When they arrived in Guiyang County, Shu Changyi entertained Su Dingbo and Wang Yi as a landlord.
Su Dingbo, Su Xingfang's nephew. Who is Su Xingfang? One of the three imperial merchants of the official family, together with Ye Shi and Li Dan, they are in charge of maritime commerce, domestic trade, and banking and insurance respectively.
Wang Yi, a person from the military intelligence system.
Outsiders don't know their roots and power, but Shu Changyi knows it. Those who work in the army, the first person they dare not offend is the military and political officers of the Military Department, and the second person is the military intelligence officer. How powerful are the two?
Anyone who has been in the Song army system knows this.
Now the two of them appeared in front of him together, a golden opportunity.
After two rounds of drinking, Su Dingbo also figured out Shu Changyi's path.
In his thirties, he originally came from a family of Forbidden Army officers. At the age of sixteen, he replaced his father's position and joined the Qingzhou Forbidden Army as a tenth general. When he was in his early twenties, he offended his superiors, was promoted openly and secretly, and was sent to Xiangxiang.
He became a Yuhou in the army.
I thought that this life was over, and I didn't want the government to reorganize the army after taking office. The Xiang army was reorganized into arsenals, steel plants and mining companies, engineering corps or construction companies, transportation corps or transshipment companies, and a large part was reorganized into
The reclamation group set out for the two lakes and Jiangxi.
"Brother Shu," the three of them have now called themselves brothers, "Looking at yesterday's battle, your troops are quite powerful. I really didn't expect that they were adapted from the Xiang Army."
Su Dingbo's words were really not meant to be sarcastic. Everyone in the world knows what the Xiang army was like before. Not to mention fighting against the Xixia and Northern Liao armies, even a slightly tougher ruffian would probably not be able to defeat them.
"Haha, they were all forced. They were reorganized into a reclamation group, and everything they planted on the land they reclaimed was their own. But the barbarians in the mountains always came to steal and rob them of the food in their pockets. Then
No. Those ruffians from the Xiang Army in the Reclamation Reclamation Corps used to be idle and lazy, but now they only do training in addition to farming."
"After practicing for two or three years, I fought countless battles with mountain barbarians. I died and saw blood, and my courage was fully developed. Now let alone mountain barbarians, even if a bigger monkey comes close and wants to steal something, I will do it.
Have a meal of noodles.”
At this point, the three of them burst into laughter.
"Having said that, I think the unit led by Brother Shu should be the most elite in the Two Lakes Reclamation Corps."
"Ashamed, ashamed! To tell you the truth, our reclamation regiment has teaching exercises every year. The most powerful ones are undoubtedly the reclamation regiment in the Yuanjiang area, followed by the Lishui reclamation regiment. The mountain barbarians they encountered
The most numerous and fierce ones, Wuling Barbarians, Wuxi Barbarians, Baojing Barbarians, Jingzhou Barbarians, if you fight them too many, they will naturally become more powerful."
"Next is the Zishui Reclamation Group, followed by our Xiangjiang Reclamation Group, but fortunately, the Ganjiang and Qingjiang Reclamation Groups are at the bottom..."
Su Dingbo knew that the reclamation group took Yunze Lake (Dongting Lake) and Pengli Lake (Poyang Lake) as the two centers, and cultivated the land in depth along the main streams and their tributaries that merged into these two lakes. So basically it was
Divided by a certain river and a certain water.
Wang Yi is concerned about another issue.
"Shu Lingying, are you equipped with muskets?"
"Yes, we are equipped with cavalry-type muskets, which were issued just three months ago. And I heard that only our detachment, drawn from various regiments and responsible for clearing out bandits on the Hunan-Guangdong border, is equipped with them.
.”
There are three types of Song Army standard smoothbore flintlocks, conventional, naval and cavalry, with slight differences. The conventional is the longest and heaviest, the navy is the shortest and lightest, and the cavalry is in the middle. But except for the barrel and bayonet, the rest are different.
The caliber, flintlock trigger, etc. are all the same, and some accessories can be used universally.
Smoothbore flintlocks were first equipped with the Navy of the Song Dynasty, and then were equipped with infantry regiments and used in conjunction with spear phalanxes. After the first large-scale smoothbore combat - the Battle of Jiatugou, the Song Army began to equip smoothbores on a large scale.
The major arsenals are operating at full capacity, but they still can't manage an infantry regiment. The task force of the reclamation map, which is located in a remote area and is not even considered a local army, is actually equipped with cavalry-type muskets. Really
Unusual.
Su Dingbo took a sip of wine and said.
"This is actually closely related to my next mission to the north."
Shu Changyi and Wang Yi looked at each other curiously and said hesitantly: "Brother Su, is it convenient for me to talk?"
"This is not a secret, it's convenient to say." Su Dingbo said cheerfully.
"According to the plan of the official and ministerial departments, Guangzhou should not only be the economic center of Nanhai and Yulin counties, but also the economic center of South China. This economic center should cover the two counties of Hunan and Jiangxi. County Governor Ye Daguan entrusted
I went north to Tanzhou, and then transferred from the Yangtze River to Jiangxi County. I had two tasks."
Su Dingbo said slowly.
"The first is to examine the products of Hunan and Jiangxi counties, and what products can be transported from Bashu and Hubei through water and land routes. Guangzhou is currently the maritime center of the South China Sea region, but relying on sea transportation alone is far from enough. Officials
The plan of Monk Shang Shu Province is to take advantage of the geographical proximity to bring the products from the two lakes, Jiangxi and Bashu and other inland counties to Guangzhou through land and water transshipment, and then out to sea."
"In this way, it will not only expand the coverage of Guangzhou's regional economic center, help it further consolidate its status as a shipping and trade center in the South China Sea (the South China Sea means the southern sea) region, but also drive the economy of the two lakes, Jiangxi and Bashu and other inland counties.
.Ten years of New Deal tell us that no matter how abundant the products are, they are still useless if they cannot be sold or exchanged for money or other needed products.”
"The second task is to inspect the two lakes and the passage connecting Jiangxi and Nanhai County. The best way to reach the Nanhai in the interior is to take the water route first, then pass a section of land route, and then turn to the water route. The bandits in Baixing Mountain and Dayu Mountain are not eliminated, and the land route is blocked.
, then the Xiangjiang River, Ganjiang River and Shixing River cannot be connected."
"As for the mountain bandits in Baixing Mountain and Dayu Mountain, and the beginning of the rise of river bandits, everyone who is behind them knows who is the mastermind behind them. Selecting elite soldiers and generals from the reclamation regiment and forming a special detachment to eliminate mountain bandits and water bandits, naturally
It became the most appropriate and easiest solution."
After listening to Su Dingbo's words, Shu Changyi said thoughtfully: "In this way, we can equip muskets, which are specially designated by the Privy Council to improve our combat effectiveness and eliminate bandits and water thieves in several places."
"This makes perfect sense. The garrisons of Nanhai and Yulin County, as well as the frontier troops of Nanning Army, may not be equipped with muskets until next year. You are just a reclamation regiment, why should you equip them first?" Wang Yi
said.
Nanning Army? Su Dingbo's heart skipped a beat.
Jinli Iron and Steel Works nailed Chen Shifan and others, and also found out the attitudes of Qian Yuan, Huang Chengyou and others, and at the same time removed Qian Yuan. Su Dingbo had an idea with Zhong Huizhi at that time, thinking that Ye Xun would take advantage of the victory to pursue and eradicate the Nanhai in one fell swoop.
Twelve.
But Ye Xun said that the time has not come yet and that he still needs to wait.
Su Dingbo was thinking, what opportunity is Commander Ye waiting for?
Suddenly hearing Wang Yi mention the word Nanning Army, he couldn't help but feel his heart move.
It also reminded me that the governor's office collected a large number of ships and supplies and sailed upstream along the Xijiang River. Everyone thought that this was to prepare for the defense or conquest of Li Yue Kingdom, but Su Dingbo had been in the South China Sea for several years and had traveled through several major rivers.
Going up from Xijiang River is Dunijiang River (Nanpanjiang River), and going up from Dunijiang River is Shanchan Prefecture in Yunnan County.
I heard from the old boatman who ran the boat that although there are many dangerous shoals and rapids above the Duni River, the river is still wide and the water is deep in many places. Why can't the Nanning army move down the river section by section and clean up the mountain barbarians along the way?
.What’s more important is to conduct a preview—the upper reaches of the Fuliang River (Red River) in Thanglong Prefecture, the capital of Li Yue, and the Nanding River flow through the two prefectures of Dali and Weichu in Yunnan County.
After trying it on the Duni River, you can definitely try it out on the Nanding River.
Once the Nanning Army is stationed along the Duni River and under the Xijiang River in Zhaoqing, and cooperates with the Coastal Defense Control Department and the South China Sea Economic and Strategy Navy, no matter how powerful the twelve South China Sea forces are, they will not be able to overturn the world.
Just as Su Dingbo was thinking, an officer ran over and handed Shu Changyi a report.
"What happened?"
"We have changed our designation. The reclamation regiment has been changed to the Lishui, Yuanjiang, Zijiang, Xiangjiang, Ganjiang and Hanjiang Agricultural Reclamation Divisions. I am now the commander of the fourth regiment of the Xiangjiang Agricultural Reclamation Division and the forward battalion commander of the Hunan-Guangdong border task force.
camp."
Shu Changyi put down the report and said calmly. This chapter has been completed!
