The fishermen in Penghu got the promise of Governor Zhang Bin, and they were about to go crazy with joy.

On this day, Penghu, Baisha, and the three islands of Yuwen were full of fishermen running to celebrate, and laughter resounded throughout Penghu Bay.

On this day, many fishermen in the Penghu Islands gathered in Magong Village to celebrate wildly, and the scene was even more lively than the New Year.

They have suffered too much.

During the Wanli Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also had a Penghu Inspection Division, and Fujian sailors would come to Penghu from time to time to inspect, and the fishermen on the island lived a fairly stable life.

However, in the Apocalypse Dynasty, Hongmaofan first occupied Penghu and wantonly bullied the fishermen.

Immediately afterwards, the governor of Fujian, Nan Juyi, the general soldier of Fujian, led the army to fight for half a year, and finally defeated Hongmaofan, the fishermen of Penghu thought that the days of suffering were finally over, but they never thought that the Ming army suddenly withdrew, and since then, for more than three years, there has been no news!

Now, the life of the fishermen in Penghu is even more miserable, in the past, only the red hairy fan bullied them, as soon as the Ming army withdrew, the pirates also frequented, murder and arson, rape and looting, all evil, they were worried all day long, I don't know when, the red hairy fan or the pirate fleet came, it was simply the end of the world.

The pirates and the red-haired fans visited again and again, and almost all the valuable things were robbed by them, and the women were almost ruined by them, so the fishermen had to go through great hardships to build cottages to protect themselves, this is the scene that Zhang Bin saw when he arrived.

Every day, they would send people to look out on the high mountains on the periphery, and as soon as a fleet appeared on the sea, they would immediately hide their fishing boats on desolate islands, and all the old, weak, sick and disabled would take refuge in the cottages, and all the fishing ports and fishing villages would be immediately empty.

Zhang Bin said that he would not leave, naturally he was not to deceive their trust or comfort them, he really wanted to protect this place, not only for the fishermen here, but also for the future hegemony of the sea.

As long as a fortress is built here, it can not only exterminate the pirates entrenched in Dongfan, drive away the invaders in Dongfan, and recover Dongfan, but also can choke the sea route from Nanyang to the northern Xinjiang and Dongying of the Ming Dynasty, monopolizing the trade between Dongying and even the entire Ming Dynasty and the European powers.

Therefore, this Penghu Islands is very important, and it is necessary to build a fortress and hold it firmly.

For this reason, in the next few days, he worked tirelessly, traveled all over Penghu, Baisha, and the three islands of Yuweng, surveyed the terrain, visited fishermen, and paid homage to the Ming soldiers who died in the Battle of Penghu.

After the investigation, he found that the location where the Dutch built the fort was very good, as long as the jack of the Franc machine was installed there, the entrance of the entire Penghu Bay would be shrouded in artillery fire.

However, the location of the castle built by the Dutch is extremely unreasonable, or rather, it is not useful for the safety of the common people, and the castle they built is far away from all the fishing villages, perhaps they are for safety, so try to stay away from the gathering place of Penghu fishermen.

Of course, Zhang Bin will not stay away from the common people, he chooses and chooses, and finally chooses the peninsula where the fishing port of Magong Village is located as the location for building the city, because there is a natural harbor here, and the exit is also connected to another larger harbor, as long as the exit is choked, there is no problem for thousands of warships to rest in it.

Of course, more importantly, this Magong Village is also the largest village in the Penghu Islands, with more than 200 households, and the fishing port of Magong Village is also the largest fishing port in the entire Penghu.

After discussion, Zhang Bin set the construction plan of the Penghu fortress.

First of all, a fort complex of castles and forts was built on the main island of Penghu and Yuweng Island at both ends of the entrance of Penghu Bay as the first line of defense.

Then, a ring of forts was built at each end of the entrance to Magong Fishing Port as a second line of defense.

Finally, a city was built around the port of Magong that could accommodate thousands of households as the last line of defense to protect the fishermen.

For this reason, Zhang Bin asked Yu Chenglong to lead 200 warships under his command to return to the sea, and then brought 5,000 foot soldiers under Cao Bianjiao, and asked Zheng Chenggong to transfer 5,000 sailors, a total of 20,000 horses, and launched a vigorous construction.

During this time, he also visited the fishermen to learn about their living conditions.

This understanding is really poignant, these fishermen are simply miserable.

Because there is not enough fresh water on the island, and the sea breeze is too strong, there is no way to grow food here, not even vegetables, they want to eat, if they want to eat vegetables, they have to go to Fujian or Dongfan to buy them.

In the past, when there was the Penghu Inspection Division, they could dry seafood and transport it to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou to sell it in exchange for grain and vegetables with the warships of the Fujian Navy Division.

As soon as the Ming army withdrew, they were miserable, the fishing boats did not have the protection of large warships at sea, they could not withstand the wind and rain, not to mention, in the case of pirates, they did not even want to come back with people and boats, so in recent years, they did not even dare to leave the waters of Penghu, and could only feed on fish and shrimp every day.

This way of eating sounds like a kind of enjoyment, and eating seafood every day, isn't that good?

Really eat every day to know, malnutrition will not be said, just this fishy smell, eat every day, eat for a year and a half, you can definitely eat and vomit!

Of course, this problem must be solved, and Zhang Bin can't bear to watch these fishermen eat every day as if they were on the execution ground.

He re-surveyed and found a low-lying area near Magong City, where he dug up a large pond to store rainwater, and ordered Yu Chenglong's fleet to bring in various vegetable seeds to be planted on the island while transporting supplies back and forth.

As for the food, he thought of a very simple solution, that is, to let the fishermen participate in the construction of the city, the city plan to build about two months, these two months, as long as the fishermen who insist on helping here, each person will be given ten stone of grain as a reward!

Of course, this is a kind of recruitment method, in other places in the Ming Dynasty, please hire a strong laborer, and open three stones of grain a month to reach the sky, five stones, there is no such price at all.

Fishermen are naturally actively participating, as long as they move things, basically all of them come, and Zhang Bin directly distributes them in advance according to the head!

He actually wants to send food, but he doesn't want these fishermen to think that they can get something for nothing, so he uses this way to recruit "laborers", I believe that with these grains, each fisherman can last at least about half a year, and at this time they can also dry seafood, follow the sailor warship to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou to sell, with this half a year's buffer, I believe they can return to their previous life.

His seemingly unjust way of recruiting workers, but it has had an unexpected effect, the fishermen do the work that is called a desperate, it is more powerful than the Ming army foot soldiers, with the participation of thousands of fishermen, the construction of the city has been significantly accelerated, in this way, Zhang Bin can send more people to build forts and castles, and the construction progress of the entire Penghu fortress has also accelerated, according to this progress, it does not even take a month and a half, the city, fort and castle can be fully completed!

Looking at the slowly forming cities, forts and castles, Zhang Bin began the next step.

The next step, naturally, is to find the pirate's lair and prepare for encirclement.

In order to understand the situation of the pirate's lair, Zhang Bin began to select elites from Zheng Zhilong's navy and foot soldiers, formed a scout team, and practiced reconnaissance skills on Penghu Island day and night.