Hearing what Liu Pei said, everyone thought it made sense. Fang Degang asked Liu Jiang directly: "Is the intelligence really showing this?"

Liu Jiang couldn't help but secretly complain after hearing this! He really didn't have much information about Li Dan. Because no one dared to collect information about Li Dan, it was asking for death. And it was inconvenient to collect it in the dark, so he could only collect it from the gossip in the market.

Collect slowly.

But since Liu Pei said it, he is sure, at least he can't go against his boss. Moreover, Liu Pei has given many foreseeable orders in the past, which has made Liu Jiang suspect that Liu Pei has another intelligence team. So at this moment

He could only smooth things over and said: "The specific situation is not clear, and there is very little information about Li Dan. But in the past six months or so, his housekeeper has indeed frequently recruited doctors into the house. It's just that I didn't take this kind of information seriously.

I just told the head of the family and didn’t inform everyone.”

Fang Degang immediately clapped his hands and said: "It seems that the master is right, it must be the truth! But I don't know who the new boss is?"

Liu Pei said: "I know, it's Zheng Zhilong."

Liu Jiang lowered his head immediately after hearing this. He had no information on this at all!

Wu Yizhou said: "That's great! If it doesn't work out, let's just give him a generous gift and it'll be fine!"

Fang Degang shook his head and said: "That's impossible! Assuming that the Lord is right, if we send gifts at this time, it will only make him laugh twice more and suppress us to establish his prestige. At this time, he is eyeing us,

You won’t let go easily.”

Liu Dahai said anxiously: "What should we do? We are not doing business anymore,"

Liu Dahai really likes to do business between me and Daming. Especially every time he goes to Japan, going to the tavern with Kikuki Maru is one of the happiest things for him in Japan.

Everyone looked at Liu Pei, waiting for him to make a decision. Liu Pei pondered for a moment and said: "We will not do business for the time being. We just freed up the boat for the servants to do adaptive training. Many people were still very dizzy after boarding the boat.

During this time before the year, go out to sea more often.”

Everyone in the room knew what Liu Pei meant. This was about to train troops! Only Liu Dahai didn't know yet. So he asked unhappily: "Then boss, when can we go to sea again to sell goods?"

Liu Pei gave him a weird smile and said, "Let's go to August next year. I'll give you a holiday during this period, and your salary will still be paid."

After hearing this, Liu Dahai could only leave the meeting room unhappy. The remaining people deduced the plan to attack Ryukyu in detail and then the meeting ended.

Merchant ships will no longer go to Japan, and having three more ships is a good thing for Liu Pei. Originally, Liu Pei also planned to withdraw all the merchant ships when he attacked Ryukyu, but now he just moved the plan a little ahead.

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And there is another advantage to doing this. Most of Liu Pei's servants don't know how to swim. After getting on the boat, they will vomit like a river if there is a slight storm. After getting off the boat, their legs are as soft as noodles. How can they fight like this? If Liu Pei hadn't been reluctant to give up.

Due to the profits from trade, these three ships had been withdrawn long ago. This time it saves the trouble.

After that, Liu Pei went to the boat every day to encourage the servants! When the servants who had just boarded the boat saw the master coming, they tried their best to stand up straight and salute. But often before they could lift their hands, they bent down and started to vomit.

However, this situation decreased as the number of trips to sea increased. By the time before the New Year, although the servants who planned to go to war could not be said to be able to fight at sea, at least they were less seasick.

Just a few days before the New Year, Liu Pei came to the shipyard. Today is a good day! There will be five sea-going ships launched here today. Three of them are fifth-class cruisers, an armed merchant ship and two Chinese-style sea-going ships.

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After worshiping the God of the Sea, Master Wu invited Liu Pei to name the ships as usual. Liu Pei remembered that the previous ship had been named Jiaozhou, so he decided to name the three warships Jimo, Zhucheng and Gaomi respectively. The armed ship

The merchant ship was named Qingdao. The two Chinese-style merchant ships were named Yexian and Pingdu. At this point, all Liu Pei's expedition fleets have been prepared.

The servants got on the boat and launched into the water for exercises. However, Liu Pei did not follow the servants out to sea, but walked to another dock. In this dock was a large ship that was about to be completed. It was obviously larger than the hulls of several other ships.

Xiaoquan. Although not all completed, he has shown an extraordinary posture!

Liu Pei went down to the dock, touched the hull of the ship and said to Master Wu, "When will this ship be completed?"

Master Wu said: "It will be completed in two months. Then we can test the water."

Liu Pei knocked on the hull of the boat hard, and the wood of the hull made a dull sound. It seemed that the materials used were very solid. Liu Pei rubbed the palms of his hands: "Have you all understood the technology here?"

Master Wu said: "It's actually not difficult. The structure of this ship is similar to the previous ship. It just has more watertight compartments. With the experience of this ship, we can build a third-class battleship next time."

Liu Pei nodded and said: "This is a good thing! And the most important thing is not that you built the ship, but that you trained a group of good shipwrights!"

Master Wu was happy when he heard this, and said proudly: "Master, don't tell me, there are really some smart ones among these children who work with us! Four of them have already been accepted as apprentices by some of us old immortals.

.Looking at your posture, you will have the qualifications to become a great craftsman in the future!"

Liu Pei became even happier when he heard this! He said: "Okay! Okay! The more masters appear, the better! From now on, the better!"

We will have more territory at sea, so we need to build more ships! Build bigger ships! Only in this way can our Han family go further! Although you have not directly participated in maritime operations, you also deserve the credit.

One serving!”

After hearing this, Master Wu waved his hands and said, "You can't say that! Those children are the ones who risked their lives for all the credit! How can we, as a group of craftsmen, take advantage of other people's work if they are not protected by the wind or the rain on weekdays?

Credit!”

Liu Pei said: "How come there is no merit? Without you building ships, how can the servants win the war? And I am now considering including you in the merit system in the future. If there are major technological breakthroughs in the future, we will also reward you with military merit! In the future, you will be included in the merit system."

You can also be an official, a teacher, all of these things!"

Wu Dajiang said in surprise: "We craftsmen can still be officials?"

Liu Pei said: "Of course it can! Every industry will need to be mastered by people with professional knowledge. We can't let people who don't have technical skills command shipbuilding, right?"

Listening to Liu Pei's words, Master Wu actually had a dreamy look on his face! It seems that being an official is really a very tempting thing for the Chinese people. And Liu Pei is not going to break his promise. He is indeed planning to turn shipbuilding into a business.

The factory was incorporated into the army's logistics system. This would help the craftsmen to exert their enthusiasm. And it was not polite to let them teach. For old shipwrights like Wu Dajiang, a lifetime of experience would be a good textbook. Therefore, the carpenters who followed them were all taught by Liu

Pei is forced to learn to read and write. The purpose is to summarize the experience of these great craftsmen in the future and pass their experience on from generation to generation.

Liu Pei woke up Master Wu and asked: "Uncle Wu, I want to discuss something with you. If you go all out to build fifth-level cruisers after building this ship, how many can you build by the end of next year?"

Master Wu made some calculations and said: "If the materials can keep up, we can build at least ten ships. If we are lucky, we might be able to build twelve or three ships."

Master Wu explained clearly that the current problem of speeding up shipbuilding is that there are few craftsmen. A ship cannot be built by a general. He must be equipped with a number of skilled craftsmen and a group of knowledgeable handymen. But now the skilled craftsmen in the shipyard

There are not many craftsmen, mainly Wu Dajiang and his family. The current shipbuilding speed is already considered fast.

Liu Pei sighed and said: "Then let's settle it! You allocate tasks and build as many cruisers as possible. At the same time, Chinese-style seagoing ships cannot stop. Just build two ships in units."

Master Wu secretly muttered: Could it be that he encountered an enemy at sea? Otherwise, Liu Pei would not have been able to urge the construction of warships so hard. In any case, the treatment given by Liu Pei is not fake. At worst, I will just work hard for him in the future.
Chapter completed!