Zhuge Liang has left, and Yangzhou has become a system of its own. He is already a huge Guo family machine, and he does not rely solely on himself to influence the overall situation.
So Zhuge Liang, the minister of punishment, left. The entire big machine of the Ministry of Punishment is working, the only bad thing is that Xu Shu needs to work a little harder.
The rice harvest in Yangzhou has already started. The growth is gratifying, looking at the blue and yellow piece, Liu Mang suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction.
"Report!" Liu Mang was going to the countryside to learn about the harvest of these rice crops, when a servant from the palace ran over and knelt down in front of Liu Mang.
"Report to my lord. Lord Liu Neng, please see me!" The servant knelt down in front of Liu Wei and said to Liu Wei.
"Liu Neng!?" If you don't mention this person, Liu Mang may have really forgotten that this person is one of his old subordinates. It can be said that they are Liu Mang's earliest team members.
Liu Neng has followed Liu Mang since Wancheng, defending the city and fighting in Wancheng. It can be said that they are still people who live and die together. Although the Liu family represented by Liu Neng wants to speculate and get rich in chaos, But Mang had to admit that without Liu Neng and the others, Liu Mang would not have survived at all, and Sun Ce would have taken his head long ago.
The father and son Liu Neng belonged to the old gentry of Lujiang, and also belonged to the clan of the Great Han Dynasty. If this Liu Neng was not capable enough, Liu Mang might have asked him to be one of the six ministers.
This Liu Neng also seemed to know that he was not capable enough, and he didn't quarrel with Liu Mang. If there was a real quarrel, Liu Mang would be embarrassed. After all, this is an old man of the Yangzhou Army.
It is precisely because Liu Neng is not noisy. Let Liu Mang feel more guilty towards him. Liu Neng was given the title of Marquis. He also gave the Liu family a lot of rewards. It can be said that as long as the Liu family does not do anything wrong to Liu Mang, then Liu Mang can guarantee the prosperity and wealth of the Liu family.
But this Liu Neng is not an old-fashioned person. Although he has no ability, he has great ambitions. He wants to be a minister, and he wants to rely on his own ability to break through the next power.
Among the six, he is not familiar with the street, and his martial arts are not even third-rate when it comes to war. It was really embarrassing for Liu Mang, so he could only find a master for Liu Neng first. This master is still an acquaintance, and that is our Lord Pang De.
After studying with Duke Pang De for several months, what is Liu Neng's background? After he returned to Yangzhou, Liu Mang should give him an official position, at least the prefect, and let him govern one side.
But this Liu Neng chose a position, that is, the observation envoy.
The Big Han Observer, the emergence of this official position was created by Liu Mang himself, after he took down Jiangdong. There are several more shipyards in Yangzhou, although those small shipyards in Jiangdong are useless. But those places are good places to build shipyards.
With a shipyard, are there still few seagoing ships? At the monarchy level, in addition to the Yangzhou Navy who taught Gan Ning over there, there are also big Han observers like Liu Neng.
Our Liu Neng children's shoes have three Sovereign-class warships in their hands. After the disaster, they are those Galen ships. It is still very good to transform these small ships into supply ships and coastal warships.
Liu Neng's observation direction is to touch along the coast of the east of the river. If it is to be more accurate, it is heading towards places like Treasure Island. After traveling on the sea, it is normal to not come back within half a year. This Liu Neng came back and returned his life, which means that there must be news.
"Liu Neng?" A few people beside him really didn't know who this Liu Neng was.
Liu Mang could only explain it again.
"Go! Get up and drive back to the palace immediately!" The other officials around did not understand the importance of such an observer, and they were all very strange. Even when Gan Ning and the Yangzhou Navy came back, I have never seen the lord so active.
But after all, a group of officials drove back with them.
When Liu Mang returned to the palace, he didn't even care about washing and went straight to the main hall.
"Where is Liu Neng, where is Liu Neng?" Liu Mang went up to the main hall excitedly and shouted, but he didn't see Liu Neng's figure.
Ask the guard on the side.
The guard then explained, Liu Mang is not here, who dares to wait in the main hall, isn't that overstepping
Generally, if a courtier wants to see the lord, he needs to wait in the side hall. Only when the lord Liu Mang is summoned can he come to the hall.
"Quick announcement, quick announcement!" Liu Wei waved his hand directly and said.
Soon Liu Neng was brought up by Habayashi Wei.
"The minister's observation envoy, Liu Neng, has seen the lord!" A dark man knelt down and bowed down after seeing Liu Mang.
"Liu Neng?" Liu Mang couldn't believe it when he saw this African brother. You must know that Liu Neng was a handsome young man at the beginning, but now he has become this virtuous.
"It's Weichen!" Liu Neng lowered his head even more. He held great respect for the lord Liu Mang sitting on the throne. It can be said that the rise of the Yangzhou Army was watched step by step by Liu Neng. From the beginning, like a bereaved dog, there was not even a single city. He just wanted to leave the Central Plains and stay away from Cao Cao's pursuit. Later, he occupied Lujiang River, turned the hostess into the main, and defeated Jiangdong's 100,000 troops one by one. Liu Daer Zhangxiu and the coalition forces in Jingzhou, it can be said that the development of Yangzhou is a miracle.
This lord also caught Liu Neng's attention.
The reason why Liu Neng joined Liu Mang's army in the past was not because he saw that Liu Mang was a wise king, but because their Liu family couldn't get along in Wancheng anymore. It was a bit miserable to be oppressed by the gentry from Jiangdong , if this continues, the Liu family will definitely be ruined, so Liu Neng chose Liu Mang because he had no way to survive.
At that time, Liu Neng chose Liu Mang, or he was willing to kill a blind cat and a mouse, or he would die at worst. He is not optimistic about Liu Mang either.
But what I didn't expect was that our Liu Mang children's shoes rose step by step. And their Liu family is naturally rising. From being suppressed by the Jiangdong gentry in the past, it has become the hottest Yangzhou Liu family now.
Some people even speculated whether this Yangzhou Liu family might be Liu Mang's previous family.
"How did you become like this!" Liu Mang said without thinking. This is also because he and Liu Neng are familiar with each other. The two hadn't seen each other for a long time. At the beginning, the two lived and died together, so when they met this time, they naturally became happy and spoke freely.
Xu Shu next to him coughed and asked Liu Mang to pay attention to etiquette. Is it appropriate for you, a lord, to ask your subordinates why you are ugly.
But Liu Neng below obviously didn't care, but said to Liu Mang with a wry smile, "My lord, I have been on the sea for a long time, and the sea breeze blows!" The sea is no better than the land. Even if it is the Sovereign-class battleship of Yangzhou built first, the conditions on it are very difficult.
It is often windy and rainy, and the sun is shining directly on the head, and there will be ghosts only if the skin is not tanned. So people who drive on the sea have rough skin.
In the past, Liu Neng was a handsome young man, even if he was not as handsome as Liu Mang, he was not far behind, but now he has become an African friend.
"How is it? Is there any news about Treasure Island?" Liu Mang asked Liu Neng over there. Since Liu Neng is back, there must be news.
Liu Mang was looking for the existence of the treasure island in his previous life. It is recorded in the history books that Sun Xiaoquan, the Lord of Wu, once sent generals Wei Wen and Zhuge Zhi to lead 10,000 sailors across the sea to Taiwan. This is the beginning of people's first discovery of Taiwan.
Since even that shabby naval army under that Sun Xiaoquan was able to discover Taiwan. Then it doesn't make sense that Liu Mang can't find him.
Liu Mang knows that this treasure island is full of treasures, and the geographical area is very large.
Several fine ports are also on it. If he is taken down and developed, it will really expand the territory for the big man.
Liu Neng nodded first, then shook his head again.
It made Liu Mang dizzy.
Did it find it, or did it not? What rhythm
"My lord, we have found this treasure island!" Liu Neng said to Liu Mang over there, "But! But there are no good ports like Kaohsiung, Taichung, Jirong that the lord said!" Liu Neng followed Liu Mang's instructions The ones who went to Baodao.
That's right, he still found Treasure Island. You must know that the Sovereign Level in their hands was originally designed to be ocean-going, and it is naturally overkill to search for an offshore island.
But after waiting for Liu Neng to get close to this treasure island, he discovered a very serious problem, that is, there is no port, and his monarchy level is also a thousand tons, even if he parks near Yangzhou, it is also a special port. Otherwise, you won't be able to let it go at all.
There is not even a trace of man-made on this treasure island, which made Liu Neng dumbfounded. There are also many reefs over there, and Liu Neng dare not approach at all. The fun will be great, a Sovereign Class can cost hundreds of thousands of gold.
The cannons on it add up to a lot of price. If a military-level gun is destroyed, Liu Neng will die even if he dies.
Fortunately, he still has those small Galen ships under his command.
He, Liu Neng, sent the Galen boats out, but these small boats did not come back immediately after they went out. After two days, these Galen boats finally came back, but this one brought a The ship's terrified crew.
They met the natives on this treasure island. There is a language barrier, and in addition, I am not familiar with Baodao. There was a conflict between the two sides, and thousands of natives rushed out all of a sudden.
Their crews are well equipped with weapons, but they can't handle those natives too much.
This Galen ship managed to escape.
"There is no port to berth, native?" Liu Mang was a little dumbfounded. He still wanted to take down Treasure Island and use the resources ordered on Treasure Island. Now Liu Neng here gave himself a blow to the head.
Treasure Island has been found, but the natives on it still have no port.
Liu Wei is different. How did Sun Xiaoquan find this treasure island at the beginning? It was only because of a mistake in the theater that he discovered it. Similarly, their ships are not big ships of the monarchy level, but those small sea-going ships. I have also seen these small sea boats. Sun Ce used him to trade war horses with Gongsun Du in Liaodong before.
Those small sea boats only weighed more than one hundred tons, and the draft was very shallow. He could enter only a natural port with a little view. As for those hidden reefs, they were all under the water depth of seven or eight meters. related
So he went straight in without any artificial port.
Another point is how many people did our little Quanquan bring to the battle, a total of 10,000 sailors, don't underestimate these soldiers and horses, then Liu Bei and Liu Daer didn't have so much capital when they fought the Battle of Chibi . Not to mention the Jiangdong Army, which is famous for its navy!
After the 10,000 sailors landed in Jirong, those natives really had nothing to do.
If you want to fight, come on, I have an army of 10,000, the largest tribe of those natives is only two or three thousand people, as for large-scale battles? Hehe, the Jiangdong Army is an expert at fighting. Arranging troops, can your local natives beat those generals who have fought for so many years
In addition, after Sun Xiaoquan went up, he exchanged things for things, and those aborigines drifted from the sea to the mainland, and those aborigines merged into the mainland, and they knew the language of the mainland and the language of the aborigines. It was only then that Treasure Island was included in Jiangdong's land. Even so, Sun Xiaoquan didn't spend much effort to develop him.
"My lord, that treasure island is big, but my lord is a barren land, so how hard is it?" Liu Neng over there gave Liu Mang a suggestion, such a huge island, but it is full of lush forests.
There are very few places that can really adapt to Han people's living.
If you really immigrate, it will not be a matter of a day or two. It is thankless. Now is the time to attack Cao Cao and take Cao Cao. The whole world belongs to him. Why do we need such a broken island
"You don't understand~" Liu Wei shook his head, this island originally belonged to their Huaxia, Liu Wei had to take him down, besides, the land of Huaxia is not enough, Liu Wei wants the whole island. The Huaxia clan has cultivated deeply in the world. This world is not the Kyushu of this big man, but the five continents of this world.
And Baodao is just a small step in it, laying the foundation for future colonization.
"Liu Neng, pass on the order. I will give you five thousand, no, eight thousand elite sailors. You can go to the navy to dispatch them, and you can even ask Gan Ning to directly assist you. I want to see us in Treasure Island in half a year." The city~!" Liu Mang gave an order to Liu Neng over there.
He is not too much, just build the first city on the treasure island. This city can be a frontier fortress, but it must be built on the treasure island over there. (to be continued..)