Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 154 Warships, Technology, and Commerce
Everything is going on in an orderly manner.

Since Qi Jiguang was summoned, he lived at the ferry every day, studying the design of warships.Soon, within a few days, he sent a report to Su Yuan, providing several design drawings of the ship.

Su Yuan didn't know much about ancient ships. Only after reading the report sent by Qi Jiguang did he realize that there were so many classifications.For example, ships include warships, horse boats, passenger boats, and grain boats.There is also a comprehensive type of giant ship-treasure ship.

These types of ships have their own strengths, among which Su Yuan pays attention to the boat.

Horse boats and grain boats are not the focus, because Su Yuan has considered that there is no need to build too many boats, because all the summoned soldiers are tied to him alone.

This meant that as long as he crossed the river alone, he could use the Heavenly Soldiers Talisman to summon soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of summoned soldiers appeared in Jiangnan in an instant.

From this point of view, it seems that there is no need to build a ship, just get a small boat, and he will sit on it and float to a certain ferry in the south of the Yangtze River.

But there are many problems in doing so. First of all, he has a lot of real soldiers. If he keeps serving as a garrison and does not fight, his combat effectiveness will become weaker and weaker.In addition, building a large ship that can sail for a long distance and for a long time is something that needs to be done sooner or later.If you don't do it now, you will do it later.

His goal is not just a Jiangnan, for the current Su Yuan, he doesn't even pay much attention to Jiangnan.His sight was going to cross the ocean and reach several other continents.

It is not enough to have only one big week, his goal is the whole world, the whole planet.He wants to let the beautiful light shine on any corner of the world, which is his ultimate vision and goal.

In the spirit of advancing towards this goal, the big ship must also be built.

But for now, he still asked Qi Jiguang to mainly build strong warships, and put everything else aside for the time being.

Especially the treasure ship, this kind of super-large ship, its fundamental purpose is not to fight, it is more like a symbol of showing off national power.If you want to go to a certain overseas country and get a big treasure ship to go there, it may amaze everyone in the other country.

But if it is used for fighting, this kind of big treasure ship will appear cumbersome.

Su Yuan is not in the mood to "show off his strength" or "show off his muscles" right now. All his resources must be invested in the most practical things now.The most important thing at the moment is to let Qi Jiguang build a team of warships that can be used for actual combat as soon as possible.

After writing down his opinion and sending it to Qi Jiguang, Su Yuan met Shen Lian again.

"My lord, I have dealt with everything you told me." Shen Lian said.

During this period of time, Shen Lian has been very busy every day, mainly dealing with those sinners.

Those who died in the "Tianjie Stepping to the Bone" that day were all high-ranking court officials, and those with lower ranks were not qualified to die like this.In addition, there are many wealthy businessmen and the local thugs they raise, all of which need to be dealt with.

Su Yuan handed over this matter to Shen Lian. After several days of busy work, he finally took care of everything.

In this way, the capital city has been "purified". It cannot be said that all the evils have been eradicated, but at least the suffocating air has been refreshed.It will be smoother to start work in the future.

In addition to reporting this matter, Shen Lian had one more thing to report.

He took out a piece of information: "My lord, this is from Xuzhou."

Su Yuan took over to check. It turned out that the Jinyiwei lurking in Xuzhou had already found out that Xuzhou State Mu Songqian and his family had secretly left Xuzhou three days ago and crossed the river to go to the south of the Yangtze River.

Now the internal management of the entire Xuzhou is in chaos, several generals are fighting for military power, and there is even a civil strife, killing and injuring thousands of people.

"It's about the same as I thought." Su Yuan said after reading it.

He had known for a long time that Song Qian would run away with high probability, and if he ran, Xuzhou would naturally be in chaos.

Not only Song Qian, but Zhou Mu of Qinzhou might also run away. These guys don't care about the safety of the people, they put their wealth and life first.

"My lord, the state shepherd has run away, should we take Xuzhou down?" Shen Lian asked.

Su Yuan nodded: "Well, it is indeed possible. I estimate that as soon as the Bei'an army passes by, most of the cities should surrender."

Escaping is a chain reaction. If the state shepherd escapes, the senior generals under him must also flee.Running around, the rest have no courage to start a war with the Bei'an Army, the only way to go is to surrender obediently.

Su Yuan went to Lu Wuyou with the information, and told him about it, Lu Wuyou said with a smile: "My lord, I think this time let General Chu go. You don't know, those days when you fought in the capital, Chu The general has been writing to me complaining why he is not allowed to go to the front too, he is going to be bored to death."

"That's it, then let Changning go." Su Yuan didn't object.

This kind of battle is not a tough battle, and Chu Changning is fully capable of it.If it was a more difficult battle, he would have to let Zhao Yun or Li Yuanba go.

"My lord, why don't you let General Chu lead the army to fight." Lu Wuyou said, "When General Chu defeated the Beirong, he collected a large number of Rong tribes, and there were tens of thousands of warriors in total. Little power."

"Is it the Rongren Corps? It's not impossible. But the monitoring team must be my own."

"It's natural."

Lu Wuyou knew that what Su Yuan referred to as "our own people" were those who were absolutely loyal to him.Regarding these people, he never asked, because he knew that it belonged to Su Yuan's own secret, even if he asked the latter, he would not tell it, and it would create a rift between the two.

As a smart person, Lu Wuyou would not do such a stupid thing.

Su Yuan can rest assured only when there are surveillance troops following him. This is his consistent principle.

It's not that he doesn't trust Chu Changning or other generals, but that real people will inevitably act impulsively sometimes when their blood is high.Su Yuan didn't want any general under his command to create a tragedy like massacre under his agitation.

The summon soldiers he sent as supervisors were to prevent such things from happening.

Su Yuan asked Lu Wuyou to revise a book and send it to Qingzhou to Chu Changning. Then, just as Su Yuan arrived, Lu Wuyou talked about another matter.

"My lord, do you know about overseas and western countries?"

"Well, I know something."

Su Yuan has learned about overseas western countries. He has always believed that this world is a parallel world to his home earth, so if there is something in his home earth, this world should also have it.

In this way, there should be several continents overseas in this world, among which are many countries.However, it is impossible to generalize which countries are there and how far their civilization has developed.

At least from Su Yuan's point of view, Da Zhou's technological level is average, or even a bit poor. Up to now, he doesn't even have the most basic firearms.

Su Yuan thought about this question himself. Does he think it has something to do with martial arts?
Because in this world, martial arts, internal strength, and internal strength all really exist, and in the eyes of the world, these are the embodiment of "high force".Maybe because of the presence of masters in the world, people think that if you want to have high personal strength, you can go to the sect to practice martial arts, and there is no need to study any machinery.

It's like practicing to the innate level, you can release your internal strength to the outside, and the effect is somewhat equivalent to a gun.A master master can attack enemies dozens or hundreds of meters away with one palm, isn't it equivalent to a gun?

A master master, the explosion created by swiping his palm is not inferior to a grenade.

As for a land god like his Grand Master, it is even more difficult to imagine how strong it is, maybe even ordinary modern weapons can't do anything to her.

Perhaps it is because of the existence of martial arts that suppresses people's imagination for firearms, making them only limited to bows and crossbows.

But it also made Su Yuan wonder, would this be a special case of the Great Zhou and Eastern countries?
If martial arts were true in the Great Zhou Dynasty, then would Rudong Wa really have "ninjutsu"?In Tianzhu, is there really "Chakra"?
Is there really a "Holy Word Art" in overseas western countries?
But right now, from the several visits to Dazhou from overseas western countries, it can be seen that its technological civilization, at least in terms of sea-going ships, is higher than that of Dazhou.

Lu Wuyou said at this time: "Yesterday, the Saxon businessman visited me. He first expressed his congratulations on our seizure of the 'power'. Then he hoped that we could open the port and conduct free trade with their Saxon country."

Su Yuan asked, "Wuyou, what do you mean?"

Lu Wuyou said: "My lord, I think we should open up. The purpose of opening ports is not only to make money, but also to allow some local products from overseas Western countries to spread, so that we can deepen our understanding of them. The lord once said, 'Know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles', I think understanding is the first step to victory."

Su Yuan took a deep look at him, and said with a smile, "Wuyou, you've already made up your mind about the Saxon Kingdom."

Lu Wuyou also laughed: "It's not that I'm trying to trick others, it's the prince who is plotting against others. I just want to help the prince."

"Well." Su Yuan admitted frankly, "We can't just fight for the people in this land. In another land, there are also people who are oppressed by princes and nobles. Maybe they have other names for princes and nobles." Law, dukes, kings, etc. But it's all essentially the same."

"My lord has lofty ideals, and my subordinates admire them." Lu Wuyou said, "Then your subordinates have been negotiating tariffs with that Saxon businessman in the past two days?"

"Yes. When the businessman came to you earlier, did he say what he wanted to import?"

Lu Wuyou thought for a while, and said: "He said he was very fond of our porcelain and silk. He said that these can be sold at sky-high prices in Saxon. But we don't know much about Saxon, so we don't know what to import from them, my lord. Any comments?"

Su Yuandao: "We must have technology. No matter what the technology is, as long as it is better than ours, we will."

"My subordinate understands."

　Remarks:
　　1. The state is not good these few days, every day is [-] words... Qidou will adjust the state as soon as possible, and return to the daily update of [-] words as soon as possible

　　2. Thank you for your support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)