The UN prisoners were transported in three batches to the forward base in the northern part of Taiwan.

After they arrived, they were directly locked inside, and the Hantang Group strictly ordered them not to take half a step out of the base. But what is the result of taking half a step, these people did not say, but everyone knows the result of the Tao - there is only one death.

Military attache Dick and the other Dutchmen were the last to arrive.

They were all driven into the cargo hold of the Zishui, but fortunately it was ventilated and there was the kind of light that only the Hantang Group could have.

Military attache Dick looked around, as if the people of the Dutch lowlands were all in it, including some white women, indigenous women, but no children, and it was said that they were all taken away by their Han Tang group, saying that these children were innocent and could be saved—military attache Dick could see Gauss, a low-ranking clerk in the city of Geranza, who was constantly comforting his native wife Tali, and their two children were taken away, and I heard that there was also a Dutch orphan.

Gauss was a low-level clerk who was not bad, and when the rest of the people had been sent away, all the Dutch had gathered, and it seemed that the Han Tang group was going to completely clear them out of the area of the city of Geranza.

Dick, the military attaché, secretly asked Gauss about their earlier capture, and Gauss told him all about it—much better than the Stienne merchant who would only say things that the devil could do—what a fool, and only Gauss's words could guarantee that he would not make a miscalculation—and he would never want to taste the bitterness of misjudgment again.

Military attache Dick squinted at the Stien Merchant, who was leading a group of clerks to pray under the guidance of Pastor Farnborough and Pastor Dan Ne, while the soldiers and craftsmen sat there chatting softly, these scumbags, as long as their lives were not in danger, they were content with the status quo.

Military Attache Dick would not rest on his laurels, he had not had the idea of escaping.

But he found that after this group of people from the Hantang group divided them according to regions, a commander was selected for each region, and the previous personnel were not easy to communicate.

And they seemed to know something about the road, and they picked out some of the musketeers, gunners, sailors, including the old fur seal, who were good at fighting, and they didn't know where they were sent - it was all information from that damn Dr. Rodman!

Escaping should be a carefully operated matter, Taiwan is a big island, and escaping on land is a self-defeating one. He saw with his own eyes those who tried to escape in the night, but were killed, these people were stupid, where can we run on land? - We need to prepare our boats, but also fresh water and food.

Can the Dutch headquarters send a large number of mercenaries to rescue them? The thought flashed like a spark, but then quickly extinguished.

First of all, in terms of time, it will be at least two years later; And the cost, which is too high – the stingy directors at the headquarters will never agree to it – and the best outcome is to redeem them.

But in any case, to live well, people are in trouble, often not enough exploration of nature - there will be hope!

He tried his best to suppress the panic feeling of boarding the big iron ship just now, the deputy commander's surrender was completely correct, not counting those two evil boats, only this big iron ship was needed to completely smash them all!

When he got on the boat, he deliberately touched it with his hands, stepped on it hard, and was sure that it was definitely a real iron ship!

When they arrived in Keelung, the military attache Dick couldn't believe they could arrive so quickly! His face was full of surprise, and he didn't have the commercial staff calm down, and he knew that they had already sat down once.

He quickly calculated in his mind how long it would take for the big iron ship with their soldiers to reach Batavia.

God, he's always thinking about retaking the city of Geranza, and if they want to, they can be under Batavia at any time!

When they were driven into the forward base, they lived according to their districts, as in the camp in the city of Geranza, and the female families were also gathered together to cook for them when the time came.

Everything was the same as the camp, except that the bamboo walls seemed to be taller, and there were more watchtowers made of bamboo. The guards, who made the rounds from time to time, seemed to have changed—though they were dressed in the same clothes as the soldiers of the past, but with beards on their faces, and a more vicious look.

They were in groups of three, the leader holding only a rattan in his hand but a knife at his waist, and two people behind him with spears in their hands

The words of Dr. Rodmen rang out again in the forward base, and he kept reading all kinds of regulations—

After two days, they were gathered together, distributed labor tools, and walked in line according to the various areas, towards the construction site in the distance.

When they were still some distance from the construction site, they were called to stop again.

They looked towards the construction site together, and saw two people from the Hantang Group, one tall and one short, who seemed to have ignited something, and then trotted back.

Dr. Rodmen shouted loudly at this time: "I repeat, there will be a big explosion in a while, everyone must not be afraid, just stay where you are." ”

The soldiers in the crowd burst out laughing, what explosion they hadn't seen before, would they be afraid?

Military attache Dick also grinned, but did not smile considering his identity.

Everyone saw that those who had been taken prisoner earlier in the city of Geranza and the Ming guards covered their ears and opened their mouths. It looked ridiculous, and everyone laughed again. They forgot all about Dr. Rodman's confession—

Director Sun Defa and Jin Mingchi Technician both heard their laughter, and the two of them glanced at each other, wondering in their hearts, what are these foreign devils laughing at?

"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"

A series of four explosions rang out.

Director Sun Defa and Jin Mingchi Technician shook their heads when they heard it, no, No. 2 is not as good as No. 1 potassium chlorate explosives-

The UN prisoners who watched from the sidelines, many of their labor tools fell to the ground, and everyone was stupid - only in hell can there be such a loud noise, right?! Why do you seem to see a green light?!

Low-ranking staff member Gauss closed his mouth, lowered his hand covering his ears, and picked up the shovel from the ground. He patted Dick, the military attache beside him, and said, "Well, now I saw that they only had four wires connected - I told you that their explosives are not the ones we use-"

Military Attache Dick came to his senses, swallowed with difficulty, and said, "What's that?" ”

"I don't know what to do, it's louder than this before, if they want to, a city can blow up-"

Military Attache Dick's eyes were about to pop out.

The blasting was successful, although the large block rate of the stone was higher, but the working face of the coal kiln was finally opened. Of course, the specific situation will have to wait until the site is cleaned up.

When the scattered stones fell to the ground, and the dust flew in the air, and the bamboo whistles of the Ming overseers sounded hatefully, according to what Dr. Rodman had repeatedly said in the past two days, they were about to go to work.

There are also people who have been sitting on the ground, and after being severely twitched by the Akito overseer a few times, it seems that they can only stand up.

At that time, Captain Wu Jianqiang and Captain Sun Yu were standing on a high place, holding binoculars to observe the whole situation. Everything on the site looks normal.

Captain Wu Jianqiang said: "This explosion is not too loud, these boys have used up all the original explosives for the sake of cement, right?" ”

"Cement production was more important at that moment, but the explosion wasn't bad - fuck, I could still be scared on the ground-"

"I think those Ming people should be praised, they are quite responsible."

"Well, everyone likes to do the work of bullying - you can give them a little material stimulation."

In the binoculars of two people, the so-called second-line defense is also quite good. Akira and Indigenous security team members mingled, both carefully watching the situation on the construction site.

The third-line defense is the people of the Han and Tang groups, and they guard each key point according to the terrain.

"Yes, yes, it's good to wait for the run-in period!" Captain Wu Jianqiang put down the binoculars and said with emotion.

"Hmph, let's hold on for a while, and after a long time, plus the tempering of labor, they won't have any ideas, and they will accept their fate—then it will be fine."

Listening to Squadron Leader Sun Yu's words, Captain Wu Jianqiang clicked his mouth and did not speak.

Fuck, aren't middle-aged people like this before resigning to their fate?

The next day, Director Sun Defa and Jin Mingchi went to check the cleaned up working face, and sure enough, it was the same as they thought, shallow coal, the coal seam is very thin, not even a meter away, and I don't know how long the road can last, but with the current state, it is enough to use it for a while.

Jin Mingchi sighed in his heart, but it is a pity that these bituminous coals are gone, and they can only be used as thermal coal - coking, and gas production is a more cost-effective use.

Director Sun Ducfa suddenly said: "How is Vietnam's coal? “

Jin Mingchi didn't think about it and said: "The third coal-producing country in Asia!" But it's mostly anthracite, preferably thermal coal – and it's easy to mine. ”

"Where is the country of Vietnam?! Take your time—"

"Yes, that's my mistake - hahaha, we're not in a hurry." Jin Mingchi Technique Technique Technique Magician rarely Da Lu laughed.

"Did you sleep well last night?"

"It's very peaceful." Jin Mingchi Technique Technician said firmly.

While some of the technicians of the Hantang Group were busy building the single-face inclined longwall coal shaft, others were busy installing coal washing equipment.

On the edge of an unknown stream in the Keelung River, the technicians of the Hantang Group organized the Ming craftsmen who accompanied them to install the coal preparation trough equipment.

Freshly mined coal is called raw coal and contains various impurities. It can only be used after washing, which is not only to save transportation capacity, but more importantly, to protect the boiler from damage, otherwise, impurities can easily form a compaction in the boiler, causing an imbalance in heat.

In that world, there are historical records of coal washing methods, the earliest is the British hand-cranked jig in 1830. The Ming Continent has a long history of using coal, but it mainly relies on manual cleaning and screening.

The method used by Hantang Group is coal preparation in the coal preparation tank.

Coal preparation in the coal preparation tank has the advantages of simple equipment, small power consumption and large processing capacity, which are the reasons why Hantang Group must choose.

However, the separation effect of the coal preparation chute is poor, and the water consumption is large, so the general coal preparation plant is no longer used there. However, the soil coal preparation plant with low requirements for the quality of refined coal can still be used - and most of the technicians of Hantang Group are from such a work line.

Coal preparation in the coal preparation chute is based on the principle of river alluvium. When coal and gangue are washed by the water flow, the dense and large particle size will sink first, the density with small particle size will be in the middle or the large particle size and small density will sink later, and the materials with low density will be washed away with the water flow.

Of course, the coal preparation chute is not only the effect of water flow, but also the influence of friction, the friction between the coal block and the trough box is small, and the gangue block is flattened and the bottom of the trough joint surface is large, and the friction is larger, so the gangue slides slower than the coal block.

By flushing with the water flow, it is easy to separate the coal from the gangue.

As for saying that the proportion of coal in the gangue is higher, it doesn't matter, it's all piled up, and then the gangue can be used to burn cement lime, so that Keelung doesn't have to transport such materials in large quantities from the main base in Tainan.

Now, the development of Taipei and Keelung can be put on the table, so the next step of development can be completely planned in detail-