Daming pirates

However, when they suffered heavy blows from the Sea Wolf garrison one after another, they found that these outsiders were very powerful, and the firearms in their hands gave them no room to resist.

Every time they attack docks and camps, no matter how many times they go, they always leave at least half of the corpses behind. Even if the natives are not afraid of death, such casualties are unbearable for them.

A tribe has at most one or two thousand people, which is considered a very large tribe. In one battle, two to three hundred people died, and all of them were young and strong warriors in the tribe. After two battles, there are basically not many young and strong people in a large tribe.

If you become a warrior, it will be difficult for you to survive.

Even if they acted together, they still suffered heavy casualties in the face of volcanic eruption-like volleys of gunfire. They couldn't even touch the edges of the dock and camp, so the natives naturally did not dare to launch attacks on the dock and camp area easily.

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As Seawolf transported more and more personnel, the number of troops stationed in Dagou Port also increased to more than one battalion. Seawolf even transferred two special operations detachments to Dagou Port and invested in attacking the local area.

During the purge of the indigenous people.

The members of these special forces are not vegetarians. They have undergone extremely rigorous training in mountain and jungle combat. In addition, their weapons are very good, and they even have strong night fighting capabilities. Within a short period of time, they brought

The army soldiers pulled out the nests of two large tribes one after another and almost completely eliminated these two large tribes.

Such thunderous methods made some local indigenous people finally realize that it was impossible for them to drive these outsiders out of Dagou Port, so they had no choice but to withdraw from their original territory and return to their original territory.

Find other places to survive.

However, Ma Tiancheng also followed Yu Xiaotian's instructions. Although he used thunderous means to deal with the natives and their tribes who attacked them, he treated the captive natives well. After domesticating a small number of local natives, he also

The natives sent them back to their tribes, gave them some gifts, and asked these natives to go back and bring a message to their clan leader, explaining that the sea wolf did not intend to drive them all out, but to drive them out of the land where they lived.

As long as these native tribes are willing to live in peace with Sea Wolf in the future, Sea Wolf can set aside some land for these tribes to live in, and is willing to teach them farming techniques, help them open up wasteland and cultivate land, and improve their lives.

In addition, the sea wolves are also willing to trade with them, using what they need in exchange for the skins and other local specialties they hunt, but the premise is that they must stop attacking the sea wolves in the future, let alone wander around secretly, trying to hunt the sea wolves.

Human head of wolf man.

In addition, these native tribes must obey the orders of the Sea Wolf, so that both parties can live in peace, and the Sea Wolf will not easily use force against them and drive them out of their territory.

However, such a thing obviously cannot be accomplished in a few months. It requires a long process for both parties to establish initial trust. However, Xiaotian believes that as long as the level of civilization exceeds that of these natives, it will take a long time.

Sooner or later, these natives will be gradually assimilated and tamed, but it will take some time.

In addition, for such a pioneering operation, the death rate of Sea Wolf's slave laborers is also quite high. After all, the environment here is very bad when it is not improved. In addition, the slave slaves cannot eat well and their nutrition cannot keep up.

, and the workload is very heavy, so many people die of hard labor or illness or accidents every day. Even if they are not careful, people working in the periphery may be attacked by natives and have their heads chopped off.

The trophies were hunted.

For this reason, Ma Tiancheng thought of a new way to deal with these sporadic sneak attacks. As more and more land reclamation laborers were transported, in addition to setting aside some manpower to continue building docks and camps, a large number of laborers began to move towards the harbor.

Advancing on land, Ma Tiancheng divided these hard laborers into groups of 100 to 200 people. He designated areas for reclamation and set up temporary camps for them. Each camp only had a simple fence built around it.

Build a tall watchtower.

Each group of hard laborers sent a squad of infantry to garrison. These infantrymen were responsible for guarding the hard laborers and protecting them. There were two soldiers staying on the watchtower. Both used Wolf fang rifles to monitor the situation around the camp from a high position. Except for

In addition to monitoring the hard laborers, they also monitored the situation of the surrounding natives. Once they discovered a sneak attack by the natives, they would quickly sound the gong to warn and take the hard laborers back to the camp.

As long as the slaves hear the police and can escape within 200 meters of the camp, their safety is basically guaranteed. When the natives are chased within 200 meters of the camp, they will be condescendingly used by Sea Wolf soldiers with their Wolf fang rifles.

Shooting and killing, in this way, the sneak attack strategy of the natives was also curbed. For this reason, the natives suffered a lot, so this allowed the development work of the development camp to be carried out smoothly.

It is said that these hard laborers are cultivators, but in fact it is impossible to carry out large-scale cultivation operations in the early days. These hard laborers are more engaged in transforming the local environment.

Considering that the climate in this area is hot and humid, with dense grassland and shrubs, and numerous stagnant ponds and puddles, this area is full of miasma and mosquitoes are rampant. Many hard laborers who arrived in the early period died of the disease. Therefore, in order to reduce the threat of the epidemic, Yu Xiao

Heaven ordered Ma Tiancheng to lead the Gentuo Battalion to sort out the local environment. He ordered the slave laborers to fill in some stagnant ponds and low-lying land, burn large areas of wasteland, and burn down grass and bushes to reduce the breeding environment for mosquitoes.

In addition, during the burning period, a large number of mosquitoes were also burned to death.

In this way, the foundation has been laid in advance for the arrival of a large number of immigrants in the future. After the environment here is greatly improved, the number of mosquitoes here will be greatly reduced. In that case, the threat of disease outbreaks will be greatly reduced. In the future, large numbers of immigrants will

With more immigrants coming here, they don’t have to worry too much about a large-scale epidemic.

Yu Xiaotian didn't feel bad that some of these hard laborers died, because he didn't want to regard these people as a stable and controllable population. On the contrary, these people were very unstable, and they might cause chaos if they were not careful.

It is most suitable for this kind of thing and is completely used as a consumable.

Although this is not very humane, it is indeed a very useful method. As long as they can experience this suffering and survive, then as long as they are given some favors in the future, these people will restrain themselves a lot, and gradually

Those who will be honest and survive will gradually be absorbed into the controllable population of the Sea Wolf, and gradually escape the status of hard labor.

At the end of April, the Fujian Governor's Yamen, which had been idle for several months because of the arrest of Zhu Yifeng, finally welcomed its new owner.

Xiong Wencan was ordered to transfer from Shandong to Fujian as governor. This made Xiong Wencan overjoyed. You must know that from chief envoy to governor, although it is only one step, it is very difficult to sell this step. Although Fujian is now a troubled place.

land, but it is better than Jiliao in the north, Guanshan in the northwest, Yunnan and Guizhou in the south and other places.

Even if Fujian is in chaos now, it is mainly concentrated in the coastal area. For the interior of Fujian, it is far stronger than other places. In addition, because Fujian is close to the sea, it is also the distribution center of the Ming Dynasty smuggling trade. This place is a treasure land with many fats and oils. Stare at it.

There are so many people holding the position of governor of Fujian!

Therefore, in order to compete for the governor of Fujian, Xiong Wencan spent a lot of money, whether in the local area or in the capital, and used a lot of manpower and material resources to lobby those who could help him speak. In the end, there was no

After wasting all his efforts, he finally got the governor of Fujian into his pocket.

The moment he received the imperial edict from the imperial court, Xiong Wencan felt relieved, so he quickly handed over the affairs at hand, and immediately took his family members, servants and staff, under the protection of his own soldiers, from Shandong

Rushed to Fujian.

The transportation of this era cannot be compared with that of later generations. You can get there in two or three hours by plane. Therefore, from Shandong to Fujian, which is quite a long distance, you must either take a boat, a car, or a sedan.

Walking for one month is considered fast, walking for two months is considered normal, and even if walking for three months, no one will say that he is not.

Xiong Wencan was not in a hurry to rush to Fujian, because local officials like him were the targets of officials and gentry wherever he passed. If he missed it along the way, it would be a big loss, so

He did not rush along the way. It took him two months to walk from Shandong to Fujian. He also received a lot of gifts along the way. He had not yet arrived in Fujian. This was spent to compete for the governor of Fujian.

The money has almost been repaid.

Therefore, in this era, if you want to be an official, it is impossible not to spend money, nor to spend less. Those who spend money as an official must naturally find ways to recover the cost and make a fortune. In this way, in this era of Ming Dynasty,

The prevalence of corruption among officials was the most important reason for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

But when Xiong Wencan arrived at the Fujian Governor's Yamen and took a closer look at the situation here, he suddenly stopped laughing.

Although he also heard about some situations in Fujian when he was in Shandong, these were all official news, and were only sent to the capital after being whitewashed by Fujian officials.

For example, the number of officers and soldiers annihilated by the Sea Wolf this time was 30,000. However, after the officials whitewashed it, the reported losses in the capital were only about 10,000 men, and as many as 300 warships were lost.

When they arrived in the capital, they only said that some warships had been lost.

In addition, Hailang took control of Weitou Bay, burned Yuegang, bombarded Quanzhou, attacked Tong'an County, and made dumplings for thousands of officers and soldiers in Yanping Prefecture. When these things were reported to the capital, the Fujian officers and soldiers fiercely fought against the pirate invaders, and finally

After several fierce battles, the pirates were defeated, thousands of them were killed, and several pirate ships were sunk.

Regarding their losses, Fujian official reports either did not mention a word, or they compressed the figures and mentioned them in one stroke.

At that time, Xiong Wencan could only understand the situation in Fujian from official news. But when he arrived here and asked his subordinates to go out to inquire secretly, he realized that things were far from as simple as he thought. Here he

The information that his subordinates heard was completely different from the information he knew before.