After visiting a series of acquaintances and visiting several areas, Liang found that his immigration plan was steadily advancing:

In terms of material preparation, more than 70% of the food, tools, etc. required for the whole plan have been prepared, and if there is no accident, the preparatory work can be completed when the departure time next spring.

In terms of the most important ships, the three thousand material ships ordered by Liang En have also been successfully launched, and the final outfitting is underway, and all the preparations will be made in just half a month.

The choice of Fu Ship is due to the fact that Liang En's planned route needs to cross the ocean, so compared to those flat-bottomed sand ships suitable for offshore water, the pointed bottom Fu Boat is more suitable for this route away from land.

What's more, the Fubune was easier to refit in history, and it was one of the easiest ships to be converted into an artillery warship in an era when the world had not yet fully entered the gunpowder age.

Of course, Liang En also knew that even if it was modified, it could only be transformed into a gun deck at most, and it was only equipped with three or six pounder guns with less than ten guns, which was completely incomparable with those real sail warships in history, and even those armed merchant ships.

But in this era, this half-mounted artillery ship of a modified version could already achieve sufficient superiority at sea.

Yes, there are some powerful ships in this otherworldly world that have been built by various means of transcendence, but given the cost of building, the difficulty of building, and the cost of running, they are clearly only a tiny fraction of the ships in operation.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the only ships that do not possess any extraordinary power are sailed at sea, and in this case, technological advances can naturally bring great advantages to ships.

As Qi Jiguang, a famous general in history in the modern world, said: "There is no other way to fight the battle on the sea. A big ship is better than a small ship, a big ship is better than a small ship, a lot of ships is better than a few ships, and a lot of guns is better than a few guns."

After the conversion of firearms, Liang En's ships have the advantage of large ships, large guns, and multiple guns compared with the ships of the surrounding civilizations, and they can naturally protect the peace of one side.

These three ships were the first ships to be built by the local shipyard after the previous battle, and because of Liang's previous contributions to the war, he managed to get to the front of the queue waiting to buy ships.

Since the wood of the ships came from the captured sea vessels, the quality of these ships seemed to be very good, and in Liang's opinion, if the ship was well maintained, it would be fine for twenty or thirty years.

In particular, at the request of Liangen, the planks of these ships have been strengthened to accommodate the large amount of ice floes that may exist in the north, and to avoid losses due to the harsh weather as much as possible.

At the same time, the strengthened ship structure is also conducive to future firearm modification, so as to avoid structural damage to the ship after the installation of the gun due to insufficient strength.

In addition, Liang En was given a variety of weapons, including a bowl-mouth gun, and was supported by the local army to train immigrants, all of which helped him defend the newly opened settlement.

To Liang En's surprise, the muskets he brought with him had begun to be copied on a large scale, and even those new immigrants had something about musket shooting in their military training.

It's just that it's not easy to create a spring steel that meets the standards, so both the individual firearms and the weapons used in training are arquebuses.

Because Liang had previously discussed these weapons with the Blacksmiths' Guild, any workshop or workshop that produced more than 10 guns per year for seven years would have to pay Liang a certain amount of money for each arquebus or flintlock gun produced.

It's a pity that the production of firearms has not yet been rolled out in the first month, so the profit he made in this area for the whole month is only 37 taels of silver, but this beginning has already made Liang En very satisfied.

Liang En's plan to recruit immigrants was not smooth compared to the adequate preparation of materials, and he only recruited 376 immigrants except for the 600 mountain ghosts that he had promised at the beginning.

The reason why things are like this is also very simple - the place where he is now is located on a rich plain, and everyone is getting by, so even if there is a war in the local area, I wish

There aren't many people who want to go out.

Not to mention that the new frontier in Liang's hands was located in the distant and unfamiliar north, not the familiar South Seas to the locals, so even if he had a prestige bonus, he only recruited this person.

Fortunately, the quality of these people seems to be quite good, especially after this period of training, there has been a great improvement on the whole, and it seems that they should be able to adapt to the more difficult life in the pioneering land.

"If we go by next spring, I think we should be able to recruit more than 500 people." Lin An, who was here to help Liang En's Zhang Luo before, said to Liang En.

This was the third day of Liang En's return to Yuanhe County, and he specially booked a table for a banquet in Songyue Tower, the most upscale hotel in the city, and then invited Lin'an and several other mountain ghosts in charge of this matter to have a meal together.

After eating and drinking and serving tea, Lin An began to talk about personnel recruitment, as a person who had been helping Liang En recruit before, he had his own judgment on this recruitment operation.

"People want to believe you, but they can't trust the environment of that place, so you won't be able to recruit many people until the first batch of people can really gain a foothold in that place and reap the benefits."

"You're right, I took it for granted." After hearing Lin An say this, Liang En finally faced up to the problem that he had been ignored intentionally or unintentionally.

After all, this world is a real world, and there is no such thing as inviting everyone to have a drink and then throwing a lot of coins to recruit a group of people to accompany you and pin your head to your trouser belt, rain or shine.

For those who are planning to leave their hometown and live elsewhere, they need enough visible benefits, after all, no one wants to ask for it.

"Looks like I was a little too impatient." Liang En sighed softly, after all, his experience in this area was almost zero, so it was very normal for some assumptions to arise.

"I think you've done a good job." Lin An smiled and comforted. "It's just that there are many things that people prefer to believe in their eyes, so I believe that as long as you are given some time, everything will go smoothly in the future."

In addition to Lin An, who helped Liang En recruit people, Liang En also went to Tian Baihu. It's a pity that he recently had a case where he was going to Taihu Lake, so Liang En didn't meet him when he came to the door, so he could only leave a gift and leave there.

For the next few days, Liang En would go to the temporary migrant camp near the barracks every day, and then conduct military training with the immigrants, partly to get acquainted with each other, but also to observe the tactics of the era.

Although the number of immigrants is not large now, the morale of the immigrants is very high because Liang En offered a settlement fee of 30 taels per person at that time, and if he was killed in the pioneering, he would be given a pension of 100 taels and handed over to the person they designated.

Of course, this promise was limited to the first group of immigrants - after all, if you want families to pin their heads to their belts, they must be paid enough, and they will certainly not be able to just talk about white teeth.