"Tan Fei, what time is it now?" Zhao Bing spent many days in the military weapon workshop and finally solved the technical problems one by one. He breathed a sigh of relief after a successful trial operation. He glanced at it and asked Tan Fei next to him after a simple wash.

"Your Majesty, it's Yin time now!" Tan Fei answered casually with a look at the rising sun outside.

"I'm talking about life!" Zhao Bing took the scarf and wiped his face and said with a wry smile.

"Oh, Your Majesty is already July 22!" Tan Fei quickly replied after hearing this.

"Oh, I went to court once this month, and missed the Sun-Wanging Festival again. I don't know how many people want to write a letter to advise me." Zhao Bing didn't feel that he had been here for a few days. He was stunned when he heard this, and then sighed.

"Well, I guess after returning to the palace, Deng Zhongcheng was already waiting for His Majesty!" Tan Fei said with a smile. He knew very well that the young emperor had been afraid of several masters since he was a child, and since His Majesty took power, he rarely told him the lesson that he should be told. Governor Jiang would not scold him at all but remind him in a vague way. Only Deng Zhongcheng was still the same. As long as he saw that His Majesty was wrong, regardless of the occasion, regardless of whether the young emperor could come down, he would give him a "persuasion", which would make him lose face and laugh. This time, he had not been to court for such a long time, and a lesson could not be escaped.

"Let's just go to Taihu Boatyard to check it out. Anyway, the left and right will inevitably go back!" Zhao Bing heard it and turned around twice in the house, and suddenly turned around. According to the progress, he estimated that the manufacturing of the "Slippers" and "Galen Ship" should come to an end and it is about to enter the sea trial stage. Adhering to the principle that dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water, it is better to go there too.

"Your Majesty, this is probably even more inappropriate, right?" Tan Fei was shocked. Not only did the little emperor not return to the palace, but he also wanted to continue to escape even more, which made him feel even more difficult to explain.

"What's wrong? One knife will be beaten, two knifes will be beaten. I'll just borrow them to ears when I go back!" Zhao Bing squeezed his eyes at Tan Fei.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid I won't explain it when I go back!" Tan Fei was indeed bitter. He saw that the little emperor was willing to do so, but as His Majesty's personal follower, he knew that his behavior was inappropriate, but he did not advise him. When he went back, he would inevitably be scolded by the queen and the prime ministers in the court. It was really unfair.

"The sky collapses and there are tall men who are holding on to you. I don't speak. How can they stand up to you?" Zhao Bing looked at his 'nothing' appearance and scolded him.

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"Send someone to inform the imperial office and ask them to send official documents every day. And notify the queen and the two prime ministers that I will return to the palace two days later after handling these trivial matters!" Seeing that he lowered his head and said nothing, Zhao Bing ordered, regardless of what he thought.

"I obey the order. I don't know if Your Majesty is going by land or sea. I can make arrangements!" Tan Fei realized that the little emperor had decided to leave and he could not control it, so he could only ask for advice.

"Of course, let the Imperial Navy transfer a ship over, don't be so arrogant. After dealing with the current matter, let's go tonight!" Zhao Bing saw that he was still muffled and said unhappy.

"Yes, my subordinates obey the order!" Tan Fei knew that it would be useless to say anything else, so he politely said again.

The above sentence was like this, and the leg was broken. Although the little emperor asked not to be open-minded, Tan Fei did not dare to be careless at all. He first sent someone to inform the whereabouts of the palace and the two priests. You should know that the emperor's "missing" is a major event, which will not only cause turmoil in the court, but also cause unexpected events to happen. Such things cannot be concealed no matter what.

Then Tan Fei informed Ni Liang, the chief garrison commander of the imperial guards, asking for orders to mobilize naval warships, and also tell the emperor where he would go. In this way, Ni Liang would naturally strengthen the control of the capital according to the plan to prevent His Majesty from going abroad to make trouble, and he would also ask the troops garrison along the way to strengthen combat readiness and provide support for the journey at any time. Therefore, it is not so easy for the emperor to go out of the capital to visit privately. People from all aspects have already received news.

In addition, Tan Fei knew that the little emperor had always been traveling lightly and was not happy to mobilize his troops, but this did not mean that he would leave after he was packed up. He still had a lot of preparations to do. First, the imperial front office had to arrange the accompanying personnel, formulate a guard plan, take the means of transportation, where to go, where to stay, where to meet, how many roads he would travel a day, etc., and send people to the front station to arrange everything.

Besides, the little emperor's food, clothing, housing and transportation are not casual. They must be prepared in advance and managed by a dedicated person to ensure that they can be found at any time when needed, and can be served whatever food is available, and even any book can be delivered at any time. Therefore, it is very cumbersome to prepare. This time, the little emperor said he would leave. As a close servant, Tan Fei not only had to coordinate all parties, but also had to personally investigate and inspect it to avoid omissions...

In the afternoon of the same day, Zheng Yong personally led the fleet, which was still a combination of Sheji, a baggage ship and six dragon boats. After the tide, Zhao Bing and his group boarded the ship and went out from Hangzhou Bay to sail north along the coastline.

"Your Majesty, you haven't gone to sea for a long time, right?" Zheng Yong asked with a smile when he saw the little emperor get on the boat.

"Yes, it should be more than a year. I really miss the days on the sea. How comfortable it is!" Zhao Bing looked at the sunset floating on the horizon and said with deep emotion.

"Everyone also misses the days when he galloped on the sea with His Majesty and defeated the Mongolian Yuan navy. But now there are more and more days when the Sojimaku is docked in the port, and Your Majesty is rarely seated once!" Zheng Yong patted the shipyard and said sadly.

"Oh, I can't help it, otherwise there would be no chance for you to go to Nanyang." Zhao Bing looked at Zheng Yongyan and said.

"When I was still remembered by Your Majesty in Qiongzhou, he once said that he would take us on a boat to travel around the world, find a new continent, and open up a new territory. Thinking about it is like yesterday!" Zheng Yong said with emotion.

"It seems that you and your group in Nanyang have a lot of feelings!" Zhao Bing looked at Zheng Yong and smiled.

"Yes, I only realized the vastness of the world and the vastness of the ocean during this trip. I felt like I was like a frog in a well before, and I could not see the size of the world." Zheng Yongyan said.

"Zheng Dutong, our great Song Dynasty has expanded its territory thousands of miles away. Overseas are just small vassal states, so why are they so self-deprecating!" Tan Fei was a little dissatisfied after hearing this.

"Haha, you should go out for a walk too!" Zhao Bing turned to Tan Fei and said with a smile, "The world is beyond your imagination. Even when my Song Dynasty was in its prime, it was just a corner. There are still many vast lands overseas. It is difficult to travel to every continent in your entire life. It is impossible to dream of it without seeing it with your own eyes."

"Well, what Your Majesty said is that I only went to Southeast Asia for my trip to sea, and those merchants said that they were still thousands of miles apart from the West, and they still had not been to some places!" Zheng Yong nodded and said.

"I want to go out to sea to see what Your Majesty and Zheng Dutong said, "Tan Fei also looked fascinated when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, it's time to have a meal. Please move to the cabin!" Wang De came over and asked.

"The cabin is cool, so I'll have a meal here. You can have two drinks with me here!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and said.

"I'll be disrespectful!" Tan Fei and Zheng Yong said with a smile.

It was already dark at this time, and Wang De ordered people to hang lanterns on the top deck, set up a few tables to deliver meals. The night wind blows at sea, bringing a burst of coolness, driving away the sultry and heat of the day, which is very comfortable.

"I haven't boarded the ship for a long time. Many of the people on the ship have changed, and many of them have not recognized each other!" After three rounds of wine, the sailors and soldiers on the ship have also started to change shifts. Zhao Bing looked down and said.

"Well, many veterans in the Imperial Navy have retired after their service life, and some have been transferred to other departments. Some new recruits have been added, so your Majesty naturally doesn't recognize them!" Zheng Yong nodded and said.

"I listened to their accents mostly from Qiongzhou, Fujian and Guangxi coastal areas, but they were transferred from other naval forces!" Zhao Bing asked again as he heard the command of the shift change sailors.

"Some officers were selected from other naval forces, but most ordinary sergeants were selected from the recruit camps." Zheng Yong replied.

"Oh, there are many people who are good at water in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, why are there few local soldiers?" Zhao Bing was stunned when he heard this.

"Have you never heard the Wu people's fearful battle, and it's unavailable?" Zheng Yong asked back with a strange question.

"..." Why didn't Zhao Bing hear that? I heard my father-in-law complain to him that all the troops were unwilling to use Jiangsu and Zhejiang soldiers, and asked them to take care of them and give priority to the selection of soldiers. I also taught him a lesson to put the overall situation first. Today I heard the same thing about people around me, so there is a problem.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates are unwilling to use Jiangsu and Zhejiang soldiers. These people are not afraid to fight, but they can't endure hardships, and they even become deserters!" Tan Fei also agreed.

"Oh, has the heroic spirit of the Wu Yue people who are ready to die is gone?" Zhao Bing heard the complaints of the two, and drank a glass of wine for a long time before saying. He put on such a helpless word for a long time, which was easily said by people, but this was not what he and the two people in front of him said. In fact, after the southward transition, someone said this publicly, and this person was the famous general of the rebel army from the southward to the north, the poet Xin Qiji.

Xin Qiji's statement was recorded by his friend Cheng Yu in "Mingshui Collection: Bingzi Lun Piano". His words: Recruiting border soldiers must be able to ride horses, shoot archers, and operate warships, and they cannot be scared out of fear as soon as they go to the battlefield like the Wu people. Even if they are mobilized, they must be separated from troops from other regions, so as not to be infected with bad habits. In a word, Xin Qiji believes that the Wu people are not a good source of soldiers.

So, why did Xin Qiji say that the Wu people were not suitable for joining the army? Is it because the region was dark, or was there a reason for the words? Because according to some other records, the Wu people mentioned by Xin Qiji were often very resistant to joining the army. To explain all this, Zhao Bing felt that it had to start with the background of the times. Because after the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were fewer wars and chaos in the Taihu area, and it was also far away from the northern frontline. From the Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, there were not many regular troops here, which made the local lack of the tradition of joining the army.

Of course, in addition to regular troops, there were also local armed soldiers in the Song Dynasty. Because the number, quality and treatment of a region could reflect the martial style of a region. Wang Anshi advocated the development of Baojia and replaced some imperial guards with rural soldiers. However, in the early Song Dynasty, a large number of rural soldiers were brave and brave. However, they were mainly distributed in the border areas of the Northern Song Dynasty and Liaoxixia. In the same period, there were not many relevant rural soldiers records in the Jiangnan area, especially the former Wujun area in the Taihu area.

If the soldiers in the Nanfang Township have clear records, it will be almost time to the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, and even Wang Anshi's reform. Therefore, it is very common for people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai to lack military literacy. In addition, the lack of military traditions in the Jiangnan region in the Northern Song Dynasty also has cultural and economic reasons.

First of all, the Song Dynasty did have a policy and a trend of emphasizing literature over military affairs. For example, during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, Jinshi Li Guangfu performed swordsmanship for Emperor Zhenzong to prove that he was both civil and military, but as a result, it touched the emperor's sensitive nerves and was sent back to his hometown. This trend also affected the Taihu area, and scholars began to abandon martial arts and follow literature, and many literary talents in Wu also began to do so from that era.

Secondly, in terms of economy, the Qiantang area of ​​Sanwu was large in population and developed in economy. Most of the money, grain and taxes in the Tang and Song dynasties were taken from here. Therefore, in the eyes of rulers, the southeast region is enough as the economic center. Large-scale recruitment of soldiers in the local area will affect local economic development obviously indefinitely. The above many factors naturally made the people of Wujun in the Northern Song Dynasty lack military experience and tradition.

The situation changed after the southward transition. As the Jin people occupied the north, the Song court, centered on Hangzhou, had to recruit soldiers locally. Hangzhou and the surrounding areas had a large population. Lin'an Prefecture had a population of one million. At that time, the population of Liangzhe Road in the Suzhou-Hangzhou and surrounding areas was more than 12 million, while the maximum number of various armies in Hangzhou was only 130,000, and the maximum number of various armies in the entire Liangzhe area was less than 200,000. On the surface, the quality of soldiers can still be guaranteed with such a high population ratio.

But the problem lies in the barbaric and bad recruitment methods. For example, driving a big ship in the Caohe River, you will catch the strong boy directly; for example, you will arrange a wooden fence with a mechanism, put some money in it, and if someone greedy goes to get it, you will start the mechanism and close the fence. It makes people sigh that this is recruiting soldiers or catching birds?

There were even more ugly foods. According to legend, there was a shortage of thousands of people in the name of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Imperial Guards' Hall Front Office. The emperor ordered the three yamen to recruit and replenish the monthly fee. In order to embezzle the property used by the recruitment of soldiers, those recruiting soldiers directly caught the people and did not give money. For a while, the people who made a living by chopping wood, selling fish and shrimps did not dare to go to Hangzhou.
Chapter completed!