After leaving Jeju Port on Danluo Island on the 20th, Gu Junxun stood on the deck of the stern cabin, looking at Danluo Island getting further away, and asked Lin Fu with confusion: "Even I, a woman, know where the bed is.
Why is King Danluo not wary of not allowing others to sleep soundly?"
Lin Fu smiled slightly and said, "Before you went to sea this time, how could you have known that it would be so convenient to borrow the west wind from Chongzhou to Danluo?"
For a long time, the Central Plains royal power's political requirements for these island countries in the vast East China Sea have been limited to surrender. In order to show the magnanimity of a great country, the annual financial rewards are even much higher than the tribute, unlike Goryeo, which has been working hard to
Danluo directly became a territory under direct jurisdiction.
The Danluo people did not have much resistance to becoming a vassal state of the Dai Viet Dynasty. Besides, in the eyes of the world at that time, the thousands of miles of sea was like a ravine in the sky. Who would have territorial ambitions for islands beyond the thousands of miles of sea?
Gu Junxun nodded vaguely, but his eyes were still full of doubts, but he didn't ask further.
Lin Fu turned around and looked at the shadow of the South Korea coast emerging from the sea and sky to the north. Under the setting sun, it looked like a faint and cold curve.
Lin Fu had no intention of docking in South Korea on this trip. After leaving Danluo Island, the fleet headed west-south in order to enter the Blackwater Ocean as quickly as possible and then take advantage of the current to move north quickly.
Although the military strength in Chongzhou and Shengsi was very tight, Lin Fu still wanted to garrison elite troops in Danluo. After the fort at Jeju Port was built, he would strengthen the garrison there.
Danluo Island itself is large enough, hundreds of miles in length, with cultivated plains and island land that can be defended. It is rich in products. It is also adjacent to Korea to the north and faces Kyushu Island and Honshu Island across the sea.
To put it bluntly, once the situation in the Central Plains deteriorates and the trade routes from Jiangdong County to the inland are cut off, silk, cotton, cane sugar, porcelain, tea, salt and other bulk commodities will become unsalable (in fact, this trend is also reflected in the Canal Canal Road).
It was already very obvious after it was cut off). At that time, sea ships could be organized to dump these goods through Danluo Island to Goryeo, Kyushu, Honshu and other places, so that the currently prosperous Sangyuan silk shop, textile industry in Jiangdong County,
The grain-making, salt-making, porcelain-making and other workshop economic systems were prevented from collapsing... By seizing this trade route, Lin Fu could naturally draw heavy taxes from it to support his army.
Supporting the Danluo people on the surface will be beneficial to Goryeo's internal strife. Once the Jiangdong Left Army has sufficient strength, it will inevitably turn Goryeo from a vassal state of the Donghu people into a force that threatens Donghu from behind.
Speaking more deeply, once the situation in the Central Plains deteriorated to the point where the Jiangdong Left Army could not stand at all, or Emperor Chongguan or Prince Ning came to the throne with great wisdom or bad luck, the situation in the Central Plains suddenly became good, and the Xisha Islands and Shengsi Islands were all separated.
The land is too close to be a good separatist territory. Danluo Island, which is about three times the size of Xisha Island, is much more suitable.
**********
Leaving Danluo, we entered the Heishuiyang Channel to the southwest, then headed north, almost parallel to the west coast of the Koryo Peninsula. At dawn on the 22nd, we saw the easternmost promontory of the Shandong Peninsula, turning to the northwest.
At dusk, we passed through the channel between Daqin Island and Tuoji Island in the north of Dengzhou, and met the patrol boat of Dengzhou Shuiying in the west waters of Daqin Island.
Compared with the three-masted and five-masted giant ship Jinhai, the two single-masted cruise ships in Dengzhou Shuiying were like clowns struggling in the wind and waves. They did not even dare to approach and question their origins, so they sailed back to Dengzhou Shuiying.
went.
The Dengzhou Water Camp consisted of 20 battalions with more than 12,000 soldiers. Its military strength was the combined strength of the original Ninghai Zhenshui Camp and Jiangning Water Camp. It was also the only Zhenjun Shuiying establishment in the Dai Viet Dynasty that mainly focused on coastal defense.
Su Hu petitioned for the construction of Dengzhou Water Camp. Considering that Liaodong was connected to the pass by land, it was thousands of miles away, and the mountains were high and the roads were dangerous. However, the sea route from Dengzhou to Jinzhou (now Dalian) in the southeast corner of Liaoning was only about 200 kilometers away.
Li, transporting grain and grass to Liaodong by sea does not require land transportation at any cost.
The Dengzhou Water Camp was originally built to transport troops; after the fall of Liaodong, in order to strengthen the containment of the Donglu who invaded Liaodong, the status of the Dengzhou Water Camp became increasingly important.
In Li Zhuo's policy of pacifying the enemy, he expected that the Dengzhou Water Camp would be able to develop a special force that could attack the eastern enemy's flanks and heartland. Therefore, the Dengzhou Water Camp became the focus of Li Zhuozhi's investment in the Northern Army, and the establishment was expanded to twenty battalions.
However, in Li Zhuo's military thinking, the Dengzhou water camp was in the nature of crossing the sea and landing operations, rather than developing the ability to fight at sea or long sea navigation. It was the same as the She family's military thinking in developing the East China Sea bandit forces, and neither of them developed.
The meaning of large sea patrol sailing ship.
The main defense targets of the Dengzhou Water Camp, the Donghu people do not even have the so-called maritime military power. With military expenses so tight, there is no need for the Dengzhou Water Camp to invest heavily in the development of large patrol sailing ships.
Seeing the two single-masted patrol boats from the Dengzhou Water Camp timidly walking away, Ge Yuan smiled and said: "The whole division of the Jinghai Water Camp is heading north, and the Dengzhou Army is also vulnerable..."
Lin Fu looked at the Liaodong Peninsula in the north. In the evening light, the coastline of Jinzhou Cape was charming and winding. In order to guard against the Dengzhou Army, the Donglu people stationed thousands of elite soldiers in Jinzhou City, and the city was also rare in Liaodong.
--- Speaking of which, Jinzhou City was built by Su Hu, the Marquis of Jingbei, but it was taken away by the Donghu people without a single soldier.
At noon on the 24th, the fleet arrived at the Tianjin Sea, which was experiencing severe cold.
*************
We left Chongzhou on the 15th and arrived at Jinhai on the 24th. Taking into account the three days of delay in Danluo, it took half a month to cover the distance by horseback and overland. It actually only took six days.
.
It is a severe cold season in the north, and the sea ice in the Bohai Sea has sealed to the north of the Tianjin Sea, almost sealing the Wokou Port. If that happened, the grain shipped from Shandong would first be landed at Xiaobotou Village in the south.
Sun Fengyi and Zhou Guangnan took a boat to Jinwei Island to see Sun Shangwang before noon. They did not know that Lin Fu was coming. Sun Shangwang and everyone in Jinhai did not receive the news in advance.
The sea route had to be traveled quickly, and Chongzhou had no way of notifying them in advance. They didn't even know that Lin Fu had to observe mourning in Chongzhou for three months.
"Tang Gong is so dead, and there is no letter from the south?" Sun Fengyi squatted on the stone foundation and chewed bitter tea leaves. He knew that Lin Fu was led by Sun Shangwang here, and Lin Xuwen would be the first to do anything important.
A group of people went to discuss with Sun Shangwang. Tang Haoxin was dead. Everyone was holding their breath, but when they calmed down, they would inevitably panic. He met Zhou Guangnan at the mouth of the river before noon, and they came to Jinwei Island together...
Unbeknownst to others, Sun Fengyi and Zhou Guangnan, who were already considered figures in Jinhai's inner circle, certainly knew that Tang Haoxin was forced into desperation and died on a hunger strike. After taking office, Liang and his son led troops into Shandong. The situation was really worrying.
.
Zhou Guangnan lowered his voice and said: "Tang Haoxin is a towering figure, and he was pushed down as soon as the officials said it would be pushed down. What are we going to do next?"
"Effortless?" Sun Shangwang snorted, seeming to be dismissive of the superior imperial power of the Emperor, and said to Sun Fengyi, "If it really was effortless, there would be no need for such generous rewards in the future..." Jinhai, from Lin Xuwen onwards,
Almost all Tang family officials have been promoted one level.
"It's true to say that Gyeonggi still relies on this place," Sun Fengyi said, "but once the Liang family has a firm foothold in Shandong, things will not be so easy to handle..."
"It's useless for the Liang family to gain a foothold in Shandong. The Jiao Lai River is so shallow and narrow, and you have to go through the central hills to carry water twice. Chen Yuanliang, Du Juefu, Zhang Jinxian and others piled up their stalls and walked away. Lu Guogong wouldn't be blind.
, I will cut off your head for you..." Sun Shangwang said, "The maritime merchants in Hecang and Dengzhou have become more closely connected these days. Don't let people lose their hearts. We are all united, and the officials can do nothing to us..."
"That's all we have now, Master Lin also said so," Sun Fengyi nodded and said, but the worry remained on his face.
Zhou Guangnan lowered his voice and said, "Is there a ship heading south? Why don't you go to Chongzhou yourself?"
"..." Sun Shangwang knew that the people in Jinhai were united because of Lin Fu. Like the Sun family in Cangnan, the Zhou family in Jinhai was still a small and not well-known clan in Hejian Prefecture before the year before the year before last.
The Sun and Zhou families quickly rose to become the leading family in Hejian Prefecture, not because of anything else, but because of Lin Fu's support behind them.
Lin Fu's prestige cannot be replaced by Lin Xuwen's.
Datong has been besieged for almost three months. The area in northern Shanxi has been completely destroyed. Some Donglu cavalry attempted to enter Yannan through the opening in the northern Taihang Mountains. Fortunately, Li Bingbu led troops to block it, but can the situation in Yanbei be avoided?
Like those last year who failed in the end, the key depends on whether Chen Zhihu can hold on in Datong.
The Liang family father and son took a short break after capturing Linqing. They fought continuously from Xiajin, Pingyuan, Linyi, Jiyang, and Jinan on the 14th, chasing the main force of the Tianyi rebels. There was a battle almost every day, and every day
The battle must be defeated and the enemy must be defeated.
The rebel leader Ge Ping could not resist, so he led the main force of the Tianyi refugee army to withdraw from Jinan on the 21st and retreated hastily south.
The Liang family's father and son led their troops into Shandong on the sixth day of the lunar month, and recovered the northern border of Shandong within half a month. Their momentum was so great that even the light of Li Zhuo and Lin Fu was completely blocked by the Liang family's father and son.
With the support of the official family, and the Liang family is also a powerful family, with people, power, money, and elite soldiers and brave generals, now their reputation has greatly increased through military exploits. Chen/Yuanliang, Du Juefu, Zhang Jinxian and others are here
Qingzhou wanted to prevent the Liang family from controlling the Jiaolai River, but it seemed that they could not hold on for long.
Once the Jiaolai River is controlled by the Liang family, the source of the Tianjin-Hai grain road will no longer be in their hands. The Liang family's style was learned as early as when the Liang family and his son were in charge of the Yanbei frontier army and dealt with the frontier army.
The merchants of Denglai and Hejian Prefecture did not go bankrupt because of this, which is considered good luck. How can it be compared with Lin Fu's reputation?
At this time, the North Mountain Watch Post on Jinwei Island sent out a warning whistle and flags to signal that a large fleet was coming from the southeast.
"Afraid of a ship coming from Chongzhou?" Sun Shangwang stood up and looked to the southeast in confusion, not forgetting to ask the generals guarding the island to increase their vigilance. The situation in Shandong was very complicated, and it was not ruled out that Dengzhou Shuiying would send a fleet to kill them all.
Sun Shangwang, Sun Fengyi, Zhou Guangnan and others climbed to a higher place and saw a sail rising from the sea level.
Sun Fengyi was old but had good eyesight. He shouted happily: "The five-masted ship is coming from Chongzhou. Ah... the five ships in front are all five-masted ships. How could Chongzhou send so many ships at this time?" Er Ran
Thinking of a possibility, he looked at each other with Zhou Guangnan and Sun Shangwang. Seeing the surprise and joy in their eyes, he knew that their thoughts were the same as his own: Lin Fu was coming.