The sun is still hot in September, and even in such a hot day, the boats on the Yangtze River are still flowing. Vertex Fastest update Except for the people who operate the ship, most of the rest stay in the cabin and refuse to come out.

On the busy waterway of the Yangtze River, a sand boat is going down the river. The boat did not look any different from the outside, and it was honestly driving on the river.

Just after noon, it was the hottest time of the day, and the boat boss wearing a hat said: "Go and bring some water below, don't die of heat when it's so hot, then we'll be busy in vain!" ”

A boatman said yes lazily, and walked towards the hatch with a bucket in his hand. When he opened the hatch, several whispers came from inside.

The boatman waved his hand in disgust at the smell coming from inside, and walked out of the cabin with the bucket. When he came to the cabin, he immediately spoke: "The owner is soft-hearted, and I will bring you some water to drink." Hurry up and drink it! There is no such treatment at sea! ”

The boatman placed the bucket in the center of the cabin, and took a few steps back to look at the seventy or eighty ragged men in the cabin. When the men saw the boatman retreat, they immediately rushed towards the bucket.

A strong man pushed the others away and took possession of the bucket, first sticking his head into the bucket to drink, and then staring at the people who came around with fierce eyes.

After seeing the other people's expressions of fear, he walked to the two sitting in the corner with a bucket. The boatman frowned when he saw this, and just wanted to open his mouth to scold.

I saw the man hand the bucket to a thin young man, "Little Guozi! Drink it! If you don't drink it, the old lady has to drink a little too! ”

The person known as Xiao Guozi hesitated and did not refuse, reached out and laboriously took the bucket and gave the old lady next to him a little drink first, and then drank it himself.

The boatman sighed and swallowed the words of reprimand back into his stomach. There was still quite a bit of water left in the bucket, but it quickly bottomed out after dozens of people drank it.

Xiao Guozi saw the boatman leave before he said: "Brother Mengzi, thank you for your kindness!" If you don't take care of you along the way, my little brother won't survive at all. ”

The man smiled innocently and said, "Little Guozi, who let us fall in love!" As soon as I saw you, I remembered my hard-working brother, and if it weren't for the ruthlessness of the big family, he wouldn't be ......."

Listening to the man's words, Guo Xin couldn't help but smile bitterly. His experience was similar to that of the man in front of him, although the exorbitant taxes were very heavy, they could still fill their stomachs.

A serious illness of their father left their family with nothing, and in desperation, they heard that they could have a way to live if they went to sea, and Guo Xin took his wife to embark on this road to the sea.

When the sand boat reaches the sea, it is not as smooth as in the Yangtze River, and the waves push the sand boat up and down. The owner of the ship also did not care to take care of the people in the cabin, and they constantly adjusted the sails to avoid the wind and waves.

The people in the cabin were sinned, and one by one they were thrown and crawled. Even if you grab something and fix your body, it is extremely uncomfortable with the bumps, and vomiting is everywhere.

As the sand boat rose and fell, exclamations rang out in the cabin. Some people were so frightened that they wept loudly, and they kept praying for God's blessing.

Fortunately, the boat boss has a good level of boat management, and they have a thrilling boat to break through. When the ship stabilized, everyone cried with joy.

When the ship anchored at the pier of Tamsui City, the boat boss cheered happily. He knew that he had won the bet, and the need for population Changxingjun never seemed to be satisfied.

Everyone who can bring the population to Taiyuan Island will be rewarded handsomely, and he is already thinking about what kind of goods he will need to bring with him on the return trip.

Glass? No, that thing is too easy to break, and if you don't do it, you will lose everything. Soap? This thing is okay, but his sand boat is too small, and he may not be able to make the most profit if he ships less. ……

While he was thinking about what was the most profitable, the people on the sand boat boarded the Tamsui City pier one after another. The prosperity here stunned the people who had just stepped off the boat, and a thought rose in the hearts of many people~ Where is this?

When the number of people was counted on the ship, seven of them did not leave the cabin. There is no way to do this, and it is not uncommon for a percentage of people who are physically weak to be unable to leave the cabin.

Mengzi recognized Guo Xin's mother as his godmother, and their family of three was given fifteen acres of land. When the village chief pointed out their land to them, the three of them knelt down and kowtowed to the north to express their gratitude.

Since the Changxing army conquered the northern part of Taiyuan Island, the immigrants have not been cut off under the impetus of merchants. Almost every day, there are ships to transport people to the island, and at the peak there are as many as 1,000 people a day.

The northern part of the island controlled by the Changxing Army was also dominated by Japanese and Koreans, and gradually became dominated by Han Chinese, and most of the dangerous work such as logging was done by Japanese and Koreans.

The natives captured by the Changxing Army were sent to the most dangerous mining jobs, and they had to pay for their unfriendly acts with their lives.

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At a test site on Jeju Island, Jang Dou and his generals watched the soldiers operate a Chuyang cannon. The Sunset Cannon is no different, the only change is that the ignition device has been replaced with a flintlock ignition.

The biggest difference between this cannonball and ordinary cannonballs is that it has a wooden support, which makes all the generals wonder.

Seeing the soldiers who tested the artillery raising the small green flag in their hands, Zhang Dou nodded to the soldiers around him, and immediately someone waved the small red flag at the artillery team.

The next thing I saw was that the soldiers who tested the cannon smashed the new cannonball into the Chuyang cannon, and as soon as the soldier pulled the rope, the cannon roared, and a cannonball came out of its chamber and landed in a wooden house a mile away.

Seeing all this, the generals couldn't help but applaud, and they could hit with one shot from a mile away, which shows that these test artillery soldiers did not practice artillery skills weekdays.

But Zhang Dou frowned a little, and at this moment, a violent explosion occurred in the wooden house, and the entire wooden house was blown open by the explosion. The generals who were still applauding just now were stunned and looked at the wooden house in a daze.

Zhang Dou showed a smile on his face at this time, and said to the generals around him: "Let's go!" To see how powerful this new shell really is? ”

By the time they arrived at the hut, there were already soldiers who had begun to search for it. Not long after, a soldier handed the fragments of the cannonball in his hand to Zhang Dou's hand, and when he saw that there were only two fragments, one large and one small, Zhang Dou's brows furrowed a little deeply.

Zhang Dou was very dissatisfied with the flowering bullet cast in the workshop, although it exploded after hitting the target, it was difficult to grasp the time of the fuse explosion, and it was easy not to explode.

In addition, the power of black powder was also unsatisfactory, although it exploded the cast iron shell, only two pieces were exploded. To rely on such fragments to hurt the enemy, not to send solid shells are powerful.

Finally, there are cast iron shells, which are not easy to explode if they are thick, and will crack when they hit the target when they are thin, affecting the explosion effect.

It seems that the Changxing army still has a long way to go if it wants to use flowering shells against the enemy!