Hearing Zhu Daolin's categorical answer, Chu Mei quietly breathed a sigh of relief: "By the way, where are you going to settle so many Europeans?" If they are all placed in Baoshanwei, it will definitely cause a strong response from the Ming society, I am afraid that even those elders in Jinling City will be difficult to accept for a while, have you thought about it? ”

Zhu Daolin said with a smile: "Don't worry, except for the families and girlfriends of a limited number of high-ranking generals such as Bagas, the vast majority of Europeans will stay in Taipei and Tamsui, and all scholars, teachers and some technicians will be temporarily placed in the newly completed school in Hot Spring Town, and will work with you to build the Oriental University Town and the five planned laboratories." ”

"Those architects also need to assist you in revising the design drawings of the Hot Spring Palace, but fortunately, the cement plant at the foot of the mountain in the eastern suburbs of Taipei has been completed and is in trial production, and it is estimated that the design requirements of 50,000 tons of cement per month will be reached in two months, plus the existing eight brick and tile factories, five large and small forest farms and three quarries, which can basically meet the construction needs."

"All the remaining craftsmen will enter important factories such as the Tamsui Shipyard, the Nanshan Textile Printing and Dyeing Factory, the Yingzhou Gun Factory and the North Shore Machinery Factory under construction under the arrangement of the Yingzhou Governor's Office, and the remaining girls will enter the academy to learn the language, and then distribute them according to the specific situation."

"Wouldn't it hurt if I did that? After all, it's not animals, it's people! Chu Mei knew what era and place she was in, but she was still very uncomfortable.

Zhu Daolin had no choice but to comfort: "Actually, it is not a relief for these poor European girls, a kind of luck, at this time Europe is full of wars, and there are disasters and diseases that cannot be resisted. ”

Chu Mei sighed faintly: "I know it too, but ...... Alas! Don't say. It's uncomfortable to say, but you also have to be cautious, after all, these people are all foreigners, and there are so many of them, if it reaches the Ming Dynasty, it will have a great impact on your reputation. ”

"I'm not worried, what are you worried about? Besides, I believe that our kind and hardworking nation has a broad mind. With the inclusiveness of all rivers, as far back as the Han and Tang dynasties, the Han people intermarried with foreign races, what is my point? Zhu Daolin took Chu Mei's hand and walked out.

Chu Mei obediently followed, and when she reached the door, she stopped again and asked, "You don't want to improve the human race, do you?" ”

Zhu Daolin couldn't help but be happy: "What are you thinking about?" With this little population, how can we improve the human race? Even if there are another 100,000 European women, they will soon be buried and sinicized on the land of our Ming Empire. ”

"The Chinese nation has been like this for thousands of years, and even the first emperors of the ages such as Qin Shi Huang and Tang Taizong Li Shimin are not pure Han blood, not to mention the integration of millions of people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions in the nearly 100 years ruled by the Yuan Dynasty. In the end, isn't it still a Chinese nation with a whole identity? ”

"That's right! Alas, no matter you, I will receive my men and horses from tomorrow, and the construction of the university town will begin as soon as we get acquainted with each other, as well as your five important laboratories, and I am really worried that they have not seen the large number of experimental equipment you have brought. ”

"It's up to you, but you have to strictly follow the procedures, and you must not come up with too much scientific and technological information beyond this era within five years. Otherwise, it will be messed up. ”

"Aren't you afraid that these European scholars will find out and run away?"

"Humph! I can't help them, it's hard to leave when I get here. Haha......"

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The news of the arrival of 70 warships and nearly 10,000 troops of the Dutch expeditionary fleet in Batavia reached Fujian Province, causing a strong shock and panic, and officials at all levels and 8 million soldiers and civilians in Fujian Province remembered that they were like ants on a hot pot, and all kinds of concertans and letters of warning and asking for help flew like snowflakes to Jinling, Beijing, and Daming.

The Zheng family, who bore the brunt of the attack, was completely messed up.

Previously, a group of elders of the Zheng family and many generals in the army were worried that the alliance with Zhu Daolin would attract opposition and rejection from the gate lords of the southeast family, which would have an immeasurable impact on the career of the Zheng Zhilong brothers and the huge profits of the sea trade, so Zhu Daolin delivered the 2 according to the agreement. After 000 war horses, 80 refurbished artillery pieces, and the successive withdrawal of troops from the north and south of Yingzhou Island, Zheng Zhilong, who was hesitant, was not in a hurry to send people to Tamsui Port to sign the alliance, but was anxious about the continuous flow of immigrants from the north of the Daming River and Shandong to various parts of Yingzhou.

But the Zheng family forces on Yingzhou Island were expelled by the Dutch and Zhu Daolin, who was a fisherman, and it was useless to be in a hurry, so he could only swallow his anger. Secretly making the decision to abandon Yingzhou Island, he could only double the defense force of the Penghu Islands and firmly control the waterway of the strait in his own hands.

When they received the shocking news from Batavia, the Zheng family suddenly woke up and immediately sent Zheng Cai to lead more than a dozen family elders and civil and military cronies to rush to Tamsui Port by speedboat, in an attempt to sign an alliance with Zhu Daolin as quickly as possible to jointly resist the retaliation of the Dutch.

But now, Zhu Daolin, who has long been eager to destroy the local forces in Fujian, and his subordinate Wenwu, where will they give the Zheng family a chance?

Although Zheng Cai and others were warmly received by the officials of Yingzhou Prefecture, they never heard a word accurately, but had bitter words under the inquiry of "why did they delay signing the contract within the agreed period", and Zhu Daolin could not see the shadow, and had left Yingzhou and returned to Jinling a few days ago.

Zheng Cai and the others were extremely bitter, although they had already planned for the worst before they came, but it was still unbearable when it came.

Fortunately, although Wang Zhaohuan, the prefect of Yingzhou, and others refused to sign the contract under many excuses, they promised that as long as the Zheng family was willing to pay for cash with one hand of money and one hand of goods, they could continue to sell weapons and equipment worth 6 million taels of silver and the existing eight 500-ton warships to the Zheng family.

Zheng Cai, who couldn't make up his mind, immediately sent someone back to Quanzhou to report it, and he continued to stay in Tamsui Port.

Five days later, Zheng Cai finally received a shipload of silver and a handwritten letter sent by Zheng Zhilong, the head of the family, gritted his teeth and purchased the existing 8 semi-new and old warships and 15,000 flintlock muskets manufactured by the Jinling Gun Factory from Yingzhou Prefecture, and urgently ordered 300 long-barreled wrought iron cannons of the latest 120mm and 150mm caliber ships, 1.2 million catties of gunpowder made by Jinling Gushan Iron City, 10 800-ton ocean-going armed merchant ships and a large number of chain mail, with a total transaction amount of an astonishing 9.5 million taels of silver.

What made Zheng Cai and the others even more painful but helpless was that during their five-day stay at Tamsui Port, they watched more than a dozen Portuguese and Arab ocean-going cargo ships slowly coming to berth at Tamsui Port, and the eight cranes in the port started at the same time, and thousands of dock workers unloaded nearly 10,000 bales of cotton and wool, as well as millions of catties of iron ingots, copper ingots, tin ingots, and various spices from the ship, and then carried the mountains of Tianshu Pavilion silk, porcelain, various machines, mirrored glass, and boxes of perfume that had never been seen before on the ship.

In just four days, the fully laden fleet flying the flag of the stars and the moon set off again, rushing to all parts of the Western Ocean full of gold and silver, and rich in oil. (To be continued.) )