dhibooks Chapter 371 Comeback
Chapter 371 Comeback
After breakfast, Wantong and the others went to the arsenal.
Wu Youwei went to find someone to arrange, to see if there was anything he could bring to the people marching at sea?
He has no experience in this kind of thing, but Lao Lu and Lao Xu have experience: "In the sea, the most important thing is water, fresh water."
"Yes, fresh water."
"Tan Shui?" Wu Youwei was stunned for a moment: "Well, yes, Dan Shui!"
The ships at this time were only very primitive. Even if there were armored warships, they did not have a seawater filtration system.
The fresh water stored on board is the most important thing for everyone.
If you want to serve it with rice, you can cook fish from the sea, stewing, boiling, steaming, etc., and you don’t need to add salt, because the saltiness is enough.
Vegetables are dried vegetables. The dried vegetables that have been dried in the sun include dried cabbage, dried radish, dried carrot, dried eggplant, and beans... Now there are many dried potatoes, dried sweet potatoes, and so on.
This kind of thing is easy to store and takes up less space.
In addition, there are fats, dried meat, eggs and so on.
Eggs cannot be kept for too long, so marinated salted eggs are required.
The fresh ones can only be eaten in a few days, otherwise they will become rotten eggs.
Wu Youwei always remembered the precautions they said.
In addition to fresh water and clothes, don't think that the sea is very hot, and it is not much warmer than the land when it is cold.
Charcoal is also very important. Wu Youwei intends to let them take coal to sea. Coal is more resistant to burning than charcoal and has a higher heat.
And drugs and so on.
After Wu Youwei finished memorizing these, he thanked the elders and went to the study to start thinking about it.
Especially food, he was the one who invented instant seasoning and ancient instant noodles during the imperial examination.
Maybe the cannery should be on the agenda...
Wantong and the others ate at the arsenal at noon, and Wu You ate some lunch for himself and took a nap. After getting up in the afternoon, he went to the study and wrote a list for someone to follow.
When they came back in the evening, everyone gathered for dinner and talked about the recent products produced by the arsenal, and decided to install them on the warships, especially their waterproof design is very good.
This couldn't be better, and it will exert great power during water battles.
August, golden autumn, the harvest season, the construction work is much slower. Many people return to their hometowns to collect food, while those who have no land stay here to continue working. After all, the wages are generous and the treatment is good.
Wu Youwei took the opportunity to stockpile a lot of grain and spent money to buy the harvest of the farmers. The farmers in Shanghai County all made a fortune.
In September Bingwu, Annan Li Hao was ordered to occupy the city and invade the land.
They were actively preparing for the war, and the court also sent a note to Annan, but Annan was unmoved. Instead, he said that he would send someone to pay tribute and bring back Prince Champa!
It is said that Annan's tribute was very sincere: a hundred gold pearls (that is, the special golden pearls there), a thousand taels of gold, two large boxes of ivory and precious stones, twenty ebony sticks, and a hundred catties of Kalan incense.
This is more than the total tribute paid by Champa over the years. It can be said that the foundation of the royal family in Champa has been taken out to buy off the suzerain of Ming Dynasty. As long as Da Ming recognizes Li Hao from Annan, Champa will never be restored. possible.It was also heard that Li Hao from Annan would also donate tens of thousands of catties of rice to Daming.
After Prince Zhancheng heard about it, he was so frightened that he couldn't get sick, and finally died of illness in the capital!
Before his death, he wrote a letter to Emperor Xianzong, the emperor of the suzerain state, claiming that he was ashamed of the ancestors of the royal family of Champa, and merged the Champa state into the suzerain state of Ming Dynasty!
Just one thing, begging Daming to bury his bones in the tomb of King Champa...
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and Daming's face and reputation must be taken seriously!
Annan's envoys hadn't even stepped into Daming's country, but the coast had received news that Annan's envoys were not allowed to enter the country!
At the same time, the Wusong Battalion of the Coastal Navy was ordered to counter the rebellion and recover the Champa Mansion belonging to the Ming Dynasty.
The coastal victory of Wusong Camp not only made them famous all over the world, but even the coastal countries heard about it, because not only there were pirates and Japanese pirates in Ming Dynasty, but those coastal countries were even more miserable.
After all, Daming still has guards, at least there are pirates and Japanese pirates who dare not go deep, for fear of being made dumplings by Daming.
The country along their coast is called a country, but it is actually composed of several islands. Pirates and Japanese pirates are unscrupulous, because if you go forward, you will go ashore, and if you go back, you will go to the sea, and you can come and go freely.
In addition, they don't have a strong navy, let alone sharp weapons, so they can't defend against pirates and Japanese pirates.
And they don't have any well-developed weapons manufacturing industry, some are just honest farmers, and wood, spices, treasures everywhere...
Although he had prepared it long ago, after receiving the order, Wu Youwei moved all the things he had prepared a long time ago to the navy's warship.
At the same time, Wu Youwei took a lot of jade bottles to Wantong: "I don't know what will happen at sea, and I can't predict it, so I bring some more, and you have to be careful in case of war.
War, whether it is defense or offense, is an ever-changing situation, especially in naval battles. On the vast sea, blue waves curl up, who knows what will happen?
"Don't worry, our weapons are much better than theirs." After the last battle, Wantong has full confidence in thermal weapons.
As long as the ammunition is kept constant, they are invincible.
"En." Wu Youwei nodded.
The arsenal has been running at full capacity, and all kinds of things needed for water warfare have been manufactured, and the cannons have been updated to the modern level.
They were preparing for it, and Annan also got the news. They had just experienced the chaos of war, and they had to face the flames of war again.
Daming's naval forces are still present, but they are not as easy to deal with as Zhancheng's army.
Annan's Li Hao was in a hurry, but couldn't think of a good way.
The army set off during the Double Ninth Festival, and they had to come back before the end of October, so they had to leave earlier so that they could come back earlier.
Wu Youwei led people to send people on board at Bailong Port, and Wantong and the others would go directly to Wusongkou from Bailong Port, and take the big ship to Champa.
In fact, in the eyes of modern Wu Youwei, Champa is not far away. If there is a plane, even if it is time to board the plane, it is no problem to go back and forth one day.
But this is ancient times. In modern times, a plane goes back and forth one day, and it may take them half a month.
Every year there is a climbing activity, this time it is gone
After seeing off the people, Wu Youwei returned to Shanghai County, and he couldn't delay the work he should do.
Shanghai County is still tax-free this year, so Wu Youwei is not busy. The key is that construction cannot be stopped. He doesn't know what kind of war Vantone and the others are fighting, so he can only try to protect his home.
It's just that he was happy too early.
When October just arrived, when the grain was in the warehouse and the fisherman's songs were singing, the pirates and Japanese pirates made a comeback.
This time they know where the richest place is, Shanghai County!
As early as when they reached the sea, they hid on an uninhabited island. Among the pirates, the red beard pirates were very famous, because their captain, red beard, had nearly a thousand pirates under his command. From the east, from the Ming Dynasty from the west, from the Japanese country, and even Koreans.
On the Japanese side, Murakami Daimyo was defeated, and all his troops were expelled. These stragglers finally formed the Murakami Pirates. There were more than 600 people. Although there were fewer people, they were ruthless in fighting and their weapons were good. It is also considered a formidable one in the circle.
There is also a bandit company, they are a combination of small groups of pirates and Japanese pirates, they are the remnants of those who were lucky enough to stay at sea and did not land after the last time they fell into the sand.
They have few people, but many boats!
When they were able to run, all the boats were brought back. Later, several groups joined together. Because of the boats, some small groups of pirates and ronin were recruited to form a company of robbers.
Now the number is the largest, there are two to three thousand people, but the number of people is also complicated. In the end, after fierce competition, three people won and took charge of the entire bandit group.
These three people are three brothers, and each of them kills like hemp.
Now, the three brothers got together with Murakami Pirates and Red Beard. The five of them sat in a big cave, eating barbecue and drinking strong wine. By the way, their plan.
The head of the Murakami Pirates is called the Murakami Pirates. Murakami is the surname, and... probably the first name.
"I heard that Shanghai County is very powerful!" Redbeard didn't go to Shanghai County last time, he went directly to Champa, and followed Annan to eat a bite of meat. Champa didn't have much else, and there was plenty of rice.
"Yeah!" Murakami nodded: "The Hirano family was killed by Shanghai County, and there is no one left."
The Hirano family used to be a subordinate of the Murakami family. Ever since the Hirano family became bandits, the Murakami family had served as a logistics base for them. As a result, the Hirano family was too disappointing.
"Awesome!" The three brothers all looked like gangsters with big beards.
Because they often travel to and from Ming Dynasty, when they get together to talk, although they come from different places, they can use Chinese.
"Then let's go to Shanghai County!" The red beard said, "One ticket should be enough for a year."
He grabbed a ticket in Champa, and now there are half a year of stock left.
"Yes!" The others nodded, and it was decided.
They thought they came quietly, but Shanghai County had already made preparations to deal with the enemy, because it was almost the same time, Wu Youwei didn't think that those pirates and Japanese pirates would not come, how aggressive they came in spring!
Anyway, the rice is harvested at this moment, no one is allowed in the field, and there are minefields everywhere.
There are post stations and strong fortress guard posts at major intersections in Shanghai County, preventing people from entering or leaving.
In addition, people who live along the coast also know that this is the time when pirates and Japanese pirates are rampant.
It is impossible for these people to act together, they all act separately. First of all, the people from the bandit group went straight to Wusongkou. It is said that there are docks and shipyards there. Although there are many ships, they are all dilapidated. find some materials
The Murakami Pirates went straight to the new sandy beach in front of the newly built civilian port next to Wusongkou. It was a civilian port. Under Wu Youwei's operation, it was already very prosperous in autumn, and there were constant merchant ships. The most important thing is silver, food, and commodities. Daming's things are very popular in Japan.
But what they don't know is that the port has been closed recently because they are afraid of pirates and Japanese pirates.
And Redbeard, with his veteran qualifications and absolute advantages, led people to land and went straight to Shanghai County.
He claimed that he had more advanced firearms here, because he was a Spaniard, and they were the first to invent the arquebus.
As everyone knows, Wu Youwei has been more than 300 years ahead of schedule, skipping the process of flintlock muskets, and directly producing direct-action rifles with bolts and automatic renju machine guns.
Although there are not many, the power of hot weapons in the era of cold weapons is huge.
Redbeard only wanted to build a wealthy county by relying on his seniority and advanced firearms. Not only did he have enough food for the winter, but his huge treasure cave could also bring in a lot of money.
So he came, and then he was blown up by a wave of mines and killed half of the troops.
Long after he came over and stepped on a landmine, Wu Youwei heard someone shouting "enemy attack".
After Wu Youwei was fully dressed, he went up to the top of the city wall, looked down, and almost thought he was dazzled!
"Am I right? Why are they all... some foreigners with Jiang eyebrows and blue eyes?" Wu Youwei rubbed his eyes. Are Europeans coming to the East now?
Didn't Columbus discover the New World at the end of the fifteenth century?
"My lord, that's a red-haired ghost." Old Zhang said in fear: "These people are not a thing, they can't understand the words, and they eat raw meat!"
In fact, when people eat steak, it is only medium rare, but it is simply incomprehensible to the people of Ming Dynasty, the meat is only half-rare, can it be eaten?
"That's not called red-haired ghosts, they are... Europeans." Wu Youwei smiled: "Why did they step on a landmine?"
"They are all pirates." The deputy general came over and said, "But this group of pirates should be the legendary red-bearded pirates.