Martial Arts Academy, Confidential Room.

Zhu Daolin listened to Fu Yinglong's report on the situation and immediately gave instructions: If this person is allowed to leave with the information of the new large-tonnage warship, it will certainly pose a huge threat to his own navy, and if these design materials, which are 200 years more advanced than any other country, are transmitted overseas, the losses brought will be unpredictable.

Fu Yinglong stood up and nodded heavily, and Zhu Daolin motioned for him to wait: "There are still two things that need to be handled as soon as possible, one is to send a group of suitable young people from the first batch of students and advanced officer cadets of the Martial Arts Academy to enter the Intelligence Bureau as soon as possible, and then send them out for training for half a year." ”

"The second is to immediately order the brothers at Baoshan Station to investigate the officers at all levels who frequently enter Baoshan Xingang and Shanghai County, and the 1st Marine Division will soon go to Yingzhou to carry out adaptation training, and once the Dutch and Zheng Zhilong have won or lost, we will immediately attack the city of Gerancha and recover the entire Yingzhou Island in one fell swoop."

"Yes!"

Fu Yinglong was extremely excited in his heart, these two orders completely dispelled the worries in his heart, and from then on he really became Zhu Daolin's right-hand man.

After seeing Fu Yinglong leave, Zhu Daolin took out a match, lit a few secret reports, and then washed his hands and sat down to drink tea, silently considering whether to divide the rapidly growing intelligence bureau under his command into two.

After weighing it repeatedly, Zhu Daolin finally felt that it was better to maintain the status quo.

With Diao Meifang, her unassuming but extremely loyal henchman, secretly joined the Intelligence Bureau two months ago and assumed the post of deputy in charge of internal affairs, the Intelligence Bureau has finally made up for its biggest shortcomings, has a basic framework, and has an indispensable system of internal supervision and funding review.

In such a situation, it is not advisable to have any major initiatives, otherwise it is easy to cause chaos.

Nearly half of the personnel of the intelligence bureau that belongs to Zhu Daolin come from the gradually collapsing Dongchang system, and so far, few people in the outside world know about the existence of this intelligence bureau.

Fu Yinglong, director of the Intelligence Bureau, is still a thousand households in Dongchang, and the two deputy directors are Li Kuanji, the new commander of the Nanjing Firearms Bureau, and Diao Meifang, the head of the audit office of the staff group.

Even Ye Liangchen, the chief of staff, and Wu Jingxian, the eunuch of Nanjing, did not know that this organization existed, although they knew that Fu Yinglong, a thousand households in the Jiangnan Yamen of Dongchang, was close to Zhu Daolin, and often reported news to Zhu Daolin, but they thought that at most they had taken the silver rewarded by Zhu Daolin and used their positions to do a few shady things.

This situation is what Ye Liangchen and Wu Jingxian are happy to see, the two of them have a bad relationship with Zhu Daolin, one is prosperous and the other is lost, so they will not think of a deeper place, at least not for now.

Zhu Daolin threw his energy into the war-torn southern seas.

In the naval battle, which lasted more than two months, Zheng Zhilong and the Fujian Navy Division had lost more than 100 large and small warships and merchant ships, and successfully provoked hatred from all walks of life in Fujian against foreign invaders.

According to intelligence, the Yamen of Fujian's political secretary has issued a proclamation that "200 taels of silver will be rewarded for burning a Dutch ship, and 50 taels of silver will be awarded for obtaining a Dutchman's head", and it was decided that the final battle between the two sides to control the sea power, the "Battle of Liuluo Bay," was about to start, and the time for expansion that Zhu Daolin had been waiting for was about to come.

For this fleeting opportunity, Zhu Daolin planned for a year, and did not hesitate to risk sending most of the warships to visit Europe, limiting his footsteps to Tamsui Port and the barren Hsinchu and not taking a single step, successfully concealing his own purpose, creating illusions and paralysis for the Dutch and Zheng Zhilong.

Zhu Daolin's only concern was that Zheng Zhilong won too quickly.

Although Zheng Zhilong, who won the battle of Liuluo Bay in history, recovered the Penghu Islands, he did not pursue the Dutch with victory, let alone attack the Dutch stronghold in Tainan, but bit his old rival Liu Xiang to the death, and after chasing Liu Xiang to the waters of Nanao Island to destroy Liu Xiang, he still did not stop and continued to ruthlessly attack the pirates entrenched in the coastal areas of Guangdong.

It took more than two years for Zheng Zhilong to completely grasp the sea control power of Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and then returned to Fujian's old nest.

However, Zhu Daolin was still worried that there would be changes in history, and if Zheng Zhilong, who was stronger than the original, changed his strategy and drove away the Dutch to occupy Tainan, Zhu Daolin would never dare to risk being poked in the backbone by the people of the world to send troops south, and a yellow bird would capture Tainan later.

Zhu Daolin, who was mature in his consideration, issued an order the next morning to mobilize the four main warships of the North Sea Fleet to go south to help in the battle, and then personally went to the Longtan barracks, and in the name of long-distance training, transferred 3,000 recruits who had completed six months of basic training to Baoshanwei, and then secretly transported them to the Hsinchu area of Yingzhou to take over the defense, so that the 6,500 elites of the Longtan Army, who were already familiar with the climate of the island and had repeatedly encircled and suppressed the local resistance against the natives, could free up their hands and quickly go south with the navy to eliminate the Dutch and completely occupy the entire Yingzhou Island.

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In the evening, Zhu Daolin hurried home from Longtan for less than three hours, and his beloved wife Xiaoying gave birth to his eldest son weighing eight catties.

After the ecstatic Zhu Daolin finished talking to his beloved wife, he came to his beloved wife with his crying son, his eyes full of rich love and excited tears.

Before Zhu Daolin woke up from his great happiness, the Hushan Manor and Ziyangguan area within a radius of ten miles resounded with festive firecrackers and cheers, and the bell ringing in Ziyangguan echoed leisurely.

The news soon spread to the city of Jinling.

The nobles and hundreds of wealthy businessmen who received the good news hurriedly took out the congratulatory gifts that had been prepared long ago and rushed to the main courtyard of Hushan.

Looking at the various people who kept rushing to Hushan Manor to congratulate him, the officers and soldiers defending the city found that there were so many people from all walks of life who missed Zhu Daolin. (To be continued.) )