Shanghai South Island does not produce x products, which is the favorite goods of the Hechu people. Skade thought that perhaps we could follow the example of the Dutch in intermediate trade. Large-scale imports of x fabrics and porcelain from the mainland were then sold to the Dutch x. The Dutch people have always suffered from Zheng Zhilong's strict blockade of coastal trade, because the monopoly of Zheng Zhilong's X fabrics sold to the Hesheng people is very expensive, which cannot satisfy the Dutch people's desire to make super huge profits.

If it were up to us to sell to the Hollywoods, Diao Skaide had the idea that as long as the price was a little cheaper, the Dutch people would come to Lingao to buy x silk. Or just let them go to Erya Port to trade.

Of course, considering that in fact, the Ming Dynasty itself has a very large demand for spices, and it is not bad for the Dutch to bring spices to fill the shortage of export materials in Lingao, since the U-Hollywood people have cut off the spices of the Moluccas, the price of spices exported and sold has been very expensive. However, Zheng Zhilong and the others were still willing to accept the spices of the Dutch people as trade goods, and it was obvious that the profits from selling them to the mainland were still considerable, and we could also make money from this punishment, and Skade took a pencil and scribbled and smeared on the paper, thinking about how to force the Dutch people to sign an unequal treaty, and how to make the contents of each treaty as beneficial to themselves as possible. Approaching tomorrow, the thinning period will be over.

When he was having a headache, the phone rang again, and someone reported that a telegram had been sent from the Hongji station.

Shang Station was attacked by bandits in Hongji," the voice on the phone said urgently.

What the? Skade involuntarily screamed, and the female secretary who was always waiting for orders outside the door immediately pushed the door in, and Skade waved at her and let her out, what happened? There were no casualties. ”

The details were not clear, and the telegram said that at present, the merchant station relied on all bandits, and it had been repulsed. The indigenous clerk in charge of exchanging information said nervously on the phone.

Send the telegram right away. "Skaede's biggest concern is the safety of the Hongji station, and you must know that the development of Hongji is what he strongly advocates. Wan Hongji made a lot of trouble, such as Bei Kai being killed by the monkeys, or capturing him, the minister of colonial trade, and don't think about being re-elected in the future. At most, he has been the chief secretary of the Ministry of Colonization and Trade.

The telegram was immediately delivered by the clerk who was trotting all the way, and Skayde grabbed the note and saw that there were few words on it. There are no more words than the clerk dictated.

It's a, and the telegram doesn't say anything. "Skade is crazy, and he asks for the specific situation of the Hongji station, whether he wants to reinforce Diao immediately"

Skade issued instructions like a cannon, grabbed the phone and answered the Navy's Command Department."

Beikai has spent almost two months in Yalong Bay.

In the past two months, for the first time, he was truly in charge, and he was really unaccustomed to it at first, but after a long time, he became more and more into the corner.

The first week was the hardest. He stayed in an earthen enclosure and was surrounded by 0 sailors, "secretaries and prisoners of this life." This life secretary didn't shake the number above the C level at the beginning, and originally thought that there was no problem in buying the C grade, but when he went to see the goods slowly, he found that the C grade had already been bought out, and even the D grade was left. Bei Kai also bought a pound with an attitude that talking is better than nothing, which is quite acceptable. Finally, the life secretaries have undergone special training, and they are more lovely than the female naturalized people who came out of the slimming camp.

On this deserted beach, in addition to the 0 bamboo people, what can be seen is the barren mountains and mountains outside.

Although the scenery of Yalong Bay is picturesque, but in Bei Kai's opinion, it makes people feel hideous, more than once, he looked at the pirate scum ships that Yan Maoda left for them when he left, and estimated whether it was safe for these ships to take them to Haiyang to cross the north, and he felt a little hanging.

The Zhennan originally said that it would come back in four days, but in fact it waited for a whole week. Zhang Datang pulled back with the Zhennan to reassure Bei Kai, this old pirate was very familiar with the situation in Vietnam, and he still had such a big ship with good combat power in his hands, the general thieves and pirates were not afraid, the Zhennan brought a lot of rice and daily groceries from Haiyang, and also transported him more than 100 farmers from Beizhe who were withered. This is all because Yan Maoda, a fleeing peasant who was forced by the Northern Dynasty's expropriation and conscription, recruited them all at a very low price.

These peasants and five pirate captives became the first miners of the Hongji Butterfly Mine, and Beikai now had enough food, tools, and building materials in his warehouses to immediately start a large-scale construction project in Hongji.

Beikai organized the miners to set up a separate labor camp outside the fortress. The dwelling is a simple semi-underground shack. Another trench was dug outside as Jian Wei's defense.

The miners immediately threw themselves into the excavation of Cat Poop No. 1. Each worker excavated the coal with tools issued by Beikai, loaded it in baskets, transported it to the seashore by purple electric carts, and piled it up in the open space next to the wharf to be transported away. Although Yan Maoda did not instruct him to start digging media immediately. However, Bekai thought that if he could get the first ship from Lingao to return unloaded, it would be of great benefit to increase his reputation in the Senate.

Bei Kai found that a miner could dig 0 kilograms per hour with a simple iron tool, and use a basket or cart to move it to the stockyard, even if a bamboo miner worked every day. Coal production can reach half a ton per person per day.

Another week later, two transport ships of **ō Shipping Company arrived at Hongji. In addition to bringing in more building materials and tools, a hundred naturalized laborers were also brought in. These workers will be used as the core of the Hongji station. In addition to the basic laborers, there were a small number of trained clerks, hygienists, and jishu workers, including blacksmiths and carpenters.

Workers doubled, things were done faster. Workers built the wooden trestle from prefabricated pieces. The original earthen enclosure was also expanded, and a second earthen embankment and ditch were built around the earthen enclosure. The area encircled by the new earthen embankment has increased considerably, forming a so-called outer fort". Buildings such as residences, administrative facilities, and warehouses for naturalized migrant workers are located in the outer fort. Six 4-pounder cannons were also removed from the ship, and the naturalized civilian workers were all equipped with the militia's standard kits, helmets, spears, and machetes, which greatly increased Beikai's sense of security.

**Ō Shipping's ship returned with more than a hundred tons of anthracite, a small but symbolic amount. Skade took the matter to the Executive Committee meeting and the Senate to blow it up. The news was also on the "Lingao Times". After Bei Kai received this news, he had mixed joys and worries, and now he had to give birth to butterflies here to serve the country.

With naturalized migrant workers and indigenous managers as the backbone, Beikai reorganized the workflow. Naturalized migrant workers immediately began to build a light railway. It stretches from the charcoal yard to the No. 1 pit of cat poop. Running on it are ore bucket trucks transported from Lingao. The miners are now divided into small groups and work much more efficiently... A team of 3 uses a shovel to dig and dry a bucket truck that can quickly fill the load of the truck. And a person can quickly get this car butterfly to the yard. There are 3 bamboo bucket turners and 3 shovel workers. Based on the workload of one day and one hour, 7n8 tons of coal can be obtained. On average, about 200 people, including naturalized migrant workers, work in the mines. The daily coal output can reach more than one ton. This amount of coal is enough for **ō shipping to open a special line for coal transportation. Qiong Haidie, a big ship, finally did a veritable job and became a special ship for transporting coal.

The increase in coal transportation volume has made the loading and unloading of coal in Hongji a bottleneck. Qionghai Coal soon brought in steam droppers, boilers and bucket elevators. Then, in order to supply the workers with clean drinking water, a large fixed water generator was delivered.

Then more naturalized migrant workers were sent to Hongji's development, like a snowball, after the scale expanded, the demand for manpower in all aspects began to emerge, and you needed someone to build houses, build tracks, maintain machinery and equipment, load and unload goods, and even cook rice, and by the end of February of the year, the number of Hongji's laborers had expanded to 0. Among them, many of them are naturalized people, and the others are recruited from the local area of Beixi. Many people who could not bear the pressure of taxes and military service were sent here from the recruitment station in Hai Duong, and some people came over the mountains and mountains after hearing the news, and the increasing number of local miners and their families in Beixi soon formed a simple and good settlement outside the foreign country.

The settlement is protected by a ditch and a bamboo fence with a sharpened top. In order to improve the efficiency of the workers, make full use of the labor force and let them cook by themselves, it is obviously a waste of time, and the small rice shop x cooperative store that sells various commodities in the cooperative store stores that sells various commodities in the cooperative store attracted the commercial department, Li Mei personally came to Hongji to open a cooperative branch at the base station according to the model in Nanbao. In addition to selling various commodities, agency exchange business. The main purpose is to promote the use of negotiable vouchers.

In the other direction of the Hongji Fort X miners' settlement, there is also a small settlement n, which is dedicated to housing newcomers recruited from the local area, which is the inspection camp of Hongji Station. The people who live in the camp are fed free of charge, and their work is to build roads. to ensure that there is no contact with other miners. @。