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Ren Siqi did not want to continue to live in the Chongfu Temple, and on the north side of the harbor were seven or eight bamboo buildings, which were the new camps of the "Flying Fish" people.

Oh, by the way, now there is "Fuchun", there are more ships and more people, Ren Siqi decided to take a new name, and after discussing with everyone, it was decided to call this group based on Daishan Island "Qiyun Commercial Bank", Qi is Ren Siqi's Qi, and Yun is to take the meaning of Qingyun Zhi.

The two three-masted sea-going ships "Flying Fish" and "Fuchun" under the jurisdiction of Qiyun Trading Company, as well as one two-masted galleon, and six or seven dhows, were all captured pirate ships. The "Flying Fish" and "Fuchun" were mainly used for maritime trade, while the remaining ships were responsible for protecting Daishan's nest.

In addition to the ships, the Qiyun Trading Company now has a crew of more than 80 people and 100 village soldiers, which can be described as a large number.

The main trade to Japan this time was the "Flying Fish" and the "Fuchun", the "Flying Fish" was Ren Siqi's flagship and he personally served as the shipmaster, and the "Fuchun" was led by Mao 18 and led by the entire ship, assisted by Sima Nan and Cao Changjiang.

On Daishan Island, Ren Siqi left Jin Yufei to lead a hundred village soldiers, the Dutchman Monroe as an instructor in charge of the entire training, and Ren Xingfan as a military judge in charge of logistics. Their mission is to train recruits and then to build the base.

Ren Siqi planned to set up a new camp near the port, not only to erect a few bamboo buildings, but to build well-defended facilities. For this reason, Ren Siqi invited Lizheng Shafu from Dongsha Town out of the mountain to be responsible for the construction of the camp. Knowing that Ren Siqi will be the new inspector of the Daishan Inspection Division, and his grandson Sha Qianli is serving under Ren Siqi, Sha Fu is very concerned about the construction of the camp, and he said that the matter is on him.

As long as there is silver, there are people to work, but there are more than 2,000 fishermen on the entire Daishan Island, and if not, you can go to other islands to find people to work. Now Ren Siqi lacks everything, and the last thing he lacks is silver. In addition to some of the silver seized from the pirates for the purchase of goods, there were also used to buy water labels and tens of thousands of taels to Lu Zonghan, and now there are as many as 90,000 taels left. Ren Siqi allocated 10,000 taels of silver to Shafu for the purpose of building a camp.

Seeing so much silver, Sha Fu's eyes were red, and he patted his chest and promised that the camp would be built for Ren Siqi in the shortest possible time, and the accounts would be clear, and he would definitely not spend any money.

In his lifetime, he could manage so much silver and be responsible for such a large project, the old man was very excited, and he walked a lot easier. Without delaying for a moment, he immediately sent people to contact the heads of the villages to discuss hiring people and purchasing building materials.

The two large ships, "Flying Fish" and "Fuchun", were quietly moored in the bay, and their hulls rose and fell slightly with the waves. This bay with a natural wharf was named Gaoting Port by Ren Siqi because there is a small fishing village called Gaoting Village near the bay with only a few dozen fishermen.

Gaoting Port is a very good port, not to mention the deep water level, and there are a few miles outside the bay with small uninhabited islands, which hide the waves from the bay, and is a good haven.

A brand-new flag hangs on each of the high masts in the middle of the two ships, and a flying fish leaping into the sky is embroidered with red thread on the black brocade, and below the flying fish is the undulating sea, and on one side of the flag, the two big characters "Qiyun" are embroidered with gold thread. This flag was painted by Ren Siqi himself and newly embroidered by the skillful women on the island, and this flag will be the symbol of Ren Siqi's power in the future.

On the mast of the bow of the ship, there is a flag hanging on each side, and the red flag is embroidered with the word "Zheng" in white thread, which is the water mark of the Zheng family that Ren Siqi Tolu Zonghan bought for three thousand taels of silver. With this flag, it was possible to trade on the Japanese routes controlled by the Zheng family without worrying about the attack of the Zheng family's fleet.

The flag on the mast waved in the slight sea breeze, and suddenly the wind rose, and the flag hanging high in the wind "swished" and floated straight to the northwest, and the southeast monsoon finally came, and it was time to go to Japan!

The goods have already been shipped, and the water and food are also very well prepared. Ren Siqi said goodbye to the people who stayed on the island, and boarded the two big ships with the crew.

The huge iron anchor was pulled up from the sea, the wide sails slowly raised to the mast, and the rudder turned, and the two ships slowly sailed away from the dock and headed for the depths of the blue sea.

The "Flying Fish" was in front and the "Fuchun" was behind, and the two ships kept a distance of about half a mile and sailed in the sea. In order to facilitate contact, the flag language was agreed, and the message was transmitted under various flags during the day. At night, the command is relayed by light.

The southeast wind blew on the sea, blowing the waves, the wide sails fed the sea breeze, speeding on the sea, a few dolphins chased the stern for a long time and refused to leave, a few seagulls flew in the sky, following the sail shadow.

Mao 18 stood at the bow of the "Fuchun", and it was his long-standing wish to ride the wind and waves on the big ship.

It is more than 1,000 miles from Zhejiang to Japan, and it will be about 10 days of sea travel if you go with the wind. However, this trip to Japan was not so smooth. On the evening of the third day of departure from Daishan, a hurricane suddenly swept over the nearby sea

At this moment, the wind was strong, the whole sea seemed to boil, the dark clouds in the sky seemed to be overhead, and in the blink of an eye, the rain poured down, and smashed the deck, on the heads of the crew.

"Lower the sails! Lower all the sails! Oliel yelled, directing the crew to lower the sails. As a veteran sailor who had bypassed most of the world from the European Mediterranean to the Daming coast, he was exceptionally experienced.

After this period of training, the crew has long been able to skillfully operate the ship. The sail operators began to lower the sails with their hands and feet.

The "Exocet" is a Dutch plywood ship, although it abandoned the design of all sails in Europe and adopted a convenient longitudinal sail after coming to the coast of China, but its sail raising and lowering is still far more complicated than that of Chinese ships.

The skull is good for landing, as long as the rope is untied, the hard sail will land on the deck with a clatter, but on the "Exocet", in addition to the schooner, there is also a sail, and there is also a spinnaker, and the sail needs the crew to climb to the mast to take it off.

Several crew members were tied to ropes, and their hands and feet climbed up the mast neatly, and their feet clamped the mast to prevent their bodies from being blown away by the hurricane. Finally removed the sail from the mast, and looked at Ren Siqi on the deck below in horror.

The wind became stronger, and the Flying Fish swayed in the ocean like a toy. Each crew member tied himself to the side of the ship and the mast with a rope to prevent the wind and waves from blowing him off the ship and falling into the sea.

The torrential rain poured down on the deck and then flowed into the sea through the holes in the side of the ship.

Ren Siqi struggled to stick his head out of the cabin and look behind, but the general rain line blocked his vision, and he couldn't see the situation of the "Fuchun" behind him at all.

From dusk to night, the rain rained all night and did not stop until the next morning.

The clouds cleared, the rain cleared, and a brilliant seven-colored rainbow hung in the western sky under the reflection of the red sun rising in the east.

However, Ren Siqi had no intention of looking at this gorgeous sea scenery, because the "Fuchun" that followed behind had disappeared!