Daming pirates

After hearing Yu Xiaotian's question, Lin Yiyang quickly continued: "I have carefully reviewed what Zhu Yifeng has done recently after taking office. After he took office, he rectified the official administration and vigorously investigated the affairs of the vassal treasury.

The money and grain were also sent to the treasury of each government. The shortages in each treasury were traced, some officials were interrogated, and some subordinates were arrested. In the past few months, it is said that the money and grain in each treasury has increased greatly.

Moreover, after recently having more money and food in the treasury, Zhu Yifeng allocated 60,000 taels of silver from the vassal treasury and went to several iron yards in the Zhangquan area. He ordered the Zhangquan and Quan Prefectures to supervise the production of Hongyi cannons and purchase a total of them.

There are forty-six of various red barbarian cannons, and a large number of Fran cannons and other artillery pieces are cast. The total number is estimated to be no less than 300.

At the same time, Zhu Yifeng also revitalized the navy and ordered the coastal prefectures to allocate money to renovate water fortresses and add a batch of artillery for them. He also raised 80,000 taels of silver from the feudal treasury and various government treasuries.

In the boathouses along the coast, a batch of new warships were built to supplement the use of various water villages.

He also allocated some money to the navy, paid part of the arrears, and recruited sailors to expand the size of the navy.

Recently, Zhu Yifeng has visited Fubiao among the army and various towns many times to inspect the training of soldiers and generals, and personally watched the trial of firearms.

Judging from Zhu Yifeng's actions, my subordinates believe that Zhu Yifeng may not have put us aside, but is secretly accumulating strength, but he is not mature yet, so he will not make any statement!"

Yu Xiaotian frowned and said: "Dogs that don't bark bite people! Although this Zhu Yifeng has a good reputation as an official, he has a deep scheming mind. I don't deny that this person is an official with integrity, and I don't agree with that.

Deeply admired.

But from our point of view, it is not a good thing for such a person to be a governor in Fujian! If he is a corrupt official, we can spend some money to unblock him, but for such a person, spending money is useless!

If he does these things now, then you can roughly understand what he wants to do. He gathers money, overhauls war equipment, orders troops and horses, and builds warships. I am afraid it is not for the sake of face. Today's civil servants,

How many people would pay so much attention to strengthening the army?

So according to what you said, there is a high possibility that Zhu Yifeng is preparing for the next step to suppress us!"

Lin Yiyang nodded worriedly and said: "I'm afraid that's the case, but we have no countermeasures at the moment!"

Yu Xiaotian stood up angrily, walked back and forth in the room several times, and said angrily: "These officials are really full! Although I am a thief, I have not done many evil things!

The government did not care about Jinghai, and the navy was inactive. I reestablished order for them and gave them the filial piety that I should give them. I also gave them a penny, and also made the place peaceful and did not easily disturb the coast. I did not interfere with the government's wells and rivers, and

These officials want to cause trouble for me!

Don’t they know that fighting in war costs money to kill people? If I were a heinous person, that would be fine, and they should be the ones to suppress me, but I immigrated to farmland, opened up Taiwan, and survived countless lives, even if I was killed

Some people passed by, but most of them deserved to be killed!

They are so idle that they insist on causing trouble for me!

Prime Minister Zhu Qin left, and Zhu Yifeng came. The one in front was a fool, but the new one is a mute! If they take action this time, I'm afraid it won't be as easy to deal with as last time!"

"Exactly! My subordinates are also worried about this matter. After Zhu Yifeng's rectification for a period of time, the Fujian officers and soldiers will definitely take effect and their strength will be greatly increased. As long as they send troops to us again this time, then I am afraid they will not

Like last time, it will be easy to deal with! So please make plans early!" Lin Yiyang stood up and lowered his hands and said to Xiaotian.

"In this case, I will give him a pre-emptive strike! Destroy a few of his water forts first, and let them know how powerful I am!" Yu Xiaotian felt a little annoyed. Now was the critical time. He originally didn't want to fight with the government.

There will be no big conflict again, but Zhu Yifeng is so secretly working hard to reorganize the ordnance and warships.

Although he didn't say that he was coming to conquer the Sea Wolf, it put a lot of pressure on him. He didn't know yet whether the Spaniards would come to Taipei or not. He had to be prepared on the one hand, but the government was behind him.

If he makes small moves, he may get into trouble at any time, so he wants to hit the government first to make them calm down.

"I'm afraid this is inappropriate! Although Zhu Yifeng is currently overhauling combat equipment, he has not mentioned that he wants to conquer us. Moreover, we are not the only one in the coastal areas of Fujian. There are also Zheng Yiguan and Chu Cai.

I have been very active lately.

If the leader sends troops to attack the water camp of the government at this time, wouldn't it just give the government an excuse?" Lin Yiyang disagreed with Yu Xiaotian's provocation to Zhu Yifeng now and immediately advised him.

Yu Xiaotian looked at Lin Yiyang with displeasure and asked, "Then we just sit back and wait like this, waiting for the army to come and attack us?"

Lin Yiyang smiled bitterly and said: "There is no way around this! Originally, if we didn't move in the near future, the officers and soldiers would have no excuse to attack us. If Zhu Yifeng wanted to use the army, there would be resistance. After all, there are many officials in Fujian.

They have eaten our food and taken our property, and they do not want to see us being suppressed by the army, so that they will lose a piece of their income.

Therefore, after Zhu Yifeng took office, he kept silent about sending troops to suppress us. However, if he wanted to send troops after a while, someone would dissuade him.

But if we launch a large-scale attack on the shore now, it will give Zhu Yifeng an excuse. By then, he will be well-known and it will be inconvenient for ordinary people to dissuade him!

So right now we have no better way, we can only sit back and wait, while we have nothing to do, we can train more troops, so that when the army comes to suppress us, we can protect ourselves!"

Yu Xiaotian sneered and said: "It's not that I look down on Zhu Yifeng. Although he has been busy overhauling war equipment, building warships, and recruiting troops during this period, he wants to destroy me based on the level of his officers and soldiers.

Yu Xiaotian, they might have been possible two years ago, but now... hum!

If Zhu Yifeng is a good official, I don't want to give the Wei party in the court an excuse to remove him. But if this Zhu Yifeng is ignorant of current affairs and insists on causing trouble for me, then I don't mind letting him go again.

He is following in the footsteps of Prime Minister Zhu Qin!"

Lin Yiyang was also very pleased with Xiaotian's confidence. He had seen with his own eyes how powerful the Sea Wolf tribe was. When Chu Cailao came to attack Nanyue Island with thousands of troops, Sea Wolf Dazhai only had hundreds of soldiers.

It blocked Chu Cai Lao's men from attacking the city, and the navy almost wiped out Chu Cai Lao's fleet.

Moreover, he saw with his own eyes the organization and discipline of the Sea Wolf Army. These things are definitely not possessed by ordinary colleagues and the army. The army has been completely depleted to this day. Over the years, whether it is Fujian or Guangdong and Guangxi, pirates

There are so many pirates, but the government has never seriously exterminated a few pirates. Even if they have exterminated a few pirates, they are still weak pirates.

The pirates repeatedly harassed the land, and even invaded deep areas on the land, but the official army failed to show any performance. It was often after watching the pirates come ashore and looting that the official army was belatedly arrived.

, and then watched the pirates sail away on the shore. What was left was to find a few homeless people on the shore after the pirates left, chop off their heads, and use them to pretend to be beheaders to gain credit.

Therefore, it makes sense for Yu Xiaotian to despise the officers and soldiers so much. Not to mention that the Sea Wolf is too strong. Just talking about the officers and soldiers, they are really bad nowadays. Therefore, even if Zhu Yifeng works hard, he will finally suppress the Sea Wolf.

If so, it would still be difficult to get an advantage from the sea wolf.

What's more, Seawolf has recruited a large number of troops to expand its army since last year. The strength of the navy and war barracks has been greatly increased. In addition, the artillery, gunsmiths, gunpowder workshops, and shiphouses that were split and relocated to Tamsui and Keelung have all been put into production.

Over the past year, the Wolf has acquired a large number of new weapons, and its strength is at least twice as strong as last year's battle with Chu Cai. With the troops that Fujian can now mobilize, it is basically impossible to destroy the Sea Wolf.

Moreover, Sea Wolf does not only have one Nanyue Island now. Sea Wolf’s old camp is still nominally on Nanyue Island, but most of the basic things have been moved to Tamsui and Keelung Fort. Even now, Zhu Yifeng gathers

With only a small amount of effort, we will come and suppress them.

On Nanyue Island, Yu Xiaotian didn't want to confront them head-on. The worst he could do was to set the Nanyue Island Dazhai on fire and evacuate to Tamsui with his people. The officers and soldiers still had nothing to do with them. After all, Taiyuan Island is now

It is not within the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty.

Time often passes very quickly in the busy life. After Yu Xiaotian returned to Nanyue Island, he did not slow down at all. After several new flying boats were launched from the Nanyue Island boathouse, Tamsui

News came from the Zhai Boathouse that the slipway there adopted the method of boarding two ships at the same time on one slipway, and six Feizi speedboats were boarded on slipway No. 1, 2, and 3 at the same time.

Moreover, Tamsui Boathouse has also begun to adopt standardized production methods, uniformly prefabricating important parts such as ship ribs and ship plates in advance. After starting shipbuilding, they are directly used on the ship. This greatly improves the efficiency of production and makes shipbuilding more efficient.

The speed can be increased exponentially, and manpower can be more fully utilized.

So Yu Xiaotian ordered the Nanyue Island Boathouse to temporarily stop building the new Feizihao clipper. With a group of craftsmen from the boathouse, he began to pull a three-masted Dafu ship onto the slipway and began to get into the cabin to toss around.

Got up.

This kind of blessing ship is a large blessing ship. According to the classification of the navy, this kind of blessing ship is regarded as the No. 1 blessing ship and is the absolute main warship of the navy. However, such a large blessing ship is currently in the navy.

There is not a lot of equipment among them, because this kind of ship is expensive to build, and when used in maritime operations, it moves clumsily, so it is mostly used as a handsome ship.

(I’m so tired, I’ll take a nap after the update!)