They looked down on these vulgar Chinese pirates, greedy and brutal, but at the same time cautious, their ships were tattered, dirty, and poorly equipped, and even the larger pirate regiments had only very old artillery and some rudimentary firearms.

The Spanish pirates also had frequent exchanges of fire with some pirate ships, but almost never failed, these pirates had never received any effective training, let alone knew how to use firearms, and often began to fire cannons or guns from a long distance during the battle, which did not do anything for their Spanish ships at all, but only gave themselves a dampenance.

And the most common way for these stupid Chinese pirates to engage is to engage in broadside battles, relying on them to use their manpower superiority to engage in white-knuckle combat with the enemy.

But this tactic did not work much against their Spanish ships, whose galleons (Galens) and even the old Clark were tall and equipped with many guns, and it was difficult for the Chinese pirates to climb into their ships effectively, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with their sailors, often being defeated as soon as they engaged.

Therefore, these Spaniards looked down on these Chinese pirates one by one, and felt that as long as it was necessary, they could easily defeat these Chinese pirates and capture the Chicken Coop Bay.

Shi Erwa thought for a moment and shook his head slightly: "Although this makes sense, but at the moment, this group of pirates who call themselves sea wolves have no conflict with us, on the contrary, they are still collaborators, they will bring us some goods we need every year, and they are not like those other Chinese merchants and pirates, who only know that they want silver, and we don't want anything."

It is a pleasant thing to deal with them, and we do not have to pay them all the money, but we can use canvas and Indian cotton cloth and timber that we do not normally sell, as a means of payment, which is very rare.

In addition, you may not know that these Chinese pirates, who call themselves sea wolves, are said to be quite powerful, and have a lot of power to control a large area of the sea.

If we were to use force against them and force them to abandon Chicken Coop Bay, we would probably push them over to the side of the Dutch.

As far as I know, these pirates did not collude with the Dutch like Li Dan or other pirates in the past, helping the Dutch rob Chinese merchant ships coming to Manila, nor did they attack our merchant ships.

If we force them to give up Chicken Coop Bay, they will be angry and turn to the Dutch, and join us in the blockade of Manila, and maybe even after we take control of Chicken Coop Bay, block the shipping lanes that come here, and not allow any Chinese merchants to trade with us, in which case, even if we get Chicken Coop Bay, it will be useless! ”

Shi Erwa's words immediately alerted the councillors and businessmen, and they bowed their heads and exchanged heads among themselves, and after a while, someone once again raised an opinion.

"Your Excellency, if we cannot easily use force against them, then we think that we can not occupy Chicken Coop Bay for the time being, and there are many other places on this map of Formosa that we can use to moor our ships and build a city, although these places are not as good as that of Chicken Coop Bay, but we can first occupy a foothold there, and then negotiate with those Chinese pirates.

If they are interested, we can force them to give up Chicken Coop Bay without using force, and we can pay them some silver or supplies in exchange for buying Chicken Coop Bay and asking them to get out of there!

In this way, we will not offend them, set up an enemy, and possibly become friends with them in the future, and ask them to help us block the Chinese ships bound for Dayuan and let them trade in our ports! ”

After hearing this, Shi Erwa thought for a moment, smiled, and nodded: "This is a good way, if they can understand, it will be beneficial for both of us, but now there is a new question, so how much silver should we pay them in exchange for them to withdraw from Chicken Coop Bay?" If, as the Chinese proverb, they ask the lion to open his mouth wide, what should we do? ”

At this time, these parliamentarians began to quarrel, and many people thought that Shi Erwa was so forward-looking, he really valued which Chinese pirates were too important, and if the Chinese pirates did not agree to such conditions, then there would be nothing to discuss, and then they must use force to expel them from Chicken Coop Bay, so that these vulgar Chinese pirates could know that they were not easy to mess with.

Dealing with Chinese pirates and maritime merchants for a long time gave these Spaniards a strong sense of superiority, which made them very arrogant and did not take these Chinese pirates seriously at all.

After a fierce debate, Shi Erwa finally had to compromise, decided to prepare to send troops, and after reaching the northern part of the island of Taiwan, first occupied a place to land, and then began to negotiate with the group of sea wolves entrenched in Jilong Bay, according to the Chinese habitual metering, they could pay up to 20,000 taels of silver in exchange for them to give up to Jilong Bay.

If they still don't agree, then use the fleet to blockade Chicken Coop Bay, start a war with them, forcibly capture Chicken Coop Bay, and drive them out of there.

So the Spaniards in Manila, under the orders of Shierva, began to make preparations before sending troops.

Yu Xiaotian didn't know what the Spaniards were busy with at this time, but he probably knew the process of the historical development of the Dao, if the history had not changed significantly, the Spaniards would have occupied the northern part of Taiwan Island, that is, it would have been nearly two or three months.

After he had been in Tamsui City for more than a month, when he saw that all kinds of affairs here had begun to be on track, and when he began to move forward steadily according to his requirements and plans, Yu Xiaotian decided to leave Tamsui City and go to Jilong Bay to see the situation over there.

Although here in Tamsui City, he is still planning to build a cement factory, but at present, because the problem of crushing has not been solved, if he wants to build a cement plant, the cement kiln is not much of a problem, even if he does not know what the modern cement kiln is like, but it is not very difficult to use the soil method to build a small vertical cement kiln and grope to fire the cement.

The biggest problem in establishing a cement kiln is still in the problem of crushing, and now he has built more than a dozen small water mills to produce soil cement, and the daily output of such water mills is very low, which can not meet the needs of producing cement.

The main raw materials of cement are nothing more than limestone, clay, coal and gypsum.

At present, limestone, clay, and gypsum are already available around Tamsui City, and the reserves are still quite large, but no coal mine sites have been found, so the coal has to be transported from land.

However, it is not very difficult to buy coal from land, and there are coal mines in Fujian, and you don't even have to go too far to organize the supply of coal in Xinghua Province.

Coal is not a rare thing in the current time and space, the amount is very small, and the price is also very cheap, and Fujian and Guangdong do not like to use coal to make iron, because the quality of iron smelted from coal is not as good as the quality of iron smelted from charcoal, so the iron yards here use charcoal as fuel for iron smelting, so although there are coal mines in Fujian, there are also people who mine, but there are not many users.

The purchase of coal from Fujian does not consume much financial resources, but it will be troublesome, and it will consume a lot of capacity, but because the sea wolf purchases coal, it does not interfere in the matter of land transportation, so the whole process is basically transported by boat, a ship can load at least dozens of tons of coal, and the Daifuku ship can even load more than 100 tons of coal, even if the cement plant is built here in Tamsui, it will not be a large cement plant, and the amount is not large, which can fully meet their needs.

There is only one reason, now bothering Yu Xiaotian, that is, the problem of raw material crushing, now relying on stone grinding and stone grinding raw materials, the production efficiency is too low, we must develop a new type of crusher, to expand the output, otherwise relying on these stone grinding to crush raw materials, it is really a drop in the bucket, can not solve the problem.

But Yu Xiaotian is not omnipotent, although he knows a lot about machinery, but let him design a large crusher immediately, it is still a little too difficult for him, and even if he can design it, with the current processing technology, it is estimated that it is difficult to manufacture, so he can only put down this matter for the time being, and when he is free, he is tinkering with this guy.

At the beginning of March, the entire road construction and water conservancy project in Tamsui was in full swing, and a large number of migrants were driven to the fields, and under the leadership of the village chiefs and the supervision of the Sea Wolf tribes, the ditches began to be excavated.

A large number of hard laborers were also under the supervision of guns and bayonets, sweating like rain on the road construction sites, and from time to time there would be rumbling cannons in some places, but this was not the sea wolf troops firing artillery, but some road construction sites, firing artillery and blasting stones.

Even the carpentry factory is now busy, and the craftsmen are busy making all kinds of waterwheels and chicken carts every day, and they have to make wheels for the broken chicken carts and replace the wheels of the damaged chicken carts.

During this time, some people found that among the laborers, a few people took advantage of the unpreparedness of people to destroy the production tools, and the chicken and bus were damaged a lot.

For this reason, Yan Youde secretly observed, caught a few guys who secretly destroyed production tools on the spot, first served them with a leather whip, and then this guy used an iron rod to break their bones one by one, and made them unable to die, and finally tied them to the wooden stakes on both sides of the construction site, did not give them food and drink, and exposed them to the sun until they died of pain, thirst, starvation or sunburn.

Such cruel means suddenly curbed the unhealthy trend of some people making bad ideas and destroying production tools, and slowed down the speed of damage to chicken buses and various production tools.

(Come back and take a little rest, and leave when you're done updating!) My son still has a low-grade fever that doesn't go away, and I'm so distressed! ）