Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

"Lord, my Lord!" Zhao Chang was speechless for a moment, because he had never thought about this issue before.

"Forget it, this is not your problem." Qin Hao waved his hand to signal him not to mind.

A qualified naval officer must not only have tenacity, but also a unique vision. Zhao Chang has the former, but the latter is the accumulation of time. Without five or six years of familiar maritime experience, it is difficult to achieve.

When Qin Hao arranged for Zhao Chang and Zhao Xu to be the chief officer of the navy, he admitted that he had selfish motives, but he valued his perseverance and courage even more. Qin Hao was willing to give him time to grow.

But in the current maritime battle, he seems to be giving way to Amorim.

"Tell me about it." Qin Hao asked. Since Amorim raised the problem, he naturally had a solution.

"The best way to blockade ships is to monitor and fight each other with the same number or even more ships."

"This method will not be considered. We don't have time to build so many ships now."

"Then the next best thing is to let Zheng Zhilong find a way to fight us!"

After hearing Amorim's words, Qin Hao had some thoughts, but it was like a flash of inspiration that he did not retain.

Find a way to get him to fight us.

But what can we do?

"Surround Wei and save Zhao!" Amorim said this idiom most familiar to Qin Hao and others in fluent Chinese.

Hearing this, Qin Hao couldn't help laughing. Among the many Han people here, none of the Spaniards like Amorim was as familiar with Chinese.

It is exactly what Youdao said: The authorities are confused, but the bystanders are clear.

Since Zheng Zhilong wants to attack Keelung, why can't we attack his hometown Xiamen? Tit for tat, this is what Amorim wants to express.

"This is a good idea, but who should be sent and how many ships should be sent?" Qin Hao was in trouble again.

In the final analysis, the reason is that there are few ships. If there are too many ships, send a hundred and eighty warships directly to the door. Damn it, let’s see if Zheng Zhilong dares to fight back.

"My lord, I'll go." Zhao Chang said solemnly, as if to make up for the mistake just now, he volunteered.

Qin Hao looked at him and couldn't help but give him a thumbs up in his heart. His subordinates knew what was going on and immediately responded: "Okay, I'll leave this task to you. You take the 'Bloodthirsty Wolf' with you, but Remember not to charge if Xiamen's defense forces are too strong," Qin Hao reminded him by the way.

"As for Amorim, you will serve as the maritime executive officer this time and lead the navy to fight against Zheng Zhilong. However, you must pay attention to one thing in this mission, that is, preserve your strength if you can preserve your power. At worst, don't let the navy do this when dealing with Zheng Zhilong in the end. I will drown in the sea, and I will rely on this wealth to seek the position of maritime supremacy."

"promise!"

The business districts in and outside Keelung are welcoming the New Year, with both purchases and sales booming.

Stores are working hard to seize the last golden sales period of the year, and consumers are also using the last half-month to buy some daily necessities and previously so-called luxuries for themselves and their families.

Hsinchu villager Huang Duo and his wife, both dressed in newly made satin cotton robes, walked happily on the shopping street outside Keelung City, going to several shops from time to time to buy some items.

Relying on his skills in raising pigs and geldings, Huang Duo quickly became famous in Keelung's veterinary community. Not only did he build a new house, he was also recruited by the veterinary supervisor under Hu Cao and became a so-called official family member.

With a thick stack of five hundred cash notes in his pocket, Huang Duo and his wife looked at this house and that house, buying some cloth and some useful New Year items. According to Huang Duo's wishes, he I wanted to buy a new set of wooden furniture for my newly built house. I looked around a few places but couldn't find anything suitable.

"Master, how about this. Let's exchange the money notes for a few kilograms of refined salt first. Five hundred penny notes can be exchanged for nine kilograms of refined salt! Then, when you go to the mountains to slaughter pigs and geldings for the high mountain people that day, use salt and They come back with some good wood, and we can go to the carpentry shop and make wood by ourselves." Huang Duo's wife is as smart as him and knows how to make a living.

"This is a good idea!" Huang Duo agreed without thinking.

At the same time, Hannah, a Spaniard, also looked at the product on the shelf with some hesitation. It was a piece of high-grade cotton cloth from Hsinchu, priced at 800 yuan. And she only had the two taels she got from selling her pigs in her pocket. It was too expensive, and she sighed.

"Fabian, cotton is too expensive. I originally wanted to buy it for you to make a dress. Your previous clothes were too shabby. You are going to Keelung for training in the afternoon. If you don't have new clothes, will they be used by other villages? People laughed at her?" Hannah looked at her husband Fabian Klingemann apologetically, with a worried look on her face.

"It's okay, dear." Fabian kissed his wife and said, "Mr. Li Guo said that uniforms will be distributed when we go to the training camp. Don't worry about me, everyone will wear the same clothes."

"Mr. Li Guo is the law enforcement officer in the town. It must be okay for him to say this." Hannah was a little happy, but after thinking about it for a moment, she felt a little disappointed, "But then you can't stay in Hsinchu for the New Year."

This is the first time for these Spaniards to settle in Hsinchu, and they still value the reunion of the Han people.

Fabian's face suddenly became ugly, "The war is coming and we have to go to the battlefield. You wait for me at home. I will be back in almost a year."

Although a little depressed, Fabian still accompanied his wife to select products in the store. The products on the shelves were becoming more and more abundant. Hannah's eyes kept wandering among the cane sugar, dried fruits, cheese, and cured meats.

Among the bustling crowds, Han Chinese, Gaoshan and foreigners with blond hair, blue eyes and high noses can be seen everywhere, buying all kinds of New Year products.

On the surface, Keelung Mansion and the entire General Mansion are filled with a joyful and peaceful atmosphere in preparation for the New Year. However, the top brass of the General Mansion can feel that Keelung today is like a precise machine, moving slowly and steadily. It started to move powerfully again, and its target was Zheng Zhilong, the Zheng family in the south of Taiwan Island.

Orders were conveyed to various places by messengers either on horseback or by boat.

Villages and towns in Hsinchu and other places received a very strange order: "Wide roads and bridges everywhere and make them cement pavements. The requirements are to be able to bear the weight of the artillery carriage."

Households under Zhuge Xuan's jurisdiction also began to count household registrations, calculate how many soldiers could be mobilized for the war, and count the treasury to calculate how much food, grass, medicine, military pay, and ordnance would be needed every day once the war started.

Hsinchu arsenal, gunnery stations, and steel mills are also working overtime to manufacture weapons and ordnance.

The war machine of the General's Mansion began to operate at high speed.

This war is related to whether hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese people can live a good life in the future, and we must not be careless.

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