Qu Zichen asked the leading pirate Zhao Kuan to lead the way, ordered people to lock up the other captured pirates, and divided some people to the captured pirate ship, and the three ships went all the way east to an inaccessible island. Qu Zichen took the nautical charts equipped with the ships given by the system, and roughly determined the location where he is now, which is the Zhoushan Islands in the future.

According to the interrogation of the pirate Zhao Kuan, there are no people on this island, there were some residents before, but they were killed later, and now there are only a few houses and an improvised dock they built.

After getting off the ship, Qu Zichen directly ordered someone to arrest the four pirates who stayed here, there was no accident, the four pirates who stayed behind were sleeping, and before they understood what was happening, they were controlled by Qu Zichen's people and locked up with other pirates.

After Qu Zichen learned about the situation, he asked the crossbow to circle the island and estimate the approximate area. Subsequently, he arranged for someone to clean up the houses of these pirates, all of which were made of wood, which could be kept by people, and demolished directly if the situation was not good.

As for Zhao Kuan and the other twelve pirates, they will not be killed for the time being, and it will be useful to keep them.

When the Ballista returned from a round, the result was that the island was about 300 hectares or more, and the island was mostly wooded. Qu Zichen decided to name this island Zhiyuan Island, and when the strength was stronger, he would recruit a battleship of the Shanghai Dynasty, which was also named Zhiyuan.

Qu Zichen recruited another twenty soldiers, but this time he did not plan to let the soldiers work directly, but arranged for ten soldiers to take turns to follow the two instructors Wu San and Wu Si recruited in Mingzhou for naval combat training, plus the previous twenty soldiers, forty people took turns to garrison the island and Mingzhou at a time, and the soldiers on this island were also responsible for guarding the fourteen captured pirates.

Qu Zichen was not going to let these pirates stay here to eat, but let the soldiers watch them, build a larger dock and cut wood on the original foundation. Cultivate more cultivated land.

After contacting the cook Zhou Bo again, Zhou Bo told him that it was to be determined, and the three men who were captured, in order to let Qu Zichen serve Qin Hui willingly, let Qu Zichen dispose of it himself.

Qu Zichen ordered the soldiers to bring the three people to this island, build infrastructure, open up wasteland, cut wood, and do some work for them. It's just a waste to use.

In the next period of time, Qu Zichen quietly expanded his strength, and now with Zhang Dahe's newly recruited manpower, there are already two hundred and one soldiers and ten coaches.

The newly recruited coaches are called Wang Wu, Wang Liu, Wu San and Wu Si.

There are two gold-quality soldiers, Qu Hu and Qu Long. Among them, Zhang Long was in charge of the army with a total of 121 people, Qu Hu was his deputy, and Qu Long was in charge of the navy with a total of 80 people.

There are ten silver-quality soldiers, Qu Dalang ~ Shilang. Qu Dalang ~ Liulang is in charge of the army, Qu Qilang ~ Shilang is in charge of the navy, and each squad has 20 people.

Among them, there are 20 bronze quality soldiers, who are responsible for Qu Zichen's safety, peacetime training, and Qu Zichen is organized as a separate guard team when he travels or commands operations. Led by Qu Zichen.

Of the 121 army members, 80 were cavalrymen of gold, silver, and bronze quality, and 40 were infantrymen. The six instructors in charge of the army are also equipped with horses, armor, etc.

In a blink of an eye, it was almost time for spring ploughing, and Qu Zichen asked people to bring all the non-war horses, horses and cattle in the Qu family's compound and forest camp to Zhiyuan Island to cultivate the fields.

During this period of reclamation plus the vacant land that existed before, according to 10 acres as a day, a total of 45 hectares, about 30 hectares, Qu Zichen extracted from the system to sow 10 hectares of rice seeds, sow 10 hectares of wheat seeds, and the remaining 10 hectares were planted with two hectares of cherry trees, eight hectares of vegetables, etc.

It is good to farm on an island where there is no government and do not have to pay taxes.

The current manpower is certainly insufficient. So Qu Zichen decided to clean up the nearby pirates and bandits, etc., and get all these scum into waste for use. Then send someone yourself to be a pirate.

Qu Zichen planned to wait for the grain, fruits and vegetables to mature, and then open a grain store and a restaurant in Lin'an, Mingzhou, and Yuhang County, first, to sell all the grain that could not be eaten, and second, to collect intelligence and understand the local situation.

However, he is not ready to do it in his own capacity, Yaoqin is very suitable, after all, he has been in that kind of place, understands people's feelings, can observe words and feelings, and can take care of Zhang Da, the couple will not be too far apart, and the Song Dynasty also allowed women to engage in business. Then let the soldiers act as buddies in the shop.

Qin Hui himself is also going to be concerned, according to the news sent back by Zhang Da, his uncle and friends are in the house, Qu Zichen is ready to use this relationship to supply food and other things to Qin Hui's mansion in the future, and on the day the plot begins, he can also have a response.

You can also contact other dignitaries and nobles through the relationship of supplying grain to the Qin Mansion, even if they are just a grain seller in their eyes, when the rebellion really reaches the city of Lin'an, they can also let the soldiers disguise themselves as food deliverers to sneak into their mansions, attack them with arms, and control them.