Daming pirates

After Yu Xiaotian inspected the village, he was not satisfied with the progress of the project as a whole. The amount of labor invested in various places could not meet the needs. If this continued, it would definitely not be completed according to his established plan.

However, Yu Xiaotian did not get angry, and continued to let Fang An and others accompany him to patrol the Dazhai until he had seen the entire situation in Dazhai, and then returned to the temporary work place of Fang An and others in Tamsui Village.

The courtyard where Fang An and the others were located was the house of the former Majiabao manager. The courtyard was not too big, and the decoration was not very luxurious. After Fang An and the others briefly tidied it up, they moved in, and it seemed quite clean and tidy.

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Yu Xiaotian didn't let Fang An prepare any kind of banquet to welcome the wind and wash away the dust. He sat down directly and ordered the usual meals for them. While eating, he talked with Fang An and others about what he saw when he came here this time.

On the whole, Yu Xiaotian is satisfied with the progress of Fang An and others' work here, and he can understand the difficulty of opening a new plate here. Everything has to be started from scratch. It is indeed not easy for them, and

There are many indigenous people nearby, and they don't want to see the sea wolves expand the wasteland here and compete with them for territory after the sea wolves arrive here, so from time to time, indigenous people come here to harass them.

Yu Xiaotian asked about the situation of the natives here, and Fang An gave Yu Xiaotian a general introduction to the situation here.

On both sides of the Tamsui River, they have discovered a total of six relatively large indigenous tribes. The specific names are unclear, but three of them are relatively strong. Each tribe has hundreds of people, and the largest one is said to have a thousand people.

Left and right, very fierce.

These three indigenous tribes are located in the upper reaches of the Tamsui River. They are very unfriendly to Sea Wolf and the immigrants here. They regard them as enemies and are unwilling to have any contact or trade with Sea Wolf and the immigrants here. They often attack them.

Immigrants who cultivated wasteland here.

In the past six months, according to Fang An's statistics, a total of more than 40 immigrants have been attacked and killed by natives here, or abducted by them and their whereabouts are unknown.

However, Fang An was not a vegetarian. At the same time, he followed Yu Xiaotian's request and used gentle means as much as possible to find ways to contact them to dispel their hostility. He occasionally gave them some small gifts, trying to make peace with them.

Get along.

But the effect of this was not very good. Only three smaller indigenous tribes expressed satisfaction with their goodwill and did not come to trouble them much. However, the other three groups of indigenous tribes still refused to give up and constantly harassed them and tried to

Drive them out of this area.

Fang An was not polite about this. In the past half year or so, he personally led the Sea Wolf tribe here to retaliate against these three groups of natives many times.

Sometimes they deliberately set up ambushes to lure the natives into taking the bait, and then fired their guns randomly to kill some of the natives. Sometimes they captured prisoners and forced them to lead the way, directly raiding their lairs.

In the past six months, Fang An and the others have also killed, injured, and captured two to three hundred natives. This has made the natives aware of how powerful their sea wolves are, and they no longer dare to be as arrogant as before. They only dare to stay near the outskirts of the immigrant village.

Wandering around, and as soon as they saw a large number of immigrants or sea wolf tribesmen appearing, they fled into the mountains and forests.

At present, this tough approach is acceptable, but for sea wolves, it is more difficult to harvest wood upstream.

Because the indigenous people are good at moving in the mountains and forests, are good at using bows and arrows, and are good at hiding, the logging personnel are often harassed, which affects the supply of wood for building villages and houses.

Next, Fang An plans to go into the mountain and beat one of the natives so hard that they will not dare to show their heads in the future, once they have enough manpower here.

Yu Xiaotian also agreed with Fang An's plan, and promised to send him a hundred soldiers for him to use specifically to deal with the indigenous people, although Yu Xiaotian did not regard his visit to Taiwan Island as a serious matter.

It is an invasion, but to the local natives, they are indeed invaders. Their appearance disturbs the peaceful life of the natives, and they will definitely feel unhappy.

Therefore, resistance and conflict will definitely exist for a long time. This conflict cannot be resolved without using strong means. We can only fight and pull with one hand, and gradually let the natives know that after their sea wolves arrive here, they are willing to live in peace with them.

After a long time, this kind of conflict will gradually subside, but the necessary killings before are still inevitable.

In addition, regarding the shortage of manpower here, after Yu Xiaotian, Fang An and others discussed it for a while, they decided to make full use of the existing human resources here.

Now, after more than half a year of immigration, Sea Wolf has immigrated from land to more than 2,000 people. This number is not large, but it will gradually increase in the future, and there will be several ships arriving every month.

There are hundreds of people.

Including the number of early immigrants who originally existed here, the number of immigrants in the Tamsui River area is now close to about 5,000, and may even be more.

Among them, there are about 2,000 people who can be used as laborers. The manpower of these people must be fully utilized. Yu Xiaotian proposed to set aside ten days every month and order these immigrant laborers to work in batches to work in Tamsui Village.

And they, Sea Wolf, will pay these people a certain amount of money to speed up the project here.

However, regarding the idea proposed by Yu Xiaotian, Fang An shook his head and said that it was very difficult. He had also thought about it before, but the labor force for immigrants was not very sufficient. Now it is the time to open up wasteland, and the labor force is used a lot. This involves

The question is whether immigrants will have enough to eat next year.

Moreover, the immigrants have to be on guard against the natives, and the young people in the villages who work in the fields have to be prepared to deal with the harassment of the natives at any time. It is simply unrealistic to draw so many people out, otherwise it will make the immigrants here very dissatisfied.

"Let's use the method of drawing dice! Don't we have people in each resettlement village? Our people should be familiar with the situation in each resettlement village. As long as we know how much labor each household has, it will be easy to handle!

If each household has three laborers, they must provide one laborer to help. We can pay them. If each household has less than three laborers, they will no longer be drawn!

If some people have five laborers, just take two, so that it will not have a big impact on their land reclamation and farming! I wonder what the boss and Commander Fang think of this method?" Lin Yiyang sat aside, having been talking before.

After listening to them talking, he finally spoke.

When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he immediately nodded and said: "This is also a way. Use the method of drawing dings and assign them to each other! Anyway, we won't let them work in vain. At least they will be fed and paid, and we will not do anything to them.

The impact of their land reclamation is too great!"

After hearing this, Fang An nodded and agreed, and will arrange for people to go down and start following this method tomorrow. Once implemented, it is estimated that they can attract hundreds more laborers in the short term.

"One more thing is the issue of burning charcoal. Although the workshop area here is still under construction, once it starts production, there will be a huge demand for charcoal!

So I think we need to prepare for this in advance! If we buy charcoal from land, it is too light and cannot be loaded in a boat. It will consume too much to transport it!

As for our side, I just saw that there are a lot of wood scraps that are lying around and are of no use. We can ask the nearby villages to open a few charcoal kilns to make charcoal. They will take the scraps back and burn charcoal. After they are burned, we will take them back based on the quality.

, In this way, immigrants will have another way to make money, and it will not take up our manpower and transportation capacity, and can save a lot of money!" Yu Xiaotian said to Fang An and others while eating.

"This is a good idea! There is a lot of waste wood here, and most of the branches cut down are useless. It is good to use them to make charcoal!"

In addition, among the previous immigrants, there were several porcelain craftsmen. Some of the porcelain used by the immigrants here used to be purchased and shipped to them by us on land. A few days ago, my subordinates and brothers

After some discussion, we summoned the porcelain craftsmen and found a craftsman with a slightly better skill among them. We asked him to take the lead. We found usable porcelain clay in a village in the north and asked them to open it there on the spot.

A porcelain kiln!

Although their craftsmanship is not very good, they all use ordinary porcelain bowls here. As long as they can be used, they don't need anything too fancy!" After chatting with Yu Xiaotian for a while, Fang An's mood changed.

It felt better after going up, and he said to Xiaotian while agreeing.

Yu Xiaotian was overjoyed when he heard this and nodded with a smile: "It seems that you have also figured out a way! This method is really good. In this way, as long as there is something that someone here can do, regardless of whether it is good or bad, you can make it yourself.

It couldn’t be better! This way you can save a lot of transportation capacity! Use more ships to transport other important things!”

After everyone finished eating, Yu Xiaotian waved to others to go down to rest, while he and Fang An lived together and began a long conversation.

Fang An was indeed still sad about what happened to Wang Hong and Ma Feng, so Yu Xiaotian enlightened him carefully. The two of them talked about it for most of the night, and after drinking a bottle of wine, Fang An finally felt relieved.

It's open.

"Don't worry, Master! In fact, I also know that people cannot be resurrected after death! None of us thought about the third brother's matter, so no one can blame us!

As for Ma Feng, although I have always regarded him as a biological brother, I never imagined that this guy would be so unsatisfied that he would do such a heartless thing.

So it is not a pity that this guy died. If I still felt sorry for him, I would not have failed to plead for him and watch him being lit up with a sky lantern!

After chatting with the boss for such a long time today, my heart has become much brighter! I won’t drink more of this wine from now on! I have indeed been slacking off a bit during this period, and I didn’t pay close attention to some things. I hope the boss will punish me!

"Fang An pushed away the wine cup, took a deep breath and said to Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian saw that Fang An's mood had become normal, his spirits had cheered up, and his mood had gotten better. He smiled and said to Fang An, "When I come here this time, I am most worried about you! Danshui Village is coming to us.

He said that from now on, the top priority will be the artillery work, the gun work, and the boathouse will all come first now!

If you haven't cheered up yet, then I really don't have a good helper! Now that I see that you can untie the knot, I feel relieved!

This time I came over and brought you a generous gift! Come, bring over the things I ordered for Brother Fang Wu!"

A guard quickly brought a box into the room. Yu Xiaotian opened the box. The box was divided into several grids and contained several items made of fine iron and wrought copper.

Yu Xiaotian took out a wrought copper tube and said to Fang An: "This is the prosthetic leg I made for you when I had nothing to do!

The iron hook you are currently using on your left arm is old, and it’s time to replace it! Try wearing this prosthesis to see if it fits properly. With this thing, your daily activities may be easier in the future.

As he spoke, he helped Fang An remove the iron hook from his broken arm and installed the prosthetic limb made of wrought copper on his broken arm. The front end of the prosthetic limb was an iron hand. As Fang An's arm moved,

Iron Hand can do some simple actions.

It was the first time Fang An saw this kind of thing, and he was very curious. He kept moving his severed arm, opening and closing the iron hand at the front, and actually grabbed the wine glass on the table.

Fang An was so happy that he thanked Xiaotian repeatedly. Then Yu Xiaotian took out several other accessories from the box and told Fang An the uses of these things. Among them were hooks, short knives, and a small shield.

It only needs to be installed on the prosthetic limb, locked with a nut, and then it can be used. Even when fighting with others, his left arm will become a sharp weapon.

Yu Xiaotian actually spent a lot of thought on this prosthetic limb. He took the time to think about it. He spent several months and asked the craftsmen to help him turn his idea into a physical object, and made Yi and Fang An disabled.

My subordinates who were in a similar situation used it for a while and felt it was enough, so they sent it to Fang An when they came over this time.

Fang An looked at these things and was very moved in his heart. Over the years, after he lost his left hand, he has always felt a little inferior about it. He could only press a simple iron hook. As his left hand, his daily life was very inconvenient.

The iron hook on the left hand is not very useful when the watchman is doing it.

But today he saw that the set of prosthetic limbs given to him by Yu Xiaotian had so many functions, and he was really touched. He had also known that Yu Xiaotian was good at tinkering with some strange and clever things, but he did not expect that Yu Xiaotian

He actually devoted so much energy to tinkering with such a set of prosthetics for him. After having this thing in the future, his life will become much simpler, and even when he goes into battle to kill enemies, his left hand will no longer be useless.

, especially the small shield, which provided him with an extra layer of protection. In addition, the iron hand and short blade underneath made it a weapon that could surprise people.

If Yu Xiaotian didn't pay attention to him, it would be impossible to do so many things for him. He knows better than anyone how busy Yu Xiaotian is. He can spare so much time to tinker with this thing specifically for him. This makes Fang Fang

An was so grateful that she didn't know what to say.

So Fang An suddenly stood up, knelt down to Yu Xiaotian with a bang, and said loudly: "Fang An, thank you for your grace! From now on, Fang's life will be that of the master! Fang An is willing to die for the master!"

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