open sea

Chapter 103
Coincidentally, Long Junxiong has never used Fuchuan.

He has only used small boats, and the huge Fuchuan is too difficult for him.

Long Junxiong used Fujian fishing boats, snatched eight scull boats, and used small haya boats and Guan boats in Japan. Guan boats are probably the largest boats he has ever steered.

There are 40 to [-] sailors and [-] to [-] armed pirates on the Guan boat, but the shape of the boat is much smaller than that of Fuchuan.Because the shape of Japanese ships is similar to that of ancient building ships, the power is basically used by oars and sails. Although they carry more troops, their efficiency at sea is very low.

At any rate, there is someone around who can sail a boat, even if he has never used a blessing boat, he knows how to operate it. The lifting of the sail, the winching of the anchor, just make the blessing boat move in a hurry, swaying towards the shore drive over.

Except for Long Junxiong, who is at the helm, all the family soldiers are newbies, some have used small paddle boats, and some have never even made a boat. Thanks to the Chinese hard sails, they are easy to control. They have to change to the soft sails of Western ships. I'm afraid I'll have to swim back.

Even so, Long Junxiong also swam for a while after the lucky boat entered the river. He was all a novice, and he was afraid of knocking over the five new fast boats parked on the riverside. The family soldiers came over and drove the clipper aside, then returned to the boat and slowly lowered the sails, dropping the four-claw anchor from a distance.

Chen Mu, who was docked in a small boat, looked back at Fu Chuan with lingering fear. With the arrival of this big guy on the sea, the construction of Qianhu House in Xiangshan was inevitable.

It's time to pick a place to build a water village.

"When the two deputy thousand household recruits come back, County Magistrate Zhou will hook up the banner army, and practice to calm down the local bandits in Huangliangdu in March!"

Four thousand acres of sea fields are not important, but the coastline is very important, at least two hundred households are permanently stationed there.

To build a water village, hydraulic forging hammers should also be put on the agenda.

A few days after receiving the warship, the Qingyuan Guards sent a letter. Zhang Yongshou said that because of Zeng Yiben's rebellion, the imperial court changed its original idea of ​​opening a port in Meiling, Zhao'an, and took Yuegang in Zhangzhou Prefecture as the port of opening. The place is Chen Mu's hometown. They are preparing to choose sailors, and they sent a letter to ask Chen Mu to send people and money.

"People pay for it."

To send people is to send sailors, and to send money is to send money to ship.

Bai Yuanjie didn't care much about the businessmen who went to sea, Zhang Yongshou was in charge of it, and the list he sent was very impressive.

On the surface, the Dajia surnamed Wang from Qingyuan was invited, but in fact he was able to get 90% of the share. The Bai family sent out one large boat and seven small boats, with more than 60 people; the Zhang family sent three boats, with more than 200 people; plus Qingcheng With four hundred households, there are more than a dozen boats of different sizes and more than [-] people.

It is mainly the three of them, with Lao Bai accounting for [-]% of the top, giving them [-]% each, and the remaining [-]% ​​for the four hundred households.

Mr. Chen does have seven or eight hundred taels of silver, but the key is untrustworthy manpower.

It was easy to recruit people from Qingyuan. Bai Yuanjie's Man Liao camp family members were all ready-made sailors, but the situation here was different in Chen Mu. Although he also planned to recruit people for the army, it was impossible to send them out to sea as soon as they arrived.

But it is not enough to send someone to only pay money, which makes him a headache.

"Brother Mu, you can't let Shao Yong go. He has been the bow of a ship, and he went back to his hometown to buy a few clippers, find some people from the past, and then find some people from the younger generation of the clan, and bring a few soldiers to guard the boat. Ten people is not difficult."

"Can there be so many people in the clan? This road is very dangerous."

"Not only from the family." Shao Tingda smiled and said, "There are many people from my hometown who have gone to sea, and it is not difficult to find them."

His family soldiers can pick five out, and the sea is very chaotic these days, so it's not a big problem to get a few little Japanese pirates to go out with them, anyway, if there are too many problems with them, it won't make a difference.

It was the scheduled route to the sea they sent, which made Chen Mu feel that there were also capable people around Lao Bai who could understand the Japanese—from Yuegang to loading grain and porcelain to Haojing, to loading prohibited nitrate on his ship, and heading east to chicken coops. Shan exchanged grain and nitrate for silver, and the silk that the common people were prohibited from selling in the Ming Dynasty was stolen by Japanese pirates and sold to Sulu.

Jilong Mountain is Taiwan, and Sulu is Luzon Philippines.

Sure enough, how safe can the business route led by a group of murderous Qiu Ba lead?

Jilong Mountain is now the largest pirate island in East Asia, where all the big pirate leaders who can be called famous are curled up there, and Sulu is not a good place. There are now tens of thousands of Ming people there, and they all ran over there during the sea ban. Shang, in fact, they were all Japanese pirates in the Ming Dynasty, so they dared not come back.

But this route also has huge profits. The route is not long for less than half a year, but whether you can come back after half a year is another matter.

If they come back, one trip will be enough for them to eat for three to five years, and if they don't come back, they won't come back.

The coastal defense of the Ming Dynasty was not a big problem, at least they had less to beware of than others, but even if the Ming army's coastal defense was ruled out, this trade route was still deadly.

Portuguese, Japanese pirates, Ming Dynasty pirates, sea storms, any one of them will be fatal.

"Try it. It's a risky thing. They're all outlaws. Let's see who is afraid of whom!"

Chen Mu's words determined that dozens of people would take such a risk with their lives.

Chen Mu said to Shao Tingda: "It's not in a hurry to go back to Yuegang. You go back to Qingyuan for me first, and send 300 taels of silver there. It's our boat money. Before going to Qingyuan, turn to Guangcheng and take the shopkeeper Yan from the drum belly building. Please come."

Last time Shao Tingda bought him a lot of houses in Yuegang and more than 40 acres of land outside the city.

In the past, an acre of farmland could be sold for five or six taels, and going to the field could be sold for ten taels. When Zeng Benben burned Chenghai County, the land price near the sea had dropped by 180 to [-] percent. Shao Tingda bought it for only [-] taels.

Now that the news of the opening of Yuegang port comes out, the land price outside the city should pick up, and it may be even higher than in the past.

Chen Mu planned to take advantage of Shao Tingda's opportunity to take Shao Yong back to recruit people, sell some of the land, and come back to buy food in Guangcheng.

Thousands of households in Xiangshan were short of food. Chen Mu promised to give three shi grains to each household of the newly recruited Dan people. When they came, there would be at least a thousand shi shortage of grain.

He didn't plan to be idle with the rest of the land. Some of the land was planned to be sent to Yuegang County for military camps and market divisions, so that Shao Tingda could make connections.

If there is still some money left in his hand, he wants to open a restaurant in Yuegang, a very large restaurant.

The name has not yet been decided, but he hopes that in the future, when people mention this restaurant, they will not call it by its name, but call it Minyue Guild Hall.

One person can't do anything in this era. If it weren't for Bai Yuanjie and Zhang Yongshou, he might not be able to form a caravan to go to sea now. He needs more alliances, whether they are political allies, military allies or economic allies.

Fujian, Guangdong and Haizhou merchants are a good choice. They are courageous and aggressive, and those who can survive have huge financial resources.

He can gather these people by his side, and he can change the direction of the tide of the times!
　Another recommendation this afternoon, Chapter 2 is a little later, at two o'clock, good morning!

　　


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