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Xinhua City, the royal palace, in the bedroom of King Long Yufei.

On the carved bed, there are two white bodies. After Long Yufei and Luo Sangu were happy, they hugged each other tightly, enjoying the afterglow of **. Even though it's November, the climate in Mindanao is still hot. It's just that Long Yufei's bedroom is very cool. In the four corners of the dormitory, a large bucket of ice cubes is placed, and the cool air emitted by the ice cubes drives away the heat wave.

These ice cubes are all made of saltpeter, and in the entire Xinhua Kingdom, except for Long Yufei, the king, only the high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Government Affairs can enjoy the Tao. After all, saltpeter is an important raw material and an important strategic resource for Xinhuaguo. The production of saltpeter in the South Seas is very small, and almost all of it is imported from abroad, so it should not be too wasteful.

Of course, Long Yufei, as the king of the country, deserves to enjoy these things, and no one will blame anything. The pirate group of Flying Fish Island has been able to develop to the present and have a country, and Long Yufei can be said to have contributed a lot!

"Yufei, it's been so long since everything has passed? Am I not pregnant yet? Luo Sangu nestled in Long Yufei's arms and asked with some distress. She's been bothering about that all these days. It stands to reason that the two have been married for almost a year now, and if they move quickly, maybe the children will be embraced, but now, Luo Sangu's stomach has not moved at all. The king has no heirs, which is absolutely unacceptable for a country.

"Yuhua, it's useless to be in a hurry, it's better to go with the flow!" Long Yufei was also a little depressed, it stands to reason that he didn't work hard, but even if it didn't work, he couldn't do anything. In addition, he was a little worried about whether this would be the sequelae of the crossing, and if that was the case, it would be miserable. What a tragic thing it would be to build a great empire and have no one to inherit it!

"Yufei, why don't you take a few more concubines! Among the girls sent by Zamboanga, a few of them are still very good! Luo Sangu hesitated, but still proposed. Although she doesn't want other women to share Long Yufei with her, as a woman of this era, in her opinion, if she can't leave Long Yufei offspring, it will undoubtedly be a heinous thing!

"I'll talk about that later!" Long Yufei shook his head. For Luo Sangu's understanding, he didn't know what to say! Men? It's in nature to be. It's just that in the face of the kind-hearted Luo Sangu, he didn't want to hurt her like this.

"Yuhua, the Navy's two 'Shark-class' cruisers are about to enter service, and I'm having a headache about the candidates for the captain and the fleet commander, do you have a good candidate?" Long Yufei asked. With the support of the Chinese family in Zamboanga, the shipyard of the Flying Fish Company has grown considerably, and the progress of the two 'Shark-class' cruisers under construction has also increased considerably. It is expected that in a few days, the battleship will be ready for use in the fleet! It's just that until now, Long Yufei has not yet had a suitable candidate for fleet commander and captain.

The post of commander-in-chief of the Navy must have been held by Long Yufei temporarily. However, in the plan, the Navy's First Fleet will consist of twelve 'Shark-class' cruisers. The choice of the commander of the fleet, as well as the selection of the first two 'Shark-class' cruisers, made it a little difficult for Long Yufei to choose.

"Captain's choice? Wei Yong, the boss of the Wei family, and Lu Haipeng of the Lu family are good. When they were on Flying Fish Island, the two were already small bosses and were good at commanding battles at sea. However, when we were on Flying Fish Island, we mostly used hand-to-hand combat tactics, which were different from the tactics of the 'Shark-class' cruisers that won with artillery. Both of them are not very old, only in their thirties, and they should be competent! Luo Sangu thought about it for a while before suggesting.

"These two are good, and after studying, they should be able to do the job of captain. But what about the fleet commander? The construction of the next ten 'Shark-class' cruisers has also been more than halfway through, and it is expected that in another three months, they will be commissioned one after another! We urgently need a fleet commander to command these ships! Long Yufei said with some embarrassment, the pirates of Flying Fish Island lack the experience of commanding modern warships, and when they robbed merchant ships in the past, they adopted the tactics of solving the enemy through hand-to-hand combat after the warship docked. There is still a big gap between it and the kind of talent that Long Yufei hoped for to destroy the enemy through the guns of the battleship.

Luo Sangu also frowned, among the many pirates on Flying Fish Island, there are really not many suitable candidates. Being a captain may still be capable, but is it necessary to be a fleet commander? It's a lot worse. Moreover, new tactics need to be mastered by those who are nimble-minded, and these young people are generally less experienced among the pirates of Flying Fish Island, so if they are appointed as fleet commanders, I am afraid that others will be dissatisfied. This is not a good thing for the navy of Xinhua.

Long Yufei looked at the jade man in his arms, and suddenly had an idea. Among the many pirates on Flying Fish Island, who can compare with Luo Sangu's qualifications? At the beginning, Luo Sangu was the big boss of the pirates on Flying Fish Island, and after the establishment of the Flying Fish Company, he also served as the commander of the Flying Fish Company for a long time, and he did not step down until he married Long Yufei. In Xinhua, Luo Sangu's influence may not be able to catch up with Long Yufei. But among the many pirates on Flying Fish Island, Luo Sangu is undoubtedly their real leader.

The navy is an offensive force, and Long Yufei certainly hopes that this force can be completely in his hands. However, this is not that he is also a naval commander, and the navy will completely listen to him, he needs to master it further. And Luo Sangu is undoubtedly the best candidate for the commander of the fleet. Although in the minds of most Chinese, women should stay at home and teach their husbands and children, especially the royal family, especially the need for a queen who is a mother of the world. But Long Yufei doesn't think so, in later generations, in many industries, women are much more fierce than men.

"Yuhua, I have a very good candidate. But you have to agree to it first! Long Yufei said.

"Who?" Luo Sangu asked suspiciously.

"Do you agree first?" Long Yufei said.

"Well, as long as the person is right, why should I object?" Luo Sangu said.

"Ha Lu Ha! Okay, that's what you promised. The most suitable candidate for the commander of the fleet is far away in the sky, close at hand! Long Yufei said with a smile.

"Far away, close at hand?" Luo Sangu looked at Long Yufei, and then understood.

"What? Yufei? You're going to make me the commander of the fleet? How can this work? Luo Sangu exclaimed.

"Why can't you? I've thought about it, and you're the right person! Long Yufei said very firmly.

"But I am the queen! How could the queen be the commander of the fleet? Luo Sangu said.

"No one has ruled that the queen cannot be the commander of the fleet! I'm the king, and I'm in charge! I don't think anyone would object! Long Yufei said firmly.

"But, I'm going to be the commander of the fleet, what are you going to do? Who will take care of you? Luo Sangu was a little hesitant. In fact, deep in Luo Sangu's heart, she is still a little unaccustomed to this kind of life of husband and child. What she longs for most is to gallop on the sea. However, for the sake of Long Yufei, she has been suppressing herself!

"Yuhua, I'm not a child anymore. Besides, I'm the king, so I won't have any problems in life! Long Yufei said.

Luo Sangu thought about it for a while, and finally nodded.

persuaded Luo Sangu, this is much easier. On the second day, Long Yufei discussed with Logistics Minister Zhao Yi and the Government Council that Luo Sangu would be appointed commander of the First Fleet of the Xinhua Navy and captain of the cruiser 'Xinhua', the first ship. Zhao Yi, Minister of Logistics, and Li Decheng, Premier of the Government Council, and other elderly people on Flying Fish Island, although they thought that this was a little inappropriate, they did not oppose it too much. At Long Yufei's insistence, they chose to agree. However, some of the other senior officials in the Council thought that this was very inappropriate. As the queen, Luo Sangu should be the mother of the world, and it would be too unseemly to go to the sea to be a fleet commander!

However, for these opinions, Long Yufei has always ignored them, and he can't pull back ten cows for what he believes, and under his toughness, the ministers of the Government Council have to compromise. Luo Sangu's appointment as the commander of the First Fleet of the Xinhua Navy is already ironclad!

On November 12, 1836, the emperor of Xinhua led the important ministers of the government and the military to the dock to attend the commissioning ceremony of the cruiser "Xinhua" and the cruiser "Sanbao" of the Xinhua Navy and the formation ceremony of the Xinhua Navy.

At this ceremony, the cruiser "Xinhua" and the cruiser "Zamboanga", which had completed sea trials, officially joined the naval sequence of Xinhua and became the main force of the Xinhua Navy. In the shipyard of the Flying Fish Company, the next ten 'Shark-class' cruisers are in the process of intense construction, and it is expected that they will soon be commissioned one after another.

At the same time, Long Yufei also officially appointed Luo Sangu as the commander of the First Fleet of the Xinhua Navy and the captain of the cruiser 'Xinhua', while Wei Yong served as the captain of the cruiser 'Zamboanga'.

Although the displacement of the 'Shark-class' cruisers was as high as 1,200 tons, they had fewer guns and therefore fewer crews, with only a hundred crew members on each ship. Compared to the navy of the Western powers, the third-class battleships had nearly five hundred crews, which was much less. However, the combat effectiveness of the 'Shark-class' cruisers is not at all inferior to the Western battleships of the third class!