Sun Chengzong left for Fujian the next day, and the governor of Fujian, Nan Juyi, brought a large number of officials to greet him in front of the governor's yamen, and after the routine greetings, Nan Juyi invited Sun Chengzong into the yamen.

After the guest sat down, Nan Juyi spoke: "Last year, I sent Chen Shiying, the general manager, to live in Batavia, and told the Dutch to stop invading the coast, and they should be back soon. “

Sun Chengzong asked, "If we attack Penghu now, do we have a chance of winning?" “

Yu Zhigao, the chief soldier of Fujian at the head of the bottom, got up and replied: "Ge Lao, the day before yesterday was all a red hair, and we waited for work, so we won the victory, if we take the initiative to attack Penghu, I am afraid that it will be difficult to win." “

Sun Chengzong lowered his face and said: "Chief Yu, the official received the news that there are only 1,000 thieves, so they can't win?" “

Yu Zhigao's sweat came out on a cold day: "Back to the elder, my Fujian Navy has not built a new ship for thirteen years, and the original ship has not been repaired, and the soldiers of the Navy have little training, so ......"

Sun Chengzong interrupted him and said, "Why haven't you built a new ship?" “

Yu Zhigao looked at Nan Juyi for help, Nan Juyi sighed and said: "My Fujian is mountainous, and the income is already small, and the silver drawn by the imperial court can't supply the two water army salaries, so I really can't blame General Yu." “

Sun Chengzong nodded: "I see, the emperor said that the Ming Royal Bank opened a branch in Fujian, and gave a total of 300,000 yuan to the Fujian navy. Then repair the ship's weapons, and when Chen Qian returns, we will decide to stop. “

Sun Chengzong personally went to inspect the water camp the next day, and indeed as Yu Zhigao said, the ships of the navy were all old ships, whether it was the equipment or the deck on the ship, they were all in tatters, and there were no guns on board.

Sun Chengzong asked: "Don't all the Dutch ships have artillery?" How can you fight them without artillery. ”

Yu Zhigao's tears were about to fall: "We set fire to the boat, and then buried the underwater Dragon King Cannon in the path that the enemy ship must pass, so that we sank one of the enemy's ships." ”

Sun Chengzong comforted: "The emperor has ordered someone to load the artillery on the big ship, and after the Tianjin Wei experiment is completed, it will be transported to Fujian, and the emperor said that it should be larger than the Dutch's artillery, and it will have an advantage in firing." ”

Yu Zhigao was overjoyed, the last time he fought with the Dutch, if it wasn't for his familiarity with the terrain, and then his men used arson boats to lure the enemy ships to divert to the place where the dragon king cannon was buried underwater, I was afraid that all the ships would have been sunk by the Dutch's artillery. If you have artillery, you won't be afraid.

Sun Chengzong was very satisfied with the soldiers, the soldiers were in a very good mental state, although the clothes were tattered, but the blades were well protected, and there was no rust, as for the firearms, there were fewer of them, and they were all old-style arquebuses.

After the inspection, Sun Chengzong said to Yu Zhigao: "It should take some time for the artillery to arrive, but Ben Qincha has brought a thousand new firecrackers and steel knives, and General Yu will first select brave soldiers to train the new firecrackers first, and then it should be able to enhance the combat power." ”

Yu Zhigao said: "General Chen Qian's subordinates are the elite of the navy, and they can be given new weapons to use first. ”

A few days later, Chen Shiying returned. He reported the whole process to Lord Qincha and others: "Last year, my subordinates were sent to Batavia by the governor of the province on the ship of the foreign merchant Huang Hexing, and we came to the triangle and met four Yi boats, and they said that their king had gone to the country of Anan, so the subordinates went to preach but did not get a reply. The Dutch wanted to send five Yi ships to Penghu in order to get through the city, but Huang Hexing stopped them. Then we came to Da Ni with them, and we went to meet the Da Ni King, who said that he would live in Penghu before sending ships from all over the country, and if he did not allow the city, he would fight. ”

(Anam is the country of the Netherlands, and the big mud is now Pattani, Thailand, and the so-called big mud king refers to the Dutch officials stationed there.) ）

Sun Chengzong said: "There is a decree from the Holy Authority that the Dutch can agree to the trade requirements of the Dutch, so Chen Qian always sent people to Penghu and asked them to let people who can speak come here first, and we will discuss trade matters." ”

Nan Juyi and Yu Zhigao were very strange, and Nan Juyi asked, "Do you really want to trade with them?" I thought I was going to fight them. ”

Sun Chengzong said with a smile: "We must first talk about it, and if we can't talk about it, we still have to fight, so be prepared with both hands, the emperor said, if you don't fight, I'm afraid they won't agree to our conditions." ”

So Chen Shiying sent people to Penghu to preach, and at this time, the four treasure ships sent by Tianjin Wei finally came to Xiamen. The treasure ship is a large fortune ship, it is a kind of pointed bottom boat, the bottom is pointed up, the head is raised and the tail is upturned, the tree is 2 masts, the cabin is 3 floors, the ship is set up as high as a city, and there is a guard plate next to it.

There are two 24-pound guns in the bow, 10 15-pound guns on each side of the ship, and each ship has a total of 100 fire gun firing positions, 40 bow and arrow positions, and several cold weapon positions. Each ship can carry a crew of 500 people, and the draft can reach 13 feet (more than 4 meters).

These four treasure ships were built by order of Zhu Youxiao after he ascended the throne, and a total of eight ships were repaired, and now half of them have come to Fujian, which shows that Zhu Youxiao attaches great importance to Penghu and Taiwan.

The treasure ship was sent by Zheng Zha, the deputy commander of the Guards Navy, who brought 400 sailors and was responsible for controlling the fortune boat. After arriving in Xiamen, the ship will be handed over to the Fujian navy, and they will return in two sand boats.

And Yu Zhigao didn't want them to go back, because the Fujian Navy had not used the Fu Boat for more than a hundred years, so he went to Sun Chengzong and asked Zheng Zhan and others to stay to operate the Fu Boat.

Sun Chengzong said: "They haven't used the fortune boat before, didn't they also drive the ship to Xiamen?" ”

Yu Zhigao said: "They just sailed, and they didn't fight, and we have to fight with the Dutch, our Fujian Navy can't even sail a boat, they at least have experience in this way." ”

Sun Chengzong pondered for a while and said, "That's good, but you have to let people learn to operate the boat." They now belong to the Guards, and I am not qualified to transfer them because I am the secretary of the military department. Let them assist you in training first, and I will explain it to the emperor. ”

Zheng Zha, when he heard that he could stay in Fujian, was actually very happy, because now Liaonan is basically confronting Jiannu, there is no major war, and the Guards are only transporting soldiers and weapons in Liaonan, he is a little bored, and now he can participate in the battle, he just can't ask for it.

So Chen Shiying led his subordinates to follow Zheng Zhan for the operation training of the treasure ship, and for Zheng Zha, it happened that the Guards Navy would also join the treasure ship in the future, and it would be much easier to get started when the time came to practice well.

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