After the commendation meeting, Sun Quan took Chen Nian to inspect the special forces barracks, inquired about everyone's training, and told everyone that they should strengthen mountain training and assist Liu Mu, who was looking for minerals, continue to expand the scope of mineral search and strive to find gold mines. He also drew a rough map of Shanghang, asking everyone to assist in finding them, and accompanied everyone to have a barbecue, and then returned to the camp to prepare for the return journey.

Half a month later, Sun Quan's team returned to Wujun loyally. Sun Quan walked very slowly, constantly sending his guards to understand the people's conditions, wasting a lot of time, but it was with Sun Shangxiang's intention. Sun Quan also knew that Jiangdong was sparsely populated at this time, which was incomparable to the densely populated era he knew. At that time, the country wanted fewer people, lesser people, and now Sun Quan hoped to have more people, but after he turned the tenants and slaves of the aristocratic clans into free people, there would be more people.

When he arrived in Wujun, Sun Quan asked someone to send Sun Shangxiang home, and then he went to the martial arts hall first. He saw that the number of people in the martial arts hall was tens of thousands, and his secret vault was also sufficient. He was in a good mood. The people who were looking for cotton seeds and Chameng Rice also came back. So Sun Quan arranged for them to try planting in his own farm and the people of Shanyue to sit, and at the same time asked the craftsmen to study the deseeding of cotton and textiles. The happiest thing was that the party who went to find Chameng Rice brought him a naval general, so Sun Quan also put the development of the navy on the agenda.

"Weize, you find someone to be a secretary for me. This person needs to be with me from time to time, arrange some itineraries and record some things for me to consult at any time." Sun Quan called Hu Zong and said.

"Lord, has this secretary followed the lord all the time? Including the lord in the back house?" Hu Zong asked.

"Well, of course, sometimes I suddenly remember something, and he has to remember it for me, remind me from time to time, of course I have to follow me all the time." Sun Quan replied directly, thinking that there was something strange about this.

"Don't worry, lord, I promise to complete the task within three days!"

"Very good. I have to go back and pay my respects to my old mother. Let's go first, no need to send it!"

Hu Zong and Zhu Ran honestly sent them to the martial arts hall for a few hundred meters before turning back. They didn't dare to give them away. If they didn't give them, it would be an IQ issue.

After Sun Quan returned to the Wuhou Mansion, he invited his mother to his wife and family, he also gave some gifts and silver coins, and then met Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu in the meeting hall.

"I have met my lord, congratulations to you for pacifying the great victory in Dingshanyue!" Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu said in unison.

"Teacher, Gongjin, it's still early to calm the mountain and the part is just to calm the mountain and the rest of the mountain and the rest should be just around the corner." Sun Quan was also very proud on his face, but he was still very low-key.

"I heard that my lord discovered a large silver mine!" Zhang Zhao said.

"Teacher, yes." Sun Quan took out two silver coins and handed them to Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu, and said, "This is the silver coins I asked craftsmen to cast, which can produce tens of thousands of coins a day." Sun Quan only said one-fifth of the quantity.

"Lord, with such a large output, I can raise a lot of soldiers in Jiangdong and expand the army." Zhou Yu asked for money soon.

"Lord, this is indispensable for us to develop people's livelihood, dredge river channels, and manage places." Zhang Zhao was not behind either.

Sun Quan thought to himself, fortunately, I had already thought of a countermeasure, and if 10,000 silver coins a day would be gone. So he said, "Two, I have already thought about this money. Let me ask you a question first. Compared with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao in Jiangdong and the north, what are our main weaknesses? "

"The population is small and the land is barren." Zhang Zhao said.

"Cavals, we are short of horses in the south of the Yangtze River!" Zhou Yu arrived.

"The teacher told Gongjin right. The population is small. We can make up for it to a certain extent. As long as everyone works hard and cultivates hard, it can be solved slowly. However, this cavalry problem is difficult to solve. We are located in the south of the Yangtze River and it is difficult to obtain war horses. I wonder if you have any good ways to obtain war horses?"

"I think this is smuggling, but the number is quite limited. There are no other methods for the time being." Zhang Zhao said.

"I have no good idea, I don't know what the lord has?" Zhou Yu asked Sun Quan directly. He knew that Sun Quan had proposed it, he must have an idea.

"Then I will propose a solution." Sun Quan pointed to a simple map of China behind him and said: "We are in the south, and war horses are mainly produced in the northern grasslands, separated by Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and Liu Biao. We cannot obtain them because they don't want us to be strong. However, in Liaodong and Sanhan areas, Gongsun Du and Sanhan barbarians here will not care whether we are strong, because they are not directly bordering us, and they do not have ambitions and will not think so far. They will definitely trade us war horses!"

"Well, they are willing to trade it to us, but how do we ship it back?" Zhou Yu asked.

"This is what I want to say. It will definitely not work with Liaodong land, but what if I go by sea?" Sun Quan said.

"The sea route is OK, but our Jiangdong navy has never walked such a long sea route. On the sea, it is easy to lose its direction, and there are storms, etc. The danger is too great, so it is probably not easy." Zhang Zhao reminded Sun Quan of the danger in the middle.

"These are all possible. We just need to form a large enough fleet and have an experienced general who is familiar with the sea to implement this plan." Sun Quan naturally knew what the problems were and said: "Teacher, Gongjin, I will introduce to two people who understand the sea, Gan Ning and Gan Xingba."

"Jinfan thief!" Zhou Yu said intimately that this is a famous figure in the world. He led the 800 Jinfan thieves to rob. He is very powerful and has a strong martial arts skills. He is a character.

"Gan Ning met with his lord, and met Lord Zhang and General Zhou." Gan Ning just arrived with Sun Quan, but his personality was still unruly.

"Gan Ning, let me introduce your understanding of the sea." Sun Quan said.

"Yes, lord!" Gan Ning bowed and said, "I was just traveling on the Yangtze River at first. Later, because I saw some merchant ships transporting goods to sea at the estuary of the Yangtze River and selling them to Yizhou, Jiaozhou and other places, they made a lot of profits. Then they followed them to and from the sea for a while, and had a certain understanding of the navigation and climate of the sea."

"I wonder if General Gan has any understanding of the maritime route to Liaodong in the north?" Zhou Yu asked. This is what everyone cares about.

"I haven't run this before, but I know there is a fleet that travels between Xuzhou and Sanhan in Jiangdong, so it's still easy to find a few people to lead the way." Gan Ning said.

"Well, teacher, Gongjin, what do you think? We built some larger ships and trade horses from Liaodong. Although there are not many ships in one ship, we can build more ships and run more round trips, and build a cavalry of about 50,000 within three to five years. Do you expect there is any problem with this?" Sun Quan asked.

"Lord, I fully agree. Since it is feasible at sea, I definitely cannot miss such a good opportunity." Zhou Yu is a general and agrees with the expansion of the army.

"Lord, this is a good thing that helps the lord's great cause. I have no objection." Zhang Zhao also expressed his opinion.

"Very good, then that's it, Gan Ning!" Sun Quan said: "I appointed you as the Captain of Henghai and establish a navy. The base will be set at the estuary of the Yangtze River. Build a wharf there and strive to build a city in the future."

"Thank you, Lord Gan Ning guarantees to complete the task."

"Very good. Before going, take your people to the martial arts lecture hall for a while. The specific time depends on your progress." Sun Quan arranged.

"Lord, what do you mainly learn? We are all old masters and are afraid that we can't learn well." Gan Ning was a little confused.

"You will know when you go, this is a good thing, don't worry."

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!