The Rise of the European Emperor

The stronghold built on Heping Island is not big, about the size of a dock. More precisely, a barracks with a small wall.

Originally, building a castle was a safer approach. After all, the defense of the castle is stronger. However, in Marin's plan, this stronghold on Heping Island is only a temporary stronghold. Even if you want to build a castle, you have to build it on the land beside the Keelung River, not Heping Island, a small island the size of a palm.

Therefore, the final choice is to first build a barracks with a small wall on Heping Island as a foothold. Anyway, the threats facing this stronghold are at most scattered Japanese pirates, and the barracks with walls are enough to resist.

This is not the Jiajing period, and the Japanese pirates have not yet grown bigger. Today's Japanese pirates generally only have a few dozen people, and those with more than a hundred people are considered large-scale. The Japanese pirates became bigger after merging with the pirate organizations of the Ming Dynasty, but they have not yet. Moreover, the authentic Japanese pirates are just some down-and-out warriors with knives, and they don't have the ability to attack the city. Therefore, a small city wall, plus muskets, is enough to deal with the Japanese pirates composed of down-and-out warriors.

Moreover, unlike ordinary city walls, the newly built stronghold city walls are all covered. In this way, even if it rains, it will not affect the use of guns.

Keelung faces the Pacific Ocean directly, and there are many rainy days every year, so it is also called "Rain Harbor". If the walls were not covered, the guns would be useless if it rained. It would be dangerous if Japanese pirates with strong martial arts took the opportunity to climb the city. Therefore, based on this feature, Marin specially ordered the construction of a "covered" city wall, and there are also prominent "cables" that facilitate muskets to protrude outside the city wall. In this way, the musket is not easy to get wet when shooting.

Originally, Marin planned to help Jilong Village also build a compound. Unexpectedly, the iron tools that Kong Tai left them last time were fully utilized by them, and a large amount of stone was excavated. Then, without waiting for Marin's people to arrive, they themselves built a large stone wall with stone materials, which has good protection ability.

Heping Island is not an estuary alluvial island, but a subsidence coast. In other words, it was because of the subsidence that it was separated from the main island.

Therefore, on Heping Island, there are plenty of stones that can be mined. Although it is not a precious marble, it is enough to build walls and fortresses.

However, the Beihai Kingdom did not intend to use stone materials for the stronghold built on Heping Island. The main reason is that it is too slow to wait for the stone to be mined. Therefore, 100 masons from the Beihai country directly started unloading bricks from the ship, and then started mixing cement, preparing to build an ordinary wall for later generations with bricks inside and cement on the outside.

Of course, because of the defensive effect. Therefore, the wall is not a hollow pile, but a solid wall.

But even so, the defense of the wall is not high, the main fear is shelling. After all, the cement outside the city wall is just an ordinary coating, without steel bars as "bones". The concrete wall without bones is also afraid of being bombarded by iron balls and shells.

But fortunately, the Japanese pirates on guard here do not have cannons. Moreover, this stronghold is also temporary. When building a castle on the land of Keelung, you will definitely need to use your muscles.

However, even if it is a castle on land, the muscles and bones used are only bamboo. Of course, that's enough. There are bamboos on Taiwan Island. After all, it belongs to the East Asian ecosphere, and there are creatures with such tenacious vitality as bamboo. The cost of steel bars is too high. At present, only the capital city of Aurich in Beihai is made of reinforced concrete, and it has not been used in other places. Because, not to mention that there is not much steel now, it is difficult to process steel into steel bars. Now there is no wire-drawing machine, all steel wire rods are hand-drawn by blacksmiths, and the cost is very high. If reinforced concrete is used everywhere, a rich man like Marin will also go bankrupt. Coincidentally, there are bamboos on Taiwan Island. Therefore, Marin plans to use bamboo reinforced concrete when building fortifications and embankments on Taiwan Island in the future. Although the effect is not as good as that of reinforced concrete, it is cheaper. For moving things,

Cheap is king. The quality of Huaxia industrial products in later generations is not good, but why can they sell well all over the world? It is cheap. Rich people will pursue quality, and poor people only look at price... And as far as the current situation is concerned, the vast majority of people in the world are poor. Therefore, low-cost things are king. As for the quality, it's fine...

Of course, it depends on the stage. For example, in later generations of China, in the 20th century, everyone was poor, so cheap goods were very popular. But before Marin crossed, many people had money in their hands, and their pursuits changed immediately. Cheap goods are no longer sought after. Many models with gold chains, the price is too low, he is not willing to buy...

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When the Wubao was being built, Liu Laogen, the shrewd villager of Jilong Village, came to help with the situation of the village. Of course, Kong Tai did not treat them badly. Every day at noon, Kong Tai will take care of the meals for those who help. In addition, each person still has wages to get every day. But Liu Laogen doesn't want money, just grain and salt. This thing is the rarest thing among the villagers living overseas. Of course, the iron farm tools brought by Kong Tai made them even more envious.

Kong Tai did not disappoint the villagers. He announced that - after the stronghold was repaired, he would give the villagers a batch of iron farm tools. In this way, the villagers work harder.

Then, Liu Laogen gave Kong Tai another big surprise—he told Kong Tai that the villagers had collected a lot of stones in order to build the village wall. Today, there are still a lot of stones left over...

Kong Tai knew it straight away, and gave away the batch of iron farm tools in advance. And Liu Laogen also took out the excess stones that had been piled up in the village and gave them to Kong Tai.

After receiving this batch of stones, Kong Tai was very happy. He commanded loudly:

"Take all these stones to lay the foundation!"

Using stone as a foundation can make the building stronger and stronger. Marin once told Kong Tai that there are many earthquakes on Taiwan Island, and the building must be strong enough. Moreover, it is best not to get any high-level. Otherwise, it will be gone in one shock. Moreover, the people living in the upper floors have no time to escape...

Therefore, in this stronghold on Heping Island, the houses built inside the tall walls are all bungalows, and the distance between them is not small. If there is an earthquake, it is easy to run out.

Of course, bungalows built of cement bricks are not so easy to collapse. Only when there is a big earthquake will it collapse.

In addition, for a big man like Kong Tai, his bed is also specially made for shock resistance.

How to customize it? That is, the entire bed is actually made of steel brackets. Moreover, the bed has an iron cover over it. Even if there is a big earthquake, the roof collapses, the bed is covered by an iron cover, and the threat of a bungalow collapse is not great, and the people sleeping on the bed will not be in danger.

Of course, this is just Marin's unfounded worry. In fact, how can there be such bad luck to encounter a major earthquake? A major earthquake is rare in a hundred years. However, it is safe to be prepared in this way.

Even, in the future, Marin plans to build a reinforced concrete house on the island for his young son Ma Yun. Ma Yun will be the owner of the island in the future, and he lives here all year round, so there is a high possibility of encountering a major earthquake. Therefore, it is necessary to build a reinforced concrete house with strong earthquake resistance. Although the cost is relatively high, Marin can still afford to use steel bars for a single house...

And this newly built stronghold, Marin named it Majiabao, and the first owner of the castle was naturally Mr. Kong Taikong...

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