Zhejiang, Taizhou Prefecture.

Today, the Taizhou Prefecture Harbour is almost crowded with people.

Looking at the more than 120 brand-new ships of all sizes docked in the harbor, the people watching the fun were both envious and jealous.

"The Wang family was still there before and felt that they still had hope. Look, can this be the work that the Wang family can do?"

"Tsk! What's this? My second brother's third boy's wife works in the Chen family. She heard the servants of the Chen family say that the Chen family has also booked a giant ship at the Caoyuan Shipping Courtyard! It is said that it is ten times larger than this!"

"Ph! Nonsense, is there such a ship?"

"Haha, Shitou, are you ignorant? Miao Qingtian's shipyard really has such a giant ship. It is said that it was the work of Grandpa De... Our sea merchants have visited it before, but because it is too expensive, they can't afford it!"

"Really? Then I have to see it! What is bigger than the current celestial sea falcon!"

"Hey, don't think too much. Miss Chen is now the concubine of King De. What do you want? As long as it is a ship in this world, it's as much as they want!"

"Yes, the Chen family has really turned over now! Look at the current scale, it's really scary! I'm afraid it's just around the corner to become the world's number one!"

“…”

The people just watch the fun and talk about outsiders.

But those maritime merchants have already looked very serious when they see the current situation.

Especially the number one sea merchant Wang family in Taizhou.

The Wang family's children who had been shouting before are now all sarcastic, jealous and a little cowardly.

Originally, they thought the Chen family could not make any move.

Unexpectedly, the Chen family simply and roughly spent money!

It was a money that no one had seen before!!

Logically speaking, the Wang family has seen the world. The family’s wealth is at least two or three million taels of silver. The annual turnover of the money is more than one million taels of silver, and the expenses are as high as hundreds of thousands.

But they have never seen such a big spending of money, as if money is not money!

The price of the Chen family buying things has been spread.

Originally, buying a large ship, such as a large ship, or a large sea falcon, would require at least one year in advance to order the goods, and then others would prepare the materials and carry out various complex processes.

So normally, the Chen family can only buy large ships after at least one year.

But the Chen family directly spent twice the price and snatched other people's orders, allowing these shipyards to deliver them as fast as possible.

Logically speaking, the shipyard has to pay for delaying delivery to others, but even for this money, the Chen family has paid all the money, and it is said that they have given more.

Therefore, everyone who settled everything was happy.

So the Chen family's expenses on purchasing ships alone reached an astonishing one million taels, in addition to large ships and large sea falcons, there were also various supply ships, fire boats, light boats, etc.

In this era, when fighting naval battles, it is not just a simple jumping gang, impact, etc., but also a more powerful move to burn the Red Cliff!

When it comes to burning Red Cliffs, you will know that it is to set up a small fire boat to burn someone’s big boat.

The big ship is inconvenient to move, and the small boat is convenient. The burning small boat hits the big boat. It doesn’t matter if one or two ships are there, but if there are too many, the big boat can be burned directly.

Don't think this is a joke.

Zheng Chenggong's father used this trick to kill the Portuguese and the Dutch, obediently giving up the territory around the Treasure Island Sea. If he wanted to do business in the Ming Dynasty, he had to pay taxes.

So if you look at whether a sea trade caravan is strong or not, in addition to how many ships they have, you also have to see if they have burned ships.

The Chen family prepared sixty or seventy fire boats in one breath, and they were towed behind the big boats on weekdays. Once they encountered an enemy, they would release them. That was very powerful.

From this point of view, the Chen family probably went overseas this time not only to do business, but also to settle accounts with pirates who caused their family to be destroyed.

There are pirates in the seas around Dakang, and at most, only three or five pirates are of such a large scale.

But these pirates are definitely not as powerful as the Chen family.

Needless to say, the two thousand young men sent by the De Palace, they were strong at best and had not experienced any fighting.

But the more than fifty days of the generals from Prince De's mansion were amazing. They were all powerful generals who followed King De and King Wu from Jiangnan to Northeast China. Everyone had more than a hundred lives in their hands, and they were all vicious Japanese pirates and Shiwei people who killed them.

Thankfully, one of the fierce generals in each family can train a powerful guard force. As a result, there are more than fifty Chen family and each large ship can send one. It is really fierce.

There are also a thousand elite grass soldiers sent by Miao Yan from the Cao Transportation Office, that is, the group of divine soldiers who used the famous Qi Jiguang formation to kill Japanese pirates!

With a hundred elite canal soldiers, they can sweep the guards of all the maritime merchants, let alone sending a thousand people!

A whole thousand people!

To be honest, it is not a problem to sweep across the entire Taizhou Prefecture, the three counties and eight townships, and it is easy to do it.

But such a group of people were sent on board and were expelled from the army and given to the Chen family. Do you dare to believe it?

If another person did this, I don’t know how many gentry and officials would complain about impeachment, but they were Miao Yan!!

What Miao Yan dares to do must have followed the rules and there is no possibility of any mistake!

The emperor is wrong, and it is impossible for him to be wrong with the Miao Taisheng.

Then the only possibility is very simple. These are directly ordered by the imperial court, and it is very likely that the emperor personally ordered them.

Look!

The concubines of the Dewang Mansion can be valued by the emperor. You can imagine how powerful His Highness the Dewang is!!

This is also a point that the Wang family’s children, including all the maritime merchants, are even more envious and jealous.

Of course, they are much more jealous than that.

For example, the Chen family has been crazily digging more than 700 sailing veterans.

They could have said before that even if the Chen family has money, people, and boats, it may not be possible.

Because the matter of Haima is very professional and complicated, and you must have experienced veterans to do it well, otherwise no matter how much money you have, you will never be able to achieve good results.

All the veterans of the Chen family died, and there was no one at all!

Even if it's driving a boat, it's not that easy!

What's the result?

They spent money desperately again, and dug up more than 700 veterans from all the sea merchant teams in Jiangnan, Fujian and Guangdong, almost killing one-third of the elites in the sea trade!

The money spent here is undoubtedly an astronomical number, and raising this group of people is an astronomical number.

It is hard to imagine what business you can earn back the money.

But that's what the Chen family did.

What else can you do except feel deeply helpless in the Wang family and the other maritime merchant families?

...

Chen Xiaowei stood at the bow of the ship, and watched the fleet personnel who were making the final preparations one after another, breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Yuhua next to her looked at her daughter and couldn't help feeling distressed: "Xiaowei, you really don't have to work so hard. My father's body can hold on... It's really not possible. After a few more times, let Pang and Zhuo go, isn't that okay?"

He said this, and Pang Tai, who was standing behind him, quickly stood up, "Yes, madam, sailing on the sea is a very hard thing. You shouldn't take risks, just leave it to me to wait for the servants."

"no."

Chen Xiaowei shook her head directly, "I have two goals. The first is to find the pirates who killed my family and kill them all. The other is to help His Highness prepare for the Strait of Malacca. Before completing these two points, I must be on the ship."

"this……"

When Pang Tai heard this reason, he naturally couldn't persuade him anymore.

The agreement between Liu Mingqi and Chen Xiaowei was only known by a few people.

Even hardcore confidants like Dazhu and Chi Saner don’t know, let alone Pang Tai and the others.

First, Chen Xiaowei is her mistress, and second, she has such a open and upright reason. Do you still dare to stop her?

He could only make up his mind secretly, and try to keep the hostess on the boat, not to work too hard, otherwise what will happen and what will he have to face to see the prince?

Seeing that his daughter was so persistent, Chen Yuhua gave up persuasion.

These things have actually shown signs.

My daughter has been exercising for a year and often takes a small boat to go out to sea.

At first, every time I came back, I vomited so dark and my face was pale, but she never gave up.

So he had long expected this step.

"Xiaowei, should we go to Yizhou Island first?" he asked, retracting his thoughts.

"Yes, the harbor staff there are the most complicated, maybe you can get some news." Chen Xiaowei said, "But at the beginning, let's go to Dongji Island and Dachen Island for a walk."

"Um?"

Chen Yuhua was slightly surprised, "What's there to go there?"

"I heard that there are many pirates hidden in the small islands over there." Chen Xiaowei said lightly, "Then let's start practicing soldiers."

"Well……"

Chen Yuhua frowned, "But what if they ran away? Or weren't there at all? We want to find one island at a time?"

"right!"

Chen Xiaowei said seriously: "Search is also a kind of training. Those canal soldiers must not need it, but those young people need more real training. If your Highness gives them to us, I will not only teach them the knowledge, but must make them mature maritime elites."

"If you do this, we will have to make enemies with the pirates from the beginning..."

"father!"

Chen Xiaowei interrupted him, "As the sword in His Highness's hand, shouldn't we target pirates and use pirates to practice swords? Then what should we do if we meet more cruel foreign red-haired ghosts? Without blood and fire training, there is no way to produce talents!"

Chen Yuhua was speechless.

This daughter...
Chapter completed!