Igetsu Island is located on the west side of Hirado Island, with a radius of about ten miles, and it is only a few miles away from Hirado. A few decades ago, when Hirado Island was a foreign trade port of the Japanese Kingdom, Izuki Island was once prosperous, with many buildings on it, and maritime merchants from the Ming Dynasty lived on it. However, in order to better manage it, the Wakoku shogunate ordered the foreign trade port to be moved from Hirado Island to the Nagasaki Peninsula, and the island was never left behind.

There was no arable land on the island, and the Japanese farmers did not want to live here, so there was no need to live so far away on the Nagasaki Peninsula for the Ming Dynasty to live in. So the current Shengyue Island is very barren. But today there is a lot of commotion, because dozens of big ships have come here.

Coming here from Nagasaki, Chen Yue was not dissatisfied, but felt more relaxed, living under the noses of the Japanese people in Nagasaki made him feel very uncomfortable, but here it is different.

After arriving at Shengyue Island, more than 20 large sea ships stopped in the bay, leaving enough people to guard the ships, and Chen Yue led people to board Shengyue Island in a small boat.

There is an eighty-meter-high cliff on the east side of Shengyue Island, when Fu Chun and others led people to repair the residence on the island, Chen Yue took Gu Junen and Chen Yan and others to climb to the top of this cliff, and when they looked up, there was a winding coastline in the distance, and the sea boats were floating on the sea like toys, and the entire Nagasaki Bay was in full view.

Looking at the blue sea and blue sky from afar, the waves are turbulent and undulating up close, and the magnificence of the sea is in full view, which makes people feel proud in their chests.

"I can't imagine that the Wa Kingdom also has such a beautiful scenery, it is not much worse than Putuo Mountain!" Even Gu Junen couldn't help but praise.

"The world is so big, there are so many wonders and beautiful places, only when you come out can you see the vastness of the world, only in the Ming Dynasty will never know the overseas world." Chen Yue said with a smile.

"That's what Guogong said." Gu Junen smiled.

Now he no longer has the slightest resentment about being forcibly taken out to sea, and as he sees more and has a wider horizon, he realizes how ridiculous his previous views were. After seeing the huge profits of the sea trade, he was puzzled by the fact that the Ming only collected land from farmers in his eyes.

The profits of sea trade are so large, if all of them are in the hands of the imperial court, where can they fall into the dilemma of the treasury being impoverished. Sitting on Baoshan without knowing it, how ignorant should the people in the court be? However, he has been with Li Zicheng and is not much better, and his knowledge is even more shallow. It's where I used to know about maritime trade, and where I used to put overseas in my eyes!

Only a person like Qi Guogong can have such a broad vision and a far-reaching vision! Gu Junen looked at Chen Yue's silhouette, and didn't feel a trace of admiration in his heart. This person is afraid of comparison, look at Chen Yue, and then think about Li Zicheng and the group of people in Shunying, Gu Junen can't help but feel a little ashamed in his heart for choosing to assist Shunjun. What can the Shun army do if they win the world? With the insight of Li Zicheng and a group of people, how much better is it than the Ming court? This world should be controlled by someone like Qi Guogong!

"What does Mr. Gu think we should do next?" Chen Yue didn't know that Gu Junen was fluctuating in his heart at this time, and asked. It's only the end of July, and it's at least three or four months before the monsoon turns, so you can't do nothing for so long.

"Guogong, I think that there are three things we have to do now.

First, we should take advantage of this rare leisure time to train the navy, after all, our Zhoushan Water Army has just been established, and now it is all supported by those old sailors, but they are not our own people. Our people must learn to sail as soon as possible and master their skills in fighting at sea.

Second, we should use Li Guozhu's relationship to buy some special products of the Japanese Kingdom and bring them back to Daming for sale. Most of our goods have already been sold, so we can't go back empty. Buy some Japanese goods and ship them back to Daming, and you can earn another sum of silver.

The third is the idea of expanding our strength. After spending some time on the Nagasaki Peninsula, I saw many Japanese samurai wandering in the harbor, and I heard that they were wandering samurai who had lost their lords, and tried to find employers in the port. Our Zhoushan is now short of people, whether we can recruit some such warriors, at least it is better than recruiting new soldiers. ”

After thinking about it carefully, Gu Junen put forward three suggestions to Chen Yue.

Chen Yue nodded approvingly: "What Mr. Gu said is very true. Of course, our ship can't be empty, so I will contact Li Guozhu and ask him to help purchase the special products of the Japanese country. However, we have a lot of resources, and there doesn't seem to be anything particularly famous in the country except for a lot of silver, well, let Fu Chun go to Li Guozhu and discuss what to buy and go back.

The matter of the training of the navy army cannot be relaxed, and I will let Wu Ping supervise the brothers. The combat effectiveness of the samurai of the Wa Kingdom is indeed not bad, and some should be recruited for my use. However, our Zhoushan is the army of the Ming Dynasty, or should be dominated by the Ming army, but there will be many things that are not suitable for our army to do. ”

Seeing that the three suggestions he put forward were all adopted, Gu Junen's spirits perked up, "Guogong, I don't know if I know what to say below?" ”

"If you have something to say, just the two of us here, you should know everything." Chen Yue said with a smile.

"Ransom said bluntly, although we have a lot of talents in Zhoushan, we lack people who really understand naval warfare. Although General Wu Ping was also good, it was also the first time he went to sea. Gu Junen said.

Chen Yue pondered for a moment and nodded heavily: "What Mr. said is very true, so I established the Sailor Academy, hoping to cultivate a group of talents." "The shortage of naval talents is very helpless, after all, the Pingnan Army used to be an army based on land warfare, and most of its subordinates were inlandmen, so where did they know how to fight naval warfare?

"Our own generals don't know much about naval warfare, so how can we train qualified talents?" Gu Junen shook his head and said, "But now there is an opportunity, we captured a large number of Dutch in the recent naval battle, and these Dutchmen can come to the coast of our Daming Dynasty thousands of miles away, so they are naturally familiar with navigation and naval warfare skills." We should find a way to make them work for me, and at the very least, to teach us their experience. ”

Accept these Dutch captives? Chen Yue had a smile on his face, this really thought of himself. Now that there is a shortage of talents under his command, Chen Yue is unwilling to give up all opportunities to improve his strength, what about the captives, as long as they can be used by me, Chen Yue will not mind pulling them to Zhoushan!