In the vast expanse of the sea, a flotilla of three steamers flying the "cloud" flag headed east.

This fleet is the fleet that the Yun Clan Ship Administration has just formed, called the First Land Fleet, and Yun Yong is temporarily the fleet commander.

The No. 1 Land Fleet has two Linzi-class steamers and a Qianzi-class steamer, the Qianjia, which was launched in January this year.

The Qianzi-class steamer (dark steamer, the power system is changed from the two paddle wheels outside the first two stages of the steamer to a propeller hidden underwater), 22 zhang long, 3 and a half zhang wide, 1 zhang 6 feet in draft, the power is 2 reciprocating steam main engines, the load is about 3,200 materials (converted into a displacement of 1600 tons), the maximum speed is about 90 miles per hour, the endurance can sail 7,500 miles at a speed of 50 miles per hour, the coal tank normally carries 2,500 stones (250 tons), the maximum coal load is 3,000 stones, and the crew is 100 people.

Similarly, the Qianzi-class steamship is also made of wood, and some important areas are inlaid with steel plates, but with the sharp increase in Yun's steel production, the construction plan of the ironclad ship (the outer layer is steel, and the inner layer is still wooden) is also on the agenda, and it is expected that the construction will start in the second half of this year.

It took more than three years (more than six years to be exact, when Yun Yi ordered the shipbuilding to be built), and from the very beginning of the two-stage paddle steamers of the Tanzi and Linzi-class classes, the Yun family finally built more advanced propeller-powered dark steamers.

From paddle steamers to dark steamers, from one to the current eighteen ships in a total of three fleets, there are more ships under construction in the docks of the shipyards in Wanghai City and Binhai Town, and new ships are launched almost every month.

In the future, Yunshi will have more shipyards and will build more and bigger ships.

On the whole, Yun's industrial development has become deformed, the steel industry, shipbuilding industry, and military industry are the fastest developing, the railway industry is catching up rapidly, and the progress of other industries is slightly slower, after all, in the face of the chaotic Dali Empire, everything must be based on war, and everything else must be left behind, but it cannot all be abandoned, the war will end one day, and people at that time should focus on life.

Back to the Yun Clan's Ship Administration's Land Fleet.

The newly formed 1st Land Fleet was personally commanded by Yun Yong, the chief steward of the Yun Clan's Shipping Administration, and Yun Yuanzhong, who was based in Yingzhou, also became a member of the 1st Land Fleet.

One day passed, two days passed, until five days passed, the first land fleet was still sailing eastward, could it be that the first land fleet was going to the Tang Empire on the east side of the Dali Empire?

No, on the sixth day of the eastward voyage, the 1st Land Flotilla finally stopped continuing its voyage to the east, and the flotilla turned to the north and prepared to dock.

The place where the first land fleet docked was still the territory of the Dali Empire, but it was the southeasternmost state of the Dali Empire - Hengzhou.

What is the first land fleet doing in Hengzhou? Want to trade with the merchants of Hengzhou?

It is impossible to trade anything, now Hengzhou is a war, in the years ago, Hengzhou's when Tu Huang's family can also integrate Hengzhou's family and government forces, and Hengzhou's Guangming Army confronts, but after the year Hezhou Guangming Army mobilized 50,000 troops into Hengzhou, all of a sudden the strength of Hengzhou's Guangming Army overwhelmed the power of the Tu Huang clan, on the battlefield, when Tu Huang's army continued to retreat, and even Hengzhou City was abandoned by Huang.

The Guangming Army and the Huang clan were one north and one south, and the Huang defense line in the south of Hengzhou continued to collapse under the strong attack of the Guangming Army, and Hengzhou was still in less than one-third of the area controlled by the Huang clan.

The Huang clan has no way out, the north and west are the Guangming Army, the south is the sea, and the east is the Jiuling Mountain Range that separates the Dali Empire and the Tang Empire, and there are countless dangers inside, miasma, swamps, poisonous insects and beasts, maybe the innate grandmaster can enter the Tang Empire through the Jiuling Mountain Range, it is absolutely impossible to do it under the congenital, until the last step, the Huang family will definitely not choose to enter the Jiuling Mountain Range, and now the Huang family can only do his best to resist the Guangming Army, even if it can hold a place, it is good.

However, the defeat of the Huang clan on the battlefield has been spread by the people of the Guangming Sect throughout the control area of the Huang clan, and in the Huang clan's area, everyone is in danger, before under the propaganda of the Huang clan, the Guangming Army is a demon that eats people's flesh and drinks human blood, and no one wants the Guangming Army to fight over, but all this is no longer something they can decide, even if they want to run, there is no way to escape.

These civilians, who had no way to escape, were the targets of the First Land Fleet.

In the war years, everyone knew the importance of food, but when the food problem was solved, population became the most important resource, the more people there were, the more soldiers could be recruited, and there was a huge difference in strength between an army of 10,000 and an army of 20,000.

Yun's three districts, Yunhua County, Yingzhou, Zezhou, Yingzhou has the smallest population, only more than 60,000 people, if Yunyi needs, can pull out an army of 10,000 people from these 60,000 people, these recruitable soldiers are mainly from the workers of various factories; Yunhua County has a population of more than 310,000 people, and can recruit an army of 20,000 people, and the workers of various factories occupy the main source of soldiers;

Zezhou has the largest population, before the natural disaster, the total population of Zezhou (counting Yunhua County) was close to 2.5 million, and after the Yun clan took control of Zezhou, the total population of Zezhou (not counting Yunhua County) was only 1.54 million, because of natural disasters and wars, the total population of Zezhou decreased by 600,000, and the biggest loss was the young and strong labor force, the two major camps of the war were recruiting soldiers, and the young and strong labor force died on the battlefield, if it were not for the last battle of the Yun family army to capture 30,000 Guangming Army, then the young and strong labor force in Zezhou would be even less.

The lack of two out of ten young and strong laborers also made Yun Yi give up the expansion of the Yun Family Army, and the size of the Yun Family Army was only maintained at two infantry divisions and one cavalry division being formed for the time being.

The food obtained from the Guangming Army has completely solved the food crisis in Zezhou, and there is no need to worry about the food problem for at least a year or two, and then the sweet potatoes can be planted on a large scale, and food is no longer a problem, but the lack of population resources has become the biggest problem of Yunyi, restricting the development of the Yun family.

In order to solve the problem of too little population resources, Yun Yi took out the methods that the Guangming Sect had prepared to increase the population of Yingzhou before the uprising, and then had the matter of the first land fleet heading east to Hengzhou.

This method of increasing the population of Zezhou is essentially a semi-compulsory population relocation plan, which will relocate the common people from other states and counties not under the jurisdiction of the Yun clan to Yingzhou by steamship, so as to increase the population base of the Yun clan.

Considering that the common people are reluctant to leave their hometowns, the Yun clan needs to use both hands and mouths, so this population relocation plan is semi-mandatory. To find this site, please search for "6 Mao" or enter the URL:.