Sun Jingting said: "Learning may not all come from books, but it is best to compile useful experience into a book, so that a group of instructors will go, leaving a batch of books, and experienced people will take it to learn, and they don't have to be controlled by others in everything." ”

Sun Jingting said to Chang Wei: "Wen Lan mentioned to me that the Russians are our powerful helpers now. In the North, we can make 20 million trade in three years, and Hutchison will account for more than half, and the great merchants of the North will share the rest. We can earn nearly a million a year from taxes alone, not counting the profits from trade. It's important. But trade is mutually beneficial, the goods we give them, they earn more. It is estimated that in the future, trade with us will occupy a very important position in the financial income of the entire Russian state......"

Chang Wei interjected: "Russia is so poor, trade with us can account for an important income?" ”

"Don't say that." Sun Jingting said solemnly: "If my Ming Dynasty were as heavy on overseas trade as Xiyi, the country would not be so poor." How now, the country is desperately looting the people, and the sea trade has never been as important as other countries, in fact, it is the Southern Song Dynasty, the imperial court has at least 30% of the income from the sea trade, and I have regressed in the Ming Dynasty, which is the harm of the Mengyuan Dynasty, which can be sighed. ”

Chang Wei nodded and said: "You must not rest on your laurels, nor can you be arrogant, I was a little arrogant just now." ”

Sun Jingting said with a relieved face: "I'm afraid that you are really drawing inferences, which makes me feel that I am really old." ”

"Under forty years old, Brother Xiaozheng." Chang Wei sneered at him and said, "This also dares to say that he is old? ”

Sun Jingting laughed, and then said just now: "The Russians and our trade are equal, and Dezhnev's gang said that it was the bargaining chip and condition for us to open trade with Russia at the beginning, but after all, we have a request from them. I didn't come this time, I didn't know that there were so many doorways on the sea, since I came, I understood, just talking about the sail rope, the ropes on the ship are as dense as spider silk, but they are still useful, and it takes at least a few years to master, and now our own people can master not much, so this is called the so-called subject to others......"

At this time, there were students running past the Sailor School not far away, all of them in a column of four people, shouting slogans and running laps on the playground...... Since leaving Li Zhuang, Sun Jingting hadn't seen such a scene for a long time, and he watched it intently for a while, with a complicated look in his eyes. In the past two years, like a dream, there is no discomfort from Lingqiu to Lizhuang, the distance is very close, you can go back to Lingqiu every other while, but in the past two years, you have first arrived in Qingcheng, and then from Qingcheng to Mobei, running around, there is almost no time to settle down, but now you are still in Taiwan, thousands of miles away from Datong, and you can't return homesickness...... Even if it is in the Qingcheng area, it is very close to Datong and can not return to the hometown, now the high-level of Hutchison is very popular with the attention of the Ming court, unless it is a micro-service sneak back, otherwise it is better not to ask for trouble, Sun Jingting's character is impossible to accept the micro-service sneaking back, so I can only not go back to Lizhuang and Lingqiu, and now I am so far away from Taiwan, but I see the barracks with the same style as Lizhuang Lingqiu, and I am homesick for a while, but I am a little in a daze.

Chang Wei's young heart, he didn't have any homesickness for more than two years, anyway, his father Chang Jinquan often sent people to send letters, and also sent some hometown food, which is enough for a young man.

"Are the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division wearing all-blue robes?" Sun Jingting looked at it for a while and came back to his senses.

"yes." Chang Wei said: "The officers and men of the Navy Division are all wearing blue robes, and the marines selected by the Fourth Regiment are all wearing red robes. ”

"Are the Marines all guns?"

"Most of them are gunslingers, and there are also soldiers who are ready to jump gangs." Chang Wei said: "Now almost all the guns are equipped with bayonets, long-range battles, bayonets are used in close combat, close hand-to-hand combat, and the gunners also have short knives, and the gunners also train in hand-to-hand combat at sea, and there is no way to set up a phalanx in the sea battle, so they did not send pikemen on the ship, and the use of the knife players is not very large, just for the use of gang jumping." In addition, the knife player is also very useful for the mountain natives. ”

Sun Jingting heard that Taiwan's topography is a middle uplift, both sides are gentle, the essence of the area is the coastal plain area, Tainan is often the deeper the mountains stretch in, even if Taiwan develops very well after a few hundred years, the income and living standards of the mountain people in the mountains are still not high, building a highway through the whole island is to climb over the endless mountains, it took ten years to mobilize more than 100,000 people, spent a lot of money, now this year, even if it is Hutchison or the Ming Dynasty are not to think about it, It is impossible to exert the power of the whole world...... Hutchison has now been widely cultivated in the Tainan area, and the contact with the mountain people is inevitably increasing, Zhang Xuwen has entered the mountain several times, all of them are escorted by soldiers, and the mountain people along the mountain range are living in associations, and they have to fight over the mountains and mountains, the phalanx is not easy to place, there are many typhoons and rainy days on the island, and the fire gun is not very easy to use, and there are some rugged places, the fire gun can not be placed, if there is no front, the power of the fire gun at this time is not much stronger than the bow and arrow, so the best thing to use is the soldier wearing light armor and holding the shield, a small team of soldiers to open the array, A few hundred natives are no match for that.

The carriage kept moving forward, and in front of it was a squadron of cavalry as an escort, all dragoons, wearing bright helmets, wearing shiny cuirasses, and the horses were running in small jumps, and the cavalry was kept in a fairly neat array, quite conspicuous on the road along the river.

The surrounding area is already a farmland area, a Tunpu is lonely in the middle of a large area of thousands of acres of farmland, Sun Jingting knows that this is the Tunpu District, surrounded by a courtyard wall more than three zhang high, there are perforations and watchtowers, as well as small firearms, the people of Tunpu are all farmers, there are eliminated old weapons and old-style firearms to use...... There are a lot of such tunbao on the grassland, a fort lives in more than 100 households, can reclaim about 5,000 acres of farmland, according to the arrangement to plant grain and cash crops, can dig fish ponds to raise fish, stocking ducks, chickens, pigs, cattle and sheep, horses, a tunpu biological chain is relatively complete, in a place like Taiwan can be several tunpu cooperation, for example, a tunpu is closer to the river, there are more ducks and fish, and some are close to the mountains with flourishing trees, you can raise more cattle and sheep...... It's all complementary......

There are not many farmers in the farmland, it is the height of summer, there is still some time before the rice harvest, in some dry lands are sweet potato fields, which have already been harvested, and corn, which will also take more than a month to mature......

There were some peasant soldiers outside the tunpu who were practicing, and in the middle of summer, they practiced in the shade of the trees as much as possible, which was much easier than the sailor soldiers who had just run under the sun to practice their physical fitness, and even so, they were much harder and more regular than the soldiers on the nine sides.

Sun Jingting also saw some native barbarians, who were doing transportation work under the guard of some auxiliary soldiers, and used board trucks to pull some materials to the storage area.

"Broken hair tattoos." Sun Jingting said: "The barbarians in the south are different from the northern captives and the eastern captives. ”

"Actually, it's pretty much the same." Chang Wei said with a little contempt: "It's nothing more than tossing my body's hair and skin, broken hair, tattoos, and nose piercing, I have great etiquette in Huaxia, and the beauty of chapter clothes ......"

Sun Jingting nodded lightly, expressing his approval.

In the center of more than a dozen tens of thousands of acres of farmland in Tunbao, it is the base area that covers an area of nearly five miles, the courtyard wall of nearly four zhang high is very thick, almost the same as the city wall, the four corners are full of watchtowers and arrow towers, there are a large number of perforations left on the side of the wall, and it can also be stepped on to the high place of the courtyard wall by the gunner, and the wall is rejected and shot...... Inside the walls are a large number of houses, which are densely packed at a glance.

Chang Wei explained: "Government buildings, school buildings, the residences of soldiers and their families are all in it, and there are also restaurants and grocery stores, which are convenient for people inside and outside to shop. In the past, when Yan Siqi was still there, they often had people from Fujian on the other side come to trade and buy things, which was also an expedient measure for us to make money to supplement ourselves at the beginning of our foothold. At present, the number of foreign merchants has decreased by more than 70 percent, but fortunately, we ourselves are also a big business, and these shops and firms are not afraid of running out of business. ”

Sun Jingting nodded to understand that under the blockade of the Dutch, those small and medium-sized merchants and fishermen would not come, but Hutchison already has nearly 60,000 people on the island, and a small economic circle has been formed inside, which can turn around on its own.

Zheng Chenggong has been running Taiwan for more than ten years now, and there are only 100,000 or 200,000 people, and maybe in a few years Hutchison will have more than 100,000 people on the island, which can barely be regarded as the population size of a county in the mainland.

The carriage drove all the way to the base area, and Sun Jingting pointed to a large area of farmland and said, "That's not corn, it's not sorghum, is it sugarcane?" ”

"Exactly." Chang Wei said with a smile: "This year, the sugarcane fields have been expanded to more than 10,000 mu, and next year we will strive for more than 100,000 mu." ”

"It's still a small number." Sun Jingting said: "Manpower may as well use more, and the lack of manpower is called Kuandian to try to solve it." We hope that the sugarcane fields will reach more than 300,000 mu within three years...... This is where the pace needs to be accelerated. ”

"That's what Japan wants, too." Chang Wei frowned and said, "Then it can only be faster." ”

The Li family of Hirado has long urged Taiwan to hurry up and produce sugar...... Sugarcane is originally the strength of Fujian planting, but Fujian is mountainous, and it is not enough to grow grain in the plains, and there are not many sugarcane fields that can be planted, and the quality and quantity of sugar produced are also more in the southern provinces, but most of them are digested by themselves, and only a few can be exported. And the Japanese are much more sugar-hungry than the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Japan's purchasing power was much stronger than that of Japan, and the Dutch wanted to grab trade with Japan because of the huge profits from trade with Japan...... After Li Guozhu knew that Hutchison had plans to plant sugarcane on a large scale to extract grain, he also communicated with the big Japanese businessmen, the Japanese hoped to import a large amount of sugar, they had money, and they were quite hungry for grain, before the Zheng father and son did not defeat the Dutch, the Dutch began to encourage the cultivation of sugarcane to extract sugar in the Taiwan colony, and exported to Japan every year at least one million catties, and more than millions of catties, and the name of Taiwan sugar became famous all over the world since the end of the Ming Dynasty. After the First Sino-Japanese War, the first thing the Japanese did after occupying Taiwan was to merge thousands of large and small sugar mills and establish the Taiwan Sugar Company, which employed tens of thousands of people, making it Taiwan's biggest tool for earning foreign exchange through exports......