Win the Ding 1617

() Qiongzhou Prefecture, Yazhou, Hongsha Town.

This is where the famous Tianya Haijiao is located, and it has always been the most tragic place for officials to be dispatched by literati.

Indeed, in this era, this is a barren land.

In Hongsha Town, the air with a strong fishy smell, the courtyard walls built with shells, and the large cacti on the beach all tell people that this place is desolate.

However, since ten gunboats and thousands of people came all at once from the sea, Hongsha Town suddenly became lively.

People in the town provided all kinds of conveniences for this navy, such as houses, vegetables, fish and shrimp, etc. There were also some young fishermen who thought they were good at sailing and handling boats, so they all wanted to join the army.Of course, this is definitely not the situation of the soldiers and civilians in the Ming Dynasty, but because of the white and yellow metals produced by this army.

In this era, the army does not plunder, but instead spends money to buy things at a more appropriate price. Not to mention unique, it is also rare.

The person who came was Zhang Xiaohu's fleet on the left wing of the Navy of the South China Army.

In addition to the manpower of the fleet itself, it also carried a battalion of soldiers. The former battalion of the Xuanwu Battalion arrived on the same boat as him. This place will be an outpost, springboard, and stronghold of the South China Army in the future.To the east, rush to Luzon and Ryukyu, to the west is Nanzhong, and to the south is Manlajia.

When we arrived in Yazhou, apart from being polite to the local county magistrates, giving some goods to the officials assigned to the ends of the earth, and telling them that they don't have to worry about pirates from now on, Zhang Xiaohu is Dedicated to the construction of this Yulingang.

Ship after ship of ashes was brought in, along with Ha Tinh's main products - fine salt and rice, as well as various kinds of nine-turn steel that are almost magical weapons in the eyes of the Li people in the mountainous area. Knives and axes, as well as various pots and pans.

"Go to the navy camp to work! Take care of the food! You can get one day's rations for one day of work! Five catties of salt for one month of work! One knife or an ax for three months of work!"

Such news spread like wings in Li's and Miao's villages.Young and middle-aged people from various villages came to Hongsha Town to try their luck.

Sure enough, Hongsha Town, which was a little more prosperous than the fishing village in the past, has now become a huge construction site.

Under the pens of those students who have learned surveying and mapping skills, a paper map is drawn. By spending money to hire local fishermen, the bright and dark reefs, shallow sandbars and waterways on the route are clearly marked on the chart.

Using "worthless" industrial products, Zhang Xiaohu hired a large number of migrant workers and carried out a careful construction of Yulingang: Luhuitou, Maling, Nanshanling and other mountains protruding from the sea. When it is used, it has built forts and lighthouses like the east and west Maozhou islands in the sea.

"Okay! Just wait for the lord to send someone to bring the cannons, and our Yulingang will be completely completed!" Standing on Ximaozhou Island, looking into the harbor with binoculars, the fortifications of Yulingang and Jinlan Bay, Hong Kong Compared with Jigang, it is not much better, even worse.

After all, Zhang Xiaohu was born as a pirate, and what he is best at is sneak attacks and taking advantage of loopholes.Therefore, during the construction process, his habitual thinking is how to prevent others from taking advantage of loopholes, or how to set traps for others, so that the fleet attempting to attack will fall into a situation where it cannot move forward, cannot retreat, and is attacked from three sides. , Such traps abound in the waterways of Yulingang.

The forts on the island and on the top of the hill were built according to the style of the bastion and combined with the mountain terrain. The routes of the possible incoming ships were deduced in advance. The combination of seabed topography, light and dark two killing effect.Perhaps the evasive maneuvers to avoid battery fire would leave the ship stranded on some submarine sandbar and become a live target for artillery fire.

However, right now, there is a lack of artillery on the fort.Each fort is equipped with one or two cannons to fill the facade, and there are a few cannons dismantled from the gunboat.

"My lord!" A soldier reminded Zhang Xiaohu, "There is a boat coming over there!"

Zhang Xiaohu set up an awning and looked west, where the water and the sky met, a little white sail was sailing towards him in the afterglow of the setting sun.He raised the binoculars in his hand and looked to the west, and he gave orders to the guard in his mouth.

"Throw that horse! If it's a passing ship, you all get on board and go out with Lao Tzu to collect money for the journey! If you pass through Lao Tzu's cannon, you have to pay Lao Tzu!"

He pointed the lens of the telescope at the incoming ship, and suddenly yelled! "Ha! It's our own people here!"

On the coming ship, the iron-blooded [-]-star military flag of the Nanzhong Army Navy was hung high above the mast. On the bow, a guy who was also holding a telescope was also looking in the direction of Maozhou Island.

"Little six bastards, actually built this place like this, like this, like this," he said several times, but couldn't remember how to describe the military port in front of him.

The person who came was Zhang Xiaohu's third brother, Zhang Xiaoqi.

"Eight eighteen-pound guns, each with fifty rounds of solid shells, twenty shrapnel shells, and related supporting gunpowder."

"The military salary of the left wing this month is food gold. The total is 2000 taels, the allowance for going to sea is 4000 taels, and the rations for next month are [-] shi. In addition, there are [-] shi of salt entrusted to you by the Hanyuan firm, cloth A thousand horses."

Holding a list in their hands, the two brothers began to deliver on the trestle of the pier.

"In addition, there are 150 Juehu knives, [-] Sangmen guns, and [-] firecrackers for the Xuanwu Qianying camp. You also received them."

In addition, the bulk of the supplies brought by the fleet is an extremely large cargo-burned ashes.

"Xiao Liuzi, I don't understand. You have submitted the petition several times. What do you need so much ashes for? Road construction? But, the surroundings of your place are very flat, even if you use ashes to build the ground in the fort, I'm afraid you won't be able to use such a large amount?"

While urging the Li nationality laborers to remove the ashes barrels on the boat, Zhang Xiaoqi acted like a third brother, chattering with Zhang Xiaohu endlessly.

Zhang Xiaohu took off the black goggles, casually pinned the brass frame to the bamboo straw hat, bent down, squinted his small eyes, which were blown by the sea breeze, and carefully He was searching for something on the trestle bridge, and after a while, he yelled loudly, "I see where you are going!"

Zhang Xiaohu tightly held a wriggling thing in his hand, and handed it to Zhang Xiaoqi, "Third brother, do you still know this thing?!"

"Uncle Six, what is this?" From behind Zhang Xiaoqi, a pair of small heads appeared.

"Big dog and two dogs! You are still descendants of our Zhang family and grew up on a boat!" Zhang Xiaoqi cursed in a low voice, "You still have the face to ask what this is? It's a shipworm!"

On the one hand, he handed the shipworm in his hand to the two nephews, and asked them to take a closer look at this little life that was hated by all those who lived at sea.While asking his third brother, "Why did you bring these two boys? Does fourth brother know?"

Da Gou and Er Gou are the sons of Zhang Xiaobiao, the fourth eldest of the Zhang family, and the only two surviving males in the Zhang family's generation. The rest were killed in the patricide and power seizure launched by the Zhang family boss.

"Oh, your fourth brother was promoted and transferred to Fan Lang, and now the Pingshun Camp has become a magistrate! It can be considered that he is in charge of tens of thousands of people!"

After voting for Li Shouhan, the third son of Zhang, that is, Zhang Xiaoqi, was assigned to the Han Yuan Company because he was good at scheduling ships and managing ships. So he arranged to be a mayor not far from Hejing. After a few years, he was also excellent in the evaluation. When the regional system was adjusted this time, he was appointed to the former Champa Kingdom as a magistrate.

However, it doesn't matter where he takes office. These two sons came back from the chaos with the lives of more than a dozen soldiers. They can't just follow him to such a wild place. After discussing it, I felt that I could imitate the ancients and send my son as a pledge to show my loyalty.

"Your fourth brother and I wrote a letter to the lord, saying that Pingshun has just been pacified not long ago, and there are so many things going on, it is inconvenient to take the children, so I want to leave Dagou and Ergou to study in Hejing. It’s good to go to the martial arts hall, and it’s good to serve the lord in the future!”

"Then, my lord comforted me with nice words, and I left a house for your fourth brother in Ha Tinh Mansion, and asked them to arrange for these two little guys to go to the nurturing class in the martial arts hall. As a result, alas ! It’s also a family misfortune!”

Mentioning the misfortune of the family, Zhang Xiaohu couldn't help but twitch the muscles on his face, he thought of his elder brother who killed his father and butchered his brother.

"Uncle Six! Uncle Six!" The big dog happily ran towards him holding the wriggling little bug high.

"What do you say this thing is?",

"Shipworm!"

Shipworms, although they are called maggots, are actually a kind of clams, which belong to shellfish, and it is said that they taste good.However, this kind of food that tastes good uses wood as food.Moreover, if no precautions are taken, the shipworms living on ships and pier bridges will rot a boat or a pier bridge to the ground within half a year, or at most ten months.

In order to prevent this little life from pursuing food and race continuation, people at that time had no choice but to drive the boat into the river every few months and soak the bottom of the boat with fresh water in the river to get rid of these creatures. Nasty little life.

Today, thanks to the Bodhisattva Copper Mine in Zhenla, the bottom of the ship of the South China Army Navy has gradually begun to cover the bottom with brass. The space for these little creatures to move has been greatly reduced. The piers and trestles of the military port are mainly built of wood!

"That's why I asked you to send ashes over and over again!" Zhang Xiaohu explained to his third brother with a stern face.

Gradually replacing the wooden trestle components with concrete components is of great benefit to the life of the trestle and the wharf.

Walking on the streets of Hongsha Town, officers and soldiers stopped to salute Zhang Xiaohu from time to time along the way, and some native leaders and their clansmen knelt by the roadside to kowtow to Commander Zhang.

"Lao Liu, this town is too small and too messy!"

After watching the street scene for a while, Zhang Xiaoqi clicked his lips and drew a conclusion for Hongsha Town.

There is no way not to feel small!

Just imagine, a town store with a permanent population of less than five or seven hundred households and three thousand people suddenly flooded in with two to three thousand young and middle-aged men, and then at least double the number of locals. Laborers, and people from nearby villages and towns who come here to find work, can this Hongsha Town be a scene of chaos?

Even if among the people brought by Zhang Xiaohu, there are inspectors who have some experience in city management, but there are too many people who can't help but come here to look for work. People everywhere want to find someone who can sell their labor in exchange for food and daily necessities. These people need to eat, drink, communicate, find job opportunities, and even excrete!

What's more, the barbaric natives exchanged many of their unsatisfactory things for wine, and used the smell of alcohol to fight on the street and molested the women passing by.

As a result, the gentry in Hongsha Town complained to Zhang Xiaohu for countless times.

"My lord, you came to defend us against the pirates, but now the pirates dare not come, this barbarian is here again! You have to take care of it!"

Waiting for you to say this!

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