Chapter 474: Drawing on the strengths of others
There are thousands of sailors and gunners from Xiyi countries captured by the Huang family, among which there are many excellent captains, and many may be officers of their country, Huang Sheng estimates that there should be people with knighthoods among them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Soon, the Xiyi captives, who exchanged their labor for the necessities of life, found an opportunity to live comfortably, and they could become limited free men by participating in the death squad and being pardoned for their military exploits.
Why Limited Freedom? Because the Huang family can recruit them to become sailors, gunners or soldiers, and pay them monthly pay as usual, but they are not allowed to leave the Huang family and return to their hometown.
There is another job opportunity that pays even better, but unfortunately only a few people get it: becoming a teacher.
The illiteracy rate in Xiyi was on par with that of the Ming Dynasty, and the number of scholars was also a minority, so most of the people who got this decent job were captains or officers, who taught all the latest military and civilian research results of Xiyi.
Even if there are many academics that Xiyi thinks are very advanced, the students will listen patiently, and the Huang family will learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, or take it as a warning, and accumulate a wealth of knowledge and insight to expand the knowledge for the Huang family to flourish.
Now there are more than 100 Xiyi who teach, and there are dozens of military schools, and all the captains of the Huang family can master more than two sets of navigation techniques, and they can use the traditional compass and star plate of the Ming Dynasty for positioning on the vast sea, and they can also use the quadrant invented by the British navigator John Davis.
Of course, the compass has now been replaced by a compass with a scale, and the astrological technique, one of the navigational inventions of the ancient Han working people, is still widely used today.
The Huang family seized a large number of Xiyi warships and merchant ships, and of course seized many books of all kinds with the ships, including reference books, philosophy, astronomy and other scientific and technological books, and more navigation charts, and almost everything in Xiyi navigation's positioning, surveying and other tools.
Huang Sheng comes from modern times, but he has never looked down on the Westerners who called for wind and rain in the Age of Discovery, all Western reference books have been translated, and all tools and positioning and measurement methods different from those of the Ming Dynasty must understand the theoretical basis and record them into words.
In this way, the constantly improving Huang family's naval drill is of course to learn from others' strengths.
Last year, all the more than 3,000 handlebar handlebars who took the initiative to go to Liaodong to participate in the war have been freed, and each of them has received no less than 50 taels of silver, and only a few people have been unable to leave their homeland and return home, and most of them have returned home and dragged their families to settle down on "Huaxia Island."
Most of these people became heavy soldiers who received one or two or four coins of silver for a month, and several hundred of them succeeded in becoming the first auxiliary soldier with armor and coachmen for one or two or eight pieces of silver.
The news that they became free citizens of the Huang family was the envy of others who were still in labor reform, including the more than 3,000 people who had been treated as traitors in labor reform.
I heard that the Huang family was going to recruit army laborers to go to the south, and all the prisoners in the labor camp signed up for selection, and more than 5,000 Koreans were also clamoring to participate in the war, and many of them even bit their index fingers and wrote blood letters to express their loyalty.
The people's hearts are available, of course, Huang Sheng does not refuse to come, and is ready to take all of them to Annan to expand the land, and there will naturally be too many people to fill in when their labor positions are vacant. Because after the capture of the Great Yue Kingdom, there will be too many people in the Li Dynasty who are unwilling to surrender to be sent here for labor reform.
The master came to "Huaxia Island" to guide the work, Zhao Rui was the happiest, happy like a little girl every day, her daughter Huang Xin was three years old, not naughty at all, and she may have been poisoned by Zhao Rui's feudal remnants of education based on female taming and female rings.
Zhao Rui now has only one expectation, she wants to have another son for her master, of course, she seizes the rare opportunity to monopolize favor.
Huang Sheng took his daughter and his concubine to stroll through Huaxia City, where the main building has been completed, rows of small buildings, wide and clean stone streets are bustling, and the guys of the shops on the street are shouting endlessly.
There are already more than 100,000 permanent residents in this city, and there are no less than 350,000 residents in the entire "Huaxia Island", not all of whom are people from the Huang family.
Of course, the Ming people are the majority, and the Westerners, Orientals, and Luzon people are not uncommon, with as many as 350,000 people, but the Koreans are almost invisible.
This time, he brought 5,000 Korean laborers whose freedom was restricted to Annam, and it is not known that the Koreans on "Huaxia Island" may become the smallest ethnic minority.
Huang Sheng put himself in the shoes of his first overseas territory, realized that the future of this geographically advantageous free trade island was bright, and told his concubine Zhao Rui to emancipate her mind and embrace all rivers, as long as merchant ships that did not carry weapons could be allowed to enter the port to trade.
As long as the tax is paid according to the regulations, the legitimate rights and interests of the businessmen must be protected, regardless of nationality, of course, those who dare to violate the laws of the Huang family will not be tolerated and severely punished.
The commercial tax of "Huaxia Island" is also copied from the European Scandinavian tax method, and the tax paid by merchant ships depends on the width of the deck.
In order to stimulate trade, the tariff on "Huaxia Island" is half of the average of each country, and it can also provide paid services for ship repairs and supplies.
Zhao Rui is the de facto highest civil official of "Huaxia Island", and no one is dissatisfied.
It's not just the identity of her family's head of the family's concubine, but too many civil officials and military officers are her students, which is the benefit of Huang Sheng's first reason for letting all the literate women help teach the family to read because there are too few scholars.
The Han people respect teachers and teach the most, and there is a saying that one day is a teacher and a father for life, and Zhao Rui's status is of course outstanding.
Huang Sheng naturally lived in the palace of Xinhaijun in the "Huaxia Island", and Li Guozhu, the Xinhaijun, was very conscious, and he did not come to the "Huaxia Island" again after the last military parade.
He is now colluding with the Dutch against the Japanese Satsuma Domain, and Peter Nouz, the Dutch governor of Taiwan, was not sentenced and removed from office, as he has done historically, but continues to serve as the governor of Taiwan.
This was entirely due to the fact that Peter Noyz had obtained a trade treaty with Huang Sheng, which had resulted in a windfall profit for the Dutch East India Company.
And because all the parties involved in the Hamada Yabei incident were killed by Huang Sheng by mistake, the Netherlands did not have the result of protracted peace talks with the Japanese shogunate.
With the East India Company's trade in Japan restricted by the Japanese shogunate and the expulsion of too many merchants, Peter Noiz had a new grudge against Japan, and he and the Chinese captain Li Guozhu hit it off and agreed to attack several islands under the de facto control of the Satsuma Domain.
The Dutch wanted to take the Ryukyu Islands and the Osumi Islands, the territories of the Satsuma Domain, so as to control the shipping routes here, and achieve the strategic goal of controlling Japanese trade.
Li Guozhu wanted to get the territory of the Hirado Domain, and if he didn't mind taking the Goto Islands if he could, his purpose was to tear the earth and seal the king, which was completely stimulated by Huang Sheng's operation to seize Jeju Island.
Li Guozhu fantasized about running a large island like the Huang family, and becoming the owner of the island for generations.
Huang Sheng met Li Guozhu's messenger and was very happy to see that he was ambitious, and immediately expressed his strong support.
This is not just lip service, because Li Guosuke is a real ally, and it will be of great benefit to him to help him seize Hirado Island and the Goto Islands.
The Huangjiasui rifling gun has become an industrial product manufactured on the assembly line, and the processing speed of parts has been improved, but it is limited to the bottleneck of the rifled barrel, resulting in overcapacity of other parts except the barrel.