"This is the ship you bought from the last naval battle?"

Yu Zhigao, dressed in a short gray robe, walked over with a relaxed attitude. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

There are many winds and waves on the coast, large and small, rushing to the shore and crashing on the reef and sand.

Dozens of small boats are fishing, Penghu was originally an important fishing base on the coast of Fujian, nine out of ten people on the island are fishermen, only a few people settle down on the island, because the imperial court only set up a garrison here, the power of the government and the gentry is not strong, and it is more comfortable to settle here than on the other side.

It's just that the wind on the island is strong, and ordinary houses can't hold it at all when the monsoon comes, and a strong wind can blow over a hundred and ten houses.

Yu Zhigao lives near the Nianghou Palace, Fujian people all believe in Mazu, and there is also a Niangniang Temple on Penghu Island, and the only few big houses are built around the temple.

Although the residence was much more comfortable than that of ordinary soldiers, Yu Zhigao still had a depressed look on his face.

So far, all kinds of expenses and materials have spent as much as 150,000 taels, which is an unimaginable huge amount of money in Fujian Province, you can imagine how much pressure Zheng Guochang has undergone, and this pressure will of course be converted into greater pressure on Yu Zhigao, the old man has a bitter face, thinking that this pressure must make it difficult for the old man Yu to carry it.

"Master Hui," Li Pingzhi said with a smile: "It is the Yi boat, after the official sale, we bought it and repaired it by craftsmen, and after two months of repair, we can finally sail into the sea again." ”

This captured warship should have a displacement of about 160 tons, and it is also the largest among the nearly 200 ships of the Fujian Naval Division in Penghu. ”

Li Pingzhi smiled and said nothing, there were Dezhnev and his gang on the Taiwan side, as well as craftsmen hired from Macao and the Nanyang area who could repair the Galen ship, and the Dutch ship in front of him was not seriously damaged, and there was no difficulty in repairing it at all.

Yu Shigao didn't care if the temptation failed, there may not be twenty in the next life in front of him, and the city government is deep like an eighty-year-old man, so he doesn't expect to say anything at all.

However, Yu Zhigao felt uncomfortable after all, and couldn't help but knock Li Pingzhi again: "I heard that before this ship went to sea, it deliberately made a detour to Xu Xinsu in Zhangzhou, what were you doing, demonstrating?" ”

"No, it won't." Li Pingzhi said with a lovely smile: "We also get along well with Mr. Xu, everyone works together to make a fortune, how can we demonstrate to him." ”

Xu Xinsu may be used to cooperating with the Dutch, and he Yusheng is very disdainful, Li Pingzhi has made several efforts, and the price of buying a load of raw silk is always 20 taels higher than that of the Dutch, and he has to buy more than 10,000 taels of raw silk from Xu Xinsu a year, that is to say, it costs an extra 200,000 taels, and several large merchant ships are gone.

This time, he bought a big boat, deliberately made a detour from the gate of Xu Xinsu in Zhangzhou, and drifted on the sea for a few days, of course the people along the coast watched, and even Yu Zhigao knew it, and of course Xu Xinsu understood what was going on.

Everyone didn't tear their faces, but He Yusheng wanted Xu Xinsu to know his attitude and strength...... Now this cannon is not equipped with artillery, although Zheng Guochang is a governor, it is impossible to sell the artillery together, it is to find someone to impeach, but who doesn't understand, since this ship can be repaired by He Yusheng and successfully launched into the sea, how can He Yusheng not install cannons for this ship?

"Your friendship with the eldest son of the Li family is really good." Yu Zhigao changed the topic and said with a serious face: "Fujian and Zhejiang, you two families are divided like this?" ”

"How dare a person who is just a businessman do such a thing against the sky?" The smile on Li Pingzhi's face became even bigger, and he arched his hand and said, "Please take back this word." ”

"Oh?" Yu Zhigao said coldly: "What's going on with the peace state? ”

"That is in order to support the army to exterminate the Hongyi, but also to the stability and prosperity of the sea, regardless of the warships and merchant ships, day and night patrol the sea to beware of the chaos of the juniors, the cost is huge, and to protect the safety of the merchant ships at sea, this cost is to ask the merchant ships at sea to bear the burden, if not, I am just a small trading house, doing some trade at sea, it is really unbearable."

Yu Zhigao sneered and warned: "In the area of the Fujian Sea, I have a lot of maritime merchants in Fujian, you are the escort of merchant ships, don't do that thing of robbing houses, otherwise, once the general army pulls out his hand, he will definitely exterminate you and others." ”

Li Pingzhi bowed and said: "The inferior will never dare to harass the coastal areas of Fujian, and even if there is a small group of pirates, as long as they see it, they will be killed." With such a famous general as the chief master, who has always taken care of me and remembered, how can we not know what to do? ”

In fact, Li Pingzhi personally went to Yu's house as early as a month ago, and the silver of 10,000 taels of white flowers is definitely a blockbuster bribe, of course Yu Zhigao laughed at it, Hutchison and Li Guozhu's affairs at sea, according to the current situation, the Fujian Navy Division has no way to manage it, and even if the imperial court sends someone to investigate, it will not be able to catch his old Yu's loopholes, and the elite of the Navy Division are all trapped in Penghu, how can they have the time to patrol the sea to exterminate pirates? At least in the past few months, a small group of pirates at sea has been exterminated, and the sea is much quieter, and the maritime merchants who paid the money have gained safety, Fujian officials have obtained political achievements, and the people along the coast have obtained peace.

Yu Zhigao's beating at this time is actually a kind of self-preservation, the money has been collected, and he will not interfere with what He Yusheng did at sea, but he must have an explanation for the upper and lower levels, and he expresses his position today is also to reserve room for an explanation to the upper authorities when the court investigates in the future, otherwise, when the imperial history is questioned in the future, there will be no answer, and the trouble will be big.

"The ship's name is the Zhenwei." Li Pingzhi said to Yu Zhigao: "The ship will go to Tianjin to handle the goods, and the next general will go north with the ship, so don't pass the general soldier." ”

Yu Zhigao sighed: "The soles of your kid's feet are oiled, and the old man doesn't know how long he will be delayed in Penghu." ”

There was a faint sadness on Yu Zhigao's face, the current situation can't be fought, but I don't know how long it will drag on, the old teacher is useless, the silver in Fuzhou is insufficient, and the materials can't be helped, so it will be a big trouble at that time.

"Rest assured, Lord Commander." Li Pingzhi suddenly smiled and said: "Hongyi's time to sue for peace won't be too long, and it won't be more than a month at the latest." ”

"What?" Yu Zhigao glared and said, "Why do you kid say that?" ”

"Hongyi occupies Penghu is to have dates and no dates to hold a pole first, if Tiexin wants Penghu, why are you still building a castle in a big way? His manpower and material resources are also limited, building a fort is to transport building materials back and forth, costing a huge amount of money, if it is not for the iron heart to establish a foundation in Dayuan, what are those turtles and grandsons doing with this unjust money? Here in Penghu, simply put, it is blackmail, of course it is good to be able to deceive it, it is a more ideal position than the big man, and it can be controlled by the coastal state of Fujian, and it is more convenient and fast to buy raw silk goods, and the return can also keep the big man, which can be described as a treasure of feng shui. Since our court sent a large army to attack and fight on the island, Hongyi should have seen the determination of our court that it would not give up an inch of land to outsiders. ”

"Good boy, that's right!" Yu Zhigao pondered for a moment, judging by his thirty years of officialdom experience, what the Shanxi descendant said in front of him was not bad at all, he was overjoyed at the moment, took two steps forward, and slapped his calloused hand on Li Pingzhi's shoulder: "The kid is good, if there is anything in the future, even if you come to find the old man, today you went to my heart disease, and the old man owes you a favor." ”

Li Pingzhi grinned when he was beaten, although this old man was close to the sixtieth year, the strength in his hands was not a joke, his father was a great martial arts master after all, and the martial arts of this family were really not played, but Li Ping's heart was still happy, Yu Zhigao had been pretending to be a high-ranking official and a general, this person was from a family of generals, and he was old and virtuous, and he had a position in Fujian that ordinary generals could not catch up with. It's still very helpful to deal with in the future...... I just don't know if the analysis just now really relieved Mr. Yu's doubts, or the 10,000 taels of silver that I brought into Yu's mansion in the middle of the night made Mr. Yu even more happy?

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"Stop the boat ahead!"

"Stop the boat and get a safe certificate!"

Li Pingzhi and Zhang Xuwen stood at the bow of the ship together, this ship is a restored Hongyi ship, the shape of the standard two-story Galen ship, the bow of the ship is built with a shipbuilding, the bow gun is placed below, there is also a space for hiding soldiers, there is a gun mouth of the gun, you can call the gunner to shoot a musket in it and on it to meet the enemy.

The hull of the ship has three masts, and in addition to the mainsail, the front sail and the back sail, there are various types of bias sails, such as spinnakers, and it can be a lot of work just to figure out the function of each type of sail.

The ship's steer was controlled by the good hands brought by Dezhnev, and Yusheng also sent people to serve as midshipmen and naval officers on the ship, and everything was according to the rules of the Russians.

The Russians are second-rate at sea at this time, but after all, they are studying in the Baltic Sea and the Netherlands and other maritime powers, and Dezhnev and others are the elite elements of Russia's maritime power.

However, in any case, the Zhenyuwei was successfully repaired, equipped with 30 guns, and more than 100 marines were trained according to the methods of serious naval combat, and this ship has become one of the strongest deterrents at sea...... Although it was only a very ordinary commodity in the Dutch fleet, otherwise it would not have been captured by the Ming Fujian sailors with the tactics of ants biting elephants.