The situation of this preparation will not change in the next few years. Fu Qian continued: "There are more than 6,000 people in the two armies, and each of them has armor. Mariners, archers, collared chain mail, archers with scarlets, shin guards, no arm guards, heart guards, iron gloves, but also iron mesh boots. All the cavalry in the army are iron cavalry, and they are issued with iron cuirass, scarf, and shin guards, and the rest are not distributed. The guerrillas, that is, the sword and shield soldiers, are issued with scarves, iron masks, cuirasses, shoulder pads, heart guards, shin guards, iron gloves, and iron mesh boots, which are actually a full set of armor, and their protection is the first in the whole army. The long hand is issued to the armor, without shoulder pads, heart protection, and the rest are the same as the sword and shield soldiers. Sailor soldiers, in addition to the absence of cavalry, the armor equipment is also like this, so that when we cast armor production, a full set of running water, such as chain mail easy to make, with a hydraulic wire drawing machine to constantly pull out the wire, as long as there are a large number of craftsmen forging rings and interlocking it, the production is extremely fast, this time to catch up with your defense, it is really not easy. ”

The two military generals were all moved, and they also repeatedly thanked Fu Qian and the personnel of the Craftsman Division, and also paid tribute to Zhang Mingliang, the person in charge of the mine iron yard.

Fu Qian and Zhang Mingliang both returned the favor, with smiles on both faces, and Ge Cunyi said with heartfelt emotion: "When my brother and I led dozens of subordinates to vote for His Highness, I really didn't expect such a day. ”

Gao Huairen said: "All the way to the march, the farmland is connected, the officials have their own duties, the tea mountains are full of mulberry trees, there are sugarcane fields and rice fields everywhere, there are large salt pans in the south, and there are patches of iron fields and mines in the middle. This Eastern Domain was a desert island before, but now it is managed by His Highness like this, who would dare to believe that he said such a thing a few years ago? ”

Zhang Mingliang nodded again and again, and said: "When His Royal Highness was in Nan'an Town, we saw that it was extraordinary, and now it is even more admirable Five-Body Surrender, and the military states of Fujian Road will also be controlled by His Highness. ”

Fu Qian said: "This is what His Royal Highness wants, rich and strong, the Donghu in the north is strong but not rich, the Great Wei court is rich but not strong, our Eastern Domain acts like this, helping the people, enriching the people, raising the army, complementing each other, I have a hunch, at most two to three years, the whole world will have great changes, and I, the Qin King Shogunate, will have a particularly different performance at that time." ”

Fu Qian's words were not subtle, everyone present understood that not only did everyone not feel pressure, but on the contrary, they all felt full of ambition.

With the development and speed of the Eastern Domain, people inside themselves feel that they are changing rapidly, how does it look to outsiders? What if the southeastern roads were annexed and operated by the Qin Shogunate?

"I can't wait." Ge Cunyi said with his hands in his hands: "I can't wait to raise troops to the north now and destroy Donghu." ”

The civil and military officers present all laughed, and at the port, a large number of soldiers of the government army had already received armor and were ready to accompany them to the ship, and the sailors and soldiers drove the big ship to the shore, ready to transport the robes and brothers of the land division away.

After negotiating with the Kang family, now the shogunate sailors have begun to collect taxes along the coast of Fujian, and this kind of sea tax called Ping'an tax has not been excluded, because the strength and strong past of the Eastern Naval Division have made the maritime merchants trust, and the sailors are indeed constantly sweeping away the pirates, and now even the sea surface of the Guangnan East Road to the Nanyang place is much safer, and the trade volume is also slowly recovering.

At the port, there are merchant ships from all over the world, including Nanyang, Wakoku, Chenla, Siam and other countries, which are also famous one after another.

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"Brother Zhang, the front is the Nan'an Port of the Eastern Domain." Huang Laigui pointed to an island that was vaguely visible in the direction of his right hand and was vaguely visible in the waves and wind waves, and introduced it to Zhang Siqi.

Zhang Siqi's face was a little pale, and his spirit was a little sluggish, but he was finally able to stand outside the cabin with both hands on the side of the ship...... When the wind and waves rose a few days ago, due to the shaking of the hull

It was so bad that Zhang Siqi vomited so much that he could barely raise his head, and then he could only be tied to the small bed in the cabin...... This is preferential treatment, you must know that although the No. 11 is a large ship of 360 tons, it is a large ship compared to those small wooden boats and lucky boats, and the slightly larger ocean-going fishing boats in later generations will have 500 tons, and many fishing boats are simply thousands of tons, even those who fish in the offshore waters also have dozens of tons to more than 100 tons, that is to say, Zhang Siqi's ship is only a slightly larger offshore fishing boat in later generations.

This ship not only carries a large amount of cargo, but also more than a dozen artillery pieces, to leave a place for artillery positions and shells on the second and top floors, but also to store water and grain, ballast space, plus space for transporting goods, except for the captain and first mate, any officer and soldier has to sleep in a cramped and crowded cabin, of course, sleeping in a hammock, the space is very cramped, and the smell is also unpleasant, if Zhang Siqi sleeps in such an environment and hammock, I am afraid that he will suffer more crimes.

Captain Lin Fujian gave up his cabin, the first mate was Huang Laifu, but he was squeezed into the big wheelhouse with the sailors, Zhang Siqi and a few Dutch and a group of Nanyang Han merchants boarded the ship from the Japanese country, they were treated preferentially as soon as they got on the ship, everyone understood that His Royal Highness King Qin was determined to restore the order of the Nanyang countries, and sooner or later he needed the help of these Han merchants, the Dutch were also the strongest in the Taixi countries, Zhang Siqi and others were very strong, and they were originally squeezed into the cabin, even if Lin Fujian's cabin was full of vomit, they couldn't stand it before they lived in.

After many days of turbulence in the wind and waves, he finally arrived at the coast of the Eastern Domain.

On the left-hand side is Dong Fan Island, an endless coastline with a different color from the deep-sea area, with flocks of seabirds hovering in mid-air, and a few dolphins chasing the sailboat on the bow of the boat, making a clear chirping sound from time to time.

A school of flying fish flew by not far from the bow of the ship, and even though it was often seen, someone let out an exclamation.

"The port area is mainly for mooring ships, loading and unloading goods, mainly garrisons, officers and soldiers of the naval division, cadets, and lifu. Then there is the storage area at the mouth of the river, which is convenient for transporting things out of the inland and for us to transport them over. From the storage area to the inside, there are workshops on both sides of the river. ”

Huang Laifu pointed to a large area of buildings and introduced: "Those tall chimneys are drying rooms, we are baking wood all year round, using coke transported from the north, which is less labor-saving and cost-effective than cutting wood, there is a wood-cutting area, to make wood into masts, all kinds of cabin parts, decks, ship buildings, etc., there is an iron area, a big ship to use all kinds of iron, just iron nails will be more than 10,000, last year we ordered from Jianzhou, this year due to the iron yard built in the central part of the country, and a large number of craftsmen, we have begun to make ourselves." , save thousands of miles to transport it. There is a construction area, there is a waterway, the hull is built in the waterway, starting from the keel to laying the deck, to equipping the ship with all the sail lines, you can release the water into the sea, of course, it is not just set up, but also paint and oil, after a long time is a qualified ship, and it will not last long to go to sea in a hurry...... Brother Zhang, there is a sail rope area, the rope used by each big ship is made up from here, each boat needs to use a large number of ropes, as well as sails, which need to be strong and durable and soft, and the requirements for cloth are very high, and the main sail has at least more than 10,000 stitches, which is time-consuming. There is a maintenance area, and the old ship needs to be maintained in the port area after sailing, scraping and cleaning the moss, otherwise it will not be possible after a long time......"

Zhang Siqi listened quietly, Huang Laifu was almost like a treasure, everything in front of him was built by these people of the Eastern Domain under the leadership of His Royal Highness King Qin, one hand and one kick, this is the pride of the old Fujian sailor in front of him......

"It's really a matter of not doing anything, not growing wise." When he saw the manufacturing site of the Firearms Bureau and the heavy artillery pieces that were dark and heavy, Zhang Siqi couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart.

"The cast cannons on the side of the Eastern Domain are all heavy artillery. Huang Laifu said: "It's not the kind of small cannon in the Taizu period, this artillery."

In fact, it is a sharp weapon of naval warfare, although ten cannons may not be hit, but once a cannon is hit, the small ship is immediately shattered, and the big ship is also debris flying, the hull is pierced, hitting the mast, the rudder, which is equivalent to victory, and a cannon to cannon, if the ship's personnel are ploughed with blood, as long as the gunpowder and air closure are solved, the power of the artillery is actually not as weak as everyone thinks. ”

The two Dutchmen looked worried, and there were many artillery ships in the Tianfang ships, and the Tessie ships were even more artillery-based, of course, they still had to rely on the Angle Jumper, and the current artillery power was indeed a little weak.

But everyone knows that artillery is the trend of the future, and before that, the Eastern Naval Division had always relied on crossbows and trebuchets, as well as the tactics of jumping gangs and corners, although suitable for the present, it may not be able to grasp the future.

Now these Wei people have filled in the biggest shortcomings of their own side, and the Dutch are of course quite worried.

The carriage and horses moved forward from the port area, Huang Laifu continued to introduce: "There is the school area, this is the adult naval division officer and soldier school, my Fujian people account for half of it, Guangnan people, Zhejiang people and other people from all walks of life account for the other half, originally people from the near sea, can water, can drive the boat priority, there are 1,500 students, 110 instructors, the original Nanyang naval division military attaches accounted for more than ninety percent, most of the instructors are illiterate, can only teach experience. Most of them only teach how to tie ropes, how to raise and lower the sails, when to raise the mast and fall the mast, or cut the mast in times of crisis......"

At this time, there were students running past the Sailor School not far away, all of them in a column of four people, shouting slogans and running laps on the playground...... Zhang Siqi had never seen such a scene, he looked at it intently for a while, and his eyes revealed a complicated look. In the past two months, like a dream, after seeing the combat power and warships of the government army, Zhang Siqi and others have determined their determination to go to the Eastern Domain, and now after seeing the training of the soldiers of the government army with their own eyes, as well as all kinds of circumstances, their trust in the shogunate has naturally increased to a higher level.

"Are the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division wearing all-blue robes?" Zhang Siqi looked at it for a while and came back to his senses.

"yes." Huang Laifu said: "The officers and men of the Navy Division are all wearing blue robes, and the marines on the ship are all wearing gray robes. ”

The carriage kept moving forward, and in front of it was a squadron of cavalry as an escort, all dragoons, wearing bright helmets, wearing shiny cuirasses, and the horses were running in small jumps, and the cavalry was kept in a fairly neat array, quite conspicuous on the road along the river.

It is already a farmland area all around, a building complex is located in the middle of a large area of thousands of acres of farmland, Zhang Siqi knows that this is a residential area, the periphery is surrounded by a courtyard wall more than three zhang high, there are shooting holes and watchtowers, as well as bows and arrows and crossbows...... There are many such villages, a village lives more than 100 households, can reclaim about 5,000 acres of farmland, according to the arrangement to plant grain and cash crops, can dig fish ponds to raise fish, stocking ducks, chickens, pigs, cattle and sheep, horses, a village's biological chain is relatively complete, where there are many streams, there are more ducks and fish, and some are near the mountains where trees are flourishing, you can raise more cattle and sheep...... It's all complementary......

There were some peasant soldiers outside the village who were practicing, and in the winter, they practiced as much as possible in the strong sunlight, which was much easier than the sailor soldiers who had just run under the beach to train their physical fitness, and even so, they were much harder and more formal than the soldiers of the Great Wei.

Zhang Siqi also saw some native barbarians, who were doing transportation work under the guard of some auxiliary soldiers, and used board trucks to pull some materials to the storage area.

"Broken hair tattoos." Zhang Siqi said: "The barbarians in the south, the northern captives, and the eastern captives are all different. ”

"Actually, it's pretty much the same." A Nanyang man said with a little contempt: "It's nothing more than tossing your own body hair and skin, broken hair, tattoos, and nose piercing, I have great etiquette in China, and the beauty of chapter clothes ......"

As a Han Chinese who are self-conscious overseas, Zhang Siqi nodded lightly and strongly agreed.