Chapter 158 Keep a low profile

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian believes that the most important thing for him now is to continue to hide his light and bide his time, make a lot of money, and continue to accumulate his strength. If he wants to participate in the Central Plains in the future, then the most important thing now is to have money before someone.

At present, on the surface, it seems that his strength is not weak. The population controlled by his wings alone has reached hundreds of thousands, the number of troops has reached more than 7,000, and the number of ships has reached hundreds, but with this strength alone, he wants to jump out and run to the road. It is still too weak to overturn the Zhu dynasty of the Ming Dynasty.

At present, he seems to be very strong, but there is a big crisis, because the ratio of the population he controls and the army is too different. Among the population under his actual control, the proportion of soldiers and civilians exceeds 1-10, or even reaches 1-8.

This is completely unimaginable for a normal regime. It is equivalent to eight people who have to support a soldier and a manager, not to mention children who are unable to work, old and weak women and children. Even in later generations, the proportion of soldiers and reservists combined with the population is only About one to twenty.

It is unimaginable to let such a small population maintain such a huge army under normal circumstances. Fortunately, his navy is not only invisable. His current identity is still a pirate. In addition to investment, his navy also has a lot of output, that is, continuous plunder operations at sea through the navy. So that the sea wolf can get more adequate military expenses.

In addition, he also has some monopoly commodity sales, and the continuous maritime trade of the merchant fleet under the council hall has brought him considerable benefits, and his current military weapons and equipment problem is basically self-sufficient. Otherwise, relying only on these tens of thousands of people to collect taxes, it is estimated that he even 500 people The army can't afford to support it. At best, it is a group of local braves.

So next, he must increase the number of controllable population as soon as possible. These people can not only provide him with stable food and military expenses, but more importantly, they can give blood transfusions to his army. When he needs it, he can increase the number of his army through conscription at any time.

However, these things are off-topic at this meeting, and he will not talk about them openly here now.

Naturally, the navy has no problem with his arrangement for the navy, and after this adjustment, the navy can do more and extend their tentacles farther. This is a good thing for these naval leaders, and they will naturally not object.

At first, Yu Xiaotian thought about dividing the fleet of the Chinese navy in the old time and space, calling the three fleets he temporarily divided into the East China Sea Fleet, the North Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet. However, when you think about it, the areas he is currently active are basically in the East China Sea. Now he has set up a North Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet. It was too unnamed, so he finally named his fleet after the first, second and third.

In addition to the three fleets as the main battle force, the navy also separately listed the fishing vessels and whaling fleets and set up a fishing fleet, because many smaller ships of the sea wolf currently do not undertake any combat tasks. These ships are due to their small displacement or ship conditions. It is not good enough. Usually, we mainly carry out sea fishing operations and whaling operations to provide sufficient protein needs for the sea wolf masses, so as to ensure the daily needs and nutritional needs of the sea wolf masses.

These ships did not have a clear affiliation before, nor did they have a very systematic management and distribution, but this time Yu Xiaotian separated them from the fleet and set up a fishing fleet, which was handed over to Lutong for unified deployment and management.

A long time ago, Lu Tong was a small pirate active in Xinghua Prefecture and Fuzhou. At the beginning, when Xiaotian colluded with Wang Hong, Fang An, Ma Feng and others, and joined the surrounding small groups to deal with the shark Zhang Hu, he followed Yu Xiaotian.

Lu Sheng, Lu Tong's brother, was originally the leader of their pirates. Because he did not listen to Zhang Hu's dispatch, he was killed by Zhang Hu to save hundreds of people, and their nest was also destroyed by Zhang Hu. Therefore, Lu Tong later threw himself in Xiaotian after Yu Xiaotian entered the main South Ri Island.

Because Yu Xiaotian killed Zhang Hu and reported his hatred for Lu, Lu Tong was also loyal to Xiaotian, but this person's ability is not very strong. After Xiaotian entered Nanri Island, he has been famous among sea wolves, just silently doing something that others are not willing to do.

The Lutong family itself was the earliest fisherman. Most of his subordinates are fishermen and are very familiar with fishing. In recent years, he has been taking several boats, either fishing at sea or whaling at sea. He has accumulated considerable experience in fishing and whaling.

This time, when Yu Xiaotian decided to set up a professional fishing fleet, he simply handed over the fleet to Lutong, which was equivalent to giving Lutong a very important position to enter the senior level of the sea wolf.

The fishing team is not a combat soldier. In addition to fishing and whale hunting, it will also be responsible for the management of the fishing grounds set up by sea wolves in the future. When fishing, they should also manage the fishing grounds set by them, supervise other fishermen working on the fishing grounds, and collect 20% of the catch from them every day as fishing tax, which will be collected every year. It can bring back a large amount of catch for the sea wolf and supply it for the sea wolf, and a part of the surplus can be used for sale.

Therefore, to some extent, the fishing team also has the work of fishery administration and fishing protection. It is a light armed fleet. Once necessary, they can also cooperate with the main fleet and participate in some military operations.

More importantly, this fishing team is still the reserve of the sea wolf navy, the main source of transportation for sailors, because the training of sailors is not like infantry, casually catching a young man and locked in the training camp. It can be released in as little as three months. Even if it can't reach the level of a tough soldier, at least He is a relatively qualified soldier.

The training of sailors is much longer than infantry in this sailing era, so the sailors of sea wolves are mainly fishermen. These people live by the seaside all year round and fish in the sea with their fathers for years. Even if they have not operated large boats, at least they have considerable experience in rowing and rowing boats. , the worst, at least has a good water quality.

Therefore, the supplement of sailors is much narrower than the source of infantry, and the training time is much longer. This is also the most difficult thing to build an invincible fleet. It is not enough to build enough ships. There must be enough sailors who can operate them skillfully and bravely.

Therefore, in non-wartime, fishing teams often have to absorb some fishermen to add to fishing boats. After semi-normalized training, once the sea wolves need it, they only need a short time to convert and train in the sailor's new barracks, and they can quickly It was added to the warship.

So the fishing team, to some extent, is also the sea wolf's sailor reserve team, which can be regarded as a reserve.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian awarded Lutong a rank of captain, which is equal to the captain of the fleet, and the captains of fishing boats in the fishing team, especially some captains on larger whaling ships, are also awarded the rank of second lieutenants, but in front of their ranks, a reserve is required, compared with the regular fleet. The gold content of their ranks is lower.

The original merchant fleet remains unchanged, and it is still a merchant fleet. In terms of formation, it is regarded as a navy, but in terms of management, it is still under the management of the council.

After removing the logistics department, the director is basically a large militarized group company. Its main job is to do business. The merchant fleet is the most important way to obtain profits. It is responsible for handling all kinds of goods from all over the world to make money for the sea wolf. In addition, it also undertakes the bulk cargo of the sea wolf. Transportation work.

However, the members of the merchant fleet are still temporarily included in the navy sequence. The captain has all been awarded the rank of second lieutenant. The general manager of the fleet is now managed by a man named Lin Baojiang. This person is a former subordinate of Liu Yidao who came with Liu Yidao.

This person used to be a small sea merchant. There was a merchant ship that poured goods back and forth between land and Manila and made a little money. But later, he went to sea and was killed by pirates*. The ship also lost its goods and lost its property. The creditor chased him every day to ask for accounts and was arrested and beaten by the government.

Later, there was really no way, so he had to go to the sea to steal, and also took his son to Liu Yidao, and later followed Liu Yidao to Yu Xiaotian.

This man has worked as a pirate and a sea merchant, and has rich navigation experience. Later, he was selected to manage a small merchant fleet. Yu Xiaotian found that this man was shrewd and capable, so he handed over the whole merchant fleet to him to take care of him, and also awarded him the rank of captain, but like the fishing team, he belongs to Reserve, because the merchant fleet is also of reserve nature, sailors can be transferred to the fleet at any time.

In addition to these, the sea wolf also has a full-time sailor training camp, which is also stationed in Tamsui City. It has several training boats and trains new soldiers for the sea wolf's sailors all year round. In addition, it is also responsible for training captains, senior mates and other intermediate officers.

Now the marine training camp has also been upgraded to the naval training office. In addition to the naval training camp, it will also be responsible for the recruitment of naval sailors in the future. In addition, the ship's dormitory has also been transferred to the management of the naval training office, including the logistics office under the original governing hall. It is also separated from the naval logistics office and temporarily placed under the management of the training office. After the next step The attendance will be listed separately, but it is not needed for the time being.

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