Zhang San also had to face the problem of a shortage of sailors for the new warships, and a new batch of warships on Sea Shark Island would be completed in a month and a half, and six warships would be built in two and a half months at the Tamsui shipyard.

Now each warship is almost equipped with 200 sailors and 300 marines, that is, Zhang Sanguang will use up more than 10,000 people on each warship, as well as the island's defense, excited troops, so there are still 8,000 marines on the island on standby.

It's just that the new nearly 20 ships really need to be operated by 10,000 people, 6,000 marines, and 4,000 sailors, which are not available in the short term, and after robbing the Zhang family, there are more than three or four large cargo ships on Ryukyu Island, and these ships must have more than 200 sailors.

In order to equip enough sailors to transport personnel, Zhang San did not worry less, drawing from the warfleet, selecting from the islanders, recruiting from coastal fishermen, drawing from fishing boats and whaling boats, and finally using a part of the prisoners before finally barely being able to complete it.

Now it is almost life-threatening for Zhang San to be looking for 10,000 people, Zhang San has only occupied Sea Shark Island for more than ten months now, and Shanghai Shark Island was only a few generals and more than a hundred crew members.

Now the entire Ryukyu Island, plus a few sub-base sailors and marines, has approached 30,000, and it has swelled from 100 to 30,000 in ten months, and there are already many problems with this.

Therefore, Zhang San planned to change his strategy after this batch of warships was completed, and no longer produced this kind of 2,000 stone warships on a large scale, but began to produce a small number of 5,000 stone and 10,000 stone large ships. Then large-scale fishing boats, passenger ships, and cargo ships were built.

Then the Ryukyus belong to the various teams to carry out rotation training, this rotation training will last for at least half a year, strengthen the sense of discipline of each unit, train their combat skills, if this blind expansion is carried out in this way, these pirates may really become pirates.

And Ryukyu Island maintains a navy of 50 to 60 warships is enough for use at this stage, so as long as the imperial court does not send more than 100,000 sailors to encircle and suppress such a fleet, then Zhang San does not need to be afraid.

At this stage, the Marine Corps is maintained at 20,000 people, and it is enough to carry out intensive training and train elite soldiers, so Zhang San's main strategy next year is to train troops to strengthen control and rob more people by the way.

For example, the original plan to loot the coastal smuggling salt workshops is now on the agenda, and the choice of these forces to do it is also to avoid the attention of the imperial court, just like this time the Zhangjia Shipyard has made a lot of noise, but there is really only one bitter master.

The sailors of the Hangzhou government only made a few rounds around the bay in a fake way, and the Hangzhou government made an excerpt saying that coastal pirates were rampant, attacking a shipyard, and that the sailors' ships were in disrepair, and asked for funds to build new ships.

At this time, the main energy of the imperial court was focused on the war against the Western Xia, and it would not care about such a request for money at all, and the Hangzhou government lightly brushed aside this pirate attack, as for the impact, the Hangzhou government only felt that it was the revenge of the pirates against the Zhang family, and no one cared about the robbery of some shipwrights.

And these smuggled salt dealers along the coast, as few as a few hundred, as many as two or three thousand, more than a dozen smuggled salt farms can bring at least twenty or thirty thousand people to Zhang San, of course, if you want to loot on a large scale, you need to be prepared to challenge the Great Song Dynasty sailors.

The total population of a county in the Great Song Dynasty is only one hundred or two hundred thousand, if Zhang San wants to get one million people, then at least five counties must be evacuated, the total population of the Great Song Dynasty is only 100 million, and one million is one percent of the total population of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is basically impossible to get it quietly.

Therefore, Zhang San must be prepared for a big war, of course, the last way is to instigate some rebellions, and then Zhang San will sit in the back to reap the benefits of the fisherman, but this famous rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River Zhang San only remembers that Fang La has rebelled.

However, the slogan of Fang La's rebellion is the interface of Zhu Mian's Huashi Gang to harm the people, but now Zhu Mian has just taken Tong Guan's line, and it is still early for Fang La's uprising. There are many bandits in Fujian, but there are no conditions for the society to live and work in peace and contentment.

Therefore, after engaging in smuggler salt dealers, Zhang San's looting plan next year is to control those villages in Tainan, and then build a new city with a population of about 100,000 people in Tainan along the coast of Guangdong Road.

This, together with recruitment from other coastal areas, brought the population of the Ryukyus to 400,000 to 500,000, the size of the marines to 30,000 to 40,000, and the navy to have three to five generals with 10,000 koku, 10 to 20 warships with 5,000 koku, and 40 to 60 warships with 2,000 koku.

After reaching such a scale, Zhang San planned to log in and occupy several county seats, empty the population of several counties, and then wait for the Great Song Dynasty sailors to counterattack, and even thought of a reason, that is, to ask the Great Song Dynasty to recognize Ryukyu as a Great Song vassal state, and let Zhao Ji crown himself as the king of the Ryukyus.

According to the character of the Great Song Dynasty monarchs, it is estimated that it will be difficult for him to realize this wish, so that Zhang San will have a reason to go ashore and plunder the coastal area of the Great Song Dynasty, anyway, Zhang San is not in a hurry, as long as the Great Song Dynasty does not recognize this vassal state, Zhang San will keep robbing.

It is impossible for the Great Song Dynasty to give up the sea trade, this accounts for half of the tax revenue of the Great Song Dynasty, so the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers will definitely compromise in the end, and Zhang San can obtain the status of the king of the Ryukyus, and then he can also obtain a large number of people.

As long as Zhang San has a population of two or three million, after a few years of recuperation, he can participate in the competition for the world, which is also the five-year development strategy formulated by Zhang San for the Ryukyus.

In half a month, Zhang San worked hard to squeeze out people from everywhere, and then conducted a second examination of the pirate prisoners, and took leniency for those who were not seriously responsible, gave them the opportunity to make amends, and then recruited from the coastal fishermen, and finally prepared enough for the four thousand sailors.

On the side of the Marine Corps, the age limit was also relaxed, and then a batch of people were transferred from the Weiyuan Dart Bureau, and more than 4,000 people were prepared, and there was a shortage of more than 2,000 people who could only be made up slowly.

Now that the population began to limit Zhang San's development, Zhang San had to slow down the pace, and the Ryukyu Island began to enter a period of stability, and after capturing thousands of slaves, the hundreds of skilled copper mining and smelting workers deceived by the commander were finally in place, and Zhang San's Ryukyu Copper Mine finally opened.

Gongsun Sheng was also very considerate to engage in more than 10 prospecting talents, Zhang San organized more than 10 prospecting teams, to start a new prospecting trip, anyway, Zhang San remembered that the geography book and language books have said that this Ryukyu is a treasure island, and it is estimated that there are many types of ores.

Sure enough, when the copper mine smelted the first furnace of copper, the Taipei coal mine was finally found, and a small iron mine was also found south of the coal mine. With coal and iron, Zhang San finally got rid of the difficult situation of collecting steel.

The export of steel in the Great Song Dynasty was restricted, and even though Zhang San held a number of shipyards in his hands, as well as those large-scale iron businesses in the capital, it was still very troublesome to get iron from it and ship it to Ryukyu.