The industrial base is also called the chemical reaction base of steel and coal mines, without steel and coal mines, it is impossible to build an industrial base, but Li Chao has long had the mineral distribution of Qiongzhou, so there is no need to repeat the preparation of prospecting.

He reduced the people he captured from the village to slavery, let them dig coal and open mines, and then turned the pirates into overseers, monitoring their mines, and they built blast furnaces on the ruins of the village.

These blast furnaces rumbled iron ore and coal into steel, which in turn was used in the mining industry, and a large number of tools made of new steel were distributed to the miners, but soon the market was saturated - they had too little demand for steel.

But this problem was quickly solved by Hu Meng, who put forward a proposal to make steel into weapons and sell them to the people who opposed the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty - since the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Han people's anti-Qing and Ming restoration actions have not been stopped, and the anti-Qing and Ming restoration supported by the Ming and Zheng dynasties, even if the Ming Zheng and the three times were exterminated, the anti-Qing and Ming restoration movement has not been broken, but the momentum is not as strong as before.

"I met a man who was against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty...... They don't have any money, but they always find a way to get it. "Whether it is robbing the officials of the Qing Dynasty or robbing the rich who are not benevolent to the rich, anyway, the people who oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty can get money," as long as we sell them excellent weapons, the wild boars of the Manchu Qing Dynasty will not be stable. ”

Li Chao nodded, to make the enemy's life unstable is to make one's life stable, he still understands this truth, why does the American imperialist on the real earth make trouble all over the world, sanction this today, and contain that tomorrow, isn't it just to disturb others, otherwise if others are stable, it will be the turn of the American imperialists to be unstable.

And for him, there is too much steel, so much that they can't digest it, and they can only pile it up, which is called overcapacity, and in order not to waste this steel, it is inevitable that they will look for a market.

But the market is not so easy to find.

First of all, they can't sell to the Manchus, because selling to the Manchus is called a capital enemy, and selling to the Manchus has a problem, that is, it will expose the location of their base...... Let the Manchus know that a country that is not under their control has emerged in the territory under their control, and with the arrogance and arrogance of the Manchu wild boar, they will definitely send troops to attack and fight without stopping.

Secondly, he can't sell to Britain and Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands, this is still a matter of capital, and if he bulldozes men all over the world, Britain, Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands are all roadblocks.

Although they are not on the same path as those who oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, they all have the same goal - to overthrow the Manchu Dynasty.

After having such a goal, coupled with the weapons provided by Li Chao, the people who oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty will definitely make a fuss, not to mention how much movement they can make, as long as they make a fuss, they can draw the attention of the Manchu wild boars, and the base in Qiongzhou will be safer.

"Actually, we can sell it to pirates."

It was Chen Shan who put forward this opinion, "To be precise, it is the Pirate King." ”

Pirates are drunk and dreaming of death, living a day with today and no tomorrow, so they sprinkle money all over the place, and the money comes and goes quickly, and they can't save money at all, but the pirate king is different, the pirate king has money, just like the gangsters in modern society always have no money and the underworld bosses are inlaid with gold and silver.

"Now the life of the pirate king is not good, the Dutch are all over the world to fight pirates, the East India Company caught the pirates and hanged them, if we didn't have the Black Pearl, Blackbeard and the flying Dutch to deter the Dutch, the pirates would have been exterminated a long time ago, if the adults sold weapons to the pirates, they would definitely be willing to buy them."

Li Chao thought for a while and agreed, but the reason he agreed was not money, but the use of pirates to make the Netherlands and Britain unstable.

The current world pattern is the decline of the Portuguese and the Spaniards, the Dutch as the sea chariot and horsemen all over the world to preach force, and Britain is silently rising, it can be said that this era is the era of the rise of the Western world, they suck blood all over the world through maritime trade, pulling the center of the world from the east to the west.

But in this process, pirates are the biggest obstacle, pirates are like a cancer of maritime trade, plundering merchant ships all over the world, and robbing the blood of the whole world to the Western continent, although they make this blood flow back to the Western continent through the prosperity of drunkenness, but pirates are still a cancer for them, so the Dutch will fight pirates, Britain will use pirates and then clear the pirates.

And what Li Chao wants to do is very simple, that is, to deliver nutrients to the cancer of pirates, make it stronger, and then drain the blood that flows back to the West to Qiongzhou through the way of Miaocun, so as to strengthen Qiongzhou and weaken the Western continent.

"Who can sell our weapons to the Pirate King?"

"Me." Chen Shanmao then recommended himself.

"Okay, you go, but we don't sell the weapons we sell to pirates."

"What do you sell without selling money?"

"Sell all kinds of resources and slaves."

Soon, Li Chao divided the steel made in Qiongzhou into two uses, one for his own use, and the other into various weapons and sold them to anti-Qing and Ming restoration fighters and pirates.

The Manchu boar skins soon found their anti-Qing rebellion alive again, this time with better weapons and more difficult to suppress.

The Dutch and the East India Company also found that the pirates were active, and the slave ships became the focus of their pirates, and the slave traders led by the East India Company suffered heavy losses, but no matter how they suppressed them, they could not suppress them, on the contrary, in the process of suppression, the casualties became more and more serious.

Qiongzhou, on the other hand, happily channeled the blood of the Eastern and Western continents to Qiongzhou through the two lines of anti-Qing and Ming warriors and pirates, making the base of Qiongzhou gradually prosperous.