Chapter 59
The little thieves were then as if they were amnesty: "The women who robbed the three Hans... the court will not convict us of pirates? Then... what about robbed those Baekje men and became serfs? Let them help us open up land and farm, and the court will not care about the laws and regulations?"
Taishici: "It is a land of foreign land. As long as the court comes forward to take over these lands in the future, you can respect the court. The chief minister has an order that anyone who is willing to transfer foreign land will be based on 500 people, and will not be subordinate to each other, and will not infringe on each other. They will only be directly under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate. If anyone dares to follow the example, then try it. The court can destroy you once and the second time!"
The policies read out by Taishi Ci were also discussed by Mi Zhu and Li Su, and they were very business-minded.
The reason why Guan Cheng had to kill was because these thieves were too fierce. If they were not destroyed, they would not be able to convince the public and had to be beaten.
Moreover, to prevent them from growing overseas and expanding into new countries that are too big to lose, they must be broken up and restrained each other.
Based on the scale of prisoners counted over the past few days and Mi Zhu's care before the war, Taishici felt that these people could be divided into five battalions, and each battalion would be considered as No. 500 people.
According to Mi Zhu's understanding of the situation in Lelang County, the desperate who licked blood on the head of the knife and killed people without blinking was already enough to gain a foothold in the wilderness area south of the Han River, and would not be destroyed by the Sanhan savages.
Because the Sanhan Savages are also very loose small tribe organizations today. Baekje has at least fifty tribes, and there may be hundreds of them in the area of Shirana. The Dongyi themselves do not belong to each other and have not established a powerful central group. Therefore, there is no fear of a single tribe in conflict with these pirates.
Of course, all the weapons of these pirates must be confiscated at present, so as to ensure the safety of reorganization and exile.
Only when you arrive at the destination of exile, that is, the Han River Basin, can you return the swords, guns, leather armor, bows and arrows to them, while the iron armor and crossbows will be completely confiscated.
Several small leaders were frightened by Guan Cheng's head and were inserted into wooden stakes to show their public. They also felt that their small boats, which usually came to Donglai or the coast of Tashi at most, could not drive three Koreans. From Shaman Island to Wengjin, which was protruding from the Korean Peninsula in later generations, was at least seven times that of Donglai and five times that of Tashi, and the sea conditions were even worse.
Now that the imperial court is willing to exile them, it can be regarded as giving them a ticket that they could not have paid for. There is no law there, and as long as they have a hard fist, they can open up the land, which is acceptable.
They are incapable of planting the land, but since there is no law, just catch Baekje serfs and teach them how to plant it.
From the perspective of the court, even if these pirates and Baekje are killed by each other, it doesn't matter. Before they are destroyed, they will definitely leave some houses, docks, roads that have been stepped on, and mature fields that have been reclaimed. Then the environment will improve and send new immigrants to it.
In history, the first batch of exiles sent to Charleston were the first to be sent to the first batch of exiles, and there were not many who survived, so the pirates should be punished as pioneers.
This matter was carried out stumblingly.
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More than ten days later, everything was finalized. Mi Zhu and Li Su, who were in Xiangping, also made final suggestions on the matter. Xu Rong also agreed and attributed all the credit to Taishi Ci in the document reporting on military information.
"Ziyi made great contributions this time. I'll send Guan Cheng's head to Jixian County, and show his merits to the envoy. In the document of the report, Ziyi was the Sima of another department!"
It is indeed not an exaggeration to wipe out three thousand pirates, kill the thief heads, and give them to Sima in some divisions.
However, when I saw the loss bill, even though Mi Zhu had a lot of money, it still hurt a little. So many warships had their masts cut off and the sail trusses were damaged. It was indeed a lot of money to repair them.
Li Su took advantage of the last time before leaving Liaodong, and thought it would be better to help Mi Zhu make a little bit of navigation technology and warship design. After all, naval technology is the most fundamental thing for Liaodong and Donglai to ensure separatism.
There will be no news in the next few years, and it is necessary to break the technical gap between the warships and other princes before leaving.
However, Li Su was not blindly making changes, and he thought that "the ship that appeared late in history must be more advanced than the ship that appeared earlier."
It’s like if you really compare the Clark ships of the Age of Discovery and the Garen ship, will the later and larger Garen ships be better than the Clark ship? Not necessarily, because you have to be in the battle line artillery battle mode for Garen ships. How can you have an advantage without artillery fighting or even hand-to-hand combat?
Therefore, before the improvement, Li Su had no fixed laws in his mind, but started from the actual situation in a very realistic manner. He asked Taishi Ci to report in detail the battle in front of him and Mi Zhu, and let Taishi Ci analyze and summarize the reasons for the losses in each stage by himself.
You can't do it behind closed doors.
Even when Mi Zhu didn't understand, Li Su asked Taishi Ci to take them onto the warship and make real-life gestures.
Taishici also thought it was very fresh. He had never seen a civil servant so pragmatically and review the details of the battle with the warrior on the spot. He explained it very vigorously, and described all the details of how he used warships to cover each other's firepower, shot up the deck, and even climbed the pirates on the dead corner of the ship.
In this way, Li Su has gained a lot of intuitive gains, and it also shows the disadvantages of warships.
After hearing this, Li Su nodded frequently and communicated with Mi Zhu: "Zi Zhong, I think Zi Yi has gained a lot in this battle. The problem of destroying pirates is small. The key is to produce real knowledge in actual combat and try out several defects that are difficult to use in warships. If there is a change in the world in the future, you need to conquer Liaodong for a long time. You can't be stingy with the money for improving warships."
Mi Zhu was also very bright: "This is for the sake of local stability, what should be done. Could it be that Mr. Boya even knows the warships and knows how to change them? Even if I give the craftsmen, I will let the craftsmen handle it. In the future, I will follow the teacher's instructions."
Li Su pointed to the current sand-type sea boat and said a few points: "The most important thing about sailing on the sea is to be stable when encountering transverse waves, so I asked you to add lateral stabilization fins below the water surface. Now it seems that the stabilization fins are effective and can continue to widen. At the same time, there is no need to use square boats on the bow. They can narrow and sharpen, reduce drag and speed up the ship.
However, the wide bow of the boat was not only for stability, but also for reducing the dead corners of shooting arrows from the boat to both sides. After the bow of the boat became pointed, this problem might as well be solved by the volley of the boat wider than the hull and the stern building.
For example, the middle of the hull is two meters wide and the sideways are eight feet above the water surface. The bow and sterns can be made from above the deck and then extend out to the sides, 15 feet high, and open the portholes in front and back. During wartime, enemy soldiers want to jump ship, and shoot from the side of the arrow window of the head and tail of the ship to shoot to the enemy soldiers who are clamping the boat.
This kind of shooting is mostly within a distance of more than ten steps, and it is much more accurate than the ships shooting each other. It can almost ensure that the fierce enemy who jumps from the lower side of the ship has no possibility of boarding the ship, and the effect is comparable to defending the city."
Mi Zhu was a little confused when he heard this. He thought about it for a long time before he could imagine this look.
This is equivalent to the hull at the bow and stern of the ship. The hull may be only two feet wide, but the superstructure must be three or four feet wide on each side, and the total width may be two or seven or eight feet.
Isn't that boat top-heavy?
"Since ancient times, I have never heard of a ship with a wide top and a narrow top...will it not overturn?" Mi Zhu asked with some confidence.
Li Su: "That's why you have to further widen your fins. In addition, the tower ships of the imperial navy are now sailing inland rivers. The towers are tall and majestic, and generally live in the middle of the hull. Didn't those tower ships capsize?
If you really calculate the weight, in my plan, the total weight of the superstructure is definitely much lighter than that of the building, and the center of gravity will only be lower than that of the building. The weight of the superstructure should be used on the blade, and then only the bow and stern building is added, but the deck in the middle part is as low as possible, saving weight for the head and tail building."
The superstructure of the warship has changed from a large city tower in the middle to two small buildings with wide head and tail, but not long overall length, which is also an improvement in shipbuilding technology.
In history, the Chinese tower ship, the Japanese Anzhai ship, and the Clark ship after entering the voyage of the West in the same era, are similar to the scientific gap in the cabin layout of various convex parts and cleaning blind spots when defending the city.
For Li Su, he was not very professional, but after all, he had played too many games like the "Age of Discovery" in later generations, and a little bit of careful experience was enough for the Han Dynasty to think about it for a long time.
It is better to focus on defense than to be big and unsuitable, design the shooting efficiency well, and create two small 360-degree fireboat buildings.
It took Mi Zhu a long time to combine the common sense of defending the city to realize the beauty of Li Su's design.
"This plan is great. In this way, we will not be afraid of enemy soldiers boarding the ship and fighting. Even if they want to jump ship, they will have to pay at least three or five times the casualties when the sailors on both sides are almost elite." Mi Zhu couldn't help but sigh.
Li Su also became clearer and clearer the more he argued about the truth. Suddenly, he thought of a trick: "We can also expand it - don't navigators like to build boats with all over the city towers nowadays? They feel that the more condescending the arrows are, the more advantage they have to shoot.
In the future, we can mislead other people who are ill-behaved and create a kind of ship with a back-shaped ship, which will make their ships taller when the weight remains unchanged. If anyone learns this kind of shipbuilding, the advantage of condescending in the Yellow River and the Yangtze River will definitely be more obvious. But if he dares to come to the sea, a gust of wind can blow these ships over, and Liaodong will be more worry-free."
Li Su's trick was also a flash of inspiration. He thought about the luxurious cruise ships that later generations had taken to why the superstructures could be so high - such as "Diamond Princess". Anyone who has really boarded the ship knows that the guest rooms that look more than ten floors are actually arranged in U-shaped or even back-shaped shapes, with a hollow courtyard in the middle.
Only by saving the water displacement can the floor be higher, but the price is that the overall center of gravity of the ship is also higher.
Later generations of large cruise ships often had a displacement of more than 100,000 tons, so they were not afraid of the sea breeze overturning the center of gravity. However, the Han Dynasty's tower ships could not go into the sea, and were misled to further pursue the advantage of shooting arrows and raise the center of gravity. After going into the sea, they still perished in minutes.
Anyway, the Han Dynasty basically remained unmoved Newton's law, and did not know how to use the physical principles of "center of gravity". If you present this wrong drawing of "strengthen the river and seeking death in the sea" to Yuan Shao, Tao Qian, and Sun Jian, then the Liaodong Navy will never worry.
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Li Su left him in Liaodong for the last days, spending his time helping Mi Zhu help him strengthen the navy.
We worked until early December, all warships were renovated, and the initial one or two model ships that were modified with superstructure were also improved. The effect was indeed very good after the secret trial.
In addition, the appointment of Sima from Taishi Ci's other subordinate was also approved by Liu Yu and was officially promoted.
However, a new transfer order from the court was given to Li Su, who followed the messenger who appointed Taishi Ci as Sima of another department.
"Li Zhengwei! The court urgently transferred the position of protecting Wuhuan's lieutenant, and changed his position to serve as the General of the General of the Huns. He ordered you to set off to Hedong today and restrain the Hedong commander Guan Yu and the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu Yufuluo."
Li Suwen was shocked: "What? Chang Yun got into trouble? When he was stationed in Hedong to defend the Baibo thief, he still fought with the Southern Xiongnu? I... I am the only guardian of Wuhuan, how could He De be promoted to the General of the General of the Envoy of the Xiongnu?"
He was embarrassed to ask the next half of the sentence, which was "The court needs to handle some more."
The Wuhuan lieutenant was more than two thousand stones, and the Huns General was two thousand stones. Although they were fully responsible for the diplomatic affairs of the Han court against a certain barbarian, the level was higher.
Is it really a very important problem that will lead to the promotion of the Han Ling Emperor even if he doesn’t ask you to increase the money?
Fortunately, the messenger from the court was quite versatile and did not pretentiously with others. After Li Su received the order, he whispered to him in a low voice:
"Don't worry, the trouble caused by Guan Duwei in Hedong was not very big. During the process of suppressing Baibo, there was friction with friendly forces, but both sides restrained it. The court also disliked Hedong's forces too many, and so many large armies were too close to Luoyang, and His Majesty also needed people to share their worries and transfer some foreign troops far away.
It was also the young minister of Zongzheng, Duke Xuande, who shared the worries of His Majesty. Recently, the case of Zhang Lu colluding with his clan relatives to intercept and kill the Han envoy was almost complete. It was Prince Xuande who took the initiative to ask His Majesty for his order, saying that Li Zhonglang was familiar with Hu affairs and was good at recruiting foreign barbarians. He recommended Your Majesty to promote Li Zhonglang to the General of the Huns."
Li Su immediately understood: Liu Bei, who is now a Beijing official, has taken the initiative to give the emperor money!
He, the general of the Huns, should be the last time he was promoted to the official position with his money before Emperor Ling died. Moreover, since His Majesty's edict showed that "Li Su took office because of his talent" and did not want to repair the palace, the truth must be that Liu Bei actually secretly spent money higher than the original price! In exchange for buying an official but not losing his reputation!
But this kindness is very credible, because now all the ministers in the court know that Li Su's talent is indeed the number one diplomat of the Han Dynasty. The emperor said that he did not take the money for his palace repair, but only wanted to do the work well, and everyone would definitely believe it.
He also felt more and more moved by this that Li Su's eloquence on missions was awesome and worthy of the emperor's grace.
A genuine general of the Huns' Central Army will have more than 20 million yuan, maybe Liu Bei paid him 30 million yuan!
From Liu Bei's perspective, he was also afraid that Li Su would be transferred by the emperor after the handover in Liaodong.
After all, Liu Bei and Li Su are both Han ministers. Although Li Su has always been with Liu Bei and his official position is half a level lower than Liu Bei, the emperor has no obligation to let Li Su follow Liu Bei all the time. It is natural to transfer Li Su away.
Therefore, Liu Bei was afraid that such a great sage in the world would be dragged to follow another lord when he was about to kick him, so he was willing to spend 30 million yuan to make peace, and only wanted Li Su to continue to do it with him.
Maybe Liu Bei has already received the appointment of the prefect of Hanzhong and is about to be sent by the court to suppress bandits. At this time, Li Su was brought to Guan Yu as the General of the Huns to deal with the conflict between Guan Yu and Yu Fuluo, but wouldn't it be better to hold Li Su in his hands again?
Maybe the conflict between Guan Yu and Yu Frona was initiated by Liu Bei!
Maybe this plan was come up with Lu Su who went to Luoyang to join Liu Bei more than a month earlier!
Chapter completed!