Feng Qingyang declined Yue Buqun's proposal to celebrate, and only had a meal with Yue Buqun's family of four, drank a glass of rice wine, and went to sort out "Mixed Yuan Wujigong".

Yue Buqun returned to Taihua Hall, where Xie Qingchi was already waiting for his reception.

It had been almost ten days since Xie Qingchi came back, and when he came to see Yue Buqun, Yue Buqun was in retreat, so he went to Chang'an to participate in the negotiations.

This time he was busy, and when Yue Buqun went out of the customs last time, he couldn't find time to come back, and after another five days, he rushed back to Taihua Mountain.

The affairs of the Nujiao Gang and Jiangnan are reported every year, and Xie Qingchi only briefly talked about the changes in the past six months, and then got to the point.

"More than 200 seagoing ships were sold this time, most of them were 500 to 800 lucky ships, all of which were collected on the southeast coast in the past three years. ”

After the great change, the southeast coastal ports were like ghosts, there were no traces, and there were thousands of sea ships floating in the sea, Xie Qingchi was responsible for managing the Nujiao Gang, and after simply cleaning up the Ryukyus, he thought of this problem, sent several ships out to search and rescue, and picked up hundreds of sea ships back within three years.

Several shipyards stopped, and the surviving ones barely got the shipyard up and running, eighty percent of them repaired the ships they had picked up, and the other two percent began to build new warships.

"The new ship is thirty zhang long, has a displacement of 1,000 tons, and can hold 120 guns. ”

"But...... Sect Leader, the power of artillery can only deal with masters and ordinary people below the refining stage, is it necessary to continue to develop?"

It is not easy to cast artillery, the ratio of various raw materials is very different, the process is also varied, the fuel requirements are extremely high, the consumption is extremely high, and the most important thing is that it does not seem to have much effect now.

Yue Buqun thought about it and said, "The craftsmen who cast the cannons, as well as the craftsmen of the gunpowder factory, have all been returned to the refining hall, let them continue to study, and they can't stop." ”

Yue Buqun is still preparing to make a Xianxia version of the cannon, how can he stop?

The power of black powder is not enough, so find a way to find materials containing aura, configure new recipes, and as long as you persevere, you will definitely be able to try out a new artillery.

Yue Buqun can make palm thunder without the help of anything, and there is no reason why he can't make aura explosives.

"For the time being, the new ship does not need to pursue the number of guns, and the speed will be increased. ”

There should be no naval warfare in the short term, and these ships may only be used as transport ships in their lifetime.

"Okay, Mentor. ”

Xie Qingchi responded, now that the materials are sufficient, he can boldly design new ship types, build a few more, and always try to produce fast ships.

Xie Qingchi glanced at Yue Buqun and said carefully: "We saw that the Japanese country was in chaos and was fighting, so we went ashore to rescue a group of people, how should these people be settled." ”

"Isn't there a shortage of people everywhere in the Ryukyus now......?

Yue Buqun said, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, how could a few slave laborers mention that they were in front of him.

"Who are they?"

Xie Qingchi whispered, "Woman." ”

"Ha ......"

Yue Buqun was a little surprised, these bastards are fast enough!

"How much do you get back?"

"More than 1,300. ”

Yue Buqun knew that there were more than 900,000 people in Shaanxi and Shanxi, but there were less than 400,000 women.

There are more than 200,000 people in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are more than 200,000 people in various places overseas, and there is a gap of 100,000 women in total.

In the entire Taihua sphere of influence, there is a shortage of 200,000 women, that is, 20% of men will not be able to marry, which is a fatal problem that must be solved in a short time.

"How many people are there in the Wa Kingdom and North Korea?"

Xie Qingchi thought for a moment: "The Wa Kingdom is probably... Estimate... There can be seven or eight hundred thousand, at least six or seven hundred thousand. ”

"North Korea is less, five or six hundred thousand should have. ”

Yue Buqun nodded and asked, "How many sea ships has the Taishan Sect ordered to help the Nujiao?"

Xie Qingchi was stunned, how could he say that Taishan had sent it, and replied: "Thirty ships, five hundred materials and eight hundred materials, they will be delivered when they go back." ”

Yue Buqun sighed: "Yuantai is also anxious!"

Xie Qingchi suddenly understood, and hurriedly said: "Yes, everyone is in a hurry, and we are all stepping up, this is the ......."

Yue Buqun waved his hand and said, "You and Yi Hua meet every day and discuss it." ”

Now the disciples of Taihua have been developing in Mongolia and the Western Regions, but these two places are originally vast and sparsely populated, and the people who can survive may be far less than the Korean islands, and the supplement to the Taihua territory is better than nothing.

The real gap has to be found from overseas, needless to say in the island of North Korea, in this era, along the Maritime Silk Road to the west, all the way to the people.

However, all sects will enter the South China Sea on a large scale, and the Angry Jiao Gang will have to be faster in order to drink the first soup.

"How do the sailors of the various factions solve it?" Yue Buqun suddenly remembered this question.

"Now the ability of sailors is dozens of times stronger, three or five people can start a ship of more than 100 tons, the manpower is greatly reduced, and each faction will collect some inland sailors to send them for training. ”

Xie Qingchi said with a smile: "We will send a sailor with the ship and lease it to them for a year, hehe, ten gold coins." ”

The price of ten gold coins, hiring a sailor for a year, is indeed a bit high.

Now because the value of gold and silver coins is too high, Taihua has made copper coins for ordinary people's daily use.

However, if you consider that this sailor will teach others the basics of sailing, and will come with a shipping lane, the price is extremely low.

This kind of knowledge could not be bought with money before.

Each faction has been allocated territories overseas, and these sailors of the Fujiao Gang will be responsible for bringing the ships and the people on board to their destinations.

To this end, the Chang'an League will recognize the ownership of the Nujiao Gang over the borders of Luzon and Malacca.

The Angry Jiao Gang now controls almost all the important points of the South China Sea route, which makes all factions a little red.

Whether to transfer these important lands to the various factions in the future, or whether the Nujiao Gang will operate with each faction, this needs to be discussed between the Nujiao Gang and each faction.

The meaning of Taihuatang is to use the logistics capabilities of the Nujiao Gang and the financial capabilities of the Treasure Pavilion to string together all the islands in the South China Sea and make them integrate with the mainland faster.

Xie Qingchi was originally afraid that the master would blame the Nujiao Gang for acting privately, but he didn't want the master to act as if he hadn't heard it, so he solved the problem he was most worried about, so he relaxed his mood and took out a small thumb-sized stone wrapped in silk cloth from his arms and put it in front of Yue Buqun.

"Master, we found this thing in the Dangtu Iron Mine. ”

"Oh!"

Yue Buqun's divine sense touched the stone slightly, but there was no reaction, he leaned in, looked stunned, and reached out to pick it up.

Extremely heavy, three to five times heavier than ordinary iron ore.

The divine consciousness flowed smoothly in the stone, more smoothly than the gentleman's sword that he had been pregnant for decades.

Yue Buqun sent spiritual power into it, such a small piece, it was actually very large, and after such a while, Yue Buqun had already input more spiritual power than the Gentleman's Sword could hold, but he could still easily enter.

Yue Buqun entered for a while, but before he reached the limit of capacity, he stopped, only from the volume of this stone and the volume of the Junzi Sword, its spirit storage ability was already a hundred times that of the Junzi Sword.

Yue Buqun picked up the stone and looked at it carefully, it was iron gray, angular and angular, but the texture was delicate, without a trace of cracks, with the input of spiritual power, it actually emitted a gray streamer, like a gem, and his fingers pinched it hard, extremely hard.

"Found in the iron ore?"

Xie Qingchi said a little excitedly: "Yes, Zhangjiao, everyone says that this is a piece of iron essence!"

"Iron !!"