Early the next morning, Zhang San rode to the dock, took a boat down the river to the naval dock, boarded his new flagship and began to inspect the naval fleet.

Among them were the first to launch fire oil bombs in Dengzhou, the first to sink enemy ships in the Battle of Hangzhou Bay, the first to break through the Song Army's water village under Jiankang City, and some meritorious ships during the Battle of the Japanese.

After this review, the navy will also make a readjustment, and set up the Bohuang Fleet, whose main area of activity is the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea on the west side of Goryeo, and whose main base is the Miaodao Islands, whose main task is to detect the coastal areas of the Liao-Song Dynasty.

Then the Japanese fleet was changed to the Northern Fleet, with Zhenwei Island as the main base, and the activity area was extended to the Sakhalin area to the north, and military stations, docks, and material reserve stations were built along the way.

The Zhoushan Fleet was established to the south, and the activity area was from the southern part of Shandong to Nanxun Island in the south of the Zhoushan area, with Zhoushan as the main base, mainly controlling the Yellow Sea, the Yangtze River estuary, and Hangzhou Bay.

After that, there was the Ryukyu Fleet, which was based in Tamsui and was responsible for the defense of Kaoru Island from the south to the Dongsha Islands, and at the same time, the Ryukyu Fleet would also set up a Luzon Squadron to be responsible for the defense of Luzon.

The main base of the South China Sea Fleet is Xisha Island, and at the same time, three sub-bases of Hong Kong Island, Beibu Bay Island and Fugui Island are set up to control the Pearl River Estuary, North Vietnam, and South Vietnam. This is an important channel for Zhang San to obtain food in the next stage, so he needs to set up a separate fleet.

Finally, there is the Malacca fleet, which is based in Borneo, which is used to fight for Malacca, so it is the top priority, of course, the main task at this stage is to clear the indigenous countries and countries on Borneo.

After that, there was another important event, to see off the exploration fleet, this fleet was what Zhang San had always wanted to send, but there was no opportunity and urgent need, so it was delayed again and again.

Now that the 20,000-stone sea ship has finally been built, the development of the island of Ryukyu has also entered a new stage, and through this period of war, Zhang San also discovered the control of food and logistics for war.

It's okay now, you can still grab food in the war, and I'm afraid that the war in the future will have to relieve the refugees, so on the whole, Zhang San feels that it's time to go to the Americas, not to mention where to develop, at least bring back those things that he needs most.

Corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes are excellent plants with high yield and drought tolerance, as long as they have these three things, then wherever Zhang Sanda goes in the future, they can quickly stabilize the people's livelihood, so that Baixin not only has enough food to eat, but also can supply the needs of the army.

Rubber trees are also a strategic resource, and now Ryukyu is gradually embarking on the road of mechanization, various processing machinery, hydraulic machine tools are advancing towards comprehensive complexity, but the power is only manpower, animal power, water power, wind power and so on.

The use of a large number of slaves does not yet show the bottleneck of this productive force, but as long as it develops at such a high speed for a decade or two, then there must be an urgent need for new power.

And it takes at least ten years for a rubber tree to be planted to be able to tap rubber, so it is impossible for Zhang San to wait until he needs rubber here and then go to the Americas to find rubber trees, so this exploration fleet has become very necessary.

The exploration fleet has two merchant ships of 20,000 stones, two Donghai-class warships of 10,000 stones, and two merchant ships of 10,000 stones, so that the six ships carry 1,000 marines and 1,500 sailors, as well as shipwrights, carpenters, blacksmiths, ore experts, doctors, and other personnel accompanying the ship.

The ships would depart from Tamsui Port and arrive at Zhenwa Island, then head north to Hokkaido Island for one last replenishment, along the Kuril Islands and the Aleutian Islands to the Americas, where a team would return immediately after collecting the corresponding items, and then explore all the way south to southern Chile.

In addition to the plants that need to be collected, gold, silver, and copper mines will also be marked for future mining, and try to be friendly after encountering the Indians, so as not to let them see that they want to capture them as slaves in the future.

This voyage takes at least eight months to go back and forth, so such a team needs to be led by a brave and resourceful general, originally Wen Huanzhang was very willing to go, because Zhang San once told him that the earth is round, and he really wanted to verify it in person, but he was too busy and didn't have time.

In the end, Zhang San decided to send Huo Tingen to lead the team, as a group of people who followed Zhang San earlier, he Lao Tzu was in charge of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau, Zhang San still trusted their family, but his Lao Tzu's foundation was too thick, and Zhang San did not dare to let him develop too fast in the army.

So in the past few years, Huo Tingen first taught in Yixue, then transferred to the Naval School, the Army School, and finally transferred to the forbidden army training camp, and has always been doing the work of teaching.

Zhang San later thought about it, this is always so suppressed, it's not a way, besides, this has been doing education, isn't it all over the world? Coupled with his father's power, wouldn't that be even more intertwined?

Just this time to explore the fleet, Zhang San simply sent him to lead the team, this year he was adrift, one is to train him, and the other is to let everyone cool down, and when he comes back, see if he will be in charge of American affairs.

Although this is a long-distance voyage, it is also to go along the coastline as much as possible, so Zhang San is not particularly worried about the supply, and it is all a big ship and specially reinforced, so the farewell is not so sad, and it is just a longer trip for the people on board.

Zhang San deliberately boarded the flagship of the fleet, Huo Tingen was waiting on the ship, and when he saw Zhang San coming, he immediately saluted a standard military salute, Zhang San patted him on the shoulder, it has been almost three years since the establishment of the Hero Building, and Huo Tingen has also shown a lot of maturity in the past three years.

Zhang San called Huo Tingen aside and asked, "Tingen, what do you think of this mission?" Do you have the confidence to finish? ”

Huo Tingen straightened up and said, "Guarantee to complete the task." ”

Zhang San waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, this time the fleet will travel no less than tens of thousands of miles, as the chief officer of the fleet, you must lead the team, one of the long-distance voyages is to pay attention to taking everyone to rest more, find more entertainment activities, everyone in the province is bored and panicked, and they are sick." ”

Zhang San thought about it and asked, "How much canned food did you bring?" Canned hawthorn, canned jujubes, canned oranges, canned lemons, all of which you have to bring enough! ”

Huo Tingen said: "Yes! I brought 4,000 boxes of each! ”

Zhang San said: "En! When you arrive in Hokkaido, you must replenish enough, and when you go to the Americas, you must pay attention to exchanging some vegetables, fruits, and grains with the locals, and bring enough knives and glass products, right? ”

Zhang San personally entered the warehouse and checked it again, confirmed that he had all brought it with him, and finally saw the six ships leave, Zhang San sincerely hoped that everything would go well, and he should be invincible in the Americas on such a scale, right?