By the end of December, a "garrison" armed with Type 57 rifles and Type 57 hands** was finally formed, and this team consisted of 80 soldiers, of which 20 were "student teams" composed of the children of tenants, and the other 60 were young and strong tenants.

It's just that these young and strong tenants can only be regarded as trained militia at present, similar to the "military households" in the Ming military system, except for the twenty teenagers who train almost every day, the tenants only have two times a week to shoot, throw bombs and bayonet stabbing training, and each time is only one day.

And the twenty boys and twenty-one sailors of the student team are the current standing army armed forces on the island, and those twenty teenagers are already Xiao Ai's personal soldiers.

In fact, this is also a copy of the Ming military system, and those tenants also think so and are accustomed to it, after all, as tenants who have lived under the Ming Dynasty for a long time, they are very familiar with this system.

In addition to military training on land, the student team also participated in various seafaring and cultural training aboard the Assassin.

They also had literacy classes every night on the Assassin, starting with the thousand-character script, followed by the hundred family names, and then the three-character scripture.

The teacher is of course Xiao Ai, but he can only teach to this extent in the end, and for further study, another set of teaching materials is needed.

A few days ago, a telegram had already been sent from the Red Mansion on this matter, and Xia Xiaoou, in the name of the chairman of the Education Committee, informed the Macao side that whether it was Huang Lei or Xiao Ai, including Ren Ke and Dai Xiaoshan, who might be in the future, as long as you wanted to teach school-age children, you would all use the teaching materials of Zhuyuan Public School and Sunflower Public School in the future, and you should not start from scratch, and also said that this was a resolution of the plenary meeting and must be strictly implemented.

In any case, for the time being, Xiao Ai is indeed the enlightenment teacher of this group of people, for this reason the sailors were carried by the Assassin ship Qiao Wang, with various gifts, under the auspices of Lao Meng, the collective officially kowtowed to Xiao Ai, in the smoke of the cigarette, the young Xiao Ai sat on the top position, and accepted the full set of worship from everyone - three bows and six bows.

This is the rule of the times, respecting teachers and valuing education is a concept engraved into the bone marrow of the Han people, which also made the person concerned, Ailush, really sighed, and said that in the old world where he lived, whether it was society or students, the respect for teachers could not reach the level of these people, and Nima did not know whether this was the progress or regression of the times......

As for the nautical training, the content is much more complicated, and the average time per week is at least four days of practical training at sea.

Although the sailing training time on the ship was very long, Xiao Ai never dared to let the boat go too far.

The main reason is Xiao Ai's landlubber attributes, in fact, he is a little afraid of water, so his rule is: the coastline of Wanshan Island cannot disappear in the field of vision as the distance limit.

Of course, Xiao Ai's explanation for this is "be careful to sail the boat for ten thousand years", and he is unwilling to let others perceive his landlubber attributes.

Although his seasickness has been reduced a lot, it has not been broken, and his training performance ranked quite low in the navigation training class, so he feels that his future way out may be the same as Wei Hongrenke and others, taking the path of the army.

Fortunately, in the eyes of the Assassin's group of sailors, Xiao Ai's regulations are very reasonable, and no one thinks that Xiao Ai is afraid of water, and it doesn't seem to have damaged Xiao Ai's prestige in the eyes of everyone.

After all, in the eyes of the sailors, he is the uncle of the Qiao family, and he is the identity of the "son", and it is understandable that he can't sail a ship, not to mention that this uncle of the Qiao family really has a lot of navigation skills that are sincerely admired by the sailors.

Because Xiao Ai has also experienced Captain Gu's full set of sailing training, no matter what his grades rank in the sailing training class, at least in terms of sailing knowledge, he can actually throw off several streets in this era.

It's just that the ship of the Assassin is completely different from the Pride, and the difference in ship type causes Xiao Ai to learn a little disconnect from the Assassin, but fortunately, they are all sailing on sea ships, and many of the contents are actually the same, especially some basic sailing training content, so Xiao Ai still has a lot of things to pretend to be in front of the sailors.

For example, Qiao Wang, a shipbar who runs the sea, is very interested in Professor Xiao Ai's nautical surveying course, especially for Xiao Ai's ability to use Hongmaoyi's sextant to distinguish the direction and position.

Because Zhou Wang found that the sextant measurement was indeed much more accurate than his own magnetic needle navigation and the techniques of observing the sun and stars with the naked eye.

However, in the past, these were all secret skills that were not passed on by the red hair, and now this aunt of the Qiao family has taught him like this, which suddenly makes Zhou Wang feel that this teacher is really worth worshipping......

When the Assassin sailed to sea, it usually had two other incidental tasks: one was to shoot at sea and the other was to fish.

In addition to supplying the kitchens of schools and pharmaceutical and ammunition factories, the fish caught are distributed free of charge to tenants if there is a surplus.

Aiming at sea was a favorite sport for sailors and students, and Irush threw a barrel about 100 meters away from the sea, held by a rope, and had the sailors and boys take turns using a five-seven rifle to hit the target.

Ai Rush knew in his heart that comparing various training subjects - rowing, standing on the pile, sailing, steering, and watching and piloting the deck, etc., sea target shooting is everyone's favorite item, after all, he himself was trained by Gu Jin and Li Sanduo like this, so every time after a stage of training, he has to lead everyone to go out to sea to shoot targets, in fact, this is also a kind of relaxation.

In this way, the sailors and boys were trained on the Assassin for three months, and all the trainees, including the young tenants, made great progress in navigation and military skills, and now everyone is proficient in the use of the 57-style rifle and the hand **, and many of them have quite good marksmanship.

Under the command of Elush, the Assassin finally embarked on a real voyage to the Xiangjiang Islands to the northeast.

Since the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Xiangjiang Islands in the southeast of Lingding Ocean have been under the jurisdiction of Xin'an County, Nanhai County.

Today's Xiangjiang Island, there are only a few naturally formed villages in a few coastal bays, and there are many Tando sea people, many of whom are formed by the spontaneous gathering of inland migrants who migrate here.

For the government, if it is in peacetime, it may be a place for the government to pay for service, but if it is in troubled times, the government whip is beyond the reach, and the land like the ends of the earth here has become the governance of the court's fetters and fetters.

And now, it is the time of communication between the Ming and Qing dynasties, although the Qing court has roughly determined the inland, but the coast has not been completely appeased, and this coastal area has never been a peaceful place, the government's governance and control here is not in place, and its control is much weaker than that of the interior, so this is actually a "semi-legal place".

In the history of the Old World, from the late Ming Dynasty to the Qianjia period of the Qing Dynasty, it has always been a famous pirate den in the northern waters of the South Seas.

In history, the pirates of Liangguang and Guangzhou, who were mainly Han Chinese, were all based on Xiangjiang Zhuwei Island and its nearby islands.

Although the imperial court was encircled and suppressed from time to time, the army suddenly arrived, the pirates fled by boat, and the army withdrew, and the people who continued to live here to make a living in the interior, so the pirates' cause always had a new force to join, so the trouble of the pirates in the southeast coastal area could not be broken.