As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

So to a certain extent, Ming Taizu was a bit apprehensive in terms of overseas wars. From this point of view, there are traces of Zhu Yuanzhang's tinkering with the country that will not be conquered.

And the above things are also feasible in Dazhao, because the history is always surprisingly similar. All kinds of reasons are messed up, so...

In addition, even if Guochao is a little bit afraid of this kind of foreign war, the sense of superiority of the Celestial Dynasty is deep in the bones. Most people think that the barbarians want the Celestial Dynasty, but the Celestial Dynasty does not need their three melons. ——This principle is also applicable to Dazhao. For example, there was such an argument in the court when Kaiwala "tributary" was opened.

And these have indirectly become the boost to the sea ban policy.

Hua Manlou nodded secretly: As expected, he is indeed the disciple of Elder Wen Ge. If these things happen to him, he is really not sure what to do for a while... Sure enough, this guy should find a way to keep him in Xishan ?

Seeing that Hua Manlou had realized it, Wen Liang smiled and said: "In general, that's it. As long as you find a way to explain these things clearly, the resistance from the court... I guess there is only one ancestral system left."

To be honest, Huamanlou thinks highly of 'Ye Gongzi' very much, and why doesn't Wen Liang admire Huamanlou very much?Generally speaking, Wen Liang can only chat with Mr. Wen Ge about the above things. His brother is so aggressive, so he can't chat with her. As for the others...

It's even worse for other people. Even if Wen Liang's men's clothing travels and has come into contact with many scholars of this era, any existence called a wit can only get a just so so from her... Cough, but a modest evaluation , so now she has the feeling of meeting a confidant—genius is always lonely...

With Wen Liang's analysis from various aspects, Huamanlou has an idea of ​​the possible interrogations that may be encountered in the future, and also has some ideas to persuade Emperor Guangxing. What is missing right now is probably an opportunity-in the case of Longyan Dayue It is easier to achieve the goal by talking about this matter than when Emperor Guangxing is in a bad mood?

The question is, where did this opportunity come from?

Although Huamanlou used a little trick to promote the restructuring of the Tianjin Guard, although things went smoothly, Emperor Guangxing was really angry.Not only because the censor made a false accusation, but also because the lawless actions of 'Bai Lian' and 'Japanese pirates' are purely a slap in the face of the court-the court officials are in danger, what do you make the people think?

That's why Xu Dacheng didn't dare to tell Emperor Guangxing about this matter...

So, the goal now suddenly became to make Emperor Guangxing happy?

Hua Manlou pinched his chin and thought for a long time: How about selling the prince's hidden strength, then Uncle Zhao must be happy... right?

264. Preparations for the Tianjin Navy

The opportunity to make Emperor Guangxing happy did not arrive, but what Huamanlou waited for first was the news from Tianjin.

After he left Tianjin Guard a while ago, even though the court's attitude was unclear, the commander of the Tianjin Three Guards didn't know whether he was idle or had absolute confidence in Huamanlou, so he started preparing for the adaptation early on.

After Tianjin Wei was expanded and the magistrate of Tianjin was kidnapped, they were sure that the restructuring would definitely happen, so they had already done most of the abolition before the imperial decree arrived.

The number of soldiers in the Three Guards of Tianjin is 800, and each guard is [-].

Due to well-known reasons, among the soldiers of the Three Guards, there are naturally a lot of empty-paid soldiers, plus a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled, so Lin Lin finally got rid of more than 1 soldiers in total, leaving only [-] elite soldiers.

Well, the so-called elite soldiers are young and strong who can at least go to the battlefield. As for whether they can fight now, the weather today hahaha...

It has to be said that except for some middle-level officers, most people are happy to see the abolition.

With this abolition, the Tianjin Three Guards will be completely changed to the Tianjin Navy in terms of establishment, and formally changed from guards to recruits, so the remaining soldiers will be paid by the imperial court... or Xishan, and they will truly become professional soldiers. The demobilized people will go home to work in agriculture, and they will be given a severance pay according to Huamanlou's wishes. They have officially changed from military households to peasant households, and they have escaped the fate of being squeezed.

But after the reform is completed, it is not really changed. There are still a lot of things, such as the issue of severance pay, the reassignment of middle-level officers, the issue of "retirement" of many people, the issue of military equipment and training, and The most important warship problems need to be solved.

After the reorganization of the Tianjin Three Guards, the commanders of the three guards were transferred to the regular third-rank general and the second-rank guerrilla general according to their qualifications, but both were given the rank of the third-rank general Zhaoyi to retain the rank of the guard commander.

The Commander of the Three Guards was abolished at his own request, so it is normal for the imperial court to give certain compensation and preferential treatment, but many middle-level officers in the Three Guards may not have this kind of treatment—the 6000 people became [-], and only [-] There are ten more households, where to put them?

So they had a fight.

But this didn't make Hua Manlou worry about it. After the Commander of the Three Guards properly recruited a group of people, he captured the other unworthy group of people for disobeying the military order, and stuffed them directly into the prison van and handed them over to Dongchang. I believe that a certain factory guild prepared a grand welcome ceremony for them, which has repaid the abuse they once caused by drinking the blood of soldiers.

It’s just that the general is not the chief officer of the Tianjin Navy, so the commander of the three guards dare not make decisions on most other matters—that is to say, even though Hua Manlou has not taken office, he still needs to do things, so After the three of them summed up, they sent the news directly to Xishan, please Huamanlou to make a decision.

This matter made Hua Manlou very entangled. Even though he knew that he couldn't hide, his real power suddenly changed from a thousand households of the fifth rank...that is, the general of the recruiting system was suddenly raised to the equivalent of the second rank Tianjin General Soldier or Tianjin Navy. Admiral, Huamanlou is under a lot of pressure.

In fact, Hua Manlou once naively thought that he would wear the hat of a consultant at most, and he would be a commander at the fifth rank governor or junior level, but Emperor Guangxing was stunned. Putting him in the position of admiral of the Navy as an imperial envoy, not only means that the Tianjin Navy will be decided by Hua Manlou, but also means that the Tianjin Navy will be responsible for the success or failure of the Tianjin Navy, so...

There is no way to touch fish with this hat on.

If he really messes around and makes a fool of himself, even if Emperor Guangxing doesn't deal with him, the money he took from the hands of the big bosses will be in vain. It is estimated that these few teaming up will kick him Kick into the sea and calm down...

Although it is human-made, there are too many uncertainties at sea. Foreseeable dangers include but are not limited to wind and waves, hydrology, reefs, and Japanese pirates. If you are unlucky, you may have a chicken-and-egg fight at the beginning, so...

How could you be so mean in the first place?

Hua Manlou was worried for a while, and then began to make arrangements for Tianjin.

The problem of money was solved first, because Huamanlou told the shareholders earlier when they were sponsoring sponsors that the navy would not succeed in shipping, so a considerable part of the silver they invested was used as the start-up capital of the navy, and The Tianjin navy will also allocate a part of the shares for military pay and various losses-of course, in order to ensure the integrity of the name, this part is first allocated to Emperor Guangxing and then issued in his name, which is very important.

Then there is the issue of soldier training.

Hua Manlou said earlier that the Tianjin Navy will be a new type of fleet, and its combat methods will be very different from the traditional ones, so Da Zhao's existing training methods are not suitable.

Therefore, Huamanlou will send a group of young soldiers from Xishan to Tianjin first to assist in training in the way of Xishan.Moreover, because after the establishment of the fleet, many people will change their professions to become sailors and gunners, so he specially asked them to bring the cart cannon - at least let those bumpkins know how to play artillery, right?

Originally, Huamanlou wanted Qi Wanrong to lead the team. After all, this girl has been trying to lead the army for a long time, and she is the only female general in the country, and she is also familiar with the training methods of Xishan soldiers, but she flatly refused and...

Hua Manlou, who was looking for Qi Wanrong, was surprised to find that this girl had actually changed her arrow sleeves that had remained unchanged for thousands of years, and put on the Yuehua skirt that is popular among ladies nowadays. This...

It's as if your brother who always wears a school uniform suddenly puts on women's clothes, even if this brother is actually a girl, but the impact is so real that Huamanlou was in a daze for a long time.

Strange and strange, has this girl changed her temper?

Hua Manlou couldn't figure it out, so he had to ask Peng Guang to take the lead first.

In addition, Hua Manlou also specially emphasized that the food for the soldiers should be provided first, and then the amount of training should be increased. The soldiers in the guards used to be mostly exploited military households. Maybe they came to Xishan more than the young soldiers who used to be. His body was even worse before, so Hua Manlou, a soldier like this, would not dare to use it.

Then there is the most troublesome problem of warships.

After many years of banning the sea, the shipbuilding industry has experienced an unprecedented depression. There are very few people who know how to build ships. Even if there are, most of them are serving those who have a monopoly on shipping in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Therefore, shipbuilding has become a big problem.

Of course, some craftsmen can still be found for ordinary ships, such as some carpenters who were transferred to Xishan before.

Although I have learned some shipbuilding methods in the age of great voyages in my previous life, no matter how much I spend my time, it is impossible to draw a blueprint of a sea ship at this time, right?

After scratching his head for a long time, he could only entrust Xu Dacheng to send people to Jinling and Quanzhou to find shipwrights, or to find some classics that recorded the manufacture of seagoing ships. At the same time, he sent all the carpenters in Xishan to Tianjin to try to dismantle them. The few big ships left in the water village in the past, in order to learn from the reverse.

After settling these unlucky things, Hua Manlou felt that he was dying.

265. Throwing stones at one's own feet

After getting things settled in Tianjin Wei, Hua Manlou felt that he could finally rest for a few days and touch fish.

So...

"Qin'er..." After dinner, Huamanlou greeted her little girl, "Morrow morning, don't wake me up until the sun is up, do you understand?"

"But the young master has so many things to do, how can he be so tired?" Qin'er tilted his head in confusion.

Hua Manlou was a little mad: "Because the young master is tired!"

If it wasn't for this solid-eyed little girl who was raised by her own family, Hua Manlou would have thought that she was sent by Emperor Guangxing to oversee the work.

The way of salting fish is so difficult, Xiaoxiu has to fight with his little maid for two days, what's the point of this?

Seeing that Qin'er wanted to say something, Hua Manlou immediately cut it off and said, "The so-called civil and martial arts, one piece at a time, this means that you can work better only when you have rested. The young master has been busy all day long without touching the ground. , I can’t even sleep well, and I’m in a daze all day long, who do you think will be to blame if I make a wrong order?”

"The people are suffering. If they are not careful, they will leave home and change their children for food. Therefore, even Your Majesty has to be cautious and cautious when dealing with state affairs. Then, young master, I can't do anything wrong, can I?"

Hua Manlou sighed secretly while talking nonsense: When will I be able to make it clear to this muscle that what I do as a fifth-rank military officer really has nothing to do with people's livelihood...

After hearing Hua Manlou's words, Qin'er half-believed and said, "Yes...is that so?"

"What did I lie to you for?"

"Then... well, the young master will sleep a little longer tomorrow."

Hua Manlou heaved a sigh of relief—in his previous life, he never went to bed until two or three o'clock in the middle of the night, but in this year, it is considered late to go to bed at eight o'clock in the evening, and he can wake up as soon as the rooster crows in the morning...

Xishan Huamanlou at four o'clock in the morning never wants to see her again.

Although going to bed early and waking up early sounds very healthy, but sleeping late is a kind of enjoyment. It is so comfortable to lie in a warm blanket. Who doesn’t want to sleep until they wake up naturally in the early morning?

only……

Early the next morning, while Huamanlou was still asleep, she heard Qin'er calling cautiously: "Master...Master...Wake up, Master..."

Early in the morning, it was really not good to hear such a timid call.

Having said that, does Qin'er want to get herself up, or does she want to do something else?Pressing a gun just after waking up in the morning is a technical job...

Hua Manlou was dazed and confused, turned over and planned to continue falling asleep—it was promised that the sun would be rising, so it's only just dawn now, right?

Seeing Hua ManLou ignore her, Qin'er almost burst into tears.

Huamanlou has said beforehand that if you wake up early today, you may give wrong orders and the people of the Li people will be displaced and have to eat. But suddenly there is an emergency, and if you don't deal with it, the chaos may be even worse. This...

Qin'er gritted her teeth, and pushed Huamanlou with a crying voice: "Master, the crown prince is here..."

Qin'er knew Zhao Ren's identity, so no matter how sincere the little girl was, she could understand that when the crown prince came, no matter what, Hua Manlou had to get up and say hello.

After hearing Qin'er's words in a daze, Hua Manlou thought he was hallucinating: "Prince...Prince?"

Sitting up, Hua Manlou looked at Qin'er blankly: "You said the prince is here? Where is he?"

Qin'er said weakly: "Seeing that the young master fell asleep, His Highness went to the craftsman's house by himself, saying that he wanted to see the artillery."

Hua Manlou blinked, looked at the sky outside the window, and asked uncertainly, "Now... what time is it?"

"It's just dawn, I guess it's just past Yinshi."

Hua Manlou turned over and got out of bed immediately after hearing the words: "This...you bastard!"

After Yinshi, it will be Maoshi, which is five o'clock in the morning, but Xishan is forty miles away from the capital, and these forty miles are not as easy to walk as in Huamanlou's previous life. It took more than an hour, that is to say, Zhao Ren left Beijing at three o'clock in the morning at the latest, and left the palace at almost two o'clock in the morning.

However, according to the Great Zhao ancestor system, the gates of the palace are locked after sunset, and they only open around [-] o'clock in the morning regardless of whether there is morning court or not.

and so……

How did he get out of the palace gate?

Moreover, years ago, he could fool around saying that he was ill, so he could come to Xishanlang, but during the New Year's Eve, he was jumping up and down in various ways in Beijing, so the reason for recuperating from his illness was unreasonable. The group of attendants and lecturers were bombarding inhumanely one after another, and they came to Xishan at this juncture...

In an instant, Hua Manlou thought of the scene where the bear boy couldn't stand the school's cramming and then skipped class, so he hurriedly put on his clothes and went straight to the artillery research and development room.

……

Zhao Ren's mood at this moment was quite...excited.

When Hua Manlou arrived at the scene, he was trying to get a few blacksmiths to take the giant cannon to the cannon test field. Zhao Ren's identity was still concealed in Xishan, so even the craftsmen They all recognized this brat who followed Hua Manlou from time to time, but they didn't dare listen to his advice to go test the cannon without permission.

So seeing Huamanlou arrived, Zhao Ren rushed over excitedly and pulled him, "Brother Hua, hurry up, let me see that giant cannon that can destroy heaven and earth!"

Hua Manlou pulled him aside angrily, and shouted in a low voice, "How did you get out?"

Zhao Ren was stunned, and then said with a sly smile, "Climbing the wall, I've been preparing for a long time, and it took a lot of effort just to make the rope ladder you mentioned..."

The rope ladder was mentioned by Hua Manlou when he first studied hot air balloons, but who knew that this crap could be used to climb walls?

"That is to say, His Majesty didn't know you came to Xishan, nor did you know about Donggong?" Hua Manlou was a little dizzy.

Zhao Ren chuckled: "I must have known about it by now, I left a letter saying that I would live in a hut in Xishan..."

Hua Manlou frantically said: "My sister, have you been beaten less recently?"

Zhao Renman said indifferently: "Are you afraid? Anyway, if you don't sneak away, you will be beaten, and if you sneak away, you will be beaten. Rather than being beaten for no reason, it's better to come out and be beaten for no reason, right?"

it sounds like...

Make sense?

Hua Manlou always felt that something was wrong, but before he could figure it out, Zhao Ren's tone softened suddenly: "Brother Hua, you don't even know how miserable I've been living recently. Forcing me to read the Four Books and Five Classics, not to mention, but to ponder a little bit about the principles of things, they all seemed like the sky was about to fall. I argued with them, but if I couldn’t argue, they said that I had gone astray, saying that a ruler should only know benevolence and filial piety. Righteousness can lead to great order in the world, it is simply... old fool!"

Hua Manlou sighed, feeling that he couldn't drive him back.

after all……

He was the one who brought Zhao Ren into the pit of physics at the beginning, and he was the one who said that he wanted to study things to achieve the unity of knowledge and action. Now, after seeing the situation in Xishan, Zhao Ren can be said to have enshrined the unity of knowledge and action as an iron rule. The nonsense of those people who have to go into the East Palace?

Shoot yourself in the foot with a stone!

266. What is this all about?

Capital.

For some reason, when Zhan Shifu Zhan Shiyu Pengyi was shocked and ran to Emperor Guangxing, weeping and accusing the prince again, Emperor Guangxing didn't think it was any accident that the prince slipped away.

When Xu Dacheng went to Xishan to preach the decree and came back to report, Zhao Ren happened to be there. When Xu Dacheng talked about the inconceivable siege cannon, even Emperor Guangxing wanted to go to Xishan to find out. Zhao Ren?

At that time, Zhao Ren encouraged Emperor Guangxing to go to Xishan immediately, but it was always very troublesome for the emperor to go out of Beijing, even forty miles away, so he reprimanded Zhao Ren at that time.

It's just that now it seems that the reprimand made him want to go even more - who hasn't a little rebellious mentality?