Besides, Chen Qianhe took four or five hundred Ming military households, and when he arrived at Zhoushan Wharf, everyone refused to leave. This is exactly what Chen Qianhe wants, so he doesn't rush. Pretending to tell the army that he was going to explore the truth of the Japanese in person, he left the military households at the Zhoushan wharf and took these two henchmen to the county seat.

After Chen Qianhe arrived at the county seat, he saw Wu Tianxiao again, and he told him about the meeting with the commander. When Tang Xianyao heard this, he was overjoyed: "That's it." This commander convinced the Governor that the Governor had been killed by the Woko. ”

Chen Qianhe smiled: "Look at it." It's over. ”

Tang Xianyao was obviously relieved when he heard this. At this time, Wu Tianxiao was in urgent need of sea ships to travel between various islands. As soon as he heard that Chen Qianhe was using five official ships with a few hundred materials to transport four or five hundred military households, he smiled at Chen Qianhe and said, "I wonder if Chen Qianhu is willing to sell those five sea ships to me?" ”

Chen Qianhe was puzzled: "You want to buy those five official ships?" It was the only five official ships in Ningbo. Sold to you, how can I explain to the commander? ”

Wu Tianxiao smiled: "What's so difficult about this. You just said that it was destroyed by the Japanese and could not be repaired. ”

Chen Qianhe was greatly moved when he heard this, and this idea was good. Wu Tianxiao thought for a moment again: "It's not as good as this." When you send the people you have transferred back, you say that the Japanese have fled after attacking the county seat. Of the four or five hundred people you have allocated, I will count them as only five hundred, and I will give them five taels of silver as a reward. Then I will send men with you on the ships, and when you have sent away the army, you will sail back the men who have given me the five ships, and I will give you an additional three thousand taels of silver. As for the commander, you only said that you fought fiercely with the Japanese pirates, and although they were eventually defeated and destroyed, the five sea ships were smashed by the Japanese and could no longer be repaired. So everyone can count it in one fell swoop. ”

Chen Qianhe was overjoyed when he heard this, not only did he have the merit of beating away the Japanese robbers, but he could also get a few thousand taels of silver. As for Wu Tianxiao's reward for the money of the military households, hehe. Those bitter haha, one person gave a few hundred Wen and laughed to death them, and the rest of the money was naturally his Chen Qianhe's.

So Chen Qianhe took the money and sent the military household as Wu Tianxiao explained, and handed over the boat to Wu Tianxiao's people. Wu Tianxiao used these five official ships as a tool for exchanges between the Zhoushan islands. Shortly thereafter. The construction of the Zhoushan in Tamsui City was also completed, and Wu Tianxiao had people sail to join the fleet to serve.

The commissioning of the Zhoushan greatly strengthened the strength of the Wu family's fleet. The Zhoushan is a medium-sized and small sea vessel of 2,000 materials, which belongs to a new design, with a load of 300 tons and a displacement of about 600 tons. It is 11 zhang long, 4 zhang wide, 2 masts and 4 sails, three decks, the upper one is a shell bay, equipped with artillery on both sides, and ammunition is stacked in the middle. The second floor is a sergeant cabin, and the ground floor is a cargo cabin. It was equipped with a crew of 200 people, including 100 marines, and 24 artillery pieces. Become Wu Tianxiao's new ship.

Subsequently, Wu Dayou was promoted to captain of the fleet, and the "Zhoushan Fleet" was formed by three ships, Wujiazhai, Guanhaizhai, and Hanxizhai, leading the newly promoted captains to cruise the waters of the Zhoushan Islands and protect the islands of Zhoushan. And once a month on the 15th of the month to and from Tamsui City, to transport supplies and immigrants.

Jia Youshi was also promoted to captain of the fleet, and the freshwater fleet was formed with the Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, and Training, leading the newly promoted captains to patrol the Tamsui sea area and protect the Tamsui City. It also travels to and from Zhoushan Shuangyu Port once a month on the first day of the new year to carry supplies and migrants.

Wu Tianxiao personally sat on the Zhoushan, led the Tamsui and the Expedition, a total of three ships to form an ocean-going fleet, ready to open up the route and transport supplies. Tan Lun, Chen Minxin and Shen Nanshan were transferred to the ocean-going fleet as captains.

As for the murder of the eunuch Rain, it was quelled by blaming the Japanese Kou, but at this time the Zhoushan Islands had been controlled by Wu Tianxiao. And Gong Jing, a thousand households of Hangzhou's sailors, cried poverty to the commander, saying that he had no money to buy sea ships and could not afford to go to sea to strangle the Japanese invaders. Therefore, they can only fight with the Japanese by land, not by sea.

At the same time, because Chen Qianhe then reported to Liu Xian that he had repelled the attackers, although five 700-odd official ships were damaged by the Japanese and could not be repaired. However, he succeeded in defeating the Japanese and defending Zhoushan Island. At this point, the incident subsided.

After Wu Tianxiao took control of the Zhoushan Islands, he ordered a protection fee to be collected for cargo ships entering and leaving the Zhoushan wharf and Shuangyu Port. It is stipulated that there is no charge for less than 300 materials, and a company with 300 to 500 materials will be charged 500 wen at a time when entering and leaving the port wharf, and those with 500 to 2,000 materials will receive one tael of silver, and one with 2,000 to 3,000 materials will receive two taels, and one with more than 3,000 materials will receive five taels.

Soon after, he was transferred to Shen Cheng to prepare for the construction of Zhoushan Shipyard. Because the expansion of Wu's army was extremely rapid at this time, a freshwater shipyard was far from enough, and it was very suitable to establish a shipyard on Zhoushan Island. Because there are trees here and it is very close to Ningbo, you can buy processed ship materials from Ningbo timber merchants.

After the establishment of the Zhoushan shipyard, Wu Jiajun's shipbuilding capacity was greatly improved, and an average of 2,000 materials could be built in two months. A 3,500-material ship can be built in three months, and a 5,000-material ship can be built in four months. In fact, it takes about eight months to build a 5,000-material ship, but two shipyards can build two 5,000-material ships in eight months. Therefore, with an average shipbuilding capacity, the entire Wu Jiajun can build a 5,000-material sea ship in four months.

The control of the Zhoushan Islands greatly increased the population. With the population, it was possible to expand on a large scale and standardize the various production workshops. The match powder yard was regulated as a freshwater arsenal for the production of various munitions and ammunition, but matches became an additional product. One of the types of ammunition produced in this arsenal is the copper-tipped lead bullet used in the firecracker. The front half of this copper-tipped lead-bodied bullet is cast in copper, and the second half of the bullet is wrapped in copper and filled with lead. One is to save copper raw materials, because lead is much cheaper than copper, which can greatly reduce costs. The second is to increase lethality, because lead is poisonous, and even if it is not critical, it will become inflamed due to toxicity after being shot, which greatly increases the mortality rate of the opponent.

A fur processing plant was added to the workshop. As a result, the price of various furs exchanged from the natives of Dongfan Island will be greatly increased after being processed in their own processing plant. Pigskin, sheepskin, deerskin and other animal skins were additionally used to make leather boots and establish a leather shoe field. The hemp weaving yard was also regulated as a textile factory, and expanded into a garment factory, providing uniform military uniforms and various clothing quilts for soldiers. In order to increase the speed of garment production, Wu Tianxiao still asked workers to assemble the production line. First of all, the size of the clothes is determined, such as leather boots, which generally stipulates the sizes of extra-large, large, medium, and small, and then teaches the workers to cut the same size according to each part, and then sew them uniformly. This assembly line is very fast to manufacture ready-to-wear.

The blacksmith yard is also standardized as an artillery workshop, producing all kinds of weapons, guns and artillery. Lime was also mined, and lime smelters were established to produce lime. At the same time, due to the lime whitening technology, the paper mill can produce white and smooth white paper. And use pig hair to make toothbrushes to establish a toothbrush workshop, use soap horns to make soap, and set up a shampoo soap workshop. The pencil yard was also established, but the main business of the pencil yard at this time was to refine lead bars for the arsenal to make copper-tipped lead bullets, and pencils were only an incidental product.

Subsequently, various workshops such as sugar mills, livestock farms, pharmaceutical workshops, vegetable processing farms, brick burning farms, charcoal farms, salt drying farms, mosquito coil workshops, etc., have been standardized on a large scale. Of course, these specifications were arranged in advance and slowly spread out in the future.