In front of the boundless blue sea, in the sound of cannon salutes, more than 40 large and small warships and nearly 10,000 officers and men of the naval division began to sail to the south. On either side of the ship were black cast-iron cannons, their muzzles pointed at the sea, rising and falling with the hull.

Some gunners have already adjusted the muzzle of the gun, and it is a pity to say that with the abandonment of more than 200 years, there are not a few qualified gunners who cannot be found at all, and some of the existing instructors have only fought the kind of small guns of two or three hundred catties, and they are also blind people touching the elephant and not knowing anything about how to adjust, measure, and calibrate the test fire.

This military operation against the remnants of the Luzon bandits was also intended to train the gunners, after all, no matter how good the weapons are, they also need people who are good at using them.

The Dutch wanted to help, and in Luzon they could send out information and recruit large numbers of Portuguese and Spaniards from Europe and South America, including the Dutch, of course.

As long as a salary of about 1,000 per year is provided, a large number of European gunners will come to serve.

Of course, Xu Zixian refused, how could the sharp weapon be controlled by others?

Besides, the artillery of these years is quite simple, under the gun body is the gun carriage, because it is not a field artillery, there are no wheels, there are no hooks and other attached metal facilities, the wood and iron mixed gun carriage is the barrel gun body, under the bottom of the gun is a winch supported by metal, the gun can only move the barrel up and down, according to the distance with a gallows to adjust the barrel, it is impossible to move left and right, unless it is a field gun equipped with wheels.

The original Wei artillery used the method of skidding blocks to adjust the firing range, Fu Qian felt that this was too stupid, so he added an iron bracket and a winch to the rear of the barrel, Xu Zi also praised it after seeing it first, which was similar to the Napoleonic cannon in his memory.

In this expedition, half of the elite and half of the recruits of the naval division were recruited, and all the officers of the naval division above the rank of head were all enlisted, which was also an opportunity for the officers to learn lessons and lessons. This time there will not only be a naval battle, but also a landing on Cebu Island, completely annihilating the remnants of the two Luzon pirates from Luzon, plus colonizing Luzon, at least to strengthen the control of Luzon, and take Luzon before the Europeans, so in addition to Liu Yi, Tian Heng, Ren Zhong and other generals, the naval attache also sent Chen Daojian and other civil officials and officials to accompany him.

There were quite a few people from the Department of Military Intelligence and the Department of Foreign Trade and Industry and Commerce, nominally to negotiate trade with Luzon, but in fact, the lowest idea was to get hold of Cebu.

Cebu is more than 400 miles long, less than 100 miles wide, about one-eighth of the size of the Eastern Domain, is four times the size of the Penghu Islands, the population is mainly local aborigines, there are about 100,000 people, the climate on the island is a standard tropical climate, hotter than the southern part of the Eastern Domain, farmland accounts for less than a quarter of the whole island, mainly the island has a hot climate, the terrain is long and narrow, the mountains account for half of the whole island, surrounded by the sea on all sides, the island is mainly fishing, in addition to planting some rice and sugar cane at will, there are large coconut groves, banana forests and other tropical fruit crops, the islanders are quite lazySometimes, picking a bunch of bananas a day can fill the belly, and at most a whole grilled fish is enough.

The Luzon pirates are mainly entrenched on the Cebu Bird, this island is the choke point off the coast of the main island of Luzon, and they can attack and retreat or defend, take down this island, and then threaten to knock the high-level of Luzon local, and in general they can achieve initial control.

After the pirates were crossed, Xu Zi's first consideration was to compete with the colonists, Luzon is undoubtedly more important than the Siam Chenla occupation of the city and the Japanese kingdom combined, occupying Luzon, and then there is the Eastern Domain, basically the Southeast Asian places are encircled, and they can operate calmly, and the colonists cannot occupy the supply points in the inner ring, and of course they cannot form a colonial system.

As for Srivijaya Malacca, it is a more important place, only these places are snatched down, and there will be no latecomers for the next few hundred years.

Xu Zixian's middle number one also let out a burst of shouts, and the situation in front of him was quite shocking and extremely exciting. The tall Dutchmen with golden hairs seemed to be more excited than the Great Wei, wilder, more impulsive, and more fond of the scene in front of them. Sailing a large warship, surrounded by sturdy and daring companions, with sophisticated weapons and heavy artillery, is tantamount to gathering together to bully others, and the Dutch like this feeling in front of them.

The No. 1 has no plans and plans to sail to the open sea for the time being, this ship is a standard plywood ship, only used to train sailors and officers, and the training plan is to take ten years as the length of time, this ship will often be driven out to show off, giving sailors and officers the opportunity to practice and exercise, maybe ten years later, when the shipyard of the Eastern Domain began to build similar plywood ships, this warship will play a very important role before.

A group of big Dutchmen looked at this side from time to time, only Xu Zixian and Fu Qian were on the tail tower, and then there were the guards of the Attendant Division, under the escort of the armored soldiers wearing armor, holding long bows and short crossbows, Xu Zixian's identity and status were also revealed.

These Dutchmen knew that the tall young man was unusually noble, although Xu Zixian was wearing a hat for shading the sun, a gray cloth robe like a military robe, and his feet were wrapped around like ordinary soldiers, and he was wearing linen shoes...... This is the attire of the officers and soldiers of the sailor, hemp shoes can reduce the risk of slipping on the smooth cabin, even if it is an old sailor, when the big waves come, a person who is unstable and is knocked over, or even falls into the sea is also a common thing, the difference is that the sailor soldiers wear blue robes, and Xu Zixian is still wearing a gray robe.

The sea and sky are the same, the sea breeze smells slightly fishy, and the hull of the ship is also shaking under Xu Zixian's feet. Xu Zixian didn't feel uncomfortable with this, this level of shaking couldn't make him feel uncomfortable.

Even after getting off the ship for a while, there will be some dizziness, but it will get better soon, if you go to sea for a long time, you will not get off the ship for a few months, and you will have to adapt to it for a while after going ashore.

The sea, the sea, the waves, the ships, the warships, the sailors, the merchant ships, the trade, the goods, everything in front of you makes up a lively picture, and it makes you feel very happy.

The Dutch saw Xu Zi come down from the ship's building first, and greeted everyone, even these foreigners. The Dutch were republicans, but there were also kings, who, like ordinary Europeans, did not like oppression and autocracy, but had a deep respect for aristocratic blood.

The Dutch know that this is the prince of Great Wei, in such a huge country, with a land larger than Europe, hundreds of millions of people, only a son of heaven and less than ten princes, and the one in front of him is still a prince with real power, with an army of more than 100,000 people, a huge fleet and the island in front of him, and the other is the Fujian Road, which is larger than a small European country, it is said that this prince will occupy the rest of the roads, and the territory and population he has in his hands are about the same size as a dozen or so European countries.

Such a big man appeared in front of everyone with a gentle and calm attitude, and the smile on his face was not too kind, nor was it obviously reserved by a big man, but it made people feel comfortable and casual.

As the hull of the boat rose and fell, Xu Zi first saw the attachés put down the four-oared boat first, and then Xu Zi jumped off the big boat first, and rowed from the four-oared boat to Nan'an Port.

A Dutchman made a cross on the big boat and said with emotion: "May God bless this noble highness." His hard work and experience will surely lead him to success. ”

"Of course, it will also make us successful." The colonists of this era have just begun to start, and one of them has a keen sense of smell and ambition who wants to attack Asia like this, but in the eyes of ordinary people, there are many civilized countries here, and there are behemoths like the Great Wei, as well as heavenly forces, the Taixi people should not want to colonize here, of course, they left their homeland and came out of Europe purely to die, or what people's ambitions to take risks, all adventurers hope to gain wealth and success, and are not born to want to colonize overseas. Just like Columbus's goal when he went to sea, they just wanted to go to India and get gold and spices.

The Dutchman's words were met with a considerable degree of acceptance, and many people rowed their crosses and prayed after the boat.

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The boat shuttled across the sea and soon arrived at the port.

Xu Zixian and Fu Qian and others went ashore successively, there was no one on the shore to greet them, after the establishment of the marching division on the island, all affairs were in order, a large number of officials were stationed in various places on Fujian Road, even Li Yi stayed in Fuzhou, only Fu Qian, Chen Jie and others on the island, mainly responsible for manufacturing and industrial and commercial affairs.

In the middle of the road, Zhang Mingliang is in charge, and in the shipyard, Lin Jiusi, Zhang Cheng and other craftsmen and people sent by the Lin family are in charge of technology, and the marching department sends officials to be responsible for the daily administration.

Among the welcoming crowd on the shore, the most conspicuous one was not Chen Jie and others, but Wang Xinyuan, the newly appointed secretary of the Department of Health and Welfare.

The Department of Health and Welfare is not only in charge of civilian hospitals, but also military doctors. In addition, medical matters such as epidemic prevention and sanitation were transferred to the Department of Health and Welfare.

Wang Xinyuan's family background, knowledge, and medical skills have been proven and tested, this time the formation of the Department of Health and Welfare, its call for being promoted is the highest, and there may also be its success in treating Xu Zixian, and has made a great contribution that cannot be ignored for the Eastern Domain and the entire Qin King Shogunate, before Xu Zixian has given Wang Xinyuan a generous reward, but when the officials were promoted, this layer of kindness still made many people ignore the old qualification of Chen Changnian, but pushed Wang Xinyuan up.

Xu Zixian is also happy to see it succeed, the doctors who went to the Eastern Domain earlier may have passed in terms of medical skills, but their family background must be relatively poor, after all, the gentry family can regard medical skills as a hobby, but it will never be regarded as a rice bowl for eating. Like Wang Xinyuan's family, his family is still a gentry family, medical skills are hobby inheritance, Wang Xinyuan is talented, with family tradition and self-learning such a high level, it can be regarded as one of the talents obtained by the Eastern Domain.

"I've seen Your Highness." Wang Xinyuan has a good life on the island, in fact, he presides over the Department of Health and Welfare to hand over the main chores to the officials to do, Chen Changnian and other deputies are also very competent, Wang Xinyuan is mainly to take the examination of the newer medical officers, to prevent those wandering doctors from mixing in. This generation is accustomed to the rivers and lakes, watching the wind and looking at the sex, full of nonsense, remembering some unilateral prescriptions by rote memorization, and the medication is completely unilateral, not daring to add or subtract slightly, and hitting the luck can ask them to cure some people, and in most cases, they either can't cure people, or they directly cure people to death.

There were originally some doctors on the island, who were basically expelled under Wang Xinyuan's examination.

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At the end of the year, forget it, the two children have a fever and are hospitalized, this time the update is really difficult, it can't be normal, everyone forgive me.