Chapter 91: Suppressing the Pirates (1)
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I did drink a little too much wine at noon, and after sleeping all afternoon, I still felt dizzy after waking up, and I had to sigh at the amount of alcohol and enthusiasm of these family owners. In fact, he is the prince of Jingnan, and drinking with these businessmen has already given them a lot of face. When he drinks at noon, he can take a sip slightly, but Geng Jingzhong does not refuse to come, and he goes down one cup after another, so how can there be no reason not to get drunk!
As for what the owners of the family discussed after he drank and left, how to set up a road administration company and how to distribute the company's equity, etc., it was none of his business! However, no one had ever done this before, and now with the permission and leadership of his son, it will definitely not be too difficult to do. There will be no shortage of these twenty-one families, and the strongest Lu family and Wu family will not eat all the shares, and there are rules drawn by Geng Jingzhong, and no one dares to ignore them.
Now, as far as the situation of Longyan and Zhangzhou is concerned, after the rise of the starting point town, the exchanges between the two places have been much larger, and the carriages and carriages on the road have long disappeared from the scene of a horse-drawn carriage passing through Guò for a long time.
Gu Geng Jingzhong estimated that if the heads of these large and small families moved fast enough and recruited all the manpower, it was estimated that within half a year at most, the 200 miles of road should be paved. These 200 miles of road, Geng Jingzhong requires all to be paved with cement concrete, although the output of cement kilns in various places is not high, but the number of kilns is enough. And if that's not enough, it's not a matter of much effort to build a new cement kiln plant. In this place of Fujian, there is nothing else, but there are many mountains, especially stone mountains, everywhere. Many of the materials needed to build the road can be sourced locally or transported from nearby production, which is very convenient. As for manpower, it is not a big problem, although the vast majority of people near Longyan have gone to work in the mines, but there are still a large number of surplus labor in Zhangzhou, Nanjing, Xiamen and other places. If you come here to build roads, you will be given food, drink and wages, and you will not be able to recruit workers at all.
Before I knew it, I had been in the starting point for ten days. Geng Jingzhong felt as if he had done a lot of things, but he felt as if he was on vacation and didn't do anything, which was very unpleasant, so he prepared to go back to Yuegang. The "Red Army Fleet" is still docked outside the Great Golden Gate Island, and it is time to go and join the soldiers, who must have some knowledge of the nearby waters when they go to sea these days.
Running again on the road to Yuegang, I felt a violent bump again, it was really unspeakably uncomfortable, no wonder the ancients wanted to invent the words wind and dust and wind and dust, and there was a reason for the feelings! I used to be used to this era, and I didn't feel that there was a problem with the road surface, but now that I realize it, I must not ignore it! I have made up my mind, and when I return to Fuzhou in the future, I will organize wealthy businessmen to repair roads again, and all the roads between the state capitals of Fujian must be repaired!
After a whole day of traveling, the carriage finally arrived at Moon Harbor. The bones all over his body had fallen apart, so Geng Jingzhong was not in a hurry to go to Dajinmen Island, rested in the backyard of the Gongzhufang shop for the night, and only boarded a ship in the morning to come to Dakinmen Island. At this time in the past, all the officers and men of the navy had already sailed out to sea to start training. Last night, I received the news that the prince had arrived, and today all the soldiers rested for a day, and Li Guangdi, Wang Zhenbang, and others have been waiting for the arrival of Geng Jingzhong in the big tent.
The ship Geng Jingzhong was on was a small wide ship, which could not withstand the strong winds and waves in the sea, and could only cruise near the sea. Geng Jingzhong was sent to the west of the Great Kinmen Island, and docked at a small pier, from where dozens of huge ships of the naval fleet could be seen docked in the harbor there. That port was built by Zheng Chenggong's father, Zheng Zhilong, in the former Ming Dynasty, and it was used to dock for the Zheng family's sailors. Although it has become a little rudimentary over time, it is no problem for the naval fleet to anchor for a while.
As soon as Geng Jingzhong lifted the curtain of the Chinese army, all the generals immediately stood up collectively: "See the son!" ”
Geng Jingzhong walked straight to the front of the main seat. "Hehe, everyone is quite here, wait for me here in the morning!"
"Hey, hey!"
"Shizi Mingjian!"
"Less sycophants!" Geng Jingzhong scolded with a smile. "What's going on here these days?"
Wang Zhenbang has worked hard these days, and he leads the team to set off every day for training. "Hui Shizi, we haven't stopped training for a day in your absence. Just because of our hard training, the passing merchant ships all over the world are reciting the prestige of our Mawei Navy. The people who saw our warship were all sighing, saying that they had never seen such a huge sea ship, and maybe only the treasure ship of the year could compare with it! "He's very happy with his recent training, and his main mission this time is to rid the pirates, and he's full of ambition now!
Geng Jingzhong pouted noncommittally, the treasure ship was much larger than this third-level battleship. "Don't be complacent, after all, you've never faced a real enemy. Let's just say Zheng Jing on the other side, if he is attacked by the whole army, we can't beat him. Not to mention the fleets of Western countries such as the Dutch to the south. Those European countries, such as Britain and the Netherlands, have more than two large ocean-going fleets, and have a total of more than 100 third-class warships like ours. ”
"Yes, son! The last general is proud! Wang Zhenbang took the initiative to admit his mistake, and he has indeed been a little too excited recently.
"But then again, Zheng Jing on the other side doesn't dare to deal with us, after all, our strength is here. He himself knew very well that if he went out with his whole army, although he could eat us, he would also have to suffer heavy losses. Besides, he has many enemies, and although the sailors of the imperial court are wasteful, they still have a little bit of deterrence; What's more, his Zheng Jing's biggest enemy is the Dutch, the strength of the Dutch is strong enough, even if its main force is far away in India, but if it runs here, it will not be difficult! So he Zheng Jing doesn't dare to provoke us, but you are not allowed to take the initiative to provoke him, as long as you don't take the initiative to provoke him, he will not take the initiative to come to us for trouble! Did you hear that? ”
"Yes, son!" All the generals replied in unison.
"Shizi, we won't take the initiative to provoke him Zheng Jing, those merchant ships that came over on the other side, we didn't care about him, and we bypassed it when we encountered it!"
"Well, that's for the best! By the way, how are you preparing to clean up the pirates? Geng Jingzhong suddenly thought of the point.
"That's the way it is." At this time, Li Guang said. "In recent days, I've been profiteering up information about all the pirates in the waters around Fujian. Look at this, this is the information sent by the princess housekeeper! As he spoke, he took an account book-like book and handed it to Geng Jingzhong, and continued: "The people in this princess fang are really not vegetarians, and they record all the big and small pirates who have been active in the nearby sea in the past two years, which is very detailed! ”
Geng Jingzhong took the book and carefully flipped through the pages one by one.