The excited crew of the Beiyang Fleet could not wait to paint the giant ship anchored at Nanbokou with a new logo. △, a dragon in the sea that calls for wind and rain, has nine heads.

The original Batavia micro-records of the giant ship were painted, and the original owner of the warship, Van Bron, looked at the brand new micro-record on the ship with helpless look on his face.

He is now a naval consultant hired by Liu Jun, and he is not willing to accept this position, but Ming Jun told him that he would not keep idle people. He either accepted employment as a mercenary or consultant of the Ming army, or he could only stay in the prisoner-of-war camp. And staying in the prisoner-of-war camp had nothing but two loaves of bread a day.

Many mercenaries from the Dutch East India Company who had fought with the Ming army before turned around and accepted the employment of the Ming army and became mercenaries of the Ming army. After they joined the Ming army, the crew was still crew, sailors were sailors, and the Marines were still marines, but each of them got a sum of silver, which was delicious and delicious. They became the teachers of the Ming army, and they brought several apprentices alone. They were treated very well by their apprentices. They were not prisoners of war, but damn it. As expected, even mercenaries had no moral integrity.

"Sir Van Buron, let me introduce to me how this warship is?" Liu Jun said with a smile to the defeated general Van Buron.

"This is a battleship with a displacement of 3,500 tons, a load capacity of 2,142 tons, a gun deck of 186 feet long, and a total length of 227 feet!" Fan Bulong nodded to Liu Jun while reporting the data of the ship that once belonged to him.

Paul Duradousi hurriedly said, "Sir, how can you tell me this? You have to say that the warship cannon is twenty feet long and the entire warship is twenty-three feet eight." Paul, standing behind Van Buron, immediately squeezed forward, and converted the foot into the Ming Dynasty with a smile on his face.

"This warship is five twelve inches wide and has a draft of two twelve feet and three. The sail area is 6,510 square yards, the main mast is twenty-one meter high, and the speed is eight to nine knots. The crew is 850."

"The entire ship has 104 artillery guns, of which the bottom gun deck has 30 long cannons, each with more than 6,000 kilograms. The middle gun armor has twenty-eight twenty-four-pound long cannons, each with more than 5,000 kilograms. The upper gun deck has thirty twelve-pound short cannons, each with more than 3,500 kilograms."

"In addition, there are two twelve-pound guns and two 68-pound guns on the back deck."

"There are twelve short cannons on the rear deck, each with more than 3,000 kilograms."

Van Bron glared at Paul, cursing this shameless guy in his heart.

Liu Jun was very satisfied with Paul's attitude. "Thank you very much for your detailed introduction. From today on, you will be the special consultant of my Beiyang Navy in the Ming Dynasty. From now on, you will be the salary of 100 taels of silver per month."

Paul Duradousi did not expect Liu Jun to be so big, and immediately thanked him happily. This was an Italian, not too tall, with a mediocre appearance, a big face, and a big belly. He turned out to be the garrison general of the senior officer.

Since he opened Chichai City and surrendered to prisoners, he has become much more haggard.

"Mr. Paul, our Beiyang Navy needs talents like you. In the future, please teach us more naval warriors. As long as you are willing to teach with your heart and teach well, then I will repay you heavily. In the future, you may become our great officers and own your own manor land here."

"Thank you for your appreciation," Paul said well in Chinese.

For these Dutch people, Liu Jun also treated them very favorably with the attitude of using it as he could. Liu Jun set different treatment levels for the captives, among which the craftsmen were treated the best. Especially the boatmen and gunmen, these people were hired by Liu Jun at high salaries, allowing them to teach the nine-headed bird craftsmen the techniques of building ships and making new European artillery.

Secondly, the artillery and sailors. These people were also hired with high salaries and became the crew of the Nine-Headed Bird and the instructor of the artillery. Secondly, they were soldiers, musketeers, spearmen, etc. These people were recruited as foreign soldiers because of their tall and strong horses. They enjoyed the same treatment as the Nine-Headed Birded Birded soldiers. Liu Jun promised them that as long as they were brave in fighting, they could be promoted and rewarded after making military achievements.

The original officials were ranked behind, and the officials were divided into several types. The technical officials enjoyed the highest treatment, followed by the officers leading troops, who could also become instructors and consultants. The worst treatment was the people with the highest status, such as Taiwan Chief Debaoer, Fleet Commander Fan Bron and others. These people were not worried about them, so they only had the title of consultant.

Ordinary merchants without skills, like women and children, were taken into custody, and had limited freedom.

"There are many talents among these Dutch people, and they have to be discovered well. This time you have also seen how powerful the giant ships and cannons of the Westerners are. They are far superior to us in this regard. Since the other party is stronger than us, we must learn humbly."

"However, we cannot relax our vigilance, and we must also strengthen supervision of these people, so that we cannot let them escape or cause damage."

The senior officials have already taken it down. Although he fought several battles with the Dutch this time, especially during the naval war, many soldiers were damaged. However, Liu Jun's subordinates did not suffer much damage and suffered only a hundred casualties in the naval war, but the gains were huge. Even if he took out seven merchant ships to invest in the new company, he still added four four-masted warships, and two double-masted sailboats. With the original bird ships and rushing carts, Liu Jun now has more than twenty ships.

Even Liu Jun had more than 3,000 Spanish and Dutch mercenaries, more than 2,000 ship workers and craftsmen, as well as more than 2,000 women, children, merchants, missionaries and officials, and other captives from both countries.

In addition, other money and spoils seized from Taiwan far exceeded the cost of sending troops this time. This time, the results of the troops were greatly gained.

Of course, the biggest gain is those warships, and the more than a thousand new cannons he obtained. This is the real surprise. With these cannons, the strength of the Nine-Headed Bird has been greatly improved, and now they have the ability to attack.

He Tengjiao has officially entered Relan Fold City. He plans to set up Relan Fold City on the island of Dadashu, and even plans to build an outer city along the Dadashu Island to surround Relan Fold City and Dadashu. He also decided to officially rename Relan Fold City to Taiwan City, and he also asked Liu Jun to stay with the Dashu for more time.

He hoped to take advantage of Liu Jun's new victory, just like when Liu Jun was in a chicken coop, to convene local ethnic groups in Taiwan to the meeting. Not only did the Pingpu tribes in the plains want to invite them, but even the Shengfans in the mountains want to invite them. He even suggested to Liu Jun that he would take advantage of the army to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys. Whoever dared not come this time would send troops to suppress them.

Liu Jun supported such a request. He knew that it was not easy to establish rule in such an original place. The biggest problem here is that there were too few Han people. Although there were more Han people here than chicken coops, there were only 20,000 people.

Liu Jun told He Tengjiao that he could recruit more landless farmers from Fujian and other places to reclaim land, and he could ask the court for exemption from the taxes for refugees from Taiwan for three years.

"Sihai Bank will come to open a Taiwan branch in the near future. At that time, all immigrants who come to Taiwan can enjoy a low-interest loan to purchase oxen, seeds, farm tools, etc. Lord He, Taiwan is a treasure island, an undeveloped treasure island. If it can be managed well, it can solve the problem of tens of millions of landless poor people for the court and allow them to regain their fields. At the same time, it has not only resettled many people, but also opened new territory for the court, and even provided a large amount of food and taxes every year."

"Mr. He. You are the first governor of Taiwan. If you are a good governor, you will be famous in history in the future and will be passed down for thousands of years!"

"The official understands." He Tengjiao had known that he could be promoted to governor. In fact, it was Liu Jun's recommendation. When he first knew this, he was a little unhappy, thinking that he had offended Liu Jun inadvertently. Otherwise, Xu Huai's troops would be transferred to Taiwan to be governor.

Although the governor is a magistrate of the border, what is the governor of Taiwan? But over the past few days, after persuading to surrender to Spain and conquering the Netherlands, he also discovered that it turned out that Taiwan was not a wild land, but a treasure land coveted by many red barbarians. Moreover, Taiwan was not a small island he had imagined, but a place that was not much smaller than Fujian Province.

Taiwan has great potential, and it is expanding its territory. When he thinks of this, He Tengjiao was extremely excited. What do scholars want? Isn’t it just a supporter of the king and a safe country?

In the next few days, Liu Jun waited for the soldiers sent to Taichung in Tainan and rushed back, and also stepped up training soldiers. Liu Jun mainly trained the navy's warships and the newly established artillery regiment. Among them, the navy was newly established, led by a deputy general, and three squadrons were formed, namely Anlan, Zhenhai and Fubo, each led by a participating general. Each fleet was organized with a four-masted 74 artillery warship, and was equipped with some three-masted, double-masted and single-masted gunboats, and a certain number of sand ships, Fubo and other troop transport ships and supply ships.

The three-layer battleships of the Sea God and several fast sailing ships are Liu Jun's flagship and guard team.

This newly established Beiyang Navy has a mixed membership, with more than 3,000 crew gunners from the Zheng family, and more than 2,000 Western hired crew sailors, and then the crew gunners of Jiutou. These crew gunners from Jiutou are mainly trainees at this stage, and they learn from the Zheng family and Western crew gunners.

Now they learn from the Zheng family and Western crew members every day, drive ships out to sea every day, and catch some fish, which enriches the food for tens of thousands of people.

After the newly established artillery regiment took over the Dutch, it also expanded rapidly. It turned out to be six companies in a regiment, but now it has an artillery brigade with three artillery regiments under its jurisdiction, each artillery regiment has six artillery companies under its jurisdiction. However, although the artillery is organized by a brigade, it is only together in normal times. Once in war, the artillery companies will often be assigned to different combat clusters as needed to assist in the operation.

Each gun company basically has four four-pound cannons, four twenty-four-pound siege mortars, two eight-pound cannons, one twelve-pound cannon, nine thousand-pound folang machines, a total of twenty cannons. Each company has a total of three hundred gunmen and infantrymen, and has a large number of carriages and horse-carriage cannons.

This new unit, the new artillery, is everything new. Liu Jun urgently hopes that the nine-headed bird's artillery can learn how to use it from the Western Red-haired artillery teachers and master these new weapons in their hands.

During this period, the navy went out to sea every day, mastering navigation and combat skills at sea, and the sound of cannons rumbling every day at sea. In the open land east of Chichi City, the 18 artillery companies of the artillery brigade were practicing every day. Every morning, they pulled out the cannons, fired dozens of cannons in the open space, and then pulled back with cannons at night.

These two new troops are training half-dead every day, but the other troops are much more relaxed every day. Although they still need to practice, they are very proficient in the subjects, and everyone has long been no longer tired of practicing.

What Liu Jun attaches most importance to is this new artillery, and the next main opponent of Jiutou will be the Qing army. The Qing army did not have any powerful navy, so Jiutou does not need an overly powerful navy to suppress the Qing army at sea, or even wipe out the Qing army.

But it is different on the shore. The Qing army occupied Liaodong. If they wanted to harass them from the sea, they had to have strong attacks. In this way, they could quickly conquer one place and then change another place. Otherwise, they would not be able to fight a long-term siege under the city.

"Marty, there is new news. Paul wants to see you. He said that the Dutch had a fleet that was about to arrive at the senior officer."

Liu Jun looked up in surprise, "How is this possible? Batavia is thousands of miles away from here, and it is winter again, and there is no good wind. It is impossible for them to come immediately."

Paul was brought in. This guy has been a special consultant in the Beiyang Navy recently. He has lived a very cool life and his face has become much rosy.

"Marty, the East India Company still has several merchant ships in Japan. It should be around this time."

"How many ships?"

Paul replied, "There are about five or six ships, but I just heard that it seems that Van Bron sent people to Hirado, Japan after the Battle of Penghu, and asked the company's merchant ships to join the war. It seemed that they were asking them to recruit a group of mercenaries from Japan. When I heard about this, I rushed over and reported to the Marquis."

"Paul, you did it right, this news is very important." Liu Jun praised Paul while giving him a note of 100 taels of silver. "If there is any such news in the future, remember to report it, and I will still thank you very much."

"Thank you, Marquis." Paul left with a smile on his face as he took the silver given by Liu Jun.

Wang Guoqiang said to the back with a contempt, "Little Man."

"Goudan, you can despise him, but it's good to be in your heart. Such a person is useful to us." Liu Jun told him. "You go and notify the people who launched the navy that we have something to do."

When Zheng Zhilong heard that there were still several Dutch merchant ships coming from the Japanese port, he immediately rubbed his hands and said excitedly, "Haha, this is the fat sheep that came to the door, Marquis, hand them over to me."

"Take the Beiyang Fleet on the way, take more ships and make sure, and let them sharpen them by the way."

As soon as the fleet was arranged to intercept the Dutch merchant fleet, someone came to report that the people sent to Taichung were killed by the Big Belly King. The Big Belly King not only refused to be ordered to participate in the meeting, but also killed the envoys and gathered more than a dozen villages and communities to fight with the Ming army.
Chapter completed!