This is definitely the most suitable coach candidate for the Northern Navy Fleet.
He is familiar with the military situation in Liaodong and has served as a naval admiral in Fujian for many years. He is slightly older, just fifty years old, but his physical and mental state should be in the prime of life.
In his previous life, he even defeated the Japanese pirates and forced back the Dutch in Dongfan (Taiwan) and Penghu. How can this life be worse than the previous life?
Shen Yourong arrived in Beijing just one day ago.
According to the practice of the Great Zhou Dynasty, officials who have expired due to Ding You need to report to the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War, and then arrangements will be made based on the number of vacancies, seniority ranking, and reporting time.
Some people can be assigned a job immediately upon registration, while others may not be able to wait for an appointment even if they waste several years in the capital. There are also many considerations and opportunities here.
The first is to see if there are suitable and corresponding job vacancies. You are from the fourth rank, but the vacancies will be either the fifth rank or the fourth rank. If you have good connections, or you are a Jinshi, or you are a former Ding You. If all of your concept assessments are excellent and highly recognized by the officials, then the officials will definitely give them priority, and this may not even be arranged according to your order and time.
Of course, this network background is often more important. If you are highly regarded by the big boss in the DPRK or have a special relationship, even if the job vacancy you are supposed to be assigned does not have a suitable position, you can be directly promoted to the position. Go to a higher position.
In fact, Shen Yourong's term of Ding You expired a year ago. Last year, he visited the capital and reported it to the Ministry of War.
He was a military general, and his duties were arranged by the Military Selection and Cleaning Department of the Ministry of War. He stayed in the capital for three months, ran out of money, and did not wait for notification, so he could only return home in frustration.
This year he came to the capital on the recommendation of someone. Wang Wenyan wrote to him, asking him to leave for the capital as soon as possible and recommending Feng Ziying to him.
As a former guard commander, Shen Yourong certainly knew how difficult it would be for a general like himself, who had been long forgotten after three years, to find a suitable official position in the capital again.
Every official has to face the difficulty of Ding You. Three years is enough for many people to forget about you. Moreover, when there are many monks and few people, if you do not have enough connections in the Ministry of War or the Ministry of Personnel, and are unwilling to spend money, you want to wait for someone. If the location is right, then go for it.
But Wang Wenyan's letter cheered him up.
Who is Feng Ziying? Even if he is a military attache from other places, he has already heard about it.
When he went to Beijing to report to the Ministry of War last year, the other party had already left the capital with Chai Ke, the right minister of the Ministry of War, to go to Western Xinjiang to quell the rebellion. It is said that he was directly ordered by Chai Ke to leave the Hanlin Academy.
At that time, the other party was just a bastard.
Of course, these Shuji scholars who were born as Jinshi undoubtedly had a bright future. As expected, when they returned from a trip to suppress the rebellion in Western Xinjiang, they had already compiled it from the sixth-grade Hanlin Academy.
This is the power of the Jinshi. A warrior like me has endured twenty years of hard work guarding the border, which is not even as good as a few articles and a so-called travel-like expedition to counter the rebellion.
However, Shen Yourong, who has been struggling in the officialdom for decades, doesn't have much opinion on this. The Great Zhou Dynasty originally used civility to control military affairs, and civil servants were higher than generals, not to mention civil servants who came from the imperial examination.
These are not what Shen Yourong is most concerned about. He is more concerned about Feng Ziying's strategy of opening up the sea and opening up the Liaonan-Denglai logistics supply line.
This suits Shen Yourong's taste very well.
Having been in Liaodong for a long time, he is well aware of the plight of Liaodong.
The Jurchens in Jianzhou relied on their advantages in geographical location, climate and national habits to continuously encroach on the surrounding areas. The abandonment of Kuandian Liubao made Ding You sigh with regret and made him even more worried about the situation in Liaodong.
Basically all the logistical supplies of the Great Zhou Dynasty in Liaodong had to come from the interior, or to be more precise, they came from Jiangnan. From grain to cloth, these needed to be transported from Jiangnan to the capital via canals, and then from the capital to Liaodong via land.
There are many layers of transportation here, including man-made and natural disasters, and the losses themselves are inevitable. It’s hard to believe how big the losses are.
If the logistics supply line from Denglai to Liaonan is solved, and if the opening of the sea can bring about the development of maritime transportation, then it means that the route from Songjiang or Ningbo-Dengzhou-Liaonan can be unimpeded, and The loss of grain, cloth and other materials can be reduced by at least 70%!
What makes Shen Yourong even more excited is that this strategy of opening up the sea means that the maritime ban policy since the Ming Dynasty will be completely abandoned, and at the same time, the original tribute system of opening the sea will be changed to a completely liberalized maritime trade system. This is an epoch-making Reform means that the Great Zhou Dynasty will completely open its arms to the ocean and will no longer be afraid of challenges from the outer sea.
Shen Yourong has been in Fujian for more than ten years and is very aware of the harm caused by the maritime ban.
The Fujian Navy was so cowardly that it slowly suffocated to death. From the initial seventy or eighty boats with nearly ten thousand people, it slowly shrunk to only thirty or forty boats with two or three thousand people. It could barely support itself in the face of a small group of Japanese pirates. , but when encountering a few groups of pirates, they were stretched thin, and they watched helplessly as these pirates and Japanese pirates landed and wreaked havoc in various places in Fujian and Zhejiang.
If Japan had not become more peaceful after the Imjin Japanese Rebellion, and Fujian and Zhejiang had semi-openly allowed the large merchants to smuggle, the Japanese pirates would have invaded the coast more aggressively.
So after receiving Wang Wenyan's letter, he went to Beijing immediately.
If he was just looking for an official position, he, Shen Yourong, wouldn't be so eager, but if he could take this opportunity to find an opportunity that would allow him to express his ambition, then it would be worth it for Shen Yourong.
The only thing that worries him is whether Feng Xiuzhan is as powerful as Wang Wenyan said.
He admitted that Feng Ziying must have some skills and abilities. He was able to propose opening up the Liaonan-Denglai logistics supply line, and then also came up with the strategy of opening up the sea as a two-pronged approach. This insight was something that all the princes in the DPRK could only imagine. They may not have such courage, but Feng Ziying, who is still a common scholar, can actually persuade the cabinet and the emperor.
Although Shen Yourong is a military commander, he also knows how big the differences and conflicts between the north and the south are in the imperial court. A strategy like this that can take both sides into consideration requires a lot of thought, especially the details, to make the northern and southern scholars happy. Humanities ministers support.
But what he is concerned about now is whether Feng Ziying has the ability to push herself to the position she wants to go.
Even Shen Yourong himself doesn't know which position he is more suitable for now.
While he was thinking about it, he heard a conversation between his servant and a clear voice outside: "Is General Shen here?"
"Who are you? My master is resting..."
"Can you please tell me that Feng Keng from the Hanlin Academy wants to see you?"
Feng Keng?!
That arrives so fast?
Shen Yourong couldn't help but stand up, looking shocked.
I sent this post less than an hour ago, right? The other party didn't seem to be at home at the time.
So fast, could it be that you came here just after seeing your own post?
With the complicated emotions in her heart, Shen Yourong did not dare to neglect them.
Before Ding You, he was the commander of the guards and an official of the fourth rank, but after Ding You, he was nothing. Even if he was a commander of the guards of the fourth rank and an official of the sixth rank in the Hanlin Academy, he had nothing to do with it. It’s a capital that can be arrogant.
Where is the Hanlin Academy? The cradle of future important ministers. This editor of the Hanlin Academy, who is not even seventeen years old, may be promoted to Pinyi, who is on an equal footing with him, in a few years. This is just Pinyi, In terms of future and influence, they are even different.
Opening the door, Shen Yourong clasped his fists and said, "Shen Yourong has met Feng Xiuzan."
"General Shen is too polite. Ziying is just a scholar. How can he deserve such courtesy from General Shen who defends the country and fights foreign enemies fiercely?" Feng Ziying said while also looking at General Shen.
He has an ordinary appearance, is not tall, has a slightly dark face, and a pair of shining eyes under his long and severe eyebrows can make people see something extraordinary.
"It is worthy of Shen to bow and express his gratitude for the suggestion that in order to protect Liaodong, we must protect Liaonan - the Denglai route. Not to mention that Feng Xiuzhuan also proposed and promoted the strategy of opening up the sea. With Shen's humble opinion, he started to The sea strategy will definitely make us, the Great Zhou Dynasty, no longer subject to threats from overseas, whether it is Japan or the Western Barbarians, the sea ban will only tie our hands and feet, and we will sit there and wait for death..."
Both parties were straight to the point, and even before they sat down, they were already openly testing their words.
Feng Ziying likes this style very much.
"Ziying heard that General Shen spent a long time in Liaodong and later fought in Fujian. He knew the key points of the coastal areas very well and was proficient in both land and water warfare. I wonder what General Shen thinks the current strategy for managing the maritime territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty should be?"
Feng Ziying's question shocked Shen Yourong, and he couldn't help but take another look at the young man standing with his hands behind his back.
If the Minister of the Ministry of War or a certain cabinet minister wants to ask this question, Shen Yourong can naturally give some advice. However, no matter how famous the other party is, he is just a Hanlin Academy editor, and what he wants to say is the real peace and stability of the country. Military matters are important.
But after a moment's hesitation, Shen Yourong couldn't help but laugh and laughed at himself. He had been left idle by the Ministry of War for a year and no one cared about him. Even though he had a well-known strategy, who would believe it and who would listen?
Although the person in front of me has a lower status now, his influence and right to speak are not low. He cannot make the decision, but at least he can bring his words to a higher level.
"In the short term and from an urgent point of view, opening up the Liaonan-Denglai supply line can greatly improve the defense situation in Liaodong and prevent North Korea from turning to the Jurchens after being coerced by the Jianzhou Jurchens. In addition, if we can build a strong enough army With the naval fleet, we can bypass the waterway between southern Korea and Japan, go all the way north, rely on Ezo as a base, and pass through the Hercynian Jurchens and the Savage Jurchens further north, so as to open up another area from behind the Jianzhou Jurchens. A front!”
