"You can write me a few letters about this." Xu Zixian finally instructed Chen Zuocai: "I didn't have time to see everyone when they came to pay New Year's greetings, and now most of them have gone back to Nan'an, Li Changshi, Qin Sima, including Kong He, Fu Qian and others, the affairs of the Eastern Domain, as well as my arrangements for the displaced people, I must tell them that I can make some preparations in advance during my visit to Beijing." ”

"Yes, I'll do it in the next moment." Chen Zuocai agreed, and seeing that Xu Zixian had nothing else to say, he got up and said goodbye.

Xu Zixian looked a little tired, but he still beckoned and called Jin Jian and Gao Shi over.

"Liu Yi is in charge, and he will not act out of style. But the usual big and small things, the two of you have to pay more attention, Lao Chengya will stay in Nan'an to assist Qin Changshi, Zhang Huchen and they want to lead the accompanying soldiers, watch the wind, inquire about the news, and run errands, it depends on the two of you. When you are in high school, you are determined to learn from Qin Dongyang, and be a general in the future, your ambition is commendable, but the insight of the world is also a big article, and you can't pay attention to too many chores for the generals, but you can't understand and don't understand the trivial chores in the world, you follow Jin Jian to go north with me, you must remember that the opportunity is rare, don't waste it. ”

Jin Jian and Gao Shilai both hugged their fists and promised, and the two of them faintly felt that the trip to the north was not so simple and smooth, at least in terms of the current instructions of the prince, it was quite solemn, in addition to bringing a certain number of soldiers to protect themselves, it was also to try to find out the news that was unfavorable to the Nan'an Hou Mansion.

Of course, this thing is very difficult, when he was high, he was not very confident, so he could only do it reluctantly, but Jin Jian was very confident, he was already in the selection of martial arts soldiers who could speak well and have a lively eye, especially those who had walked out of Fujian Road, whether it was to follow the business or to recruit workers, in short, the more knowledgeable and shrewd, the more suitable to be his subordinates.

Si Wen will probably be more than an ordinary capital in the future, and Jin Jian is also determined not to be an ordinary capital.

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During Xu Zixian's stay in Fucheng, Li Yi finally recruited enough sailors, and at the same time renovated the three fortune ships moored by the river.

The Fu Ship was a sharp-bottomed ship with a watertight compartment to keep it out of the water, and it was quite advanced in design at the time, and could travel far, but its carrying capacity was a little worse than that of the soft sailing ship of the Tianfang people.

In addition, the three-masted hard sail is not as good as the soft sail in the wind and the ability to control the wind is not as good as the soft sail.

But in the South China Sea, the Fubune is also quite an excellent ship that can sail far, with a short mast in the bow, two masts in the middle and two masts in the aft cabin, the highest middle mast, the widest hanging hard sails, and the most wind-eating surface.

The three Fu boats are 31 to 34 meters long, 4 and a half meters to 5 meters wide, the draft is nearly two meters, and the main mast is about 23 meters high.

This kind of ship, like the Guangdong ship and the Nanjing sand ship, is similar in form and ability, and the personnel can carry fifty or sixty people, and the soldiers who can be used for war are about forty or fifty people, excluding the sailors.

The ship-shaped ship will also have guards on both sides and open holes to cover the soldiers fighting on the top floor.

The bilge is used to house ballast, the second floor is used for sailors and soldiers, the third floor is used to operate the ship, and the top floor is used to engage the enemy.

The three lucky ships on the river are merchant ships, and they have not undergone battleship-style modifications, and generally the second and third floors of merchant ships will be placed with goods, and with the size and draft of these three ships in front of them, the carrying capacity should be about 120 to 140 tons, which was already considered a small and medium-sized ship at that time.

Tianfang merchant ships, there are more than 50 meters long, 11 meters wide, draft 7 meters of large merchant ships, carrying capacity of about 800 tons to 1,000 tons, this is already the current stage of the wooden sail merchant ship of the extreme, its departure from Europe, to China takes about half a year, trade along the way, if the ship is small, it is not cost-effective.

A trade takes more than a year, and if it is a small ship like Fu Fu, it is very difficult to replenish water and food, and the goods and personnel brought with it are too small.

The three ships in front of him are the strategic materials that the Pu family has lost the most this time.

Even if there are three lucky ships in front of them, the new ships will be worth at least fifty or sixty thousand, or even higher.

It's just that these three ships are dilapidated and in disrepair, so when estimating the captured supplies, these three ships are worth fifteen thousand.

This is also a windfall, which makes everyone including Xu Zixian happy.

To repair these three ships, Li Yi was in contact with Lin Dingyi.

The Lin family is a big merchant in Quanzhou's shipbuilding industry, and a number of new ships are launched every month, and repairing these three lucky ships is quoted at 1,500 yuan each, which is really expensive.

But Lin Dingyi has already admitted that it is the cost price, and there is a favor, otherwise it will be at least 2,000 yuan.

A large number of timber to be replaced, iron nails, woodwork, all need to be updated, otherwise you can only run on the Minjiang River and the coastal sea, four or five thousand miles north to Beijing, if something happens is a great event, then the gain outweighs the loss.

Since the beginning of the year, the veteran from Quanzhou has been transferred, and hundreds of people have been mobilized in Nan'an, many of whom have not returned home for many years, and everyone knows that when the prince wants to use the boat, he is more attentive than doing other things.

After the Shangyuan Festival, the ship was repaired, and more than 60 sailors recruited from Penghu, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou were also in place.

The three veteran captains are recommended by Chen Zhengbin, the magistrate of Penghu County, surnamed Lin, a native of Tong'an, Quanzhou, more than 50 years old, who has been at sea for more than 30 years and has seen almost all the winds and waves.

The other two are recommended by Lin Dingyi, both of whom are old sailors in Quanzhou, but without the support of big businessmen, they can't be the captains of big ships.

On this side of Nan'an Port, there are still a large number of ships moored, and the people of the Lin family are slowly repairing it, and when the Nan'an Water Camp is established, it is very likely that those who join early will be able to get a court official position.

This temptation is quite big for ordinary people.

After the Shangyuan Festival, the three lucky boats were repaired, and Li Yi saw that there were more than a dozen sailors on each ship, and they laboriously raised the mainsail, and many people along the coast watched here, all of them were a little excited.

Nan'an has started from scratch, and now it can be regarded as a little bit of a big business.

These three ships were originally transported to a group of thieves, and one of the major characteristics of the lucky ship was that the mainsail was quite difficult to lift, and the hard sail was heavy, and more than a dozen people had to be dispatched for each lift, and it took great effort to raise the mainsail.

Previously, these three ships were in tatters, the mainsail was lowered and simply not raised, and there was no wind power on the Min River to be used, only the tail sail and the front sail were enough.

When the main sail was raised, the sound of firecrackers on the shore was loud, this was the Nan'an regiment training and the businessmen, who were here in Nan'an for Xu Zixian.

"I can't go to Fuzhou to see off the son." Qin Dongyang stood by the river with a knife, and the soldiers had resumed normal training after the year, and there were some arrogant soldiers who had won the battle, Qin Dongyang did not spare any of them, and he would beat the military stick when he should have beaten the military stick, and he would be confined when he should be confined, which can be regarded as killing this arrogant atmosphere.

This is also Xu Zixian's repeated instructions before leaving, arrogant soldiers are easy to lose, must not be indulgent, appropriate relaxation can be, if you are arrogant and arrogant, or even violate military discipline, Xu Zi first delegated power to Qin Dongyang, the pass that should be passed, the one who should be beaten, and even those who commit serious military law, will be directly dismissed, or reported to the Metropolitan Governor's Office for punishment.

Under this strict order, Qin Dongyang's prestige is enough, of course, he can suppress those soldiers with their tails cocked.

"If I have time, I will give a literacy class to the officers and above of the martial arts to teach martial arts." Li Yi said: "The prince has this plan, of course we must not be afraid of fatigue." ”

Qin Dongyang said: "I will personally arrest this matter when the prince comes back...... The little ones are almost ready to learn. ”

A young tooth general with less than 100 people, Xu Zixian taught him like a baby for half a year, everyone was literate at more than 1,000, and it was enough to read books by himself.

The bottom is to open a literacy class in the martial arts, and Xu Zixian will teach it himself.

In the army, either like a civilian official, control the army through military generals, this method is the weakest, unless the civilian official himself knows the army, and can control the generals above the middle level through personal guards, and has a certain amount of force, otherwise it is very easy to be overtaken by military generals.

Then there are the layers of military generals, who control the army through their staff, guards, private soldiers and cronies, so that it is easy to form a private circle, which will cause discord and even infighting in the army.

Xu Zi first planned to use a better way for generals to read, read, and know loyalty, so as to create a hard-working, more united and loyal collective, which is not without precedent in history, and what the ancients could do, he could certainly do.

"My name is Kong Xuanping first, and Fu Muzhi will compile a few suitable textbooks." Qin Dongyang's words faintly meant to wake up, and Li Yi also woke up.

The literacy class is equivalent to the martial arts hall in the regimental training army, Xu Zixian attaches great importance to it, even if Li Yi is well-intentioned, Xu Zixian doesn't mind, will someone say that Li Yi stretches his hand too long?

"Chief Historian, please get on board." Fu Qian, Kong He and others had already boarded the boat, and they called Li Yi to get on the boat and go down the river together, until they reached the mouth of the Minjiang River, where they met Xu Zixian.

"Qin Sima works hard." Li Yi hurriedly gave up his hand and got on the boat with many colleagues to see Xu Zixian off.

It is easy to go downstream, but it is difficult to go upstream, everyone will go ashore from Fuzhou port, and then come back by land, Nan'an is not home here, Qin Dongyang of course can't leave.

The three lucky ships raised their mainsails one after another, and more than 100 soldiers who were ordered to accompany the north went on board one after another.

Of course, you can't bring iron armor, and it is not much taboo to take the guards with soldiers, if you bring a large number of soldiers in armor into Yanjing, there will be a royal history on the same day, and the next day the political hall will order to arrest Xu Zixian and other people, which is self-defeating.

None of the powerful clans of the Jingshi dared to hide the iron armor at home, and more than five collars were involved in rebellion.

It's just that the law is the law, and the authority of the court has been shifted down over the years, and the law has not been repaired, and I don't know how many people are abiding by this kind of ban.

After the soldiers were finished, the supplies had already been placed on the third and second floors below the deck, and several captains shouted and shouted, pulled the anchor and turned the rudder, the river flowed, the sails ate the wind, and the three big ships that looked decent went down the river and gradually disappeared into the turquoise water.

Qin Dongyang was stunned for a while, since Xu Zixian personally came to his house and appointed him as the captain of the Hou Mansion, everything has changed dramatically, in the past half a year, everything is in charge of Xu Zixian, and everyone is also used to such a backbone, this time Xu Zixian led people north, I don't know if it will be a smooth return? And after the return of the prince, what kind of new changes and new patterns will there be here in Nan'an?

"I wish the prince would come back soon!" Qin Dongyang believes that his voice at this time should be in line with the thoughts of the vast majority of people.