Sun Jingting said angrily: "Aren't they self-proclaimed civilization, how can they kill people like this?" ”

Li Pingzhi smiled bitterly: "It is a self-proclaimed civilization, so uncivilized people are beasts in their eyes, and it doesn't hurt to kill them...... Like our Han people and Han merchants, they look at it differently, to the Han merchants, mainly to win over, to the Han people is also different from the natives, some Penghu Han people were plundered by them to help build forts, but they also paid for the work, and there was no abuse. ”

Sun Jingting shook his head, feeling that his understanding was almost unable to keep up with the way of thinking of these Dutch Yi.

After everyone finished saluting one by one, it was finally the military people who came over, Li Shouxin saluted Sun Jingting, and said loudly: "The last general has seen Lord Sun." ”

"Commander Li Shao Li." Sun Jingting looked at Li Shouxin with gentle eyes, and said: "From Datong to the island, I haven't seen my family for many years, it's really a kind of torture. Before I left, I specially asked someone to write a letter on behalf of Commander Li's parents, saying that the two old men were in good health, and that you should not worry about them in military affairs and official affairs. ”

Li Shouxin first stood very respectfully, and when he mentioned his parents, his face still showed a look of longing, and in the end, he was a little touched and a little sad, after all, he was sent out not long after reuniting with his parents. And it is impossible for a soldier like him to allow his family to come here, and Li Shouxin is not at ease when he travels far across the ocean...... Taiwan's ships are not unsinkable, and Hutchison has sunk two small merchant ships so far, but fortunately there are no casualties, and small merchant ships generally do not carry anyone, and there are small boats to rescue them, but fortunately the sunken ships are all in places with quite dense routes, and the ships that fled in small boats were rescued within a few days.

"Thank you, Lord Sun." Li Shouxin stretched out his hands, and Sun Jingting's attaché handed him a thick letter.

Sun Jingting said with a smile: "In fact, after the opening of the Tangbao line, it is no longer as difficult to exchange letters as before, but I know that the high-level personnel of the marching department have been self-disciplined and are unwilling to use Tangma to deliver private letters. ”

Li Shouxin also smiled: "The family letter is worth 10,000 gold, thank you." It's not that we don't want to, but if everyone wants to bring a few letters, I'm afraid that Tangma will be tired to death, so we can only be self-disciplined at the top to avoid trouble. ”

Sun Jingting nodded appreciatively, Hutchison is really thriving now, some things are not stipulated by the system, but everyone's conscious and voluntary behavior......

Everyone gathered around Sun Jingting to get into the car and walked from the port area to the base area.

There were a lot of busy crowds on both sides, and they didn't squeeze over for the first time just now, after all, they didn't feel that they were the people on the brand name, but when Sun Jingting's carriage passed by, many people who were busy in the port area and storage area crowded over, looking at the passing carriage with curious eyes.

Taiwan is isolated overseas, and this is the first time that a big man from the headquarters has been ushered in, and he is a big man who is quite respected by the top management of the marching department, and these islanders and immigrants can't help but feel fresh, full of curiosity and awe.

Sun Jingting also looked at the rows of houses on both sides, now he already knows the difficulty of opening up here, every brick and every wood is obtained with blood and sweat, the old Shizhai District in front of the building is on the side of a river, are built with simple wood, it is quite dilapidated, and the wood is gradually dismantled and used, Shizhai District will soon disappear, at most some buildings are left as specimens for future generations...... Of course, this is not the proposition of the marching division, it is mentioned by Zhang Han in the letter, the Chinese people's awareness of the protection of the building is slightly insufficient, especially if it is of historical significance, if it is not for Zhang Han's letter, it is estimated that this place will be demolished to the ground.

The storage area is really big, Sun Jingting estimated that there will be more than a thousand houses, Chang Wei sat in the same car with him, saw Sun Jingting's eyes, Chang Wei said: "Originally, this piece was the place where the deceased Li Dan and Li Ye used to store goods, and then Yan Siqi They also built some warehouses, and when we came, there were more goods, so hundreds of warehouses were built to reserve goods and daily items, including military supplies." Of course, we don't actually need so many warehouses for the time being, and we do it on purpose. ”

Sun Jingting realized that Taiwan's original immigrants of less than 10,000 people had a very hard time, and Hutchison had moved more than 40,000 people in Liaodong in recent years, and there were nearly 60,000 people in the entire base plus the garrison, and this number was added in a short period of time, and the supply of materials also grew explosively.

"The port area is mainly for mooring ships, loading and unloading goods, mainly garrisons, officers and soldiers of the naval division, cadets, and lifu. Then there is the storage area at the mouth of the river, which is convenient for transporting things out of the inland and for us to transport them over. From the storage area to the inside, there are workshops on both sides of the river. ”

Chang Wei pointed to a large area of buildings and introduced: "Those tall chimneys are drying rooms, we are baking wood all year round, using coke transported from the north, which is less labor-saving and cost-saving than cutting wood, there is a wood-cutting area, we want to make wood into masts, various cabin parts, decks, ship buildings, etc., there is an iron area, a big ship needs to use all kinds of iron, iron nails alone will cost more than 10,000, last year we ordered from the military department, this year due to a large number of craftsmen, we have begun to make ourselves, Save thousands of miles to transport it. There is a construction area, there is a waterway, the hull is built in the waterway, starting from the keel to laying the deck, to equipping the ship with all the sail lines, you can release the water into the sea, of course, it is not just set up, but also paint and oil, after a long time is a qualified ship, and it will not last long to go to sea in a hurry...... Brother Xiaozheng, there is the sail rope area, the rope used by each big ship is made up from here, each boat needs to use a large number of ropes, as well as sails, which need to be strong and durable and soft, and the requirements for cloth are very high, and the main sail has at least more than 10,000 stitches, which is time-consuming. There is a maintenance area, and the old ship needs to be maintained in the port area after sailing, scraping and cleaning the moss, otherwise it will not be possible after a long time......"

Sun Jingting listened quietly, Chang Wei was almost like a treasure, everything in front of him was built by him with one hand and one kick, which was the pride of this young offspring in front of him...... Although Chang Wei's position is not based on common sense, it is more that Zhang Han trusts him, and there are not too many people who recognize him, unlike other old and mature marching officials who are middle-aged, and they have gone through the treacherous world and many hardships to reach a high position, unlike Chang Wei, often people worry that he is a young man Xingjin, as a result, his life may not be as smooth as a middle-aged person, but the momentum and drive are not comparable to those people, Sun Jingting secretly praised in his heart, Zhang Wenlan knows people in the end, this cousin has no bad pool, not like the military secretary secretly discussed, Chang Wei Guijie's son, he uses money like slaughtering money, so Taiwan has not returned it until now...... This is slander, and you have to kill this crooked trend when you go back.

"It's really a matter of not doing anything, not growing wise." When he saw the manufacturing site of the Firearms Bureau and the heavy artillery that was dark and heavy, Sun Jingting couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart.

"The cast cannons on Taiwan's side are all heavy artillery, and the lightest is also a nine-pounder gun, which can be regarded as small artillery. Now it is mainly casting twenty-four pounds, and thirty-six-pound guns and even heavier guns are also being cast. Chang Wei said indifferently: "Artillery is a weapon of naval warfare, although ten cannons may not be hit, but once a cannon is hit, the small boat is immediately shattered, and the big ship is also debris flying, the hull is pierced, hitting the mast, the rudder, it is equivalent to victory, and a cannon to cannon, the personnel on the ship are like being ploughed with blood, in front of the artillery, any personal bravery is meaningless, so we have been casting heavy artillery, the heavier the artillery, the greater the power played in naval warfare." The heavy artillery of the Dutch people is already heavier, and it is difficult for one person to hold the shells, and after a naval battle, people are afraid that they will be tired and lose their strength. ”

Sun Jingting kept nodding...... On the grassland, the four-pounder cannon is powerful enough, and the nearly four-pound cannon is also ploughed out of a bloody road in the crowd, and the one who is bound to die, the northern captives are half frightened to death when they hear the sound of the cannon, and regard Hutchison's cannon as a sacred object. Later, there were gradually more six-pounder guns and nine-pounder guns, but the nine-pounder guns were the limit of mounted artillery, and the twelve-pounder guns weighed 3,500 catties, and a dozen horses could not keep up with the marching speed of the troops...... There is no problem with horsepower, and the accessories cannot withstand the toss of fast bumps.

On the Taiwan side, the smallest is also a nine-pounder gun, which can only be used as a small shore defense gun, and it is also installed on those small sentry ships, and then the minimum standard for the main guns of the ship is a 24-pounder gun, generally a 24-pounder gun with a 36-pounder gun, and a ship of 30 or 40 guns, all of which are 36-pounder guns, and a shell weighs 40 catties, roaring out...... You can imagine how powerful that is.

Sun Jingting said sincerely: "Naval warfare is really two completely different systems from land warfare, I know it today. ”

Chang Wei said: "Brother Wen Lan also said that naval warfare should actually talk about the ruthlessness of the army's courage to fight bayonets, dare not fight, no matter how fierce and ruthless the artillery is, is there no enemy?" Do you have to build more warships than the Dutch to dare to fight them? Not necessarily. ”

Sun Jingting pondered: "When I was leaving, Wen Lan sent me a letter, saying that he had some thoughts on the tactics of the navy, and he would go back to you and the generals of the navy division to see. ”

"Okay." Chang Wei readily agreed, his admiration for Zhang Han was unreserved, Zhang Han had a letter, and he must have something important to say......

"That's the school area, this is the adult sailor officer and soldier school, half of the Fujian and Liaomin, the Liaomin is mainly the Nansiwei people, originally the people of the near sea, can water, can sail the priority, there are 1,500 students, the instructors are mostly Portuguese and Russians, there are also a small number of French, Germans, 110 instructors, foreigners account for more than ninety percent, our own instructors are now only a few people, from the original Fujian Navy side invited military attachés, illiterate, can only teach experience. However, there are also many foreign instructors who are illiterate, and only teach how to tie ropes, how to raise and lower sails, when to raise the mast and fall the mast, or cut the mast in times of crisis......"