"How is Gong Jin?" Sun Ce looked at Zhou Yu with a troubled face. They still cared about the news Yuan Shu told them when he left.
Maybe Sun Ce didn't care, but a smart person like Zhou Yu could actually guess a lot of things based on clues. So after the two returned to Jiangdong, Zhou Yu secretly consulted many classics and finally confirmed what Yuan Shu said.
"It's confirmed, Mr. Yuan is not joking. Combining the classics I can get now and Liu Xuande's performance, it is basically confirmed." Zhou Yu sighed and said, "If my guess is good, they don't want to lose much.
The national strength of the Han Dynasty is ready to fight."
"Can you?" Sun Ce licked his lips and called out. Although Sun Ce was a slut, he still knew that fighting foreign wars would make it easier for his reputation to spread throughout the ages, and foreign wars were more in line with the identity of a person like him. Foreign wars were more suitable for people like him.
You can be unscrupulous and truly let go.
Although Sun Ce is second-guessing, Sun Ce has a brain. In the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, he basically touched everything that could be touched, and the rest was intangible. But now if he wants to fight out, the most basic requirement is to
Run further than before.
"We have all overlooked one thing. The current marching speed is three times that of before." Zhou Yu pressed his forehead and said helplessly, "In other words, the border line that has restricted us for four hundred years is actually impossible to continue.
The restraints are gone.”
"Chen Zichuan is constantly building roads and opening up roads to the Western Regions. I am afraid that he is already ready to fight from the Western Regions. The opening of the roads is more conducive to increasing the marching speed. What he wants is not unification, he wants something like this
Like the First Emperor, he swept the world and conquered all the wastelands." Zhou Yu said with a sigh on his face.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yu felt quite heartbroken. He worked hard to prepare for Sun Ce, hoping that one day he could conquer the Central Plains and create his own empire.
He always thought that his ideals were already very lofty, his abilities were very strong, and his strategies were very long-term. However, it was not until today that he realized that everything he planned was just the starting point for some people. This kind of heartache
Zhou Yu didn't know what to say at all.
"Sweep the Liuhe and control the eight wastelands." Sun Ce licked his lips. He had been interested in the emperor and other things, but after learning about Liu Xie's scum, Sun Ce didn't have much interest anymore, but he really felt what Zhou Yu said.
There was a kind of passion.
Although it has been four hundred years since the end of the Qin Dynasty, even they cannot deny the achievements of the Qin State. You can criticize the tyranny of the Qin State and even find a lot of black materials, but you cannot criticize the achievements of the First Emperor. What Qin Shihuang did can be said to be
Something most men have always wanted to do.
"I'm a little excited, but if we go to the Western Region, we won't have much fighting power there." Sun Ce said excitedly, and then he seemed to feel a little resentful when he thought about it.
Zhou Yu held his forehead. He knew that this would be the case for Sun Ce. For people like Sun Ce, the world has a complicated side and a simple side. It can be solved with fists, and the harder you hit, the greater your reputation.
Sun Ce will never miss it.
"Don't worry, our goal should be the south." Zhou Yu curled his lips and said, "Let's first think about how to deal with next year's unification war. Although after determining the current results, I have basically determined that it is impossible for us to join forces with Cao Mengde.
You have beaten Liu Xuande, but if you lose too badly, your autonomy will be very small."
"Ah ah, what a pity, why didn't we discover this first." Sun Ce didn't mind the war at all, but he was very dissatisfied that he didn't discover it first.
"We are all bound by the inertial thinking of the past." Zhou Yu said helplessly, "Bo Fu, I am going to hand over all the internal affairs to Er Zhang."
"Then what are you doing?" Sun Ce asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"I am going to lead a navy of 20,000 people to try it out at sea." Zhou Yu said slowly, "If the situation in the South China Sea is as I expected and we can go by boat, we can basically confirm Chen Zichuan's idea. Although
You can’t change the general trend, but you can still take the lead.”
"I'll go too." Sun Ce raised his hand and said.
"That's okay." Zhou Yu thought for a while and nodded. After all, Sun Ce didn't work at all in Yangzhou and was always causing trouble. The symbolic significance is greater than the actual significance.
"But I don't know why I always feel that we will be in trouble this time." Zhou Yu turned his head and said some unlucky words inexplicably, and then remembered Liu Bei's navy, "Speaking of which, I haven't seen Liu Xuande's navy recently.
Gan Xingba and Taishi Ziyi killed them."
"Who knows what happened to them." Sun Ce was worried and looked indifferent, "But can our ship sail on the sea?"
"Okay, Chen Zichuan doesn't hide much in this regard. I've also confirmed that the horse farms in the south do exist, but those wild horses..." Zhou Yu's face darkened, and he was tricked to death by Chen Xi.
Third, the Yunnan horse is one meter and four shoulders high. Zhou Yu said that we southerners also feel embarrassed.
Fortunately, there is no problem at the racecourse. Twenty thousand Liangzhou horses were imported from Cao Cao, and all the local Yunnan horses were driven away from the natural racecourse. Then Zhou Yu got a group of people from the north to raise horses. It seemed like nothing.
question.
Although Chen Xi cheated Zhou Yu on the Yunnan horse aspect, there was indeed no problem in other aspects, so Zhou Yu did not send anyone to trouble Chen Xi.
"Drive away, drive away, drive away all those ponies." Sun Ce also twitched at the corner of his mouth. If they, the southerners, rode such ponies, they would be ashamed of their grandma's house. Why are those people in the north so savage?
They are also wild and tall, even their horses are petite.
"I asked the Zhang family and the Gu family to start building new ships according to the warship design reserved by Chen Zichuan. The Zhang family and the Gu family have a lot of experience in this area, but even so, it will take them three months at the earliest.
The first boat can only be launched later, but it will be soon." Zhou Yu said with some regret, remembering what the Zhang family and the Gu family had said to him.
However, in reality, it was already the coming year when the Zhang family and the Gu family built the first ship, so Zhou Yu's idea of changing ships was basically hopeless.
But if you really want to say it, it is not the Zhang family and the Gu family that are the losers, but Chen Xi who has invested a lot of money. The large box of ship design drawings that the Zhang family and the Gu family got are actually most of the sixth-generation ships and the Lu family is estimated to be able to
The seventh-generation part mounted on a sixth-generation ship.
In other words, the Lu family didn't practice this thing themselves, so they gave it directly to the Zhang family and the Gu family. Since these two families had never bypassed the hurdles of sea-going ships before, if they wanted to get started, they should actually start with fourth-generation ships, but building fourth-generation ships
