"Practice! Must practice! Not only must we train the new army, but also build big ships and train sailors! This group of pirates is too blind to anyone, and they dare to open fire to demonstrate, and they are simply blind! ”

Yang Shen's face was pale, and his anger had burned to the peak. He is the first genius of the Ming Dynasty, and there are few people among his peers in poetry and writing, which does not mean that there is no blood and backbone, and people who can shout in another time and space to raise soldiers in the country for a hundred and five years, how can they be courageless? A few shots, of course, could not frighten him. However, this kind of behavior made him unacceptable, and the pirates actually dared to fire cannons outside the Ningbo dock, which was an open contempt for the Ming court and the government. Failure to punish is not enough to outrage the people, nor is it enough to show the prestige of the country.

Everyone also knows in their hearts, and they can only believe half of what they said on the street. If it is a land battle, with the combat strength of two battalions of new troops, 10,000 pirates ashore can completely fight back. But with the current situation of the imperial court sailors, even if the four King Kongs are added, there is nothing they can do to take these gunboats at sea.

Hu Bingzhang said: "Xu Yang, it must be Xu Yang, the king of the sea!" Only he has such a bold amount to dare to come to Ningbo City to fire cannons, and only he has this kind of gunboat in his hands. I heard that he is friendly with Foyi, and he has a Franc machine gunboat in his hand, the ship is high and the guns are sharp, and if you go down with one cannon, you can erode ten miles......"

"Shut up!" Before the words fell, Zhejiang Buzheng Lin Shuiqing had already changed his face, "Hu Taishou, you are the head of a house, remember to be cautious between words and deeds, how can you talk nonsense and deceive people." A mere pirate, but also dare to be the king? How do you, the prefect of Ningbo, do things? ”

He bowed his hand to Yang Chengzu again, "Yang Qincha, the lower officials originally wanted to set up a banquet for all the meritorious soldiers to catch the wind and wash the dust, but now it seems that this banquet can't be eaten." Xiaguan will go back to Hangzhou to count the treasury, even if we smash the pot and sell iron, we must build a few of our own big ships. Don't let these pirates be able to act recklessly. ”

At this time, the scholars, on the whole, are still relatively available, with their own style and dignity, in the face of this kind of slap in the face, of course, they will think of some local interests, but more often, they will still take into account the dignity of the imperial court. Now there is no governor in Zhejiang, and Lin Shuiqing is nominally the highest official, and when he says this, he is expressing his position. The local government in Zhejiang, for a period of time, will adopt a supportive attitude towards the new army.

Yang Chengzu looked as usual, "Lin Fangbo, dissipate your anger, Xu Yang is just a pirate, and he can't be on the table." If because he brought a gang of bandits and made a fuss outside the city, we wouldn't eat and drink and celebrate, what would have happened? When he comes to fire a few cannons during the Chinese New Year, will we not be able to do it for the New Year? He fired his cannon, and we celebrated our achievements, without delay. He fired the cannon just to disgust us, if he was really disgusted, didn't he fall for his plan? If you want to talk about fire, even the Buddha has fire, but it's not such a way, one day, let's build a few more big ships, install more artillery, whoever dares to come to the sea to set off artillery, just sink him with a salvo, then it's called anger! ”

He looked at the crowd again, "Liegong, in fact, if you think about it, a few months ago, a group of thieves dared to burn, kill and loot in Ningbo City. The people of our city can only be slaughtered by the neck. And now, they only dare to shoot a few cannons at sea, and they don't even have the courage to get close to Ningbo, isn't this worth celebrating? ”

The faces of Lin Shuiqing and the others gradually improved, and Yang Shenyi arched his hand and said, "That's right, we not only want to celebrate, but also make it grander." Let those people take a look, we won't be intimidated by a few cannons and a bunch of thieves! The celebration banquet will be as usual! ”

Yang Shen expressed his attitude, which is equivalent to the attitude of the first assistant, and the next celebration and reward will be as usual. Hangzhou brought a large amount of polished rice, fat pigs and silver this time, full of sincerity.

In the banquet, Lin Shuiqing also focused on the Wuyi Xie family, this time the reward materials, eighty percent of the Xie family donations, in addition, Xie Zun also expressed his attitude, willing to donate a big ship, twenty Franc machines, for the country to suppress thieves. The person who asked for it only hoped that Yang Chengzu would write a plaque for him, thinking that it would be a show.

Although 6,000 people eating is a huge number, from the perspective of rewards, it is actually not much of an expense. These soldiers were easily dismissed, and each of them was given a reward of two taels of silver, a few catties of pork, and rice was released to the supply, and with refined fine salt, it made them feel like a New Year. Yang Chengzu also approved that each person should have two catties of pork, five catties of polished rice, and one catty of fine salt, which could be taken back to his family to eat, which made these new soldiers grateful.

After enlisting in the army or becoming Yang Ji's workers, these people's immediate families were basically taken out and placed by Yang Ji, which can ensure that they have no worries and are also hostages. If anyone rebels against water or disobeys military law on the battlefield, not only will they be punished, but even their family members will be disciplined.

With this combination of rewards and punishments, the new army can basically do it like an arm and a finger on the battlefield. Like these pork and other benefits, compared with Yang Ji's welfare, in fact, it has to be regarded as a small head, and the real big head is still on Yang Ji's side.

In the flower hall of the prefect's yamen, it is the special seat of the three divisions of Zhejiang and the eunuchs Huang Jin, Yang Shen, Yang Chengzu and others. At this kind of banquet, there was no girl from Qinglou to accompany her, but Yang Chengzu specially invited Xue Shi, president of the Ningbo Chamber of Commerce, to come over and drink together, which was considered to have raised her worth.

For this eunuch's wife, even if she has the status of a three-rank edict, no one will really treat her as a person in the system. But with the experience of eating at the same table this time, even if the people of the government deal with her in the future, they have to think about whether they can offend if they have eaten with Master Buzheng.

With that scene during the day, no one mentioned the matter of disarmament, and everyone discussed how to build ships, how to cast artillery, and how to raise a part of the food and salary to ensure that there was no shortage of supplies for the new army. Yang Shen improvised a few more poems, which commemorated this victory and received countless applause and praise.

By the time the wine was over, it was already the second watch, Yang Chengzu got into the carriage, and Leng Feishuang had already fallen into a fake sleep against the wall of the car. However, the martial artist's reaction was sensitive, and as soon as Yang Chengzu got into the car, she opened her eyes.

"You're not going to Xue Niangzi's side tonight? When you went back to Ningbo, I thought you had to go to her to sleep. ”

"No, she's tired today, go home and let her rest, I'll go back to my own pavilion. Besides, even though it's late at night, I can't tell who else is looking for me, and if I don't find anyone, I might cause some trouble. ”

"Xie Zun's plaque, that's it? If you refute the face of Bu Zheng, will there be trouble? ”

"What trouble can there be, Xie Zun is from Nanjing, but he is willing to give money to Zhejiang Buzheng, of course he has face on his face. If I help him get another boat, he'll have more face. But if I don't help, he won't say anything, and I won't get any benefit from the boat, so why should I help him? So if I don't answer, he won't say anything, it's all mixed up in officialdom, everyone understands this truth, and they won't really take it to heart. ”

The carriage was pressed on the stone road, and the two people in the car were silent for a moment, and Leng Feishuang said: "It's time for Xu Yang to come today, if it weren't for his artillery bombardment, I'm afraid it would be a trouble for the new army." Since ancient times, there has been a saying that it is not unreasonable to play with the Kou. The birds are all hidden, the rabbits are dead and the dogs are cooking, the Black Shark Gang has just been destroyed, and there are so many thieves on the sea, they want you to cut off the new army, and the people in the court are blind! ”