Zhang Juzheng has been out to study for almost a year, and naturally he has also seen the ** of the Ming Dynasty. For a while, he couldn't refute Wu Tianxiao's words.

Wu Tianxiao continued to persuade with good words: "What are you learning? ”

Zhang Juzheng still said angrily: "Naturally, in order to govern the people of the dawn of the world." ”

Wu Tianxiao asked again: "Then the people in this Tamsui City are ordinary people?" ”

After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng thought for a while and said: "Although it is outside the Ming Dynasty, it can be regarded as a common person. ”

Wu Tianxiao excitedly said: "If you can't even govern the people of this small city, how can you govern the people of the world." I am extraordinary to tell you directly, I am now in great need of a person who can govern Tamsui City, you are extraordinary when this Tamsui City is where you try your first hand. If you succeed in the future and want to achieve more, it's not impossible for me to let you go back. But if you can't even govern this small city of a few thousand people, then you should not talk about it. ”

Zhang Juzheng's heart was moved when he heard this, but his mouth was still stiff: "Hmph." If you build a city overseas without authorization, it is no different from rebellion. ”

Wu Tianxiao smiled: "Joke." I was not a Ming citizen in the first place. Although I am a Han Chinese, I am a wanderer from abroad. What does it have to do with the Ming Dynasty to build a city in the open sea now? Dongfan Island is an overseas desert island, a place where pirates and pirates are entrenched. I took a piece of heaven and earth from pirates and pirates, built a city on my own, and brought a happy land to the poor people of the Ming Dynasty. How can this be done! ”

Dongfan Island is indeed a place where pirates and pirates are entrenched, and Zhang Juzheng has nothing to say. It's just that he is still stubborn: "Can you promise me not to rebel against Daming?" ”

Wu Tianxiao smiled: "This place doesn't belong to the Ming Dynasty, how can you rebel?" ”

Zhang Juzheng took a step back and said, "How do you want me to help you?" ”

Wu Tianxiao said: "I don't have much time to stay in the city all the time. So there needs to be someone in the council hall to deal with the people's disputes. If you are willing, I will pay you ten taels of silver and five stone rice as a salary every month, and I will take care of you as a director and sit in the council hall. Of course, you can also be my staff officer at the same time, and you can put forward any suggestions. What do you think? "This kind of income is equivalent to a state capital in Daming, which is much higher than that of Zhixian County. Zhang Juzheng obviously agreed in his heart, but he couldn't agree with his mouth.

Wu Tianxiao looked at his reflection and smiled: "If you agree, then go to the council hall tomorrow, just tell me if you need anything." With that, Wu Tianxiao got up and left.

When Wu Tianxiao walked to the door. Zhang Juzheng suddenly said: "If I help you manage this place, you will promise to let me leave." ”

Wu Tianxiao smiled and said, "Okay." If you help me to rule over the people, I will let you go. But in my heart I was saying, "How can we be considered to be well governed?" Hehe.

Zhang Juzheng agreed: "Okay." I promise to take charge of the people's disputes for you. ”

persuaded Zhang Juzheng to stay and help, and Wu Tianxiao could take time out to deal with more affairs. At this time, the children of the Enlightenment School need pens to practice calligraphy, the pencil workshop is already under construction, and the weaving hemp field is to be integrated into the ready-to-wear field. Now there is a large amount of linen piled up in the hemp weaving field, and Wu Tianxiao wants to use these linen cloths to make ready-to-wear clothes in an assembly line according to the four types of small, medium, large, and extra-large sizes, and distribute military clothes to the soldiers. All of this requires his attention.

November of the 17th year of Jiajing (1538). All eight seagoing vessels have been renovated, and there are six 300 to 500 ferries to travel between Sanzhai. The seagoing ships were also equipped with artillery and firearms, and eight seagoing ships had 2,000 materials (about 300 tons of load and about 6,700 tons of displacement). There were four guns, including the bow gun, stern gun, port gun, and starboard gun. The Expedition has 1,500 materials and two guns in the bow and stern. Dingyuan 1500 materials, bow and stern two guns. Zhenyuan 1400 materials, bow and stern two guns. Training No. 1000 material, no artillery for the time being. Guanhaizhai 1300 materials, two guns in the bow and stern. Hanxi Zhai 1300 materials, two guns in the bow and stern. Wujiazhai 1300 materials, bow and stern two guns.

At this time, the shipyard was freed up, and Wu Tianxiao asked Shen Quan to prepare to build a four-mast super-large sea ship with 5,000 materials while continuing to build an armed sea ship with 2,000 materials. The two armed merchant ships were both in the experimental construction type of the preliminary self-design, using the drawings left by Shen Quanzu as a model, and Wu Tianxiao put forward requirements and suggestions, and Shen Quancheng redesigned them.

The two armed merchant ships were preliminarily designated as a girder: 5,000 materials, 750 tons of deadweight, 1,600 tons of displacement, 21 zhang long, 5 zhang wide, 4 masts and 10 sails, four decks, and a designed crew of 500 people, including two hundred reserve marines and 60 artillery pieces.

A Zhoushan: 2,000 materials, 300 tons of load, 600 tons of displacement, 11 zhang long, 3 zhang 6 feet wide, 2 masts and 5 sails, three decks, 200 crew members, including 100 marines and 24 artillery pieces. The Zhoushan is expected to be completed in four months, while the Daliang has no date.

At this time, the total population of Tamsui City also increased to more than 6,000 people, more than 20,000 acres of wasteland, hoarding 60,000 stone of grain, and the grain produced each season exceeded the consumption of tens of thousands of stones, so half of the extra grain consumed each season could be used to make wine or sell. Due to the increase in population, charcoal burning farms, brick burning farms and salt drying farms, as well as mosquito coil workshops and pencil workshops were built and operated one after another, and the recruitment of soldiers also expanded to more than 1,000 people. Wu Tianxiao began to use what he had learned to compile a set of military training syllabuses for later generations to train soldiers.

At this time, Wu Tianxiao had only more than 1,000 soldiers, and he himself was the lord of the city, with nine people in 100 households. They are Jia Youshi, Jiang Zhuang, Chen Minxin, Wu Dayou, Chen Minzhi, Yang Hongju, Tan Lun, Shen Nanshan, and Taiside. Each of the hundred households had a musketeer and an artillery team, and each seagoing ship was composed of thirty sword and shield men, twenty spearmen, thirty short-sword grenades, and twenty large-caliber musketers, each of which was operated by three people, as well as thirty sword-wielding sailors and some auxiliaries. There are about 160 people per ship, and it is under the jurisdiction of one hundred households.

Except for Taiside, who guarded Wu Tianxiao, the other hundred households all practiced a sea boat. In addition, it is stipulated that every time they set sail, three sea ships will be left behind for the purpose of patrolling and guarding Tamsui City, and the other five ships will form a formation and begin to carry out live-fire training at sea when they are traveling to and from Zhoushan.

December. For the first time, Wu Tianxiao led a fleet of five sea vessels, including the Tamsui, the Expedition, the Dingyuan, the Zhenyuan, and the Hanxizhai, carrying some grain, furs, matches, sea salt, and cane sugar to Zhoushan.

The fleet left Guanhaizhai and headed north, taking advantage of the northwest wind to sail very fast. The fleet sailed one or two hundred miles to the north, and the lookout on the watchtower shouted: "Unknown ships found, ships found on the right side ahead." Wu Tianxiao listened to the report and came to the bow deck of the ship, took out the binoculars to check. But he saw two seagoing ships approaching the fleet rapidly from north to south.