After the main body of the boiler was brought back, the accessories that the boat had been sending in the past few days also came in handy. Then, within two days, smoke billowed from the backyard of the Tianhou Temple.

With this big gimmick, there were suddenly more people carrying chickens and duck eggs to the Tianhou Temple to sell, and everyone wanted to go to the backyard to see if the big iron stove emitting black smoke was burning children.

So Ding Liqiu hurriedly ordered the backyard to be isolated separately, no matter who came, they could get the opportunity to visit, and they could also drink a bowl of boiler tea for free, but this move was greatly appreciated among the locals.

At the same time, small boats brought in a large number of "overseers" from downstream. As soon as they came, they took leather whips and short sticks, pencils in their ears, and work books under their armpits, and began to direct the migrant workers recruited by the county government from the four townships to build the wharf.

A new trade spread among the crowd, and anyone who could carry a basket of charcoal could use it to exchange it for salt, rice, or silver.

Most of the people don't believe it, and these people who are scared by the government don't believe that pie in the sky falls. However, under the pressure of a difficult life, there are always a few people who are willing to eat crabs once.

Twelve miles away from the county seat, a wrinkled old farmer came, hunched over and carrying a basket of charcoal dug from a black ditch at the back of the village. Then, under the watchful eyes of many people who eat melons, he changed to a wooden spoon of white salt grains, which the mountain people usually eat yellow and black salt sand.

Sometimes you don't need a thousand gold to buy horse bones, a spoonful of salt is enough.

From this day on, an endless stream of "carbon bearers" appeared, and there were even women and children in the team.

Things are always in flux. When a few large clan households near the coal-producing areas figured out the situation, they sent people to seal the fields overnight, some began to set up cards to collect taxes, and some simply stopped outsiders from digging coal, and only allowed their own families to make money.

The snow-white rice and salt grains were so unbearable that the dark-skinned mountain people could bear it, and several large-scale armed fights quickly broke out around the right to mine coal, which was worthless a few days ago, resulting in twenty or thirty lives and countless casualties.

Such a rapid evolution made Yu Daxian Ling dumbfounded, in fact, he hadn't even thought about the causes and consequences of the "salt for coal" incident, and the subsequent impact, and as a result, things had developed to this point.

Master Yu was inexplicably a little anxious.

There are too many things that have happened these days. This group of shorthairs kept making trouble, living in the barracks and being able to move a big iron furnace, and repairing the wharf to make salt for charcoal, all of which made him accustomed to the slow pace of the Middle Ages overwhelmed.

Master Yu now feels that things are a little out of control.

So when Ding Liqiu came to ask the county government to send out manpower and set off with the Red Gun Battalion to suppress the civil unrest, Yu County Ling was quite unhappy that you did it, and now you want me to wipe my shares

In the end, under Ding Liqiu's good words, Master Yu reluctantly agreed, but the officials of the three chapters of the law only maintained order and were not responsible for opening the film, and there would be benefits afterwards

Early the next morning, the large army of Hao Hao dàng) dàng) set out. In the team, there were not only the main Red Gun Battalion, but also hundreds of officials, as well as several businessmen led by Dong Daxing and their entourage.

The time to show its strength soon came, and in front of a mine, a 200-strong Red Lance battalion confronted a nearly native. The officials and merchants ran to the distant place early and began to watch the play.

The play is very good-looking.

160 soldiers with red and white wooden poles and spears first formed a phalanx and slowly walked over. Just when the two sides were close to a distance of 20 meters, the spearmen instantly knelt under the command of the electric horn, and then the 40 bird-stalkers in the center of the phalanx played four rows of rounds.

Although the Spanish phalanx that crossed the SPY is not an anti-dog, it is enough to deal with these clan forces that can only fight.

More than 20 people were knocked over on the spot with 40 bullets, and then the spear array rushed forward under the pressure of the queue that was slowly pressed by the same dress and pace, and the natives began to retreat without surprise.

The next moment, two U.S. military-style shock grenades were thrown out of the phalanx by someone at a high altitude, and then the natives collapsed with the two grenades falling in the center of the circle, and a large number of mountain people were densely shaken and collapsed, and there were many people covering their ears and drooling on the periphery, and they were shocked into fools staggering and pretending to be walking corpses.

The collapse of the ranks was best dealt with, and the soldiers of the Red Gun Battalion began to knock all the natives who fell behind to the ground with the backs of their knives and guns.

Next is the battle of Tulou.

In the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, millions of well-dressed warriors were forced by the war to start from the Central Plains and take the first step to move south. During the Tang and Song dynasties, it moved south several times on a large scale, entering southern Jiangxi, eastern Jiangxi into western Fujian, and northern Fujian.

The Changting area north of Longyan is also known as the "Hakka capital" of Fujian, and the ancestors began to go south from here, including Longyan, Sanming, Zhangzhou and other places, all of which are important and important gathering places for the formation of the Hakka people.

At this point in time in the 17th century, more than 80 of the local aborigines of Longyan were Hakka. And what is the most famous thing left by the Hakka people to future generations?

The Hakka tulou, which is listed on the World Heritage List, is made of rammed clay and sand stone on the lower floor, and the upper floor is a plywood wooden house.

These tulou are usually in the shape of large concentric circles and squares. A so-called tulou is actually a small walled city with a strong defensive function, which is inhabited by dozens of families and hundreds of people of the same clan.

And the marker of a large clan in southwest Fujian is usually the tulou group. Seven or eight perfectly circular earthen buildings gather in the mountains, looking from afar like a bunch of alien UFO Hakka culture symbols.

The next thing the Red Gun Battalion has to deal with is the nearby Chen's tulou group.

Tulou, which is very effective against bandits, is useless in front of a certain army. Before the young men who fled back to the tulou could organize an effective defense, in fact, the stone ash bottles could not be called effective, and the attack on this side began.

The simple and effective attack is divided into two steps, the first step is to suppress the wall head with a bird gun made by industrial machines, and the second step is to charge the demoman.

At that time, so many machine guns and rifles could not stop the surprise attack of the Turkish communist demomen, let alone the natives of the 17th century.

Only a few of the people who cowered behind the wall saw the figure scurrying over, and the two ash bottles that were hurriedly thrown out were like melon peels thrown out through the wall, and they were useless except to scare people.

The next moment, the wooden gate was blown apart by the explosives pack, and when the officers and soldiers in short coats rushed into the tulou, the Chen family had no choice but to surrender.

This Tulou Battle was the first battle of a company of soldiers in the Ming Continent.

Although there was some restraint in equipment, the officers and soldiers with a much higher degree of organization than the indigenous ones still cut melons and vegetables to take down their opponents.

The Chen family thought that a catastrophe was coming.

After the first earthen building that gathered the young and strong people of the clan was breached, the entire clan was in fact a lamb to the slaughter.

Everyone knows that the reason why the overlords can compete with the bandits and the government is because of the turtle stream that gathers clans.

Today, in full view of everyone, the Chen family was not only defeated by officers and soldiers far less than their own in the field battle, but even the hardest fortress was easily breached.

This seemingly simple, but high-tech way of breaking the city not only completely wiped out the Chen family's will to resist, but also surprised the melon-eating masses who watched the battle.

Then came the time for the post-war trial.

To everyone's surprise, the high-spirited officers and soldiers not only did not wantonly loot in Chenjiazhai, but instead summoned people from all forces to the public hall in the middle of the tulou, and then Master Ding Liqiu Ding came forward and solemnly announced a good news, Heipigou Mining Co., Ltd. was established

The mining company is composed of the following shareholders: the cross-party responsible for the acquisition of products and the acquisition of technology and machinery, the county businessman who is responsible for the start-up capital and management, the Chen family in charge of human resources, and several nearby large and small clans.

The agreement was signed very quickly.

The businessmen led by Dong Daxing had already been prepared, and the Chen family, the head snake, had already lost their bargaining power, and dozens of young corpses and tattered walled gates made the patriarch extremely sober, and everyone knew how to choose between exterminating the clan and signing a Laoshzi deed.

The cold and embarrassing scene of the mining company's listing ceremony was completed in a pool of bayonets and blood.

After that, the officers and soldiers of the liquidation procedure were not dispatched in vain, and if the Chen family was not punished, wouldn't everyone be able to violently resist the law

So the Chen family's 100 Ding Zhuang was "confiscated" as a punishment. These people will work for three months at the county wharf construction site, crossing the crowd and only taking care of food, not paying wages and fines or something, to be honest, some people really don't look down on that bit of silver.

However, passing through the things that the public doesn't look down on, it doesn't mean that others don't like Wang Haogu, who came forward to evaluate this operation on behalf of the county master, and Master Wang stood up in time.

After Master Wang jumped out, he immediately pointed out from a lofty position that first, the Chen family owed the government taxes over the years, and it was time to take this opportunity to clear it up.

Second, since this newly opened commercial bank wants to run a mine, it needs to go to the county government to buy official certificates, and in the future, it will also have to open taxes.

The Chen family on the side wanted to say something at this time, so they were waiting here.

However, people are swords, I am fish, and it is useless to understand them. The Chen family was defeated this time in an imaginary battle, and after fighting with incompetent officers and soldiers, the Chen family not only lost dozens of Ding Zhuang, but also hundreds of more wounded, hundreds of loads of grain and rice, not to mention a large sum of silver, and was forcibly pulled away by 100 soldiers

The tragic situation of the Chen family, which was greatly damaged, spread to all the nearby forces overnight. The chapter content is being restored, so please visit it later.