As soon as Ruan Jinggui left on the front foot, the supervisor of the mine here arranged for himself to be transferred to a light job, and Wu Sen naturally connected these two thingsFrom this small transfer, Wu Sen could judge at least two things: first, Ruan Jinggui should have won the trust of the Haihan people, said good things for him, and played a role; second, the Haihan people did attach a certain amount of importance to themselves, otherwise they would not be able to give themselves this kind of adjustment in work treatment. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

After Nguyen Ching Gui's persuasion and his own experience, Vu Sen gradually began to recognize the current situation, and the Hue court was in Haihan, North Vietnam, Daming, In this case, if you want to choose to continue to be loyal to the Hue court, the most effective way is probably to commit suicide to serve the country, because even if you are doing hard labor in the mines, in essence, you are still growing your strength for the enemy, how can a person who keeps saying loyalty to the old lord do things in disguise after being captured?

Of course, Wu Sen didn't want to die like this, he didn't plan to bury the Ruan family that had fallen, but he didn't want to return to Shun Haihan lightly, and there were deeper reasons. As Nguyen Ching Gui guessed, it was mainly because there was still a desire not to admit defeat in his heart, and the reason for the defeat of the South Vietnamese naval division in the war was simply attributed to the difference in the armed level of the two sides. However, with the increase in contact with the Haihan people, he himself gradually realized that this understanding was not comprehensive, and the gap between the two sides was not only in the military aspect, but also the war mobilization ability of the Haihan was also far from being comparable to that of South Vietnam, although the war was lost on the battlefield, but the real decisive factor was outside the battlefield.

In the next few days, Ruan Jinggui temporarily gave up his position as Schneider's personal assistant, but every day, accompanied by Fu Li, he came to Tiandu Iron Mine to "talk" with Wu Sen.

Since Ruan Jinggui has already leveraged Wu Sen's mind, the topic of this discussion will naturally be more targeted. If there was an element of wooing Wu Sen morally and family affection before, then it gradually evolved into a propaganda of Haihan's comprehensive strength. And there is quite a lot of content in the situation described by Ruan Jinggui that shocked Wu Sen.

From the mouth of Ruan Jinggui. It was also the first time that Wu Sen learned that while dealing with South Vietnam, the Haihan people were still fighting against the Liukou, pirates and other forces in the Ming Dynasty at the same time, and they still had the spare strength to support the armed forces of North Vietnam, Champa and even the Ming Dynasty in the form of military assistance. The war with the Hue court in South Vietnam was only one of the larger wars it waged abroad.

The side has done its best to give up even his life, but the opponent still retains a considerable part of the strength, which is undoubtedly a great sorrow for a soldier who takes combat as his vocation. If there was still a trace of the idea of looking for an opportunity to make a comeback and waiting for revenge in Wu Sen's heart before. Ruan Jinggui's description was enough to make him die of this delusion.

Once a person's mind is alive, it is difficult to take it back. After Ruan Jinggui persuaded for a few more days. Wu Sen finally put down his face and was relieved, and promised Ruan Jinggui that "you can go to the Haihan Navy first to see the situation." Although the statement is very tactful, this is undoubtedly a disguised admission of the intention to change the court and return to Haihan.

On May 2, 1629, after more than ten days of imprisonment as hard labor, Wu Sen was finally freed. However, he was not the only one who received this treatment, and there were also 17 prisoners of war who also belonged to the South Vietnamese Naval Division, almost all of whom were former colleagues and subordinates of Wu Sen, and after being escorted to Sanya, they were all under the leadership of Wu Sen. Now that Wu Sen has chosen to submit to obedience, the gang of people who followed him in the hard labor camp have also ascended to heaven with the chicken dog.

For the usual safety reasons, of course. These former South Vietnamese sailors will not be assigned to serve in the same places, and after further identification, they will be assigned to the merchant fleet, various docks, ports, shipyards and other units under the Ministry of Shipping, and only a very small number of outstanding ones can hope to enter the establishment of the Haihan Navy. And Wu Sen's whereabouts have not yet been finalized, and he must go through the skills of the navy and relevant departments before the Military Commission can make a decision on his specific appointment.

After a few nervous days after being released from prison, Wu Sen was finally notified by the Military Commission. Let him stand by at Pier No. 5 in Port Victory the next morning. Wu Sen knew that this test was related to his future prospects, and he did not dare to slack off, so when it was dark, he got up and packed up, went to the labor canteen on the dock to have breakfast, and then came to Pier 5 to wait for the military.

The location of the No. 5 pier is located at the mouth of the Tiandu River, and the opposite bank of the pier is the current Haihan naval station. You can see seven or eight Haihan warships with unique shapes docked on the shore. For this kind of warship, Wu Sen can be said to be very impressed, he had seen this kind of warship when he was in Donghai, but at that time, the Haihan Navy should not have been formed, and only one such warship fought in Donghai Harbor. However, half a year later, when the Haihan attacked Hoi An Harbor, there were more such warships. The flotilla lined up on the river, and the guns of the ships were aimed at the fortifications on the shore for a burst of shelling. easily repelled the defenders of South Vietnam.

And when he attacked Hue this year, Vu Sen didn't know how many ships the Haihan militia had come, because except for the first day of the battle between the two sides, he saw the Haihan warship sailing into the mouth of the Xiangjiang River from afar, and then he had no chance to get close to the opponent until he became a prisoner and was escorted onto the ship. However, according to the custom of a naval general, he can roughly estimate the number of warships possessed by the Haihan Navy from what he observed.

At present, it can be seen that there are eight warships docked outside the naval base, and since two of them are larger, Wu Sen cannot confirm whether there are other ships blocked behind those two ships. According to the situation introduced by Ruan Jinggui a few days ago, the Haihan people have several ports along the coast of Annam, the south coast of Qiongzhou Island, and the coast of Daming Guangdong, and most of them are garrisoned by troops. In terms of the three places in Guangdong, the Haihan people have at least three combat fleets, and it is simply estimated that there are at least two dozen warships, and maybe a little more, because he also witnessed the scale of the Shengli Port shipyard on the way from Sanya Port to Tiandu Iron Mine, so many slipways, even if one or two warships are launched every month, Wu Sen will not feel strange.

With the current size of the militia navy, Vu Sen knew that Annam would probably not be able to catch up with such a level for a long time, because almost all of the few shipyards in Annam were concentrated in South Vietnam, where maritime trade was more developed. And these shipyards have been completely destroyed in several attacks by the Haihan, and the South Vietnamese even the sailors and shipwrights have almost been captured by the Haihan, and now at most they can build some fishing boats, and there is no need to think about such a huge sailing ship as the Haihan warship. Haihan's deliberate uprooting of Annan's shipbuilding industry obviously had a certain purpose, and if Annan wanted to develop his own sailors in the future, he would probably have to rely on the handouts of the Haihan people.

But compared to the wooden sailboats on the other side of the river, there was something else that caught Takemori's attention more. Next to the fifth pier is the large ships brought by the Ministry of Shipping when they are docked and mothballed. So many steel behemoths lay silently on the shore, even if they didn't move. The visual impact is also quite amazing. Since the opening of Shengli Port, it has also become a "sightseeing area" that foreigners will definitely set foot in, but all those who have been to Shengli Port are all surprised by the "Haihan Iron Ship" here, and the largest tonnage and volume of the "New World" Ro-Ro wheel, with its huge hull has become a symbol of Haihan power in the minds of local naturalized people, and the two consecutive years of crossing anniversaries have also carried out various celebrations and awards on the deck of the "New World".

Wu Sen has only obtained the status of temporary immigrants now, and he does not have the authority to go to these big ships to find out. Not even qualified to enter the dock for a tour - ordinary people who want to see these steel behemoths up close must at least obtain official naturalized citizenship before entering the dock on designated public open days to satisfy their curiosity. Among the naturalized people who joined the rule of Haihan, there were even some people who came to be able to get close to the big iron ship.

Ordinary people naturally join in the fun and look strange when they see this thing, but for a professional like Wu Sen, it is indeed possible to see more things from these big ships. Let's not talk about anything else. It is that the iron used to build these large ships is no longer something that ordinary local governments can supply. Wu Sen has been here for many days, and naturally he has heard rumors that the Haihan people came across the sea on these big iron boats, although many people think that this is a lie or some kind of spell made by the Haihan people, after all, the fact that the iron boat sails on the water is too unreasonable, but Wu Sen prefers to believe that this rumor is the truth.

Wu Sen has been rolling in the water division for many years. I also know a little about shipbuilding technology, although I don't know what Archimedes' principle is and what is called the buoyancy formula, but it is not surprising that metals can float on the water. As for how such a strange-looking, sailless and oarless ship gained momentum to move on the sea, Wu Sen thought it was not a spell. He didn't quite understand it, though. But I think it should have something to do with the strange power devices made by the Haihan people - those things can drag tens of thousands of catties of heavy objects by burning coal, so if they are larger, they can naturally drive big ships to sail in the water.

If you judge from the talent of physics alone, I have to say that Wu Sen's observation is stronger than that of his Ming colleague Luo Shengdong. When Luo Shengdong was looking at the big iron ship on the dock in a daze, he didn't see it as thoroughly as Wu Sen. However, in addition to the same prisoner of war status, they also have some things in common, such as seeing this magical big ship, they are itching, and they wish they could find a way to go to the ship to find out.

After Wu Sen worked as a scarecrow on the dock for half an hour, the military finally arrived. Today's lineup of the evaluation team can be described as strong, the supreme commander of the Haihan Navy, Wang Tom, and the Minister of Maritime Affairs, Sun Chang Mi, are here, as well as the Nguyen brothers, who are one of the few close friends of Vu Sen in the local area. In addition, the evaluation team actually invited a special guest, that is, Luo Shengdong, the general of the Yazhou Navy Division, who happened to stay in Shengli Port in the past few days.

In fact, Luo Shengdong was not invited by Wang Tom and Sun Changmi, but he took the initiative to jump out. Luo Shengdong hosted a banquet for Ren Liang and Anxi at Shengli Port last night, and after being full of wine and food, Ren Liang talked about Wu Sen, a prisoner of war who was recently undergoing "ideological transformation." As soon as Luo Shengdong heard this, he became energetic, and asked Ren Liang to arrange a time so that he and this Annan colleague had a chance to "get to know".

Luo Shengdong obviously had a bit of a competitive taste when he said this, after all, Daming and Annan fought several times in the early years, but basically they didn't get any benefits at all, but they folded tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Annan, and they had to pinch their noses and admit Annan's independence. If there is no resentment in the hearts of the Ming soldiers, it will definitely be a lie. Although Luo Shengdong is already happy and convinced of Haihan, it does not mean that he has become a good old man with no temper, I heard that among the prisoners of war under Ren Liang, there is actually a general of the South Vietnamese Naval Division. Naturally, I wanted to find an opportunity to weigh this peer.

Ren Liang couldn't resist him, so he told him that there would be a professional skills evaluation test the next morning, and Hai Hanfang would send an examiner to evaluate Wu Sen's professional strength, and then decide on his next appointment and arrangement. Luo Shengdong immediately became interested and asked Ren Liang about the candidate for the examiner. After Luo Shengdong completely took refuge in Haihan, he has always been excellent, and after a long time, he was slowly regarded as "his own person" by the traversers. Therefore, Ren Liang did not hide it from him. However, these two are also more familiar with Luo Shengdong, and they have no less time to deal with than Ren Liang. So Luo Shengdong immediately patted his relatives and invited Wang Tom and Sun Changmi, and then asked for a place in the evaluation team.

If it were someone else, this kind of social means might not be effective, after all, the relationship belongs to the relationship, and the work still has to be correct. But Luo Shengdong just did this, and he was also a peer with Wu Sen, the object of the inspection, and it was reasonable to let him enter the evaluation team. Of course, he can give some personal opinions during the appraisal process. But the specific scoring and final judgment will definitely not be his share, after all, the executive committee will not be civilized enough to let the official people of the Ming Dynasty point fingers at the employment plan of the Haihan People's League.

The appearance of the Ruan brothers here also played a role in a more or less conciliator, and they had already met with the two chief examiners and the commentators who suddenly appeared in advance, so the work of introducing the two sides was naturally completed by the Ruan brothers.

Wu Sen was indeed shocked when he heard the names of the two examiners, one as the commander-in-chief of the navy and the other as the head of the shipyard. He didn't expect that the Haihan people would actually send such a high-ranking person to evaluate themselves, and this kind of attention to Cheng Dù also satisfied the vanity that he already had in his heart. However, Wu Sen also knew that the reason why the Haihan people attached so much importance to themselves was that more than half of the credit would probably have to be credited to the Ruan brothers, if they hadn't worked hard to build momentum for themselves outside, the Haihan people probably wouldn't have treated themselves like this as a treasure.

And Ruan Jinggui introduced to the last place, and Wu Sen's impact was probably a little greater than that of the first two. Since it is a Haihan people, they must test their own skills. It is understandable that the high-ranking official of Haihan came forward in person, but he didn't expect that in the end, this was actually a senior officer of the Ming official army, and like his position before he was captured, he was also a naval general!

Although Luo Shengdong did not wear an official uniform to attend today's occasion in order to avoid suspicion, Wu Sen could see that this identity probably would not be fake. The general surnamed Luo in front of him still has his hair in a bun, and he is obviously not from Haihan. But a soldier is a soldier, and the killing aura on his body is better recognized than the official uniform, and the officer who can be a general will have a sense of majesty of the superior, which is something that Wu Sen can empathize with.

"I've seen General Luo!" Although he didn't quite understand what the purpose of the Haihan people to invite a Daming sailor to come here was, Wu Sen still greeted Luo Shengdong very politely.

"General Wu is polite!" Luo Shengdong smiled and returned the salute with his fists, and dug a pit for Wu Sen by the way.

Wu Sen was very vigilant, and immediately said: "At this time, it is a prisoner of war who treats the guilt, and the official position of the previous dynasty does not need to be mentioned!"

Luo Shengdong responded: "It's okay, as long as you have real skills, you naturally have the opportunity to be a general again!"

"There are so many words, why don't you sing the leading role today?" Sun Changmi heard that Luo Shengdong's words had a hint of gunpowder, so he reprimanded.

Luo Shengdong has been in the private salt business for more than a year, and he has already practiced laughing and scolding, and when he heard this, he hurriedly laughed and said: "I'm just joking with Brother Wu, don't worry about Mr. Sun!"

While they were talking, an "Exploratory-class" warship had already sailed over from the opposite shore and docked behind the pier trestle, and the sailors on board lowered the folding gangway from the side of the ship for the people on the dock to board. Several people, led by King Tom, went up to the deck of the ship. At the sound of King Tom's order, the sailors raised the sails again and let the ship slowly sail away from the dock.

Seeing that the ship had sailed to the mouth of the harbor and was about to sail out of Shengli Port, Wang Tom and Sun Changmi still did not talk about the specific content of this exam, Wu Sen was a little anxious, and took the initiative to ask: "Dare to ask General Wang, when will today's assessment start?"

"It's already started!" said Tom Wang with a smile, "From the moment you boarded the ship, the evaluation has already begun." But don't be nervous, we're not going to let you try to command or steer a ship you're not familiar with. ”