Chapter 139: The Cultivation of the Fortress (I)

"Hurry up, you big men, hoist the cannon up!" Bill shouted as he stood on the cliff of the beach on the west side of Alcatraz, his bare arms, and there was a constant stream of people on the cliff.

Most of these people are free "small gifts" from Darius, a thousand slaves, although there are also Dadas, but there are also many other races in the Southern Continent, such as the Scorpion, Tai, and Mod, but these Southern Continent people are all dark-skinned, and it is difficult to see their difference at a glance.

After the Battle of Alcatraz, the surviving pirates no longer looked down on these black slaves in the southern continent, and they accepted these troubled black slave brothers with an open and grateful mind, because they knew that once they gave these black slaves a point of respect and gave them a point of freedom, they would repay them with ten, one hundred percent gratitude.

For these black slaves in the southern continent, Tang Jie said to Nia with great emotion: "Are these people reincarnated as cows in their last life? Give them a grass hut, give them three full meals, and then give them freedom and respect, and they will repay you with their lives...... I should really thank the fascists of the Pound Empire!"

Nia asked puzzled, "What is fascism?"

"It's dictatorship!" Tang Jie explained with a faint smile as he looked at the busy crowd on the island.

But in fact, Tang Jie knew very well in his heart: he was also a big dictator......

It's just that he will not despise the human rights of the people under his territory like other nobles, he will respect their beliefs, he will respect their personality, and he will respect their free space.

Now the whole Alcatraz is like a sophisticated and huge machine, everyone is like a part of this machine, and there is no complaint at full capacity, whether it is the pirates or the surviving Dadas, or the thousand slaves who came to Alcatraz, they all have a strong sense of belonging to this isolated island, and they truly regard this place as their own home.

They all know very well that only by building their homes into a super fortress that no one dares to invade can they have a truly good life.

Although the wind and waves were calm, a large number of merchants flocked to Darius every day, selling him all kinds of goods in their hands, and then Darius organized a large number of sea ships to transport them to Alcatraz Island.

Without any hostile forces hindering him, and without any hostile chambers of commerce sniping in the market, Tang Jie frantically collected all kinds of goods and materials on Alcatraz Island, from freshwater food to wood and stone, from cannon gunpowder to medicinal materials and livestock.

In particular, Tang Jie learned from the experience of the siege of Alcatraz Island, he led more than 200 slaves to open up a farm in the dense jungle on the east side of Sithis, a few days ago Darius brought a whole two ships of pigs and chickens, all of which were raised by Tang Jie to the farm, and the women of the Dada tribe were responsible for taking care of them, Tang Jie swore that Alcatraz Island should achieve self-sufficiency in food and fresh water!

However, whether it can be truly realized Tang Jie does not know for the time being, every time he comes to this farm, he will always be smoked by the stinking smell and frown: Won't there be no output here, so there will be bird flu and swine flu first, right?

Although pigs and chickens are the easiest animals to raise, Tang Jie also scratched his head at the beginning, because there is nothing that pigs can eat on the whole island, neither forage nor pig chaff, and if you want feed, you have to transport it from Sisis!

Tang Jie felt a little ridiculous when he thought about it, if the feed for these pigs and chickens still needs to be transported by boat, then what should I raise them for? Wouldn't it be enough to directly exchange the manpower and material resources for transporting the feed for transporting pork and chicken? It would save a lot of trouble!

But after thinking about it, Tang Jiesi suddenly remembered that he had seen in a novel that earthworms could be used as feed for pigs and chickens, and he was overjoyed, so he immediately approached Simon and asked him to start building sanitation facilities in the residential area of Alcatraz, and he was absolutely forbidden to defecate anywhere.

It is also said that on an island, there are more than a thousand people, except for Tang Jie, Simon, and Gilgico, the three civilized people, and the three women of Nia, Lilith, and Octavier, the others are almost anywhere, and these people can be seen everywhere on Alcatraz Island, making the whole island smelly and very indecent.

After Tang Jie's order, although Simon was very reluctant to take on such a dirty job, he knew that this was an important administrative step related to the construction of Alcatraz Island, so he had to pinch his nose and do it.

Under Tang Jie's instructions, Simon first built several large public toilets, and then ordered everyone to defecate here, and violators were punished with three lashes.

At first, the black slaves of the Southern Continent, who refused to even wear clothes, were naturally reluctant to defecate in a fixed place, but under the deterrence of the whip, they began to slowly accept and develop this habit, and the cleanliness and hygiene of Alcatraz Island gradually improved, and as soon as the sanitary environment improved, the diseases circulating on the island immediately decreased.

Tang Jie then used the accumulated manure to water the fertile land next to the Alcatraz Farm, and by the watering of this fertilizer, the earthworms in this soil grew fat and large, and under Tang Jie's personal capture of the filth, the first batch of earthworm seeds quickly formed a scale.

For Tang Jie's move, almost the entire Alcatraz people felt incomprehensible, they didn't understand why a powerful and noble captain like Tang Jie would take the lead in doing such a dirty and lowly thing?

But soon, Tang Jie let them see another surprise.

Tang Jie fed the earthworms in fertile soil, and asked the women of the Dada tribe to breed and divide the earthworms every day, and these earthworms have a terrifying ability to reproduce themselves, even if they are cut in two, they will grow into two earthworms the next day, and in just a few days, the number of these earthworms will double.

Tang Jie used these earthworms to feed the first batch of livestock and poultry, although the number was extremely small, but it meant that Alcatraz Island had truly begun to replenish itself, and Alcatraz's ability to resist blockade would increase day by day.

Moreover, these piglets and chickens are also very profligate, and after a period of cultivation, their numbers will definitely increase, and if the number of poultry and livestock grows beyond the feed supply, then the inhabitants of Alcatraz will kill a batch and then marinate the meat and store it as jerky for a long time.

The main thing is poultry, these chickens can lay eggs, and the eggs they lay not only solve the food problem of Alcatraz residents, but also have a certain storage value, these eggs can be stored in the cold caverns deep in Alcatraz for more than a month without the slightest spoilage.

After initially solving the problems of the livestock and poultry breeding industry chain, Tang Jie began to further work on the construction of Alcatraz's health system and further improve the island's self-sufficient food supply project.

For example, Tang Jie led his men to dig a number of neat ditches on Alcatraz Island to drain water and to divert excess manure from the manure tank to the sea.

For example, Donger asked Darius to bring him a batch of fine wheat seeds, and he began to plant ears of wheat in a small area next to the farm on the east side of Alcatraz Island, which were quickly planted thanks to a convenient sanitation system and manure fertilizer.

Tang Jie knew that once the wheat was ripe, he could further develop the related industries below, grinding the wheat into flour, and then building a bakery to provide fresh bread for his men, and if there was any surplus bread, he could make rusks and store it as strategic food.

After the wheat straw is fermented and stirred, it can also be used as feed to feed pigs and chickens to achieve the effect of making the best use of the material.

As for the bread making manpower, Tang Jie doesn't have it yet, he has dwarves who are proficient in masonry, fierce pirates, and hard-working black slaves, but there are no such technical talents.

However, Tang Jie was not worried about this kind of problem at all, he knew that as long as he wanted, he would be able to recruit a group of such people in Sisis immediately.

Compared to the eroded Sisis, Alcatraz now looks more like a paradise than a paradise, and in the eyes of others, there is probably no safer island in this world than under the protection of the Black Dragon King.

It's just that all these things that Tang Jie did in front of him can't be seen to be effective for the time being, so although Tang Jie's subordinates are confused and follow Tang Jie to do these things, what they are more willing to do is to build a strong fortress and terror battery on Alcatraz Island.

Tang Jie defeated Sissy's navy in one fell swoop, which made him unable to buy enough and good enough cannons from Sisis, but this did not hinder the progress of the project in front of him, because Tang Jie used his connections in Mozambique to open up the sea route between Alcatraz Island and Mozambique.

Every day, merchant ships loaded with cannons were transported to Alcatraz Island, which were then sold at high prices to Tang Jie, who paid for these expensive arms with precious stones.

Tang Jie has more and more strategic materials on hand, but the gems on his hand are getting fewer and fewer, and the "road money" of various chambers of commerce has not yet had time to be paid, and the economic benefits brought by strangling the golden route cannot be reflected for a while, Tang Jie secretly estimated: At his rate of spending, there will be ten days at most, and he will go bankrupt......

"I have to find a way to make some money......" Tang Jie frowned, looking at Alcatraz Island in full swing.