Oriental Community No. 1 Courtyard, a three-story villa is being built, the area of the courtyard is not small, put down a villa rubbed more than enough, the villa is built in accordance with the style designed by Chen Zijian, the original first floor Chen Zijian is not eye-catching, and will only become a place to entertain guests in the future, or transformed into other uses.

Because it is the place where the chief lives, Chen Zijian uses his privileges to do things with many employees, and the work process is very fast, the first floor of the villa has been completed, and the skeleton of the second floor is being built. With enough manpower, it only takes five days to complete the construction of one floor.

According to the work process, there is still half a month to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and the villa can be moved in before the New Year.

Elsewhere in the No. 1 courtyard, gardens were also built according to Chen Zijian's design drawings.

Chen Zijian rebuilt the villa and mobilized hundreds of people to do things for him, but no one came to advise Chen Zijian not to be greedy for pleasure and waste people's strength, even if it was Zhang Youde, he had the most knowledge among everyone, and he could not see Chen Zijian's actions, let alone be like the great Ming Shi Doctor.

It is true that Chen Zijian consumes people's power to build villas, but the people who do things for him are all the people of the subordinate China Construction and Housing Bureau, all of whom are hired by Chen Zijian, and as the leader of the force, who dares to oppose it.

Because the entry and exit of the people in the small courtyard was not conducive to Li Zhuer's fetus, Chen Zijian took his family to the guest house in the government building to live temporarily.

Living in the guest house, Chen Zijian didn't feel anything, he didn't live there, didn't he live in the wild before, and the accommodation conditions in the guest house were good, after all, he was the face of Zhangjiacheng to the outside world. And there is another advantage of living here, that is, it is much more convenient for Chen Zijian to go to work, and there is a government building next to it.

A new piece of information was sent to Chen Zijian, after reading it, Chen Zijian felt that in the northern battlefield, Li Zicheng's Dashun and the Qing soldiers decided the victory, ending with the Dashun fiasco, after the Dashun attacked Beiping, the territory occupied by the Yangtze River from the north of the Yangtze River to the south of the Great Wall defense line and the area east of the Mongolian Plateau, but because of the short time that the Dashun army occupied the territory, and his own style of doing things, after the decisive battle between the elite main force of the Dashun army and the Qing soldiers consumed most of it, Li Zicheng's Dashun Kingdom fell apart in a short period of time.

Chen Zijian is in the southern region, the speed of receiving news is too slow, knowing that the news of the northern battlefield has passed for more than a month, the Qing soldiers entering the customs is not good news, but there is also a Southern Ming court in front, the Qing soldiers want to rule the Chinese region, the Southern Ming court supported the Fu King Zhu Yousong as the emperor, changed the Yuan Hongguang, and continued the Ming Dynasty's Zongmiao Sheji, Zhu Yousong is the Ming Anzong, also known as the Hongguang Emperor. (There is a difference from the historical time, so don't take it seriously!) ）

"Alas"

I don't know the blessing in the blessing, how can I be blessed if I mess up the country, there is no peace in turmoil and war, and I will never be a slave to the country.

With Chen Zijian's cultural level, he can also say such a saliva poem.

Throw the documents aside, I don't want to take care of the affairs of the north for the time being, and I don't have the ability to manage it, with the current ability of the volunteers, traveling long distances to the north, participating in such a battlefield is undoubtedly an act of looking for death, all Chen Zijian knew in advance about the entry of the Qing soldiers, and he didn't make preparations, he didn't think that with the current volunteers, he could do anything.

The affairs in the north have not affected the development of the Volunteer Army, Chen Zijian doesn't care about the big things that happen, the sky is falling and the Southern Ming Dynasty is still on top.

When the Qing Dynasty had the ability to destroy the Southern Ming Dynasty, the strength of the volunteers was already extraordinary, and it was not necessarily who would clean up at that time.

However, Chen Zijian still increased the manufacturing of thermal weapons, the last time 5,000 blacksmiths, plus their families, because there was a tradition of sons inheriting their father's business in this era, in addition to 5,000 blacksmiths, there were at least more than 5,000 skilled apprentices, they followed their father to learn to make iron since childhood, and their skills were better than ordinary apprentices.

With the addition of these people, the manufacture of thermal weapons is faster, a manufacturing and building is a different change, manufacturing is more rapid and efficient, much stronger than the traditional building, with the current manufacturing capacity of Zhangjiacheng, it can produce 2,000 barrels a day.

Why not all the volunteers are not equipped with mini guns, it is because of the restriction of gunpowder, not to mention the generation of Maoming County, that is, the entire eastern Guangdong Province, there is very little sulfur output, and the sulfur used now is all accumulated in the previous county and found from several counties, because the volunteers use a huge amount of sulfur and have little sulfur reserves.

In order to improve the overall combat level of the volunteers, the sulfur level is something that Chen Zijian urgently needs to solve, otherwise the Mini gun is a burning stick, and thousands of Hongyi cannons are a bunch of decorations.

If Chen Zijian puts aside his prejudice against businessmen, it is not a problem to trade to obtain sulfur, as for Chen Zijian's identity as a thief, businessmen will not care about this, they will not mind selling everything if they have silver to earn, and betraying the country is just a starting price for them whether they can pay it, then the future eight imperial merchants of Shanxi will not officially sell all kinds of forbidden goods to the Tartars to make a fortune!

Chen Zijian is eager to copy the other party's whole family for the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, who is interested in trading with them, and the sulfur can't count on them, and Chen Zijian needs a huge amount of sulfur, which those merchants can't provide.

The sulfur produced in the Chinese region is small, and most of it is imported from the Japanese country.

Chen Zijian's office, with a huge map of the world, holding a small flag, planted on an island, Taiwan!

Taiwan as the first island in China, there are abundant sulfur mines on the island, in addition to Taiwan Island, there are few large reserves in the Chinese region, easy to mine sulfur, plus Taiwan is not far from the place where Chen Zijian is, through sea transportation can transport Taiwan's sulfur back.

What Chen Zijian knows, there are a lot of sulfur in Asia, as well as in the Wa Kingdom and Indonesia, but they are too far away from Zhangjiacheng, Chen Zijian's hand can't reach for the time being, and Chen Zijian in Taiwan has the ability to eat it.

Taiwan is now ruled by the Dutch, and going north to Taiwan has to pass through Fujian, colliding with the Zheng Zhilong pirate gang in Fujian, Chen Zijian wants to completely control Taiwan, and there will be a war with the Dutch and Zheng Zhilong.

As for the other two declining forces, Portugal and Spain, two of them belong to the role of playing soy sauce, making some pocket money on the premise of not offending the Netherlands, their sea power is okay to bully the natives on the island in Southeast Asia, that is, Zheng Zhilong, whose power is much weaker than the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain dare not cross the Lei Chi, the two countries used to trade in Yuezhou City, and Portugal even had a place to trade in Macao in a deceptive way.

Don't look at Portugal has a place to do trade, but they also have to look at the face of the Yuezhou City Official, if the official is not happy with Portugal, let Portugal mix at sea in minutes, but Portugal has long learned the rules after dealing with the Ming people over the years, and usually sends a large amount of silver to local officials, plus everyone in this era does not care much about the concept of territory, and the Portuguese occupation of Macao The imperial court knows that it doesn't actually care.

In this era, everyone does not know much about the earth, more than a place, less a place is very casual, the later generations of the earth countries on the earth land reconnaissance is clear, plus the concept of land is deep, less than one square meter has to quarrel for a long time.

Because of the rise of Chen Zijian's bandit gang, Portugal and Spain are not having a good time, and the impact of Chen Zijian's interception of all ships in the sea of eastern Guangdong Province has been produced, after all, after almost a few months, there is no communication between the north and the south, and any trade ships have disappeared, and people with a little brain know that something is wrong, among which the Netherlands reacts the fastest.

The Dutch made a lot of money by monopolizing the trade between the East and the West, and for several months, the ships going to the East for trade disappeared, and the Dutch in Taiwan found that life in Taiwan was becoming increasingly difficult without a companion for so long.

There are no more than 2,000 Dutch people in Taiwan, most of whom are soldiers, used to fight, and there have been no supplies for such a long time, Taiwan is still an undeveloped area, and it is conceivable that life here without supplies can be imagined. They sent a boat to Jakarta, but so far there is no news.

The various forces, merchants, and families who do maritime trade have found problems during this time, because there have been no trading ships from Southeast Asia for too long, and the spices of Southeast Asia are the places where Daming spices are provided.

Because the fortune boat transformed by Chen Zijian is much happier than other ships, coupled with the observation of telescopes, few ships discovered by the navy can escape, and even if they escape, it is only a small number of ships, and their survival after escaping is problematic, whether they can send the news to Jakarta, or where they need to say is difficult to say.

The task of attacking Taiwan has been set, and the next thing is to perfect the plan, and the first thing to do in an attack on the sea is to have enough ships, and it is useless to say anything without ships.

The construction of the Fu ship has not stopped, not only has it not stopped, Chen Zijian has been increasing the number of shipbuilders, in Zhangjiacheng Shipyard, the construction of a Fu ship is very fast, because there are standards, shipbuilding is just to install the parts made in advance.

There are already 150 lucky boats that have been launched on the riverside, and the next things are transformed into warships, or transport ships, or fishing boats according to demand.

Taiwan must be in the hands of Hainan Island, after all, the iron ore in Shayuan Town can still support for a while, but the sulfur cannot compensate. No sulphur means no gunpowder, no gunpowder, and the combat effectiveness of the volunteers is reduced by more than half.

The soldiers who came into the Volunteer Army were trained for less than half a year, and it took a long time to train for cold weapon combat, otherwise the combat effectiveness can be imagined, and there is almost none. Don't look at the thieves who casually pull the people into the ranks, it seems that the number of people is huge, and if you really encounter a general who can fight, you can defeat a group of rabble in a few clicks.

If the volunteers fought with cold weapons, their combat effectiveness would be okay with that of the imperial court, and if they encountered the cavalry of the Tartars, they would still be defeated. Cold weapon warfare was abandoned by Chen Zijian very early, what kind of cold weapons are still played in this era, and hot weapons are the king.

Gunpowder is a bottleneck that restricts the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the volunteers, and for the sake of sulfur, Taiwan must take it as soon as possible.