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The Red Army fleet escorted the Kunpeng fleet around the South China Sea, showing its own strength, so that Xiaoxiao did not dare to move. In this way, when they come to do business in the future, even without the escort of the Red Army fleet, no one will dare to come to trouble the Kunpeng fleet. In any case, this fleet transports so many goods, and it still has to be escorted by warships, and those pirates are not afraid, but they are afraid that Taiwan's Zheng family will come to such a sudden come. If you lose this fleet, it is enough to feel distressed, it is better to let the navy accompany the escort, so that the safety is ensured, and the navy is trained, killing two birds with one stone!

Then again, since the Zheng family secretly formed an alliance with Geng Jingzhong, they have gained a lot of benefits from Fujian. In the past year, the Zheng family has sailed generously in the Taiwan Strait, the number of ships coming and going has greatly increased, and a large number of goods have been transported to Taiwan, which has promoted the economic prosperity of the two places. As a matter of fact, cross-strait trade is the most beneficial to Taiwan, and as far as Geng Ching-chung is concerned, even if he does not have Taiwan, he will still do business with Westerners, and even if he does not do business, it will not have a fundamental impact on his Geng family. However, as far as Taiwan is concerned, without Fujian, it will be controlled everywhere, and the people of Taiwan will be unstable in the people's mind, and will even shake the morale of the military.

Taiwan and the mainland are one and the same, and most of the military and civilians on the island are from Fujian, and they do not want the two sides of the strait to be separated for a long time. Therefore, the Zheng family did not dare to come to trouble Geng Jingzhong's fleet, in addition to the strength of the Mawei Navy, this is the most important piece. Once Taiwan and Fujian were completely hostile, Geng Jingzhong was furious and sent troops to garrison the coast to completely seal the sea. Then he Zheng Jingke will be in trouble.

In the following days, Geng Jingzhong was much easier. There is no shortage of silver in his own hands. The two formations are still earning money, and all parts under their command are working at full speed. Offshore formations shuttle back and forth along the coast of China. The Kunpeng fleet is also constantly coming and going from the south to the north. A large amount of silver flowed into Fujian, into Jiangnan and other places, and the good life of the people of Fujian officially began!

Time flies, a year and a half has passed!

In the past year and a half, the whole province of Fujian has undergone earth-shaking changes. The number of poor people in Fujian Province has been greatly reduced, and as long as they are not physically disabled or people in the deep mountains and old forests, all of them have something to do, earn money, and have something to eat. As long as you are willing to work hard. It is not said that there is still a shortage of food and clothing, counting all provinces in the country, there is no province that can compare with Fujian.

In the past year and a half, the most lively is the highway construction sites in various places, tens of thousands of people work for various road management companies, and one by one the roads have been built quickly. The first is the 200-mile highway from the port to the starting point of the town, which was successfully built at the end of that year, according to Geng Jingzhong's requirements, the width of ten zhang can accommodate four or two carriages in parallel. As soon as the road was repaired and opened to traffic. It attracted wealthy people from several prefectures and counties in Fujian to come to watch and experience. What would have taken at least five days to travel now takes half a day, a tenfold increase in efficiency. It may sound like an exaggeration, but think of a rainy day. The dirt roads were simply impassable, and five days was the shortest.

Such a cement road, even on a rainy day. As long as it's not raining, the caravan can still move forward. It also thoroughly communicated with Zhangzhou and Longyan. This makes the connection between the two places closer. Zhangzhou, Longyan, Xiamen three families jointly formed the road company, but also set up the first real toll station in history on the road. Officially opened. Horse-drawn carriages with the word "Road Administration" written on their bodies also ran on the main road, and for this reason, the exchanges between the people of the two places increased more than tenfold compared to the past.

With this road as an example, there is no need for Geng Jingzhong to say more, and families from all over the country spontaneously formed groups, and then gathered in the Jingnan Royal Mansion in Fuzhou to take the initiative to ask for the construction project. Because they know that with the participation of the son of the world in this matter, it is equivalent to a layer of insurance, otherwise, don't think about setting up a toll station to make money. Soon, in addition to the two highways from Mawei to Fuzhou City and Fuqing to Changle that are being built here in Fuzhou, road construction between various prefectures and counties in Fujian has also begun rapidly. Along the original official road, the flat road of the flat road, the widening of the widening.

Among them, as the most important raw material, cement has become a hot commodity, and various prefectures and counties have begun to open cement kilns on a large scale, digging stones and firing cement. The kiln is also a labor-intensive place, so the kiln owner must also recruit a lot of people to work in the kiln. The construction of highways has brought along the people of the whole province, and this kind of scene of the whole province engaging in large-scale construction has never appeared in the history of Fujian.

In addition to the construction of roads, the two ports are the busiest. Many foreign merchants heard that Geng Jingzhong had used the ports of Yuegang and Houyu as treaty ports that could be traded, and more and more caravans came to Fujian. The changes in Yuegang are not too big, but the changes in Houyu Port are big! In the vicinity of Houyu Port, the two towns of Tantou Town and Kezhen Town have been turned into an economic development zone, and a large area of land has been bought by businessmen from other places to build a factory area, and a large number of workers have been recruited to work here, which has also attracted many people from Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces. Needless to say, this method was also thought of by Geng Jingzhong, which was processed on the spot around the port, and the products produced were pulled to the wharf on the spot and loaded directly on the ship, which was convenient and saved freight.

Nowadays, these products are basically handmade, which requires a large number of workers. There are not too many skilled workers, so that skilled masters take apprentices, and those who are willing to teach the craft are given higher wages. This includes weaving, pottery, paper art, embroidery, woodwork, etc., which also makes the port more prosperous. This handmade product making process has a long history of making zuò in our country, and it is a treasure of Chinese culture and art. Westerners value the long history, exquisite skills, and rich categories of Chinese handicrafts, and many hand-me-down masterpieces are well-known at home and abroad.

Except for some regional ceramics, tea and other materials, almost all other handicrafts are processed here. In the past year or so, the skilled masters recruited from all over the world have also brought out many outstanding apprentices, and at the same time, they have also trained a large number of ordinary workers. Traditional craft products are not only cultural artworks, but also daily necessities, which are closely related to people's lives. Therefore, it is very popular with people of all countries. Especially those Westerners who see these exquisite items. That's really lovely, so many locals feel that they haven't seen the market!

Last year, two major earthquakes struck Shandong in March and August. Numerous casualties were immense. After Geng Jingzhong received the secret report, he ordered the fleet that happened to be in the south of the Yangtze River to purchase a large amount of grain on the spot and send it to Shandong for disaster relief, and the transfer speed was very fast. Twice in a row, the Qing court saw the convenience of sea ship transportation, but unfortunately Kangxi still did not order the lifting of the ban on the sea. There was no way, the offshore formation later went north, and every time it was either under the banner of buying grain or going to Beijing to supply, so that others did not have a good interface to attack him. And every time I go north, a large number of gifts will be sent to the capital, and no one will jump out to find trouble so blindly. Occasionally, a few small fish are impeached. Kangxi didn't pay attention to it, after all, he didn't have the time to be a vassal king now. Once the vassal king and Ao Bai are forced to really join forces, I am afraid that my position will not be able to sit still! Therefore, turn a blind eye!

Although the imperial court did not lift the ban on the sea, this article seems to be a fictitious article in Fujian. The two ports were extremely busy, and ships from all over the world came in and out, although some people reported to the Qing court, but Kangxi only didn't see it. Driven by maritime trade, the scale of the shipyards in various places is constantly expanding. Even coastal villages and towns have started to build their own boats to go to the sea to fish. The grain grown by the common people does not need to be sold to the north, but the fruits grown can be sent to the north in large quantities. Until the last two trips to the north, there were actually many merchants driving their own small sea boats. Follow the troubled waters behind the offshore formation.

The Mawei Navy has not been honest for a year and a half, although the pirates at sea have seen that they are hiding far away, but Geng Jingzhong has not let them go. A year and a half. The Mawei Navy made three sorties in a row and swept a large area of islands, including the waters of Zhejiang and Guangdong. Countless pirates were captured. After these people were cut off, they were basically honest. Those who are willing to join the Navy. Those who do not want to help grow opium poppy on the islands. Geng Jingzhong promised them that they would be good, and after three years, he would let them go ashore and return to the mainland to become ordinary people.

After the first batch of more than 4,000 pirates was recruited in two years, nearly 10,000 pirates were recruited one after another. At present, the size of the Mawei Navy is controlled at 60,000 men, of which the original Tiger Army is the main team of the Marine Corps with a total of 22,000 men, and the Navy is a little more numerous, reaching 36,000 men, 16,000 more than the Marine Army. The Marine Corps was divided into twenty-two battalions, each commanded by one Thousand Households and two Deputy Thousand Households. The establishment of this pre-Ming Dynasty is very similar, each battalion has jurisdiction over ten brigades, each team has 100 people, and is led by a hundred household officials, that is, the captain. The following is not called the general flag and small flag as before, but it has been uniformly changed to the squadron leader and squad leader, a squad of ten people, and five squadrons for a squadron.

On the navy's side, due to the launching of two more groups of warships, the number of third-class warships has reached 60, and these 60 warships alone require 36,000 men, but in fact each warship has only 500 men, which is not fully manned. In addition to sixty huge ships, there were hundreds of small warships as frigates of large ships, of which 6,000 were on ordinary frigates. Naval Commander Wang Zhenbang and Deputy Commander Huang Dazhong became the most high-spirited figures. Commanding nearly 40,000 navies, this is something they never dared to think of before, and the blueprint that Geng Jingzhong sketched for them before has now slowly become a reality.

It's just that Wang Zhenbang still has a knot in his heart that has not been solved, that is, he is bent on going to Kyushu Island to avenge his previous revenge. Geng Jingzhong had promised him that after the second batch of warships were launched, he would lead the team to take revenge, but unfortunately he broke his promise. Geng Jingzhong thought that the Ascension Immortal Scatter was now popularizing among the Japanese people, and when Kyushu Island was eroded and the Mawei Navy was more powerful, he would be able to take revenge, and he could achieve the greatest victory at the lowest cost!

In the end, the remaining 2,000 men of the whole army were the escort battalions that Li Guangdi insisted on forming. These two battalions were responsible for Geng Jingzhong's security work, and their training was the hardest, and their overall combat strength was the highest in the whole army. After such a long period of development, Geng Jingzhong is no longer afraid of anyone, even the Zheng family in Taiwan opposite, and he can also face the enemy without falling behind! (To be continued......)

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