"That's smuggling, disobeying the imperial edict and resisting the central government's orders. The junior navy is responsible for destroying pirates!"
The murderous words made Xiao Yu's heart tremble, and he felt that Fang Jun's white teeth seemed to be shining, like a hungry beast opening its bloody mouth and showing its fangs when facing its prey.
But what Fang Jun said is right.
The establishment of the Municipal Shipping Department is a central edict, the result of discussions among the prime ministers in the political hall, and finally passed through the three provinces' initiation procedures. This is a national policy! The Jiangnan nobles can play some tricks secretly and play around, but if they dare to openly resist the national policy
, own national laws and regulations.
Xiao Yu, who has a thorough understanding of the world, can almost predict that the Jiangnan gentry will face an extremely harsh blow in the future.
Because the Jiangnan nobles, who have long regarded sea trade as forbidden, would never give the meat in their mouths to Fang Jun...
With a slight sigh, Xiao Yu said dejectedly: "That's the case, since I took Erlang's words to heart, it is up to them to decide how to choose. But no matter what each family decides, the Xiao family will fully support your majesty.
The will of the central government and the edict of the central government will definitely spare no effort to support Erlang."
The Tang Dynasty is becoming more and more prosperous, and the national destiny is prosperous. The only way to preserve it is to follow the trend. If you only covet the immediate interests and ignore the general trend, you will definitely be on the road to ruin, and this is what a wise man will not do.
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The naval fleet headed by the Five-Tooth Battleship sailed down the river in a mighty manner until it reached the mouth of the sea and then turned into a waterway heading south.
This is Wusongkou.
The Wusong River was named "Songjiang" in ancient times, and because its basin was within the territory of the ancient Wu Kingdom, it was also called the "Wusong River".
The Wusong River was originally the last tributary of the Yangtze River before it entered the sea, and the estuary of the Yangtze River was also called "Wusongkou". After the "Huangpu Seized Song" in the Ming Dynasty, the Wusong River became a tributary of Huangpu, and the estuary of the Yangtze River was still called Wusongkou. In fact, if it were changed to
"Huangpukou" is more appropriate...
However, the current Wusong River is still the most important river in the Wu region. It has abundant water and flows eastward in a mighty way. It is by no means comparable to the Suzhou River, which will be quiet, delicate and devoid of courage in the future. The widest part of the river mouth is trumpet-shaped, and there are twenty people in it.
It is wide in the river and has vast water. It is known as the "Wusong Ancient River, with its deep and wide old path, rivaling thousands of rivers".
The Five-Tooth Warship went upstream along the river mouth. The water surface was quite wide, but after all, it had not been dredged for many years, resulting in some siltation of the river bed. After entering the waterway, surveying ships were sent ahead to continuously measure the water depth and river bed width to avoid a heavy hull.
The five-tooth battleship with a deep draft ran aground.
Fang Jun stood on the bow of the boat, looking at the mighty water, the puddles on the desolate salt-alkali land on both sides, and the tall wormwood all over the place, filled with the confusion of time and space.
This is Huangxiepu, which belongs to Huating Town.
If we continue upstream along this river and turn from the bifurcated river to another river, the Huangpu River, we will be where Shanghai will be in the future.
As far as the eye can see, the prosperous city thousands of years later, full of lights, feasting, singing and horse racing, seems to stand before our eyes.
Well, there can be an avenue along the river on the left, and a tower on the right. But the weird shape of two spheres connected in series on the tower is impossible to create in this era, let alone the four hundred and sixty
Eight meters in height...
Going back in time and space, things are neither human nor objects!
On the boat-shaped water, there are vast waves.
A quarter of an hour later, I saw a water fortress standing on the west bank. However, it looked large in scale but very dilapidated from a distance. There were only a few stars. A few navy warships were leaning against the pier. Countless huge logs were piled on it.
The shore not far from the water village is very conspicuous, like a huge wooden mountain.
During the Xianhe period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yu Tan and Yuan Shansong successively built the Hudu Fort at the mouth of the Wusong River to protect the east wing of Suzhou. Even in the Southern Dynasties, it was also an important military town. After the Sui Dynasty conquered the Southern Dynasties, a military town was established here, named Huating.
town, and sent naval forces to garrison Jiangkou and defend Suzhou.
Most of the military system of the Tang Dynasty was inherited from the former Sui Dynasty. The garrison in Huating Town only changed a set of military uniforms and a set of flags, and they are still stationed here...
Fang Jun looked at the vast salt-alkali land and reed swamps around him, and he felt like he was beeping. This is his fiefdom! How great would it be if it were the Oriental Pearl Tower one thousand four hundred years later? Even if it was a thousand
The Songjiang Prefecture of years ago was fine! But besides reed marshes, wormwood and saline-alkali land, what else is there now?
What's the use of sealing this wretched place to yourself? I probably won't be able to harvest even a bushel of food...
The fleet arrived at the water village in a mighty manner. Only then did the garrison in the village discover this huge fleet. Many soldiers huffed and puffed around the trestle, pointing at the fleet in the river and marveling at it.
I have been stationed here for many years, but I have never seen such a huge fleet.
Especially that five-tooth battleship, what a shame! Isn’t it too big?
The Five-Tooth warship slowly docked. Fang Jun jumped off the warship and stepped onto the trestle surrounded by soldiers. A military commander hurriedly ran over, knelt down on one knee and saluted: "General Yang Xiuwu, commander of the Huating Town Navy, please see Hou."
"Master."
Fang Jun glanced at this man. Although he was very respectful, he was quite unhappy.
He wore his armor crookedly, his face was red and smelled of alcohol, his beard was unkempt, he looked more like a bandit than a royal general...
"Get up. The Marquis of Japan has written to you a few days ago. I wonder how the troops are prepared?"
Before leaving Jiangdu and arriving at Niuzhuji, Fang Jun sent someone to contact him and ordered the garrison in Huating Town to prepare the houses for the navy soldiers and the necessary military supplies.
Hearing that Fang Jun came up and directly asked about this matter without greetings, Yang Xiuwu had a sad face and said nonchalantly: "This... After the general received the letter from the general manager, he tried his best to raise military resources and start building houses.
It’s just that... due to limited money, we were unable to achieve the goal set by the Marquis, and the manpower gap was too large. Even though we had gone all out to build houses day and night, the time was too short after all, so... so..."
At this point, he was already stammering and sweating all over his face.
Fang Jun's reputation has been spreading all over the country since the battle of Niuzhuji. A hundred armored cavalry were killed in the Nanshan mine until they turned into bloody men. There were no less than thousands of souls who died under the charge of the cavalry. He was really famous!
Fang Jun had already told him what he had done, but he had not completed it. He was giving the handle to others and using it to establish his authority. How could Yang Xiuwu not be afraid?
To his surprise, Fang Jun did not take the opportunity to get angry. Instead, he pulled him up with a smile and comforted him with gentle words: "General Yang, why should you panic? I am not an unreasonable person. I am in front of him."
The military order was issued in front of His Majesty, so he was anxious, so he acted a little more impatiently. General Yang has done a great job in guarding Huating Town, and he is busy with everything. It is normal for him to be in a hurry and fail to complete the instructions given by me. Although you and I
They are all soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and I dare not treat you lightly with military orders. But after all, manpower is sometimes scarce. As long as you work hard, I will naturally not criticize you harshly. But if you are disobeying me in front of me, or even playing tricks in secret, then don't do it.
It’s the military law’s ruthlessness to blame!”
Yang Xiuwu was already sweating profusely and his face was pale.
These words were spoken in such a soft voice, which made people even more frightened than if they were spoken loudly and harshly!
Yang Xiuwu naturally knew that Fang Jun was trying to beat himself up, so he gritted his teeth and expressed his position: "Thank you for your understanding, Lord Marquis. From today on, the general will definitely follow Lord Marquis's lead, but if there is a military order, you can go through fire and water with dignity!"
Fang Jun smiled and patted Yang Xiuwu on the shoulder. Without giving him any reassurance, he changed the subject and said, "This place is my fiefdom. Why doesn't General Yang take me to inspect it?"
"promise!"
Yang Xiuwu stood up, not daring to wipe the sweat off his face. He bowed respectfully and stood in front of Fang Jun, leading Fang Jun to look around.
The former Huating Town garrison on the side looked at the always arrogant and domineering leader who was groveling and trembling, and felt relieved... Do you really think that Huating Town is your family's world? It's just bullying the soldiers like us, in this
Aren't you as obedient as a rabbit in front of the General Manager? A few days ago, he vowed that the new General Manager would be thrown into the river to feed the fishes before he could take office in Huating Town...
Hum hum, just wait to be punished this time!
However, it seems that the general manager's amiable appearance is very different from the rumored ferocious appearance. I wonder if he can control General Yang? After all, he is a descendant of the Hongnong Yang family...