Goryeo is the former county of Haidong, after the establishment of the country, the monarch of Goryeo called himself the son of Haedong Heaven, so the people of the Central Plains are accustomed to call the Goryeo Peninsula "Haidong".

Donghu is the upper state of Goryeo, and his envoys dare not slack off. In the room, three beautiful Korean dancers, wearing long skirts with long drag sleeves, are slowly descending, showing the extreme flexibility of their waists. Those rough men, looking at the graceful curves of the tense legs under the skirts, were not infected by the graceful dancing, and thought in their minds that if the clothes were stripped naked, love in this posture would be called enjoyment.

The charcoal fire in the brazier was burning brightly, and there was a slight sound, and Goryeo's Minister of Rites, Zuo Honglie, then rushed over, saying that he was courteous to accompany him, but rather to prevent the envoys of the Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian from having too deep contact with the envoys of Donghu. Zhejiang, Fujian and Donghu, one south and one north, Goryeo is sandwiched in between, so you really have to be careful.

Nahe Xiongqi came on behalf of King Donghu Khan, and sat behind the main case, Jin Chengyue, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Qin Zitan sat in the next case, and then Azig and these accompanying guests.

Before Jin Chengyue came, Qin Zitan told Nahe Xiongqi about Danluo Island. Jin Chengyue came over, and Na He Xiongqi caught someone asking about the details of the Danluo Island incident.

Jin Chengyue also had a bitter face, Na He Xiongqi asked, and he couldn't push and not answer, he was secretive, squeaky, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

At this time, Goryeo was no longer the Goryeo that dared to compete with the Donghu people and Dayue for Liaodong a hundred years ago, and it had long lost the ambition to expand the territory and open up the territory. At present, the young lord of Goryeo is in charge, and the prime minister Zuo Jing is the father of the queen, who is in charge of the government. Zuo Jing was defeated by the Donghu people in the Qingchuan River four years ago, and he lost his courage, and with the support of the Donghu people, he barely retained his power in the country, and he completely became the lackey of the Donghu people.

Weak countries have no diplomatic relations, before the vassal of the Yue Dynasty, the Yue Dynasty also relied on the etiquette of the Heavenly Dynasty to the state, every year the tribute has a lot of feedback, and the tribute can open up trade routes, which is really a mutually beneficial thing.

The Donghu people are monsters that suck blood and eat meat, and every time an envoy comes, they come to drink the blood of the Goryeo people and cut the flesh of the Goryeo people.

In the past four years, not to mention the cutting of land and the reduction of troops, grain, straw, horses, gold, silver, copper and iron, countless extortions have been given, and there are even nearly 100,000 Goryeo Ding Zhuang, who have been wrapped up in the war between Donghu and the Yue Dynasty.

Donghu used troops against the Vietnamese Dynasty, killing and indulging in looting. Far from suffering from the war, the Koreans who were caught up in the war saw it as a shortcut to making a fortune. Whenever the Donghu people went to the banks of the Qingchuan River to recruit troops, the Koreans prepared their own armor and horses, and the respondents gathered.

The truly far-sighted Goryeo people knew that only the Donghu people could really profit from such a war, and the Ding Zhuang of Goryeo on the front line of the Qingchuan River was exhausted, and it would be extremely difficult to get the Qingchuan River back from the Donghu people in the future.

Kim Seung-yue didn't know what kind of non-governmental demands the Donghu envoys would make to Goryeo when they came over this time, and he was uneasy.

Na He Xiongqi's gaze fell on the dancer's white breasts, but he was thinking about other things.

He not only wanted the Goryeo people to agree to build a large-scale water camp in Kannai-gun, but also to obtain shipbuilders from Goryeo to bring back to Jinju (Dalian, the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, less than 200 miles from the northern tip of the Shandong Peninsula) to build a dock.

In the battle of Yannan, the Jiangdong Left Army borrowed a boat to quickly maneuver along the coast, which impressed Nahe Xiongqi deeply. It is a common thing to raise the sails and blow the wind, and the soldiers take advantage of the ship to travel two or three hundred miles at night, and the cavalry gallops for two hundred miles at night, how much combat effectiveness can be left?

From then on, Na He Xiongqi wanted to have a water camp in Donghu.

The sailor is not the director of Donghu, there are no shipbuilders in the territory, and people who are good at boating are rare, and the general who is even better at managing the sailor, Nahe Xiongqi, as a newly defeated general, his voice proposing to build a water camp is really weak.

Let the Donghu people set their eyes on the sea, it is the many grain ships that stick to the west coast of the Liaodong Peninsula to the Jinhai.

With the deepening of the tug-of-war between Yanbei and the war, the princes and ministers of Donghu gradually realized the significance of the Jinhai grain road to the Southern Dynasties to maintain the defense line of Yanbei. However, to cut off the grain route of the Jinhai Sea, it is necessary to have a water camp warship, and Donghu wants to build a water camp only with the help of the power of the Goryeo.

Goryeo is the former county of Haidong, surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the traditional shipbuilding and fishing industry is developed. The surrounding archipelago terrain is easy to hide pirates, and Goryeo also has naval armies in the coastal states and counties all year round to prevent pirates from invading the land. With Shannan County as the most, it was necessary not only to guard against pirates, but also to defend against the Fuso vassal states on the other side of the strait.

At present, the biggest disadvantage of the Goryeo navy is that it is too scattered. The strength of the naval army is not concentrated enough, and it is controlled by the following counties, and the naval army in the hands of the royal capital Hanyang Mansion is only more than 1,000 people, which is too weak.

The Goryeo navy is mainly to defend against sea bandits, and there is a lack of strong ships and large ships, and if they are more than three zhang, they can be regarded as large ships. In the waters west of the Liaodong Peninsula, there are almost no ships that are less than five zhang long. The warships that escorted the grain convoy were more than ten zhang or more sturdy ships.

Nahe Xiongqi came here this time to urge the Goryeo people to concentrate all the domestic naval forces in Hanyang Mansion in Guannai County, urge the Goryeo people to build larger and stronger warships, urge the Goryeo people to build a number of large and strong sea ships for Donghu, urge the Goryeo people to train a sailor for Donghu, provide shipbuilding craftsmen for Donghu, and prepare for the construction of a water camp dock port in Jinzhou Mansion.

In order to achieve this goal, Nakh Xiongqi and Azig's envoy to Goryeo negotiated only one aspect. On the other hand, the British prince Ye Ji Duodi led more than 40,000 elites to enter the cities north of the Cheongchon River to threaten Goryeo militarily.

In addition, after several captives, there was a lot of gold and silver in the treasury of the king of Donghu, and he asked the Goryeo people to help build a water camp, and Nahe Xiongqi also brought three or five hundred thousand taels of silver this time to reward Goryeo.

Three and a half million taels of silver is said to be a lot less, but more is not much.

The shipyard, port, and camp city are all complete, and an elite water battalion of about 10,000 people is built from scratch, and it is not unimaginable to spend a million taels of silver.

Thinking about the shipbuilding workshop under the Huaidong Military Division, nearly 600,000 taels of silver were invested before and after. The Sun, Zhou and other clans, as well as Chongzhou, almost invested all the profits from the Jinhai grain road, and in just two years, the current shipbuilding scale was formed.

But three and a half million taels of silver was enough to buy off officials in Goryeo.

Although Nakh Xiongqi was a general who commanded the army, he was not reckless in handling things, and he also practiced political affairs, so he appointed this envoy to the king of Yezir Khan. He knew in his heart that it would be easy to coerce the Goryeo monarchs and ministers into submission, but he also had to calm down the opposition in Goryeo in order to make this matter go smoothly.

Before Nahe Xiongqi came to Hanyang, he didn't know about the battle on Danluo Island, but knowing at this time was an excellent excuse to promote the purpose of this trip.

"Dan Rusu is under the jurisdiction of Goryeo, Huaidong intervened, regardless of morality, sneaked up on Haiyang/water army, invaded the territory of Goryeo, and trapped the county governor and 4,000 generals died on the island, what do you want to do with the lord of Goryeo?" Na Hexiong Qi asked Kim Seung-yue, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, with a high voice.

Jin Chengyue felt bitter in his heart, it was not a good thing to let the Donghu envoy come in with anything, so he had to say: "The Ministry of Incivility can ask about the use of soldiers, and the lower officials really don't know how to answer the envoy's ......."

"Then the Secretary of Rites arranged, I want to see Zuo Xiang tomorrow," Na He Xiongqi said again, "The Secretary of Rites is not a person who likes the wind and the moon, why do you still stay to disturb our interest?" The implication is to get Kim Chengyue to leave.

Kim Seung-yue had no time to resent Na He Xiongqi's rudeness, so he retired and left. In order to calm the domestic grievances, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who was responsible for direct negotiations with the envoys, often became the scapegoat.

Kim Seung-yue really doesn't know if he will become a scapegoat to calm the anger at home and be imprisoned when Donghu's envoy leaves this time?

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Kim Seung-yue left, and Na He Xiongqi waved his hand to let the three beautiful Goryeo dancers leave.

Everyone knew that these dancing girls and the official prostitutes in the inn were Korean spies, so how could they be present when discussing matters?

"Zhejiang, Fujian and Huaidong had a naval battle in the East China Sea," Nahe Xiongqi looked at Qin Zitan, such a character, not very famous, but can be used as a special envoy to cross the sea to Goryeo on behalf of the luxury family, it must not be a simple person, "Huaidong Navy is virtual and real, Xiongqi wants to ask Mr. Qin......"

Even if Donghu breaks the defense line of Yanbei, there are still Liang clans in Shandong, and Huaidong is the common enemy of the two families.

Qin Zitan thought for a moment and said: "The rise of Huaidong in the past two or three years is not accidental. Your army suffered a slight setback in Yannan, and if you look closely, there is no other, but Huaidong borrowed the water camp warship, maneuvered along the coast, and the convenience of transshipment was especially better than the horse cavalry. The Min division fought with Huaidong and rushed to the East China Sea, and the defeat was also due to the fact that the warships were not as strong as Huaidong. The strength of the Huaidong naval army is as strong as a reef, the second is as fast as a galloping horse, and the third is as big as a flat land. To sum up, the Huaidong warship giant ship is especially convenient when it travels on the wind and waves, which is far from being able to reach other places. At the end of the day, Huaidong attaches great importance to naval warfare, and its eyes are also on the sea, and others are not ......."

"The luxury family can have the current situation, and it is also from the sea, which is much more entrenched than Huaidong, how can it be inferior to Huaidong in the battle at sea?" Na He Xiongqi asked suspiciously.

Nahe Xiongqi is already a veteran of Donghu who is diligent in thinking, but from land to sea, the mode of operation has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the strategic thinking and the interests of competition are fundamentally different. Na He Xiongqi was confined by the idea of fighting on land and horse, and he couldn't see the reality of the Huaidong Water Army, so he really couldn't be blamed.

Although Nahe Xiongqi's understanding is not profound, he is not as good as him when he is replaced by other generals from Donghu; Otherwise, King Donghu Khan would not have chosen him to take up the matter.

In addition to the generals of the Huaidong Military Division, who were deeply influenced by Lin Binding, how many people in the world could deeply understand the importance of controlling the sea?

To say that there is, Qin Zitan is the best among them, and he has suffered a lot of losses in the long-term game and battle with Lin Tie before he has reached the current depth of understanding.

Regarding Na He Xiongqi's question, Qin Zitan hesitated for a while, not knowing whether to tell the truth.

At that time, the world took land and Dingkou as the core resources, and every battle, the battle for land and Dingkou was important, and the army was governed by cavalry and foot soldiers. There are many rivers, lakes and rivers in the south, so there are water battalions to cooperate with the operation, and the focus is still on the "land and Dingkou".

The core purpose of the extravagant family to abandon the land and go to the sea is also to open the passage from the sea to land in eastern Zhejiang, and once they gain a firm foothold in eastern Zhejiang, the center of gravity of the army expansion will immediately be shifted to the land.

In the past year, the land controlled by the luxury family has spread for thousands of miles, with 100,000 elite foot soldiers. Although its naval army still maintains a strength of 20,000 troops, the investment in the construction of warships and the construction of forts on the island is not as good as in previous years.

More people are recruited from eastern Zhejiang to be incorporated into the water camp, where can Huaidong build a large-scale shipyard and build a strong fast warship for the water camp?

In the past year, instead of being enhanced, the ability of the eastern Zhejiang water camp to navigate the open sea has been weakened, and it has been mainly defended in the coastal areas and at the mouth of rivers and lakes.

In contrast, after two years of development, Huaidong has been able to organize an army of 10,000 people to cross the sea to the east.

The gap in this, Qin Zitan was also deeply distressed when he saw it.

But there is no way, even after the integration of northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang, the resources that can be used are limited.

The strategic focus of the luxury family has shifted to the land, the south to deal with the remnants of Yu Wangao, the north to deal with Dong Yuan in northern Zhejiang, the Jiangdong soldiers in Zhengzhou, and the Jiangxi county soldiers, and finally the defense line built by Huaidong in the Shengsi Islands.

In the past year, the luxury family has invested nearly 3 million taels of silver in military spending, and the water camp can account for about 20%, about 600,000 taels.

The 20,000 sailors had 400,000 taels of silver for their food, armor, and equipment, and only 200,000 taels of silver were left for the construction of warships.

The navy needed a large number of warships and little silver, so they could only build cheap warships that could carry more soldiers per unit capacity.

Don't look at the Huaidong Military Division in the past year, the speed of expansion of infantry is extremely fast, but the focus of its resource investment is still on the water camp. Huaidong's investment in the Guanyintan Boat Yard last year alone reached a jaw-dropping level.

At this time, the Guanyintan Shipyard, which belonged to the Huaidong Military Division, was able to build six large sea ships with a load of more than 5,000 stone at the same time, and 18 ships a year. After taking over the shipyard in Mingzhou Mansion, the luxury family can only build two large sea ships at a time, and the shipbuilding cycle is longer than that of Huaidong, and only four ships can be built a year.

To say that the gap between the two families in the development of the navy, there is no more intuitive than this......

Why can Huaidong invest so much resources in the navy? In the final analysis, Huaidong's current fundamental interests lie at sea.

Qin Zitan can't accurately estimate how much benefit the Jinhai Grain Road will bring to Huaidong for the time being, but it will definitely not be less. Maintaining the smooth operation of the Jinhai grain road is the most fundamental driving force for the development of the water army in Huaidong.

In addition, it is the endless profits of the maritime trade routes, which is also an important driving force for the development of the navy in Huaidong.

Although the imperial court has always banned the sea and business, in the early years of Jin'an, there have always been private merchants who crossed the sea to Liuqiu and Fusang to sell goods for profit. Qin Zitan knows a little about the benefits of maritime trade routes.

In the later period, the chaos of the Fuso feudal kingdom and the breeding of pirates made it a huge risk to go to sea, and the scale of maritime trade decreased sharply.

Lin Jian led a large army across the sea this time, and his intention to deter was even more obvious. Once the Huaidong Military Division takes Danluo Island as the core, straightens out the maritime trade routes in the Haidong region, and expands the scale of maritime trade, Huaidong will be able to continuously obtain huge profits from it.

Qin Zitan thought for a moment and felt that if the Donghu people did not have a deep understanding of the naval division at sea, they would not make every effort to restrict the development of Huaidong on the sea, so he told him many experiences over the years on the development of the water camp, naval warfare and the fundamentals of competing interests at sea.

This talk is a night.