The field battalion that landed in time stopped the Chezhidan and Mon people who were burning and killing indiscriminately in the city. x updates are the fastest

The level of indigenous architecture in the East Indies is relatively low, and the capitals of several countries on the island of Java still look decent, and Karimata is no exception. Suqadana was originally an ally of Surabaya, but Surabaya was unlucky after it was conquered by Matalan. The city was small and could only accommodate a few thousand people, with no walls, only a few palisades and fences.

Stone buildings are rare, and only a few warehouses that house valuable supplies are masonry. In addition, even the aristocratic mansions were mainly wooden houses.

Chen Shouxu did not come to the island to interfere with Maiden's command, he mainly came to inspect the seized materials. Rice, mahogany, cotton raw silk, copper, tin, spices, and other trophies are piled up, and the people of the Ministry of Finance are counting them one by one. There were also considerable quantities of diamonds, sapphires, gold, and silver, and the most surprising of Chen Shouxu was that the amount of gold exceeded his expectations.

The gold seized was not a gold coin, but a piece of gold or jewelry. The nearby Minangkabau gold mine on the island of Sumatra is a high-yielding gold producing area. Chen Shouxu knew that the Portuguese had calculated that the annual gold transaction in Malacca was about 10 bahars, or almost 75 kilograms. There are also many gold mines in the Philippines. The East Indies have always been an importer and exporter of silver, and gold is cheap here. Borneo is located between Sumatra and the Philippines, and Chen Shouxu did not expect that Karimata Island also has a lot of gold transactions.

Chen Shouxu's main concern was the iron manufacturing industry on the island. There are a lot of seized products, the number of Baleng knives and iron axes is tens of thousands, and there are some iron ores piled up outside the port, and naturally some people count them one by one.

The next day, Chen Shouxu took the people from the research institute to inspect the ironmaking workshops on the island.

Borneo is mined for open-pit ore, and they use fire to open the cracks and also to crack large pieces of ore. Then they put the ore in the open air and bake it with a lot of wood. Finally, they dug a pit in the ground, poured dry clay on it, spread it with a lot of charcoal, and smelted the ore in it.

The Malay bellows ironmaking method, which is a vertical piston ironmaking method, is also used locally. The workshop is a shack made of bamboo and palm leaves. Local workers use 2 bamboo tubes erected next to the stove as bellows, and then use the bamboo tubes as nozzles, directly attached to the furnace body. They used feathers instead of pistons, which were used to supply air to the stoves.

Chen Shouxu was slightly disappointed with the results, as this iron-making method is popular throughout Southeast Asia, except that in some countries the trunk is used as a bellows and ceramics as a nozzle. The practice is much the same everywhere, with larger ironworks using more bellows. The smelting technology of Karimata Island is not as good as that of Siam.

He was somewhat relieved that the Chezhidan battalion had captured more than 300 ironmakers in two blacksmith villages near the port. There is no large-scale factory here, and each master with a few apprentices is a workshop. These family farms do not have the capacity to organize large-scale production, and they only buy raw materials to start work if they receive an advance payment. The loot that is now piling up in the port is mainly from orders from Makassar.

The Karimata blacksmith is completely based on experience and personal skill to hammer out a steel knife, and the professional skills are very good. Chen Shouxu didn't really like this kind of "personal experience" that couldn't be replicated, but at the moment, these 300 blacksmiths could solve his urgent needs.

As a trading centre, there are very few people engaged in agriculture in Karimata, and in addition to merchants, there are many other craftsmen such as straw mat makers, cable makers, palm leaf house makers, coppersmiths, shipbuilders, etc.

Well, Chen Shouxu admits that this batch of prisoners of war is very valuable.

According to the plan, the fleet first began to transport valuable materials such as gold, silver and precious stones, followed by raw silk and cotton cloth, copper and tin, spices, and finally larger commodities such as rice and wood. Chen Shouxu brought 10 junk ships with him on this trip, and he had to fill all the transport ships.

The port also seized more than 20 merchant ships, and Chen Shouxu asked people to screen them one by one. All non-Malan merchant ships were released, and in the end there were a total of 13 dhows and horn-bluffing merchant ships in the local area, with an average deadweight of about 70 tons each.

Like most ports in the East Indies, the port of Karimata has little infrastructure to speak of. There are no piers or piers for large ships to dock in the harbor, and there are almost no hardened pavements in the city. It was muddy, only the road near the city center was paved with some fine sand, and the road condition was slightly better. Transporting materials has become a very troublesome matter, and it is impossible to move them in a short time.

Like other indigenous cities that Chen has seen, the city is full of greenery and occasional fields. It looks like a suburb, not a city. The central city is a group of aristocratic compounds, each surrounded by many dependent houses, which look like a patchwork of villages. If it doesn't rain, it's a garden-like city.

The homes of the dependents are all simple stilts, and the houses are palm leaves. There are some poultry and livestock under the stilt house. There were also wooden houses in the trees nearby, which were their barns. Chen Shouxu was really a little impressed, and put the rice on the tree, but saved the work of building a warehouse. But this is a big trouble for Chen Shouxu. Most of the prisoners of war captured were craftsmen, and he did not want to lose his high-value human resources to such low-level work as transportation.

Chen Shouxu is not a pirate who robs gems, gold and silver, and runs away when he sets fire to it, and useful materials and manpower are needed in Jincheng, so he can only move slowly.

Maiden occupies an estate as a headquarters. The wooden-walled manor was large, with a central three-way house as a living quarter, surrounded by a number of servants' rooms. Chen Shouxu lives in the courtyard at the back and is in a bad mood all the time. At the current speed of moving, it will not be possible to move these things in a month, which will seriously drag down the follow-up plan. So when Maiden reported to him that a large number of Mataran troops were approaching outside the city, Chen Shouxu was very happy. "Ha, I finally have a coolie to deliver to my door."

Maiden gathered his army and formed a formation in a clearing outside the city. Chen Shouxu stood on a hill behind the front line, observing the situation between the two armies. Wang Huizhi and Cao Junfu stood on either side of him.

Wang Huizhi was a little strange, "I remember that the indigenous countries of Nanyang usually take the lead in the face of strong enemies, and flee into the forest with fine and soft packs. Francos and Furfur could not drive their ships into the mountains, and they could easily rebuild the wooden houses in the city. The Sultan of Johor has been hunted down by the Francois for decades and has been able to run away every time. How did they get brave enough to take the city back? ”

Chen Shouxu frequently raised his head against the Ma Ta Lan army, "Ma Da Lan is a strong country, and they want to maintain the reputation of Susu Hunan. We should appreciate and thank them for their courage in fighting. ”

Cao Junfu asked, "Then why didn't they gather troops to fight us in the first place?" Attacking halfway when we land may cause us more problems. ”

Wang Hui sneered, "I haven't seen the officers and soldiers in the world." These Nanyang countries are all a combination of soldiers and peasants. Westerners taught them to fight with guns, but only the national capital had some standing armies. If we invade suddenly, they won't have time to react. ”

Cao Junfu was furious, "Old bandit, you don't understand anything. A pirate leader like you, my family has cleaned up more than a dozen. "Qiongzhou has always been the hardest hit area by pirate attacks, as a family of Hainan Wei officers, Cao Junfu's family has fought with pirates from all walks of life for generations, and they are not those guards in the mainland who run away without seeing the enemy.

"Yo, the officers and soldiers are still not convinced. Do you want another fight? ”

"Fight and fight, whoever is afraid of whom."

Since landing, the two have not broken their quarrel. I heard that there was an alcohol, and the two of them also went out to fight once. However, after they came back, no one came to fruition, and Chen Shouxuan didn't know who had won.

"Both." Chen Shouxu put down the binoculars and said helplessly, "Brother Cao, the leader of the indigenous people ran away as soon as he saw our army. These troops in front of him should have been recruited by him with great difficulty. ”

Chen Shouxu's interruption, the two of them couldn't continue to quarrel, and turned their attention back to the battlefield angrily.

Chen Shouxu explained to Cao Junfu, who had never been to Nanyang, "Brother Cao, the combat effectiveness of the Nanyang teams was originally very low. The brutal wars of the West have honed the Franciscans to be ferocious and cruel, while the native armies of the South Seas rarely kill on a large scale. Under the system of military and peasantry, the nobles were afraid of losing their dependents, and the Francos described them as 'angels' when they went to war. ”

Cao Junfu is a military family in Guangdong, and he also knows something about the people of Macau. After the Jiajing year, Guangdong's coastal defense relied largely on hired Macao plywood boats to fight. In the Zhelin Mutiny that shook the whole province, the Dongguan Navy Division of Zhelin Village, which had the most complete combat effectiveness in Guangdong, rebelled and attacked the city of Guangzhou, and it was only suppressed by the ships of the Francophone people.

Cao Junfu was a little unconvinced, "I know that the sailors of the Francois are powerful, what the lord of the country means, their land division is stronger than the border army of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Wang Huizhi sneered, but was speechless.

"Brother Cao, in my opinion, the officials and soldiers of the imperial court are far inferior to the Francois people. If they could have half the combat power of the Franco, Liaodong would have been pacified long ago. Chen Shouxu put down the binoculars and felt like he was teaching students, "What's more, the Lu division of the Francois machine is not very strong in Europe." ”

Cao Junfu wanted to argue a few more words, but when he heard Chen Shouxu mention Liaodong, he was immediately deflated. The results of the battle between the Ming army and Jianzhou were too terrible, every decisive battle must be lost, and every defeat must be annihilated. When he went to sea, the news of Songjin's defeat had already reached Hainan Wei. Eight general soldiers, 130,000 troops bombed the camp. Wu Sangui, known as a famous general, fled back to Ningyuan, but left the governor Hong Chengchou and the governor Qiu Mingyang in Songshan City. As a military family, Cao Junfu knew what the defeat of Songjin meant, and what Hong Chengchou buried was almost the last elite division that the imperial court could rely on.

Chen Shouxu saw that he was a little excited, "Brother Cao, sooner or later, you will also become an officer of the imperial court." Now is an eventful time, learn more from foreigners, and it may be of great use in the future. ”

Wang Huizhi then said, "Officers and soldiers, the lord of the country is teaching you real skills." You look at those soldiers who are blue and blue, originally they didn't know what military discipline was or what a formation was, and it was the mercenaries of foreigners who taught them to fight. ”

Chen Shouxu said: "The natives used to run away when they saw the plate armor heavy infantry and muskets of the Francoman, and they always thought that the Francosman was invincible and immortal. Now that they have been in contact for a long time, the natives also know that under the helmet and plate armor, there is a fleshy head that can be cut off. ”

Wang Huizhi said in a puzzled tone, "The lord of the country is extremely good. I don't understand, Jianlu is also a meat chief, and there are more officials and soldiers in the court than Jianyu, why can't he always win? It's really a shame for the Han people. ”

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