The cool breeze at the foot of the Jade Emperor Mountain, the surging river on the bank of the Qiantang River, the place where the grass house is pure and incomparably clean, the scenery is excellent, it is the excellent place to cultivate the mind.

But Chen Yue didn't have a moment to be idle.

During the day, he has to direct two young carpenters to make ship models, and he also has time to deal with other things. All the start-ups on Zhoushan Island, there are too many things that Qian Fenglin and Shan Minglei can't determine alone, they must consult Chen Yue, and there are sailboats back and forth between Zhoushan and Hangzhou every day.

At night, the candles in the grass house were lit until late at night, which was Chen Yue's thinking about future plans.

Most of the 3,000 guards had already gone to Zhoushan Island, and nearly 1,000 craftsmen and people from the shogunate who had followed from Yangzhou also followed. The top priority for Zhoushan Island now is to resettle these people.

Qian Fenglin is leading everyone to build a residence and build a large number of buildings in Zhoushan City. The forbidden sea in the Ming Dynasty has always run throughout, so there are not many people stationed on Zhoushan Island. According to statistics, the total population of the island is less than 20,000, and the standard land is vast and sparsely populated. There are two thousand houses on the island, but with the rebellion of the year, the original guard house has long ceased to exist. Now there are more than 1,000 troops stationed on the island, led by Zhoushan General Huang Binqing.

Zhoushan was given to Chen Yue as a fief, Chen Yue naturally did not want to have other troops on the island, after some luck, Huang Binqing was transferred to Luzhou as a deputy general, leaving only more than 1,000 guards and military households that were no different from the people.

Chen Yue appointed Yang Zhengping as the commander, temporarily in charge of all the armies in Zhoushan, and Wu Ping as the deputy commander, in charge of the Zhoushan army. Most of the 3,000 guards were infantry and cavalry, and there were only 1,000 soldiers in the water battalion, with two two-masted galleons and more than 20 sloops, most of which were seagoing ships when they went south from Tianjin. These ships are okay to travel offshore, and their displacement is too small to go out into the open ocean.

However, Zhang Chenglei and Liu Neng were looking for a shipyard, and Chen Yue also asked Shan Minglei and Lin Fucheng to buy ready-made large sea vessels. The main battlefield of the future is the sea, and it is necessary to build and buy warships in large quantities, and the original army must also adapt to the life and battle on the sea.

After discussing with Wang Yin, Chen Yue's arrangement of Zhoushan is as follows:

Yang Zhengping and Wu Ping were the chief and deputy commanders, and they were in charge of the infantry and sailors. Among them, Yang Zhengping concurrently served as the director of the War Patrol Department, in charge of conscription and training. With a total of 3,000 troops, Chen Yue no longer divided the water battalion into foot battalions, and all the soldiers had to adapt to life on the ship in the future.

The 3,000 army was temporarily organized into three battalions, with Wu Ping, Li Yi, and Jin Xin as the battalion leaders, and Chen Mo, Xiao Bing, and Ma Chuang as the deputies. With more and more boats, the army will soon be expanded, a large number of fishermen along the coast will be conscripted, and the size of the army will soon change.

Qian Fenglin is the chief of the Zuo Changshi of the Guogong Mansion, and the chief of the staff department, mainly responsible for the civil affairs of the island.

Shan Minglei is the right chief of the Guogong Mansion, and the director of the Department of Pacification, responsible for military discipline rewards and punishments, and also manages civil litigation and foreign affairs.

Pan Xuezhong is the director of the Ordnance Department, in charge of weapon production, and has nearly 1,000 craftsmen under him, with great responsibility.

Li Xiong was transferred to the head of the Logistics Department, in charge of grain and material supply.

Ren Yu is still the chief envoy of the degree, in charge of the island's finances,

The newly established shipbuilding department, headed by Zhang Chengkai, is now cooperating with private shipyards to build ships, and Zhoushan will definitely establish its own shipyard in the future.

Liu Neng served as the director of the Enemy Intelligence Department, taking charge of the enemy's investigation and monitoring the island's movements internally.

Lin Fu became the shopkeeper of the newly established Qiyun firm, in charge of the purchase of materials on the island, and was dispatched to Hangzhou.

With the foundation of the original shogunate, everyone took their own responsibilities, and all kinds of things were in order, and the island quickly stabilized.

The model sailboat has been sent to Yangjiapu, and the matter of shipbuilding has been decided.

After negotiations, Yangjiapu was entrusted with shipbuilding at a salary of 4,000 taels of silver per ship. In this way, the cost of various materials such as wood and iron is calculated, and it takes eight or nine thousand taels of silver to build such a battleship, not counting the guns on board.

Naval combat artillery came first, and if you want to compete with the Dutch and Spaniards, you must have artillery that is not weaker than them. According to the design, this sail warship can carry 64 cannons, and if all the cannons are purchased, according to the selling price of the Portuguese in Macao, one cannon will cost 3,000 to 5,000 taels of silver, and the artillery alone will cost hundreds of thousands of taels.

Chen Yue naturally wouldn't buy it from Macau and Portugal, because the Ordnance Department itself would make cannons, and after a period of training, the cannons made by Pan Xuezhong were not much worse than the Portuguese. Of course, copper and iron are needed to make artillery, and coal is needed to smelt copper and iron, and these have to be purchased from other places, but even then the cost of making your own cannons is much cheaper than buying them from the Portuguese.

But even so, it would cost nearly 100,000 taels of silver to arm a four-masted Galen ship, and it would be astronomical if it was equipped with dozens or hundreds of ships! Of course, the Dutch forces on Dongfan Island could not use so many sailing ships, only seven or eight ships were enough to deal with them.

But even seven or eight such ships cost a lot of money. Because there is not much money in Zhoushan now, according to Ren Yu's report, there are only 412,000 taels of silver left.

Some time ago, the preparation for the war, the rapid expansion and recruitment of the army, the casting of artillery and firearms, the soldiers' salaries and supplies, and the cost of money were like flowing water, and these more than 400,000 taels were captured in the Battle of Wuhu.

Li Guoying yin Azig, except for most of the silver carried by the Eight Banners soldiers who sank in the river with the ship, the remaining small part was obtained by Li Guoying.

Chen Yue killed Li Guoying and annexed his troops, and the silver captured by Li Guoying also reached Chen Yue's hands.

Since he chose to hand over the army to the imperial court, Chen Yue did not hand over the silver, but chose to swallow it. After all, after the loss of the Four Seas Commercial Bank Salt Bank, Zhoushan no longer has any financial resources.

400,000 taels of silver, but not much, there are many wealthy families in Jiangnan whose family property is above one million taels of silver, and there are not a few who have a family property of 100,000 yuan.

It is necessary to pay food and pay for the army, to build ships and artillery, and to expand the army in large quantities, and there are too many places to spend money in the future, and such a little money will not be enough to spend at all.

So we have to find new sources of income. What the hell to do, Chen Yue thought hard, don't think about salt, Chongzhen will definitely not let himself get involved again.

What is the most profitable? Of course, it was a robbery, if you can rob the rich gentry in Hangzhou once, it is enough to get millions or even tens of millions of silver. But I can only think about it.

There is also a way to make quick money, that is, sea trade, a trip to the Japanese country, enough to earn several times or even more than ten times the profit. The reason why Zheng Zhilong was able to dominate Fujian was to earn a lot of silver by monopolizing the routes of the Japanese Kingdom, since he could, why couldn't he.

Thinking about it carefully, Chen Yue's eyes shot a determined light.