Lu Ming

Chapter 201 Fair Dealing
Early the next morning, the Thunder Sword team set off with several Ming guides to explore the surrounding mines.Pan Mingzhong's side started trading early: several delegations from the indigenous societies started to set off in the middle of the night.

The village communities under the Ketagalan tribe will come here for trade today and tomorrow if they have trade needs.Therefore, Pan Mingzhong did not dare to be careless. After allocating the security and trade personnel, he carried the AK and began to patrol the area.

At noon, more and more natives came to trade. When Pan Mingzhong saw big customers coming in one after another with bamboo baskets on their backs, he ordered his subordinates to take out their flagship product: glass balls.

Crossover glass balls are not the kind of crap the Dutch buy Manhattans for.

The glass balls that pass through the crowd: round in shape, smooth on the surface, clear inside, high light transmittance, and each one is as big as a walnut. They are carefully polished and polished with leftovers from the glass factory in the kiln area, and some of them are drilled through with high-speed drilling machines. Rope is a rare high value-added glass ball treasure.

The natives really know the goods.

The natives who had already finished changing the sulfur in their back baskets and were about to go home flocked to the glass ball booth.When a fat chieftain was dazzled by the sunlight refracted by a large necklace of glass balls, he hung the glass balls around his neck like a Drifting monk, then poured out something from the bamboo tube behind his back, and handed it to the Pan Mingzhong.

A dog's head gold the size of a cigarette case.

Pan Mingzhong is a kind person. After putting the dog's head gold into his trouser pocket quickly, he grabbed a few glass balls from the large glass bowl in front of him expressionlessly, and supplied them to the chieftains: comrades from the countryside should not suffer!The time-traveling power is high, so don't take advantage of it.

The basic exchange price was fixed at this moment.

Later that day, someone who secretly laughed for 10 minutes in the cockpit, while playing with the Goutoujin and Jinsha in front of him, reported his achievements to Lei Jian 10 miles away on the radio.

"The place you stay is called Jinshan District, and it was called Jinbaoli in the Qing Dynasty. Why did you choose this name? Isn't it because there is alluvial gold in Sulfur Creek." Lei Jian tried his best to express that he didn't care in an understatement tone, and at the same time stepped up to order the team to dig sand—— He also wants to go back and see the real dog head gold, people who study geology are obsessed with this thing!
Originally, Liao Tianding thought that the people on the boat would take out a high-quality iron pot to exchange for gold, but who knew that they could get it done with glass balls
Therefore, Comrade Liao Tianding, the local comprador, was also stunned at this moment.You must know that the natives here have been tempered by foreign trade for thousands of years. They know what goods are valuable, and it is usually difficult for outsiders to exchange them for the golden alluvial gold.

However, the time-traveling people did it.

Not only did it work, but the people on the boat also took out some beautiful "big paintings" for everyone to see.At the same time, they also asked Liao Tianding to tell the natives that everything on the painting could be traded in the future.

Several large photographs present pyrite, alunite and volcanic ash.

Both pyrite and alunite have clear production records in the Datun Mountain volcanic group.In addition, volcanic ash is a high-grade cement fine aggregate.The volcanic ash that has been calcined by natural magma and ground by eruption can be added up to 40% in cement to become Portland pozzolan cement.

This kind of cement is naturally suitable for concrete projects in water and humid environments. It is currently the building material most needed by a certain force in the coastal warm and humid zone.

When the trade show was about to end in the afternoon, the guests from afar gave the host an impromptu performance.

The sailor, 200 meters away, fired his rifle.Accompanied by thick white smoke, flames, and gunshots, are the broken bamboo tubes, wooden blocks and gravel on the stone platform in the middle of the exhibition.

The natives sitting in the bamboo hut beside them saw the power of hot weapons without paying the price of blood this time.

After the performance, Pan Mingzhong stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the natives leaving while discussing fiercely: I hope these people will be able to understand each other in the future.You must know that once the war starts, it will not be a simple suppression.With the urinating nature of the time-traveling people, uprooting is a must, and the next step is forced relocation. The Madou Society in Tainan is a ready-made example.

The Yuandou stayed in the bend at the mouth of the Sulfur Creek for three days.Because some "high value-added" goods were more than expected by the nearby natives, when the Yuandou returned to the voyage, there were still a lot of goods left with the representatives of Mingren Village.

These goods will be exchanged for sulfur from the natives one after another, and then transported back to Dazuan by the next batch of ships.

Lei Jian also completed the task here.He has marked the high-grade iron sand production areas near Sulfur Creek on the map; in addition, like the Xiuguluan River, he also took photos of the terrain near Sulfur Creek and handed them over to the big office Finally, someone will naturally study how to divide the base.

Three days later, before returning, the Yuandou went to the Spanish castle and made a brief announcement about the situation in Mingren Village.

Bypassing the Fuguijiao cape in the upper left corner of Taiwan, the Yuandou embarked on its southbound voyage.

When it came to the mouth of the Danshui River, a certain ship deliberately slowed down and used a telescope to observe the castle that the Spaniards were building.

Due to the favorable wind going south, the Yuandou was very fast and arrived at Houlongxikou the next day.

Originating from the Jiali Mountains in Miaoli, Houlong River is the largest river in Miaoli, with an average width of more than 60 meters.In the 17th century, Houlongxi was the only way to enter Miaosu Mountain.Travelers chose Taiwan to take root in the first place for the Miaosu Oilfield by the Houlongxi River.

As for the Yuandou, which was eager to return, it only turned around and left after a little exploration at Houlongxikou this time. Oil exploration is different from iron ore exploration, and Yuandou needs to rest before returning.

As the exploration team is about to return, the dried wood stored in the cabin is useless.During the final voyage, the gas generator of the Yuandou began to operate at full capacity, sending the sandship back to Dayuan at the fastest speed.

Entering the Dayuan channel after half a month away, Pan Mingzhong and Lei Jian were still a little excited when they saw Haidilao passing by and still digging the sandbar slowly.

But the officials in the big office who heard that the exploration ship had returned home naturally did not dare to neglect, and held a meeting that day to quickly arrange the results brought by the exploration team.

After obtaining the information, the preparatory team jointly formed by the mining industry and the army will start work now.In the plan, the occupation of the Spanish Castle in Taipei and the development and remediation of the Sulfur Creek River Basin must be prepared for use in development.As for the iron sand on the Xiuguluan River, we have to wait for a while: Taipei, which can obtain sulfur and iron at the same time, has a higher priority for development.

Of course, these tasks will not be implemented until August at the earliest.

First of all, the coming summer, from June to August, is the time when Tainan has the highest rainfall/typhoons in a year.Therefore, all the factories, mines, factories, and residential areas under the jurisdiction of the crossing forces are currently undergoing disaster preparation work such as flood control, drainage, reinforcement and bundling.

Secondly, it is now mid-June. According to the information sent back by Fuzhou, Zheng Zhilong is already on his way to meet Xiong Wencan.It is foreseeable that there will be a series of sea and land battles waiting for the crossing army, so this is the number one event that has attracted the attention of most crossing people, and everything else has to be sidelined.

At the end of the meeting, after Xia Xianze hastily praised Pan Mingzhong, the topic quickly changed: "When are you going to Miaosu?"

Pan Mingzhong glanced at the bosses of various departments who were blinking and staring at him at the venue, and couldn't help swallowing: "7 days, rest for 7 days and then start!"

"African people are still grazing, but you are out of breath, 5 days!"

"Okay, 5 days."

The sad Pan Mingzhong and Lei Jian had no choice but to shorten their rest time.Originally, I planned to spend two more days with my sister, alas, let alone a capitalist, the time traveler will not be merciless even if he squeezes his hands.

The sun is dazzling, the sky is blue, sparse clouds are floating overhead, accompanied by bursts of refreshing sea breeze, it is just a pleasant day in Dayuan Island.

The beach at the northwest corner of Dayuan Island near the strait is full of noise.

This beach is of commemorative significance: it was from here that the crossing people on the Dog's Eye rushed down to the beach, charged forward bravely, led the sailors to capture the Dutch's trading house, and started a great journey.

Now this beach has become a training ground.

Originally, the military training ground was near the business hall, but later some bosses thought it was noisy, so they drove the recruits here.Although it is a little bit out of the way, the facilities of the training ground are still very complete. Some obstacles and equipment used for military training in later generations can be found on the beach.

And what was held at the training ground today was the 400-meter barrier-crossing assessment, and the participants in the assessment were soldiers from the first company of the first battalion of the army.

As the first batch of soldiers recruited by the crossing forces, these people in the company can be regarded as the royal army of Hongmiao Zheng. it will be resolved.

The 100 soldiers who are sweating on the playground have another identity: students.

This group of people is very lucky. They were trained as military cadets. In the future, as the team grows, these people will be natural grassroots officers.Moreover, the conditions for their graduation are very loose: they only need to learn primary school language and math, and be able to calculate battlefield data proficiently, and they can graduate smoothly and get a military officer certificate.

After the whistle of "Drip", another row of soldiers began to take big strides, running wildly across the eight groups of obstacles consisting of cross piles, ditches, low walls, high board diving platforms, ladders, single-plank bridges, high walls, and low pile nets. Composition of the runway.

(End of this chapter)