Daming pirates

The entire Tamsui Village has undergone tremendous changes from a few months ago. The Sea Wolf's Tamsui Village, which was originally built on the basis of Majiapu, was expanded after Fang An and others led the team for more than half a year.

The village has begun to take shape.

The entire Dazhai covers an area that is nearly ten times larger than the previous Majiapu, covering an area of ​​more than a thousand acres, which is as large as a small city.

Moreover, this place was originally a hilly land. Majiabao itself is located on a hill. Now the entire hill is included in the Dazhai of Danshui Village. Located in the center of the Dazhai, you can directly overlook the entire village.

Around Dazhai.

It turns out that the lush forest around Majiapu was basically cut down after the Sea Wolf tribe arrived here. The felled trees basically became the raw materials for the walls of Dazhai Village or the houses built in it.

Fang An was ordered to store some of the larger and better wood and put them under the shed to dry in the shade. They would be used as wood for Sea Wolf's shipbuilding in the future.

According to Chinese custom, this Tamsui Village has four gates in the east, west, north and south. There is also a water gate near the Tamsui River for small boats to sail directly from the Tamsui River to Dazhai.

In this way, it is convenient for people to take small boats directly into the river from inside Dazhai and transfer to large boats parked on the river.

It is also convenient to unload goods from large ships onto small ships and transfer them directly to Dazhai, which greatly improves the efficiency of transportation.

In order to serve as an important base for the Sea Wolves in the future, this Dazhai did not be lazy in building the wall. Like other Dazhais, they only used logs to surround it in a circle and pull it down. Instead, they adopted the method of building a city and took soil on site.

, coupled with wood, formed a city wall with a rammed earth structure, which greatly improved the stability and enemy resistance of Dazhai.

The wall is not too high, only about one and a half feet so far, but the foundation is very solid. The thick base of the main wall is basically about one foot wide. If needed in the future, the wall can be raised directly on top.

wall, eliminating the trouble of continuing to expand the foundation.

And as long as conditions permit in the future, Sea Wolf can heighten the wall at any time and lay a layer of masonry on the wall to strengthen it.

There are certain differences between the Dazhai wall and the Chinese-style city wall. It does not have a boxy shape, but a zigzag shape. This is actually based on the fortresses built in Western countries.

The advantage is that the wall can have better defensive capabilities and create more trouble for attackers.

Also, this Dazhai is close to the Tamsui River. A dam was built near the Tamsui River to prevent the river water from directly washing away the wall of the village in the event of a flood, threatening the safety of the Dazhai. However, at the same time, it also introduced

A water channel directly enters Dazhai, which will not cause water shortage in Dazhai when it is besieged by the enemy. In addition, many wells can be drilled in Dazhai, so there will be no problems with water supply in Dazhai.

Therefore, this Dazhai has stronger defensive capabilities than the current wolf cave on Nanyue Island, and will become an important stronghold for the sea wolves in the future. Therefore, when Yu Xiaotian asked Fang An to come here to take charge, he told Fang An

An, on the basis of the wall, you can't cut corners, try your best to make a one-time investment and benefit for a long time.

Fang An also faithfully carried out Yu Xiaotian's instructions, leading his troops and various laborers here to spare no effort to build the current Dazhai.

When Yu Xiaotian came here this time, the Dazhai Wall had begun to take shape and had basic defensive capabilities. Most of the main structure was nearly completed. A large number of laborers had been sent to start building other facilities.

In the past, there was only a trestle for small sailboats to berth on the river bank near Tamsui Village. However, in order to receive the supplies and personnel continuously transported by Sea Wolf from outside, after Fang An arrived, he sent people to the river bank.

A large-scale pier was built, and three sturdy trestles were built, allowing six to eight ships to dock at the trestle at the same time to load and unload cargo.

The Feilang that Yu Xiaotian was traveling on this time came and docked directly next to the trestle, and was welcomed into the Dazhai by the tribesmen here like stars over the moon.

When Yu Xiaotian saw Fang An again, he found that Fang An had lost a lot of weight and was not in a very good mood. His eyes were bloodshot. He obviously had not had a good rest, and there was a faint smell of alcohol on his body. It was obvious that he was not in a good mood the night before.

He must have been drinking.

Yu Xiaotian immediately saw that Fang An had not completely come over from the incident between Wang Hong and Ma Feng, and he must be in a very low mood. In addition, due to the busy schedule here, he must not have had a good rest, so he seemed a little depressed.

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Yu Xiaotian didn't say anything immediately and followed Fang An into the stronghold.

Many places in Dazhai still look very empty, but the main streets have been repaired. The road leading to the center of Dazhai from the south gate after coming down from the pier has even been paved with stones mined nearby.

A strip of stone can accommodate four or two horse-drawn carriages running parallelly at the same time. This kind of road is already quite wide in modern times. It is very convenient for transporting various goods in and out, and there will be no congestion in a short period of time.

Moreover, sewers were dug out on these repaired roadsides. Eventually, these sewers converged at a place in the southwest corner of Dazhai, went deep into the ground, and drained directly into the Tamsui River.

Even if there is a heavy rain here in the future, these sewers can quickly drain the rainwater from the village into Dazhai, preventing waterlogging inside Dazhai.

Before Yu Xiaotian came to this era, he was fed up with the suffering of waterlogging everywhere in the city he lived in whenever it rained heavily. He had once read that someone said that the drainage system is the conscience of a city.

If a city doesn't even have a good drainage system, it shows that the managers have no intention at all.

Therefore, when he was planning the Danshui Village, he specifically told the people responsible for planning the village that the heights inside the village must be well surveyed. According to the situation, the drainage facilities of the village must be built first to ensure that no accidents occur.

When it rains heavily or torrentially, there will be serious waterlogging here. Otherwise, he is the only one to ask.

In addition, another advantage of building a complete set of drainage facilities is that in the future, both domestic and industrial sewage in Dazhai can be drained directly through these sewers, avoiding cross-flow of sewage in Dazhai, which is a problem for the residents.

The health of the people here will be well helped.

Today, the island of Taiwan is still an undeveloped land. Because of the hot and humid climate and the infestation of mosquitoes, the reason why it was not taken seriously by the mainland governments in the past cannot be blamed on the fact that successive dynasties turned a blind eye to it.

Many dynasties in history actually sent people to Taiwan Island in an attempt to incorporate Taiwan Island into the mainland territory. However, several large-scale attempts in history ended in failure. According to historical records, the biggest one they encountered was

The trouble is that the miasma is rampant here. Most of the people who come here are not accustomed to the climate and have lost their lives due to the miasma. The remaining people have no choice but to return without success.

Now that Yu Xiaotian wants to visit Taiwan Island, he will definitely encounter such troubles, so the first step is to control the environment and minimize the problem of mosquitoes in Dazhai, which is particularly critical. Therefore, Tamsui Village and Jiji

All caged villages are required to be clean, with no cross-flow of sewage, and to minimize the possibility of plague.

Nowadays, the level of medicine is still limited. If a large-scale plague or malaria occurs, Yu Xiaotian thinks that it is unlikely to be eradicated, so it is particularly important to prevent this from happening.

When Yu Xiaotian entered Dazhai, he began to carefully observe the situation everywhere. Although the situation here was still somewhat different from what he originally conceived, with the current construction technology and conditions, Fang An could do this.

It has been quite difficult.

For these sewers, Fang An even sent people to open several brick kilns at selected locations outside Dazhai, specifically to bake bricks for use in Dazhai. Most of the bricks and tiles produced were used in these drainage systems, but in the village

The houses can only be made simple and built with wood first. Some roofs do not even have tiles. They can only be covered with straw mats and banana leaves and fixed with wooden strips. In the event of a typhoon, these roofs will definitely not be preserved.

Living conditions will be relatively poor.

But at present, it is a helpless thing as it has just been opened up. This place was originally just a deserted land, with only a small number of immigrants living here. All the things that the sea wolves need to get here must be solved by themselves. Procurement on site is the best option.

It's simply impossible.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. Once the Dazhai is built, it will be equivalent to setting up a framework that can be better filled with things in the future. Yu Xiaotian knows that this cannot be accomplished overnight, so he is not satisfied with some parts.

He only mentioned it and gradually improved it in the future, but did not give any reprimand to Fang An and others.

The place where Fang An and the others live is actually where the former Majiabao was. The walls here have not been demolished and are still preserved. They are simply used as the core living area of ​​the Sea Wolf tribe for the time being. There are not even houses.

As much as possible, the houses left behind in Majiapu were used as much as possible. They just did some cleaning and demolished some unnecessary houses to make them more convenient for entry and exit.

Fang An originally wanted to arrange a banquet for Yu Xiaotian and others to cleanse themselves from the dust, but Yu Xiaotian refused and told Fang An not to bother. He could just eat what everyone normally eats. Anyway, they

Sea Wolf doesn't pay attention to the red tape of welcoming and sending off. It's best to keep everything simple.

What Yu Xiaotian is most concerned about is the construction status of various workshops here. After arriving here, he immediately started to go to the locations of these workshops to check the situation.

(Thanks again to Brother Huluhulu for the tip!)