Chapter 494

There was only a blazing sun in the blue sky, and a layer of golden scales rippling on the infinite sea.

"Goodbye, everyone!"

In the face of Claire, Xiao Ming also waves goodbye. Maybe he won't come back to Ryukyu for a long time. After all, his strategy here is only a small part. In the next few years, Ryukyu will only exist to provide some raw materials for Qingzhou.

After all, the population of Ryukyu Island is too small.

The warships kept going northward under the sea breeze, gradually shrinking into a faint skyline.

Lu Fei then said, "Your Highness, now Ryukyu is ours?"

"Needless to say, all our troops are stationed on Ryukyu Island, but your highness, is it too little to leave 4000 troops here? All 24 field guns are left on the island." Luo Xin was reluctant to part with it.

Xiao Ming shook his head. He understood that many generals, like the two of them, did not understand why they had to invest so much in a lonely island. He said, "now I have told you that I don't understand. Later, you will understand the important position of Ryukyu in maritime trade. This is a warship that will never sink!"

Yue Yun nodded slightly. He understood the value of Ryukyu better than Lufei and Luoxin. After all, he led the fleet South and understood the importance of Ryukyu.

Seven days later, Xiao Ming and others, who were wandering on the sea and wanted to vomit, finally returned to Dengzhou. This expedition was the first overseas battle of soldiers of Dayu state led by Xiao Ming. Although they took back their own territory, the significance of this move will be remembered in history.

After all, this is the first time that Dayu has extended its tentacles overseas.

At this time, Xiao Ming said to Yue Yun, "the cruising of warships can't stop. From now on, you should completely control the sea trade routes. You can't let the Japanese invaders attack the merchant ships on the routes."

"Yes, your highness, but what if we find the merchant ships of the king of Chu and the king of Wei? Do you want to escort, too? " Yue Yun asked.

Xiao Ming stares at Yue Yun, "are you stupid? The King spent so much money to build the Qingzhou Navy. The soldiers bled and died in order to capture Ryukyu. Should they serve them in the end? Tell those merchant ships that if they want to carry out maritime trade, they will go to Qingzhou to get approval, otherwise they will go back where they come from. If they dare not, they can take force to deter them. "

Yue Yun was embarrassed, he said: "Your Highness is right. We robbed this route from the Dutch. Now it should be ours, and the profits generated by the route should also be ours."

"That's about the same." Xiao Ming nodded.

After getting off the warship, Xiao Ming and his party did not immediately go to Dengzhou city. Instead, they went to the shipbuilding workshop of the military port and asked Zhang Liang about the warship construction.

At this time, on the beach of the military port, twelve class III windsurfing warships were under construction, and six of them basically had their rudiments. On the beach, they saw Zhang Liang.

"Your Highness."

Seeing Xiao Ming and his party coming, Zhang Liang immediately put down his work.

"Not bad. When will these six warships be delivered?" Xiao Ming said with a smile that he is short of warships now, and the current 15 warships simply can not meet the current requirements.

Moreover, in the battle of Ryukyu, he had a showdown with the Japanese. In the future, there will only be more and more battles on the sea. Moreover, the coastline of Dayu is long, and even for the sake of escort, a large number of warships will be required.

"If there is no accident, these six warships will be launched in three months, and eight warships will be launched in the other two shipyards. That is to say, 14 warships will be launched at that time." Zhang Liang was elated.

Because of Xiao Ming's trade with the king of Chu and the imperial court, there are many skillful craftsmen in the shipbuilding workshop in Dengzhou, which greatly accelerated the speed of shipbuilding.

And the three shipyards also let us increase the number of warships launched in the same batch.

"Fourteen, well, at least this year should be enough." Xiao Ming looked at Yue Yun and said, "do you have so many crew members to control the 14 ships?"

Yue Yun suddenly made a mistake, he said: "Your Highness, this warship launched too fast, which can catch up with the speed of our training, three months is really difficult."

Xiao Ming frowned, which was expected by him. According to Claire, the crew of their merchant ships could be turned into the crew of warships at any time. Over the years, they have accumulated the Navy.

However, the development of Qingzhou Navy is too late. If it goes on like this, it can't keep up with the pace at all. He said, "we can't just recruit seafarers in Dengzhou. After all, the fishing villages in Dengzhou are also limited. You can try to attract fishermen from other places to settle down in Dengzhou with good treatment. In addition, there are rampant coastal pirates. These pirates are all born seafarers. When they are captured, they can't go there We can also absorb some crew members from it. "

"Your Highness, it's a good way. There are many pirates in Dengzhou prison. Many of them are homeless and forced to join the pirates. I'll go to pick them later." Yue Yun said.

Zhang Liang's face is even more proud when he hears the speech. It was Yue Yun who urged them to speed up before, but now it's his turn to be short of hands.After a visit to the Jungang shipyard, Xiao Ming led Zhang Liang to the second and third shipyards at the north gate of Dengzhou. Now these shipyards are under his unified management.

In the past, he was just running a small Qingzhou shipbuilding workshop, which is not comparable to today's, because now he is very comfortable and satisfied.

The second shipyard and the third shipyard are not far away from the military port. This is also for the purpose of unified dispatching. As Zhang Liang said, there are four warships in both shipyards that are about to be completed.

After inspecting the shipyard, Xiao Mingcai, Lu Fei and others went to Dengzhou city. From time to time, they could see the carriages of Qingzhou chamber of Commerce carrying salt passing by, and even some carriages carrying dried sea fish, which were the main profitable goods in Dengzhou.

In Dengzhou City, Xiao Ming met Yang Chengye. He wanted to go back to Qingzhou directly, but thinking of the importance of maritime trade, he decided to tell him to pay attention to the construction of the commercial center and foreign affairs office.

"The most important thing is the construction of the port. In the future, Dengzhou port will become the port with the largest throughput. From now on, you need to build a large number of warehouses near the port to store goods." Xiao Ming said, "in addition, we need to produce wooden cases. At that time, we can sell these wooden cases to merchants and rent the warehouses to sea merchants. Besides, we need to pay for berthing in the port. But this port is enough to make you rich in Dengzhou."

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