The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

"You are only responsible for the follow-up trade with the Mi family. As for those who robbed the ship, I will naturally send other people to deal with it. But this time the merchant ship was robbed. Although you were not present, it was also your fault. You must be punished." , I will go to lead the army twenty sticks in a while, as a punishment!"

After Zu Lang finished speaking, he heard Liu Zheng's slightly majestic voice, his face was restrained, but he quickly agreed.

"Yes, my lord!"

Although it is not something that can be appeased easily, Zu Lang has no complaints because of his negligence.

After Zu Lang left, Liu Zheng began to arrange a message for the robbery of the ship.

Because he had to go to Poyang Lake in person to investigate this matter, and the other party hijacked the ship and touched seven or eight warships, at least thousands of soldiers.

As for Liu Zheng's current navy, the 4000 people on Zulang's side are actually very few, so they need to send troops from Jiaozhou to support them.

Although Liu Zheng had already started to prepare for the navy before, he was in a hurry, and now he only has 3000 people in a hurry, and he hasn't even got a decent ship. It's still reluctant to call it a navy.

Now that something happened to Poyang Lake, Liu Zheng needs to solve it, and then go to Poyang Lake to recruit a wave of people, and even to recruit Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, it is not impossible.

"Su Fei, Gan Ning, this time I plan to go to Poyang Lake to investigate Zu Lang's matter, are you two willing to go with me?"

"My lord, the final general is willing to go!"

Su Fei immediately agreed to Liu Zheng, but he didn't seem to refuse.

But Gan Ning was not as cautious as Su Fei, with his carefree personality, he just nodded excitedly.

"Okay, lord, you think of me. I was not allowed to go to Lin Yiguo before. I've been here for the past few months and I'm going to panic."

"I didn't expect that I did you a big favor yesterday, and you arranged something for me today. It seems that I really did a good thing yesterday."

Gan Ning talked to himself excitedly.

After hearing Gan Ning's words, Liu Zheng didn't know what he was talking about.

"Gan Ning, what are you talking to yourself? What helped me a lot? What did you help me?"

"My lord, just pretend to be like me. Miss Cai Yao sent you back to your room last night. You didn't come out all night. You didn't come out of your room until this morning. Don't tell me that you spent the whole night yesterday. , nothing happened."

Last night, Gan Ning, Xu Huang and others drank too late, they competed with each other, and they all passed out drunk on the table, slept on their stomachs all night, and didn't leave until they woke up in the morning.

When he was leaving, he happened to see Cai Yao walking out of Liu Zheng's backyard.

Gan Ning, who had experienced this before, when he saw Cai Yao walking, he didn't know what happened, but he just said hello to Cai Yao, and the two left without saying anything.

"What did you say?"

Liu Zheng froze for a moment, vaguely feeling that something was wrong.

"I said, Miss Cai Yao last night"

Liu Zheng's face changed slightly. No wonder he woke up this morning without any clothes on. If he was hungover last night, he couldn't have taken off his clothes, but

But what happened last night, he really has no memory at all. He drank too much, and he doesn't have any memory at all. That's the feeling of drinking fragments.

"Wait here for me!"

Liu Zheng interrupted Gan Ning, turned around and left.

He ran straight back to his room, and then directly lifted the quilt on his bed.

On the off-white bed sheet, a bright red appeared.

The whole room was filled with a faint smell.

What happened last night, although Liu Zheng didn't have any memory in his mind, judging from the environment in this room, Liu Zheng roughly understood.

After all, he is a modern person, and he still understands some things very well.

"Cai Yao Cai Yao yesterday"

Although he knew that these things had happened, Liu Zheng was still in a dazed state at this time.

In fact, he is not against the relationship between men and women. If possible, with his current status, he can do it with as many women as he wants. Some people even beg to marry him.

But he is a modern person after all, he is not only full of love between men and women, he cares more about feelings, if there is no harmony of feelings, directly to the last step, he always feels that something is missing.

Naturally, he doesn't dislike Cai Yao, but when it comes to liking and loving, he is still a bit short.

But now that something like this happened, Liu Zheng really didn't know how to face Cai Yao.

Liu Zheng, with a silent face, came out of the room, greeted Gan Ning, and sent Gan Ning and Su Fei away.

Liu Zheng wanted to ask Cai Yao exactly what happened last night. If it was Liu Zheng's fault, Liu Zheng was a man after all, and he still wanted to take responsibility for Cai Yao when he committed machismo.

After all, no matter in terms of family background or appearance, Cai Yao is not inferior to Liu Zheng at all.

Liu Zheng remembered where Cai Yao lived. He lived in the same yard with Zhang Zhongjing and others.

Because in the entire barracks, only Zhang Muyu was a girl, and usually only Zhang Muyu and Cai Yao were close, so Cai Yao later moved to be neighbors with Zhang Muyu.

Because of the teaching in the school, Zhang Muyu's medical skills are also very important, and he often has to go to class, so the two can stay together.

When Liu Zheng came here, he knocked on the door, but no one responded.

Liu Zheng yelled at the inside twice, but no one answered him.

Just when Liu Zheng was about to open the door and go in to find it, Zhang Muyu poked his head out from the other side.

"Hey, brat, what are you doing here looking for Sister Cai Yao?"

"Mu Yu, where's Cai Yao?"

As soon as he saw Zhang Muyu, Liu Zheng didn't have time to think about it, so he asked directly.

"I still want to ask you, didn't she drink at your house last night and didn't come back all night, you ask me?"

Chapter 298 Departure

"Didn't come back all night? Didn't Gan Ning say she came back in the morning?"

Liu Zheng was taken aback when he heard Zhang Muyu's words.

"No, I haven't seen Sister Cai Yao since I woke up this morning."

Zhang Muyu's words made Liu Zheng even more curious, but Cai Yao didn't come back, so Liu Zheng had to shelve what he wanted to ask her.

"What are you looking for sister Cai Yao, just tell me. When she comes back, I will tell her for you."

Zhang Muyu was warm-hearted, but Liu Zheng's face turned red. Naturally, it was not easy to tell Zhang Muyu about this kind of thing, so he could only wave his hand.

"It's okay, since she's not here, I'll come to her next time."

Liu Zheng left in front of Zhang Muyu's door in a hurry, for fear that she would see something.

Originally, he wanted to find Cai Yao, but he couldn't find Cai Yao, so Liu Zheng temporarily left this matter behind.

At this time, Liu Zheng was very busy. He first dealt with some big and small affairs in Jiaozhou during this period of time.

Although during this period of time, under the management of Shi Xie, Xu You and others, although there were not too many disturbances in government affairs, there were still some things that Liu Zheng needed to decide in person.

After all, it is impossible to completely trust Shi Xie in everything. Some important matters, involving a large amount of money, must be done personally.

Even if he didn't do it himself, Liu Zheng would have to review it afterwards to avoid any mistakes or even prevent them from appearing.

He went straight to the Governor's Mansion and began to deal with Xu You, Yuan Zhou and others about the affairs that Jiaozhou had squeezed out recently.

For example, to build a city destroyed by the war, the funds needed to be allocated, the amount of funds, the recruiting of new troops, the military expenditures allocated, and the funds required to appease the families of the soldiers who died. Although Shi Xie and others can do this kind of thing Make a decision.

But these things must be known to Liu Zheng. At the same time, Liu Zheng must have a look at them to understand these things.

When Liu Zheng looked at the things written on the government affairs slips, in the final analysis, it was still a single word.

money!

Not to mention everything, most things are related to money.

As long as there is enough military spending, most of these backlogs here can be alleviated.

From this, Liu Zheng selected some urgent responses, such as comforting the families of the dead soldiers, military expenses for the treatment of the injured soldiers, and taking the lead in allocating the needed money.

Liu Zheng has always attached great importance to the construction of the army. Without these people, Liu Zheng would not be able to conquer the world at all, so it is natural to appease him.

As for repairing the city wall, building houses, and building a new governor's mansion, Liu Zheng didn't particularly value these things. If they can be used for the time being, let's just make do with them.

But after all, what has been accumulated in the next three or four months will not be settled in a while.

It was late in the evening when Liu Zheng finished handling these government affairs and handed them over to Shi Xie to continue to follow up.

At the same time, Liu Zheng paid more and more attention to the lack of funds. Jiaozhou is not an economically developed place, and it is far from enough to rely on the taxes paid by the people under his command to support the development of Jiaozhou.

It is possible to maintain the expenditure in the present, but it is not easy to increase the military construction and develop Jiaozhou into a developed area like Yangzhou and Jingzhou.

Therefore, Liu Zheng must resolve the matter of Poyang Lake as soon as possible, and at the same time develop his coastline caravan.

Only in this way can he use more funds to build Jiaozhou.

the second day.As soon as the new year was over, Liu Zheng couldn't wait to go to Poyang Lake with Zu Lang and a group of people to deal with the robbery of the ship.

From Hepu City in Jiaozhou to Poyang Lake, if you go by land, it will take at least ten days. After all, the mountain road is difficult to travel, and there is such a long distance. Ten days is fast. If you walk slowly, I'm afraid it will take nearly a month.

But this time, Liu Zheng didn't plan to go by land, he decided to go by water.

"What, my lord, you want to go by water?"

When Zu Lang, Gan Ning and others heard Liu Zheng's words, they were all taken aback.

None of them knew what Liu Zheng meant by the waterway. After all, there was no river in Jiaozhou that could lead directly to Poyang Lake.

Instead, there is a Mekong River that leads downstream to Southeast Asia.

"Naturally, I have always had an idea in my mind to open up a direct waterway to Youzhou. If it works this time, then the one leading to Youzhou is also fine."

What Liu Zheng thought was actually normal. He wanted to establish a coastal trade route, so he had to go there himself.

If he, a modern person, can't even sail around the coast, then those ancient people who don't know geography at all and don't know what a map looks like will even more have no idea how to get around.

"But Jiaozhou doesn't have waters leading to Poyang Lake at all?"

"Yes, the seaside of Hepu, if you go up along the coastline, you will definitely be able to reach Poyang Lake!"

Liu Zheng told Zu Lang and Gan Ning what he was thinking, but both Zu Lang and Gan Ning looked at Liu Zheng with puzzled expressions.

Although they live on the river all year round, they don't know exactly where the lower reaches of the river lead, because the river is not always smooth and calm.

Sometimes, there will be a fault, and it is impossible to sail the boat at all, and it is very difficult to go down the river.

"You don't have to doubt what I said, just follow me."

Liu Zheng said something to Zu Lang and Gan Ning, and then led the crowd to the beach.

There is already a ship here by the sea, waiting. Although Liu Zheng's navy has not yet been formed, and the fleet has not been fully completed, it is still easy to purchase one or two ships.

In the previous Jiaozhou, Hepu was a port, and there were some fishing boats going out to sea for fishing. Although the fishing boats were not comparable to warships, some of the boats moored here were decent.

Liu Zheng spent money to collect it.

Zu Lang, Gan Ning, and Su Fei were in charge of sailing, and together with some previous sailors, Liu Zheng mobilized 300 people, then took Xu You with him, and started sailing directly along the coastline.

This voyage is an exploration voyage, because none of the people on board went to further places through the coastline.

Of course, this voyage was not all smooth sailing. Liu Zheng's vague memory of the map made him a little confused at the first stop.

Because sailing along the coastline from Hepu, the first stop is Zhuyazhou.

Zhuyazhou is actually the Hainan Island of later generations.

Liu Zheng is still aware of this point, but the Zhuyazhou Strait is not under Liu Zheng's control now. He controlled most of Jiaozhou before, but here it remains.

Chapter 299 The First Exploration of the Sea Route

"My lord, I heard from the old man Shi Xie that this place is called Zhuyazhou, and it was brought under the rule of the great Han a long time ago. Less rule here."

Regarding Hainan Island, in fact, Liu Zheng didn't have no ideas before, but because his navy has not yet completed its formation, it must be inappropriate to send troops to Zhuyazhou.

So this matter has been going on, but now that his ship has arrived here, naturally it is even more sad for Zhu Yazhou.

After all, in Liu Zheng's impression, the island of Zhuyazhou has extremely rich iron ore. If it can be developed, Liu Zheng will not need to import the iron ore needed by Jiaozhou's army in the future. .

"Gan Ning, remember, after our navy is formed in Jiaozhou in the future, the first thing to do is to take down this island."

"Yes, my lord, I made a note."

Gan Ning responded to Liu Zheng, but Liu Zheng didn't continue to pay attention to the issue of Zhu Yazhou at this time.

After bypassing the strait on Zhuyazhou, Liu Zheng's fleet arrived in Nanhai County in just one day. There is a small fishing village in Nanhai County.