The journey to the heavens starts from the underground station

Chapter 135 Expedition to Sea
The Hall of Compassion in Bianliang City, Tokyo.

The Empress Dowager Gao Taotao was half lying on the bed, and beside her was a young man in a brocade robe. The young man was holding a memorial in his hand, and was slowly reading it to Gao Taotao.

This young man is the emperor Zhao Xu who has not yet been in power. Although Gao Taotao is lingering on the sick bed and is afraid that he will die soon, this woman with a strong desire for power still refuses to delegate power to the emperor. Read the submitted memorial to myself, and give my own opinions on how to deal with it, which is called "Xunzheng".

Zhao Xu was naturally dissatisfied, but all the civil and military officials in the dynasty belonged to the Empress Dowager. Zhao Xu only hoped that his grandmother would die quickly so that he could become a veritable emperor.

This time, Gao Taotao's confidant eunuch Liang Weijian walked in quietly from outside the hall and stood respectfully beside the bed with his arms tied.

Zhao Xu frowned slightly, and stopped reading. Liang Weijian saluted respectfully, and reported in a trembling voice: "The eunuch who sent to Liangzhe Road to find His Royal Highness King Wu has returned."

Gao Taotao, who was sluggish on the bed, his eyes lit up, and he raised his hand: "Xuan come in, I haven't seen my fourth brother for several years, I miss it a little."

"This..." Liang Weijian replied hesitantly, with a look of embarrassment on his face.

"What happened?"

"Report to the Queen Mother, King Wu has not returned to Beijing."

"Huh?" Gao Taotao frowned, the wrinkles on his face were huddled together, and his voice suddenly raised, which actually made the little emperor Zhao Xu tremble. Gao Taotao glanced at Zhao Xu dissatisfied, and angrily ordered: Where's the eunuch? Call me in!"

"Yes."

Not long after, two young eunuchs entered the palace, knelt down tremblingly, and before Gao Taotao could ask questions, they took the initiative to explain: "I want to report to the Empress Dowager, the young ones have just entered Suzhou, and His Highness Wu ordered They captured the little ones and locked them in the woodshed for seven days!"

"Where is King Wu?"

"To the Empress Dowager, I don't know. When I escaped from the firewood room, the entire Wu Palace was empty. I was afraid that I would not be able to complete the Queen Mother's errand, so I hurriedly asked around, and found, found... ..."

"What did you find! Cough, cough, cough," Gao Taotao was short of breath, he couldn't catch his breath, and coughed. Seeing this, Liang Weijian, who was next to him, hurriedly beat his back and fetched water, and ordered someone to call the imperial physician urgently.After a while, Gao Taotao managed to catch his breath. He didn't care to see Zhao Xu's expression of pity, and ordered, "Where did King Wu go? Tell me!"

"Yes, yes, the little ones inquired all the way, and even found out that His Royal Highness Wu was leading soldiers, and the state capitals along the way did not dare to stop him. His Highness Wu took a big boat and went to sea. He even sent people to Yangzhou to arrest Su Xueshi. He was kidnapped." A young eunuch replied in fear.

"What! You bastard! Cough, cough, cough!" Gao Taotao was furious immediately, his withered palms clenched the brocade quilt tightly, his face turned red, and he coughed again, out of breath.

Not long after, the imperial doctor came in, after some treatment, Gao Taotao was relieved, waved the imperial doctor back with a desolate expression, and Zhao Xu, who was secretly delighted, ordered in a low voice: "The king of Wu is unworthy, and the officials will hurry up." Send someone out to sea quickly and call him back."

"Ah? Yes!" Zhao Xu was taken aback, and quickly agreed.Of course he knew that King Wu probably went overseas to search for the big island, and the court was not blind. The partnership has done a lot of business, but it's just too lazy to take care of it.

Although Zhao Xu promised, he didn't intend to do it at all. After all, a prince willing to do business as a merchant and depraved himself. For the sake of the Empress Dowager, let him go. If he doesn't come back It just so happens that it is best to die overseas, so I can save myself some worries. When the empress dowager dies and I take power, I will send the king of Wu down, so as not to be an eyesore.

Time passed day by day, Li Yu is now very busy every day, dealing with various political affairs of overseas bases, preparing and training troops, helping Su Shi to familiarize himself with the management of military logistics, and comforting the empty concubines at night, trying to get a "biological" son .

In a blink of an eye, it was mid-April, Tianqi was getting hotter and hotter, and the monsoon started from the southeast, bringing a lot of rain.

On the navy dock, dozens of large and small warships are ready to go, and there are constant comings and goings of naval officers and soldiers carrying supplies onto the ships.

Around the wharf, a stretch of camps were stationed. Fifty thousand soldiers of the Shenji Battalion gathered from all over the place had already settled here. As the war approached, they had already made preparations to go to the battlefield.

On April [-]th, the southeast wind blows, and it is advisable to use troops.

Li Yu put on the cumbersome armor, stepped on the horse, bid farewell to the tearful Princess Zhou, and entered the barracks with his entourage.

On the resident school field, Li Yu stood on the high platform, looking at the dark crowd of soldiers loyal to him below, with a serious face and a long silence.

Just when the soldiers thought that their commanding Highness Wu Wang was going to mobilize before the expedition, they saw Li Yu pull out the sharp sword in his waist, danced a bit, and shouted: "Board the ship! Let's go!"

Puff!Behind the high platform, Su Shi, who was in charge of the military supply and logistics for this expedition, burst out laughing, thinking that King Wu would say something impassioned to motivate the soldiers. After a long time, he only had four words!

Li Yu really felt that there was no need to make pre-war speeches to boost morale. The soldiers under him were different from the ancient soldiers in the traditional sense. Except for more rigorous training, all their ideological disciplines were in normal times Already well done.There are instructors in the army. In addition to teaching the soldiers to practice calligraphy, they are also responsible for ideological education. To put it bluntly, they are brainwashing.

All the families of the soldiers live under Li Yu's rule, and the overseas land is sparsely populated. As long as they are not lazy, their families live a good life, and the soldiers have no worries at all.Moreover, Li Yu has no shortage of money. In addition to doing sea trade business, there are gold mines and copper mines overseas, and the soldiers are also well paid.

Soldiers armed with this kind of treatment, such ideology, and the most advanced weapons in the world, what else is necessary to boost morale before going out?That's it!

Under the leadership of their respective commanders, the soldiers of each battalion boarded more than 200 troop carriers of different sizes on the side of the pier, and Li Yu led several generals of the navy and army to the flagship of the navy.

This is a huge treasure ship of 600 materials. Compared with Fuchuan, it is more stable and more resistant to wind and waves. This ship is about 120 feet long, [-] feet wide, and has a crew of [-]. There are three rows of portholes. , with as many as [-] cannons, it is the largest warship of the navy and the flagship of the navy. When this treasure ship was launched, Li Yu named it himself-Pippi Shrimp!
Li Yu's opinion is that a cheap name is easy to support, and no warship can bear the shame of being sunk by the Pippi Shrimp.

Of course, Di Yuan, the commander of the navy fleet, refused to take the flagship every time he went to sea, saying that this was His Royal Highness King Wu's ship, and he never dared to presume.

As night fell, the buffalo horn sounded low on the pier, and the warships went out to sea one by one, followed by a large number of troop carriers.

The southeast wind blew the sails high and drove the fleet to the north.

(End of this chapter)