After Zheng Zhilong was recruited, he continued to fight pirates and was constantly promoted, and even 5 years later, he became the deputy commander of South Australia; After exterminating the last pirate Liu Xiang, Zheng Zhilong was successfully promoted to the general army of Fujian.

In the plane of traversing, because the pirates were almost wrapped in dumplings at one time, and Liu Xiang, the only one who ran away in the formation, also went to Guangdong, so Cao Chuan's contribution this time is much greater than in history, and now it depends on how big the official hat of the Chongzhen brother will come down.

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Early the next morning, a number of pieces from Fujian officialdom began to embark on the road of military urgency. At the same time, it was sent from Fuzhou City to all parts of Fujian, as well as another official document from the governor's yamen.

This document is a long-awaited immigration plan. Xiong Wencan made it clear in his official document that the pro-people officials in various localities could gather the victims of the severe drought and go to Fuzhou or Xiamen Zhongzuo Institute, and these people would be accepted by the guerrilla general Cao Chuan.

It was in this way that Zheng Zhilong in history fooled tens of thousands of immigrants to Taiwan to reclaim the famine: "People give three taels of silver, and households give one cow." In fact, when the immigrants go to Taiwan, they will find that there is silver, but there are definitely few cows, so Zheng Zhilong is a big fool.

Of course, the traversal will learn this lesson. After that, the immigration notices posted in Fuzhou and various parts of southern Fujian did not promise money or cattle, but only jobs, housing and enough food.

On August 29, 1628, the 10th day after the launch of the Zhangzhou Bay Pirate Annihilation War, the city of Zhongzuo in the south of Xiamen Island.

A large number of workers are busy near the docks. And a square, flat-decked monster ship is using a crane in the bow to lift the sunken ships on the shore one after another and transfer them to the shore.

This ship is the latest flat-deck engineering ship "Haidilao III" produced by Taijiang Shipyard. The Haidilao III with bulwarks was a key project of the shipyard in 1628, which not only installed a crane, but also had a diesel power system, which could cross the strait at a speed of 5 knots, and was a high-end ship type that took up a lot of imported materials.

Haidilao departed from Dayuan three days ago, and the cargo was escorted by a large number of ships, and it took two days to arrive at the Zhongzuo Institute.

At this moment, the situation in Zhangzhou Bay has quickly calmed down. Under the joint search of the officers and soldiers at sea and the soldiers of the land guards, most of the exiled pirates were all in the prisoner camp within a week...... Don't think that the guards have no combat effectiveness, the price of 3 taels of silver per person is enough for 50 guards to rush to 10 pirates who escaped ashore with red eyes in a wild roar.

After Zhangzhou Bay is cleaned up, the crossing will start construction on Xiamen Island.

In terms of geographical location, Xiamen Island, which is stuck at the mouth of Zhangzhou Bay, is more suitable for foreign trade than Moon Port.

Historically, Zheng Zhilong relied on the geographical advantages of the Zhongzuo Institute to carry out foreign trade and operated Xiamen into his hometown and international trade port. He first monopolized foreign trade rights in his own hands by cracking down on Moon Harbor and other pirates; Then he began to sell the order flag: 3,000 taels of silver per piece, who knows who runs the sea trade.

This rough management method is suitable for Zheng Zhilong, not for traversing the public.

Lao Zheng is a monopoly, and traversing the public is a comprehensive net. For the traversing forces that have opened up the trade support points of Hangzhou-Fuzhou-Dayuan-Nagasaki, Xiamen is just one of the outlets in the big business pattern, and it is far less important than Zheng Zhilong's life.

You must know that in the planning of the traversal, after two or three years at most, the old man plans to go to Panyu to speculate in real estate, and at the worst, he will rob the Portuguese to build a casino. Therefore, Xiamen Island in this plane is an ordinary trading port, and it is not worth fighting.

Of course, the center left is still very important at the moment, and the necessary buildings are also indispensable: heavy-duty docks, warehouses, hotels, artillery towers...... And, of course, the most important boiler rooms and combined power generation equipment.

With the return of the first wave of ships transporting pirates to Dayuan, a large number of skilled builders and building materials were also transported to the center. The original dilapidated dock area has now begun to be in full swing.

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The first to be installed was a boiler system in a simple wooden shed.

This set of boilers named "Jingsang No. 1 type" is a three-way horizontal atmospheric fire-tube boiler independently designed and built by the kiln base according to its own conditions, imitating the boiler models commonly used in later generations. The "Jingsang" series of boilers have a complete range of models, ranging from 0.5 tons to 5 tons, and have now become an indispensable standing item for the society.

The boiler that was transported to the center and left is not large, about the same as the general small box cargo, 3 tons. Due to the inability to handle the welding process and the large-scale coiling process, the boilers produced in the kiln area are all square riveted shells.

Riveting is a relatively low-demand industrial connection method. A small number of riveting machines + manual operation are used in the kiln area, and the effect is quite good. After all, these boilers are atmospheric fire-tube boilers, and the requirements are not so high.

Compared with the water tube boiler, the fire-tube boiler is a little LO.

The heating surface of the water tube boiler is composed of many curved small tubes, which can withstand high pressure and high thermal efficiency, and the boiler efficiency can reach more than 90% after using superheater, economizer and preheater.

The disadvantages of water-tube boilers are that they have complex structure, large volume, and high requirements for automatic control and operation level, and are only suitable for large and medium-sized factories and power plants.

With the pitiful industrial base ability of traversing the crowd, he can neither build this thing nor serve this thing...... At least for the time being.

Therefore, the fire-tube boiler dominates the country.

The fire tube boiler has a simple and compact structure, and the requirements for water quality are lower than those of the water tube boiler, which is the boiler that is most in line with the original industrial production. Although the fire tube has low thermal efficiency and is sensitive to pressure, it does not matter if it does not worry about fuel and does not need high pressure.

Fuel is the planks of those broken ships.

There were originally more than 30 wooden boats that had been sunk by shells. Because these ships blocked the shipping lane, they were immediately towed to the shore by Haidilao to wait for dismantling.

Then it was the turn of the battered fishing boats. Of the nearly 700 ships of all colors seized by the traversal, almost half of them were ragged fishing boats with rats and cockroaches in their holds.

All of the above rags, which have a small cargo capacity and no long-distance sailing ability, will eventually be used to burn boilers. As for the remaining 300-odd Chinese-style boats, which are mainly fortune boats, Guangzhou boats, and bird boats, they will be sold by the crossing public to invigorate the local economy - if there are small entrepreneurs who can use Fujian's dense water network to organize the goods that the people need, such as coal and iron, then they can even "lend boats" to them to transport goods, and they will not even need interest when crossing the public.

For a certain force with increasingly strong industrial capacity, it is disdainful to use these motley ships. In the eyes of the traversing public, the "new lock ship", where most of the parts can be replaced by standard parts in the warehouse, is the main force of transportation in the future.

Because the fuel is water-containing wood, the boiler shed with billowing black smoke stands out in the docks. Next to the boiler shed, a brick generator room is being built. The core of this is a set of self-produced wood gas generator + imported gas generator in the kiln area.

The motor will bring searchlights, street lights, and future lighthouse lighting to the docks.

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The construction army of nearly 2,000 people is fighting in the center and left at the moment.

And these people are not all sent by the Crossing Congregation from the Great Members. At least 500 of them were hired by the comprador merchant group headed by Xu Xinsu in Yuegang. These people are responsible for building a commercial bank and a warehouse for Xu Dada.

After Xu Jiang always crossed the crowd, he first escaped from a mortal situation, and then regained his disadvantage step by step, gained a firm foothold, and finally in the incident of crossing the crowd against Zheng Zhilong, Xu always jumped up and down in it, and did his part.

Now that he has completed the PUBG, Mr. Xu Jiang, who has counterattacked these two major achievements, has begun to play the role of the head of the homecoming regiment in Yuegang.

Recently, the head of the regiment has not only been rebuilding Moon Port, but also purchased land according to the design drawings of Zhongzuo that the traversal people came up with, and is ready to take the comprador merchants to do a big job.

And the crossing of the crowd is naturally happy to see it. You must know that the players in the Xu Da comprador group are all businessmen who have purchase and sales channels in southern Fujian, and they are natural regional distributors. These people can not only get all kinds of industrial raw materials for the traversal, but also men and women.

And the current work of the crossing is very simple: you only need to set up a Minnan Industrial Products Wholesale Corporation, and then divide the areas of their respective agents for them. After that, Xu Jiang could always be promoted to the general agent of Zhangquan area, and Meizizi walked to the peak of his life.

In short, when most of the pirates that ravaged the coast are swept away, the entire Fujian region will soon usher in a wave of economic rebound and construction upsurge. And this situation, under the influence of the crossing forces, will gradually evolve into a deep-seated storm of social change, pushing all people to involuntarily embark on the road of rebirth.

The dividends of exterminating pirates don't stop there. Just like planned in advance, after this battle, a certain border force in a remote corner officially stepped onto the stage of disputes in the late Ming Dynasty and was listed here in the Ming Dynasty.

And with the current deteriorating predicament of the Ming court, Emperor Chongzhen will not have to "trouble" through the crowd to protect the country for him in the future, and save the society - this is exactly in the hands of some ill-intentioned people.

is different from Zheng Zhilong, who was killed in history and did not leave the nest, but he is very willing to "pull his brothers" here.

Whether it is the black soil outside the Guanwai where Jiannu is rampant, or the hinterland of the Central Plains where thieves are everywhere, the traversers are very willing to visit these places, and place their trade routes and rumbling machines in those places, becoming the fulcrum of controlling the situation everywhere.

The Ming Dynasty, on the other hand, will get its due destination at a suitable time after the completion of the layout of the crossing forces.