Fenzhou, Dahan Inland River Naval Division Camp. Several naval division warships slowly approached the dock, and while shouting, they threw cables, lowered anchors, and set up springboards. The sailors on the ship cheered and cheered. After several days of water training, eating, drinking, urinating, and sleeping, they suffered a lot. However, in recent years, such days have basically been taken for the last time every month, and it is common for everyone to do so. The price of this is that the combat effectiveness of this naval fleet has risen sharply. In the past, they could only suppress water bandits and investigate smuggling, and at best they were a water policeman, but now, they can proudly say that they are soldiers.

The leader of this navy fleet is Li Quan.

The name Li Quan is extremely unfamiliar to most people in the Han Dynasty. However, when his father Li Can is mentioned, everyone knows it. When the Han Dynasty just established its country, Li Can was the first county magistrate of Yan State to surrender to the Han Dynasty. Because he was familiar with maritime affairs, he surrendered, and then he sat in the Han Political Affairs Hall to discuss politics and specialize in maritime affairs. The Han Dynasty, who attached importance to overseas trade and colonized, also made Li Can fish in water. In just a few years, the Li family's maritime strength also developed rapidly with the expansion of the Han Dynasty overseas, and became an absolute maritime business giant. However, three years ago, Li Can was suddenly demoted from the position of Minister of the Navy from the position of Minister of the Navy to Cangzhou for no reason, which was inexplicable.

Of course, for those who know the inside story, the punishment for Li Can is quite light. This is mainly because of the fact that Li's influence in maritime affairs and their strength at sea. In order to dominate overseas trade, the Li's fleet conspired to destroy another fleet with the strength to compete with them in Ryukyu, which led to Gao Yuan's furiousness.

Li Can was demoted, and the overseas trade and colonial policies of the sea also underwent earth-shaking changes. The court strongly encouraged private capital to enter the sea transport, and could borrow money to obtain sea ships from the shipyard, buy artillery from the court, encourage joint ventures, etc. Under the stimulation of the court's policies, and under the stimulation of overseas trade and colonial profits, the overseas trade of the Han Dynasty entered a period of vigorous development, and a large number of wealth accumulated in their hands. The big merchants, whose land business had entered a bottleneck period, began to march overseas. After the blow, Li Shipping also honestly shrank its neck. Fenzhou Shipping took the opportunity to rise. Now, the joint ventures of the twelve ship owners of Fenzhou can compete with Cangzhou and even become more than that.

When the incident happened, Li Quan had already achieved the position of deputy general in the naval fleet and was regarded as the best candidate to take over by the naval commander Kou Shuguang. However, when Li Can was involved, Li Quan was transferred from the position of deputy general in the naval fleet and placed him as the commander of the Inland River Navy.

From the Navy's deputy who had a promising future, he was transferred to the Inland Water Master, who had similar positions but had very different power and futures. It is conceivable that Li Quan's psychological gap was obvious. But he also knew very well that the king had already shown mercy. According to the sins committed by his father, even the nine tribes were implicated in the past.

After being discouraged for a while, Li Quan cheered up again. He was the youngest in his family and was not taken seriously. When his father sent him into the navy, he was more of a sign of losing sincerity to the King of Han. However, he, who was a scholar, had been following Kou Shuguang in the wind and rain for several years, but he turned him into a cold and harsh soldier. He colonized overseas and was decisive in killing. He could not tolerate any hesitation at all. The bright red blood had long wiped out his original scholarly habits.

Among the Inland River Naval Division, Li Quan began to rectify military discipline and train again. Even if he could not become a dragon in the sea, Li Quan would not want to become a loach in the Inland River.

In three years, Li Quan was in the inland waters and never returned home. First, he wanted to do a new career, and second, he had complained to his father deep down. Although his son did not say his father's fault, after something happened, he also went to Kou Shuguang to hope that the commander could help, but his career was severely hit, saying that he was not angry in his heart was fake.

In three years, he built an inland water naval division with no combat effectiveness into an elite army. The new Minister of Marine Affairs Kou Shuguang was his old boss, and he admired him very much and sympathized with his experiences. Therefore, in the past three years, he has helped him a lot in public and secretly. At least the current inland water naval division has completely changed its equipment to a new look compared to three years ago.

Now the Han Dynasty's Inland Water Navy has more than 100 ships of all sizes, including ten of them on the three-layer warships. This is also the core combat power of the Inland Water Navy. In addition to the conventional configurations, each ship has an artillery installed on the bow and stern of the ship, greatly enhancing its combat power.

"Commander Li, you are back!" This is a military dock, and the officer on duty welcomed him and greeted him diligently.

"Yeah!" A smile appeared on Li Quan's bronze face, rubbed his hands covered with calluses and asked with a smile: "What happened these days?"

"Nothing big happened, but it's just that in the internal military newspaper, our Han army connected to take down Yingchuan, Wulong, Tai'an, and Tan Feng, was beaten to the death and actually ran to Chu State to grab a piece of land. Hahaha!" The officer on duty laughed happily. As an officer of the Han army, every victory news of the Han army would make him very happy.

"Oh, so fast!" Li Quan was surprised. He had never said that the Yingchuan soldiers trained by Tan Feng were very powerful, why was they so unstoppable? But he was so surprised. He was not very concerned about the army affairs. What he cared about was that when the Han Dynasty attacked Chu State. Li Quan knew very well that only attacked Chu State. His navy might have a purpose, because Chu State also had a navy. But so far, he had not heard any news about attacking Chu State. To be honest, the Han Dynasty has always regarded the Qin State as its biggest opponent, or would not start a war against Chu State before destroying Qin State. He had to endure it, and continued to train troops, and wait patiently for the arrival of that day.

"Today, the Ministry of War transported a batch of weapons, including artillery and ammunition." While accompanying Li Quan to the barracks, the officer on duty said, "The person who escorted this batch of ammunition must sign the contract with the commander himself. I said, Commander, you don't know if you can come back, but he said there is no hurry. He can wait. He is still in the barracks. I arranged for him to stay in first. Now these weapons have not been delivered because you have no sign from Commander," he said.

"Architecture, ammunition?" Li Quan was stunned. The new weapon of artillery has always been the best equipment for the navy and the army. The Inland Water Division has never been able to line up. Now the artillery of his ten three-story ships is still obtained through his old boss's back door. Why did he transport a batch of artillery and ammunition for no reason?

"Who did I know him?"

"He said he was a head of the Ministry of War, but I don't recognize it." The officer on duty shook his head, "After all, he is an official from Jicheng. What kind of behavior is really not comparable to that of ordinary people."

"Okay, I'll go back to the public housing first. If I don't come back for a few days, I'll definitely have accumulated a lot of official documents. I'll deal with these first. After you go back, ask the chief to come to my public housing. I'll sign and seal it immediately. Artillery, ammunition, these heavy weapons of military and nationality are not negligible. You have to go into the warehouse first."

"I understand. Commander, don't you take a break first?" the officer asked.

"What's there to rest? I'm resting on the boat." Li Quan turned around and looked at the warship on the dock and sighed: "The inland river is calm and the waves are as turbulent as the sea. On this, for me, I'm resting every day!"

Listening to Li Quan's sigh, the officer lowered his head. He knew more about Li Quan's experience.

Back in the public room, untied his armor, and sat before the big case. As expected, in front of him, there were a pile of documents to be processed. He reached out and opened the top one, Li Quan picked up the pen and started to review it.

"Commander, the head of the Ministry of War is here." In less than a stick of incense, the voice of the officer came from outside.

"Please come in." Li Quan put down his pen and stood up. The light at the door dimmed. A middle-aged man appeared at the door. Seeing the man's face, Li Quan could hardly believe his eyes. He blinked a few times, then reached out and rubbed his eyes.

"Li Quan, you read it right, it's me!" The visitor said with a smile.

"Commander Kou!" Li Quan quickly walked to Kou Shuguang, saluted a military salute, and wanted to speak, but his throat was choked and he didn't even spit out a word.

"You are much older." Looking at his favorite subordinate back then, Kou Shuguang sighed very much, "You are about ten years younger than me, why do you look older than me?"

"Commander, Commander!" Li Quan choked and said, "It's been more than three years, and I finally saw you again. If it weren't for your support, I really don't know how to survive."

He patted Li Quan on the shoulder hard, and Kou Shuguang smiled and said, "You did a good job, not only do I see it, but also the king. The king said, Li Quan is doing well, not afraid of honor and disgrace, and doing things in a solid manner. The man needs a minister like him. This is the king's original words!"

"The king is so sad that Li Quan is just doing his duty." Li Quan said excitedly.

The officer who came with Kou Shuguang was shocked when he heard the person's true identity. Wherever he stood, he was like a clay sculpture.

"Why are you still being so sad? Why don't you hurry up and make tea, no, no, come here to bring wine. I want to have a few drinks with the commander. By the way, control your mouth and don't tell anyone that the commander has arrived at me." Li Quan said repeatedly.

"I understand!" The officer agreed, ran out and ran out.

"You are still so careful." Kou Shuguang glanced at him with admiration. (To be continued.)
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