Du Dewei now finally knows what the barrels in the shipyard are for. Large numbers of wooden barrels were lifted onto the deck, and workers with white gauze masks on their mouths and noses began to spread lime from the barrels to all the cabins.

In fact, not many of the 18 boats can enjoy this treatment: only five of the largest, and the rest, including the dilapidated fishing boats, will be sold on the spot without even being eligible for repairs.

So for the rest of today, Du Dewei first drove all the 18 hard-earned belongings to the Bluestone Wharf, and then watched them be auctioned off on the spot with mixed feelings......

What shocked him was still to come: the next day, after inexplicably signing a few more documents, Du Dewei got another sum of more than 40,000 taels of silver......

After looking at the depreciation clearly written on the papers, the various expenses of the auction, he was once again confused. Eventually, when he was sure that it was not some trick to lure the snake out of the hole and kill the donkey, someone happily took the silver and went to the little shopkeepers to divide the money.

Du Dewei's happiness lasted only one day, and then he realized the famous saying of Confucius: "If you have friends from afar, you can't be careless." The next morning, when he saw about 10 broken ships sailing into Mawei Water Village, he had a sense of foreboding in his heart. Soon, the hunch came true...... On the one hand, the big-eared, honest-faced man stood at the bow of the boat and shouted to him: "Dewei, my brother is here to join you!" ”

The position of the general manager of the foreign commission will be equivalent to the reserve section chief in the later generations, and it is a temporary position even lower than that of Congjiupin, and there is no lower official than this. However, even so, the two new foreign commissioners still cherish this official position very much. You know, this position was exchanged for the belongings he had accumulated over the years.

Therefore, although Du Dewei and Cao Hu both look at each other unpleasantly in their hearts, now that everyone has put on the official skin and become the president, some grievances will have to be put aside for the time being.

With the arrival of Du Dewei and Cao Hu, in July 1628, the Mawei Water Camp successively accepted more than 10 scattered pirates to defect. The number of these latecomers was generally small, five or six boats, and one or two boats.

Naturally, these people are welcome.

The new manpower effectively reduces the difficulty of the previous management of the Toucheng personnel: mixing sand is the best management method.

The treatment of latecomers is the same as that of the old-timers. Recruits will also be resettled, most of the ships will be sold, and a few that meet the requirements will be purchased by the crossing forces. In short, each boat would be turned into silver and returned to the treasurers after being discounted. This is a set step, and the property rights of all property must be clear - private individuals are not allowed to own any of the goods in the army.

As for the future path, if the shopkeepers are unwilling to continue to serve in the army, they can also choose to go to the senior staff for development, or they can be dismissed on the spot...... Of course, there are very few such people.

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When the recruits are "tricked" into being isolated in the Maweishui camp, the outside world is becoming more and more exciting.

First of all, on August 7, half a month after Xiong Wencan posted the notice, the Youguang swaggered into the mouth of the Minjiang River in the eyes of all the people.

Hung with white soft sails, streamlined, and a row of cannons on the deck, the light horn caused a sensation as soon as Pu appeared. The large and small Chinese boats on the Minjiang River all screamed when they saw the strange boats gliding by at high speed around them.

A large number of do-gooders soon followed the Ariko in a dinghy. Fortunately, today, the troops in Fuzhou were greeted in advance, so except for some sensational scenes, no other accidents occurred.

The Youguang soon docked at the official wharf at the south gate of Fuzhou, at the same place where Zheng Zhilong docked the Fu boat.

Next, a large number of officers and soldiers began to pour out from the south gate, and then a certain master surnamed Huang from the governor of the yamen came out in crowd, and Zhang Dongdong, who got off the ship, greeted each other, and the two sides walked arm in arm, intimately rode together in a sedan chair with eight lifts, and drove away.

And the crowds of melon-eating people who were crowded around the wharf quickly spread the first-hand information: it was Cao Chuan, the "giant canal" on Dayuan Island on the other side of the sea. There are 5,000 elite monks under the command of this person, and this time he came to discuss the matter of appeasement after seeing the list posted by Xiong Futai.

...... Accurate information is naturally not known by the people who eat melons: the news disseminators mixed in the crowd are all pre-planted by Fuzhou Station.

So there were a lot of things to talk about in Fuzhou that day: beautiful sailboats, monks and soldiers wearing short coats and shiny scalps, and the governor of the yamen, and so on.

At this moment, Zhang Dongdong and his entourage, who finally turned from dark to light, were chatting and laughing with the governor in the Fu Ya, saying goodbye.

It's not easy to talk about everyone.

Xiong Wencan has resigned from Beijing until today, and in the words of later generations, this can be regarded as a completed phased achievement. Although Lao Xiong has always been pushed behind his butt by the traversers, after all, he is the governor, and he still has to endorse and take responsibility for all the steps of both sides, so to be honest, Lao Xiong has always been under a lot of pressure.

There is another reason why Lao Xiong is particularly happy today: Zheng Zhilong, the great enemy of the imperial court, and other bandits have been sent back to the capital to "beat each other to death". In the middle of this, Lao Xiong used all kinds of spring and autumn brushwork to hint at his own credit for sowing discord, which can be regarded as a phased report of the difference.

And after discussing with Zhang Dongdong today, Lao Xiong can roll up his sleeves and officially start working, completely opening the curtain of Pinghai's extermination. Therefore, the mood of Lord Futai is still quite excited at the moment.

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Ten days later, on August 17, off the coast of Fuzhou, Cao Chuan, a member of the bureaucracy, accepted the repertoire of Fujian Governor Xiong Wencan's recruitment of An.

More than 150 ships of all kinds gathered on the sea, forming a black and oppressive ship array, and the momentum was overwhelming.

The leader of this fleet is naturally the Crossing Forces: the destroyer fleet led by the "Ariko" and its sister ship "Battlefront". There are also 6 "Taijiang" class frigates in the main fleet - after the 400-ton Yuguang was commissioned, the 150-ton Taijiang returned to their original grade: frigates.

After the main fleet composed of these 8 sail gunboats, there was a large number of lucky ships led by the sail ships "Dog Eye" and "Yuan Dou". The two fortune ships that were first purchased by the crossing are now no longer in the world: the inheritance of these two glorious ships is a new mixed-race ship produced by Taijiang Shipyard.

This hybrid ship has both Chinese hard sails for wind and European-style hulls with better seaworthiness, and the line shape of the whole ship has also been improved, which is an excellent transport ship type.

Today's action can be said to be pouring out of the nest for the crossing forces. For the sake of the scene, all 150 ships included not only warships, but also all the merchant ships that had been purchased and built by the Crossing Masses since they occupied the city, and the pirate ships that had recently defected to Cheng were all included in the ranks.

In addition, at the end of the procession, there are 5 Western-style sailing boats.

This special formation was a Dutch fleet led by the naval training ship "Chengfeng". In order to avoid being too shocking, the tonnage of this group of Dutch ships is generally not large, all of them are small boats of about 200 tons - the main purpose of today is to leave a good impression to Lao Xiong and the people of Fuzhou who are all virtuous and come from all directions, and it is easy to deviate from the topic if there are too many red hairs.

However, even so, Mr. Hans Putmans, who was standing on the "Heerenveen" and constantly looking around with a telescope, was already excited.

You know, apart from the damned Portuguese, who have limited access to Canton during the trade season, no other powerful power, like the Dutch and the British, has so far been able to obtain permission to enter the ancient city. So Putmans, who has received the promise of crossing the crowd, is thrilled that he is about to make history today.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, at the same time as Xiong Wencan seeing off Zheng Zhilong, the mighty fleet began to move. Naturally, the gunboat detachment took the lead, followed by the Fuku fleet, and the European-style ships followed last.

In order to take care of the large forces that were slow, the gunboats slowed down after entering the Min River. And today's Minjiang River is exceptionally quiet - yesterday the government has ordered that boating in the Minjiang estuary will be banned this morning.

The large army arrived at the South Gate Wharf of Fuzhou on time at 7 o'clock.

A similar script began to play out again: the whole army of Lord Futai went to the south gate to meet the 10,000-strong pirate brigade that had come to surrender.

Unlike Zheng Zhilong's time, today's Fuzhou City does not prohibit people from entering and leaving. It's just that at this moment, the south wharf of the city has already been cleaned up, and a large number of elite soldiers have surrounded the wharf, and the people watching the excitement have been isolated.

However, this blockade can't stop the enthusiasm of the people who eat melons: at this moment in Fuzhou City, the south gate tower has already been densely packed with onlookers, and Ding Jiang, who watched the city tower, has made a fortune today.

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After seeing the fleet entering the port from a distance, the eight-lift sedan chair that stopped in the city gate to rest immediately went to the wharf. And when the boat "Cao Chuan" stopped at the dock not long after, Lao Xiong's sedan chair also came to the dock.

Next, Comrade "Cao Chuan" in a white robe first stepped off the boat steadily, and Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian Province wearing a red official robe, also walked out of the sedan chair at the same time.

The perfect appearance sequence and displacement speed of the two drama spirits not only interprets the most fundamental high and low dignity of officialdom, but also expresses Xiong Wencan's broad mind of thirst for talent, which can be described as superb acting.

The next moment, after the white-robed man took a few steps forward, under the gaze of thousands of pairs of eyes, he clasped his hands into fists, knelt on the ground, and shouted, the hero spared his life...... Wrong, it was a shout: "Cao Chuan see the governor!" ”

At the same moment, the sailors of hundreds of ships also saluted at the same time, shouting "See, my lord!" ”

Xiong Wencan, on the other hand, stepped forward quickly, leaned over and helped Cao up with him.

At the same moment, those rhythmic ones who had already been planted in the melon-eating crowd raised their arms and began to cheer.

And the people who were eating melons unconsciously naturally began to cheer at the same time...... For a while, the scene was as hot as the tide, just like the real estate sale scene.