Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 569 Competing to be a Datang Dog?
"I want to go to Lingzhou." Cui Tao said to Li Tan.

Since Cui Tao resigned from Li Tan, he quickly finished the final work and sealed the account books, preparing to hand over the position of Zhizhou.

Seeing that Cui Tao was determined to go, Li Tan had no choice but to select the player to take over Cui Tao's position as governor of Ganzhou and transfer Cui Tao to Lingzhou.

As Lingzhou is a strategically important place and a newly attached area, Cui Tao embarked on the road to Lingzhou full of expectations.

After spending some time adjusting the internal affairs, Li Tan set his sights on Yuguan.

On February [-]th, in Yuguan at this time, Cai Wenjing's [-] Fan Yang troops were stationed.

Cai Wenjing is a confidant of Shi Chaoyi, Fan Yang Jiedu envoy, and a famous general under Shi Chaoyi's command.

Cai Wenjing is leading soldiers to patrol the city wall. He is very strict in running the army, and his soldiers are very afraid of this iron-faced general.

Cai Wenjing asked the leader of the scouts, "Is there any movement in Pinglu?"

The leader of the scouts said: "Pinglu Jiedu envoy Wang Xuan Zhizhi has great talents. After getting the Pinglu Jiedu envoy's banner, he spent all day playing in the Jiedu envoy's mansion. All military and political affairs were handed over to his subordinates Hou Xiyi and Pang Ju."

Cai Wen nodded and said, "Hou Xiyi would have known him, but where did Pang Ju come from?"

The leader of the scouts said: "Pang Ju is from Pinglu. He was originally an ordinary soldier in the army. He made great contributions in overthrowing the rebellion of the former Jiedu envoy. Since then, he has been reused by Wang Xuanzhi. Now he is serving as the Pinglu Jiedu envoy to join the army."

Cai Wenjing nodded and said, "It's all about the lucky ones who betrayed the master. This Wang Xuanzhi reuses these people. There really is no talent left in Pinglu Town."

When the subordinates heard Cai Wenjing say this, they all smiled, but Cai Wenjing was strict in running the army, and none of his subordinates dared to laugh out loud.

Cai Wenjing said to his subordinates: "Young Marshal said, let us make preparations early."

At this moment Cai Wenjing is surrounded by his cronies, he said directly:
"I have already received the order from the young commander, and we will start an incident in the middle of this month! After the young commander's incident, we will go out of Yuguan and go straight to Pinlu City to eradicate Wang Xuanzhi, a traitor who kills his master and stands on his own feet!"

All the soldiers became excited, and finally another battle was about to be fought.

The vassal system of the three towns in the north is a military system in which everything is based on military merit.

Ordinary soldiers can only get rewards by fighting, officers can be promoted only by fighting, and generals can only be promoted to Jiedushi only by fighting.

It can be said that from bottom to top, all members of the army are looking forward to fighting.

This set of military system established by An Lushan is fanatical pursuit of military merit from bottom to top.

Once such a system fails to expand, or if the upper echelon fails to fulfill the promised military rewards, it will naturally collapse and disintegrate.

The Anlushan rebellion, although there was a contradiction between Anlushan himself and the central government, was also the inevitability of the expansion of the military merit system.

Since Shi Siming and his son surrendered to Datang, the soldiers of Taiyuan and Fanyang lost the opportunity to make contributions, and the internal backlog of conflicts became more and more.

Naturally, Cai Wenjing also understood this point. He relied on discipline and his own prestige to suppress these arrogant soldiers, but this was not a long-term solution.

Shi Chaoyi asked Cai Wenjing to lead heavy troops to garrison in Yuguan, which was also a signal to his own group to annex Pinglu.

Among the three towns in Hedong, Pinglu Town has always been separated from the two towns, because the severe cold outside the customs is also completely different from the living habits of the two towns in Fanyang and Taiyuan.

The annexation of Pinglu Town has reached a consensus among Fan Yang. Only by conquering Pinglu Town can Fan Yang's soldiers have more military merits and more rewards for them.

After Cai Wenjing finished his inspection, he felt a little restless.

Yuguan is a natural danger, and my ten thousand soldiers are Fan Yang's elite. Attacking Pinglu from Yuguan can be attacked and defended. Even if the battle is lost, just return to Yuguan.

Cai Wenjing didn't know why he was restless. After inspecting the north and south city walls, he came to the low wall facing the sea in the east.

Yuguan is surrounded by mountains and the sea, with continuous mountains to the west and straits to the east.

There is only a small beach below the strait, which is blocked by this shorter city wall.

Speaking of low walls, this city wall is also higher than the city walls of ordinary passes, but it is not as thick as the north and south walls.

When Yuguan was designed, it was to prevent the attack of Goguryeo, and Goguryeo also had ships. In order to prevent the enemy from attacking from the sea, iron chains were pulled on the coast.

These iron chains can block ships from approaching the city wall on the coast. If you use a small boat to approach the city wall, you will be attacked by archers.

And the shallow sandy beach can't hold the siege equipment at all. This design cuts off the possibility of attacking from the sea.

Cai Wenjing looked at the seagulls preying at low altitude on the sea, and suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, whether he was old or why he became suspicious.

After Cai Wenjing found his way again, he returned to his barracks, but Cai Wenjing didn't know that a fleet was sailing quietly on the sea near Yuguan.

An Xiyu worked hard to gather [-] civilians, plus [-] soldiers from Silla North Province, all gathered at Nampo Port.

Just when An Xiyu couldn't help but wanted to ask Su Xing how Datang was going to transport these people away, his scouts ran up to An Xiyu, knelt down and shouted: "Boat! Ruler! Ship!"

An Xiyu raised his eyes and saw densely packed ships appearing in the sea off Nanpu Port, hundreds of ships appeared on the sparkling sea.

Both An Xiyu and his son An Shougui watched in astonishment as the fleet of hundreds of ships entered Nanpu Harbor. The father and son looked at each other, and they both saw the joy in each other's eyes.

The only thing to be thankful for is that there was no dispute with Datang. If he hadn't knelt fast enough, these fleets would be enough to crush Silla!
Silla is also a big country in maritime trade, and there are many ships in the port of Incheon.

But with so many ships appearing outside the port at once, the feeling of oppression is frightening, and only Datang can mobilize so many fleets at once.

It's just that the An family's father and son didn't know that these ships belonged to the Bohai Kingdom, and they were all tricked by Fang Guoshou's empty gloves and white wolves.

Su Xing looked at the fleet of the Bohai Kingdom. It is a pity that there are so many high-quality woods, but only ships that can only sail in the coastal waters can be built!
If these timbers can be given to Su Xing, he is confident that he can rebuild a fleet of clipper ships and dominate the trade in Northeast Asia!
It's a pity that the dried wood in the Nanpu Port Dockyard can only be used to build ten 30-meter-long standard clipper ships at most. Although there is a lot of wood in the north, it still takes a long time to build a large ship that can sail on the ocean. Dry the wood.

It is no wonder that the invincible fleet of wooden sailing ships in history, whether it is the fleet of Spain, Portugal, or the Netherlands, gave up the throne of the ocean power after a heavy damage, because once the wooden sailing ships are lost, it will take a long time to replenish.

After the steel ship is launched, the ship can be built like dumplings like World War II. At that time, the wooden sailing ship will completely withdraw from the stage of history.

But in this era, wooden boats are still the best technical route!
After Su Xing was ready to return to Dahang City, he asked people to cut down good trees to make stockyards, and began to dry the wood to make big ships!
On the fleet of the Bohai Kingdom, accompanied by Fang Guoshou was Da Honglin, the heir of the Bohai King, standing beside Fang Guoshou, and Gao Yangbi, the Prime Minister of the Bohai Kingdom, stood on the other side. Looking at the dense crowd in Nanpu Port, Gao Yangbi gasped.

Before departure, Da Honglin, the prince of Bohai, and Gao Yangbi, the Prime Minister of Bohai, were held by the lord's hand and urged to keep the fleet in his hands. This time, assisting Datang must hide in the rear, so as not to consume Bohai's strength.

Originally Gao Yangbi thought it was a simple task, but he never expected that he still underestimated the personal charm of Fang Guoshou, the envoy of Tang Dynasty.

Fang Guoshou's rich knowledge and wise speech instantly made Da Honglin, the eldest son who admired the Tang culture, admire him to the fullest.

There is nothing Fang Guoshou does not understand about mountains and rivers, geography, history and politics.

As for those problems in Bohai, under the answers of Fang Guoshou's casual references, the young prince of Bohai, Mao Sai, suddenly realized. Along the way, Da Honglin almost wanted to worship Fang Guoshou as his teacher.

Not to mention Da Honglin, even Gao Yangbi wanted to learn from a great Confucian like Fang Guoshou.

In addition to his rich knowledge, Fang Guoshou corrected the sailing direction of the fleet several times, and his rich sailing knowledge also made the captain of the flagship respect him.

What surprised the Bohai people the most was that Fang Guoshou also accurately predicted the storms at sea several times, and now Da Honglin almost believed that Fang Guoshou was the reincarnation of Zhuge Wuhou.

Sailing around the peninsula along the way, Fang Guoshou suddenly approached Da Honglin and asked the fleet to dock at Nanpu Port.

Docking at Silla's pier?Although Balhae has a trade relationship with Silla, can Silla allow so many fleets to dock?
Soon Da Honglin realized that he was wrong. The people of Silla had already prepared the pier and supplies to welcome the fleet to dock.

Tang Ren's influence is too great!Even the Silla Kingdom could be affected, and Da Honglin once again had the idea that he should not be an enemy of Datang.

He has already put his father's advice behind him, and this time he must make a contribution to Datang's charge!
Silla also has a merchant fleet!If Datang supports Silla and does business with Silla's fleet, what will Balhae do?
Da Honglin made up his mind, he must not paddle this time, but he must not be compared by the Silla people!

When An Xiyu, the governor of Silla North Province, knew that this huge fleet was from Bohai, he was also inexplicably horrified.

Unexpectedly, the people of Bohai turned to Datang so completely! They even handed over all their wealth to Datang!
I don't know why, but An Xiyu actually felt that he was sorry for Datang that he only got together [-] civilian husbands. If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have bargained.

But it is useless to regret now, An Xiyu hastily called his son An Shougui and said:

"When you go to Dahang City, you must urge the peasants to work hard, and continue to recruit peasants for your father in Beidao. We, Silla, cannot be compared to the people of Bohai. We are the most loyal vassal state of the Tang Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)