Fang Zhiwen did not plan to go to Chang'an in person, this time the caravan to Chang'an will use the name of the Zhen family to send a batch of war horses to Liu Wei, the son of heaven in Chang'an, as a gift, which is actually a political signal and a signal in a shopping mall, representing that the Zhen family has opened up the Yellow River waterway, and also hinting that Miyun will not disagree with Liu Wei's status.

Fang Zhiwen came with him, but he wanted to see the situation of the Yellow River channel with his own eyes, as well as the situation on both sides of the river, and he came with Fang Zhiwen, as well as Xu Shu, who had never been to Chang'an, and Xiangxiang, who wanted to go to Chang'an to play.

When he arrived near Tongguan, the Yellow River turned north, extending along the junction of Xiliang and Bingzhou to the Monan region, and Fang Zhiwen naturally did not go there, but entered Weishui from here and went straight to Chang'an.

When he got here, there were no decent naval troops on the water, and Han Fu did not expand his power to this place with great fanfare, and Dong Zhuo didn't seem to attach importance to the power on the water, but there were naval forces, but this army that spent a lot of money and had no actual combat value was not even comparable to a large caravan in Weishui, at most it was chasing water thieves and the like.

Therefore, Fang Zhiwen's fleet is definitely the undisputed overlord on the Weishui, and the fleet composed of large ships that cannot be seen at a glance is definitely a small retreat, and even some merchant fleets that run rampant on the Weishui River on weekdays are also hiding far away, who knows if this is a caravan or an army! For the sake of safety, it is better to avoid it first, but in the future, the order on the Weishui River will probably change with the appearance of this fleet!

Fang Zhiwen put on this posture, naturally to show Dong Zhuo his ability, and tell Dong Zhuo that he can provide him with an absolutely guaranteed trade route, of course, he can also bring huge trouble to Dong Zhuo through the route of the Yellow River and Weishui, as for whether Dong Zhuo wants benefits or trouble, he can watch and do it himself!

Chang'an City is actually located at the water's edge, ancient Chang'an has eight rivers around Chang'an's beautiful scenery, Chang'an can prosper because of the surrounding developed water system to solve the problem of irrigation and transportation. (the most stable,

Fang Zhiwen's fleet directly docked the dock in Chang'an City and began to take turns unloading at the dock, of course, Fang Zhiwen himself and Jiang Qin's navy did not dock, but anchored on the river, maintained a high degree of vigilance, and also sent ships to deploy upstream and downstream as scouts for early warning.

This kind of domineering behavior of no one else looks at the eyes of the Chang'an Navy Army, and can only be silently patient, who calls their fleet not to fight, if you really want to fight, people don't have to attack you hard, just use the collision directly, your own ships are ridiculous and small, what to use to fight with this huge and powerful fleet?

As for Dong Zhuo, who received the news, he was only silent for a while, and then pretended not to hear, it was not that he was willing to be slapped in the face like this, but he had to endure it, now Dong Zhuo's huge infantry and cavalry troops are already very difficult to raise, and they almost want to kill Dong Zhuo, not to mention the water army like a gold-swallowing monster, Dong Zhuo feels that it is better to ignore it, otherwise it will only be entangled in vain, but it will be useless.

As for the purpose of the Miyun fleet's visit, Dong Zhuo received a handwritten letter from Zhen Yan as soon as possible, explaining that the fleet came here to trade and offer gifts to His Majesty clearly, people are here to show goodwill, although it is a little arrogant, but Dong Zhuo is now scolded by everyone, someone can come to show goodwill, Dong Zhuo sincerely welcomes it, so Dong Zhuo absolutely automatically ignored the domineering behavior of the Zhen family's fleet on the dock.

Zhen Yan didn't come in person this time, as Zhen Yan's representative, it was Fang Zhiwen's sister Yan Xiaoxiang, a stranger!

Although Dong Zhuo was very surprised, she was still very polite to let Xiangxiang complete her first Majesty on a formal occasion in the palace hall, and after coming back, the excited Xiangxiang squeaked and spoke five hundred times about the process of her majesty's meeting, this time it was really a long time to see and be addicted, and Xiangxiang was naturally happy. (the most stable,

For the brother who created these conditions for himself, Xiangxiang was even more attentive than Taishi Zhaorong's wife, and Fang Zhiwen was a little hairy.

Xiangxiang represents the formal majesty of the Zhen family, and has given gifts and received favors and awards from the Son of Heaven, which means that the Yellow River channel has been completely opened, and the trade route between Chang'an and Miyun has been completed.

It also represents Fang Zhiwen's attitude towards the two emperors of the Han Dynasty, which made Dong Zhuo and the people of the Chang'an court breathe a sigh of relief, Fang Zhiwen was the first to do this, and there will definitely be people following suit, that is to say, the matter of the two emperors is a foregone conclusion, and everyone will continue to fight the rest of the matter, until one day, one emperor can defeat another emperor, and the Han may be reunited, but before that, these families with vested interests have fully realized their political and interest demands.

Therefore, Xiangxiang's majesty is an event of great political and historical significance, representing the advent of the era of the Han Dynasty, and it is a surprise that Xiangxiang herself has gained a lot of prestige and political experience.

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"My lord, the navy has completed the layout around the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, and is using Qingdao as a springboard to develop to the south, and now after opening up the two waterways of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the navy has basically had the power of sustainable development through escort commissions, and no longer relies too much on the support of land cities."

Hua Xin stood on the edge of the map and explained the development of the navy to Fang Zhiwen and Xu Shu and others with a little pride in the past two years, and now the development of the navy is divided into three directions, one is the construction of the naval fleet and the construction of the training system, including the construction of the training and mobilization system; One is the extension of shipping routes and ports, that is, the extension of the control circle; There is also the issue of naval technology upgrading, which is mainly concentrated in the military port city of Lenan.

"However, the problem also arises, we now have three fleets, these three fleets are responsible for the direction of the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea, so they are named after three sea areas, namely the Bohai Fleet, which is in charge of Jiang Qin, the Yellow Sea Fleet, which is in charge of Duan Zhiran, and the East China Sea Fleet, which is concurrently served by Zhou Tai, but after opening up the Yellow River channel, it is necessary for us to form the Yellow River Detachment of the Bohai Fleet to deal with the task of escorting the Yellow River."

Jiang Qin, who was listening below, had a smile on his face, which showed that his troops were about to be expanded, although it was possible that only inland river boats could be deployed, but as long as there were boats and people, the generals would be happy.

Xu Shu nodded in agreement: "The principle is that our General Staff agrees with this idea, as long as the Yellow River route itself can support the operation of this detachment, then it is not a problem to increase the establishment, but in the initial stage, we can only transfer people and ships from the Bohai Fleet, and the specific allocation of money and food will be completed as soon as possible, and the approval of personnel training should also be implemented soon." ”

Hua Xin smiled: "That's good, it doesn't matter about training, our sailors and merchant sailors will do strict military training, as long as the establishment is available, this group of people can be replenished at any time, therefore, what we need to recruit again is just sailors." ”

"Hehe, Ziyu is talented! The trick of hiding troops from the people is very far-sighted and should be promoted, and the baggage and auxiliary troops of the infantry can actually be trained strictly in accordance with the regular army, and the troops can also be replenished as soon as possible in the future. ”

"Don't worry, my lord, we're already doing this."

"Very well, Ziyu, and then 1

Hua Xin leaned sideways, let go of the map behind him, and the wooden stick in his hand was accurately pointed at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the slight shaking of the hull.

"Here, the islands are dense, there are a lot of piracy activities, and it is also the territory of the Jiangdong Zhu family, the Lu family and other clans, but now it seems that the Jiangdong clan's naval army is still a little conservative, biased towards offshore activities, and has no awareness of controlling the sea area, just passively guarding the waterway, and more seriously, they have no awareness of southward. As a matter of fact, our expedition fleet has already completed the exploration of the route of Jiaozhou across the seven seas, so after careful study, our naval staff suggested that the lord seize a large island near the mouth of the Yangtze River as a springboard for future footsteps in the South China Sea and as a forward base for future warnings of the Yangtze River waterway. ”

Fang Zhiwen glanced at Xu Shu, Xu Shu was also frowning and thinking, the other admirals were all looking at Fang Zhiwen nervously, while the generals of the army looked at the various dark blue naval spheres of influence on the map with some envy and admiration, this area is really big! Almost surrounded the big men.

"This matter is not in a hurry, if we want to do this well, we not only need our own strength as the backing, but also obtain the understanding of the Jiangdong clan, and it is best for Cai Mao to do something."

Hua Xin smiled and nodded, in fact, he thought so too, but before he could say it, the lord had already taken the initiative to mention it.

Yes, if you want to get a pedal at the mouth of the Yangtze River, in the eyes of the Jiangdong clan, this is equivalent to putting a dragon on their side, this kind of thing Jiangdong clan will definitely be wary, although the Jiangdong clan and Youzhou business contacts in recent years are very close, but the degree of mutual trust between the two sides is still limited.

Therefore, Cai Mao's statement is very important, Cai Mao is in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and he has a heavy army of the water division, the pressure on the Jiangdong clan is very strong, if Cai Mao and the Fengning Navy reach an agreement, the Jiangdong clan will naturally have no place to refute.

But there is also a bad side to this, that is, it will arouse the vigilance and hostility of the Jiangdong clan, and it is likely to force the Jiangdong clan to embark on the road of confrontation with Miyun from now on.

"In this case, then the proposal is waiting for the decision of the lord for the time being, and then there is the question of the admirals, and now the navy itself still has some insufficient generals, which is also related to the small number of battles in the navy, so, on the one hand, we propose to transfer some generals from the army to the navy, on the other hand, the lord should order the recruitment hall to focus on recruiting admirals, and finally, it is recommended to increase the combat intensity of the navy and allow the naval fleet to plan battles independently within a certain range1

Fang Zhiwen pondered for a while, this is Hua Xin's power, the battle plan has always been issued by the General Staff, and the navy does not have the authority to independently formulate the battle plan, what Hua Xin wants now is this authority, this is not a simple matter.