In the eyes of these former sailors, the settling-in allowance of ten taels of silver is the best evidence to prove that this is not a scam.

Ten taels of silver can do a lot of things for ordinary people. If this is really a scam, the price of ten taels of silver can be said to be too high.

For if ten taels of silver are placed in the north, where the exiles are everywhere, they can be exchanged for at least ten young men like themselves. There is no need at all, take a lot of silver, and come to the southeast coast to deceive yourself.

When more than a dozen young men who had been in the navy received ten taels of silver from the hands of the Haw Par Army. Faced with the temptation of silver, the whole fishing village became a sensation.

As long as they meet the requirements of Haw Par military boatmen, without exception, they are all instigated by their families to go to the registration office to register.

As for their families, out of distrust of the government, only five or six families were willing to emigrate to Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces with their families, who had become shipwrights. Most of the shipwrights were in the process of contemplating that the Shanxi Governor's Mansion was really that good, and then moving their families there.

In less than an hour, as long as the fishermen in the fishing village meet the conditions, they all received ten taels of silver and went home happily...

The fishing villages along the southeast coast were visited by these tiger and leopard troops. The largest shipyard in the south of the Yangtze River also welcomed officials from the Foreign Trade Department of the Shanxi Governor's Office who came to purchase.

For the name of the Foreign Trade Department of the Shanxi Governor's Office, the wealthy businessmen in the Jiangnan area can be described as thunderous.

Because, in the past six months, this foreign trade department has spent millions of taels of silver just to buy grain in Jiangnan. plus the silver spent on other supplies, twelve million taels. Absolutely.

Therefore, the Foreign Trade Department of the Shanxi Governor's Office is for the wealthy businessmen and officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River. It is a big financier with strong financial resources.

As long as this foreign trade department goes, a lot of silver will be sprinkled.

So. After the Foreign Trade Department came to the shipyard, the head of the shipyard, which was under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, directly ignored his official title. With a flattering face, with the best things of the shipyard, to welcome the arrival of the Foreign Trade Division, I hope that the Foreign Trade Department can place some orders in the shipyard to solve the economic crisis that the shipyard has been unable to make ends meet.

As a shipyard under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, the shipyard's shipbuilding targets were undoubtedly all kinds of warships equipped by the imperial court's sailors.

And now. The imperial court couldn't even get the military salary of the sailors, let alone buy warships for the sailors.

If there are no ships to build, it means that the shipyard has no income.

However, there were at least two or three thousand shipwrights in the entire shipyard....

So many shipwrights and their families depend on the shipyard for food, and if the shipyard has no income, it means that these shipwrights are cornered.

Under such circumstances, the shipyards that specialized in building warships for the imperial court had to receive some orders for the construction of merchant ships from the private sector.

However, there are only a handful of orders for a shipyard with thousands of people. It's better than nothing.

The shipyard of Nuoda, although a steady stream of merchant ships was built. However, thousands of shipwrights have been in a state of hunger.

In this case. The head of the shipyard was eager to go directly to the capital, hoping that the imperial court would take pity on the shipyard and let the shipyard continue to build warships for the sailors.

But. Such a contrary is obviously impractical.

And just when the shipyard masters and thousands of shipwrights were becoming more and more desperate. The Foreign Trade Department of the Shanxi Governor's Mansion, a big financier, actually came to the shipyard. It was intended to purchase some merchant ships from shipyards for transportation.

In order to catch this big financier, for the thousands of shipwrights in the shipyard.

The shipyard director has secretly decided in his heart. No matter what ship the foreign trade department asks the shipyard to build, as long as the other party does not let him rebel, he will take the order.

When I learned that this shipyard at my feet could really build a lucky ship equipped by a sailor, and it could be sold to myself. A heartfelt smile immediately appeared on the face of Zhou Lao, who was instructed by Wei Zheng.

After taking a deep breath, he asked rhetorically with an interested look at the principal in front of him: "Compared with ordinary merchant ships, can the Fu ship equipped by the sailor be able to carry more goods..."

The shipyard director, who didn't know Zhou Lao's purpose, said with an affirmative face: "Lord Zhou, at this time, it is certain....Fu ships are warships used for combat, whether it is draft or carrying capacity, they far exceed ordinary merchant ships..."

"If you use a Fu ship, two Fu ships can carry at least three goods that an ordinary merchant ship can carry..."

Zhou Lao pretended to be excited and replied: "In this way, it is not more cost-effective to use a lucky ship than to use a merchant ship, and you can earn more silver..."

After getting the other party's affirmation again, Zhou Lao continued: "Since the lucky boat is so good, I don't know if the king can build some lucky ships for us...."

"This official knows that the Fu ship is a warship equipped with a sailor, and if there is any difficulty in the king's affairs, the official will not be embarrassed by the king's affairs....but in this way, the official's orders here will be much less....after all, there are many shipyards that can build ordinary merchant ships, and the official has to think more about other shipyards.......

Director Wang, who was anxious to get the order, affirmed without thinking about it: "Lord Zhou, you think a lot about the Fu ship after it is equipped with artillery and muskets, it is the warship that is equipped with sailors." As long as they are not equipped with weapons, Fubune is an ordinary merchant ship. ”

"As long as Lord Zhou can afford the silver, how many lucky boats you want, we can build as many as we want..."

"Not only the Fu Ship, but also other warships with a slightly smaller load, we can also build them for you, Lord Zhou..."

As the old saying goes, a penny is hard to beat a hero....

Facing the thousands of shipwrights in the shipyard, although they knew that they would be convicted by the imperial court for doing so. However, this principal still did not hesitate to accept the order issued by Zhou Lao and began to secretly build all the warships of the Navy fleet for the Haw Par Army.

Of course, in order to hide people's eyes and ears and not let the court suspect ....

After placing the order to build warships, Zhou Lao did not forget to place huge orders for other shipyards to build fifty ordinary merchant ships in a row.

At the same time, the courage expressed to the king of the shipyard, the sense of responsibility to the shipwright of the shipyard... Zhou Lao, who was very interested, directly started to love Cai, and made the decision to dig him to Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces to serve the Tiger and Leopard Army. Subsequently, with this Wang as the point of Chen Zhicheng, he began to dig out the best shipwrights in the shipyard to prepare for the establishment of its own shipyard by the Haw Par Army.

In this way, Wei Zheng's long-awaited sailor is slowly taking shape with the joint efforts of everyone. (To be continued......)