"I said how can you be so expert." Qin Dongyang said with a smile: "Last night's fire attack, timing, and method were all mastered. I'm still thinking, Liu Yi is really fucking amazing, after a few months in the water division, I know how to fight fire, it turns out that it is still Ren Zhong's idea after all. ”

Ge Cunzhong said: "Ren Zhong's beautiful hand makes Lao Tzu look at him with admiration. ”

Jin hugged his arms and said, "If this person is really effective, it is worth using, and he is a capable person." If he and we are of the same mind, he is indeed a good sailor leader. ”

Liu Yi also smiled: "I have always felt that the prince is using this person as a cover, to be honest, I also look down on him, I usually can't pee in a pot with him, and I don't talk much when I meet." Now, they've taught us a good lesson! We are coarse, what do we say, Ren Zhong taught me the tactics of attacking fireships, but how to grasp it, what currents, wind direction, what kind of ship strength comparison and what tactics to use, these things have to be learned slowly, and actual combat is more important than anything else. To be honest, I think that this time the officers and men of the Navy Division will have the opportunity to fight in real combat and win the war, which is the greatest wealth. If we are arranged in advance, we will not come out of the port, although we will not die a single person, the soldiers will doubt themselves after holding their breath, and their morale will fall to the bottom. Prince, we did not obey the military order, and we are willing to be punished, but I have a word that I don't vomit or be unhappy, and if the knife is taken out to cut people, it is a knife, and it is useless to hang it on the wall. ”

The soldiers present burst into laughter, everyone was laughing forward and backward, everyone laughed very happily, one is that Liu Yi speaks very interestingly, which is also his usual style, when everyone is in one place, everyone likes to listen to Liu Yi speak. This man has a very human temperament, well-informed, does not care about anything, sometimes of course offends people, but more often people feel that his style of speaking is quite interesting.

Second, after the war, everyone has a sense of the aftermath of the catastrophe, and this feeling is gradually released, and everyone is in a good mood.

Yes, many soldiers died in battle last night, more than 100 people were estimated, and dozens of seriously wounded people died in the past two days, but the trend of dead people has slowed down, and two died today, and maybe one will not die again tomorrow.

That's how the sharp weapon kills brought by knives and guns are like this, survive the first two days, and after two days of fever, it's fine.

More than 500 soldiers will be killed before and after, which is an unprecedented number of casualties for the Nan'an Fu Army, and more than 500 people have been killed in one battle, which has not been done since the establishment of the Fu Army. Of course, before that, the government army did not have the current scale, but I thought of the fallen soldiers, and even Xu Zixian knew a lot of fallen soldiers, he ran laps with the soldiers every morning, sometimes practiced long and sword cards together, many times he changed the table and ate with the soldiers, for such a long time, every military attaché, every soldier, of course Xu Zixian can not say that he knows everything, but there are quite a lot of soldiers He not only knows, but even knows the other party's origin, family, and preferences.

Now these soldiers have been cleaned and replaced with a new military robe, and each soldier is willing to wear the gray military robe of the Hou Mansion to be buried, not other robes.

A ship has been sent to the port of Fuzhou to pick up the families of the fallen soldiers to attend the funeral in the army.

Because of this, everyone's emotions have been suppressed until now.

Everyone indulged in laughter, pre-war worries, fears, panics, and anxiety about Xu Zixian after he became seriously ill, and even had trouble sleeping and eating, and now his emotions have been released and vented.

The laughter was extremely cheerful and extremely relaxed, Xu Zixian also laughed, of course, his feeling was the same as everyone else, and he also felt extremely happy.

After laughing for a while, Xu Zixian said to Liu Yi: "This time, Ren Zhong and you have made great contributions. Trained the soldiers, so that the Luzon thieves were forced to flee, this is a great achievement, killing about 1,000 enemies, not much, but the victory in the naval battle is of great significance, no less than the beheading of 10,000 people. From now on, the sailors of our Nan'an Army will gradually be able to become famous all over the world. Moreover, pirates have left us with unimaginably large fortunes. ”

Liu Yi was a little ignorant, and spread his hands and said: "Just those grain bags, rotten cloths, and satin?" There must be a lot of gold and silver, but the water is very deep, and the prince plans to call someone to catch it? ”

This reminded Xu Zixian, and he immediately turned to Chen Zuocai and said: "What Drunkard Liu said is very true, there are dozens of sunken ships, and it is impossible not to have a large amount of gold and silver. Now the cloth and the silk have floated, and the grain has come up a lot, but the gold and silver, the scepters, these things have sunk to the surface. It can't be wasted, it should all be salvaged. This matter immediately went to the Fujian Road to post a post and recruit pearl divers to come over. Near-shore, the water is not more than 20 meters deep, and they can easily fish everything out! ”

There are pearl divers in coastal places, who have practiced breath-holding and deep diving since childhood, and the powerful people among them are said to be able to hold their breath for several minutes and dive into the bottom of the water dozens of meters deep, but what Xu Zi knows first is that the pearl divers along the coast of Fujian can dive into about 30 meters, and it is difficult to go deeper, and it is likely to die on the spot.

Even if they succeed in diving and picking pearls, most of these people suffer from diseases caused by deep diving, and few of them live past the age of forty.

This is the standard life for money, but also the deep sea as a fertile land, this kind of occupation thousands of years ago, the worst is the Ming Dynasty filial piety dynasty, a dispatch of hundreds of boats, more than 8,000 pearl divers to pick pearls, because of the deep dive to get the big pearl, so the pearl divers were forced to dive into the sea again and again, the result was that 680 people died on the same day, and then more than 1,000 people died one after another.

This kind of profession is quite miserable, after a few years the body gradually crossed, but the income is quite rich, at this time do not know how to artificially breed, and there is no tool to help deep diving, can only take health and life in exchange, so the income of each pearl diver is quite high, enough to feed the family, but also save money to buy a few acres of land, after their death, their wives and children can still have food and clothing.

The Battle of Nan'an, more than 50 ships were sunk in the coastal area, all of them were pirate ships, there must be a lot of gold, silver and valuables on board, although these pirates have a foundation, but the believers, stay at ease is their own ship, in addition to the pirates who have families, they have relatives who have believed, will send money home, most of the pirate ships are full of gold and silver, this is the normal state.

Many of the famous shipwrecks in history are merchant ships carrying gold, and a considerable number of them are sunken pirate ships.

"I'll call someone to do it at once." Chen Zuocai stood up and said with a smile: "We really forgot about this?" I estimated that it would be no problem to fish out tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver. ”

"Fighting war has always been the best way to get rich." Xu Zixian said with a smile, Chen Zuocai had already gone out to arrange this matter, and the style of Nan'an Hou Mansion was like this, vigorous and resolute.

At that moment, Xu Zixian said to Wei Yi and Liu Yi: "This battle not only played the prestige of our army, but also greatly improved the status of the island, and my status will also be greatly improved, which is of great benefit to the officials and soldiers on the island and the ordinary people." It also makes the pattern of our Eastern Domain change, and from now on, we can escort more sailors, fight more scattered pirates, and gain experience in actual combat. What's more important is that our business will not be broken, money will roll in, and it will be better to go in the future. ”

"Of course." Xu Zi leaned back in the chair first, and said happily: "Let's not talk about things that are too far away, let's talk about the near ones...... I have just sent someone to count it, and this time there are forty-seven large ships that have been captured, which is simply a windfall. ”

This time, it was Xu Zixian who was the first to laugh, and everyone present laughed together.

Liu Yi was of course the happiest one, he couldn't even care about laughing, and immediately asked: "Junhou, have you checked whether they are all warships, how big are they all, and the weapons on board are all in order?" ”

"This is the afternoon, how can you care about the details?" Xu Zixian said: "I have only seen the hull of the ship, you can remind me that there will be a lot of gold and silver on the ship, and it is not without a small supplement." Most of these warships were more than 100 to 400 tons, seven were 400 tons, 20 were 300 tons, and 20 were small ships of more than 100 tons. Even if you are a small boat, you can sail the ocean. I've personally gone up to see the ships, most of them are very old, but they are well maintained, not surprisingly, this is the head of the pirate's house, how can you not care? There are many small and medium-sized boats, but there are trebuchets and crossbow machines, as well as many weapons, spears, swords, knives, bows and arrows, and arrows. The seven large ships, all four-masted plywood ships, with a round stern and a two- or three-story building in the bow, are easy to engage with the enemy when they collide, and the high ships are easy to shoot arrows and fire ballistas, but I would like to remind the sailors that this kind of ship is very difficult to control, and you should pay attention to one thing after you master it, these ships are prone to capsize, because the bow is too heavy, so you must be very careful. ”

The pirate's ship is the Celestial Ship, and the Celestial Ship is actually the Clark Ship, which is already in the transition period to the Galen ship.

As for the sailing boats, they have been rarely used and have completely declined.

"Save, save." Liu Yi rubbed his hands happily, this was really an unexpected joy, and it was completely unexpected.

Being able to attack at night can make pirates panic and help the battlefield of the Eastern Domain, which is the biggest goal of the naval division's night attack and fire attack. Who would have thought that the pirates would not only be successfully attacked by a sneak attack and suffer heavy losses, but also flee at night and leave behind more than forty warships?

This is not an ordinary fortune ship, a sand ship, a Guangdong ship, but a serious sail battleship!

Each battleship has a complete enemy tower, a ballista in the stern, and a sail rope for protection, which is in quite good condition, and the integrity of the ship is also quite good.

Although in terms of control, the soft sailing ship is not as easy to control as the Fujian Tong'an ship, after all, it is two systems, but the Fujian road is not without the soft sailing ship, this year due to the Great Wei advocated maritime trade, Fujian merchants and Guangdong merchants have landed a lot overseas, and there are many businessmen who build ships overseas and buy ships.

The ships moored in the port of Quanzhou, about thirty to forty percent are soft sailing ships, of course, there are a large number of Wei people who are sailors on top, Nan'an sailors did not use soft sailing ships, nor did they build soft sailing ships, Xu Zixian has his own opinions and opinions.

In the past ten or twenty years, Nan'an Hou Mansion or Great Wei have no ability to develop North America and Australia, and in East Asia, Southeast Asia to compete for territory, the same fortune ships can arrive, Great Wei's warships also have advantages, steady, not easy to capsize and sink, this era of soft sailing ships, even if a large number of bronze artillery is also limited, there is no need to completely follow the footsteps of others.

However, sooner or later, the soft sailing ship, that is, the Galen ship, will completely eliminate the Fu ship, and the Fu ship will have no advantage over the Galen ship, and it will be completely thrown away.

If twenty years later, Xu Zixian has more power and status, and has more financial resources, then he will start to eliminate the Fu ship, fully build the Galen ship, and will completely eliminate trebuchets, rampage, crossbow machines, and fully use artillery.

Now it is adapted to local conditions, because Xu Zixian needs to run ahead of time, and his only hope is that he can finish these things under calm conditions.

If God gives him this opportunity to solve Donghu, rebuild a strong naval division, ensure control over East and Southeast Asia, and even land in North America in his lifetime, then China will be the first power deservedly.

Of course, this is just a dream, and a group of pirates was just solved last night, in fact, it was a clown who jumped off the beam, but it was such a clown who made the Fujian Road a lot of noise, and the Eastern Domain Island was also under considerable pressure.

Even the tatters left by the other party were regarded as treasures by the people of the Eastern Domain who were present, and if you think about it seriously, it should actually be very unpleasant in your heart.

"These ships, compared to their new ships, have no artillery, there are not enough trebuchets, and the hulls are relatively old." Xu Zixian said: "This was originally the ship they vacated and planned to give up after they scuttled. They lost too many men, and there was no way to control so many warships back to the Luzon area, and they went with a large number of empty ships, and sooner or later something would happen. I didn't expect that I was suddenly attacked by you, and I didn't know what to do that night, so I could only flee in a hurry, but it was cheaper for us. ”

Chen Daojian only answered at this time, after this young official went to the Wa Kingdom, he was obviously more important in the power system of the Nan'an Hou Mansion, and the matter of his attack on the Heavenly Mission was also rumored for a while, and now many people in the entire Fujian Road and the southeast have heard about this matter, and have also heard of Chen Daojian himself.

People are very strange, why Nan Anhou can always discover such a useful talent, it is simply a strange thing, it seems that someone who beats Nan Anhou can always be found if he has advantages and strengths.

Chen Daojian said with a smile: "We have estimated that more than 40 warships, the average price of 100,000 guan is always worth it, and it adds up to a good pot of soup that scooped 4 million guan at sea." ”

"That's a great thing to say." Ge Cunzhong had a very good impression of this handsome and bold subordinate official, and immediately smiled and agreed, and said: "Liu Dan, after running to Luzon, I am afraid that I will tremble in distress." ”

Everyone laughed again, it is true, from having hundreds of ships, to losing more than half, and giving dozens of ships to Nan'an Hou Mansion for nothing. You must know that these are all serious warships, all kinds of weapons and equipment are complete, and the average price of one hundred thousand must still slightly underestimate its value, because those seven large warships must be worth a lot of money, and Yan Qi's flagship is not among them.

Liu Dan should not want to scuttle a large battleship, but when the fire attack is attacked at night, the battleship lacking manpower must have been abandoned by the pirates themselves, a large warship, the sailors are all about a hundred people, even if it is a shift, it takes thirty or forty people to master the ship, the pirates have suffered heavy losses this time, many sailors on the ship add up to only a few dozen people, in a hurry they can't drive the boat, and the lack of manpower of the big ship is difficult to dodge, it is easy to become a target to be set on fire, the pirates have put down the boat, or jump into the sea to escape, Running to other well-manned ships to take refuge, most of the dozens of ships that were abandoned, except for those small ones that were singled out and abandoned, were like this.

It was a bonus.

These days, everyone, including Xu Zixian, always holds their breath when they see the enemy ships at sea, and the dense battleships are lying across the sea, and the feeling of being powerless and oppressed and hurt by threats is overwhelming.

The pirates on land have learned a painful lesson, the heads are piled up, on the sea, the Nan'an Hou Mansion has no choice but to sit back and watch them stay at sea, that feeling of powerlessness, everyone feels the same way.

This fire attack can be regarded as knocking out half of the family money accumulated by the two Luzon thieves for many years, Liu Dan only ran back with the remaining half of the ships, and the personnel losses were extremely heavy, this pirate force was completely disabled.

And what Nan'an Houfu got was more than 40 serious warships, although it was not a Tong'an warship, it would be a little strange and difficult to control, but this could not stump the officers and soldiers of the naval division and those sailors.

In this way, the strength of the Nan'an Navy Division is equivalent to tripling, and there are nearly 70 warships of more than 100 tons, which can be regarded as a considerable sea force.

What made Xu Zixian feel even more pleased was that because of the harvest of this large number of warships, the Nan'an Hou Mansion could reduce orders, reduce the purchased orders, increase the manufacturing share of the Eastern Domain Shipyard, and promote the shipbuilding plan of the Eastern Domain, so that the Eastern Domain Shipyard could build more qualified warships as soon as possible.

Xu Zixian has a very simple belief, which may have been influenced by some concepts in later generations, that is, the purchase is always unreliable, and everything still has to rely on himself, and the Nan'an Hou Mansion will continue to order warships, after all, there are many large shipyards in Fujian, and it is not difficult to produce high-quality Tong'an warships.

"The sailor should not go out lightly for the time being." Xu Zixian said to Liu Yi: "To prevent pirates from killing a horse gun, they are not our opponents on land, and we still have to be cautious at sea." ”

"Yes, Prince." Liu Yidao: "These captured warships, I think it's better to send someone back to the port as soon as possible." ”

"The battleship has a lot of damage to be repaired." Xu Zi thought about it for a while, and said: "I have decided to send people to tow to the shipyard, the shipyard is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the pirates are coming, and there is not enough manpower, so there is no need to be afraid." ”

"It's okay, just listen to the arrangement of the prince."

In fact, Liu Yi wanted to take over these warships earlier, he, the big leader of the navy, has been suffering from the lack of warships for a long time, and his strength has skyrocketed by two times this time, and he is already itching.

Xu Zixian saw Liu Yi's thoughts, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the sailors have been damaged, and the manpower must be insufficient, and leave these ships here to repair, and also ask the craftsmen to understand the structure of these soft sailing ships, and the stones of other mountains can attack jade, if this kind of ship is really superior to our warships, it is not impossible to imitate them in the future." ”

Liu Yi stood up and said: "Since this is the case, the situation is basically clear, I still take advantage of the night to go back to preside over the overall situation over there, if there is no one in Penghu and the port, if there is a change, it will be too late to regret it." ”

This kind of cautious and serious attitude is completely different from Liu Yi, who is holding a double knife to cut people, Xu Zixian is quite happy, and he is also happy to see this change in his subordinates.

Xu Zixian smiled on his face and said to Liu Yi: "It's okay for you to go back, if there is nothing to do tomorrow, you can send a boat to the sea to be on guard, and the ship escorting the pearl divers should be able to come over tomorrow." ”

"But it is not advisable to send more ships to prevent recurrence."

Liu Yi agreed one by one, Wei Yi saw that there was nothing to do, and said: "Mingda, I also went back to Penghu, during the war, the chief officer cannot leave the letter without permission." ”

"It's okay to be horizontal, I really don't believe that pirates can rush into Penghu Port." Xu Zi glanced at Wei Yi first, and said with a smile: "You don't want to meet your little sister?" If you have passed, you won't be able to see it. ”

Nazheng is the fourth of the six rites, followed by the invitation and the welcome, which is the wedding process of later generations, and in ancient times it was the last procedure.

The family affairs between the Wei family and the Nan'an Hou Mansion are already a sure thing, Xu Zixian has nothing to do, of course the Wei family can't regret it, as long as Xu Zixian doesn't object, this matter will be done.

And now Xu Zixian has finally relented, the so-called Nacai, asking for names, Najib is just going through the motions.

Of course, this is an obvious reward, Wei Yi mobilized the Xiang army, the people were strong, and the Nan'an Navy Division held Penghu together, and guarded the gate for the Nan'an Hou Mansion, and his meritorious service was not small.

Not only that, Wei Yi and the Wei family represent the middle and lower class gentry who are willing to cooperate with the Nan'an Hou Mansion on Fujian Road, although the Changwen Hou Mansion can influence most of the official gentry, and even make actual arrangements, but adding a Wei family makes the weight a little heavier.

Wei Yi himself is even more courageous, talented, and smart.

The responsibility of defending the land is just empty talk, the officials of the Great Wei, to be honest, have not yet died in the office, if the ordinary officials are changed, tens of thousands of famous pirates will attack, I am afraid that they will find an excuse to run to Fuzhou to avoid trouble.

Even if he is dismissed afterwards, what can he do, his life is always at stake, and his own life is the most important.

Wei Yi not only did not leave, but mobilized the power of the people in Penghu, the gentry contributed money and food, the people chose and the people were strong, and the mobilization of the box army was restricted, thousands of people were stationed in the port, and there were more than 10,000 people in the people, this kind of momentum made the pirates have no intention of taking Penghu at all, and have no intention of fighting a protracted war with the Nan'an Hou Mansion, and there is no such possibility.

This alone is a great contribution to Wei Yi, and after this battle, Wei Yi's governance in Penghu will be smoother, and it will be easier to cooperate with the influence of the Nan'an Hou Mansion in Penghu, and then change the entire Penghu.

The Eastern Domain, Penghu as a whole, and the role of Wei Yi cannot be overestimated at this stage.

In addition, Wei Yi himself is also a very outstanding talent, and it is not easy for Jinshi and Di to be in the Great Wei, and it is not easy in all dynasties.

Xu Zixian was extremely satisfied with Wei Yi, and he also believed that Wei Yi's future achievements were limitless, at least he was an excellent talent who could preside over the overall situation of civil affairs all the way.

That's enough.

Of course, Xiaomei's marriage is mainly because Wei Yi and Xiaomei are in love, otherwise there are many reasons, and Xu Zixian will not approve of this matter.

Of course, it will take at least two or three years to welcome in person, and Xiaomei is not yet fifteen this year, and it is more appropriate to go out when she is seventeen or eighteen.

Even so, Wei Yi was overjoyed, this matter had been hanging in his heart for a long time, and there was no need to mention his friendship with Xu Zixian, but the status of the two families had undergone earth-shaking changes.

It's not that there are no elders in the family to discuss, in fact, after the marriage of the Nan'an Hou Mansion and the Changwen Hou Mansion, they already have a strong ally for the civil officials and gentry, and marrying the Wei family is the icing on the cake, and it cannot be said to be the best choice.

The best choice should be to choose a marriage partner in a forbidden army family, or choose a wealthy merchant family, which is more suitable than marrying a civilian official.

Wei Yi was also in suspense for a long time, after all, there are variables in undecided family affairs, and many people in the family are worried that friendship cannot withstand realistic considerations.

Fortunately, the dust has settled.

Wei Yi raised his eyebrows, and a congratulatory voice sounded all around.