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    The biggest advantage of Zhang Xiaojing¡¯s arrangement is that the captives are no longer a burden but a labor force.

    Soon after hiding a batch of ships on Devil's Island, Lin Feng once again fell into the dilemma of too many ships and not enough manpower.

    In fact, the shipbuilders of this era knew very well what was going on on the ship, and most of the thousand Spanish prisoners knew how to operate the ship.

    But Lin Feng didn¡¯t dare to use them.

    Because a boat is a small society.  In addition to the lack of love between men and women, there is no lack of grudges, hatred, and all kinds of human emotions.

    Spain¡¯s national destiny is booming, and even its craftsmen are tainted by the unruliness of the arrogant people of a great country.  After they were captured and boarded the ship, they had been acting very unruly. When they found out that the fleet was about to sail away, there was a high chance of causing trouble.

    Therefore, Lin Feng never dared to use them and only kept them on the stolen cargo ship.  In addition to normal operation of the ship, people had to be sent to guard the prisoners, which made the crew very tired.

    But after Zhang Xiaojing arranged it this way, she could safely let the prisoners operate the ship.  In this way, each ship only needs to arrange a few domestic crew members to serve as captains, first mates, helmsmen, etc. to give orders and control the direction.

    At most, one team of Marines can be added to serve as the captain's force guarantee to maintain order.

    In this way, a stable three-layer structure of ¡®ruler-accomplice-ruled¡¯ is constructed.  The rulers not only have accomplices to help suppress the bottom class, but also have a buffer layer to absorb the anger of the bottom class.

    In this way, the main conflict on the ship shifted from the conflict between the Ming people and the Spaniards to the conflict between the black slaves and the Spaniards.

    The accomplices will try their best to suppress the bottom to show their value to the top.

    The bottom will only hate the accomplices, but instead want to please the top who have the ability to restrain the accomplices in order to improve their own situation.

    In a stable system where all classes must please the ruler, as long as the ruler can provide sufficient resources, it will be enough for this small society to run to the end of the voyage.

    "How about Zhang Juzheng always lamenting that he had given birth to so many sons, but the one who looked most like him was his daughter

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    With more labor in hand, it will be easier for Lin Feng to make decisions.

    She first streamlined the captured cargo ship. Except for leaving enough supplies, all the worthless ships and cargo were set on fire.

    In the end, ten sailing ships were left in good condition, with a tonnage of more than 300 tons, and suitable for long voyages. Each ship was assigned a hundred Spaniards, a hundred blacks, and twenty native crew members.

    In this way, only two hundred people are needed to sail ten sailboats.  After the original six ships meet the minimum crew capacity, they can still have a reserve crew of 1,560 people.

    Considering that the route to Manila is long but safe, this arrangement is not too risky.

    Lin Feng stayed in Veracruz for a few more days, replenishing enough drinking water; canning meat and fruits, and grabbed enough wine, sheep and alpacas for the crew's entertainment on the voyage.

    It¡¯s just a pet. Don¡¯t think blindly. After sailors have been at sea for a long time, even the mice in the cabin will feel cute.

    real.

    After completing all preparations, the fleet held a grand flag-raising ceremony in the early morning of the tenth day of August, lowered the skull and straw hat pirate flag, and raised the bright sun and moon flag again.

    So the privateering fleet that had plagued the Americas for two years was transformed into a peaceful voyage fleet carrying out friendly visits around the world.

    "Be careful all the way, think about your original identity, and don't embarrass me when you go back!" Lin Feng gave her usual pre-departure speech.  She first said to the gang of sailors: "You will be rich and powerful when you go back. You have to respect your status!"

    "Hahaha!" The sailors whistled desperately, how to spend so much money!

    "And you!" Lin Feng said to the former young masters again: "You guys should stop talking dirty all day long. Clean yourself up and don't behave like beggars Forget it, you guys are better at pretending than I am.  !¡±

    The young master was stunned for a while, and then he suddenly smiled bitterly.

    Since when he was in East Africa, he executed two young men who tried to destroy supplies and force the fleet to return, Lin Feng has completely stopped giving preferential treatment to these privileged boat passengers.  It is ordered that all matters on the ship, regardless of high or low, everyone has a share.  Even if you are a civil servant, you still have to wash decks, peel onions, and empty toilets to make full use of limited human resources.

    ¡°After two years of this, the gentlemen have become experienced crew members, doing the same work as ordinary sailors, eating the same food, sleeping in the same hammocks and working the same sheep, and have almost completely forgotten that they were people with identities in the first place.

    &nThe people who came to report the funeral also arrived.

    The shipbuilding base in Acapulco was burned to the ground, and two years of hard work were reduced to ashes. Vice King Velasquez was heartbroken and unconscious, and the entire Central and North America was in chaos.

    When he heard the bad news, General Leon's reaction was no better than Velazquez's.  He also had bouts of chest tightness and shortness of breath, and wanted to vomit blood!

    He thought that the Mexican side was in full swing and the expedition would be launched almost next year.  This allowed the family to spend a lot of money to operate the position of commander of the Pacific Fleet.

    Admiral Leon¡¯s wishful thinking is that he will automatically become the commander of the great expedition, at least the naval commander.  When the expedition is successful and His Majesty becomes the King of Kings, who will still cling to his previous mistakes?

    By then, I will definitely be wealthy and have a lot of merit. Maybe I can be made Duke of Dongguan or something like that. Isn¡¯t that great?

    This is great, let the people of the Ming Dynasty burn the vast white earth with fire, it will be really clean, everything will have to start all over again.

    It¡¯s not just Acapulco¡¯s loss, it¡¯s not just this year¡¯s loss.  In fact, that damn Ming Dynasty fleet robbed the royal family of a year's income in America on the west coast last year.

    This year, it has robbed the West Coast from beginning to end, almost destroying the fragile colonial economy. It will take who knows how many years to recover.

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