Great Tang Southern Emperor

3 Fifty Chapters Depressed... ([-] words)

"Damn, this is bullying none of us, what a bastard." Li Mingxin, the chief of staff of the Quanzhou Fleet, was furious after receiving the order from the messenger: "No, I have to go to Liu Rengui, why is there a big battle coming soon? The fight started, but he let us leave—this is obviously because he is afraid that we will share their credit. It's too unfair. I have to ask him for an explanation. After all, we are also his subordinates. As for being so biased?"

The navy implements a military system that is completely different from the army. After all, the platforms and war modes carried by the two sides are different. For the convenience of naming, except for the highest officer or the governor, the following positions are all used by Li Zhen for later generations. Chief of staff is one of the titles of military positions. In addition to this, there are staff officers, captains, gunners, navigators, political commissars, and so on.

Li Zhen even plans to popularize the general rank system after he succeeds to the throne. After all, the current military rank system in Datang is still very chaotic. There is also a system of its own, and the system of the Royal Guards (that is, the Sixth Army of the Northern Yamen, the Left and Right Habayashi Army, the Left and Right Dragon Warriors, and the Left and Right Shenwu Army) is different from that of the Nanya Imperial Guard... If it weren't for Li Zhen He has lived here for more than ten years, and he is the heir of the Great Tang Empire. I'm afraid he still doesn't know the relationship between the various armies, who has a higher rank and who has a lower rank...

In the fleet, the chief of staff is the third person in the fleet, and Li Mingxin is the second in the Quanzhou fleet (Li Ji is not there, there is only one Cheng Chuliang above him). Of course, such a person is not a simple role. Li Shimin's people, and their abilities are very good - it is said that since Li Zhen created a youth army and Wentian Shuyuan, Li Shimin is also very envious of building a Datang Civil and Military Academy. Of course, the scale is not as large as Li Zhen's, only a few There are only a hundred people, but after two years of painstaking training, it can be regarded as discovering some talents, and this Li Mingxin is one of them.

Speaking of which, this Li Mingxin can be regarded as the royal family, but he already belongs to a very remote side branch. However, despite his young age, his seniority is not low-in terms of seniority, he is actually of the same generation as Li Shimin. When I met him, I still had to call him Uncle...

Although he was born in the royal family, Li Mingxin still has some abilities. He is good at martial arts. It is said that three or fifty people can't get close to him. In terms of strategy, he even despises the heroes (in the Tang Wenwu Academy). But no matter how capable he is, after all, he is too young to stand Excited, seeing Liu Rengui's insulting and repulsive orders at this time, he was furious: "Damn it, don't think I don't know what he's thinking, isn't it because we offended him, this is revenge for us? Fortunately, His Royal Highness still regards him as a confidant, so how can he be trusted as a confidant even if he is capable? I have to ask Liu Rengui for an explanation, this is not treating us as human beings at all."

"You stop for me first, what's the use of you going now? He issued this order through formal channels, and we are his subordinates. We must obey the order. This is our bounden duty as soldiers. Not only now , we will all have to work under him for quite some time in the future, if we disobey even his first order, then we will really offend him to death, we can punish him as he wants. Us?" Cheng Chuliang said in a muffled voice, he was also very helpless about this order, of course he was unwilling to accept this order, but since he joined the army since he was a child, he knew very well that the military order must not be violated, and he dared not disobey the military order—— So now Liu Rengui gave him orders according to formal procedures, no matter how unwilling he was, he must obey the orders.

"Everyone don't need to be angry, this may not be a bad thing for us." Just when everyone was depressed, a slightly smiling voice said.

"What do you mean?" Cheng Chuliang looked at the person who spoke, and what caught his eyes was a young but very calm face. He was smiling but not showing his teeth. Although his face was still immature, his eyes were as calm as water , as if nothing could make him a little bit moved.

The person who spoke was the political commissar of the fleet, his name was Li Daoyun, and he was only 20 years old. He was not from the Tang Civil and Military Academy, nor was he from Li Zhen’s Junior Army or Wentian Shuyuan. He was not even a scholar at all, he was actually a Taoist priest……

Because sea voyages are boring, the crew will inevitably feel depressed after staying for a long time. Naturally, various things will happen, and even many people will be turned by the boring environment-this is really not a joke, entertainment on board There are few activities, and there are no women. Some people can't get vent, and they naturally target their brothers who accompany them day and night (I think of a stalk: I treat you as a brother, but you want to fuck me ∑(°△°|| |)︴)...

After Liu Rengui returned from his first voyage to Luzon, dozens of pairs of such people were born in the fleet. After all, Liu Rengui is an ancient person. It is really not pleasing to the eye, thinking that this move is not only against human relations, but also intolerable in the world, so he vowed to use his own methods to put an end to this kind of situation.

But how can this kind of thing be stopped by manpower?No matter how he tried all kinds of means, not only were men and women not eliminated, but more and more...

In desperation, Liu Rengui had no choice but to report the situation to Li Zhen, hoping to get Li Zhen's help.

Li Zhen came from later generations, so she didn't have much objection to this, but Liu Rengui begged for it, not to mention that this kind of thing is really bad, especially if the news is spread, the navy will be regarded as a concentration camp for men and women. The reputation of this new military branch of the navy is extremely harmful - after all, most of the ancients are still very conservative. Even if someone wants to join the navy, their family members probably won't see their family members become gay when they come back from the sea. .

To eliminate this phenomenon, the best way is to reduce the psychological burden of the crew. In order to reduce the psychological burden of the crew, Li Zhen thought of a very famous profession in the Rabbit's army in later generations, that is, the political commissar.

Of course, this political commissar is not the other political commissar. The political commissar of the Rabbit family has many functions, even the political commissar has the right to shoot and kill people who violate the law on the spot, but it is different when it comes to Li Zhen. He just gave the political commissar a role, that is to fool... ...To be precise, I use my full psychological counseling ability to relieve the psychological pressure of the soldiers and let them return to normal conditions-are you not psychologically stressed?That's good, come to my place, let's have a good chat, as long as the chat is over, your psychological pressure will naturally disappear, so this is not so much a political commissar, but a psychological counselor specially set up for the crew.

Li Zhen had a good idea, but when he implemented it, he immediately encountered difficulties—there is no such profession as psychological counseling in this era, and naturally there will be no such profession as psychological counselors, although some people are naturally suitable for this Occupation, but without professional training, there are very few truly qualified people.

As a result, it took a long time to recruit less than ten people, which made Li Zhen very anxious. That is to say, under such circumstances, Li Chunfeng approached Li Zhen and put forward a feasible suggestion-you don't want Looking for someone who is proficient in psychological counseling skills?You can find us, although we are not very proficient in psychological counseling, but we can fool... Ah no, we can pass on Taoist thoughts to them. Although this is not enlightenment, the effect of brainwashing should be similar to enlightenment.

Li Zhen was overjoyed, he had forgotten about religion, if he was able to fool people, is there anything more powerful than religion in this world?Especially Taoism, which can be called a panacea religion, has spawned various professions in later generations: for example, chemists were transformed from alchemists, astronomers were created by Taoist priests who like to observe the sky, mathematics The family evolved from Taoist priests who were proficient in reckoning, not to mention doctors. There were not a lot of famous doctors from ancient Taoism. What kind of profession, no matter whether these professions are forbidden superstitions or not, they all have the most basic ability, that is, preaching, that is, fooling, brainwashing ability ax.

And anyone who likes to fool people is naturally a master at grasping and guessing people's hearts. Such people are born experts in psychology.

Li Zhen, who had figured this out, immediately waved her hand and asked the various Taoist sects to send Taoist priests who are proficient in deception... Uh, no, Taoist priests who are proficient in psychological counseling are on board to help appease the crew members who have become psychopathic due to the long and boring voyage. Correspondingly, they also want to publicize the goodness of the imperial court, and plant the seeds of never betraying Datang in the hearts of all sailors. At the same time, they are paid to preach among the crew, but they must uphold the principle of voluntariness and not force it.

And in order not to despise these Taoists, Li Zhen set up an official position for them, that is, the political commissar, whose status is second only to the captain, chief of staff, and first officer, and is the fourth person on the ship.

This is just the identity of the political commissars on each ship. Li Daoyun's identity is even higher, because he is Li Chunfeng's direct disciple and also the chief political commissar of the Quanzhou Fleet, which means that he is the head of all the political commissars of the Quanzhou Fleet. I was also worried that Cheng Chuliang and the others had no sailing experience, and it would be bad if they became abnormal in their hearts—they were all high-level officials of the Quanzhou Fleet, and if something happened to them, no one could stop them.On the contrary, Li Daoyun holds an order from Li Zhen in his hand, which can frighten Cheng Chuliang at a critical moment, so that he will not be confused.

For example, now, both Cheng Chuliang and Li Mingxin were unhappy with Liu Rengui's order, and they were afraid that they would ask Liu Rengui to settle the score if they lost their heads, so they quickly comforted them.

Chapter 993 Bad thing?good thing?It's never absolute. ([-] words)

Chapter 351 Bad thing?good thing?It's never absolute. ([-] words)

"This may not be a bad thing." Just when everyone was depressed about Liu Rengui's order, they suddenly heard the political commissar say that this might not be a bad thing, which immediately attracted everyone's attention...

"What do you say?" Li Mingxin was very curious about the words of Li Daoyun, his family 500 years ago: "This Liu Rengui is trying to make things difficult for us. If we can't participate in this battle, then we won't get any credit— — You also know that there were some people in the imperial court who were very talkative about us being able to sit in such a high position at such a young age. The bastard is worried that he can't find our fault.

But now we went out to sea once, but we didn't get any credit for the trip. If the news spreads back, those people will be blown up?Not only will we ourselves be blamed, but the crown prince and His Majesty will lose face too. "

Cheng Chuliang hammered the palm of his hand, and said bitterly: "That's right, those bastards are counting on us to make mistakes. If we don't get anything, not only His Majesty and the prince, but even my father, Uncle Cheng and Uncle Li will all suffer." ——Liu Rengui's plan is too vicious, if I wasn't his subordinate, I would have wished to give him a good beating."

"Are you sure?" Li Daoyun asked suddenly, ignoring Cheng Chuliang's question.

"What do you mean? What do you mean you are sure?" Cheng Chuliang asked back.

"Things you can think of, do you think Liu Rengui can't think of them?" Li Daoyun asked back: "Think about it for yourself. Liu Rengui was born in a poor family. He has neither a prominent background nor extraordinary talent. He is ordinary and has no background. Fame, a person who is not conspicuous in anything, how can he sit in this position from a small Chencang county lieutenant? Is it because his ability is too outstanding?

No, it's because of the prince's trust. If he hadn't had the prince's insight, if he hadn't been promoted in spite of everyone's opposition, and if he hadn't been supported by His Royal Highness, do you think Liu Rengui would be able to achieve his current position? "

"This is absolutely impossible." Cheng Chuliang said disdainfully: "It's not that I underestimate Liu Rengui, he has abilities and is not bad, but it's a pity to be an official in the Tang Dynasty, the most important thing is reputation and connections, but ability It's secondary. Liu Rengui was a Chencang county captain before, and he didn't have a fart reputation. As for connections, if he had connections, why did he sit on the Chencang county captain for so long? To be honest, if he didn't have the support of the prince Now that our navy is gaining more and more status in the Tang Dynasty, Liu Rengui, let alone the chief of the Lingnan Naval District, is not even the governor of the Yuezhou Fleet. Believe it or not, if He has lost the trust of the crown prince, and within a day, the memorial to impeach Liu Rengui will fill His Majesty's case, and within two days his official position will be exhausted, and he will be relegated to an unknown corner Is the second half of Riando's life the best end for him?"

"That's the truth." Li Mingxin understood Li Daoyuan's meaning: "That's right, Liu Rengui's supporter has only been a crown prince from the beginning to the end, and even His Majesty appointed him as Lingnan Navy for the sake of the crown prince. The district manager, without the support of the prince, who knows who he is? So he never dared to disobey the prince's wishes, let alone let others slap the prince in the face because of his own mistakes - he had committed a crime before He was dismissed by the crown prince for a mistake, and now he dare not make such a mistake again..."

"That is to say, he didn't dare to let us go back to Lingnan without doing anything, and then let the prince's face be shamed? As a result, the prince was slapped in the face?" Cheng Chuliang finally understood Li Daoyun's meaning, but still frowned. Lock: "But if it's what you guessed, why did he ask us to do such a task? I know about the Spice Islands. According to Pei Xingjian, the people in that place are very disciplined, and the prince declared himself there. The majesty, the people there are now as honest as the obedient people, they dare not be our enemies at all, let alone rebel, and it is impossible for us to make any contribution."

"Perhaps in Liu Rengui's view, escorting the merchant ship to the Spice Islands is a credit in itself. After all, the merchant ship this time is too important. If the merchant ship can be safely escorted to the place, it is indeed a great achievement." Li Mingxin guessed: "Yes Oh, just now Li Daoyun you said that our going to the Spice Islands is not a bad thing, is that what you said?"

"Of course not." Li Daoyun was noncommittal: "Perhaps your guess is Liu Rengui's plan. After all, there is a conflict between us. It is impossible for him to let us take the most credit. It is enough to give us a small credit to go back to the business. After all, we It's recruits.

But the advantage I am talking about is not this, let me ask you, what is the biggest weakness of our fleet now? "

"Do you still need to ask? Of course it is sailing experience." Speaking of this, Cheng Chuliang also looked depressed. The Quanzhou Fleet was built on the basis of the group of eliminated young soldiers and some students who came out of Wentian Shuyuan. Speaking of which, one of their common characteristics is that they are young, and the other is that they have a high enough education, which means that they have a strong ability to accept new things—whether it is the operation of warships, the use of artillery, or They can easily accept and absorb the learning of navigation knowledge and so on.

There is only one thing that cannot be obtained through learning, and that is sailing experience. This thing can only be obtained after a long time of personal experience. It can only be learned by the master taking the experience of going out to sea. Simply learning Can't grasp it at all.

However, the Quanzhou Fleet is a fleet composed of new recruits. They have been learning the basic operations of the navy for a year. How can there be any time to learn sailing experience?This also led to the quality of the Quanzhou Fleet far surpassing the State Fleet, but in terms of ocean experience, it was thrown out by the Yuezhou Fleet by a few streets. This is something everyone knows. Before leaving, Li Zhen also specifically asked Liu Rengui To bring more Quanzhou Fleet, the result...

There are contradictions between the two sides, and it is impossible to communicate with each other. Cheng Chuliang originally thought that the strength of the Quanzhou Fleet should be enough to dominate the sea, but the reality gave him a hard blow, making him understand the unfathomable depth of the sea, and let him The Yuezhou Fleet watched a lot of jokes.

"What do you mean?" Seeing Li Daoyun asking this, Li Mingxin couldn't help but glance at him, but he couldn't see anything on his face that seemed to never change his expression.

"It's very simple. The nautical experience we lack the most now, but we can learn without experience." Li Daoyun still looked calm: "There is a shortage of everything in this sea. Can we still lack experienced old sailors? As long as we let These old sailors lead us, and with the learning ability of all of us, half a month should be enough to be a teacher."

"Nonsense, if we want to learn, we need others to be willing to teach us, but with the conflict between us, why should we teach you if you are not convinced?" Cheng Chuliang rolled his eyes and said angrily, "I said what bad idea did you come up with?" Huh? You were personally involved in the conflict between us and the Yuezhou Fleet. Who do you think is right? It must be us. Since we have the reason, why should we give in to them? In other words, even if we are soft, The Yuezhou Fleet will only laugh at us more brazenly, even if they really teach you, but do you dare to use what they teach?"

"Who said I'm going to give in to the Yuezhou Fleet?" Li Daoyun asked indifferently: "I never said that."

Cheng Chuliang was even more dizzy: "Then what do you mean? Apart from the Yuezhou Fleet, is there anyone else who can teach us?"

"I understand when you say that." Li Mingxin clapped his hands and laughed loudly, "If it's really what you said, then it's really not a bad thing for us to take this trip. On the contrary, it's a great good thing."

"What the hell are you talking about? Why can't I understand? I said can you speak clearly? If you talk like that again, I'm going to get angry." Two people in the trio understood, only Cheng Chuliang, the highest official, still Confused, which made him very embarrassing, and he couldn't help threatening from embarrassment.

"It's okay, let me explain." Li Mingxin explained with a smile: "It's very simple, you just said that only the Yuezhou Fleet can teach us at sea. This is actually wrong, but don't forget, really In terms of experienced sailors, we have a great resource next to us."

"You mean...the Merchant Marine?" Cheng Chuliang was not stupid, he just didn't like to use his brain. Now that Li Mingxin reminded him, he finally understood what Li Daoyun meant.

"That's right, why did I forget these masters?" Cheng Chuliang patted his kneecaps and said excitedly, "Isn't it just the experience of going to sea? This thing is not only the unique craft of the Yuezhou Fleet, but also the experience in merchant ships." Rich old sailors are no less than the Yuezhou Fleet, they are all sailing experience, where did they learn?"

"That's right, that's why I said that this is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes good and bad things are not necessarily absolute." Li Daoyun said lightly.

"And there is one more thing." Li Mingxin added: "Before the merchant ships followed the big fleet, they would listen to Liu Rengui and might not sell our face, but now we are the main force to escort the merchant ships, and they want something from us. Yes, once we encounter danger, we need to protect them. What if we borrow some experienced old sailors from them? After all, this is not increasing our combat effectiveness, but also increasing their sense of security—they There is no reason to refuse."

"That's it, that's it." Cheng Chuliang clapped his hands: "Okay, pass on the order, order the Quanzhou fleet to separate from the main fleet, and change course to escort the merchant fleet to the Spice Islands."

"Yes." Li Mingxin nodded and turned around to deliver the order.