However, expanding the water division is easier said than done, but it is a huge project.

The most important thing is the screening and cleaning of the soldiers and sailors of the former Liu Xiang group who have been captured.

If we can't get rid of those pirates among these people who have been pirates for many years, who specialize in killing people and stealing goods at sea for a living, and who take adultery and slaughter for fun, it is impossible to say whether these people will take advantage of the chaos to mutiniate when they go to sea in the future, seize ships and go to sea to continue to be bandits, or mutiny on the spot.

In Cam Ranh Bay, the largest home port of the South Central Army's naval division, more than 2,000 captured sailors and more than 3,000 newly recruited sailors gathered here for training.

According to the establishment of one square team of 100 people, a team of more than 6,000 recruits assembled on land by the sea of Cam Ranh Bay. Looking at the officers who were carrying a leather whip made of raw buffalo leather and copper wire in their hands to patrol back and forth between the square teams and the law enforcement team members of the law enforcement department, a low voice came from the depths of the square team from time to time.

"Go! What's the spirit, if you fight with Lao Tzu, jump to the gang and cut it, maybe whoever sits here and who carries the whip! ”

There was a commotion in front of the crowd, and more than a dozen pro-soldiers and law enforcement teams escorted a man dressed in a sailor's uniform to the crowd.

The recruits and captives had long known that there would be a big man today, and many people were speculating whether it was Li Shouhan, who beheaded Liu Laoxiang on Nanao Island and gave his head to Zheng Zhilong, his new commander?

But judging from the appearance of this person's uniform, he doesn't look like the commander of an army, but a bit like a general. Judging from the removed star mark on the cuffs of his sailor's uniform, this person should be the big leader of the sailor.

"Rank! I'm Zhang Xiaohu! I used to be your peers! On the same day, the Dutch fleet was intercepted at Brother Island. And it is I who defeat them! ”

Hearing that this guy in front of him was Zhang Xiaohu, the "tiger shark" who was across the sea back then, and he defeated the Dutchman, who had always been known for his strong ships and guns, thousands of people couldn't help but raise their heads in unison to look at this person carefully.

"I know that I am listed on Nanao Island by our army, oh, the brothers who are in custody are not convinced, thinking that our Nanzhong army only knows how to use artillery fire, and does not dare to fight hand-to-hand. Joke! If you rely entirely on hand-to-hand combat, sword and gun, everyone will install artillery on the ship to make a ball?! ”

"I tell you the truth. The largest ship in the naval division of our army. You can assemble more than 100 artillery pieces, and once the cannon is fired, no matter what kind of hero you are, you will have to turn into a pool of flesh and blood in front of the cannonballs! ”

Listened to this. The sailors who believed in their bravery bowed their heads. Oh, yes! If it works. What do you do with large and small guns on board? Just hop on each other's boats and fight!

On that day, I saw the artillery fire of the Nanzhong Army, the firepower was so dense and the firepower was fierce. It has become a nightmare in the hearts of many people. A round of artillery fire sank a Daifuku ship loaded with more than 100 people, and then used the artillery fire on the other side to deal with the other boat. In Liu Xiang's fleet in dense formation, it was really as relaxed and natural as cooking, as if it was effortless.

Seeing that those captives lowered their heads one by one and didn't dare to speak, Zhang Xiaohu struck while the iron was hot.

"Lao Tzu is also born in the sea career, we can't hide the tricks from beating the gong, we are all peers, let me ask you brothers."

"Where are you in your home?"

"Chaozhou Mansion!"

"Shanwei!"

"Zhangzhou Mansion!"

"Quanzhou Mansion!"

Voices came from all the teams near and far, but the captives also paid some attention, only going to the house, and no longer asking questions, so as to prevent their families from being violated by the Nanzhong army.

"Humph! According to my father-in-law's words, they are all places with little land, large population, and close to the sea. ”

"Then let me ask, if there are thirty acres of land at home, more than two buffaloes, horses, and donkeys, please stand up and let me see. Those who plant other people's fields, or the land of ancestral halls, don't count! ”

"Boss Zhang, are you happy with the poor? Everyone knows that in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Chaozhou, and Shantou, all the superior people are the owners of the ship, the inferior people work hard at sea, and the middle people cultivate in the fields. Do you think our group of brothers have so many fields and livestock at home? They are all counting on taking their salaries and going home to buy rice to support their families! ”

A voice came from a distance, although it was not loud, but it was clearly audible, and immediately caused the captives to emit a buzzing chatter, presumably resonating.

"Oh! This brother, then I was wrong! I'll ask something else! ”

"Those who have a business shop at home and a ship at sea, who are shipowners and owners, stand up and let me see!"

Still no one.

Instead, there were more voices from the crowd refuting Zhang Xiaohu.

"Lord Zhang, if there is a trading shop and a ship, who will fight desperately at sea?! Won't you marry a few aunts and wives in the city, eat good wine and meat every day, and then donate some money to various schools to earn yourself a reputation as a good person? ”

"That's it! Listening to small songs every day, watching beautiful girls dance, counting foreign money, fanning fans, sitting in sedan chairs, and collecting rent, isn't that kind of day a fairy live? ”

"Then why can't you live like this?"

Zhang Xiaohu's words seemed to pour a scoop of oil on the fire, and suddenly the flames rose to the sky.

"Our ancestral grave is not well buried!"

"That's it! The feng shui of the ancestors' graves is not good! ”

"Our eight characters are wrong, and we should suffer and be poor!"

Seeing that the atmosphere suddenly became warm, Zhang Xiaohu secretly sneered in his heart, and nodded slightly in the direction of the first question in the distance to express his gratitude.

"Let me ask you again, brothers, what is the distribution method for us to beg for a living at sea and rob the goods? I'm also from the sea, so don't tell me that I'm equal! ”

This sentence immediately hit the vital point of all the captives. In the gang of thieves, there is a strict hierarchy of distribution of stolen goods, not the so-called brothers share together, but the leaders take at least half, the leaders at all levels divide the half, and the rest is the minions. This point is also described in the Water Margin, which most promotes the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, and the heroes of Liangshan went down the mountain to rob their property. First the leaders share one share, then one share goes to the public account, the other share is distributed to the leaders at all levels, and then one share is divided among the minions. In the later Republic of China period, there was also a shareholding system among bandit gangs, and the distribution of stolen goods was divided according to the number of guns you owned. Bandits who don't have guns can only go to bandits who have guns to rent. When distributing the stolen goods, the bandits who do not have guns not only get less of the stolen goods, but also have to hand over a part of the stolen goods to the gun owners as rent.

Although at the moment pirates have not yet developed to this point. However, there is also a practice of distributing profits according to ships or capital.

Liu Xiangfen's profits. It is definitely much more than that of ordinary ship owners, and the income of ship owners is hundreds of times that of ordinary sailor members.

"I want to ask my brothers, there is a haunt. Wrestling with the waves. Fight the enemy ships. Who is it that comes into contact with the Franco-Robot and the Spaniards, and who are the swords and guns? Is it the owner of the ship? Or Liu Xiang and Li Dashe? ”

"That's not right! It's us! ”

"That's it! We worked hard, and they also had it when they drank tea and listened to music in the cabin! ”

"That's it! Lao Tzu is desperate to live on the sea. I don't even have a bereavement pension when I die! Hanging the lottery, even the medicine is not enough! You can only stiffen yourself! It's your fate to survive it, but if you can't survive it, throw it into the sea and finish it! ”

Two or three excited pirate captives ran up to a man in the party who kept his head down and didn't speak, and pulled him out of the crowd.

Zhang Xiaohu and the others looked fixedly, although they were prisoners, but if they looked closely, this person's complexion was still good, and the skin on his face was not as dark as other sailors.

"I've seen you awkward for a long time! When I took a shower yesterday, I found out that you weren't a sailor at all! ”

One of the captives jumped to his feet and cursed, cursing in his mouth, and his hands were not idle, and with a sharp force, he tore off the man's clothes.

"Big guy, look! Is he our sailor?! Is it someone who has been exposed to the wind and the sun and rain?! ”

The crowd looked at the man's stripped upper body, but instead of the ordinary sailors, his body was tanned and shiny, but rather white and pink.

"Say! Who the hell are you?! ”

Several members of the law enforcement team slashed their knives in their hands and placed them on the prisoner's neck. The sharp blade left blood marks on the man's neck.

"I am, I'm a gunner! I'm not a sailor! ”

"Gunner?" A member of the law enforcement team put the knife into the sheath and grabbed the man's palm to observe it carefully, "Gunner? Why is there no gunpowder in your skin texture? Why don't you have calluses on your hands? Say! If you don't tell the truth, you will be punished! ”

Being pulled out of the crowd by his accomplices, and being so intimidated by the law enforcement team, the man couldn't hold it anymore, and fell to his knees with a pop, "Spare your life!" Master Zhang! ”

It turned out to be a ship owner. There were four or five boats under his command.

Not long after joining Liu Xiang's group, he was pulled to do this seemingly profitable deal, but unexpectedly, one of the four ships was burned, one was sunk, and two were captured. What's even more unfortunate is that he himself was salvaged by the sailors of the Nanzhong Army and became a prisoner after he fell into the water.

"I still have some property at home, and I am willing to give it all up, as long as the adults can spare my life!"

"Get aside!" Zhang Xiaohu looked at the snot and tears on the man's face with some disgust, spineless things, and his face mixed at sea!

"Brothers, take a good look at the front and back, and see if there are any people you don't know, not like the men in our water career? Those people who share much more money than you on weekdays, and the kind of people who have more money than you do! ”

"Your Excellency!"

Unconsciously, the tone and words of the captives to address Zhang Xiaohu changed.

"Do you always say that when we work under Liu Laoxiang, we have little money, so brothers want to know, how do you get money in our Nanzhong Army Naval Division? Could it be the same as Liu Laoxiang!? Dozens of sailors on top of one leader? ”

All right! That's it!

Zhang Xiaohu laughed in his heart.

He pointed to a sailor soldier on duty on the side, "You, come here." ”

The sailor hesitated, "Your Excellency is calling me?" ”

"Yes, that's you!"

The sailor hurriedly closed the musket faucet in his hand, carefully checked the flint again, and confirmed that it would not go off, then carried the musket behind him and walked quickly to the wooden platform where Zhang Xiaohu was speaking.

"Sue everyone, your current military salary, income, family property, and wife and children!"

The sailor hesitated slightly. Turning around, he faced the black oppressive head, "Brothers, I am the first captain of the Nanzhong Army's Naval Division Training Fleet, He Tian." Like many brothers, he is also a fellow villager in Fujian. Because he had no money to make a living, he went to Nanzhong to become a water master. Right now, I have two wives, one is a Fusang woman and the other is a Siamese woman. There are five children. ”

Wow! There was an uproar among the captives. Among these people. To say the boy boy. It's almost rare. However, those who have two wives and five children at home are also rare men who almost beg for a living at sea. Dare to marry a wife. Not many people can afford to marry a wife.

"Brother. Can you feed so many wives and children? ”

There was a strange scream from the crowd. Then there was laughter.

"Whew! My monthly salary is five silver dollars, four dollars for going to sea, and three dollars for taking trainees. How much is that?! ”

"Twelve!"

"In addition, the general is sympathetic to the hard work of our people, every time he goes to sea, he is allowed to carry twenty kilograms of goods for sale, don't underestimate these twenty kilograms, this is tax-free! I can go on a trip to Manraka in about a month and a half, and sell it to the Westerners there, and I can get at least twice the profit, and I won't tell you how much money I have! ”

"Also, my wife and children and I still have land bought in Jiulongjiang under our names, and now my brother-in-law of Fusang is taking dozens of widows and natives to reclaim there, and Lao Tzu is also a person with hundreds of acres of land! Over the course of a year, there are 2,000 koku of rice alone! Our children in Zhangzhou Mansion, when did we dare to dream that there are so many fields?! ”

"Which brother said that our men at sea are bitter, and if they are sick or injured, they can't have enough medicine to stiffen up? Here, everyone has a life-saving bag, all kinds of commonly used medicinal materials, pills and ointments, and cotton cloth wrapped in trauma! Even if the dragon lord takes a fancy to you and recruits you to be a colt, don't worry about your family, in addition to the pension, you also have insurance. Enough to feed your wife and children! ”

Sentence by sentence, like cannonballs bombarding the psychological defense line of the captives, I can't imagine that a mere sailor commander has so much income and family property, and what's more, people are family people. There are descendants, and there is no one behind you to incense your ancestors.

Just when everyone was thinking about how much military salary they could receive in the sailor, when they would be able to marry a daughter-in-law, settle down a few dolls, and pass on the ancestral incense, someone in the crowd suddenly broke the earth.

"He Jiachang, if you say so, you are so rich, why did you come out to the sea!? Didn't you deceive our brothers? Beware of being condemned to you by Mazu Niangniang when you go to sea! ”

Hearing this, He Tian's face turned red with anger, and he pulled another person in a long armor suit.

"He is my brother in the same boat, with the same surname, but of different races, Lao He, you sue this group of boys, how is your family!"

That old man grinned, "I'm not like him, there are so many women in my family, I'm just a daughter-in-law from my hometown, and I've already received Cam Ranh Bay." Two sons and one daughter. Don't talk about anything else, what a field! Salary! He has already said it, and I will say the same, I am also the owner of a boat! ”

The power of these words is simply the bombardment of the Cron cannon and the mortar cannon. What the? A mere captain is actually the owner of a boat?

"My woman was more able to keep a household, and saved money, and in addition to buying some waste land for reclamation, she also invested a hundred silver dollars in the sea-going ship office, and now I am one of the owners of a trawler. Every year, there is at least 130 yuan of net profit dividends! And it's after paying the tax! ”

"Now my wife goes to the sea boat office in three or five days, looking forward to another opportunity to invest in another sea boat! This time, you must buy more shares, and you will have a lot of money! ”

"As for saying that some people suspect that our brother is hiding from everyone, joke! Do we have to lie to you? In the past, the various ship gangs on the sea fought with each other and arrested each other's people, so was it so troublesome? Useful people, those who are willing to do it stay, and those who are not willing to do it, will be rewarded with a knife to kick into the sea to feed the sharks. The reason why our brothers are still at sea today is that first, they like the life on the sea, and second, they can make money, buy more fields, invest in bigger ships, and when they have money in the future, Lao Tzu will build a sea boat by himself! ”

The table in the crowd became distinct. One by one, the captives bowed their heads and pondered silently, each thinking about their own affairs, thinking about how to live such a life. And those recruits recruited by Nanao Island were excited and whispered in the team. If you can rise to the position of the first chief, can you also make the family worry about food and clothing?

Finally, some of the recruits couldn't hold back.

"My lord! We are all brothers who enlisted on Nanao Island, and we want to know, if we enlist in the army, how long will it take to be promoted to the position of two captains?! ”

Zhang Xiaohu, who sat on the chair and rested for a while, laughed twice at the recruit who stood up to ask questions, "You don't want to know when you will be promoted to the first captain, but you want to know when you will be able to make money like them, so that you can go home and marry that beautiful girl back to give you a warm quilt and give birth to a baby, right?!" ”

This rude question caused another burst of laughter from the crowd, which made the recruit blush. He happened to have a good girl in the village. came out to join the army because he planned to marry his sister home with military salary.

"We've always been here to encourage people to get motivated! If you are a good hand, you can steer the sails, you can survey the climate, hydrology, and astronomy, or you can calculate. Able to write and fight bravely. I'll just build yì you go to the water master school to take the test. Maybe in a year, you will be treated as a captain in the practice fleet! ”

"Follow Li Dashuai! There is money, land and girls! ”

"Follow Li Dashuai! Get promoted, buy land, and marry a wife! ”

The crowd erupted in vulgar but targeted slogans.

In the sound of slogans, people in each team were punched and kicked out. Some are ship owners, while others are leaders of pirate gangs that have been around for years.

"Lose that horse! You guys, you have bullied us enough on weekdays, and today I will let you taste Lao Tzu's fist! ”

The more than 100 people were divided into detainers, and the enthusiasm on the playground was still undiminished.

"My lord, I'm a good helmsman!"

"My lord, I'm the best at sailing!"

"My lord, I'm a gunner, and I'm going to shoot fast and accurate!"

"My lord! ……”

"Quiet!"

Zhang Xiaohu waved his arms and shouted violently, which suddenly made thousands of people gradually become quiet.

"It's no problem to join my Nanzhong Army Naval Division, as long as your family background is innocent and you don't have blood debts on your hands, unlike them," Zhang Xiaohu pointed to the group of pirate leaders who were tied up by the law enforcement team on the side of the playground, "It's a serious sin." can all find a career in our South China Army. ”

"But! In our army, the discipline is strict and the orders are strict. If there is a person who does not obey the general's order, it will be dealt with by military law! Did you see me?! ”

Zhang Xiaohu stretched out his arms and raised them high so that people in the distance could also see them.

"There was originally a star on the sleeve of Lao Tzu's clothes! That is the mark of Lao Tzu as the commander of the left wing of the sailors, and with this star, others will know that I have more than one ship under my command! But, look! Is there still one?! ”

The obvious marks on the cuffs show the original position of the star, but now only a dark trace remains.

Seeing that the god-like figure in front of him in the eyes of everyone was dismissed, everyone on the playground was stunned. He doesn't have a position, he's a guilty person, so what he says is okay?!

"I intercepted the Dutch sailors on Brothers' Island and defeated them. If you beat five ships to only one ship, everyone must know about this, right?! It was the hardest fight I've ever fought! But it was also a battle that almost missed the lord's big event! ”

"If it weren't for the fact that I still have some credit on weekdays, plus my brothers intercede with me, I'm afraid that my head has been cut off and ordered the whole army!"

Zhang Xiaohu's appearance made these 6,000 people who were ready to join the Nanzhong Army Navy Division have a more intuitive image understanding of the military discipline of the Navy Division. "Good boy! It turns out that this law is really unsympathetic! I won the battle, but I almost delayed the big thing, and I was going to cut off my head?! ”

However, this is much more effective than erecting a log at the gate of the city. If the enforcement of military discipline is so strict, so must the reward system.

Watching everyone begin to go to their respective training grounds under the leadership of various team officers, and began to screen identities, identify professional skills, go through enlistment procedures, and a series of things, Zhang Xiaohu wiped the sweat on his head and returned to the sailor hall with the people of the law enforcement team.

"Lord, I said everything you told me, this scene is too difficult to sing, if it weren't for the brothers below to help, I wouldn't have been able to get off the stage!"

Shouhan, who was looking at the expansion plan of the water division, looked up, "Say whatever you want to say quickly!" Don't talk nonsense! ”

Zhang Xiaohu salivated at Shouhan and snorted, "Look, we have violated military discipline, you have also been closed, we have also read the book, we have also understood the truth, and we have also read the debate at the officer conferences at all levels, and we have also admitted our mistakes, do you also let our officials reinstate their posts?!" ”

"Smack!"

Shouhan slammed the table, and Zhang Xiaohu took a step back in fright. I don't know what kind of tantrum this master is going to have.

"Zhang Xiaohu, if you want to be reinstated, you have to give Lao Tzu a few more credits! Now give you a few choices, one is to go to Luzon and help Zhang Cheng kill the Spaniards there, and then go to Dayuan, the same is to fight the Spanish Hongmaoyi. Then hand over the site to Zheng Zhilong. The second one is to go to Arakan, where the king is about to be abused to death by the family of Donghu Wang Mangying, you go to help him, and go to the Western Heaven Elysium as much as possible. Then, his land and his people, you will take it from me. ”

"To Arakan? Destroy his king? It's easy! But why are there still his people?! ”

Shouhan glanced at Zhang Xiaohu with disdain, "I don't think you plan to ask for a big ship." The people under the rule of King Arakan are all good at operating ships, and you occupied there, didn't you provide countless sailors for the expansion of the sailors in the future?! ”

"Also, during this time, these six thousand people and the people from the Sailor Academy will be handed over to you, you listen to Lao Tzu, an old sailor of the Nanzhong Army, with a new soldier and a pirate captive, you must not let these prisoners be too high in a boat, understand?!"

"Understood! Got it! ”

Seeing that the dream of reinstating the official and owning a big ship was about to come true, Zhang Xiaohu couldn't help but nod like a chicken pecking at broken rice when he answered Shouhan's request. (To be continued......)

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