The battle with the Dutch solved a problem for Yan Changwu, that is, the labor force for the cement factory and the coal mine.

These two kinds of work are labor-intensive, and the people recruited from the mainland do not like to do it, they first love to dig in the soil to eat, and the second loves to go to the water to earn a living, and it is too hard to mine and enter the factory.

If they don't do it, Yan Changwu can't force them to do it, after all, he lacks people to cultivate land and become soldiers.

The prisoner of war camp was located in the interior, and the trenches were dug around the camp, with a fence wall inside, and the barracks where they lived were made of bamboo and thatch, and the mud and earth did not look very strong, but they kept out the rain and the windows were screened!

Wormwood was planted near the house, and the guards warned them not to step on those plants, which were mosquito repellent if they wanted to get malaria!

There is a passage in the middle of the barracks along the ridge, and on both sides of the aisle are small cubicles divided into two floors, each about two meters and a half in length, each of which is enough for five people, and the beds are made of bamboo strips, and they have towels and blankets. They had been searched from their dwelling in Orenji, and now they had been returned, and many of the supplies were theirs, but the distribution had been disrupted.

After everyone settled down, the POWs were gathered together to listen to an interpreter about the rules and regulations of the POW camp:

"First, don't go near the fence, if you go to the toilet at night, go straight and return, don't go around, otherwise we will shoot!

Do not try to run away, for those who flee will be punished severely!

Implement joint sitting, ten people in a class, one escapes, and the rest suffer!

Wait here in peace, we have sent to the Batavian authorities to redeem you.

We will not abuse you, we will guarantee that you will live, of course, it is impossible to live well.

Don't make trouble, be disciplined, and if you violate discipline, I believe we will make your life worse than death! The translator ended with a creepy remark.

So the POWs were disbanded and began their career in the POW camp.

On the whole, the prisoners of war were relatively safe and did not escape, after all, the Ming promised to send them back once Batavia paid the ransom, and there was no need to cause trouble.

The people live on food, and the food eaten by the prisoners of war is divided into grades!

Those servant troops, mainly natives from Batavia, eat sweet potato porridge!

A staple dish made with a dash of brown rice and sweet potatoes, the dish is greens and salted fish (the best fish is fresh).

The Red Fur Browns ate much better than the Servants, eating brown rice, but with greens and salted fish.

There are also Hongmao who eat well, that is, Hongmao who is willing to cooperate with Yan Changwu, mainly for experts with a skill: such as artillery officers, warship officers and ship repair masters, etc., as long as these people are willing to cooperate as consultants, they will be able to eat and drink well, and there are silver collars!

The place where they live is a brick house, two people live in one room, Beigang specially invited the master to make bread for them to eat, because there is no flour, or buy it across the sea.

Bread and milk (milk is available), the meal is four dishes and one soup, and they also find a washerwoman to do their laundry, and the cleaner goes to clean the house.

The silver for the treatment of experts is issued according to 30 taels of silver per month, and the other 20 taels of silver depends on the performance, and the price given is not small.

But not everyone can take office, they have to go through the assessment, and only 34 members are included who have real talents and real learning, and the rest are either unwilling to do it, or they can't do it, so they have to eat rice.

Those who eat sweet potato porridge and brown rice are neither accustomed to nor full, that is inevitable, and give them the strength to flee and make trouble?

So they ate as much food as they could, and they ate boiled rats, wild cats, lizards, locusts, and sometimes digging earthworms!

The Ming people were more favorable, and brought them pots and put some prisoners of war to fetch firewood, allowing them to cook their own food!

It seems that if they had the chance, they would become cannibals.

Just as everyone was eating the rations that were not enough to satisfy their stomachs, and everyone's bellies were on fire (almost ten days later), a news reached their camp: the Ming people had recruited miners, and the food was enough and the quality had improved!

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Yan Changwu was formerly a map editor, and he has a certain amount of research on geography and geology, and also attaches great importance to mineral resources!

After he had a certain ability, he immediately stretched out his tentacles and sent people to make maps and explore, and in the past year, he recorded the resources and terrain of the Tainan area.

The mineral resources of the area have found limestone, clay and coal mines!

So the people of Beigang Town saw a strange scene: the red-haired fan and the carried shovels, bamboo baskets, hoes and small carts, and went up the mountain to work for their big dragon head!

Ninety percent of the captives were dispatched, and soon the fruits were seen, with a steady stream of limestone, clay, and coal stone being mined.

And what they worked for was sturdy white rice and fresh fish, chicken, pork, milk and bread!

People die for money, birds die for food, no matter who they are, the days of having nothing to eat are really terrible, no one wants to go back to the past, hard work is nothing.

Moreover, the Ming people also used some means, such as group competitions, which group mined the most ore, and weighed the knots after a day, then the big fish and meat were the best; And whichever group has mined the least ore, you have to beat it back to its original shape and give the original kind of food!

The middle group is still a decent meal.

Under such pressure, each group cannot lag behind and work hard to mine!

So, no matter who you are, it's important to find a way!

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This group of miners worked for more than three months, contributing to Yan Dashao's career, digging a lot of mines, and also came to an end: Batavia (Jakarta, Indonesia, the headquarters of the Dutch Oriental Colony at that time) sent people.

Three proud Dutch gentlemen, Peter Poznan, Van Roesmaren, and Simon Celeste, boarded the North Harbor docks, and they did not bring warships with them, after all, the hostages were in the hands of the Akito.

They were greeted by Zhang Bo and Chen Hebin, and the main negotiator was Chen Hebin.

"You are very bold!" Pete threatened: "Although you have obtained our four large ships, we have fifty of the same ships, and there are ten bigger ships!" Luckily we came with sincerity, otherwise it would have been the fleet that would have flattened your place and left you with no bones! ”

Knowing something from the Dutch sent to Batavia to report the news, Mr. Pitt was informed.

Since he was so unpolite, Chen Hebin said directly: "As long as you open fire, then we will hang all your people on the tree!" ”

Knowing that the red-haired legs can't kneel, and can't speak Chinese with a straight tongue, Chen Hebin communicates with them in Dutch, and his foreign language skills are still good, knowing Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese.

"If you open fire, we will go inland, whether you can hit us or not is one thing, but we can definitely hang all your people on the tree!" Chen Hebin sneered.

Dutch gentlemen, suffocated!

Uncle Zhang said to the side and the mud: "If you want to fight, it will be a matter of the future, Gentlemen Holland, how much money do you have prepared as a ransom?" ”

"Ten silver dollars for each Caucasians, one silver dollar for ten others!" Pete Tian said shamelessly. (The conversion ratio is 0.68 taels of silver = 1 silver dollar, that is, a Caucasian person is not worth ten taels of silver, and the price of the Ming Dynasty is a range of four taels of silver to twenty-four taels of silver, depending on how beautiful they are)

Chen Hebin laughed angrily: "Fifty silver dollars for each Caucasian person, and one silver dollar for each other!" We will take as much as you bring to us! ”

The three venerable Mr. Holland were a little moved!

Immediately thinking that his three views were not correct, he hurriedly bargained: "We can only get twenty silver dollars for one white person, and two silver dollars for ten other people!" ”

Is it? Chen Hebin was too lazy to talk to the three gentlemen, and took them to visit the white people digging coal, so that they could sober up!