Chapter 495: The Beauty Remains the Same

"Marine Corps?"

Zhao Xu's new term confused Zhou Yi. Read М

Seeing this, Zhao Xu explained the duties of the Marine Corps to Zhou Yi in detail.

"I see, thank you, Your Highness." Zhou Yi was overjoyed.

It turns out that the Marine Corps is responsible for landing operations.

In this way, the navy can not only fight at sea, but also land and carry out wars on land.

In this way, the only shortcoming of the navy is made up.

In the future, they can complete the task of conquering cities and territories alone.

"The guards of the armed caravan have been trained for some time, so let's incorporate them into your Marine Corps?" Zhao Xu said.

Like Ning Jinjun, the armed caravan also belongs to his secret power, and it developed earlier than Ning Jinjun.

The number of people is about 8,000.

Now, as long as the guards of the armed caravan are distributed with weapons, they can go to the battlefield.

He now incorporates the guards of the armed caravan into the Marine Corps for another purpose.

When he established the armed caravan, he promised the merchants that he would make them rich in the future sea trade.

This promise should be fulfilled.

"In addition to incorporating the guards of the armed caravan into the Marine Corps, this king will let Yang He re-establish a business called Black Shark Business. This Black Shark Business is independent of Yanzhou Business, just like your Black Shark Pirates." Zhao Xu continued, "In short, you are under the jurisdiction of this king, but I will not recognize your relationship with the palace to the outside world."

Zhou Yi nodded.

He was clear about this matter.

The training of the armed caravan guards has always been the responsibility of Yanjun Business and the palace's personal army.

They are guards, but in fact they are soldiers.

"Yes, Your Highness." Zhou Yi responded with an excited look.

Zhao Xu said again: "Before you go back, go see Yang He, you will be one family from now on."

He established the Black Shark Business to benchmark the colonial companies established by Western powers, such as the East India Company.

The Black Shark pirates are responsible for the conquest, while the Black Shark Company is responsible for occupying the market in the areas ruled by the Black Shark pirates and selling the goods of the King of Yan.

The Age of Exploration is an era that is dressed in the cloak of civilization and acts like a beast.

In such an era, there is no need to pretend to be a saint, because the enemy is always thinking about how to destroy your country and occupy your land.

Weakness is the original sin. The enemy will not let you go just because you are harmless. On the contrary, they can only suck the last drop of blood from you more and more.

If you can't fight your way out in such an era.

A hundred years later, Goryeo and Japan will become the outposts of the West to strangle Dasong.

Therefore, the first target he gave Zhou Yi at the moment is these two countries.

However, while he was thinking this way, Goryeo and Japan may have similar ideas.

As a vassal of Beidi, Goryeo's duty to help Beidi destroy Dasong was originally its duty.

And Japan created a Wufeng Island pirate to control the waters around Dasong, and also divided Yizhou with the Portuguese, which is enough to show its ambition.

If he wants hegemony over the seas around Dasong, he may not be able to avoid a maritime war with these two countries in the short term.

After instructing Zhou Yi on some things, Zhao Xu asked him to leave.

Then he returned to the palace under the protection of Xu Lie.

Before reaching the gate of the palace, Zhao Xu saw a carriage parked at the gate of the palace.

Feng'er was looking at the gate.

Seeing him come back, Feng'er trotted over, "Your Highness, guess who's here?"

After saying that, she winked at Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu was a little puzzled, and was about to flick her little head to ask what was going on, only to see Xu Lie's expression suddenly become strange.

Following Xu Lie's gaze, it turned out that a water girl jumped down from the front of the carriage and stood up.

He looked carefully and recognized the girl.

"Xiao Huan?" Zhao Xu was slightly surprised.

Since Xiao Huan appeared here, the one Feng'er was hiding must be Xu E.

"Don't stand there like an idiot. If you want to see, come closer." Zhao Xu poked Xu Lie.

When he first met Xu E and Xiao Huan, Xiao Huan and Xu Lie had a quarrel.

Originally, he thought that Xiao Huan was rude and Xu Lie was eager to protect her.

Later, after interacting with Xu E for a long time, he found that the two of them had a bit of a happy enemy flavor.

It was just a matter of status. Just as he was wary of Xu E, Xu Lie only watched Xiao Huan from a distance.

Xu Lie's old face couldn't help but blush when he heard it.

He followed Zhao Xu to the palace.

Xiao Huan saw Zhao Xu coming back and shouted inside.

Xu E's figure appeared at the door of the palace.

"Your Highness, long time no see."

Zhao Xu came in front of Xu E, and Xu E bowed.

She raised her head, her appearance was still the same, but there was a faint sadness on her face.

"Long time no see, Miss Xu." Zhao Xu stretched out his hand and motioned Xu E to go inside the palace to talk.

Although gentlemen love beautiful ladies, Zhao Xu is not the kind of person who gets horny when he sees a woman.

Moreover, as the King of Yan, the fate of the people, officials and soldiers under his command is the same as his.

Sometimes he should not indulge himself.

Going straight to the reception hall, Zhao Xu asked Feng'er to serve tea and said seriously: "If I am not wrong, Miss Xu came here for Princess Changle, right?"

"I know it. With your intelligence, you will definitely guess it." Xu E said. At this moment, her face was serious and she was no longer ambiguous with him as before.

Zhao Xu nodded. Before Xu E left Yan County, she revealed the identity of Princess Changle to him.

At that time, he knew that he would have to deal with this Princess Changle sooner or later.

I just didn't expect it to be in this way.

"Prime Minister Dou Wei has sinister intentions for this marriage. He knows that the princess has always protected His Highness in the capital, and he had an engagement with His Highness earlier, so he deliberately humiliated His Highness, whether it was for Princess Changle's help to His Highness, or for interrupting Dou Wei Conspiracy, please help me, Your Highness." Xu E suddenly stood up and knelt in front of Zhao Xu.

"Your Highness, if the princess goes to the grassland, I don't know how humiliated she will be." Xu E said this and started sobbing.

Zhao Xu once saved his life with a bowl of porridge, but after that, it was Princess Changle who treated her like a sister and allowed her to survive the cruel training.

To her, Princess Changle was both her master and her sister.

Therefore, when she learned that Beidi had designated Princess Changle to get married, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

"Get up, even if you don't come, I will take action. I never like to owe favors." Zhao Xu said.

Xu E was overjoyed when she heard this, "In one month, the princess will go to Beidi under the protection of the imperial army to get married. At that time, she will set off from Wuguan. I wonder if your highness can save the princess. After all, Beidi will also send a large army to welcome her. "

Zhao Xu frowned when he heard this.

The marriage team set out from Wuguan, deliberately bypassing Yanzhou and putting it beyond his reach.

This is probably Dou Wei's idea too.

After thinking for a while, he said: "If I can rescue the emperor from Xiancheng, I can also rescue Princess Changle, but I still need one person's help in this matter."