"Lao Lin, what's going on with this Daming Royal Construction Team?"

An old man with gray hair, with a few half-sized children, squatted in the corner of the slum wall that was about to be demolished, held a dry tobacco pipe in his hand, smoked a dry tobacco, and asked an old boy on the side.

"This ...... The old man didn't know very well, but it should mean working for the royal family and exchanging labor for money, food and housing. ”

This old boy is an old boy on the coast of Fujian, because his family is in the middle of the road, he has to cross the ocean and take his family to Dayuan Island to open up wasteland.

Unexpectedly, his family had just settled down, and on this day, the city built by Westerners had changed the king's banner at the head of the city.

No! It was the city of the Westerners that was captured by the Ming court.

Those Westerners were either killed or all arrested, and all the Westerners' family property was confiscated by the army of the Ming court.

It's just that not only were the Westerners and the guilty natives in these two cities all killed or incorporated into the labor camp, but all the Han people in this southern area were also organized to form a royal building brigade.

This Tainan, because Dayuan Island has just been named Taiwan by His Majesty the Emperor, which means southern Taiwan.

"Lao Li, your family of seven, isn't it just right now?"

Lao Tong Sheng Lao Lin comforted some old friends who were nervous, "These soldiers said that joining the royal construction brigade will include three meals a day and wages. ”

"Soon, I will live in a big house built by the imperial court in advance, but I have to work for about five years, and with the money I earn, I will be able to buy the big house I live in."

"Moreover, joining the Royal Building Brigade is mandatory, not that you don't want to join."

"Anyway, the imperial court has three meals a day, what are you afraid of?" ……

Early in the morning, the slum area in the southern city of Geranza was very lively, and tens of thousands of people from the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty surrounded a group of soldiers and civil officials, and listened carefully to the explanations of these people.

To the north of the city is the main town, where the Dutch colonists and their soldiers lived.

The Han and Gaoshan people who came to Taiwan to reclaim the land used to live in the southern district.

The terrain here is cramped, less than two square kilometers, but there are 40,000 or 50,000 people, simple wooden houses are next to each other, and the streets are also full of sewage and stinking.

A storm that lasted for three days had just passed, and the city was in shambles.

Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao had already made everyone ready, and neither the ships of the Grand Fleet nor the safety of personnel and materials suffered any losses.

As soon as the storm ended, Zhu Youxiao gave an order, and the promotion of the two basic national policies immediately began.

The first thing to do is to publicize the welfare of the Royal Building Brigade and the work that everyone needs to do to these organized Han people.

"Folks, our Majesty said that from today onwards, Taiwan will be the land of our Ming Dynasty! By the way, in the future, this Dayuan Island will be renamed Taiwan. ”

"Everyone is in the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty can't get along, so they came to Taiwan to beg for a living, our new Ming Dynasty, and the previous imperial court practices, specifically like this......"

After a day of publicity, the large-scale construction and large-scale production of "cash-for-work" immediately began.

The first place to be cleaned up and renovated is the two cities and the docks that were originally built by Westerners, which is the first thing that must be done.

With so many ships in the Royal Navy, there must be two large ports to dock.

The soldiers couldn't help but make a choice, half voluntarily and half coerced, and the people, who had always been unclothed and hungry, naturally participated without any suspense.

Of course, the hardest and most tiring work was done by the captive Westerners, whether it was to atone for what they had done before, or to work until death.

However, even if this place is occupied, it is not so safe.

On the island of Taiwan, there are too many natives, all of whom are not very friendly to the Han people.

In order to settle it once and for all, Zhu Youxiao ordered to divide out a thousand-person team, and under the leadership of a famous general and colonel, they scattered in all directions.

The soldiers began to arrest all the indigenous tribes in Tainan, and demolished their villages, bringing back everyone and supplies!

With their own well-equipped and shrewd and powerful generals charging ahead, the officers and men of the Royal Navy's East China Sea Fleet are naturally ready to capture these Turkish tribes.

Almost every day, a large number of indigenous people were escorted back by the soldiers, and they were immediately ordered by Zhong Jixiang and Wu Xilin to be incorporated into the labor camp, and their ambitions were wiped out while carrying out labor reform. sweet potato

However, unexpectedly, under the condition of food and clothing, the labor enthusiasm of these natives is extremely high.

More than ten days later, with the participation of hundreds of thousands of natives, a super official road extends into the distance at a speed visible to the naked eye every day, and next to the big official road, 10,000 acres of ecological farms have sung up.

After the tens of thousands of natives who performed particularly well were allocated new houses to move in, these construction troops, which were mostly composed of barbarians, were stimulated to scream and more than doubled their enthusiasm.

At this time, in the Tainan area, there were no more indigenous people, and they regarded the Ming court as enemies and flood beasts, and they simply regarded the soldiers as living bodhisattvas!

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"This is the battleship "Hector", the lead battleship of the Dutch Navy? It's okay. ”

Zhu Youxiao came to a large warship captured by the Royal East China Sea Fleet, looked at this huge battleship with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons, and told the truth.

The main thing is that this Westerner warship, the wood used is too good, and after it was dismantled by the shipwrights of the Ming Empire, it can be used to create something practical.

Today's Westerners occupy most of the world's oceanic areas, and they don't get too much good timber for a hundred years.

This point, for the time being, is incomparable to the Ming Empire.

Zhu Youxiao's carpenter work needs this kind of rare wood to be able to create some high-quality products, so as to quickly improve his carpenter experience.

Therefore, most of the great warships obtained by these Westerners who were captured and dismantled were transported back to the capital by Zhu Youxiao's order for their own special use.

Moreover, the craftsmen of the Ming Empire, in the process of dismantling these Westerners' ships, were also able to obtain quite a lot of advanced shipbuilding concepts and technologies.

However, at most early next year, after the manufacture of the steam engine has been completely stabilized, the shipyards of the Imperial Empire will begin to build ironclad ships.

At present, some masters of the Royal Academy of Sciences have begun to enter various shipyards, lead craftsmen, build new types of docks, and begin to carry out various experiments and preparations for the development of ironclad ships.

After having a large steam engine, it was still possible to use mechanical power to press various parts of the ironclad ship using abrasives.

Moreover, under the suggestion of Zhu Youxiao, oxygen welding has also been studied by some masters of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

This solves some of the welding problems of the ironclad ship, so that the manufacture of the ironclad ship basically relieves the biggest problem.

Others such as: glassmaking, screw making, standard tool making...... and so on, it was also invented by a master who burst out with a lot of inspiration.

When the time comes, the ironclad ship with a steam engine will be manufactured, and there will be no difficulty.

At most, two years later, after the ironclad ship was built, when such a battleship sailed against the wind, there was no weakness.

The fleet of the Ming Empire can really sail in the open sea, and the future expansion action will undoubtedly be much faster.

"Well, it seems that in order to speed up the pace of expansion, we must stifle all the budding industrial trends in the rest of the countries, so as not to cause endless troubles."

Standing on the deck of this Westerner's second-class battleship, after pondering for a while, Zhu Youxiao made up his mind.

"Come, let's all go to the middle of the sea, try this Westerner battleship, and see what the feelings and differences are."

Zhu Youxiao called some of the crew members of a Leopard cruiser and boarded the bridge of the "Hector."

With his command, the sailors quickly raised the sails, two of the three iron anchors were pulled up, and the hull slowly left the dock, and one of the iron anchors left in the water slowly swayed under the impetus of the wind and waves.

"Anchor and go!"

The sailors put away the last big iron anchor, and with the "Hector" as the lead, several battleships rushed out and headed straight beyond the harbor.

Everyone tested for an hour before returning to the big port that had been expanded, and everyone was still unsatisfied and had a great harvest.

"Your Majesty, although this Westerner warship is not as fast as our Leopard cruiser, its endurance and ease of maneuvering are not lagging behind our battleship, so you can ask our shipwrights to learn from it."

"Yes, Your Majesty, this kind of Westerner warship, there are some aspects that are still worthy of our reference."

The two Royal Admirals, after disembarking, spoke their minds to His Majesty the Emperor.

Zhu Youxiao nodded, and then ordered to gather all the generals and prepare to continue the operation against the enemy.

Everything here is on the right track, but the time has come to fully occupy the entire island of Taiwan.