Many things began to go in an orderly manner. The court sent envoys to Wei Chaoren with Li Xingzhou's letter to Wei Chaoren and the emperor's decree.

On the other hand, Wei Xingping and his battalion of soldiers were already receiving firearm training in the New Army camp. Everyone was very excited and worked hard to learn. After all, they were all people who witnessed the power of firearms.

The king's mansion muskets were in stock, and the output was always surplus, and they were all in the arsenal in the back mountain of the king's mansion.

With industrial production, assembly line operations, and unified standards, Li Xingzhou couldn't help but think of creating a history of standardized military merits and mass production of process-based mass production.

However, the technical content of the products it produces is far from comparable to that of the Wangfu. Now, with the interruption of investment in the second generation of steam engines in the past two years, the Wangfu has gradually formed an industrial area for industrialization, processization, and mass production of military ordnance.

Simply put, a few years later, the amount of coke purchased by the royal mansion every month was hundreds of times that of the beginning. Coal merchants from all over the country came to discuss business with the royal mansion. Every month, the ships in the royal mansion would bring back a large amount of coke from all over the country. These cokes are the source of power for the royal mansion, and the demand is getting bigger and bigger.

More than 12,000 guns were stored in the Wangfu warehouse, and Zhao Si also developed a new generation of guns based on Yilei Mercury.

The new army is also slowly expanding its enrollment, so weapons also need to be replenished, but he is not in a hurry. There is no technical difficulty for the new generation of rifles, and there is nothing more than a bullet shell.

He was preparing to let Wei Xingping take five thousand guns and thirty cannons to head north to form the first musket team and artillery unit in the Guanbei Army.

On the other hand, the area where the recruitment of the new army began to widen south because Li Xingzhou was preparing to form the first naval force of the new army. In the south of Mingzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places, it was the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road. It was at this time and the starting point of the world's longest maritime trade route in the past five or six hundred years. Many people along the coast made a living by going out to sea to fish. Many young people in the local area were born sailors.

Maybe everyone knows the Age of Discovery, but they don’t know that before the Age of Discovery, the longest and most prosperous maritime trade route in the world was in China. It started from the Han Dynasty and until the Song Dynasty, starting from Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places, and heading east to Japan and Korea, and west to the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and the west coast of Africa.

Unfortunately, after the sea ban in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the lush maritime Silk Road began to decline until it disappeared. The Ming and Qing dynasties also paid a heavy price for this, that is, they missed the Age of Discovery.

In fact, if you look at the Song Dynasty and its previous historical books, you will be surprised to find that as early as that era, business travelers from Hangzhou, Quanzhou, Mingzhou and other places recorded the vast areas, countries and folk customs on the west coast of Africa and north of the Red Sea. This kind of trade and navigation strength is the greatest advantage.

The soldiers trained and cultivated in these places are exactly what the new army needs.

He handed over the recruitment of naval soldiers in Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Quanzhou and other places to Shenlin for handling.

He planned to recruit 10,000 young people from three places who came out of the sea, form a new naval force, and set up a commander-in-chief Di Zhi.

Di Zhi had prestige in the army, and Di Zhi had sailing experience. The Eastern Army went to the Bohai Sea to attack Beijing. The commander was Di Zhi. It was the most appropriate to be the commander of the new army's naval commander when he was injured.

However, after the Navy recruitment, the current enemies mainly come from land.

The Outer Sea View Country has no enemies for the time being, and this situation continues for a long time.

At the same time, inland river networks can only be used in the short term. The Yangtze River defense line cannot be used because Jingguo did not lose half of the country, but the Yellow River waterway must be used.

At this time, the Yellow River was not yet silted in later generations, and the Yellow River, which has been diverted many times, is still a northern waterway as important as the Yangtze River. The most important thing is that several important towns in the Xia Kingdom are all on the edge of the Yellow River, and the upper reaches of the Yellow River are the territory of the Xia Kingdom.

The ancients built cities along the river, which was convenient for convenience, and only places with water sources could have the origin of civilization. Secondly, they wanted to use the Yellow River as a natural barrier to block foreign enemies.

But if the new fleet drove outside the city, they might be horrified to discover, protecting their rivers, and sometimes they would die.

In Li Xingzhou's mind, the Xia Kingdom must be pacified, because the area controlled by Xixia has the strategic location of the Hexi Corridor. The Hexi Corridor not only has a horse farm, but also connects to the Mongolian Plateau in the north and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the south. Going to Yumen Pass to the west, you will see the desert after leaving Yumen Pass, which is a must-pass place on the Silk Road on the land.

Since the Han Dynasty, the Maritime and Land Silk Roads have continued to develop, forming a stable, huge and distant foreign trade route.

But when you arrive in Jingguo, because of the loss of the Liaodong region and the Hexi Corridor, the land Silk Road is no longer accessible, and merchants can only walk on the sea route.

And he will retake the Silk Road on the Land sooner or later!

Of course, the focus is on the Jin Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom! The Jin Kingdom is not only a strategic location in Liaodong, but also the Shangjing Graphite Mine! Graphite, the core support of the royal palace industry, if it was not for the empty national treasury and wanted to rest, he wished he could immediately march north and take Jin Shangjing directly.

.........

In the hut, the lights were bright, the wind was whistling outside the house, the sky was dark and full of depression, and it must be snowing.

Li Xingzhou leaned comfortably on the pear blossom and wooden chair, put the well-behaved and obedient Gillian on her legs, with paper and pen in front of her. Gillian was helping him remember, and he was responsible for saying that Shiyu moved a chair and listened next to her.

"First of all, politically..."

As he said that, Gillian wrote down the beautiful handwriting. The beautiful handwriting was very good, but in order to write it like him, Gillian tried to write the handwriting squarely and powerfully. She was a beloved little girl. Although Li Xingzhou did not agree with the idea that the ladies of this era regard men as the most and regard themselves as men's possessions, he was not only unhappy towards Gillian, but also loved and cared for him.

"In terms of diplomacy, if you send envoys to show goodwill, you can make concessions and compromises in terms of wording, which mainly paralyzes the top leaders of the Jin Dynasty. It is best to delay the goal for more than two years. By then, the recruitment and training of the new army will be completed and the treasury will be filled again, so you can go north.

In the worst case, the Jin Kingdom still sent troops, and ordered Wei Chaoren to defend the enemy. After changing the firearms, the Guanbei Army was likely to be able to defend it. If there was any accident, the new army could also go north from the Bohai Sea to Shanhaiguan to restrain and attack the Jin army.

Through military trade, we won over the warring sides of the Xia Kingdom and the northern grassland tribes.

In addition, Datong Prefecture was brutally massacred by the imperial guards, and he must have resentment towards the Jin people.

Datong Prefecture was previously a territory in the Central Plains, one of the sixteen prefectures in Yanyun, with Han and Dangxiang people. Compared with the Jin Kingdom that came from Liaodong, the people felt more belonging to the Central Plains dynasty.

The Privy Council received a report that recently, some small anti-Jin uprisings have occurred in the Datong Prefecture area, which will allow the Yang family in Taiyuan to send more people to contact these rebels, and the court will allocate materials to secretly provide them with help."

......

"In terms of domestic policy, cross-strait trade is encouraged by Dajiang and Dahe, and maritime trade is encouraged with the Korean Peninsula in East Asia, Japan Island, West Asian countries, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and the West Coast of Africa."

Li Xingzhou kept talking, saying that he had been thinking about this for a long time. In the next few years, in the next decade, Gillian only cares about writing about the grand strategy of Neijingguo because he spoke quickly.

Shiyu is curious: "What you are talking about East Asia, West Asia, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, what is not what? What are they all."

Gillian was also curious to look back.

"It's all countries and regions thousands of miles away. Many merchants in Jingguo will buy goods to these places." Li Xingzhou explained, "Maybe there will be a chance in the future. Next time Feng Cheng and the others come back, I will buy them and give them to you."

Gillian nodded. For the little girl, no matter what she gave her, she would be a good thing. Shiyu didn't say anything, but the corners of her mouth were also raised, and it was obvious that she was actually very happy.

"Every localities need to step up their efforts to clean up bandits to ensure the safety of business travel. The cotton planting area in the Taihang Mountains should be expanded as much as possible, so that cotton coats will be of great use to the north in the future."

"Finally, it's military." Speaking of this, Li Xingzhou paused. Shiyu understood him very well. The old husband and wife were in tune with each other. He handed him a teacup. He took a sip and moistened his throat, and then said.

“Military……

The Lingjie Army will not return to Beijing for the time being. After the New Year, the Lingjie Army will retreat again after the armaments in Guanbei are in place.

The expansion of the new army will be the most important thing in the next one to two years, and the details will be explained in detail.

It is expected that in two to three years, the Jin Kingdom will be used to seize Shangjing, obtain graphite minerals, and jointly target them to seize Liaodong, restore control over the Korean Peninsula and the northern tribes, and laterally pinch the grassland forces."

Having written this, Gillian was a little worried, "Prince, I'm going to fight again."

Li Xingzhou smiled, nodded, then sat upright and hugged the little girl, "It's impossible not to fight. If you don't fight, it's not just us, but the safety of the entire Jingguo is difficult to guarantee."

Gillian didn't speak, leaned quietly in his arms.

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"In ideal situation, in order to join forces with the northern grassland tribes to send troops from the west of Yinshan, Guanbei Army and Yang Family Army attacked Datong Prefecture westward, and the new army army went out of Shanhaiguan northward, attacked Shangjing and surrounding areas. The new army navy crossed the Bohai Sea, landed in Liaodong, attacked Liaoyang Prefecture, and attacked three sides, striving to create the Jin Kingdom in one fell swoop."

.........

Li Xingzhou said, asking Gillian to write it down, and then told them not to spread the story.

In the general direction, there must be control, so Zhang Lue’s level plans must be written down, referenced, revised, and reminded yourself so that you will not cause any deviation and change every day.

...........

The sky on the grassland is like a huge dark curtain, the cold wind keeps whistling, the saber and spear are extremely cold, and the palm will hurt as long as you touch it.

Fires broke out everywhere in the long military tent. Opposite the military tent was a long river, and on the other side was another tent, which was more numerous. The two sides were confronted by the river, three or four miles apart.

But the Jin army here is not afraid at all, because the people in the Tatar tribe seem to have more camps, because they have men, women, young and old, and they are all Jurchen warriors fighting south and north, all of them are elite soldiers, and the excellent equipment left by the Khitans.

On the other hand, the good news also came. Qiyan's tribe and Kelie's tribe followed the orders of the Great Jin Emperor to send troops. The pioneer of Qiyan's tribe, Zhebe, defeated the Tatars in the west and was coming here.

The Tatars will soon be surrounded here.

"Prince, the Tatar people across the other side were scolding us across the river a few days ago. Why are there no one these days?" The personal soldiers asked in confusion.

Wanyan Zongbi looked at the other side of the river: "They are afraid. The more ugly they scold now, the more ugly they will die in the future."

"What are they afraid of?"

Wanyan Zongbi pointed to the river in the distance and pointed to the sky, "They are afraid of snow in the world and frozen in the river. These courageous grassland mice!

When I kill you, I will not let anyone go!" Wanyan Zongbi's eyes were full of anger and sadness, "If it weren't for them, I wouldn't have even seen the emperor's brother for the last time."

"Prince..." The personal soldier lowered his head.

Wanyan Zongbi sighed. He, the great Han from Liaodong and the most brave general of the Jin Kingdom, couldn't help but feel a little sad, "How many years have you been south from Liaodong?"

"Five years." said the personal soldier.

"How many years have I not been home?"

"I haven't been back for two years..."

Wanyan Zongbi nodded: "When the fight is over, I will tell the emperor that you will go back. You will follow me and the emperor to fight out of Liaodong. It is time to go back and see your wife and children at home."

The personal soldiers nodded excitedly, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Wanyan Zongbi laughed and looked at the camp of the Tatar people in the distance, his eyes full of coldness. He had to deal with these traitors before the New Year.

"Let the soldiers have a good rest. I see it will snow in two or three days. When the river freezes, it will be time for war to start. Before that, let everyone eat, have a good rest, and then kill the Tatar people with me!" Wanyan Zongbi said to the personal soldiers beside him. The personal soldiers nodded and turned to convey the order.

.........

The personal soldiers had just walked for a while, and another personal soldiers came over with the messenger.

"The prince, the messenger from the capital, brought the emperor's orders." said the personal soldier.

"Hahaha, take it." He reached out and Wanyan Zongbi had a good impression of his nephew Wanyan Li, the new emperor of the Great Jin Kingdom.

At least when he came from Liaodong, he was a brave and good fighter. He was always at the forefront of the army, which was very much in line with his own taste, so he was happy the first time he received the letter.

The result letter was opened and the envelope looked like it.

After watching for a while, Wanyan Zongbi gradually frowned. He questioned the messenger, "It was indeed written by the emperor."

The messenger was timid and nodded quickly: "Report to the prince, it is absolutely true, it was written by the emperor."

Wanyan Zongbi's fist gradually clenched, pinched the letter into a ball, suddenly became furious, and then said loudly: "Don't he have a brain!"

The messenger was so scared that he knelt on the ground.

"The soldiers have fought for five or six years, from Liaodong to Shangjing, Zhongjing! I haven't returned home for several years. He thought everyone was a pig, a wild beast, and had no emotions or desires!" Wanyan Zongbi was angry.

"You go back and tell him that I have promised all the soldiers from Liaodong that after this battle, they can go home until the beginning of next spring. He wants to fight south and let him fight by himself!"

"Prince!" The personal soldiers were anxious and quickly grabbed their bad tempered boss and whispered: "Prince, it's the emperor, this is the emperor's letter..."

Wanyan Zongbi also slowly came back from his anger. Yes, that was not the nephew who listened to his orders back then, but the emperor...
Chapter completed!