"We will do our best to deal with the ship." Fu Qian said: "The ships made now are all trial built according to the specifications of warships, regardless of whether they are lucky ships, sand ships, or Guangdong ships. The mast is mostly four masts, the front angle of the attack, the rear tower, the eight-ox crossbow, the bed crossbow, or the trial production of trebuchets, in case of everything. But now only a small boat of about 100 tons can be built, and according to the order of the prince, it is ......"

"There's no need to rush." Xu Zixian waved his hand and said: "The purpose is to build a water division as soon as possible, but this kind of technical matter cannot be succeeded by rushing to do it." My goal is to build a 1,000-ton warship, and use this as the core to follow with 800-tonnage, 600-tonnage, and 300-ton warships, so that the fleet will be invincible. ”

The hearts of the people who listened to it were shaken, and they were really strong.

"The pirates have lost too much." Kong He looked at the sea at this time and said, "I'm afraid I can't drive all the battleships away." ”

"Don't overthink it." Xu Zixian smiled: "They will gouge through the battleship or set it on fire, and they will not leave it to us." ”

Now that the pirates have not left, they may be in a state of panic, and only a few thousand people have fled back, the number of people is too small, the vast sea is extremely risky, and the lack of manpower to operate the ship is likely to cause an accident, and even if there are sailors, the ship is understaffed, and it will be useless on the sea.

Kong He's idea was for everyone present, a 300-ton serious warship, costing at least 150,000 guan, with personnel equipment, such as eight-ox crossbows and trebuchets, at least more than 200,000 guan.

There are 300 ships at sea, and there are at least dozens of them in the Chinese warship class, which is the foundation of tens of millions of people, and if these ships can be brought over, it will be difficult to breathe.

It's a pity that the government army is invincible on land, but there is no way to deal with the enemy at sea.

Kong He sighed for a long time and said, "This is really a sigh of hope. ”

Everyone laughed, but the eyes of the sea were even more eager, and there was some nervousness and urgency.

If the government army can fight on land, if you want to destroy the bandits, you still have to rely on the sailors to speak.

At this time, the killing of prisoners is almost done, Li Yi is going to supervise Minzhuang to continue to pursue and suppress the remnants of the enemy, and at the same time to deal with the cleaning of the battlefield, he said goodbye to Xu Zixian at the moment, and warned everyone: "Don't be impatient, more than a year ago, how dare I dare to defeat the two thieves of Luzon head-on?" That was something that the King of Qi, the pacification envoy, and the forbidden army and the Xiang army in Fujian did not do. Today, we can complete this matter, comfort the Son of Heaven, and appease the people, which is enough to leave a name in history. Things in the future will be able to come naturally, don't be arrogant or dry, but do what you do well, then things will be done. ”

Li Yi has a beautiful hair, although he does not practice martial arts, but at this time he has the style of a general, and he slowly reminds everyone of his words, but it is extremely gentle, which makes people feel like a spring breeze, and they are not convinced.

At that moment, Li Yi went first, and then Fu Qian led the people to suppress the remnants of the enemy, and at the same time, it was also to protect the factories everywhere upstream to prevent them from being destroyed by the fleeing thieves.

Kong He and Chen Zuocai, Chen Daojian, Fang Shaoqun and others stood beside Xu Zixian, until noon, Wang Xinyuan personally boiled the medicine, and asked Xu Zi to drink it first, although the weather was hot and the decoction was difficult to swallow, Xu Zixian still drank it all, as if he was drinking ganlin.

Chen Daojian and others came from the Hou Mansion, the victory before the war was unpredictable, if they heard the defeat quickly, they would take the official documents and files with the Hou Mansion Miss and the concubine Xiuniang to leave the hidden, fortunately the news of the victory in the morning reached the Hou Mansion, along the middle of the Hou Mansion, everyone was cheering and encouraging, the two young girls were even more crying and crying, happy I don't know why.

Later, the little sister asked Chen Daojian to come quickly, Xu Zixian went to the battlefield before he recovered from his illness, of course the little sister and Xiuniang couldn't rest assured, fortunately, Wang Xinyuan was taken over early, which made them feel at ease in the Hou Mansion.

Before dark, the manhunt was over, and the firefighters showed off their cooking skills today, killing dozens of pigs and a large number of chickens and ducks, and the people could eat with broth and white rice, which was enough to fill their stomachs. And the soldiers of the government army, regardless of the generals and leading the officers, are rewarded with meat, everyone eats with oil on the side of their mouths, and today's meat is freely supplied, and there is no longer a limit of two or four taels, almost everyone eats with eyebrows and smiles, and the sound of long live continues to sound around the bonfire.

After nightfall, the soldiers of the government army and the people were on duty, but the night was unusually quiet, and there was almost no movement at all.

At noon the next day, the ships on the sea did not move, and apparently had no intention of withdrawing, and some government troops came in the middle of the night to report that there might be more than 100 pirates stripped naked and swam into the sea on the southern shore, and they were good at swimming, and although they had not eaten for a day or two, it was nothing to swim for a few miles, and they went down to the sea from the south, and swam all the way to the naval ships, and then they trembled and climbed onto the ships, and then they began to cry and cry.

This movement was discovered by the soldiers of the government army on the shore, but without a sailor, there was no boat to pursue, so they could only sigh with joy.

After Xu Zi knew first, he said: "In this way, the pirates will not be allowed to leave in three or five days, but they should start digging the ship today." The sea is a southeast wind, if the ship is set on fire, it may cause the entire fleet to catch fire, Qin Dongyang and Ge Cunzhong and others are careful, and they also want to use small boats to set fire, but there are only a dozen or so small sentinel ships in Nan'an Houfu, I am afraid that the effect is quite limited, and it will also damage the soldiers, thinking that the gains outweigh the losses, so they gave up.

The ship lying across the sea was like a huge wooden thorn, deeply rooted in the hearts of the civil and military officials of the Hou Mansion, and of course, everyone including Xu Zixian.

However, it also has a good effect, in addition to the great victory, the officers and men of the government army, including the military attaché, inevitably have arrogance, and after seeing the ships at sea, the arrogance has also been beaten down a lot.

After resting for two days, although he did not recover, Xu Zixian's body also recovered a lot, and accompanied by Qin Dongyang and others, he went to watch the seaside Jingguan.

This is a specially selected place, a few miles south of Huaxi, the seaside reef is numerous, strange rocks are craggy, the shore is green, and many shrubs grow on the boulders.

Although it is also a beach, it is not suitable to be used as a wharf and port at all, and there are many reefs on the water surface, and the rocks on the shore are high and steep, which cannot transport goods and personnel on a large scale.

But to build a view of the capital, it is quite suitable here.

"There are more than nineteen thousand seven hundred heads." Qin Dongyang's face was a little gloomy, no matter how hateful the pirates were and how they should be killed, they were beheaded nearly 20,000 in a while, this achievement was said to be the glory of the general, but for individuals, thinking about how many people he led his troops to kill, his emotions would definitely be very strange and complicated.

The generals present also performed similarly.

At that moment, Xu Zixian was also a little hesitant, he walked around the official road for a long time, and his eyes were full of the heads of those thieves who closed their eyes or stared roundly.

A large number of heads were stacked together, and the weather was hot, although the seaside also attracted a large number of flies to fly, covering almost the entire head pile.

Such a scene, ordinary people are afraid that they will have nightmares when they see it once, even if they are all fierce generals who kill people without calculation, they are a little scared at this time.

"Send more grass and burn it downwind to smoke away the flies." Xu Zixian said: "After a while, it will be exposed to the sun and dried, and it doesn't look so scary." ”

"It's still scary." Qin Dongyang said in a deep voice: "The thieves or the people who come and go, I'm afraid that they will be frightened when they see it. ”

"The people will not be afraid." Fang Shaoqun interjected on the side: "With all due respect, the Eastern Domain has this view of Beijing, and the Maritime Chamber of Commerce will flock to it in the future." ”

Everyone didn't think about it at first, but after thinking about it, they also nodded one after another.

Indeed, the people will not be afraid, but it is the thieves who die, not the good people.

And the fact that the merchant ships had come to this point and saw such an obvious thing was enough to increase confidence in the safety of the Eastern Domain. And the group of thieves heard that there are some Jingguan, except for big thieves like Pu Xingfeng, I am afraid that no pirates dare to covet the Eastern Domain.

Fang Shaoqun smiled slightly and said, "What the prince wants is not to replace Quanzhou or Mingzhou with the Eastern Domain, and he can't do it in the past twenty years. However, the Eastern Domain was on the waterway, and there were not many ships to dock throughout the year, which was also quite abnormal. If this is the case, after this battle alone, the number of ships docked in the Eastern Domain will increase by at least a hundredfold, and this alone will make our battle too worthwhile. ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, and this is indeed the truth. When a ship came by sea, it was impossible to just stop and leave, and it was possible to supplement the cost of fresh water, the cost of docking, and the use of the warehouses of the Eastern Domain.

In addition, they would trade with the Eastern Domain, or establish trading houses and sales outlets here, and trade with each other.

In this way, the entire Eastern Domain will be brought back to life.

Since then, it is not only the Nan'an Hou Mansion that has developed and traded here, but also a thousand commercial houses.

Although it is not comparable to Jiangling, Mingzhou, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou in the short term, it has become an important town of maritime trade in a few years, and the commerce and trade are developed.

Coupled with the benefits brought by its own factories and many special products, the strength of Nan'anhou Mansion may change beyond the imagination of everyone present in a few years.

"Great goodness." Ge Cunzhong wiped the short beard on his lower lip and said with a hearty smile: "It seems that my old Ge also has the day when he will get rich without making money." ”

To start a company, each general has a share, Xu Zixian has already talked to the generals.

The Hou Mansion reclaimed the whole island, and Xu Zixian did not plan to let go of the private land.

Zheng Chenggong ran the Eastern Domain, part of the official land, part of the soldiers' land, and allowing immigrants to cultivate their own land.

Later, the private land surpassed the official land, and Xu Zixian thought that Zheng Chenggong's tax was too heavy, resulting in no one willing to plant the official land. Most of the private land fell into the hands of generals, as well as dignitaries and dignitaries who fled to the Eastern Domain, which also made the population of the Eastern Domain always be between more than 100,000 and 200,000 before Qianlong.

Later, private land reclamation was liberalized, and a large number of Fujian people went to Taiwan on their own to open up land everywhere, with the result that the population skyrocketed to 3 million in a few decades.

But if subsidies were given to official land in the early years, including seeds, ploughing cattle, ploughing horses, and the help of farm tools, but the taxes collected were the same as those for private land, and at most slightly higher, then it was obvious that the speed of large-scale development would increase significantly, and Xu Zixian was not as urgent as Zheng Chenggong, or that he judged more accurately and knew how to do it more appropriately.

The most direct consequence of letting go of private land is that officials, generals, and magnates will reclaim a large amount of land, they will have more money and more people, the Hou government's control over the whole island will be weakened, officials and generals will be obsessed with their own reclamation, and the distribution of wealth and the pursuit of power will corrode this group that is still on the rise, and the harm will be too great.

It is obviously a more appropriate means to set up a company, develop externally, and replace the distribution of acres to generals and officials in the form of dividends.

The Ge brothers have been in the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, and they have not saved more than 1,000 yuan of money, and most of the money is used to help the poor, or to distribute it to their subordinates, and settle their wives and children, and they are almost empty-handed.

Xu Zixian admired such behavior very much, but he still spoke out, hoping that his subordinates could be rich and noble, and even Ge Da would not object to such words.

In the laughter of everyone, Xu Zixian glanced at Jingguan again, the mountain of large numbers of heads is really terrifying, even if he is the decision-maker, the feeling is the same.

At this moment, Xu Zixian even asked himself, did he go too far? But it is clear that this matter can not be stopped, there are still a large number of pirates fleeing inland and along the coast, round-ups are still going on, many of the people have brought out their dogs, along the coast and inland there are voices of people and dogs barking, those pirates flee for their lives, in thorns and bushes, they have no food, they may not even drink, it is only a matter of time before they die.

After the heads of these people are cut off and sent here, the number of beheadings will come out about this time.

At least 20,000 or more.

"Prince, we will be able to repay the merit when the pirate ship retreats." Qin Dongyang hugged his fists at Xu Zixian and said, "Maybe the prince can be the prince of the country?" ”

Everyone looked at Xu Zixian with expectant eyes, even if the Duke of the Kingdom was not allowed to open the mansion, the right to confer on the subordinate officials and the subordinates of the Duke would be much greater, for example, the chief of the Hou Mansion and the historian only had seven grades, and the Duke Mansion was five grades.

If this is the case, even if Xu Zixian has further legitimacy for the appointment of many officials on the island, of course, the most legitimate thing is that the imperial court gives the Nan'an Marquis the right to open the government, so that whether it is the prince or the prince, after the opening of the palace, the appointment of his own subordinate officials and generals is a legal act recognized by the imperial court.

At present, the officials and generals appointed by the Hou Mansion of Nan'an, only serving in the Hou Mansion or in the regimental training, will be in the Privy Council and the Ministry of War of the Imperial Court, and the Ministry of Officials has files to check, which can be regarded as serious court officials.

If the officials and generals appointed on the island are regarded as appointed by the Nan'an Hou Mansion themselves, the former officials can wear official robes and use etiquette when they go home on leave, while the latter can only wear civilian robes, which are not considered official bodies, and there is a gap between them.

Xu Zixian said with a smile: "If you want to open a mansion, forget it, King Qi made such a great contribution back then, and the two generations of King Qi can be described as the pillar of the imperial court in the southeast, isn't it the same that there is no mansion?" The great thing about the Eastern Domain is to deal with some pirates, and it can't threaten the community, so the princes of the imperial court must think like this, open the mansion, just kidding. ”

The generals did not smile this time, and the princes of the imperial court focused on the Donghu people, and even the northern and western Qiang, and even the northwest thieves were more important than the southeast pirates.

However, the southeast is a land of wealth, Mingzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, and the wealth created by these states accounts for more than half of the taxes paid by the Great Wei.

Do you really have to wait for the bandits to disturb the southeast and the Great Wei lose half of its wealth and land before you know how important the sailor is and how much of a threat the pirates pose to the Great Wei?

Of course, it is also a national policy not to open the government, from the founding of the country to the Renzong Dynasty in the middle of the Great Wei Dynasty, the right to open the government has been granted less than ten times. In addition to the founding period, a certain prince who had been ordered to pass through the old Yingzhou was ordered to open the government, but the imperial court's pioneering and enterprising efforts in the old Yingzhou land still failed, and the right to open the government was also withdrawn.

In this battle, more than 20,000 people were beheaded, and the pirate king who came was defeated. With Wang Zhi alone, the court can also be regarded as attaching importance to it, and the festival envoy and the general awarded it, so it can be seen that he is not completely ignorant.

And Xu Zixian almost crossed the two pirate kings in a battle, which was undoubtedly good news for the imperial court.

Coupled with the development of the Eastern Domain, the ranch was established, and Xu Zixian's management of horse politics was also completed very well.

In addition, the previous merits have not been fairly rewarded, and the imperial court is pretending to be deaf and dumb again this time, I am afraid that the two governments themselves will feel shameless to face the world.

No matter what the Son of Heaven thinks, the two governments will definitely advocate that Xu Zi be promoted to the position of prince first, and the number of actual sealed households will also increase.

The imperial court does not have too much wealth, and it is estimated that there will be no physical rewards, if the crown is really crowned, this barrier will be broken, and it is estimated that Xu Zixian's official position will also have to rise.