Early the next morning, Zhao Chongyang added the names of heroes and heroes such as Sun Li, Sun Xin, Gu Sister-in-law, Le He, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, Liu Qi, Wu Jue, Wu Lan, and Yang Yi to the talents to be recruited. Then asked Qian Xiaoan to take the list of talents to be recruited to the printing house, and asked them to immediately typeset and print hundreds of copies, and let each branch take it back to visit slowly, and confirmed that it was me who hired it with a high salary.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Zhao Chongyang held a send-off banquet in Nanyang Wantong Trade City to celebrate the heroes who are about to return. According to Zhao Chongyang's suggestion, Zhou Tong and Zhou Qing, father and son, will return to Nanjing with Zhao Chongyang this time to help train the generals of the navy and train the navy.

After breakfast, Mu Hong, Mu Chun, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng, and Gong Wang returned to Xiangyang to resume their duties. Wu Song and Shi Jin went home with Li Jun to move to the house, Fang Tianjie and Duan Sanniang, Pang Wanchun and Hu Jinfeng packed up and returned to Nanjing, and there were naturally four little beauties with Zhao Chongyang, and Qian Xiaoan led the guards to protect them, in addition, Tong Wei and Tong Meng accompanied them.

Let's say that Duan Taigong received the list of heroes and heroes to be recruited from Zhao Chongyang, and when he saw that there was Luda among them, he said to Duan Da and Duan Er: "Is this Luda the amazing Master Lu of our Duan Jiazhuang?" ”

Duan Er said: "Most of them are Brother Lu, and only a brave person like him will enter the eyes of Zhao Gongzi." Let's go to my brother-in-law right away to confirm. ”

Duan Da and Duan Er were originally going to set off with their families, but they had to ask their subordinates to wait a while and came to the residence of Fang Tianjie and his wife to explain the situation.

Fang Tianjie listened to the introduction of the two and decided that Master Lu, who was guarding the ring in Zhaojiazhuang, was one of the heroes that Zhao Chongyang wanted to recruit. So after they went back, they told Luda that Zhou Dong and Zhou Daxia, who had passed on his crazy wand method, were specially invited, and took a group of junior disciples to wait for him at the headquarters of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce at Zhaojia Wharf in Nanjing to discuss important matters......

Half a month later, Luda rushed to Zhaojia Wharf in Nanjing, met with his master, and met with Wu Song, Fang Tianding, Fang Tianjie, Fang Tianjun, Zhao Chongyang, Shi Jin, Zhou Qing and other junior brothers. That night, several masters and apprentices, plus many heroes and heroines who stayed at the headquarters, gathered together. Luda said to Zhao Chongyang: "Senior Brother Zhao, I knew that you have so many good wines and good dishes here, and I would have gone to Nanyang to look for you a long time ago." The heroes laughed.

Let's say that Nanjing Wantong Chamber of Commerce Shipyard, under the leadership of the chief steward Ye Tianzao and his two sons Ye Chun and Ye Xia, rushed to work day and night, and finally completed two giant ships of this era before the Dragon Boat Festival. In this way, with the addition of the original four sample galleons, Zhao Chongzu and they have six large sea ships. Zhao Chongyang transferred four more steam ships with a deadweight of 20 tons to formally establish the ocean-going shipping detachment of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, with Li Jun as the detachment leader and Qian Xiaobo and Nangong Yongjie as the deputy detachment leaders. Qian Xiaobo concurrently served as the commander of the No. 1 ship, Zhang Heng, the commander of the No. 2 ship, Zhang Shun, the captain of the No. 3 ship, Tong Wei, the captain of the No. 4 ship, Tong Meng, the No. 5 ship, and Xie Bangjin, the captain of the No. 6 ship. Four steamships formed an escort reconnaissance fleet, and the commander-in-chief of the escort reconnaissance fleet, Nangong Yongjie. The first officer, second officer, and third officer of each ship are all selected from the old sailors recruited. Each ship is equipped with 80 artillerymen, 30 professional sailors (including the chief and deputy sailors), 200 marines (chief and deputy captains), 30 logistics cooking platoons (including the chief and deputy platoon commanders), plus the chief and deputy captains, and the total number of each ship is 344. During the war, the logistics platoon joined the Marine Corps landing operations. Qian Xiaobo, commander-in-chief of the landing operation, and Nangong Yongjie, deputy commander-in-chief.

Immediately after the formation of the ocean-going shipping detachment, training in ocean-going navigation and water warfare was conducted. After Zhao Chongyang and his master Zhou Tong and Li Jun, the leader of the navy, and others discussed, they decided to train instead of training, and took advantage of the fact that the wind and waves on the ocean were not very big during this time, and organized an ocean voyage to Fusang Island. Scout steamships carry food, water, and fuel. Zhao Chongyang stored a large number of water, grain and vegetables, spices and department stores in the system warehouse, and the system warehouse space has a storage capacity of tens of thousands of tons, and the storage of department stores is much more than six large ships.

On the morning of May 12, the fleet set sail for the first time. After Zhao Chongyang's wife took office, she took her two younger brothers and daughters-in-law and a group of slaves, escorted by a platoon of self-defense forces, to Suzhou and Hangzhou to inspect the work. Therefore, only his father took Wang Zhennan, Zhou Qigui and others to see them off at the dock. This time, Zhu Wu, the master of the Shenji Army, did not travel far with the fleet, but stayed at the headquarters as a senior staff member and assisted Chairman Zhao in his work.

The heroes and heroines who have no work tasks on the sightseeing trip with the fleet are: old heroes Zhou Dong, Luda, Zhou Qing, Wu Song, Shi Jin, Fang Tianjie, Pang Wanchun, Fang Tianjun, and Xue Yong, a sick insect. The heroes of the women's middle school include Hu Jinfeng, Duan Qionghua, Qiu Qiongying, Pang Qiuxia, Fang Baihua, and Liu Qiaoling. There are also two young people on the ship who volunteered to live on Fusang Island for a long time, where they opened up overseas bases for the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, one is Zhou Wanbo, the son of Zhou Qifu, and the other is Zhu Chenggang, the son of Zhu Yucheng, both of whom have become families, Zhou Wanbo has a son and a daughter, and Zhu Chenggang has two sons and a daughter. Zhao Chongyang sent several technical personnel to make liquor and perfume to the two, and after arriving in Fusang, he mainly opened liquor and perfume workshops, and at the same time taught the Japanese slaves to grow corn, so that there was enough grain to make wine. Luda heard that a large liquor workshop was going to be built there, and thought that there was good wine to drink every day, so he said to the master and Zhao Chongyang that anyway, the base of Fusang should leave people with strong martial arts to train soldiers to protect the base, so he simply stayed as the leader and coach, Zhang Heng said that he was also willing to stay in Fusang, and led the fleet to transport liquor and perfume to the coastal ports of Fusang. Zhao Chongyang agreed to the request of the two, and promised them to leave 200 unmarried soldiers and thirty small cannons at that time. Each soldier was allowed to marry two widows, and they were required to marry two or more widows each in order to continue their offspring.