After destroying the Gao Jiguo fleet that blocked the port, the ten giant ships bombarded the enemy positions on the shore again, and then approached the dock in turn, and 3,000 heavily armed Tian family soldiers stepped on the pedal and got off the ship, divided into three teams, operated muskets, ran and shot, and in only half a day, they destroyed 10,000 enemies and captured 20,000 prisoners, and relieved the siege of Weihai Port. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Young Master, Zhiqing is incompetent, and he bothered the young master to personally rescue me?"

Tian Zhiqing, the guard of the harbor fortress, knelt in front of him after seeing Zhou Ming, his face was full of dirt and tiredness, and he shed a few tears of emotion.

"No need to kneel. Zhou Ming hurriedly helped him up and comforted him: "It's me who came late, so you have suffered, go down and have a good rest, everything in Hong Kong is now handled by me." ”

"Young Master Xie!"

The defenders all breathed a sigh of relief, and some even after they were completely relieved, their bodies were crooked, and they fainted directly.

……

Three days later.

Weihai Port has another huge fleet, with merchant ships transporting the majority, there are seventy-five ships, which are loaded with a large number of various materials, and also brought 36 franchise families in Qingzhou (several more families have joined in recent years), 20,000 strong men and 10,000 soldiers and horses.

The purpose of these 20,000 strong men is to expand the port, and it is planned to expand the scale of Weihai Port tenfold within three or four years, and build several deep-water wharves so that it can berth more than 10,000 large ships.

The role of 10,000 soldiers and horses, of course, is not to strengthen the defense, protect this port, there is no need for so many people, these soldiers and horses who are fully equipped with cuirass steel crossbows, and a small number of bird guns, the main role is to cooperate with the Tian family's firearms troops, completely occupy this Qizhou Island with an area of 100,000 square kilometers, and then appoint civilian officials to manage and help suppress the disobedient forces on the island.

For Gao Jiguo, Zhou Ming completely lost his patience, this country with the same tendons, it is not pumped, it is to be beaten!

This kingdom, the collective neurotic upper layer, could not tolerate a port covering an area of no more than 500 acres, and attacked desperately, filling tens of thousands of lives one after another, but they had not yet realized it, and they had to add it.

Therefore, Zhou Ming, who originally just wanted to borrow a piece of land to build a transit port, completely changed his attention this time, and was ready to take Qizhou Island first, completely control this island with a huge area, mild climate, and a large amount of grassland and arable land, and then use the entire island as a transit station, with the assistance of the population, land, and minerals on the island, to facilitate the collection of materials and speed up the colonization of Penglai Xiandao.

If Gao Jiguo is still not satisfied, he will also send a large army to come to conquest, it just so happens that Zhou Ming is seriously lacking slaves and Dingkou here, how many comes, how much to collect, try to take prisoners, send them to the mine manor, and press him into powder.

In the later period, if there was still a serious shortage of population, Zhou Ming was even ready to take the initiative to send troops to Gaoji Country to sweep and loot, capture some of the population, and send them to Penglai Xiandao to contribute to the overseas colonization cause.

If the population of Gaoji Country is not enough, the nearby Bailuo Kingdom, Hanhai Kingdom and the Savage tribes in the north ...... It will also be Zhou Ming's goal, and when the time comes, a large number of slave catching teams will be dispatched, and there will be many people there, so they will go there.

And these foreign captives, or alien populations, were the cheapest consumables in the colonization system designed by Zhou Ming, and they were allocated to the "slave working class" by him, and basically did not enjoy any human rights.

The civilians, craftsmen and soldiers recruited from the Great Zhou Dynasty were the "free people" who belonged to the second echelon, and in the colonization system, they had a higher hierarchical status, and their property, personal safety, and right to survival were guaranteed, as well as generous salaries and benefits to ensure that they had no worries about food and clothing.

These "free people" will become the foundation of Penglai Xiandao in the future, which is the foundation of prosperity and is very important.

The Hai Pingtian family, along with the other thirty-six franchise families, is the "aristocratic class" in the colonization system of Penglai Xiandao, and these families, providing troops and funds, mobilizing materials and manpower, participating in the operation and management of the colonized islands, and eventually becoming the "ruling class" of each island, of course, are understandable.

Therefore, these three population strata have their own missions and duties, and each stratum is relatively solid, with less mobility in the middle, and various problems will inevitably arise if they operate for a long time.

However, in the early stage of entrepreneurship, this stable hierarchical system has more advantages than disadvantages, and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, which is conducive to improving the efficiency of colonization......

As a result, after taking Qizhou Island, in the next four years, Zhou Ming personally participated in the "Overseas Colonization Plan", which greatly accelerated the colonization speed and doubled the efficiency.

In the past four years, the number of islands colonized by immigrants in Penglai Xiandao has increased from 5 to 23, with a total area of more than 300,000 square kilometers, and the total number of immigrants from all walks of life has exceeded 1 million.

In the past four years, the Tian family's expedition fleet has explored and marked more than 3,000 islands in Penglai Immortal Domain, of which 4,500 islands are rich in resources, have significant colonization value, and are worthy of vigorous development.

This is because some of these high-value islands have abundant gold and silver deposits, and some have massive copper ores, or extremely high-grade iron ore, manganese ore, lead ore, and so on.

There are also dozens of volcanic islands with soil fertilizer and large sulfur resources.

Zhou Ming himself, on the other hand, took all the islands with the highest strategic value in his own hands, and sent people to garrison them in advance, which was regarded as a forbidden and would never allow others to get involved!

Because, these islands, there is a "golden island" with gold reserves of 5,000 tons, a "silver island" with silver reserves of more than 100,000 tons, a "saltpeter island" with saltpeter resources of more than 100 million tons, and a "dung stone island" on the southern edge of Penglai Immortal Domain, with an area of about 500 square kilometers, on which there is no grass and is covered with guano dozens of meters thick.

There is also an area of nearly 150,000 square kilometers, and there is a group of savage countries with more than three or four million people living on the island.

The wild man in the country of the dog is naturally called the dog man by Zhou Ming.

Despicable people, thin and short, with an average height of one meter four or five, primitive and backward production and life, its upper class is cruel and tyrannical, and the lower class is timid and cowardly, a thousand-person despicable dog tribe, as long as you can defeat the strongest in this tribe, the other 999 people, including the defeated strong man, will obey the orders of the new strongest and will never dare to resist.

Therefore, this "Slave Island", which has a despicable dog country on it, has also become a forbidden place in Zhou Ming's eyes, and no one wants to touch it.

"The character of the Humble Dog people who fear and obey the strong is too suitable for industrialization, as long as they are fed, they will not resist for life, will not be lazy and complain, and will only bury their heads in work...... This kind of population resource is even rarer than gold! We must make rational use of all these despicable people and fill countless estates and mines. ”

In addition, during the four-year period, with the large-scale production of mature and easy-to-use [Steam Type III] and [Steam Type IV] steam engines, especially the number of steam-powered sailboats, after more and more, the time for transporting supplies has been reduced by more than half compared with the original sailboats that can only be transported once in two or three months.

In addition, Qizhou Island, a transit island that can also provide a large amount of supplies, has shortened the voyage by half...... How can the efficiency of overseas colonization not be doubled?

In the end, it was the slave population and the number of Great Zhou immigrants who were still limiting the speed of colonization.

……

The thirty-second year of the Heavenly Sage, September.

Gao Jiguo, the king's capital opened the capital.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the gate of the capital was blasted open by artillery, and 30,000 troops outside the city rushed in, excited, roaring and rushing into this prosperous royal city with a population of 100,000...... Of course, only women who are beautiful enough to be high can be eligible to be snapped.

After all, this is a civilized army, an army with strict discipline, and the military discipline of this army stipulates that no more than two women shall be fornicated, and they should be married afterwards, and they will be severely punished!

After the city was broken, the Qingwatai palace was in a mess, and the king of Gaoji ordered people to pack up the gold and silver and prepare to run away, and just fled to the palace gate, he was blocked back by the oncoming "colonial army", so he had to take off his royal robe and play hide and seek in the palace, and finally was pulled out and brought to Zhou Ming.

"Don't kill the widow, don't kill the widow! The widow has millions of treasures, the widow has countless beauties, I am willing to give it to all the heroes, as long as the heroes withdraw from the country of the widows, any conditions, the widows will agree to it!"

King Gao Ji trembled violently, desperately begging for mercy, and when he said that the back was wet, his trouser legs were wet, and there was a fishy commotion, and he was so frightened that he peed his pants.

"Send it to Ryukyu Island as a slave laborer, this king is physically strong, and it should not be a problem to contribute his physical strength to the colonization cause for more than ten years. ”

Zhou Ming instructed the deputy on the side, too lazy to deal with this Gaoji king, because in the past four years, this Gaoji king sent troops to attack Qizhou Island twice, sent two waves of heads, but was reversed, and after being plundered hundreds of thousands of people twice, he did not give up, and actually sent diplomatic envoys to the capital of the Great Zhou Emperor to cry for help.

Fortunately, these diplomatic envoys were all intercepted and killed in Qingzhou, otherwise, I don't know how much trouble it would bring to Zhou Ming.

This also angered Zhou Ming, and he immediately led his troops into Kaijing City, not only to plunder all the population and property of this royal city, but also to clean up this Gaoji King and demote him to a pioneer slave laborer!

Having disposed of King Goji, the colonial army continued to search the palace.

"Young master, the brothers have found two beauties and want to dedicate them to the young master. ”

"No, enjoy yourselves. ”

"Young master, these two beauties are too beautiful, and the brothers dare not enjoy them, so they are specially dedicated to the young master. ”

"Oh, bring it to me. ”

After a while, seeing the two beauties standing in front of him, frightened, like sheep, Zhou Ming, who was not particularly interested in Gaoji women, moved his heart and took them down.

They are indeed too beautiful, one looks like Zheng Xiujing, and the other looks like Jun Jixian, both of them are natural versions of non-plastic surgery, with outstanding temperament and sweet voices, Zhou Ming feels a little uncontrollable, let alone those ordinary soldiers...... Of course, those soldiers also know the sense of proportion, and this level of beauty is definitely not something they can touch.

The next day, three strokes on the day,

Zhou Ming, who had been fighting all night, got up from the bed where King Gao Ji was sleeping, removed the pink arms and jade legs on his body, and saw two sleeping beauties at a glance, with tears and satisfaction on their faces.

"Gaoji woman, really powerful, at home, I can draw five wives and concubines at a time, these are only two beauties, so my body is a little unbearable, I am only twenty-seven, the kidney should be okay......"

After finally getting up and rubbing his unusually sore waist, Zhou Ming decided that from today onwards, he must strengthen his health.