nanming man

Chapter 970
When Gao Yihuan and his party came to the shore, the first thing they saw was not the shipbuilding workshop, but the water village of Wei Jun's navy.

After Gao Yihuan collected Shandong and Hebei, he immediately asked the Ministry of War to gather the captured ships and sailors to form the Beiyang Navy.

The navy uses Dengzhou, Shandong as its main base, and plans to train at least 3 people. Haizhou is also a base for the Beiyang Navy.

Gao Yihuan has high hopes for this navy. In the future, he will not only undertake the heavy task of crossing the sea to attack Liaodong and North Korea, but also go south to fight against the Ming navy.

When all this is over, Gao Yihuan also hopes that they can join the great voyage, travel all over the world, and promote the majesty of the Great Wei.

At this time, Gao Yihuan and his party galloped to the shore, and the soldiers of the Wei army, who were transferred from the [-] land division to the navy, were standing in the sea breeze and practicing.

The [-] soldiers of the Wei army were elite infantry transferred to the navy. They were good fighters on land, but they were new soldiers at sea.

Although the Ministry of War has tried its best to choose soldiers who can swim, but it is still not something that can be achieved in a short time if they want to form combat power.

Gao Yihuan looked at the soldiers performing the exercise from a distance, and heard the general's roar, "We have changed from infantry to navy, you and this general are both newcomers, but we are tigers on land, and we will be tigers when we go to sea." , You can’t be a landlubber. Our Wei infantry is invincible in the world, relying on training, and now as a navy, I think the same is true, just one word "practice". You bastards, cheer me up."

Gao Yihuan didn't go to check the training of the navy soldiers. He didn't understand it himself, and he went blindly when he went. Wei Jun lacked navy generals, so now he can only cross the river by feeling the stones.

Gao Yihuan glanced at the soldiers standing upright, turned to Huang Bingzhong and said, "Is there a fort built at the entrance of the harbor?"

Huang Bingzhong was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head, "Report to Your Majesty, no fort was built."

Gao Yihuan sighed in his heart, the generals of the Wei army were good at land warfare, but they were completely ignorant of the threats at sea.

This made him worry about his maritime hegemony. Without talents, how could Wei Wei rule the sea?
"Mr. Chen, let the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry coordinate and dispatch manpower to build forts wherever the navy berths and control the port. Now our navy is still very weak and needs the protection of forts to prevent future Army sailors, enter the port and destroy the warship!" Gao Yihuan ordered in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty has considered it thoroughly, and the cabinet will follow suit as soon as possible." Chen Mingxia took the order.

Gao Yihuan nodded slightly, and galloped to the ruins of the Haizhou Shipbuilding Workshop with the others.

Haizhou is probably where Lianyungang is today. There used to be some shipbuilding workshops here. In its heyday, there were thousands of craftsmen who could build warships across the Bohai Sea. However, it was destroyed once before, and now there are only wreckage left.

Gao Yihuan valued the navy very much. After Wei Jun accepted the place, the county magistrate organized manpower to clean up the workshop.

When Gao Yihuan and his party galloped over, they could see red flags planted all over a large area in the distance, and crowds of people were clearing the wood in the workshop, repairing the dilapidated workshop and slipway.

The peasants lifted up the logs one by one, piled them together, and built huts to shelter from the wind and rain. The busy scene was accompanied by the music of the theater troupe.

Gao Yihuan smiled slightly, "Is the county magistrate of Haizhou from the Department of Discipline?"

Chen Mingxia said: "This year, the Ministry of Officials has promoted a large number of officials to Hebei and Shandong to handle local affairs. The county magistrate of Haizhou is from the Department of Discipline and Education. His surname is Sun, his name is Dingli, and his character is Changwen."

Just as he was saying this, a dark man with a mustache hurried up to greet him, knelt down and saluted, "I pay my respects to Your Majesty."

Gao Yihuan smiled slightly: "Sun Qing, please get up."

Seeing that the emperor knew his surname, Sun Dingli was a little excited, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Gao Yihuan nodded slightly, "How is the situation here? The Qing family tell me."

At the moment when the whole group got off their horses, Sun Dingli walked beside Gao Yihuan, and introduced: "Your Majesty, I have consulted the county annals of Haizhou. It used to be possible to build large ships with more than 12 materials here, and there were five or six thousand craftsmen, but such a large-scale The shipbuilding workshop was burned down by the Tatars in the [-]th year of Chongzhen. Now there are only some ruins and scattered wood.”

Hearing what he said, Gao Yihuan's heart turned cold, and he frowned and asked, "In this case, is it worth rebuilding this shipyard?"

Sun Dingli was serious, and he replied seriously: "Your Majesty, I think it is worth rebuilding. Although the workshop was destroyed, the craftsmen are still there, and as long as the people are there, the workshop is built, and the ship can be rebuilt soon."

Gao Yihuan frowned, a little surprised, "The craftsman is still there?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the Qing army first invaded Shandong, and then went south to Haizhou. At that time, the craftsmen in Haizhou, after learning that the Qing army had entered Shandong, went south to seek refuge one after another. The Qing army occupied Haizhou and burned the workshops. After evacuating from Haizhou, these craftsmen returned one after another, but the workshops disappeared, and the household registration system of the Ming court collapsed, and no one managed them, so the craftsmen all went to farm. After the minister arrived in Haizhou, through visits, Nearly a thousand craftsmen have been found."

After Gao Yihuan heard it, his face was overjoyed, "Good! Good! Not bad!" He praised a few times in a row, then turned his head and told Chen Mingxia: "If there are any difficulties and requirements in Haizhou, the cabinet should try its best to meet them."

As he spoke, he looked at Sun Dingli again and said, "I will hand over this workshop to Sun Qing. If Qing's family has any difficulties, just write a letter. If the cabinet doesn't solve it, you can come to me!"

Sun Dingli was overjoyed after hearing this, "If so, I will definitely restore the workshop for Wei."

Speaking of Gao Yihuan and his party, they walked to several piles of wood covered with oilcloth, stretched out their hands and opened them, and there were thick and heavy logs underneath.

Sun Dingli introduced: "Your Majesty, it turned out that there was not only this little wood here, most of it was burned by the Qing army, and the rest was stolen by the nearby people and returned home. This is all I have found now. They are all naturally dried in the shade and can be used at any time. .”

Gao Yihuan looked at the surrounding wood piles and nodded slightly. According to his understanding, the villagers hadn't all moved back home, so they were already merciful and the folk customs were simple.

"I allocated a soldier in Haizhou to guard the workshop. Forget about the wood that was stolen before. If you steal it now, you will be severely punished!" Gao Yihuan said in a deep voice.

At present, under the leadership of Sun Dingli, Gao Yihuan inspected the workshop. The whole workshop is still a construction site, and there is actually nothing to see.

Gao Yihuan greeted the folk husbands, met several craftsmen, and expressed that he would give them the treatment of the craftsmen of the Great Wei, which immediately aroused a burst of cheers.

The state of Wei abolished the original craftsman registration, terminated the system of craftsmen from generation to generation, and changed it to a fluid craftsman household hierarchy. To be a craftsman, you must first obtain a certificate, from apprentice to master, and then to master craftsman. , and the grades obtained by the parents cannot be passed on to the children and grandchildren.

Of course, to implement such a system, it is necessary to improve the treatment of artisan households to attract ordinary people to take the artisan registration test, so that the artisan registration, like the imperial examination, becomes a channel for the lower class people to move upward.

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After Gao Yihuan conducted an inspection in Haizhou, he continued to go south, and within a few days he arrived at Qinghe County, north of Huai'an.

The Wei army camps are scattered all over here, and the cavalry gallops along the Huaihe River. On the south bank of the Huaihe River, the Ming army also battalions for hundreds of miles, with warships shuttling in the river, and the atmosphere is tense.

At this time, Gao Yihuan, followed by hundreds of cavalry, galloped to a hill on the north bank of the Huaihe River.

Gao Yihuan and others dismounted from their horses, climbed to the top of the hill, and observed the opposite bank with binoculars. They saw that there were densely packed tents, and Ming soldiers entered and exited the camp like ants.

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, "Heihu, how is the defense line of the Ming army?"

Xu Heihu said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the defense line of the Ming army mainly relies on the navy in the river. I once sent troops to force the crossing, and [-]% of the soldiers and horses crossed. Suddenly, the warship of the Ming army came, knocked over the warship, cut off the connection between the two banks, and crossed over. All of my brothers were encircled by the Ming army, and none of them came back."

Gao Yihuan's face was gloomy. Looking at a huge warship with Western characteristics in the river, he couldn't help being taken aback, and asked, "Whose ship is that?"

Xu Heihu glanced at it, and said angrily, "It's the boat of Zheng's family in Fujian!"

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