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The second day.

Luo Xin and Liang Botao were both wearing casual clothes, and Wan Daquan also disguised himself as he protected Luo Xin to the Shuijun camp. Luo Xin found a restaurant in the market outside the Shui Village, asked for a private room, and waited quietly there. He had entrusted the escort agency yesterday to deliver a letter to Luo Sheng and met today.

About two quarters of an hour later, Luo Sheng, dressed in casual clothes, walked into Luo Xin's private room.

"Brother Xin."

"Cousin, sit down and have a meal first."

"good!"

There was no words in the box, only Luo Xin, Luo Sheng and Liang Botao were eating. None of them drank, so the meal was very fast. In less than two quarters of an hour, the three of them were full. Luo Xin wiped his mouth and said to Luo Sheng:

"Cousin, this person called Liang Botao is from the north. He once followed me across the grassland and was a person who could be completely trusted."

"I've seen General Luo." Liang Botao bowed to Luo Sheng.

Luo Sheng also bowed and said, "Brother Liang."

"Brother Liang's group of eight hundred people came. You know that I annihilated tens of thousands of Japanese pirates on the bank of Qiantang River before."

"Well, I know." Luo Sheng's eyes showed admiration and nodded, "But, why did you give the credit to Hu Zongxian?"

“I have made too much credit!”

Luo Xin said softly, Luo Sheng was silent. Luo Xin was the success of the Luo family, and Luo Xin was the defeat. Luo Xin's continuous contributions made the entire Luo family profitable, even Luo Sheng's promotion was also due to Luo Xin. However, because Luo Xin's contribution was too great, Emperor Jiajing was afraid, not only did Luo Xin beheaded by Emperor Jiajing at any time, but also the entire Luo family was also exterminated at any time. Thinking that Luo Xin had already made plans to make him go to which Taiwan island to create a foundation, he was excited.

"Cousin, Hu Zongxian just knew that I had killed tens of thousands of Japanese pirates, but he didn't know that I had seized more than thirty ships."

Luo Sheng's eyes lit up, and his whole face was flushed with excitement. If there were more than thirty ships, he felt that although he could not say that he could cross the sea, he could already protect himself.

"Thirty or more boats, is this true?"

"Of course it's true!" Luo Xin nodded and said, "Liang Botao took 800 northern veterans a few days ago and more than a thousand captured pirates looted all seven pirates' nests. These supplies and money are the basis for my cousin to establish Taiwan."

"That's great!" Luo Sheng excitedly hit his left palm with his right fist.

"And Brother Liang also captured more than 10,000 women, children and children. These people know about farming and sericulture. After arriving in Taiwan, you can let those people teach those natives to cultivate farmland."

"Yes!" Luo Sheng nodded heavily.

"After a while, you will take Brother Liang back to your boat, find an opportunity to go out for patrol, and leave the Ming Dynasty. At night, you will dock at the place where the Japanese pirates were wiped out last time. Now more than a thousand veterans have come from the north, and you will pick up the veterans on board the boat. At that time, I will send you some thunderbolt bullets made over the days, and then Brother Liang will take you to their hidden place. After meeting with Brother Liang's people, you will go to Taiwan Island based on the chart I drew."

Luo Sheng and Liang Botao both had excited lights in their eyes, and they nodded together. Luo Xin said again:

"After you go to Taiwan Island, the first thing you have to do is to conquer some of the indigenous people, and then start building fortifications where you can land, and then build a city."

"yes!"

"We must treat the natives with kindness and power, and we cannot always kill them. After all, we must build our kingdom there."

"Yes!" Luo Sheng pondered for a moment and said, "Brother Xin, the people we gathered are all military personnel. If we want to govern Taiwan Island, we need scholars. If we want to establish Taiwan Island into the real kingdom of our Luo family, we need to educate those indigenous people, which also requires scholars."

Luo Xin nodded and pondered. Luo Sheng said it was right. It was not difficult to conquer the indigenous people on Taiwan. Luo Xin knew that the Taiwan Island was still a place outside the world. The indigenous people did not even have ordinary weapons and were still very backward. Who were the people recruited by Luo Xin?

But they are all veterans who have experienced many battles, and Luo Xin is not everyone wants them. Tang Zhuang is very familiar with the north and has a wide connection. He recruits powerful veterans, and they are all excluded by Shangguan and bullied unsuccessful people. There are now more than 2,000 veterans who have experienced many battles, and the 500 soldiers trained by Luo Qing can completely crush those natives.

but……

Conquering the indigenous people is one thing, and conquering the hearts of those indigenous people is another thing. This requires scholars very much. Letting these military personnel govern Taiwan will probably be in chaos. However, scholars are not so easy to recruit. Even if the Ming Dynasty is the world of scholars, those scholars enjoy it well in the Ming Dynasty. Who would like to go to a barbarian land?

"I'll find a way."

In the end, Luo Xin had to take on this task first and then think of a solution after he went back. Fortunately, this matter was not very anxious. Luo Sheng and his team first had to find Taiwan Island, then conquer the natives, and then build fortifications. This took time. After letting go of this matter, Luo Xin said:

"Cousin, more than thirty ships are not enough. After you find Taiwan Island, you will leave half of the people to conquer the indigenous people. The combat effectiveness of those indigenous people is very low. As long as you do not enter the mountains for the time being, they only fight in plains, those indigenous people are vulnerable. The other half will continue to go out to sea, and their only purpose is to attack pirates and rob their ships. But you must remember that if you can capture pirates, you should capture them, don't kill them all, subdue them, and strictly train and manage them in the form of an army. You are doing this."

Luo Sheng said with a row of chests: "Don't worry, even if I am a trash, I can train him to become a real soldier."

"If there are people with skill among pirates, pick them out. For example, carpenters, blacksmiths, etc., especially those who can build ships and weapons, they must select them, gather these people with skill together and establish a department of labor. We must treat these craftsmen well. I will also look for some craftsmen here, and you will take them all to Taiwan Island at that time."

"Will anyone be willing to go?" Luo Xin asked worriedly.

Luo Xin pondered for a moment and said, "There should be, after all, the status of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty is very low. If it really doesn't work, then I'll cheat and force them away. I'll just treat them well after I arrive at Taiwan Island.

Remember, what I mean is true respect, and we should respect them as scholars. After I can recruit some scholars to go to Taiwan Island, we should also let those scholars teach those craftsmen to recognize words. The strength of Taiwan Island has a direct relationship with these craftsmen. At that time, we will create a system that is equivalent to those of the children, scholars, scholars, and Jinshi among scholars."

Luo Sheng looked embarrassed and said, "Brother Xin, I don't understand these."

"It's okay!" Luo Xin waved his hand and said, "You go to conquer the natives of Taiwan first, build fortifications, and go out to grab the ship. I will try to go to Taiwan Island once."

"That would be great!"

Luo Sheng heard the eloquence, who is Luo Xin? He was the top scholar of this dynasty and a great scholar of his generation. With Luo Xin going to plan, Luo Sheng immediately felt that he was not under pressure.

After a detailed discussion, Luo Xin left, and Luo Sheng took Liang Botao back to the water village.

Luo Xin did not directly meet the Hangzhou Maritime Warehouse, but went to the manor outside the city. When he came to the manor, he checked the list. There were a total of 1,532 veterans recruited from the north. Luo Xin selected 300 of these people, and then asked them to take enough gold and silver to travel all over the country. Their task was to find all kinds of craftsmen, then recruit them, and even let them go to the yamen workshops in various places to secretly recruit them. No matter what means they used, whether they were tempting or deceiving, they said that their master wanted to build a big garden and hire them, but they were just bringing all the craftsmen here.

Luo Xin was very determined. He wanted to build more advanced ships and guns. But he didn't understand much about building ships and guns, but he just knew a little about structure. But he was not in a hurry. He could hand over what he knew to those craftsmen and let those craftsmen study it slowly.

Luo Xin believed that these craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty were scientists of this era, and they only lacked direction. As long as they pointed out the direction, provided them with sufficient money, and gave them enough respect, he believed that these craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty would eventually be created.

These three hundred people left with Luo Xin's mission, and Luo Xin became worried again. What he was worried about was how to make some scholars go to Taiwan. In the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to fool some scholars to go to a barbarian land like Taiwan. Only those scholars who had lost hope were possible...

"Slow! Lose hope..."

Luo Xin's heart moved. There were scholars who lost hope in the Ming Dynasty, even those exiled criminals. There were criminals every year in the Ming Dynasty, and the laws of the Ming Dynasty implicated the tribe. Especially during the Jiajing Emperor, the most exiled officials were often exiled, and there were naturally a large number of scholars here. The exiled people had no hope at all. People who could live in the exiled place for two or three years were lucky. Because the officials in charge of their destiny simply did not regard them as human beings, and most of them were tortured to death. If Luo Xin gave these people a hope, these people would definitely follow Luo Xin, even if they went to a place like Taiwan Island.

Luo Xin began to analyze the possibility that there were usually only two places where the Ming Dynasty exiled criminals, one was the extreme south, such as Lingnan and the other was the extreme north, such as the nine northern towns that Luo Xin once fought.

"It all requires money!"

Luo Xin sighed, all the fates of these exiled criminals are in the hands of officials from the north and south. It is not difficult to get those scholars from them. There is a high sky and the emperor is far away. As long as they give them enough money, the officials will report the deaths of those people Luo Xin needed and then hand them over to Luo Xin. However, those officials are greedy borers, and Luo Xin does not need one or two scholars, and the more the better, so this requires a lot of gold and silver.

"It seems that the gold and silver seized by Liang Botao and the others will be misappropriated. However, Taiwan Island also needs to be built!"

Luo Xin frowned and thought, and gradually a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

With a conspiracy in his heart, Luo Xin left the manor and returned to Hangzhou Maritime Warehouse. As soon as he returned to Maritime Warehouse, he saw He Nian coming in a hurry and his mouth was blistering. When he saw Luo Xin, he began to complain that some supplies had been stopped at the prefect's office. Now the wharf has been shut down. Luo Xin comforted He Nian with a smile and told him not to be anxious. After all, he persuaded He Nian to leave. Then Luo Xin called Lu Daqing to the front and said:

"You go to the Weiyuan Escort Agency and let the head of Zhao come to see me."

"Yes, Marquis!"

"Call Wan Daquan by the way."

"Yes, Marquis!"

Lu Daqing hurriedly left, and after a while, Wan Daquan walked in and bowed to him, "Greetings to the Marquis."

"Daquan, how did you do what you assigned to you?"

"When I returned to the Marquis, I have investigated it clearly. The wealthy families in the southeast smuggled with vassal states or pirates on the fifteenth month, respectively, in the Qiantang River in Haining in Hangzhou and Wusongkou in Suzhou."

“What is the scale?”

"It's very big. The wealthy families in Hangzhou are all in Haining, and the wealthy families in Suzhou are all in Wusongkou. Almost all the families will trade in these two places on the fifteenth day of the month. There can be dozens of ships in the two places in total."

"What a big scale, are they so blatant?"

"Yes, they didn't avoid it at all. The only place they avoided was that they did not smuggle during the day, but placed it at night. The Marquis, the entire southeast was colluded with officials, merchants and pirates, and they had no scruples at all."

"Bang!" Luo Xin slapped his hand on the table: "Soon and evening kill all these city buildings."

"When will we do it?" Wan Daquan looked at Luo Xin excitedly.

Luo Xin looked at Wan Daquan speechlessly and said, "Continue to let the scouts monitor those wealthy families, including the prefect Song Danian."

"Yes, Marquis!" Wan Daquan retreated.

Luo Xin sat on the chair thinking about things. After about two quarters of an hour, Zhao Piaotou came with sweat on his face.

"Meet the Marquis."

"Sit down!"

"Thank you, Marquis!"

"You bring a letter to Tang Zhuang, and let us spend money to buy the exiled scholars in the places where we exiled in the north and south, and then send it to the manor outside Hangzhou. Let the escort agency embezzle all the money in this regard first, and I will make up for this part of the money as soon as possible. This matter must be carried out secretly to avoid being discovered. I will write to you now."

"Yes, Marquis!"

Zhao Piaotou took Xin away, and Luo Xin sighed.

"Money! Emperor Jiajing's reward is coming soon. After that, Qi Jiguang and his elder brother will come back. After they come back, I should give them a great look."

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*(To be continued.)
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