As the founder of the Tang Dynasty, and as the MVP player among the strongest heroes in the late Sui Dynasty, although Li Er has been nibbling on children over the years, Li Er's own qualities are really no joke.
This is a plan to hide the truth from the sky.
In the end, it did achieve the expected results, and there was almost no discussion among the people. This was one of the reasons why Li Er was so excited after the news of the completion of the submarine construction was sent back to Chang'an.
Of course, there is one more thing,
Although there is almost no public discussion, it is not completely absent.
Among the major state and county colleges, there are quite a few young scholars who are different from these maritime merchants. These students who do not seem to be involved in production actually realized that the Tang Dynasty project involved military affairs, and they thought about it to a certain extent.
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Although because they are just students in various colleges, these new generation scholars do not have so many reliable sources of intelligence. This is much worse than the reckless maritime merchant army of the past generation, but their horizons are different.
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In short, the final news report that Li Er received was that several internal journals of the college had articles about the opinions of students from these colleges on the submarine project!
After learning about this situation..., Li Er was really excited and nervous. First of all, he was worried that this gang of naughty kids would be leaked. When the magic sword is unsheathed, its deterrence might be compromised.
But I feel very excited. As a new type of education center, these "academies" have really cultivated a group of reliable people in China.
But Li Er didn't take it either. Although the qualifications of these new wild scholars are far better than those of the folk heroes of the past, no matter how strong their qualifications are, they are only one thing. To put them to great use, they have to be tested by wind and rain.
As for how to conduct the test itself, how to organize and lead young people who have not withstood the test, this.
Li Er is not very worried. At that time, of course it will be Li Sheng's business...
After all, this is the story started by your boy!
Li Er's worry is actually not without reason. The intelligence capabilities of these young scholars are far better than those of the reckless heroes in the past, and their knowledge level is extremely high. However, publishing articles so casually will indeed be leaked - anyway, when Li Er receives it
In fact, the news in this regard is somewhat too late and has been published for some time.
When it really spreads to the circle of coastal maritime merchants, it may be used by criminals, and then continue to flow into the hands of pirates who have been inundated in recent months, then.
Although it is true that the shipyard of Port Saint-Vincent is heavily guarded, if these pirates really grasp the information, they will gather together to carry out a ruthless attack.
Although Port Saint-Vincento is heavily guarded, it is still a conventional heavy guard after all. If the opponent comes prepared and has sufficient troops, there is a Roman factor here after all. When the time comes, they may really be attacked by this gang.
People succeed.
After all, all the other party needs is to destroy the shipyard!
You don't even need to destroy the shipyard, you just need to cooperate with the mole to set fire to it, or destroy it with grenades, and then pick up the people.
In this situation, even if the Tang Dynasty was heavily guarded, it would be difficult to say that it could be safe!
If we change the scene and go to Hangzhou, the situation seems to be the same. It seems that nothing has happened to the shipyards in Hangzhou over the years. From this point of view, there should be no problems in the Port of Saint Virgin.
However, the actual situation is not like this.
There has indeed been no problem in Hangzhou. It is directly protected by a military base just like the Port of Saint Virgin, but there is another special thing about Hangzhou, that is, Hangzhou is where the main force of China's Maritime Forbidden Army is located!
Although the Zhongzuo Institute is the real core, Hangzhou accumulates the largest number of troops - the navy is also a forbidden army, and the soldiers are all human beings. They need to live on land and not spend all their time at sea.
In other words, although Hangzhou is heavily guarded, in addition to the heavy troops arranged by the court, there are also a large number of forbidden troops who are not in service!
These forbidden troops are either training and studying on land, or renovating during the holidays, but they are still huge in number. At the same time, there are also reserve officers reserved by the Naval Academy in Hangzhou. As long as the imperial court gives an order, they can organize a force several times larger than the original deployment at any time.
In this case, who dares to stroke the tiger’s beard?
Even if they dare to show off, Datang can handle it at any time. Whether it is ordinary pirates or organized and planned troubles, they can be taken down.
Port Saint-Victoria does not have such conditions.
In addition to this, going one step further, there are a large number of armed maritime merchants in Hangzhou. The armaments of these guys are definitely not as good as those of the regular Roman army. After all, although they have grenades, they do not have that many and are not that sophisticated.
With the acquiescence of the Tang Dynasty court, these maritime merchants were still armed to a considerable extent after all. As for which maritime merchants could be armed and which ones could not, the imperial court naturally investigated carefully and selected those whose families were in China to ensure
Even if it's not loyal, it's the part of me that can't commit the disease that gives the green light.
It is obviously unrealistic for them to accept the dispatch of this part of the power from the imperial court. Even the Great Britain tried their best to deal with privateer owners, but rarely used these guys. Although the Tang Dynasty did not do this, it is estimated that
We can also mobilize these guys to gather together.
But it doesn't matter, because these maritime merchants often have assets in Hangzhou, and if pirates do come, since these guys don't dare to collude with pirates because their families are in China, they will naturally play a certain role in resistance.
And this kind of strength, like the aforementioned hidden strength, is something that Saint Maiden Harbor does not have, so the real defense strength will naturally be compromised. Putting aside all this, Datang is still a young regime, and the founding and strong troops are still there.
, the terrifying deterrence still exists. Even if the pirates only need to commit a major crime in Port Sainte, they will still have to pay a considerable price!
This kind of costly military operation naturally requires strong mobilization with huge influence. This is obviously not something that the pirates can do. Li Er's worries naturally seem a bit unnecessary.
However, Li Er himself knew that this worry was unnecessary, so he did not tell Wei Zhengfang, Du Chang, Sun Wuji and others, or issue any special edicts.
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It is precisely because of this that when Wang Jing and Pei Ji received the news, they did not react in any way!
Yes, Wang Jing and others actually learned that Datang was building submarines. But...
This kind of news, because the imperial court did not keep it secret, had already spread to a certain extent among the people - but it was not so popular. And because Li Er did not do anything else in particular to defend the Virgin Port except the most basic heavy defense.