The shocking drill lasted for an hour, and when the shouting and killing sound dissipated, Zhang Bin smiled and said to the helmsman of the major merchant gangs around him: "I invite everyone to come this time, mainly to sublease the land of Yuegang, I believe everyone knows this." ”

The helmsmen of the major merchant gangs arched their hands one after another: "I know, I know." ”

Zhang Bin immediately waved his hand and introduced: "This is the political envoy of Fujian Chengxuan, Si Zuobu, Lord Bi Mao Kangbi; This is the Fujian City Bo Si Tiju, Wang Chengen's father-in-law; This is Haicheng Zhi County, Han Zhiliang Han. ”

When the heads of the major business gangs heard this, they hurriedly bowed their hands to say hello, and Bi Maokang and others also returned the salute one by one.

After everyone finished saluting, Zhang Bin continued: "This time the land lease is in charge of Lord Bi Mao Kangbi, Haicheng County Yahui sent six scribes to register on the spot, a total of twelve streets in Yuegang New Town, including two specialized in ceramic business, two specialized in cloth business, two specialized in tea business, and other streets have their own franchises, you can learn from the scribes present, where do you want to rent, go to the scribes to register, hand over the silver to the city ship, take the voucher to the scribe in exchange for the title deed, Do you understand? ”

The heads of the major merchant gangs arched their hands one after another: "Understood, understood." ”

Zhang Bin then said: "That's the matter of renting land, and in addition, there is one more thing I want to ask you to help me do." ”

When the heads of the major merchant gangs heard this, they all bowed their hands and said, "Lord Governor, please speak." ”

Zhang Bin nodded and continued: "Everyone should have seen it when they came from all over the country, and the roads leading to Fujian in various provinces are being widened and renovated, and I believe everyone understands that this is mainly for the convenience of everyone to transport goods in the future." However, the cost of this road repair is also very large, and the preliminary estimate is that it will cost about 500,000 taels of silver. ”

Unexpectedly, before they finished speaking, the helmsmen of the major merchant gangs gave up their hands one after another: "Thank you, Lord Governor, we will pay for this money, we will pay it." ”

How is this the same as apportionment, Zhang Bin couldn't help but be embarrassed when he heard this, he raised his hand and pressed down everyone's voices, and then continued: "This money, naturally will not let you out in vain, in the future, the Fujian City Ship Division will increase to 500 pieces of ship, and the share of these 500 ships will also be distributed according to the number of donated silver, 1,000 taels and 100 pieces per merchant gang, that is, 100,000 taels of silver, what do you think?" ”

When the heads of the major merchant gangs heard this, their faces were about to burst into laughter, they were willing to pay for nothing, not to mention that there was a share of the ship's introduction, was this simply giving them money for nothing, they each earned tens of thousands of taels of the share of the leased land last time, and this time they naturally rushed to donate.

Seeing that everyone was so positive, Zhang Bin simply said: "That's okay, you will directly send the silver to Fuzhou, hand it over to Cai Shanji, the political envoy of Youbu, and then take the voucher to buy a ship to attract Kanhe." The introduction of this ship is calculated on an annual basis, the ship of a Cangshan ship leads 1,500 taels, the ship of a Haicang ship leads 1,500 taels, and the ship of a fortune ship leads 2,000 taels, you don't have any opinions, right? ”

The helmsmen of the major merchant gangs have any opinions, a ship can earn at least 10,000 taels of silver when it goes to sea, one or two thousand taels, which is just a trivial matter.

As soon as these things were explained, Zhang Bin immediately gave up his hand and said: "Everyone, in the future, this place will be temporarily handed over to Lord Bi to be responsible, if you have any matter, just go directly to Lord Bi, this official is busy with military affairs, so I will not accompany him and leave." ”

With that, he turned and walked down the city gate, leaving a group of stunned merchant gang leaders looking at each other.

He was not joking when he said that he was busy with military affairs, if it weren't for waiting for the helmsmen of the major merchant gangs to come and raise 500,000 taels of silver from them, he would have led the army to Penghu a long time ago.

He boasted in front of Chongzhen that he had exterminated all the pirates around Fujian in a year, and it had been more than three months since he seriously counted it, and during this time, he had "appeased" his relational Zheng Zhilong, and the other pirates hadn't even seen a shadow.

If we don't start the action now, it's really a bit of a hang to eradicate the pirates this year.

There is an essential difference between the pirates at this time and the pirates of the Jiajing Dynasty, they are not real widows who mainly plunder, but fake widows who mainly smuggle and sell goods of the Ming Dynasty, so it is basically impossible to wait for them to come ashore to loot, only to take the initiative to find their lair.

Zhang Bin led the army to Penghu was only the first step, he wanted to reset the Penghu Inspection Department and build Penghu into a sea fortress, on the one hand, as a springboard for attacking the east, on the other hand, to jam the entire strait and compress the pirates' activity space.

At this time, the first batch of men and horses to Penghu were ready to go, including 2,500 sword and shield men, 2,500 pikemen, and 5,000 archers, led by Cao Wenzhao, who first built forts and fortresses in Penghu, and the artillery was prepared to prepare the naval guns that the sailors had eliminated first.

During the Chinese New Year, including Zhang Bin, all the Ming officials and Ming soldiers in Yuegang did not rest, Sun Yuanhua had already delivered forty tiger squat guns to Qi Yuangong in advance, and thirty hundred-pound naval guns had been made, Yu Chenglong and Zheng Chenggong's naval warships had begun to be refitted, and the replaced naval guns were originally to be recast, and the output could not keep up at this time, so they could only be used for the time being.

At this time, the newly built military dock in Yuegang was already full of warships, Cao Wenzhao was leading his men to quickly load the materials needed for the construction of the Penghu fortress onto the warship, Zhang Bin took a group of relatives and went straight to the dock, and a group of generals immediately surrounded him.

Zhang Bin patted Qi Yuangong and Cao Bianjiao on the shoulders, and advised: "Yuangong, Bianjiao, Yuegang will be handed over to you, you must always pay attention to the movement of the sea, the Zhongzuo Institute, the Kinmen Institute, and Zhenhaiwei cannot lose any of them, and Yuegang New City must focus on protection, do you know?" ”

Qi Yuangong and Cao Bianjiao hurriedly bowed their hands and said, "Don't worry, my lord, the general will be loyal to his duties." ”

Zhang Bin nodded, and then waved to the veteran Yu Zhigao on the side and said, "General Yu, let's go." ”

Yu Zhigao was already trembling with excitement at this time, more than three years, more than three years, and finally able to return to Penghu.

The battle in the fourth year of the Apocalypse is still echoing in his mind, how many Ming soldiers sacrificed their lives and forgot to die, and it took half a year to recover Penghu.

In the face of the Hongmaofan artillery, the soldiers of the Ming army did not flinch, and charged into battle with their flesh and blood against the shells.

In the face of the enemy warships with huge cannons on all sides, the Daming Navy Division was not afraid, rowing one after another ignition boats loaded with fire oil and dry firewood, launching suicide attacks again and again!

For half a year, how many soldiers of the Ming army stayed on the land of Penghu forever and even in the sea around Penghu, such a heroic and fearless battle, in the end, there was no reward, and even the governor never came back after returning to Beijing to make meritorious contributions!

The governor was dismissed and cut down, and he was also removed from his post and repatriated, and the dead soldiers in Penghu World War I were not cold, but Daming gave up Penghu and the people there inexplicably, what is all this for?

The burning warships on the sea, the cannonballs that rained down in the air, and the soldiers of the Ming army who bravely charged under the Hongmao Fan Castle on the sea of blood and blood of the robe corpse mountain, scene after scene kept coming to his mind, and two lines of hot tears couldn't help but burst out of his eyes.

Zhang Bin inadvertently looked back and saw that Yu Zhigao was already in tears, and he was shocked: "Old general, what's wrong with you?" ”

Yu Zhigao wiped his tears and choked up: "It's been more than three years, and the last general has always missed the soldiers who died in the first battle of Penghu, and the last general has always wanted to go back to Penghu to see, thank you for giving me this opportunity, so that I can go back to Penghu and go back to see them." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he sighed, and then nodded solemnly: "Okay, General Yu, I will take you back to Penghu to visit the Ming soldiers who died there, this time, we will not give up Penghu again, the great rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty, we will not give up at all." After this battle, I will build a monument for the Ming soldiers who died in the Battle of Penghu, and build it on the highest mountain in Penghu, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty can look up to the glory of the martyrs! ”