After the pirates were detained in the camp for three days, all those who did not belong to the "immediate combat force" were singled out.

The procedure for picking people is very simple, first of all, visual inspection: all the middle-aged and elderly underworld people with gray hair and wrinkles on their faces that can trip flies will be pulled out first. The rest of the people began to be interviewed one by one. Those who can tell their age clearly, including some fish that have slipped through the net by revealing their age from their teeth, have also been singled out.

These old men and half of the children who had been interviewed were finally returned to their personal belongings, and after each of them received 10 taels of silver from Du Dewei, they were loaded onto the ship and packed to the big man.

...... Du Dewei stood on his former boat, watching these old brothers in front of him all being escorted into a brand-new blessing boat, and couldn't help but sigh.

"What, reluctantly?" With his arms on his side and his chest, the giant-like Sha Zhengming originally came to inspect the pirate ships, and when he saw the novice there, he sighed, so he sneered.

"The subordinates don't dare." After Du Dewei observed the past few days, he was no longer in the dark about the situation. He now has a fairly deep understanding of the so-called Big Gang: boilers, propellers, heavy machine guns, two-eight big covers......

These "Shangguan", who took refuge in Xiong Fujun's army one step earlier, not only have a lot of incredible weapons, but also this group of people is rich and powerful, and their subordinates are all elite, not the kind of ordinary officers and soldiers who lack silver, so Du Dewei, a sesame official who is lacking, is now more and more respectful - he has faintly felt that his new boss is powerful and is a person who wants to do some kind of big thing.

"Hehe, I'm afraid you don't know the benefits of going to the big guy." When Sha Zhengming said this, he stretched out his finger and pointed to the two henchmen who followed Du Dewei: "These two went with the boat, which can be regarded as watching the wind at public expense." When I come back in a few days, I will preach to everyone, so that the new brothers may know what kind of fairyland they are on earth. ”

So Du Dewei had no choice but to send two of his subordinates to board a ship to travel at public expense. But to be honest, he himself is also full of curiosity about the big man now, so although his face is not good-looking, Du still has to do it.

......

After sending away the elderly, apprentices, and a small number of skilled pirates, the number of Du Dewei's gang of more than 1,100 plummeted to 700.

The days in the barracks are painful, especially now at this stage of recruits: bathing on time, eating on time, memorizing military law, listening to instructors...... In short, it's the hardest indoor course for pirates who are used to it, and it's impossible to go out and play a good game. So these days the barracks are full of screams of military judges beating people with whips and sticks.

In fact, after really surviving this stage, they will soon discover the benefits of the Mawei barracks.

The three meals here are good, and the amount is full. Every month, every person / three taels of silver is sent on time, the environment is clean and hygienic, and all the big and small injuries, parasites, and skin diseases on everyone's body have been cured by doctors with miraculous sewing methods and some pills.

In addition, although the instructors beat and scolded people, they never insulted people, nor did they engage in corporal punishment such as inserting arrows and parade camps that were customary in the Middle and Medieval armies. Even if he is beaten and scolded, it is just a matter of facts - at most a few sticks on the buttocks, a confinement, on the contrary, he still cares a lot about the newcomer in life.

Pirates are also human beings, and most of them are poor people who can't survive. Therefore, after a few days in the barracks, combined with the daily feelings and the instructor's lectures, many people can still feel the goodwill here.

Of course, no matter what their mentality is, this stage of "boiling eagles" must be passed. These people are not the same as the mud-legged recruits of the big army, these people do not lack fighting ability, they lack discipline, confidence and a mindset of respecting the rules.

......

After all the people brought by Du Dewei were locked up in the barracks, the next step was to empty the boats. The 18 pirate ships had some stolen goods and silver taels in addition to some rice and salt.

All the stolen goods were transported to the Haidong Commercial Bank after they were registered, and then Du Dewei received a sum of silver paid to him according to the value of the stolen goods.

This silver, along with the belongings he had accumulated over the years, had become a casual fee for the old employees. Of course, after the dismissal of employees, Du Dewei still had a lot left in his hands, but he didn't expect these belongings to stay in his own hands: he didn't give all his savings to Shangguan's Toucheng official, but still wanted to gain a foothold in officialdom? Isn't that a fighter among fools?

Du Dewei has this awareness.

However, when he went to Shangguan with the silver, he was ridiculed on the spot. Sha Zhengming sneered at him with an extremely bad attitude here, and Zhang Dongdong's attitude was a little better, but he still laughed at him.

Fortunately, after Zhang Dongdong finished his joke, he also pointed out a clear way for Du Dewei: invest in buying a house. So Du Dewei saw several beautiful pictures on the iPad.

The picture on the iPad is the day and night view of Chihkan Avenue. Zhang Dongdong told the first pirate leader to come to Chengcheng: You are lucky that the policy is open to you. So you hurry up and use your savings to buy two shops on Chihkan Avenue, and then take your wife and younger siblings over, and being a landlord in the future will be enough for you to lie down and eat for the rest of your life. Know Nanjing Road...... Wrong, is it how much will a shop on Chihkan Avenue be worth in the future?

A dizzy Du Dewei carried the silver back to his private room.

Du, who was completely subverted in his philosophy of life, finally decided to find a chance to visit Dayuan, which is also the fundamental reason why he sent his henchmen to Dayuan for sightseeing today.

Although he couldn't understand the thoughts of his new bosses, he knew that there was no malice on his part. After all, he has been swallowed up by others, and now he has nothing but this silver, what can others covet him?

......

"Comrade brother, it's really hard for you to run around in this kind of boat." After inspecting the 18 pirate ships, Sha Zhengming sincerely sighed to Du Dewei.

There are only 18 Chinese-style ships, and there are six or seven types. Daifuku boats, Erfuku boats, bird boats, wide boats, sentinel boats, fishing boats......

None of the boats are in good condition, and the smallest of the smallest fishing boats can be described as dilapidated. When Sha Zhengming stepped onto the main boats, the mess and dirtiness on them were truly breathtaking: the rigs were thrown haphazardly on the deck, mixed with the ropes under his feet, forming a natural tripline.

The crudely constructed privately cast iron cannons were tied to the bow of the ship with hemp rope and skids, and the powder kegs were laid aside in the open air, as if ready to detonate the gravel and iron pieces in the crates.

As for the dark, damp, foul-smelling and musty cabins of the pirate ship, Sha Zhengming didn't even have the desire to go down and take a look: the rats and cockroaches that roamed the deck in broad daylight had exhausted his appetite.

"Hurry up and leave, pack up and come back." ...... Sha Zhengming, who seemed to be brave and unwavering, was finally embarrassed and defeated by these pirate ships. As a result, Comrade Du Dewei, the general general of the Xinke Foreign Affairs Committee, drove his own ship to the shipyard outside Fuzhou City under the latest order.

When he arrived outside the gate of the well building, he realized that the bluestone wharf he saw that day was twisted by cement was also the industry of the group. Next to the wharf, there is a shipyard that has been purchased by the crowd of silver.

The shipyard was formed by the merger of three small shipyards along the river, and is adjacent to the government-run Minjiang shipyard. The private owners and boatmen have now become the foremen and employees of the Cross Group. These local shipwrights in Fuzhou, under the command of a group of backbone personnel transferred from the Taijiang Shipyard, are building transport ships of the latest design of the Transit Shipyard.

A crosser with a low head and a wig bun received Du Dewei.

This person's name is Zhao Ning, one of the chief engineers of Taijiang Shipyard, and now he has been transferred to Fuzhou to preside over the shipyard work.

After commanding Du Dewei to dock the largest and best Fu ship in the pirate fleet on the dock, Zhao Ning first got on the ship to inspect it, then shook his head and said to a foreman beside him: "There is no value, finish salting and loading." ”

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The "no value" that Zhao Ning said here does not mean that this 700-material Daifu ship has no use value, but that it has no combat value.

In the planning of the crossing forces, in the future, in addition to those main warships with soft sails and streamlined types, as the main armed transport ships of the forces in the turbulent wind zone along the coast of the mainland, they should be built with the same standards, similar to the passenger and cargo ships of the "old lock boats" in the late Qing Dynasty.

In fact, the "old lock boat" appeared as early as the 16th century after the Portuguese came to East Asia.

After adapting to the turbulent environment here, the Portuguese at that time quickly combined the Chinese stiff sail with the lean western boat type to invent this new hybrid boat type.

This type of ship was not noticed at first, but it was carried forward in the Qing Dynasty, and later the "Red Single Boat" with a similar pedigree was derived in the south. The Chinese widely used such ships for coastal trade. Due to its superior seaworthiness, this ship type has eliminated the traditional square and fortune ships and has become the main transport ship.

Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, this type of hybrid ship has dominated the world, and the main force of the Qing government and the Taiping Army in successive wars is this type of ship, in addition, the "Yaluo" that caused the War of the Two Crows is an old lock ship.

In the planning of the crossing public, the standard armed transport ship of this force in the future is based on this hybrid ship, and the new ship type has been readjusted by later ship designers.

As a result, the Dafu ship driven by Du Dewei can only be used as a short-distance transport ship on low-risk routes in the future because the ship type and tonnage cannot be transformed.

And even so, the service life of this ship will not be too long: for a certain force that pays attention to standardization in everything, all these miscellaneous ships that do not meet the assembly line standards will be sold to the Ming people in the future.

As a result, the Dafu ship, which had accompanied Du Dewei for many years, was soon "pickled" by the workers of the shipyard.

...... The so-called pickling is to encapsulate the entire ship with a large amount of lime, leaving no corner unturned. After a while, after all the rats, cockroaches, and bacteria have all died and run away, the ship will be re-sealed, and then loaded with goods to run a short route between Dayuan and Fuzhou.