Also in July, Nanjing, which is located in the mainland, is already as hot as a furnace, while the climate on Zhoushan Island is still cool. The endless sea water absorbs a lot of heat, making the climate in the coastal areas warm in winter and cool in summer.

Move a chair on the beach, look up at the sky and clouds, see the sails up close, the blue sea and blue sky, the mountains and islands are towering, the fish leaps and the eagle flies, the scenery is infinite, and then there is a beautiful concubine serving tea and water on the side, such a day is really timid.

Unfortunately, there are always too many mundane things to deal with, and carefree days in life are really hard to find. As the Duke of Qi and the owner of Zhoushan Island, Chen Yue has too many things recently.

The construction on the island is nothing, Qian Fenglin led people to build a large number of bamboo buildings a long time ago, and settled all the big guys, and now he is leading the people on the island to build the camp wall fort. For a long time in the future, Zhoushan Island will be everyone's nest, and it must be managed with heart.

The main island of Zhoushan is about 500 square kilometers, and it covers an area of really not small. Unfortunately, the island is densely mountainous, and it is only the coastal area of the island that is suitable for habitation. After a long period of forbidden sea policy, there are not many people on the island, and the population of Zhoushan Island is more than 20,000 people, more than half of whom are military families and their families.

The imperial court originally set up Changguo County on Zhoushan Island, but it was later abolished for some reason. During the Jiajing period, the Japanese invaders were entrenched in Zhoushan, and after defeating the Japanese invaders, two thousand households were set up on the island, and Zhoushan staff generals were set up to guard the town and implement military management, so there was no local government.

Huang Binqing, the former Zhoushan staff general, was transferred to Jiujiang as a deputy general, and there was no leader on the island.

The original army was not good at fighting, but everyone who could sail a boat was a good hand, and as long as they trained a little, they were all good sailors. When Chen Yue was guarding filial piety in Hangzhou, Yang Zhengping and Wu Ping had already reorganized these original defenders and conducted assault training for nearly a month. Relying on the means of carrots and sticks, these originally lazy military households were forcibly pinched into elite soldiers who were forbidden by order.

But even so, the entire Zhoushan Army was only 4,000 troops, and the number was still too small to withstand a big war. Not to mention the attack on Eastern Luzon.

Qian Fenglin then proposed to Chen Yue that all the affiliated islands of Zhoushan be controlled in his hands, all Zhoushan fishermen should be organized into households, and all suitable young and strong men should be incorporated into the army. According to Qian Fenglin's statistics these days, there are nearly 100,000 people in the entire Zhoushan Islands, in addition to the large number of people on the main island of Zhoushan, there are nearly 100 habitable islands in the entire Zhoushan Islands, such as Jintang Island, Xiaoxishan, Daishan, Xiushan, Lantau Islands, Shengsi Islands and other large islands with a large population, all of which have thousands of fishermen, and other small islands have hundreds of different islands.

Of course, many times, fishermen and pirates are not clear about the difference. In those years, maritime transportation was extremely underdeveloped, and there was little land suitable for cultivation on the islands, and the conditions were much worse than those in the interior, and most of the people who chose to live on the islands were not good people.

Especially in the distant Shengsi Islands, there are too many pirates, and it is said that the great pirate Gu Rong is entrenched there. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Gu Rong once attacked Chongming Island with tens of thousands of people, but disappeared after being defeated by the official army.

However, Zhoushan was too close to the wealthy Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the imperial court and local gentry categorically did not allow the pirates to repeatedly invade the interior, and there were many guards along the coast, such as Jinshanwei, Dinghaiwei, and Changguowei, so that the Zhoushan pirates were not as rampant as the pirates in Fujian and Guangdong.

According to Qian Fenglin's initial plan, he sent troops to occupy and clear the islands one by one, exterminate the pirates, and organize all the young and strong. With such a population in Zhoushan, if one household is one ding, at least more than 10,000 soldiers can be recruited. And these fishermen, who grew up at sea, are the best candidates for sailors.

But there are so many islands, and it takes too much time to go island by island. Moreover, most of the fishermen on these islands are unruly, and they are unwilling to be constrained by the government, and they are even more reluctant to abandon their families and careers to join the army.

Forcing is not working, it will be counterproductive. Then there is only one way to lure it. Qian Fenglin proposed to Chen Yue to purchase a large number of various daily necessities from the mainland, and then open a bazaar on Zhoushan Island to invite all the islanders to trade, and even lose some money to seek benefits for the islanders without making money.

The island is extremely scarce in terms of material, and the islanders are in a very primitive state of life, and all kinds of living materials are very scarce, so they must be very welcome to such a bazaar. Don't have money? The fish can be transported to Zhoushan to be sold, and the money can be exchanged for various living materials, and the Qi State Mansion can buy their catch in large quantities. Then, in the name of Qiyun Firm, these catches will be transported to various cities on the mainland to be sold, not only will they not lose money, but they may also make a lot of money. Because the price of fish in the Zhoushan Islands is so cheap, it is three times different from the price in Hangzhou and other mainland areas......

In this way, it will not be long before the people of the entire Zhoushan will be grateful to the Qiguo Mansion, and the Zhoushan side will become very familiar with the people of the islands. At that time, you can take the opportunity to organize the islands, and you can first set up township soldiers in the name of fighting pirates and defending the islands, recruit all the young and strong into the army, and the Qi State Government will send capable soldiers to serve as instructors to train them. Everyone who is willing to join the township soldiers can pay half a tael of silver a month and train for eight to ten days a month. In this way, there will be no delay in fishing work, there is still money to be obtained, and there is no place for the island, and the fishermen on the island will of course be willing.

When they get acquainted with it, they can lure these people to join the Zhoushan Army under higher conditions. It may not take more than a year to completely control the entire Zhoushan Islands.

"Eliminate those true pirates who are stubborn and unwilling to join them! Let them know who is the master of Zhoushan! Qian Fenglin said murderously.

To lure them, control people's hearts, and then easily gather the islanders, these methods are much more advanced than fighting and killing, so that Chen Yue can't help but admire.

"Brother Fenglin is worthy of being a Jinshi, and he is really talented!" Chen Yue praised.

"Where, where, this idea is not what I came up with, but someone else." Qian Fenglin blushed and waved his hand again and again.

"Oh, I don't know who came up with it?" Chen Yue asked in surprise.

"Gu Junen is the Shunjun government squire that Liu Neng brought back from Wuhu." Qian Fenglin said solemnly.

It turned out to be him, Chen Yue was stunned at first, and then suddenly he was stunned. Gu Junen is too famous in the Shun army and is the think tank of the Shun army. In order to prevent the recurrence of the Shun army, and in order to prevent Hao Shaoqi from repeating, when leaving Wuhu, Chen Yue ordered Liu Neng to take Gu Junen away with the army and prevent him from returning to the Shun army. But over the past few years, Chen Yue has experienced too many things, and he can't pay attention to him at all, and even forget about him.