Jianghu I am the only one

Chapter 395
Ouyang Ye knew that after he issued the order of "building warships and training the navy", the military expenditure began to be tilted towards the navy.

In the past two years, Dagan has successively built three large government-owned shipyards in Bohai Bay, the coast of Fujian Province, and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which are specially used to build sea-going ships, especially naval warships.

Not only that, Dagan also opened a school in the north and south to train the navy respectively, namely the Beiyang Naval Academy and the Nanyang Naval Academy.

In addition, the three naval fleets of Beiyang, Donghai and Nanyang are being trained at the same time.

Whether it is the students and teachers of the Naval Academy, or the first batch of navies of the three fleets, they are all recruited and selected from the original inland navy.

This is done to ensure that the core and foundation of the navy comes from the large-scale army, not from other places.

However, this year, the Naval Academy has started its enrollment expansion plan. It is obviously not enough to just select students from the original inland navy, so the enrollment channel is opened to the outside world.

Ouyang Ye went to the newspaper boy, bought a newspaper for one dragon yuan, and browsed the relevant content of the Naval Academy's admissions, so that he could have a more specific understanding of the Beiyang Naval Academy's foreign admissions requirements.

Overall, the Naval Academy's external admissions standards are quite high.

For example, it is required to be literate, to have an innocent family background, to have good physical fitness, and so on.

And these definitely do not mean that what you say in your registration materials is what you say, but you have to pass the admissions assessment of the Naval Academy.

However, the salary of the navy is quite high, nearly twice that of the ordinary army.

Sitting down in a nearby teahouse, ordered a pot of good tea, and carefully read the other contents of the newspaper, Ouyang Ye couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

Although he brought up the idea of ​​a newspaper, after a year or two, there were still only a few official newspapers in Daqian.

The reason for this is that the literacy rate of the common people in Dagan is still too low.There are not many literate people, so naturally not many people buy newspapers and read them.

In addition, the delay in the spread of news from various places is also a major reason for restricting the development of newspapers-if you want to run a daily newspaper, you can at most use one prefecture as the scope of coverage.

If it is nationwide, even if it is run by the government, publishing within three days is the current limit.

There are not many people who buy newspapers, and the newspapers are not prosperous, so naturally there is no private force to invest in them.

But Ouyang Ye believed that this was only temporary.

The basic education work in Daqian started in the third year of Qianli, and it was one or two years earlier in Jing Province. At present, the primary school system is three-year, which means that it takes three years to train a group of people who can read and write. people who read books.

And because it recruits students every year, at present, the provinces that initially started three-year compulsory education in the third year of the Qianli calendar have taught at least two batches of graduates.

If this continues, it only takes another four or five years for the literacy rate of the young and even young people to increase significantly.

Ouyang Ye only had a few thoughts about the development of the newspaper, but he didn't pay much attention to it. His thoughts soon turned back to matters related to the navy.

"According to the current development speed of the navy, maybe next year we can launch a conquest against the Nanyu imperial court in exile, and even capture Yingzhou Island and destroy the Xianshan faction."

According to the information collected by Yubu, although the disciples of the Xianshan School did not directly participate in the Nanyu imperial court's role as Japanese pirates to harass and attack coastal prefectures and counties, they were of great help to the Nanyu imperial court in exile at sea.

Especially this year, when the naval fleet began to suppress the "Japanese pirates" along the coast, it was often found that there were more martial arts masters among the Japanese pirates. According to investigations, some of the masters were also from the Xianshan School.

Ouyang Ye will naturally not keep the Xianshan School because he is fighting against Dagan in secret.

Moreover, Yingzhou Island is home to hundreds of thousands of people and is rich in products. If it can be brought under the rule of Dagan, it will at least increase the land of the two prefectures.

Therefore, even if the Xianshan faction did not secretly oppose Dagan, there is a high probability that the senior leaders of Dagan will find a reason to make Yingzhou Island and the Xianshan faction join.

Concentrating his thoughts, Ouyang Ye ordered two snacks with local characteristics. While drinking tea and eating snacks, he listened to some people's discussions in the restaurant.

Soon, he heard something interesting——

"I heard no. Recently, someone saw that huge sea eagle near Heihong Island."

"Huge? How huge?"

"I heard that when the sea eagle flew by, its wings covered the sky and the sun, just like the legendary roc bird!"

"Covering the sky and the sun? I'm afraid the person who said that didn't really go to see the sea eagle, right? To be honest, I've been out at sea all year round, and I've seen quite a few sea eagles, the largest of which has a wingspan of more than three meters. So Big sea eagles will indeed scare people when they see them for the first time, so what you heard about it is most likely because those cowards rarely see it. "

"Things are definitely not as you said." The person who spoke first retorted, "Liu Heilong knows, right? He goes to sea as much as you do. It was from him that the story first spread."

"What did Liu Heilong say? You didn't lie to me?"

"Trick you into counting this." The man who spoke held out his little finger.

Hearing the conversation between the two, Ouyang Ye couldn't help being aroused again.

Speaking of which, the mother-child psychic pill he obtained from the system has never been used before. Later, the system space was unlocked into a space grid, and there was neither a second bottle of mother-child psychic pill nor pill formula, so he was even more reluctant to easily used.

In the past two years, he has been traveling around the world, and he probably didn't want to meet some strange beasts that are suitable to be used as mounts or cultivated with high value, so that he can subdue them with the psychic pill of mother and child.

It is a pity that although he has traveled to many famous mountains and great rivers, and even went deep into the Shenlong Forest where there were rumors of terrifying beasts, he has never encountered a beast that is worthy of his use of the psychic pill of child and mother.

Therefore, after hearing the conversation between the two, he couldn't help becoming interested in the giant sea eagle.

Compared with other strange beasts, Ouyang Ye is still more interested in the strange beasts that can carry people to fly.

Therefore, he decided that as long as the sea eagle was really big enough and not too old, he would use the psychic pill to subdue it.

Of course, the premise is that he can meet this sea eagle...

Heihong Island is near Liugong Island on the southeast coast of Weihai Prefecture. Ouyang Ye took a small sea boat to the island that afternoon.

There is a rather large fishing village on the island, and there is also a large pier, and there are restaurants, teahouses, inns, and warehouses on the pier. Although the scale is not large, there are at least one or two.

Ouyang Ye asked someone for a while, and soon found out Liu Heilong's whereabouts.

It was also at this time that he realized that this Liu Heilong was actually a former gang member.

The reason why I say they are ex-gang members is because although there is no express prohibition on Jianghu people from forming gangs, Dagan severely cracks down on violations of law and discipline, such as collecting protection fees from merchants, smuggling, kidnapping and extorting, and acting as a substitute for others. Thugs and more.

As a result, the money prospects of gang members suddenly dimmed, and many people quit the gang one after another and began to do some relatively "legitimate" businesses.

This is the case with Liu Heilong.

Of course, the reason why Ouyang Ye easily inquired about these news was because Liu Heilong used to be the third head of the Emperor's Black Shark Gang, with a high reputation, and was the first local "big shot" to quit the gang business, so the news spread widely .

Liu Heilong, who was transferred from a gang member, opened three warehouses and fished part-time.

The newest warehouse on Heihong Island was opened by Liu Heilong. It was already sunset, and when Ouyang Ye came to the gate of the warehouse, Liu Heilong was sitting in the courtyard eating cakes with fish soup.

"Third Master, this person is looking for you." A young man who didn't know whether it was Liu Heilong's younger brother or a warehouse employee led Ouyang Ye to the courtyard and said to Liu Heilong.

[Second update. 】

　~~good night~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)