"Brother, Brother Chen has brought you a sample of a new type of tube ship. This type of warship will be based on the two divine ships that visited Goryeo in the fifth year of Xuanhe's reign. The keel and hull must be reinforced, and the sides of the ship must be raised. All buildings on the upper deck were eliminated to facilitate the placement of artillery..."
Zhao Shu looked like he was tired of his travels. He took a naval vehicle and ship directly from the Navy's Shanghai Shipyard and arrived at the Yuejiangmen Pier in the north of the Imperial City of Jinling. It was a wharf exclusively for the royal family and navy, just outside Yuejiang Gate on the Yangtze River. After entering Jiangmen, there is a corridor leading directly to the north gate of the imperial city. The entire corridor is a restricted area. There is a gate on each side of the corridor that can lead to everywhere in Jinling New City, but it is closed all year round. Therefore, the purpose of this corridor is to allow royal members of the Jinling court such as Zhao Huan and Zhao Shu to enter and exit.
If necessary, Zhao Huan could quietly pass through this corridor to Yuejiangmen Pier, and then leave Jinling Mansion by boat... The thought he had before Kaifeng Mansion was surrounded by gold thieves would never happen again. There is no escape from a passive situation.
The blueprints Zhao Shu brought today were used to build a 6,000-stone (360-ton) warship that could carry Zhao Huan to escape overseas!
According to Zhao Shu's request, this warship will be able to install two 12-pound large tubes and sixteen 6-pound small tubes on the side, for a total of eighteen tubes.
In addition, a 28-pound large pot is placed on the front and rear decks of the warship!
In other words, there are a total of 20 cannons on this 360-ton battleship!
In addition, to make room for cannon, supplies, and passengers, the warship's water wheel was removed and replaced with a full sail drive.
In order to gain more power for this warship, in addition to having two hard sails, this warship will also have soft sails called "stern sails, head bows, and turbans".
With a favorable wind, this warship will have extremely fast speed!
This speed, this firepower, this sturdiness... In today's world, this ship is invincible!
Zhao Shu spread out the sample drawings in front of his brother, and then lowered his voice and said: "Brother, I estimate that if this type of ship is built...it will only take four days at the fastest to be ready for you." Jinling City withdraws to Hakata!"
"Why withdraw to Hakata?" After hearing this, Zhao Huan looked around guiltily and found no foreign ministers. Then he whispered to his brother, "Fifth brother, what are you talking about? Who wants to withdraw to Hakata... .. By the way, where is Hakata? How far is it from the Central Plains? Is the place spacious? How many people can live there? "
Zhao Shu whispered: "Brother, Hakata is on Kyushu Island in Japan. It is the largest city on Kyushu Island. There are 1,600 Han households, 400 Korean households, and 1,000 Japanese households in the city. There are about 3,000 households in total. They are all Merchants. The size of Kyushu Island is about the same as Jiangnan East Road. There are nine states on the island. The Japanese call it Lingguo, so it is named Kyushu. In addition to Hakata, there are more than a dozen other Tang houses on Kyushu Island, namely Where the Han people live... The total number of Han people living on the island is about five to six thousand.
In addition, Hirado Island, which was ceded to us by the Japanese, is only one mile away from Kyushu Island. Although this small island is not big, it has a pleasant climate, fertile land, and two natural harbors. It is very good... ..My younger brother suggested that we first send thousands of criminals to Hirado Island and let them build cities and docks on the island as a long-term solution. "
"How many Japanese are there on the island?" Zhao Huan frowned, "Can they fight? I heard people say that the Japanese sword is very sharp! Is it too early for us to plan like this now? Will the Japanese notice it? To what?"
Zhao Shu smiled and said: "I haven't counted how many Japanese there are on the island. I estimate there are hundreds of thousands...but most of them are farmers and fishermen and cannot be beaten. Who will come?" They are all just obedient people who rule!
Only a few thousand Japanese families who are called samurai have some military power. However, they are now controlled by some corrupt officials in Heian Kyo, and it is difficult for them to achieve their goals! If we can give them official positions and give them land, they might still be able to use it for us. "
This Zhao Shu is no longer the pampered prince in Kaifeng City. He not only experienced drastic changes in his life and witnessed the rise and fall of the country, but also personally participated in the "reopening" of the Southern Song Dynasty - Zhao Kai's "reopening" of the Northern Song Dynasty , Zhao Huan's Southern Song Dynasty was also "reopened".
Zhao Shu had stayed in both the Southern Song Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty (he was on a diplomatic mission to Luoyang, and there was also a palace in Luoyang, where he lived for a long time), and he had a good understanding of the methods of the two Song Dynasties. With this experience, let’s look at it now. Japan is very clear.
Today's Japan is actually a bit similar to the Song Dynasty before the tragedy of Xuanhe. The ministers in Heianjing are equivalent to the civil servants before the tragedy of Xuanhe, and even worse... they are aloof, useless, and occupy a large number of people. land.
As for the Japanese samurai, compared with the Western soldiers before the war, they had some combat effectiveness, but they were not of the same mind as the ministers, and they had not fought a real war, so their strength would not be very strong.
In addition, their number is not very large - the number of samurai increased sharply after the emergence of the samurai regime. A large number of the properties of public ministers were occupied by samurai, which gave samurai a solid economic foundation and the number of samurai could expand.
Nowadays, most of the land in Japan still belongs to the ministers. The life of the samurai is hard, but of course not too much.
As for the people at the bottom of Japan... these days, most of the people at the bottom of the world are docile people. The Song Dynasty was like this, Tianzhu was like this, Dashi was like this, Rome was like this, and the feudal countries in Western Europe couldn't rely on serfs or urban traders to go to the battlefield to compete with the knight army, right?
Therefore, Japan is no exception. The farmers and craftsmen on Kyushu Island are also obedient people.
"As for whether we planned it too early..." Zhao Shu paused and said with a smile, "Brother Emperor, if we don't make arrangements for things like this in advance, will we still be able to go ahead when the matter comes? What if? The third brother has already arrived at the city. Where can he go between the warehouses? The elder brother will not want to imitate Yelu Dashi and lead 200 riders away, right?"
If Zhao Huan wants to run away, he can take away one to two hundred thousand followers, or even more, right? To suppress the Japanese on Kyushu Island, Zhao Huan's number of troops cannot be less than this number.
And it is not an easy task for so many people to cross the ocean...to colonize.
After all, the Han people are not nomadic people, just driving away with their cattle and sheep. And going to sea is not like walking on the grassland. The sea is vast and dangerous, and even a fleet of thousands of large ships is as small as a piece of duckweed in the sea.
So in history, the Southern Song dynasty who fled to the coast of Guangdong didn’t know where to go?
If you really want to go away to colonize, you must prepare several years or even ten years in advance... You must build a navy that can be firmly controlled, build a large number of warships that can go to sea, and open up the sea in advance. Small overseas colonies.
With these small colonies, it is inevitable that a large number of them will rush over to get a foothold!
Zhao Shu said to his elder brother: "Brother, in fact, these arrangements now are made by two hands... Our arrangements in Kyushu do not pose a threat to the Japanese court on the surface. We, the Song Dynasty, are a large and prosperous country. Incomparable, how can you value those territories in Japan?"
Zhao Huan sighed: "If I didn't have any other choice, I wouldn't go to that kind of wild place!"
"That's right!" Zhao Shu said, "If we don't get to that step, our arrangement in Japan is completely that we are helping the Japanese, and there is absolutely no malicious intention."
His tone suddenly became serious: "If we really get to that point... we, 100,000 and 200,000 people, will rush over together, and they won't be able to resist it!"
"One hundred thousand and two hundred thousand?" Zhao Huan frowned, "There are so many people willing to follow me?"
"Of course there are people who are willing to follow!" Zhao Shu said with certainty, "The third brother values martial arts, pro-literacy, and seizes the land of scholar-bureaucrats. He has long been hated by the scholars in the southeast... In addition, there are still people in Jinling City. Many volunteers came from Kaifeng and Songzhou. The imperial brother gave them mansions, helped them make a living, and set up many schools for them to educate their children. This kindness will always be rewarded. .”
Zhao Huan not only inherited the Song Dynasty's approach of emphasizing civility and pro-military affairs, but also continued the tradition of treating the people of the capital favorably. He gave many benefits to the people who followed him from Kaifeng Prefecture and Songzhou, and regarded them as a national nation.
Zhao Shu then suggested: "You can recruit strong men from Danhu as sailors. Danhu has a home all over the world and has always been close to everyone. If the emperor's brother supports him with a generous salary, they will definitely be willing to follow him.
In addition, the emperor's brother had better raise an army of orphans... He could select more than 10,000 children from the northern refugees who have lost their parents and have no one to rely on to raise them into an army. "
Zhao Huan nodded and said with a smile: "This is a good idea. I have had this idea for a long time!" He paused and then said, "Fifth brother, I still have something to ask you to do."
"Brother Imperial, just ask."
Zhao Huan said: "The Guangzhou Shipping Department recently received a delegation from a big food country, and it was very large!"
Zhao Shu smiled and said, "Are you here to pay tribute?"
"They are not here to pay tribute...and they are not here to come to us."
Zhao Shu frowned, "Are you looking for Third Brother?"
"No, I'm here to see Datang!"
"Datang?" Zhao Shu was stunned again and again, "How did they arrive? The Tang Dynasty..."
"The Tang Dynasty was restored in the Western Regions!" Zhao Huan said, "It also conquered a large territory, and there was a conflict with the Western Turks, a vassal of the Dashi Kingdom... The Dashi Kingdom was polite first and then sent troops, and then sent people to negotiate."
"Then what should we do?"
Zhao Huan said: "Fifth brother, go entertain them...tell them that the Tang state is supported by the third brother, so we are against it. We can form an alliance with the Dashi state and oppose the Tang state together."
"What good does this... do to us?"
Zhao Huan smiled and said: "Of course there are benefits... How can we talk about the alliance casually? We have to send a mission to the Dashi Country to talk to their king, so that we can follow the Dashi Country's The mission will go west to find out the situation in Nanyang, the West, and even the Dashi area!"
"What are you doing that for?"
"What are you doing? Three Nests of Cunning Rabbits!"
