I have to exaggerate to say that in fact, the battle of Fuliangjiang will also kill the heart, although the small actions will continue to stop in the future, but the big actions should be gone. But the impact is far-reaching. Before Wang Ju wore it, it still had an impact, saying that they were deadly, and they would not be fatal, but just like a rotten and smelly scar attached to the body that would never be healed, it had always made people sick.

And now there is an impact, a few years ago, the fleet went to Champa Zhenla to exchange food, and the two countries greeted each other with a smile, but Guo Kui on the bank of the Fuliang River hurriedly retreated with a large army, and the officials of the ports of the two countries immediately changed their faces. So I didn't get any food.

There was grain in Guangnan, but in the past Chinese New Year's Eve, 300,000 soldiers and civilians went south. Lingnan's grain reserves have also been depleted, and there will be some surplus grain this year, which will be used for other purposes. Therefore, it is still not possible to repay the grain owed to the three divisions this year.

This Wang Ju didn't say it, everyone didn't know it, but under Wang Ju's instigation, everyone kept thinking about Li Jiqian......

Wang Ju said: "So I wrote a book, saying that if the army can't return with all the achievements, let me come to Guangnan." His Majesty also agreed. So I came to Quang Nam, but when I thought about it carefully, it was still very difficult to put down Jiaozhi and try not to use a large number of officers and soldiers from the north and a large amount of money. If this plan is successful, the cost of using troops will be very small, and the sacrifice will not be very heavy, and it can also solve some of the unruly and powerful problems of Guangnan West Road in one fell swoop, and it can also make Jiaozhi completely become a history, and maybe it can also take advantage of this trend to attack Dali and truly unify the south. ”

"Dali?" Several generals were stunned together.

"This is just for a moment, I can only say that when the time comes, it depends on the situation, don't take it seriously. In addition, it is also of great benefit to overseas development. "What Wang Ju said is also the truth, although there is this plan, whether it will be implemented or not really depends on the situation.

"Then why not execute?" Qu Zhen asked puzzled.

"War should be divided into just war and unjust war, and if you want to carry out this plan, you must bring these 100,000 troops overseas for actual combat training, so that their combat effectiveness can be improved in a short period of time, and they can also get some expenses for raising soldiers. And the rest of the local natives, under the crushing of the three armies, I made arrangements in advance to make them become pirates, not pirates of hundreds of people in a gang, but pirates of thousands of people and tens of thousands of people......"

"I understand, I understand, Shao Bao is worried that General Yan won't accept it, it's okay, Shao Bao, let me go." Qu Zhen said.

"Let's see what General Yan thinks," Wang Ju said, Qu Zhen is still relatively inexperienced, and it will be very difficult to lead 100,000 people to fight, including Yao Lin, so the first choice in Wang Ju's heart is still Yan Da.

Yan arrived at the dock, Shao Xuan made a few gestures, and the three boat owners saw his gesture and immediately moored the boat on the dock. Yan Da walked onto the boat and saw that there were many people in the cabin, their skin was dark, darker than the people of Quang Nam, and they all looked like monkeys, he asked, "Shao Zizhen, which country are they from?" ”

"The country? General Yan, let me explain. Shao Xuan said.

The main route of the Song Dynasty, needless to say, had to stay in the Wa country for a long time because of the monsoon, so many seafarers married a wife in the Central Plains and another wife in the Wa country, so that there was also a home there.

The southern one is more complicated, and the South China Sea is mainly Srivijaya, which mainly produces pepper. It is now a maritime power. Further southeast, the farthest is Java (West Java), where silk, tea, porcelain, and iron are exchanged for their various spices, ivory, pearls, and crystals.

Then to the west are Tianzhu, Dashi and the countries of East Africa.

It usually takes 38 days to get from Guangzhou to Sriwijaya, but from Guangzhou to Gulin (a country at the southern tip of India) is mostly in mid-winter, waiting for the monsoon to turn in the country of Lanli, but including the time of the stopover, it only takes 70 days, but the distance is three times as long.

Shao Xuan was also afraid that Yan Da would not understand, so he drew a sketch on the ground with a tree branch to distinguish the difference between the two.

In fact, there are two reasons, Sriwijaya is relatively close, anyway, it can only go back and forth once a year, not so urgent, so it tends to stay in various ports for a period of time, one is to facilitate supply, and the other is to see the safe wind direction before setting sail. The duration of the stopover is relatively long.

And then there's another reason. That is the desire to sail safely. Boats must not be too far from the shoreline.

I didn't know before, but now Wang Ju marked the approximate map, and after research, he gradually knew that the South China Sea was actually equivalent to a circular sea, surrounded by various islands on all sides. But where are the missing ships that have gone off course?

Some of them met civilized tribes and returned safely, while others ended up so well, letting the local natives slaughter all of them and split the expensive sea boats to burn them as firewood. Even more excessive, some cannibal tribes can eat the people on the ship alive.

This is the current situation of the islands in the southeast of the South China Sea, because they are far away from the main shipping lane, the civilization is backward, and as for the country, it can also be said that it is a country, but there are many such countries, the people are not civilized, and there is no language barrier, and there is no unified political power to organize the property. Therefore, the maritime merchants of the Song Dynasty rarely went to the southeast to trade.

"So the sea is also bitter?"

"That's what makes a living at sea today. It was a chart of the safe route that had been sacrificed by countless people, until the Shaobao appeared......"

"Tell me," Yanda became interested.

In the past, the ships of the Song Dynasty rarely went to the southeast to trade, but it did not mean that there was no production in the southeast, and Wang Ju also deliberately avoided the main route, that is, the line west of the Luzon Islands, and the main route area to the west, and there were almost no Song Dynasty maritime merchants to trade to the east, and the local civilization became more and more backward.

Only if you are backward, can you emigrate, for example, now send a large number of people to Srivijaya, Tanjung, Wuluo, and Jianjia countries, that is not immigration, but pure death, and some countries are no less powerful than Zhancheng and Jiaozhi.

And unlike the previous maritime merchants of the Song Dynasty, Wang Ju was in Gyeongju, and Tao Qing and Zhang Quanzhi presided over the navigation and shipbuilding, and at the beginning there were dozens of ships, large and small, and the sailors on board were actually armed soldiers. As a result, a number of small settlements began to be developed from then on.

However, there was one exception, and that was the northern part of Luzon, such as the country of Ma Yi, which was also very backward and barbaric, and because of its proximity to China, it occasionally sent ships to bring their specialties yellow wax, pearls, and betel nuts in exchange for porcelain and iron from the Song Dynasty.

China also has a few small seagoing vessels that occasionally go to trade somewhere, albeit in small numbers.

Even in that more civilized country, many customs are still very barbaric, such as when the husband dies, the wife must cut her hair and sleep with the dead body of her husband, and go on a hunger strike for seven days. If the village chief died, it would be even more tragic, and dozens of slaves and maids in the village would have to be killed to accompany the burial.

In fact, Ma Yi is only a small country, one of the thousands of countries in the entire Luzon Islands, but even this civilized country is so barbaric, other countries, the Song Dynasty maritime merchants dare to trade?

However, when Wang Ju began to set sail, he was afraid of controversy and also bypassed the northern Luzon region.

But in the end, I found that I couldn't get around, because the route was too far, the supply was very difficult, and I couldn't go to Dashi, using a giant ship to raise pigs and chickens and grow vegetables.

Therefore, it is necessary to set up a place of residence and supply here.

At the same time, in the event of a major storm, there must be a succession of ports to escape the storm and escape. If you don't want the boat, you have to ask for it, this is what Wang Ju said.

Yanda is a little bitter, this is really to treat his own people as warm as spring.

However, whether it was a settlement, a supply point, or an escape sailor boatman, they were all killed by the local natives one after another. It can't even be said to kill, some are burned to death by fire, some are used to die with Ling Chi, and some are locked in cages and tortured to death.

With the prosperity of the eastern route and the development of the islands, this area has become the biggest problem on the shipping lane. Wang Ju had no choice but to launch a fleet and launch a campaign against these tribes. However, this area is also relatively densely populated, and it still cannot be completely solved.

So with this training, by the way, this nail will be removed.

The truth is so, but depending on what you say, after Shao Xuan's statement, it has become a just war.

However, Yan Da didn't take it seriously, if this was the case, Wang Ju would not have said so solemnly and repeatedly, let him think about it.

But whether it is a just war or not, Yanda's choice at this moment is really important, because all the plans are carried out around these 100,000 native soldiers to "train". Without this, Wang Ju would not be able to do anything. (To be continued......)