Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 156 Building a Navy
Xu Chu walked down the steps, took the bamboo slips from Xu Maogong, turned around and walked up the steps, Xu Maogong stood up and stood quietly on the main hall, waiting for Li Song's order, Xu Chu handed the bamboo slips to Li Song.

Li Song opened the bamboo slips, carefully read the content on the bamboo slips, and frowned from time to time. The situation in Hefei written on it was more serious than he had imagined in his heart.

Li Song sighed inwardly, let someone like Xu Maogong handle these troublesome matters!Don't people like them come here to solve such things!Li Song put down the bamboo slips in his hand.

Li Song said: "Mr. Mao! All matters in Hefei City can be handled by you! You don't need to report to me anymore!"

"No!" Xu Maogong responded with a salute to Li Songxing.

"That's all about Hefei. I have one more thing to say, Yan Xiang!" Li Song looked at Yan Xiang and said, "Is there a navy in Hefei County? Has there ever been a navy under Yuan Shu's command?"

"Prime Minister! Why do you ask this matter? In Hefei County, there is no navy. When Yuan Shu was alive, he loved the infantry and looked down on navy. There was no idea of ​​building a navy."

"In addition, Yuan Shu is used to being extravagant and licentious, and he has squandered all his money, so there will be money to build a navy that is useless to him." Yan Xiang bowed his hands and saluted.

After Yan Xiang finished speaking, Yang Hong stood up and said, "If you want to talk about the navy, there are only Sun Ce in Jiangdong and Liu Xun in Lujiang County in the boundary of Yangzhou. There are no navy in Jiujiang County."

Li Song knew in his heart that the cost of the navy was no less than that of any army. If it wasn't for the future to fight against the navy of Soochow, Li Song would not spend this money to form any navy. After all, the navy of this era The biggest role of the army is water warfare, and the combat effectiveness of the water army on the shore is not much different from the scum of Zhan Wu.

"I plan to build a navy, but I don't know if there is any place in Hefei County that is suitable for training a navy," Li Song said.

"Prime Minister! There is a lake in the east of Hefei County, named Jiaohu. This lake is located in Hefei, Shuxian, Junqiu and other counties. It belongs to the Yangtze River system. It can be used to train sailors here." Yan Xiang asked Li Song Introduced the whole situation of Jiaohu Lake.

After hearing this, Li Song nodded in satisfaction and said, "This Jiaohu Lake is really good! I decided to build a navy base on the edge of Jiaohu Lake in Hefei County to train sailors. You, Zhongda, will be in charge."

"No!" Gao Shun stepped forward and responded.

"The reason why I set up a navy here is to prepare for attacking Jiangdong in the future." Li Song said the purpose of establishing a navy. This time, it's not just for Hefei City, and it's not because of Yuan Shu. The main purpose Or build a navy that can fight Soochow in the future.

"My lord! In the land of Jiangdong, why bother to build a navy? This is too high a view of Jiangdong's Sun Ce!" Li Song's words shocked everyone, this is too high of Jiangdong's children!Xue Tong was puzzled.

Li Song didn't explain to them that Sun Ce was not terrible. What was terrible was the navy. Even if he could destroy Sun Ce's land troops, there was nothing he could do with them. They would become water bandits.

At that time, it will cause damage to the cities along the river. They can easily plunder these cities and evacuate without pressure, but the troops on the road can only watch them walk away, but there is nothing they can do.

"Yang Changshi, you have lived here for a long time and are familiar with Hefei County, so you will recruit people who are familiar with water to form a navy and build ships. You must raise at least [-] yuan for me. When will these be completed?" Li Song used He spoke to Yang Hong in a tone that could not be refused.

"This..." Yang Hong was a little confused, "I'm afraid it will not be so easy to recruit the number of people the Prime Minister wants. I can only try my best. As for when it can be completed, if it is 3000 people, it will take half a month." Do it for the prime minister."

Li Song also knows about this, so don't rush it!After all, Yuan Shu didn't have a naval master before, so he didn't know how to practice and other matters, so he was completely blind.

"In addition to recruiting sailors, we also need to recruit craftsmen for shipbuilding, repairing, and making weapons and armor! At the same time, I want to recruit strong young people to join the army again. The temporary number is [-]. You need to pay more attention to these things. The [-] People and horses, serving as naval reserve." Li Song finalized the military expansion plan again. Although the current force is not small, his opponents are also not small, and he still has to be wary of Sun Ce on the other side of the river.

"Yes!" Everyone responded. Everyone agreed with the expansion of the army. After all, when the army expanded, the more soldiers they could command, the greater their power, and the more benefits they could get. No one would I dislike the great power in my hands, so naturally no one is stupid enough to stand up and oppose it.

"Prime Minister! I don't know who should be in charge of this navy? How should the budget of the navy be calculated? Also, does the establishment of the navy follow the establishment of my Han Dynasty?" Xu Maogong asked.

After all, building a navy is not just about recruiting some sailors. They are an army, so they naturally need training, food, etc., and, after all, a navy is different from land, and it must have ships on the water. A lot of money, not to mention the craftsmen who repair the damaged hull, etc. also need to spend money. In this way, the establishment of a navy is no cheaper than cavalry at all.

"The navy's budget can be calculated as you like, and it can't be deducted at all! As for the treatment of naval officers and soldiers, it is the same as that of the army. As for the establishment, of course it is according to the establishment of my Han Dynasty." Li Song thought for a while. Said.

"As for who will lead the navy, I haven't made up my mind yet. It won't be too late to make a decision after I have a suitable candidate."

At this time, Li Song couldn't help but think of Gan Ning. If his subordinates are as familiar with water as the "Jinfan Bandits", who have been in the Yangtze River for several years and have deep water warfare, they don't have to worry about who will lead the navy.

"Okay, that's it for today! You all go down and prepare yourself!" Li Song thought for a while, and felt that things were almost arranged.

"No!" Everyone stood up and saluted, and then slowly exited the hall, and went to do what they should do.

In the past few days, Li Song's subordinates have been busy all the time, and Li Song naturally has not been idle. Apart from the daily official documents, he just went to the selected location for the establishment of the naval base to see how they are progressing. So good!

Looking at the more and more decent naval base in front of him, Li Song was still very satisfied.

(End of this chapter)