Wentang

Chapter 354 Intimidation

Yue Shan naturally will not forget his main purpose - to form a navy.

This is a plan proposed a few years ago to build an ocean-going navy to go to the Americas. Of course, it is now called Dongsheng Shenzhou, and go there to find high-yield food crops and medicinal materials.

It's just that he was staggered by the Turks two years ago, Li Shimin had just ascended the throne, and the court had no money, etc., but a battalion of sailors was stationed in the desolate Bohai County.

The boats are still inland flat-bottomed boats, and there are fewer in number. The total number of ships is less than ten, and they basically have no ocean-going capabilities.

Why did Yueshan put the saltworks in the Bohai Bay area in the north instead of in the south where the climate is more suitable?Isn't it just laying the foundation for the navy?

As for the northern front, that was an afterthought.

Although Li Shimin sent Li Daoyan to serve as the governor in charge of military power, Yue Shan was still working on the plan for building the army, and Li Daoyan was the implementer and supervisor.

Therefore, it is not too much for him to announce the naval expansion plan.

"Navy Zhechong Mansion will be expanded to five battalions with 3000 people, all of whom will be recruited from Dizhou. The number of people in one battalion in Yanci County will be recruited from the remaining four battalions from the remaining eight counties. It is best to recruit people with families , industrious, poorer people.”

"This... Yue Hou, don't the government soldiers always recruit sons from good families?" Master Sun Ren asked in surprise.

"The navy is different from the army and the river navy," Yue Shan explained.

The inland navy only moves on the water when sailing, and usually lives on land, even if they don’t disembark for a long time, they can still see the land.

But sea voyages, especially ocean voyages, are different. In many cases, it is possible to not see land for a month or two.Humans are terrestrial animals. If they stay away from land for a long time, they will become empty and anxious, and they will easily collapse when encountering some difficulties.

A good family is wealthy and has no worries. When they were in the army, they could put down everything and focus on killing the enemy, so the fighting power of the soldiers is very strong.

But when you are in the navy, it is a disadvantage to have no worries. When you encounter difficulties at sea, you may choose to go to extremes.

The poor are the exact opposite. They have families to feed, and if they die, the whole family will starve to death.So when I was in the army, I cheated and played tricks just to save my life, and my combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the government soldiers.

But worrying about the future at sea has become an advantage. They have family members to support them. What will happen to their family members if they die?They are more resilient and more capable of bursting into combat when they are earlier than extreme events.

Isn't this the case in Europe in the Age of Discovery?The scum, criminals, and desperadoes could no longer live in the local area, so they sailed to the sea in a small boat in order to survive.

These people were the first group of explorers, and some of them were lucky enough to escape to deserted islands or other places to make a fortune and turned around and became rich, attracting more people to sail to the sea.

So the great voyage began.

Some historians believe that the rise of the great voyage was the Europeans looking for sugar, but when did the sugar search happen, and the sea was already full of explorer ships.

So sugar hunting is nothing more than Europeans whitewashing their own history in order to beautify their ancestors, as if they regarded the slave trade as population exchange and the liberation of all mankind.

The topic got off the ground again.

Yue Shan believes that in terms of exploring the ocean, poor people who have worries about their future are more suitable than good families who have no worries.As long as they are given some settling money, they will be able to break out amazing fighting power if they dare to work hard.

When Datang has a sufficient understanding of the ocean and has explored a fixed channel, it doesn't matter whether the seaman is a good family or a poor man.

Hearing Yue Shan's logic, not to mention Master Sun Ren, everyone present was dumbfounded and felt that the three views had been refreshed.

However, seeing what he said so swearingly, everyone had no choice but to believe it.After all, they don't know what ocean sailing is like, and they don't even have a way to refute it.

Master Sun Ren was the first to react. For him, it doesn't matter where his soldiers come from, he first recruits them.He has been very satisfied with the jump from a battalion captain in charge of 600 people to a general of Zhechong Prefecture.

Seeing that he agreed, the others didn't say anything.

After the tasks were assigned, everyone went to work on their own stalls, while Yue Shan and Li Daoyan went to the backyard to rest.

It's not how tired he is, but because he has been a little shaky when he walks on a boat for many days. The so-called rest is just to adjust his state.

In the evening, Tian Xuechen and others held a simple yet lively dinner for them.

Early the next morning, all members of Yanci County Yamen were mobilized.

A group of two yamen servants or temporary clerks, holding a gong and followed by a literate person, went directly to various villages and towns to publicize the relocation of the city.

These literate people were the same people who wrote the complaints for the people during the Yanci County Public Trial Conference. The yamen hired them again at a price of ten cents a day, and they were responsible for explaining the ins and outs of the relocation to the people.

The news that Qingshuihou was going to build a new city and move the government office spread quickly, and Yanci County was boiling in an instant.

What pleased Yue Shan was that, as he expected, most of the people were in favor of the relocation, and even some people who didn't even have a place to stay even shouted that Yue Hou would be rich and honored forever.Even some people who could not leave their homeland did not come out to object.

It is the vested interests who really complain, but the bloody smell outside the gate of Yanci County has not completely dissipated, even if there are a thousand of these people who disagree, they dare not stand up.

As for coercing public opinion... Someone did it, trying to confuse the people to make trouble, but in the end, people from the yamen came to ransack the house in a blink of an eye.

The old man Taizu said that the so-called politics is to make our people more and more people, and make people who oppose us less.

Yue Shan naturally understood this, so he thought of a way to bribe the poor people early in the morning.

The phrase 'everyone can share a house after the new city is built' was taken as a key point of publicity.

It goes without saying how attractive houses and land are to ordinary people. They dare to kill anyone who dares to prevent them from obtaining a new house.

Seeing those few people with ulterior motives being ransacked, the others immediately withered.Yue Shan was afraid that it would not be safe, so he specially asked the Navy's people to patrol the city for a day, and Yanci County suddenly became harmonious and beautiful.

It only took one day to move the city to a foregone conclusion, and even the unwilling people agreed with the result with their noses pinched.

Yue Shan also had to sigh with emotion, Taizu's method is really easy to use.It was just some small tricks that were not superficial, and they solved such a big trouble.

But he did not become careless because of this, there were too many people who fell on the eve of victory, in the short term it is best to be more vigilant, and monitor those who may jump out, so as not to make any mistakes.

On the third day, all high-ranking officials from the nine counties of Dizhou gathered in Yanci County to meet their chief officials.

(End of this chapter)