Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 57 The Navy Is A Big Problem

After working for a few days, finally the first batch of graduates were all employed.As for how to place next year's graduates, it depends on how the current batch performs.After the matter at Xuzhou College came to an end, Zhao Feng began to propose the next stage of development plan to Liu Bei.

"Practice navy?" Liu Bei was a little stunned when he heard Zhao Feng's suggestion, but then remembered that Zhao Feng had mentioned this matter to him more than once.

"Yes, my lord. Although we and Jiangdong are in peace, it's because Jiangdong is busy pacifying Jiaozhou. When Jiangdong is busy calming down, I'm afraid there will be a war with us sooner or later." Zhao Feng said frankly.Liu Bei thought about it carefully, and then thought about Sun Ce's personality, and he also felt that this matter was very possible.

"Since that's the case, who will practice the navy?" Liu Bei looked at the generals under his tent and asked.I don't want everyone to look at each other immediately after hearing this, but no one stood up for a while.

"Huh?" Zhao Feng was also a little speechless, but after thinking about it, everyone under Liu Bei's camp was basically from the north, and there were probably not many who could swim, and it was even more difficult to train the navy.I remember that in the history Liu Bei was in the battle of Chibi, the water army was trained by Guan Yu, but that was the result of Guan Yu staying in Jingzhou for seven years.Now that Guan Yu is the shepherd of Yuzhou, even if he wants to train sailors, it may be difficult to mobilize him to be responsible.

As for others, let alone.Even Zhao Feng himself can only barely know how to swim, and if he wanted to train the navy, Zhao Feng asked himself that he didn't have the ability.

Just when Zhao Feng was a little depressed, Lu Su stepped forward and said, "My lord, Su is willing to practice the navy."

"Oh? Does Zijing know how to drill the navy?" Liu Bei saw that Lu Su was willing to take action, and his head, which had started to ache gradually, eased a lot.When Zhao Feng saw Lu Su, he immediately understood: I almost forgot that this old man was the governor of Soochow Wu in history, so he must be good at training the navy.

Sure enough, Lu Su replied: "Su has lived in Xiapi for a long time. He has studied Jiangdong and Jingxiang naval forces in the past, and even saw Zhou Yu's Jiangdong water village with his own eyes. It won't be too far away." Still low-key and cautious as always.But Liu Bei was overjoyed when he heard the words. He knew that Lu Su dared to speak so far, so he had great confidence.

So Liu Bei immediately ordered that Lu Su be appointed as the governor of the Xuzhou Navy, and make every effort to build the Xuzhou Navy. "Zijing, where are you going to set up a water village?" Liu Bei asked first after finishing his appointment.

Lu Su looked at the map of Xuzhou, and finally pointed to a place and said, "It's right here at the Huaihe River!" Zhao Feng looked at the map, opened his mouth and said nothing.Originally, he hoped that this water village would be built in Hongze Lake, but now Hongze Lake is still a small puddle. Historically, Hongze Lake was formed because Surabaya was diverted during the Song Dynasty. Its current scale and later became the fourth largest freshwater in the country. Compared with the lake, that is simply not an order of magnitude.

As for the other larger lakes, Dongting Lake is in Jingzhou, Poyang Lake and Taihu Lake are both in Jiangdong.The remaining Chaohu Lake borders Shouchun, but it happens to be between Shouchun and Lujiang River. If you practice the navy there, you will basically blatantly call the opposite Sun Ce to come over and beat yourself up.It's a pity, why didn't Lujiang come over during the negotiations?Zhao Feng felt a little regretful.

There is no medicine for regret in this world, anyway, the Xuzhou navy has practiced like this.Under the auspices of Lu Su, the water village was first established.In recent years, Zhao Feng has been hanging out with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei for a long time, and he has learned a lot about how to set up a camp.However, the water camp is obviously different from the camp on land. There are many waterways in it, so the marching procession is also very different.As for these waterways, they were basically transformed by Lu Su on the original basis after referring to the hydrological characteristics on both sides of the Huaihe River and adapting measures to local conditions.

"Wonderful, wonderful! Brother Zijing, you can be regarded as one of the great masters of water warfare in the world, and you can't catch up with me!" Zhao Feng followed Lu Su and a small boat around the water village, and suddenly felt nine twists and turns. Almost dizzy.

"Hehe, Bo Tao has won the prize!" Lu Su stroked his goatee and smiled with a little complacency.At this time, the water village has just been established, and it can only be regarded as taking shape.After all, digging a river channel is not an easy job, even if it is processed on the original basis, it will take several months.If so, Zhao Feng, a layman, was a little dizzy.

Just then Liu Bei came with another letter. Zhao Feng and Lu Su opened it up and saw that it was Guan Yu who ordered Xu Sheng, the prefect of Yiyang, to come to Shuizhai to help Lu Su in a civil service with Yuzhou Bing Cao.It was only then that Zhao Feng remembered that there was someone like Wenpin, who was known as the number one military general in Jingzhou, so he must know how to drill in the navy.I remember that in history, Cao Cao sent him to intercept Huang Gai's fire boat, but he was almost shot to death by the latter with an arrow.As for Xu Sheng, he was also a general of the Soochow Navy in history. Even though he is still young, he should know how to order.

Lu Su + Xu Sheng + Wenpin, this is the entire lineup of the Xuzhou Navy now. "It's still a small number of people!" Zhao Feng looked left and right to see the three elder brothers, they all seemed a little thin.Fortunately, the three of them worked well together. Lu Su was in charge of building the water fortress and dispatched it in the middle, while Wenpin and Xu Sheng were in charge of training the army.The first batch of Xuzhou navy Liu Bei only arranged for 5000 people. After all, there are not many swimmers in the army now.Next, the second batch will not be able to enter the battle until they are familiar with the water.But Zhao Feng is not willing to wait like this, since there are few people, he should bring more people over.Now Zhao Feng dispatched dozens of spies to the Yangtze River to inquire about the details of Gan Ning's group.Of course, Gan Ning fought bravely, but Lu Su was still in charge of mediating these matters.

"Hey, Zijing, why are our navy now small boats, why don't we build big ones?" Zhao Feng watched for a few days, and suddenly found that the boats of the Xuzhou navy are small boats that can only accommodate dozens of people at most. There is none of the slightly larger ones.

"Small boats are more turbulent than big ones, so we first use small boats to train the sailors' steering ability. Besides, it takes a long time to build a big boat. We don't have many craftsmen right now, so we only built a few hundred small boats," Lu Su explained. Dao, then looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to their conversation, lowered his voice and whispered in Zhao Feng's ear: "Building a big ship requires skilled boatmen, and Xuzhou hardly has any, so it can't be built now."

"It turned out to be like this?" Zhao Feng was also shocked when he heard the words, but seeing that Lu Su didn't mean to be joking, he immediately understood that the matter was a bit serious, and asked in a low voice: "Then how can we recruit such a boatman?"

"Generally, Jiangdong or Jingxiang have them, but this shipbuilding skill is owned by aristocratic families, and they will not tell outsiders easily. Right now, Jiangdong belongs to Sun Ce. With his great talents, I am afraid that it will be difficult for us to find people there. Only in Jingxiang Think of a way!" Lu Su was also a little uncertain.

"That's the only way to go!" Zhao Feng knew that Lu Su knew these things better than himself.He said so, he must have no better way.But at this moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Zhao Feng's mind, as if he had caught something, but he couldn't figure it out clearly, only a faint shadow.

"Strange, what did you remember?" Zhao Feng was so dazed all morning, until he bid farewell to Lu Su and returned to his home in Pengcheng, his mind was still in a daze.

"Husband, you have worked hard!" Diao Chan took the armor and battle robe that Zhao Feng took off, and handed them to the maid beside her.Afterwards, seeing his distraught appearance, he couldn't help comforting him, "Is there something bothering you, my husband?"

"It can't be called a worry, but it seems that there is something very important, but I just can't remember it!" Zhao Feng frowned.

"If you can't remember it, don't think about it, sometimes you might remember it again?" Diao Chan said with a smile.Zhao Feng had no other choice for a while, so he could only do this first.However, he was sure that this must be a very important matter, but it was too long ago, so he couldn't remember clearly.

At this time, the servant brought the dinner, Zhao Feng also had dinner first.During the dinner, he chatted with Diao Chan about some recent events, but after listening to a few words, Zhao Feng found that Diao Chan was more concerned about the matter between himself and Zhen Jiang, but he didn't directly question him.Immediately, he also started to play tricks, and asked deliberately: "Why, Madam is also more interested in this Miss Zhen?"

"Huh?" Unexpectedly, Zhao Fengfeng asked such a straightforward question. Diao Chan was at a loss for a while, but then said seriously: "Actually, if you really like her husband, you might as well propose marriage to the Zhen family. According to my husband today Nine out of ten, the Zhen family will not refuse your fame."

"Thank you ma'am for being so generous!" Zhao Feng really smiled wryly this time.Not because of anything else, but because he had learned from that little lolita Zhen Mi the day before yesterday that Zhen Jiang had already been engaged to Yuan Shao's eldest son, Yuan Tan.Zhao Feng remembered that it was Zhen Mi who married Yuan Xi, why is it Zhen Jiang who is going to marry Yuan Tan now?After thinking about it, it seems that it can only be explained as the butterfly effect after he saved Zhen Jiang.

"I worked so hard to save her, but she is someone else's wife!" Zhao Feng didn't know whether he should cry or laugh, and after thinking about it, even if it wasn't for the fact that he didn't promise her, he couldn't just ignore death.Apart from smiling wryly now, Zhao Feng can only lament how good luck makes people.

After a fierce battle with Diao Chan that night as usual, Zhao Feng fell asleep a little tired.As a result, Zhao Feng woke up early the next morning, shaking his heavy head, and suddenly remembered what he had been thinking about all along.

After eating something in a hurry, Zhao Feng rushed to the Xuzhou Army Water Village by the Huai River.As soon as he entered the water village, Zhao Feng immediately found Lu Su who was directing the construction of the water village, and asked directly: "Zijing, do you know if the Lu family in Jiangdong can build the big ships needed by the navy?"

(End of this chapter)