Obviously, after Zhou Nu's reminder, someone still understood the meaning of cooperation, and that was His Majesty the King. As soon as Zhou Nu finished his words and after a brief thought, he agreed to double the original lease time of the island. , and also require us to cooperate with them.
I agreed after thinking about it. In the original society, country m established many military bases around the world, and at the same time protected a number of countries, just to ensure the interests of the United States around the world. Since the United States can do it later, why can't I and Da Zhou do it? Moreover, if there is trade between two countries whose national power is very different in science and technology, the developed countries will definitely benefit. The most important thing is that they have advanced technology and can cooperate in a timely manner. On the surface, I support you, but It is impossible to give you core technology. If you want to develop, you must rely on me. If I have advanced technology, I can charge a lot of money.
After agreeing, I also made a request, that is, the king needs to send a capable officer to cooperate with us. I don¡¯t want the situation like the battle just now to happen here.
As a result, as soon as my words came out, he readily agreed to me and handed over all his naval command rights to me. This was beyond my expectation, and it was also beyond everyone's expectation.
After expressing his thoughts, he asked one of the people who came up with the prince to obey my order. Now I know that that person is the real commander of the fleet, and the eldest prince just took the command of someone else. That¡¯s all.
I can't help but feel a little sorry for this. It seems that the eldest prince and the second prince must have begun to compete for the throne. The eldest prince probably wanted to rely on the firepower of our fleet to show off in front of the king. As a result, he had no command experience at all. A battle that should have been won turned into a disastrous victory, causing them to lose a large number of fleets. This is very detrimental to future attacks. In a way, it also increases our pressure. At the same time, I also I feel sorry for those soldiers who died in unknown circumstances. On the battlefield, we are not afraid of soldiers not being brave, but we are afraid of generals giving blind orders. Soldiers who are not brave must have good generals, who naturally know how to make soldiers brave. And if brave soldiers encounter generals who command blindly, then even if the soldiers are brave, they may eventually become fertilizer for the land.
After the explanation, the king returned to his ship, leaving only the general. I also asked Xia Yutian to tell him some basic things about our ship, such as the range of the artillery and the shooting error. , rate of fire, etc. Of course, these are superficial things, which can be found by careful observation. Of course, there are also discrepancies in these data. For example, the range is shortened by one-third of the longest range, as are the accuracy and rate of fire. Of course, we did not tell them other secrets on the ship. In our hearts, we always insist that you are safest only when others cannot see through you.
While we were busy here, the king also returned to his ship, and then called the eldest prince and second prince into the cabin, and his face immediately darkened after boarding the ship.
After entering the cabin, he slapped the eldest prince on the face with his backhand.
This slap was very hard, and it was also angry. The eldest prince was not prepared at all. He was knocked to the ground immediately, and five finger prints suddenly appeared on his face.
"Father!"
The second prince shouted, and quickly grabbed the king who was about to wave, and asked anxiously: "What are you doing?"
"What to do?"
The king stared hard at the eldest prince who was sitting on the ground, covering his face with a dumb look on his face, and said angrily: "Your Majesty is right, I really should kill you!"
The eldest prince also reflected this and said anxiously: "Why? Is it because some humble soldiers died? You are going to kill me, I am your son!"
The king shook his head and said: "Despicable soldiers? You can also say this! A true general will not dislike whether his soldiers are born humble. For everyone, their lives are precious, even if You are a prince who went to the battlefield, and you are also a soldier! I really regret it now. I regret asking you to mobilize the army. It is because of your mistakes that we lost a lot of troops, but you still don¡¯t know how to repent!¡±
The second prince quickly pulled the king to a chair and sat down, handed him a glass of water, and comforted him: "Father, don't be angry, brother didn't mean it! He did that because he also wanted to consume the power of Zhou's army!"
"Consume strength?"
The king shook his head and said: "You take things too simply. In your eyes, do you think the people of Zhou are all fools? To put it simply, the weapons equipped on their ships and the skills of the soldiersA medium-sized weapon is something that we have never seen much before. How can we underestimate Zhou who can create such a weapon? , how can we underestimate someone who can command such a huge fleet? The more important thing you haven't noticed is the way those soldiers looked at the prince. Also, although Mr. Xia Yutian is the commander-in-chief of the fleet, haven't you noticed that basically all the orders on the fleet are Was it sent by that prince? And Xia Yutian is just passing orders! "
The second prince thought for a moment and said, "Is it because he is a prince, or because he took the princess?"
The king looked at the second prince, then at the eldest prince, and said in a deep voice: "Get up first. I want you to remember well why you received such a slap today. Don't think that other princes can command a fleet and you can Can!"
Although the eldest prince received a slap, he did not dare to disobey the king's order. Although he felt very uncomfortable, he did not dare to disobey it. He stood up obediently and stood next to the second prince.
After he stood up, the king said: "It's not just because he is a prince, and it's not just because he took the princess. Just like in our country, even if he takes the princess, he will not be canonized as a prince. , and he now has this title, it is probably not only because he took the title of princess, but I have to say that his wives do not look simple."
The second prince couldn't help but wonder at this time: "It's not because he took the princess, then why?"
The king sighed and said: "It's not to blame that you are not careful. If you look carefully at the way the soldiers look at him, you can see that they look at him not in awe, but in reverence. Even Xia Yutian Also, they are the kind who are willing to be under his leadership, and it is definitely not because he took the princess. This kind of reverence has nothing to do with who he takes or his status. And this shows that this prince looks young. It¡¯s light, but definitely not simple!¡±
After hearing what the king said, the second prince nodded, while the eldest prince was a little unconvinced and said: "If you give me such a fleet, I can defeat the rebels!"
"I believe this!"
The king glanced at him lightly and said: "With a fleet with their kind of firepower, even a three-year-old child can defeat the rebels, but there is one thing. You can use your firepower to make the rebels afraid of you. Use Your majesty makes the soldiers fear you, but you can never make the soldiers respect you. And if you fail at all, the soldiers around you may go their separate ways, but I believe in one thing, the soldiers around him are willing to sacrifice their lives. I came to save his life, and I did so willingly, not because of his status. Your grandfather once said to me, a real general is a general who can be a soldier!"
The second prince nodded, and then suddenly remembered something, and said: "Father, I remembered something, which is what I said to the princess just now. She said that her husband was not only the prince of Da Zhou, but also the prince of Dai Viet. , and he also said that his students are the best in the world."
The king thought for a while, and he had heard this sentence before, so he nodded and said: "Moreover, we can also know one thing from her words, that is, the Dayue Kingdom should be as powerful as the Great Zhou Dynasty. Why did he Will he be the prince of Dai Viet? At the same time, how can his students be in both countries?"
"I'm surprised too!"
The second prince took up the topic and said: "Seeing as he is about the same age as us, how could he be the prince of the two countries? As for his student? Could it be said that he is a scholar?"
The king shook his head and said: "I can't tell, there are too many doubts about him. We won't pursue this now. After all, for us, the most important thing now is how to eliminate the rebels! Fortunately, we have With them here, our hope of victory will be greater!¡±
The second prince also showed joy on his face and said: "You are right, the current situation is very good for us!"
"Don't forget, after we win, we have to give an island to others, and others have such powerful weapons. Once they establish a base, won't we always be controlled by them? Maybe they will give us to us that day. Annexed!¡±
The eldest prince on the side said this in a neither yin nor yang manner.
The king looked at him and then said calmly: "You think we don't know? If they really want to attack us, even if we don't give them an island, they can still attack the next island. And do you think we have the ability to fight back? In Under their kind of firepower, our ships are just targets for their training. Similarly, they can also find other partners, and then we will be in real danger. At least for one thing, now they are on lease, on the surface They have no intention of attacking us, and we can use this to establish a cooperative relationship with them, learn their technology, etc.!For us, we get more than we pay! "
Having said this, the king paused, and then said seriously: "However, I also hope you understand that there are no permanent friends in this world, so using their technology to develop us is the real truth!" -