The phoenix is always like this, decaying under the invasion of time again and again, but it can be reborn in the raging fire, and it is more dazzling, so that people dare not look directly, Mao Jue's Xiongjin shipyard is now just like the phoenix, after more than ten days of looting by the Japanese people, it has once again regained its vigorous vitality.

In fact, food and wages have not yet arrived, and more than 50,000 workers are completely unpaid and without food, and they can barely survive by relying on the little miscellaneous grain allocated by Xiongjin County every day, and they only have one meal a day, and no one can eat enough.

But these tens of thousands of craftsmen are still desperate, as if they have taken themselves as no longer human, desperately worked, the wood dried in the tidal flats was carried to the shipyard by ant-like workers, and the ponds on the beach were also quickly cleaned up, only on the third day, six ponds, the keel of 75 meters long once again showed its proud figure.

Only if you have lost it to know that it is precious, even if Mao Jue is a Ming person, this shipyard is also the last hope for these refugees, if there is no here, they will have nowhere to go, either starve to death, or become despised degenerates, for fear that Mao Jue will be unhappy, these workers are so desperate that even hundreds of people are tired a day, forcing Mao Jue to have no choice, so he had to force the order to be divided into three shifts, rest time, these refugee workers are not allowed to go out, must rest and sleep in the dormitory.

On the third day, Mao Jue's own materials have not yet arrived, and the materials obtained by Li Yuanyi through the relationship of the Dongren Party have been driven into the shipyard first, and this batch of materials includes Mao Jue's urgently needed iron tools, food, clothing and clothing, and there are also a cart of coal, limestone and volcanic ash, this Li Dynasty is mountainous, and the volcanic ash resources are really a lot, and it is not difficult to obtain materials, but it is difficult to transport them from the mountains to the shipyard. can actually send 5,000 Goryeo Taoist soldiers to transport it, the old guy's old face is really valuable.

With these things, there are more places for Mao Jue to play.

"One, two, three, pour!"

In the shouting of the trumpet, on a sandbar deep into the sea east of the shipyard, the solidified concrete blocks were pushed into the sea with a loud bang, and the shipyard workers pushing the wheelbarrow immediately trotted backwards, and in this way back and forth, a small piece of tidal flats buried under the sea water in the high tide had been paved.

In the nearby stone mountain, there are also hundreds of workers shirtless and hammer desperately hammering and digging on the granite stone mountain, constantly transporting the gravel down, in the shipyard, in the blazing furnace, then lime powder, mixed with volcanic ash in the pool to mix into cement, and then put in a wooden trough to solidify into concrete blocks.

At the end of the Warring States Period, Li Bing and his son of the Qin State also filled in the water to build Dujiangyan, but Mao Jue was not so ambitious, he filled a few hundred square meters to be satisfied, the geographical location of Xiongjin Shipyard is indeed good, with great tides and inland tidal flats, at low tide when the shipbuilding is built, the ship can be directly pushed into the sea through the inland river channel while the tide is high, but defensively, there is really no danger to defend here, this time the attack of the Japanese Invaders, that is, the bow Xiaozao boat rushed directly to the tidal flats, and a large number of Japanese Kou turned over the courtyard wall of the shipyard repaired by Mao Jue, rushed in to kill people and set fires, there was still sand in the vicinity, and there was nothing to defend, so Mao Jue was ruthless this time, and wanted to build a British-style coastal defense castle in the southeast where the Japanese invaded.

Once the fort is on the sea, the ship of the Japanese invaders, Xiaozao, the thousand stone ships dare to come again? Can't kill him!

However, no matter how good the ship is, it also needs people to guard, but what Mao Jue lacks most now is people, even if you add Yizhou, the territory of the two counties, the population is only about 50,000, less than 60,000, except for the old, weak, sick and disabled, fifteen to fifty men are counted, and it is only about 23,400,000, which is still thanks to the blessing that Dongjiang Town is almost built by refugees from Liaodong, most of the old and weak are filtered out by war and famine, and most of those who can survive are strong, which can achieve such a proportion.

Mao Jue now has an arsenal under his hands, which requires manpower, a winery, manpower, a cement factory, manpower, manpower, road construction, manpower, manpower, and manpower to build a castle, and manpower is needed for the largest farming, after all, there is nothing to eat and the gold and silver mountains are empty, Mao Jue's social model is undoubtedly advanced, but unfortunately the population has not been able to keep up with the pace of his industrialization.

Especially Tieyi is still a military town, this time Mao Jue's Tieyi Corps suffered heavy losses, and immediately faced the expansion of the army, reorganization, and manpower, Mao Jue is already in Tieyi is about to make up the corps, where are there still troops to guard this shipyard? So he was forced to create a system that had always been enough to influence the huge military town under his command for an unknown number of years.

Foreign mercenary group system!

Bingyuan directly selected young and strong among the refugees in Nanhai Province, and the treatment was more than one grade lower than that of Mao Jue's Tie Volunteer Corps, with only 500 military salaries and one stone of coarse grain and two buckets of fine grain per month, this price code may not even be able to recruit textile workers in those rich places in the south of the Yangtze River in Yingtian Changshu, but in the refugee group with almost no wages and only food, it is no less than the temptation of the golden beetle's son-in-law.

And if you want to mix the regular work and the foreman's style, you also need to have skills and qualifications, but you can be a soldier, and you just need to have the strength to do it!

So as soon as Li Yuanyi's food arrived and everyone had enough to eat, Mao Jue immediately ordered conscription, and 2,400 stupid Koreans were recruited into the army and formed three regiments of Xiongjin mercenary regiments.

It's easy to do with a source of soldiers, the most precious military resource officer in this year, Mao Jue now has a lot of them in his hands, after the battle with the Japanese and the brutal night melee of the Battle of Daling River, most of the surviving pro-soldiers are qualified to serve as junior officer sentry commanders and the like, and there is no shortage of more advanced talents, such as the deputy artillery commander that Xiaochun Sun Chun, the artillery originally followed the reserve soldiers behind to break through the Eight Banners position under the cover of the huge sea musket post on the trench, but with a sense of battle, he actually brought more than 20 artillerymen, more than 80 guards dragged the attack of Zhenglan Banner and Niu Lu, creating an opportunity for Mao Jue to besiege the Huangtaiji Golden Horde.

However, now Mao Jue does not have many officers on hand, and there are more than 100 personal guards around him, so Wen Meng was pushed out as the chief instructor.

Although the end of August is close to autumn, but the autumn tiger is still very hot, the sun is so hot that people are oil, the shipyard side, is still tinkling and busy, carrying the big wood of the laborers sweating like rain, transporting logs, there is no time to rest at all, the carpenters with axes and saws also have no time to light a cigarette, the wood in hand is smoking, in the pond, soaked in the wet and salty sea water ping-pong to build the ship's planks boatmen are half of the body soaked white hair swelling.

On the other side, 2,400 Goryeo mercenaries were basking in the sun.

In this battle, Wen Mengguang was hit by eight arrows, and there were many cuts and scratches on his body, but Mao Jue was still squatting in the office to recuperate, but this product was already active in the tidal flats, Mao Jue wondered if he had a mental illness, and he was unprecedentedly enthusiastic about "" the man.

I listened to his rough voice that almost suppressed the noise of the shipyard, and the ugly echoed on the mudflats.

"Give Lao Tzu a goddamn spirit! How good your lives are! Look at that end, you can't get a hundred dollars a month when you're tired and tired, you don't have to do anything, just standing, you can get 500 wen a month, and you still have fucking cigarettes! There is wheat to eat! You don't want to repay the kindness of the general, are you cattle? Say what about you! Stand up straight for Lao Tzu, dare to bend again, squat and squat until dark!"

Now I don't even have a flintlock pistol at hand, and I can't let these recruits be idle, so the most tiring military posture training and queue training occupy the schedule of the mercenary group.

Who stands who knows!

It's okay to quit now, as long as you leave your head, Mao Jue will release people generously, of course, if you don't have a head, can you still eat and work and sleep with your daughter-in-law, then Mao Jue doesn't care.

Almost a pro-soldier looked at thirty people, standing on the beach like a stake, and the Goryeo recruits really didn't dare to move, in case they annoyed these Ming military masters, so that they would be caught squatting on the horse, that thing, the recruits who squatted once were tired and cramped, and they didn't dare to do it a second time.

But today seems to be their lucky day, this day, just half an hour of military posture training, on the seaside, suddenly a sail shadow from the sea level revealed, the castle has not yet been cast, for coastal defense, Mao Jue ordered to set up a few five or six meters high wooden shelves on the shore, the sentry guard above is whistling and shaking two small flags in his hand, Wen Meng who listened couldn't help but turn his head, looking at the flag for a moment, the old guy showed an excited complaint on his face.

"Fat Su, this bastard, finally fucking here!"

He also blew the whistle fiercely, and the Mao Jue soldiers who walked in the queue and were known as the living Hades walked out of the queue, and the Goryeo soldiers in the team also immediately sat down on the ground weakly, but soon, these guys gathered together in twos and threes, took out the fire sickle, and one of them had one in his mouth