Do you know: I have a different surname: Wang, uncle Minglan.

Chapter 187: Writing "Cao Hai Tu Bian" and "New Book of Discipline School"

Wei Yuan came all the way from Haizhou to the coast and saw that the coastal defenses in various places were in decay. If he wanted to completely change this situation, he had to find another way.

Cheng Jian Shuijun is one way.

He wanted to change the southeast coast's strategy against Japanese pirates from defense to offense.

There is no better defense than offense. This sentence is most appropriate when it comes to the issue of Japanese pirates.

"How much do you know about Penghu Island? Tell me about it."

The official name of that place in the Zhou Dynasty is 'Penghu Island', also known as the Penghu Islands. Most people call it 'Yizhou' and 'Ryukyu'.

Hu Yanzhong responded: "There are about five thousand Zhou people on Penghu Island, and there are about two or three thousand people from overseas countries."

"Since the last navy of our Great Zhou Dynasty went to Penghu, the army there is basically based on the inheritance system. Elders are inherited by their sons, and the number of soldiers is maintained at about 1,500."

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They all collected horses, weapons, and military books and wanted to give them to him.

With the opening of maritime transportation, many overseas countries, such as Japan, Persia, Chenla, Jiaozhi, Johor, Java, Tianzhu, etc., all wanted to take the lead in opening maritime trade relations with the Zhou Dynasty.

Now, almost all the people from various countries responsible for building the post station in the southeast are in place, and they all want to meet Wei Yuan, the great official of the border area.

He even brought some outstanding-looking women from his own country.

They believed that because Wei Yuan was able to spend a lot of money in a brothel, he must also be a greedy and lustful person.

In this way, a lot of trouble will be saved when trading with Da Zhou.

Even during the Chinese New Year, some overseas countries who came to congratulate Zhou Dynasty were inquiring about Wei Yuan's preferences.

As long as the reputation of Hangzhou Prefecture remains, the two Zhejiang Roads will never be poor.

In the remaining days, Wei Yuan took Hu Yanzhong to other state capitals along the seaside and saw many coastal defenses.

It has to be said that Cai Xiang, the Fujian Road transfer envoy, is still very concerned about coastal defense.

As a result, they began to write to the court, expressing their intention to establish post stations, or embassies, from various countries in the southeast.

"That island can only belong to me, Da Zhou."

But Fujian Road doesn’t work.

Nowadays, many people on Penghu Island still call themselves "Tang people". There is no clear official document restricting this, so the Zhou Dynasty simply let them go.

I hope that the beauties from their country they brought will be favored by Wei Yuan.

After all, for the people in Fujian, they do not have many resources, and most of them can only rely on the sea to survive.

Unlike Liangzhe Road, there is a paradise like Hangzhou.

As long as we leave the sea, many people will starve to death on Fujian Road.

During this period of time, except for officials and merchants from various places who wanted to see Wei Yuan.

There are also many envoys from overseas countries.

After hearing the general situation in Yizhou, Wei Yuan nodded and said:
"As long as there is one of my people in the Great Zhou Dynasty on that island, we must protect the island."

He didn't know what they were thinking, but he had no plans to see them in the short term.

After inspecting all coastal defense matters along the southeast coast, Wei Yuan set off back to Fuzhou.

During this period in the southeast, he will use Fuzhou as his base camp to remotely direct the Japanese extermination affairs in various places.

On the way back, Wei Yuan asked Hu Yanzhong to sit in his chariot. Hu Yanzhong was flattered.

The former asked: "You followed me to many coastal state capitals and saw their construction of coastal defenses. What do you think?"

Hu Yanzhong said bluntly: "Without defense, in the end we can only continue to maintain many coastal defense constructions, such as observation towers, bunkers, etc., which are no less than the construction of the Great Wall."

"If this goes on for a long time, it will bring down the strategies of various places. Moreover, it will be difficult to control the growth of Japanese pirates with just a blind defense."

Not all Japanese pirates are Japanese, there are also many people from overseas countries.

They all covet the wealth possessed by Dazhou.

Wei Yuan nodded, "You're right. If you don't defend yourself, you can only remain stubborn."

"Dazhou needs its own navy, and it also needs to continue to prosper."

When he returned to Fuzhou, Cai Xiang had been waiting outside Fuzhou Haiphong Camp for a long time.
"Commander Wei has been to the important coastal defense town of Fuzhou in the past few days. I wonder if he can still satisfy Commander Wei?"

Wei Yuan said: "In terms of dealing with Japanese pirates, you Fujian Road gave a very good answer."

There is nothing more satisfying than being recognized by your boss.

Cai Xiang said with a smile: "Commander Wei has given you the reward. By the way, I heard that Lord Fan went to Hangzhou again." To Hangzhou?

Wei Yuan said thoughtfully: "I will do what I promised you."

Cai Xiang's face lit up. This was what he was most worried about. "Please rest assured, Commander Wei, I will always follow your lead, Commander Wei, on our way to Fujian."

Seeing that they could not win over Wei Yuan, Liangzhe Road naturally had no choice but to win over Fan Chunren.

Moreover, Fan Chunren could win the hearts of the people with his father's name, but if he didn't, he would not be able to defeat Wei Yuan, who had military power.

But for Wei Yuan and Fan Chunren, they had no intention of fighting.

After all, for people in their position, everything must be based on 'national policy'.

Only those who can only see the mouth of the well, or those with lower rankings, will think about political struggles and conspiracies everywhere.

In fact, the higher the position, the more disdainful people are of using any tactics. Everything they do must be upright and aboveboard.

And those people call this 'yang conspiracy'.

After Cai Xiang left, Wei Yuan invited a person who was good at painting in Fuzhou City and asked him to describe the existing coastal defense illustrations in various places based on his own dictation.

After that, based on what he saw and heard on Fujian Road and Hu Yanzhong's thoughts, as well as his "forward-looking vision", he asked the painter to draw illustrations of coastal defenses in various places that still needed to be rectified.

Compare before and after and make a judgment.

Yang Huairen saw the names of these illustrations and murmured:
"Lianghuai Road Haizhou Shansha Coastal Defense Illustrated Map? This picture shows the existing coastal defense illustrated book. This picture shows the layout of bunkers, observation towers, etc., which is quite novel and similar to Fuzhou. If it is built according to this picture, Haizhou University Part of the coastal defense line will be worry-free in the short term.”

"Commander Wei drew two illustrations of coastal defense for each coastal state capital. One is the existing one, and the other is the future coastal defense construction in each coastal area?"

"Through the comparison of pictures, the observer can clearly see the difference, which is wonderful."

He was really amazed.

Could it be that one of the purposes of Commander Wei, who traveled all the way from Haizhou to the coast to inspect coastal defenses in various places, was to perfect this illustrated guide?
Wei Yuan said: "This is just the first step. Please don't let anyone disturb me during this period."

Yang Huairen nodded and bowed: "No."

"By the way, Xie Wu came to report that the Japanese pirates in Yongjia County have been completely eliminated. There are dozens of surrenders. Some Japanese envoys negotiated with us and said that they hope that those Japanese pirates can be handed over to them."

"Xie Wu wants to ask what you mean. Do you want to hand over this person or not?"

Wei Yuan shook his head and said: "The Japanese like the sea so much, so let's sink them into the sea."

"There is no need to report this kind of thing to me from now on. I have said that the Japanese pirates in Dazhou should not survive."

Yang Huairen clasped his fists and said, "No."

A few days later.

Wei Yuan has been working on the compilation of "Cao Hai Tu Bian".

The so-called sea map compilation is a coastal military atlas that he compiled by collecting relevant data on coastal defense along the coast.

This mainly involves his thoughts on future coastal defense improvements along the southeastern coast.

This compilation of pictures is to be presented to Zhao Zhen for viewing. It is related to the great cause of coastal defense and the establishment of the navy in the future, and there is no room for sloppiness.

The contents of "Caohai Map" include "Complete Map of Geographical Map", "Coastal Mountain and Sand Map", "Coastal County Map", "Japanese Island Barbarians Invading Bandits", etc., which is composed of hundreds of pictures.

The so-called map of the Japanese invaders refers to some places where Wei Yuan learned from the heads of coastal defense camps in various places that Japanese pirates often landed.

The rest of the drawings show the current coastal defense construction, as well as the macro-intentions for future construction.

Originally, the "Cao Hai Tu Bian" was compiled by Hu Zongxian, a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty in previous history.

Wei Yuan made innovations based on the actual situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty, focusing only on matters related to future coastal defense construction, and omitting the description of some deeds of fighting against Japanese pirates, as well as contacts with the Japanese state.

To put it bluntly, he compiled this sea map to reflect his own understanding of coastal defense construction. He hoped that Zhao Zhen could clearly decree that the coastal defenses in the future would be built according to this map.

This illustration focuses on defense.

But Wei Yuan had said before that blindly defending would not work.

After completing "Cao Hai Tu Bian", Wei Yuan wrote four big characters on a new page of paper, "Ji Xiao New Book", and murmured to himself:
"Whether the naval army can be successfully established depends on you."

He wanted to write down all his experiences during the past few days of inspecting the coastal defenses of the various states and some of Hu Yanzhong's techniques and achievements in training the navy.

After all, it is somewhat unrealistic to want to reproduce the new book of chronicles written by Qi Jiguang in the history of the previous life.

He can only write a new book that is suitable for this era based on his own ideas.

This book focuses on describing the method of training naval forces and the importance of establishing a naval army.

(End of this chapter)