Chapter 187 Writing "Chou Hai Tu Bian" And "Ji Jiao Xin Shu"

Wei Yuan came along the coast from Haizhou and saw that the coastal defenses in various places were already rotten. If he wanted to completely change this situation, he had to find another way.

Building a navy is one way.

He wanted to change the strategy of the southeast coast against the Japanese pirates from defense to offense.

There is no better defense than offense. This sentence is very appropriate when it comes to the problem of Japanese pirates.

"How much do you know about Penghu Island? Tell me."

The official name of the Great Zhou for that place is 'Penghu Island', also known as the Penghu Islands. Most people call it 'Yizhou' and 'Ryukyu'.

Hu Yanzhong responded: "There are about 5,000 Zhou people on Penghu Island, and about 2,000 to 3,000 people from overseas countries."

"Since the last navy of our Great Zhou went to Penghu, the army there is basically a hereditary system, with the fathers inheriting the elders, and the number of soldiers is maintained at about 1,500."

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Now many people on Penghu Island still call themselves "Tang people". The Great Zhou has no clear official documents to restrict this, so they just let them go.

After hearing the general situation of Yizhou, Wei Yuan nodded and said:

"As long as there is a citizen of our Great Zhou on that island, we must preserve this island."

"That island can only belong to our Great Zhou."

In the remaining days, Wei Yuan took Hu Yanzhong along the coast to other prefectures and saw many coastal defenses.

It must be said that Cai Xiang, the Fujian Road Transport Envoy, is still very concerned about coastal defense.

After all, for the people of Fujian, they don't have too many resources, and most of them can only live by the sea.

Unlike Liangzhe Road, there is a paradise like Hangzhou.

To take a point as an example, as long as the reputation of Hangzhou Prefecture remains, Liangzhe Road will not be poor.

But Fujian Road cannot.

As long as it leaves the sea, many people in Fujian Road will starve to death.

During this period of time, in addition to officials and merchants from all over the country who want to meet Wei Yuan.

There are also many envoys from overseas countries.

With the opening of sea transportation, many overseas countries, such as Japan, Persia, Zhenla, Jiaozhi, Johor, Java, Tianzhu, etc., want to take the lead in opening up sea trade relations with Da Zhou.

So, they began to write to the court, expressing their intention to establish various countries' post stations, that is, embassies, in the southeast.

Now, the people responsible for building post stations in various countries in the southeast are almost in place, and they all want to meet Wei Yuan, the frontier official.

Even during the New Year, some overseas countries that came to Da Zhou to pay tribute were asking about Wei Yuan's preferences.

They collected horses, weapons, and military books and wanted to give them to him.

They even brought some of their own outstanding women.

They thought that since Wei Yuan could spend a lot of money in a brothel, he must be a greedy and lustful person.

They hoped that the beauties they brought would be favored by Wei Yuan.

In this way, they would be able to avoid a lot of trouble when trading with the Great Zhou.

He did not know what they were thinking, but he had no plans to meet them in the short term.

After inspecting all the coastal defense matters along the southeast coast, Wei Yuan set off to return to Fuzhou.

During his time in the southeast, he would use Fuzhou as his base camp to remotely command the destruction of the Japanese in various places.

On the way back, Wei Yuan asked Hu Yanzhong to sit in his carriage, and the latter was flattered.

The former asked: "You have accompanied me to many states along the coast and seen their coastal defense construction. What do you think?"

Hu Yanzhong said bluntly: "Defense blindly will eventually only maintain many coastal defense constructions, such as watchtowers and bunkers, which are no less than the construction of the Great Wall."

"If it goes on for a long time, it will drag down the local strategies, and it is difficult to curb the growth of the Japanese pirates if it is just defense blindly."

The Japanese pirates are not all Japanese, there are also many people from overseas countries.

They all covet the wealth owned by the Great Zhou.

Wei Yuan nodded, "You are right. Just defending blindly can only be complacent."

"The Great Zhou needs its own navy, and it needs to continue to develop its navy."

When returning to Fuzhou, Cai Xiang had been waiting outside the Fuzhou Coastal Defense Camp for a long time.

"Marshal Wei has been to the coastal defense towns of various prefectures in Fuzhou these days. I wonder if you are satisfied with him?"

Wei Yuan said, "In dealing with the Japanese pirates, you Fujian Road has given a very good answer."

There is nothing more gratifying than being recognized by your boss.

Cai Xiang smiled and said, "Marshal Wei, you are too kind. By the way, I heard that Lord Fan went to Hangzhou again."

Went to Hangzhou?

Wei Yuan said thoughtfully, "I will do what I promised you."

Cai Xiang's face was happy. This was what he was most worried about. "Please rest assured, Marshal Wei. I will follow your lead in Fujian Road."

Seeing that it was impossible to win over Wei Yuan, Liangzhe Road could only win over Fan Chunren.

Moreover, Fan Chunren, who carries his father's name, can win the hearts of the people, so it is not necessarily that he cannot defeat Wei Yuan, who has military power.

But for Wei Yuan and Fan Chunren, there is no intention to fight.

After all, for people in their position, everything should be based on "national policy".

Only those who can only see the wellhead or those of lower rank will think about political struggles and conspiracies everywhere.

In fact, the higher the position, the less they disdain to use any tactics, and everything they do is upright and aboveboard.

And those people call this "open conspiracy".

After Cai Xiang left, Wei Yuan invited a painter in Fuzhou City to draw the existing coastal defense illustrations of various places according to his own oral description.

After that, based on what he saw and heard in Fujian Road and Hu Yanzhong's ideas, and based on his own "forward-looking vision", he asked the painter to draw the coastal defense illustrations that still need to be rectified in various places.

Comparing before and after, the difference is obvious.

Seeing the names of these illustrations, Yang Huairen murmured:

"Lianghuai Road Haizhou Shansha Sea Defense Illustrations? This map shows the existing sea defense illustrations. The layout of the bunkers and watchtowers is quite novel, similar to Fuzhou. If it is built according to this map, most of Haizhou's sea defense lines will be worry-free in the short term."

"Will the commander draw two sea defense illustrations for each coastal prefecture, one for the existing one and the other for the future sea defense construction in each coastal area?"

"By comparing the pictures, the witnesses can clearly see the difference, which is wonderful."

He was really amazed.

Could it be that one of the purposes of the commander's inspection of the sea defenses of various places along the coast from Haizhou was to improve this illustration?

Wei Yuan said, "This is just the first step. Don't let anyone disturb me in the near future."

Yang Huairen nodded and bowed, "Yes."

"By the way, Xie Wu reported that the Japanese pirates in Yongjia County have been completely eliminated, and dozens of them have surrendered. A Japanese envoy negotiated with us and said that he hopes to hand over those Japanese pirates to them for disposal."

"Xie Wu wants to ask you what you think, whether to hand over this person or not?"

Wei Yuan shook his head and said, "The Japanese like the sea so much, so sink them into the sea."

"From now on, there is no need to report such things to me. I have said that no Japanese pirates in the Great Zhou should be left alive."

Yang Huairen clasped his fists and said, "Yes."

For several days afterwards.

Wei Yuan has been working on compiling "Chou Hai Tu Bian".

The so-called Chou Hai Tu Bian is a coastal military map compiled by him after collecting relevant information on coastal defense.

It mainly involves his ideas for the future rectification of coastal defense in the southeastern coastal area.

This map was to be presented to Zhao Zhen. It was related to the future coastal defense and naval construction, and no negligence was allowed.

The contents of "Chou Hai Tu Bian" include "Full Geographical Map", "Coastal Mountain and Sand Map", "Coastal County Map", "Map of Japanese Island Barbarians Invading", etc., which are composed of hundreds of pictures.

The so-called map of Japanese pirates invading refers to some places where Japanese pirates often landed, which Wei Yuan learned by asking the heads of coastal defense camps in various places.

The rest of the drawings depict the existing coastal defense construction and the macro intentions for future construction.

Originally, this "Chou Hai Tu Bian" was compiled by Hu Zongxian, a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty in the previous history.

Wei Yuan made innovations based on the actual situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty, focusing only on the future coastal defense construction, and omitted some deeds of fighting against Japanese pirates and the establishment of relations with Japan.

To put it bluntly, he compiled this "Chou Hai Tu Bian" to reflect his own feelings about the construction of coastal defense, hoping that Zhao Zhen could clearly issue an order that the coastal defense along the coast should be built according to this map in the future.

This atlas focuses on defense.

But before that, Wei Yuan said that it is not enough to just defend.

After completing the "Chou Hai Tu Bian", Wei Yuan wrote four big characters "Ji Xiao Xin Shu" on a new page of paper, and muttered to himself:

"Whether the navy can be successfully established depends on you."

He wants to write down all the experience of inspecting the coastal defense of various prefectures in the past few days and some of Hu Yanzhong's techniques and achievements in training the navy.

After all, it is not realistic to reproduce the Ji Xiao Xin Shu written by Qi Jiguang in the previous life.

He can only write a Ji Xiao Xin Shu that fits this era according to his own ideas.

This book focuses on the method of training the navy and the importance of establishing the navy.