Chapter 106: Tranquility at the End of the Year

"My Lord" Zhao Chang was speechless for a moment, because he had never thought about this question before.

"Forget it, this is not your problem." Qin Hao waved his hand to signal him not to mind.

A qualified naval officer must not only have a tenacious quality, but also a unique vision. Zhao Chang has the former, and the latter is the accumulation of time. It is difficult to do without five or six years of experience in maritime affairs.

Qin Hao arranged Zhao Chang Zhao Xu to the position of naval officer. He admitted that he had selfish motives, but he valued his perseverance and courage. Qin Hao was willing to give him time to grow.

However, in the current maritime competition, he seemed to give way to Amorim.

"Tell me." Qin Hao asked. Since Amorim raised the problem, he naturally had a solution.

"The best way to blockade ships is to monitor and fight him with the same number or even more ships."

"This method is not considered. We don't have time to build so many ships to consume now."

"Then the worst way is to let Zheng Zhilong find a way to fight us!"

Hearing Amorim's words, Qin Hao had some ideas, but it was like a flash of inspiration and he didn't keep it.

Find a way to make him fight us.

But what is this method?

"Besiege Wei to save Zhao!" Amorim said this idiom that Qin Hao and others are most familiar with in fluent Chinese.

Hearing this, Qin Hao couldn't help laughing. There are so many Han people present, but they are not as familiar with Chinese as Amorim, a Spaniard.

It is just as the saying goes: Those who are involved are confused, and those who are on the sidelines are clear.

Since Zheng Zhilong wants to attack Keelung, why can't we attack his old nest Xiamen? Repaying one thing with another is what Amorim wants to express.

"This is a good idea, but who should we send and how many ships should we send?" Qin Hao was in trouble again.

In the final analysis, it was because there were too few ships. If there were more ships, sending a hundred or eighty warships directly to the door, damn, let's see if Zheng Zhilong dares to fight back.

"My Lord, I will go." Zhao Chang said in a deep voice, as if he was also volunteering to make up for the mistake just now.

Qin Hao looked at him and couldn't help but give him a thumbs up in his heart. His subordinates were sensible and immediately responded: "Okay, this task will be handed over to you. You take the "Bloodthirsty Wolf", but remember not to rush in if the Xiamen defense force is too strong." Qin Hao reminded him by the way.

"As for Amorim, you will be the executive officer at sea and lead the navy to fight Zheng Zhilong. However, you must pay attention to one thing in this mission, that is, to preserve your power if you can. At worst, you can't let the navy drown in the sea when you deal with Zheng Zhilong. I rely on this little property to seek the position of maritime hegemony."

"Yes!"

The commercial areas inside and outside Keelung are all welcoming the New Year, and the sales are booming.

The store owners are trying hard to seize the last golden sales period of the year, and consumers are also using this last half month to buy some daily necessities and so-called luxury goods for themselves and their families.

Huang Duo, a villager in Hsinchu, and his wife, both wearing newly made satin cotton robes, walked happily on the shopping street outside Keelung City, and bought some items from time to time in several shops.

Huang Duo quickly became famous in the veterinary community in Keelung with his skills in castrating pigs and horses. Not only did he build a new house, but he was also recruited by the Veterinary Bureau under the Household Department and became a so-called official family member.

With a thick stack of 500-wen notes in their pockets, Huang Duo and his wife looked around the shops, buying some cloth and other items for the New Year. Huang Duo wanted to buy a new set of wooden furniture for his newly built house, but he didn't find anything suitable after going around a few places.

"Boss, how about this? Let's exchange the notes for a few pounds of refined salt. 500-wen notes and refined salt can be exchanged for nine pounds! Then, when you go to the mountains to castrate pigs and horses for the mountain people, use the salt to exchange for some good wood. When you come back, we can make wooden furniture ourselves in the wooden furniture shop." Huang Duo's wife is as shrewd as he is, and she knows how to make a living.

"This is a good idea!" Huang Duo agreed without thinking.

At the same time, the Spaniard Hannah also looked at the goods on the shelf with some hesitation. It was a piece of high-grade cotton cloth from Hsinchu, priced at 800 wen. And she only had 2 taels in her pocket after selling her pigs. It was too expensive. She sighed.

"Fabian, cotton cloth is really too expensive. I originally wanted to buy you some clothes to make clothes. Your old clothes are too worn out. We are going to Keelung for training this afternoon. Will people in other villages laugh at you if you don't have new clothes?" Hannah looked at her husband Fabian Klingerman with guilt and worry.

"It's okay, dear." Fabian kissed his wife and said, "Mr. Li Guo said that uniforms will be distributed when we go to training. Don't worry about me, everyone wears the same clothes."

"Mr. Li Guo is the law enforcement officer in the town. If he says so, it will definitely be okay." Hannah was a little happy, but after thinking for a moment, she felt a little disappointed, "But if this happens, you can't stay in Hsinchu for the New Year."

They are the first time these Spaniards have settled in Hsinchu, and they still value the day of reunion for the Han people.

Fabian's face suddenly became a little ugly, "The war is coming, and we have to go to the battlefield. You wait for me at home, and I will be back after the New Year."

Although he was a little depressed, Fabian still accompanied his wife to choose goods in the store. The goods on the shelves are now more and more abundant. Hannah's eyes kept wandering among sugar, dried fruits, cheese, and pickled meat.

In the bustling crowd, Han people, Gaoshan people, and foreigners with blond hair and blue eyes and high noses were everywhere, buying all kinds of New Year goods.

On the surface, Keelung Prefecture and the entire General's Mansion were full of a happy and peaceful atmosphere of preparing for the New Year. However, the senior officials of the General's Mansion could feel that Keelung today was like a precise machine, running slowly and powerfully, and the target was Zheng Zhilong, the Zheng family in the south of Taiwan Island.

One order after another was delivered to various places by messengers, either on horseback or by boat.

The villages and towns in Hsinchu and other places received a very strange order: "Wide the roads and bridges everywhere and make them into cement roads. The requirement is that they can bear the weight of the artillery vehicles."

The household office under Zhuge Xuan's jurisdiction also began to count the household registration, calculate how many soldiers could be mobilized for the war, and count the treasury, calculating how much food, ammunition, military pay, and military equipment would be needed every day once the war started.

Hsinchu Arsenal, Gun Factory, and Steel Plant are also working overtime to manufacture weapons and military equipment.

The war machine of the General's Mansion began to run at high speed.

This war concerns whether tens of thousands of people in Taiwan can live a good life in the future, and we must not be careless.

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