"Old Master, just now did you say Liuqiu? Did you mean the Ryukyu Islands? Or the Yizhou Islands?"
Song Yang immediately grasped the key point when he heard the word "Liuqiu".
"Ryukyu Islands? Your Majesty is talking about the Ryukyu Kingdom, right? The Liuqiu I'm talking about is the one that was called Yizhou in ancient times."
The old teacher is very knowledgeable, but most people really don’t know the difference between Ryuqiu and Ryukyu.
Just hearing these two words sound exactly the same!
"Haha. Wanwan!" Song Yang laughed.
Finally figured it out!
"Wanwan?"
The old master was confused for a while, where is Wanwan? Liuqiu has another name? Why didn’t we know?
Song Yang has been busy on land these years, and Wanwan has been completely forgotten.
Through the Japanese pirate incident, Wanwan came into Song Yang's sight again.
He decided to take advantage of this opportunity to unify the motherland!
"Old Taishi. Wanwan... ahem. Liuqiu is an inseparable part of Daqian! After the Japanese pirates are eliminated, Liuqiu must be under the rule of Daqian!"
Song Yang said solemnly.
The old master was stunned. When did Liuqiu become an integral part of Daqian?
So what are you doing in this barren land?
After all, the old master's vision was a bit poor, but this was the limitation of the times.
During the Daqian period, there were very few exchanges with Liuqiu.
A small amount of exchanges are only spontaneously organized by the private sector.
Officially, the previous dynasty organized a fleet to visit Liuqiu, but Liuqiu had not been developed at all at that time.
There are primitive traces and indigenous savages everywhere.
Starting from the previous dynasty, he almost ignored Liuqiu.
During the Daqian period, only a few chiefs from Liuqiu came to pay homage in the early years of the dynasty. After that, official contacts with Liuqiu were severed.
The courtiers all thought that they were so poor that they could buy ten copies of the little things they paid as tribute...
"Reply to your third uncle. All you need to do is blockade Liuqiu and Daoyi Islands. When the war in the north is over, I will personally go south to recover the bay...Liuqiu and Daoyi Islands!"
Song Yang gave an order, and Liu Huairen jotted it down.
Although I don’t understand why it is recovery, but Song Yang said it is recovery, that is recovery!
It is difficult to fight the Penghu Islands without detailed charts. Although Song Yang had a map, he did not dare to fight with the drawn charts.
This era is still different from his original era, and the maps in the encyclopedia are not 100% accurate.
It is not safe to fight on this kind of map. The dangers of maritime combat are not only enemies, but also various factors such as undercurrents, rocks, and storms.
So Song Yang didn't dare to take risks and could only let the matter go slowly.
However, once the Xiao Quan family's lair has been discovered, it can be blocked with gunboats to reduce the intrusion of Japanese pirates on the coast.
"Send a message to Ma Cheng and ask him to prepare some ships to send to Third Uncle."
"Daoyi is not a small place, and it is not easy to block the Japanese pirates. Let's add some boats to Third Uncle to facilitate his work."
Liu Huairen wrote them down one by one.
Song Yang was silent for a while and then said: "Let Lao Fang and Lao Ma keep an eye on the shipyard. Warship production needs to be improved. In the next few years, the focus of operations will gradually shift from land to sea."
"Yes!" Liu Huairen brushed his dots and recorded it.
Song Yang still yearns for the sea.
In this era, if there is an ocean-going fleet, the pace of exploring the world will be much faster.
The internal combustion engine was about to be born, and Song Yang was thinking about developing electricity.
It's almost enough to make a steel battleship by electric welding.
"By the way, how's it going with Uncle Qi?"
The incident with Xiao Quan's family turned Song Yang's attention to the Japanese pirates.
The Eastern Route Army of Seventh Uncle Song Tong has been fighting Japanese pirates recently.
As the chief logistics dispatcher, Liu Huairen has the most detailed and timely grasp of intelligence from all parties.
Liu Huairen listened to Song Yang's question and immediately replied:
"Prince Tanzhou has entered Haizhou territory before New Year's Eve, and the previous war was quite smooth. However, the snow on New Year's Eve also had a big impact on the East Road area, and the current advancement there is gradually slowing down."
"There has been a lot of progress on Huainan Road. Mr. Gao said that the Tokyo Camp has eliminated seven or eight groups of small and medium-sized Japanese pirates. Now the Japanese situation on Huainan Road has been greatly alleviated. It is estimated that there should be a detailed report in a few days.
Submit the report."
Song Yang was overjoyed after hearing Liu Huairen's words.
This guy didn't have any hobbies in his last life. He only loved watching TV series about fighting Japanese soldiers. The more awesome the better...
The Tokyo Camp had good combat effectiveness with Song Yang's support during those three days.
They subdued many small forces and formed a group, which resulted in six to seven thousand people.
On the third day, I led my brothers to clean up Japanese pirates in the northern coastal area of Huainan Road, and the results were very good.
The wolf trap is very effective, often killing thieves without causing any damage.
"They performed well in the past three days. Let's take credit for them." Song Yang said happily.
Liu Huairen wrote down this and said:
"By the way, Your Majesty, the remnants of the bandit army on the East Route have already contacted the Prince of Tanzhou. They said they would cooperate with us to clear out the Japanese pirates along the Yellow River."
Song Yang nodded slightly and said: "There is nothing much that can be done to improve if you know your mistakes! If the remnants of the bandits on the East Route can make contributions in the battle to annihilate the Japanese pirates, then they will be exempted from all mistakes!"
"After the war is over, the soldiers will be divided into households and each person will be rewarded with fifty acres of land!"
"Officers above the middle level who want to join the army can stay in various military posts."
The reward given by Song Yang is still very tempting.
Especially for ordinary bandits and soldiers, they only have twenty or thirty acres of land in Luo Xin at most, and most of their families don't have ten acres of land.
Song Yang Song Yang directly gave him fifty acres, not afraid that they would not be tempted.
As for serving in the guard office, Song Yang was not afraid that they would ruin the atmosphere.
In future plans, the health station will only play a role in assisting local security.
The real combat strength is still dominated by the Renaissance Army.
"Dong dong dong!" Just as he was talking, the sound of war drums came from outside.
"Huh? It's time so soon?" Song Yang was stunned and had been chatting for most of the morning without realizing it.
Every day at 6 o'clock, there is a drill, and the Renaissance Army soldiers will practice some enemy-killing moves, various passwords, etc.
Although Kaifeng is not the front line, this drill is indispensable.
Speaking of the exercise, Mrs. Gao stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I selected five thousand people who looked good from the surrendered troops and organized a people's strength team. They will also follow the exercise."
"Practice to get some energy, and I can ask them to help with some chores."
Song Yang stood up and walked out and said, "Okay. You can take care of this matter. Let's go and see Cao Cao."
Song Yang wanted to see the spirit of those surrendered soldiers.
When they arrived at the school grounds, Song Yang frowned.
Good guy, at least 30% of the troops will be surrendered regardless of left or right.
Not to mention neat and tidy.
"Your Majesty, actually this is already very good. When we first let them perform exercises a few days ago... Oh! It was so miserable!" Liu Huairen sighed.
Song Yang looked at Liu Huairen, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work..."
Liu Huairen wiped his face and said, "I will try my best to train them as soon as possible."
Song Yang stopped looking at the surrendering soldiers and turned to look to the other side.
Our Fuxing Army is still well trained, uniform and magnificent!
…
In early February, Song Yang received four letters of allegiance from Lanzhou.
Mao Ping personally brought the letter of allegiance written by the four generals of the border army to Linfen, and then Wei Nan sent a messenger to deliver the letter to Kaifeng.
Song Yang has been in Kaifeng these days. The battle in Hebei has not been able to start because of the university, so he is in no hurry to return to Liyang.
Song Yang opened Mao Ping's letter and read it.
The format is almost the same as last time.
He also made friends with his uncle, and then said that it was a mistake not to go south before, and expressed his sincere apology to Daqian.
Finally, I swore my absolute allegiance to Song Yang.
Song Yang curled his lips and closed the letter and started another one.
"Huh? Fu Yuming?" Song Yang felt that the name seemed familiar.
Searched carefully in my mind.
"Oh! A princeling!" Song Yang recalled for a long time before he remembered who this Fu Yuming was.
A guy among the princelings who has done nothing.
"Your Majesty, look what he wrote?" the old master said, pointing to the letter.
"What's different about this person?" Song Yang was curious as he opened the letter.
The old master smiled and said, "I won't say much more, I will tell you when you see it."
Song Yang, who was even more curious, opened the letter.
The letter paper was unfolded, and a large article was filled to the brim!
I have to say that Fu Yuming's calligraphy is very good, and the workmanship is pleasing to the eye.
Let’s look at the content again…
"It's wrong to be humble! I'm so sorry for the prince!"
The first sentence begins with a capital admission.
Song Yang almost choked.
Nima, those who didn’t know better thought you had done something to me!
Song Yang read on patiently.
Good guy, that apology and acknowledgment of mistakes fill the whole text, and the flattery runs through the main line.
Song Yang's scalp felt numb when he saw it.
"Snapped!"
Song Yang slapped the letter on the table, looked at Gao Liangping in surprise and said:
"Old Master! I feel that this talented Fu Yuming should not be a frontier general!"
Gao Liangping grinned and said: "My lord, do you think he should be a civil servant? This man used to be the prince's study companion, but his grades were really mediocre. Later, his family cleared up the relationship and asked the prince to find him a foreign official. "
"As a result, only the frontier army was vacant at that time, so he became a general of the frontier army, which can be regarded as substituting civility for military service."
Song Yang shook his head, pointed at Fu Yuming's letter and said, "If he's not a civil servant, it would be a pity that this guy doesn't become the editor-in-chief of a newspaper!"
"Uh! Haha! Your Majesty is absolutely right! Aren't we just short of such a person? We can indeed let him do it."
The old master was stunned, then smiled and said.
Song Yang had long wanted to set up a newspaper.
It was only delayed because there were no suitable people to take care of it, the literacy rate of the people was too low in the past few years, and there were constant wars in various places.
But he had already told the old master, Fang Zhe and others about this matter.
"Your Majesty, the border army also asked about the attack on Taiyuan, how to reply to this matter?" Liu Huairen held Wei Nan's letter in his hand.
Song Yang just finished reading it and put it aside.
Now that I have read the letter from the four frontier generals, Wei Nan's letter has been forgotten again.
"That's right. Forgot about that. There is no need to fight the border troops in Taiyuan, just let them block the escape route north of Taiyuan."
"Tell Wei Nan that before the spring begins, the main thing is to persuade him to surrender. This Jiang Gong is good, he is loyal to Luo Xin, and he has some combat capabilities. If he can persuade him to surrender, he can at least become a frontier general!"
Song Yang had long thought that Jiang Gong was quite talented, and Zhang Lei, who he had driven away, had also been keeping an eye on him for quite some time.
If you can recruit these two people, you can be considered a good two tools.
"By the way, there is no fighting between the left and right now, so let the four generals of the border army come to see you."