Chapter 998

Xie an has good swordsmanship and marksmanship, but he never thinks he is a fierce general. He is a man who has read a lot of books. The early Han Dynasty has distinguished between the brave war sect and the war seeking sect. He thinks he should be a war seeking sect, not a brave war sect.

In the hypothetical background, the north of the Yangtze River was unified by Hu captives, but it was a new country with multi-ethnic mutual distrust. The king also treated all foreign nationalities equally. It can be seen how fierce the game between internal nationalities should be, and it is unknown how many foreign leaders are dormant and want to make trouble.

To deal with a multi-ethnic country is nothing more than to provoke those ambitious nations. First of all, we should start from national contradictions. There is no need to carry out any separatist schemes. There will be countless ambitious people making all kinds of overt and covert disturbances.

"I thought Hu chieftain needed a decent victory to prove that he was destined to return." Xie'an has regarded a Q & A as a deduction and said firmly: "since chieftain hu wants to win a decent victory, he sent envoys to invite him to hunt. On the grounds of crossing the river, he asked chieftain Hu to withdraw ten miles back as a hunting ground, and chieftain Hu will certainly agree."

Liu Yan laughed.

In history, Fu Jian really wanted to win a decent victory and agreed to Xie an's request to retreat. As a result, the Jin army shouted that Fu Jian was defeated. The former Qin army saw that Fu Jian's King flag was indeed retreating. It may be that Fu Jian really thought he was defeated, or those dormant savages finally found a chance.

A 800000 Former Qin army that could break the flow of the whip did not fight in a decent battle. Unexpectedly, it was chased and beaten by tens of thousands of Jin troops, which staged the largest rout in history.

After this great defeat, Fu Jian didn't even have a chance to regroup when he returned to the rear. The former Qin Dynasty collapsed in just a few years.

"With this great victory, can the Southern Army take the opportunity to make a northern expedition?" After laughing, Liu Yan asked, "take this opportunity to recover the Central Plains?"

"Or recover Yuzhou and Xuzhou?" Xie an pondered for a long time and gave the answer: "I'm afraid I can't recover the Central Plains."

Not only did Xie an guess, but all the people who listened to the whole process guessed what was going on. Their understanding is that the so-called southern army should be the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the northern Hu Lu is one of the five Hu.

If the regime in the south is something else, not the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, defeating 800000 enemy troops, and the Hu prisoners of all parties fall into fratricidal warfare, there is still considerable hope for the northern expedition to recover the Central Plains. The problem is that the southern army is the small Imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

They were rushed to the south to survive, but the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty did not have the situation of unity of mind. On the contrary, the internal struggle was unprecedented fierce.

At the beginning, there were still many door lords, aristocratic families and scholar bureaucrats who were determined to kill back to the Central Plains and made great efforts to do so. However, after the northern expedition of Zu Ti and Liu Kun, everyone was disappointed.

Zuti's northern expedition was the most likely one to recover the Central Plains. At that time, he entered Guanzhong and advanced into Guandong. However, there were those people who didn't want to see a good situation. The subsequent support didn't keep up, and even kept pulling back, and even spies secretly informed Hu Lu.

When zuti's Northern Expedition army was fighting bloody battles, the South was a scene of singing day and night.

Then zuti's Northern Expedition army was annihilated, the southern singing day and night did not stop, and even the famous fight for wealth occurred in the middle.

No one cares whether the Central Plains can be recovered or not. Even the central government doesn't want the Central Plains to be recovered at all. People who cry bitterly about the collapse of the Northern Expedition army have become an exception, and those who repeatedly appeal to the northern expedition have become a thorn in the eye of others.

Yu's family was one of the four gate valves and almost surpassed Wang's family to become the first of the four gate valves at one time. However, Yu Liang repeatedly called for the Northern Expedition and really took practical actions for the northern expedition. As a result, Yu's family was constantly blocked openly and secretly.

Amid the opposition of the courtiers, Yu Liang led his troops to the northern expedition.

Yu Liang led the army to advance amid the sound of abuse. Before the war was opened, Jiacheng fell, because it was difficult to carry out the northern expedition.

The fall of Jiacheng is only a short record in the history books, but it has a very embarrassing inside story. Yu Yi's investigation found that Jiacheng was deliberately caused by someone. The purpose is to destroy the situation of Yu Liang's Northern Expedition. He even sacrificed 5000 defenders and threw the people of the city to Hu prisoners for killing and abuse.

If there is a war that marches from south to North and finally succeeds, it will never happen to the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Perhaps it should be said that as long as the door valve and aristocratic family are not dead, there is only one mouth left in a group of people who are still alive and still control the government, and finally dominate the world from south to north.

Liu Yan looked at Huan Wen who said similar views, and his inner surprise was not a little.

Indeed, in the long history of thousands of years, it is only Lao Zhu's family who can live in the South and settle down and develop, but can send troops to dominate the world from south to north.

As for the headmaster? From the beginning to the end, he has never achieved real reunification, even nominal reunification.

"Qing's meaning is..." Liu Yan asked curiously, "southern soldiers are unbearable?"

"Your Majesty, I never meant to." Huan Wen didn't want to carry the pot: "there are no soldiers who can't stand the war, only the generals who bury the soldiers."

In fact, it will be clear that the reason why the South could not dominate the world from south to North was the advantages and disadvantages of the North-South elite class.

Take an analogy. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the northern scholars wanted to rule the world again, while the southern scholars wanted to separate the regime. The elites in two different regions have divided the victory and defeat from the ideological level. One side is full of aggression, and the other just wants to defend their hometown.

Those who want to defend their hometown, even if they have the opportunity to break through the north in strength, because only a few people want to break through the north, they will be hampered and damaged by the majority. In this way, it's very high to play half of the strength, and it's usually good to play three Chengdu.

It is not only the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty that is the case. If you look through the history books, you will find that in the long history, 99% of the elite in the south are "misers" or "conservatives". If there are one or two enterprising people occasionally, they will become different under the general environment, either succumb to the general environment or die young.

The same nation, just because of regional differences, but there are so big differences, is nothing more than because of life. To put it bluntly, the north is always threatened by the grassland, but the South has no great enemy. People's horizons are related to the growth environment, and the cultivation of ideas is naturally the same.

Liu Yan also put forward a hypothesis in Bagongshan. There was nothing unexpected about the military deduction, but he had to let the ministers think more.

The Han Empire is also beginning to show North-South differences. The more northward the place is either poisoned by the war or originally desolate. The more southward the place is, the less it will be damaged by the war.

In the south, where the general environment is comfortable, even if there is turbulence, the living environment is still much better than that in the north. Without considering the recovery of the pain of the war, it is inevitable to adapt to the development of the times. The phenomenon is that the new number of workshops and factories in the south is much higher than that in the north.

The patrol team left Bagong mountain to enter Huainan. It can be seen from many things. It is not a big town, and there is absolutely no shortage of small workshops. Unlike the north, it focuses on agricultural restoration.

Arriving at the Yangtze River, we must stop to visit the scenery.

As one of the mother rivers of Zhuxia, the Yangtze River is actually far more utilized than the Yellow River even without Liu Yan's intervention.

"The Yangtze River waterway is not suitable for navigation, nor are southerners familiar with water." Sang Yu looked at the endless Yangtze River: "it's the difference between ideas."

The northerners are good at animals and the southerners are familiar with boats. In fact, is it not caused by the living environment?

"The water system in the south is crisscrossed. Taking boats instead of walking is far more important than driving." LV Yi thought for a moment and continued: "it is difficult to obtain livestock in the south, so using the water network may not be a helpless move."

To some extent, it's really a kind of submission without choice. It's not because of the convenient water network. In the final analysis, people live on land. Whether they are on the way or transporting goods, they always need to go ashore by boat. It's not easy to load and unload by current means, and they definitely don't reach their final destination when they go ashore.

Jiangnan Shipyard, named Shaofu, is mainly based in Kuaiji county (Hangzhou Bay), but there are several sub bases, one of which is in Jiangdu.

Jiangdu branch shipyard is the one who built the iron ship.

Jiangdu is very close to Jiankang. Generally speaking, it is just looking across the river.

Today, the emperor's patrol team appeared on the North Bank of the Yangtze River. The bureaucrats who knew in advance naturally waited early to meet, and the people who knew later poured out.

Of course, the people knew that they could not walk near the emperor. They looked far away and found that the patrol team was not going to cross the bridge into Jiankang city. While wondering and disappointed, they wondered where they were going.

The military value of Jiangdu decreased with the reunification of the north and the south. However, because Jingkou became one of the two major trade ports of the Han Empire, although the military value of Jiangdu decreased, it was not dismissed.

A manifestation of the reduction in military value is that Jiangdu no longer has Jiangdu orders, but is just a garrison marquis.

Jiangdu, which learned early that the son of heaven would come, has no shortage of preparations. Naturally, it will not be the garrison Hou who is responsible for welcoming. The main welcoming person is the construction envoy of Jiangnan Shipyard, and the Deputy welcoming person is Jiankang order.

First, the forbidden army drove in for various inspections, and then took over the key. When Liu Yan entered with all the officials, he saw a clean place without even a root of weeds on the ground.

"See my emperor!"

The governor made the horse club the first to salute.

Jiankang ordered Yu Fu to follow him.

Then there are a group of officials and excellent craftsmen selected by the etiquette department.

Although they all kneel, they do not belong to kneeling ceremony, but worship. It's like bending your knees is sitting, not kneeling.

"Flat." Liu Yan glanced at the past and found that there were more craftsmen than officials. A smile appeared on his face: "Zhu Qing, where is the ship?"

Naturally, the ship is in the dock. When the emperor and officials come, they will go to visit first, and then move to the slide to wait for the final launching ceremony.

There are 16 docks in Jiangdu, and there is almost no chance of vacancy. One by one, a new keel will be laid immediately after the completion of the upper one, and the construction of new ships will follow.

The docks are not in the open air, nor are they concentrated in one plant. Among the 16 docks, the smallest is to build inland ships, accounting for 11 of them, and the remaining five are specially used to build seagoing ships.

"Jiankang is one of the big cities in the Han Dynasty. You can't make mistakes."

Yu Yi is in front and Yu Fu is in the back. The two uncles and nephews didn't deliberately avoid people.

As an uncle, Yu Yi is very optimistic about Yu Fu. As long as there are no mistakes in his post, he can be reused later.

Yu Ying is Yu Liang's third son. His brother Yu Bin was killed in the rebellion of Su Jun. the second brother didn't become an official for some reasons. Yu Liang became an official in his early years, first as an assistant official at the county level, and then as a county magistrate. After Wang Meng left office, he became a new Jiankang decree.

"Your Majesty is here. You can't make superficial remarks." Yu Yi earnestly taught: "strictly abiding by your duty is the way to be an official. Jiankang focuses on stability and does not need to forge ahead."

Yu Yu didn't feel embarrassed. It was lucky to have an uncle who was willing to speak so clearly.

As one of the two major trading cities of the Han Empire, Jiankang really does not need radicalism. Maintaining stability is the most correct way of governance.

When they came to the dock where the iron ship was placed, they saw a ship 24 meters long and 8 meters wide with three masts. It was not a wooden structure, but a concrete pier frame.

What is the biggest impression of the iron ship? It has an obvious assembly line. Most of the appearance is based on the flying shear ship, but the short hull has three masts, which seems crowded.

Liu Yan looked at the black iron ship and knew it was painted. He asked specifically, mainly about the fit of the skeleton, and was not surprised to learn that it was Rongjie.

Zhuxia's smelting technology may not be the most advanced in the world, but it has mastered the fusion technology early. For example, many cold weapons need to use the fusion technology.

"Have you had a trial voyage?"

"Your Majesty, yes."

Liu Yan nodded. He was going to inspect. How could the relevant personnel not have prepared in advance? It was inevitable to try to drop the ship into the water. Otherwise, if the iron ship sank directly into the water, it would be more than a joke.

"What is the maximum speed?"

"This... The maximum speed of the wind is only three knots."

Liu Yan nodded again. He thought he could run more than one or two quarters by relying on the wind. Unexpectedly, he ran three quarters?

"I don't think it's reasonable for iron ships to be driven by wind. I've seen new warships and think mechanical driving must be the trend."

Liu Yan stopped and looked at the talking horse club. His eyes were full of examination.