After Yu Xiaotian inspected the village, he was not satisfied with the progress of the project on the whole, and the number of labor invested in various places could not meet the needs.

But Yu Xiaotian did not get angry, and continued to let Fang An and others accompany him to inspect Dazhai until he finished reading the entire situation in Dazhai, and then returned to the temporary office of Fang An and others in Tamsui Village.

The courtyard where Fang An and the others were located was the house of the housekeeper in Majiabao before, the yard was not too big, and the decoration was not very luxurious.

Yu Xiaotian didn't let Fang An prepare any banquet to catch the wind and wash the dust, and directly sat down and called the meals they ate every day, and talked to Fang An and the others about what he saw when he came here this time.

On the whole, Yu Xiaotian is still satisfied with the progress of Fang An and the others here, and he can understand the difficulty of opening a new plate here, everything has to start from scratch, for them, it is indeed not easy, and there are many natives nearby, and they don't want to see the sea wolf expand the wasteland here in a large area after this arrival, and grab land with them, so from time to time there will be natives to come here to disturb it.

Yu Xiaotian asked about the situation of the natives here, and Fang An roughly introduced the general situation to Yu Xiaotian.

On both sides of the Tamsui River, they have found a total of six relatively large indigenous tribes, and the specific names are not clear, but three of them are relatively strong, each tribe has hundreds of people, and the largest is said to have about 1,000 people, which is very fierce.

These three indigenous tribes are located in the middle and upper reaches of the Tamsui River, and are very unfriendly to the sea wolves and the immigrants here, treating them as enemies, refusing to have any contact or trade with the sea wolves and the immigrants here, and often attacking the immigrants who are cultivating the land here.

In the past six months, according to Fang An's statistics, a total of more than 40 immigrants have been attacked and killed by the natives here, or they have been kidnapped by them and their whereabouts are unknown.

But Fang An is not a vegetarian either, according to Yu Xiaotian's requirements, he tried his best to use Huairou means to find a way to contact them to dispel their hostility, and occasionally gave them some gifts from Xiaodong Xiaoxi, trying to get along with them.

But it didn't work very well, only three smaller tribes were satisfied with their kindness and didn't bother them much, but the other three natives refused to give up, and kept harassing them and trying to drive them out of the area.

Fang An was not polite to this, in the past half a year or so, he had personally led the sea wolf tribes here many times to retaliate against these three natives.

Sometimes they deliberately set up ambushes to lure the natives to take the bait, and then fired their guns indiscriminately to kill some of the natives, and sometimes they grabbed the captives and forced them to lead the way and dig their nests directly.

In the past six months, Fang An and the others have also killed, injured and captured two or three hundred natives, so that the natives also know how powerful their sea wolves are, and they don't dare to be as arrogant as before, they only dare to wander around the periphery of the immigrant villages, and as soon as they see a large number of immigrants or sea wolf tribes appearing, they will escape into the mountains and forests.

For now, this kind of tough tactic is okay, but for the sea wolf, it is more difficult to go upstream to harvest wood.

Because the natives are good at moving in the mountains and forests, are good at using bows and arrows, and are very good at hiding, the loggers are often harassed, so that the supply of timber for building villages and houses is affected.

In the next step, Fang An's plan is that once there are enough people here, he will enter the mountain again and be ruthless to one of the natives, and they will not dare to show their heads in the future.

In this regard, Yu Xiaotian also agreed with Fang An's plan, and promised to send him a hundred soldiers for him to deal with the natives first, although Yu Xiaotian did not regard his passage through Taiwan Island as an invasion, but for the local natives, they did belong to the invaders, and their appearance disturbed the peaceful life of the natives, and they would definitely feel unhappy.

Therefore, resistance and conflict will definitely exist for a long time, without the use of strong means, it is impossible to solve this contradiction, can only fight with one hand and pull with one hand, and gradually let the natives know that after their sea wolves arrive here, they are willing to live in peace with them, and after a long time, this conflict will gradually subside, but the necessary killing before is still inevitable.

In addition, regarding the lack of manpower here, Yu Xiaotian discussed with Fang An and others for a while, and decided to make full use of the existing human resources here.

Now, after more than half a year of immigration, the sea wolf has emigrated more than 2,000 people from the land, which is not a big number, but it will gradually increase in the future, and there will be several ships carrying over two or three hundred people every month.

Coupled with the number of immigrants in the early stage of the original area, the number of immigrants in the area of the Tamsui River is now close to about 5,000, and may even be more.

Among them, there are about 2,000 people who can be used as labor, and these people's manpower should be fully utilized, Yu Xiaotian proposed to set aside ten days a month to order these migrant laborers to work in batches to work in Tamsui Village, and they sea wolves will give these people a certain amount of remuneration to speed up the construction here.

However, for the idea proposed by Yu Xiaotian, Fang An shook his head and said that it was very difficult, he had also thought so, but the labor force of immigrants was not very sufficient, and now it is the time to open up wasteland, and the use of labor is very large, which involves the question of whether immigrants can eat enough next year.

Moreover, the immigrants also have to guard against the natives, and the young people in the village must be ready to deal with the attacks of the natives at any time, and it is simply unrealistic to draw out so many people, otherwise it will make the migrants here very dissatisfied.

"Let's use the method of smoking! Aren't there all our people in every immigrant village? Our people should be very familiar with the situation in each migrant village, and we just need to know how much labor each family has!

If there are three laborers in each household, one laborer must come to help, and we can pay them, and if the labor force of each household is less than three, no more will be drawn!

If there are five laborers in a family, they will draw two, so that the impact on their reclamation and farming will not be too great! I don't know what the big boss and Fang Commander want to do with this method? Lin Yiyang sat aside, had been listening to them before, and finally spoke.

Yu Xiaotian immediately nodded when he heard this: "This is also a way, use the method of drawing ding, and force the apportionment!" Anyway, we won't let them work in vain, at least they will be fed and paid, and it won't have too much impact on their reclamation! ”

After hearing this, Fang An nodded and agreed, and tomorrow he will arrange for someone to go down and start handling this method, once it starts to be implemented, in the short term, it is estimated that they can bring in hundreds of more laborers.

"There is another thing, that is, the problem of charcoal, although the workshop area is still under construction, but once it starts to be put into production, there will be a great demand for charcoal!

So I think you have to prepare in advance! If we procure charcoal from land, this thing is too light, and a ship can't hold much, and the consumption of transporting it is too great!

And we just saw here, there are a lot of wood scraps lost where useless, you can let the neighboring villages open a few charcoal kilns, specifically to burn charcoal, the leftovers they pull back to burn charcoal, after firing according to the color of our price to take back, in this way, immigrants have one more way to make money, does not occupy our manpower and capacity, can save a lot of silver! Yu Xiaotian said to Fang An and the others while eating.

"That's a good idea! There is a lot of waste wood here, and most of the branches from the felling are useless, so it's good to use them for charcoal!

A few days ago, my subordinates discussed with the brothers, gathered these porcelain craftsmen, and found a craftsman with a little better craftsmanship from them, let him take the lead, found usable porcelain clay in a village in the north, and let them open a porcelain kiln over there!

Although their craftsmanship is not good, they are all ordinary porcelain bowls here, as long as they can be used, and they don't need anything too good! After chatting with Yu Xiaotian for a while, Fang An seemed to be in a better mood, and said to Xiaotian while agreeing.

Yu Xiaotian was overjoyed when he heard this, nodded with a smile: "It seems that you have also figured out a way!" This method is really good, in this way, as long as there is something that someone here can do, it is best to make it yourself, regardless of whether it is good or bad! In this way, a lot of capacity can be saved! Take out more boats to carry other important things! ”

After everyone finished eating, Yu Xiaotian waved his hand to let the others go down to rest, while he and Fang An lived together and started a long talk.

Fang An was indeed still sad about Wang Hong and Ma Feng's affairs, Yu Xiaotian carefully enlightened him, the two of them talked about it for most of the night, drank a pot of wine, and Fang An's heart knot finally opened.

"Don't worry! In fact, I also know that people cannot be resurrected after death! None of us thought of the third brother's matter, no one is to blame!

As for Ma Feng, although I have always regarded him as my own brother, I didn't expect this guy to be so uncompetitive and actually do such a unconscionable thing.

So it's not a pity for this guy to die, if I still feel sorry for him, I wouldn't have interceded for him at the beginning, and watched him being lit with a sky lantern!

Today, when I talked with the big boss for so long, my heart is much brighter! I won't drink much of this wine in the future! During this time, I did have some slackness, and I didn't pay close attention to some things, and I hope that the big boss will punish me! Fang An pushed away the wine cup, took a deep breath and said to Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian saw that Fang An's mood had become normal, his spirit also perked up, and his mood became better, and said to Fang An with a smile: "This time, I am most worried about you!" For us, Tamsui Village will be the top priority in the future, and the cannons, guns, and boats must come over first!

If you haven't pulled yourself together, then I'm really missing a good helper! Now that I can untie my heart, I'm relieved!

This time, I came over and brought you a great gift! Come on, bring over the things I made for Fifth Brother Fang! ”

A guard quickly carried a box into the room, Yu Xiaotian opened the box, the box was divided into several grids, and there were several things made of fine iron and wrought copper.

Yu Xiaotian took out a boiled copper tube, and said to Fang An: "This is the prosthetic leg that I specially pondered for you when I have nothing to do!"

The hook you're using for your left arm is also a few years old, and it's time to change it! You can put on this prosthetic leg to see if it fits, and with this thing, it may be easier for you to move around in the future.

Saying that, he helped Fang An remove the iron hook on his broken arm, and installed this prosthetic leg made of wrought copper on his broken arm, the front end of the prosthetic limb was an iron hand, and as Fang An's arm moved, the iron hand would make some simple movements.

Fang An was very curious when he saw this kind of thing for the first time, and kept moving his broken arm, letting the iron hand at the front end open and close back and forth, and actually grabbed the wine glass on the table.

This Xia An was overjoyed, and thanked Xiaotian again and again, and then Yu Xiaotian took out several other accessories in the box and told Fang An the use of these things, including hooks, short knives, and a small shield, which only need to be installed on the prosthetic limb and locked with a nut, and can be used, even if he goes into battle with someone, his left arm will become a sharp weapon.

Yu Xiaotian really spent a lot of thought on this prosthetic, took time to think about it, and spent a few months asking the craftsman to help him make the idea into a real thing, and let a subordinate with a similar disability to Fang An use it for a period of time, I felt that it was okay, so when I came over this time, I sent it to Fang An.

Fang An looked at these things, his heart was very moved, for so many years, after he lost his left hand, he has been a little inferior to this, he can only press a simple iron hook, as his left hand, it is very inconvenient to live in ordinary life, and the iron hook in his left hand is not very easy to use when people do it.

But today I saw this set of prosthetics given to him by Yu Xiaotian, there are so many functions, my heart is really moved, he used to know that Yu Xiaotian is good at tinkering with some strange and ingenious things, I didn't expect Yu Xiaotian to take out so much energy, for him to drum up such a set of prosthetics, after having this thing in the future, his life will become much simpler, and even if he goes into battle to kill the enemy, his left hand is no longer a waste, especially the small shield, which provides him with one more layer of protection, Coupled with the iron hand and short blade below, it is a sharp weapon that surprises.

If Yu Xiaotian didn't pay attention to him, it would be impossible to do so many things for him, how busy Yu Xiaotian was, he knew better than anyone else that he could spare so much time to tinker with this thing specifically for him, which made Fang An grateful, and he didn't know what to say.

So Fang An suddenly got up, knelt down for Yu Xiaotian with a puff, and said loudly: "Fang An thank you for the grace of the big boss!" In the future, Fang's life will be a big boss! Fang An is willing to die for the big boss! ”

(I'll present a 4,000-word chapter today!) Thank you for watching! Hehe! ）