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Chen Qigui smiled: "This can't be done, villains are used to it." It's a pity that most of the wood is pine and birch, and the wood is general, and the teak or nanmu is used to pay attention to the shipbuilding. ”

Chen Qigui said: "We have used the drying room to dry wood, which costs a lot, but it is really worth it." If you don't dry the wood and air dry it naturally, in fact, the wood will be used for at least two years. If you are in a hurry, the wood is not dry, and it will fall apart after soaking in the sea water for a long time, and a boat will not be used for a year, which is really a waste. ”

Zhang Xuwen said thoughtfully: "If you don't come here in Fujian and listen to it in person, you will only complain that the silver used here is too ruthless in Datong." ”

"Cough," Chen Qigui said: "Chang Ye is already very frugal with silver, you will know when you arrive." ”

Zheng Zhilong said at this time: "Why don't you load iron tools and Li Zhuang's goods?" ”

"Didn't we be ordered to pick up Zheng Ye and you go to Taiwan?" Chen Qigui said with a smile: "If you want to go to Tianjin or Dengzhou to load goods, the delay will be too long, and you have to maintain and get off the ship, and come directly from Taiwan to pick up people, or it is cost-effective to load the goods here, send you to Bengang, and we will go directly to Pingdo." ”

"I heard that now the ship is also going to Luzon and Batavia?"

"Also to Malacca." Chen Qigui said: "It's to try the cabin line and bring newcomers." ”

"Are there many sailors now?"

"There are more than 1,000 sailors now, and we have five D-class merchant ships, three C-class merchant ships, and five warships for eight merchant ships.

Zheng Zhilong looked pensive and said, "It seems that the main profit is still the sale of ironware to Taiwan, isn't it?" ”

"Yes." Chen Qigui said: "The main profit of our goods is ironware, but there are more sales in Japan, the price has dropped somewhat, and the shipment is not as fast as before." Eight merchant ships, at least one million or more iron tools a year, and more than one million other goods to Japan, the profit must be hundreds of thousands, but in addition to sending back some principal, the rest of the silver is spent. Shipbuilding, drying wood, recruiting sailors, recruiting shipbuilders, navy officers and sailors of Hongmaoyi, opening schools, reclamation, silver, flowing out like seawater......"

This Chen Qigui was indeed verbose, Zhang Xuwen smiled when he heard it, and then looked at the people around him, all the people who came from Datong, including Li Pingzhi, had already vomited.

Zhang Xuwen also felt dizzy for a while, in fact, he began to feel fine, but he felt a little shaking and trembling, he felt much better when he held the side of the boat, but the boat had been traveling for more than half an hour, and the shore was not clear to see, and the Kinmen Island not far away was already clearly visible.

Looking at Zheng Zhilong and the others again, they were still chatting and laughing, and they looked like they had nothing to do.

"It's always difficult to sail today, no less than the ice and snow in Mobei......" Zhang Xuwen only thought about this, and then began to vomit.

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"I've seen the old man of the military gate!"

Yu Zhigao, the deputy commander-in-chief with white eyebrows, bowed to the ground and kowtowed to Zheng Guochang to say goodbye.

"Commander, please." Zheng Guochang rarely bent over, and his hands were also weak.

It is really rare to be so modest and courteous to a military general with the respect of a governor, and Yu Zhigao really showed a very touched look on his face.

"The chief military officer will be a family," Zheng Guochang said indifferently: "Ling Zun I is famous, and the students have always been very respectful." ”

Yu Zhigao said respectfully: "The last general's father did have some slight work, but the last general was much different from his father. ”

"Before the students arrived in Fujian, they were called the chief military officer Yu in Haiphong, so they could sit back and relax." Zheng Guochang looked at the rest of the generals again, and suddenly changed color and said: "However, Hongyi occupied Penghu, repaired forts, built villages, and drove more than 1,500 islanders to repair forts for them, killing more than 1,200 people before and after, and the rest were also sold to the Nanyang area as slaves. ”

When all the generals saw that the governor was angry, they all knelt down and pleaded guilty: "The last general will be unable to defend the land, and he will be guilty of death." ”

Yu Zhigao also knelt down to plead guilty, Zheng Guochang said: "Chief Military Officer Yu has always advocated sending troops to clear up, negotiations are useless, and this matter has nothing to do with Chief Military Officer. ”

The former governor Nan Juyi actually made preparations with two hands, one hand was to ban the sea first, and gather sailors to prepare for war. The other hand was to negotiate, and the attitude of the Dutch was to occupy Penghu and give them the right to trade, in other words, to allow them to pay tribute. Then Nan Juyi's counteroffer was that he had to give up Penghu and not allow trade, but he could sit back and watch Hongyi go to Taiwan to build a fort, and the Ming Dynasty would not interfere.

Yu Zhigao did not agree with the negotiation, the warriors were more direct, and they believed in the swords and guns in their hands more. In addition, Fujian also knows more about Hongmaoyi, and talks about civilization and order, but in fact, it is more vicious than any race.

Their killings are more efficient and orderly, these people build companies and fleets, there are laws and civilizations, but they slaughter foreigners with incomparable cruelty, whether it is the slaughter of the natives in the Nanyang region or the Gaoshan people on the island of Taiwan, or the islanders on Penghu Island, or the instigation of the natives on Luzon Island to kill the Han people, these massacres are cold-blooded and cruel.

More than 10,000 Han people died in Luzon, and it is conceivable that not only men, but also a large number of women, of course, cannot all be adults, there must be many old people and children. For the sake of the safety of the colony, these civilized people, who claim to be a civilized country, can sit back and watch the destruction of one family after another, countless elderly people, countless infant children are killed, and countless women are subjected to unspeakable pain, humiliation and rape before death.

Although it was the native people who started it, and even after a few hundred years they had no civilization at all, but the least people who knew about it thought that it was these Hongmaoyi people who really started it, although the Spaniards and the Dutch were not the same people, but they were not fundamentally different, they were both superficially civilized, but in fact extremely dirty.

Although Yu Zhigao and others were extremely wary of Hongmaoyi, Nan Juyi and other civil officials still wanted to give it a try, and the time delayed was to ask Li Dan, who was in Taiwan a while ago, to mediate, and the price was to cede Taiwan to Hongmaoyi.

At that time, Taiwan was known as Dongfan, regarded as a place outside the country, supporting the scale of a large county, and in the sea off Zhangzhou, the distance was far away, and dysentery was rampant, which was regarded as a daunting path.

In the early years, only the lost fishermen would come to Taiwan Island by chance, and then gradually there were smuggled maritime merchants to the island to replenish fresh water and food, and then there were a small number of immigrants, so far, the most immigrants on Taiwan Island started from Yan Siqi's management of Taiwan reclamation, and then a large-scale immigration wave appeared after Xiong Wencan recruited Zheng Zhilong, tens of thousands of immigrants immigrated to Taiwan in a short period of time, and then there was another large-scale immigration wave when Zheng Chenggong, and the Taiwanese Han eventually reached the scale of hundreds of thousands of people, and began to set up prefectures and counties.

At this time, Taiwan has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty, and the plans of Nan Juyi and others are actually not exaggerated, of course, now that Nan Juyi has lost his position and dismissed the official, Zheng Guochang will of course overturn the previous proposal and advocate the use of troops.

The generals were also clear in their hearts, and they all said at the moment: "Please give the order of the military gate to immediately use troops to Penghu, and we will definitely work hard to annihilate Hongmaoyi on Penghu Island." ”

Zheng Guochang said with a look of relief: "Very good, that is, to send troops this month to recover the lost land, it is urgent!" ”

……

The fortune boat that Zhang Xuwen and others took was sailing at a speed of six knots per hour, and the distance from Xiamen to Bengang was less than 200 nautical miles, and the ship traveled for less than two days. ”

The front is indeed a large area of land, Taiwan was originally a huge island in the hearts of Zhang Xuwen and others, and it was only then that they realized that they were very wrong, and the land in front of them could not be seen at all, and it was almost the appearance of a continent. Closer to the scene, you can see the lush mountains stretching out in patches, the white sand beach on the shore reflecting the dazzling light, and the place Chen Qigui is pointing to is the harbor, where a large number of ships are moored and docked, and the ant-like crowd comes and goes, showing a very busy scene.

When entering the port, several small boats came over to pull the big ship to the shore, and Zhang Xuwen and others saw He Yusheng's flag, and their hearts were excited.

Zheng Zhilong pointed to a big ship and said, "That's the Dutch Hongyi's warship!" ”

Bengang, also known as Beigang, was an open port at that time, not only there were maritime forces such as Yan Siqi, but also Li Dan and Liu Xiang of Guangzhou and other powerful merchant fleets at sea anchored in the port, and there were also Hongyi fleets such as the Spaniards and the Dutch in and out, at that time, Li Dan and the Dutch had a friendly relationship, and the Dutch's territory was mainly near Dayuan, and it was just a general docking and passing in Beigang.

"What a big warship!"

Zhang Xuwen, Li Pingzhi and others let out an exclamation together!

Zheng Zhilong looked a little uneasy, he said: "This is the House of Cruninsing, one of the main warships of the Dutch in Batavia, 56.5 meters long, 11 meters wide, 650 tons of load, 1,200 tons of displacement, twenty-four guns, the artillery is all large-caliber, the smallest twenty-four pounder guns, the main gun is a thirty-six-pounder gun, the crew is more than 100 people, there is a squadron of musketeers on board, which can take on the side of the melee combat. ”

"Good guy......" Zhang Xuwen was a little out of shape, after all, compared to the big ship in front of him, the ship he was on was too small.

"Our ship has a displacement of forty-two tons, a deadweight of thirty tons, and a displacement of forty-two tons." Chen Qigui said with a smile: "Thirty meters long, six meters wide, three .3 meters deep, about thirty meters high mainmast, only half of the length and size of others, and only one-third of the depth of the ship. The strong one is that our ship is not a lucky ship, it is a Guangdong merchant ship, the wood used is nanmu, the nails are copper nails, the sails are sails, and the wind is on all sides, so our ship is more ocean-going than the lucky ship can withstand the wind and waves, and the marching department is to use a ship like ours to go to the South Seas for sea trials. ”

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