Chapter XXIII Development

"You have violated the territory of the great King Qin Cang and committed unforgivable crimes! It is the most foolish folly for you to step your filthy boots on the pure shores and follow the wicked Genoese merchants to this far-flung land! ........ I hereby announce your sentence!

With the exception of the Swiss mercenaries, the war criminals and Spanish musketeers confiscated all their armament and threw them into the iron mines for five years of hard labor. After five years, you can go out of the mine to apply for Chinese nationality. The Greek farmer ....... "At this, Uriels looked up at his fellow man, then lowered his head and read the book of judgment written by him.

"The Greek farmer was punished for three years of farming, after which he could apply for citizenship and be allocated land. In addition, Italian oarsmen have been in the iron ore mine for five years, and after five years, they can leave the mine to apply for our nationality. ”

It's very refreshing to watch a group of people look like mourners. But Urrels has a bigger task on his shoulders.

"If you have a skill, you can make meritorious contributions and leave the mine. Such as blacksmiths, coopers, carpenters, masonry, musketeers, etc.! ”

Uriels' announcement certainly made a splash. The arrested man was searching his stomach and thinking about what he would do, and then he was surrounded by a surging crowd!

"I'll strike iron! Fight the sword! ”

"Under ....... The ship will be repaired in the next! ”

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Finally, when the blue-nosed and swollen-faced Urrels handed over the list to Qin Cang, there were sixteen blacksmiths, four coopers, twenty carpenters, four tanners, forty shipbuilders, and twelve weavers.

"Well done! Urels, I have decided to appoint you to an official position! Qin Cang patted the table and applauded, and then suddenly whispered, "But it's not so formal." When the fields are divided in the fall, I can give you ten acres of land! ”

Ten acres of land is equal to about eight domoths. For Urels, who was originally just a down-and-out worker on a Greek dock, he was already very well treated.

And for the Greeks, who are now under the rule of the Ottoman Turks, it is also a very good price.

Although the Ottoman Turks at this stage practiced a very strict policy of ethnic partition, the treatment of the conquered pagans was not bad. But this does not mean that Turks are good men and women, and they are not oppressed.

It's just that this oppression is much smaller than the later Armenian massacre.

To tell the truth, after this group of people became a new class in Chizhou, the development of Chizhou has actually improved a lot!!

In the Northwest District, a real commercial area emerged from this originally planned industrial area.

With Qin Cang's support, a semi-government-run hoop barrel shop, two carpenter shops, and a completely government-run large iron supervisor appeared in the area. There are more than 20 blacksmiths and 40 or 50 apprentices in the big iron prison!! In this way, they can shoot more than 40 hoes, more than 60 shovels, and hundreds of nails and bars every day. In addition, there is the weapons and equipment that Qin Cang hopes to get, which already has basic production capacity.

Here you can shoot three knives and 10 spearheads every day, and there are also horseshoes, small shields, finger shields and other products that are being trial-produced. The iron arrows of bows and arrows were also produced at Qin Chuan's request.

At the same time, the armor is also a difficult point that cannot be ignored. At present, the blacksmith shop that does not have the technology to make plate armor has to choose two options. Small pieces of iron like goggles were given to the army to sew into their own leather coats; In addition, it is advanced to learn such as piercing armor and fish scale armor, making iron pieces of similar specifications, drilling holes, and then connecting them with tough threads to form armor.

The former is being implemented, while the latter is being tested temporarily.

Don't think too much about it in the steppe, the Crimean Tatars next door barely have much armor and still kill in the steppe.

There is also a clothing shop and a shoe shop. These two are more special, they and the grocery store next door are all run by Qiao Su. Perhaps seeing the barrenness of this place, Qiao Su still opened three separate shops. These three shops are basically made by the Qiao family.

The clothing shops mainly sell leather clothes, and the cloth here is too scarce. The shoe shop is more special, and the straw sandals are woven by themselves, so the boots made of leather are sold here. That's kind of a shoe that a decent person would wear. But in Chizhou, because there was so much leather, both the Tatars and the Han people exchanged a little work for these leather boots.

Oh yes, said the Tatars. This group of Tatars was taken away by Baoyin. In fact, of course, they took refuge in Qin Cang. In a sense, the Tatars were the supplementary personnel of the Qin clan. And the Qiao clan, this purebred farming Han ethnic group, must undoubtedly be suppressed by the Qin clan. Otherwise, wouldn't Qiao Cheng be overturned?

And the Rus, of course, were also serfs turned over and took on a new profession.

Supervision.

And, of course, as a farmer.

Urrels became the owner of the newly created official position, the Stone Warden.

As the name suggests, this official position was simple, and it was responsible for leading the Rus' peasants who cultivated the land north of the mine to oversee the Italian slaves who were mining. The large amount of ore dug up by these slaves every day is the basis for the great iron prison in the northwest to be able to burn the sky every day.

On the other hand, the lack of fuel is a problem that Qin Cang must face at present.

Although the climate is much warmer now than in later generations, this does not mean that the Kerch Peninsula is full of trees. Tree-ridden with trees was the Southern Cremu Mountains, but now it was the domain of Greek nobles and Genoese merchants. It is also important to note that the current Great Khan of the Crimean Khanate, Haji Gelai, is located in Bakhchisaray, northwest of the Crimean Mountains.

This mountainous region with its deep valleys and vast lakes and marshes is one of the most fertile places in the region.

In fact, the Crimean Peninsula is full of lakes. The Kerch Peninsula also has a large number of large lakes. The problem is that most of the large lakes are saltwater lakes, and only a few small lakes are freshwater collected by the current. Even so, whether this fresh water can be drunk is a question.

It rarely rains in the summer on the peninsula, so many things are simply stored in the storeroom without fear of breaking.

However, this is how Hanbe recognises the sinister surroundings.

Looking at the corpses on the ground, Qin Cang was almost ready to draw his knife and hack these few warehouse guards to death!!

The Greek style of these few words of corpse is telling Qin Cang that there are still Greeks around here, and there are definitely a lot of them!