Zhoushan Island has completely changed compared with half a year ago.

The city walls of Zhoushan City are still as dilapidated as before, but countless buildings have appeared outside the city walls.

There are neatly planned rows of bamboo buildings; There are also newly built military camps, which are made of wooden piles and walled with arrow towers every few dozen steps. In the past few months, with the efforts of Qian Fenglin, Yang Zhengping, Shan Minglei and others, thousands of fishermen have been recruited into the army, and now the number of troops in Zhoushan has reached as many as 8,000, and these barracks are built for new soldiers.

In the mountainous area on the west side of Zhoushan Island, the sound of trumpets and shouts of killing is bursting, this is the recruits are undergoing intense drills, and in just a few months, the formation has been very complete, and now they are undergoing weapon combat skills training.

On the south side of Zhoushan Island, near the harbor, a new market surrounded by bamboo fences has been built, and the market is bustling with countless people. Most of them are fishermen from nearby islands, carrying their catch to the market with large crates of fish. By the way, now Zhoushan collects a wide range of marine fish from fishermen on all islands, and all fishermen do not refuse to come to the fishermen, of course, the purchase price is a few points lower than the market price in Hangzhou, and then part of the purchased fish will be shipped to Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing and other places to sell, and the remaining part will be used to make canned fish.

This kind of canned food, which was proposed by Chen Yue and conjured up by professionals (mainly chefs), was made by frying the fish and then adding salt and spices to a special clay pot sealed with cement, which could be stored for several months without deterioration and decay, so that the sea fish caught by the fishermen could be made into canned food and sent to various parts of the mainland for sale, and could also be used as military rations. In the past, fishermen's catches could not be sold at all, or could not be sold at a price on the mainland (because Jiangnan was originally a land of fish and rice, and people could catch fish everywhere), which also led to the extreme poverty of fishermen on the islands. Now the advent of canned food has changed this situation dramatically, although the price is still cheap, at least the hard-earned fish is marketable.

And this also made the fishermen grateful to the Zhoushan Qiguo Mansion. Then there is the market that appeared on Zhoushan Island, under the auspices of Lin Fucheng, a large number of daily necessities were purchased from Hangzhou and other places, sold in Zhoushan, and sold to fishermen at low prices.

The fishermen on the islands are very poor in material life, and they are completely self-sufficient, because they have no money, and second, no one wants to row a half-day boat to the mainland market to buy things. Now, they sell the fish to Zhoushan for copper money, and then buy their necessary living materials from the market.

Only these two items have greatly improved the lives of the fishermen on the islands, and the Duke of Qi has quickly won the hearts of the fishermen on the islands, creating conditions for the smooth recruitment of fishermen into the army.

During this period of time when Chen Yue led the team to trade with the Japanese Kingdom, everything in Zhoushan was thriving, which made Chen Yue, who returned to Zhoushan, very happy after being surprised.

The sudden appearance of a huge fleet of ships from the north and heading directly for Zhoushan Island made the defenders of Zhoushan quite nervous, and also panicked the fishermen in the harbor. However, when the flag hanging on the mast was clearly seen, the defenders' alert was quickly lifted, and the prince returned! The generals smiled in surprise.

Qian Fenglin, Shan Minglei and others hurriedly came to the harbor from Zhoushan City to welcome Chen Yue's return.

Under the guidance of the small boats of the Zhoushan Army, one after another sea boats sailed into the harbor, the tall hull of the building, the towering mast, dozens of big ships parked in the harbor, the fishing boats not far away compared with it seem to be like a child's toy, so that the fishermen were shocked and discolored at the same time and very excited, Zhoushan's strength will protect them ordinary fishermen.

Under the guidance of the small boat, Chen Yue's Dutch armed sailing ship slowly approached the newly built wharf, and disembarked along the board, Chen Yue saw Qian Fenglin and others who greeted him on the wharf.

"Guogong!" After coming forward to greet him, Qian Fenglin looked at these two Dutch armed sailing ships that were completely different from the original Fu ship, "These two ships are?" ”

"I fought with the Dutch in the Wa Kingdom and robbed them of two ships." Chen Yue said lightly, making Qian Fenglin stunned.

Accompanied by Qian Fenglin and others, Chen Yue got into the carriage and headed towards Zhoushan City from the dock.

In Zhoushan City, the original Zhoushan Counselor's Mansion was used as the Mansion of Qi after renovation, and Wu Wan'er, the "hostess" of the mansion, heard that Chen Yue had returned, and personally greeted him in front of the house, looking at Chen Yue who got off the carriage, and couldn't help crying with joy.

However, Chen Yue didn't bother to say much to her, just soothed her with his eyes, and let Qian Fenglin and the others follow into the mansion. There are too many things to deal with now, and I can't take care of my children's personal affairs for the time being.

In the living room, Chen Yue and Qian Fenglin Shan Minglei sat down separately, and after the maid brought the tea and retreated, Qian Fenglin told the story of what happened on the island during the time when Chen Yue left. Hearing that the situation on the island was somewhat good, and that the total number of recruits had reached more than 8,000 people, Chen Yue was very happy, and with enough troops, he could quickly start attacking the Dutch on Dongfan Island.

"There is one thing that subordinates want to ask the Guogong for guilt, Yang Wenqing of the Ningbo Yang family, who was caught when intercepting the Ningbo maritime merchants a few months ago, ran away, and the news of our hijacking of the Ningbo maritime merchants leaked out, and now the gentry in Zhejiang are saying that they want to settle accounts with us." Qian Fenglin said to Chen Yue with a look of shame.

Yang Wenqing somehow escaped back to Ningbo from the island where he was imprisoned, which made Zhoushan's hijacking of maritime merchants leak out, and the gentry were aggressive at the same time, but also caused the canned food produced in Zhoushan to be sold in Ningbo Mansion again, and the people sent were detained by the local government one after another, asking Zhoushan to give an explanation to the gentry.

"Our captors? What else do they do not do? Chen Yue asked coldly.

"According to Governor Wang, they instigated a lot of imperial history in the court to impeach the Duke of the Kingdom, but because of the failure of the Northern Expedition, the court was so anxious about the Northern Expedition that they didn't care about such a trivial matter, and the court only sent a holy decree to Zhoushan to reprimand the Duke of the Kingdom, asking you to return their sea ship cargo." Qian Fenglin smiled bitterly.

"The Northern Expedition failed, and the emperor and the ministers of the court are still counting on you to lead the troops, so naturally they will not punish you for this trivial matter at this time." Before Chen Yue could speak, Shan Minglei sneered on the side.

If the Manchu Qing Dynasty raises troops to the south again, the court is still counting on Chen Yue to lead troops to fight again, compared to this, the gentry lost their property is just a trivial matter.