The construction of the road also began to speed up, and the first road from Tamsui City to Chuanliao was completely completed in just one month after the construction of the first road from Tamsui City to Chuanliao with the efforts of hundreds of laborers.

Before leaving Tamsui City, Yu Xiaotian personally inspected the construction quality of the road and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the road.

As an important main road, this road is built according to their first-class road, ten steps wide, there are drainage channels on both sides of the road that are two meters deep and four meters wide, the roadbed is rolled or rammed by repeated rolling and solid three-layer soil, and the road surface is paved with a layer of large sand gravel, as well as lime and slag, which has also been repeatedly rolled, and is very smooth and solid.

The cross-section of the road surface is also curved, the middle is high and the sides are low, it rained a few days ago, but the water of the road surface was immediately discharged into the drainage ditch, and then discharged into the Tamsui River along the drainage ditch, there is no water at all, only a few places are not very well built, some water, but it was immediately repaired.

Now this road has completely changed, it is very comfortable to walk on it, the ox cart comes and goes to transport some materials, it is also much more convenient, when the ox pulls the cart, it also saves a lot of effort, even if there are many ox carts on the road together, it will no longer form congestion on the road.

Many immigrants came to see the excitement, saw such a good road, are curious to walk around the road, one by one are full of praise, looking at the other roads under construction, towards their immigrant villages continue to extend, can't help but have a look of longing, when all the roads are built in the future, they will come to Tamsui City again It will be much more convenient, whether it is to purchase or pay grain or buy some small East and West local products, it has become much more convenient.

In addition, the continuous extension of water canals in the fields also gave them the hope of a good harvest, and when they were on land, except for large families who sometimes had the manpower and material resources to build ditches in their fields for irrigation, the common people had no ability to build ditches at all.

And the people's own farmland irrigation and drainage are very difficult, many years have to rely on the harvest of the sky, God takes care of it, the wind and rain are smooth for a year, and you can eat a few full meals, but in case the sky is not beautiful, in case of a drought or flood, it will be miserable, many families basically have to end up with no harvest, but the government still comes to the door to collect when the grain is delivered, in addition to the positive endowment, there are countless additional distributions, even if it is a solid home, in such a year, it will also be ruined.

Especially in the past two years, the war in Liaodong has been tense, and the salaries have been continuously increased, and life has been even more unbearable.

But here they see hope, many people came here last year, empty-handed, not only the sea wolves not only give them farm tools, but also take care of their food, do not let them starve to death, but also allocate land for them to cultivate, give them grain, let them plant.

Now he is still taking them to build ditches and spending money to send people to build roads, and this life is even more hopeful.

Speaking of which, they used to pay grain and taxes to the government on land, but when did the government manage their life and death, if they met a good official, once they encountered a disaster year, not to mention giving them relief, they could go to the court and fight for a reduction for them, even if they were the lord of the blue sky.

But the government can't think of any time, build a road for them, help them build ditches, but the means and names of making money are endless, even if one day is in a good mood, to build a bridge or something, still have to let everyone make another part, the officials and officials have to make a lot of money from it, and the imperial food paid is really used to feed the dogs.

And after they arrived here, they found that the big boss of the sea wolf was different from the government, always planning for them, giving them good things one after another, and the place here is becoming more and more peaceful, at the beginning the natives will attack them from time to time to disturb them, and now under the attack of the sea wolf tribes, many nearby natives are afraid of repairs, and some of the overdone natives have simply been wiped out, and now their days are more and more hopeful day by day.

Many people will not go back to land now, even if they die here, they are willing to stay here and follow the sea wolf.

And Yu Xiaotian saw that the situation here had already entered the orbit and began to move forward steadily, so he quietly left Tamsui, took only two boats, loaded some goods transported by Freshwater to the chicken coop, and headed towards the chicken coop.

In Jilong Bay, the current ships are more than the last time Yu Xiaotian came, and it seems to be more lively, Yu Xiaotian's boat has not yet entered Jilong Bay, and he saw the sea outside Jilong Bay from a distance, there are many sail shadows, and many small fishing boats are fishing on the sea.

And there is also a flying clipper, cruising on the surface of the sea with the sea wolf flag hoisted, and there is also a whaling ship also flying the sea wolf flag, which seems to be dragging a hunted whale and is heading towards Chicken Coop Bay.

The Feizi clipper stationed here spotted the two boats brought by Yu Xiaotian from a distance, so he immediately turned the bow of the ship and greeted them, and fired three salutes to show his welcome to Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian's ship is still the two-masted clipper, and there is a golden wolf flag with red edges hanging high on the mast, which is a symbol of his identity.

Under the guidance of the patrolling Feizi clipper, Yu Xiaotian led the boat into Jilong Bay, and heard the salute of the Feizi clipper on the sea, and the salute was also fired on the three forts, raising clouds of white smoke.

When Yu Xiaotian got on the boat, he beckoned someone to carry a box from the boat, and under the guidance of the black head and others, he entered the Keelung Fort here.

The chicken coop village has now been renamed Keelung Fort, which was ordered to be renamed before the New Year in Xiaotian, with the name of later generations, plus the homonym of the word chicken coop, renamed Keelung, which means that the base is prosperous, but it is also very good, so Yu Xiaotian did not wait for others to change the name, and directly changed the name of the chicken coop village to Keelung Fort.

In this way, Keelung Fort sounds much louder than the previous chicken coop village, and everyone is happy to make such a modification, and the small island outside the mouth of the chicken coop bay is also named Heping Island by Yu Xiaotian according to the name of later generations.

Before entering Keelung Fort, Yu Xiaotian saw the whaling ship that was earlier than him, and indeed brought back a big whale, the gray-white whale had already died at this time, the whale ship was tied with a rope, and the body was covered with wounds, and around the body, there were many empty wooden barrels floating to prevent the whale from sinking into the water after the towing rope broke.

This whale weighs at least a dozen tons, although the arrival of Yu Xiaotian is a big event, but it is also too big to quickly divide this whale.

Sea wolf whaling has formed an industry, but also now Keelung Fort is a pillar industry, now has more than a dozen professional whaling boats, these boats are scattered around the island of Taiwan dozens of kilometers around the sea surface cruise, once the whale appears, it will be killed, if the luck is not good, these whaling ships will act as large fishing boats, fishing operations on the sea.

When Yu Xiaotian got off the boat, he saw that on the shore north of Keelung Fort, a wide wooden slipway had been built, and an animal-powered winch was installed on the shore, and when the whale was dragged back by the whale boat, someone took the cable and pulled it to the shore and tied it to the winch.

Driven by people, the cows began to drag the winch to slowly drag the whale to the shore through this wooden chute, and dozens of workers helped on the shore, and after dragging the whale ashore, they immediately began to divide the dead whale on the spot.

Some of them are responsible for peeling, some are responsible for cleaning the internal organs, and some are responsible for cutting the whale meat, separating the whale fat from the whale meat, loading it into a cart and quickly transporting it to the shore shed for processing.

There were no refrigeration facilities at this time, and although ships were sent to the north every winter to transport ice, the ice was far from enough to handle so much whale meat and fresh fish.

Therefore, the fresh fish and whales that arrive on the shore should be immediately entered into the factory for segmentation and salting, and the whale meat and fresh fish are salted with coarse salt, and then sent to the drying ground for drying or directly sent for smoking, making dried meat or salted meat, and then stored for a long time.

After the blubber is divided, it is immediately sent to be boiled, and the blubber is boiled into whale oil, which is stored in large wooden barrels, and then sent to soap workshops on Nanri Island or Tamsui to make soap, or stored for consumption, and distributed to the sea wolves to be used as grease for maintenance weapons.

Nowadays, the whaling industry and fishing industry in Keelung Fort have formed a fairly systematic way of processing, after a whale arrives on the shore, it only takes a few hours to be divided and processed, including the whalebone will not be discarded after the most decorated, it will be smashed and transported to grind into powder, or used as feed, or used as waste to strengthen the field, in short, there will be nothing left, it is completely used.

This is not like the later period when the whaling industry in the West developed greatly, whaling ships hunted a large number of whales on the open sea, only collected blubber fat, and directly refined it into whale oil on the ship, leaving a small amount of meat for them to eat, and the rest was discarded into the sea.

Now the sea wolf is reluctant to waste like this, any part of the whale's body will be recycled, this is a gift from nature to human beings, whaling has hurt the heavens and the peace, if it is wasted, it is too much.

(I didn't sleep all night last night, and the little guy still has a fever that doesn't go away, and I'm in a hurry!) I'm already confused! Also thanks to the wdj1972 brothers for the tip! Thanks a lot! ）