Nowadays, although there is a high probability that these pirates will not have the same lair as in the past, they still need to sell their stolen goods and purchase supplies, and all this means that these guys need the help of informants on the shore!
In other words, when these thieves were supplying and selling stolen goods in the Southeast area, they actually had fixed "contact persons" similar to their old lair.
It has become easier for Datang to capture these contacts. Of course, this is not important. These are just small fish and shrimps.
However, if we can grasp the existence of these contacts, their information, and their connections,
Datang can further understand the actions of other pirates. If you pull out the radish and bring out the mud, you can wipe out a large number of pirates, and even completely eradicate all pirates on the southern ocean!
Previously, the composition of pirates at the beginning of the sea was complicated, but they can be generally divided into two waves. One wave is when Fengyunji will become pirates. This part of pirates appears at a certain point in time, and the other part is the long-term old ones.
He is a pirate, and he can be considered a professional pirate.
The Tang Dynasty has wiped out the former, and now if all the pirates of the latter profession are also captured, that means.
This means that Datang will no longer be troubled by the problem of pirates!
No, it can even be said that it is not a "pirates problem", but that we will never encounter any pirates again!
At this time, Wei Zheng and others gradually understood what this "submarine" was used for. This thing not only gave the Tang Dynasty Imperial Army the possibility to search and find the location of pirate ships, but also,
This possibility does not stop there. It can also make all the pirates on the Southern Ocean of the Tang Dynasty fearful all day long!
this.
At this time, Wei Zheng and Changsun Wuji...
The ministers all opened their eyes wide and stared blankly at Li Er, who was smiling and leaning on the back of the "sofa" in a relaxed state. They understood what Li Er had just said.
It felt like a big earthquake in my mind!
In their past understanding, no matter how powerful a tool is, it is just a tool. For this reason, the status of craftsmen in China has always been low. Even if...
Even after Li Sheng appeared, he created many things that were called "gods" by the government and the public, but it was the same to them. No matter how god he was, they could not replace the role of humans!
People's role is the greatest.
But now.
This submarine really did something that no matter how hard my advisers racked their brains, they couldn't do it!
This is extremely amazing.
Regarding the submarine matter, Li Er naturally still did not announce in court what the method was and how he planned to use it.
But this thing.
Originally, Li Er announced it directly in the court, and without any intention of serious court discussion, he directly pushed forward the matter vigorously. Although there is nothing wrong with this, after all, the emperor himself is the ultimate person in charge of everything, so-called "the king will bear the burden"
.
However, being able to start doing something is still different from doing it efficiently.
Of course, if a country's major issues really require the consent of everyone, then there is no need to do anything. But at the very least, the core ministers must support it, so that the people below will follow suit.
Therefore, no matter ancient or modern, accomplished kings have established their own vanguard and cultivated their true successors, such as Wei Huo in the Han Dynasty and the Eight Pillar Kingdom in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Everything can be done within this small team through negotiation. Only by reaching a unified opinion through full democracy can anything be done. But now.
The officials in the court were originally dissatisfied with Li Er's establishment of the inner court. This was tantamount to evading the decision-making influence of such bureaucrats in disguise. But now that the emperor suddenly announced such a big thing, these officials were naturally a little angry.
It means to put.
Although the submarine incident was announced.
If we were to do other things, with Datang's current work efficiency, such as the preparations for the recent military operation, we would have definitely started to collect supplies on the first day, and by the night of that day, many of them might have been transported to the steam train.
Gone.
However, this time around the discussion on building a submarine, not even a lot of paperwork was done on the first day, and almost all the yamen were somewhat open-minded.
But after Wei Zheng and others left the palace, the efficiency of all administrative work began to speed up miraculously from the second day on. In less than a day, countless shipyards and lumber dealers throughout the Tang Dynasty were completely destroyed in Shenzhou.
Got in touch.
Countless timbers boarded steam trains or horse-drawn ox carts from Lingnan Road, Yizhou Road, and countless other states and counties, and began to flow to a city called "Saint Girl Port" in the south of the Tang Dynasty.
And go.
This Port Saint-Victoria was originally just a barren land without even a single human habitation, but now.
This has become China's new generation naval base!
This is true from the configuration of armaments to the size of the army, and now it has become the new largest maritime shipping industry base.
Because now.
For the Tang Dynasty, especially from Li Er's perspective, one of the two biggest changes in the world was naturally the "science" brought by Li Sheng and the various new things derived from it.
These things are completely unfamiliar to China in the past and must be taken care of carefully before you can feel at ease. Secondly, naturally the concept of "tianxia" itself has changed.
The original boundless sea turned out to be just a lake!
The land is made up of islands.
The map given by Li Sheng is even more accurate.
Although this thing, Li Er wanted to see from it, for example, there is an island somewhere in Africa, and there are no mountains or rivers in China.
map, but many topographic details about the interior of China are not recorded on it. The accuracy is not even as good as the maps of the ancients. This has always been an unsolved mystery between Li Erjun and his ministers. No one has figured out why yet, but in general
explain,
The concept of Tianxia has changed, and because of this change, the importance of the navy in the Forbidden Army of the Tang Dynasty has increased day by day.
To be precise, it is not the navy that is growing in importance, but everything that can be used at sea - whether it is ships, artillery, or large firepower machines, anything.
As long as it is close to the sea, no matter how you calculate it, the conclusion is that it is almost worth spending money on.
So.
For Datang, only the West Lake Industrial Zone in Hangzhou serves as a shipbuilding base. This has naturally become extremely important in the past few years, providing Datang with excellent naval warships and providing a large number of high-end civilians.
Merchant ships with high quality and high performance paved the way for Datang's great maritime development - that is, maritime trade, but this was not enough after all.
