Daming pirates

After several months of construction, the Tamsui Village Boathouse has now begun to be put into use. The scale of this boathouse is much larger than that of Nanyue Island Boathouse, mainly due to the

Due to the large amount of idle land and the fact that Xiaotian planned to build a large number of ships here by himself in the future, he decided to make the initial construction quite large.

In terms of scale alone, the scale of this boathouse has exceeded that of many large boathouses along the coast of Fujian. Five slipways for shipbuilding were built here at once.

However, only three of them can be put into use now, and the other two are still under construction.

Although the dry dock is a Chinese creation, it was already invented and put into use by the Chinese during the Song Dynasty, but it has been used less and less since then. The old dockyard on Nanyue Island is a special situation. I don’t know if it was originally

Why did the people who built the boathouse there dig out two dry docks?

But in fact, in this era, many shipyards did not often use dry docks for shipbuilding in order to save costs. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty had always closed the sea. Even if maritime merchants secretly went to sea for trade, the local government turned a blind eye.

However, the Ming Dynasty still clearly stipulated that no one was allowed to privately build ships with more than 400 materials.

Even if the shipwrights of the Ming Dynasty were fully capable of building large ships with more than 400 materials, few would dare to commit crimes. Therefore, it is not cost-effective to use dry docks, so most shipyards use simpler berths for shipbuilding.

, many boathouses are even reluctant to build a slipway for launching boats. Instead, they simply spread some mud on the beach and slide the boats from the slipway into the water.

Yu Xiaotian was now eager to put the Tamsui City Dockyard into use. Building the dock was too labor-intensive, so he simply used a slipway for shipbuilding.

However, Yu Xiaotian, the boathouse here, is not like some boathouses on land. They try their best to save costs and even refuse to build the slipway. When building the slipway here, Yu Xiaotian still asked the craftsmen to do their best.

A lot of wood was used to build these slipways to be stronger.

And he did not save the labor and cost of the slide. He built a very strong slide for each slipway. This can ensure that the ship is safer when launching it into the water.

Fortunately, here in Tamsui, although a large number of immigrants have come here to open up land, the surrounding forest area is still very large, and there is sufficient wood for sea wolves to use. The construction of slipways is basically based on local materials. In addition, in the past

Some of the wood stored here has no problems at all.

When Yu Xiaotian came to the boat house, he did not look at the situation on the slipway at first glance. Instead, he saw a large number of various logs piled on the shore. These logs were basically newly cut down. Some of the logs were

It was still wet, as if it had just been half fished out of the water.

Looking intently towards the river, Yu Xiaotian saw a large pile of timber slowly floating down the Tamsui River. These timbers were all tied into rafts, and there were people moving around on the rafts, manipulating them.

The rafts flowed down the river to prevent them from getting stuck on the shore along the way. It was not until the rafts reached the boat house that someone intercepted them, pulled them to the shore, and then used manpower and animal power to pull the rafts away.

The platoon was dismantled and towed ashore.

In this way, the heavy transportation process of wood is eliminated, manpower and material resources are greatly saved, and the boat house can conveniently utilize the large amount of wood along the upstream coast.

Yu Xiaotian was a little surprised by this, so he asked Fang An, who came with him, how he could do this, because when he came last time, Fang An also said that there were a lot of native activities along the upstream coast to stop the Sea Wolf personnel.

Entering their land to cut trees, how come so much wood has been put down now?

Fang An immediately replied with a smile: "It is better to thank the master! After the master went to Jilong Bay last time, he transferred a group of soldiers and auxiliary soldiers from Jilong Bay. After these people came here,

, and immediately began to use troops against the surrounding natives who often harassed us.

These brothers who came from Jilongzhai are really capable, and with the help of the native auxiliary soldiers, they immediately reversed the disadvantage that our people were not good at moving in the forest.

They first eliminated two of the more ferocious native tribes nearby, almost uprooting them, and captured more than 200 natives.

I saw that the brothers in Jilongzhai were quite good at what they did, so I asked the local garrison to learn to fight in the mountains and forests with them. In addition, I also selected a group of local immigrants who had come here earlier and the natives who had been captured before.

Auxiliary troops, in this way, basically solved the troubles of the natives.

The natives are actually not stupid. The reason why they dared not to harass us before was because they saw that we did not dare to easily enter the mountains and forests to chase them. Now, the surrounding natives see that we suddenly overthrow two of their tribes, so they know

Now that we are powerful, we no longer dare to harass our immigration village as we did before.

And the subordinates also followed the boss's earlier instructions and showed kindness to these natives and gave them some small things. As a result, the natives no longer easily harassed our immigrants.

Some time ago, our people started to go upstream along the Tamsui River. At the beginning, they were obstructed by two native tribes on both sides of the bank, and we fought with them several times.

Both sides suffered losses at first. Later, my subordinates and Brother Meng mobilized hundreds of brothers to go up and kill the natives of both families. They killed a group of natives and captured many, almost thirty miles upstream.

Clear away the natives on both sides of the river.

In this way, our people can enter the upper reaches to cut trees without worrying too much about the attacks of the natives. Therefore, the logging teams in the upper reaches can cut down many trees every day and then throw them directly into the river and tie them into logs.

Row down the river.

Sir, please take a look, the area above the boathouse is now a place where wood is piled, and there is already a lot of wood stored. It can be used to build ships after it dries in the shade!"

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian was quite happy and nodded repeatedly: "This is how we should treat the natives, with a soft hand and a hard hand. We should show kindness and at the same time let them understand that they cannot afford to offend us! Only

In this way, we can live in peace with them.

It is not a good idea to blindly use strength or show weakness. Excessive use of strength will arouse serious hatred among the various tribes of the natives towards us. With our current strength, we are still unable to cope with them joining forces to deal with us!

Therefore, using force blindly can only be counterproductive! When necessary, we should give small favors to some of its tribes so that they can benefit from us. Naturally, they will not want to be enemies with us.

Jilongzhai does this quite well, and you can learn more from their practices here.

The other group of brothers and native auxiliary troops transferred from Jilongzhai are to let your soldiers here learn some mountain and forest warfare tactics from them, so that they can more easily deal with the attacks of the surrounding natives in the future.

Now I don’t know how much your garrison has learned in this regard!”

Fang An immediately replied: "Master, please rest assured. After seeing the abilities of the brothers from Jilongzhai, the warrior brothers here have not been idle. As soon as the brothers from Jilongzhai came over, they immediately followed

After learning, I have basically learned everything in the past few months. In addition, there are also some captured natives in the local area who have been incorporated into the auxiliary troops. These local natives are very familiar with the local mountain and forest conditions.

They are more familiar with it, so now they have no problem dealing with ordinary native tribes.

Even for the larger native tribes nearby, as long as we want to touch them, there is basically no big problem. What's more, there is also a new camp here, and we can get help from the new recruits of the new camp when necessary. In addition, we

I have more and more muskets. If I am bullied by the natives again, then the boss can drive me home!"

Yu Xiaotian burst into laughter after hearing this.

While they were talking, Guo Fu, who was transferred here to supervise the work, heard the news that Yu Xiaotian had arrived at the boat house, and hurried over in three steps at a time. As soon as he saw Yu Xiaotian, he quickly bowed his head and bowed.

"Young man, I'm here to see you, the master! I'm going to give you my respects!" Guo Fu is now doing quite well in Sea Wolf. He is already considered a prominent figure among the craftsmen of the Sea Wolf Group, and his two sons are now

They also took over his skills. One stayed on Nanyue Island and became the steward of Nanyue Island Boathouse. The other gave up his father's shipbuilding business and joined the Sea Wolf navy and became a steward.

The official Sea Wolf tribe has embarked on the road of joining the army. Now it has become the captain of a soldier on a ship, and is doing quite well. The next step is to become the first mate or even the captain.

Moreover, his two sons also got married and gave birth to a grandson for Guo Fu. Guo Fu is living a pretty good life now. This can be regarded as a gift from Xiaotian, so Guo Fu is now even more determined.

Although he was working for Yu Xiaotian, he actually looked much stronger and stronger than two or three years ago.

"You came just in time! I was just about to ask you about the situation in the boathouse here! How is it? Is there anything missing in the boathouse here?" Yu Xiaotian was in a good mood, and he smiled and asked Guo Fu to stand up and talk.

Guo Fu said with a smile on his face: "If we go back to the master, the layout of the boathouse here is much larger than that of the Nanyue Island boathouse. There are three slipways under construction now, and there will be two more slipways no later than two years ago.

You can put out the materials and start building the ship.

The various supporting facilities of the boathouse in front of us are basically in place, the blacksmith shop, the hemp rope workshop, the twisting workshop, etc. are all in action!

The boss has also seen that the construction of these three slipways has already started, and they are all building flying-type clippers, especially the third slipway, which is relatively large and can start construction of two single-masted flying-type clippers at one time.

We can build a large ship with at least 800 materials, but we haven't started yet!

There is not a shortage of other things at the moment. A shipload of canvas has just been delivered recently, which is enough to build seven or eight flying boats. It is just that the jute used for making hemp rope is slightly lacking now. It is not a big problem. I will send it later.

Two boats are enough. If we can grow some jute, we won’t even need to bring in jute anymore!

The biggest shortage right now is probably wood!..."