First robbed two Dutch ships in the Japanese country, and then attacked the chicken coop and occupied the North Harbor, the Dutch news will not be long before the news is blocked, there will definitely be Dutch spies in the North Harbor Town, maybe they will go to the Dutch to report to the Dutch a long time ago, maybe it will not take a few days, the Dutch will send troops to attack and recapture the North Harbor.

Therefore, Chen Yue built the barracks and built the city in order to build a complete defense line. In order to win over the people of Beigang, Chen Yue did not ask for the property of the people in the town, and requisitioned the people to build the city wall and gave them wages. The Dutch had not yet been defeated, and their rule had not yet been fully established, so there was no need to make enemies with the local people at this time.

Of course, it was not easy to build a thick wall around the entire North Harbor when time was pressed, and it would take at least a few months, and the Dutch would have arrived before the walls were repaired. However, the army cannot be idle, it also needs to get acquainted with the local people as soon as possible, gain their favor, and even more need to organize the people for our use, and building a city wall is the best way.

Before leaving, Chen Yue had already strictly warned his subordinate troops not to harass the people, otherwise they would be severely punished. The Zhoushan Army was originally formed on the basis of the original Pingnan Army, and its military discipline has always been good, although a large number of fishermen from Zhoushan islands have been recruited, but these recruits dare not make mistakes in the face of strict military discipline.

Therefore, what is shown in front of the people of Beigang is an army with good discipline and love for the people, which is very different from the previous Ming army, and the fierce Dutch cannot be compared.

The people of Beigang are all Ming people, and psychologically they are naturally more towards the Ming Dynasty, the reason why they came to Beigang is purely forced by life, not to betray the Ming Dynasty, there are few people who want to betray the Ming Dynasty and take refuge in the barbarians, after all, no one wants to do the things that the number of people forget their ancestors and do traitors. Of course, this is also the reason why they have not been in Beigang for a long time, if they have experienced several generations under the rule of barbarians, maybe they will think that they are Yi people......

The construction of the city wall is the traditional method of plate construction, just a few days to entrust the local carpenter in Beigang to make a lot of thick planks, now the planks are spliced together, every two planks outside a round bamboo column, between the columns with ropes to fix the planks. Thus four wooden walls were erected, forming a long and narrow square space within the wall.

The 5,000 soldiers were divided into three groups by Chen Yue to take turns to replace, plus more than 5,000 Beigang Zhuangmen who were recruited, to carry out division of labor and cooperation, and to build the city wall on all sides at the same time. Some of these people were responsible for digging the earth, and some were responsible for pouring the excavated earth into the wooden wall with bamboo baskets, and then in groups of three or four strong people, carrying rammers, they smashed the loose mounds of earth inside the wooden walls.

The loose dry soil will slowly be tamped, more and more stiff, and harder, until it cannot be moved even with a shovel. Then sprinkle it with water, apply a layer of mud, and a section of the wall is completed.

Of course, now all the beginnings, you can only build this kind of rammed earth city wall, and after defeating the Dutch, you can slowly open a kiln to burn bricks, wrap bricks on the city wall, and then build ancillary buildings such as city towers and arrow towers, and when the city wall is really repaired, it means that this North Port is completely included in the rule.

Of course, it is very hard and tiring to build this kind of work, and it also affects the normal production and life of the people in Beigang, so Chen Yue pays them wages, and the wages will be different according to the intensity of the work.

It was originally the people of the Ming Dynasty, and it was a matter of course to be recruited by the government to serve, although they didn't care about food now, they had a salary, and the salary was enough for three meals a day, and the people of Beigang didn't have too many complaints.

I just came back from the Wa Kingdom and earned more than two million taels of silver, and now there is no shortage of silver. However, after the Dutch were completely defeated and Dongfan Island was completely occupied, there would be such work as building the city walls and repairing the roads in the future, and the conscripts would have to be conscripted normally. After all, it is a natural obligation for the people to serve!

While building the city wall, Chen Yue certainly did not forget to inquire about the movements of the Dutch, and sent sentinel ships to the south and west of Dongfan Island to inspect the Dutch ships and monitor the movements of the Zheng family's fleet. After all, the people of Beigang are inextricably linked with the Zheng family, and the Duke of Qi doesn't know how the Zheng family will react when the Qi State Mansion is defeated.

However, Chen Yue expected that Zheng Zhilong would not dare to make a mistake, because before coming to Dongfan, he had already written a memo and submitted it to the imperial court, stating the attack on Dongfan. Although Chen Yue is a period of filial piety, Dongfan is an overseas place relative to the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch enslaved the Ming people on Dongfan Island, although Chen Yue's move to send troops violated the original intention of keeping filial piety, but it happened overseas is not that Chen Yue is greedy for power and nostalgia for official positions, so those imperial histories can't say much.

Since Chen Yue has told the imperial court, the army will be endorsed by the imperial court, and Zheng Zhilong can't interfere, he is so close to Dongfan and can't save the people, what kind of face does he have to accuse Chen Yue? As for privately sending troops to deal with Chen Yue, Zheng Zhilong didn't have the guts!

The older the rivers and lakes, the less courageous they are, and they are talking about people like Zheng Zhilong. When he was a young pirate, Zheng Zhilong unscrupulously led his subordinates to wantonly attack all parts of the Ming Dynasty, attacking cities and plundering land, killing officers and soldiers, and robbing the people. But after the surrender of the imperial court, as the official position got older and older, Zheng Zhi's gentian became smaller and smaller, and now he just wanted to keep everything he had, and he didn't dare to take any risks. This also had another time and space, when the Qing court promised him that he would give him Fujian, he immediately turned around and betrayed the court without thinking, and chose to surrender to the Manchus.

In fact, at that time, the Zheng family owned the entire Fujian, earning millions of taels of silver at sea every year, and there was no shortage of food and salary for the soldiers on the territory, and at that time the Manchu Qing Dynasty was exhausted, and the attack on the southern provinces relied more on the green battalion soldiers.

When Zheng Chenggong raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, the general trend had already gone, and the whole province of Fujian had been occupied by the Qing troops, and Zheng Chenggong could only use the coastal islands as the foundation to repeatedly harass all parts of the coast, and he failed to recapture Fujian in the heyday, let alone turn the tide.

But Zheng Zhilong chose to surrender, for such a cowardly Zheng Zhilong, Chen Yue did not believe that he dared to openly be his enemy. Of course, there are still precautions that should be taken.

In addition to sending ships to detect the movements of the Dutch from the sea, Chen Yue also sent soldiers from the Enemy Intelligence Division to the south along the land route to investigate the movements of the Dutch. After all, the west coast of Dongfan Island is plain from north to south, and it is possible for the Dutch to come by land. However, at this time, most of Dongfan Island was still undeveloped and barren, and the island was densely covered with jungle roads to the south, and it was unlikely that the Dutch would come by land......