After raising the emperor, he always wanted to marry me

Hebei Road, Jizhou River Bank, Linjiang Navy Station.

Meng Qian, the governor of the Zhou navy, was wearing a thin and neat bunt, with his sleeves rolled up, standing on a high wooden platform, directing the boatmen to carry the horizontal bars and wooden beams used for shipbuilding in an orderly manner.

The weather in the twelfth lunar month, the sea is cold, the wind and waves are extremely strong, and the cold wind makes his face blue and purple, his ears are red, and there is a red bump the size of a sesame seed on his neck because of the cold. Ordinary people can't help but shiver all over , he alone seems to be completely unconscious.

Strictly speaking, Meng Qian is a retainer of Dingguo Gong Meng Shao. His ancestors changed their surnames even though the clans were connected. Later, the two clans often intermarried. Qian is now in his forties, and has served in the Linjiang Navy since the Yongning Dynasty. In recent years, he has won several offshore offensive and defensive battles in succession, and has been promoted to the post of Navy Commander by virtue of his military exploits.He lost a terrible loss in the battle of Yuanhai this time, and there was also a desire to avenge the soldiers in his heart.Therefore, since returning to the station, he has personally supervised the construction of the huge ship that is related to the strength of the coastal defense of the Great Zhou every day.

"My lord general! Your Majesty and Taifu Han are here!" Deng Long, the deputy general in full armor, pressed the sword on his waist, and behind him was a soldier in official uniform, running from far to near, and rushed to the high platform to hold his fists and salute : "General please hurry up and face the saint!"

Hearing this, Meng Qian hurriedly put down his sleeves as if his head had been struck by rolling thunder. Before he could step down the steps, he jumped down from a platform nearly two feet high. He tidied up his clothes: "Why did Your Majesty and Taifu Han arrive? It's almost the end of the new year, and there are many annual offerings and celebrations in various places. How could Your Majesty and Taifu Han come here? Besides, no one from the Ministry of War has ever come to deliver an order!"

"The general doesn't know about this. I only heard that His Majesty and Taifu Han came here specially to stabilize the morale of the navy when they heard about the defeat of the navy. They only brought five or six hundred personal guards along the way. I know." Deng Long walked all the way and helped Meng Qian tidy up his official hat: "General, please slow down, it is not a trivial matter for an official hat to be crooked."

"The battle of Pingshawan was really useless. I thought that my army was already superior to other countries, but I was humiliated by such a small country as Fusang and Goryeo. If there were no major events to be finished, I really wanted to apologize with death. Outside the tent, Meng Qian adjusted the collar of his official uniform twice for the last time, opened the tent and stepped inside.

In the tent, King Gu Xiu was wearing black and gold Kowloon armor, wearing a pocket on his head, sitting on the upright seat.On the second seat next to the king, sat the Tai Fu Han Mochu who also wore a silver armor cloak. The two monarchs and ministers were sitting in front of the sand table and moving the warship model in the bay.

"Meng Qian, the last general, Deng Long, see Your Majesty, and see Taifu Han." The two entered the account at the same time, knelt on one knee together and saluted the king above him with fists in their hands.

"The two generals are on the same level, there is no need to be restrained." Gu Xiuxu raised his arms to signal that the two should be on the same level without courtesy.

"Your Majesty, the last general, as the commander of the navy, did not do his best in the battle, which caused my court to suffer such a great shame and sacrifice, and my court officers and soldiers were sacrificed in vain. I beg your Majesty to punish you." Standing up: "The final general is willing to bear all the punishments."

"General Meng doesn't need to underestimate himself so much. Your Majesty and I came here not to ask for accountability, but to supervise the conquest. General Meng is one of the Meng family's generation who can recruit and fight well. He is the frontier fortress of the Dazhou Waterway. Putting up a barrier, because of all of you here, I have never made a big move in the past [-] years in the coastal defense of Dazhou. Today's loss in the ocean battle is also related to the right time, place and people. The army is indeed inexperienced. General Meng does not need to be discouraged by this. With the rise of the giant ship, Your Majesty will lead the generals to meet the enemy again." Han Mochu's naturally smiling face always gave people an inexplicable sense of trust, and in just a few words, Meng Meng was dismissed. Qian and Deng Long's concerns.

"Thank you Your Majesty, Taifu Han is considerate." Meng Qian stood up and dusted the dust on the knees of his official uniform as he said: "I will be grateful in the end."

"Looking at Meng Qing's dusty appearance, did you just come down from the front line?" Gu Xiu stepped forward at the right time and patted Meng Qian's shoulder affirmatively.

"To tell you the truth, the last general came from the front line, that's why he is so disheveled and disheveled." Meng Qian said, "Thanks to your majesty's tolerance, no punishment will be given."

"Meng Qing is working hard for the country, what is the crime?" Gu Xiu once again comforted Meng Qian: "Meng Qing supervises the construction of the front line every day. Is there any difficulty in the construction of the giant ship so far? If sometimes Just say it clearly, and I will naturally solve the problem for you."

"Returning to Your Majesty, everything has been going smoothly since I took the order to build the giant ship. It's just that there is a shortage of high-quality cypress and teak wood used for shipbuilding boards. These two boards are rare in Jizhou, and local materials cannot be obtained. If the shortage is too great, the project So I had no choice but to suspend work. The minister handed over the paperwork twice to the Ministry of Industry, but both were delayed because of the war in front of him. It was the humble minister who neglected his duties and never covered everything." Meng Qian replied honestly.

"The matter has come to this point, and Meng Qing doesn't have to blame himself all the time. Taifu Han, you draw up an order for me, ordering all the trading post roads to immediately open up timber roads, only for the shipbuilding of Jizhou navy. In addition, send an order to all localities, The wood used for shipbuilding is graded from the day it is felled, only the first-class wood can be supplied, and the remaining second-class wood can be exported, and any official who dares to use the second-class wood as a good one will be dismissed regardless of the reason."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Meng Qian bowed to King Gu Xiu again.

From that day on, Gu Xiu and Han Mochu dealt with the imperial affairs that were urgently sent here from Bianjing [-] miles away at night, and during the day they worked with Meng Qian to supervise the construction of giant ships at the front line, and shared joys and sorrows with the boatmen and soldiers.

The boatmen got this honor and worked day and night even more.

This time, Han Mochu also brought more than a dozen coastal defense maps left by Mr. Yi Wei.

The above described in great detail the weak link between the border of Dazhou and the sea. Meng Qian felt like a treasure right away after obtaining these blueprints. In just a few days, he and Gu Xiu drew up a memorial to strengthen the coastal defense after the war. The frontier defenses in the far sea and near sea are optimized to be impenetrable, impregnable.

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This day is the first year of Zaisheng, the first day of the first month of the first month.

From this day onwards, the King's name was officially changed from Yongding to Zaisheng.

At the beginning of the Singapore dollar, Vientiane is renewed.

Last night on New Year's Eve, the Linjiang navy, from the emperor to the soldiers, never slept. The army slaughtered [-] lambs, put a big pot on it, and cooked bowl after bowl of delicious mutton soup for the whole army. In addition, soldiers who are not on duty the next day can open an altar to drink.

After drinking and eating, King Gu Xiu took off his armor, shirtless in the bitter sea breeze, holding a long!The gun competed with more than a dozen generals in front of the battle, and there was no defeat in one round.

The onlookers all sighed that His Majesty, who was supposed to be pampered in the capital, had such a strong physique and such agility. Since then, he has become more devout to the king he relies on and is loyal to.

It was dawn, and the monarch and his ministers had just returned to the king's tent, when Meng Qian, the captain of the navy, shouted hysterically and rushed all the way from outside the tent. He even forgot the salutes and greetings he should have, and knelt down on his knees with a plop In front of the monarch and his ministers, he raised his head, and his face was covered with tears from the sea breeze: "Your Majesty! Taifu Han! It's done! It's done!"

"General Meng, tell me clearly, what happened?" Han Mochu stood still and asked.

"It's done! The giant ship is finished! Last night, the boatmen rushed to work overnight and finished the last deck! The general is here to invite His Majesty and Taifu Han to go to the seaside to watch the giant ship launch!" Meng Qian wiped his face. With tears of excitement, he managed to adjust his breathing before finishing speaking.

After hearing this, the two monarchs and ministers, who had not slept all night, immediately put on their cloaks again, followed Meng Qian's footsteps and rode all the way to the wharf of Linjiang Navy's shipbuilding.

The first ray of sunlight on the sea level slowly rises, and tens of thousands of boatmen on the coast are waiting in full battle. Seeing the arrival of the two kings, the soldiers of the navy are waving skilled semaphore, and tens of thousands of boatmen are working at the same time. Remove the wooden beams erected above the giant ship.

About two hours later, the red sun rose high, and the wooden beams supporting the giant ship were removed, leaving only a round rod made of solid brass as a fulcrum. The boatmen shouted uniform slogans, The group slowly lowered the huge ship into the water.

The giant ship successfully entered the water and stood in the sea, like a huge movable palace on the sea, with a height of more than one hundred feet, as if it could cover the sky and block out the sun.

The hull of the giant ship is made of the most solid and floating high-quality cedar boards, and the golden paint that has rotted for thousands of years. There are a total of 72 anchors weighing a thousand catties to pull the giant ship. There are 120 light cannons, and there are four large-scale offensive and fire cannons on the front and back of the giant ship that can directly sink the enemy warship. The climbing iron thorns and the long-clawed hook brought back by Han Mochu from Rakshasa were scaled up and mass-produced. They were installed on the ejection devices on the two wings of the stern artillery, which can be used to tie down enemy ships and land soldiers. , captured enemy prisoners of war alive.

The interior of the battleship is equipped with cabins for thousands of soldiers to live at the same time, weapon depots, ammunition depots, grain and horse compartments.

There are banqiao passages on both sides of the ship that can connect to the land, and the width can accommodate four teams of troops to charge downwards in parallel.

Standing in front of the huge ship, Emperor Gu Xiu's eyes were hot and red, hugged the man beside him, and said with a slightly choked voice, "Taifu Han, let's choose a name for the first giant ship in Dazhou."

"Yes, I obey the order." Han Mochu answered with a nod, and ordered with a sideways look: "Come here, bring paper and ink."

"Yes!"

Soon, several soldiers carried a small table and a complete set of pens, inks, papers and inkstones and placed them in front of Han Mochu.

Han Mochu flattened the rice paper, pushed it flat with a paperweight, held his breath, raised his pen with his wrist hanging, the ink force pierced through the back of the paper, and two vigorous and powerful characters were written on the paper like a flying dragon and a dancing phoenix: Whale swallowing.

The giant ship swallows whales and conquers mountains and seas.