Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 289 The Alliance at Sea (please subscribe!)
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Fang La's guess was right, Li Yan was indeed ready to help him, and indeed asked for something.

Then why did Li Yan help Fang La?What do you want?
In fact, it's nothing, except that Fang La Dinglei distracts the attention of the Song Dynasty and has no time to take care of him, Li Dadu, so that he can develop with peace of mind. It is nothing more than asking for some craftsmen, boatmen, sailors and ships.

Because of the lack of attention to the water army, there are not many regular water troops in the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, the Forbidden Army water army.

It's full of fights and calculations, and now there may be only the Jiankang one (the Dengzhou navy has been wiped out by Li Yan).

However, this does not mean that there was no navy in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In fact, the naval strength of the Xiang Army in the Northern Song Dynasty was actually more than that of the Forbidden Army in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was much more.

Most of the Xiangshui Army in the Northern Song Dynasty were distributed in the south.

In the future, the 52 counties in the six prefectures and counties of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangxi occupied by Fang La will actually be the areas with the most densely populated naval forces in the Northern Song Dynasty. .

After obtaining Taiwan County, Li Yan’s demand for ships became even greater, no, it should be said that it was several times larger all at once (whether it is from Liangshan Dazhai, Seoul, or the nearest Jeju, to Taiwan, all of them are You have to travel a long distance by water, and the shortest distance is three times that from Liangshan Dazhai to Jeju Island.), so that Li Yan's sea-going fleet is obviously not enough.

If a batch of ships can be obtained from the south, it will undoubtedly reduce a lot of pressure on Li Yan.

Not only the boats, but Li Yan is also seriously short of naval leaders and sailors.

Let’s not talk about the leaders of the water army for the time being. Now the leaders of the water army in Liangshan are all three. Li Jun, Tong Wei, and Tong Meng haven’t seen their wives and children for almost a year. Ruan Xiaoer The situation of Zhang Shun, Ruan Xiaowu, and Zhang Shun was not much better, they were bringing in unlucky people almost all the time.

Of course, this is also related to the current period of vigorous development of Shuibo Liangshan.

The fact that there are not enough leaders in the navy is nothing. If there are good sailors, they can also share a lot of pressure for Li Jun and others.

But the problem is that the Liangshan Army has not enough good sailors.

The rise of Shuibo Liangshan is too short, and good sailors need years of experience, not to say that they can be cultivated casually.

Therefore, while cultivating himself, Li Yan had the idea of ​​getting another batch of sailors from Song.

But what Li Yan wanted most was actually the boatman.

Song State did not pay much attention to shipping.

In addition, although there are many naval forces in the south, the main duty of these naval forces is to maintain law and order in various places, not for border defense.

Therefore, although the shipbuilding technology of the Song Dynasty is advanced and there are many ships, there are not many big ships that Li Yan wants most.

Therefore, if Li Yan wants to increase his own shipping fleet and increase the speed of his own shipping fleet, he must mainly build advanced large ships by himself.

Ever since he was able to trade with Song State, Li Yan, who is willing to spend a lot of money, has let Hu Cheng and others buy a lot of high-quality shipbuilding wood, especially the keel of the big ship-so far, he has bought hundreds of sea wood. The keel of the ship.

In addition, Taiwan, which has not been wrecked by humans, also has very vast boat wood (camphor) resources.

Therefore, Li Yan does not lack the materials needed for shipbuilding, but only excellent boatmen.

Hmm... In fact, it can't be said that there is a shortage. After so many years of rushing to recruit, Li Yan already has thousands of boatmen. At present, Shuibo Liangshan can build an average of six or seven three-masted large ships every month.

However, the greedy Li Yan wanted more and bigger three-masted ships.

Li Yan even dreamed that one day, he would have a huge fleet of thousands of three-masted ships. At that time, not only Li Yan's sites could be connected by boats, but Li Yan could even go to Europe to grab a few golden hairs. The blue-eyed bitch is back.

Besides, no matter what, Fang La will occupy the wealthy Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions for a long time.

By making good use of this time, Li Yan will definitely make a lot of money from Fang La and the wealthy South.

In short, there are many benefits for Li Yan to help Fang La.

How could Li Yan not help Fang La in this situation?
but--

The designated gang belongs to the designated gang, Li Yan had to talk to Fang La about craftsmen, boatmen, sailors, ships and trade first.

And these things obviously cannot be discussed in a day or two.

What's more, Fang La and others are also trying to tie Li Yan firmly to their boat, and they are unwilling to let Li Yan go.

Therefore, Li Yan temporarily stayed here with Fang La...

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Tong Guan is actually not an incompetent person, at least not before.

Tong Guan has fought against Xixia in the west for the past few years. Generally speaking, he has more victories than defeats, and he has a faint upper hand. Otherwise, no matter how stupid Zhao Ji is, it is impossible to compare with the most powerful Western Army in the Song Dynasty. Tong Guan belt.

However, although Tong Guan is not incompetent, he cannot be drawn into the ranks of good officials.

He has too many problems.

Not to mention corruption, there are actually many reasons for this, one is his own greed for pleasure, one is that he needs money to curry favor with Zhao Ji to ensure that his official position is not lost, one is that he needs money to support his direct troops, etc... …

Here we only talk about Tong Guan's other big problem - he is very happy.

Because he played well in Xixia, Tong Guan swelled to the point where he started to have the idea of ​​​​the Liao Kingdom, and he was ambitious to take back the invincible achievements of the Sixteen States of Yanyun.

Moreover, Tong Guan didn't just think about it, he also volunteered to be an envoy to Liao in the first year of Zhenghe.

When he was on a mission to the Liao Kingdom, Tong Guan met Ma Zhi from Yan (later renamed Li Liangsi, and was later given the country's name and surname by Zhao Ji, and changed his name to Zhao Liangsi).

In Liao Kingdom, Zhao Liangsi saw that the emperor of Liao Kingdom was fatuous and tyrannical, politically corrupt, and the people were in dire straits. In addition, the rise of the Jurchens brought enormous pressure to the Liao Kingdom, so he kept lobbying Zhao Ji and others, saying: "The people of Liao Dynasty are suffering, and the clan society is in danger. Just around the corner, the Song Dynasty can take the opportunity to send troops."

After Zhao Ji asked Cai Jing and Tong Guan to discuss it, he thought the matter was promising, so he let Zhao Liangsi enter the country.

Since then, Zhao Liangsi has frequently traveled between the Song and Jin Dynasties, becoming a leading figure in the Song-Jin alliance talks, and had a huge impact on the foreign policy direction of the Song Dynasty.

Last year, affected by the turmoil of the Liao-Jin War, there were Han Ergao Pharmacist and Seng Langrong from Jizhou, Liaozhou, who floated to Wendeng County by boat.

Inspired by Gao Yaoshi and others, Song Tingfang thought that he could cross the blockade of the Liao people by sea, and contact the country of Jin on the other side of the Bohai Sea.

Therefore, with Gao Yaoshi as the guide, Zhao Ji sent Ma Zheng and others across the sea to envoy Jin several times, and conveyed to Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda the Song Dynasty's intention of "desire to make friends with each other, and go together to conquer Liao". touch.

The Song-Jin Sea Alliance has officially kicked off...

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(End of this chapter)