Daming pirates

They look down on these vulgar Chinese pirates. These people are greedy and cruel, but they are also very cautious. Their ships are dilapidated and dirty, and their equipment is poor and pitiful. Even the larger pirate groups are

There are only some very old artillery pieces and some crude muskets.

The Spanish often had firefights with some pirate ships, but they almost never failed. These pirates had never received any effective training, and they did not know how to use firearms.

Starting to fire cannons or muskets will have no effect on the Spanish warships at all, it will only embolden themselves.

The most common way of fighting for these stupid Chinese pirates is to engage in boarding combat, where they rely on their manpower advantage to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

However, this tactic was of little use against the Spanish warships. Their Galien sailing ships (Gallen ships) and even the old Clark ships all had tall sides and were equipped with numerous artillery pieces. China

It is difficult for pirates to effectively climb onto their ships and engage in hand-to-hand combat with their sailors, and they are often defeated as soon as they engage in combat.

Therefore, these Spaniards all looked down upon these Chinese pirates and felt that if necessary, they could easily defeat these Chinese pirates and capture Jilong Bay.

Shi Erwa thought for a moment and shook his head slightly: "Although it makes sense, this group of pirates who call themselves sea wolves have no conflict with us. On the contrary, they are still collaborators. They will bring us some every year."

We need the goods, and unlike other Chinese merchants and pirates, they only want money and don’t want anything from us.

And trading with them is a more pleasant thing. We don't have to pay them all in silver. We can use canvas, Indian cotton and wood that can't be sold normally as a means of payment. This is rare.

In addition, you may not know much about this, but this group of Chinese pirates who call themselves Sea Wolves are said to be quite powerful and powerful, controlling a large area of ​​the sea.

If we use force against them and force them to abandon Jilong Bay, it is very likely that they will be pushed to the side of the Dutch.

As far as I know, these pirates did not collude with the Dutch and help them rob Chinese merchant ships coming to Manila like Li Dan or other pirates in the past, nor did they attack our merchant ships.

If we use force to force them to give up Chicken Coop Bay, they may become angry, turn to the Dutch side, and join the team that blocks our approach to Manila. They may even attack the Chicken Coop after we take control of it.

After the Bay, block the waterway leading here and not allow any Chinese businessmen to do business with us. In that case, even if we obtain Jilong Bay, it will be of no use!"

Shi Erwa's words immediately reminded these congressmen and businessmen, so everyone lowered their heads and whispered among themselves for a while. After a while, someone once again put forward an opinion.

"Your Majesty the Governor, if we cannot easily use force against them, then I think we can temporarily not occupy Jilong Bay. On this map of Formosa, there are many other places where we can park ships and build cities.

, although these places are not as good as Jilong Bay, we can first occupy a foothold there and then negotiate with the Chinese pirates.

If they are sensible, we can force them to give up Jilong Bay without using force. We can pay them some money or materials as a deal to buy Jilong Bay and ask them to leave there!

In this way, we will not offend them and make an enemy, but we may become friends with them in the future and ask them to help us block the Chinese ships heading to Dajuan and let them trade at our port!"

After hearing this, Shi Erwa thought for a moment, smiled, nodded and said: "This is a good way. If they can understand, it will be beneficial to both of us, but now there is a new one.

Question, how much money should we pay them in exchange for them to withdraw from Jilongwan? What should we do if they follow the Chinese proverb and ask the lion to open its mouth?"

At this time, these congressmen began to quarrel. Many people believed that Shirwa was so hesitant that he really valued the Chinese pirates too much. If the Chinese pirates did not agree to such conditions, then there would be nothing to discuss.

At that time, we must use force to drive them out of Jilong Bay, so that these vulgar Chinese pirates can know that the Spaniards are not easy to mess with.

After dealing with Chinese pirates and merchants for a long time, these Spaniards had a strong sense of superiority, which made them very arrogant and did not take these Chinese pirates seriously.

After a fierce debate, Shirwa finally had to compromise and decided to prepare to send troops. After arriving in the northern part of Taiwan Island, he first occupied a place to land, and then began to negotiate with the group of sea wolves entrenched in Jilong Bay.

According to the measurement method that the Chinese are accustomed to, they can be paid up to 20,000 taels of silver in exchange for giving up Jilong Bay.

If they still don't agree, then use the fleet to blockade Jilong Bay, start a war with them, capture Jilong Bay by force, and drive them away.

So the Spanish in Manila, under Scherva's order, began to make preparations before sending troops.

Yu Xiaotian didn't know what the Spaniards were busy with at this time, but he roughly knew the process of historical development. If history had not changed significantly, the Spaniards would have occupied the northern part of Taiwan Island in the past two or three months.

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After he lingered in Tamsui City for more than a month, seeing that various affairs here began to get on track, and began to move forward steadily according to his requirements and plans, Yu Xiaotian decided to leave Tamsui City and go to the chicken coop.

Take a look at the situation on the other side of the bay.

Although he is still planning to build a cement factory in Tamsui City, the problem of crushing has not yet been solved. If he wants to build a cement factory, a cement kiln is not a big problem, even if he does not know what a modern cement kiln is.

Yes, but it is not that difficult to start using local methods, build a small vertical cement kiln, and try to bake cement.

The biggest problem in building cement kilns is still the issue of crushing. At present, he has built more than a dozen small water mills to produce clay cement. The daily output of such water mills is very low and cannot satisfy the needs of the people at all.

The need for eight classics to produce cement.

The main raw materials of cement are nothing more than limestone, clay, coal and gypsum.

At present, limestone, clay, and gypsum are already available around Tamsui City, and the reserves are still quite large, but no coal mines have been found yet, so the coal must be transported overland.

But purchasing coal from land is not that difficult. There are coal mines in Fujian, and you don't even have to travel too far. You can organize the supply of coal in Xinghua Prefecture.

Coal is not a rare thing in the current time and space. It is used in small amounts and is very cheap. Moreover, people in Fujian and Guangdong do not like to use coal to make iron because the quality of iron produced from coal is not as good as that produced from charcoal.

The quality of the iron is good, so the iron yards here use charcoal as fuel for iron-making. Therefore, although there are coal mines in Fujian and some people mine it, there are not many users.

Purchasing coal from Fujian does not consume much financial resources, but it is more troublesome and consumes a lot of transportation capacity. However, when Hailang purchases coal, it does not interfere with land transportation, so the entire process is basically transported by water, one by one.

The ship can carry at least dozens of tons of coal, and the Dafu ship can even carry more than a hundred tons of coal. Even if a cement plant is built here in Tamsui, it will not be a large cement plant. The amount used is not large and can completely meet their needs.

need.

There is only one reason that is bothering Yu Xiaotian now, and that is the problem of raw material crushing. Currently, the production efficiency is too low just relying on stone mills and stone rollers to crush raw materials. A new type of crusher must be developed to expand production.

Otherwise, relying on these stone mills to crush raw materials is really a drop in the bucket and cannot solve the problem.

But Yu Xiaotian is not omnipotent. Although he knows a lot about machinery, it is still a bit too difficult for him to design a large-scale crusher immediately. In addition, even if he can design it, with the current processing

The technology was also estimated to be difficult to produce, so he had to put it aside for the time being and tinker with this guy when he had free time.

In early March, the entire road construction project and water conservancy project in Tamsui were fully rolled out, and a large number of immigrants were driven to the fields. Under the leadership of the village chiefs and the supervision of the Sea Wolf tribe, ditches began to be dug.

A large number of hard laborers were also working hard and sweating profusely at the road construction sites under the supervision of guns and bayonets. From time to time, rumbles of artillery could be heard from some places, but this was not the sea wolf tribe's artillery fire, but the cannon fire.

At some road construction projects, cannons and rocks are being fired.

Even the carpentry factories are extremely busy now. The craftsmen are busy making various waterwheels and chicken cars every day. They also have to make wheels for the chicken cars that are constantly being damaged and replace the damaged chicken cars.

of wheels.

During this time, someone discovered that among the hard laborers, some people, just to be lazy, took advantage of others' unpreparedness and destroyed production tools. The chicken bus was damaged a lot.

For this reason, Yan Youde secretly observed some things and caught a few guys on the spot who secretly destroyed production tools. First, he served them with a whip, and then the guy used iron rods to break their bones one by one and let them

If they couldn't die, they were finally tied to wooden stakes on both sides of the construction site, deprived of food or drink, and exposed to the sun until they died of pain, thirst, starvation or sunburn.

Such a cruel method immediately curbed the evil tendency of some people to have bad ideas and destroy production tools, causing the damage speed of chicken buses and various production tools to slow down.

(Come back and rest for a while, then leave after updating! My son still has a low fever, which makes me feel so sad!)