Destiny Only Han

Chapter 790 Liu Ying: Sailing on land, but not completely sailing on land

Southern Liaoning Peninsula.

The flat-bottomed centipede boats used for landing operations shuttled back and forth, sending the soldiers of the Han army who came across the sea to the shore one after another.

Then, in the fragrance of rice flowers, there is a good year, and the sound of frogs is heard...

Well, it was actually the landlubbers with pale faces who vomited...

At this moment, they decided that when they went back, even if the road was difficult and dangerous, they would never take a boat!
As inlanders, they plan to stay with Mother Earth forever in this life...

Fortunately, Wei Man blocked the gate of Wangxian City long ago, so although the current Han army has no fighting power at all, they still don't have to worry about being attacked by the defenders in the city.

In fact, they are not afraid of a sneak attack. The Marines of the Royal Navy are still fighting at this moment.

Many of them stood on the shore and waited in full battle. In addition to preventing being attacked by the defenders in the city, they were also preparing to take turns with the other half of the fourth-class people who were rowing.

Well, the third class.

After all, there is no air force at this time, the boss of the army, the second of the navy...

The Mangdang Shan moored in the sea.

Liu Bang stepped onto the deck in a nonchalant manner, looked at Liu Ying standing at the bow and asked, "When shall we disembark?"

Liu Ying shook her head: "What are you doing down there? It's so comfortable to live on the boat. When you're on the ground, there are mosquitoes everywhere, and it's not much drier than on the boat!"

Although the space on board was limited in the era of sailing warships, and the places where the crew lived were like canned sardines, the Mangdang Mountain was the flagship of the Royal Navy after all, and Liu Ying was the emperor, so naturally there was no shortage of places to live.

Liu Bang frowned: "Naigong still feels comfortable stepping on the ground...Huh? Are we the only ones here? Where's Fan Kuai's army? Haven't they arrived yet?"

"Marquis Wuyang's army will not come." Liu Ying turned her head and said: "The mission of the North Route Army is to plunder land and seize population, and they will not join us in Wang Dancheng."

"Siege the city and pull out the stronghold, and fight Weiman decisively in Wang Dangerous City, that is our mission."

Liu Bang pointed to the faintly visible and dusty Wang Xiancheng in the distance and sighed: "It's really a trick for money, even the cement was sold to others! Now it's all right, let's take it easy..."

Am I looking for money?Wasn't it you who said you sold other people's cement?This meeting will deny it again, right... Liu Ying rolled her eyes and snorted:
"Let's fight slowly, anyway, I won't order the soldiers to attack the city before the city wall is blown down..."

"However, I still have a way to easily conquer Wang Dangerous City!"

Liu Bang asked curiously: "What way?"

Liu Ying smiled mysteriously: "The Buddha said, don't say, don't say..."

Liu Bang was furious, dancing with hands and feet: "They are all infected by those bald donkeys, right? When I go back, I will definitely drive all the bald donkeys out of Chang'an City!"

"All?" Liu Ying keenly found a keyword.

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State of Lu, Qufu Confucian Temple.

Lu Tai sat in lotus lotus [jiā fū], holding a piece of dogtail grass in his hand, like a Buddha holding a flower and smiling.

Opposite him was Lu Chan who was full of bewilderment, and Lu Ze who was blowing his beard and staring at his eyes, but the one who was even more furious was the red-faced Liu Jiao.

Today, the Lu Buddhist family walks across the world, preparing to make the original Shuoyuan and unify Confucius, Mencius, Huang Lao.

"The ancestors of Confucianism and Taoism are all Bodhisattvas. They show their help and promotion, and they praise the Buddha's vehicle. Laozi said: My teacher is called Buddha, and I feel that all people are also... Lieziyun: Shang Taizai asked Confucius, Master is a sage? Confucius is right Said, Qiu Boshi remembers strongly, he is not a saint. Ask again, the three kings are saints? Confront, the three kings are good at using wisdom and bravery, they are not saints. Ask again, the five emperors are saints? I know. Ask again, are the saints of the Three Emperors? Confrontation, the reason for the good appointment of the Three Emperors was not known to Qiu. Dazai Pi was shocked and said, but who is a saint? , do not rule but not chaos, do not speak but are self-confident, do not transform but act on their own, swaying so that the people are incompetent..."

Well, what he meant was that regardless of Lao Tzu or Confucius, they are all disciples of the Tathagata...

Liu Jiao couldn't bear it anymore, but it was Lu Ze who reacted faster.

"Come here, take the golden mace!"

"Amitabha... what do you want this benefactor to do?"

"Kill you to death, you bastard who has no king and no father, deceives teachers and destroys ancestors!"

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Wang Dangerous City.

Wei Man stood on the top of the wall like a stone man, motionless.

Where he faced, there were endless Han army camps that sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

At this moment, he regretted a little. He would have known better if he had left a city gate.

The Han army came across the sea, and he saw the scene of countless people squatting on the ground and retching, not only the people, but even those tall horses that made him feel a little dumbfounded were also looking lazy.

Therefore, if one city gate is left behind, he can lead thousands of elite cavalry in the city to charge at least tens of thousands of Han troops!
Millions of Heavenly Soldiers?

I bother!

Wei Man recalled the contents of the proclamation, and felt a burst of red in the face.

After all, according to the tradition at this time, an army of 20 to 10 is usually called [-], an army of [-] to [-] is called [-], and only an army of more than [-] can be called a million troops!

Wei Man estimated that the size of the Han army that came to attack him this time was at least one hundred thousand...

Therefore, Liu Ying said that the army that sent troops to attack him this time had millions of people.

He believed it, so he fortified the walls and cleared the fields overnight, accumulated food and grass, and raised the city defense...

Unexpectedly, there are only tens of thousands of people...

Wei Man closed his eyes and sighed softly. Why did he forget that sentence, like father like son, he actually believed Liu Ying...

Sure enough, he still had expectations for the words "Heavenly Dynasty, Shangguo", which caused him to overestimate the lower limit of some people!

At this moment, he felt that 'Han Tong' Liu Ying was qualified to be his opponent!
So Wei Man went down to the top of the city, and ordered the people around him to continue hoarding arrows to the top of the city, and at the same time went to the city to collect planks.

He is going to reproduce the second weapon for defending the city!
battle shed.

This is a defensive tool that shined during the Chu-Han War. Hanging outside the city, it can not only be used as a shield for defensive arrows, but also attack the siege enemy from another angle!

Originally, Wei Man didn't dare to add a war shed at the top of Wangxian City, because he was afraid that the Han army would carry a larger gravity trebuchet than in the city. Before the battle began, the war shed at the top of the city was raised together with the defenders!
After all, the trebuchet he made now imitated the standard equipment of the Han army.

But now he worries too much.

In the Han army camp outside the city, there is no such invincible super-large equipment at all!
Not only did they not, they didn't even make a move to assemble the trebuchet!

That's it?

Also want to capture his Wang Dangerous City?

Go dream!

Wei Man snorted coldly, raised his head and chest, and passed on this high-spirited fighting spirit to everyone he met.

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"I think it's a kind of confidence..."

In the shogunate of the Chinese army, Liu Ying crossed her legs and kowtowed the big cherries of Qi State that she had brought down from the boat.

"I think so too... Ouch, stingy!"

Zhang Buyi reached out his hand furtively, but Liu Ying, who was protecting the food, directly hit him back.

What they are discussing now is naturally the matter of Weiman building a war shed at the top of the city.

"Puff puff puff..." Liu Ying turned into a pea shooter and spit out a bunch of fruit cores, and smiled and said to Zhou Yafu who came to report: "Ignore him, and adapt to all changes with the same, or according to the original plan, the whole army will be repaired... …waiting for the fireworks.”

"Fireworks? Talking about..." Liu Bang didn't even lift his head, he just wrote vigorously.

He wrote about his experiences along the way, as well as the geographical and folk customs of the southern Liaoning Peninsula and the Central Plains, in order to find a publisher to publish a copy of "Hanhuang's Travels" after returning to Guanzhong...

Not for anything else, just for the spirit of killing his little brat!

Therefore, next to Liu Bang, the one who helped check typos and sentence breaks was naturally Zhang Buyi, who was pouted by Liu Ying once.

After all, Zhang Buyi is now the largest bookseller in Guanzhong, which is why Liu Bang has the confidence to publish "The Travels of the Han Emperor".

After Zhou Yafu left, a round-faced young man with a medium build and a rosy face was blown black by the sea breeze.

"Lou Chuan Captain Qingyang Lord Dou Jian pays his respects to the Supreme Emperor, Your Majesty!"

This person is Dou Yifang's elder brother.

Liu Ying smiled and waved her hand, pointing to the stool beside her: "They are all from my own family, so there is no need to be polite, come, sit, sit, sit..."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Dou Jiancheng saluted again in trepidation, and then put his buttocks on the stool, looking very reserved.

Liu Ying asked warmly: "Can you still adapt to the wind and waves at sea?"

If you have nothing to say, you can act like biting a light bulb... Zhang Busu complained crazily in his heart, but he didn't change his face, and continued with his own business amidst Liu Bang's secret disgust.

Dou Jian nodded and said:

"The wind and waves in the South Seas are indeed much stronger than those in the north. Even if I am used to drifting on the sea, I am not used to it... But fortunately, the South Seas are all over the ports of Han. Go ashore and relax, supply for two days before sailing."

"So even though many of the crew members had no sailing experience before, it did not cause attrition."

Liu Ying reached out and patted his shoulder, and said with a smile:

"I knew you could do it! All of you Dou's are talented, your sister is Wenliang Shude, with outstanding looks, she gave birth to a son and a daughter in no time... Guangguo is even more amazing, Nanhai County sent a message It is said that he followed Wu She to bring back a poisoned prince, and he is about to send it to Chang'an, and the trade treaty will be signed in a few days!"

Dou Jian showed a sincere smile on his face, this smile was mainly for Dou Yifang.

After all, my younger sister knows that Dou Yifang has always wanted to be Liu Ying's woman since she was a child, and now not only has her wish been fulfilled, but also from Liu Ying's tone, it can be heard that he is very satisfied with Dou Yifang.

Although his younger sister is now a 'beauty' and can't be compared to the position of 'Madame', it is actually a very lucky thing for a woman to marry a man who likes herself and also likes her.

Liu Ying also smiled.

But it's not because of Dou Yi's room, after all, in front of his eldest brother, he recalls the relationship between men and women with his younger sister...

This is not good.

Therefore, Liu Ying's smile is for the upcoming "Commercial Treaty".

It's just that there is a little more trouble in his smile.

That is lack of money.

A real lack of money.

Nowadays, all countries that have joined the trading system of the Han Dynasty have various official currencies, but basically the five baht coins minted by the Han Dynasty are actually used as currency.

While wealth flowed into the Han Kingdom like water, the five baht coins representing wealth also flowed out of the Han Kingdom like a tide.

If it weren't for the fact that silver was also listed as an official currency in advance, I am afraid that the faster the expansion of the Han Kingdom, the sooner the dominant and maintained trading system will collapse.

The first to collapse and return to the barter era is most likely the domestic market.

Liu Ying had read last year's planning document, and many county chiefs in agriculture-based places reported counting money by bucket of rice as their political achievements, and reported it happily.

Yes, this is commendable.

The low price of food means that no one will go hungry, which indirectly proves the existence of a peaceful and prosperous age.

Well, cheap food with a vast land and sparse population, and cheap food with a dense population and less than one mu of arable land per capita are two different concepts.

To give a chestnut, even if one mu of land earns 1000 yuan a year, if there are [-] mu of land, the annual income is also very good.

But if you think about it carefully, there is a problem behind Doumi counting money.

That is money, that is, heavy metals are too expensive.

This has led to the possibility of hoarding and reselling currencies, which naturally further promotes the money shortage.

Therefore, Liu Ying felt that it was time to give those aborigines a little future shock...

Like banknotes.

However, Liu Ying does not intend to issue large amounts of currency.

After all, this kind of behavior of exchanging pieces of paper for real money from the people is actually no different from robbers.

Especially once the printing press is turned on, it is easy to plunder countless people's fat and people's ointment, and it will make people lose all bottom lines.

For example, Daming treasure banknotes.

So Liu Ying only plans to print small denomination coins, such as 'fen'.

That is, one hundred banknotes are exchanged for one five baht coin.

Liu Ying has calculated before that even if he points out the printing machine technology, this kind of money printing behavior is at most no loss, no profit, slightly unable to control the cost, and even the possibility of losing money...

But only in this way, printing money is not an act of plundering people's wealth.

This is also the behavior he uses to curb his greed, as well as that of future generations.

As for the credit currency system in the future, it will naturally not give up because of choking, but that is something that only economics has developed to a certain stage.

It's just that when Liu Ying was gossiping with Dou Jian and was distracted, another doubt arose in her heart.

Generally speaking, the image of the head of state will be printed on the currency of the feudal monarchy.

So whose face should be printed on the banknotes he is about to issue?
To be filial or not to be filial, this is a question... Liu Ying pinched her chin and frowned.

Opposite him, Dou Jian's heart beat faster, and he quickly thought about whether he had said something wrong...

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In the early morning of the third day, the Han soldiers who had regained some physical strength lined up in the camp.

In front of them was a towering tree that had been brought down overnight, and a few thick hemp ropes tied to the trunk.

Following the orders of the military marshals and village chiefs, more and more soldiers with a height of close to or more than 1.8 meters and a weight of [-] to [-] kilograms came out. They took turns to tie the hemp rope around their bodies and dragged the big tree on the ground. .

Then, those strong men who could drag the big tree happily stood on the other side, while the rest of the losers walked back to the queue in disgrace.

But no one dared to laugh at them.

A strong man can't move a big tree, so can't he move those little guys who don't even have the qualifications to come out and have a try?
After a while, the selection ended.

Thousands of Hercules happily lined up out of the camp amid the envy of their colleagues and the compassion of the captain, and walked towards the temporary pier on the coast.

As for the remaining soldiers, they were issued tools such as shovels to reinforce the embankment on the other side.

Although soldiers do not understand this.

Let everyone come all the way, isn't it for war, but for infrastructure construction for other people's homes?
But their opinions don't matter.

In other words, they were just muttering in their hearts, and did not express any resistance to the behavior of Gan Jijian.

After all, there were no professional soldiers at this time. Not only did the guards have to perform military service, but they were also called to repair river embankments, roads, and city walls when they were doing farm work at home.

So, they are all generalists.

Those who hold a knife and gun are soldiers, those who hold a plowshare are farmers, and those who hold a shovel are migrant workers...

Suddenly, the battlefield became a construction site.

It's just that the bottom of the city is soil, and the top of the city is wood.

The soldiers of the Han army brandished shovels, while the defenders of Wangxian City brandished hammers, knocking iron nails imported from Han into the wooden boards, and processed the war sheds according to Weiman's instructions.

When it comes to professionalism, Wang Dancheng's defenders are obviously better.

After all, the soldiers of the Han army did not work hard, and at most they were beaten with military sticks by the military marquis and Sima, but if the defenders of Wang Xiancheng cheated, played tricks, and falsified, they would lose their own lives.

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"Hey, this is the land sailing plan I was talking about!"

Liu Ying stood on the shore and danced, feeling proud of the bewildered faces of Liu Bang and others.

Whether it's strengthening the river embankment or selecting Hercules, the purpose is to drag the Mangdang Mountain into the inland river and launch an attack on Wangdancheng from a condescending height.

Lu Wan was stunned for a moment, and said with disdain: "It's so troublesome to use? Can't your boat go without oars? Let it sail by itself with sails?"

Liu Bang suddenly realized, and hurriedly switched to Lu Wan's camp, looking at Liu Ying with the same disdain.

Liu Ying glanced sideways at his two annoying fathers, with disdainful expressions:
"Doesn't it seem silly... With such a small wind on the coast, how could it be possible to push such a big boat upstream?"

"So, right now, the only option is to make great efforts to perform miracles!"

Liu Bang nodded, immediately switched sides, and looked at Lu Wan with contempt: "That's right, Liu Ying is right, where's your brain?"

Shameless or you are shameless... Liu Ying folded her arms and faced Lu Wan, her eyes were condescending, full of concern for the mentally handicapped.

Slowly, Lu Wan blushed and her neck thickened.

"Okay, even if it's Naigong who made some mistakes, but you have to work so hard that someone drags the boat over. It's better to just dismantle the cannon and drag it to Wangxian City to save the benefits!"

"It makes sense!" Liu Bang switched sides again.

In the corner, Zhang Buyi, who was trying to reduce his sense of existence, suddenly realized.

No wonder he always doesn't like Liu Bang, it's because he's not shameless enough!
So, Zhang Buyi began to study eagerly.

Liu Ying still kept her arms folded: "As expected of the captain, well said! But next time, don't be so stupid... Most of the naval guns are cannons. Cannons, you know, are the kind of guns that go straight!"

"In this way, when attacking the city, because of the problem of ballistics, if you want to kill the defenders at the top of the city, you basically have to rely on faith..."

"But it's different if the Mangdang Mountain is used as a fort."

"The Mount Mangdang is higher than the walls of Wangdan City, so that the artillery can condescendingly bombard it. Not only can it directly hit the defenders at the top of the city, but it can also be equipped with incendiary bombs to carry out precise strikes on the granary and arsenal in the city...well, covering strikes !"

"In this way, it's not an exaggeration to say that you can get twice the result with half the effort!"

Lu Wan thought about it and found that it was exactly what Liu Ying said.

Only this time, he jumped back before Liu Bang changed sides, and stood next to Liu Ying almost like a flash, pointing at the bewildered Liu Bang and accused: "Your Majesty is so wise and mighty, do you still want to question it now, old man?" ?”

So, when the two old guys were wrestling together, Liu Ying turned away with a face full of contempt.

"Just leave like this?" Zhang Buyi hurriedly chased after him.

"Otherwise? Stay here to cheer for the Supreme Emperor and the Taiwei?" Liu Ying quickened her pace.

"But, what if it breaks?" Zhang Buyi was full of worry. After all, he came this time not only to escort Liu Ying, but also to take care of Liu Bang.

"Aren't you stupid? They have been fighting for decades. When did they not fight at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed..." Liu Ying didn't change her face, and silently added drama to her initial CP.

Zhang Buyi said something, and quickly distanced himself from Liu Ying.

Liu Ying pretended not to know anything, but asked directly: "Do you want tea?"

Zhang Buyi frowned: "Morning tea? It's a little early now..."

Liu Ying shook her head: "No, sleepy black tea."

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Wang Dangerous City.

Wei Man hurried up to the top of the city again, looking blankly at the Han soldiers who were leveling the land on the other side of the river and compacting the embankment, and murmured.

"what the hell?"

But having said that, he was secretly happy in his heart.

The defenders of the city actually have a time advantage, especially in their short summer in this place, and even if they slip away without paying attention in autumn, they will disappear.

Many times when the first snow falls, the crops in the fields are not yet ripe!

Well, this has nothing to do with the weather, it is simply that Kija Joseon does not have an accurate calendar.

After all, human experience is actually very unreliable. Without a sufficiently accurate calendar for reference, it is easy to miss the farming season.

So Wei Man is not afraid of procrastination, the longer he procrastinates, the greater his chances of winning!
When the sky is snowing heavily and only whiteness remains in the world, the Han army will either retreat to negotiate a peace, or the whole army will freeze to death outside the city, under the majesty of General Dong!
It's just that in Weiman's imagination, on the wide river in the distance, a huge monster gradually appeared upstream.

Slow but firm.

"This? This is a boat? But why is it so big?"

Wei Man frowned, and stood on the top of the city in a daze until the huge monster appeared in the middle of the river several hundred meters away.

boom!
A muffled thunder sounded, and a white smoke quickly dissipated under the blowing of the river wind.

"It's thundering?"

(End of this chapter)