It's been another month of busyness, twelve new warships have finally been built, and with the ships coming over and half of the shipyard craftsmen, Sea Shark Island will maintain the current shipbuilding capacity, and the Tamsui shipyard finally has the shipbuilding capacity after several months of hard work, so Zhang San decided that the future development will be dominated by the Tamsui shipyard.

The new twelve, plus the nine ships from last time, and the large warship of 5,000 stone that sailed over last month, formed a huge fleet, and Zhang San decided to leave two to defend Ryukyu Island, then two to defend Sea Shark Island, and two more to be stationed in the Penghu area to block the way of the southern water pirates to the north.

After removing these six, Zhang San can still fight sixteen warships, such a combat power Zhang San believes that even if all the pirates in the entire East China Sea unite with Zhang San, they can fight against it, so Zhang San began to prepare sugar, and the Weiyuan Dart Bureau also received the news to send warships south.

In the past few months, the Hangzhou shipyard has not been idle, and the production of improved warships has also been carried out, and the cadets in the sailor school have also supplemented the shortage of sailors in the Weiyuan Dart Bureau, although some ships have been sent to maintain the northern route and the Yangtze River Waterway Dart Bureau.

However, after receiving Zhang San's news, the Dart Bureau still sent twelve large warships, in addition to ten ships with 2,000 stones, there were also large warships with 5,000 stones in two days, and the construction of the new Fu ship was also going smoothly.

After the first batch of sea trials was launched, the Hangzhou shipyard immediately began large-scale production, and this batch of 12 5,000-stone ships will all be used to open up southbound trade.

However, as an emerging force, Weiyuan Dart Bureau has no experience in long-distance sailing, and it is not well-known among maritime merchants, so although Weiyuan Dart Bureau announced that it will start to open the southbound dart road, there are only a few people who are willing to participate. There are even fewer businesses that haul darts.

Therefore, in addition to two of the twelve ships loaded with goods hauled by other maritime merchants, the other ten ships were all goods organized by Zhang San himself, including porcelain from Jingdezhen, silk from Jiangnan, tea and other hot-selling commodities, as well as some materials urgently needed by Ryukyu Island.

The ship departed from Hangzhou to the end of Quanzhou, Quanzhou as the most important foreign trade port of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as Zhang San transported these goods over, there were a large number of businessmen willing to buy, and the price was more than one to two times the purchase price of Zhang San, because of the smooth flow of information, so Zhang San organized this batch of goods.

As for going to the South Seas or something, that's all for later, and now Zhang Sanren is short of manpower and is unwilling to disperse more energy, at least after sweeping the East China Sea before he can carry out the next trade plan.

The twelve ships of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau's warship fleet plus the twelve merchant ships of the merchant ship totaled twenty-four ships and naturally could not hide it when they went south, and the Zhang family did not act rashly when they got the news, but spread the news to let the pirates try their hand first.

Guan Boss had been waiting for the Weiyuan Dart Bureau to go south with him, but there was no movement left and right, so he had to follow a southbound fleet action organized by the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce.

As for the other merchants, they also received the warning of the Zhang family either explicitly or implicitly, so none of the other ships in the voyage of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau were willing to join the fleet, and there was no none, anyway, this time the Hangzhou Dart Bureau did its best to open up the southbound trade route through this battle.

As soon as the ship left Hangzhou Bay, it was attacked by a small group of pirates, and Gan Xingtai was the commander-in-chief of the southward fleet, and the deputy head of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau was also the commander-in-chief of the battle fleet, and he was in the center of the dispatch and coordination.

Small groups of pirates are generally trying to grab a merchant ship, generally in other combined fleets, as long as the pirates keep an eye on which ship, as long as it is not a good owner with this ship, they will not participate and come in, so the pirates feel that if they surround a merchant ship to rob, this dart game will definitely give up a ship to protect themselves.

It's just that this time they were wrong, when a three-ship pirate tried to rob a merchant ship in the fleet, the battleship quickly adjusted and began to fight these pirates, compared to the pirate ship, although the warship of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau was not equipped with a ballista, but the improved version of the catapult and bed crossbow were still easy to clean them up.

After lighting the two ships into torches and the last sail being burned out, Gan Xingtai left two ships to deal with the follow-up problems, and then the fleet continued to move forward, and the ships left behind salvaged the pirates, drove the people on the pirate ship out, gathered together and rushed to a desert island, and then sailed away.

When the pirates thought they were going to die of thirst and starvation on a desert island, the fleet of the distant Sea Shark Island came into view, loaded the captives, interrogated them, and then turned to attack the pirates' lair.

Defeat the pirates' lair and send them all to Sea Shark Island, then move on to the next pirate den. Sea Shark Island was responsible for transporting these captives to the Ryukyus by ship, and the pirates who dared to grab a fleet of more than 20 ships were still a small number after all, so the Ryukyu fleet could only have a battle in one or two days along the way.

Moreover, these battles can often be solved by sending two or three ships, so most of the fleet can only follow the fleet of Weiyuan Dart Bureau to play soy sauce, and wait until the fleet reaches Nankaoru Island before splitting into two, and the ships carrying the materials of Ryukyu Island sail to Tamsui under the leadership of the pilot pair, and the rest of the ships begin to go to Quanzhou.

There were six cargo ships that finally arrived at Quanzhou Port, and only three of the warships of Weiyuan Dart Bureau followed into the port, and these six cargo ships were harassed by pirates on the way.

Of course, this is for the Zhang family and the pirates to see, the Zhang family's stronghold in Quanzhou has long sent people to wait at the dock, and when they see the situation of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau, they immediately send the news back, and some pirate informants also report the 'tragic situation' of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau to their leaders.

To be honest, the Weiyuan Dart Bureau has made a lot of noise this year, and these pirates have heard more or less about this, one is responsible for robbing, and the other is responsible for protection, and this natural hostile relationship makes the pirates more concerned about the actions of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau.

What's more, in the past year, Weiyuan has become the first dart bureau to cover the whole country of the Great Song Dynasty, his scale can be described as a household name, it is difficult for these people to think about it, compared to the bandits near the official road, Weiyuan still knows how to go to worship the mountain, hello, hello, hello, everyone.

But since Wei Yuan's dart master wanted to participate in the escort of sea ships, he didn't see the slightest action to worship the pirate mountain, which made the pirates feel that Wei Yuan's lack of cooperation either looked down on them, or looked down on them, or looked down on them.

So this time, the people on the road learned that the twenty-four ships from Weiyuan Hangzhou arrived in Quanzhou and only nine were left, and they gloated one by one, and the stones that pressed on their hearts were also loosened.