Chapter 1023 The army will be calmed down
Han Mo went back to the house to rest for two days, closed the door, just accompanied his family in the house, in addition to getting along with his wife and children day and night, in addition, he had a long talk with Han Zhengkun and listened to the old man's advice.
Naturally, no one knew that when Han Mo returned to his hometown in a low-key manner and was buried in the mansion all day long, there were many silver taels from all over the country through unknown channels and were converging in the Guan trading house in Yanjing City.
Han Mo lived a leisurely life in the mansion for two days, and at noon on the third day, he went to the Guan trading house in Donghai City in a very low-key manner, Guan Shaohe invited Han Mo into his inner room, and there were people guarding outside, so no one could find out the conversation between the two.
Han Mo knew very well that although he was now in the East China Sea, since Han Xuandao intended to suppress himself, his eyes would naturally not easily turn away from him.
Although he didn't know what Han Zhengqian's mind was, after all, it was a long house, and Han Mo was not sure whether Han Zhengqian sent someone to keep an eye on him, so he acted more cautiously.
Guan Shaohe took out the glass, took out another bottle of red wine, filled the glass with wine, and then smiled: "This is not grape wine." This kind of wine, in Nanyang only those monarchs and prime ministers are qualified to drink, Miss Du was loved by the queen of Fujiwara in the country of Jusang, specially gave three bottles, Graybeard took one bottle, and the remaining two bottles, Miss Du was transferred to me...... Fifth Young Master, don't misunderstand, Miss Du has confessed, one of the bottles is left here to wait for you to come back, specially prepared for you. ”
Han Mo was moved in his heart, thinking that Du Bingyue had always remembered himself in his heart, a burst of warmth was in his heart, and he picked up the quilt, it was really mellow and delicious, with a faint grape aroma, moist and delicious, it was indeed an extremely pleasant thing to be able to drink such a good wine in such a sultry weather.
"Is there any news from the fleet?" Han Mo put down the cup and asked softly.
At the last wedding, Guan Shaohe and his entourage entered Beijing to congratulate him, and they talked about some things at sea, including the mention of information at sea.
The information transmission of this era is naturally not as good as that of later generations, and the fastest tool to transmit information in the general sense is naturally horses, and the more high-end is the carrier pigeon.
However, the training of carrier pigeons is several times more difficult than that of horses, and the cost of money is far greater than that of horses, and it is not easy to train a carrier pigeon to quickly transmit information.
Fortunately, Guan Shaohe has a strong background and strong family resources, and in addition to doing business, Guan's trading house is also responsible for collecting intelligence, so he has five or six carrier pigeons in his hands.
After the opening of the sea route, Guan Shaohe sent two experts who specialize in domesticating carrier pigeons to go to sea with the ship, hoping to be able to domesticate the carrier pigeons back to the two places.
The East China Sea is vast, and the distance between the two places is also very far, even if the skilled fleet of many times can go back and forth for a while at the earliest, and it is a huge project to train carrier pigeons across the sea to deliver messages.
Guan Shaohe not only pulled out half of the several seasoned carrier pigeons in his collection for this purpose, but also spent a lot of money to collect more than 20 carrier pigeons, which were completely used to train this information road.
More than 20 homing pigeons, more than half of the casualties, and finally really opened up a distance, although it is not really possible to rely on the carrier pigeons to cross the East China Sea to transmit news in the two places, but they have trained five or six high-level pigeons that can withstand the wind and waves of the sea and skillfully travel to and from the fleet for ten days.
In order to train these carrier pigeons, the fleet also spent a lot of effort to find reefs at sea at intervals, and when returning and going, the fleet would prepare food and water at the reefs along the way.
The journey of the fleet is only three or four days for the carrier pigeons.
Guan Shaohe was within the ten-day sea route, but he was able to exchange news with the fleet.
Seeing Han Mo asking, Guan Shaohe also looked worried, but he still comforted: "The fifth young master doesn't have to be in a hurry. Although the news came that she landed in the next three or two days, but there may have been some wind and waves at sea that delayed, let's wait for another day or two, Miss Du is calm in trouble, there is a gray beard next to her, and there are many fierce warriors and calm elders who go to sea with the ship, and they will definitely return safely. ”
Han Mo bowed slightly, but he was still very worried in his heart, the last time because of the sneak attack of the Japanese people, the Du Island Lord died of serious injuries, he only hoped that no other accidents would happen this time.
Guan Shaohe didn't want Han Mo to worry about this matter, so he changed the topic and said in a low voice: "Fifth Young Master, I am preparing for what you instructed two days ago, this kind of thing is really hard to find, but I have found a way, and within half a month, everything you need can be arrived." He stood up and said with a smile, "Now that there are two barrels here, would you like to go and take a look?" ”
Han Mo clapped his hands and smiled: "I knew that this matter would be handed over to you, it would be imperfect." He got up and said, "Let's go, let's go and see!" ”
The two of them went out of the inner room and went to the backyard warehouse of the trading house.
As one of the most popular trading houses in Donghai City, Guan's trading house naturally has a large warehouse.
Before meeting Han Mo, Guan's trading house had a huge warehouse, and then started maritime trade, although most of the goods were directly transported on the coast, but sometimes when it was unlucky, a large number of goods were always stored in the warehouse, so Guan Shaohe went to the county guard mansion again, and directly found Yang Qing, to buy all the land on both sides of the next door for the construction of a larger warehouse.
Yang Qing naturally knew who Guan Shaohe's backstage was, without saying a word, he was directly helped by the government to buy it, but he bought a lot of land, and now he has built several large warehouses, and now when it comes to who has the largest warehouse in Donghai City, it is none other than Guan's trading house.
Guan Shaohe took Han Mo to a warehouse, opened the warehouse, and there were two gray-brown wooden barrels by the door, Guan Shaohe simply opened the wooden barrels, and an extremely strange smell came to his nose, Han Mo hurriedly covered his nose, looked at it, and nodded with a smile: "This is it!" ”
Guan Shaohe couldn't smell the smell either, so he closed the lid and walked out of the warehouse, then asked with doubts: "Fifth Young Master, what is the purpose of this thing?" Why do you have to collect such things in large numbers? ”
Han Mo smiled and sold Guanzi: "Brother Guan, I won't tell you for the time being, when the time comes, it will definitely open your eyes!" ”
Guan Shaohe didn't ask, and said with a smile: "Then I'll wait to see a good show." ”
The two discussed again, and before Han Mo left, he chose the time to ask Guan Shaohe to contact the merchant fleet, and if there was any rumor, he could send someone to Xifu to inform him.
The next day, Han Mo knew that he should also go to the Zhenfu Army to take a look, after all, Han Xuandao sent himself over, it was under the banner of commanding the Zhenfu Army, so he had breakfast and led more than a dozen royal forest guards to ride to the Zhenfu Army station.
After returning from Beijing, nearly a hundred royal forest soldiers were dispatched to follow, and after arriving here, Yang Qing, who was the county guard, took this as a matter, and sent his subordinates to settle the royal forest soldiers after eating and drinking without worry, but this group of royal forest soldiers was repeatedly instructed by Xiao Mu before they came, and there would be twenty royal forest soldiers guarding in Xifu every day to ensure Han Mo's safety at any time.
The horses galloped, but in more than an hour, they saw the garrison of the Donghai Zhenfu Army, the barracks on the land were continuous, and the sea was a forest of large and small warships, looking at it from a distance, there was a terrifying iron-blooded murderous aura.
Hundreds of miles along the coast of the Dadong Sea, the harbor where the warships of the Zhenfu army were anchored was about 20 miles away.
The port has been repaired again and again by the Han family for nearly a hundred years, and now it can be said to be a world-class military port, and every warship has a fixed place to dock. Here can be fully given dozens of warships to moor, supply, shelter, maintenance, a total of eight well-repaired docks in the port, the breakwater is built very strong, even the wind and waves of the East China Sea, it is difficult to break through, it is said that the breakwater is even filled with some copper water, so the warships of the pacification army are moored in the port, it is quite safe.
Only the warships of the Zhenfu army could be close to the military port, and those fishing boats had their own fishing port wharves under the control of the fishing department and the yamen.
Generally speaking, in addition to the commander or lieutenant in charge of the ship, a warship will be accompanied by two or three captains to pass on the captain's orders and transmit the orders to all parts of the ship.
The warship has nearly ten establishments, such as the helm office, the sail office, the catapult office, the crossbow platform, the sea scout office, and the logistics office, and each organization has a sea management commander, in other words, a medium-sized warship, in addition to the captain and captain, there are nearly ten sea managers, and then there are about 200 troops in various places.
Large warships can have more than 400 people, while small warships can only accommodate 30 or 40 people.
In the coastal section of Donghai County of Zhenfu Army, there are eight large warships, and these eight large warships are all huge, like a hill on the sea, solid as a rock. On the sea, it is extremely stable, its crossbow platform, trebuchet and lookout platform have been improved countless times, and its penetration is also equipped with metal penetration, when forced to do so, you can even use the bow as a weapon to ram the enemy ship, such a warship, now it is the world's first-class level, and the speed of travel on the sea is very fast, the standing strength of each large warship is 400 people, all of them are brave and good at fighting and good at water steel soldiers, most of them are born and raised in the East China Sea.
In addition to the eight formidable large warships, the Donghai Zhenfu Army has thirteen medium-sized warships, thirty-six small warships, and nearly 20,000 troops, which is the essence of the naval army of the Great Yan Kingdom, if it is not for the decline of the Qingguo Naval Division, this fleet will continue to expand its troops and develop even larger, even so, the Donghai Zhenfu Army is now the first naval division in the world, and it is indeed unrivaled at sea.
And in addition to the sea section of Donghai County, in the sea section of Wu County, the original Wu County Naval Division has been included in the establishment of the Donghai Town Fu Army, and Han Xuanling has already made large-scale adjustments to the Wu County Naval Division, many East China Sea generals and sailors have been transferred to serve in the Wu County Naval Division, and many people have also been transferred from the Wu County Naval Division to come to the East China Sea.
Although when Xiao Taishi was alive, he was ready to suppress the Donghai Zhenfu Army, but this matter was beaten back by Han Xuandao, and then there were many changes in Beijing, and the plan to weaken the Zhenfu Army came to an end.
Han Mo galloped with more than a dozen of his subordinates, before he entered Beijing, he had also been to the Zhenfu Army garrison countless times, so many people recognized it, and the guards in front of the camp gate saw it, and immediately someone came forward, and some people returned to the camp to report.
Several guards stepped forward and took everyone's horses, Han Mo calmly entered the camp, he knew where the camp tent of the governor of the Zhenfu Army was, and went straight to it, passing along the way, many officers and soldiers in the camp were still training in this hot day, and when they saw Han Mo coming in, the people they knew showed excitement, and their eyes couldn't help but show awe.
Han Mo's prestige spread all over the world, and the homeland of the East China Sea was naturally the most hotly discussed, and these soldiers of the Zhenfu Army were naturally full of respect for this young general who defeated the Wei army.
Before arriving at the camp, he saw that Han Yuan had already led several naval commanders to usher quickly, including Han Tingge and Huang Jingdan, who Han Mo was very familiar with, both of whom were Han Xuanling's henchmen and generals, and several other generals, Han Mo also recognized, but there were also several new faces, so they were naturally newcomers who had been promoted in the past two years.
As for the two nails planted by the imperial court, Cheng Xu and Li Mao were nowhere to be found.
Han Yuan stepped forward quickly, slapped Han Mo's chest lightly, and laughed: "Stinky boy, have you rested enough?" I've forgotten about us! ”
Han Tingge and Huang Jingdan also led the generals of the Zhushui Army to salute.
Han Mo smiled and went up to support Han Tingge, and said with a smile: "Uncle Han, Uncle Huang, we haven't seen each other for two years, and you are getting more and more energetic." ”
Han Tingge is very old in the army, and his prestige is also very high, and he said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for more than two years, and the fifth young master has also grown up, seeing that you young people are so promising, we old people should also go home and enjoy happiness." ”
"That's not going to happen." Han Mo held Han Tingge's hand and said with a smile: "Who is missing in this camp, and how many of you can't be missing?" Without you, there would be no pacification army today. ”
Huang Jingshan smiled on the side: "The fifth young master is still talking the same as before, which makes people listen comfortably. ”
Han Mo smiled: "That's because you did a good job to give me the opportunity to make a sycophant, this comfortable thing is not your own ability." He turned his head to Han Yuan and said: "Fourth brother, I remember that there are two commanders in our camp, one is a Cheng commander and one is a Li commander, these two commanders were originally noses and eyes to me, why did I come to visit the camp today, but there is no trace of these two commanders?" Could it be that you don't want to see me? ”
Huang Jingshan laughed and said, "Fifth Young Master, don't say that they didn't leave, they just stayed in the camp, but I didn't dare to come to see you." ”
"Oh?" Han Moqi said: "In this way, these two commanders are still gone?" ”
Han Yuan touched his nose and said, "It's been a few months since I left." When my father had not yet been transferred to the front, a group of soldiers came to complain, and these two men not only beat the soldiers at every turn, but also deducted their salaries...... Hehe, my father gave each of them a military stick, directly demoted to the sea pipe, and transferred them to Wu County. ”
When Han Yuan said this, the other generals of the navy all showed strange smiles, and Han Mo suddenly felt like a mirror in his heart.
Although those two people are the eyes sent by the imperial court, they really don't have that much courage in the Zhenfu army, and it is possible to be powerful, but they definitely don't have the courage to deduct military salaries, it is estimated that Han Xuanling "wronged" the two of them, and found a reason to send them out.
Han Mo also showed a strange smile, and nodded again and again: "I understand, I saw these two guys before, and I saw that their eyebrows and eyes were not right, and I knew that something was going to happen sooner or later...... Ay......! A long sigh was accompanied by a burst of laughter.
At that moment, everyone went straight to the governor's tent, and when they were greeted, Han Mo came in a hurry, but only to some of the generals, this East China Sea section of the Zhenfu Army, there are a total of fifteen commanders, and there are forty captains under them, all of whom belong to the senior generals of the Zhenfu Army, and there are captains, sea managers, and junior colonels below, that is, low-level generals, the military meeting of the Zhenfu Army, and these people are not qualified to participate.
Generally speaking, when a ship leaves port, the captain of a large or medium warship is either a commander or a captain, or even a capable captain for a small warship.
But there is no doubt that whether it is the commander of the capital or the captain of the school, eighty percent of them are talents promoted by Han Xuanling himself, and these people also maintain absolute loyalty to Han Xuanling.
When Han Mo arrived at the governor's camp, all the commanders of the communication arrived, and Han Yuan pulled Han Mo to take the lead in the account, except for the commanders who still had military affairs, the nine commanders who had gathered all rushed in, and the captains who were at the level of senior generals were not qualified to enter the camp today.
Many people suddenly felt in their hearts that what was being discussed today was probably a big deal.
Very few people in the Zhenfu Army know that news has been passed from the capital that Han Mo will temporarily act as the governor and take charge of the military affairs of the Zhenfu Army, but this matter is not publicized for the sake of secrecy, except for Han Yuan himself, the entire Zhenfu Army, and only the generals at the command level know that Han Mo is the supreme commander of the Zhenfu Army today.
Han Mo entered the camp and quietly observed that when the generals entered the tent, the laughter was no longer audible, and many people's expressions were extremely flat, even Han Tingge and Huang Jingdan's faces were not smiling.
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