Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 490
(Today is still a chapter, brothers, there are some trivial things to deal with at home)
In Donglai County, Lai Huer and Yuan Hongsi, who were in charge of shipbuilding, were almost killing people.

Because the shipbuilding progress could not keep up, the emperor wanted [-] big ships, but less than [-] ships have been built so far, and the rest are still under construction.

Therefore, Lai Nuer can only force migrant workers to rush to work day and night, and he also lives in a barracks not far from the pier and personally supervises them.

Historically, 20 civilian laborers were used to build these [-] sea-going ships, and nearly half of them died. But this time, the situation was a little better because Lai Huer had some scruples.

Everyone knows that what the crown prince hates the most is the abuse of people's power. Once forced and persecuted, causing too many deaths, the crown prince will not be able to pass through. Moreover, with the lesson of the civil uprising in Hebei, Lai Huer will not dare to act recklessly.

The completed warships have been launched into the water for drills, so that the soldiers can adapt to naval warfare. After all, they are under the tent of the Jianghuai Navy. They used to ride the waves on the Yangtze River, and the waves on the sea are two different things.

However, many of the soldiers under his command are fishermen of the sea, and there are also many people who know the characteristics of the sea. Lai Huer selected some capable people from these people, and promoted them to be lieutenants in the army, responsible for assisting generals in training. soldiers.

A school lieutenant and a military school lieutenant are two different things. The former is an official establishment, while the latter is a temporary worker.

Of the [-] Jianghuai naval forces, [-] came to guard children, and the remaining [-] went to Zhou Fashang. Originally, the two were the chief and deputy chiefs, but later, according to the emperor's decree, they became the chief of Pyongyang Road and the chief of Canghai Road.

Such a change is of a different nature.

It is not suitable for the deputy chief executive to report to the emperor, and it is necessary to discuss it with the chief executive, but after Zhou Fashang led the way, he has a lot of self-decision-making power, which makes Lai Huer a headache.

Because these two people have always been at odds, he was afraid that he would not be able to control each other.

Regarding the conflict between the two, Lai Huer was not at fault. After all, Zhou Fashang had offended many people. Zuo Wuwei was a general under Liu Chang in the early years. After Liu Chang died, Pei Ju took over. Offended Pei Ju, he was kicked to Yongzhou (Lingling County) under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou as the general manager, so he was able to get close to Yang Ming.

Because Zhou Fashang was regarded as Shi Wansui's person, Yang Ming had been supporting him all the time, and he was considered a princeling at the moment.

In the barracks, Zhou Fa came uninvited and didn't need to talk to his son, so he sat down on his own, and then said:
"Our army has detected the Beishe Navy's activities in the open sea. Should we drive it away so that the enemy will not observe our military formation drills?"

In the barracks, almost all the people who came to take care of the children, more than 30, were either brothers and sons, or generals who had followed him for half his life, plus a few staff members.

Except for Lai'er, everyone in the hall turned a blind eye to Zhou Fashang, so what should they do.

Lai Huer put down the wooden stick in his hand, frowned and said: "I am not yet a sailor, so I am not suitable for going to sea. I just send some warships to guard them, and there is no need to drive them away."

Zhou Fashang pondered for a moment, nodded, and said: "In the future, our army's first battle will be in the Liaodong sea area. If we can deploy in advance and wipe out the Beishe navy in one fell swoop, the pressure will be much less when we enter the Weishui (outside Pyongyang) in the future."

Cousin Lai Chengmin hehe said:

"The Beishe Navy has only more than [-] sea-going ships. Once our army arrives, we must run away and rush to Pyongyang to join the Weishui Navy. Only then can we have the strength to fight. Manager Zhou's suggestion is good, but it won't work. Not stupid, sixty ships beat me to three hundred ships, what kind of general dares to issue such a military order?"

"You don't seem to understand me," Zhou Fashang said coldly, "I just said that it was deployed in advance. I knew the other party would run away, so why didn't I find a way to prevent him from running away?"

"The ocean is endless, my ship is too big, and the speed of the ship may not be superior. It is better to fight decisively than to chase the enemy," You Yuan said, "Besides, our task is to join the army of Chief Yuwen outside Pyongyang City. It is not advisable to spend time in the humble sea."

Zhou Fashang shook helplessly, feeling that talking to these two people was playing the piano to the cow, but Lai Huer understood what he meant, nodded and said:
"You can try it. In the first battle in the future, you can confuse the enemy army and lure them into my trap. If it succeeds, you can wipe it out in one fell swoop. Otherwise, you need to rush to Yishui immediately."

Zhou Fashang nodded: "That's what I mean. The timing of joining forces with the land main force must not be delayed."

"Boss Zhou made a mistake, why didn't I understand what you meant just now?" You Yuan said strangely.

Zhou Fashang snorted coldly: "You Shijun doesn't know how to use troops, so naturally he doesn't understand."

Look, can this temper not offend others?Who is You Yuan?Yushitai, who served as the secretary and servant of Yushi, has always been a family of officials and eunuchs. He was born in the You family in Guangping, that is, Wu'an County and Xiangguo County in Hebei.

This person is the emperor's confidant, and his job is to sue him. How dare you provoke him?

You Yuan was also annoyed: "As the chief of the navy, you are contemptuous of your colleagues and disrespectful to your superiors. I'm the first to say something ugly. If you dare to act recklessly, I will ask Your Majesty to deal with it according to the military law."

The corner of Zhou Fashang's mouth twitched and he didn't dare to speak.

In fact, You Yuan is not the kind of unreasonable person. His conciliator is actually qualified. After decades of officialdom, his skills as an official have been perfected. He just wants to scare Zhou Fashang. He doesn't really care about it. The other party's bad temper is completely the same as that of Shi Wansui. Such a person is not welcome, but respected.

Lai Hu'er smoothed things over and said: "Okay, okay, the discussion of the military account is to express their own opinions. Demai (Zhou Fashang's character) has this temperament, and you can't care about it."

You Yuan nodded: "I won't argue with him."

Other people's consolation envoys are arrogant ones, but the consolation envoys under Lai Huer's command are very honest. Do not deal with others.

When he came to Hu'er, he had received a message from the prince from the grandson Laiyu early on. The prince was hinting to him not to make things difficult for Zhou Fashang, and the two should cooperate well.

Of course, Zhou Fashang also received the prince's warning. From then on, Lai Huer felt that Zhou Fashang's attitude towards him had greatly improved. Unlike before, his nose was not his nose, and his face was not his face.

A top-level official like Lai Huer has already mastered his self-cultivation skills, so naturally he will not care about Zhou Fashang.

"Everyone might as well make a total calculation now, how to lure the enemy, if you can annihilate the Beishe Navy in one fell swoop as Demai said, the future battle of Weishui will be very easy."

In the barracks, dozens of people gathered together to discuss.

The Beishe navy hasn't left yet. In fact, it is investigating the movement of the Tai Sui navy, and Goguryeo already knows the marching sequence of Laihuer.

After all, Comrade Yang Guang has already announced it to the public.

The road that the navy took was called Canghai Road, and there were 8 sailors. From the number of people, Goguryeo can roughly judge how many sea ships there were in the Sui Dynasty.

Lai Huer's military position is the general manager of the Pyongyang Road Marching Army, and I know from this that he is going to fight Pyongyang.

For Comrade Yang Guang's playing cards, Lai Huer was also very helpless, but he got used to it.

The Beishe Marine Division is basically going to withdraw to Weishui, so how to encircle and kill, you need to set up an ambush on the sea route where the opponent retreats to Weishui.

Maritime marches will not be too far from the coastline to prevent accidents, so Lai Huer believes that at that time, a hundred ships should be sent directly to the Beishe navy station, and then ambushes should be set up along the coastal sea route to wait for the fleeing enemy to the Weishui River. If you can hit it, you will hit it, if you can't hit it, you will hurry to Xishui.

The sea is vast, let alone sixty boats, you have six hundred, and it is not easy to find, because the sea looks flat in a small area, but in a large area, the sea surface is curved.

That's why when you see a ship coming from a distance, you see the mast before you see the hull.

Because the earth is round, but Tai Sui didn't know it, and thought it was a seamount formed by ocean waves.

Under Lai Hu'er's tent, there are many people who are familiar with water warfare, and there are also many generals who are good at marching on land.

During Kaihuang's first expedition to Goguryeo, the commander of the navy was Zhou Luohou. This man was very powerful, but unfortunately he died, but his sons all knew water warfare. Among them, the eldest son Zhou Zhongan, the second son Zhou Zhongyin, and the third son Zhou Zhongyan , Zhou Zhongmou, who won the mantle the most and was reused by Yang Ming, is actually not very good.

Zhou Zhong'an is currently in Li Jing's department, but Zhou Zhongyin and Zhou Zhongyan are both here to protect the children.

"The last general thinks that if we fight like this, it's better to just give up on humble extravagance, go straight to the Weishui, and annihilate the main force of his navy in one fell swoop with the force of thunder," Zhou Zhongyin said: "Although there is a danger of being pinched, my big ship is strong, and the rear of the palace As long as the army deploys many buildings and ships, the enemy will not be able to break through our sea formation, but it can buy opportunities for the main force, and when they are successful, they will turn around and pack up to chase the enemy."

What he meant was to directly dry the Weishui, and if the Beishe Navy chased from behind, block it first, and then deal with the Beishe Navy after the main force of the Weishui was wiped out.

Zhou Fashang laughed and said: "It's actually not right. The enemy wants to join forces, and we also hope that they will join forces so that they can be wiped out in one fell swoop. My ship is tall and big, and the speed of the ship is at a disadvantage. If the enemy wants to flee at that time, I can't catch up with them." , and harass me frequently afterward, it will be very annoying."

"That's the reason," Lai Hu'er said with a smile: "So when we fight, we can only be surrounded, and we can't be attacked by the enemy. It's not because we can't be defeated, but because we can't catch up."

Zhou Zhongyin wondered: "Then why do we build so many large boats and boats instead of more fighting boats and boats?"

Don't ask me about this, it was decided by His Majesty, Lai Huer looked at Yuan Hongsi and said:
"Master Yuyang can answer him."

Why don't you answer, let me answer?Can I say this is what His Majesty meant?In this way, those generals who are familiar with water warfare will feel that His Majesty is messing with command?

So he said in a perfunctory way: "For a decisive battle, it is natural to use a big ship, that's the reason."

Your reasoning is untenable, Zhou Zhongyin wanted to ask again, but was kicked by his younger brother, and swallowed back the words that came to his lips with a puzzled expression.

The reason why Yang Guang ordered to build more large ships was because the large ships looked mighty and majestic and could withstand wind and waves at sea, and the battle to destroy the Chenjiang River that year was indeed the role of the five-tooth ship, so he felt that the bigger the ship, the better.

As a result, the Tai Sui Navy has a major flaw, the speed is not good.

Of course, it's not that Yang Guang really doesn't understand, but that the Navy's established strategy is to enter Pyongyang and join forces with Yu Wenshu. The ship is too small to transport so many troops.

Rather than saying that the army of Hu'er is a navy, it is better to say that the army is the main force and the navy is the auxiliary.

The main task of people coming to protect children is to fight Pyongyang, and the Yishui navy is just an appetizer.

In history, the Sui Dynasty attacked Goguryeo for the first time. Without waiting for reinforcements, Lai Huer directly attacked Pyongyang City after breaking the Yishui Navy, and he did break into the outer city.

However, this is a tactic to lure the enemy to go deep. The reason why Laihuer dared to enter was because he found out that the main force of the king's army in Goguryeo had set up an army in Sashui, north of Pyongyang, and fought with Yu Wenshu, so he thought that Pyongyang City was empty. of.

After entering the outer city, Lai Huer's army thought that the soldiers of Goguryeo had run away, so they looted wantonly in the outer city, but they were eaten bit by bit.

Of the 4 people who entered the city, Lai Huer only ran out with more than [-] people. If Zhou Fashang hadn't lined up to wait, he would have been eaten by the pursuers behind him.

It was Zhou Fashang who saved his life. That's why, the second time and the third time they fought Goguryeo, Lai Huer and Zhou Fashang partnered with the Navy, and the two brothers had a tacit understanding.

On the Luoyang side, Yang Guang was preparing his edict to conquer Goguryeo, which was written by a group of talented literati from the Ministry of Internal History, and Yang Guang was correcting it.

For an edict like this, every word needs to be carefully considered. It is necessary to find a legitimate reason for the expedition to Goguryeo. It cannot be said that I am not happy with it, so I have to fight it.

Because the edict is not only for the people of the Sui Dynasty, but also for all the surrounding countries to see. It must be upright, as if I would be guilty if I didn't fight Goguryeo.

"Your Majesty, what do you think of this sentence?" Lu Chu presented the beginning of Yu Shinan's main pen to the emperor.

After Yang Guang glanced at it, he threw it away:
"not good."

This is already the 11th time he has killed No. [-]. The people from the Ministry of Internal History usually draft the emperor's edict. Let Yang Guang be satisfied.

Yu Shinan sighed, took up writing again, and planned to think about it again.

Pei Ju and Xue Daoheng who were present looked at each other and remained silent. These two people have grown up now. Yang Guang called them here to help with the deliberation because they did this before.

Especially Xue Daoheng, Yang Jian wrote all the edicts, edicts and edicts. He was an expert among the experts when he wrote this, so he was summoned from the capital by Yang Guangda all the way.

But today, he didn't speak much, because he guessed that the emperor had his own ideas in mind.

Of course Pei Ju also guessed it, so he said with a smile: "Your Majesty might as well write an article, so that we can know the essence and start writing."

Yang Guang chuckled, came to the desk, took the pen handed by Lu Chu, pondered for a moment, and wrote the first sentence:
The great virtues of the heavens and the earth, the frost falls on the autumn decree, the sages are the most benevolent, and the armored soldiers are in the punishment code.Therefore, we know that in good fortune there is killing, righteousness lies in selflessness, and the use of weapons by emperors is not for oneself.

Either Yang Guang is really talented, and his knowledge is definitely ranked among the Chinese emperors of all dynasties.

This sentence means that the heaven and the earth have kindness to the people, and they will also rain frost in autumn. The sages are benevolent, and the matter of arming and war must also be written into the law. , This is selflessness, and the emperor has no choice but to resort to violence.

Well, he made a head start for himself first, meaning that I hit it, not because I wanted to hit it, but because I obeyed the destiny and had to hit it, this is the meaning of God.

After Xue Daoheng came over to read this sentence, he immediately guessed that the emperor already had a draft in his heart, because Yang Guang wrote this sentence in one go, without any mistakes.

Because Xue Daoheng's old job is to do this, what is drafting?It's just a draft, and there are often changes, so there is no time to accomplish it overnight.

"Heaven and earth have chills, and emperors also have chills. Good! Your Majesty's sentence has the meaning of inheriting the destiny, and there is no need to change a single word," Xue Daoheng admired sincerely.

When a person who has never flattered him said such a sentence, Yang Guang was overjoyed and said with a smile:

"Xuanqing is a master of this way, can't he change a single word?"

Xue Daoheng shook his head: "I can't change every word."

Pei Ju and others hurriedly flattered, and Yang Guang was so happy that he picked up his pen and said again;
Banquan, Danpu, Mo Bandit Gong Xing, take the chaos and overturn the faint, salty and smooth.What's more, Gan Ye swore to be a teacher, Xia Kai inherited Dayu's career, Shangjiao questioned his crimes, and Zhou made the ambition of King Wen.Before the eternal prison, it is my bow.

This sentence means that the battle of Banquan (the battle between the emperor and Emperor Yan) and the battle of Danpu (the battle between Yao's eldest son Danzhu and Shun) were all wars in accordance with God's will. Dayu's career, the outskirts of the Shang area to punish King Zhou, Ji Fa fulfilled his father's behest, drawing on the records of previous generations, the mission of crusade against Goguryeo this time just fell on my head, I can't do it if I don't go.

Yang Guang's sentence mostly refers to ancient wars, and they are all about justice and injustice, so there is nothing to criticize.

"Your Majesty, you might as well finish it all in one go. I'll read it carefully later to see if there are any things that need to be changed." Pei Ju meant, hurry up and write, you already have a draft, so why bother?It's getting dark, and I have to go home.

Yang Guang laughed: "Don't be in a hurry."

After all, just pick up the pen and write.

After a while, the 68-character edict of Goguryeo was completed, and all the ministers came up to watch.

Yang Guangchang heaved a sigh of relief, put down his pen, and said with a smile:
"I gnash my teeth and hate the cunning thief of Goguryeo, so I can complete this imperial edict overnight."

The corner of Xue Daoheng's mouth twitched, you are really hypocritical, you have been thinking about this edict for at least a month.

But, it is indeed very well written, there is no need to pick it.

One of the sentences reads: The Koryo clown, who is unconscious and disrespectful, worships the gathering between Bo and Jie, and recommends food in the Liao and Yusui realms. Although Han and Wei are slaughtered, their nests are temporarily dumped, and there are many obstacles in disorder, and the seeds are still gathered.
Let Xue Daoheng directly applaud.

Anyway, the entire edict has one meaning, if you don’t hit Goguryeo, I’m sorry for heaven and earth, sages, benevolent emperors of all dynasties, former emperors, common people and myself.

Goguryeo must be fought.

　That's why I never dared to ask for monthly tickets and tips, because the update is so hip, haha, alas, there is no way, once a man gets married, he will be free.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)