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Dressed in uniform uniforms, carrying standard muskets on their backs and swords on their waists, the soldiers marched in orderly steps to the river, and then quickly boarded the boat. More than 30,000 soldiers boarded the ship, and the scene was also quite spectacular, and it took half an hour to board the ship. Geng Jingzhong's pre-war mobilization speech greatly encouraged the soldiers, and the soldiers who were already very confident in their own army were even more confident!

Just a few days before departure, Geng Jingzhong didn't go anywhere, so he stayed in the palace. His son is two years old, and he is very sticky to himself, and Geng Jingzhong takes good care of his little baby. If you haven't been a parent, you'll never be able to appreciate what that feels like. The family affection between the bloodlines is not something that can be expressed in words. Geng Jingzhong is also a little reluctant to his family, this expedition, it will be almost two months before he can come back, maybe three or four months. In the end, in the care and advice of the family, he reluctantly patted the horse back to the horsetail.

The same is true of tens of thousands of soldiers who went on the expedition, and since they received the notice five days ago, they were given a three-day vacation by Geng Jingzhong. In the past, there were only three days of vacation every two months, but this time, after the holiday just a month ago, there is another big holiday. The families of the soldiers all lived along the coast, and it was very convenient to return home, and the warships set sail, and all the soldiers could be sent to the coastal counties and towns in a day at most, and then they went home. Staying at the designated meeting time and meeting at the original location feels a bit like a bus in the future. Pick-up and drop-off at regular intervals!

There are not many soldiers who receive combat missions, but the families of the soldiers are different. Every family member is full of worries. However, the fighters explained. After this expedition was to attack the Japanese and avenge the death of their relatives, there were no more words. The vast majority of the soldiers of the Mawei Navy, except for those who had been converted from the Tiger Army, were natives along the coast of Fujian, and there were very few who had not been invaded by the Japanese pirates. The blood feuds accumulated over the past few hundred years are innumerable, and they all agree with this expedition from the bottom of their hearts.

In Houyu Port, more than 100 sea ships of all sizes are densely moored in the harbor at this moment, and 60 merchant ships of the Kunpeng caravan are also among them. Since last year. After the second batch of large merchant ships were built in each shipyard, Geng Jingzhong asked the shipyards to stop building large ships and help the navy build small sea ships such as fire dragon ships, that is, with the construction of more than half a year, the navy has hundreds of small ships such as fire dragon ships. The port of Houyu is now more and more prosperous, and many foreign merchant ships in the South Seas will come here to trade.

The scale of Houyu Port has been expanded a lot, from Tantou Town, where the original wharf was located, to the east for more than a kilometer, to Kezhen. The new wharves have also been filled with boats. Later, all kinds of seagoing ships could only anchor around the harbor. Since the Mawei Navy carried out a purge of pirates at sea last year, the name of Houyu Port has been thoroughly spread among the maritime merchants in the south.

In recent months, ships have been coming almost every day. Many maritime merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang are also stationed in Houyu. settled in Tantou Town and Kezhen Town. There can be no blatant trade in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but it is possible here, and the imperial court does not have the strength to manage here.

Many merchants came for the first time in their own ships. Some want to join the maritime trade in Manila, Batavia and Manchuria, and some simply come to the pier. Pull friendship. In the beginning, Houyu Port was still sufficient. However, more and more merchant ships arrived and became smaller, and the port had to be expanded. The Port of Houyu has a series of rules in place to maintain the operation of the port. The rules here are still quite strict, no matter where the businessmen come from, they must be honest when they arrive at Houyu Port, otherwise they can only ask you to get out. If someone is dissatisfied and wants to make trouble, yes, the two battalions stationed in Houyu Port are the elite of the Marine Army, and they are idle and have nothing to do, hoping that someone will come to find trouble!

At this moment, the naval fleet sailed out in a mighty way, and sailed straight east along the periphery of Houyu Port without stopping at all. When a large number of warships entered the military port yesterday, the businessmen who stayed in Houyu Port learned the news that the navy was about to set out for the war, and they all knew who Geng Jingzhong was going to deal with this time. However, seeing that the fleet assembled this time is so large and has so many personnel, I am still a little shocked in my heart. Early this morning, tens of thousands of people gathered on the beach, waiting for the fleet to sail by, and several major shareholders also gathered on the seashore at this moment, looking intently at the naval fleet.

Looking at the huge fleet slowly passing by the sea in front of them, the five major shareholders were also excited. It is indeed a blessing that they can help such a big tree. If you hadn't been ruthless and spent a lot of money to auction off the shares of the ocean trading company, how could you have a good life today? In the past year and a half, they have received dividends of as much as 1.1 million, and in the last year or so, all the invested capital will be returned, and when the scale is getting bigger and bigger, silver will also come to them like a tide.

"Lao Wang, Brother Lu, do you say that the prince is sure this time? If we fail, we'll lose the trade of the East forever! The Gu family master said with some concern.

"Defeat? Are you kidding? The head of the Wang family pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "Old Gu, I didn't say you, you shouldn't say this, how unlucky!" Besides, who else is the opponent of the Mawei Navy on this sea now? Even the Zheng family on the other side can't either! After a slight pause, the head of the Wang family continued: "Last year, I went to the Wa Kingdom with the team, and I saw the guards there in Nagasaki, although I didn't see what their large-scale naval division looked like, but from the place in Nagasaki, the Wa National Naval Division is definitely not far worse than the giant ship of the navy!" ”

"Moreover, as far as I know, the Wa Kingdom, like the Qing Dynasty, was also closed to the outside world. The Tokugawa shogunate also ordered that the daimyo were not allowed to build large ships privately, and it is conceivable that their sailors were not much better than those of the Qing court. You have all seen what the imperial court's sailors are like, tell me, how do you want to compare the strength of the imperial court's sailors with the Mawei Navy? ”

Now it's the turn of a few other people to pout, the imperial court sailor is just an ornament, the combat effectiveness is not even third-rate, and the size of the fleet is not enough, there are not a few decent big ships at all. Compared with the Mawei Navy, that's really a small thing! "Is this any better? The gap is huge! The head of the Lu family said. By the way, I don't know if the prince agreed to what Steward Li told us yesterday, I still think that if we stop for two months and don't go out of Hong Kong and don't do business, we will lose no money! ”

"Hey, Brother Lu's words are wrong. The conquest of the son of the world is a long-term plan. Even if the company loses millions of taels of silver, it is nothing, and when the prince returns victoriously, he will soon be able to make up for it from the Wa Kingdom. Hehe, haven't you read the information of the Dutch East India Company that the prince showed us? Look at that company! What a scale, ah! That's called an ocean trading company! The other major shareholder, Tian Jia, who had not intervened, couldn't help but say that he had been envious of the Dutch East India Company for a long time, and he was bent on thinking that when they could develop to that scale. said that it is a private company, and in essence, it has become a prince who dominates one side, how can it not make people blush!

"Let's go to Puzhu Temple later, pour a few incense on the Buddha, and pray for smooth sailing! Also, no matter how much the prince did not agree with Steward Li's suggestion, we should not go to sea for two months, and we must dock all the ships to the military port. In case it is really like what Steward Li said, if there is an enemy attacking, our ship can still help some! The lord of the Wang family said.

"Yes, listen to you!"

"Okay, that's it!"

"Son, you see, many people at the port pay attention to the salute and practice it for us!" On the Zhenyuan ship, Wang Zhenbang happily pointed to the seaside of Houyu Port and said to Geng Jingzhong.

Geng Jingzhong also saw the situation here, and in order to see more clearly, he took out the binoculars. After reading it, I couldn't help but smile: "Okay! It shows that they have a lot of confidence in us. Although they don't know where we are going this time, it can be seen from their expressions that they are quite confident in our navy! ”

"It's because everyone expects from us that we can't let them down! Sue sù fleet, speed up! (To be continued......)

PS: Finally the code came out before twelve o'clock, but the number of words is two or three hundred less, sorry, I'm too busy today! Tomorrow will definitely come on!