Chapter 063

"This group of pirates, both men and women, is usually for the people, and once they are dispatched, men, women and children are on board. The women there are more fierce than the men, and they have more than 100 large and small fishing boats, including more than 30 bird boats and two Western boats, and they are quite strong. ”

Li Zhixiang smiled bitterly: "If our Ning Navy has the strength of the Dongjiang Army Naval Division, then we can naturally fight." However, our Ning Navy Navy Division only has twenty-one ships, and fifteen of them are only inland river boats, so there is no way to fight! ”

Only then did Cheng Shijie know that this so-called bird boat was actually one of the four famous ships in ancient China. The ship is 31 meters long, 6.8 meters wide, has a draft of 2.2 meters and a displacement of 230 tons.

In terms of appearance, this kind of ship is almost twice the size of the 400 gunboats of the Ningbo Navy, using an ancient wooden rudder with a length of 11 meters and a width of 2.3 meters, with three masts and five sails, of which the mainmast is 24.5 meters high, the mainsail is on three sides, and the speed of wind power can reach up to 9 knots per hour.

This speed, in the days of sailboats, was already very impressive.

As for the Western ships, they are the Portuguese carrick sailing ships, with a displacement of more than 800 tons. For the Ning Navy Marine, this is simply a behemoth.

Cheng Shijie understands that this South Island is under the nose of Dengzhou, if it is said that it is dark under the lights, it is still possible for a while, for so many years, this Meng Xianhan under the command of Xu Hongru has not been exposed, which means that there must be someone in the official face.

Pirates are not the same as bandits and robbers, bandits and robbers are more secretive, especially in a desolate place like Ninghai Prefecture, just find a wood, drill into a ravine, and disappear.

However, you can see more than ten miles at a glance on the sea, and it is no problem to see more than ten kilometers with a telescope. More importantly, pirates have a unique scent. As pirates, they call for the sale of stolen goods, right?

You have to buy supplies, right?

Meng Xianhan was not found out that he was the identity of Xu Hongru's old department, this can indeed be done easily, this group of pirates has not been discovered, which can only show that they are still very strong in the backstage of the official face.

However, Cheng Shijie has some regrets. Meng Xianhan is indeed a fat meat, but the problem is that this fat meat grows on the body of a fat pig, and if you want to eat fat meat, you must be strong enough, otherwise you will be killed by a fat pig.

Naval warfare is different from land warfare, even if you have a numerical advantage, the problem is that there is no way to give full play to the numerical superiority. Especially in the Ning Navy, there are not a few landlubbers. On land they are not bad, but at sea, their combat effectiveness cannot be brought into play.

Although there are some regrets, Cheng Shijie also knows that he can't rush forward now, let alone rush, it's easy to get eggs when he takes a big step, and if he is in a hurry, he will not only fall short, but is more likely to overturn.

"There is no need to make a noise about this matter for the time being, let the brothers recuperate, your body is too weak, you don't have a good body, so how can you fight?"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "Let's do recovery training with peace of mind first, and when our sailors are strong and the brothers are well-nourished, let's kill pigs and eat meat." They can't run anyway! ”

"Yes, humble!"

Just as Li Zhixiang and Li Fang's brothers walked to the door, Li Fang suddenly turned around and said, "Lord Garrison, there is something I want to say!" ”

"Say it!"

"We have a lot of brothers in the Dongjiang Army, I don't know if the garrison still needs soldiers?"

Li Fang was worried that Cheng Shijie would not want it, so he hurriedly said: "These soldiers are all good soldiers, veterans who have fought with Jiannu for many years, and they have strong combat effectiveness, but the brothers are too poorly equipped and can't eat, if the garrison adults are ......"

Cheng Shijie couldn't figure it out, why did the Dongjiang Army guard the sea, why did it have such a miserable life?

They can learn from the navy to dry salt, they can also go out to sea to fish, or they can plant kelp at sea, kelp is one of the fastest growing plants in the world, under the right conditions, each giant kelp can grow to 30 to 60 centimeters a day, and a kelp can grow more than 50 meters in a year.

The nutritional value of kelp is high, Cheng Shijie himself likes to eat, and this kelp is a unique product of the North Pacific Ocean, suitable for growing in cold seawater, the Dongjiang Army controls more than 400 islands of all sizes on the Liaodong Peninsula, and more than 30 islands set up defenders.

Jiannu does not have the ability to attack the sea, let alone attack the sea, even the Yalu River can only pass through when it freezes in winter, with the strength of the Dongjiang Army and the sailors, they can torture Jiannu to death.

"Do they have any craftsmen who know how to build ships?"

"Yes!"

"Let them come!"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "Let them come to Hot Spring Town, that dock is too small, it needs to be expanded, and the warship also needs to be repaired, we need to build a maintenance dock." ”

"Thank you, Lord Garrison!"

Li Fang was overjoyed, but Li Zhixiang secretly frowned: "This clan brother, I want to make trouble!" ”

Although Ninghai City is a thousand-household house, in fact, it is more like a commercial city. In particular, the military households in Ninghai City were very powerful, and Gu Shizhang spent six thousand eight hundred taels of silver to hire Ning Haijun to protect his caravan.

Song Xiance and Zhou Yandong did not have the authority to mobilize the Ning Navy, so in order to complete this task, they asked some military households to be temporarily organized to escort them under the banner of the Ning Navy.

With the bandits in Ninghai Prefecture, including Qin Wu who was not in Ninghai Prefecture, regardless of the number of people in the thousands or hundreds, the bandits who were eliminated by the Ning Navy were already more than a dozen groups. These bandits are also very well-informed, and they have speculated that this may be the Ning Navy fishing for law enforcement.

They protect caravans and can cross the border to strike in the event of an attack.

It was more than 900 miles from Dengzhou to Jinan, and there were hundreds of bandits of all sizes along the way, but no one dared to move. The role of role models is huge, and this situation was soon known by other businessmen, who came to Ninghai City to negotiate business.

When these merchants arrived in Ninghai City, they found that this is a military city, it is like a city formed by factories, carriage factories, furniture factories, textile factories, agricultural tool factories, especially the factories that produce agricultural tools, and the hoes produced are not iron, but steel.

When this situation was discovered by the merchants, they discovered a new world.

Almost all of the agricultural tools produced by the agricultural tool factory in Ninghai City are made of steel, such as hoes, guillotines, guillotines, hammers, axes, wood knives, ploughs, ploughs, rakes, and lào.

Of course, these businessmen don't actually know that these are not actually built, but cast, because the demand for agricultural tools is not high, especially Cheng Shijie handed over the process of shaft cold casting to the craftsmen, these craftsmen quickly drew inferences from one another, they made a mold directly from the iron parts of agricultural tools such as hoes, guillotines, plows, etc., and the molten steel was cooled down by the cooling tank, and then flowed into the mold, and after simple grinding, it was directly formed.

In this way, the production efficiency has been greatly improved, as long as there are enough molds, simple farm tools such as hoes, it is not a problem to produce tens of thousands of them a day.

"Do you sell hoes here?"

"Nonsense, what is produced naturally has to be sold, as long as there is enough silver, everything is easy to say!"

"How much does this kind of hammer cost?"

"Three coins of silver, not a penny!"

Ninghai Farm Tools Factory made a penny and a half silver in tears.

In fact, it is not only the lack of iron in the Ming Dynasty, even in the eighties and nineties of later generations, some remote areas also use wooden farm tools, mainly due to the lack of iron, of course, it is not the lack of iron in China, but the local due to backward transportation or technology, there is no iron transportation. This is not the same as the situation of Daming.

Many farmers in the Ming Dynasty could not afford to use iron farm tools, and when pig iron was sold for more than 100 yuan a catty, the value of farm tools can be imagined. A waist knife weighing about two catties can be sold for eight or nine taels of silver.

The kind of knife of the imperial court system is actually an iron piece, and the cutting effect is very poor, only wearing iron armor, and the iron armor is only three or four millimeters thick at most, so it can't be cut in. If you use the knife of later generations, let alone three or four millimeters of iron, even eight millimeters of steel can be cut, this is the gap.

When Cheng Shijie returned to Ninghai City, dozens of new shops were opened on the street, and because Ninghai City was very limited, the whole city seemed a little crowded.

Zhou Yandong heard that Cheng Shijie was back, and immediately came over to discuss things with Cheng Shijie.

"Meet the Garrison!"

"Brother Zhou, are you out again!"

Zhou Yandong's face was full of red light, and he looked more energetic, and he reported to Cheng Shijie: "Lord Garrison, at present, there are a total of fifteen businesses looking for our Ning Navy to escort the caravan, there are thirty batches of goods, and a total of 39,000 taels of escort fees have been collected!" ”

"The protection fee is not low!"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "Brother Zhou, you let people talk to them, we are a single transaction, and the protection is a bit high, but we also have a monthly service, an annual service." ”

Cheng Shijie pointed to a batch of linen from Guo Ji's firm and said: "You see, they Guo Ji shipped this time, and the protection fee is five hundred and three hundred taels of silver, if it is a monthly subscription, we will collect one thousand taels of silver, as long as they go two times a month, the rest is what they earn." ”

"It's not good!"

Zhou Yandong thought for a while and said, "Isn't it a little low?" ”

"It's not low, from Jinan to Dengzhou for more than 900 miles, it takes almost a month to come and go."

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "How many trips can they make in a month?" ”

"That'...... Indeed it is! ”

Cheng Shijie pointed to the bill and said: "Take Guo Ji as an example, if they pay for an annual subscription, give them a little cheaper, 8,000 taels of silver a year, on average, it is only equivalent to more than 600 taels of silver per month, and they make a lot of money." ”

Zhou Yandong reported on the recent production situation, and their carriage factory had ordered out 200 four-wheeled carriages, and these orders would not be completed until next year.

The most popular is actually the steel farm tools of the farm tool factory, which has a profit of more than 8,000 taels of silver this month, except for the guns bureau, the ordnance bureau, and the factory of the crossbow bureau have no way to make a profit, even the clothing factory can maintain a profitable state.

"Lord Garrison, those merchants want to build shops in Ninghai City, but there is no place in our city to sell them anymore!"

Cheng Shijie took the pen and drew a circle in the direction of the south gate of Ninghai City: "Tell them that in the future, the original Qianhu Office will be regarded as the inner city of Ninghai City, and the city wall will be moved to the south for another five miles, and this piece of land can be sold to them!" ”

"How much does it cost?"

"Auction, the highest bidder wins!"

"If they collude......"

"Won't you look for a few?"

After dealing with the squeezing business, Cheng Shijie returned to the yamen of the garrison mansion.

Taking off your clothes and lying down in the large bath and being scalded by the hot water is definitely the most wonderful treat in winter. Cheng Shijie found that with his own comings and goings in the late Ming Dynasty and later generations, the fat on his body disappeared quickly.

Cheng Shijie is thinking about a problem, according to the law of conservation of energy, energy is neither created nor disappeared out of thin air, it will only transform from one form to another, or from one object to another, while the total amount of energy remains the same.

His crossing, every time will increase the strong hunger, the more things he carries, the stronger the hunger and fatigue, could it be said that his crossing consumes the body's energy? That is, his fat?

The fat on his body was gone, at first he thought it was a good thing, but the problem is that now his body shape has returned to the level of working as a technician in Hangang Group, at that time, he was still 1.85 meters and weighed more than 80 to 90 kilograms, not fat at all, just strong.

What to do if you run out of fat?

Cheng Shijie decided to return to the afterlife, so he must go to the hospital for a physical examination.

Maybe he was too tired, but unconsciously, Cheng Shijie actually fell asleep in the bath, making a slight snoring sound.

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