How could these court officials still be in the mood to drink with him now, and finally got out of the clutches of the devil, so if they didn't run quickly, they were like rabbits whose tails had been trampled on, and they fled back to their stations without hesitation under various excuses.

Yang Feng was not interested in caring about them, he just had to control the port of Dagou, and sent two battalions of soldiers and a landing ship, two destroyers to escort Xue Fucheng to Taipei, Lao Xue Tou, as the governor of Taiwan, naturally wanted to go to his own station, with this thousand soldiers with him, he could do whatever he wanted.

As for Liu Yongfu and the others who were under house arrest, after releasing their previous suspicions with Tang Jingsong and others, they were also let go back to their stations, these two people have now completely stood with him, Zhang Zhidong is kind to Liu Yongfu, and after learning that Zhang Quan is Zhang Zhidong's eldest son, the relationship between the two sides will naturally become close.

As for Lin Chaodong, it is simpler, Wufeng Lin family controls Taiwan's camphor industry, but the export of camphor has been basically controlled by the British after the Camphor War, and after learning Yang Feng's identity from the British consul, it is also impossible to have confrontation with him.

In the final analysis, there is no conflict of interest between the two sides, what this goods want is only to fight dogs, and they have no interest in Taiwan's local things, but they are here to throw a lot of money, even if such people are rampant, they can be completely tolerated.

In the following days, Yang Feng didn't even bother to go to his general military mansion, so he ran his own pirate base in Dagou Harbor, and the other thing was to recruit some recruits or something.

"According to this situation, we have to recruit at least 4,000 recruits, and if we go out to work, we must have at least 5,000 people, and we must put at least 1,000 people from Lord Xue in Taipei, and we must also get 1,000 people from Dog Harbor, and then leave 1,000 as a mobile force, so that we will have 8,000 people in total.

But there is no way to recruit any more people in the town, and if you recruit Lingzun again, you should not be happy, where else is there in the south who is suitable to be a soldier?" Yang Feng asked Zhang Quan, now Zhang Dagongzi is his adjutant, and it seems that Zhang Zhidong is also very willing to do this.

"Qi Jiajun." Zhang Quan thought for a moment and said.

Yang Feng then remembered that in addition to the town pole soldiers, there was really a suitable place for recruiting soldiers in the south, Yiwu, the main source of Qi Jiguang's troops back then.

"Okay, then this job will be handed over to you, all the treatment is the same as the town pole, when you leave, take a company of town pole soldiers, and let them do propaganda in the local area." He then said.

"Recruit four thousand?" Zhang Quan said.

"It's more than 4,000, I'm afraid there isn't much population in that place now, and besides, we don't want everything, just select according to Qi Jiguang's standards, and I also recruit locals in Taiwan, anyway, both sides are carried out at the same time, there is no limit to the number of posts, I can still afford one or two hundred thousand people." Yang Feng said that he now includes medicines, aluminum alloy jewelry, daily chemical products, plus General Electric, Yang's Power, People's Publishing House, Bofors... For those dozens of enterprises, the net profit of each month is converted into pounds and pounds, and raising tens of thousands of troops is not a trivial matter for him.

Besides, he'll be able to recoup his investment in no time.

Just after the return of the three warships escorting Xue Fucheng to his post, followed by the four destroyers all going to sea, their task is very simple, from Taiwan to the east, cruising on the route from the Americas to Japan, all Japanese merchant ships, whether imported or exported, will be detained and escorted back to Dagou Port, if the goods on board belong to the Japanese, then naturally there is no need to say anything, this is a trophy.

If the goods belong to merchants from other countries, and they are destined for Japan, well, compensate the other party at the price of the place of departure, and then the goods are accepted with a smile.

If the goods are shipped out of Japan, then it is better to say that a group of Chinese crew members will be replaced, and then they will be delivered to the destination, and then the ship will laugh at it.

If it is a merchant ship from other countries, as long as it is going to Japan, then it will also be detained and then escorted back to Dagou Port, the goods on board belong to the Japanese, Yang Da Boss smiled, the goods on the ship are not Japanese, but they were shipped to Japan, then the same according to the price of departure to compensate, the goods Yang Da Boss smiled.

Moreover, on these four destroyers, Yang Feng also equipped them with special lawyers to ensure that all maritime blockade activities are carried out in strict accordance with the public law of all countries, which has always attached great importance to maintaining its image in the eyes of the European people, even if it is a pirate, it is necessary to be a good pirate who abides by the law.

These destroyers, which can reach thirty-five knots at the fastest, do not have to worry about safety at sea, even if Yoshino comes, there is nothing to do about them, and now there are no warships in this world that can catch up with them.

Just after the destroyers were scattered, all the landing ships in the harbor also went to sea, but they did not go to land, and these warships that could reach a speed of nearly 20 knots could also be used as privateers, and their range of activities was the coastal waters of Taiwan, three in the Taiwan Strait and three in the Bass Strait, so that the shipping lanes from Europe to Japan could basically be blocked.

He knows very well what it means for Japan to cut off foreign trade, let alone this era, even if these two routes are pinched more than a hundred years later, the Japanese will have to kneel.

After getting 20 percent of the value of the goods as a reward, his privateer fleet was extremely efficient, and less than half a day after sailing, a landing ship intercepted a Japanese merchant ship in the Taiwan Strait, and the other party wanted to resist at first, but when the eight 76 guns fired a deterrent salvo, the crew on it immediately coaxed, and then was escorted back to Dagou Harbor.

The merchant ship, named Kasuga Maru, belonged to the Mitsui Company, and was loaded with steel imported from Europe, and the captain Sato was threatened by the bayonets of the soldiers behind him, and parked the ship on the dock with trepidation, and then under the escort of the soldiers, a lawyer hired from England boarded the ship and told him with a document: "In view of the fact that your ship transported war materials during the war, in accordance with the provisions of the public international law, Yang Feng, the chief soldier of the Taiwan town of the Qing Empire, has officially notified your Excellency that your ship and cargo will be confiscated. You and your crew will be arrested on suspicion of involvement in military activity. ”

After the lawyer finished speaking, then the three officials of Fengshan County took another group of soldiers on the boat, and then read the arrest warrant signed by the Fengshan County Order to Sato, and then waved his hand, and those wolf-like soldiers immediately pounced on him, and took the wooden flail used by the prisoners to flail the already stupid Sato and others and escorted them directly to the Fengshan County Ya, so that they could feel the good life of a Chinese-style prison.

As for his 2,000-ton ocean-going merchant ship and the thousands of tons of steel on board, as well as a batch of British-made machine tools, this is naturally accepted by Yang Feng.

Machine tool Zhang Zhidong wanted, sent a telegram to him, the two used a telegram to bargain, and finally sold it to the Hanyang Gun Factory at a seven-fold price, the construction of this arsenal, Yang Feng has contributed a lot, and there are still more than 100 Bofors employees working there, and Yang Feng's version of the Lee Enfield rifle and C96 have been successfully copied, and the mortar has also been able to be manufactured, but because of the material relationship with Yang Feng with modern alloy steel, it is not the same.

But compared with Bofors's self-produced steel in Europe, there is no gap, 82 mm caliber, firing 3.5 kilogram shells, the firing range can reach up to 2,500 meters, of course, the weight is relatively larger, the weight of the whole gun is more than 80 kilograms, it is no problem to disassemble and carry it with four people, and now it can be sold to the miscellaneous troops in the hands of Li Er.

As for the steel, let O'Connor contact the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, and sell it to them at a seven-percent discount, while the merchant ships are even simpler, and they are directly pulled to Hong Kong for auction, which is very promising, and basically more than enough to maintain the fleet.

But it's a pity that soon there was a business with him on the sea, Li Hongzhang was stunned when he learned that this guy made hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in a robbery, he didn't expect to be able to play like this, this guy quickly ran to find someone to consult international practices, after learning that in the European war, send warships and even armed civilian ships to catch the merchant ships of hostile countries at sea, and then divide the looted things with the merchants, which can be said to be a glorious tradition that has lasted for hundreds of years. immediately sent a telegram to his brother Li Hanzhang, such a good business cannot be swallowed by Yang Feng alone, and he can't go far away, and the Taiwan Strait is still no problem.

Li Hanzhang, who loves money like life, how can he still sit still when he hears this news? All the remaining warships of the Guangdong Navy Division ran out, small gunboats, torpedo boats, and even wooden sail warships, rushing to the Taiwan Strait, Liu Kunyi couldn't sit still when he moved, in the final analysis, he was the minister of Nanyang, and the Taiwan Strait was under his control, even if it was robbed, he had to rob it, this guy condemned Yang Feng and Li Hanzhang for crossing the line, and at the same time scattered the Nanyang fleet, and the three made the entire Taiwan Strait bloody and bloody.

However, he and Li Hanzhang are not bold enough, of course, they are mainly self-aware, knowing that they can't compare with Yang Feng, this product has to wipe his ass in Europe, no matter what he does, tomorrow's newspaper will turn it into a righteous act for him, and now the European powers who are cooperating with him in various ways will not offend Yang Feng in such a trivial matter, but they don't have this treatment, and if they don't do it well, it may lead to a diplomatic conflict, so they can only attack Japanese ships, so they can't help but be constrained.

In the end, the two simply sent a telegram to communicate with Yang Feng, and in the future, they were responsible for the Japanese merchant ships, and Yang Feng was responsible for the merchant ships of other countries, and the three cooperated with each other, and the warships of the Nanyang Fleet and the Guangdong Navy Division discovered the foreign ships heading for Japan, so they used wireless telegraphs to notify Yang Feng's warships to intercept them, and Yang Feng's warships found Japanese merchant ships, so they notified the two of them to intercept them, so as to avoid disputes.

Yang Feng readily agreed, in this case, the Japanese could not be stupid to continue to walk through the Taiwan Strait, the hunting here could not last for a few days, the real big head was in the Bass Strait and the American route, and the two of them would not be able to reach there anyway.