As soon as the king's army arrived, the barbarians scattered like birds and beasts. Before the smoke in the bay had dispersed, the cheers of soldiers and merchants came to the city. The war was reversed like this, and it was unimaginable, including Ouzhe. But for the mercenaries on the Taotie cargo ship behind, this was not good news. The price given by the employers was not high, and the lowest level was only pitiful half a stone millet every day. Fortunately, the food, weapons, and armor were provided by the merchants. In wartime, the winners would be given additional rewards and spoils.

Most of the people who went out of the sea were Yue people, and all the Yue people were communicated by sea. The Chu people rarely went out of the sea. However, few people of Yue people had read books, not to mention that after the annexation of Yue Kingdom, the Zhou Shi was commanded by the Chu people, and Ouzhe was only after the surrender of Yue Kingdom. No one dared to speak out about the difference between Chu and Yue, although they knew very well. Hong Yun bowed and shouted: "I respectfully accept the order!"

"How many ships can I fight in Chu State?" As Xiong Jing asked, the five temple people were moving again. They ran from the side of the ship to the side of the ship, constantly shaking the warship. The shaking hands under the deck were a little panicked. The left and right behind Gongshujian and Xiong Jing were the people of the temple began to seasick, but Xiong Jing was still standing steadily, and these people could only hold on.

"To be honest, you will not punish your sins." Xiong Jing added another sentence, worried that the Red Wall would lie.

"My name..." Honghua is also a child of the public clan. His ancestor was Xiong Zhi, the second son of Xiong Qu, who claimed to be "I am a barbarian".

After Xiong Qu died, his eldest son died young, Xiong Zhi ascended the throne, and his third son Xiong Yan was dissatisfied and thus seized the throne. In fact, the so-called coup was just a battle between those who supported Xiong Zhi and those who supported Xiong Yan. It is even very likely that the two of them had a duel in front of the people of the Duke clan, using their lives and deaths to determine who the king of Chu was. In the early Chu State, many tribal customs were preserved, and Xiang Yu later still used to using this "single duel" to determine the overlords of the world.

The strong are respected, and all the people who are victorious will be surrendered to the tribe and the people who are defeated will not be killed. After Xiong Zhi's death, his descendants still survived, but did not dare to be Xiong again. Instead, he used his father's name Hong as his clan to show his submission to the new king.

The ancestors had such a history. Hong Shu was extremely cautious and cautious so much that he was a little introverted. After Xiong Jing finished speaking, he still hesitated for a while before saying, "Tell the king: Although there are more than 1,500 warships in the boat army, this is the number eighty years ago. The ships that were eighty years ago had already rotted, and the boat army's ships were all built several years ago, and there were more than 1,000 ships. However, the warships decayed very quickly. So far, there are only 509 ships left, and less than half of them were fighting, including 121 large wings, 150 middle wings, and 238 small wings."

"Only five hundred and nine ships?" Xiong Jing was mentally prepared, but was still surprised. "Why is this? He Mu, a warship?"

"Report to the king, most of the warships were made of pine and cypress." Hong Shu replied a little strange. He felt that the king was good at building ships and could naturally recognize the kind of wood used on the ship. Who would have thought that Xiong Jing was just a scholar, and the ships he had made were just models. He knew that those woods could build ships, and those woods could not build ships, but he did not recognize the wood very much.

"Made of pine and cypress?" Xiong Jing felt a little clear. Pine wood is actually not suitable for shipbuilding. It is only suitable for masts. The trunks of the tree made of masts are very straight and towering like clouds. Unlike oak, oak for more than 150 years old, the trunks used for shipbuilding are only six meters short, so Western sailing ships are all oak as the hull and pine as the masts.

Cypress is not suitable for shipbuilding. Cypress is soft wood, just like pine wood. Shipbuilding requires hardwood, but hardwood is difficult to process. According to Gong Yindao, there are many nanmu (nanmu), yellow wood (yellow qiu), and camphor wood in the Chu State for hundreds of years and thousands of years. These are all excellent shipbuilding materials, but because it is hardwood, it is difficult to cut down and it is difficult to process with bronze tools. Nowadays, ships do not have masts, so pine and cypress are not used as masts. However, with the current shipbuilding process, it is no wonder that the ship is not durable.

"It is best not to use pine and cypress to build ships in the future." Thinking that a large wing would cost thirty gold, and the small winged ship in the middle wing would cost 10 or 20 gold, Xiong Jing couldn't help but say. "Also, each ship must be registered and painted and maintained every year, and the ship's officers will be responsible for it."

"I respectfully accept the order!" Hong Liu agreed loudly, and the others also agreed loudly.

The ship was still shaking, and at this time several temple people running back and forth had stopped. This was testing the initial stability of the ship. Xiong Jing remembered the Swedish Vasa, and the poor ship capsized on its maiden voyage. Of course, the sailboat was very stable. It had only a deck on it, and it was a drum and a wheel rudder. There was no other extra weight. Such a ship had excellent initial stability.

"In May, how to arrange the warships when going to Daliang to fight with the Qin people?" Xiong Jing asked about the current situation.

"Report to the king: There are forty-three new ships, so we should mobilize another fifty-four ships in the middle of the wings to enter Wei and fight with the Qin people." Hong Chuan said. "However, the Qin people have never believed in it. Our military boat troops should not be moved lightly. I think, I think..."

"Why are you?" Xiong Jing understood his concern. A small half of the Chu Zhoushi was in Dongtingjun, and most of the remaining stationed in Xiayi and Ezhou. Especially Ezhou, where there are copper mines, and a lot of iron ore that smelted iron also comes from here.

"Report to the king: I think that you can only adjust the boat master of Dongting Jun, and you must not adjust the boat master of Ezhou, Xiayi." Hong Shu said loudly.

"I wonder if the king can agree with the Qin people that the two countries will fight in Dongtingjun and somewhere in Xiayi." Lu Zhuo said loudly.

"Then the Qin army was defeated, which made the Chu people in Nanjun even more missed Chu?" Xiong Jing asked back, and Lu Zhuo was speechless immediately. The Chu army had a price, and the price was that Chu State recognized Nanjun as owned by Qin State. Whether it was Dongting Jun or Xiayi, it would be fine if the Chu army was defeated. If it was defeated, the Chu people would definitely be restless and hoped that the Chu army would recover the old Ying.

Speaking of Nanjun Xiong Jing's eyebrows frowned, he asked Hong Shu again: "From what you see, can forty-three new warships defeat the Qin people's hundred warships?"

"Ah?!" Hong Shu was shocked, "King, the enemy is more than me, I am afraid that my life will be in trouble."

"King, I think forty-three new boats can beat the Qin people." Ou Zhe said loudly, and the man also stood two steps forward.

"What if it wins?" Xiong Jing asked.

"Report to the king, forty-three large wings can be covered with waterways, and our army can only hit the Qin warships against the current. After the impact, our army retreats again and hits again at the right time, and will surely win." The new warship has a angular impact and is fast, so Ouzhe believes that there is no need to engage in hand-to-hand combat at all.

"Report to the king, I think it's not the case." Hong Chu said quickly: "The top of the new big wing is stretched out from the two sides for more than three meters, and the two ships are separated by seven meters. The Qin army is in the upper reaches, and our army cannot stop and must paddle. The Qin army's big wing must come through the gap between the two boats, so our army will be unable to hit."

"Report to the king, General Hong only said that the front line. If the second line is aimed at the gap of our army's large wings, it will definitely be able to hit it." Ouzhe's station is Dongting County, and the Red Wall station is Xiayi and Ezhou. Although the two have personal relationships, they have never given up on each other when it comes to war: "I am willing to ask for an order to defeat the Qin army with these forty-three large wings."

"King, there is no need to fight in the water and land. If there is no place for fierce battle, how can we easily tell the victory or defeat of the battle formation?" Hong Kong Shu said, "I asked the king to allow ten new-style large wings to be transferred to Dongting County and Xiayi. The Qin people made abnormal movements to show them the new-style large wings, so that they knew that there were new-style large wings in both places, and then transferred 67 from Dongting and Ezhou to Daliang to fight with the Qin army. This is the safest."

"This method is indeed safe, just thirty-four new warships go to the beam..." Xiong Jing couldn't help but nod. The red wall method seemed to be safer. The Qin people really wanted to take the opportunity to make trouble. Five new warships should be scared away, but there were fewer new shipbuildings going to the beam.

"I would like to remind the king: the new ship is like a huge iron, and the old ship is like a defeat. Our army has a great chance of victory in this battle." Hong Shu explained: "However, I think: Wei is a dog from Qin. If you fight in Daliang, you must be careful of the Wei people's boat troops."

In March, the worry that the Zhoushi General Hong Shu casually raised made Xiong Jing forget that he was in the bright spring. Judging from the news he received in recent days, the domestic political situation of Qin is changing again, and the relationship between Zhao and Qin is also improving at an astonishing speed.

It may be the reason why Zhao State presented the art of great iron to Qin State - when Mi Xuan issued a warning from Chen County, the iron smelting craftsmen of Chu State had already arrived in Handan, but this was not without countermeasures. Before, the establishment of the palace had considered various possibilities - it might be other reasons. What worries Xiong Jing the most was the changes he brought to history.

In the world, except for the king of Qi, who ignores the common affairs, it seems to be in Taoyuan, the monarchs of other countries are all as beautiful as ghosts. The rising state of Chu can feel that although this rise is harmless and peaceful, the gold and silver of various countries are flowing to Chu. The countries are competing for power, and gold and silver are actually very despicable things. ‘One or two of gold is born in the territory, and twelve stones of millet are born outside the territory. The twelve stones of millet are born in the territory, and one or two of gold and one or two of gold are killed outside the territory. The country likes to produce gold and the country dies, and the two of gold and the two of crystal are empty, and the country is weak. The country likes to produce millet in the territory, and the two of gold and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of gold and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of gold and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of gold and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of crystal are born in the territory, and the two of the country are strong.’

According to the Legalist Shang Yang, the king should be happy outside the Jin habitat (country), because outside the Jin habitat is equivalent to inside the Mica habitat. What Chu is now doing is the "weak country". If the materials are sold and the money is taken back, this is an act that the Legalists are extremely opposed. However, the military technology of Chu is opening up to different countries, which is the most taboo thing for the Legalists, or the Qin State, and the things sold are either strange skills or industrial products that can be produced continuously.
Chapter completed!