Chapter 430: The Four Fleets Concept
Zhang San spent nearly one million taels of silver to buy grain, plus the replenishment of fishing fish to reserve enough grain, nothing is more stable than a grain depot full of rice, and the people who were originally restless began to settle down gradually with land and food.
After May, Zhang San's recruitment campaign became extremely difficult, and the government's obstruction became fierce, not because the government realized it later, but because some officials turned a blind eye to the homeless people all over the land, even if they knew that someone was playing tricks.
But when Zhang San took most of the displaced people away, these people found that the population under their rule had been reduced by almost a quarter, which is a remarkable thing, and you must know that the population of ancient officials was also one of the important assessment indicators.
Anyway, Ryukyu also had some indigestion, Zhang San simply stopped the large-scale recruitment of displaced people, and those who participated in the recruitment of displaced people were also arranged to be sent elsewhere.
At the end of June, Zhang San was watching the launch of a new batch of warships, and with the addition of these 12 ships, the scale of the navy's warships exceeded 80, and eventually the total number of ships in the navy would reach 120 to form four fleets.
The first fleet was the Ryukyu Fleet, with 30 ships, divided into four sub-fleets to control the coast from Fujian to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the flagship of each sub-fleet was 5,000 stone warships, plus five 2,000 stone warships.
The remaining six ships were the Ryukyu Left-behind Fleet, two Mangoku battleships, and four 5,000 Goku warships. This is also the fleet with the largest number of large warships, ten large ships of more than 5,000 stones, which is enough to deal with all threats.
The Second Fleet is the South China Sea Fleet, which is based in Qiongzhou to guard the coast of Guangdong and control the entire South China Sea.
Zhang San planned that the South China Sea Fleet would use a bay in the Sanya area in the future as the main base, and Hong Kong Island as the secondary base, and that Hong Kong would send six ships to control the Pearl River estuary, while the remaining 24 ships would plunder the South and North Vietnamese countries.
The Third Fleet was the Yellow Sea Fleet, which controlled the coastal area from Jiangsu to Shandong, and was divided into three sub-fleets, with a fleet of six ships each on the coast of Jiangsu and Shandong responsible for collecting sea taxes.
The remaining eighteen ships will be based on Jeju Island to plunder the coasts of Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom, both Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom will be excellent slave production areas, and they must be started as soon as possible, not to mention that Ryukyu is also one of the war horse ranches prepared by Zhang San.
I remember that there was a book that wrote that Jeju Island, Hokkaido, and Sakhalin Island were used as war horse ranches, and Zhang San felt that he could also try it, compared to the distant Hokkaido and Sakhalin Jeju Island is a piece of land that Zhang San can plan in the near future.
Jeju Island is the owner, and this requires the Fourth Fleet established by Zhang San to come out, and the Fourth Fleet is the expeditionary fleet, and the fleet of thirty ships will use Ryukyu as the main base to support the battle in other regions at any time.
For example, the encirclement and suppression of the Northern Song Dynasty, or the rebellion of South Vietnam and North Vietnam, as well as the sailors of the Goryeo Kingdom, etc., as long as the expeditionary fleet is out at that time, it is enough to suppress the resistance of one place, maybe the ability to occupy South Vietnam or Goryeo is not, but Zhang San is enough to prevent them from repairing the pieces from entering the sea.
Of course, the current navy is also in the training stage, and it will take at least half a year to achieve this goal, Zhang San plans to build enough sea ships within half a year, and then spend half a year to encircle and suppress the large number of pirates there, so as to achieve complete control over the coastal areas of the Great Song Dynasty.
Zhang San inspected various military camps and schools throughout July, and he had to let them know who he was under his leadership, otherwise Zhang San would still not be at ease, and Taichung and Tainan also built a new shipyard.
After entering August, the slave hunting team that had been postponed for four months finally completed its preparations, the earliest recruits also completed three months of basic training, and Zhang San sent an army of 6,000 men to the south under the escort of the Fourth Fleet.
The reason why it took so much effort was that there were two tribal alliance countries on the island of Luzon, so Zhang San had to prepare for a big war, and this was the first war of annihilation launched by Zhang San.
However, after reconnaissance, the two so-called national standing armies only have a few hundred people and a population of only a few hundred thousand, as long as the raid is successful and does not leave them time to prepare, it is easy to complete the decapitation operation.
Zhang San remembered that in Western history, there were more than 100 examples of destroying a country in Southeast Asia with firearms, not to mention the more powerful Zhang San, the fleet set off in a mighty way, and Zhang San was going to go in person.
But before leaving, I received a message from the northwest, Jin Cuilian appeared, and the Zheng butcher in Zhenguanxi had already taken a concubine and forced her to write down her money, and the leading actors were already in place, so Zhang San was not suitable to go to Luzon, where the news was not good.
Fortunately, Zhang San has prepared several sets of scripts for Luda, so the missing two actors Li Zhong and Shi Jin have become less important, but Zhang San is somewhat regretful and can't witness this classic moment in person.
Zhang San is handling affairs on Ryukyu Island, Luda of Yan'an Mansion has been a little unhappy recently, Luda has always had the desire to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and he was born with divine power and practiced martial arts, but he is only a magistrate.
Seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, Luda went to the hotel he frequented to drink, and on this day Lu Ti was slightly drunk, and he could hear the table next to him, where the two men were chatting.
The content of the story is the crying upstairs, the town of Guanxi Lord forced to marry Jin Cuilian, did not force her to give other people the money for selling her body, and made a fake contract to force other people's father and daughter to sing and repay the money, etc., which made Luda listen to it for a while.
Ruda had already heard the intermittent crying upstairs, and at first he just thought that there was something going on at home, and he didn't mind, but he didn't expect there to be such a thing.
It's just that Luda wants to be alert, and when he was drinking, he saw the two people at the next table secretly looking at him, and now he deliberately spoke so loudly as if he was afraid that he wouldn't hear it.
Luda put the wine jar in his hand on the table and asked, "The Sprinkle family sees the two of you drinking here, and the Sprinkle family is boring to drink alone, why don't we share a table?" ”
The two hurriedly got up and clasped their fists, and one of them said: "It's really a blessing to be able to drink with Lu Tiha, please sit down." ”
Ruda looked up and asked, "Oh? Do you recognize me? ”
The man replied with a smile: "Who in this Kansai doesn't know your Lu Ti Ha's name, the villain has long wanted to make friends but no one has been introduced, and it must be a blessing to meet Ti Ha today." ”
Ruda waved his hand and said, "What kind of fortune is it, let me ask you, why don't you introduce your own name when you know my name?" Isn't it because you can't see people? ”
The man said with a smile: "Lu Ti said that he was laughing, but the villain's cheap name dared to defile his ears, the villain's name is Huang Hu, this is my brother Niu is 100 years old, and both of us are Weiyuan's silver medal dart masters." ”
Luda was stunned for a moment and asked: "I heard that the silver medal and gold medal dart masters in this Weiyuan dart game are all first-class heroes in the rivers and lakes, I don't know if it's true or not?" ”
Huang Hu said with a smile: "Lu Tizhi doesn't know, the gold medal dart master of our Weiyuan Dart Bureau is indeed a first-class hero in the rivers and lakes, but the silver medal dart master of the two younger brothers is indeed only a second-rate level in the rivers and lakes, and he is not worthy of the title of a hero. ”