Daming pirates

Just when everything on the island was flourishing, Yu Xiaotian suddenly made a decision after completing the production of the first glass mirror.

He decided to personally go to Taiwan Island to have a look. For two months, Liu Laoliu, Wang Hong, Fang An and others were jointly responsible for the management of the island's affairs. If anything happened, they could send a ship to Taiwan to find it.

He, if the matter is urgent, Liu Laoliu will make the final decision.

After hearing this, everyone felt that Yu Xiaotian was a little too impatient. Taiwan is kept wherever it is, and no one can steal it. Moreover, everything is normal on Nanri Island now, many things are going smoothly, and the government is still busy.

The affairs of the red-haired people entrenched in Penghu have no time to concern themselves with the affairs of Nanri Island.

What's more, they are now used to many things being decided by Xiaotian. Suddenly Yu Xiaotian has to be out for such a long time, which makes these people feel a little uncomfortable.

Liu Laoliu even secretly found Yu Xiaotian first, and persuaded Yu Xiaotian not to rush to Taiwan. Liu Laoliu's reason was that they had just integrated at the moment and were not yet completely stable internally. If he, the big boss, was not in charge here,

I was afraid that someone would take the opportunity to cause some trouble.

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian shook his head and said with a smile: "My father-in-law, you can rest assured! I know the character of Wang Hong and Fang An well. As long as they are in charge, even if someone wants to make trouble, they can't make trouble!"

I treat their brothers who came from the Shark Gang equally to our brothers who came from Treasure Island. They live a more comfortable life now than before, and they feel that they have a future, so why do they want to rebel against me? With you in charge here, I can rest assured!

As for things in Taiwan, time waits for no one. The sooner we take action, the better, so as not to be caught first. I can tell you some news. It won’t be long before someone wants to take over Taiwan. In this world, who is the right person to be fast and slow?

We all know that the first step is to strike first! We can’t wait for others to gain a foothold before we go out to rob them! This matter can’t be delayed any longer!”

Liu Laoliu was startled and asked quickly: "How did you know? Who has such a big heart? Is it possible that it is bigger than yours?"

Yu Xiaotian whispered a few words to Liu Laoliu. Liu Laoliu's eyes suddenly widened and he cursed: "***, how could this red-haired ghost have an idea? How did you know? How could it be possible?

Are you really able to predict things as others say?"

Yu Xiaotian laughed dryly and said: "My father-in-law, there is no need to ask any more questions! In short, I know it, but I don't have the ability to predict the future! I can't even guess what we're going to have for dinner tonight! Haha!"

Liu Laoliu looked at Yu Xiaotian with a look of disbelief for a long time, then nodded and said: "Okay, you are the boss, you have the final say, I can trust your words, since you want to do it, then

What can I, the father-in-law, say? I'll keep an eye on the house for you, just go ahead! If anyone dares to cause trouble while you're away, don't worry, I, Liu Laoliu, am not young, but there's no problem in killing him.

of!"

So Yu Xiaotian arranged everything on the island one by one and told the people in charge that when he was not on the island, they were not allowed to relax and all matters must be accelerated and continued.

He also sealed the glass factory tightly and ordered all the craftsmen in the glass factory not to mention anything about glass production to anyone. Anyone who disobeyed the order would be killed lightly. If he found out,

Skin him alive! This is a matter related to his fortune and career, and there must be no omissions.

In addition, he surrounded the three places of the glass factory, artillery factory, and iron factory, and sent people to guard the door day and night. No stray people were allowed to enter without permission, or even get close. If he found someone trying to inquire,

The information contained therein should be dealt with as a spy!

As for the glass mirror, as long as the glass is produced, it is not a problem at all. Most of the glass mirrors in later generations are produced with silver plating or aluminum plating, which requires some special chemical raw materials. He has no way to solve it at present and can only use comparative methods.

Original method.

He first led people to make flat glass from molten glass. Later manufacturers of glass mirrors mostly purchased flat glass directly for production. But now he not only has to burn the glass himself, but also find ways to make flat glass himself.

Yu Xiaotian and his people tried many methods in the glass field day and night. They first used the blowing method, but the effect was not good. The cut glass could not make a qualified glass plate, so they used the pulling method.

A small piece of glass was produced, but the uniformity was not enough, so he used rolling methods to finally produce a relatively flat glass plate.

This kind of colorless glass is made by rolling flat glass. Although it cannot reach the level of flat glass of later generations, it can at least be used.

Then he used the simplest method, first sticking a layer of tin foil on one side of the glass plate, and then pouring liquid mercury on it, allowing the mercury and the tin foil to react to form tin amalgam, which made the tin amalgam solid

It is firmly attached to the glass and forms a glass mirror.

If the silver mirror reaction can be used, the quality, production cost and time of the glass mirror will be lower and shorter, and the quality will be better. However, this requires solving the problem of nitric acid first, using nitric acid to make silver nitrate, and then

Just restore it to the glass.

At present, he does not have the ability to solve the problem of nitric acid, so he can only use the primitive method used by Venetian glass craftsmen to make glass mirrors.

As a result, it takes nearly a month to make a glass mirror. The speed is very slow, but the finished product is still made. The edges of these glass mirrors are cut into various shapes. After polishing, they can be inlaid with mahogany for woodworking.

On a carefully crafted frame, this kind of glass mirror is ready for sale.

Moreover, the glass mirrors produced on Nanri Island are much larger than the imported ones currently sold on land, and they look more upscale.

Originally, the Venetians and the French were not unable to produce larger glass mirrors, but such things had to undergo long-distance transportation before they could be trafficked to the Ming Dynasty. The ship was bumpy during the journey, which could easily cause the glass to break. Therefore, even if they trafficked glass mirrors here,

, are all small pieces, and basically no large pieces of glass mirror can be seen.

Therefore, Nanri Island's self-produced glass mirrors, no matter in every aspect, completely overwhelm those imported products from the West. Although they are not yet on the market, Yu Xiaotian can guarantee that once they are on the market, they will definitely become Maoshengyuan.

There is no problem in shocking the business world with his trump product. From now on, he can sit on Nanri Island and count his money!

After being busy with these things, Yu Xiaotian originally had plans, but due to time issues, he was unable to continue to promote new production plans on Nanri Island, so he could only wait until he came back from this trip.

This time Yu Xiaotian went to Taiwan Island. Instead of taking only two boats and a hundred people there like the last time, he directly brought most of the soldiers on board, leaving only a small group of soldiers for Nanri Island.

, and six more large boats were assembled, each carrying a sampan and towing a small single-masted fishing boat behind it.

Each ship was equipped with more than three newly-built six-pound Hongyi cannons, which gave the fleet he brought this time a very strong combat effectiveness, as long as it did not encounter warships or armed merchant ships commonly used by Westerners.

, ordinary fleets basically cannot get any advantage when encountering them.

Such a scale made the Sea Wolves realize that Yu Xiaotian was going to do something big again this time. I'm afraid this time he wouldn't just go to Taiwan Island to explore. He would definitely want to seize the territory and find it there.

The first sea wolf nail was laid here.

So the tribesmen who set off with the ship were all gearing up, thinking that they were lucky to be able to work with their boss. When the fleet set off, many people made a special trip to the dock to see them off.

Yu Xiaotian stood at the stern of his Sea Wolf and said goodbye to his men who were left behind. After going out to sea, he gave an order to Yang Fan to turn around and sail towards the east of Nanri Island.

Taking advantage of the idle time on the road, Yu Xiaotian took the opportunity to conduct a drill with the fleet he had brought out. He used his ship as the commanding ship and kept giving orders, asking the top bucket inside the bucket to wave the order flag to convey the orders he issued.

instructions, and check the accuracy of each ship's interpretation of the flag order and the reaction speed of each ship's personnel.

The six ships were constantly changing formations on the sea, which made their trip far from boring. On the contrary, it made the sailors on each ship very nervous.

After testing, Yu Xiaotian felt that the semaphore he had compiled was still not perfect and applicable enough. It carried too little information and needed further improvement. However, generally speaking, the semaphore he had compiled could basically meet the current needs.

The simplicity of the semaphore also makes it easier for those who read the semaphore to judge the meaning of the flag command, and there are relatively fewer mistakes made.

Of course, there are also people who make mistakes when reading the semaphore. As a result, the person who read the wrong flag order that day will inevitably have to suffer a bit after coming down, because his mistake caused the whole ship to be unlucky, so his punishment is

Required.

Just as they were approaching dusk, seeing that they were already halfway through their journey, Shangdou suddenly shouted: "We found a ship on the right side of the fleet, heading in our direction!"

Yu Xiaotian was happy when he heard this. He had really good luck today. He really got whatever he wanted. If a person is lucky, everything goes smoothly! He had just organized a drill on the sea with his men, and now

Another ship has arrived, and it happens to be getting dark soon. Wouldn't it be better to take the opportunity to try a pursuit at night?

(I'm sorry, brothers. I took a day off yesterday and went to the hospital for several tests, but the cause of the low-grade fever was not found. I have to go for a few more tests today. I feel very bad. I actually had a fever again last night.

! Unlucky! I feel really bad! But today I saw Brother Huluhulu gave another huge reward. I was really touched. Thank you Brother Huluhulu for your support! Updates will resume today. As long as you don’t die, you will definitely not be able to do so this month.

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