Chapter 154: Logbook
After listening to Luo Xianbin's detailed report, and reading the navigation diary recorded by the accompanying scribe, now Yu Xiaotian has taken out his energy and began to pay attention to the quality cultivation of his subordinates, although these subordinates are basically born in a bun of dirt buns, and there are few literate people, but in the future, his family business will become larger and larger, and the number of ships will also increase, and how to effectively manage these subordinates and ships has become a big problem.
And he originally set up a first mate so that someone on the ship could directly supervise the captain, so that the captain could not do whatever he wanted unscrupulously after going to sea, and he also arranged personnel through the torture hall to mix sand on each ship to supervise these ships.
But this is the local method after all, and the best way is to have the ship's crew keep their nautical diary every day, so that after they return, they can control their behavior after going to sea by reviewing their nautical diary and combining it with their reports.
And if you want your subordinates to write a nautical diary, for these illiterates, it is much more difficult than letting them kill people and sell goods, these guys don't know a lot of words, so there are no conditions for implementing this method before.
But now Yu Xiaotian has managed to get a few down-and-out scholars from the land, of course, these readers must be some unsuccessful guys, at best they are literate, but they can't even get into the show of talent, these people have no future in reading, so they can only give up to make another living.
So Yu Xiaotian used various methods to attract some such people to Nanri Island to serve under him, don't look at these people among the scholars on land, they are nothing, but after entering the sea wolf system, they are very preferential and valued.
After all, these so-called cultural people who have received them have a much wider horizon than ordinary soil buns, and they can do more things, so most of these people have been arranged to the council hall, the criminal hall, finance, treasury management and other departments, and their salaries are higher than those of ordinary people, at least enough for them to support their families and live a more decent life.
Others were assigned to the new camp as cultural instructors, and after the new recruits entered the new camp, in addition to receiving regular training, they had to be gathered every night to carry out literacy eradication, so that these cultural instructors could give them literacy and literacy, and each person's task every day was to know and write ten new words, and those who did not meet the requirements would be hungry and whipped, so that they could basically know 600 words in two months, and they could record some things more or less.
Such a level of culture is definitely not able to write a decent logbook, but after all, it is much stronger than not knowing a word, of course, after leaving the new camp, they have to tutor in batches, learn more words, in general, Yu Xiaotian's goal is to train a group of literate subordinates with more than 3,000 words through two years, as long as the literacy is roughly more than 3,000, it will no longer be too difficult to write something in the future.
In addition, like in important actions, he will order the torture hall to send a scribe to set off with the fleet, this scribe does not have to do anything in the action, only needs to use his eyes to record, with a pen to record the various things encountered during the trip, objectively record the activities of the fleet, form a more detailed logbook, after the fleet returns to the base, the scribe with this logbook back to the torture hall.
In this way, Yu Xiaotian wanted to know the situation of the fleet going to sea, in addition to the oral description of the captain and the first mate who traveled, there was another important circumstantial evidence, so that he could better and more intuitively supervise the actions of his subordinates after going to sea, and at the same time left a copy of the original information that could be checked at any time.
And this time Luo Xianbin and his party went south to attack Chu Cailao, as an extremely important action, naturally Yu Xiaotian sent them a scribe to accompany them, who was responsible for recording their activities on this voyage, and this scribe also dutifully completed his work and brought back a fairly detailed logbook.
Yu Xiaotian looked through the logbook they brought back this time from beginning to end, and after listening to Luo Xianbin's detailed report on the trip, he basically knew everything about their attack.
He listened attentively to Luo Xianbin's report about their attack on Kinmen Island today, and after closing the logbook, he nodded and said, "Xianbin, you don't have to blame yourself anymore!" You are not wrong in this matter, if you have to say that you are wrong, it can only be said that you are a little greedy! But on the whole, you and your group did a very good job this time!
I don't think that's the only thing I think, it's also the people here in the torture hall and the other brothers!
You can think about it, Xianbin and his entourage went to sea for a total of 64 days, according to this diary, their three boats traveled southward to the area of Jiesheng in Huizhou Prefecture, shuttling back and forth between Quanzhou and Chaozhou, back and forth as many as four times.
In the past two months, they have traveled thousands of miles at sea, and in the absence of supplies, they have attacked Chu Cai's old ships a total of 16 times, and on average, they have to fight a battle in almost four days, and there is almost no time to rest in between!
There were a total of 123 people in the whole team, 42 people were killed in two months, 5 died of illness, 18 were wounded, and nearly half of them were killed or wounded, but they destroyed more than 30 ships of all kinds and destroyed hundreds of enemies!
The Flying Wolf was ambushed on Kinmen Island, and the remaining 37 people on the ship, 21 were killed on the spot, and two of the seriously injured and two were seriously injured on the way back! There were forty people on the ship, but less than ten people came back!
Great! Great! My sea wolf has such a warrior, why can't I dominate the sea? Ladies and gentlemen! Please accept my gift! ”
After saying that, Yu Xiaotian got up and walked in front of Luo Xianbin and the others, clasped his fists with both hands, and bowed to the ground to give a deep salute.
Everyone here today who listened to the report of Luo Xianbin and others, after listening to the series of figures reported by Yu Xiaotian, were also surprised, when Yu Xiaotian only sent these three Feizi clippers to form a small fleet and go south to take revenge on Chu Cailao, most of them felt that this was a bit of a gamble.
With only three clippers, although these three boats are all newly built by them, they can be called strong ships, but after all, the number is too small, there are hundreds of ships under Chu Cailao, how much effect can it play in using their three boats to sneak attack Chu Cailao?
Some people even pessimistically feel that sending these three boats to find Chu Cailao's trouble is simply an act of meat buns beating dogs, and they may never come back.
But I didn't expect that after more than two months, Luo Xianbin actually returned to Nanri Island with two boats, and also brought back more than half of the crew, which was surprising enough.
On the dock to welcome Luo Xianbin and his party back, everyone saw the shape of the two boats that came back, and everyone was shocked at that time, they had only been seen for two months, and when they left, they were still new and new, and when they appeared in front of them again, they completely became a different picture.
The two boats were mottled all over the body, and the two sails hanging on the mast were covered with large holes and small eyes, and they were covered with all kinds of messy patches, and they were all over the burn marks, even the worst pants they had ever seen, they were estimated to be better than the sails they had when they returned, and even made them a little unbelievable that these two ships actually relied on these two sails to return to Nanri Island.
Looking at their hull, it can be described as miserable, the hull is also full of large and small craters, and the discerning person can see at a glance that this is the result of being bombarded by countless cannons, and in some places you can even clearly see some guns embedded in the wood.
There are still messy clusters of arrows stuck here and there, the shafts of the arrows have been burned or broken, and only a short section of arrows is still nailed to the hull, the number of which is so large that people can't count them for a while, and some of the ship's sides have been completely destroyed, like the gums of an old man who has lost his teeth, which looks very ugly.
At that time, everyone realized that these two ships must have experienced a lot of fierce battles in the more than two months since they came out, otherwise they would not have achieved this virtue, and if they were newly built and launched more than two months ago, it is estimated that no one would believe them, and those who saw them almost thought that these two ships could basically be scrapped on the spot after they returned.
Now, after listening to Luo Xianbin's report on the results of their trip, coupled with a series of figures reported by Yu Xiaotian, everyone unconsciously respected Luo Xianbin and his party who went out this time.
When Yu Xiaotian got up and walked in front of Luo Xianbin and the others, and bowed down to give them a deep salute, everyone felt that Yu Xiaotian was not too much to do, and they couldn't help but quickly get up, and they all hugged their fists to salute Luo Xianbin and the others, in order to show their respect for these people.
And Luo Xianbin, Ma Ru and others were so courteous to Yu Xiaotian and everyone present, and they were all in a hurry, and they were a little flattered, and they hurriedly hugged their fists and bowed down to return the salute to Xiaotian and others.
At this time, Ma Ru, a man, couldn't help but have some tears in his eyes, and choked up and said: "The big boss is very polite!" The little ones can't afford it! ”
After Yu Xiaotian gave the salute, he sighed: "You can afford it!" You deserve it! Compared to the hardships you have suffered in the past two months, what is Yu just giving you a salute?
Pass my orders! Give Luo Xianbin, Lin Shouche, and Ma Ru a great credit for each of them! Luo Xianbin was rewarded with two hundred taels of silver, and Lin Shouche and Ma Ru were each rewarded with one hundred and fifty taels of silver! In addition, each person will be awarded a silver medal of loyalty!
The chief mate of the three boats will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, and each will be awarded a silver medal of loyalty and bravery!
The rest of the people who participated in this trip will be credited once, and each person will be rewarded with 20 taels of silver, and each person will be awarded an iron medal of loyalty and bravery!
Those who died in this battle will be credited with a great merit, and in addition to a reward of 80 taels of silver, their families will be given preferential treatment! A bronze medal of loyalty and bravery will be awarded!
The sick and deceased will be credited once, and the reward will be 50 taels of silver, and the bereavement will be preferential! Awarded a bronze medal of loyalty and bravery!
The injured will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver each, and if they are disabled and unable to return to the team, they will be supported for life, and the birth, old age, sickness and death will be all responsible for the council!
The dead and sick on this trip have their parents, and they will be registered by the council hall and supported for life! Until the end of his retirement! His children were given the surname Yu, and from now on they will be my righteous son and daughter! I'm going to raise him to adulthood! If you are treated badly, you would rather be punished by God! ”
(Today I saw that there are brothers in the group urging more, this cold wind is going to say sorry, now it's not as good as before, just got a golden baby, my wife is going to work again, I have to stare at the little guy most of the day, and I rarely have time to sit down the code word steadily, so for most of the year, I can only guarantee one change a day, two changes from time to time, but as long as I have time, I will sit down and code the word, and strive to update more! It's not easy to be a father! I hope you all Haihan! Thank you for your support! )