Daming pirates

The progress of road construction also began to accelerate. With the efforts of hundreds of hard laborers, the first major road from Tamsui City to Chuanliao was completed from both ends. It took only one month to complete the construction.

Before leaving Tamsui City, Yu Xiaotian personally inspected the construction quality of this road and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of this road.

As an important main road, this road was built according to their first-class road. It is ten paces wide. There are drainage channels two meters deep and four meters wide on both sides of the road. The roadbed is made of Sanhe soil that has been repeatedly rolled hard.

Or it was rammed. The road was paved with a layer of large sand and gravel, as well as lime and slag. It was also rolled repeatedly to make it very smooth and strong.

The cross section of the road is also curved, with a high center and low sides. It rained a few days ago, but the water on the road was immediately drained into the drainage ditch, and then drained along the drainage ditch into the Tamsui River.

There was no water accumulation at all. There were only a few places where the construction was not very good and there was some water accumulation, but they were repaired immediately.

Now this road has completely changed. It is very comfortable to walk on it. It is also much more convenient for oxcarts to transport some materials. When the oxen pulls the cart, it saves a lot of effort. Even if there are many oxcarts on the road together,

There will be no more congestion on the road.

Many immigrants came to see the excitement. Seeing such a good road, they were curious to walk on the road. They all praised it and looked at other roads under construction towards their immigrant village.

As it continues to extend, everyone can’t help but look forward to it. When all the roads are built in the future, it will be much more convenient for them to come to Tamsui City. Whether it is purchasing, delivering food, or buying some local specialties from Xiaodong and Xiaoxi, it will be more convenient.

A lot.

In addition, the continuously extending water channels in the farmland also gave them hope of a good harvest. When they were on land, except for the fact that large families sometimes had the manpower and material resources to build some ditches in their own fields for irrigation,

Ordinary people simply do not have the ability to build ditches.

It is very difficult for ordinary people to irrigate and drain their own farmland. They have to rely on heaven for harvests in many years. If God takes care of it, the weather will be good and they can still have a few good meals throughout the year. But if God is not kind to you, you will encounter

If there is a severe drought or flood, it will be miserable. Many families will basically end up with no harvest, but the government will still come to collect the food when it is time to pay it. In addition to the official gifts, there are countless additional payments.

, even a relatively well-to-do family will be ruined if it encounters such a situation.

Especially in the past two years, the war in Liaodong has been tense, and Liao's salaries have been continuously increased, making life even more miserable.

But here in Hailang, they see hope. Many people came here last year with nothing. Hailang not only distributed farm tools to them, but also took care of their meals to prevent them from starving to death. It even allocated plots of land for them.

They farmed, gave them grain, and let them plant it.

Now we are leading them to build ditches and spend money to send people to build roads, which makes our life even more promising.

Speaking of which, they used to pay grain and taxes to the government on land, but when did the government take care of their life and death? If you meet a good official, once there is a disaster, not only provide them with relief, but you can report to the court.

Get them a reduction or exemption, even if it's Mr. Qingtian.

But the government never thought of building roads for them or building ditches for them. Instead, there were endless ways and projects to make money. Even if they were in a good mood and wanted to build a bridge or something, they still had to ask everyone to chip in.

, the officials and subordinates actually made a lot of money from it, and all the royal food they paid was used to feed the dogs.

But after they arrived here, they found that the boss of Sea Wolf was different from the government. He was always planning for them and doing good things for them one after another. Moreover, the place here was becoming more and more peaceful. At the beginning,

The natives would attack and harass them from time to time. Now, under the attack of the Sea Wolf tribe, many nearby natives have been frightened. Some native tribes that went too far were simply wiped out.

, now their lives are becoming more promising day by day.

Many people will not go back even if they are asked to go back to land now. Even if they die here, they are willing to stay here and follow the sea wolf.

Seeing that the situation here was on track, Yu Xiaotian began to advance steadily, so he quietly left Tamsui, taking only two boats with him, loading some Tamsui cargo for the chicken coop, and heading towards the chicken coop.

And go.

In Jilong Bay, there are more boats now than when Yu Xiaotian came last time, and it seems more lively. Before Yu Xiaotian's boat entered Jilong Bay, he saw Jilong Bay from a distance.

On the sea outside the bay, there are many shadows of sails, and many small fishing boats are fishing on the sea.

There is also a flying speedboat cruising on the sea with the Sea Wolf flag flying high, and there is also a whaling ship also flying the Sea Wolf flag, which seems to be dragging a hunted whale and is heading towards Jilong Bay.

Driving in it.

The Feizihao clipper stationed here spotted the two boats brought by Yu Xiaotian from a distance, so it immediately turned its bow and headed towards them, and fired three salutes to express its gratitude.

Welcome to Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian's ship is still the two-masted clipper. There is a golden wolf flag with a red border hanging high on the mast. This is a symbol of his status. As long as the Sea Wolf tribe sees this flag, they will

Knowing that Yu Xiaotian was coming in person, he immediately came over to greet him.

Under the leadership of the patrolling Feihao Clipper, Yu Xiaotian led the ship into Jilong Bay. He heard the salute of the Feihao Clipper on the sea, and the three forts also fired.

The gun salute sent up clouds of white smoke.

Heitou, Sun Baoqiang and others, without even touching the ground, quickly led people to the pier to greet Yu Xiaotian. When Yu Xiaotian got off the boat, he asked people to lift a box from the boat. Under the guidance of Heitou and others, they entered the Keelung Fort here.

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Jilongzhai has now been renamed Keelung Fort. Yu Xiaotian ordered the name change before the Chinese New Year. With the name of later generations, and the homophony of the word "jilongzhai", it was renamed Keelung, which means base prosperous, which is not bad, so

Yu Xiaotian did not wait for others to change the name, and directly changed the name of Jilong Village to Keelung Fort.

As a result, Keelung Fort sounded much louder than the previous Jilongzhai, and everyone was very happy with this modification. The small island outside the mouth of Jilong Bay was also called by Yu Xiaotian according to later generations.

, named Heping Island. I don’t know who in the future will change the names of these places beyond recognition.

Before entering Keelung Fort, Yu Xiaotian saw the whaling ship that came to port earlier than him, and indeed brought back a big whale. The gray-white whale had already died by this time. The whaling ship tied it with a rope, and its body was

It was also covered with wounds, and there were many empty barrels floating around the body to prevent the whale from sinking into the water after the towline broke.

This whale weighs at least a dozen tons. Although Yu Xiaotian's arrival is a big event, it is not big enough to quickly divide the whale.

Sea wolf whaling has formed an industry, and it is now a pillar industry in Keelung Fort. It now has more than a dozen professional whaling ships. These ships are scattered on the sea around dozens of kilometers around Taiwan Island. Once

When whales are discovered, they are hunted. If they are unlucky, these whalers act as large fishing boats and carry out fishing operations on the sea.

When Yu Xiaotian got off the ship, he saw that a wide wooden slide had been built on the shore north of Keelung Fort, and an animal-powered winch was installed on the shore. When the whale was dragged back by the whaler, someone would pull the cable

Take it and pull it to the shore and tie it to the winch.

The cattle began to drag the winch under the driving force of people, and slowly dragged the whale to the shore through this wooden slide. There were dozens of workers on the shore to help. After dragging the whale ashore, they immediately began to treat it on the spot.

Dead whales are segmented and processed.

They were very skilled in their movements. Some were responsible for skinning, others were responsible for cleaning the internal organs, and some were responsible for cutting up the whale meat, separating the blubber and whale meat, loading them on carts respectively, and quickly transporting them to the work shed on the shore for processing.

There were no refrigeration facilities at this time. Although ships were sent to the north to transport ice every winter, the ice was far from enough to process so much whale meat and fish.

Therefore, the fresh fish and whales that arrive ashore must be immediately sent to the factory for cutting and curing. The whale meat and fresh fish are marinated with coarse salt, and then sent to the drying field for drying or directly sent for smoking to be made into jerky or dried meat.

Bacon meat and then store it for a long time.

After the whale blubber is divided, it is immediately sent to be boiled. The blubber is boiled into whale oil, which is stored in large wooden barrels and then sent to soap workshops in Nanyue Island or Danshui to be made into soap, or

It is stored for consumption and distributed throughout the sea wolves to be used as grease to maintain weapons.

Nowadays, the whaling and fishing industries in Keelung Fort have developed a quite systematic processing method. After a whale arrives on shore, it only takes a few hours to be divided and processed, including the whale bones.

Abandoned, they will be smashed and transported to be ground into powder, or used as feed, or used as waste to grow fields. In short, nothing will be left, and everything has been completely used.

This is not like when the western whaling industry developed greatly in later generations. Whaling ships hunted a large number of whales on the high seas. They only collected whale blubber and refined it directly into whale oil on the ship. The rest left a small amount of meat for them to eat.

The rest were thrown into the sea.

Now the sea wolf is reluctant to waste it like this. Any part of the whale will be recycled. This is a gift from nature to mankind. Whaling is already harmful to the world. If it is wasted any more, it will be too much.

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(I didn’t sleep last night, and the little guy still had a fever that didn’t go away. I was so anxious! He was already confused now! Also, thank you to brother wdj1972 for the reward! Thank you very much!)