Thousands of miles away in the South Sea, near the Bazhan Islands, this is the temporary habitat of the Black Mountain pirates, after integrating the pirate resources under his hands, especially the nest of dozens of pirates, getting a large number of people and wealth, he had to choose this relatively large island as a habitat, fortunately, it is relatively remote, there is no trace of the great powers around, and it can be settled down for the time being.

There are more people, and there are more kinds of needs, first of all, food, more than 100,000 people need Xiao Jianfeng, what they get from those pirates' nests, it is enough to eat for a few months for the time being, but after a few months, in the Bazhan Islands, he also ordered his subordinates to reclaim the land, with the climatic conditions of the South Seas, it should be possible to get a good income, but it is not a long-term thing.

Fortunately, after the British slowly calmed down, especially after exterminating that part of the pirates, after searching for them unsuccessfully, they also retreated, warships need a lot of resources to dispatch, Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, there are many islands, as long as they go to a random place, they can't find it, carpet search is not a good choice at all, anyway, pirates, there is always a time to show up.

Xiao Jianfeng also ventured into Borneo when Britain was calm, and contacted the plantation personnel, in fact, they were also looking for Xiao Jianfeng, Yang Yuanzhao did not stay in Borneo for more, but when he was transiting, he announced an order to the plantation, actively contacting many Chinese families in Nanyang, and sparing no effort to find some talents and scholars among the Chinese in Nanyang. Scientists, engineers, workers and sailors. Anyway, as long as you are willing to go to the northwest, you can do it.

In addition to these, what Yang Yuanzhao emphasized was that Xiao Jianfeng, the pirate team, specifically mentioned that some logistics personnel and the old, weak, sick and disabled among the pirates could be accepted. Let Xiao Jianfeng's team maintain a certain combat effectiveness, and give support by the way. And selected some soldiers and ordinary people to enter the pirates, specifically mentioned a certain amount of training at sea.

Xiao Jianfeng disappeared without a trace, and almost half a month passed. After that, with the support of the plantation, Xiao Jianfeng sent about 80,000 logistics and the old, weak, sick and disabled to Borneo in batches, and the rest were capable pirates, and also received about 10,000 recruits from Borneo, and the combatants swelled to 30,000, and they were intensively carrying out integrated training.

To keep in touch. They even set up a radio base station on the island to ensure several relays. Borneo can directly contact Xiao Jianfeng, and Xiao Jianfeng can even contact Yang Yuanzhao through the turnover of Borneo, so that the two forces of plantations and pirates can obey the command of the northwest.

Xiao Jianfeng was born in the northwest and was Yang Yuanzhao's bodyguard. The character is affirmed, although it suddenly has such a huge power as a pirate. But those who have seen the speed of development of the Northwest know that the Northwest will definitely control the destiny of China in the future, and will even bring China into the forest of world powers.

The navy is a blank in China, and with Yang Yuanzhao's emphasis on the navy, the future will definitely be on a par with the army, and then this opportunity to jump in, maybe the future will be a good direction of development.

After contacting Xiao Jianfeng, Xiao Jianfeng's situation, almost for the first time, went up to Yang Yuanzhao, for Xiao Jianfeng's achievements, Yang Yuanzhao is also very happy, more than 20,000 experienced pirates, even if they are selected, at least 2000-3000 people can be selected, plus the training of the naval school and the old foundation of the previous Chinese sailors, the number of the first batch of navy is basically satisfied, and now the key is training, and the expansion plan of the navy can be opened.

The Northwest took the initiative to contact various countries to buy some decommissioned or semi-decommissioned warships, and the price was quite not low, but it seems that the respondents chatted about it, most of the purchases were warships under 4,000 tons, and the oldest ships were even more than 20 years old, if it were not for the help of Germany, even 17 training ships could not be gathered, and the largest was supported by Germany, 8,500 tons of cruisers.

This cruiser was once sold to China Dingzhen II ship of the same level of improvement, increased in size, but also strengthened the speed, but unfortunately it was a ship more than 20 years ago, basically outdated, originally as a target ship, and later heard that the northwest wanted to buy, it was sold directly, not much higher than scrap iron, in fact, the northwest may get a battleship, is the Brandenburg-class Wuls, this ship in addition to the refitted, the rest were decommissioned in 1910, sold to Turkey two.

The Wuls is a former dreadnought, but it is a 10,000-ton giant ship with 6 280 mm heavy guns, but unfortunately because of the protests of Britain and Japan, it did not take shape in the end, and even this cruiser was dismantled with a lot of equipment and sold at the price of scrap iron instead of warships.

In this regard, Yang Yuanzhao didn't care, to say that before, maybe he was worried that there was no armament or the like, now he has a 10,000-ton hydraulic press and a full set of naval gun drawings, these old-fashioned 280 guns, basically there is no big problem, he can produce it casually, as for the purpose of this battleship, of course, it is a water training ship, whether it is a pirate, or the legacy of the previous naval division, it has never been a real large battleship, and suddenly jumped from a warship of hundreds of tons or thousands of tons to a main battleship of tens of thousands of tons, It's definitely a huge span.

Some of these ships are in East Asia, some need to come from Europe, the northwest suddenly bought so many old warships, it is very much in the world to set off a wave, the Japanese are walking around rumors, saying that China threats, China is going to build a navy, but Britain has not been induced, the reason is that the pressure on Germany to him is gradually increasing, and he can't take care of it at all, besides, the world's naval technology is changing with each passing day, and all the former dreadnoughts are outdated. Even including the former Treasure-class battleship, 8,500 tons, or before 1890, what role can it play, not to mention the Kongo, which is about to be delivered to Japan, even if it is a Japanese battleship more than 10 years ago, it is stronger than it.

Japan saw that there was no wind and waves, and it died down, the cotton crisis and rubber-based, the losses caused to Japan, have not been completely passed, the current Japan, the development of all aspects is far inferior to the history of later generations, the emergence of the northwest, especially in several areas that are duplicated with Japan, silk, cotton, small light industry, so that Japan gradually lost these proud money-making industries, in the face of the technological advantages and labor cost advantages of the northwest, almost was defeated, even the domestic market, Most of them have been invaded, and the only shipping industry to be proud of has received a huge threat because of the intervention of the northwest, which has made Japan anxious, and more than once he wanted to teach China a lesson, but because of the strength of the northwest, there was no movement for the time being, and even the northwest, where Russia's millions of troops were repulsed, was not something they could provoke for the time being.

After the ship was implemented, the order was immediately issued, in Shanghai Port, the former Shanghai Navy camp as the center, restart the construction of the navy, from Fujian and Guangdong, recruit some sailor children and old people, from the Northwest Army to draw a part of the elite who know how to water, plus Nanyang to recruit about 1,000 people, 1,500 pirates, a total of about 11,000 people, they will gather in a few days later, Shanghai Navy camp, with the three sea ships as the core, plus the gradual arrival of these old ships, Form a simple naval formation and conduct basic training.

Naturally, Cheng Biguang became the commander of the new Chinese Navy, although above him, there is a qualification for the older Sa Zhenbing, but where he was the chief of the navy in Yuan Shikai, the northwest has made contact, but there are not too many results, he did not come to the northwest for a reason, and even the Yantai Naval School he established is relatively resistant to the northwest, and the northwest has been in contact with his cadets, but there are not many results.

This may be Yang Yuanzhao's biggest failure, itself is a military academy built in 1907, has graduated 5 classes of graduates, the number is as high as hundreds, if these people join, there will be no shortage of low-level officials and commanders, but unfortunately after Sa Zhenbing refused, there is almost no possibility.

However, it's okay in this way, Yang Yuanzhao is not willing to see a dominant family, the Mawei family has a far-reaching influence in the Chinese Navy, and with such a group of people, it will be much more difficult to eliminate their influence in the future.

11,000 people, for the time being, it is believed that after 2-3 years of training, plus the naval school established in Qingdao with the help of Germany, the combination of short-term training and long-term training, the first batch of naval personnel should be enough, but it is necessary to wait patiently.

Cheng Biguang was also very happy to receive Yang Yuanzhao's telegram, about the matter of Qingdao, Yang Yuanzhao only ensured that a limited number of people knew that Cheng Biguang had not completely entered the northwest system, and it was inconvenient to sue him, but this time the ships ordered, one of which was 8500 tons, and Dingyuan was an improved version of the same model, which made Cheng Biguang extremely excited, although the Haiqi was good, it was only a light cruiser of about 4500 tons, and there was still some gap with an ironclad ship like Dingyuan, even if it was an old ship, it was outdatedThe most important thing is that Yang Yuanzhao also revealed that the reason why there is such a large scale of 11,000 people is because of the large scale of the future fleet.

This is a huge reassurance, the navy, who doesn't want to have big ships, when the Dingzhen Second Ship shocked Asia, even Japan was trembling under his gun, China has fallen too far behind its neighboring Japan, it's time to catch up. (To be continued)