There should be good news for the west. ’

This is the unanimous feeling in the Senate after completing the Tanjung Mayan Raiders.

A few days ago, Zhu Dazhao led his soldiers to capture the most central area of Tanjung Maya, and when the definite news of the victory came, the Yamen of the 'Xing' Ministries of Labuan and the navy stationed in Port Slime sailed west overnight. The plan was to tear down and rebuild a new town on the original site of Tanjung Maya, Tutong City, and the cannons that happened to be brought with them made several large holes in the walled walls of Tanjung Maya City, and even the demolition saved effort, and it was precisely because of the power of the cannons that Tanjung Maya City immediately chose to surrender. The so-called city is not a city of later generations, but a town for the purpose of mutual exchange, and of course, it is not too busy to think about how far this place can develop in the future.

The planning plan of the Tutong Estuary has been completed one step ahead, and in addition to the current salt farms and forest farms to be upgraded on the original basis, the plains southwest of Tanjung Maya to the bottom of the Andula Mountains are also excellent fields and pastures. There are also several tribes there, and there are many transactions with Tanjung Maya, and the government hall is preparing to set up a farm and pasture there, although because of the climate, it is not possible to raise good horses, but it is still no problem to raise some cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks. Although the intensive farms on Labuan Island are enough to supply the military and civilians of Brunei, such a device is really difficult to replicate with the technology mastered by the current traversers, so corresponding bases must be established in various parts of the South Seas in the future.

In addition to animal husbandry, rice planting is also an example, there are Dudong River surrounding, and there are large plains, the water and fertilizer conditions there are really good, it is really wasteful in the hands of the natives, and the agricultural department is advised to have the most positive attitude in the strategy.

Needless to say, the Ministry of Industry had to tear down and rebuild the ruined Tanjung Maya City, the shipyard should be expanded, and the port should be able to accommodate larger and more merchant ships and warships.

As part of North Borneo, a road connecting Tutong and Brunei will also be built, and the distance between the two places will be shortened to one day and one night even on foot.

Some of this work has already been prepared, while others have just begun, and all of them need to be completed before the rainy season arrives. Therefore, the burden on the entire economic strategy is not easy, the only good thing is that the current Nanyang East Road Economic Strategy Division can also rely on the power of the entire political hall and the Senate, and when the branch strategy begins, the various economic strategies at that time can only be supported independently.

Xu Xuance presided over all the work in the middle of the road in Brunei Mansion, and he couldn't leave for a while, so he assigned his right-hand man Liu Chenxu to Dudong City to take charge.

He was accompanied by dozens of boatmen who had returned from Zhangjiagang on a boat trip to Dudong City, and the navy also sent two converted fishing boats to the town.

The government affairs hall felt that Tanjung Maya had a shipyard in the first place, but the types of boats that Baba Nyonya could make were all flat hard sailing ships that were common in South Asia, and the performance was still much worse than the Fu boats and Canton ships built by Zhang Jianeng, while the oars warships that were common in the South Seas had already been included in the list of elimination, and it was a reasonable thing to mix the boatmen just for the sake of technical integration.

Second, Tanjung Maya is the territory of Baba Nyonya, although the forest farm conditions here are good, it is a good place to build a shipyard, but except for the boatmen, the Sho Strategy Division does not intend to leave too many indigenous people, most of the local Baba Nyonya have to move to Brunei, only the miraculous ones are left behind. It is also necessary to replenish the population, not to mention that if it is about wood, it is better to do it in the Dudong River Basin, and the logging can be more light.

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As the sun sets, the thick clouds obscure the starlight, and even the crescent moon only disappears between the occasional drifting clouds, the sky of Brunei always makes the hearts of those who occasionally look up at night feel a little emotional.

Port Sili is still brightly lit, and the enthusiasm of the people for construction has been high for more than a month.

Since half a month ago, there are businessmen from all over the South Seas have called at the port one after another, there is no lack of old acquaintances in the middle, some of them have brought goods, and they are anxious to transport back more things to sell, and they are ready to go back and forth twice before the rainy season, and some businessmen are in the port for a few days after simply inquiring about the matter of opening a station here.

The tall bronze pillar has finally been completed, revealing the true face of the design - the first lighthouse of the Traveler in Borneo, with a total height of 18 meters, is undoubtedly the tallest man-made structure in the here and now. Although the range of the light is only 19 nautical miles, it can be seen brightly on the surface of the sea within a radius of 26 nautical miles. Nowadays, whether it is on Labuan Island or the entire west side of Bakka Bay, you can see this landmark on Sili Harbour at night, even if you sail at night, you can rely on it.

Fishing in the bay is a lot more stable, and many Tan households are also willing to let their children study in the luxurious Song school, in any case, you can learn the ability to follow those who have the ability, just to learn the Song people's unbreakable fishing net practice is also worth it, not to mention don't want to provide for their own food, the prestige of the imperial court has accumulated in such bits and pieces.

In the southwest of the port, a newly completed commercial district, now has a vertical and horizontal road, and the wide streets are all paved with bluestone-hewn stone slabs, and the city's artisans are more willing to sell the historical materials they mine to the Great Song Dynasty government at a fair price.

There has been no garbage on the ground for many days, and it is really surprising that among the many walled cities in Nanyang. The three-storey buildings on both sides are all plain, with white walls and gray tiles, and there is no difference at all, but if there is any difference, it is that all the houses are equipped with transparent flat glass windows.

Glass making is not difficult, and the teaching aids of the 22nd century can easily realize the experiment of making glass in schools, but it is difficult to say how simple and complex it is to build a glass factory in Borneo that is large enough for mass production. In other words, the technology is simple, and local students who are still studying in school can understand the truth with two or three years of experience, but the raw materials require some thought.

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To the east of Labuan Island, across the east shore of the Strait of the Tide, is a place that has been named Jiabao, a ten-mile-wide strait in the South China Sea and Bakka Bay communicates, every spring and autumn, with the change of ocean currents and tide direction, the shellfish in the sea will be brought to the east of Bako Bay Jiabao off the coast, where is the mouth of the Jiali River, if you walk along the Jiali River to the source of the northeast for a day, and then go north for 20 miles to reach Zhangjiagang, which is the original Kuala Pengyu, and now a simple road is also being built along this route.

From this route to Zhangjiagang, it is at least four days away from Bajia Bay, which is naturally a lot more convenient.

Today, Garbo has built a simple port, barely enough for the 8154 fishing boat of more than 400 tons to dock, and many building materials and machinery are forced to be pulled to the shore by flatbed tugboats of similar tonnage, but that was half a month ago.

The Jiali River is divided into two by an island in the estuary, and over the years it has been washed out to form a depression in the bay here, where shellfish carried by the current accumulate and accumulate on the bottom of the estuary. For these shellfish, even the local people will not try to eat, if you accidentally cast the net to hit, it will also damage the fishing net, flax nets are not used, it is easy to be cut by shells, so the east shore of Bako Bay near the mouth of the Jiali River is quite sheltered, the waves are always calm, but the fishermen do not like to come.

But in the last two weeks, the situation has been reversed, since more than ten days ago, when the Jiabao glass factory building was built, the news that the Song people bought all kinds of shellfish at high prices here has spread, and the number of fishermen has increased.

The soda ash needed for the production of glass can be prepared on the island of Labuan, and the 'Hou's alkali making method' is simple and easy to use, and there is really no need to worry about the output of carbon dioxide and brine.

As for calcite and limestone, until a limestone mine of sufficient scale is found, it is possible to rely on the abundant shellfish production in this area, and the firing of shells can produce enough limestone, and the use of limestone to refine it is not an unacceptable solution until a large-scale calcite mine is discovered, after all, both are the same kind of substance, and the production of glass must be controlled in a short time, and the government does not intend to let the price of this monopoly luxury be too low soon. Moreover, even if the production efficiency of the fishermen is not enough, the fishing boat can be used for a long time by letting the fishing boat pull the trawl net and walk around the Bakka Bay.

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"I heard that the army of the Jinglu Division to attack Dudong left a hundred people to guard, and Lao Zhu only took the remaining fifty students and went to Bai Layi, and his guts were fat enough."

After half a month of hard work, the new person in charge of Jiabao City was tired a lot, but he still took half a day's spare time to come to a sea cliff in the west of the city to fish, which is a rare personal hobby of Xiao Botu, although there are only two people, but this side is already the core control area of the Great Song Dynasty, there are naval patrol ships passing by in the strait at any time, and there are more construction teams on land, relying on those construction machinery alone, there will be no wild man who dares to challenge the new master of this place, compared to the city of Brunei in the west, it is even safer, although he is in the wild, but the two of them were not worried at all.

Pang Shannuo, who came out with him, was more willing to go to the plains of Tanjung Maya to work than Xiao Botu, where the weather was so warm that he was anxious to find a better horse farm, even if the horses he brought with him were afraid of the heat and did not dare to bring them ashore to graze.

At least in the west, there are more access to the merchants from Manchuria, and as long as the price is right, there will be people willing to help sell the Mawari horse, this heat-resistant horse breed native to India has the blood of the Arabian horse, both physical strength and endurance are the first choice for tropical cavalry, and the last time I overheard the prisoner, it was in the Aceh country north of Sumatra.

"The heart is high, and besides, isn't it to raze and raze? You don't have to work hard with your own people, less will be less. Pangshanno replied.

The news of taking Tanjung Maya City in half a day spread across the plains at a faster pace, and other tribes in the surrounding area who had been suppressed for a long time fell to the wind at a faster speed.

The practice of the Economic Strategy Division was consistent, and the two families who refused to surrender were allowed to divide up with the other families, and without much urging, it only took two days for the land and population of these two tribes to be wiped out. After Zhu Dazhao personally led the team to hang the flagpole of one of the local chieftains who tried to take the opportunity to invade other tribes, the remaining nine families of Tanjung Maya became more and more submissive.

In addition to taking the children of each family as hostages, the Jinglu Division immediately took the situation to form a coalition army of the various Turkish tribes, and the morning before the Senate sent this news to the various control areas, more than 50 students and soldiers under the leadership of Zhu Dazhao had already rushed straight to Bai Layi along with nearly 500 subordinates. Zhu Dazhao has enough confidence, because the navy's fishing boats still give strong support, and the tribes are not slow, because they have seen the muscles of the Song Dynasty officials and soldiers, and therefore this coordinated operation is a real self-brought dry food.

"Even if you can definitely take down Bai Layi, but there are many tribes left, will the tail be too big? It's not a good thing to expand too fast. Xiao Botu still muttered unfavorably, absentmindedly mentioning the fishing rod in his hand from time to time.

"Staking the land, after all, this is not as good as the mainland, and the natives are fighting harder, isn't it a bad thing, and it's not more brisk to rebuild it?"

Completely different from the policy attitude towards the mainland, the members of the Senate almost unanimously agreed on this matter, and the mainland should avoid the misery of life, after all, the same language and the same species.

But in Nanyang, it is mainly based on land, and if you don't occupy the territory first, you can't educate the local youth, and if you can't educate them, how can the people of the barbarian land be truly obedient?

Therefore, as long as the suppression can be suppressed in a short period of time, it is necessary to expand the control area and population as much as possible, which has become a broad consensus in the Senate.

The truth is always like this, even though Xiao Botu personally does not like such a complicated situation, but as a decision made by the Senate, there is indeed no better alternative to ensure such efficiency, after all, people's time is limited, and no one wants to nest in this Nanyang for the rest of their lives.

The mobile phone rings at the right time, and the distance from Labuan is enough for the signal to be transmitted, so the elders here in Garbo are all issued mobile phones that are easier to transmit information, but considering the limited charging facilities, they can only compromise on the ultra-long standby form of the first few years of the 21st century.

But in any case, there is no urgency, and the island does not call in the early afternoon.

I was about to take my phone off my waist to see what was going on.

I heard Pang Shannuo suddenly remind loudly.

"Old Xiao! Pull it - the fish is hooked! ”

[Note: Hou's alkali making method, also known as the combined alkali production method, was founded in 1943 by Hou Debang, a chemical engineering expert in China. It is a method that combines the two processes of ammonia-alkali method and ammonia synthesis method to produce two products of soda ash and ammonium chloride at the same time. The raw materials are table salt, ammonia and carbon dioxide - the waste gas used to produce hydrogen from water gas in the ammonia synthesis plant. This method improves the utilization rate of salt, shortens the production process, reduces the pollution to the environment, reduces the cost of soda ash, overcomes the shortcomings of the ammonia-alkali method, and has a good reputation in the world and has been widely adopted. The alkali process of changing gas to alkali is unique in China and has significant energy-saving effects. 】