Lu Ming

Chapter 235

After the pirates were detained in the camp for three days, all those who were not part of the "instant force" were singled out.

The selection process is very simple, first of all, visual inspection: all middle-aged and elderly gangsters with gray hair and wrinkles on their faces that can kill flies will be pulled out first.The rest began to interview one by one.Those who could tell their age clearly, including those who slipped through the net and showed their age through their teeth, were all picked out.

These old men and the middle-aged and middle-aged men who passed the interview were finally returned to their personal belongings. In addition, after each received 10 taels of money from Du Dewei, they were packed on a ship and sent to the senior officials.

Standing on his former boat, Du Dewei couldn't help heaving a long sigh when he saw all these old brothers being escorted into a brand new lucky boat.

"Why, can't bear it?" Sha Zhengming, who was like a giant, was originally here to inspect the pirate ships with his arms crossed, but when he saw his newcomers sighing, he laughed.

"Subordinates dare not." After Du Dewei observed the situation for a few days, he was no longer in the dark about the situation.He now has a fairly deep understanding of the so-called Dayuan Gang: boilers, propellers, heavy machine guns, [-] big covers
These "Shangguan" officers who took refuge in Xiongfu's army one step earlier, not only have a lot of incredible weapons, but also this group of people is rich and powerful, and their subordinates are all elite. They are not ordinary officers and soldiers who are short of money, so Du Dewei Hou Que's Zhima officials are becoming more and more respectful now - he has already faintly felt that his new bosses are powerful and they are people who want to do some big things.

"Hehe, I'm afraid you don't know the benefits of going to Dayuan." When Sha Zhengming said this, he pointed to the two confidants behind Du Dewei: "These two will go with the boat, it's a public expense. Wait a while When the days come back, I will preach to everyone again, so that the new brothers can know what kind of fairyland the Dayuan is.”

So Du Dewei had no choice but to send two of his men on board to travel at public expense.But to be honest, he himself is also full of curiosity about the senior officials, so even though his face is not good-looking, Du is still obedient.

After sending away the elderly, apprentices and a small number of skilled pirates, the total number of Du Dewei's gang of more than 1100 plummeted to 700.

Everyday life in the barracks is very painful, especially at this stage of recruits: bathing on time, eating on time, reciting military laws, listening to instructors' lectures. It's impossible.So in the barracks these days, the screams of military judges beating people with whips and sticks can be heard everywhere.

In fact, after really getting through this stage, they will soon discover the benefits of the ponytail barracks.

The three meals here are good, and the portions are generous.Each person/three taels of silver sang on time every month, the environment was clean and hygienic, and all injuries, parasites, and skin diseases on everyone were cured by the doctor with magical sutures and some pills.

In addition, although the instructors beat and swear at people, they never insult people, and they don't engage in corporal punishment like sticking arrows into the camp that the medieval army used to do.Even beating and scolding is just a matter of fact-at most, a few sticks on the buttocks, a confinement, but on the contrary, they still care a lot about the newcomers in life.

Pirates are also human beings, and most of them are from poor people who can't survive.So after staying in the military camp for a few days, many people can still feel the kindness here, combined with their daily feelings and the lectures given by the instructors.

Of course, no matter what their mentality is, the stage of "boiling the eagle" must be passed.These people are different from the mud-legged recruits of the senior officials. These people do not lack combat ability, but what they lack is discipline, confidence and the mentality of respecting the rules.

After all the people brought by Du Dewei were imprisoned in the barracks, the next step was to empty the ship. In addition to some rice salt, there were also some stolen goods and silver taels on the 18 pirate ships.

All the stolen goods were shipped to Haidong Commercial Bank after registration, and then Du Dewei got a sum of money paid to him according to the price of the stolen goods.

This sum of money, together with the properties he had accumulated over the years, became the old employees' breakup expenses.Of course, after dismissing the employees, Du Dewei still had a lot left in his hands, but he didn't expect these properties to stay in his own hands: don't you want to gain a foothold in the officialdom if you don't give all your savings to Shangguan's defected officials?Isn't that the fighter among fools?

Du Dewei has this awareness.

However, when he went to Shangguan with the money, he was laughed at on the spot.Sha Zhengming sneered with an extremely bad attitude here, Zhang Dongdong's attitude was a little better, but he still laughed at him.

Fortunately, after Zhang Dongdong finished his joke, he pointed out a clear path to Du Dewei: invest in buying a house.So Du Dewei saw several exquisite pictures on the iPad.

The pictures on the iPad are day and night views of Chikan Avenue.Zhang Dongdong told the first pirate leader who came to surrender: You are lucky, the policy is open to you.So you hurry up and use your little savings to buy two shops on Chikan Avenue, and then take over your mother and younger siblings. From now on, being a landlord will be enough for you to lie down for the rest of your life.Knowing that Nanjing Road is wrong, how much will a shop on Chikan Avenue be worth in the future?
The dizzy Du Dewei carried the silver back to his private room.

Shopkeeper Du, whose philosophy of life has been completely subverted, finally decided to find an opportunity to visit Dayuan, which is the fundamental reason why he sent his confidant to visit Dayuan today.

Although he couldn't understand what the new bosses were thinking, he knew that they didn't have any malicious intentions.After all, he, who has been annexed by others, now has nothing but the money, so what else can others covet him for?

"Brothers, it's really difficult for you to drive around in this kind of boat." Sha Zhengming sighed sincerely to Du Dewei after inspecting the 18 pirate ships.

There are only 18 Chinese ships, and there are six or seven models.Dafu boat, Erfu boat, Bird boat, Canton boat, Sentinel boat, Fishing boat
The condition of all the boats cannot be said to be good, and the few smallest fishing boats can be described as dilapidated.When Sha Zhengming boarded the main ships, the mess and dirt on them were truly amazing: the boats were randomly thrown on the deck and mixed with the cables under his feet, forming a natural tripping rope.

The rough private cast iron cannon was tied to the bow of the ship with hemp rope and dunnage, and the gunpowder barrel was placed aside in the open air, as if ready to detonate the gravel and iron pieces in the broken basket at any time.

As for the dark, damp, foul-smelling and musty-smelling cabins on the pirate ship, Sha Zhengming didn't even have the desire to go down and take a look: the rats and cockroaches that roamed the decks in broad daylight had already exhausted his appetite.

"Drive away quickly, clean up and come back." Sha Zhengming, who seemed brave and unruffled, was finally defeated by these pirate ships in embarrassment.Ever since, under the latest order, Comrade Du Dewei, the general manager of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the New Science and Technology Committee, drove his own boat to the shipyard outside Fuzhou City.

He didn't know until he got outside the gate of the well building that the big bluestone wharf that he saw the other day was also owned by the Time Travel Group.And next to the pier, there is a shipyard purchased by passing through the public with money.

The shipyard was formed by merging three small shipyards along the river, next to the government-run Minjiang Shipyard.The original private bosses and boatmen have now become the foremen and employees of the Transit Group.These Fuzhou local shipbuilders are currently building the latest transport ships of Chuanzhong under the command of a group of backbones transferred from Taijiang Shipyard.

Du Dewei was received by a group of cross-travelers who were not tall and wore wigs.

This person is Zhao Ning, one of the chief engineers of the Taijiang Shipyard, and is now transferred to Fuzhou to preside over the work of the shipyard.

After commanding Du Dewei to dock the largest and best blessing ship in the pirate fleet at the pier, Zhao Ning first boarded the ship for inspection, then shook his head and said to a foreman beside him: "It's worthless, after salting and loading."

The "no value" mentioned by Zhao Ning here does not mean that this 700 material Dafu boat has no use value, but that it has no combat value.

In the planning of the traversing forces, in the future, in addition to the streamlined main battleships with soft sails, as the main armed transport ships of this force in the turbulent coastal areas of the mainland, they should be built with the same standard, similar to the "old warships" in the late Qing Dynasty. "lock boat" passenger and cargo ship.

The "old lock boat" actually appeared as early as the 16th century after the Portuguese came to East Asia.

After the Portuguese at that time adapted to the turbulent wind environment here, they quickly combined the Chinese-style hard sails with the thin western ship models, and invented this new hybrid ship model.

This type of ship was not noticed at first, and then it was carried forward one after another in the Qing Dynasty. Later, the "red single boat" of similar blood was derived in the south.The Chinese used these ships extensively for coastal trade.Due to its superior seaworthiness, this ship type has eliminated the traditional square and blessing ships and has become the main transport ship.

Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, this type of mixed-breed ship had dominated the world. The main force of the Qing government and the Taiping Army's successive battles was this type of ship. In addition, the "Yaro" that triggered the Two Crows War was an old lock ship.

In the plan of the crossing crowd, the standard armed transport ship of this faction will be based on this hybrid ship in the future, and the new ship model will be re-adjusted by the ship designer of later generations.

Therefore, the Dafu ship that Du Dewei drove could only be used as a short-distance transport ship on low-risk routes because the ship's shape and tonnage could not be modified.

And even so, the service life of this ship will not be too long: for a certain force that emphasizes standardization in everything, all these miscellaneous ships that do not meet the assembly line standards will all be sold to Ming people in the future object.

Ever since, the big blessing ship that accompanied Du Dewei for many years was soon "pickled" by the workers of the shipyard.

The so-called pickling is to use a large amount of lime to seal the entire boat, not to miss any corner.After a while, after all the rats, cockroaches and all kinds of bacteria are dead and run away, the ship will be unsealed again, and then it will be filled with cargo for a short-distance route between Dayuan and Fuzhou.

(End of this chapter)