The spring breeze is warm, Zhou Zhong stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the ocean in front of him, but he was thinking about Liu Tao's trip to North Korea, counting the days, Jin Wenxian should have received the news he sent him, although the palace coup in North Korea called "Zhongzong Anyway" happened in the autumn, and there is still nearly half a year before now, but it is estimated that those ministers should also start to prepare, as long as Jin Wenxian sends someone to investigate secretly, he should be able to find some evidence.

Thinking that North Korea will not be able to overthrow the tyranny of Yan Shanjun in the future because of his own interference, and the whole of North Korea will live in dire straits, which makes Zhou Zhongzhong can't help but feel a little refreshed, although Korea was later split into two countries, but no matter which of the two beast countries made him very annoying, and now he just gave them a small lesson.

However, after Zhou Chong was happy, he thought of Zhang Rui's escape, although Wu Shan sent a lot of people to search afterwards, but after the most Lu still did not see anyone alive or dead, and after the most Lu they only investigated that during the time when Zhang Rui jumped into the sea, there were several fleets passing through that sea area, but unfortunately because of the lack of information, they could not determine the names of those fleets at all, let alone whether the other party had saved people?

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong couldn't help but sigh, he didn't care much about Zhang Rui's life and death, after all, for this kind of scum, in his opinion, it was not a pity to die at all, but he was very curious about Zhang Rui's experience of entering the palace, after all, the other party suddenly became a eunuch from a dignified person, this kind of thing is too legendary, he has long wanted to know what is going on in Lu Dao, but unfortunately the other party fled at the last moment, and now his life and death are unknown. It's a pity.

However, Zhang Rui's life and death are unknown, and only a few people in Zhou Chong and Wu Shan know about it. Even for Bai Junwan. Zhou Chong only told the other party that Zhang Rui had jumped into the sea and died, after all, whether Zhang Rui was dead or alive, there was nothing to worry about for Zhou Chong, so there was no need to let Bai Junwan worry about this matter anymore. And for Bai Junwan, Zhang Rui's death made her feel like she was relieved, and her personality was a little more cheerful these days, and she was no longer as preoccupied as before.

"My lord, the barracks have arrived!" It was a time of contemplation. Suddenly, Wu Shan, who was next to him, stepped forward to report that Zhou Chong had mainly come to inspect the sailors stationed next to Shuangyu Port, on the one hand to personally inspect the drills of the sailors, and on the other hand, to supervise the construction of the sailors' camp.

Zhou Zhong also woke up from his contemplation when he heard this, and immediately raised his head to look, and sure enough, he saw a half-water and half-land naval division camp in front of him, and countless warships lined up in several rows on the harbor of the naval division camp, although the weather in spring was still quite cold, but the soldiers on the warship were shirtless one by one, and were practicing under the orders of the instructor. The soldiers on each boat were divided into several teams, and some were fighting in teams. Some were taking off and landing sails, and some were practicing the operation of artillery.

For these more than 10,000 sailors, Zhou Chong's training is extremely strict, especially after knowing that these sailors are just looking good, he has already given Chang Xiao and Qu Lie a death order, let them train this sailor from scratch, no matter how much time and energy is spent, they must train an elite sailor who can be pulled into the battlefield at any time for the imperial court.

It is also Zhou Chong's death order, so that Chang Xiao and Qu Lie did not dare to slack off, the two cooperated to reformulate a training plan, the entire sailor from scratch drills, although when the aid to Malacca this sailor is not a big climate, but at least laid a solid foundation, and then the ships and weapons will be updated in the future, presumably one day the Daming sailor can be re-established on the ocean.

Zhou Chong's boat passed through those training ships, and then slowly docked at the dock, Shen Ying and Qu Lie were already waiting on the dock to greet them, Shen Ying as a deputy commander, and a military general, has a high prestige in the army, but unfortunately he is not proficient in water warfare, so he is only responsible for supervising in peacetime, and the training is handed over to Chang Xiao and Qu Lie, the two of them are now taking turns to be responsible for the drills in the army, and today it happens that Chang Xiao is on duty, so he can't come to greet him.

"Lord Admiral, the old man has been waiting for a long time, come and visit our barracks, the barracks have changed a lot during this time!" As soon as Zhou Chong stepped off the boat, he saw Shen Ying immediately greet him with a smile and said, Zhou Chong only needs to provide money and security for the army, and Shen Ying is responsible for the training and construction of the army in peacetime.

"The old general has been waiting for a long time, and Zhou also wants to come early, but unfortunately he is really entangled in affairs, and he finally found some free time today!" Zhou Chong also smiled at this time, and then Qu Lie also stepped forward to salute, and then the three of them said a few more polite words, and Zhou Chong followed Shen Ying into the barracks.

The naval battalion is divided into water village and land camp, of which there is nothing to say about water village, it is a military port, the naval division of the war ship is parked in the port, and the soldiers are also on the ship in peacetime drills, but after this stage of the drill is completed, the war ship will leave the water village to practice on the sea, after all, only through the wind and waves of the sea, can a fine soldier be trained.

Although the sailors often live on the ship in order to be familiar with the sea conditions, they are still willing to live on land when they are not training, and there are 3,000 troops brought by Shen Ying in the battalion, and they usually have to practice on land in addition to adapting to naval warfare.

Zhou Chong walked into the land camp with Shen Ying and Qu Lie, and saw that a few rows of fixed houses with wood and stone structures had been built in the entire camp, according to Shen Ying, these houses were warehouses in the barracks, storing more important materials such as ordnance and grain and grass, but in addition to these warehouses, only tents could be set up in other places, after all, the army was stationed for too short a time, and there was no time to build the entire barracks into fixed barracks.

Zhou Chong first visited those warehouses, and found that each warehouse was very closely guarded, especially the separately built gunpowder warehouse, everyone had to be searched when they entered, and they could not bring any metal products on their bodies, mainly because they were worried about metal collision and ignition, after all, if the powder magazine was detonated, it would be a big disaster.

After visiting the warehouse, Zhou Chong went to the tent where the sergeants lived to take a look, and found that although the tent was simple, it was also tidy, and now the weather was not very cold, and it was nothing to sleep in the tent at night, but Zhou Chong still urged Shenying to build the barracks as soon as possible, after all, Shuangyu Port is an island, and if the typhoon season comes in the future, these tents alone can not block the wind and rain.

Speaking of which, the Beijing camp is the Beijing camp, and the momentum of the training is far from being comparable to the sailors on the ship, especially these Beijing battalions also participated in the war of the national Qing Dynasty to suppress Liu Liu and Liu Qi, so they can be regarded as having some actual combat experience, so the training is also murderous, so Zhou Chong also experienced a bit of tragedy on the battlefield.

Zhou Chong was also very satisfied with the situation of the entire naval battalion after visiting, especially Shen Ying and Qu Lie assured him that by May, they would definitely be able to organize an army that could compete with the Portuguese, and they would never let the Portuguese take Malacca City!

With Shen Ying's assurance, Zhou Zhong also felt a little confident in his heart, and at that moment he also said a few words of encouragement again, and then went to the water village to visit the training of the sailor, and then returned to Shuangyu Port by boat.

However, as soon as Zhou Chong returned to Shuangyu Port, Uncle Camel came to him, and as soon as he saw Zhou Chong, he immediately said with a bitter face: "Owner, you can't do it like this anymore, now that the city shipping department has taken over the ports in our hands, and all the profits from the port have been returned to the city shipping company, and the income of our chamber of commerce has been reduced by nearly one percent!" ”

In the past, Shuangyu Port was a smuggling port, and the management of the port was also divided by various large chambers of commerce, but with the entry of the army and the city shipping department, the management of the port naturally had to be returned to the imperial court, so now the city shipping department is also slowly taking back the management rights of the various chambers of commerce to the port, and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce is naturally no exception, and even Zhou Zhong instructed the city shipping department to be the first to take the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, after all, even his own Nanyang Chamber of Commerce handed over the port, and other chambers of commerce naturally did not dare to disobey the city shipping division.

Hearing Uncle Camel's complaint, Zhou Zhong smiled and said: "Uncle Camel, now is a transition period of Shuangyu Port, it used to be a smuggling port, although it was prosperous but also very chaotic, but now the imperial court wants to nationalize Shuangyu Port, and the port will naturally be managed by the imperial court, after all, only the imperial court can manage a port more standardized, and it can also have greater development potential in the future." ”

Zhou Zhong paused when he said this, and then said with a smile: "And port management costs a lot of manpower and material resources of our Chamber of Commerce, although there are some benefits, but compared with sea trade, the benefits of the port are actually not much, and even now it is less than one percent of the total income of the Chamber of Commerce, so instead of wasting manpower to manage the port, it is better to hand over this kind of trouble to the imperial court, and we can also have less trouble." ”

Hearing Zhou Zhong say this, Uncle Camel shook his head and said: "Don't you know, the owner, although the income of the port is not high, but a lot of manpower can be arranged on the port, and according to the unwritten rules of the Chamber of Commerce, the old, weak, sick and disabled in the Chamber of Commerce are generally arranged to the port, these people are either the old people of the Chamber of Commerce, or they are injured by the Chamber of Commerce, or the family members of the Chamber of Commerce, they can't do heavy work, and they can't go to sea, and the work on the port is relatively light, so it is arranged for these people, at least they can work to support themselves, But now that the port has been taken over by the Municipal Shipping Division, these people have no work to do, and the Chamber of Commerce can't support them for nothing, right? ”

"Huh? This ......" Zhou Chong was also stunned when he heard this, he only cared about letting the city ship department take over the port quickly, but forgot that the port is a place where the chamber of commerce arranges the old and weak, and now the income of this piece is secondary, the key is how to arrange those old and weak? (To be continued......)