Last year at this time, Guo Ning took his soldiers across the sea by boat to go south. Firstly, because of the headwind, and secondly, the fleet and the sailors also needed to be adjusted and adjusted. It took ten days along the way.
At that time, Li Ting vomited all day long and almost sprayed bile to the roof of the cabin. He even shouted several times that he wanted to jump into the sea on the way. I heard that his subordinates could only tie him to a small bed in the cabin to save his irritable commander for three days. Both ends act like monsters.
At this time, the ships were heading north, and the wind was favorable. All the ships in the fleet had been repaired. The cracked ship boards had been replaced, and all the gaps had been filled with tung putty. There is no big difference in the short distance, but it is different when walking on the sea. The fleet set off from Penglai, Dengzhou, and arrived in Fuzhou in only two days.
Li Ting has always had a deep brotherhood, so he was particularly energetic thinking about meeting Li Yun here and seeing the results of Li Yun's hard work in the past two months.
At this time, the fleet was undulating slightly beside the pier. The sailors were running back and forth, dropping anchors and sails. Seabirds were flying high in the distance, and sea breeze was blowing. Guo Ning said lazily: "Li Er, your Ayun , now he is the God of Wealth of our navy. All your food and clothing depend on his hundreds of horses... So, after meeting, you'd better be polite, call him Judge Li, and bow to him."
Li Ting let out a "poof", pressed the side of the ship with one hand, and turned over to the trestle. Then he staggered into the queue of sailors and went to the interior of the port.
When Guo Ning saw Li Ting showing off his lazy look like a young knight-errant in Zhongdu, he just laughed twice and ignored him.
In a serious official business situation, Li Ting would not act like this.
He and Guo Ning came together, just to take advantage of the brief stalemate in the Shandong war situation to see the situation in Liaodong with their own eyes. This is a private action, so it doesn't have to be so serious.
Of course, according to common sense, Guo Ning has achieved the high position of Jiedushi, and he has a heavy responsibility. Even in private, he cannot act lightly. At least, among the many military and political officials in the Kingdom of Jin, there is absolutely no one like Guo Ning who always goes into battle personally and is always wandering around.
Previously, he was riding a light horse to intimidate Moqishan, and he could be said to be bold as a skilled man. Now he actually took a few personal guards with him and followed a sea ship from Shandong to Liaodong... If the outside world knew, that frivolous and impetuous man His evaluation will definitely spread again, and maybe some people will curse him with this evaluation.
Guo Ning himself has heard of these four-character comments.
He has been reading a lot of history books recently, and he knows that the evaluation of frivolous and impetuous was originally used to describe the little overlord Sun Ce during the Three Kingdoms period. At first glance, the truth is correct. Sun Ce was killed by the assassin because he was alone. Therefore, it is not good to be too frivolous.
But if you think about it carefully, who has achieved great things since ancient times, who has not been through life and death, and who has not personally taken risks and experienced dangers?
Only Cao and Liu, who were at the same time as Sun Ce, are mentioned. When Cao Cao led his troops to rush into Xingyang, if his arrows had been more accurate, there would have been no Emperor Wu of Wei later, only General Fenwu who died of impatience. His commander and force were not even above sixty; and Liu Bei went to Jiangdong to get married. At that time, if Sun Quan had made a decision earlier, there would have been no Emperor Zhaolie, leaving only the story of the emperor being deceived by beauty and his career being overturned, which will be laughed at by future generations.
Not only Cao Liu, there are similar records in history books.
Pushing back a few hundred years, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty charged into battle and faced desperate situations of life and death how many times? When the Turks marched south, Taizong rode six horses on the Wei River and faced hundreds of thousands of people. Any Turk nobleman among them raised his hand and shot. The reputation of General Tiance was in vain, and the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had to be replaced again.
In the final analysis, frivolity or boldness are the result of the leader's weighing. If you succeed, you will have a reputation as a wise and powerful warrior; if you fail, you will die and your family will be destroyed, and you don't have to care about how future generations will throw dirty water.
But if you are afraid of danger and restrain your hands, then you are not a hero, and what great things can you accomplish? Confucian scholars say that a son with a lot of money will not be able to sit in the hall; it is better to be a Confucian scholar who searches for chapters and excerpts, try his luck, and see if he can survive peacefully in this troubled world.
Guo Ning suddenly came to Liaodong, so he naturally weighed it.
From a frontier soldier to a military and political leader, he certainly had the qualities to rely on his strength and the times to create heroes, but he had always been practical in building his own family and did not dare to make any omissions.
With the expansion of Ding Haijun's strength and territory, Guo Ning can no longer do everything personally, and must continue to decentralize power. He was still used to keeping an eye on important matters personally and could not trust others easily.
Taking advantage of Shandong's advantage of occupying the north-south sea route and crossing the sea route, it is a major matter to develop commercial trade and strengthen the navy in the shortest time.
The main policy of the Ding Navy is to accumulate grain widely and build high walls. It is easy to accumulate grain on a large scale, but there is a limit to the area of land that can be cultivated, and the production and accumulation of grain also takes time. As for building high walls, it includes all aspects of construction. These constructions are extremely beneficial to the navy and will definitely be reflected in the combat effectiveness of the army.
To carry out the construction, a large amount of money and materials are needed.
Where do the money and supplies come from?
No matter how well managed the three states of Denglai are, they are just a corner of the country. To support the army, we can only rely on trade. Guo Ning had made up his mind early on to be the most greedy middleman between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, and even between the North and the South.
Guo Ning has land, soldiers, ships, and an official name, so this middleman can do it. After these recent transactions, Ding Haijun has made a lot of money, and all relevant personnel are beaming with joy. The more this happens, the more dependent Ding Haijun is on commercial profits, and the more important it is to stabilize the trade routes.
Horses and furs are two major commodities in commercial trade, and they are also sources of huge profits. Guo Ning has high hopes for this. As for Liaodong, due to the harsh climate after winter every year, the only two seasons that can compete with the southern horse business are summer and autumn. That's why Li Yun wrote to the military government, saying that he would try his best to penetrate into the interior of Northeast China to obtain a large and stable source of horses.
But since the 300 horses were shipped to Shandong last month, Liaodong has not been able to broker subsequent business. Instead, they asked for a lot of materials and money from Laizhou, saying that they wanted to hire local people to build forts, roads, pastures, and cities. Not long ago, hundreds of elite troops from Zhang Qian's unit were transferred from Shandong to station and suppress the army.
The military government hopes that Liaodong will provide horses to ensure its commercial interests. On the Liaodong side, they are always asking the military government to increase investment, which is a bit disappointing. Many officials in the Government Affairs Department were dissatisfied. They felt that their base was in Shandong after all, and they suspected that Li Yun was indifferent to priorities.
Guo Ning came here just to see with his own eyes the situation in Liaodong and to see whether the future envisioned by Li Yun was actually possible.
This is a real big deal, and it must be seen clearly.
So Guo Ning chose Qingqi Jiancong and went on a journey in the white dragon fish suit.
As for Li Ting, who was accompanying him, he was just an extra.
This fierce general who leads the troops to fight has had no battles to fight in recent months. In the first few months, he was still training troops happily, but now he is very idle.
He was a rogue, and his character was domineering and arrogant. Since he was free, he would swagger through the city with his cronies in splendid robes from time to time. Sometimes he would go out to the city to hunt, and other times he would gather his friends and spend all night drinking and gambling in the city's wine shops, spending a lot of money.
According to the secret report from the Recording Department, it seems that he is obsessed with women and is not strict. He once had an incident where he was blocked in the boudoir by a mistress.
Guo Ning was afraid that Mr. Li Ting would ruin the atmosphere of Laizhou by being such a flying eagle lackey, and he was also afraid that he would cause some big trouble and it would not end well. So I specially summoned him a few days ago and asked, how about we go to Liaodong together to inspect and visit your brother?
Li Ting was overjoyed and agreed immediately.
So, the two of them took dozens of cronies and boarded the boat to the north.
By the time Guo Ning landed leisurely, Li Ting had already disappeared out of sight.
Guo Ning ordered Li Ting to follow him and asked him to find it quickly. As a result, before he could even take a step forward, he suddenly heard a vague noise coming from the end of the trestle on the wind.
"It's our General Li's voice!" Na Cong's face turned pale: "He was quarreling with someone, it seems...hey, they're already fighting now!"
(End of chapter)
