The five warships slowly sailed on the sea, the blue sky, white clouds and blue waves of seabirds, and they were a little tired of seeing too much, wishing they could see the land of the mountain island. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhou Quan held the telescope and looked at the land in front of him.

"This strait is a very important place for soldiers, and ships coming to and from Japan can take shelter from the wind and rain if they pass through this strait. Going inside, it is the essence of Japan, so I suggest that you still occupy this place, and at the worst you should make it a concession. ”

Ye Chu whispered beside him, he had spent a year or so, with the help of smugglers, almost all over the strategic places in Japan, so he was extremely familiar with this place.

The place he was referring to was the Kanmon Strait, with Shimonoseki to the north and Kitakyushu to the south, one of the three gateways to the Seto Inland Sea.

In Ye Chu's view, if you just want to control Japan's gold, silver and copper mines, it doesn't matter, you can control the Kanmon Strait, but if you want to get more in Japan, the three gateways of the Seto Inland Sea, including the Kanmon Strait, plus Ise Bay and Edogawa, get five concession ports here, or even directly occupy them, it is inevitable.

"You're right, this is a country with a population of 10 million, although it is not comparable to the Great Song Dynasty, but it is not something that can be swallowed in one bite. Therefore, it is better to let the Khitan, Goryeo, and Jurchen ravage on it a few more times, and do all the things that we are not suitable to do and are embarrassed to do, and then we will come back as liberators, which will inevitably make these Japanese people cry grateful! Zhou Quan said after putting down the binoculars.

In fact, from the fact that he shelled Changmen Port without hurting anyone, Ye Chu vaguely guessed his thoughts.

"That's a pity, Da Lang, good things are all cheaper than Khitan, Goryeo and Jurchen!" Zhang Shun disagreed: "If you think there is something you are not suitable to do, I am very good at doing dirty work, I am a guest pirate, kill him seven in and seven out!" ”

"Uncle Zhang, don't be a pirate, my sailor still needs to expand, and I still have to rely on you!" Zhou Quan laughed, and then said solemnly: "We control the sea, how can we cheapen others?" All ships entering and leaving Japan, without the logo of the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce, we will take 50% of the goods on board! ”

"Fifty percent?" Zhang Shun's eyes lit up.

"Yes, fifty percent, I let the treasurers of the Chamber of Commerce calculate, in this way, it is profitable for the Koreans to rob it, and it is even more profitable for us to collect it. All the money and materials obtained will be used for naval construction, Uncle Zhang, I am ready to establish a naval academy! ”

Zhang Shun didn't understand what was the significance of establishing a naval academy, which had previously been conducted in the officer academies in the Five Kingdoms City, and the number was relatively small, and it was still in the exploration stage.

"I want to divide the military academy into two, one is the army martial arts hall and the other is the navy Fubo hall, each of which enrolls about 500 cadets every year, and it will be expanded in the future. Of these 500 people, 300 will be recruited from the middle school, and 200 will be recruited from the current guard, and they will be trained as junior officers for as little as half a year and as long as three years! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Shuncai realized its importance: "Two hundred officers on land and in the water every year? ”

"Yes!"

What is needed to train 200 officers per year?

This officer is obviously not the most basic commander, at least the commander of the thirty-six people, even if all of them are the captain, which means that the officers who can lead 14,400 soldiers must be trained every year.

Even without expansion, after five years, these officers could lead 70,000 men. This is not a force like the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army and the Xiang Army, which does not know the soldiers and does not know the generals, but the elite like the current caravan guards, and even surpasses!

"Da Lang...... What do you think? ”

Zhang Shun couldn't help but ask, and then scratched his head, feeling that he was asking too much.

With such strength, do you still need to ask what you want to do, not to mention that since he followed Zhou Quan, he has seen what he has done with his own eyes.

To say that he is arrogant is completely humble, and many of Zhou Quan's behaviors are simply ignorant of the law of the country and his intention to rebel, but he has done it all.

Zhang Shun has become a family at this time, a wife and a concubine in the family, and he has added two children to him, he himself serves in the sailors around Zhou Quan, with an annual salary of up to 6,000 yuan, and Zhou Quan has publicized his salary increase plan, so Zhang Shun is very clear that as long as he has another five years, his seniority can exceed 10,000 yuan, if he can reach the age of sixty, even if he retires at home by then, the seniority will be about 50,000 yuan!

What's more, there are rewards from time to time.

Therefore, his interests are completely tied to Zhou Quan, even if Zhou Quan really wants to rebel, he can only carry a knife to cut off the head of the emperor Lao'er for Zhou Quan.

"What does Da Lang want me to do?"

"If you don't go to sea, you will go to Fubo Hall as a lecturer and teach the students about the precautions required for navigation and some of the art of war in naval warfare."

Hearing this, Zhang Shun touched his head and sighed: "That big man, you are a strong man, I don't know much about big characters, how can I be a teacher?" ”

"If you don't want to be a gentleman, I'll let you be a student, Uncle Zhang, you can choose one." Zhou Quan glared at him and said.

Zhang Shun is indeed a naval warfare wizard, Zhou Quan has the heart to use it, but this guy uses the excuse that he is a rough man, he just doesn't study, and it is a little difficult to even write by himself.

"Okay, okay, I'll convince you, if I still want to be a student at such an age, people will laugh and lose their big teeth!"

Zhang Shun pursed his lips and could only respond to this matter.

"System, in front of it is the port of Kokura, and the main force of the Jurchens' warships will stop in this port!" Zhou Quan was still about to elaborate on his military school plan, but he heard Ye Chu remind.

Zhou Quan raised the telescope and looked in the southeast direction, and vaguely, he saw a shadow in the water sky. As he got closer and closer, soon, Ogura Port appeared in front of him.

The place is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only a few mountain passes connecting with the surrounding area, and although the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it also limits its development. However, if you occupy this place, you can control the Guanmen Strait, and Wushu chooses this place as the home port, but it has a bit of vision.

Unfortunately, for Zhou Quan, all this is meaningless.

In the middle of the Ogura Port Castle, Wushu sat high with a proud face, and in front of him, there were twenty Japanese on their knees.

"This governor has already said that this place will be the governor's mansion of my Dajin Kyushu from now on, but it is just to expropriate some land from you, and you still want to squeak and crook, don't you think that this governor's knife is not sharp enough to cut off your heads?"

Which Japanese on their knees would dare to think so!

The young man in front of him, although he is young, but he really kills people without blinking, he led more than 10,000 Jurchens and Goryeo people to kill, seized the city and broke through, and killed all the way, the Japanese who were cut off by him, there are not 30,000 but also 20,000, it can be said that in the north of Kyushu Island, his name can already stop children crying at night, and the Japanese gave him a nickname behind his back: Killing Boy!

"The Governor King, it's not that the villains dare to obstruct it, but those lands are really where the people's ration fields are, and seeing that the autumn harvest is imminent, if the Governor King can delay it by two days, wait for the grain to be harvested before requisitioning ......."

"Okay, okay, don't talk nonsense, I don't want to hear such an excuse! I have summoned you not to listen to your nonsense, but if you do something bad, cut off your own heads and save me some strength! That Fujiwara Nagami, your daughter is good, you can take it back. ”

The Japanese man, known as Fujiwara Nagami, twitched his face, then fell to the floor and said respectfully, "Yes, thank you for the praise of the Viceroy King, it is a blessing for my daughter." ”

After sending the Japanese away, the Wushu laughed, but the laughter stopped.

He frowned, looked at the ceiling above his head, and thought for a moment.

"Fourth prince, the ship is about to set off." A guard came up and said.

"yes, I see." Wushu got up, but his spirit was still a little sluggish.

Although he brought nearly 10,000 people, he defeated the wealthy clans in northern Kyushu, Japan, and occupied several cities and more than 100 villages in the northwest of Kyushu, but the biggest purpose of Wushu's trip was not seen in the gold and silver mountains, not even a copper mine.

He also sent people to inquire in many ways, but he was disappointed, at least in the area under his control, there were no gold and silver mines nearby, but there were some smelting workshops, but their mines were imported from other places.

It is consoling that he has robbed a lot of people and food, and in addition, the gold, silver and copper coins looted from the people are enough to make him smile from ear to ear.

Although Japan's agriculture was far from being developed at this time, and the grain yield per mu was inferior to that of the Song Kingdom and Goryeo on the mainland, the wealthy families who could not stand it would loot, while ordinary Japanese civilians could live by eating bran and grass and adding a few salted fish, so the vultures were still very fruitful.

Originally, he had the idea of building up his own power through the gains made here, but when he realized that the lack of troops had seriously affected his expansion, he decided to take some of the captured here and send it back to Dajin in exchange for more support from his father.

When he walked out of the door, a Japanese man was lying on the ground to put his feet on him, and Wushu stepped on the Japanese body, turned over and got on the horse.

"Well, I need more horses, the Japanese horses here are short and lack strength, they are simply donkeys, where can they be called horses!" Wushu thought to himself.

The thought came to me when I heard a thunderstorm. The war horse under Wushu jumped up in fright, kicked the Japanese who had just been lying on the ground as a footpad, spit blood, and flew two feet away!

"What's going on?" Wushu looked up, and saw that the sky was clear, and it didn't look like it was going to rain at all.

Then his complexion changed!

"Artillery!"

Thinking of the battle in which his brother had been killed a few years ago, the Wushu suddenly realized what it was that made a loud noise.

Artillery, the weapon that he never remembered! (To be continued.) )