Boats are easy to buy.

And the price of the ship is not expensive, and a "foreign boat" is also one or two hundred taels of silver according to the difference between the old and the new.

More important than the ship is the captain and sailor.

It would not be easy to recruit captains and sailors in normal times, but now that many of the people on the north shore have been evacuated to the south shore, there are more than 10,000 or 20,000 people who have lost their livelihoods. In the face of the sailor's monthly salary of 2 taels and 1 stone of rice, in the end, it was natural to recruit like a cloud, and in the end, the people who did not recruit were all a pity.

Not to mention a sailor, it is a ship boss who knows how to make a boat on the water and even sail, and in the face of the official body of the seventh grade and the generous monthly salary, he is naturally willing to serve his life.

But even so, Zhu Guoqiang is still not at ease, after all, the sailor must not only understand the ship, but also understand water warfare, especially artillery.

Just when Zhu Guoqiang was thinking about who to draw from the artillery to the newly formed naval army, Gong Changyun brought a guest.

Sun Hejing, a native of Jiading, he himself is not famous, but his father Sun Yuanhua is quite famous, the most famous firearms expert in the late name, the rebellion of the new army trained in the Qing Dynasty, and even indirectly led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

When Sun Yuanhua was training in the army, it was the young Sun Hejing who had been training with him, and during his imprisonment, he was also dressed in prison clothes and served in prison.

Originally, Sun Hejing left his hometown to study, because Gong Changyun, the county governor of Suqian, was friends with his father in the same year, so he naturally wanted to come to visit, but he was stranded in Taoyuan County due to the invasion of Dongyu.

That day, I heard that as soon as De Shizi arrived in Taoyuan, he used the excuse of killing Taoyuan County, and he was shocked and even more curious about De Shizi, who had the "name of the God of Fire".

In the past few days, Sun Hejing has been observing the son of Deshizi, after learning that he is going to train sailors, with sailors, with gunboats to resist the capture of the East, his face became serious, he was trained with his father in Denglai when he was a teenager, he is no stranger to training soldiers.

"Good way, with gunboats to stop it, Dolgon must not cross the river!"

"How is it, from the perspective of the nephew, the prince can be compared to an ordinary clan?"

"The prince of the world is not comparable to the people in the clan, and he can be called a masterpiece in the world!"

Looking at Sun Hejing, who was in his twenties, Gong Changyun said.

"Nephew, now the prince wants to train the navy, and he needs a person who understands both the water master and firearms to help him, the nephew was by Brother Huodong's side to learn his strengths, I want to recommend the nephew to the prince to share his worries, I don't know if the nephew wishes?"

"This ......"

After pondering for a moment, Sun Hejing immediately agreed.

"If you can share the worries of the country, you can do what you want!"

Internal promotion does not avoid relatives, and everything is naturally easy to do when someone recommends it. And Zhu Guoqiang himself is also very interested in Sun Hejing, and it is said that during the Chongzhen period, that is, after three hundred years, there is also a family history. Now that a guy like Sun Hejing has a firearms expert father, it goes without saying that his family history is not to mention.

Certainly also a firearms expert.

In the past few months, in order to train artillery, he got a set of 17th-century French Etienne Peishu edition of the textbook "Mathematics Course (for Navy and Artillery)" and asked someone to translate it into Chinese, this set of eighteenth-century textbooks can be called the "artillery Bible" at that time.

It was also from this set of textbooks that he gained a certain understanding of the use of artillery. Therefore, it is well known that in the Napoleonic era, artillery was not only manual work, but also a technical branch, and it was necessary to go through fast and accurate calculations to win in artillery battles. A normal artillery officer cadet is basically equivalent to the current high school level plus preliminary calculus, and some calculations require proficiency in looking up the table.

Of course, now all this is undoubtedly something that Zhu Guoqiang does not have, and even the translated "Artillery Bible" can only be left in the study room to fall into dust, after all, those orphans do not have high school mathematics standards.

However, he was shocked by the achievements of the prince in the world in terms of artillery skills and mathematics, but Sun Hejing thought about it and still said.

"Lord Shizi, although it is true that artillery needs to learn a lot of mathematical knowledge, in fact, artillery does not necessarily need fast and accurate calculations to win in artillery battles. Calculation is desirable, after all, artillery maneuvering, since to bombard the enemy, naturally need to aim, so mathematics is naturally used in the aiming stage, however, artillery only needs to aim the muzzle of the gun at the target to bombard - in fact, water warfare is even more so, my father once said, the distance of water warfare is at most a stone's throw away, this distance, the comparison is not aiming, but whether the artillery is skilled or not, and who in the shortest possible time, the shell to the head of others. ”

Sun Hejing's words made Zhu Guoqiang stunned for a moment, and then smiled.

"Indeed, what I just said is a bit on paper, everyone's eyes are big and small, the comparison is whether the artillery is proficient or not, and who fights faster or slower, it is indeed ......."

As for the aiming of the artillery and the gun, there is no qualitative difference between the aiming of the gun and the gun, that is, the door is added to the crosshair, and the three-point line is a large musket. Compute...... Not much.

Of course, artillery is a science, but science is in the hands of artillery officers, as for artillery, just roll up your sleeves and work hard to practice, and keep firing artillery!

After figuring this out, Zhu Guoqiang chatted with Sun Hejing about a lot of military training, and finally, he looked at him at only twenty-three years old and said.

"Jiufu, well, since that's the case, how about you train sailors for me as a general in our army? If he makes a meritorious contribution one day, I will definitely play a fold to ask for credit for you! ”

Hearing this, Sun Hejing suddenly knelt down and said:

"Shiziye, if he can make a contribution in the future, he has nothing else to ask for, only to ask for Shiziye to be able to fold up for his father, although his father was guilty of unknown crimes, but he was also framed by others, and he was unjustly killed. If the prince agrees, he will worship under the door of the son of the world and serve for life around the world! ”

Defend Sun Yuanhua?

Is he wronged?

Zhu Guoqiang doesn't care about the dead, what he cares about is the living, so he said.

"Why should you be like this, in the future, you only have to serve in the army, when he makes meritorious deeds, he can naturally make your father look at Jiuquan, as for the upward folding, when you make immortal achievements, there will definitely be an envoy to redress your grievances!"

Although he did not agree to write a letter to Sun Yuanhua to defend himself, he left a sentence "The imperial envoy will write a letter to redress grievances", which was beyond Sun Hejing's expectations, and he was naturally willing to stay and train the water master for the prince.