In mid-October, Huang Sheng secured the food supply, and then felt that the trip was worthwhile, and ordered him to anchor and go home. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The INFO combined fleet returned home with a full sail, and this trip was simply a full load, with more than 200 large and small sea vessels.

The naval battles off Port Fifu did not capture so many ships, and many of them were merchant ships captured by the shielded battlefield. Huang Sheng, no matter who it is, is now his own and takes it all home.

The returning fleet naturally went all the way and harmed all the way, because there were pirates under Li Guozhu in the team, and the stories of robbing merchant ships and fighting warships were staged every day, because the pirates were enthusiastic about robbery, the Huang family really couldn't dampen their enthusiasm.

Soon the perfect robbery combination was born, and there were many professional pirates with all kinds of cold weapons on the Huang family's main warship and grass skimming ship.

They approached under the cover of the Huang family's artillery fire, and under the precise blows of the young musketeers, they fought in a jumping gang to engage in broadside battles, with poor results, small casualties and big gains.

Along the way, the Japanese ships were four or five, and the Western Galen ships were again seven or eight, and there were many small merchant ships.

Sometimes it is not clear which country's armed merchant ships are killed, and if you don't care about it, the Huang family's armed forces will not allow other armed forces to survive when they appear, and if you are not convinced, you can come to war, and the Huang family guarantees to come and grab as many as you want.

Li Guozhu's pirates followed the Huang family's voyage, they were simply unscrupulous, and they didn't care if they would have the sequelae of looting when they saw anything.

Because they think that a team like Lord Huang is not afraid of any fleet to retaliate, there is no big country in the South Seas at all, and we are not afraid of the whole country coming, and the family is naturally domineering.

Huang Sheng needs to operate in a subtropical place, and he has a friend Xiong Zhaoqi who happens to be the county master in Lingao, Qiongzhou, so how can he not take advantage of this God-given opportunity.

Huang Sheng decided to take a detour through the Qiongzhou Strait to see Xiongzhi County. arranged for Huang Mingdao to command the fleet to continue sailing to Penghu, and he took Huang Dongshan to select 20 ships with the fastest speed to go to Lingao.

Lingao is a good place, rich in fresh water resources, superior geographical and climatic conditions for the development of agriculture, fertile land, good irrigation conditions, warm as spring all year round.

In later generations, it was rich in grain, melons and vegetables, sugar cane, peanuts, sesame seeds, etc. The main tropical crops are rubber, pepper, lemongrass, coffee, the main abundant forests are eucalyptus, casuarinas, bananas, mangoes, lychees, longans, star fruit, jackfruit, etc.

And Daming Lingao is a poor and white barren land, why is this so? Without him, pirates would have been rampant for many years, and the people would not be able to live and work in peace and contentment, resulting in too few residents and insufficient investment in water conservancy facilities.

Huang Sheng personally went to meet Xiong Zhaoqi in Linkochi County, and brought with him a 1,000 captive population, which consisted of 600 Han Chinese from the Great Yue Kingdom, and Huang Dongshan personally led the musketeers to select 400 strong laborers who had done farm work from the prisoners obtained from the plundering of warships, half of whom were Han Chinese.

Huang Sheng was going to acquire the land of Lingao by purchasing and encroaching upon, and the more the merrier, leaving a musketeer of the general banner to manage the place for the time being.

Xiong Zhaoqi was appointed by the prince of Qipin County in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and arrived in the spring of the following year, and has been working for almost two years.

Xiong Zhaoqi does not know how to do business and does not understand farming, Lingao under his governance of the economic development is the same, the only bright spot is that the one acre and three points of land he manages is in good order, with the force of dozens of his family can only ensure the extinction of bandits in Lingao City, if you want to do something more, you can't do it.

Unexpectedly seeing Huang Sheng, Xiong Zhaoqi was extremely happy, and enthusiastically hosted a banquet for Lord Huang and a group of military attaches in the back office. It's a pity that although he poured everything he had, the wine and food he was able to come up with were still extremely shabby.

It's no wonder that Xiong Zhaoqi is not a big corrupt official, he is not very good at scraping the ground and making silver, and he has to raise dozens of families, which is really unsustainable, and his life is tight.

Huang Sheng asked Xiong Zhaoqi to help him buy the land, saying that he would invest in Lingao and would leave more than 1,000 people to work in this place.

Such a good thing, of course, Xiong Zhaoqi knew that Huang Sheng was deliberately helping himself, and the land here was too cheap for people and rare earths. Of course, the county magistrate wants to enclose the land, and of course it will cost less money, Xiong Zhaoqi patted his chest and promised that he would not let the Huang family's investment go down the drain.

Huang Sheng left Ma San to be specifically responsible for this place, and gave him a start-up capital of 20,000 stone rice and 100,000 taels of silver. Under his command are forty musketeers under the chief flag officer Zhou Dazhuang.

Ma San's task is to hire the people here to build water conservancy facilities, increase the sowing area, and strive to build 350,000 mu of tuntian. The people here are too poor, and the labor and land are not worth much.

With the grain will recruit many people who are eager to eat to work here, with a large amount of investment, Lingao will usher in development opportunities, and once the virtuous circle is formed, the economic level will be immediately effective.

The reason why Huang Sheng took a step here was to prepare to go to South America in a year or two to find rubber trees and cinchona trees to plant on Hainan Island, and only Hainan, a subtropical place, was the most suitable for opening up rubber plantations in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Huang Sheng prepared the land first, and then looked for a place after getting the saplings and seeds, which is not Huang Sheng's consistent style of doing things.

Huang Sheng delayed for three days in Lingao, and when he parted, he gave Xiong Zhaoqi 5,000 taels of silver and 5,000 stones of rice.

Said: "Lord Huang, the Xiong family is afraid that it will be difficult to repay the favor of the adults in this life, you will spare no effort to buy land in Lingao, how dare you break the bank." ”

"Lord Xiong, you and I are my own family, giving you five thousand taels of silver is not to bribe you, but to let you recruit family members, you are only fifty family members now, which is too little, at least two hundred total to have the force to ensure the safety here."

"Lord Huang, you can walk sideways with fifty families in the Lingao Realm, how can there be an opponent?"

"That's because Lingao is too poor to even look down on decent pirates, and it will be very different here in the future, and the common people will finally have a better life, and they will return to the original point after being robbed by pirates."

Xiong Zhaoqi was speechless, and Xiong Da, the head of the family, knelt down and said: "Lord Huang, the little one knows how to do it, you can rest assured that as long as there is money and food, the two hundred total family members will have combat effectiveness in less than three months." ”

Huang Sheng smiled and teased: "You also have to eat meat often, remember, you can't save money by mouth, you have to use your brains!" If there are more people, you can take the initiative to fight the pirates who are nested on the island! There will be less gold and silver treasure in the pirate's lair. ”

Wake up the person in the dream with a word, Xiong Seventeen and Xiong Da and several family leaders are excited. They didn't know that there were many dens of large and small pirates on Hainan Island, but their force could only protect themselves.

With 5,000 taels of silver to raise soldiers, it is very different, and there are two hundred people and horses, of course, they dare to take the initiative to attack some small-scale bandits' nests, and the gold and silver seized by the bandits will increase the capital of raising soldiers.

Xiong Zhixian is suffering from lack of silver, listening to Huang Sheng say this, he is not hypocritical, he himself is a scholar with a high force value, and he thinks that there are hundreds of people in his hands, and he will naturally be caught.

Xiong Zhaoqi said: "Lord Huang, these five thousand taels of silver are counted as borrowed by the Xiong family, and in the future, I will return the property to you when I take my family to exterminate the bandits and pirates." ”

Huang Sheng believes that Xiong Zhixian has such an ability, and with the Huang family running an industry in Lingao, his financial income will also rise in a straight line, and the silver will not be the main problem in Lingao in the future, the main problem is that the population is too small.