[Today's first update]

Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here!

Just as Deng Haonan and Lin Feng and others were discussing how to arrange these new students of the Martial Arts Academy, Huang Zupei came back from Ryukyu.

"How's it going?" As soon as Deng Haonan saw Huang Zupei, he immediately asked.

Huang Zupei said with a smile: "Brother Haonan, fortunately not disgraced!" ”

"Great!" Deng Haonan and everyone were overjoyed, and hurriedly asked Huang Zupei to sit down, asked someone to make tea and pour water, and ordered him to explain in detail.

A month earlier, Huang Zupei had been ordered by Deng Haonan to go to the Ryukyus to find a suitable place for secret development. Huang Zupei took more than a dozen disciples of the martial arts hall and first went to the head of the Ryukyu king capital to meet the Ryukyu king Shang Feng.

Shang Feng attached great importance to the Daming maritime merchants, and immediately summoned Huang Zupei and his party.

During this period, Huang Zupei wanted to establish a trading post in Ryukyu on the grounds of trade with the Ryukyus and expand the maritime trade between the Ming Dynasty and the Ryukyus.

In this regard, the king of the Ryukyus, Shoho, was naturally very happy to agree, because it would bring him a large amount of taxes. Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that Huang Zupei used gold and silver jewelry and fine silk, as well as two thousand taels of silver, to bribe the concubines and eunuchs around Shang Feng in advance.

On the issue of site selection, Shangfeng originally hoped that Huang Zupei would set up the trading post at Shuri Port. If Huang Zupei is just doing business, it would be best to choose Shuri. However, Deng Haonan was preparing to build a naval base in secret, so it was naturally not possible to live in a lively place.

So Huang Zupei told Shang Feng that their merchant ships were all armed merchant ships, and there were even foreign sea ships, and that staying in Shuri Port would frighten other merchants, so he hoped to establish a trading post on Shannan Island in southern Ryukyu, and at the same time hoped that Shang Feng would allow the merchant post to have its own armed forces.

When Shang Feng heard that Huang Zupei still had a big ship in Xiyi? Immediately looked at him with admiration. Shang Feng had never seen a Ming merchant get the Xiyi ship, and he also knew how powerful the Xiyi ship was, so he admired the person in charge behind Huang Zupei very much. Thinking that it didn't matter where to build a business station, he had to pay taxes on time anyway, so Shang Feng agreed to Huang Zupei's request.

Then, Huang Zupei and his party left Shuri and went straight to Shannan Island.

Shannan Island is located at the southern tip of the Ryukyu Islands, with an area of more than 150 square kilometers, in the shape of a crescent moon, and there are several small islands nearby, among which Xiaonanshan Island is round, like a sun, and Shannan Island forms the shape of the sun and the moon, that is, Ming.

After the end of the era of the three kings of the Ryukyus, the king of Zhongshan unified the Ryukyus, and the king of Shannan suffered the heaviest losses, and Shannan Island originally had more than 10,000 residents, but at this time there were only more than 2,000 people.

This is also the reason why Huang Zupei chose here, because the total population of the Ryukyu Kingdom is about 200,000, and ninety percent of it is concentrated in Zhongshan and Shanbei, and choosing other places is not conducive to Deng Haonan's development.

At the same time, since the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, after the Ming Dynasty accepted Ryukyu as a vassal state, Zhu Yuanzhang moved the thirty-six surnames of Fujian into Ryukyu to assimilate the Ryukyuan people and let them accept the Central Plains culture. Most of these descendants of the Ming Dynasty live in Zhongshan and Shanbei, and they often come to play with the brotherhood alliance. In order to keep the secret of Deng Haonan's naval base in the Ryukyus, Huang Zupei needed to avoid the residential areas of these Ming descendants.

After arriving at Shannan Island, Huang Zupei showed the warrant given to him by the Ryukyu King Shangfeng, and Shannan Island County Commander Shangqi took Huang Zupei to survey the terrain everywhere.

There are many natural harbors on Shannan Island, but most of them are shallow waters, and only ships of 50 to 100 tons can be berthed. Under Huang Zupei's bribe, after Shang Qi received five hundred taels of silver from him, he immediately took Huang Zupei to the southwest near Xiaonan Mountain in a small boat.

Xiaonanshan is a hill with an altitude of 300 meters, at the edge of the dense forest in the northeast, there is a bank wall of more than 100 meters on the left and right, the surrounding water depth is six meters, the water surface is wide, and the opening is moderate. The waterway is in the opposite direction, but it is facing the southwest, just in the tuyere, which can dock more than 2,000 tons of large ships, it is a natural harbor, and it is a water village that is easy to defend and difficult to attack with a little transformation.

Huang Zupei asked Shang Qi if outsiders knew about this? Shang Qi shook his head, no one else knew. Shannan Island has a relatively flat terrain, a lot of arable land, and the population on the island is not large, so it can be self-sufficient and does not need to buy grain from Daming. At the same time, the surrounding water is shallow, and there are few sea boats coming. Xiaonanshan Island is densely forested, the mountains are steep and uncultivated, and it is separated from Shannan Island by the sea, so no one lives there.

Huang Zupei was overjoyed, and immediately selected Xiaonanshan Island as a naval base, and gave Shang Qi 300 taels of silver ingots, asking him to keep it a secret.

As soon as he was ready, Huang Zupei left a few people to explore the terrain, and he came back to inform Deng Haonan.

"Great!" After listening to Huang Zupei's narration, Deng Haonan was overjoyed.

Huang Zupei took a sip of tea and continued: "Xiaonanshan is not big, but it is not small, there are dense forests on it, which can be harvested and used to build water villages and repair warships. The mountains and rocks are rugged, which can block the attack of cannonballs, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

Deng Haonan nodded and said, "The matter of building the water village will be handed over to Brother Huang!" I have trained enough manpower here, I will leave three hundred people, and the rest of Brother Huang will all be taken to build a water village! ”

Huang Zupei said: "Without further ado! I'll take them out tonight! ”

Deng Haonan said: "There is no need to be in such a hurry! Brother Huang should rest for the night first, and it's not too late to leave tomorrow! ”

Huang Zupei shook his head and said, "I'm full of energy now!" Fix the camp a day earlier, let's be more down-to-earth, aren't we? Besides, I'm on a boat, I can rest on the boat, Brother Haonan don't have to worry about me! ”

Deng Haonan nodded, thinking that he would repair the water village as soon as possible, so that he would have a place to settle down, so he agreed to Huang Zupei's request and said, "Then Brother Lao Huang will have to work hard again!" ”

"Don't dare!" Huang Zupei smiled and said: "Brother Haonan trusts me so much, it's too late for me to be happy!" ”

Deng Haonan nodded with satisfaction, and then instructed Lin Feng to prepare the ship immediately, and arrange for the two thousand five hundred martial arts hall students to prepare for Ryukyu.

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At dusk, a qiē is ready.

Four Dogs leased back five large sea ships, and he will follow Huang Zupei to the Ryukyus.

At this time, the four dogs, with the 20,000 taels of silver given to him by Deng Haonan, were specifically responsible for the expenses and expenses of building the naval base, and they became Deng Haonan's big housekeepers.

After dark, 2,500 students of the martial arts hall boarded the ship one after another, and Deng Haonan saw him off at the pier.

A moment later, under the leadership of Huang Zupei, five large ships slowly left the dock and headed for the Ryukyus.

Looking at the shadows of the five big ships, Deng Haonan's heart was full of emotion, he finally had his own base, and that feeling was speechless.

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