"Two million taels!"

As soon as this number came out, let alone everyone, even Zheng Zhilong was taken aback.

"Fourth brother, it's not that the eldest brother doesn't believe you, it's just that what you said is too exaggerated." Zheng Zhilong asked with some suspicion.

"No exaggeration, absolutely no exaggeration!" Zheng Zhibao's head shook like a drum, "Big brother, just ask Sen'er, everything I said is what I saw with my own eyes." ”

Without waiting for Zheng Zhilong's gaze to move to himself, Zheng Sen nodded and said, "Daddy, what the fourth uncle said is indeed the truth, and the child thinks that this number is only a small amount. Don't talk about anything else for the time being, let's talk about their farms, factories and mines, which are very prosperous now, and now Qingzhou is very popular with something called cement, which can not only be used to build houses, but also can be used to pave roads, repair bridges, etc., which is always very useful, and they have made a lot of money just by selling these. But their most profitable thing is not this, the most profitable thing is their refined salt! ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Sen's eyes flashed with a strange light. He paused before asking: "You may not know, Qingzhou has now invented a method that can refine coarse salt into refined salt, and it is not an exaggeration to rely on this method alone to say that they are making money every time they say that they are making money." The children have inquired, and according to the amount of salt they now produce every day, they have at least 500,000 taels of silver a month. ”

"Oh my God!" Listening to Zheng Sen's words, the eyes of the well-dressed adults in the hall who were wearing official uniforms and armor almost bulged out.

"His grandmother's, if we also have this craft, what kind of pirate are we, let's don't put our heads on the waistband of our trousers, and we can't do it as easily as others use seawater to boil salt, it's really annoying." A middle-aged man dressed in a five-grade military attache costume coveted it.

"That's it, let's go and grab this craft back, I don't believe it, with so many of our brothers, can't we move a small Qingzhou?" The people in the hall were agitated, and almost everyone in the crowd was clamoring for immediate troops.

"yes, fuck it!"

The crowd, who was stimulated by the huge interests to the point of almost cerebral congestion, roared as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, regardless of their image, and the hall was in an uproar!

At this time, it would be a lie to say that Zheng Zhilong was not moved, but as the leader of the Zheng family's military group, he had to consider the consequences if he turned against Qingzhou.

After a while, the noise in the hall gradually subsided, Zheng Zhilong stretched out his hands and pressed forward before he smiled: "Okay, everyone's mood can be understood, after all, although we have gained a lot over the years, we have a lot of people and a lot of expenses, and last year we had another fight with that Liu thief, and the loss was not small." Although we have a big family now, we also have a lot of places to use ships, except for the ships that run on the sea, the number of warships that can fight at this time will not exceed 300, and we have to leave a part of Quanzhou to guard Quanzhou, so that there will be fewer ships that can be used. ”

"Therefore, we have to think about how to use such a small number of troops to occupy the port of Qingzhou, rob them of their materials, and more importantly, capture the factory that produces refined salt, and plunder those craftsmen, this official believes that with those craftsmen, we don't have to worry about silver anymore." Zheng Zhilong stroked the short beard under his chin, and said as he groaned.

When everyone heard Zheng Zhilong say this, they knew that he had agreed to this matter, and patted their chests one by one and said: "Don't worry about the big boss, with our brother's ability, we don't dare to say that we will capture Qingzhou, isn't it a matter of ten times to capture a small port and a small hillside?" ”

"Hmm." Zheng Zhilong nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, then this time Sen'er and the fourth brother will go with thirty big ships and six hundred small warships, what do you think?" ”

Everyone saw that Zheng Sen was the future successor cultivated by Zheng Zhilong, and it was right to go through the training, Zheng Zhibao was a famous fierce general, there should be no problem for these two people to go, ninety warships to surround and beat ten Dafu boats, no matter what, it should be enough, thinking of this, everyone nodded and agreed.

"We listen to the big guys." Everyone nodded in unison, although everyone had accepted Zhao'an and each had an official position, but they still called Zheng Zhilong according to their previous habits, Zheng Zhilong didn't care, but liked everyone to call himself so, and he called it nostalgia.

In this way, the Zheng pirate group had already exposed the butcher's knife to Qingzhou in the distance, but Pang Gang at this time still knew nothing about what happened in Quanzhou.

The harbor of Wanghai Fort in November was quiet, and the icy sea breeze drifted over the harbor, when all the ships moored in the harbor dropped their sails, leaving only the bare masts on board. Although the fleet did not go to sea, there were still many sailors busy on the deck.

It turned out that the Qingzhou sailors were dressed the same as the Daming sailors, and they were all short coats designed to facilitate activities on the ship, but when Pang Gang, who was idle, was a little dissatisfied with the Qingzhou sailors after inspecting them again, and under the training of those North Korean sailors, the Qingzhou sailors at this time laid the foundation, but also inherited some of the problems of the North Korean sailors, that is, people are superfluous.

There are a lot of sailors on the ship, a lot of work, so there are many opportunities to be lazy, such as grinding a small foreign worker, stealing a little lazy, it is very easy, there are only a few captains, first mates and other officers on the ship, it is impossible for everyone to keep an eye on it, and the work efficiency is not very high. Regarding this situation, Pang Gang also told Li Xiaojun, the commander of the North Korean naval division who was in charge of training, but Li Gang spread his hands and said very simply that they had nothing to do about this problem.

For this question, Pang Gang also thought about it for a few days, and when one day Pang Gang suddenly recalled the pictures on the American aircraft carriers broadcast on TV in the later world, the sailors of different colors suddenly came to his mind. He remembered that although there were as many as two or three thousand sailors on the Yankee aircraft carrier, they were all in an orderly manner both in training and in wartime, performing their duties, and there was no trace of confusion.

Although this may be attributed to their personal qualities and the development of communications in later generations, there is one point that cannot be ignored, that is, the clothes of each of their sailors have their own unique colors of work, which looks clear at a glance, thinking of this, Pang Gang had an idea, and also issued an armband to each of the sailors of the Qingzhou Sailors, and issued a strict order, no one is allowed to take it off when they are on the ship, otherwise they will be severely punished.

Pang Gang issued different colors of armbands to sailors at various posts, such as the helmsman's armband is red, the sailman's armband is yellow, the gunner's armband is blue, and the rigger's armband is gray. As a result, at first glance, the armbands of each sailor on board are different, and they look a little messy.

In fact, it is very convenient in the eyes of the captain and first mate and other officers, and at a glance, it will be clear what position this sailor should do.

Hey, the helmsman with the red armband on his shoulder ran to the deck and dangled, what do you want to do? Idle? You, the rigger with the old armband, ran to the gun position, and if you hit a friendly army, you will be responsible?

In this way, each ship has as few as a few dozen people and as many as several hundred, and it would have been difficult to have the chief mate in charge. Now it's okay, everyone is clear what to do and what not to do, as long as you do something that is not in line with your profession, there will be strange looks from people next to you, and it will also attract scolding from the officers.

In this way, the training level of the sailors has also been greatly improved, and even Li Xiaojun, the commander of the North Korean sailors, was very surprised by this, he never expected that this general, who seemed to know nothing about sailors, would be able to come up with such a good idea, which would improve the efficiency of the sailors on the ship a lot.

In the harbor of Wanghai Fort, in the command cabin of the largest Spanish galleon, Tu Hai, the commander of the Qingzhou Naval Division, and Mo Hui, the deputy commander, were sitting in the cabin looking intently at the charts.

Tu Hai and Mo Hui were looking at the map while gesturing, and their eyes were constantly looking towards the north side of the map.

In order to speed up the development of the naval division, at this time Pang Gang had already sent people to open up two other ports on Shenmi Island and Weihaiwei, and in Pang Gang's plan, the Qingzhou naval division should be divided into at least three fleets, a total of three to five hundred ships, and only when the fleet reached this scale could it have the basic ability to defend the sea frontier.

Now Tu Hai is eager to spend all his time training sailors and building ports. Because he knew that what the Qingzhou Navy Division lacked was not ships or silver, but well-trained sailors and officers, and this shortcoming also made Tuhai often distressed.

After all, a qualified sailor officer, without more than one or two years of training and study, is simply not good, in order to maximize the expansion of the sailor, now Tuhai is desperately recruiting sailors, and Shenmi Island is one of the very important sailor bases.

Slowly rubbing his eyes, Tu Hai said: "Commander Mo, we have recruited another 3,000 sailors recently, but the huge number of people has ordered these people to be sent to Shenmi Island for training. ”

Mo Hui said: "Okay, but I heard that those North Koreans are going back, is that so?" ”

"Yes." Tu Hai nodded: "They've been here long enough, let's go back." And I don't like those people either, they always talk and act with a small family spirit, and they even buckle the rope when they conduct a live-fire training, which is not happy. ”

Mo Hui couldn't help laughing, "Commander Tu, if you let Commander Li hear this, he will be angry." ”

"If you're angry, be angry, that kid, the level is there, but he likes to hide and tuck it too much, and he refuses to teach anything wholeheartedly, which makes people anxious." Tu Hai waved his hand, "It's better to get out of here as soon as possible, so as not to waste our food in vain!" ”

"Knock Knock"

Just as Tuhai was spitting out bitterness, there was a rapid knock at the door.

(To be continued)