With Guo Linfeng and Sima Nan taking the lead, the rest of the sea ship owners and fire captains also chose to serve Qi Guogong. There is nothing to hesitate between life safety and submission. And for these people, the three-masted ship under their feet was waiting for their lives, and they never wanted to hand it over to someone else, and there was no need to be loyal to the original gentry and proprietors.

Since we all agreed, the next step is to do it. Under Chen Yue's orders, these three-masted sea vessels were reorganized.

Chen Yue naturally did not worry about completely handing over these boats to the original people to drive, and a large number of people from the water camp were placed on each boat, and more than 300 students from the Sailor Academy had just gone through more than ten days of intensive training, and they were all placed on the ship, and assigned to the fire chief, helmsman, sailman, class leader, and Aban as deputies. The ship is the best school, and when they follow a trip to the Japanese country, there is no problem with the basic knowledge of operating a sailing ship, and then they will learn military knowledge such as tactical combat skills.

On each ship, a small half of the people were the original old people, and more were the cadets, as well as the officers and soldiers of the original water battalion who fought as the flag army of the official academy.

Of course, this also led to a serious overstaffing of sailing ships, which used to have only thirty or forty people on each ship, which was enough to operate a large ship, but now there are nearly a hundred people on each ship. This is no longer a trade at sea, but more like training troops to fight.

"It's useful to ask so many rookies who don't know anything to have a fart." The owner Guo Linfeng muttered to himself. But he was helpless, because this was the order of the Duke of Qi. Moreover, during the voyage, he was also responsible for teaching the rookies who followed the ship, teaching them how to steer a large ship, and many skills of sailing and fighting at sea.

Of course, the sudden addition of so many people on board made the original cabin suddenly crowded, so a lot of cargo that occupied a lot of land and was not worth much had to be unloaded from the ship, so that these people could be accommodated. After all, the crew can't stay on deck all the time when sailing at sea, and they also need to have a place to rest.

It has been two days since there have been no ships going to sea from Ningbo, and Lu Tai has sent someone to report that there has been no gentry representative to contact him to go to sea in the past few days. Chen Yue knew that the maritime merchants who should go to sea had almost come out, because there were twenty-three sea-going ships moored in the harbor. Although most of the ships in Zhejiang depart from Ningbo, there are also people who choose to go to sea from places such as Taizhou or Hangzhou, where the Zhoushan army is beyond the reach of the whip.

It's the middle of July, and it's time to set sail for the Wa Kingdom. However, when Chen Yue said that he personally led the team to the Wa Kingdom, a large number of people objected.

"Guogong is the master of Zhoushan, the leader of our wait, just leave these things to others, why bother to go out in person?" Qian Fenglin admonished tactfully.

"Grandpa Guo, you leave things like going to sea to the villain, I Fu Chun has been running around at sea for more than 20 years, and I haven't seen any kind of battle, you can rest assured." Fu Chun patted his chest and reassured.

"Master, the sea is unstable, if something happens to you, how can the concubine live!" Wu Wan'er cried and persuaded Chen Yue to dispel this idea.

In Qian Fenglin's view, Chen Yue is everyone's leader, and the Zhoushan family is completely on Chen Yue, in case Chen Yue has a good character, the power of Zhoushan will disappear in an instant, and he and others will become rootless duckweed. As the commander-in-chief, he is not allowed to do everything himself, and he can dispatch in the middle.

Fu Chun believes that the sea is not as good as the land, and Chen Yue is an invincible general in land battles, but it is completely different on this sea, and he is more worried that Chen Yue will blindly command and affect the normal order of the fleet.

Wu Wan'er was simply worried, the sea was turbulent, and it would be nearly half a year since she went, how could she not worry?

Chen Yue is a strong-willed person, and he rarely listens to people when he decides. Although he is the lord of Zhoushan, there are not many things in Zhoushan at the moment, with a population of more than 20,000 and an army of only three or four thousand. The affairs of the island were handled by the experienced Qian Fenglin, and the foreign affairs were handled by Shan Minglei, with the assistance of Liu Neng, Zhang Chenglei, Lin Fucheng and others. As for the safety of the island, with Yang Zhengping, Jin Xin, Li Yi and others leading 3,000 elites, plus Lu Tai's Ding Navy, even tens of thousands of enemy troops can deal with it. And where is there such a huge hostile force around Zhoushan?

As long as the next plan is formulated, it makes no difference whether Chen Yue himself is not on the island, and if he does not observe filial piety in Hangzhou for twenty-seven days, everything on the island is in order?

Compared with the calm and quiet Zhoushan, the trade of these twenty-seven sea ships affected Chen Yue's mind even more, and he did not want to wait in Zhoushan to know nothing about the news of the fleet.

As for security, a huge fleet of 27 three-masted ships, with a total crew of more than 2,000 soldiers, is already a huge force in this East Asian sea, not to mention ordinary pirates, even if there are thousands of ships under Zheng Zhilong, how many ships are more than three masts?

Although Chen Yue had never fought in a naval battle, he was not ignorant of things at sea. In another time and space, he loved to make ancient sailing ships, and when consulting sailing materials, he inevitably had to read a lot of ancient naval battle materials, and also learned about ancient navigation, and he knew a little about navigation and naval warfare.

Therefore, if you talk about sailing experience, Chen Yue is very different from Fu Chun, but if you talk about the depth of navigation knowledge, even the sum of the three Fu Chun is not as good as Chen Yue. For example, when it comes to maritime positioning, Fu Chun will only use the star plate to judge the route according to the nautical chart, but Chen Yue will use the sextant observation to calculate the latitude and longitude with trigonometric functions, which is the result of his daily drilling library in the university. Of course, there is no sextant now, and you can only rely on the charts in Fu Chun's hand for navigation.

However, it is much easier to have the knowledge of later generations that is much higher than this era, and then it is much easier to learn this backward navigation technique, what Chen Yue has to do is to summarize the knowledge and experience of this era, and compile a navigation guide, which is used as a teaching material for the Sailor School. In the future, as the power grows, more and more talents must emerge under his command. Only those who have cultivated themselves can use it at ease, and they can command it handy.

Moreover, in the next few years, for Chen Yue, maritime development and combat are the mainstream, and he, the supreme commander, must be familiar with maritime operations as soon as possible.

As for the safety issue, Chen Yue didn't care even more, with the tonnage of a three-masted sailing ship, there was generally no danger of sinking in this part of East Asia unless it encountered a hurricane. The sea is not as dangerous as people in this era think.

However, before setting sail, things on Zhoushan must be arranged properly, so that Chen Yue can rest assured.