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A change of military clothing made the people in Fuzhou City a lot of money. More than 40,000 soldiers need a total of more than 300,000 sets of military uniforms, and such a large order is not enough even for all the ready-to-wear shops in Fuzhou City combined, not to mention that His Royal Highness the Prince of the World wants it relatively tightly.

These merchants were also quite smart, and they summoned the ordinary people in Fuzhou to help sew, and the wages they paid were three times that of usual. In this way, a vigorous national military uniform movement began. In addition to opening up a large number of places to recruit manpower, the ready-to-wear shop also spread orders to ordinary people's homes, and the women who were idle at home sewed together, and the military uniforms made were finally inspected by Geng Jingzhong.

In addition to the garment shops and the people who made money, there were also cotton cloth merchants in the city, who also made a lot of money. The cloth needed for more than 300,000 sets of military uniforms was not enough in the whole city of Fuzhou, and while the female workers were sewing quickly, the cotton cloth merchants also urgently mobilized a large number of supplies from the surrounding cities to supply Fuzhou's needs.

In this way, after more than a month of intensive production, the summer single-shirt military uniform was sewn. As for the winter military uniform, it will take a lot of time, the winter military uniform is not as simple as the summer one, it is very troublesome to sew, there are a lot of materials, usually two single clothes can be completed in one day, but a winter coat takes at least three days. However, Geng Jingzhong was not in a hurry, and gave these bosses plenty of time, after all, it was still early in winter.

Fuzhou is busy everywhere, and Geng Jingzhong also thought of the starting point town in Longyan. The starting point town has devoted more than three months of hard work, and I don't know how it is developing now. He once thought about developing the starting point town model in other places, but there is no intensive industry in other places, and there is no foundation for development. In the future, this model of starting point town will definitely be promoted, which is like an industrial park in later generations. If we want to develop, agriculture alone will never work, and industry is the fundamental road to prosperity and strength.

The rulers of all dynasties have forbidden mining, believing that mining is the essence of heaven and earth, and mining will shake the luck of the imperial court. Geng Jingzhong doesn't think so at all, the mineral deposits are all dead things, and if they are not mined, they will be wasted, how can they be developed.

It just so happened that there was nothing to do here in Fuzhou, and after more than a month of training at sea, the navy soldiers had already formed various tactical queues, so Geng Jingzhong decided to take the navy to Zhangzhou in the south. His purpose is to patrol Moon Harbor and the starting point town inside, while the navy's mission is to conduct a voyage training and prepare for a big battle with the pirates.

"See the Son!"

"Well, Lao Wang, Dazhong, are you ready?" Geng Jingzhong looked at the two naval commanders and asked with a smile.

Wang Zhenbang and Huang Dazhong glanced at each other, and Huang Dazhong said first: "Back to the world, everything is ready." According to your orders, the artillery and ammunition are ready, but"

"What do you have to say!" Geng Jingzhong raised his eyelids and motioned for Huang Dazhong to continue.

"Shizi, are we leaving some warships to watch the house! You've taken it all out, and Fuzhou is empty! It turned out that Geng Jingzhong felt that it was not enough to set off with only twenty warships, so he brought some other warships with him.

However, the guns on the third-class battleships were not yet complete, so Geng Jingzhong ordered all the guns on some old ships and ships with poor performance to be removed and installed on the battleships, and the entire fleet was given priority to the configuration of twenty third-class battleships. As a result, there were few more than twelve-pound cannons left on the remaining ships. However, Geng Jingzhong fought with the third-class warships as the main force, and the other warships were auxiliary.

When it came to the real battle, the Red Army group of the third class of battleships was the first to attack and beat it hard, and then the other warships attacked. If the Red Army group can't handle it either, it's useless for other warships to rush up. For this reason, Geng Jingzhong took away all the combat fleet, which made Huang Dazhong a little anxious, he always thought that he had to leave some caretakers.

However, Geng Jingzhong also had his reasons for doing this: "Heh, Dazhong, let me ask you, has the fort of Monkey Island been built?" ”

Huang Dazhong was stunned for a moment, and began to ask rhetorically before his question was answered, but he still replied honestly: "It's been built, all of them are built with cement concrete and stones, which is stronger than the one on the side of the military port!" ”

"Then do you think that with these two forts to watch the house, which one of the other people who is not long-eyed enters the mouth of the Min River?"

"That" Huang Dazhong was speechless for a moment, but he still continued: "But Shizi, you have dismantled all the cannons, and the thirty warships left in the military port are useless?" It would be a waste to pull it to be a merchant ship! ”

Geng Jingzhong was speechless, this elm head, he didn't see his intentions, but Wang Zhenbang saw it early on. It seems that he is right to only let him be in charge of training and logistics, and it is still Wang Zhenbang who commands this matter. "My ocean-going company can be ocean-going merchant ships, those ships are not very powerful for combat, but they are excellent for merchant ships. Okay, you stay at home and take care of it, take a good look at the mouth of the Minjiang River, if there is an enemy sneaking in and causing sabotage, I will ask you! ”

Huang Dazhong immediately saluted: "Yes, I promise to complete the task!" ”

As soon as Huang Dazhong finished speaking, Wang Zhenbang said: "Shizi, this time you go to sea, do you want to bring some brothers from the Marine Army, after all, they are still more powerful in attacking the island." ”

"Yes, yes, how did I forget about that. Land attack is their job, if you are allowed to do it, Uncle Ma and their side should have the boss's opinion! I'll talk to Uncle Ma in a moment. ”

From Mawei in Fuzhou to Yuegang in Zhangzhou, more than 700 miles by sea, if you drive at full strength, you can arrive in just one day and one night. Geng Jingzhong and his entourage were stunned and sailed on the sea for three days, during which the Red Army fleet stopped and stopped, and came to the field for training from time to time, so a lot of time was delayed like this. However, these Geng Jingzhong and the others didn't care, and they just took this opportunity to see how the navy's tactics, queues, etc. were trained!

In the past six months, the port has become more prosperous due to the great increase in trade with Taiwan. After Zheng Jing reached an alliance agreement with Geng Jingzhong, he did not send sailors to harass the coastal areas of Fujian, so that the coastal people lived some peaceful days. Taiwan's merchant ships would always carry a large number of goods from Yuegang under the banner of Westerners, either for their own use or to sell them elsewhere, which Geng Jingzhong also allowed.

The Zheng family was a maritime merchant and naturally knew the importance of trade. The income from guò trade can be much stronger than coastal raids. Geng Jingzhong is even more happy, while eliminating a major enemy, he can continue to grow, and he is a prosperous province of Fujian, killing three birds with one stone, why not!

"There seem to be more boats here than before!" Geng Jingzhong couldn't help but sigh to himself.

"Yes, Shizi, I remember the last time I came here, it was at most half of what it is now, why is it so much more in less than a year?" Yang Jian has been following Geng Jingzhong's side, and it can be said that he is quite familiar with the situation in this place.

"I don't think it's strange, this kind of small boat of one or two hundred stones is very easy to build, if the Mawei Shipyard completely transforms this kind of boat, it can build three or four hundred boats in half a year!" Lee Kwang-di also used to live by the sea, so he knows this kind of ship very well. This kind of wide ship is a kind of wide ship, but it is the smallest, and it can only wander in the offshore sea, and the slightly larger wind and waves cannot withstand it at all. But it's enough to flicker around the moon harbor!

Geng Jingzhong and the others were chatting on the battleship, but they didn't know that Yuegang was already in trouble at the moment. As soon as the sixty or seventy warships of the Red Army fleet appeared, the ships in the harbor prepared to evade and flee, thinking that the Western Fleet had entered the country. However, when he saw the tiger flag on a blue background hanging high on the mast of the fleet, he immediately stood there, forgetting even what he was going to do.

The size of the No. 2 Fuchuan was already considered a giant for these merchants, and half of the Western merchant ships were not as big as the No. 2 Fukufu. But twenty red behemoths suddenly appeared in front of them, which made them feel like they were in a dream. After staying for a while, I don't know who started first, "Oooh! Cheers up! For these maritime merchants, the stronger the world to defend their maritime trade, the better!

The most surprising thing in the Moon Harbor were the Western caravans that stayed here, they were quite knowledgeable, and there were not many warships like this in their country. There are more in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and in other European countries, there are only twenty or thirty ships in one country. On both sides of the red side of the battleship, the black hole of the cannon muzzle gave them a strong deterrent, and I believe that these Westerners will be more humble from now on.