Wentang

Chapter 467 Liu Rengui Returns to Beijing

Yue Shan hurried back to the Marquis' Mansion this time because he got the news that Liu Rengui had returned to Beijing.

Although Liu Rengui's rank is not high, but he has a special status as the commander of the Dizhou Navy, and was recalled to Beijing by Li Shimin to report on his duties.

However, for an official like him who is specially called back to Beijing to report on his duties, the first person to see him must be the emperor, and he can only do his own private affairs after seeing the emperor.It would arouse suspicion if he visited other officials before meeting the emperor.

So Liu Rengui just sent a letter to Yue Shan, while he stayed at home obediently and waited for Li Shimin to summon him.

At the end of the year, there were too many officials in Xinjiang who came back to report on their duties. Liu Rengui couldn't be ranked at all. Normally, he didn't know how long he would have to wait to see the emperor.But still the same sentence, there are people in the court who are good at being officials.

Yue Shan went to the palace in person, and Liu Rengui appeared in the Daxing Palace the next day.

"Are you nervous?" Yue Shan asked.

"A little bit." Liu Rengui said truthfully.

"It's better to be nervous. If you know you're nervous, you don't dare to eat a vegetarian meal." Yue Shan said bluntly.

This was the second time that Liu Rengui was summoned by the emperor alone, and it was also a test. Li Shimin was satisfied with his position as the governor, and he was considered secure. If he was not satisfied, he continued to study.

After a while, Li Shimin finished dealing with the matter at hand and came to see him when he was free.

After the two parties met, Liu Rengui introduced the work of this year.At first he was a little nervous, but the more he spoke, the more he became more comfortable, and gradually he forgot to be nervous and talk freely.

"The Navy's first heavy warships, especially the navy, have higher requirements for warships. After I went to Dizhou, I recruited hundreds of shipwrights and boatmen from Quanzhou, Suzhou and other shipyards..."

"A month ago, a warship with a length of 70 meters and a width of 40 meters was just built, which can carry more than [-] people. After a month of sailing verification, the performance and safety of this type of large ship meet the requirements. I have ordered the shipyard to step up manufacture……"

"The shipyard is not complacent because of this, and has created a new project to study a large ship with a length of 90 meters and a width of 50 meters..."

Both Li Shimin and Yue Shan couldn't help nodding their heads in agreement. A small sampan can be used to pretend to be a sailor on an inland river, but a boat or a big boat is necessary on the sea.

Liu Rengui first started from the shipyard, which shows that he grasped the core and did not go astray.

Shipbuilding needs people, not just craftsmen who design ships, but also skilled workers who make ships.It is useless to set up more ships without enough skilled workers.

But craftsmen and skilled workers are not so easy to cultivate. They are all fed by time and practice. What Dizhou lacks most is time.

The only way to solve this problem is to poach people.

As for which shipyard in Quanzhou, Suzhou, the hundreds of shipwrights and boatmen were dug from, and by what means, neither of them asked.There is no need to ask.

Dizhou is currently the wealthiest place in Datang, and many people want to immigrate there.In addition, Dizhou Shipyard canceled the craftsman registration system... In fact, this alone is enough to attract all craftsmen to join, not to mention that Dizhou Shipyard also fired high wages and high benefits.

"Only ships are not enough. The strength of an army is determined by the soldiers. So after I went to Dizhou, I trained the Dizhou Navy according to the teacher's military training method, and the effect was remarkable..."

"But the navy is different from the land armies, so it's unreasonable to copy the training methods of the Baiqi Division. The teacher also said that there is no mature naval training and combat art in the world. He hoped that I could sum up a set of methods to fill this gap. ..."

"It's a pity that my ability is limited and I still can't get the point, until one day..."

Yue Shan was very pleased with this.He knew that the navy would be an important part of the Tang Dynasty in the future, and he had always wanted to sum up a set of naval tactics, but unfortunately he didn't know anything about the navy, so he really didn't know how to proceed.

Later, he handed over this matter to Liu Rengui, hoping that this famous boss in history could complete this task.

Originally, he thought that this process might take ten, eight or even 20 years, but he didn't expect to have a framework in just one year.

Liu Rengui was born as a scholar, and he also experienced the training of Baiqisi, so he knows the importance of learning to the army.

After going to Dizhou, he vigorously supported the Naval Academy and set up training courses such as evening schools to organize active-duty soldiers to read and write.

Now the soldiers with the worst academic performance in the Dizhou Navy can also know three to five hundred commonly used characters, and most of them can already read official documents by themselves.

However, after reading and enlightening the sailors, the sailors have progressed very quickly. Operations that usually need to be explained countless times now only need three or five times, and they can learn it by letting them do it once. They can even summarize the principles of doing so.

Some soldiers learned something new and wrote it down with a pen for fear of forgetting it, and also wrote down their own understanding by the way.

When these soldiers took notes, they just took notes and had no other ideas, but they inadvertently wrote down their training experience.

Liu Rengui also discovered this by accident, not to mention how excited he was at that time.Immediately assigned tasks to everyone, and everyone gave their experience once a week.

He sorted out the experience of the soldiers to extract key information, and then verified the information through practice, and finally obtained the training and combat regulations.

Now that this regulation has a general framework, if you want to go further, you need a lot of practical operations.

Theories alone are not enough. A strong army is based on actual combat. Liu Rengui constantly dispatched naval patrols to fight against pirates everywhere, and sometimes provided escorts for merchant ships, and organized several ocean voyages.

Not to mention large-scale combat capabilities, ocean navigation capabilities and small-scale operations are definitely among the best on Earth at this time.

Especially the Ezo Island that Yueshan specifically mentioned, he even sent people to check it several times.

"What's the situation on Ezo Island?" Yue Shan couldn't help asking.

He only knew that Ezo Island was the Hokkaido of the later island country, and he knew nothing about it, let alone what was going on here in the early Tang Dynasty.

As for being able to raise horses here, I also know about it from online novels, but I don't know if it is possible to raise horses.

Li Shimin is also very concerned about this issue. Although he didn't speak, his eyes

"The general sent people to visit the island several times, and found that the island is very large, with a length and width of eight or nine hundred miles. There are mountains in the center, and large grasslands are surrounded by fertile water and grass." Liu Rengui introduced:
"In terms of climate and environment, it is similar to the northern grassland without considering the sea breeze. I think it is very suitable for raising horses."

"If this place is really transformed into that field, this place can at least provide tens of thousands of good horses for my Tang Dynasty every year."

Li Shimin said happily: "Okay, okay. I'll let the pastor send someone to go to the island with you to check the situation. If it's true as you said, you've done a great job."

"Thank you saint." Liu Rengui said happily.

"Is there anyone on the island? Have you been blocked by Fusang people when you landed on the island?" Yue Shan was not so optimistic and continued to ask.

(End of this chapter)