Ningbo and Zhoushan are just separated by a water, although Chen Yue is not afraid of these gentry, but offending them will not be good for Zhoushan's future career. Now is the time to do big things, and you can't make too many enemies for a small thing. What's more, this matter was originally done wrong by Zhoushan, forcibly robbing other people's sea ships, looting people with goods to the Japanese country, and then imprisoning the master on a desert island, which is very excessive......

"In this case, you send someone to inform those gentry and ask them to send someone to Zhoushan to discuss the matter of compensation." Chen Yue thought about it and commanded.

"Why compensate them? They went to sea to smuggle without permission, and we took them down and seized their ships and goods as a matter of course! Are we still afraid that they won't succeed? Qian Fenglin hadn't answered, but Shan Minglei said.

"It's not that I'm afraid, but what the prince wants to do is something that has never been done before, and he can't fight with these gentry at this time. Although these people can't help us, they have formed gangs and colluded with a wide range of factions, which has offended them, and it will be difficult for us to handle many things on the mainland. Qian Fenglin explained that he was able to understand Chen Yue's purpose in doing this, and he was also deeply grateful. The combination of rigidity and softness, being able to bend and stretch, this is the performance of doing great things, and blindly being strong will only make things go wrong.

Chen Yue nodded: "Just do what Brother Fenglin wants." By the way, what about Brother Zhengping? ”

"General Yang is going to sea with the fleet for exercises, and he will return to port later." Qian Fenglin Road. The Galen ship commissioned to build a private shipyard in Ningbo has been built and delivered to Zhoushan, but this kind of sea ship is different from the lucky ship seen in the past, and it is a little troublesome to operate.

"There are some things to tell you two first, and I will tell him when Brother Zhengping comes back. In the next few days, we must be ready to send troops in Zhoushan, and officially send troops to Dongfan Island in three to five days! ”

"Why is it so urgent?" Qian Fenglin and Shan Minglei were shocked.

"Out of helplessness!" Chen Yue sighed, and told the two of them about the conflict between the Japanese and the Dutch, "Once the news reaches the big man, the Dutch will inevitably make preparations, and then it will increase the difficulty of attacking Dongfan Island." Now, taking advantage of the fact that the news has not been transmitted back and the Dutch are in a daze, we have sent troops to attack, at least to take down the chicken coop in the northern part of Dongfan Island, and occupy the North Harbor in the western middle of Dongfan Island without any problem, and then build a defensive line in the North Harbor to wait for work and defeat the Dutch counterattack. ”

"Moreover, a large number of Shandong people will soon migrate to Zhoushan, and if we don't conquer Dongfan Island, the small Zhoushan will not be able to accommodate too many people......" Chen Yue said helplessly.

"Why are the people of Shandong coming?" Qian Fenglin asked in shock.

"It's a long story," Chen Yue said with a wry smile that he sent Wu Ping to lead the fleet to conduct training and inquire about the situation in the north by the way, who knew that Wu Ping had made such a big battle in Shandong.

"Guogong, why don't we take the opportunity to go to Shandong with the whole army, if we can defeat Shandong, wouldn't it be much stronger than going to Dongfan?" Shan Minglei's eyes lit up, and he said hurriedly, even Qian Fenglin closed his mouth and looked at Chen Yue eagerly.

In the final analysis, everyone doesn't quite understand the idea of abandoning the mainland and going to overseas desert islands.

"Not to mention whether we can hold Shandong under the all-out attack of the Manchu Qing when we go to Shandong, even if we hold Shandong, with the barren Shandong and the containment of the imperial court, what can we do? Shandong is so close to Beijing, I am afraid that the next few days will be a war day after day, and where will there be time for development?

Although Dongfan Island is remote, it is also fertile for hundreds of miles, enough to feed millions of people, and it is also poor and white, but it can be governed completely according to our ideas and ideas, even if we can train hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and accumulate a huge foundation, it is not happy to raise troops to the Northern Expedition to expel the Manchu Tartars from the Central Plains in one fell swoop! ”

Chen Yue had to state his thoughts again.

"That's what Guogong said!" Qian Fenglin sighed. It is most important to change course easily, since the path has already been set, only to go on firmly.

Shan Minglei also nodded and said no more.

The next few days were very busy on Zhoushan Island. Pan Xuezhong, the director of the Ordnance Department, and Sima Nan Guo Linfeng handed over and unloaded the red copper, sulfur and a large amount of silver brought back from the Japanese State from the ship one by one, and transported them to the warehouse for sealing.

With so many raw materials, the Ordnance Division was finally able to start work on a large scale, and in a few months, various workshops were set up again, just waiting for the arrival of raw materials.

According to the original agreement, the hired crew members were paid, and Chen Yue ordered them to join Zhoushan not far away, and if they wished, they would all be given official ranks, and the minimum was the position of a military attache of the ninth rank. The seven or eight hundred crew members hired are all rare talents for Zhoushan, and if they join, the strength of the sailors will be greatly increased.

Faced with the temptation of official positions, most of the crew decided to stay, after all, being an official in this year is the journey, and if there is a chance to be an official, not many people can withstand the temptation. Of course, there are also a small number of people who can't stand the constraints and choose to leave Zhoushan, everyone has their own ambitions, and Chen Yue did not embarrass these people. Under Chen Yue's orders, most of the seagoing ships went to Shenjiamen Port under the leadership of Yang Zhengping, which was more secluded than Zhoushan Harbor, where fishermen came and went frequently, and it was easy to leak secrets. In the port of Shenjiamen, all the fleets will be reorganized, and the original red-coated cannons transported from Yangzhou will be loaded onto three newly-built Galen ships, although each ship has less than 20 red-coated cannons, but with the two captured Dutch armed sailing ships, the fleet has as many as 100 cannons, which is already a very large force.

The three newly-built Galen ships, plus two armed sailing ships, with more than 20 three-masted sea ships and dozens of bird ships and sea cangship assault boats, are already invincible in the waters of Zhejiang, at least in the waters of Zhejiang, and the Ding Navy of Lu Tai, which is in a group with Zhoushan, is less than one-third of Zhoushan's strength.

For these five Western-style sailing ships, Chen Yue gave them the names of "Dingyuan", "Zhenyuan", "Dinghai", "Zhenhai", and "Zhoushan", among which the largest "Zhoushan" was Chen Yue's flagship, a newly built Galen ship, and cannons were moved from other ships, with a total of 48 cannons.

In the waters near Shenjiamen, the cadets of the Sailor Academy, who had completed the school, were given suitable positions, appointed the pipe bands of each ship, reorganized the ships, and then conducted several days of drills to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

Chen Yue personally stayed in Shenjiamen, and together with Yang Zhengping, he was responsible for the reorganization of the naval fleet. At the same time, the infantry army also drove to Shenjiamen Port under the leadership of Jin Xin and Li Yi, and waited for an order, and the whole army set off for Dongfan Island.