Houguan shipyard has a big problem, after being robbed by Su Thick Leg last time, the completed ships at that time were basically robbed, and the rest were semi-finished products that were still in the workshop, and even the materials for repairing the ship were robbed a lot, and many skilled craftsmen were also taken away, although before Sun Shao came, Yuehai had done his best to recover, but compared with Sun Shao's last visit, it was still a lot defeated, and the situation was much more serious than Sun Shao estimated.

Yue Hai was very ashamed, and was scolded by Yu so much that he was bloody, but he didn't reply a word, his head was stuffy, like sitting on pins and needles. This time, General Zhenhai was demoted to Captain Zhenhai, and he belonged to Sun Shao's subordinates, and he had no opinion at all. Who made himself incompetent, if it wasn't for Sun Shao's action in the last naval battle, he would have been beaten down by the ant tactics of Chaojiang Long Zhou Qun. If it is said that it is a disparity in strength, there is some truth to it, but even the shipyard was served by someone, which is really embarrassing.

"Sir, don't scold, the Supreme has already punished him. Now let's think about how to restore the shipyard's production capacity as soon as possible. Sun Shao stopped Yu Fu, who was scolding vigorously. Yu rolled his old eyes and said very bullshitly: "What's so difficult about this, please give me a month from the general, and I can restore the shipyard to its former prosperity." ”

Sun Shao is very happy, this ginger is still old and spicy, Yu is not relying on the old and selling the old, people are confident.

"There's one thing I want to make upfront, though." Yu Fu put away his smile, looked at Sun Shao, and said with some hesitation: "Asking someone to help is to divide people for profit." ”

"Divide the people for profit?" Sun Shao understood a little, Lu Ji laughed, and said with a sarcastic smile: "Mr. wants benefits now?" Isn't it a little too rushed? ”

Yu glared at Lu Ji: "What do you know?" Although my Yu family has some industries, how can I restore the strength of the shipyard in such a short period of time with my alone? If I want to recover as soon as possible, I can only ask a few other companies to help. I don't want a favor, but there is no reason for others to help for nothing, right? ”

Sun Shao nodded again and again: "Sir, what kind of benefits do you need for them to help." ”

Yu stroked his beard and thought for a while: "I want to talk to them about the specific conditions, but after this difficulty, they will have to take more of the sea business to Jiaozhou." As he spoke, he glanced at Sun Shao. Sun Shao is now the most powerful maritime merchant in Jiaozhou, and with the current trend, he is likely to dominate the sea lanes of the East China Sea. If the Huiji family doesn't want to be crushed by Sun Shao one by one, they will join forces with Sun Shao, but if they want to get a piece of the pie from Sun Shao's hands, can Sun Shao agree? This time, the shipyard was robbed, Yu Fu felt that it was a good opportunity, everyone helped each other and mutual benefit, I will help you through this difficulty, you can't not give no benefit at all.

However, he is not sure, who doesn't want to be the only one? The profits in this are amazing, once there are others competing, say how many are others, as long as there is one competition, the profits will shrink significantly. Yu Chuan understands these truths, so he has to get Sun Shao's consent in front of everyone, otherwise Sun Shao will regret it in the future, and he is not a human being inside and out.

Sun Shao pondered for a moment, he vaguely guessed Yu Xuan's thoughts, but he was not afraid that the family would share his profits, he believed that he had enough advantages. He was worried about another question, if he had too good a relationship with the Huiji family, would it cause Sun Quan to worry? Now that his wife and children are all in Jianye, his big escape plan cannot be implemented for the time being, although Daqiao said that he was sure and asked him not to worry, but Daqiao didn't say the reason, how do you know that she is not comforting him? If that's the case, the better his battle will be, won't it make Sun Quan more worried? After acting in a play for so long, the last one was smashed, isn't it the same as the play of a famous director: premature ejaculation?

"Sir, this matter can be discussed, but I can't give you a specific answer yet, so let's invite these families, and we will discuss how to divide the profits, okay?"

Yu shook his head: "It's not that I don't agree, it's just that most of the families of Huiji are in the area of Yuyao and Shanyin, and they are thousands of miles away from here. ”

Sun Shao suddenly realized that in addition to the good port conditions, this Houguan shipyard is actually a wild place, there is no big city in the vicinity of two or three hundred miles, not to mention the powerful families, and the powerful families in Huiji County are all near Qiantangkou. When they came, they took advantage of the downwind boat, and walked for more than ten days, if they tossed back and forth, the time really could not catch up, and the southeast wind would rise in April and May.

Seeing Sun Shao's hesitation, Yu Xuan thought that he was reluctant, his face was a little ugly, Shen Xuan saw that he was about to get angry again, and hurriedly stepped forward and whispered a few words, Yu Xuan suddenly realized, pondered for a moment and said: "If the general can trust me, I will definitely handle this matter properly for the general, and I will not tell the truth." ”

Sun Shao looked at Yu Flip and made up his mind, although Yu Flip has a bad temper and is not very popular, but his strength is there, if he can win him over, he is a strong assistant. In that case, take a gamble.

"Of course I believe sir." Sun Shao straightened up and said with a smile: "That's it, since it is impossible for the Houguan Shipyard to complete all the tasks, then I will let Sizhen go with you with the drawings, and the conditions will be negotiated between you and them, and after the negotiation is completed, they will process it on the spot, and I will let people set off with the warships that need to be refitted." If it goes well, they have the parts machined and the ship should be able to arrive. ”

Yu Chuan was a little surprised, he originally only wanted to authorize and let Sun Shao give him a range, but now Sun Shao's authority is too great, and he is directly responsible for it, which makes him a little unbearable. But then he thought about it, since Sun Shao trusted him, how could he be afraid of responsibility. He raised his head, arched his hand, and replied: "Well, I will live up to the general's order." ”

"Please, sir." Sun Shao got up and returned the salute, and then turned to Lu Ji and Zhao Shuang and said, "Mr. Zhong Xiang is going to solve the problem of the ship, and the two gentlemen will ask the two gentlemen to help with this measurement problem." Sizhen, you take the improved Sinan and hand it over to the two gentlemen. ”

Ge Heng responded, turned around and took out a box about a foot square and put it on the case in front of Sun Shao, Lu Ji and Zhao Shuang glanced at each other, and they all gathered around curiously, Yu Xuan was also very curious, Sinan had seen it, but he had never seen it like this.

The box was about a foot square and an inch high, and in the middle was a pool eight inches in diameter, filled with water, and a slender diamond-shaped sheet floated in the water, passed through the middle by a thin silk thread, painted red at one end and black at the other. At the bottom of the pool was a silver-white dial marked with directions, and what surprised them the most was that the box was sealed with a piece of glass, slightly tinged with a blue-green tinge, but it was clear and transparent.

"Where did this glass come from? Such a piece is worth about 10,000 yuan, right? Yu looked at Ge Heng's eyes, a little like the eyes of a distressed man looking at the son of a ruined family.

"I don't know." Ge Heng directly ignored his question, and pointed to the water droplets in the two small horizontal next to him and said: "These two bubbles are used to indicate whether Sinan is placed flat, this bubble is in the middle, indicating that this thing is flat, this bubble is in the middle, indicating that the north and south are flat, and the two bubbles are in the middle at the same time, then this Sinan is horizontal." There are screw pins underneath this, and the height can be adjusted. With this drawing board, you can draw this Sinan......"

Ge Heng explained in detail how to use a set of tools, and when he raised his head, he found that the eyes of Yu Fan, Lu Ji and Zhao Shuang were a little weird, and he didn't know why, so he touched his face awkwardly: "What's wrong?" ”

"You did all this?" Yu turned the first to react, and said with a surprised smile: "Shaft, I haven't seen you for a few years, and you have grown again, although these tools look simple, they are very delicate, and you will definitely get twice the result with half the effort with this when you use this to measure and draw." Yes, yes, I haven't delayed my craft in the past few years. ”

Ge Heng blushed when he was praised by Yu, and he was embarrassed to say that these were not fake, but most of the ideas came from Sun Shao, but Sun Shao didn't let him say it, he had to plunder the beauty of others, for him, a person who is not good at words, this is really a little ashamed.

"It's just that this thing is worth a lot of money, so it probably can't be made in large quantities, right?" Lu Ji said with some worry: "The general has arranged for fifty people to study, if it is too few, it will be slow to get acquainted." ”

"Sir, don't worry, although this thing is a little expensive, it is still worth it." Sun Shao waved his hand disapprovingly: "Money is used for use, as long as it is valuable, it is worth as much as it is." He then said another sentence that made Lu Ji and the others dumbfounded: "Fifty Sinan is ready, but the clairvoyance can't match so many, in addition to the generals, there are more than twenty left, so for the time being, only two people can use one." But don't worry, the craftsmen are working hard, and when you are proficient, you should be able to complete it. ”

Rich, this shaft is really rich, and there are more than 20 rare things like clairvoyance, and they are not satisfied. Lu Ji and Yue Shuang suddenly felt that the burden on their bodies was heavy, and if they didn't say anything else, they just said that the configuration for these fifty people would not be able to come down without a daughter. The more money Sun Shao throws at it, the greater the hope he has placed on it, and the heavier their responsibilities will naturally be.

"General Yue, the safety of several gentlemen will be handed over to you, it doesn't matter if the shipyard is robbed again, but if there is any problem with their safety, I am the only one who is the problem." Sun Shao said to Yue Hai with a smile, although his tone was relaxed, but the meaning revealed in his words was very harsh, "When the time comes, don't say that you, the captain of Zhenhai, will be taken away again, but I'm afraid that your head will not be guaranteed." ”

Yue Hai's scalp tingled when he heard this, just now he had already seen Sun Shao's attention to Lu Ji and others, and now he was warned by Sun Shao again, where did he dare to be careless, he got up and bowed deeply: "The last general is willing to assure the general with the head of the item, as long as I have a breath in Yuehai, you gentlemen will not lose a single hair." ”

"That's good, but I hope you all live well." Sun Shao waved his hand and motioned for Yue Hai to relax: "If this battle is fought well, not only can you be the general of Zhenhai, but you may be able to prestige in the South China Sea in the future." ”

"Whoa." Yue Hai was excited and replied loudly. It is one thing to be reinstated as an official, and being able to fight is what makes him more in mind, and Sun Shao's words can be said to have hit his itch.

Su Thick Legs personally greeted him out of the gate, and Lao Yuan shouted loudly: "Mr. Shen, why don't you send someone to report when you come, I'll send someone to pick you up." You see, what a faux pas. ”

Shen Xuan smiled slightly, letting go of Sun Shao behind him, Su was stunned for a moment, rubbed his eyes, and suddenly patted his head: "Alas, I'm really stupid, since the general's building ship is here, naturally the general has arrived in person." Rude, rude. After speaking, he knelt on one leg and raised his fists above his head: "The last general, Su Yu, meet General Henghai." ”

It turned out to be Su Yu, and Sun Shao finally heard Su Bush's real name for the first time.

"General Su, please get up." Sun Shao smiled, stepped forward to help Su Thick Legs, looked up and down, and said with a smile: "General Su has been looking good recently, how have you been doing in the past few months?" ”

"Thanks to the general, since I became a pirate, I haven't been so nourished." Su Thick Legs were full of red light, and he couldn't close his mouth with joy, "The general's subordinates are really capable of fighting, with their help, I am invincible." ”

Behind him, several pirate-dressed guards led by Zhao Sleeve stood in a row, knelt down and saluted: "Young Master." ”

"Good." Sun Shao looked at the first batch of cronies he had cultivated with satisfaction, and helped them up one by one: "Thank you for your hard work." ”

"Don't dare." Zhao Sleeve said happily: "General Su is very good to us, and the brothers cooperate, and the battle went smoothly." It's just a pity that I couldn't drink the full moon wine of the little master. ”

"Hahaha......" Sun Shao laughed, and patted Zhao Sleeve's shoulder with his big hand: "Don't worry, Mrs., mother and son are safe, and they are very good now." Although I didn't drink the full moon wine, when I caught the week, you couldn't be missing. ”

"That's nature." Zhao Sleeve smiled happily, he turned his head to look at the other people with happy faces, and said loudly: "Brothers, we have to prepare a generous gift for the little master at that time." ”

"Dare to disobey." Several men shouted in unison.

Su led the way in front of Su Thick Legs, led Sun Shao into the main hall, and invited Sun Shao to sit down. Sun Shao was also not polite, and sat straight on the main seat, Su Thick Legs and Wei Ping sat on the left, and Zhao Sleeve led a few brothers to sit down on Sun Shao's right hand. After a few words of gossip, Su Thick Legs glanced at Wei Ping with his eyes, Wei Ping understood, got up and walked to the middle, and gave a salute: "General, please allow me to report to the general about the recent battle." ”

"Hmm." Sun Shao nodded and put away his smile.

After the last naval battle, Sun Shao left a boat for Su Thick Legs, and Su Thick Legs was a little embarrassed to accept it at first. But when he opened the cabin and saw that there was a whole ship of ordnance inside, he immediately understood what Sun Shao meant. The pirates of the East China Sea were desperate for the wind this time, but they were severely damaged by Sun Shao and Yue Hai, losing about a third of their manpower, and more importantly, the smartest Chaojiang dragon Zhou Qun was killed by Sun Shao on the spot, and the East China Sea had fallen into a chaotic situation where the dragons were leaderless. And Su Thick Leg did not take advantage of the fire to rob because of his righteousness, so Sun Shao did not treat him badly and gave him a shipload of ordnance, of course, to let him take this opportunity to conquer other pirates in the East China Sea and expand his strength. His strength is not bad, and now that he has Sun Shao to sponsor the standard ordnance, it is even more powerful, and he is naturally a little more sure of dealing with those demoralized pirates. Therefore, he didn't think much about it and accepted Sun Shao's kindness.

And then to make him even more pleasantly surprised. When he began to carry out Sun Shao's intentions, Zhao Sleeve and others who came with the ship showed their identities to him, and with the tacit cooperation of the two sides, they successfully annexed several groups of pirates nearby, and then, they led Su Thick Legs to attack the Houguan Shipyard. Although he won the Battle of the Sea of Vietnam, he suffered a lot of losses, and besides, no one expected that Su Bu Leg would be so bold that he would dare to attack the shipyard, and he was attacked at once, and more than 300 large and small ships were taken away. With these ships, Su's strength increased greatly, and the speed of annexing other pirates increased greatly, and within two months, he became a well-deserved king of the East China Sea, not only did the sailors of the Houguan Shipyard dare not do anything to him, but even the Pingnan general Lu Fan suffered at his hands. In a fierce battle on Pingwang Island, although Lu Fan kept more than 300 merchant ships, he suffered heavy losses and no longer dared to fight a head-on battle with Su Thick Legs.

Their successive victories in the East China Sea completely cut off the trade routes in the East China Sea, and forced Sun Quan to use Sun Shao again and let him lead troops to quell the rebellion. Lu Fan and the others were still waiting to see Sun Shao's jokes, but they didn't know that Sun Shao had made arrangements before returning to Jianye.

When Sun Shao decided to return to Jianye from Jiaozhou, he estimated that Sun Quan would suppress his development again, so he arranged for Su Qiang's move. Su thick legs unified the East China Sea, as soon as Sun Shao arrived, he surrendered, so that Sun Shao could win without a fight, and then lead these people to fight in Jiaozhou and pacify Cui Qian, the king of pirates in the South China Sea, in this way, Sun Shao can control the East China Sea and the South China Sea, Sun Quan wants to suppress him again, it is unlikely, even if Sun Quan wants to tear his face, he can only endure it, because whether it is the East China Sea or the South China Sea, there is no strength that can compete with Sun Shao.

As a result, Sun Shao can jump out of Sun Quan's control in one step. He didn't want to go head-to-head with Sun Quan and be the lord of Jiangdong, but he didn't want to live this kind of grievance all the time.

But the arrangement was not perfect, and something went wrong. The first is that he failed to bring his family out, originally he hoped to wait for a while, at least after Guan Feng's body recovered, he would flee with his family. But after a period of consideration, he found that the time was not ripe, at this time, if he asked to bring all his family with him, Sun Quan would definitely not let him go out of Jianye, so after hesitating for a long time, he took the method of the bridge, in two steps, first accumulate a certain strength, find a suitable base, and then pick them out. The other is that although Su Thick Leg is the strongest pirate in the East China Sea, he has not been able to unify the East China Sea. In addition to him, there is also a group of pirates, although they are not as strong as Su Thick Legs, but their strength is not small, and on the surface they also obey Su Thick Legs' dispatch, in the battle with Lu Fan and several robberies, they have also accumulated four or five hundred boats, five or six thousand people, when Sun Shao sent a surrender document, they clearly opposed the surrender, and thus broke away from Su Thick Legs. If nothing else is considered, Su Thick Leg can completely destroy him, but many of his subordinates have just been annexed, and once the war starts, it is difficult for him to guarantee that no one will turn back.

Su Thick Legs felt very embarrassed, Sun Shao deliberately created such a good opportunity, first hit other pirates for him, killed Zhou Qun, and then arranged people and ordnance for him, but he did not unify the pirates of the East China Sea in the end, and now what he handed over to Sun Shao is a half-finished product, which is really ashamed.

"It's okay." Sun Shao listened to Wei Ping's introduction, but did not show a disappointed or angry expression, he smiled easily: "Things are unsatisfactory, how can everything be as you wish, it is not easy to do this." ”

"It's just ......" Su said unwillingly: "With those people in the way, if I attach myself to the general, I'm afraid my subordinates will also have opinions, and when the time comes, ......"

"Don't worry too much." Sun Shao interrupted Su Bu's words, and arranged very directly: "You go and recruit your subordinates, make it clear to them, of course you have nothing to say if you are willing to go with you, and it doesn't matter if you are unwilling." In the future, it is up to them to choose whether they will be opponents or friends. If they give face and see my banner walking around, I won't take the initiative to embarrass them, if they don't have long eyes, dare to come and provoke me, don't blame me for not being affectionate, so that his mother can't recognize him. ”

"Keep them?" Su Bushy has been an officer and soldier, and he knows the truth of raising his own respect, so he took it for granted that way.

"That's right." Sun Shao smiled: "However, they will regret it, in the East China Sea, pirates are not so easy to do." ”

"What do you mean?" Both Su Thick Leg and Wei Ping were a little puzzled.

"In the future, the merchant ships will no longer go their own way as before, I will ask them to act collectively, and then they will be escorted by sailors. This will solve part of the problem of funding for the sailors, and it will also be possible to train the team and at the same time clear the pirates along the way. If they want to survive, they either take the initiative to find the sailor to fight alone, or they hide far away and pick up those merchant ships that are unwilling to pay fees and would rather go alone. Whether they can feed them or not depends on the destiny of heaven. ”

Su didn't think too much, he believed that he would not suffer a loss if he followed Sun Shao, but Wei Ping was a little worried: "General, pirates are not as good as the officers and soldiers of the sailors, they are used to plundering and being free, and the salaries of the sailors and some of the fees paid by the merchant ships may not be able to satisfy their appetites." We trust the general, but others may not be willing to do it. ”

"Who said you can't rob it if you become a sailor?" Sun Shao burst out laughing.

Su Thick Legs and the others looked at each other, and couldn't figure out what Sun Shao meant for a while, this is an officer and soldier of the Navy Division, and he robs like a pirate? Who are you robbing?

"You don't have enough strength now, you can only rob some merchants who don't have the power to fight back, what's the point? Robbed for a lifetime, still a pirate. When he became a sailor, he wanted a ship and a ship, and he had food and food, and his strength was comparable to that of a pirate? If the strength is strong, won't there be more places to grab? You see how bold he is in urging the signature, he directly occupied Zhu Ya and became the emperor of the soil, and even the scholars had to give him three points. He doesn't have the status of a sailor yet, so he's far worse than us. Why don't we have to play a little bigger than the fateful sign, for example, occupy a bigger island, and when the sailor is bored, he will take the time to get through the pirate addiction. ”

Wei Ping suddenly realized, and slapped his palms: "I understand what the general means, the so-called 'those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be punished' is this truth." ”

"You're a big rebel." Sun Shao pretended to be serious and pointed at Wei Ping and warned: "I want to kill my head." ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

(To be continued)