The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 325
The Patriarch is about to go out again, this time with even stronger troops. Although he has brought a lot of medical soldiers and ambulances, it seems that there is a fierce battle to be fought, but the soldiers and civilians of Huangjiawan Island have confidence in the Patriarch. , and strive to return from meritorious service.

The soldiers of the Huang family set sail amidst the blessings of their fathers and folks. There were more than 7000 people so lively, and all the soldiers were as happy as traveling.

In addition to learning and training on the spliced ​​boat, everyone also changed entertainment patterns, singing and laughing endlessly.

The fleet traveled day and night, and arrived at Fushan Port three days later.

Thousand-household officer Lu Chengzu took Jin Jin, Zhou Qiang, and Chen Jinggong, three hundred-household officials, and the guards who had trained for more than half a year to accept the inspection by the head of the family. The gunners, sailors, and gunners held their heads high and their chests high.

Lu Chengzu had no main warships under his command, but five remodeled No. [-] blessing ships, which were the fast ships of the Ming army navy. They were not equipped with artillery, but only four guns. Each ship had ten people on board. These five ships were equivalent to Offshore patrol small speedboats are used to pilot and deliver news, and to maintain law and order on the sea surface of the port.

Lord Huang led a group of officers to inspect this new territory, and was very satisfied to see that it was full of vitality, so he praised Lu Chengzu and the three hundreds of officers.

The Fushan Institute has been repaired and strengthened, and a small fort close to the port has been built like Zhongming Fort, with a radius of only a hundred paces.

The soldiers and civilians in the Fushan Institute cannot enter the Fushan Fort because there are three gates that rise and fall to control it. This fort has only two gates, the east and the west.

This still allows the military and the civilians to live separately to prevent the possibility of the fortress being breached from within.

The Fushansuo grain depot is already under construction, and four barrel-type granaries that can store at least 20 shi of grain have been completed. The designed grain depot should store more than [-] shi of grain. It does not need to be completed overnight. It can be completed in three years. .

There are already more than 1000 households stationed here, including the former guards who were eliminated, immigrants from Dongjiang Town, and Lu Chengzu also took in some refugees. Each household owns [-] acres of land.

Lu Chengzu completely copied the management model of Huang's family. The bottom line of each household is to send out a villager to participate in the training. He personally trains the villager for an hour every day, and only stops when the farming season is busy.

Since Fushan has a small population of 1, some merchants have already seen the business opportunities and started to lease stores here to do business.

Several families of wealthy people in the surrounding area are ready to move to Fushansuo to settle down. Nowadays, the territory of Shandong is not peaceful and bandits are rampant. Although there are not many guards in Fushansuo, it is only half of the general Qianhusuo.

But their fighting power is enough to overthrow the guards of the three Great Ming Qianhusuo, and the fighting power of Xiangyong here should not be underestimated!

Nobody doesn't like the living environment where bandits are extinct. Under Lu Chengzu's care, this place is clean and beautiful, and will soon form a prosperous port city.

Huang Sheng asked Lu Chengzu to operate here with peace of mind, don't be afraid of causing trouble, anyone who dares to come here to grab the territory will not do it, and the imperial court will not leave if they come to transfer.

Of course, the possibility of this is relatively small, and no one would dare to lose face and deliberately toss a small military officer from a thousand households to find the unhappiness of Mr. Huang Sheng, who is in the limelight.

Fushan Institute has frequent trips to and from Huangjiawan Island. There is already a three-day ferry, and the number will be increased in the future. The people of the Huang family only charge [-]% of the boat ticket to and from their own island.

This is like the public transportation of later generations, the government actually subsidizes the citizens.

The Huang family did not consider profit at all in the development of passenger transport. You can also enjoy a [-]% discount if you buy a ticket with a card.

The merchants running the pier are all shrewd people. Merchant ships traveling from south to north have already started to replenish here. Not only the fleet of the Huang family, but also many foreign merchant ships are also berthed here for shopping. here.

Fushan Port is fair in business and does not have government servants and soldiers who are required by Naka. Soldiers not only do not bully others, but also protect legal businessmen, and can also destroy bandits and bandits. To avenge the merchant.

There is no need to worry about the safety of Fushan Institute. If anyone dares to lead troops to attack here, if there are fewer troops, they will be looking for an attack, because with the combat power of the Ming army, at least five thousand soldiers and horses can fight.

At present, the bandits and thieves in the Shandong border do not have the strength to attack here, and Jiannu can't come here at all.

Under Lu Chengzu's command, there were four to five hundred guards, more than 1000 township warriors, and six-pound and four-pound copper-cored iron guns that were discarded from ten warships.

It doesn't matter if you can't beat the enemy, as long as you stick to the castle in Fushan, it's only three hundred nautical miles away, there are sea ships here and there, and the rescue team will come from Huangjiawan Island day and night after receiving the news. It won't take more than three days.

Huang Sheng left one hundred flintlock rifles to Fushan Institute and added four six-pound guns. Among the one hundred migrant households in Dongjiang Town who stayed here, more than a dozen of them had been gunners of the Ming Army. The gunners of the Guards Army receive full military pay of one or two taels of silver a month.

Lu Chengzu, who had been following Huang Sheng all the time, was doing very well in Fushan Institute, but when he saw that his teacher was leaving, he deliberately talked to the Patriarch alone, revealing that he wanted to return to the Patriarch's side, even if he continued to be a loader.

Huang Sheng looked at the reluctant Lu Chengzu and comforted him: "Chengzu, you won't stay here for too long, as long as you develop to the point where you can bring out volunteers to go to the battlefield and build troops under the premise of ensuring the defense of Fushan. The cavalry, heavy infantry, and musketeers killed by the slaves each have a hundred commanders, and you will be awarded the position of commander-in-chief with the title of fourth-rank official, and you will bring your subordinates back to the Liaodong battlefield."

The sullen Lu Chengzu immediately became elated, and he said: "Thank you, my lord, I must speed up the expansion of the army."

"Remember, don't be impatient, take your time, the soldiers you bring out should be responsible to them, making up for it is harmful to others and yourself!"

"My lord, wake up! If you can't meet the requirements of the Huang family, you don't dare to pull it out to make a fool of yourself."

Lu Chengzu was confident that people here continued to seek refuge here, there was a lot of land here to farm, and the Huang family was not short of money to set up industries here, and Fushan Institute would be self-sufficient immediately.

With money and food, a large source of troops, and equipment and weapons produced by the Huang family, it should take less than two years to successfully train an army of two to three thousand.

Lu Chengzu is Huang Sheng's confidant, if he becomes a fifth-grade thousand household here at a young age, he will lose many opportunities to make contributions, and there will be no war in Fushan Institute for more than ten years.

The task that Huang Sheng gave to Lu Chengzu was actually to stay dormant and develop here. With strength, he could pull up Shandong's team and go outside the pass to find the Marquis.

Fushan Port is more than a thousand nautical miles from Xiamen, Fujian, and no more than 120 nautical miles to Zhoushan. If Huang's fleet maintains an average speed of six knots, it is now June and the days are long and the nights are short. Even so, sailing [-] nautical miles a day is fully guaranteed until six knots.

Because the Huang family's warship uses all its power when sprinting, it can sail at a speed of more than ten knots in a smooth flow, which is at least [-]% faster than warships of the same level in this era.

Huang Sheng plans to arrive at Zhoushan Island in five to eight days, because although theoretical calculations can arrive within five days, but considering the unfamiliar route and weather factors, we need to make allowances.

All in all, the speed of the Sailing Age is terrible, and no one can say how many knots the speed can reach.Li Bai has a poem that says: "Thousands of miles of rivers and tombs can be returned in one day. Although the description is exaggerated, it can also show that the boat is very fast. It may take more than ten or twenty knots in a smooth sailing."

And when the boat is slow, I'm afraid it's better to walk, otherwise what are those trackers doing?Of course they pulled the fiber slower than usual walking.

(End of this chapter)