Returning from the bridge construction site, Chen Zijian was preparing for the next thing.

Zhangjia Village needs steel, a large amount of steel, and the iron ore in Shayuan Town can no longer meet the steel demand of Zhangjia Village, so it can only find new iron ore. Iron ore resources in eastern Guangdong Province are scarce, and there are only small iron ores with low yield, so it has become a new requirement to find high-quality and high-yield mining areas.

There are very few iron ore resources in the southern region, and various instruments have detected it in later generations, Chen Zijian does not need to waste manpower and material resources to find it in the southern region, even if it is found, it is difficult to mine, and Chen Zijian wants the best open-pit iron mine, as long as a layer of soil can be excavated.

Large reserves, small mining difficulty, convenient transportation, short distance to meet the four conditions, looking at the Ming Dynasty, only Taiwan Island and Hainan Island are now Qiongzhou Island.

If you want to go to Taiwan Island to develop, you will meet Zheng Zhilong's group of peers who are entrenched in Fujian, and now Zheng Zhilong is Zhao'an by the imperial court, but in Chen Zijian's view, everyone is a peer, and he will not be treated as a person of the court because Zheng Zhilong was Zhao'an, and the volunteers meet Zheng Zhilong's people, with Chen Zijian's character, they must have arrested people as miners, which is nothing to say, but this requires Chen Zijian to go out with his own hands, otherwise with the strength of less than ten warships in the current volunteers, the people who touch Zheng Zhilong are almost hot, Moreover, the current island of Taiwan is occupied by the Netherlands, a sea coachman, and Chen Zijian wants to get his hands on the island of Taiwan, and he needs to face two forces. With the current strength of the volunteers, the premise is that Chen Zijian does not make a move, and the volunteers are not qualified to fight.

The island of Taiwan was temporarily ignored by Chen Zijian, just temporarily, and when the Volunteer Navy was enough, he would kill Zheng Zhilong and the Dutch with crushing strength.

Chen Zijian will definitely be able to defeat Zheng Zhilong and the power of the Netherlands, but this kind of approach can only be said to be thankless, why do you say that? If Chen Zijian makes a move, the victory is certain, but the credit for doing so is all won by him, and the volunteers have no chance to shoot, so they can only be reduced to migrant workers who clean up the battlefield. You Chen Zijian is very powerful, you have done everything, and you don't give us any credit, so what else do you want the volunteers to do, it will make the people below deviate from morality.

What Chen Zijian has to do is that the volunteers have merit to reward them, as for the dead in the process of fighting, everyone can see it these days, as long as Chen Zijian does not eliminate their merits, what are the dead afraid of. Not only will he not complain about Chen Zijian, but he will follow him closely.

If the island of Taiwan is abandoned, it is now Qiongzhou Island.

Qiongzhou Island for the imperial court, tasteless food, it is a pity to abandon it, Qiongzhou Island is the imperial court as a place for criminals to be exiled, to put it bluntly, the power of the government on the island is worse than the government of Maoming County, pirates often go to the island to plunder, the government of Qiongzhou Island has no temper at all, in the eyes of the court, Qiongzhou Island is the child raised by the stepmother.

Chen Zijian checked the newly purchased history books, and in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had migrated 25,000 old soldiers to Tuntian, Hainan, a family of four, nearly 100,000 people, and there were 200,000 people on the island at that time. After that, the Ming Dynasty did not organize resettlement and development, and the people on the island of the entire Ming Dynasty have been maintained between 20-250,000. Far away from the imperial court, plus there are no large-scale wars, except for the occasional rebellion of the natives on the island, the military strength of the government on Qiongzhou Island is vulnerable in Chen Zijian's opinion, and the persimmon is looking for a soft pinch, isn't it!

At present, there are less than ten people at the top of the Volunteer Army, five regiment commanders who are fighting abroad, Li Shi, Li Hu and five of them, they used to be low-level people, it would be a joke to say how many strategies they have, a few guys can temporarily support it, and then manage the real legion, more than 10,000 people, and then it will be difficult to say Li Shi's ability, Li Shi and their eastern Guangdong Province have not been out, let alone read, and they are discussed with them at the strategic level, hehe, isn't it boring to find themselves.

For the time being, there are two high-level leaders of the Volunteer Army, one Zhang Youde and one Zhang San. Zhang Youde is responsible for the management of Zhangjia Village, the function is similar to the "prime minister" of later generations, Zhang San is responsible for the security affairs of Zhangjia Village, and now there are more than 10,000 members of the public security brigade under his command. Murder and arson, life imprisonment for mining, this kind of people are usually pirates, bandits, and the like caught by the volunteers.

Because of the shortage of manpower, Chen Zijian did not have time to slowly find evidence, try criminals, and throw them directly to mine if caught.

Zhang Youde and Zhang San also lacked strategic awareness, and Chen Zijian could only find a way to eat Qiongzhou Island by himself.

There are not many ships that can be used in Chen Zijian's hands, and the ships that can go to sea have been modified, equipped with Hongyi cannons, and handed over to Zhang Wu to intercept passing ships, and there are not enough ships to capture Qiongzhou Island.

In view of Chen Zijian's maritime policy, Zhangjiacun had already begun to build a dock, pile up wood, and prepare for shipbuilding.

Do you think there is a problem with building ships inland? The river near Zhangjiacun is about 30 meters wide, between five meters and 12 meters deep, and it is certainly not possible to build the kind of large ships in later generations, but don't forget, the boats built in Zhangjiacun are wooden boats, and the draft is enough for two or three meters, even if it is full of goods, the draft depth is only three or four meters, there is no big problem in building ships in Zhangjiacun, the Zhangjiacun River leads directly to the ocean, and after the ship is built from here, the volunteers can go directly to Qiongzhou Island.

As the leader of the Volunteers, Chen Zijian felt very sad that he had recently designed the construction process of the bridge, and now he was going to design a new boat.

Although the imperial court imposed a ban on the sea, the people still mastered the ability to build ships, but the old way of building ships took a long time, and Chen Zijian did not have so much time to wait for them, Chen Zijian wanted a simple and fast shipbuilding method.

The shape borrows from the Fu ship, the shape of the Fu ship has been used for so many years, there is no problem with the shape, the new ship is different from the previous one, the new ship will use a large number of iron nails, this is a leap in the shipbuilding industry, yes, it is a shipbuilding change, at least in East Asia, the iron nail to join the shipbuilding is a change.

Daming shipwrights use a mortise and tenon structure for shipbuilding, which can do without an iron nail, but this method has a disadvantage, that is, it requires many professional shipwrights and takes a long time. After adding iron nails, shipbuilding will be much easier, the original time-consuming and laborious mortise and tenon structure, now there is no need, one iron nail can be easily done, if one does not work, then two.

In the previous month, 50 docks have been built, shipbuilding will not only build a small amount, Chen Zijian has been focusing on opening up the sea, how can there be less docks, the dock is connected with the river, there is a gate valve in front of the dock, open the gate valve river water into the dock, before building a ship, you need to close the door valve, clean up the river water in the dock. Wait for the ship to be built, open the gate valve, let the boat float, and tow it out of the dock.

Throwing the pen on the table, Chen Zijian's shipbuilding plan was extremely simple, with white paper written on the use of iron nails to build ships, and the real thing would be seen in seven days. Then there are the various requirements for the width and height of the ship, and the documents are sent to the shipyard and handed over to others to be responsible, which is so capricious as a chief.

If you can complete the task, Chen Zijian will take credit, reward silver will not be soft, and there will be nothing left to complete, Chen Zijian specially marked on the document, and the team will be rewarded with 2,000 silver for completing the fleet on time, and 200 will be deducted by one day of delay, in this case, you must believe in the ability of the boatsmith. It is better to whip with silver than anything else.

To develop Qiongzhou Island, Chen Zijian let a legion go up to open the way in the early stage to eliminate the government and landlord forces, as for the strong gentry, there is no poor place in Qiongzhou Island, so the strong gentry will not come to this kind of place to endure hardship.

As long as there is a legion, Chen Zijian thinks that he can eat the official government of Qiongzhou Island, and then govern Qiongzhou Island, Chen Zijian plans to follow the management of Zhangjia Village, first arrest the people on the island, and the honest people arrange things to do, and the natives who dare to resist the volunteers are thrown away for mining, just because the excavation of iron ore requires manpower, Chen Zijian does not mind the aborigines on Qiongzhou Island resisting.

If the natives of Qiongzhou Island had to fight against the volunteers, then Chen Zijian could only do one thing, and release Li Si in Guam. Li Si was used by Chen Zijian to be blackened. If the natives on the island die unexpectedly, this matter is Li Si's responsibility, and Chen Zijian doesn't know.

In the future, there will be many natives who die unexpectedly in other regions, and this is all Li Si's doing, and something happened to exterminate the human world, so that Li Si will take the blame.