Navy commander, this is a big problem.
Jingzhou is a place with both water and land access, and is the place where the Four Wars were fought. However, since Liu Biao's reign, naval generals have been extremely scarce, and there are only a few naval commanders to count.
Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, Wenpin, plus Guan Yu, who later became a self-taught man, there were just four people.
Compared with the situation across the river where navy commanders gather together, here in Jingzhou, navy commanders are really scarce.
Now, of the four navy commanders in Jingzhou, only one Wenpin is left, and Wenpin is also old.
If something happens to Wenpin in the future, who will command the navy in Jingzhou will be a big problem.
Anyway, Zhang Xi really doesn’t understand navy warfare.
By the way, although in later games Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong both have the passive ability of being proficient in naval warfare, according to Zhang Xi’s understanding, these two actually do not understand naval warfare.
It's not that they don't understand the navy, they still understand some superficial knowledge, but if they are asked to lead the navy and compete with the enemy on the river, they may not even be as good as Wang Ji.
Ren Wangji has been guarding Jingzhou for so many years. Although he is not capable of commanding naval operations, he still has some knowledge of basic naval warfare.
All in all, Zhang Xi really has to find a way to find a suitable navy commander for Jingzhou.
If you just want to recover the four counties in Jingnan, you can barely do it with Zhang Xi's spiny turtle shell tactics. But once you completely fall out with Soochow, or if you free up your hands to attack Soochow and regain Jiangdong, you won't be strong enough. It is absolutely impossible to have a navy army and a navy commander who is outstanding enough.
Although these things are things in the future, when thinking about strategy, they must be at the forefront.
As for this suitable navy commander, Zhang Xi had a name that jumped out to him immediately - Wang Jun.
Yes, it was Wang Jun who led the navy down the river from Yizhou and opened the way to destroy Wu in the Battle of Stone City.
But the problem is that this Wang Jun, Zhang Xi vaguely remembers, seems to be from Hongnong, and he is not from a poor family, but from a wealthy family with two thousand stones. Even if the Han Dynasty regains Sili in the future, will such a person be willing to become an official? , are things that cannot be forced.
Not to mention that Sili is still under the control of Cao Wei, and Sima Yi, an old fox, is not easy to mess with.
Therefore, Wang Jun can only be used as a candidate in the future. Now, he has to find other people.
It was difficult to find people in Jingzhou, so Zhang Xi naturally set his sights on Soochow, hoping to recruit people from Soochow.
Of course, those famous generals, such as Lu Xun, Zhu Ran, and Zhang Xi cannot be poached, and even rising stars like Lu Kai cannot be poached by Zhang Xi.
These people all have their own family backgrounds, and their interests are based in Jiangdong. It is simply impossible for them to give up their foundation in Soochow and come to work for the Han Dynasty.
Zhang Xi can only find talents who are talented but have no background, or even if they have background, they have been abandoned by Soochow.
As for such people, Zhang Xi almost immediately thought of two people - Wei Wen and Zhuge Zhi.
These two are the people who led the fleet to the treasure island. They are both able to sail, so their water warfare skills should be good, right? !
Apart from anything else, he should at least have the ability to command a naval fleet to fight in inland rivers.
As soon as Zhang Xi thought of these two people, he immediately sent people to Soochow to inquire about information. If Zhang Xi remembered correctly, not long after they returned to Soochow, Sun Quan had them killed for "disobedience." .
Being killed for this reason shows that these two people are not necessarily very loyal to Sun Quan. They are people who can manipulate and surrender. They just have to do it before Sun Quan kills him.
This matter happened over and over again, for about a month. According to the intelligence sent back by the dispatchers, the two people returned to Jiangdong in the summer of the sixth year of Jianxing, and within two months of their return, they let Sun Quan was imprisoned, and less than three months after being imprisoned, that is, one month before Zhang Xi sent Xizuo to Jiangdong, Sun Quan had already killed these two people.
This Sun Shiwan was too quick to strike.
Come on, Wei Wen and Zhuge Zhi didn't catch it either, so Zhang Xi was numb now.
We have to keep looking, but the problem is, such talents are really hard to find.
Sun Shiwan's military ability is not very reliable, but his vision has always been very good. Someone in history has evaluated this Emperor Wu, saying that he "got the people but could not use his talents."
What this means is that Sun Shiwan is a petty person. He can discover people's talents, but he does not have the magnanimity to let this person develop his talents to the fullest.
Don't worry whether Sun Shiwan is petty or not, but he really has a good way of looking at people. There are really not many talents that he can miss under his nose.
Zhang Xi can only continue to ask Soochow Xizuo to collect information quickly, and then manually screen them one by one to find those talents who have naval talents but are not reused by Sun Quan.
Don't tell me, Zhang Xi actually found two people.
One, named Yang Xi, was born in Nanyang County, Jingzhou.
Well, this background made Zhang Xi see the hope of recruiting this person. Old cousin, my hometown needs you to come back and build it.
But taking a closer look at this person's resume, Zhang Xi felt that there was no hope of surrendering.
Yang Xi is now a guest of Sun Deng, the crown prince of Soochow, and is highly regarded by Sun Deng.
Sun Deng was much better than his father in terms of making friends with guests, conducting himself in society, and dealing with others. It was a pity that he did not live as long as his father.
But the problem is, no one knows this now, so as Yang Di is a guest of Prince Wu Sun Deng, after Sun Deng ascends the throne in the future, Yang Di will naturally become an old minister of Qian Di. How can such a person be reused easily? .
Looking further down, Zhang Xi discovered another small thing that was carefully recorded.
It is said that Sun Deng asked Hu Zong to write the guest book of the prince. Hu Zong had nothing to do and gave everyone a good job, especially Zhuge Ke, Gu Tan, Xie Jing and Fan Shen. Hu Zong wrote a lot. Good words.
Originally, these four people had the closest relationship with Sun Deng at that time. Hu Zong was just flattering the prince. He really couldn't care less, but Yang Di didn't. He criticized them one by one.
Zhuge Ke is talented but sparse, Gu Tan is refined but ruthless, Xie Jing is discerning but superficial, Fan Shen is deep but narrow.
This is Yang Di’s evaluation of these four people. You said they didn’t recruit you or mess with you. Is it really appropriate for you to evaluate them like this? !
Zhuge Ke and others felt it was very inappropriate.
And based on the relationship between Zhuge Ke and others and Sun Deng, Yang Xi's status in the Prince's Mansion can be imagined.
Seeing this, Zhang Xi did see the hope of recruiting Yang Xi, but the problem was that Zhang Xi was looking for a navy commander to poach people, not a critic who was good at criticizing people.
Anyway, up to this point, Zhang Xi did not see that Yang Xi had the ability to command the navy.
The only evidence that can prove that Yang Di has the ability to command the navy is that after Yang Di was ostracized by the guests of the Prince's Mansion, he often went to the riverside with his friends to relax. The navy commanders of Soochow all commented one by one. They also said that if they were allowed to command the Jiangdong navy, what would they do? Can you believe these drunken braggings? !
Zhang Xi thinks that for the sake of safety, he should put this person aside for now.
Let’s look at the second character. This second character is easy to dig out, and most importantly, in Zhang Xi’s memory, this person seems to be really good at water fighting.
Zhongli Mu.
This surname is special. Before Zhang Xi traveled through time, he almost immediately remembered this famous general from the late Eastern Wu Dynasty who was very good at command and water warfare when playing the game.
Moreover, Zhong Limu's background was not noble. He was just a boy from a poor family, but his family could be regarded as a veteran of Soochow. His father, Zhong Lizu, was the captain of the building and ship in Soochow.
This official position is only that of a mid- to low-level military attaché, but for a person of Zhong Lizu's background, it is not easy to reach this position.
Therefore, it is difficult to say whether Zhong Limu has a strong sense of belonging to Soochow.
Of course, what makes Zhang Xi hesitate the most is that Zhong Limu is only twenty years old now.
A man who is only twenty years old and has no experience in politics or the military. The only evidence that Zhong Limu may have a talent for water warfare commanders is the setting of Zhang Xi playing games in his previous life, and the fact that his father is the captain of the building ship. Naval officer position.
But this is unreliable. According to the game settings, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong are both good at commanding naval forces, but in fact, these two are not good at all.
So, Zhang Xi is actually quite confused.
After thinking for a long time, Zhang Xi finally decided to start poaching people.
Regardless of whether these two people can command the navy, let's just say that their talents are not bad.
Apart from anything else, Yang Xi had a unique way of looking at people. The four people he evaluated were simply reflections of themselves.
Let him be responsible for recruiting talents, and there will be no situation where the name is not worthy of the name.
As for Zhong Limu, he was also a famous general in the later period of Soochow. Now that he has been poached, it can be regarded as weakening Soochow's future strength.
No matter whether they can be allowed to command the navy in the future, they are talented people, so let’s dig them out first.
Anyway, Jingzhou does lack talents now.
(End of chapter)
