Chapter Thirty-Seven: Yang Feng's Pirate Base
With such a powerful bodyguard, Ye Anping was naturally very welcome, the two boats continued to move in the northeast direction one after the other, and the colorful sister who understood his dark psychology very enthusiastically invited Ye Zi to the Nautilus as a guest, took a bath, combed her hair, and then changed into more fashionable clothes, and an ugly little girl covered in oil and blood immediately turned into a white swan, uh, or it can also be said to be a black swan.
Wheat-like healthy complexion, shocking long legs, and the visual effect caused by the fact that the clothes of the sister in Caiyi are obviously one size smaller, anyway, Boss Yang, who is gnawing on a green apple, has bitten the meat.
Seeing him covering his mouth and screaming, a pair of little beauties smiled flamboyantly.
But not long after walking out like this, Boss Yang couldn't stand it, the speed of the small steamer was outrageously slow, he simply threw down the rope and tied it to it, and then dragged it away by the Nautilus, a small boat with a displacement of less than three hundred tons, even if it was dragging such a cumbersome, half-power output Nautilus still ran twenty-five knots, which made Ye Anping and the sailors on his ship dumbfounded.
The rest of the voyage took less than twenty-four hours to complete, and in the early morning of the next day, the emerald green coast could already be seen in the distance, Ye Zi, who came out of the room with her sister in Caiyi, immediately pulled her excitedly and pointed, the fast dialect Yang Feng didn't understand a word anyway, it was estimated that she was invited to his home as a guest or something.
Unleashed, the little steamer drove to the front, and as a pilot ship, the Nautilus slowly sailed into the harbor, and the strange monster immediately dropped its jaws, including a British merchant ship and an American merchant ship in the harbor.
They knew very well what this famous black monster in the old and new continents meant, and before the Nautilus had even docked, the British consul stationed here hurriedly ran to the docks with a group of ghosts to meet them.
This Yang Feng was very surprised, he did not expect such a small broken port, there is actually a British consulate, it can be seen how pervasive this gang of ghosts is, under the groveling welcome of the British consul, in the stunned eyes of the surrounding Chinese, Boss Yang proudly took his sister in colorful clothes and got off the ship, and then directly checked into the British consul's residence, this scene stunned Ye Anping, you must know that the British consul here is simply too emperor, Fengshan Zhixian did not dare to straighten his waist in front of him, As a result, in front of Yang Feng, such a big man almost lay down and licked his toes.
"You didn't ask who this Mr. Yang is?" He whispered to his daughter.
"Sister Caiyi said that Mr. Yang is good friends with their crown prince and many lords in the United Kingdom, and in the United States, the United Kingdom, and a country called Sweden have a big industry, which is so big that it is scary, she is just a maid, and many ladies in the United Kingdom have to be polite when they see it." Ye Zi said, it is obvious that Sister Caiyi's propaganda work is doing a good job.
Ye Anping gasped.
On the evening of Yang Feng's arrival, he met Li Gan, the magistrate of Fengshan, at the welcome banquet of the British consul, of course, he wanted to build a special wharf here, and a small county order would definitely not dare to agree to this kind of thing, let alone agree, just hearing that Yang Feng was going to dock a merchant ship with weapons here, and for his own safety, a team of no less than 200 bodyguards was stationed here, which had already scared the county commander's legs a little.
Don't talk about him, it's that the Tainan prefect is a little trembling when he hears the news, but he knows that these foreign devils can do anything unbelievable, although this guy is just a fake foreign devil, but according to the intelligence of all parties, it seems to be more terrible than the real foreign devil, if he really wants to station two hundred bodyguards in Dog Fighting Harbor, who knows what will happen in the future?
Of course, he doesn't need to take this kind of headache, just report it directly to the governor of Taiwan, Shao Youlian, Shao Youlian also has a headache when he hears it, he doesn't know anything about Yang Feng, Yang Boss has only risen for two years, and he has been at home for the past two years to keep filial piety to his wife, just came to Taiwan for a few days, and the external news is not very well-informed, let alone distant Europe, so he chose the most effective way for a Qing official to deal with this kind of matter, drag.
"Playing the official council?" Boss Yang, who waited for two days to get such an answer, looked at Fengshan Zhixian in amazement.
"Young Master Yang, the matter is very high, and the lower official committee really has no right to reply, and it must be known to the prefect, and he will not dare to agree to this matter until he gets the permission of the prefect." Li Gan said with a smiling face.
"And when do you think you'll get an answer to me?" Yang Feng asked in an unkind tone.
"This, the lower officials don't know!"
“cao!” Boss Yang scolded angrily, and Li Ganquan pretended that he hadn't heard anything.
Yang Feng naturally knew that it would be far away when they agreed, and after returning to the British Consulate with a depressed face, after hearing what happened to him, the British Consul said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, you don't need to get their consent, you may not be very comfortable with the way officials work in this country, if you go to ask them by legal means, they will not take it seriously, but if you use illegal means, then it will be easy to achieve your own goals."
For example, you can send 1,000 silver dollars to the prefect, 1,000 silver dollars to the prefect, and then you can directly buy land at the port to build all the things you want to build, and the prefect will turn a blind eye, and the prefect will also turn a blind eye, as for the governor, if he is an official who can be an official, then he will also turn a blind eye, and if something really happens, he will just remove the Fengshan magistrate.
Wait for the docks, warehouses, and companies you want to be built, and then drive your bodyguards directly over and station them here, they don't have the guts to expel them, and with your friendship with the Royal Navy, call two warships from Hong Kong to escort them, let alone stationing 200 bodyguards, you will have no problem stationing 2,000 and they will not have a problem. ”
Well, Boss Yang found that this is indeed the most effective method, he invited Ye Anping that night, Lao Ye is a local, and it is also a bit of an identity, and Fengshan Zhixian will naturally not have a little friendship, knowing what Yang Feng means, of course willing to help, soon the HSBC check of two thousand silver dollars was sent out, and Yang's shipping base was officially built in Dagou Port.
With the help of the British consul and Ye Anping, plus the staff of Jinyuan Company called from Hong Kong, and the occupation of Bofors Foreign Company called from Shanghai, all the construction is a qiē shun lì, of course, he does not need to be personally responsible for these small things, as a big boss to drink tea, bubble girls, and occasionally go to the construction site to be close to the people.
Dredging the waterway, building two large deep-water berths that can accommodate 5,000-ton ships, ten medium-sized berths that can accommodate 3,000-ton ships, and a large dock, which is enough to accommodate the maintenance of 5,000-ton ships, and building a large warehouse on land with an astonishing scale, if these warehouses live in people, it is estimated that it will be easy to accommodate 5,000 people.
This kind of construction scale made Li Gan and Tolerance frightened, and the thousand silver dollars were very hot to get, but at this time, it was impossible to regret it, because at the invitation of Boss Yang, two gunboats of the British Far East Fleet sailed from Hong Kong, and then directly stationed in Dagou Harbor, but considering the mental torture they suffered, Yang Feng asked Lao Ye to send them another two thousand, and now the two adults were also free.
Standing on the top of the hill next to the port, Boss Yang looked at the busy bay below with a proud face, this will be his naval base in the future, and after it is completed, he will directly drive the cruiser and destroyer over, and be ready to run out and take advantage of the fire to rob during the First Sino-Japanese War.
An armored cruiser, four high-speed destroyers, and it is better to have six more large landing ships, the kind that can directly land on the beach, with the current shipbuilding technology, there is no difficulty at all in this thing, it is nothing more than an iron can with an engine, equipped with a high-power diesel engine, plus a few artillery pieces, and a 130 cannon is very suitable, so that it is enough to carry an amphibious combat force of 5,000 people.
Escorted by cruisers and destroyers, these 5,000 men will deliberately plunder the Japanese coast, find those cities with beaches, use landing ships to grab beaches and go out to play the three-light policy, and quickly withdraw to the sea before the Japanese can react.
If the combined fleet sends warships to encircle and suppress, then except for Yoshino and Naniwa, none of their warships can keep up with the speed of their own fleet, and the flat-bottomed amphibious landing ship, equipped with a high-power diesel engine, may not have a maximum speed of less than 20 knots, which is already faster than the vast majority of protective cruisers.
As for Yoshino and Naniwa, if they dared to come, then they would use armored cruisers to contain fire, and high-speed destroyers to kill them with steam gas torpedoes.
Thinking of this, he seemed to have seen the sky-high fire in Tokyo, and the scene of His Majesty the Emperor being roulin by himself, what an intoxicating sight.
This cargo was there to imagine the future, enjoying the sound of the Japanese people crying, and saw two warships flying the yellow dragon flag at the mouth of the sea below were slowly approaching, looking not big in size, at most it was a large gunboat, the shape was almost identical, both were single chimneys and three masts, and they looked extremely ugly.