Seeing that he inadvertently saw the marketing of wooden mirrors, Zhao Chongyang thought of glass mirrors again. He said in his heart: "It seems that the manufacture of glass is urgent. "But the degree to which this technology can make money is really shocking, once it is targeted by those local giants with strong strength, one or two can deal with it, but if there are countless powerful families who join forces and mobilize the imperial army to come, they may not be able to cope with it.

Zhao Chongyang returned to Fangjiazhai and told Fang La about the worries in his heart, and Fang La summoned Zu Shiyuan (Fang La's advisers, who only returned when he went out), Shi Bao, Pang Wanchun, Li Tianrun and others to discuss. Zhao Chongyang is optimistic about Shuibo Liangshan in Shandong, where there is a radius of 800 miles, and there is no problem in raising tens of thousands of people to be self-sufficient. It is surrounded by water on all sides, and it cannot be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of troops, so the glass factory is not afraid of being remembered. There is also a wide territory and a lot of wasteland. Corn and sweet potatoes are best adapted to those mountainous areas, and in some places, ditches can be built to divert water for irrigation, and terraced fields according to the shape of the mountain. In this way, not only can the grain be self-sufficient, but there should be surplus grain to make wine and feed the pigs. In such a closed place, those who make glass do not know what they make, and those who sell glass products do not know the place of origin, so naturally they will not worry about the leakage of technology.

Zu Shiyuan had just returned from Suzhou, and he said that Shandong was too far away, and we didn't know anything about those places, so it was better to subdue the Taihu Lake and occupy Xishan Island. Xishan Island has a radius of more than 300 li, and although the land is not as large as Liangshan, the water area is larger, with 10,000 or 20,000 people living on it, and 2,000 naval troops stationed to protect the base and transport materials. In addition, Taihu Lake has a canal to make an opening, down to Hangzhou and other places, up to Nanjing, Yangzhou and even Kaifeng and other places are very convenient.

Everyone thought that this plan was feasible, so they sent a letter to Hangzhou, asking Hangzhou to send a speedboat to the Nanjing headquarters to give an order, asking Wang Yan and Qian Xiaobo to lead all the sailors to bring all the equipment and go south to Suzhou to standby. Hangzhou immediately gathered more than 100 large and small ships of the original Mingjiao, with 800 soldiers in the special training camp, and after two days of intensive training, they sailed into Taihu Lake in batches to gather and stand by. Fortunately, the soldiers in Jiangnan are all proficient in water, and they do not need to be trained in swimming skills like people in the north.

Seven days later, Wang Yan and Qian Xiaobo led 800 sailors from the headquarters to arrive at the mouth of Taihu Lake in Suzhou on more than 60 medium-sized ships with 100 to 200 materials and 20 speedboats. Since Fang La sent people to buy off the prefect of Suzhou and the head of the soldiers and horses with money in advance, claiming that they had a grudge against the Taihu Lake Shuifu, now the Wantong Chamber of Commerce has led a team of bodyguards into Taihu Lake to exterminate the Shuifu, and asked the government not to stop and stop it. Several chief officials heard that they were going into the lake to suppress the water, and they would not disturb the place, for the sake of money, liquor, soap, soap, and perfume, but they asked that it was better to be able to exterminate the water, and it was none of their business whether they could win the battle or not.

After the two naval armies in the north and south were mixed, the Qian Xiaobo naval camp was the main attack, and the naval army of Hangzhou was strong in the back, and practiced here at the mouth of Taihu Lake for two or three days.

It turned out that Yang Xuan, the big leader of Taihu Lake, had already heard the report of his subordinates that a group of people had entered Taihu Lake with more than 100 boats, and practiced water battles here every day, looking at the costumes that were not official and military dresses.

After Yang Xuan received the report, he personally led people to secretly watch the water army performance of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce from a distance. He saw that Zhao Chongyang's naval army was not very strong, and the warships were generally not as tall as theirs, so he felt contempt in his heart. So he wrote a letter and asked his men to deliver it by boat. After Zhao Chongyang and Fang La received the letter, they opened it and saw that it was written: "I don't know where you are from the water colleagues, you must know that Taihu Lake is the foothold of Yang Xuan, the dragon of Taihu Lake, and I will never allow others to touch it." Now I will give you two ways out: one is to pay 5,000 yuan in compensation and get out of Taihu Lake immediately. The second is that all of you have joined the Taihu West Cottage, so that Yang Xuan, the owner of the Taihu Cottage, will use it for you. If you don't agree to any of them, then I will bring my elite soldiers and strong generals to collect the account for you! Name: Taihu Dragon Yang Xuan. ”

Zhao Chongyang got it from Fang La's mouth, this Yang Xuan is not a good bird, and his hands are stained with the blood of the people along the Taihu Lake. So he was not polite to him, and asked him to immediately lead all the Shui Yan to surrender unconditionally, so that he could also give him a whole household, otherwise after he was caught, he would be executed at a later time, so as to give justice to the many Taihu people who were killed by him. and serve Yang Xuan, and the two sides will compete tomorrow morning......

At six o'clock in the morning of the next day, the navy of Wantong Commercial Bank had breakfast, and Fang La and Zhao Chongyang marched to Xishan Island with the fleet, and the three sisters naturally followed to see the excitement. Zhao Chongyang wanted to use the combat power of Qian Xiaobo's water camp to defeat more than 100 boats in Taihu Lake, and there was basically no suspense about the more than 2,000 water camps, because after several months of water drills, the hit rate of the water army's artillery must have increased again. Therefore, when the three sisters proposed to come with them to observe, Zhao Chongyang happily agreed.

After the naval fleet of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce sailed on the lake for more than an hour, the speedboat in front of the reconnaissance returned to report that the fleet of the water convoy was coming, and it was still about ten miles away from them. Sure enough, after a while, through a thin layer of morning mist on the surface of the lake, countless sail shadows were seen shaking.

The commander-in-chief of this water battle was Qian Xiaobo, Wang Yan was the chief of staff, and Fang La and Zhao Chongyang only watched from the back of the fleet. The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, one thousand meters, eight hundred meters, six hundred meters, ......"ignition, fire, although, medium guns can hit the target two kilometers away, and small guns can hit half of them one thousand meters away, but Zhao Chongyang still asked Qian Xiaobo to put the enemy ship within six meters before firing, within this range, to strike at the enemy's dense fleet, the hit rate reached almost ninety, this time each warship put six guns, all on the gun mount, the feet of the gun carriage were folded, and the guns were pressed on the movable wheels, Two artillerymen can push up the gun carriage to put the gun on the other side of the ship's side, so this movable gun carriage is convenient to use.

In the battle against enemy ships, the naval forces will always move forward slowly and obliquely according to the diagonal line during training. With such a wide string facing the enemy ship, you can put a few more guns to increase the combat effectiveness, and to a certain extent, after the guns of the lead ship cannot reach the enemy, they begin to turn again, circle the S line, and turn the other side of the ship's string to the enemy's fleet, and when the ship turns, the artillery moves the guns to the other side of the ship's string through the movable gun mount.

Yang Xuan began to see the enemy's fleet in this strange formation, and said in his heart, "What is the situation?" Are you here to give me a head? How could there be such a stupid fleet leader? Put the weakest side chord against the bow of someone else's ship, and when the hand-to-hand combat is engaged, you don't need to use a knife or a gun, and Lao Tzu will smash the ship with the bow of the ship. So he ordered: "Advance at full speed, and try to sink dozens of their ships before the enemy ships have time to change their attacking formation." ”

It wasn't until there were bursts of thunderous cannon sound from the enemy ships and shells hitting their ships that Yang Xuan knew that it was over, and it was completely over......

After three rounds of cannons, the boats began to leak, and some of the boats that had not been shot turned around and fled. The speedboat, which had been eyeing the enemy ship for a long time, began to intercept the fleeing enemy ship without waiting for an order. And Qian Xiaobo and Wang Yan began to pursue with Nanjing's water barracks. At this time, Shi Bao, Li Tianrun, Pang Wanchun and others began to salvage the prisoners with the fleet from Hangzhou, bolted the sinking ship to their own ship, and dragged it to the Suzhou dock for repair......

The whole battle process, it took two hours to get to the end, Yang Xuan was directly killed by the shell, the second master, the fourth refused to surrender when he fled, and was killed by random arrows, the fifth master was ruthless, very cruel to people, knowing that he was caught after having no physiology, he committed suicide, and the last more than 30 boats surrendered unconditionally under the leadership of Xie Bangjin, the third master.

There were a total of 2,500 people in Taihu Lake, more than 200 of whom were killed in battle, and nearly 500 people, excluding those with bad conduct and the old and weak, were sent to Xishan Island to work, and more than 1,800 people were actually killed. The navy army brought by Qian Xiaobo left two companies to form the backbone of the Taihu Lake navy, and the navy army incorporated here selected 600 people for Qian Xiaobo to bring back to form a new headquarters navy. The 600 Taihu Lake Naval Army was then transferred south to Hangzhou and established the Hangzhou Naval Battalion, with Li Tianrun as the battalion commander and Xie Bangjin as the deputy battalion commander.

The Taihu Special Zone was established, Wang Yan was the general manager of the Taihu Special Economic Zone, and Zu Shiyuan was the deputy director, in charge of all affairs in the Taihu Lake area, and a permanent naval bodyguard detachment of 2,000 guards guarded the workshops, factories and wharves on Xishan Island, and recruited 20,000 displaced people to go up the mountains to open up wasteland, build wharves and repair villages. The main factories built are: iron works, ironworks. The arsenal is mainly for the production of swords and swords, flintlock pistols, cannons, crossbows, revolvers, grenades, iron mines, etc. Ling Zhen, Liu Jinlong, Cheng Dakang, and those who worked with them in developing guns and ammunition were all transferred to Xishan Island. Then a glass factory was built, and after the glass factory was built, a soap and soap factory was built. Finally, there was the construction of cement factories, which were mainly used for internal construction: the construction of docks, the construction of forts, the construction of factories, the construction of villages, the construction of several small market towns and a large central market town. After the completion of the construction, those who are willing to do business in the town will be loaned to them as principal, and those who are willing to farm will be loaned to buy cattle for farming, and hoes will be issued to let them cultivate the fields freely. In short, it is necessary to make the residents of the island feel a sense of belonging, feel that life on the island is secure, and that nothing is lacking.